[Rarebooks] FS: 1880 PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENERY OF SOUTH AFRICA

[Charles Agvent]

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENERY OF SOUTH AFRICA. n.p.: Sam Alexander, 1880. First 
Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco 
leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and 
tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic 
portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's patron; [x], 56 pages with 50 
stiff card leaves containing 100 collotypes mounted as pairs on rectos 
and versos. The photographer, Robert Harris of Port Elizabeth, captured 
views of all the major South African cities and towns as well as views 
in Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Zululand. Among the subjects are diamond 
fields, people, and landscapes. Images generally clean with some foxing 
to margins and to tissue guards; hinges reinforced with cloth tape. 
Binding rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Very Good. 
(#021510)        $750

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