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"Panorama de Constantinople", c. 1880. Panorama of 10 original photographs.

Albumen prints fix mounted on firm cardboard supports. Vintages. Each approx. 19 x 20 cm; overall dimension approx. 19 x 200 cm; cover 31.5 x 37 cm. Green cloth binding with gold embossed title on cover.

Literature: Bodo von Dewitz (ed). An den süssen Ufern Asiens. Exhibition catalogue, Agfa Foto-Historama im Römisch-Germanischen Museum, Köln, 7.10.-4.12.1988. Cologne, 1988 (p. 164, cf. ill. in the fold-out supplement, slightly different).


Large-format panorama taken from the Galata Tower with a view across the Bosphorus to the Asian side, from Uskudar to the Topkapi Palace, overlooking the Golden Horn up to the west side of the city.

- Light oxidation mirroring in the dark areas, partly with some scratch marks, occasionally lightly browned. The mounts with more pronounced browning and spotting, some corners somewhat brittle with small tears, occasional old reinforcements in the binding margins. The hinges of the binding somewhat cracked, somewhat rubbed, spotted and soiled, the cover warped, the corners bumped. Overall well preserved.