Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

SÉBAH, Pascal, and others. [Photograph album with views of Egypt and Switzerland].
Egypt and Switzerland, [1880s-1890s]. 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm). 50 photographs of Egypt (albumen prints and cyanotypes) and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Contemporary black half morocco. Full description

SEBAH, Pascal and Antoine BEATO. Nine photographs of Egypt.
[Egypt], 1880. 9 albumen prints (approx. 340 x 260 mm), each mounted on backing cardboard (ca. 400 x 340 mm). Three edges gilt. Full description

[SINGAPORE - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [SACHTLER, August, and others]. [Views of Singapore and surroundings].
[Singapore, ca. 1870]. 20 large uniform albumen prints (21 x 27 cm), all but 1 in landscape format. Each print mounted on paperboard (24.5 x 32.5 cm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Kept in a modern black cloth clamshell box. Full description

SIRÉN, Osvald. Les palais impériaux de Pékin. Deux cent soixante-quartorze planches hors texte en héliotypie d'apres les photographies de l'auteur, douze dessins architectureaux et deux plans, avec une notice historique ...
Paris & Brussels, G. Vanoest, 1926. 3 volumes. With 12 plans and 2 maps (mostly folding), and a total of 274 collotype plates. Publisher's original, printed, blue paper wrappers. VI, 73, [3 blank]; [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SPAIN - PORTUGAL]. Espagne - Portugal 1899.
[Spain?, Hauser & Menet and others?], 1896-1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). An album with 58 photographic prints (including one tinted) varying in size (20.5 x 15.5 to 27.5 x 21.5 cm ), each on thick paperboard. Half black leather, blind-stamped boards (title in gold on front board). [58] ll. Full description

STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut.
London, John Murray, 1938. 4to. With the title-page in red and black, 1 map of the Hadhramaut titled: "Seen in the Hadhramaut", and 50 double sided plates. The plates are included in the pagination. Blue cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. With dust jacket. XXIII, [1 blank], 199, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STIRLING, Walter Francis. Arab Types.
Syria, [ca. 1918-ca. 1921]. Oblong album (18 x 26 cm). An album containing 14 black and white photographic portraits (mostly about 17 x 12 cm) plus a smaller print of one. Mounted in a ca. 1930 album of black paper leaves (boards covered with black cloth). 16 ll. (album). Full description

[SUEZ CANAL]. Photos of the Suez Canal Area and British Soldiers at the end of WWII.
Egypt, 1944/1945. 4to. 65 photos. 170 x 240 mm to 106 x 60 mm. No captions or others identifying marks on the photos or in the album. Several photographs removed. Black oblong album. Later twine tie. Egyptian motif on covers (camel, pyramid, palm trees). Full description

THESIGER, Wilfred. The marsh Arabs.
London, Longmans, Green and co., 1964. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). With a frontispiece, 3 maps in text (including 1 double-page) and 32 plates with reproductions of 109 photographs. Green cloth with illustrated dustjacket. [13], [1 blank], 242 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ZANZIBAR - MADAGASCAR - MAYOTTE]. [Album with unique panoramic photographs of Zanzibar and Madagascar].
[Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mayette, 1900]. Oblong album (25 x 34 cm) with 47 silver gelatin photographic prints, many with handwritten captions in French. The photographs vary in size from 8 x 5.5 cm to 27 x 20.5 cm. The 30 panorama photographs measure 5.5 x 17.5 cm. Brown cloth album made by M. Andouard in Paris, decorated endpapers. 10, [10 blank] ll. Full description