Apr 15, 2002 - Sale 1931

Sale 1931 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(EGYPT)<> sebah, j. p.<>
Album containing 50 photographs of Cairo by Sebah, comprising the interior and exterior views of the mosque of Mohammed-Aly, El-Ahzar, the city wall, Kait Bey fountain, the French Consulate, a canal, street vendors, cafes, an open-air bazaar, Schepheard's Hotel, street barbers, Tombeaux des Mamalouks, the Obelisk of Heliopolis, and more. Albumen prints, 8½x10½ inches, with the photographer's caption and credit in the negative; mounted on per page recto/verso. Oblong folio, decorative cloth with a stamped leather spine, lightly worn. 1880s