May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(EGYPT) sebah and zangaki
Group of 3 volumes titled "Nile I," "Nile II," and "Cairo" containing almost 100 photographs of a variety of burial tombs/chambers and pyramids including the Sphinx and Sakkara, mosques, palaces, hieroglyphics, obelisks, royal fountains, as well as tribal people, occupationals, and more. Albumen prints, approximately 8 3/4x11 inches (22.2x27.9 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, many with the caption and photographer's credit in the negative. Folios, gilt-lettered green folding case with buckles (dated 1896 by original owner), worn; contents loose. 1870s-1890s