Daniel Good Rare Books and Engravings
1860s Lake Lucerne, Souvenir Album, 10 very early albumen photos, Switzerland
1860s Lake Lucerne, Souvenir Album, 10 very early albumen photos, Switzerland
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Souvenir
Lac des IV Cantons
No publisher’s date or address. [ca 1865]
7.8 x 11.8 cm
Photographs measure 10.1 x 6.2 cm
Original cloth binding with gilt lettering (some damage)
Unusual folded album of albumen photographs depicting the city of Lucerne and villages surrounding the lake. This is the earliest example of the use of photography in a souvenir booklet that we have seen. Some photographs captioned in ink.
Exceedingly rare. No example recorded in OCLC.
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