Lot 8

(J. LOEFFLER & ROCKWOOD)

An album of 14 views of New York City and Staten Island related to German businessman L.E. Amsinck.

The album comprised of 11 views of the stately home and servants' quarters of Staten Island merchant L.E. Amnsinck, counterposed with 3 street scenes of lower Manhattan, including two of Amsinck's mercantile headquarters, with numerous folks peeking out the windows, and carriages and spectators on the street. Albumen prints, the images measuring 8½x12¼ to 14½x17 inches (21.6x31.1 to 36.8x43.5 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 17½x21¼ inches (44.5x54 cm.), 8 with Loeffler's credit label on mount verso and 2 with Rockwood's blind stamp on mount recto. Elephant folio, gilt-pictorial green morocco with the decorative monogram L.E.A. on the front cover. 1860s