Feb 27, 2014 - Sale 2340

Sale 2340 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FRITH, FRANCIS.
Sinai and Palestine, Photographed by Francis Frith.

With 37 (of 37) handsome prints, including images of Gaza, Jerusalem, Damascus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Hebron, accompanied by Frith's compelling text. Albumen prints, each approximately 6 1/2x9 inches (16.5x22.9 cm.) and the reverse, most with Frith's signature and a numeric notation in the negative, and with a printed title on mount recto. Folio, rebound in green cloth; scattered foxing; tissue guards renewed. first edition.
London: William Mackenzie, Nd [circa 1862]