Accession No

4401

Brief Description

leather bound photograph album, containing albumen prints of Egypt and Egyptians, c. 1880

Origin

Egypt(?); France(?)

Maker

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1910

Inscription Date

Material

leather (morocco leather); paper

Dimensions

length 380mm; breadth 270mm; depth 45mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Lot 208 in the 02/06/1993 Sotheby’s London sale, ‘An Important Collection of Cameras, Optical Toys, Magic Lanterns and Related Materials.’

Inscription

Description Notes

Leather-bound photograph album, containing albumen prints of Egypt and Egyptians, [French?], c. 1880.

Photograph album, oblong octavo, bound in red morocco leather with gold tooling. Contains approx. 47 photographs, by photographers including Felice Beato, Pascal Sebah, Luigi Fiorillo, The Abdullah Frère, and others.

Condition good (some staining of pages).

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