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(AMBROTYPES)
A group of approximately 57 handsome ambrotypes, comprising intimate portraits,
occupational studies, outdoor scenes, and post-mortems.
With 2 full-plates (including a trio of sisters and a Niagara Falls scene); 29 half-plates (including a
maritime figure posing with a model clipper, a southern family posed before their stately home, a
post-mortem of a boy, and a hand-tinted portrait of a young man in a boater hat with a hiking staff);
7 quarter-plates (including storefront scenes of a butchers and a liquor store, and an image of 5 people
in a floating canoe); 12 sixth-plates (including a boy with a bucket and shovel, a man pushing his
bicycle, two smoking men, one armed with a rifle, and numerous outdoor beach scenes); and 7 ninth-
plates (including 4 portraits of children in one union case, and a hand-tinted portrait of a man by an
apple tree). Nearly all in leather cases; many separated at the hinge. 1850s-60s
[2,000/3,000]
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(DIABLERIES)
A fascinating, macabre group of 11 French tissue-stereo views of Satan and various
demonic figures and their hellish environs.
Comprised of images of the Gates of Hell; Satan, dressed as a king; a regatta on the River Styx; a
skeleton army riding into battle; Madame Satan’s boudoir; and other scenes from the Inferno.
Albumen prints, pinpricked to show color, in pink mounts, the images measuring approximately
overall 3
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x7 inches (8.3x17.8 cm.), and slightly larger, each with a caption, in the negative, and a
hand-colored sheet of tissue, on verso. 1860s-70s
[600/900]
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(INDIA)
Mixed media album of photographs of India and its environs.
Comprised of 47 stunning photographs and 58 pages with hand-drawn botanical and nature studies;
hand-painted watercolor landscapes and portraits; and various collaged elements including greeting
cards, dried flower specimens, feathers, and pressed dragonfly wings.Albumen prints (47), the images
measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and smaller, mounted recto/verso. 4to, dark brown
leatherette with decorative gilt pattern, lightly worn. 1880s
[3,000/4,500]
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