[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[GHANA] [Album with ca. 180 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a British Biologist during his “Specie Trip” to the Gold Coast in ca. 1938-1940 and Illustrating His Field Trips to the Densu River Delta, Volta River, Oda and Sekondi; There are also Views of Ghanaian Coastal Castles, Accra’s Streets, the Destruction in Accra after the 1939 Earthquake, Koforidua, Anomabu, Portraits of Ghanaian Fishermen, Families, Girls (with an Emphasis on Their Hairstyles), “Accra Nurses, 1939,” “a Witch Doctor, Accra,” the Album’s Compiler and His Fellow Scientists, &c.]. Price: $2,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[MADAGASCAR] [Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha, Malagasy Tirailleurs, Scenes of Kabary, Views of Antananarivo and Toamasina, &c.]. Price: $4,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[NAMIBIA & SAINT HELENA – SECOND BOER WAR] [Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Officer of HMS Niobe during the Second Boer War and Showing the Defence Installations in Walvis Bay (Fort Niobe, Cuddy Cop, Fort Stocker), Artillery and Maxim Guns, Cape Garrison Artillery Camp in Walvis Bay, HMS Niobe, Its Officers and Crew, Boer Prisoners and Their Tent Camp on Saint Helena, Imprisoned Boer General Piet Cronje, Governor of Walvis Bay, et al.; with Two Ink-Drawn “Plan of Settlement Shewing Fortifications and Defences Forming Fort Niobe, Erected by Naval Brigade from HMS “Niobe” for Defence of Settlement from Boer Raids, Feb. 10th-14th 1900;” and “Plan of the Boer Enclosure and Deadwood Camp, St. Helena, 1900”]. Price: $3,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[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 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
