The Exposition Universelle, Paris

An album of 190 albumen prints, image size 5x5cm (smallest) to cm 14 x20.8cm (largest), pasted down onto album pages recto/verso, overall measuring 15.5 x24cm; each with manuscript caption on lower margin. Subjects include various views of the Tour Eiffel, completed and open to the public on the occasion of the First Exposition Universelle, on 31st March 1889; aerial views of the Trocadero seen from the Tour Eiffel; Le Champ-de-Mars and Grand Dôme Central; National Pavilions for the Exhibition, such as Brasil; Argentine; Mexico; Nicaragua; India; Cochinchine; and Hawaii, among others; view of the famous Rue du Caire; a replica of the Pagode d'Angkor, Cambodia; Colonies Palace; the Tour Eiffel seen from the Seine; Pont de l'Alma, among others. Housed in red morocco leather boards, with embossed gilt lettering on the spine: Exposition de 1889. Louis Ponthus.