Description : Period album containing more than 50 photographs depicting the multi-cultural mix of Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, and Algeria. Albumen, printing-out paper and silver prints, 8 3/4x11 inches and the reverse, many with caption and credit information in the negative by georgiladaki, zangaki, American Colony Jerusalem, and N. D. Oblong 4to, gilt-pictorial vellum, lightly discolored, red dust jacket, chipped, edgewear. Late 1880s-1890s
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About the lot N° 61 Title : (Middle East) Size : 8 3/4x11 inc Notes : An unusual late 19th-century album that contains a host of archaeological, ethnographic, and landscape images in the Middle East, comprising 20 prints of Egyptian ruins, such as Luxor, Karnak, Thebes, and Memmonium, as well as picturesque views of Assuan, more than 20 scenes of Palestine, particularly Jaffa and Jerusalem, including the Mosque of Omar, Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, the Fifth Station, and the Wailing Wall (with Hebrew text incised on the ancient stones), bazaar scenes in Tunisia, and several topographic views of Algeria. Swann Auction Galleries, auctioneerIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS Sale date : 15 Apr 2002It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale