Lot no. 158
E. MAZO - PARIS: Thirty-seven glass photographic plates "Genesis of the World", numbered and captioned. Series 52 bis almost complete (plate n° 5 to 30 without 20) with "Exposition de 1884", "terrains jurassiques" and "l'Homme sa physiologie" and various series including Egypt, Cairo, Tangier, Switzerland, Seville. Size of plate: 8.5 x 10 cm.
Detail of legends: Water carrier in Cairo, Tangier, Abydos Temple, Switzerland, Geneva Lake Switzerland, Montreux Switzerland, Seville ox team, Jardin Escurial Spain, Tangier women, 5 Corentian and Cambian period - 6 Silurian period first - 7 Devonian period algae - 8 : Carboniferous period vertebrate animals - 9 : Peruvian period (?) batrachians, reptiles - 10 : secondary terrains : crustaceans fish - 11 Jurassic terrains - 12 Cretaceous period - 13 Tertiary terrains : ivory, birds, crocodiles - 14 Miocene period and large animals - 15 Pliocene period large glaciers, dogs horses - 16 Man his physiology, his home. - 17 The Primitive Age, man at grips with animals - 18 worked stone, lake dwellings - 19 iron and bronze - 20 MISSING - 21 "Egyptians" - 22 Chaldeans Assyrians - 23 Persians, Medes, Hebrews, Phoenicians - 24 Etruscan Chinese, Greeks. - 25 Romans and Carthaginians - 26 Mexicans and Peruvians - 27 Moors, Romans, Goths - 28 Renaissance and moderns - 29 The 1884 Exhibition - 30 Human races
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