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(CZECH PHOTO BOOKS.)
Letem ceskym svetem [A Flight Over the CzechWorld] * Letem ceskym svetem 1898-1998.
Together, the first and later editions of this massive photographic project, the first with over 500
views from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, and the second with the changes in the “Czech
world” in a century; each volume with many reproductions. Each oblong folios, the first with
Alphonse Mucha’s splendid cover and the second full gray cloth with the printed title; each just
slightly worn at the edges. Parr/Badger II 227 (both titles).
THE FIRST EDITION AND THE LATER
‘
REPHOTOGRAPHIC
’
PROJECT
.
Prague: Jos RVilimek, 1898 & Prague: Jaroslav Barta, Studio JB, 1999
[1,000/1,500]
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(PHOTOGRAPHICALLY
ILLUSTRATED.)
Christie’s, A Catalogue of the John
Wawtkins Brett Collection, 1864.
With 48 mounted albumen photographs of the
collection (5 pages with 2 prints mounted
together), including ornamental vases, clocks,
and cups, ink drawings, and paintings by famous
Italian masters, including bronze statues and
friezes, marble busts, and more. 4to, rebound in
gilt-lettered green cloth; all edges gilt.
London, 1864
[400/600]
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