Oct 20, 2022 - Sale 2618

Sale 2618 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(EGYPT)
An album featuring approximately 100 iconic photographs by the Zangaki Brothers and Pascal Sébah, including the Pyramids and other landmarks, the Nile, Cairo scenes, portraits, and more. The album is split about evenly between Zangaki and Sébah; about 15 photographs do not include a credit. Includes Sébah's detailed and picturesque portraiture, sweeping views of the Pyramids and Sphinx, other ancient Egyptian architecture and artifacts, tombs, as well as scenes of everyday life, such as street shops, crocodiles, and interiors. Albumen prints, the images measuring about 8x10 3/4 inches (20.3x27.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with credit and caption in the negative. Oblong folio, 1/2 leather over cloth. 1870s