147 - ALBUM OF NINETY TWO (92) ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING A VOYAGE IN SEVERAL PLACES IN GREECE. c.1895-1900

ALBUM OF NINETY TWO (92) ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING A VOYAGE IN SEVERAL PLACES IN GREECE. c.1895-1900 Large in 4to, in contemporary red leather Kodak Souvenirs vintage Album, one of the very early KODAK Albums, of 25 sheets for photographs, every sheet with 4 original photographs, two at the end left empty. Many photographs have on the site pencil manuscripts captions in French ,almost all very clear photos measuring 10x8cm each and follow the trip: Athens, Piraeus, Corinth, Egina, Delphes, Argos, Mykines, Tirintha, Epidavros, Cheronia, Olympia, many depict amazing views of Greek villages, roads and contemporary life in the Greek countryside in the turn of 20th century. Thirty seven (37) cover Athens with many with around the half with fine captions of daily life in the Greek capital, two (2) depict Piraeus, four (4) on board a ship on cruise in the Saronic gulf, nine (9) Aigina, so little photographed that time, eleven (11) Delphi, a fantastic chapter with ten (10) photos titled between Delphes and Athens that depict a clear picture of the Greek countryside of that time, two (2)Cheronia, ten (10) depict Mykines, Tyrins and Epidavros and six (6) Olympia, one unidentified. An amazing corpus of early photographs of Greece by a private unidentified (although depicted) French traveler that includes unique photos for the life, buildings, transports and landscape of Greece of that time.