Travel photographs, Europe, Africa, France, United Kingdom, - Lot 305

Travel photographs, Europe, Africa, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Africa and miscellaneous. Circa 1895-1900. Set of two large photographic albums (whole formats approx. 40 x 28 x 6 cm, one album with unattached cover) consisting of nearly 500 photographs of mines, life and street scenes, and miscellaneous. A first album entitled "De France au Sud-Afrique 1895" (From France to South Africa 1895), comprising more than 200 mostly albumin prints of the period, laminated on cardboard and captioned on visuals and/or montages. Handwritten annotations in ink on one of the first inside pages: "Voyage de France au Transvaal et retour par le Havre, Southampton, Funchal, Le Cap (en paquebot) - Du Cap à Johannesburg par Bloemfontein (État d'Orange) - De Johannesburg aux Mines d'Or et à Pretoria, capitale du Transvaal. Return via Bloemfontein, Kimberley (Diamond Mines), Cape Town (by rail) and from Cape Town to Funchal, Plymouth, London, Paris (July 12 to (...) October 1895). Amateur and professional photographers. Examples of subjects: view (panoramic) of Funchal, capital of the Madeira Islands (Portuguese colony), Rue de l'Impératrice - in the background ascending railroad (Funchal), Sugar cane harvest in Madeira, Funchal - Madeira wine depot and Treille, General view of Cape Town, Panorama of Johannesburg 1895, Paul Kruger President of the Republic of South Africa (Transvaal), a Zulu warrior chief, young native women, Panoramic view taken from a knoll near the Simmer and Jack (G.M.C.), mills, Brakpan - loading coal, Goldfields, Lake Boksburg, General view taken from the Langlaagte Royal road, Our dining room transformed into a study, Diamond Mines, Kimberley - Mr. Dreyfus's garden, Wesselton Mine, group of Zulus after performing their war dance (Beers Mine), etc. Various states. Whole sizes approx. 10 x 7.5 cm to 46 x 17 cm. A second album titled "Italy 1897 Germany" (Spain, Africa - Ivory Coast, Turkey, China, Guadeloupe, Haiti, South America - Peru and Colombia) consisting of more than 280 mostly albumin, cyanotype, silver and other prints mounted on cardboard, titled and captioned on visuals and/or mounts. Circa 1897-1900. Amateur and professional photographers. Examples of subjects: Italy and Sardinia (Florence, Piso, Cagliari, Siliqua, Santadi, January-February 1897), Road from Santadi to Siliqua, Urgolin Castle, Cagliarie - view taken from the ramparts of the upper town, Porto San Stefano, Pisa, Queen's Avenue (Florence), another village near Cassel, Marburg, Magdeburg, The Rhine, Cologne, trip to Spain (May-June 1900 - Mining research in the Alcudia Valley), Ciudad Real, Villalba mine factory, Mestanza, "Los Galayos" old mine area, panoramic view taken from the village of Solanilla del Tarnaral, "El Castillo" mine, "Mine de los Curas", "Coto la Luz" mine, M. Brérault's trip to the Ivory Coast. Brérault Ivory Coast 1898, native hairdresser, Turkey 1900, China 1899, Temple near Pakoï, Chinese on a trip, Pok-Pak fortifications, view of Hongay (coal mines - Tonkin), Stay at the Ticapampa mines (Peru - 1893-96), Ticapampa lead and silver factory, Colombia 1901, Haiti 1902, Main street of Saint-Thomas, Port-au-Prince, trip by M. Dégoutin in Haiti (April 19-August 12, 1902), view of Cap Haïtien, village of Terreneuve, Mr. E. Brérault's trip to China and the island of Haïnan (1901), Port of Hong-Kong, Port of Canton, etc. Various states. Whole formats from approx. 8.5 x 6 cm to 24.5 x 19.5 cm. Enclosed are five photographs, including four prints mounted on cardboard and captioned, three of which are of the Hongay Mines (Tonkin - full sizes approx. 27.5 x 21.5 cm) and a general view of Cannes (Albumine).