Lot 353
India, Gibraltar, Suez Canal, Egypt
Auction: 8 February 2006 at 11:00 GMT
£837
Description
India, Gibraltar, Suez Canal, Egypt
An album containing approximately 50 albumen prints of India (views of Madras, temple and interior palace views at Tanjore, the city of Tanjore), Gibraltar (view of the rock), Suez Canal (various views of the canal, shipping, etc), Egypt (view of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, fishermen on the Nile, view of Cairo). Circa 1880, approximate size 28cm wide by 24cm high, mounted on card, some signed/ captioned in the negative by Langaki [Egypt and Suez], fading at edges, some foxing, some wrinkling, front board and backstrip detached with two small illustrated pamphlets on Calcutta and Ceylon (3)