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$ 2250.00
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); Désiré, Ermé (fl. ca. 1864-1885); Royer & Aufiére (fl. ca. 1860s), Délié, Hippolyte (fl ca. 1860-1880s), De Michele, Luigi/Fotografia Egiziana (fl. ca. 1850-1890), Neurdein, Étienne (fl. ca. 1870s-1900s), Deplanque, Jules, & Others. Album of Sixty Early Original Carte-de-visite Albumen Photographs of Egypt - Mostly Portraits of the Locals (Water Carriers, Musicians, “Bedouins from Giza,” Camel, Oxen and Donkey Riders, Sellers of Oranges or Sugar Canes, a Beggar, a Barber and His Client, a “Tobacco Cutter,” lsmail Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Arab and Nubian Women with Water Jugs, Smoking Hookah, Posing in Traditional Dress, with Covered Faces, and Others), Also Views of Cairo (Muhammad Ali Mosque, Mosque of Qani-Bay, “Houses of Copts,” &c.), Suez Canal, Pompey’s Pillar, &c. Ca. 1860s.-1880s.
$ 275.00
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.
$ 3500.00
Frith, Francis (1822-1898). Historically Significant Collection of Twenty-Five Early Original Albumen Photos of Egypt from His Famous Series “Egypt, Palestine and Nubia” (1862), Showing Cairo (General View with Aqsunqur Mosque and Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha’ban; Funerary Mosque of Quani-Bay, Southern Cemetery of Cairo Necropolis, Azbakeya District, Al-Hakim Mosque, Bab al-Azab Gate to the Citadel), Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara, the Sphinx Partly Buried in Sand, Philae Temple (General Views, First Pylon, Trajan’s Kiosk, Western Colonnade), Ruins on Bigeh Island, Aswan, Edfu Temple, Kom Ombo Temple, Aswan, Bas-Reliefs of Isis and Horus in Kalabsha Temple, &c. Ca. 1857-1859.
$ 1750.00
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.
$ 2250.00
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.
$ 1750.00
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
$ 850.00
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.
$ 750.00
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.
$ 150.00
Greene, Captain Dominick Sarsfield (1826-1892), Royal Artillery and Aide-de-Camp. Original Mounted Watercolour Titled in Pencil on Verso: "Port Said." Ca. 1857.
$ 750.00
تاريخ البريد في مصر [i.e. The Postal History of Egypt. Created on the Occasion of the 10th Universal Postal Congress in Cairo and the 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Postal Service]. Cairo: Al-Amiriya Press, 1934.
$ 2750.00
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.
$ 1750.00
The Zangaki Brothers (active ca. 1860s-1890s); Sebah, Pascal (ca. 1823-1886); Fiorillo, Luigi (ca. 1847-1898); Beato, Antonio (ca. 1835-1906); Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860-1891); Lekegian, Gabriel (ca. 1853-1920); Bonfils, Maison (active ca. 1867-1918); the Abdullah Freres (active ca. 1850s-1900s). Album of Ninety-Four Original Albumen Studio Photographs of Egypt, including Portraits of Locals (Water Carriers, Beggars, Guards, Women with Covered Faces, Messengers, etc.) and Views of Cairo (the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, the Obelisk of Heliopolis, Giza Palace, etc.), Port Said (the Dutch House, Franz Joseph Quay, and the Square of Ferdinand de Lesseps), Alexandria (the Mahmudiyya Canal, Ras El Tin Palace, Destroyed Egyptian Artillery Position), Gaza (the Great Sphynx and Pyramids), Saqqara (Pyramid of Djoser), Abydos (Temple of Osiris), Philae (Temple of Isis), Abu Simbel (Great Temple of Ramesses), Luxor (Luxor Temple), and Suez Canal (Entrance, the Canal Company’s Bureau, Ships, etc.) Ca. 1880s-1890s.
$ 2750.00
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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.
$ 1750.00
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.
$ 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.
$ 12500.00
Sakhareba [i.e. The Gospels]. Istanbul, 1819.
$ 2750.00
Mehmed Hafid Efendi (?-1811). Ed-Dürer ül-müntehabât ül-mensûre fî ıslâh il-galatat il-meşhûre. [i.e., Selected Pearls for Correcting a Famous Error]. Istanbul: Dar ut-Tibaa [Üsküdar Matbaasi], 1806.
$ 1250.00
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.
$ 1500.00
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.
$ 750.00
[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.
Historically Interesting Album with ca. 158 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting an English Traveler’s Early Voyages to India (Agra, Mumbai, Delhi, Varanasi, Madurai, Chennai, Kolkatta), Sri Lanka (Colombo, Kandi), Australia (Melbourne, Hobart), Egypt (Alexandria, Cairo), and Canada (Quebec, Ottawa, Victoria, Sault St. Marie). Ca. 1907-1910.
$ 2500.00
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.
