Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 5,060
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(MIDDLE EAST) zangaki; bonfils; arnoux;
Group of 3 albums containing more than 130 photographs of Middle Eastern pre-historic ruins, architecture, topography, and people comprising wonderful views of the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt, ruins at Karnak, Luxor and Thebes, mosques, Port Said, Turkish rug dealers in Cairo, bird's-eye-views of Smyrna, Cypress, Jaffa, and Constantinople, interior and exterior views of Turkish mosques and palaces, a view of worshipers at Mecca, ancient sites in Jerusalem, the Parthenon and Acropolis in Athens, ruins unearthed in Ephesus, Greek sculptures, views of Corfu, with many other street scenes, views of ancient ruins, and ethnographic portraits. Albumen prints, 9x11 inches and the reverse, most with a photographer's credit and caption in the negative; mounted one per page recto/verso. Oblong folio, 1/2 morocco, worn. 1880s
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