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FRANCIS FRITH
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FRANCIS FRITH

Egypt, Palestine & Nubia

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FRANCIS FRITH
Egypt, Palestine & Nubia
London, Glasgow & Edinburgh: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1863]
Complete set of 4 volumes with a total of 148 albumen prints, bound in 8. Plates, each approx. 6 1/8 x 8¾in. (15.6 x 22cm.) or reverse; frontispiece, each approx. 5 7/8 x 4½in. (15 x 11.5cm.) or reverse. Majority credited and numbered in negatives; each with printed caption on mount. Each volume with contents, title and half title with frontispiece. Maroon leather-backed red cloth, armorial gilt with 'Frith's Photographs' on front cover, volume title and album number on spine, g.e. Folio. (8)
Literature
H. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875, London, 1984, p.38, no.195.
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Lot Essay

Vol.I, Sinai & Palestine (37 pls.) bound in 2: Jerusalem, Sinai, Damascus and other sites.

Vol.II, Lower Egypt, Thebes & the Pyramids (37 pls.) bound in 2: Cairo, Geezeh and Thebes, including Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, The Rameseum, Medinet Haboo, Luxor and Karnac.

Vol.III, Upper Egypt & Ethiopia (37 pls.) bound in 2: Philæ, Wady Kardassy, Abou Simbel, Ethiopia and other sites.

Vol.IV, Egypt, Sinai & Palestine, Supplementary Volume (37 pls.) bound in 2: Self-portrait in Turkish Summer Costume (illus.), a rare variant with Frith holding a chibouk (long Turkish smoking pipe), 6¾ x 5 3/8in. (17 x 13.6cm.); Arab Sportsman and Cook and Crocodile on a Sand-bank (illus.).

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