Ventes live - Lot 491
[Egypt]
"Le Caire et Égypte".
2nd half 19th c
Prix de marteau: €
600
€ 800 / 1.000
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Description du lot
42 albumen prints, b/w, 21,2 x 27,1 cm, pasted on thick cardboard, signed and titled in the image.
Contemp. half red shagreen, marbled paper on covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (sl. rubbed, some def. on spine).
The mummy head of Ramses II, the mummy of Seti I, Syrian bedouins, a rabbi in Jerusalem, obelisk of Heliopolis, Esbekieh gardens, Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, minarets in Cairo, Tombs of the Mamluks, a Nile barrier close to Cairo, steam transport, Qasr el Nil bridge, an Arab wedding parade, court of the Al-Azhar Mosque filled with discussing theologians, a street in Cairo with view on minarets, Roda Island, sugar cane market, portraits of young women and praying men in the mosq in Damas, tourists climbing the pyramids, pyramid of Chéops, water carriers, Muhammad Ali Mosque, the Consuls' Square in Alexandria, Tomb of sultan Qaitbay, etc.
Prov. Max Koller (bookpl. engr. by P. Flury, 1918). - R P (bookpl.). - "Souvenir de mon voyage en Egypte de janvier à juin 1896 (ms. entry on flyleaf, name illegible).