Published by n.p., n.p., 1900
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
orig.cloth. Condition: Rubbed. Good. 15x19cm, 10 pp. This is a commercially produced cloth-bound "views" album containing 10 photographs mounted on stiff panels folding out in accordian style: one of a large riverside factory complex, the remaining 9 of work crews engaged in pipeline (or aqueduct or railway bed?) and bridge construction in a desolate flat landscape. Possibly lacking the last panel. Only the cover bears text: "Lebedinskaia Viet / Ju. S. Zh. D. / 1900 / Fot. Pletier / v. E- Gradi". Illustrating very early stages of construction of the Ledebinsk iron ore industrial complex at Stary Oskol, [ Belgorod Oblast] Russia? Or of Lebedin [Medvenskiy rayon, Kurskaya Oblast] ? The photographs each measure 8x11cm.