Feb 27, 2014 - Sale 2340

Sale 2340 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
FRITH, FRANCIS (1822-1898)
Album titled "Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, And The Pyramids of Egypt: A Series of 60 Photographic Views." With descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole, Volume III. With 60 rich and compelling images, including Jerusalem, the Pyramids, tombs, mosques, streets, convents, landscapes, and ancient ruins. Albumen prints, each approximately 6 1/4x8 or 9 inches (15.9x20.3 or 22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Frith's signature and the plate number, in the negative, and with his letterpress credit, caption, and date, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered green leather; scattered foxing; all edges gilt. 1857