Search Results: Titles starting with F from Antiquariat Banzhaf

60 original photographs, albumen, each c. 100 x 147 mm, pasted recto and verso onto 30 white cardboard mounts within black rules and lithogr. captions. Each photograph in our copy with manuscript annotation on the location shown. Publisher's half cloth with identical illustrated lithogr. title on both covers signed "Hong Kong, Victoria Litho". Oblong 4to (165 x 240 mm). Back cover rubbed, extremeties worn.
The majority of photographs in good tonal range. Rear paste-down with manuscript ownership inscription dated 26/8/(19)00. A rare published album with excellent original photographs especially made for the prospering tourist market. Each city is shown on 12 photographs. Rear paste-down with printed short notes on the five cities presumably by Robert Crisp Hurley himself, photographer/editor and publisher, who lived in Hong Kong from 1879 to 1927. His most successful publishing projects had been two guide books on Hong Kong which went through many editions.

12 etchings by and after Salomon Gessner, plates numbered 2-12, first plate unnumbered, with imprint in lower right corner (= complete). Cont. plain wrappers. Oblong folio (370 x 250 mm).Leemann-Van Elck p. 267/268 nos. 2-12 ; Lonchamp. Manuel du Bibliophile Suisse 1215 ("Suite de paysages avec le puits sur la première feuille"). First edition, second state, with the number '4' in lower right corner, of this suite of etchings (c. 200 x 150 mm), with classical landscape views, printed on thick laid paper. Excellent impressions on the complete sheet with clear platemark and deep blacks. A few smudges in margins. A wide margined and well preserved set.