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264 [Middle East]
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99 diapositives
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€ 400/600
In situ and museum images of monuments, ruins, temples, statues, bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, walls,
etc. A.o. images of the
Jupiter temple
, the
acropolis
, the
Cyclopean Wall
, a quarry in
Baalbek
(in situ), the Sun temple and Colonnades in
Palmyra
(in situ) of which we assume the’re partly
as not fully destroyed in a blast during the Syrian war. Images of an Assyrian art collection, the
sarcophagus of Sidon in Istanbul, collections in the British Museum, the Louvre, etc. Images of
Petra
: tombs, pyramids, ruins of ancient Christian temples, Ad Deir, Al Khazneh, the Sik. 1 smaller
box of glass negatives. Labels: “Beernaert’s D.P.C.”.
265 [Mining]
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81 diapositives
.
€ 300/600
Interesting testimony
of the work and machines in the mine showing mine railways, gondola’s, air
compression engines, shafts, boring machines, an air winch, etc. Different locations:
East Pool
Mine, Dolcoath Mine, Robinson Deep in Johannesburg,
Cook’s Kitchen Mine, Blue Hill Mine,
Cornwall district Mine, etc.
266 [Morocco - Algeria]
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90 diapositives
.
€ 400/700
Tangier
: departure of the sultan, cavalry of the sultan, gate of Fez, street scenes, jewish people,
musicians, a Hebrew priest, the Kasbah, Soko market, etc.
Tetouan:
fish, bread and grain market, a
Ramadan feast, ancient fortress, city walls, Palace of Bricha, Palace of the Pasha,... Some images
of
Algeria
: Chiffa, Tipasa, Algiers (governor’s palace, a warehouse, arcades, a Roman house, an
aqueduct,...).
267 [Natural science]
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116 diapositives
.
€ 400/600
Images of
astronomical phenomena
, planets, stars, etc. mostly dated and with label a.o.: “Lick
Observatory astro. photos”: the moon in different phases (1890, 1892), the sun (1893), Jupiter
(1892), Lunar Alps, total solar eclipse (1893), clusters in Perseus, Nebecula Major (1893). Images
of
microscopic cells
, parasites, insects, etc.: bees, mosquito, scabies, trichocephalus, acarus,
cristallisations of acids, etc. Images of
micrococci, diplococci and streptococci
, from the Bacillus
Tuberculosis, the Spirillum Cholera, the Bacteria Pneumonia and the Bacillus Typhoid, etc. Images
of
diatoms
(a major group of algae): cascinodiscus, triceratium, licmophora,... Some diapositives
with handwritten text explaining the collection: “These Photomicrographic Latern Slides have been
made from direct negatives (...)”. “Instituto Micrografico Italiano”.”Beernaert’s”, “Cappellini”,
“E.G. Wood”, “Istituto Micrografico”, “Molteni”.
We join:
41 images of
dogs and fish
.
268 [Netherlands]
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81 diapositives
.
€ 400/600
Images of various
cities in Holland
: Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Delft, Deventer, Dordrecht, Haarlem,
‘s-Hertogenbosch, Leeuwarden, Leyden, Marken, Moerdijk, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Scheveningen,
The Hague, Utrecht, Volendam, Zandvoort, Zaandam, etc. Most images of houses, squares, the
seaside, markets, the countryside, some portraits.
269 [Norway]
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102 diapositives
.
€ 200/400
Account of
a private holiday?
to Norway. The images show often the same couple (man and woman
always separately on the images, taking pictures of each other?) making excursions by foot, by boat,
by coach in the Norwegian nature. Some images of Copenhagen (Fredericksborg). Labels: “Ed.
Beernaerts”, “V. Monckhoven”.
270 [Paris]
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43 diapositives
.
€ 200/400
Monuments of Paris
: Porte St Denis, Louvre, Arc du Carrousel, Hôtel de Ville, Notre Dame,
Pont Alexandre, Trocadero, Arc de Triomphe, Statue de Strasbourg, Père Lachaise, Colonne de la
Bastille, Pantheon, Colonne Vendôme, l’Opéra, Place de la République, Tombeau de Napoléon, St
Germain des Prés, Jardin des Plantes, Sacré Coeur, etc. One slide of the Paris Exhibition in 1878
with label “J.B. Medland, optician, 12. Borough, London Brigde”. Labels “E. Mazo”.