Categories
Shopping cart (0 items € 0)
Embedded Image
Advanced search ▾

Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

Military expedition in the Nortwest Frontier of British India

[PHOTO ALBUM - PAKISTAN]. G.W. CURTIS (compiler). [Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].
Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in "frames" on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. with 97 photographs. Full description
€ 3,750
India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) Photography
Order Inquire Terms of sale

A photographic tour from France to Australia, via Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, EGYPT & FRANCE]. [Album containing photographs of Australia, Egypt and France].
[ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (28 x 39 cm). With 58 printed photographs (ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm). Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. Contemporary black morocco, gold-tooling to boards and spine and gilt on all edges. [60] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Australia Egypt France North Africa Photography
Order Inquire Terms of sale

A 19th century souvenir album by the Zangaki brothers,
with 34 albumen prints of Egypt and its inhabitants

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. ZANGAKI BROTHERS. [Cover title:] Aegypten 1891.
[Egypt, Zangaki brothers, 1891]. Oblong album (31.5 x 41 cm). With 34 large albumen prints mounted on heavy cardstock leaves. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French in the negative and signed 'Zangaki'. The last one is signed Sebah & Joallier. The Zangaki prints measure 22.5 x 28.5 cm; the Sebah & Joallier one is 20.5 x 26.5 cm. Original gold-stamped bubble-grained maroon cloth over boards. [36] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Egypt North Africa Photography
Order Inquire Terms of sale

20th-century engineering works and urban reconstruction in Iran

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ENGINEERING - IRAN]. [Collection of 19 engineering photographs in Iran].
[Iran, 1307-1308 AH (= 1928-1930 CE)]. Oblong album (24.5 x 29.6 cm). With 19 black and white photographs (ca. 23.1 x 17.1 cm) on thick dark blue/black paper. Mid-19th-century bright blue faux-leather, the front board features a pictorial on-lay within a rectangular frame, the illustration depicts a young woman in traditional costume holding a large ceramic vessel. The joints are laced through onto 2 supports. [9] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
City Plans, Topography & Views Iran / Persia Photography Technology
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Interesting and intimate photograph album showing buildings, views, people and life in Calcutta in the 1870s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. [Manuscript title on the front paste-down:] Views of Calcutta.
Calcutta, [ca. 1874/79]. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints (ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm), all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English, written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, brown cloth sides. [2 blank], [25], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Architecture India & Sri Lanka Photography
Order Inquire Terms of sale
84 books found / Show all