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258 [Java]
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28 diapositives
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€ 300/500
Images of the Indonesian island
Java:
Javanese dancers, merchants, rice traders, musicians, an
embroideress, the streets, the natural environment, the Botanical Garden of Bogor, the Pangrango
vulcano, etc.
259 [Magic Lantern Slides]
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3 stories on coloured magic lantern slides
.
€ 200/300
1.
“Netta’s Rabbit, in 14 photo colored slides” kept in a box (complete, cover def.) with
accompanying reader
by Peter Feathers, optical instrument maker and lantern and slide dealer
(after 1863 - before c. 1910).
2.
“A shining light, a Christmas Story, 10 photo colored slides” kept
in a box (lacking the first slide), made by Bamforth & Co, England, c. 1892, after Miriam R. Smith’s
“A shining light: a temperance story”. Label on the lantern slides indicating “From life models”.
3.
“Ostler Joe, in 14 photo colored slides” kept in a box (complete), made by Bamforth & Co.,
England, c. 1899, after George R. Sims’ “Ostler Joe”. Also labeled “From life models”.
260 [Magic Lantern Slides]
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Ten little nigger boys
. [London, W. Butcher & Sons, c. 1900], 8 col.
lantern slides (the illustrations and accompanying rhymes for 5 and 6 and for 2 and 3 are each
combined on a single glass slide to make this a set of 8 rather than 10 slides), 82 x 82 mm, bound
around edges with black paper tape, kept in orig. box.
€ 200/300
Complete set
of 8 lantern slides telling the story of “Ten Little Nigger Boys”. The slides were
produced under the trade name Primus, as part 515 of the Junior Lecturers’ Series, A set of lantern
slides. Reading was done on the slides, other series had a printed reading. The rhyme of “Ten Litte
Nigger Boys” was adapted in the late 1800s from “10 Little Injuns”, written by Septimus Winner in
1868. It became widely known in Europe and was used by Agatha Christie in her novel ‘Ten Little
Niggers’ (1939).
261 [Magic Lantern Slides]
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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
[London, W. Butcher &
Sons, c. 1900], 7 (of 8) col. lantern slides (lacking n. 3), 82 x 82 mm, bound around edges with black
paper tape, kept in orig. box.
€ 200/300
Incomplete set of slides telling the story of “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe”. The
slides were produced under the trade name Primus, as part 518 of the Junior Lecturers’ Series, A
set of lantern slides.
We join
:
Canadian life, past and present
. London, J. Theobald & Co., c. 1894, 10 (of 12) slides
(lacking n. 6 & 7), same size and present., kept in a box (cover lacking). Incomplete set of slides
showing us the life in Canada (Indians, hunting, winter, travelling by train, etc). With
accompanying
reading
. - 2 other slides from different stories of which one “The compliments of the season”. - 41
colored lantern slides from “
All round the World
”.
262 [Magic lantern]
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MOLTENI
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Magic lantern
, 68 x 38 cm, by Projections Molteni, Radiguet A.
Massiot, constructeurs, 15, Bd des Filles du Calvaire, Paris.
Cfr. ill.
€ 100/200
Rare French magic lantern for magic lantern slides with varying dimensions complete with brass
lens, original? lamp and electrical power supply. With type plate. Standing on a wooden tripod, 132
x 57 cm (not attached). Example of the most succesfull years of these “Constructeurs d’instruments
pour les Sciences”. The fusion of two familiar houses around 1900: Molteni (est. in 1782) and
Radiguet (est. in 1805) led them to become an important player in the market of manufacturing
optical instruments.
263 [Malta]
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16 diapositives
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€ 200/300
Images of the archipelago in the central Mediterranean between Sicily and the North African coast:
fortifications, a procession, people on the streets,
English marines
(Malta became Crown Colony
in 1813),
Valletta
(capital of Malta), Citta Vecchia (or Mdina, fortified city), peasants, Boschetto
(Buskett Gardens). 1 image of the ancient Tombs of Paphos (city on the southwest coast of Cyprus)
and 1 smaller box of glass negatives (some of Malta, others of cities of Anatolia).