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(VENISE - PHOTOGRAPHIE] Souvenir photographique de Venise. Album de 30 photographies originales de Venise
Chez Charles Ponti opticien|No Location s. d. [1870]|23.3 x 18.5 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
Album comprising 30 original albumen prints mounted on heavy card leaves.
Bradel binding in full black boards, smooth unlettered spine, gilt-ruled frame on the covers, title set within a central panel on the upper cover, corners rubbed; contemporary binding except for the renewed spine.
The first 22 photographs (approx. 12.5 × 17 cm) depict views of the City of the Doges; the following seven (various formats) reproduce paintings by Italian masters (Veronese, Titian, Raphael, Murillo...) held in Venice, Florence, and Paris; the final print shows a water-carrier.
Captions in Italian in black ink on the mount, on the verso.
The sequence of photographs is as follows: P
€2,800