Francis Frith became particularly well-known for his publications of photographs on Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Nubia. He set out for Egypt in 1856 and took his photographic van made of wicker-work with him including a tent-like cloth to protect the collodion plates from the hot climate during processing. Despite the difficult travelling conditions and extreme heat Frith succeeded in recording the many historic monuments of Cairo, Thebes, Karnak, Abu Simbel and Luxor. Certainly the best example of his work from these travels is the above mentioned series Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, which Helmut Gernsheim in the History of Photography (1969) describes as "The largest book with the biggest, unenlarged prints ever published..."

Titles as follows:
'The Mosque of the Emeer Akhoor, Cairo'
'The Pyramids of Dahshoor from the South'
'Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives'
'The Rameseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes - First View'
'The Pyramids of Dahshoor from the South West'
'The Temple of Kamumboo'
'The Pyramids of Sakkarah, North East'
'The Temple of El-Karnak from the South East'
'The Mosque of Kaitbey'
'The Hypaethral Temple, Philae'
'Cairo from the Citadel, First View'
'The Pyramids of El-Geezeh, from the South West'
'Cairo from the Citadel, Second View'
'Mount Serbal, from the Wadee Feyran'
'Street View in Cairo'
'The Statues of the Plain, Thebes'
'The Great Pyramid and Great Sphinx'
'The Rameseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes, Second View'
'The Second Pyramid from the South East'
'Mount Horeb'

See also lot 82