| Unidentified photographer [Photomicrograph of a caterpiller] 1850-1854 Albumen print Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction 104, 3 December 2014, 19th - 21st Century Photography, Lot: 4061 LL/56072 Specimens d'Art Graphiques de l'Imprimerie Imperiale a Vienne (Specimens of the Imperial Printing Institute in Vienna). 105 plates divided in sections by different printing techniques, stamp of Count Trapani on several pages. Folio (55 x 41 cm). Original bordeaux full leather (edges rubbed), metal corners (1 missing), 2 brass clasps, gilt-stamped title on spine, edges gilt, pink silk end-papers (slightly soiled). Vienna, K. u. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1850 - 1854.
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