Tagebuch auf Reisen (Sicilien, Athen, Constantinopel), London, 1881, 4to, red cloth

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Lot 192 | Tagebuch auf Reisen (Sicilien, Athen, Constantinopel), London, 1881, 4to, red cloth
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£ 1 500 – 2 000
Tagebuch auf Reisen (Sicilien, Athen, Constantinopel). London: J.W. Kolckmann, 1881

4to (211 x 169mm.), albumen print photographic frontispiece of the author, 9 further mounted albumen prints, original red cloth gilt, with gilt design of Hagia Sophia to upper cover, gilt edges, brown endpapers, some spotting, final text leaf becoming detached, slight damp-staining to binding

A very rare photobook, including views of Palermo, the Amphitheatre at Syracuse, ruins at Taormina (Sicily), the Acropolis, and Constantinople (the Bosphorus and the Hagia Sophia, including an interior of the building, and the Dolmabahçe Palace).
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