Colleccao de Photographias relativas ao Caminho de Ferro de Lourenco Marques
Lisbon: Ferin & Comp. [1889].
Price: $4,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Thick oblong small quarto. 47 images, plus [4] index pp. Full brown cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Modest splits at top joint, but a tight very good copy. 47 albumen images mounted on card leaves with printed captions. Images are various sizes, mostly approximately 4.5" x 7". The images are handsome and rich and document the construction of the railroad, particularly the bridges, between Lourenço Marques in present day Mozambique and the border of the Transvaal. Presumably this elaborate publication enjoyed very limited printing and distribution.
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