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EGYPT - PHOTOGRAPHY
Album of views of Egypt, [1880s]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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EGYPT - PHOTOGRAPHY

Album of views of Egypt, 38 gelatin silver prints, by P. Sebah (29), Zangaki (2), and others, most captioned in the negative, mounted one per page (excepting 2 smaller on one sheet) recto and verso, images approximately 275 x 355mm., contemporary half morocco, worn, joints splitting, oblong folio, [1880s]

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Images include 2 views of the the Mosque of Qaytbay ("Kait-Bey"), three good portraits (Two men praying; Barber group; boy seated on a water buffalo), but mostly views of ancient Egypt.

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