Voyages photographiques dans les Alpes
Bound volume
Voyages photographiques dans les Alpes
ca. 1864
Bound volume with photogravures
Overall: 16 15/16 × 22 7/16 × 2 3/16 in. (43 × 57 × 5.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionContains sixty-two photogravurese depicting scenes in the Alps and made by Aimé Civiale during the 1860s from large-format waxed paper negatives using Poitevin's original collotype process. Bound in black leather with gilt edges and white moiré endpapers.
Inscriptions Stamped in gilt on spine, TC: A. CIVIALE \ --- \ VOYAGES \ PHOTOGRAPHIQUES \ DANS LES ALPES
Stamped in black in, white label applied to front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ D 3-1 [alphanumerical typed in black ink]
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on leaf recto, TR: La date de l'hospice de St Gotthard \ est 1863 \ --- \ Les vues des Pyrénées sont plus anciennes, je crois.
Printed in black ink on scalloped-oval label applied to leaf recto, TLC: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped in black ink, verso, BR: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-118 [alphanumerical in pencil]
Stamped in black in, white label applied to front pastedown, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ D 3-1 [alphanumerical typed in black ink]
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on leaf recto, TR: La date de l'hospice de St Gotthard \ est 1863 \ --- \ Les vues des Pyrénées sont plus anciennes, je crois.
Printed in black ink on scalloped-oval label applied to leaf recto, TLC: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped in black ink, verso, BR: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ Cromer Collection \ B-118 [alphanumerical in pencil]
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