Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

41 c   FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898) A striking album entitled Sinai and Palestine. Complete with 37 photographs depicting Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula. Albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 6 1 / 4 x9 inches (15.9x22.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Frith’s scripted credit in the negative, and nearly all with his letterpress credit, caption, and date, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered red and green leather, edgewear; scattered foxing, 3 plates trimmed and remounted; reinforced binding; all edges gilt. London: William Mackenzie, (1863) [4,000/6,000] 42 c FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898) Group of 10 photographs of the Holy Land, including the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Baalbec, and Sinai. Albumen prints, the images measuring 6 1 / 4 x8 7 / 8 inches (15.9x22.6 cm.) the mounts 12 7 / 8 x18 inches (32.8x45.7 cm.), each with Firth’s credit and inventory number in the negative, and a credit and caption, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1857 [2,500/3,500] Northern shore of the Dead Sea * The Wady Fieran, Sinai * The Village of Siloam and Valley of the Kidron, Jerusalem * Facade of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem * Great Pillars and Smaller Temple, Baalbec * Temple, Baalbec * Tiberias, From the North * Mount Horeb * Mount Serbal, Sinai * The Largest of the Cedars. Acquired Sotheby’s London, June 28, 1985, lot 53. According to photo historian Bill Jay “These photographs were probably first issue subscription prints.” Victorian Cameramen (1973), p. 26. 41 42