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INDIA, EGYPT AND PORT SAID - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Egypt India, Port Said and Gibraltar, by F. Meissner, Hippolyte Arnoux, Christian Paier, William Baker, and others, [1870s] image 1
INDIA, EGYPT AND PORT SAID - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Egypt India, Port Said and Gibraltar, by F. Meissner, Hippolyte Arnoux, Christian Paier, William Baker, and others, [1870s] image 2
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INDIA, EGYPT AND PORT SAID - PHOTOGRAPHY
Album of views in Egypt India, Port Said and Gibraltar, by F. Meissner, Hippolyte Arnoux, Christian Paier, William Baker, and others, [1870s]

26 February 2020, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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INDIA, EGYPT AND PORT SAID - PHOTOGRAPHY

Album of views in Egypt India, Port Said and Gibraltar, by F. Meissner, Hippolyte Arnoux, Christian Paier, William Baker, and others, albumen prints mounted between one and 2 per page verso only, most with pencilled English captions beneath, images approximately 192 x 165, a few smaller, 7 further albumen prints (including "Kurrachee Treasury Establishment 17.7.[18]70", and Egyptian woman on mule) loose at end, contemporary red half morocco, worn, [1870s]

Footnotes

Subject include; Egypt (21, including 5 by F. Meissner, 2 by C. Paier), India (13, including 7 by W. Baker), Port Said (13 by Hippolyte Arnoux, including the Canal, shipping, etc.), and Gibraltar (7). Egyptian views include Alexandria (2, Place de Consuls by Meissner; busy port), Cleopatra's Needle (3), Pompeii's Pillars (2, by Meissner, and Paier), Cairo, pyramids and sphinx (8, including Paier), and a 3-part panorama of a large port side encampment by an unidentified photographer. The Indian views includes a series of 7 of Lucknow by William Baker.

Provenance: W.J. Coles, 1872, inscription inside upper cover.

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