PALISA JOHANN and WOLF MAX Portfolio entitled Photographisch

Sale 1925 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 29,900

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000

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Portfolio entitled "Photographische Sternkarten [Photographic Atlas of the Stars]," containing 180 celestial photographs. Silver bromide prints, 11x8½ inches, with the photographers' credits, longitudinal and latitudinal lines, technical data, and the publisher's credit in the negative; with 2 original sheet catalogues. Modern clamshell case, cloth with a leather label on the spine. 1901-08; printed circa 1910

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While photographs were used to chart the stars as early as the late 19th-century, this is possibly the earliest published star atlas containing original photographs. Another atlas, Edward Emerson Barnard's "Photographs of Select Regions of the Milky Way," contained photographs that were taken in the late 19th-century but was not published until 1927.<