9 •ALEXANDER GARDNER (1821-1882) & HENRY DEWITT MOULTON (1828-1893) Album entitled Rays of Sunlight from South America, with 68 of the 70 original plates of Lima, Peru and the Chincha Islands. Containing 68 photographs of South America, comprising 36 picturesque views of public edifices, monuments, churches, and gardens in Lima, and 32 prints of the Chincha Islands, with a focus on the guano industry. Albumen prints, the images each measuring approximately 6¾x8 7/8  inches (17.2x22.5 cm.), and the reverse, each with Gardner and Moulton's printed credit, the publisher's credit, the album title, and a caption, on mount recto. Oblong folio, gilt-pictorial leather; marbled end papers at the rear; all edges gilt; lacking album front cover, title page, preface, and 2 plates. 1865

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