Photography - an pre-Second World War European 'Grand Tour',...

Hammer

£20

Photography - an pre-Second World War European 'Grand Tour', an album of approx. 60 competent b/w photograph, dated 1936 and annotated in most places, illustrating the gentleman-tourists’ travels in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands, as well as named-view topography, architecture and antiquities, some of the snapshots provide an image of Nazi Germany and the Third Reich prior to the war, with streets decked with Reichsadlers and swastika flags, loosely-inserted Zeppelin ephemera, oblong 4to, (1); an English family’s post-Second World War album of domestic holiday snapshots, typical larks, the seaside, architecture and topography, oblong 4to, (1); Royal Navy, an early 20th century scrap album, some b/w photographs, but mostly ephemera and prints, oblong 4to, (1); The Lund Family, a ‘family tree’ album of photographic portraits, late 19th century and later, annotated throughout, some of the later family member leaves with tipped-in ephemera, oblong 4to, (1); Magic Lantern Slides, The Royal Family, six slides (two of which are in colour), with studio portraits of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Alexandra, boxed, c. 1900, (1), [5]