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Licht, Hugo

Berlin. Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth. 1902–3
Grand photographic record of turn-of-the-century European architecture. Provides views, mostly exterior, of newly constructed apartment blocks, offices, department stores and palaces in Berlin, Budapest, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna. Includes details of doorways and windows.
Folio. 10 fascicules in 2 volumes, bound in 1, with 200 black and white photographic plates. Bound in half-red morocco, original fascicule wrappers bound in at rear.
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