TAHITI - HAWAII - MARQUISES - Lot 84

TAHITI - HAWAII - MARQUISES Album of a French traveler to Tahiti offered by the author to a commander of the French navy, June-September 1900. Photographs. Album comprising 135 vintage silver prints, some captioned in pencil on mount, 1 portrait of Tahitian woman by Germain Coulon (1854-1918). Modern cover, 1st plate with leather yoke captioned "Tahiti 1900" in gilt lettering, leather spine decorated with gilt flowers, dedicated and dated in ink on the first plate. In a modern protective box. Téri II, Queen of Huabiné; La reine de Bora-Bora, pirogue en route to Maeva, French in front of the monument commemorating the attack on Maeva in January 1846, military and elegant on the pontoon, captain, religious, view of the port, Tahitian woman and child, river and bridge, mountain and palm trees, Tahitian women in sarongs, Tahitian girls, giant turtle, bathers, French peak, men with hats, sailors washing on deck, Tahitian women playing guitar, French sailors rowing, passage of the line ; Marquesas Islands: Nuku Hiva, women with flower crowns, arrival at Taiohae harbor, cannon fire, maritime explosion, native woman and French sailor, colonial dwellings, horse winched over the ocean, pirogues, Msarquisiennes crouching on a ship's pontoon, cannon fire, sailor looking through binoculars, men wearing themselves at a party, sailor posing among women with flower crowns, portraits of women; Tuamotu Islands, Rangiroa, sailboat, couple, man climbing palm tree, sunset over ocean, settler and sailor posing with natives, Papara, Huabiné : oven opening, sailors, rainbow over the ocean, group of women, coastline and mountains, dawn breaks over the ocean in Raiatea. Images: 10 x 7.3 cm to 14.2 x 10 cm; album: 28.5 x 36.3 cm