Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)
Works of the Panama Railroad Company. Albumen print, the image measuring 5 3/8x9 3/8 inches (13.6x23.8 cm.), the two-toned mount 9 3/4x13 inches (24.8x33 cm.), with Muybridge's printed credit and location San Francisco and the title in pencil on mount recto. 1875

From The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico: the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee. The photographs in this volume were taken by Muybridge in 1875 and the volume published in 1876. Only five sets were published, two of which are no longer in existence, one copy being destroyed in the San Francisco fire in 1906.