Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany

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ALINARI, BERNOUD, BRAUN, DEGOIX, POZZI, WOLF AND OTHERS
Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany
3 albums with a total of 222 albumen prints. Circa 1860-early 1870s. Varying sizes from approximately 3 x 2in. (7.6 x 5.1cm.) to 12½ x 16¼ in. (31.7 x 41.3 cm.), with five panoramas 8½ x 19¼ in. (21.6 x 48.9 cm.) and one four-part panorama 8½ x 53½ in. (21.6 x 135.9 cm.), the majority trimmed with rounded corners, several numbered in the negatives, one credited A. Bernoud, two signed and dated G. Wolf Hof. Photograph Constanz 1871 and 1872, three with Pozzi blindstamps and twenty-three with Alinari blindstamps and numbers in the negatives, each titled in ink on the mount, dark green leather, dark blue goffered edges with silver stars and each with white metal monogram affixed to front cover.
Album size: 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm.) (3)

Literature

See: Italien Sehen und Sterben, p. 139.

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Lot Essay

Fourteen fine views of Rome; a series of eight studies of the gardens of the Villa Pallavicini and thirteen other scenes in Genoa possibly all by Degoix; the eruption of Vesuvius in 1872; Milan, Florence, Pavia, Trieste, Naples and Turin; five Alpine and Rhine panoramas, probably all by Braun; and a large four-part panorama of Venice.

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