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228 - by Émile NOVALES: Photograph album
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Estimate €600 - €1,000
Description
by Émile NOVALES: Photograph album Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna: Travel memories 1891–1892 Departed from Marseille on the Messageries Maritimes liner ERYMANTHE on 19 December 1891, arriving in CONSTANTINOPLE on the 26th. Departed from CONSTANTINOPLE on the Messageries Maritimes liner ERIDAN on 14 January 1892. Arrived in SMYRNA on the 16th. Departed from SMYRNA on the same day. Arrived in Piraeus on the 17th. Departed from Piraeus on the 24th aboard the Messageries Maritimes liner ‘Iraouaddy’. Arrived in Marseille on 28 January 1892. Album illustrated with numerous photographs, dimensions 29 × 40 cm. Number of photographs: a) Large-format black-and-white, 20.3 × 26.5 cm, totalling ninety-seven photographs b) Medium-format black-and-white, 13.5 x 20.4 cm, totalling seventeen photographs; c) Small-format black-and-white, 9.8 x 15.4 cm, totalling forty-three photographs. Also included in the album are a note, two advertising inserts for a show and a card reading ‘C. DIMITRIOU Photography Studio’. Album dimensions: 29 × 40 cm, containing sixty-eight double-sided pages, captioned and illustrated with photographs (the last two pages being blank)
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About the sale A Monday in Rambouillet
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 9:30 AM
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