Apr 04, 2012 - Sale 2274

Sale 2274 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(SOUTH SEAS)
Album with more than 110 professional and amateur photographs, comprising views of New Zealand, Fiji, and Samoa, with exotic scenes of indigenous people and touristic sites by Josiah Martin, and 90 amateur small-format anonymous snapshots of family members in the South Seas, South Africa, Jamaica, Canada and the U.S., plus ephemera relating to the ship R.M.S. Gothic and other vessels. Albumen (17), printing-out paper (55) and silver (45) prints, 7x9 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), and smaller, many with caption information in the negative or a handwritten caption below the mounted photograph. Oblong folio, black cloth. 1896-1904