C. 140 positive glass plates for magic lantern projection: H…

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C. 140 positive glass plates for magic lantern projection: History of art. 8,5 x 10 cm, edges protected with a strip of black paper, numb., ms. captions on label - Mainly reproductions of artworks (65) from Prado Museum in Madrid (Velasquez, Rubens, Van Eyck, Van Dyck, Veronese, Raphael, Rembrandt, etc.); sculptures (21) from various museums in Berlin, Naples, London, etc.; archeological sites and monuments in Egypt (16), Greece (12), Belgium (8): Audenarde, Ghent, Mechelen, Lier; Italy (5); Germany (3 views of Cologne cathedrale); Constantinople (4), etc. Included 2 hand-coloured plates of Castel St Ange in Roma and Melrose Abbey. A few plates are from J. Lévy & Cie, Paris. Elie Mazo (1861-1936) was a manufacturer of cameras, projectors and optical equipments, based in Paris. It was one of the leading companies specialising in light projections in the early 20th c. - Ref. Histoire des projections lumineuses: http://diaprojection.fr/portraits/. - -