Album of nineteenth century photographs of mountaineering and the Alps, comprising 139 images, many by Vittorio Sella and W.F. Donkin, mostly albumen prints, mounted on 50 card sheets (usually recto only, but using 3 versos), 22 large format by Sella (285 x 385mm., or similar) one per page, approximately 100 (typically 130 x 180mm.) mounted 4 per page, remainder varying sizes 2 per page, varying tones and fading, many subjects or photographers identified in later pencil in margins, contemporary half morocco, g.e., worn at edges, one joint split, oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), [mostly 1880s]
Album of nineteenth century photographs of mountaineering and the Alps, comprising 139 images, many by Vittorio Sella and W.F. Donkin, mostly albumen prints, mounted on 50 card sheets (usually recto only, but using 3 versos), 22 large format by Sella (285 x 385mm., or similar) one per page, approximately 100 (typically 130 x 180mm.) mounted 4 per page, remainder varying sizes 2 per page, varying tones and fading, many subjects or photographers identified in later pencil in margins, contemporary half morocco, g.e., worn at edges, one joint split, oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), [mostly 1880s]
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