BONFILS, J. LAURENT, G. SOMMER, G. INCORPORA and others

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BONFILS, J. LAURENT, G. SOMMER, G. INCORPORA and others

Europe, the Middle East and Australasia, 1877-83

Album of approx. 240 photographs, the majority albumen prints, various sizes to 16 7/8 x 12 in., seventeen signed in the negatives Bonfils, nineteen with photographer's credit G. Sommer, seven with credit J. Laurent and eleven with credit G. Incorpora Palermo, titled in the negatives or on mounts, the majority dated on mounts, half red morocco (upper cover detached), ruled gilt, g.e., folio.

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Approx. half are photographs of art, architecture and sculpture in Italy including Palermo, Syracuse and Taormina with four large views by Sommer. Thirty-one views, probably all by Bonfils of Jerusalem, Damascus, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, Beyrout and Baalbec include four large studies of Tiberius, the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane and the interior of the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The remainder includes large Spanish architectural subjects by Laurent and twenty-six views in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.

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