Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LORRIA, AUGUST; and MARTEL, ÉDOUARD-ALFRED. Les Grandes Alpes. Le Massif de la Bernina. 50 heliogravure plates reproducing photographs by Vittorio Sella and others, with lettered tissue guards. 163 pages. Oblong 4to, 312x405 mm, original cloth, rubbed and shaken; text clean, first plate heavily foxed, mostly minor marginal foxing on some others, lower outer corner off guard for plates 13, 19, 23, and 41, contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Zurich: Art. Institut Orell Füssli, 1894

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first edition of a monograph on the topography and climbing history of the Bernina range, with a bibliography listing over 300 works. Perret 2689 ("un magnifique album de photographies").