A. BEATO, FIORILLO, H. ARNOUX, ZANGAKI, P. SEBAH, BONFILS and others

'Egypt', 1870s-90s

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A. BEATO, FIORILLO, H. ARNOUX, ZANGAKI, P. SEBAH, BONFILS and others
'Egypt', 1870s-90s
Album containing approx. 250 photographs, all but a few albumen prints, including one four-part and one three-part panorama, 8 x 40 in. and 8 x 27 in., other sizes from 4 x 6 in. to 10½ x 14 in. or the reverse, the majority titled and/or numbered and with photographers' credits in the negatives, variously mounted, occasional titles in ink on mounts, half black morocco, titled in gilt on front cover, folio.

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River, harbour and garden views, architectural studies and street scenes; two studies of mummies; portraits of men praying, shopkeepers, water-carriers, a Bedouin woman with her baby (illus.); several costume studies, a portrait of a Sheik; and views around Greece, Sinai and Switzerland including a portrait of a chimney sweep with his dog-pulled wagon.

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