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Title: Album Photographique des Ruines de Paris. Collection de tous les monuments et édifices incendiés et détruits par la Commune de Paris. Accompagnée de Notices historiques et descriptives sur chaque sujet.
Description: .: Paris, Librairie rue Visconti, 22 , s.d. ( 1871 ) , in-4°, oblong format, 21 x 27 cm, (4)nn pp ( title & text) + 21 mounted albumen photographs on stiff boards ( 1 with portraits of the communards ; 20 views of the ruins ). Each image is 92 x 129 mm, mounted within a two tone printed border. Most photographs have a caption in the negative and in the right hand lower corner the initials P.L. ( P. Loubère ?). Bound in publisher's green cloth with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Binding lightly rubbed and gilt title faded. Last fly leaf missing. Still a fine and complete copy of an album which documented the ruins of Paris after the Commune uprising , with the sometimes lacking portrait collection of figures which played a role in the uprising - 9 thumbnail portraits - 8 men arranged around one woman Among the men we recognise Louis Charles Delescluze. Félix Pyat , Théophile Ferré. .

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Price: EUR 1000.00 = appr. US$ 1086.85 Seller: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij
- Book number: 44135