
Lot 1047
POMPEII & NAPLES.
12 February 2012, 09:00 PST
California, Los Angeles and California, San FranciscoSold for US$475 inc. premium
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POMPEII & NAPLES.
Collection of approximately 192 albumen print photographs, generally 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, [c.1870s], mounted to leaves in half morocco over cloth album, upper cover with gilt-lettered title label, photographs with some fading, but generally excellent, period marginalia in English on mounts below many images, album partially disbound with spine absent.
Provenance: Samuel Adelstein (gilt-lettered on upper cover).
Includes images of the ruins of Pompeii, frescos, recovered items held at the Naples Museum as well as Italian sculpture held at the museum.
Provenance: Samuel Adelstein (gilt-lettered on upper cover).
Includes images of the ruins of Pompeii, frescos, recovered items held at the Naples Museum as well as Italian sculpture held at the museum.