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an old picture of a painting of a building with a clock on itan old brown leather book with gold lettering on ita painting of a gondola on the water in front of a buildingpainting of a view of a canal and buildings in venice, italypainting of a woman in a blue dress holding a bucket and a water jugan old photo of a church with a clock tower in the middle of itan old photo of a woman holding a baby in her lapan old photo of a view of a city from a bookan old brown book sitting on top of a table next to a white wallan old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white table
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258 - [PHOTOGRAPHY – ITALY, NAYA]. Venice, Florence: a travel albu…
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Estimate €400 - €500
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[PHOTOGRAPHY – ITALY, NAYA]. Venice, Florence: a travel album by an art lover. Place and date unknown [late 19th century]. 61 photographs (most of the prints are captioned), including 7 colour-enhanced prints, 3 printed in blue, various formats (250 x 185 mm or 145 x 100 mm) mounted on sheets attached by tabs in a quarto-sized album bound in full brown shagreen, ribbed spine, initials ‘M.H.M.’ in gold lettering on the front cover. Binding scuffed at the joints and corners with small areas of leather wear; pages slightly warped. A remarkable travel album by an art lover, featuring 19 views of Venice: St Mark’s Square, a gondola, palaces and paintings from the ‘Gallerie dell’Accademia’ (Bonifaccio, Palma Vecchio, Veronese, etc.). These photographs are signed in the print as “C. Naya. fot. Venezia”. Carlo Naya (1816–1882) is counted amongst the pioneers of photography in Italy. He produced a vast number of photographs of Venice, intended for tourists. The second part of the album consists of views of Florence (the cathedral, the Ponte Vecchio, the Church of Santa Croce, the Palazzo Pitti, etc.) and photographs of paintings from the Pitti and Uffizi galleries (Titian, Raffaello Sanzio, etc.)
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About the sale Sale of collectable books and first editions – Varia III –
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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