LIEBERT (Alphonse), D’AUNAY, (Alfred)

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LIEBERT (Alphonse), D’AUNAY, (Alfred)
The Ruins of Paris and its surroundings. 1870-1871. A hundred photographs. PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS - FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR - PARIS HEADQUARTERS]. In Paris, La Photographie Américaine A. Liébert, 1872. Large in-8 oblong - 31.5 x 22cm. Binding of the time in brown half-chagrin, back with 5 nerves decorated with gold dotted lines and cold fillets, all gilded edges. Book entirely mounted on tabs. 8ff, 50 photographs; 8ff, 50 photographs. Two-volume album, complete with his hundred period albumen prints (9.7 x 13.4 cm), mounted on cardboard. Preface by Alfred d'Aunay. Copy enriched with 15 old postcards and 6 additional photographs. Stamp on the title page of the Roxane Debuisson collection. Alphonse Justin Liébert (1827-1914) was a naval officer and photographer. He is one of the few photographers to stay in Paris during the 1871 Paris Commune. He will photograph the buildings destroyed by the bloody week's fighting as well as the many barricades built by the Communards. He is the only one to photograph the ruins located in the inner suburbs of Paris resulting from the Prussian army bombings. BAJAC Quentin, "La Commune photographiée", RMN, 2000. Fragile jaws, small binding defects, tiny and rare freckles, if not very rare complete specimen.
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