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TRAPMAN, Adrian Sidney Gilbert Reginald (1910-1937)

[AFRICA - ETHIOPIA - SECOND ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR] [Collection of Three Albums with ca. 307 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken and Collected by a British Vice-Consul in Addis Ababa Shortly Before and During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Showing Addis Ababa and Jimma, Emperor Haile Selassie I, German and Italian Ambassadors in Ethiopia, Members of the British Legation, Italian Military Planes and Airfield at Mekelle, Bombing of Ethiopian Troops and Villages, Burning and Looting of Addis Ababa in May 1936, Refugee Camp at the British Legation, etc.; With: a Menu of “A Dinner at the Lansdowne Club on Friday, April 30th 1937, for Those who were in Abyssinia During the Autumn, Winter and Spring of 1935 and 1936,” Signed by Trapman and over a Dozen Other Participants].

Ca. 1934-1937.

Price: $7,500.00

LENZ, Robert (1864-1939)

[ASIA - THAILAND] [Exquisite Lacquered Album with 25 Large Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Views of Bangkok and Portraits of Thai People]

Ca. 1890s.

Price: $7,500.00

MAISON BONFILS (1867-1909)

[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - EGYPT] [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.

Price: $7,500.00

FORMAN, Harrison (1904-1978)

[ASIA - TIBETAN PLATEAU] [Collection of Fifty-Five Mainly Ethnographic Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken During Forman's Expedition to Tibet and Inner Mongolia in 1932 and Showing Tibetan Lamas, Sorcerers, Warriors, Elders, a “Chief of Lama Police,” “Printing Block Carvers,” Women and Girls, Labrang Monastery, “Yak-Hair Tents,” a “Mongol Temple City in the Ordos Desert near Ninghsia,” Mongolian Lamas, Girls, Yurts, &c.]

Ca. 1930s.

Price: $5,250.00

HOLMES, Randolph Bezzant (1888-1973), [YOUNG, George Herbert, Major, 38th Dogras] (1880 – after 1924)

[ASIA - PAKISTAN – WAZIRISTAN] [Album with 110 Gelatin Silver Photos, Compiled by a High-Ranking Officer in Service in the British Indian Army’s Wana Column during the Waziristan Campaign, Which Documents Its Advance, the Retaking of Wana Fort, Discussion of “Terms with Wazirs,” Explosions of Native Villages as “Punitive Measures,” &c.]

Ca. 1920-1921.

Price: $5,250.00

[CHAMBERLAIN, Rahmeh Theodora] (1864-1924) & [CHAMBERLAIN, Emilie Agnes] (1874 or 1875-1973); “GEORGE WILSON & CO.” (ca. 1870s-1900s); HOSKING, A.F.

[AFRICA - SOUTH AFRICA - SECOND BOER WAR - HOSPITALS] [Album with 150 Gelatin Silver Photos, Illustrating the Visit to South Africa by the Sister-in-Law and Niece of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies during the Second Boer War; the Photos Show Doctors and Patients of Military Hospital No. 1 in Wynberg, Maitland Military Camp, Mrs. and Miss Chamberlain with Donations for Soldiers, “Waggons, Leaving Hut with Hospital Comforts for Bloemfontein,” Mafeking Railway Station and Armoured Train, Boer Commanders and Prisoners of War, Native “Victims of Boers,” Partly Destroyed Lang’s Nek Railway Tunnel, Views of Cape Town and Environs, Shashi River, Kimberley Diamond Mines, etc.]

Ca. 1899-1900.

Price: $5,250.00

[ASIA - INDIA – WEST BENGAL] [Album with 121 Early Albumen Photographs, Showing Kolkata, Hooghly River, Railway Station in Bardhaman, Damodar River, a “Mosque and Tank on the Hooghly Road,” a “Ruined Temple at Chandernagore [Chandannagar],” and Numerous Portraits of the Local People - Including Sellers of Toddy (Palm Wine), Curd, Poultry, Crockery, Parched Rice, Carpenters, Snake Charmers, Bullock Cart Drivers, Palanquin Carriers, Coolies, Basket Makers, a Butcher, Playing Children, Musicians, a Female Mill Grinder, a Knife Grinder, a Cotton Cleaner, etc.]

Ca. 1870s.

Price: $4,500.00

[AFRICA - NAMIBIA – HERERO WARS & LÜDERITZ RAILWAY] [Album with 238 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Showing the Construction of the Lüderitz-Keetmanshoop Railway in German Southwest Africa in 1905-1907, Railway Stations, Military Posts, Schutztruppe Officers and Soldiers, Artillery Guns, Lüderitzbucht, Shark Island, Cornelius Fredericks as a Prisoner, Distressed Herero Girls, Railway Workers, etc.]

Ca. 1904-1907.

Price: $4,500.00

HAMMERSCHMIDT, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); VAN LENNEP, Henry John (1815-1889)

[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - HOLY LAND, LEVANT, PALESTINE & EGYPT] [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

[AFRICA - MADAGASCAR] [Collection of 179 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Madagascar, Taken and Collected by a French Military Doctor Stationed in Majunga/Mahajanga, Showing Majunga Streets and People, Marovoay, Betsiboka River, Antananarivo, the French Military Hospital in Majunga, the Festivities during the Arrival of General Gallieni in Majunga in July 1900, Including Many Well-Executed Portraits of the Native People, etc.]

Ca. 1895-1901.

Price: $3,750.00

[ASIA – JAPAN, CHINA & PACIFIC] [Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and Samoans, etc., Titled]: Around the World

1900.

Price: $3,500.00

[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - ALGERIA] [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

[DIO, Louis] (1908-1994); [CHATENET, Pierre] (1917-1997)

[AFRICA - CHAD] [Album with 125 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a French Auto Truck Expedition from Tunisia to Fort Lamy/N’Djamena, with Views of the Eastern Libyan Desert, Tibesti Mountains, and Towns and Settlements on the Way, Including Murzuq, Qatrun, Zouar, Faya-Largeau, Korotoro, Salal, Moussoro, N’Djamena, Portraits of the Expedition Members and Toubou people; the Album is Titled:] Mission Tunisie-Tchad. Tunis – Fort Lamy – Tunis. 3 Janvier – 13 Mars 1948. Général Louis Dio.

1948.

Price: $3,250.00

HOERLIN, Herman (1903-1983), SCHNEIDER, Erwin (1906-1987); KURZ, Marcel (1887-1967); WIELAND, Uli (1902-1934); [DYHRENFURTH, Günter] (1886-1975)

[ASIA - HIMALAYA - KANGCHENJUNGA] [Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga]

Ca. 1930.

Price: $3,250.00

ADAMS, Pedro H. (1831-1899); DIAZ Y SPENCER (fl. ca. 1880-1888), and others

[SOUTH AMERICA - CHILE] [Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Loose Albumen Photos and Cartes-de-Visite, Showing Santiago, Valparaiso, the Strait of Magellan, Mount Aconcagua and Environs, Valdivia, Corral, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Octay, Portraits of the Indigenous People and European Residents]

Ca. 1880s.

Price: $3,250.00

[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - 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

SLADDEN, Georges Edmond Emile (1904-1972); GOLDSTEIN, Henry (1920-2014)

[AFRICA - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - COFFEE] [Custom-Made Album with 34 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Full Cycle of Operations at the Main Facility of the Office du Café Robusta (OCR) in the Belgian Congo in the Limete Neighbourhood of Leopoldville/Kinshasa]

1953.

Price: $2,500.00

[ASIA - CAMBODIA] [Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian Temples and Khmer Sculptures, Taken by or Related to the Direction des Arts Cambodgiens Headed by George Groslier]

Ca. 1910s-1920s.

Price: $2,500.00