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Souvenir de la Funiculaire du Vesuve.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DG975.V6 S66 1890
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914, photographer, publisher.
Language:
Italian
Subjects (All):
Vesuvius (Italy)--Photographs.
Vesuvius (Italy).
Naples (Italy)--Description and travel--Photographs.
Naples (Italy).
Volcanoes--Photographs.
Volcanoes.
Morganstern A.G(?) (autograph).
black-and-white photographs.
Local Subjects:
Morganstern A.G(?) (autograph).
Genre:
Photograph albums
Albumen prints
Physical Description:
1 volume : photographs, 15 x 20 cm
Other Title:
Souvenir du Vesuve
Place of Publication:
Napoli : G. Sommer Napoli, [1880?]
Summary:
Volume contains ten albumen photographs of Mount Vesuvius, 10 x 16 cm pasted on hard board, 15 x 20 cm. Photographs depict scenes of workers, a family, Vesuvius billowing smoke, various buildings including a restaurant. Most photographs contain name of photographer at bottom right.
Notes:
Title from half-title page; title within three decorative borders.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center copy has original red hard cover with gilt title within decorative border in black; back cover has same pattern border, blind-tooled. Copy also contains handwritten autograph, in black, of: "A. G(?). Morganstern New York"; on front fly-leaf.
OCLC:
1117278895

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