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Pioneering photographs of Jerusalem made in 1854, with 40 original salt prints

SALZMANN, Auguste. Jérusalem. Étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque Judaïque jusqu'à nos jours.
Paris, Gide & J. Baudry (on the back of both half-titles and the back wrapper of the text volume: printed by Jules Claye in Paris; on each photographic plate: printed by Louis Blanquart-Evrard in Lille), 1856. 2 volumes. Folio. With 40 mounted salt print photographs, 3 full-page plates (2 lithographs, 1 chromolithograph), and numerous illustrations in the text.
Volume 1 in contemporary gold-tooled half black goatskin. Volume 2 in contemporary gold-tooled quarter red goatskin. [4], 90, [2]; [4], [2] pp. + 40 leaves with mounted salt prints. Full description
€ 45,000
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Deluxe album containing 19th-century hand-coloured photographs of China and its people by the leading photographer in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty

SAUNDERS, William Thomas (photographer). [Portfolio of sketches of Chinese life and character].
[Shanghai, China, 1871]. Oblong album (ca. 41 x 56 cm). With 51 hand-coloured photographs mounted on the recto of 50 leaves. Contemporary gold- and black-tooled red sheepskin, with a hand-carved wooden panel mounted into the front board, showing a Asian house with 4 people around a round table, a cat or similar pet in the foreground next to a person smoking a pipe (an opium pipe?) being approached by a servant with two plates food, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. [50] ll. Full description
€ 125,000
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Collection of original striking but chilling photographs of mob killings
by one of Sicily's greatest mafia photographers

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAFIA - SICILY]. SCAFIDI, Nicola. [Photographs showing mob killings, grieving families and funerals].
Palermo, [ca. 1961-1966?]. 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints on baryta paper, ca. 24 x 30 cm, all but one with manuscript captions on the reverse. Full description
€ 4,500
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Photograph album showing trotting

[PHOTOGRAPHY - HORSES].SCHNAEBELI, H.. [Binding title:] Album des Trabrenn-Sport.
Berlin, H. Schnaebeli & Co, 1879. Oblong 8vo (33 x 26.5 cm) album with 16 original albumen prints (ca. 20.5 x 15 cm), mounted on paperboard. Original richly decorated cloth. Title on front cover: "Album des Trabrenn-Sport. H. Schnaebeli & Co. Hof-Photographen u. Kunstverlag. Berlin Unter den Linden 30". Full description
€ 8,500
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Collection of various photographs of Egypt, 1860s-1910s

SEBAH, Pascal, LEHNERT & LANDROCK, Wilhelm HAMMERSCHMIDT, SCHROEDER & Cie and Enrico VAN LINT. [Photographs, mostly of Egypt].
[Egypt and elsewhere], [ca. 1860-ca. 1914]. With 9 carte de visite albumen prints (ca. 8.5 x 5.5 cm) by Hammerschmidt and Van Lint, two albumen prints (9.5 x 12.5 cm) by Sébah mounted on paper, one silver gelatin print (8.5 x 11.5 cm) by Lehnert & Landrock and one silver gelatin print (27 x 21 cm) by Schroeder & Cie in a passepartout. Full description
€ 1,950
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Original photographic albumen prints and cyanotypes of Egypt & Switzerland ca. 1890

SÉBAH, Pascal, and others. [Photograph album with views of Egypt and Switzerland].
Egypt and Switzerland, [1880s-1890s]. 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm). 50 photographs of Egypt (albumen prints and cyanotypes) and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Contemporary black half morocco. Full description
€ 6,500
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20 large photographic views of Singapore ca. 1870

[SINGAPORE - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [SACHTLER, August, and others]. [Views of Singapore and surroundings].
[Singapore, ca. 1870]. 20 large uniform albumen prints (21 x 27 cm), all but 1 in landscape format. Each print mounted on paperboard (24.5 x 32.5 cm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Kept in a modern black cloth clamshell box. Full description
€ 18,000
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