[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.
€ 4,500
Photographic record of a journey begun in Australia and taken, via Aden, through the Suez canal and to the Mediterranean (and then on to England). While the first image shows the steamship R.M.S. Ormuz in the port of Sydney, three images (including a double-page spread) show the port of Aden in Yemen, the famous water tanks, and a native of the Southern Arabian region in a studio portrait. The majority of the album is dedicated to Egypt, showing Arabs on their camels, the Khedive's Ismailia Palace, the Suez Canal, Port Said, and members the local population, as well as the famous pyramids. The last few photographs show the final leg of the journey Naples, and ultimately Gibraltar. Among the studios identified in the photographs are those of Hippolyte Arnoux and the Zangaki brothers, based at Port Said.
With a near-contemporary manuscript inscription in blue ink on the verso of the first flyleaf: "Edith Elkington [or Elrington?] Aunt Ediths voyage home - to England about 1889". Foxed throughout, slightly water stained, but the prints are largely clean and clear, some paper repairs in the margins, the last flyleaf is lacking, the final leaf is nearly detached.
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