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A delightful set of anonymous sequential photographs of ballet steps, presumably designed as a teaching aid, capturing a dancer’s movements broken down frame by frame, rather in the manner of Eadweard Muybridge.

First edition. A collection of photographs, with a written introduction by Hurlimann showing various scenes and famous places of India. He was a Swiss publisher, who founded a newspaper Atlantis, in 1929 which specialised in international travel, but he is best known for being a photographer of Western European cities.

First edition, one of 250 copies, this being one of 50 on vergé de Hollande with plates signed by artist and publisher. A rare collection, entirely printed in heliogravure, comprising text, image and graphic narrative. Willette’s Pauvre Pierrot is the archetypal tragic clown figure, dogged by sadness and misfortune and by the spectre of death itself. In retrospect Willette is a highly problematical figure: celebrated decorator of the Moulin Rouge and Le Chat noir (as well as of the favourite Left Bank booksellers’ café Le Palette d’or), popular illustrator in the Parisian Press, but also running as an anti-semitic candidate in the Paris legislative elections of 1889 under the slogan: ‘Les Juifs ne sont grands, que parce que nous sommes à genoux!’ Vicaire 1167 T7.

A fine Reutlinger cabinet photograph of the celebrated neo-gothic architect and restorer in his later years.

A very early photographically illustrated book, including 25 original albumen prints reproducing paintings. The edition was also available with engraved headpieces.

Compiled in the town of Popovo in the wine-growing region of North Eastern Bulgaria, this souvenir album was compiled by a federation of three local temperance societies and given to one ‘Monsieur Dr. P. Legrain’. Most of the photographic postcards depict society outings, with large groups of men, women and children usually in outdoor settings in all seasons (including what appear to be very harsh winters). Several of the photographs were taken at harvest time, with copious bunches of grapes in evidence. The context of the presentation is not immediately obvious, though may be apparent in the three long inscriptions in Bulgarian accompanied by the purple inkstamps of each of the societies.