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Ethnographic Photographs: Around the World in 80+80 Shots

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 04:00 PM • Milan

3001

Anonimo

Il viaggio di circumnavigazione della Regia Nave Calabria: Europa, America, Oceania, Asia, 1899-1901

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€ 800 - 1.200

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€ 400

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Album with a lacquered wooden cover, with approximately 280 photographs (mainly albumen prints and g
cm 38 x 28 x 6 approx. (album) | 14.9 x 11 x 2.3 in. approx. (album)
Description in black ink on each page. Some prints are not applied on the pages, and the last few pages have no photographs. Pages are missing.

Specialist Notes

The history of Italian ships, in the context we are discussing, is particularly important if only because it is through their long voyages and various ports of call that knowledge is disseminated and relationships are built. Although built for combat, they also performed many other functions. This was the case with the Royal Battleship ‘Calabria’, launched in La Spezia in 1894 and equipped with cannons, machine guns and mechanisms for launching torpedoes and depth charges. As this rich album testifies, the ‘oceanic campaign’ was fundamental: under the command of Admiral Carlo Trucco, the ship literally circumnavigated the globe, gathering a wide variety of evidence—primarily photographic—thanks to numerous land explorations.

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