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'Désastres de Paris et Environs 1870-1871'

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ANONYMOUS [FRENCH]
'Désastres de Paris et Environs 1870-1871'
Album containing eighty-one albumen prints including one mounted as frontispiece, 4½ x 6¼ in., other sizes approx. 6 x 9¾ in. or the reverse, titled in the negatives, mounted one-per-page, tissue guards, dedication inscribed in ink A Monsieur Joseph Bourgeois, Entrepreneur à Cureghem-sous-Anderlecht qui a souscrit pour sept numéros et gagné le présent Album, par le numéro 94 de la Liste, sorti au Tirage qui a été effectué ce jour, sous la Présidence de Monsieur le Bourgmestre d'Anderlecht. Cureghem le 13 Juin 1800 Soixante-douze. Au nom du Conseil d'Administration du Corps with signatures of Le Lieutenant, Secretaire, Le Capitaine Commandant, Président and Le Bourgmestre d'Anderlecht, printed list of Souscripteurs and title page, black cloth boards, titled and dated in gilt on front cover and again on spine, oblong 4to.

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An extensive album documenting the destruction around the city of Paris following the siege of the capital and the events of the Commune in 1870-71 including before and after views of the Hotel-de-ville, the Chateau des Tuileries, one of which shows a group of men in the foreground with a camera on a tripod; the Colonne Vendome, the Ministère des Finances; various street views showing extensive destruction; the Palais Royal, the interior of Gare Porte Maillot, the Chateau de St. Cloud (illus.); various bridges and several images with cannons.

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