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VARIOUS FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHERS, including: (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) Nadar (1820-1910); Etienne Carjat (1828-1906); and Pierre Petit (1832-after 1900)
Portraits of French Celebrated Artists, Actors, Writers, Musicians, Scientists and Politicians
2 albums containing approximately 116 waxed? albumen prints from glass plate negatives. 1860s-70s. Each titled in ink, some with pencil annotations on the mount. 56 8 7/8 x 7in., some vignetted, mounted one-to-page; 60 4½ x 3¼in., a few trimmed to an oval, some vignetted, mounted 2-to-a-page, gilt edged. Oblong folio, one each burgundy and brown tooled leather boards and spine with embossed gilt decoration and name Elisa. Ex Libris Rudolf Schwabe paper label affixed to the moiré end papers. Accompanied by a printed brochure with 19 halftone reproductions from the album and published text by Rudolf Schwabe, along with a typewritten letter announcing a lecture by Hermann Kesser and 6 handwritten pages with titles and biographical information on each sitter in pencil, probably in Schwabe's hand. (2)
