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

43 c   FELIX BONFILS (1831-1885) Thick album entitled Photographs: Southern Syria. Including 100 richly printed photographs depicting ancient ruins and skeletal remains of age-old infrastructure throughout Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. Also with depictions of local life, scenic views, and architectural interiors. Albumen prints, the images measuring 8 3 / 4 x11 inches (22.2x27.9 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, each with Bonfils’ scripted credit, title, and inventory number, in the negative. Oblong 4to, brown morocco, gilt-lettered title. 1870s [5,000/7,500]