Lot Essay
Including views of the temples around Thebes, Philae, Kom Ombo, 'Asouan', Edfoo, Abydus, Nubia; a view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Hebron, Nazareth, and the Sea of Galilee.
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Frank Mason Good, Antonio Beato, Félix Binfils, and J. Pascal Sebah
Views of Egypt and Palestine, 1870s-90s
Album containing eighty-seven albumen prints, sizes approx. 8½ x 11¼ in. to 3 7/8 x 3¼ in., the majority signed F.M. Good (52), Bonfils (3), A. Beato (1), P. Sebah (1), and with occasional titles in the negatives, variously mounted, several titled and dated in ink and approx. forty-nine with printed paper labels on mounts, inscribed This book was bought for the lessons in Egyptian history given to Mary and Charley Howard by their Mother-about 1880. She put in the photographs, after the journey to Egypt in 1888 gave the book to Mary in ink on front blank, half morocco, oblong 4to.
Views of Egypt and Palestine, 1870s-90s
Album containing eighty-seven albumen prints, sizes approx. 8½ x 11¼ in. to 3 7/8 x 3¼ in., the majority signed F.M. Good (52), Bonfils (3), A. Beato (1), P. Sebah (1), and with occasional titles in the negatives, variously mounted, several titled and dated in ink and approx. forty-nine with printed paper labels on mounts, inscribed This book was bought for the lessons in Egyptian history given to Mary and Charley Howard by their Mother-about 1880. She put in the photographs, after the journey to Egypt in 1888 gave the book to Mary in ink on front blank, half morocco, oblong 4to.