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[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

[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

[ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, PARAGUAY, IGUAZU FALLS] STANDKE, Fritz

[Album with 174 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Steamer and Land Journey from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls and Asuncion (Paraguay) in August-September 1918, Compiled by an Upper-Class German Resident of Argentina and Showing Argentinian and Uruguayan Ports on the Uruguay and Parana Rivers, San Ignacio Jesuit Mission, Puerto Iguazu and its First Hotel, Iguazu Falls from Argentinian and Brazilian Sides, Travellers and their Companions, Asuncion and San Bernardino, &c]

1918.

Price: $2,250.00

[ASCENSION ISLAND] WILLIAMS, Montgomery (ca.1885-1916)

[Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island, Including the Laying of Cable for the Western Telegraph Company in 1910, Military Presence, Local Life, Buildings and Landscapes]

1910-13.

Price: $2,500.00

[AZERBAIJAN - BAKU]

[Collection of Seventeen Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the Construction on Cape Bailov/Bayil in Baku]

Price: $1,750.00

[BRAZIL – RIO GRANDE DO SUL]

[Album with 112 Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the Construction of Port Facilities at Rio Grande and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul]

Ca. 1910s.

Price: $2,500.00

[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

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

[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

[CHILE]

[Album with 35 Original Photographs, Including 32 Gelatin Silver Photos of Chile, Showing Valparaiso, Santiago, Lota, Corral, Maule River Railway Bridge, Llay Llay Railway Station, Salto del Laja Waterfall, Baños de Caugnene, Selkirk’s Cave on Juan Fernandez Island, Portraits of Mapuche Cacique Juan Catrileo Colipi, Chilean Market Vendors, Peasants, a Shepherd, &c; With Three Albumen Photos of Rio de Janeiro (two signed by Marc Ferrez in negative)]

Ca. 1900.

Price: $1,750.00

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

[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

[CLASSIC GREECE]

[Collection of Twenty-one Large Albumen Photographs of Classic Period Sights in Greece with Eighteen Taken in Athens with an Emphasis on the Acropolis Including Photos of the Parthenon, Olympieion, Erechtheion, Theater and the Temple of Athena Nike].

Ca. 1890.

Price: $950.00

[DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - COFFEE] SLADDEN, Georges Edmond Emile (1904-1972); GOLDSTEIN, Henry (1920-2014)

[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

[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

[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.

Price: $7,500.00

[ETHIOPIA - SECOND ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR] TRAPMAN, Adrian Sidney Gilbert Reginald (1910-1937)

[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

[FIJI, TONGA, RAROTONGA, TAHITI, SAMOA & HAWAII]

[Album with 127 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards Taken and Collected During the South Pacific Cruise of U.S.S. “Buford” in Spring 1924, with Unusual Views and Portraits from Suva and Lavuka (Fiji), Neiafu Village (Vavau Island, Tonga), Niue (Island Country), Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Papeete (Tahiti), and Samoa; with Early Photos of the Laie Hawaii LDS Temple (Oahu) and Vivid Tourist Group Portraits at the Edge of the Kilauea Volcano (the Big Island)]

Ca. 1920s.

Price: $3,250.00

[HAWAII, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND] VANSANT, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”

[Attractive Keepsake Album with Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Studio Photos and Real Photo Postcards, and One Piece of Printed Ephemera, Compiled by a Sailor from U.S.S. “New Mexico” during the US Fleet Exercise at Hawaii and its Good-will Tour to South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand in April-October 1925; the Album is Titled:] U.S.S. New Mexico. In Remembrance of Maneuvres at Hawaii – Australia – New Zealand, 1925

Ca. 1925.

Price: $1,500.00

[HAWAII]

[Album of Over 280 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by an American Soldier During His Service in the US Army Hawaiian Division, with Interesting Photos of Schofield Barracks and Soldiers, Oahu Island and Hawaii Volcanos National Park].

Hawaii: Ca. 1920-1930s.

Price: $1,250.00

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

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

Ca. 1930.

Price: $3,250.00

[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

[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

[INDIA & SRI LANKA] BOURNE & SHEPHERD; BURKE, John (ca. 1843-1900); NICHOLAS & CO.; SCOWEN & CO.; SKEEN & CO.; PONT, V.&E., AND OTHERS

[Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon]

Ca. 1880s-1890s.

Price: $3,500.00

[INDIA - BIG GAME HUNTING]

[Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India]

Ca. 1921-1926.

Price: $1,850.00

[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