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$ 525.00
Capparozzo, Andrea. Giuseppe Sorio Viaggiatore Vicentino. Vicenza: G. Burato, 1881.
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$ 2250.00
Zangaki brothers (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Beato, Antonio (-1906); Arnoux, Hippolyte (fl. ca.1860s-1900); Maison Bonfils (fl. ca. 1860s-1939); Sebah, Jean (1872-1947); Maison Fiorillo (fl. ca. 1870s-1915). Album of 74 Albumen Studio Photographs of Egyptian Cities (Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria, Tell el-Kebir), the Suez Canal (Suez, Port Said, Construction of the Canal, Suez Company Offices), Portraits of Locals (Nubians, Merchants, Vendors, Street Scenes, etc.), and Ancient Sites (Pyramids of Giza, Karnak Temple, Philae Temple Complex). Ca. 1880s-1890s.
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$ 2250.00
Album of Over 50 Real Photo Postcards with 8 Original Ink Drawings and Watercolours Showing Egypt, Including Cairo (Pyramids of Giza, Mena House Hotel, the Egyptian Museum), Luxor Temple, Karnak Temple, Medinet Habu, and Aswan. Ca. 1920s-1930s.
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$ 2250.00
Album of 87 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Egypt, Including Ancient Temples and Sites (Philae, Medinet-Abou, Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Edfu, Abydos, Esna), Cairo (Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan, Cairo Citadel, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Qaytbay Funerary Complex, French Legation), Aswan (Elephantine, Street Market, Quarry), a Malwid Celebration, a Street Demonstration, etc. Ca. 1914.
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$ 1250.00
Historically Significant Collection of Twenty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Amateur Photographs of Egypt, Taken by European Travellers and Showing Philae Temple, Nile’s First Cataract and Nearby Shellal Village before the Construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902, not Fully Excavated Karnak and Luxor Temples, Inundated Colossi of Memnon, Tombs of the Theban Necropolis, Portraits of a Bichari Boy, a Egyptian Girl and Her Grandmother from Thebes, the Travellers in a Egyptian Hotel Garden, &c. Ca. 1890s.
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$ 1500.00
Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1860s-1890s); Peridis, Pappa (fl. ca. 1880s-1900s); Marquis & Fiorillo, & Others. Interesting Collection of Twenty-Eight Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo (Citadel, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Nile River at Bulaq, Streets), Aswan, Pyramids of Giza (Featuring Mena House Hotel, Nile River, a Small Dam), Philae Temple (General Views, Temple of Hathor), Karnak Temple (Great Hypostyle Hall, Pylon of Ptolemy III), Nile’s First Cataract at Aswan, Dahabiya Boat “Olga” under the Swedish Flag, Cataract Hotel in Aswan, a Scene of Official Celebration on the Nile Bank, Likely in Aswan, &c. Ca. 1880s.-1900s.
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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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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.
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Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1860s-1890s); Frith, Francis (1822-1898); Fiorillo, Luigi (active ca. 1870s-1890s); Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830-1869); Bonfils, Felix (1831-1885), & others. Historically Significant Collection of Seventy-Five Early Original Albumen Photos of Egypt, Showing Cairo (Citadel and Muhammad Ali Mosque, Necropolis, Qasr el Nil/El Gezira Bridge, Gezira Palace, Ablution Fountain in Muhammad Ali Mosque, Interior of Sultan Barquq Mosque, a Street in Old Cairo, a Hotel in Helwan, “village Com-el-Assuit”), Alexandria (Pompey’s Pillar, Cleopatra’s Needle, Harbour and Port, Hippodrome, Abandoned Palace of Said Pasha in El Max, Muhammad Ali Square, Mahmudiyya Canal, Ras El-Tin Palace), Port Said (Suez Canal Company’s Office, Quay, Lighthouse, Palais Hollandaise, Rue du Commerce, Eastern Exchange Hotel), Suez and Suez Canal, Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx, Philae Temple, Fallen Statue of Ramses II near the Ruins of Memphis, Portraits of Egyptians, &c. Ca. 1850s-1880s.
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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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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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$ 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.
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$ 175.00
Waddington, George (1793-1869). Autograph Letter Signed “George Waddington” Declining to Participate in a Public Meeting. London: 13 May 1864.
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$ 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.
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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.
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