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Maître Jean Emmanuel PRUNIER
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[PHOTOGRAPHS] [DOCUMENTS] Important composite volume concern…
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70
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[PHOTOGRAPHS] [DOCUMENTS] Important composite volume concern…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[PHOTOGRAPHS] [DOCUMENTS] Important composite volume concerning the Paris Commune and various travels etc.
Large folio bound in half green basane (minor rubbing and defects).
Very eclectic collection by an engraver and enameller by the name of Alexandre-Anatole Dubray, based in Paris and Levallois-Perret and most certainly a "Communard" involved in the events of 1870, bringing together a very large number of engravings relating to Paris, the construction of the Eiffel Tower, travel and transport by balloon post during the siege of 1870 and various other subjects, but also and above all numerous documents and photographs relating to the Paris Commune: photographs of houses destroyed after the Commune in 1871,
In addition, the album contains many small souvenir photographs of trips to Italy (Verona, Venice, Milan, Bellagio, etc.), Belgium, Dieppe, Trouville, Rouen, Saint-Malo and Saint Servan, Dinan, etc., and beautiful views photographed in Algeria (portraits of Moorish people, Kantara Gorge, Villa, etc.), New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, Mexico City ("Grande Rue" during the National Day celebrations), and a port in Russia,
Also old documents: Cavalry military leave 1760 with wax seal, National Guard certificate 1792, St Helena medal, assignats, Commune "laissez-passer", a sealed letter from the mayor of Montigny sur Loing attesting to the good behaviour of citizen Dubray during the Paris Commune etc...
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About the sale
Saturday 20 June 2026 - Drawing Books
Auction location
Auction time
06/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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