Between the Covers

Hardcover. Oblong small quarto. Brown cloth boards with "Photographs" in gilt. Some wear to the spine ends, small worm hole and some foxing on the margins of a few pages, very good or better, images are largely fine. Ownership signature of Henry A. Janvier on the inside front board. Circa 1895. 24 gelatin silver print photographs. Each image is 6.75" x 5", mounted and all but one are captioned. Beautifully composed photographs of the Boston Reservoir Park and Marblehead, Massachusetts. Images include beachscapes, sailboats, and mountains. Henry A. Janvier, was an engineer for the Ferracute Company, a machine and die maker in Bridgeton, N.J. which was an important producer of machines to make coins and machine parts. Janvier was the company's representative to China who installed coin minting machines in 1898. A gifted amateur photographer he made his trip famous through the hundreds of images of parts of inland China that had never before recorded on film and glass.

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