Stereoviews
Large collection of stereoview photographs, c.1890-1900
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
approximately 320 in total, mainly albumen or gelatin silver prints, and comprising views and scenes in Great Britain and Ireland (approx. 60), South Africa including Second Boer War interest (7), Middle East and Asia (approx. 20, including Japan, Egypt, Jerusalem, India, 'A spirit chair - one of the venerated objects which graces the funeral pageant of the wealthy man, Nanking, China', etc.), Western Front (17), USA and Canada (approx. 30, including 'The Old Cotton Field', 'A Family of Cotton Pickers, Georgia, U.S.A', 'An early morning breakfast with Canadian hunters, Quebec', 'A Banana Plantation at Orizaba, Mexico', and views in New York City, Chicago, Toronto, and elsewhere), Europe (70, including many of Switzerland and France), and assorted subjects including comic or sentimental scenes and still lifes (approx. 115), manufactures include The Fine-Art Photographers Publishing Co., Underwood & Underwood, Realistic Travels Publishers, and others, housed in a hand-painted Chinese export box. The lot sold with associated wooden table-top stereoviewer