5016 - 5218 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Published in/ supplied with a copy of Homage to Cavafy (Danbury, 1978, 10 ills. by D. MICHALS, orig. stiff. wr. w. dustwr.). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
- Sl. faded. = View of the courtyard of the fortified abbey.
Idem. "Avignon". Albumen print, 26x37 cm., titled and "No. 920" in the plate, w. blindst. "Robert-Mieusement, Edit. Paris" in lower left corner.
- Sl. faded. = Panoramic view of the town from across the Rhône.
AND 13 others, incl. 8 others w. blindst. of ROBERT-MIEUSEMENT, mostly sl. faded/ sl. yellowed, i.a. "Avignon (Anciennes Fortifications)", "Hôtel de Cluny. Façade sur les jardins", "Lyon, Cathédrale façade de la manécanterie", "Château de S. Germain" (fine) and "Lyon, Cathédrale, façade ouest".
= Impressive panoramic group portrait.
= Eugene Omar Goldbeck was a photographer who specialized in panoramic photography and is best known for his large panoramas of military personnel and bases. Impressive panoramic group portrait.
- Sm. superficial dam. next to the photographer's address. = Impressive panoramic group portrait.
= Portraits of Juliette Beaumaine and Leone Cellié.
- Lacks blank upper corner of 1 mount.
= All but one views titled in the plate: "13 Venezia Palazzo Ca. Doro", "19 Venezia Palazzo Ducale", "20 Venezia Paalzzo Pesaro", "27 Venezia Palazzo Reale", "54a Venezia Scala dei Giganti", "61 Venezia Palazzo Cavalli", "68 Venezia Cortile del Palazzo Ducale" and "131-A Venezia Interno S. Marco".
= Later impression. Verso mount w. "Steigletz + O'Keefe" [sic] and "1944" in black ballpoint. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
= Later impression. Verso mount w. identification of the portrayed and "1965" in black ballpoint.
= Later impression. Verso mount w. identification of the portrayed ("Mondrian") and "1942" in blue ballpoint. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
= Also incl. a tipped-in menucard, a passenger list etc.
- Sl. foxed.
= A slightly later impression. Provenance: the estate of the son of the photographer.
- A few defective.
= I.a. views of Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethlehem, Bethany, Jaffa, Nazareth and its inhabitants. Also including a few Egyptian, Roman and Greek views.
- Lacks issues no. 143-208, 218 and 273; a few textpages sl. dam. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
= Very rich photographic source of many of the famous public figures of 19th cent. France. Contains portraits of i.a. Sarah Bernhardt, Adelina Patti, Rosine Bloch, Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, Anna Judic, Charles Lecocq, Laurence Grivot, "les frères Lionnet", Emma Albani, Alfred Dieudonné, Léon Melchissedec, Charles Garnier, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Hyacinthe, Lesueur, Erckmann-Chatrian, Alphonse Daudet, Ch.F. Daudet, Emile Zola, Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Grévy, Léon Gambetta, Ernest Renan, Fernand de Lesseps, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Lepère, Jules Massenet, Georges Sand. Some names of the photographers: Carjat, Dupont, Liebert, Nadar, Lemercier and Quinet. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
= Inspired by the novel Zuyderzee by Jef Last, published in French by Gallimard in 1938, Roger Parry travelled to the Netherlands to make a series of photographs documenting life in the Dutch polders and in the villages around the Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- The greater part sl. warped; occas. a few small defects. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.