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Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin

1401 - Great Britain The Balmoral Album.
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Description
Great Britain The Balmoral Album. With a chromolithographed title page, 10 chromolithographed album pages and a total of 34 inserted portrait photographs (vintage prints, albumen prints, CdVs and cabs). Circa 1880–1895. 4°. Blind-stamped contemporary leather binding with a lily motif, gilt edges and metal clasp (worn, bumped, block broken, spine missing). The decoratively designed album pages feature display windows entwined with flowers, as well as nature and landscape motifs, including views of Scottish castles and palaces (Balmoral, Invergarry, Dudhope, Broughty and Kilchurn Castle, Melrose, Kelso and Dryburgh Abbey, Lochnagar, etc.). - The portraits (by C. Vandyk, Clarke & Clarke, Elliot & Fry, A&G Taylor and others in London) mostly depict men (including, presumably, two clergymen and a gentleman wearing a medal and an official or (Masonic?) chain), three children and two ladies. - Without the music box that was once fitted into the back cover. - Display windows at the edges partly with discolouration, pages partly slightly dusty, photographs partly slightly stained, otherwise generally well preserved. Great Britain – The Balmoral Album. With a chromolithographed title page, 10 chromolithographed album pages, and a total of 34 inserted portrait photographs (vintages, albumen prints, CdVs and cabs). Circa 1880–1895. 4°. Blind-stamped contemporary leather binding with a lily motif, gilt edges, and a metal clasp (worn, bumped, block broken, spine missing). - The decoratively designed album pages feature cut-outs intertwined with flowers, as well as nature and landscape motifs, including views of castles and palaces in Scotland (Balmoral, Invergarry, Dudhope, Broughty and Kilchurn Castle, Melrose, Kelso and Dryburgh Abbey, Lochnagar, etc.). - The portraits (by C. Vandyk, Clarke & Clarke, Elliot & Fry, A&G Taylor, and others in London) mostly depict men (including, presumably, two clergymen and a gentleman wearing medals and an official or (Masonic?) chain), three children, and two ladies. - The music box that was once embedded in the back cover is missing. - Some marginal damage along the cut-outs; pages are somewhat dusty; some photographs are slightly stained; otherwise, the book is generally well preserved.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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