Opening: $350 Hammer Price: $350 SOLD Skylight Gallery 15 May 2002

Vintage heliogravure of the lunar surface by Loewy and Puisieux, France, printed on tissue and mounted on a folio title page from their photographic lunar atlas of 1904. From a negative taken 1900. Titled "Observatoire de Paris / Grand Équatorial Coudé / Atlas Photographique de la Lune / Cliché de 12 Octobre 1900 / Exécuté par MM. Loewy et Puiseux / Paris 1904" and other annotations. Sheet 30 x 22.5 inches (76x58 cm). Print size 8 x 6.5 inches (21x17 cm).   ( Inventory# gb57 )

A beautiful piece of typography with crisp and detailed heliogravure mounted center. Minor scattered foxing.

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