SEBAH, ABDULLAH FRERES and others

Turkish portraits, occupational studies and costume studies, 1870s

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SEBAH, ABDULLAH FRERES and others
Turkish portraits, occupational studies and costume studies, 1870s
Album containing ninety-eight cartes-de-visite, the majority with photographer's printed credit and occasional pencil inscriptions on mount or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut arched top window mounts with gilt borders, occasional titles in pencil on mounts, brown embossed morocco, decorative gilt clasps, g.e., oblong 8vo.

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Portraits include a Spanish Jew, an Eastern Jew, sellers of eggs, water, coffee, tea, sweetmeats, brooms, milk, bread, baskets and toothpicks, group portraits of firemen, 'Dervishes', beggars, Bedouins, Albanians, Gypsies, Turkish priests, 'Turkish Blacks', and a portrait of the Turkish General Omar Pasha.

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