May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(JAMAICA.) Duperly, A[dolphe]. Four hand-colored tinted-lithographed plates, finished with gum arabic, extracted from Duperly's Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica. 270x375 sheet size, wide margins; backed on board, light foxing and mat stain. sold as is. Kingston, [Jamaica]: A. Duperly, [1844]

Additional Details

21. Methodist Chapel. Bath. St. Thomas in the East. 22. Montego-Bay. (taken from the Falmouth Entrance.) 16. The Ferry Jnn. (Spanish Road Town). 11. King' House. (Spanish Town.)

Duperly's set of views of Jamaica included 24 lithographs after daguerretoypes, however they are now extremely scarce; complete sets are unknown at auction, and only three copies are recorded in OCLC.

Not in Abbey. Cundall, Bibliographia Jamaicensis, 303.