Mar 24, 2011 - Sale 2240

Sale 2240 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(EGYPT)
Album containing more than 100 photographs of Egypt, including mosques, the Pyramids and other ancient ruins, tombs, palaces, interiors, figural studies and Egyptian objects by more than 8 photographers, primarily beato (approximately 25) and sebah (approximately 30) and bonfils, abdullah frères, lekegian, and alger. Albumen prints, printing-out-paper prints (2) and a photochrome (one), sizes ranging from 9 1/4x4 3/4 to 10 1/2x8 1/4 inches (23.5x12.1 to 26.7x21 cm.), and the reverse, tipped to the album leaves, the majority with a caption and/or photographer's credit in the negative. Tall 4to, gilt-lettered 1/2 leather, lightly worn. 1880s-1890s