A. BRAUN & OTHER CARTES DE VISITE OF SWITZERLAND ALBUM

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7.5 x 10 x 1.5"

Late 19th/early 20th century image album, made of compressed paper and resembling carved wood, depicting bears on the cover and frame design on the back. The album features 91 cartes de visite in total including:

Jean Adolphe Braun (Photographer, French, 1812-1877)
- (66) Images of Switzerland, among those:
  - Viamala
  - Thusis
  - Lucerne
  - Grisons
  - Grindelwald
  - Giesbach Falls
  - Interlaken
  - Berne
  - Zurich
  - & more
Florentin Charnaux (Photographer, 1832-1883)
- (4) Images of Swiss countryside
Unmarked images
- (1) Swiss guard
- (13) Rural and urban scenes of Switzerland
(9) Hand-embellished prints of etchings
- Albert Von Escher (Artist, Swiss, 1839-1905)
  - Interlaken
- (4) Alpine states, represented by women in period-traditional
  - Lucerne
  - Berne
  - Appenzell
  - Vaud
- (1) Chamois hunter, scaling a rocky wall
- (1) Glacier des Rosenlaui
- (1) Hospice of the Grimsel
- (1) Grosse Scheidegg

Condition: Moderate wear to the album cover and back. Album pages have foxing and toning. All CDVs exhibit toning to paper. Some images exhibit fading.