Venice Italy St. Lazare Armenian Church c.1870-80's Tourist Souvenir Album book

(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Travel, Tourism, Souvenirs, Switzerland, St. Lazare, Religion, Portraits).

Souvenir de St. Lazare.
Published c. 1870-80's, Venice, Italy.
28 pages. Text in French. 14 mounted original albumen photographic plates, first eight with original hand color, each protected by the original tissue guard.

Splendid and scarce souvenir artifact from this Venetian Armenian monastery with the note worthy feature that seven of the images depict specific individuals who were then members of this monastery.

Publisher's cloth binding, embossed cover decorations, gilt title lettering, leather spine gilt ruled into compartments.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Book is not new or in "new" condition.

Binding gently age worn, light discoloration across bottom of covers, mostly light or inoffensive signs of handling and time but nothing severe or unsightly, book remains overall attractive as an object.

Paper is gently toned, still clean, tight, sound internally.

Still attractive on the shelf. The book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in overall nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws which may be present seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail showing how this wonderful book survives. The asking price reflects the condition based on our examination and 35+ years full time exposure to antiquarian books, maps and printed ephemera of all types and genres. Flaws seen and/ or described have been taken into account.

Book Measures c. 6" H x 4 1/4" W.

[B10346].