Album avec 28 tirages albuminés, contrecollés individuellement sur carton d'époque. 4 tirages signés D. Costantin à Athènes dans le négatif, un tirage signé Robertson et deux signés Robertson et Beato dans le négatif. In-folio, chagrin rouge avec des armes comtales en or au centre des plats, dos muet à nerfs, tranches dorées.

Alkis X. Xanthakis, History of Greek Photography 1839-1960, Athènes, Hellenic Literary and Historical Archives Society, 1988, voir pp. 55-57 et 69/70;
Bodo von Dewitz (éd.), Das Land der Griechen mit der Seele suchen. Photographien des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, cat. expo. Cologne, Cologne, Agfa Foto-Historama, 1990, voir pp. 84-90;
Bahattin Öztuncay, James Robertson. Pioneer of Photography in the Ottoman Empire, Istamboul, Eren, 1992, ill. couverture et p. 69 (Hagia Sofia, Istanbul);
Sylvie Aubenas/ Jacques Lacarrière (éd), Voyage en Orient, cat. expo. Paris, Hazan, 1999, voir p. 37 et 176-187.

In very good general condition. Three prints are very faded, the others slightly faded. The gradation of toneas and contrasts ranges from 10/10 to 2/10, within this scale the majority of the prints fall in the upper range. The covers with slight traces of use.
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