PHOTOGRAPHY
Iconic pictures taken by the most prominent members of the world of photography, including "Alpe di Siusi" by Luigi Ghirri, as well as a fine selection of shots by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Doisneau and Alexander Rodchenko.
3.00 pm | lots 1-221
VIEWING
Milan, via Manzoni 7, from Saturday 1 to Friday 7 April by appointment +39 0249488863 (Sunday excluded)
Turin, via Cavour 17, Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 April | 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Lot 21
GIACOMO CANEVA 1813 - 1865
Stone bridge and pavilion of Summer palace , Beijing, China 1859
Salt print mounted on original thin cardboard. "A.Sacchi" ink stamp verso.
The relationship between Sacchi and Caneva is well documented thanks to the article published by Luigi
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 22
LUIGI SACCHI 1805 - 1861
Portale c.1855
Salt print. "A.Sacchi" ink stamp verso.
in. 9.9 x 7.8
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 23
LUIGI SACCHI 1805 - 1861
Duomo di Milano (facciata) c. 1850
Light albumen print on original thin cartboard. Photographer's blind stamp on cartboard recto.
in. 10.1 x 13.7 (in. 12.9 x 17.6)
Starting price: € 1.200
Lot 24
ANONIMO
Il Duomo di Milano c.1860
Two coated salt prints on original cardboards.
in. 7.4 x 5.9 (in. 11.7 x 8.6)
Starting price: € 300
Lot 25
ANONIMO
Milano le guglie del Duomo c.1860
Two light albumen prints on original cardboards.
in. 8.2 x 6.4 (in. 10.5 x 9.0)
Starting price: € 300
Lot 26
LEONE NANI 1880 - 1935
Shanxi Han-chung-fu 1903-1914
Eighty-two albumen prints and gelatin silver prints (n.16 size in. 5.11 x 7, n. 34 size in. 3.54 x 5.11, n. 32 size 2.36 x 3.54). Leone Nani's credit stamp and captions verso (majority prints).
A rare group of
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 27
AUTORI VARI
China, Australia and Japan XIX sec.
Fifty-one album double pages (102 plates) with albumen prints, some photomechanical prints small size. Parchment binding.
Hong Kong two views in 8.27 x 10.43
China three military groups in 8.27 x 10.43
Canton two
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Starting price: € 1.300 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 28
AUTORI VARI
Japan Portraits and Views c.1880
Forty-eight albumen prints hand colored (36 portraits, 12 views). One print with a known back of the tatooed man and one with scenes of decapitation.
Prints are double mounted on cardboard with window. Lacquer and mother of
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Starting price: € 1.600 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 29
JOSEPH PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY ATTRIB. 1804 - 1892
Veduta di Genova dal campanile della chiesa delle Vigne 1842
Rare Genoa's city view daguerreotype in archaic frame. The plate is easily attributable to Girault de Prangey who was in the city in 1842 during his
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Starting price: € 9.000
Lot 30
THIBAUD WITZ
Rouen, two girls with a doll c.1848
Daguerrotype, a quarter of plate, turtle finising frame with window glass enamelled with gold ornament.
Daguerreotypist label verso: "Daguerréotype Places des Carmes 46 ancien hotel de la Poste Rouen"
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in. 4.3 x 3.1
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Starting price: € 600