Lot Essay
The volume Egypt, Sinai and Palestine includes the frontispiece portrait of Francis Frith in Egyptian costume and the image titled 'Crocodile on a sand-bank'.
Details
FRANCIS FRITH
Sinai and Palestine, Vol I; Lower Egypt and Thebes, Vol II; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, Vol III and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, Vol IV, Glasgow and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1863]
Four volume set, each volume containing thirty-seven albumen prints, approx. 6½ x 9in., including frontispieces, majority signed with occasional date 1857 in the negatives, printed titles on mounts, printed contents lists, descriptive texts and title pages, each half morocco, titles in gilt on front covers and spines, g.e., folio. (4)
Sinai and Palestine, Vol I; Lower Egypt and Thebes, Vol II; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, Vol III and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, Vol IV, Glasgow and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1863]
Four volume set, each volume containing thirty-seven albumen prints, approx. 6½ x 9in., including frontispieces, majority signed with occasional date 1857 in the negatives, printed titles on mounts, printed contents lists, descriptive texts and title pages, each half morocco, titles in gilt on front covers and spines, g.e., folio. (4)
Literature
Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 1839-1975, no. 195, p. 38