May 18, 2006 - Sale 2080

Sale 2080 - Lot 397

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(KODAK.) Five Weeks in Europe, A Photographic Memorandum. By William Frear. A handsome private production with 16 photogravure plates, most containing 6 circular Kodak-size images, and one full-page gravure of Frear. Folio, gilt-pictorial vellum backed blue cloth, soiled, edgewear; front hinge starting; all edges gilt. one of 500 copies. Np, 1889

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Perhaps the earliest reference to the newly invented Kodak camera and its fledgling relationship with tourism. Frear refers to his picture-taking as "taking Kodaks."