TANCREDE DUMAS

'Vues Orientales par Dumas Photographe de S.A.E. Le Grand Duc de Mecklenbourg', 1860s

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TANCREDE DUMAS
'Vues Orientales par Dumas Photographe de S.A.E. Le Grand Duc de Mecklenbourg', 1860s
Album of ninety-eight albumen prints, each approx. 6¾ x 8¾ in. or the reverse, a few titled and/or signed in the negatives, titled in ink on mounts, eight numbered as a panoramic sequence, titled Constantinople and five similarly numbered in sequence, titled Athens on mounts, tissue guards, maroon leather-backed boards (worn), titled in gilt on spine, 11 x 16 in.

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A fine album including one portrait of two 'fellow travellers' and one of the Sultan of Turkey, with views of the archaeological and Biblical sites and architecture at Thebes, Cairo, Cheops, Alexandria, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Gethsemane, Bethlehem, Tiberias, Akka, Beyrout, Damascus, Baalbec, Palmyra and one view of the 'Kaiser Pussund', Lucknow, India.

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