Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108

Italy | Marion & Co. | album of 60 photographs, [c.1870s-1880s]

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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108


ITALY--MARION & CO.

Album of 60 photographs of Italy. [c.1870s-1880s]


Oblong folio (337 x 466mm.), 60 albumen prints (average 187 x 250mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only, some with manuscript titles to mounts, some titled in the negative, "Marion & Co., 22 Soho Square, London", blindstamp to front free endpaper, contemporary dark green half morocco, pebbled boards, title label in morocco to upper cover, red edges, metal clasp, some fading, a few marginal repaired tears to photographs, occasional spotting (mostly to mounts), rubbed and slightly bowed


The photographs include views of: Venice, Sienna, Genoa, Pisa, Milan, Naples, Pompei, et al. Some of the photographs are after artworks.