Live veiling - Lot 357
[Varia]
81 sepia tone photographs.
[End 19th c.]
€ 120 / 150
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Beschrijving lot
Various sizes, some with caption or photographer's stamp, mounted on cardboard.
Photo album obl. 4to, red cloth (used).
Album with photos picturing Caïro, Venice, Rome, Florence, Thaïland etc. a.o. by the Zangaki Brothers (two brothers of Greek origin, active in Egypt and Algeria from the 1860s up to the 1890s, specialized in photographing ancient monuments and everyday life), Edizioni Brogi (photo company founded by G. Brogi and continued by his son C. Brogi after 1881), Apothecaries Photographers (est. 1883 in Colombo, Sri Lanka), Edizione Esposito (Italian photographer, active between the 1870s and 1890s) and Paolo Salviati (Italian photographer, active between the 1860s-1880s). A.o. photos of Italian monuments and city views in Rome, Venice and Naples such as the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Forum Romanum etc.; of Port Saïd; of Colombo (capital of Sri Lanka) and of "the exposition of a Buddha's tooth". Some 35 photos without caption presumably from Thaïland.