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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
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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
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A 19th-century photographic portrait of India and Sri Lanka by photographers
like Scowen, Bourne & Shepherd, and Deen Dayal

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA - SRI LANKA]. Indes (2e partie) et Ceylan.
[ca. 1870-1890]. Oblong album (ca. 31.5 x 35.5 cm). With 125 black-and-white photographic prints mounted on cardboard, accompanied by numerous handwritten annotations in French on the album pages. Near-contemporary half red velvet (spine rubbed/faded). [45] ll. Full description
€ 4,000
Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Photography
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Photographs and illustrations of a British warship's travels in Latin America

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Argentina Brazil Drawings & Watercolours Naval History North Africa Photography South America Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages South America UK - United Kingdom
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Dutch clinical photography in the 1920s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MEDICINE - X-RAY]. [Two albums with medical photos from the early 20th century].
[The Netherlands, first half of the 20th century]. 2 volumes. Ca. 22.2 x 32 cm. With 88 photographs mounted onto the leaves (mostly gelatin silver prints), 7 photographs loosely inserted, and 3 loosely inserted folded documents. 19th-century faux reptile leather, side sewn through 3 holes with thick cord. [10]; [13] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Medicine & Pharmacy (20th Century) Photography
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The exquisite miniatures of the Shah Jahan Album, beautifully reproduced in 50 high quality photographs

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHAH JAHAN ALBUM]. [20th-century photographic reproduction of the Shah Jahan Album].
[20th century]. 2 volumes. Folio. With 50 photographic reproductions in black and white mounted onto thick passepartout leaves, separated by thinner leaves, onto which typed descriptions are mounted. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled burgundy buckram, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the front and spine, a double fillet border on both boards, blind-tooled turn-ins, gold and burgundy floral end papers, gilt edges. [1 blank], [26], [2 blank]; [2 blank], [25], [2 blank] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Art & Art History India & Sri Lanka Photography Prints & Print Series
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Western tourists in Israel shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967 captured by a Dutch photographer

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. [Album with photographs showing parts of Israeli captured territories including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula].
Israel, 1967. Oblong album (ca. 20 x 26 cm); photographs in slightly varying sizes (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). 44 silver gelatin photographs (including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted). Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. Full description
€ 4,500
Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Photography
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Photographs of Yemen and Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - YEMEN - EGYPT]. [Album containing photographs of Yemen and Egypt].
Yemen, Egypt, and other places, ca. 1889. Oblong folio (37.8 x 28 cm). An album containing 25 albumen prints (ca. 20 x 27 cm), including 1 double page, mounted on thick card leaves, many captioned in English. Contemporary burgundy/auburn gold- and blindstamped calf (lozenge-patterned blindstamping). Re-backed with the original back strip laid down. Gold-stamped turn-ins, white watered silk endpapers, gilt edges. [26] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt North Africa Photography
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Three early and remarkable examples of photographic collages
depicting the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

[PUZZLE POSTCARDS - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]. [Collection of puzzle postcards relating to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte].
[Ca. 1910]. All postcards ca. 9 x 14 cm. With 81 (hand-)coloured or black-and-white (photographic) picture postcards, including 9 duplicates. In a 20th-century ring binder with the title ("Postzegelmapje van Nederland") lettered in gold on the spine and the front, underneath a gold embossed coat-of-arms of the Netherlands. The postcards are loosely inserted in 21 translucent plastic covers. Full description
€ 3,500
France Games & Sports Photography
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