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$ 4500.00
Gentz, Wilhelm and Ismael, Mueller, Leopold and Welsch, Charles. Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles Welsch, Used as Prototypes for Illustrations in Georg Ebers’ Encyclopaedic Work “Aegypten in Bild und Wort (Stuttgart & Leipzig 1879-80);” [Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque] [With]: Complete Sets of both the First German and the First English Editions of the Book. Ca. 1870s.
$ 1250.00
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.
$ 225.00
Greene, Captain Dominick Sarsfield (1826-1892), Royal Artillery and Aide-de-Camp. Original Mounted Watercolour Titled in Pencil on Verso: "Port Said." Ca. 1857.
$ 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.
$ 3500.00
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.
$ 2500.00
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.
$ 750.00
Album with Thirty Original Watercolours Showing English Costumes of the Regency Era. [England]: ca. 1820.
$ 275.00
[Vidocq, Eugène François] (1775-1857). A Page from a Private Diary with the Latest News on the Case of the Famous Private Detective Eugene Vidocq: Vidoeq in Jail. French Ministry of War Found Their Associates Leaking Important Documents to a Russian Agent. 6 February 1838.
$ 175.00
Waddington, George (1793-1869). Autograph Letter Signed “George Waddington” Declining to Participate in a Public Meeting. London: 13 May 1864.
$ 1250.00
Historically Significant Collection of 34 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during a Survey Travel Prior to the Construction of the First Ethiopian Railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa, with Scenes of Dirt Road Travel on a Truck, Crossing Rivers, Views of Expedition Camps in Hurso and Mulu, a Market in Tadecha Malka on the Germama River, Addis Ababa, Catholic Mission in Dire Dawa, Portraits of French Expedition Members, Advisor to Emperor Menelik II Armand Savouré and His Family, Ethiopian Women and Children, &c. Ca. 1911-1912.
Interesting Extensive Collection of 223 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken during a Mining Survey Expedition in Italian East Africa in the 1930s, Showing the Party Members Posing next to Various Geological Formations, Rock and Ore Samples, Africans Performing Artisanal Gold Panning, the Obelisk of Axum, Two Ethiopian Megalithic Stellae, Local Villages and People, Mountains and Valleys, Roads, Bridges, &c. Ca. late 1930s.
$ 950.00
Roussel, L. Historically Significant Album with 104 Original Vernacular Photographs Taken by a French Member of La Ligue des droits de l’Homme in pre-colonial Dire Dawa (Ethiopia), Showing Portraits of Locals in Traditional Attire Carrying Goods, Posing for the Camera, Browsing through Busy Markets, Riding Camels, etc.; City Views (the Dire Dawa Train Station & Locomotive, St. Michael Church, Dire Dawa Palace, the Zoo, a Café), and Group Portraits of the Compiler and his Associates; also with the Photos of Djibouti (then in French Somaliland), Documenting Street Scenes, Notable Landmarks, and Local Inhabitants. Ca. 1929-1935.
$ 95000.00
Raymond of Peñafort, William of Rennes. Summa de poenitentiae et matrimonio and Apparatus in Summam Raymundi [i.e. Summa on Penance and Marriage with commentary]. [France (Paris?), c.1275-1300].
$ 950.00
Mackay, J., Royal Engineers. Large Signed Watercolour Panorama of Gibraltar, Titled: Gibraltar.
Official Indenture of a Land Transfer: Conveyance of One Sixth part of a Customary Estate called Skirreth held of the Mansion of Ingleton (Lancashire); between William Gillison Bell the Younger Esq. Of the City of Saint Petersburg in Russia merchant, and Thomas Graven Esq. Saint Petersburg, 2 June 1816.
$ 475.00
Holm, P.A.. Skildringer og Sagn fra Færøerne. [Description and Legends of the Faeroe Islands]. Copenhagen: K. Schonbergs, 1860
$ 525.00
Gordon, George Huntley, Major. Original Watercolour View of Florence, Titled: San Miniato and Porta St. Nicholo – Florence. March 1896.
$ 3250.00
[Woodbury, George Edward] (1902-1973). Historically Significant Collection of 61 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and 95 Film Negatives, Showing the Excavation of Native American Burial Mounds on Cape Canaveral, in 1933-1934: Mounds in their Original Stage, Excavation Process, Workers and Anthropologists, Unearthed Remains Identified by Numbers. Ca. 1933-1934.
$ 2250.00
Album of Over 130 Albumen Cartes-de-Visite Photographs and Over 45 Pieces of Travel Ephemera from a Grand Tour of Europe, Showing Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice, Ravenna, Siena, Perugia, Bologna), Britain (London, Oxford, York, Stratford-on-Avon, Country Estates), France (Paris, Strasbourg), Austria (Vienna, Gratz), and Germany (Nuremberg, Passau); the Album is Titled: From Rome Dec 15th, 1869 to Edinburgh May 27th, 1870. Ca. 1869-1870.
