Provenance: Acquired from the trade several decades ago, thence Swiss private collection.

Mostly views of France (Paris, Strasbourg, Aix la Chapelle, Marseille), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Dresden, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden), Spain (Malaga, Seville, Gibraltar), Italy (Rome, Venice, Pisa, Pompeii), Ireland (Dublin), Austria (Feldkirch, Salzburg), Portugal (Lisbon), Greece (Athens), Egypt, the rest of USA, Canada, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg) and Japan. With city views, sights (Notre-Dame, Brandenburg Gate, sphinx, pyramids, etc.), portraits and traditional costumes, scenes, studio shots, works of art, including also photographs of the 1867 Paris World's Fair. The photos by Adolphe Brau, William England, Léon& Lévy, E. Linde & Co., James Esson, Franz Richard, J. H. Mann, R. Y. Young, et al.