Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 5,720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
FRANCIS FRITH.
Sinai and Palestine.
A striking album with 31 (of 37) photographs, depicting Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula. Albumen prints, the images meeasuring approximately 6 1/4x9 inches (15.9x22.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Frith's signature in the negative, and with his letterpress credit, caption, and date, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered red and green leather, edgewear; scattered foxing, 6 plates and text leaves missing; all edges marbled.
London: William Mackenzie, (1863)