Oblong Folio album ca. 26,3x35,5 cm (10 � x 14 in). 94 card stock leaves. With 94 large original albumen photographs, each ca. 19x26,1 cm (7 � x 10 � in); most photos captioned in French, signed and/or numbered in negatives (including ca. 22 prints by the Zangaki brothers, 12 prints by Pascal Sebah, 7 prints by Luigi Fiorillo, 5 prints by the Abdullah Freres, 3 prints by Antonio Beato, 1 print by Hippolyte Arnoux, 1 print by Gabriel Lekegian, and 1 print by Maison Bonfils). Period full-cloth album with marbled endpapers. Binding worn, album leaves with upward curling, occasional tears along the edges, but otherwise a very good album with strong, interesting photos. An interesting extensive collection of large albumen prints of Egypt taken by some of the most renowned early photographers of the region, including the Zangaki brothers, Pascal Sebah, Luigi Fiorillo, the Abdullah Freres, Antonio Beato, Hippolyte Arnoux, Gabriel Lekegian, and Maison Bonfils. The album contains ninety-four studio photographs, with about twenty excellent portraits of local settlers. The photos vividly portray Egyptian messengers, water carriers, porters, beggars, and guards, as well as Fellahin women in burqas carrying water jars or balancing vegetables on their heads. Especially interesting are several candid urban scenes showing wheat & date harvesting, a cargo of clay pots on the banks of the Nile, a camel caravan crossing the Suez Canal via a chain ferry, European travelers posing atop camels, etc. There's also a lively street scene on Sultan Hussein Quay in Port Said, with clearly visible locals, horse carts, and shop signs reading "The Eastern Telegraph Co.," "Henry's, King & Co.," "Thos. Cook & Son," and "Bank of Egypt Limited." Other photographs mostly show panoramic views and iconic landmarks in Cairo (the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, the Gezirah Palace, the Obelisk of Heliopolis, Giza Palace, and the Tombs of the Caliphs, etc.); Port Said (waterfront scenes, the Dutch House, Franz Joseph Quay with its lighthouse, and the Square of Ferdinand de Lesseps); Alexandria (the Mahmudiyya Canal, Ras El Tin Palace, Pompey's Pillar, an Egyptian artillery position in the al-Maqs area, destroyed during the 1882 British bombardment); Gaza (the Great Sphinx and general views of the Pyramids); Saqqara (the Step Pyramid of Djoser and the interior of the Mastaba of Mereruka); Abydos (Temple of Osiris); Philae (Temple of Isis); Abu Simbel (Great Temple of Ramesses); Luxor (Luxor Temple, general view); and Guirgueh (general view). The collection also includes about twenty photographs of the Suez Canal (entrance, the canal company's bureau, and vessels in transit) and a photographic reproduction of a map charting the Suez Canal route (with the photos of Ismael Pasha and Ferdinand De Lesseps). Overall, historically interesting collection of excellent studio prints of Egypt taken by some of the most renowned early photographers of the region.

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Title: The Zangaki Brothers (active ca. 1860s-1890s); Sebah, Pascal (ca. 1823-1886); Fiorillo, Luigi (ca. 1847-1898); Beato, Antonio (ca. 1835-1906); Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860-1891); Lekegian, Gabriel (ca. 1853-1920); Bonfils, Maison (active ca. 1867-1918); the Abdullah Freres (active ca. 1850s-1900s). Album of Ninety-Four Original Albumen Studio Photographs of Egypt, including Portraits of Locals (Water Carriers, Beggars, Guards, Women with Covered Faces, Messengers, etc.) and Views of Cairo...
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: None
Condition: None

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Globus Books is an independent San Francisco-based bookshop and a member of the American Booksellers? Association and the Antiquarian Booksellers? Association of America and has been in business since 1971. It was opened originally by Vladimir Azar as a shop for the Russian emigre public of the Bay Area. A small press operated there in the 1970s under the same name in the same building. Now, 50+ years in business, the shop still occupies the same premises with continued success. Globus Rare Books and Archives is the department within Globus Books that specializes in rare travel and exploration related items from around the world with an emphasis on the Americas, the Pacific and Russian explorers and travellers. Our goal is to seek out and offer rare and unique antiquarian items, including rare books, photographs, photo-albums, watercolors, drawings, manuscripts, archives, maps and prints. Our team has many decades of experience helping to build many institutional and private collections across the USA and the world and we have seen and handled many important antiquarian items and collections. We issue monthly catalogues with the newest acquisitions available for our subscribers. We participate in many US and International antiquarian book fairs. Follow us on social media to receive the latest news and offers. You can browse our collections in person during the shop?s opening hours by appointment : Tuesday to Sunday, 11 to 5.

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