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BONFILS, FELIX (1831-1885) Album containing 59 photographs depicting pre-historic sites and native peoples in Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. With remarkable views of the Wailing Wall, Bethelehem, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Baalbeck, and many stunning ethnographic studies, both in the studio and in situ; plus scenes of the Temple of Abu Simbel, the Pyramids, Sphinx and city of Alexandria. Albumen prints, 9 1/2x11 1/2 inches (24.1x29.2 cm.), and smaller, many with Bonfils' signature and title in the negative. Oblong folio, morocco, worn, backstrip perished. 1880s
