BONFILS AND P. SEBAH

Egypt & Palestine, circa 1870s-80s

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BONFILS AND P. SEBAH
Egypt & Palestine, circa 1870s-80s
Album of ninety-three albumen prints, sizes from approx. 8 x 10.3/8 in. or the reverse to 9 x 11.3/8 in. or the reverse, one two-part panorama, 20.7/8 x 20.7/8 in., one six-part panorama, 8.7/8 x 66¾ in., many numbered, titled and/or signed Bonfils or P. Sébah Phot in the negatives, mounted on thick card, some titled in pencil in margins and many with descriptive text labels handwritten in ink loosely inserted between the pages, green leather (partially disbound), gilt title Egypt & Palestine. to cover, 13.1/8 x 17.1/8 in.; with a quantity of loose albumen and gelatin silver prints (approx. 33)

Literature

Perez, Focus East, Early Photography in the Near East, 1839-1885, p. 76

Sale room notice

This album also includes one four-part panorama of Cairo, 9½ x 48¼ in. and one three part panorama of Jerusalem, 11 x 37 in.

Lot Essay

A fine album including photographs of tombs, temples, pyramids, ruins, river-scenes, the Wailing Wall, harbour views, Cleopatra's Needle, churches, citadels, mosques, Sphinxes, street-scenes, general landscape and many ancient sites in Cairo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Beirut, Constantinople and many other locations.

Both the panoramas are views of Constantinople, the two-part is titled Bird's eye view of Pera and the Bosphorous from the fine tower in Stanboul and the six-part is titled Great Panorama of Constantinople from the Galata Tower - Pera or european quarter - Bosphorous - Santari[?] - Princes islands - Seragho Point - Golden Horn and Stamboul

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