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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The John Lancaster Collections of Australian Trade Exhibitions
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2016 ~ 1pm
• Lot #:
  197
• Lot Description:
  Album "Melbourne International Exhibition 1880"
  with complete set of 61 mounted albumen photographs of the exhibition taken by official photographer Ludovico Wolfgang Hart, and published by the Victorian Government Printing Office [Melbourne, 1880].
• Provenance:
  Australian Book Auctions, September 2007, The Berry Collection, Lot 247
• Notes:
  Presentation album to the Superintendent of Juries and Awards, James Cosmo Newbery CMG, with his name in gilt on front cover. Album in poor condition, mounts poor, though photographs mostly fine and clean. An important and comprehensive record, and according to research by Dr Robert Wilson at the National Gallery of Victoria, only three copies are known to exist.
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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