Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 7,475
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GOOD, FRANK MASON
Album entitled "Egypt; The Desert of Sinai; Petra," containing 58 photographs by f. m. good, comprising 7 images of pyramids including the Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Dasheur, 6 views of Cairo from outside the city, 8 views inside Cairo including quiet mosque interiors and active street scenes, 21 views in the desert including the majestic backdrop of Mts. Sebal and Sinai, 5 views on the approach to Petra, and 10 views within the ruins including the theater, through the arch, and sik. Albumen prints, 6¼x8¼ inches and the reverse, mounted one per page, each is titled, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-stamped morocco, edges worn; book block detached from backstrip, mounts lightly foxed in the margins; gilt edges. 1860s

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An unusually clean and exceptionally bright group of prints by Good, an under-appreciated protegé of Francis Frith.