Zeiss Ikon. Cameras, magnification cameras. Catalog. Part 2. for the year 1931/32

Title: Zeiss Ikon. Cameras, magnification cameras. Catalog. Part II. For the year 1931/32

Item description:

Notes: Unique. Unlisted item in electronic catalogs of Polish scientific libraries.

- Kazimierz Greger (3.02.1887 Inowrocław - 23.10.1967 Warsaw) Polish photographer-documentarian, popularizer of photography, merchant, publisher. He graduated from economic studies in Berlin and did his photographic apprenticeship in Dresden and Breslau. From 1910 he was a partner in the store Greger E. & Co. in Poznan, then ran the company independently until 1939. During the Greater Poland Uprising he took numerous documentary photographs. The company traded in photographic equipment and supplies on a large scale, published patriotic postcards and, in 1932-1939, the respected professional magazine "Photographic News", in addition to the popular annual guide-catalog "Greger's Photo Guide". In 1939 he was deprived by the Germans of his company in Poznan, retaining only a photographic store in Warsaw. After the war he lived in Krakow, Wroclaw and Warsaw; see Strzałkowski 2017 (Lexicon of photographers) p. 183 and other materials

Condition:

Piece with heavily bent corners, heavily damaged and loosened, spine preserved only in fragments, binding heavily damaged, private ownership entry on the face, handwritten entries in crayon on the title page, block slightly stained and damaged. Item in good condition

Grading of state of preservation:

• perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
• very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
• nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
• quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
• more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
• at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
• good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
• less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
• more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
• at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
• Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major flaws in the card, basically destruct

The evaluation of the state of preservation and some other elements of the description have some subjectivity, but we make them with our best knowledge and the greatest possible reliability, if in doubt, please refer to the scan of the object or contact us.