EGYPT PHOTOABAA
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14064Circa 1870s vintage sepia albumen photograph showing the Sphynx in the foreground and Pyramids in the background. This photograph is by Zangaki. 8.5" x 10.9". Unmounted. A nice early example in good condition. unknown books
140491880s Albumen Photo of the interior of the hypostyle hall in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera Egypt. The great vertical mass created by the columns capped with carved heads and bathed in sunlight is contrasted with the small human-sized door at the end of the hallway with darkness and rubble inside. The photograph measures 11" x 8." Photograph taken by Adelphoi Zangaki circa 1880s a noted travel photographer best known for his ancient Egyptian scenes. An excellent example. Small tear near top margin otherwise in excellent condition. unknown books
1961128445New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. <br/><br/>Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8 1961 opened the following day an for over 200 performances and closed on June 2 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award as were producers Coe and Cantor. <br/><br/>Gideon Campbell witnesses the Angel of the Lord March who enlists him to perform a miracle in battle and to kill an idolatrous Hebrew. Gideon refuses and suggests that his pity for man is above God's law. God begrudgingly concedes. <br/><br/>Basis for Wilhelm Semmelroth's West German film 1966 and for George Schaefer's Emmy nominated television movie 1971. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with paper title label on the spine. Title page present undated with a credit for playwright Chayefsky. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-2-41 Act 2 Scene 2 Page 41. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor unknown books
195118507Cairo 1951. Album with approxmately 280 photographs; mounted with photo-corners only not glued down; many with identifiers on back dating the photograph and naming the participants; many photographs of social activities state and company dinners tennis matches other sporting activities where apparently these people went to be entertained in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt; a mixing of Middle-Eastern and Western-style events with some military and political leaders socially melding with the engineers and workers on this project; with views of the Egyptian countryside as well as of the plant; with a book in Arabic evidently promoting the new facility with black and white photographs; also including about 30-40 photographs of family outings evidently in Europe Italy and other places where family and friends may have had leave from building the project; various formats mostly snapshot size however there are many 3" x 5" and larger even a couple of 7"x 9" size; all contained in a faux leather album with a very worn spine and coming disbound; photographs clear well-taken and very well preserved recording a little-known aspect of Western business and industrial development in the Middle East with the participation of wives and families while a project was being completed and during the Nasser revolutionary era; We note that some of the equipment possibly for power generation bears the Babcock & Wilcox name and also equipment from Kohorn who were textile equipment manufacturers; these names are visible on the apparatus pictured in the accompanying brochure. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
12466Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An ornamental music folder boards covered in gold velvet the front board decorated with four brass corner ornaments each inlaid with multi-color cloisonné surrounding an elaborate and large central decoration in brass and detailed cloisonné with a raised image of a lyre at the center. 14.25 x 11.25x .5 inches. From the collection of King Farouk of Egypt sold originally at the 1988 Oakland Galleries auction of the J.W. Menhall Estate including items from the King Farouk Collection and sold here with a copy of the sale catalogue in which the folder is illustrated. <br><br><br />Farouk I of Egypt was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan succeeding his father Fuad I of Egypt in 1936. He ruled during a turbulent time in Egyptian and Middle East history that was marked by the creation of the Arab League the first Arab-Israeli conflict and heated nationalist opposition to the British. Instead of being the shrewd political leader that Egypt needed Farouk was a materialistic womanizer and corpulent spendthrift whose outrageous lifestyle eventually led to his downfall. Enamoured of the glamorous royal lifestyle although he already had thousands of acres of land dozens of palaces and hundreds of cars the youthful king often travelled to Europe for grand shopping sprees earning the ire of many of his subjects. It is said that he ate 600 oysters a week and in 1951 he bought the pear-shaped 94-carat Star of the East Diamond and a fancy-coloured oval-cut diamond from jeweler Harry Winston. Overthrown in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 he was forced to abdicate in favor of his infant son Ahmed Fuad who succeeded him as Fuad II of Egypt. He died in exile in Italy. hardcover books
