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Lot 152

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - TRAVEL]. European travel album [With:] Havana, Cuba album. 
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Mar 27, 2023
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Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$300 - 500
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - TRAVEL]. European travel album [With:] Havana, Cuba album. 

Album from a European vacation. 1913. Oblong 4to (12 x 10 in.). 141 photographs, each approx. 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (One image with figure removed, occasional fading.) Publishers navy cloth gilt, string-bound (minor wear at extremities, tear at spine). Album manufactured by Boston: F.H. Gilson Company, 1897. [With:] 6pp. typed document numbering and identifying each photograph, as well as dating the trip to 1913. 

The album documents a trip to England, Wales, and France showing views of  Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral, Mont Saint-Michel, Chartres, Stonehenge, Oxford, Tintern Abbey, Lincoln Cathedra, Peterborough Cathedral, and others.

[With:] Album from Cuba. N.d. 4to (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in). 9 photographs, each approx. 9 x 7 1/8 in. (Some wrinking, brown spotting.) One quarter calf with brick cloth and metal letters (extremities scuffed). [With:] Two 1883 El Banco Espanol de la Habana notes tipped in to first leaf.  

Views of Havana, Cuba including the Governor's Palace, Botanical Gardens, street scenes, and the harbor. 
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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