![FRITH (FRANCIS) Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem: a series of Twenty Photographic Views...With descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole, William Mackenzie, [1858]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-05/01/8520161-4-7.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "FRITH (FRANCIS) Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem: a series of Twenty Photographic Views...With descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole, William Mackenzie, [1858] Sold for £337,250 inc. premium")
12 Jun 2012
14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 20137
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 20137
FRITH (FRANCIS)
Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem: a Series of Twenty Photographic Views...With descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole, 20 very large albumen prints, several signed and dated 1858 in the image, contemporary green half morocco, contents working loose [Gernsheim, Incunabula, 130; Goldschmidt & Naef 62], large folio (770 x 550mm.), William Mackenzie, [1858]
Sold for
£337,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- An excellent copy of Frith's mammoth masterpiece with images measuring 490 x 390mm. "This is the largest book with the biggest, unenlarged prints ever published" (Gernsheim).
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