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Much cited work on geology, with more than 500 illustrations

HAUG, Émile. Traité de géologie.
Paris, Armand Colin, 1908-1911. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Large 8vo. With 135 plates with half-tone reproductions of photographs (some with 2 photographs) and 485 illustration figures (some in the text, some full-page and including several folding maps). Contemporary half brown morocco, top edges gilt. [2], 538; [6], 539-1152; [4], 1153-2024 pp. Full description
€ 300
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Unique photo album of a hunting club in British India, including photographs of the first flight
of the Indian Transcontinental Airways

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA - HUNTING]. [Photograph album showing hunting society in Britsh India].
[Cambridge, Mumbai, New Delhi], Scott & Wilkinson, Clifton & Co, Hamilton Studios and Kinsey Bros., [ca. 1933-1935]. With 105 photographs mounted in the album (ranging from 16 x 28 cm to 4 x 6 cm), 2 photographs loosely inserted and a watercolour mounted at the back (11.5 x 21 cm). Oblong half morocco photograph album by W. Johnson & sons, London. 53 ll. Full description
€ 9,500
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First-hand account of the British military in India's Northwest

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. [W. RAHN (photographer).] [Album with photographs of the Tirah Expedition].
Including:
- Key [manuscript identifying sitters in 1 photograph in the album]. 2 loose leaves.
- [Manuscript list of captions to 10 photographs in the album]. 1 leaf.
Kirkee (Pune, India), Sappers and Miners' Press, [1898]. Folio album (40 x 33 cm). A photo album with 53 photographic prints on 12 paperboard leaves, hinged to stubs with 3 cords. Including 9 large albumen prints from 21 x 26.5 cm to 13.5 x 29 cm, 43 gelatin silver prints from 12 x 18 cm. to 9 x 10.5 cm., and a loosely inserted large albumen print 21 x 28.5 cm on a similar paperboard support. Contemporary cloth with closing straps. Manuscripts loosely inserted in the album.
(2) PARK, Superintendent. 1898. Catalogue of photographs by Sergeant A.J. Clarke R.E. taken during Tirah Expedition, 1897-1898.
[Kirkee (Pune, India), Sappers and Miners' Press, 1898]. Small folio (22 x 14.5 cm), [4] pp. With a lithographed title-page. Loosely inserted in the album. Full description
€ 8,750
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The Stangen tour of the Levant in 1898, accompanying Kaiser Wilhelm II's imperial journey

IRANIAN, Mihran; Maison BONFILS; ZANGAKI BROTHERS & AMERICAN COLONY PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT. [Portfolio with photographic prints of landmarks in Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt].
1898. With 32 albumen prints (ca. 18.5 x 25.7 cm and ca. 23.5 x 27.7 cm) mounted on cardstock, most signed and captioned in French the negative, a German manuscript caption in red ink below. Contemporary portfolio, half green morocco and dark blue pebble-grained cloth sides, with "Orient-Reise 1898" and "H. B." stamped in gold on the front board, lined with floral paper, green closing ties. Full description
€ 5,000
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More than 70 beautiful photographs of locations and people in Iraq in the 1920s

KERIM, Abdul (photographer). Camera Studies in Iraq.
Baghdad, A. Kerim & Hasso Bros., [ca. 1925]. Oblong album (ca. 24.5 x 31 cm). With 73 photogravures. Original black imitation crocodile leather, stitched through 2 holes with brown cord, with the title and publishing (copyright) information in gold on the front board, dark brown endpapers. [50] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
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A rare and extensive photogravure portfolio of the Malay Peninsula

KLEINGROTHE, Charles J. Malay peninsula (straits settlements & federated Malay states).
Medan, 1907. Oblong folio (36.3 x 45.5 cm) With 172 photogravures, 1 illustrated map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 1 illustrated diagram of the fruit of the rubber tree on 72 leaves, together with a title leaf. 73 loose leaves kept in a decorated black cloth portfolio, with "Malay Peninsula" stamped in white and gold along with some gold-stamped decorations and a ca. 27 x 11 cm. photogravure of a trapped tiger on the front board. The pastedowns and tabs are covered with gold floral paper. [73] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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