Many of the early views are hard to grade and have the strange white spotting that seems to pervade early Italian views and those of photographers such as Braun and Tairrez. Also they do not scan very well and are generally much better than they appear on the screen. Most of the early views, where unmarked, are by G. Sommer.
Paestum
R Rive. 'Basilica interno,
Paestum'.
Condition 9.
Order #1221.
Price $15.
Naples
G. Sommer. Title unreadable
but this looks like Bay of Naples.
Condition 5.
Order #1223.
Price $5.
Underwood. Birdseye view of
Naples and Vesuvius'. Descriptive text.
Condition 8.
Order #1224.
Price $10.
E. Tutte. Handwritten 'Vue
de Naples, Italie'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #1226.
Price $18.
Title unclear.
Condition. 8 apart from the
usual spotting.
Order #1227.
Price $10.
Early hand-tinted view bearing
London Stereoscopic Company blindstamp. 'No 54. Route du Campo Santo, Naples'.
Condition around 7/8 for age.
Order #1228.
Price $18.
'Naples, place royal et chateau
St. Elme'.
Condition 8.
Order #1229.
Price $12.
'Naples, jardin royal'.
Condition 9.
Order #1230.
Price $15.
Sommer & Behles. '?Riviera
di ?Phuaja Constantine'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #1231.
Price $12.
Sommer & Behles. 'S. Angelo
& H.M.S. Marlbourgh'.
Condition. Moderate glue creep.
Order #1232.
Price $12.
Giorgio Sommer 'No 272. Stra.
del Molo v St Elmo, Napoli'.
Condition 9.
Order #1234.
Price $15.
Sommer & Behles. Title
unreadable - may not be Naples.
Condition 8 (some slight losses
at the back of the mount).
Order #1236.
Price $10.
Fine Art Photographers' Publishing
Co. 'Grandoni di Chraja, Naples'. Short description.
Condition 8.
Order #1237.
Price $15.
Keystone. 'Macaroni drying
in the dirty streets of Naples'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9/10.
Order #1239.
Price $12.
Keystone. 'The Lazzaroni, as
they live in the streets of Naples'.
Condition. Light surface mark
across right image.
Order #1240.
Price $12.
'Naples, Cloitre S. Martin'.
Condition 8.
Order #1242.
Price $10.
'Naples, Cloitre S. Martin'.
Condition 8.
Order #1243.
Price $12.
'862. Interieur de la remarquable
Eglise de la Chartreuse, Saint-Martino (Naples)'.
Condition 9.
Order #1244.
Price $12.
'Naples. Eglise S. Martin'.
Condition 9 (very slight ink
mark edge of left image).
Order #1245.
Price $12.
'Chapelle S. Severo (Le Christ)'.
Condition 8.
Order #1246.
Price $12.
Giorgio Sommer 'No 751. Calessa
di Resina, Napoli'. This seems to be a painting.
Condition 7.
Order #1247.
Price $10.
Keystone. 'Model of ruins of
Pompeii, National Museum, Naples'.
Condition 9.
Order #1248.
Price $12.
'1527. Deuxieme Portique du
Musee dit de Balbu (Naples)'.
Condition 9.
Order #1249.
Price $12.
Keystone. 'Beautiful Venus
of Gallipede gallery of ancient statues, Museum, Naples'.
Condition 9/10.
Order #1250.
Price $12.
'1520. Venus (Musee de Naples)'.
Condition 8.
Order #1251.
Price $8.
Handwritten 'Dante Alighieri
biondi du 1400. Naples'.
Condition 7 (light foxing).
Order #1252.
Price $12.
Keystone. 'The Farnese Bull,
National Museum, Naples'.
Condition 9/10.
Order #1253.
Price $10.
R. Rive. 'Mecurio riposante.
Museo di Napoli'.
Condition. Very light surface
stain and one soft corner to mount.
Order #1254.
Price $10.
'Mercure en repos a musee,
Naples'. I have a poorer version of this dated 1866.
Condition 8/9.
Order #1255.
Price $8.
R. Rive. 'Aristide. Museo di
Napoli'.
Condition 9.
Order #1256.
Price $12.
Amodio 'Junon a musee, Naples'.
Condition 7.
Order #1257.
Price $10.
Amodio 'Venus victorieuse a
musee, Naples'.
Condition 8.
Order #1258.
Price $12.
Sommer & Behles. 'Antinoe'.
Condition 8.
Order #1259.
Price $12.
R. Rive. 'Venere vineitrice'.
Condition. Couple of black
processing marks.
Order #1260.
Price $8.
R. Rive. 'Nereide'.
Condition. Loss and crease
to bottom of mount.
Order #9901.
Price $4.
R. Rive. Untitled.
Condition. Stain on right
image.
Order #9902.
Price $4.
R. Rive 'Balbo padre'.
Condition 5 (moderately faded
and grubby).
Order #9903.
Price $6.
Keystone. 'Stove and money
chests found at Pompeii, National Museum, Naples'.
Condition 10.
Order #9904.
Price $15.
Keystone. 'Victims of the great
disaster on August 24th, A.D. 79, Pompeii'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9/10.
Order #9905.
Price $15.
Keystone. 'Steelyards and scales
found at Pompeii, National Museum, Naples'.
Condition 10.
Order #9906.
Price $15.
Keystone. 'Surgical instruments
found in a physician's home, Pompeii'.
Condition 9.
Order #9907.
Price $12.
'Naples, jardin royal, enlevement
Troserpi'.
Condition 9.
Order #9908.
Price $12.
Sommer & Behles. 'Lasa
della gran fontana'.
Condition 9.
Order #9909.
Price $12.
J. Andrieu, Paris. 'Sorente,
prise de Capodimonte, pres Naples'.
Condition 4 (very grubby).
Order #9910.
Price $4.
White label 'Cascade du Palais-Royal
de Caserte (Naples)'.
Condition 7.
Order #9911.
Price $8.
Underwood 'Ruins of Herculaneum,
Old Naples, Italy'.
Condition 8 (slightly milky).
Order #9914.
Price $10.
Pompeii
Underwood. 'The old wheel tracks,
Street of Fortune, Pompeii'.
Condition 8.
Order #9915.
Price $10.
Excelsior. 'The old wheel tracks,
Street of Fortune'.
Condition 9.
Order #9916.
Price $12.
Keystone. 'The old wheel tracks,
Street of Stabia (N.W.), Pompeii'.
Condition 9.
Order #9917.
Price $12.
Underwood. 'The Forum of Pompeii
and Vesuvius'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #9918.
Price $12.
Sommer & Behles. 'Tombe'.
Condition 8.
Order #9919.
Price $12.
'Colonnade du Forum civile'.
Condition 8.
Order #9920.
Price $15.
Untitled.
Condition 7/8.
Order #9921.
Price $8.
'Pompeii'. Mechanically produced
view.
Condition 8.
Order #9922.
Price $4.
'Pompeii. Fontaine abondance
et rue abondance'.
Condition. Various creases
not visible when viewing.
Order #9923.
Price $8.
Handwritten 'Pompeii. Rue abondance'.
Dated 1866.
Condition. Crease on r/h image.
Order #9924.
Price $10.
'Pompei, rue Stabienne'.
Condition 7 (light foxing
in sky).
Order #9925.
Price $12.
'Pompeii, Sanciania'.
Dated 1866.
Condition 7/8.
Order #9926.
Price $12.
Sommer & Behles. 'Tempio
di ??????'.
Condition. Very slight surface
split at top of right image.
Order #9928.
Price $12.
'Le Tour, Pompeii'.
Condition. Slight marks and
corner of mount slightly dented.
Order #9930.
Price $12.
'Villa de Diomede'.
Condition. Slight marks in
sky.
Order #9932.
Price $18.
'Pompeii'. Mechanically produced
view.
Condition 9/10.
Order #9933.
Price $4.
'Pompeii'. Mechanically produced
view.
Condition 10.
Order 9934.
Price $4.
'Pompei. Dernieres fauilles'.
Condition 8.
Order #9935.
Price $15.
'Pompei. Maison ????'.
Condition 7/8.
Order #9936.
Price $12.
'Pompeii: Terme di Stabia'.
1920s view on thin photographic paper by Rotary of London.
Condition 9.
Order #9937.
Price $2.
'Pompeii: Il foro triangolore'.
1920s view on thin photographic paper by Rotary of London.
Condition 9.
Order #9938.
Price $2.
'Pompeii: Veduta generale del
Foro'. 1920s view on thin photographic paper by Rotary of London.
Condition 9.
Order #9939.
Price $2.
'Pompeii: Cortile nella casa
dei Velii II'. 1920s view on thin photographic paper by Rotary of London.
Condition 8/9.
Order #9940.
Price $2.
'Pompei. Tombeau du Marin'.
Condition 8.
Order #9941.
Price $15.
Keystone. 'Beautiful home of
the Vattii (buried Aug. 24th, A.D. 79), Pompeii'. Descriptive text.
Condition 10.
Order #9942.
Price $12.
'Maison du Musicien'.
Condition 3 (fading).
Order #9943.
Price $3.
Lamy 'Interieur de la maison
du Faune a Pompeii'.
Condition. Glue creep and
fading.
Order #9944.
Price $3.
'Interieure du Temple de Mercure'.
Condition. Difficult to judge
how much is fading. No other problems.
Order #9945.
Price $8.
'Sacrifice de ??higence, peinture,
Pompeii'.
Condition 8.
Order #9947.
Price $15.
'Peinture de Pompeii'.
Condition 8.
Order #9948.
Price $18.
'Pompeii'. Mechanically produced
view.
Condition 10.
Order #9950.
Price $4.
Herculaneum
Keystone. 'Ruins of Herculaneum
(W.), uncovered after 17 centuries burial'.
Condition 10.
Order #9951.
Price $12.
Vesuvius
Keystone. 'On the road to Vesuvius
(east)'.
Condition 10.
Order #9952.
Price $12.
Giorgio Sommer 'No 771. Vesuvio.
Ferrovia funioolare'.
Condition 7 (slight damage
to mount).
Order #9953.
Price $12.
G. Sommer. 'Napoli. Lava del
Vesuvio'.
Condition 5/6 (grubby in sky).
Order #9954.
Price $6.
Keystone. 'Looking into the
awful crater of Vesuvius'.
Condition 10.
Order #9955.
Price $8.
Keystone. 'In the wilderness
of lava, base of Vesuvius'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #9956.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Looking
into the mouth of the yawning crater of Vesuvius, 800 feet down to the
seething inner cone'.
Condition 9.
Order #9957.
Price $15.
Realistic Travels. 'The egg
or inner cone built up by Vesuvius above the vast sea of lava, from brim
of the outer crater'.
Condition 9.
Order #9958.
Price $15.
Realistic Travels. 'Tourists
playing with liquid rock which wells out upon the crust of lava in the
crater of Vesuvius'.
Condition 9.
Order #9959.
Price $15.
Realistic Travels. 'Sunrise
on frowning Vesuvius, the inner cone looms up out of the depths of the
smoke-filled crater'.
Condition 8.
Order #9961.
Price $10.
Realistic Travels. 'The mass
of monstrous rope-like ??? ejected from the inner crater of mighty Vesuvius'.
Condition. Trimmed at left
side.
Order #9962.
Price $10.
Realistic Travels. 'Looking
into the lake of boiling tossing lava and burning sulphur in the crater
of "Little Vesuvius"'.
Condition 9.
Order #9963.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'The bellowing
firey crater of Vesuvius, an awful cauldron belching rock and suffocating
gas'.
Condition 9.
Order #9964.
Price $15.
'Ascension du Vesuve'. This
highly unusual view has a large number of drawn figures ascending
the mountain, including a lady being carried up on a chair.
Condition 9.
Order #9965.
Price $25.
Realistic Travels. 'The egg
or inner cone built up by Vesuvius'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #9966.
Price $8.
Realistic Travels. 'Edge of
a devouring lava-flow that submerged this valley under rock and ashes to
a depth of 30 feet'.
Condition 9.
Order #9968.
Price $12.
Sicily
All views except the first two are by Underwood. Some have slight white stains on the mounts and these are visible on the scans. If they affect the images I will mention it. Scanner has struggled with the high curve and glossy finish. Mostly much better than scans.
W.H. Mason, Brighton, blindstamp.
'416. Monastery of St Dominick, Palermo, Sicily'.
Condition 9.
Order #9969.
Price $18.
Street of stairs and houses
of an old Roman town ruined centuries ago. Soluntum.
Condition 9.
Order #9971.
Price $15.
Theatre on a lonely mountain,
where Greek plays were given centuries ago, Segesta.
Condition 8.
Order #9972.
Price $15.
Majestic ruins of Greek temples
to hercules and Apollo (from the south), Selinunte.
Condition 8.
Order #9973.
Price $12.
Among fallen pillars of one
of the largest Greek temples known (Apollo, Selinunte).
Condition 8.
Order #9974.
Price $15.
Temple of Concord (left) and
fallen Temple of Zeus ESE, old in Cicero's day, Girgenti.
Condition 8 but couple of
surface spots top of r/h image.
Order #9975.
Price $12.
The Church of S. Giovanni (N),
built 1182 above crypt where St Paul once preached, Syracuse.
Condition 8.
Order #9976.
Price $12.
Underground Chapel of St Marcian,
SE, where St Paul preached to people of Syracuse.
Condition 8.
Order #9977.
Price $12.
Looking from Fort Euryalos
E along ruined wall of Dionysos to the sea, Syracuse.
Condition. Not sure if the
yellowing is original. Certainly doesn't detract from viewing.
Order #9978.
Price $12.
Looking SE from Euryales Fort
to Syracuse and harbor where Athenians were defeated.
Condition 8.
Order #9979.
Price $12.
Theatre of old Greek and Roman
eras overlooking Taormina and mountains at west.
Condition 8.
Order #9980.
Price $12.
Picking lemons in a grove on the Conca d'Oro
(Golden Shell), outside Palermo, Sicily. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #9981.
Price $15.
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