Gabriel GASTINE (1853-1925) Lot n° 28

Photography and inventions 1884-1895 Set of 45 photographs by Gabriel Gastine including 7 prints on paper (albumin, silver, cyanotypes) and 38 positive or negative glass plates in two original cardboard boxes. Self-portraits, portraits of children, views of his apartment at 139 Bd Longchamp, his laboratory at 52 Chemin des Chartreux 1884, devices including acetylene generators, experiments, portrait of the scientists Marion and Kowaleski founder and collaborator of the Annals of the Museum of Natural History, Oceanographic Institute of Endoume under construction ... Size of the prints : 13,5x 9 cm to 13x18cm Dimensions of the views on glass : 8,5x8 cm to 8x17 cm Provenance : Gabriel Gastine then transmitted by descent.