SEAL ROCKS, CLIFF HOUSE AND SUTRO HEIGHTS. IN PHOTO-GRAVURE FROM RECENT NEGATIVES. Copyright 1892, by A. Wittemann, 67 & 69 Spring St., New York ... Jos. A. Hofmann, 120 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal. New York: The Albertype Co., n.d. [1892]. Oblong octavo, pp. [1-2: title leaf], 14 plates, publisher's pictorial wrappers, ribbon tied. First edition. An album of photographic views. Brothers Adolph and Herman Wittemann founded the Albertype Company, a publisher of souvenir view books and postcards, in 1887. The company used the recent technological innovation of the collotype, or albertype, to photomechanically reproduce images. Amassing photographic negatives of towns and cities across the United States, the Albertype Company produced over twenty-five thousand collotypes before its closure in 1952. Short closed tear along lower front spine fold, a very good copy. (#172956).
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