Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

ONGANIA, Ferdinando (ed.). Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: "Calli et canali in Venezia"].
Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publishers half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board. [6] including the frontispiece, plus 100 collotypes. Full description

[PHOTO ALBUM - PAKISTAN]. G.W. CURTIS (compiler). [Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].
Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in "frames" on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. with 97 photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALGERIA]. Sahara Algérien - la prière.
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 21 x 27.5 cm). Mounted on grey/green cardboard (ca. 28 x 39 cm), with a black border around the albumen print. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALHAMBRA]. MAUZAISSE, Charles (photographer). [Collection of 13 photographs of the Alhambra in Granada].
[Granada, ca. 1865]. All albumen photographic prints (18 x 24 cm) are mounted on black card stock (29.5 x 21 cm). [13] ll. Full description

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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