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Italy
Architecture and Landscape


A very rare book full of beautiful full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure technique)
of the landscape, cities and villages of Old Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.

The photographer Kurt Hielscher travelled through Italien in the 1920s + 1930s and made over 8000 photos w/ premier photo equipment; his Zeiss Ikon/Ica camera and Zeiss objectives on Agfa Chromo Isorapid and Chromo Isolar plates and Isopan films. Some photos were taken with a Contax.


This book in the new 1938 edition, which has been published after almost 50,000 copies have been sold from the first large 1925 edition, represents the best 240 photos out of 8000 from Old Italy.
The difference to the first edition are the new 1930s photos and some replacements of the 1920s photographs. Hielscher took several additional trips to Italy after the first book has been published and his photo archive increased from initial 4,000 photos in the 1920s to 8,000 photos in the late 1930's.


Photographs titled in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

Hardcover

  • 252 pages
  • 12 pages intro including index of photographs
  • a map of Italy
  • 240 rotogravure photos

In fine exterior and near fine interior condition
With the rare Original Dust Jacket included, which is chipped and overall in fair condition.
Name on front free endpaper and rear pastedown, otherwise ok.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 9-1/2" x 7-1/4"  ~1.8 lbs.

by Kurt Hielscher
Published by F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig


 









Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents) [excerpt]:

Venice, Vicenza, Padua, Castello Soave, Verona, Castle Vecchio, Bergamo, Bologna, Brescia, Merano, Castle Lebenberg, Botzen, Castle Regino, Sasso Lungo Group, Dolomites, Lake of Misurina, Mount Sorapis, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Cortina, Mount Ortler, Gran Zebru, Lake of Garda, Castle of Malcesine, Sirmione, Lake of Como, Lake of Maggiore, Milan, Pavia, Turin, Castello Fenis, Mount Blanc, Gran Paradiso, The Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, Dolceda, Ceriana, Porto Maurizio, San Remo, Dolceacqua, Bogliasco, Riviera, Genoa, Rapallo, Sori, Nervi, Portofino, Portovenere, Pisa, Lucca, Prato, Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Spoleto, Assisi, Perugia, Urbino, Spello, Ravenna, Tuscania, Cori, San Marino, Orvieto, Viterbo, Rome, Via Appia, Frascati, Tivoli, Olevano Romano, Arpino, Monte Cassino, Subiaco, Anticoli Corrado, Posticciola, Assergi, Abruzzi, Scanno, Rieti, Terracina, Norma, Ninfa, Pontine Marshes, Littoria, Sabaudia, Naples, Pozzuoli, Ischia, Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi, Ravello, Positano, Atrani, Maiori, Paestum, Oria, Lucera, Alberobello, Puglia, Castel del Monte, Macomer, Sardinia, Tropea, Calabria, Randazzo, Mount Etna, Cefalu, Palermo, Monreale, Segesta, Selinunt, Agrigento, Girgenti, Syracuse, Taormina, Mola, Aci Castello .... and many others


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