an assortment of old photographs of people and buildings on a table
Delon - Hoebanx

228 - PHOTOGRAPHY. Album from Gilbert Gimon’s photographic collect…
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Estimate €150 - €200
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PHOTOGRAPHY. Album from Gilbert Gimon’s photographic collection. An oblong in-4 album in plain red half-chagrin binding, containing 46 assorted prints, including 35 unlabelled photographs (Franche-Comté, Switzerland, and various locations) measuring 12 × 17 or 18 cm, and 21 captioned photographs of Nice and Monte Carlo measuring 15 × 20 cm. Collection stamp on the first photograph. Also included is an album of 12 photographs published in Cannes by Robaudi: Alpes-Maritimes, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Menton. Small oblong in-4 album, red half-shagreen, decorated spine, gilt title, gilt and decorated title on the front cover on a blue percaline label, gilt edges; each photograph is framed by a typographic border with a caption printed in blue. Also included are 13 amateur photographs in various formats (13 x 15, 12 x 18, 17.5 × 18), of Nice and the Côte d’Azur, some captioned and dated on the reverse, including ‘Cannes, La Croisette’, taken at night by Raymond Puyniet, circa 1960. And mounted on heavy grey paper, with red or sepia line borders: 16 views: Nice, Monument to the Reunification with France, 27 x 21.7 cm (circa 1880). Cannes and the surrounding area: 4 photographs measuring 12 x 18.5 cm; Île Saint-Honorat: 2 photographs measuring 12 x 18.5 cm; and 5 views of Nice and the surrounding area from the ‘Mediterranean Coast’ collection, measuring 9.5 x 15 cm.
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About the sale Nice and the French Riviera: Over 200 lots – Mr X’s Collection – Antique books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts and collectable historical papers, photographs and tourist posters
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Auction time 07/01/2026 at 2:15 PM
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