Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

17 c (BRAZIL) Marc Ferrez (1843-1923); Wm. Gaensly (1843-1928) Folio entitled Ansichten von Bahia, with 32 photographs, including 4 diptych studies of men and women laborers (apparently from Marc Ferrez’s negatives). Also includes 4 harbor views by Guilherme William Gaensly (on cream mounts with Gaensly’s blind stamp and Kummler’s hand stamp), 14 city views and seascapes (on Kummler’s blue mounts with his printed credit), 8 cityscapes (on lavender mounts, with Kummler’s hand stamp), 4 diptychs (on blue mounts, each with Herman Kummler’s printed Aarau [Brazil] credit), and 2 photographs on smaller cream paper mounts (each with Kummler’s hand stamp). Salted paper (5) and albumen (31) prints (including 4 diptychs), the images measuring 5 1 / 2 x4 to 6 1 / 2 x9 inches (14x10.2 to 16.5x22.9 cm.), the mounts 6x9 1 / 4 to 9 1 / 2 x13 inches (16.5x23.3 to 24.1x33 cm.), each annotated, in ink, on mount recto, and many with the photographer’s printed credit, embossed hand stamp, and Kummler’s hand stamp, on mount recto. Small folio with f lap, gilt-lettered green morocco, edgewear; contents loose as issued. 1860s-90 [3,000/4,500] From the Collection of Hermann Kummler; acquired directly from the family.