Los 4067

Lombard-Venetian Railway
Inventaire photographique et statistique du matérial roulant sur le réseau Vénetien et du Tirol Meridionale

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer unknown. Inventaire photographique et statistique du matérial roulant sur le réseau Vénetien et du Tirol Meridionale. 1863. 29 albumen prints, mounted to album boards. Most circa 8,5 x 14 cm. Each with printed captions above/below images on the mount, bound in half-canvas album with gilt-lettered title page.

Rare documentary album illustrating the rolling stock of the Venice-South Tyrol railway network in 1863, compiled shortly before the region transitioned from Austrian to Italian control. The photographs present a comprehensive visual survey of mid-19th-century rail technology, featuring locomotives, passenger coaches, and freight wagons manufactured by leading European firms including Köchlin, Stephenson, Schneider, Cail, Haswell, and others. Each image is accompanied by printed captions detailing technical specifications, making the album a valuable industrial inventory. Produced during a moment of intense political and technological change, it offers a significant historical record of early railway infrastructure in Northern Italy and the former Austrian Empire. – Album pages slightly warped, prints with some fading in edges, otherwise in very good condition and many with strong contrasts.