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Unsigned Watercolour View of the Town and Harbour of Alexandria with Pompey's Pillar and the Attarine Mosque in the Foreground, Titled: Alexandria, Egypt. Ca. 1870.
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$ 525.00
Unsigned Watercolour View of the Tombs of the Caliphs in Cairo, Titled on Verso: Tombs of the Caliphs. Ca. 1870.
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$ 2500.00
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.
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Interesting Album with 48 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Egyptian Government Vehicles (Automobiles, Trucks, Motorcycles), Garages and Mechanical Workshops in the 1920s, Titled: Mechanical Transport. Ministry of Communications. Ca. 1920s.
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Cosens, Robert, Lieutenant-Colonel (1866-1943). Album of 192 Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs Compiled by Robert Cosens, a British Military Officer, Documenting His Service in Gibraltar, India, Egypt, and Burma, with Group Portraits of Regiments and Officers; Photos of British Barracks, Camps, Reviews, a Wedding of a British Officer in Madras; and Views of Gibraltar, Alexandria, Port Said, Cairo, Malta, etc. Ca. 1890s-1930s.
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Zangaki Brothers (ca. 1880s-1890s); Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860s-1900); Mauri, Achille (active ca. 1840s-1890s). Album of Thirty Studio Photographs of Egypt (Alexandria, Cairo), Myanmar (Mandalay), and Morocco (Tangier); also with the Photos of Gibraltar and Italy (Naples, Pompeii). Ca. 1888-1896
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Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); Maison Bonfils (1867-1909) [Attributed to]. Historically Significant Album with Twenty-Three Original Albumen Photos of Egypt, Showing the Early, Pre-Restoration Views of Ancient Landmarks in Cairo (Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Mosque of Mahmud Pasha, Tombs of Caliphs & Mamluks, Funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay), Luxor (Temple of Khonsu, Grand colonnade of Amenophis), and Nubia (Temple of Al-Maharraqa Temples at Wadi es-Sabua, Abu Simbel Temple, Kiosk of Qertassi, Trajan’s Kiosk). Ca. 1860s.
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Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken by a Passenger of the SS “City of Cairo”, Showing Nubian and Sudanese Cities and Villages along the White Nile, from Ibrim to Kosti, Including Khartoum, Omdurman, Wad-Alzaky, Ad Douiem and Others; Several Views of the Blue Nile, and a Three-Part Panorama of Port Said. 1924-6.
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Greene, Captain Dominick Sarsfield (1826-1892), Royal Artillery and Aide-de-Camp. Original Mounted Watercolour Titled in Pencil on Verso: "Port Said." Ca. 1857.
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Watercolour View of the Great Pyramids of Giza with the Nile in the Foreground. Ca. 1900.
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Historically Significant Collection of Two Albums with 77 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of British Royal Air Force Aircraft (Fairey III Ds and Fs, Ninak DH9A, Vickers Victoria), and Bases in Egypt (Abu Sueir and Aboukir), Crashed RAF Planes and Excellent Aerial and Ground Views of Abu Sueir, Ismailia, Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Port Said, Cairo, Alexandria, the Great Sphinx of Giza during Emile Baraize’s Excavations, Illumination on Alexandria Streets “on the Return of King Fuad from England,” &c. Ca. 1920s.
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Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Three Albums with over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Studio and Amateur Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Pilot of the Royal Air Force during His Service in the 208th (Army Cooperation) RAF Squadron, Stationed on the Ismailia Air Base near Cairo in the 1920s – early 1930s. Ca. 1920s – early 1930s.
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Bonfils, Maison (1867-1909). Historically Important Collection of Fifteen Albumen Photographs of Alexandria, Showing the City Ruins after the British Bombardment in 1882. Ca. 1882.
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$ 7500.00
Brugsch, Heinrich Ferdinand Karl/ Brugsch-Pasha (1827-1894). Historically Significant, Extensive Archive of a Famous German Egyptologist, Heinrich Brugsch, with Seven Original Manuscripts, Including “Les Nomes de la Haute-Egypte,” and “Documents Relatifs au Nom des Hébreux,” Two Extensively Annotated Manuscripts with Explanations and Commentaries on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Manuscript Materials on the Early History of Ancient Egypt, Manuscript “Handbuch fur Allgemeinen Beredungen” (dated “Cairo, v. 27 September 1864”); One Manuscript on Assyrian Cuneiforms; an Offprint of Brugsch’s Article from “Zeitschrift für Stenographie und Orthographie” (1864); an Autograph Letter from an Alexandria Lawyer F. von Dumreicher Regarding the State of Affairs of Brugsch’s Deceased Son (March 1894, with the Original Envelope), a Telegram from Brugsch’s Brother Emile (Cairo, February 1894), Pencil Drawings of the Heliopolis Temple Plan and Dendera Zodiac Bas-Relief, &c. Ca. 1860s-1890s.
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Sakhareba [i.e. The Gospels]. Istanbul, 1819.
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Album of Thirty Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; Including: Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey). March-May 1893.
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Fernique, Etienne-Victor, abbe (1836-1915). Collection of Forty-Eight Original Albumen Stereo-view Photographs of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Bethphage and Bethany, Issued in the Series: Souvenirs de Terre Sainte. [Paris]: ca. 1860s.
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$ 950.00
[Sa’adi Shirazi], (1210 – 1291 or 1292), [Kāsefi, Kamāl-Al-Din Ḥosayn Wāʿeẓ] (1436/37-1504/5). The Iqd-I Gul, Being a Selection from the Gulistan and Anwar-i Sohaili. For the use of the Students of the Anglo-Persian Department of the Calcutta Madrasah/ Ed. By W. Nassau Lees, and Mawlawi Kabir Al Din Ahmad. Lees’ Persian Series. No. Vii. Prose No. IV. Calcutta: College Press, 1863.
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$ 1750.00
Sa’adi, Shirazi (1210 – 1291 or 1292). Gulistan [The Rose Garden]. Bombay: Sharafali Ali Bahai, Mohammedi Typ., 1299 H. [1882].
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$ 3500.00
Bezsonov, Boris Vasilyevich. Russkie pereselentsy v Severnoi Persii [i.e. Russian settlers in Northern Persia] Petrograd: Publishing of the Migration Administration of the Main Administration of Land Management and Agriculture, 1915.
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Historically Significant Collection of Fourteen Original Albumen Photos, Likely Taken by a Professional Russian Photographer in Mashhad, Iran, in the Late 1890s, Showing Imam Reza Holy Shrine before the 1912 Bombardment, Gawhar-Shad Mosque, British Consulate, Iranian Artillery Barracks, Governor’s Palace, Russian & Cossack Forces, etc.; also, with the Photos of “Tehran” and “New Afghan Gate”. Ca. 1890s.
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Heider, Karl G. (b. 1935). Album with 36 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Persepolis (Aerial View, Entrance Hall, Apadana Palace Columns and Reliefs, Throne Hall, the Tachara, Tombs of Darius I and Xerxes I at the Naghsh-e-Rostam Necropolis); Titled: Persepolis or Tacht-i-Jamshid, from the Travels of KGH, April 11 and 12, 1957.
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$ 525.00
Dicker, F.H. (Bert). Original Watercolour, Captioned: A Shopping Scene on the Tigris. 1919.
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McCrackan, Rev. John Henry (1856-1906); [Rondthaler, Rev. Edward, Bishop] (1842-1931). Historically Significant Journal with 59 Original Albumen Snapshot Photographs, Nine Printed Postcards, and Over a Dozen Specimens of Dried Flowers and Plants, Illustrating a Travel of an American Episcopal Clergyman John McCrackan and a Moravian Pastor from North Carolina Edward Rondthaler around Palestine in April – May 1889.
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$ 2250.00
[Pazukhin, Boris Andreievich] (d. 1679) & [Pazukhin, Semen Ivanovich]. Nakaz Borisu Andreievichu i Semenu Ivanovichu Pazukhinym na Posolstvo v Bukharu, Baklh i Urgench, dlia Vykupa Russkikh Plennykh, s Prilozheniem k Nakazu Stateinogo Spiska o Sovershenii Pazukhinymi Posolstva. 1669-1673. Izdano pod Redaktsiei Chlena Arkheograficheskoi Kommissii Askalona Truvorova [Instruction to Boris Andreievich and Semen Ivanovich Pazukhin for their Embassy to Bukhara, Balkh and Urgench for the Ransom of Russian Captives, with the Addition of the Report of Pazukhins’ Embassy. 1669-1673. Published under the Supervision of a Member of the Archaeographic Commission Askalon Truvorov]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1894.
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