?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BONFILS, FELIX (1831-1885)/HAMMERSCHMIDT, W. Suite of 9 rare photographs of the Holy Land, comprising 8 Bonfils prints of Jaffa, Nazareth, Bethany, Nabulus, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baalbek, and "Grabiskirche," as well as Hammerschmidt's "Grottes de Beni-Hassan." Albumen prints, 8 measure 11 1/4x15 inches (28.6 x38.1 cm.) and the last 9x12 inches (22.9x30.5 cm.); 8 with captions, in pencil, on mount recto and a few with Bonfils's credit in the negative; the last with a printed caption and Hammerschmidt's credit in the negative. 1870s
with--Egyptian Relief "Jerusalem, Allee des Tombeau de Josaphat." Albumen print and photochrome, 6 1/4x8 3/4 inches (15.9x22.2 cm.), the latter with a gilt-lettered caption on recto. 1890s.
