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1880ABC_47239Egypt 1880. Three edges gilt. 9 albumen prints approx. 340 x 260 mm each mounted on backing cardboard ca. 400 x 340 mm. A fine set of nine albumen images of Egyptian sights and views including Karnak ships on the Nile the Aswan cataract the Temple of Edfu murals at the Sanctuary at Karnak camel drivers on the Sinai etc. Pascal Sébah 1823-86 a leading photographer of the Middle East was renowned for his well-judged compositions and for the excellent print quality achieved by his technician A. Laroche. His studio founded in 1857 was continued under his brother Cosimo and his son Jean. A single image in this series is not by Sebah: a view of the island of Philae near the First Cataract of the Nile is signed "A. Beato" in a shaded portion of the image identifiying this as the work of Antonio Antoine Beato after 1832-1906 a British and Italian photographer noted for his genre works portraits views of the architecture and landscapes of Egypt and the other locations in the Mediterranean region.Slight fading; well preserved. unknown
1880I45A4CVFDU99Egypt and Switzerland 1880. Contemporary black half morocco. 4to 29.5 x 23.5 cm. 50 photographs of Egypt albumen prints and cyanotypes and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Impressively presented series of original photographs taken at various important sites and cities in Egypt including Giza Thebes Karnak Luxor Abydos Esna and others. They show archaeological sites like the temple of Seti I at Abydos the precinct of Ahmen-Rah near Luxor the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak the Ramesseum and the Colossi at Thebes the temple of Khnum at Esna the Sphinx and pyramids of Giza and many more. Other photographs show the local population engaged in a wide variety of activities such as catching crocodiles on the nile a Luxor barber shaving the head of a sailor or life in a Bedouin camp in the Libyan Desert. The Istanbul-based Sebah studio catered to the Western European interest in the exotic "orient" and the growing numbers of tourists visiting the Islamic world who wished to take home images of the city ancient ruins in the surrounding area portraits and local people in traditional costumes. "Sebah rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting effective posing attractive models great attention to detail and for the excellent print quality" Saretzky. When Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 died his son Jean Sébah 1876-1947 took over the studio and signed his productions "J. P. Sebah" on the negative putting his initial in front of his fathers.Some spotting and fading binding worn. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. for Sébah: Saretzky Photo history. unknown
1880J3HGA8OYHYKWEgypt and elsewhere 1880. With 9 carte de visite albumen prints ca. 8.5 x 5.5 cm by Hammerschmidt and Van Lint two albumen prints 9.5 x 12.5 cm by Sébah mounted on paper one silver gelatin print 8.5 x 11.5 cm by Lehnert & Landrock and one silver gelatin print 27 x 21 cm by Schroeder & Cie in a passepartout. Collection of early photographs of North-Africa and the Middle East by several photographers who had worked in the region. The main part of this collection consists of carte de visite portraits by Wilhelm Hammerschmidt ca. 1830-1869 from the 1860s. Most of them show Egyptians including a porter carrying a large chest on his back and a blind man. Three outdoor photographs show a group of men one holding a pipe almost as long as himself a camel rider and two camels in profile. Two larger photographs by the firm of Pascal Sébah from Istanbul date from the 1870s or 1880s and show a caravan halting in the desert. Of later date is the single image by the photographic duo Lehnert & Landrock who worked in Tunis in 1904-1914. Their picture which was popularly used in picture postcards shows a small group overlooking an oasis near Tripoli. The largest and most artistic photograph is by the Swiss firm Schroeder & Cie and dates from the 1880s. This striking image shows the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo with the crumbling remains of a rock and wall acting as repoussoir and a figure at the front watching from the shade. A strange stowaway in this collection is a single carte de visite by the Italian photographer Enrico Van Lint 1829-1882 of "Galileo's Lamp" the bronze lamp which Vincenzo Possenti created after a drawing by Leon-Battista Alberti in 1587 for the Pisa Cathedral.With 4 of the cartes de visite labelled on the back and one stamped with a name; the paper of the Sebáh photograph with an inscription in English and the Schroeder with an inscription on the back. Some of the sheets or cards on which the photographs are mounted are somewhat tattered at the edges and the cartes de visite have probably been trimmed. Photograph by Lehnert & Landrock with a diagonal fold. All photographs are otherwise in very good condition. unknown
188036797Istanbul 1880. Oblong 8vo. 6 x 7 3/4 inches. 10 albumen photographs mounted on thick card and bound in concertina folds as issued length 70 inches. Occasional spotting. Publisher's red grained cloth upper cover tooled in gilt and lettered in French and Arabic.<br/> <br/> A smaller version probably published at the same time of "Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata."<br/> <br/> A photographic panorama offering a sweeping view of the city walls and seven towers the great Mosques of Sultan Ahmed and Santa Sophia the 'Green Mosque' and Mosque of Oulon the Golden Horn tower of Galatea and the Bosphorus. unknown
