Lot 448
Algeria, Tunisia, Malta and Italy
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Album of 104 albumen prints including 24 of Algeria, (mosque, street scenes, governor's palace, interior of Kasbah, jardin d'Essai, Blidah, Gorge de Chiffa Blidah, aloe tree, arab men and women, Trappist monks, Bouvie, Phillipeville, Stora and Bone; 13 of Tunisia (Tunis, Dar-rel Bey Tunis, arab house, The bardo Tunis, arab encampment, young arab, soldier Tunis, arab women, Jewish women, arab singing girl, Carthage), 8 of Malta (Quay Valetta, Strade realle, Strada San Giovanni, Opera house, cathedral, interior of governor's palace, armoury governor's palace) and 59 of Italy (Catania, Etna, Messina, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan), all mounted on thick card, spotting affecting mounts only, from 10 x 13cm to 20 x 23cm, pigskin album (38 x 48cm) with metal clasp and interlocking metal initials and date 1879 on upper cover, g.e.; and a second album comprising 30 albumen prints of Rome, 3 with caption but no photographer's name in the negative, 20 x 25.5cm, a few lightly faded, original cloth, worn (2)