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$ 4500.00
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869), Maison Bonfils (1867-1909), and others. Album with Twenty-One Original Albumen Photos of the Ancient Temples of Egypt (Djoser Pyramid in Saqqara, Temples in Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Abu Simbel, Philae Island), Nile’s First Cataract, Tombs of the Califs and Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, the Bacchus Temple in Baalbec, Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the Valley of Josaphat, and others, Titled: Documents Archéologiques sur la Egypte. Nubie. Syrie. P. Verdier de Latour, 1875. Ca. 1870s.
$ 5250.00
Album with 106 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting an Early Travel up the Congo and Ubangi Rivers to Fort Crampel in French Congo (now Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic) and Showing Boma, Matadi, Bangui, Ibenga Village, Ubangi, Nana and Chari Rivers, Fort Crampel, French Fortifications, a Hotchkiss Gun, Bush Camps during the Suppression of Local Tribes, Village Scenes, Portraits of Bondjo (Ekonda), M’Bres, M’Gaos and Ouham People, Members of Native Militia, a Doctor Pulling a Teeth, a Local Chief, &c. Ca. 1900s-1910s.
Historically Interesting Album with 40 Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photos of French Guinea, Showing Conakry, Samou River Rapids and Waterfalls, the “Baptism” of a Morane Plane of Conakry “Aero-club,” Children’s Costume Party in Conakry in March 1935, Susu Women and Girls, Kolente River Bridge Under Construction, etc. Ca. 1935.
[McDowell/MacDowall, D.?] Album with 153 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Trip to Eastern Kenya, Showing Mombasa, Nairobi, Uganda Railway, Elmenteita and Navaisha Stations, Nyuki and Tigrish Rivers, Lakes Baringo and Nakuru, Njemps (Ilchamus), Masaai, Kikuyu, Wandorobo (Dorobo) People and Their Villages, Camps and Armed Forces of British Punitive Expeditions, Mt. Longonot, River Voi, Taveta Village, Zanzibar, &c. Ca. 1900-1901.
$ 2250.00
Tarih-İ İskender Bin Filipos [i.e. A History of Alexander the Great, the Son of Philip]. Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838.
$ 2750.00
Collection of Two Albums with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a French Participant of the South-Oranese Campaign in Southwestern Algeria, Showing Towns and Military Posts (Taghit, Béni Abbès, Mazzer, Igli, Kerzaz, Tamtert, Béni Ounif, Duveyrier, Ain Sefra, Saida), Native Ksars, Military Convoys, Wounded French Military Men, Funeral and Exhumation of French Officers, Captured Berbers, Hermitage of a Catholic Hermit Charles de Foucauld, Scenes of Vaccination by Dr. Perrin, Portraits of the Local People, etc.
$ 2500.00
Neurdein Frères (active ca. 1870s-1890s); Jouve, Noël (ca. 1880s-1910s) & Others. Album with 49 Original Albumen Studio Photos of Algeria, Showing Algiers, Oran, Tlemcen, Mers El Kebir, Mansoura, Constantine, Algerian People, French Colonial Residents and Catholic Missionaries, etc. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
$ 2750.00
Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Bone, El Kantara, Katara Gorge, Roman Ruins in Timgad, Portraits of Native Algerians, Views of Smaller French Settlements and Country Houses, Algerian Villages etc. Ca. 1878.
$ 2500.00
Williams, Montgomery (ca. 1885-1916). Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island, Including the Laying of Cable for the Western Telegraph Company in 1910, Military Presence, Local Life, Buildings and Landscapes. 1910-13.
$ 3500.00
Collection of Sixty-Nine Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing the Alexandria Waterworks and Kom Ad Dikah Neighbourhood, Almost Certainly Taken by European Associates of the Waterworks and Their Servants, Views of Cairo, and Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile. 1863-4.
$ 5250.00
Beato, Antonio (after 1832 – 1906; active 1862- ca. 1900); Sébah, Pascal (1823-1886); Rae, Gray Kynoch Leathart “Bino” (1887-1947). Two Albums with 144 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Nile River Cruise and a Trip to the Holy Land in 1908, and Showing Ancient Temples and Sites of the Upper and Lower Egypt, River Nile and Boats, Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Edinburgh Medical Mission in Damascus, and Several Locations of the Holy Land (Nazareth, River Jordan, Capernaum, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, &c.); the Albums are Titled: I. The Second Cataract to Karnak; II. Karnak to Syria & Constantinople. Albums: ca. 1908; most studio photos: ca. 1880s-1890s.
$ 3250.00
Rafalovich, Artemy Alexeevich (1816-1851). Puteshestvie po Nizhnemu Yegiptu i Vnutrennim Oblastiam Delty [Travel to Lower Egypt and the Inner Regions of the Delta]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Yakov Trey, 1850.
$ 1500.00
Album of Nine Attractive Original Watercolour Views of Egypt and the River Nile. December 1892 - February 1893.
$ 950.00
Collection of Twenty Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo, Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile and Suez Canal Under Construction. Ca. 1860s.
$ 6500.00
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Butler, Alfred Joshua (1850-1936). A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the Sons to Khedive Tewfik Pasha, with Detailed Descriptions of His Conversations with the Khedive, His Ministers and Courtiers, European Diplomats and Residents, Mutiny in the Egyptian Army in February 1881, Religious Holidays, State Ceremonies, Coptic Churches and Monasteries, Anecdotes from Egyptian Life, Account of the Chios Island Earthquake, Butler’s Excursions to the Antiquities of Turkey and Greece, etc., Titled: Notes Taken in Egypt, &c. 1881. 15 January – 10 May 1881.
$ 6500.00
Trapman, Adrian Sidney Gilbert Reginald (1910-1937). Collection of Three Albums with ca. 307 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken and Collected by a British Vice-Consul in Addis Ababa Shortly Before and During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Showing Addis Ababa and Jimma, Emperor Haile Selassie I, German and Italian Ambassadors in Ethiopia, Members of the British Legation, Italian Military Planes and Airfield at Mekelle, Bombing of Ethiopian Troops and Villages, Burning and Looting of Addis Ababa in May 1936, Refugee Camp at the British Legation, etc.; With: a Menu of “A Dinner at the Lansdowne Club on Friday, April 30th 1937, for Those who were in Abyssinia During the Autumn, Winter and Spring of 1935 and 1936,” Signed by Trapman and over a Dozen Other Participants. Ca. 1934-1937.
$ 3750.00
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); Van Lennep, Henry John (1815-1889). Album from the Collection of Noted American Christian Missionary, Writer and Artist Henry John Van Lennep, with Thirty Original Albumen Photographs of Beirut, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Damascus, Baalbek, and Ancient Sites of Egypt - the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza, Pompey’s Pillar and Cleopatra’s Needle in Alexandria, Karnak, Luxor, Ramesseum Temples, and the Philae Island Complex]
Ca. 1869.
$ 3250.00
Collection of 179 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Madagascar, Taken and Collected by a French Military Doctor Stationed in Majunga/Mahajanga, Showing Majunga Streets and People, Marovoay, Betsiboka River, Antananarivo, the French Military Hospital in Majunga, the Festivities during the Arrival of General Gallieni in Majunga in July 1900, Including Many Well-Executed Portraits of the Native People, etc. Ca. 1895-1901.
$ 3250.00
Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha, Malagasy Tirailleurs, Scenes of Kabary, Views of Antananarivo and Toamasina, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 2250.00
[Borgnis-Desbordes], [Gustave, General (1839-1900)]. Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which Document Borgnis-Desbordes Military Expeditions From Upper Senegal into French Sudan (Mali). French and Indigenous Troops are Shown, as well as the Indigenous Peoples Including Chiefs and Settlements Including Forts and Villages Encountered. 1878-1881.
Ritchie, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819). Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he was Later also Connected to the Fate of Alexander Laing. Marseilles: 28 August 1818.
$ 3250.00
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Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Companhia do Boror’s Concessions in the Zambezia Province of Mozambique, Showing Various Operations at the Coconut, Sugar Cane & Sisal Plantations, Sugar Factories, Processing Facilities, Warehouses, Trading Posts, Residential Buildings, etc. Ca. 1920s.
$ 3500.00
Album with 238 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Showing the Construction of the Lüderitz-Keetmanshoop Railway in German Southwest Africa in 1905-1907, Railway Stations, Military Posts, Schutztruppe Officers and Soldiers, Artillery Guns, Lüderitzbucht, Shark Island, Cornelius Fredericks as a Prisoner, Distressed Herero Girls, Railway Workers, etc. Ca. 1904-1907.
