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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 #6730 [Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island,...

[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

Item #8096 [Album with 125 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a French Auto Truck...

[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

Item #8092 [Custom-Made Album with 34 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Full Cycle...

[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

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 #8108 [Collection of Three Albums with ca. 307 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken and...

[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

Item #8220 [Album with Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of British and German East...

[KENYA, UGANDA & TANZANIA]

[Album with Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of British and German East Africa, Including Views of Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Kampala, Tanga, Magila, Ripon Falls, Lake Victoria, Kabaka Lake, Portraits of Kikuyu, Kavirondo, Kamba People, &c.]

Ca. 1907.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8171 [Historically Significant Collection of over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs,...

[KENYA-AFRO-AMERICAN FIBER COMPANY] PAPE, Frederic Augustus George (1865-1924)

[Historically Significant Collection of over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including 112 Photos and Real Photo Postcards Taken by the Founder of the Afro-American Trading & Navigation Company’s Sisal Rope Factory in Voi, British East Africa, and Showing the Factory’s Construction and Operation, Auxiliary Railway and Trolley Tracks, Steam Engines, Native Workers which Included Teenagers and Children, Sisal Plantation, Sagalla Mission Station and its Head Rev. Wray, etc.; [Also Including] over Eighty Family Photos and Real Photo Postcards of Pape, His Wife & Baby Son, Mostly Taken in Kenya].

Ca. 1904-1909 (with a few later family photos).

Price: $2,250.00

Item #6857 V Dzhungliakh Afriki: Dnievnik Okhotnika [i.e. In the Jungle of Africa: The Diary of a...

[KENYA] Gorodetskii, Vladislav

V Dzhungliakh Afriki: Dnievnik Okhotnika [i.e. In the Jungle of Africa: The Diary of a Hunter]

Kiev: Polskaya typ. 1914.

Price: $3,750.00

[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

Item #8172 [Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which...

[MALI - FRENCH EXPEDITION] [BORGNIS-DESBORDES], [Gustave, General (1839-1900)]

[Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which Document Borgnis-Desbordes Military Expeditions From Upper Senegal into French Sudan (Mali). French and Indigenous Troops are Shown, as well as the Indigenous Peoples Including Chiefs and Settlements Including Forts and Villages Encountered]

1878-1881.

Price: $2,500.00

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 #8174 [Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Companhia do Boror’s...

[MOZAMBIQUE – COMPANHIA DO BOROR]

[Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Companhia do Boror’s Concessions in the Zambezia Province of Mozambique, Showing Various Operations at the Coconut, Sugar Cane & Sisal Plantations, Sugar Factories, Processing Facilities, Warehouses, Trading Posts, Residential Buildings, etc.]

Ca. 1920s.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8101 [Album with 238 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Showing the Construction of the...

[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

Item #8175 [Album with 99 Gelatin Silver Photos of Northern Nigeria Taken During the Construction...

[NIGERIA – BARO-KANO RAILWAY]

[Album with 99 Gelatin Silver Photos of Northern Nigeria Taken During the Construction of the Baro-Kano Railway; With a Manuscript Letter Written on a Leaf with the Official Printed Letterhead of “Assistant Engineer, Baro-Kano Railway” and Talking about Issues with Railway Traffic in February 1907]

Ca. 1907.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8960 [Original Gouache Drawing on a Plant Leaf (possibly, Saint Helena Redwood), Showing...

[SAINT HELENA – NAPOLEON’S TOMB]

[Original Gouache Drawing on a Plant Leaf (possibly, Saint Helena Redwood), Showing Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tomb in the Valley of the Willows on St. Helena].

Ca. 1820s.

Price: $750.00

Item #8215 [Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos,...

[SIERRA LEONE – HUT TAX WAR] [FOULKES, Charles Howard], Major-General Royal Engineers (1875-1969)

[Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including Thirty-Four Images Taken while on Service in Sierra Leone and during the Hut Tax War of 1898-1899; With a Lithographed Plan of the Cape Coast Castle, Compiled by Foulkes for the War Office]

Ca. 1898-1899.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8216 [Collection of Thirty Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Gold Mines and Refining Plants...

[SOUTH AFRICA - JOHANNESBURG (GOLD MINING)] POLLARD, F.E.

[Collection of Thirty Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Gold Mines and Refining Plants of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields around Johannesburg]

Ca. 1900.

Price: $1,750.00

Item #8103 [Album with 150 Gelatin Silver Photos, Illustrating the Visit to South Africa by the...

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

[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

Item #8217 [Collection of Four Albums with 254 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of German East...

[TANZANIA & RWANDA] OEHLER, Leopold (Post Inspector)

[Collection of Four Albums with 254 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of German East Africa (Tanzania and Rwanda), Taken by German Post Inspector Leopold Oehler While in Service in Dar es Salaam; With Oehler’s Large Photograph Portrait, Travel Passport, Two Postal Receipts from Istanbul, a Leaf of Pencil Notes with the Printed Letterhead of “Kaiserlich Deutsches Postamt, Dar-es-Salaam,” and a Notebook with Over 100 pages of Carbon Copies of Oehler’s Letters and Diary Notes Written During his Time in German East Africa]

Ca. 1907-1910.

Price: $7,500.00

Item #8218 [Album with Fifty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photos of the Flourishing Network of...

[UGANDA – CATHOLIC MISSIONS]

[Album with Fifty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photos of the Flourishing Network of Catholic Missions and Schools in the South of the Uganda Protectorate, Showing the Vicar Apostolic of Uganda Henri Streicher, the Founder of the Bwanda Sister’s Convent Mother Mechtilde, the First Ugandan Mother Superior Mama Cecilia Nalube, Views of the Bwanda Sister’s Convent, Villa Maria Hospital, Portraits of the Nuns, Novitiates and Schoolchildren, Students from the Schools in Kisubi, Kitovu, Nandere, White Fathers in the Mitala Maria Mission, et al.]

Ca. 1920s.

Price: $1,750.00

Item #8219 [Album with 108 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Southern Rhodesia, Showing the...

[ZIMBABWE – MINING]

[Album with 108 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Southern Rhodesia, Showing the Sabiwa and Antenior Gold Mines, Scenes from a Prospecting Expedition to the Sengwe, Omay, and Zambezi Rivers, Views of Bulawayo during the First Election of the Legislative Council in April 1899, Exhibits at the Bulawayo Agricultural Fair, Native Villages, Portraits of Native People, Jack Warwick, J.C. Knapp, Mowbray Farquhar, Miss Cecilia Lawley, and Others]

Ca. 1899.

Price: $3,250.00