Feb 14, 2005 - Sale 2033

Sale 2033 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 8,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(TRAVEL)
Pristine set of 4 Grand Tour albums containing 590 photographs of Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland, which are housed in a specially-made velvet-lined oak box, comprising views of Constantinople by abdullah freres, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Berlin, the Hague, Chartres, Rouen, Lourdes, Quimper, and much more. Albumen prints, 3x5 to 9x11 inches (7.6x12.7 to 22.9x27.9 cm.), each with a handwritten caption, in ink, on the mount; mounted one to 6 per page recto only. Oblong folio, 1/2 olive morocco over green and blue marbled boards with gilt lettering; all edges gilt; contents bright and clean; the oak box with brass handles and lock and blue velvet lining the 4 interior compartments. 1891