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Hippolyte Hartmann, c.1860
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Album Martiniquais
Hippolyte Hartmann, c.1860
HARTMANN, Hippolyte (b. 1818). Album Martiniquais. Paris: Lemercier, c.1860.
Lithographic views of Martinique after photos by Hippolyte Hartmann, with one view after Michel Cazabon. The Alsatian Hartmann and his son worked as photographers in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast of South America. In the 1860s they traveled with the Creole artist Michel Cazabon, with whom they also published a second lithograph view book depicting Demerara. Only three copies have sold at auction according to RBH; it is not in Sabin. See Getty Research Insitute, 1377-355.
Oblong folio (302 x 435mm). Title page and 12 lithographic plates by Eugène Cicéri after Hartmann and Cazabon (spotting). Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt title on upper board, edges gilt (rebacked preserving spine panel).
Hippolyte Hartmann, c.1860
HARTMANN, Hippolyte (b. 1818). Album Martiniquais. Paris: Lemercier, c.1860.
Lithographic views of Martinique after photos by Hippolyte Hartmann, with one view after Michel Cazabon. The Alsatian Hartmann and his son worked as photographers in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast of South America. In the 1860s they traveled with the Creole artist Michel Cazabon, with whom they also published a second lithograph view book depicting Demerara. Only three copies have sold at auction according to RBH; it is not in Sabin. See Getty Research Insitute, 1377-355.
Oblong folio (302 x 435mm). Title page and 12 lithographic plates by Eugène Cicéri after Hartmann and Cazabon (spotting). Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt title on upper board, edges gilt (rebacked preserving spine panel).
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