Lot 200

Italy
Photograph album, c.1880

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£479
Description
Large folio (49 x 34cm), contemporary red morocco over bevelled boards, spine and covers decoratively gilt, all edges gilt, 159 albumen print photographs (various dimensions) including views (Siena, Rome, Girgenti, Capri, Palermo, Verona, Pompeii and elsewhere), statuary, paintings, and a few character studies (including two studies of male youths, unsigned but by Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, captioned in manuscript ‘Taormina’), binding rubbed, one photograph damaged, bookplate of Nigel Temple (1926-2003), British artist, photographer and lecturer
