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[Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Bone, El Kantara, Katara Gorge, Roman Ruins in Timgad, Portraits of Native Algerians, Views of Smaller French Settlements and Country Houses, Algerian Villages etc.]

Ca. 1878.

Price: $3,500.00

Item #8225 [Collection of Two Albums with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a French...

[ALGERIA]

[Collection of Two Albums with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a French Participant of the South-Oranese Campaign in Southwestern Algeria, Showing Towns and Military Posts (Taghit, Béni Abbès, Mazzer, Igli, Kerzaz, Tamtert, Béni Ounif, Duveyrier, Ain Sefra, Saida), Native Ksars, Military Convoys, Wounded French Military Men, Funeral and Exhumation of French Officers, Captured Berbers, Hermitage of a Catholic Hermit Charles de Foucauld, Scenes of Vaccination by Dr. Perrin, Portraits of the Local People, etc.]

Ca. 1903-7.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8226 [Album with 49 Original Albumen Studio Photos of Algeria, Showing Algiers, Oran,...

[ALGERIA] NEURDEIN FRÈRES (active ca. 1870s-1890s); JOUVE, Noël (ca. 1880s-1910s) & OTHERS

[Album with 49 Original Albumen Studio Photos of Algeria, Showing Algiers, Oran, Tlemcen, Mers El Kebir, Mansoura, Constantine, Algerian People, French Colonial Residents and Catholic Missionaries, etc.]

Ca. 1880s-1890s.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8940 [Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of...

[AMERICAN TOURISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SRI LANKA & INDIA] HENSHAW CHICKERING, Alla [Sarah] (1887-1950); [HENSHAW, William Griffith] (1860-1924)

[Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of an Affluent California Family in ca. 1905 across the Mediterranean, Holy Land, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and India, Presented to the Compiler’s Father and Illustrated with Thirty-Four Original Photos Taken on the Trip; the Diary is Titled:] To Papa from Alla. Souvenirs d’affection. Dec. 25, 1918.

Ca. early 1900s & 1918.

Price: $2,250.00

[ARABIC LINGUISTICS] Nisaburi, Nizām al-Dīn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad

Sharh-e nizam fi sarf [i.e. Selected Explanation]

Tehran: Typ. Of ‘Ālish ān Karbal ā ī Muhammad Qullī a-Karbal ā’ ī Muhammad Humayun, 1872.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8255 [A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a...

[EGYPT (KHEDIVATE OF)] BUTLER, Alfred Joshua (1850-1936)

[A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the Sons to Khedive Tewfik Pasha, with Detailed Descriptions of His Conversations with the Khedive, His Ministers and Courtiers, European Diplomats and Residents, Mutiny in the Egyptian Army in February 1881, Religious Holidays, State Ceremonies, Coptic Churches and Monasteries, Anecdotes from Egyptian Life, Account of the Chios Island Earthquake, Butler’s Excursions to the Antiquities of Turkey and Greece, etc., Titled:] Notes Taken in Egypt, &c. 1881.

15 January – 10 May 1881.

Price: $6,500.00

Item #8227 [Album with Twenty-three Large Original Albumen Photographs Including Two Panoramas by...

[EGYPT - SUEZ CANAL] ARNOUX, Hippolyte (active 1859-1888)

[Album with Twenty-three Large Original Albumen Photographs Including Two Panoramas by Hippolyte Arnoux Showing the Newly Completed Suez Canal (1869) with Views of Port Said and Ismaïlia]

Port Said, Egypt: Ca. 1869.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #10021 [Two Albums with 144 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a...

[EGYPT] BEATO, Antonio (after 1832 – 1906; active 1862- ca. 1900); SÉBAH, Pascal (1823-1886); RAE, Gray Kynoch Leathart “Bino” (1887-1947)

[Two Albums with 144 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Nile River Cruise and a Trip to the Holy Land in 1908, and Showing Ancient Temples and Sites of the Upper and Lower Egypt, River Nile and Boats, Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Edinburgh Medical Mission in Damascus, and Several Locations of the Holy Land (Nazareth, River Jordan, Capernaum, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, &c.); the Albums are Titled:] I. The Second Cataract to Karnak; II. Karnak to Syria & Constantinople.

Price: $6,500.00

Item #10045 Puteshestvie po Nizhnemu Yegiptu i Vnutrennim Oblastiam Delty [Travel to Lower Egypt...

[EGYPT] RAFALOVICH, Artemy Alexeevich (1816-1851)

Puteshestvie po Nizhnemu Yegiptu i Vnutrennim Oblastiam Delty [Travel to Lower Egypt and the Inner Regions of the Delta].

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8228 [Album with Fifty Large Original Albumen Photographs Showing Religious Sites and Views...

[HOLY LAND & PALESTINE] MAISON BONFILS

[Album with Fifty Large Original Albumen Photographs Showing Religious Sites and Views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jaffa.]

Ca. 1867-81.

Price: $2,500.00

Item #8100 [Album from the Collection of Noted American Christian Missionary, Writer and Artist...

[HOLY LAND, LEVANT, PALESTINE & EGYPT] HAMMERSCHMIDT, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); VAN LENNEP, Henry John (1815-1889)

[Album from the Collection of Noted American Christian Missionary, Writer and Artist Henry John Van Lennep, with Thirty Original Albumen Photographs of Beirut, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Damascus, Baalbek, and Ancient Sites of Egypt - the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza, Pompey’s Pillar and Cleopatra’s Needle in Alexandria, Karnak, Luxor, Ramesseum Temples, and the Philae Island Complex]

Ca. 1869.

Price: $4,500.00

Item #10022 [Album with 36 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Persepolis...

[IRAN - PERSEPOLIS] HEIDER, Karl G. (b. 1935)

[Album with 36 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Persepolis (Aerial View, Entrance Hall, Apadana Palace Columns and Reliefs, Throne Hall, the Tachara, Tombs of Darius I and Xerxes I at the Naghsh-e-Rostam Necropolis); Titled:] Persepolis or Tacht-i-Jamshid, from the Travels of KGH, April 11 and 12, 1957.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #9554 [Historically Significant Photo Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos,...

[IRAN - TRANS-IRANIAN RAILWAYS] [Wheeler, Geoffrey Edleston, CIE, Lt. Col.] (1897-1990)

[Historically Significant Photo Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos, One Real Photo Postcard, and One Printed Postcard of the Trans-Iranian Railway, Showing Over 40 Railway Stations (Bender Shah, Bender Shahpoor, Shahi, Vresk, Tehran, Gadouk, Benevar, Endimeshk, Arak, Neka, etc.), Bridges (Tajen, Doab, Karaj, Abdiz, Karoun, Gorgor, Ahwaz, etc.), Tunnels, Engine Houses, Steam Engines, Workers’ Houses, etc.; With an Offset from “The Railway Gazzette,” Dated 2 and 16, 1945, Summarizing the British Work on the Construction of the Iranian Railways]

Price: $7,500.00

Item #6660 Ta’likat Mir Sayyid Sharif fi sharh-e shamsiya [i.e. Commentaries of Mir Sayyid...

[ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY] Gurgani, Mirsayyidsharif

Ta’likat Mir Sayyid Sharif fi sharh-e shamsiya [i.e. Commentaries of Mir Sayyid Sharif in Shamsiya Explanation]

Price: $2,500.00

Item #8236 [Extensive Collection of 88 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos of Ottoman...

[ISRAEL - PALESTINE]

[Extensive Collection of 88 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos of Ottoman Palestine, Showing Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Nablus, Samaria, Nazareth, Tiberias, Galilean Hills North of Lake Tiberias, Scenes of Nebi Musa Muslim Religious Festival near Jerusalem, Numerous Portraits of Palestinian Arabs, &c.].

Ca. 1905.

Price: $5,250.00

Item #8229 [Album with 39 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Including 26 Images of Baalbek and...

[LEBANON] BONFILS, Felix (1831-1885), DUMAS, Tancrède (1830-1905); BERGGREN, Guillaume (1835-1920)

[Album with 39 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Including 26 Images of Baalbek and Beirut in Lebanon; the Rest of the Photos Shows Damascus, Jerusalem, and Istanbul]

Ca. 1880s-1890s.

Price: $2,500.00

Item #10024 [Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution,...

[MALI - TIMBUKTU] RITCHIE, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819)

[Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he was Later also Connected to the Fate of Alexander Laing].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8173 [Collection of Two Albums with ca. 680 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Visually...

[MOROCCO] BERNARD, Maurice, Capitaine, Commandant

[Collection of Two Albums with ca. 680 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Visually Documenting the Movement of the Fez Column during the French Conquest of Morocco in 1911, Office Work of “Bureau des Renseignements de Fes,” Relations with Moroccan Chiefs, Public Processions with Sultan Mulai Abdelhafid of Morocco; With Numerous Views of Fez, Meknes, Rabat, Mogador and Environs, Lively Portraits of Moroccans; Scenes from Later Automobile Trips in Western Morocco, Photos of Farman Planes near Mogador, etc.]

Ca. 1911-1919.

Price: $6,500.00

Item #6838 Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i...

[MUTEFERRIKA - PERSIA] Krusinski, Jan Tadeusz

Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i devlet-i Sâhân-i Safevîyân [i.e. The History of the Afghan Wars in Persia and the Reasons of the Fall of the Safavid Empire]

Istanbul: Typ. Of Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1729.

Price: $12,500.00

Item #8230 [Collection of 72 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Housed in an Attractive Period...

[PALESTINE, SYRIA & TURKEY] BONFILS, Félix (1831-1885); FIORILLO, Luigi (active ca. 1870s-1890s); ABDULLAH FRÈRES (active ca. 1858-1899); BERGGREN, Guillaume (1835-1920); SÉBAH, Pascal (1823-1886)

[Collection of 72 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Housed in an Attractive Period Folder, Titled:] Constantinople, Athènes, Syrie, Palestine.

Ca. 1870s-1890s.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8093 [Album with 225 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Macedonia & Greece,...

[TURKEY & THE BALKANS THEATRE IN WWI]

[Album with 225 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Macedonia & Greece, Istanbul & Odessa during the Last Phase of WW1]

Ca. 1918-1919.

Price: $2,750.00

Item #8231 [Collection of Two Albums With 78 Original Gelatin Silver Prints, Over 120 Newspaper...

[TURKEY - ANGLO-TURKISH RELIEF FUND]

[Collection of Two Albums With 78 Original Gelatin Silver Prints, Over 120 Newspaper Clippings and Several Pieces of Printed Ephemera and Typewritten Documents, Illustrating the Activities of the Anglo-Turkish Relief Fund Which Aided the Victims of the 1939 Erzincan Earthquake]

Ca. 1940-1942.

Price: $4,500.00

Item #8232 [Album with Forty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including Thirty-Seven...

[TURKEY - ISTANBUL] SEBAH & JOAILLER STUDIO (1888-1908)

[Album with Forty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including Thirty-Seven Views of Istanbul and the Strait of Bosphorus (Including Eight Wide-angle Panoramas), and Five Views of the Acropolis in Athens].

Ca. 1890s.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8106 [Album with Forty-five Early Large Original Black Signature Bonfils Albumen...

[EGYPT] MAISON BONFILS (1867-1909)

[Album with Forty-five Early Large Original Black Signature Bonfils Albumen Photographs of Egypt Showing Thebes, Dendera, the Pyramids, Cairo and Alexandria Titled:] Egypte

Beirut: Ca. 1867-1870.

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