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Nineteenth-century panorama photograph of Sydney Harbour

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Sydney Harbour and Circular Quay].
[Sydney, ca. 1875]. Ca. 8 x 46.5 cm. Panorama photograph, consisting of three albumen prints joined together with white bookcloth. Full description

€ 350

Australia Photography

Late 19th-century photographs of Sydney and surroundings

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Views of New South Wales].
[Australia, ca. 1885]. Folio (ca. 44 x 36.5 cm). With 65 albumen prints. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the front, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered-silk end papers. [29] ll. Full description

€ 5,500

Australia Photography

A photographic tour from France to Australia, via Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, EGYPT & FRANCE]. [Album containing photographs of Australia, Egypt and France].
[ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (28 x 39 cm). With 58 printed photographs (ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm). Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. Contemporary black morocco, gold-tooling to boards and spine and gilt on all edges. [60] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Australia Egypt France North Africa Photography

Rare photographs of a Nissan car show in the Middle East in the 1970s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - CAR SHOW]. Car show.
[1970s]. Eight photographs (all ca. 9 x 12.5 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [8] photographs. Full description

€ 400

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography Saudi Arabia Technology

Collection of photographs of 19th-century Egypt, by the leading Orientalist photographer of the time

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT], SÉBAH, Jean Pascal. [Collection of 34 albumen prints of Egypt].
[Cairo?, 1888-1900?]. 34 albumen prints (ca. 22 x 27 cm) mounted on cream cardstock (ca. 28 x 35.5 cm). Full description

€ 4,000

Egypt Islamic Art, Culture & Science North Africa Photography

Rare late 19th-century photograph of two Bedouins engaged in falconry

[PHOTOGRAPHY - FALCONRY]. [Two Bedouins hunting with birds of prey].
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 22 x 27.5 cm). Tipped onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 40 x 30 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

€ 250

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Photography

Sterographs of the procession of the holy carpet, taken by American photographers in the late 19th century

[PHOTOGRAPHY - HOLY CARPET]. RAU, William Herman and Roddo York YOUNG (photographers). [Holy carpet].
[Early 20th century]. Various sizes. With two stereographic cards and one photographic print. Mounted on cardboard. [3] photographs. Full description

€ 300

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt North Africa Photography

Interesting and intimate photograph album showing buildings, views, people and life in Calcutta in the 1870s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. [Manuscript title on the front paste-down:] Views of Calcutta.
Calcutta, [ca. 1874/79]. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints (ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm), all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English, written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, brown cloth sides. [2 blank], [25], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Architecture India & Sri Lanka Photography

Remarkable insight into daily life in early 20th-century Iran and Iraq

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA]. [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].
[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. [12]; [12] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Photography

Late 19th-century album with beautiful photographs of Jerusalem

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JERUSALEM]. [Photo album of Jerusalem].
[Jerusalem?, late 19th century]. Ca. 20 x 15 cm. With 20 albumen prints (each ca. 5.5 x 8.5 cm). Later black shark (?) leather. [10] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Islamic Art, Culture & Science Photography

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