[Rarebooks] FS: Withf 66 orig. photos of the 1908 "Great Messina Earthquake" w/ printed descriptions

[Kenneth Karmiole]

B., W. P.  MESSINA AFTER THE GREAT DISASTER. Photographs from My Own Camera. With Explanatory Description of Each Photograph by W. P. B. No place: No pub. 1909. 4to. lxxv,(3)pp. Including 17 inserted sheets of heavy gray stock paper containing 66 original mounted photographs. Original tan cloth, front cover stamped in black. Very scarce.    $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
The 1908 Messina earthquake, magnitude 7.1, occurred on December 28. It affected both Sicily and Calabria and killed approximately 75,000 people. This work was obviously printed in a small edition, given the original photographs.  OCLC currently records a total of only 7 copies.

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