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(EGYPT)
Album entitled “Egypten,”with approximately 40 historical photographs of ancient ruins and religious
edifices, among them the Sphinx, pyramid at Cheops, views of Karnack, mosques and tombs of the
Califs in Cairo, the Colossi, Medinet-Abu, Philae,Abu-Simbel, and much more.With 21 by Beato, 13
by Sébah, and the remaining prints by uncredited photographers. Albumen prints, 10
1
/
2
x14 inches
(26.7x35.6 cm.), many with the photographer’s credit and caption in the negative or a handwritten
caption, in pencil, below the print. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered green morocco, worn. 1880s
[2,500/3,500]
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(MIDDLE EAST)
Album with 74 photographs of Palestine,
Lebanon, and Egypt.The diverse imagery features
many well-known sites, including the Wailing
Wall and Dome of the Rock, the Suez Canal,
Egyptian pyramids, ports, studio portraits of men
and women in traditional clothing, a panorama
of Jerusalem, as well as a final group portrait of
the travelers and their guides; about a third of the
images with a credit, most for Bonfils or Sébah,
but also including Good and Arnoux. Albumen
prints, sizes ranging from 4x3
1
/
4
to 7
1
/
2
x11 inches
(10.2x8.9 to 19.1x27.9 cm.) and the 3-part
panorama measuring 10x25
1
/
4
inches (25.4x64.1
cm.), with the smaller prints 2 or 4 per page,
some with a caption or credit in the negative, and
each with a caption or the location (including a
Biblical reference), in ink, below the image. 4to,
red leather, worn; with the owner’s name, T.W.
Paterson, on the front pastedown. Circa 1865
[3,500/4,500]
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