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1[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - IRAN - TRANS-IRANIAN RAILWAYS] [Wheeler, Geoffrey Edleston, CIE, Lt. Col.] (1897-1990)

[Historically Significant Photo Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos, One Real Photo Postcard, and One Printed Postcard of the Trans-Iranian Railway, Showing Over 40 Railway Stations (Bender Shah, Bender Shahpoor, Shahi, Vresk, Tehran, Gadouk, Benevar, Endimeshk, Arak, Neka, etc.), Bridges (Tajen, Doab, Karaj, Abdiz, Karoun, Gorgor, Ahwaz, etc.)...

Album: Ca. 1940s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 23x39 cm). 25 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 100 original gelatin.....

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4[ASIA - NEPAL - HIMALAYAS] STONOR, Charles Robert (1912-1982)

[Collection of Twenty-Four Gelatin Silver Contact Sheets with 272 Original Photos, Documenting the “Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition in search of the Yeti” in January-June, 1954 and Showing Namche Bazar, Those, Junbesi, Phortse, and Thame Villages, Local Sherpa People, Tengboche Monastery and Monks, a “Hermit and Cell above Dingboche,” a Man...

Photos: ca. 1954. Twenty-four gelatin silver contact sheets, each ca. 30x25 cm (ca. 12x10 in). Each sheet with nine to.....

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6[AFRICA - MADAGASCAR]

[Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha...

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 25,5x32 cm (10 x 12 ½ in). 22 card stock leaves (2 blank).....

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7[AFRICA - NAMIBIA & SAINT HELENA – SECOND BOER WAR]

[Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Officer of HMS Niobe during the Second Boer War and Showing the Defence Installations in Walvis Bay (Fort Niobe, Cuddy Cop, Fort Stocker), Artillery and Maxim Guns, Cape Garrison Artillery Camp in Walvis Bay, HMS Niobe...

Ca. 1900-1901. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 24,5x31 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves (3.....

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[AFRICA - CHAD] [DIO, Louis] (1908-1994); [CHATENET, Pierre] (1917-1997)

[Album with 125 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a French Auto Truck Expedition from Tunisia to Fort Lamy/N’Djamena, with Views of the Eastern Libyan Desert, Tibesti Mountains, and Towns and Settlements on the Way, Including Murzuq, Qatrun, Zouar, Faya-Largeau, Korotoro, Salal, Moussoro, N’Djamena, Portraits of the Expedition Members and...

1948. Oblong Folio Album (ca. 29x35 cm). 32 card stock leaves. With 125 mounted gelatin silver photographs, all ca. 12,5x12,5.....

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[AFRICA - ETHIOPIA - SECOND ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR] TRAPMAN, Adrian Sidney Gilbert Reginald (1910-1937)

[Collection of Three Albums with ca. 307 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken and Collected by a British Vice-Consul in Addis Ababa Shortly Before and During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Showing Addis Ababa and Jimma, Emperor Haile Selassie I, German and Italian Ambassadors in Ethiopia, Members of the British Legation, Italian...

Ca. 1934-1937. Three Oblong Folio albums (ca. 24x30,5 cm). 26, 25 and 20 stock leaves with tissue guards. With ca.....

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[AFRICA - GHANA]

[Album with ca. 180 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a British Biologist during his “Specie Trip” to the Gold Coast in ca. 1938-1940 and Illustrating His Field Trips to the Densu River Delta, Volta River, Oda and Sekondi; There are also Views of Ghanaian Coastal Castles...

Ca. 1938-1940. Oblong Quarto album ca. 23x28 cm (8x11 in). 29 card stock leaves. With ca. 180 mounted gelatin silver.....

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[AFRICA - NAMIBIA – HERERO WARS & LÜDERITZ RAILWAY]

[Album with 238 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Showing the Construction of the Lüderitz-Keetmanshoop Railway in German Southwest Africa in 1905-1907, Railway Stations, Military Posts, Schutztruppe Officers and Soldiers, Artillery Guns, Lüderitzbucht, Shark Island, Cornelius Fredericks as a Prisoner, Distressed Herero Girls, Railway Workers, etc.].

Ca. 1904-1907. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x35,5 cm). 31 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 238 mounted gelatin silver.....

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[AFRICA - SIERRA LEONE – HUT TAX WAR] [FOULKES, Charles Howard], Major-General Royal Engineers (1875-1969)

[Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including Thirty-Four Images Taken while on Service in Sierra Leone and during the Hut Tax War of 1898-1899; With a Lithographed Plan of the Cape Coast Castle, Compiled by Foulkes for the War Office].

Ca. 1898-1899. Oblong Small Quarto album (ca. 18,5x25 cm). 51 leaves. With 46 mounted gelatin silver snapshot photographs, from ca.....

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[AFRICA - TANZANIA & RWANDA] OEHLER, Leopold (Post Inspector)

[Collection of Four Albums with 254 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of German East Africa (Tanzania and Rwanda), Taken by German Post Inspector Leopold Oehler While in Service in Dar es Salaam; With Oehler’s Large Photograph Portrait, Travel Passport, Two Postal Receipts from Istanbul, a Leaf of Pencil Notes with the...

Ca. 1907-1910. Four Oblong Folio albums (ca. 23x32,5 cm). Each with eight card stock leaves. In all 254 gelatin silver.....

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[ASIA - ASSAM - OIL]

[Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Associate of the “Assam Oil Company” and Showing the Company Settlement with Bungalows, Oil Reservoirs and Railway Tracks, Construction of Oil Derricks, Arriving Train (apparently, of the Assam Railway & Trading Co.), Company’s Associates, Native People of Assam...

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Quarto album ca. 19x25,5 cm (7 ½ x 10 in). 14 card stock leaves. With 36 mounted.....

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[ASIA - CHINA - SHANGHAI] STEVENS, Paul. Lt.

[Historically Important Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the Battle of Shanghai During the Second Sino-Japanese War and Showing Shanghai (The Partly Ruined Bund and Destroyed North Station, Café de Luxe, streets, houses, etc.), Chapei (The Office of the Mayor of Shanghai Yu Hung-Chun, a Racecourse, Naval Ships...

1937-1938. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 20x27 cm). With 23 card stock leaves with tissue guards (10 blank). With 39 mounted.....

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[ASIA - INDIA - 1911 DELHI DURBAR]

[Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India, Showing Nainital (General Views, Hotel Metropole, Naina Devi Temple, “Trevillion & Clark” Shop on the Mall Rd., Cricket Game), Events of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, Kolkata, Kanpur, Jabalpur, Portraits of “a Bridegroom Robed for Wedding,” “a Holy Man...

Ca. 1910s. Two Oblong Quarto albums, each ca. 23,5x28 cm (9 ¼ x 11 in). Each with 12 card stock.....

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[ASIA - SRI LANKA – RUBBER & TEA]

[Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c.].

1913-1914. Oblong Quarto album ca. 19,5x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in). 12 card stock leaves (5 blank). With.....

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[ASIA - SUMATRA – STANDARD OIL CO.] [O’VARY, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’VARY, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958)

[Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931].

Ca. 1929-1931. Three albums with ca. 416 original gelatin silver photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x36,5 cm). 25 card stock.....

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[ASIA - TIBETAN PLATEAU] FORMAN, Harrison (1904-1978)

[Collection of Fifty-Five Mainly Ethnographic Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken During Forman's Expedition to Tibet and Inner Mongolia in 1932 and Showing Tibetan Lamas, Sorcerers, Warriors, Elders, a “Chief of Lama Police,” “Printing Block Carvers,” Women and Girls, Labrang Monastery, “Yak-Hair Tents,” a “Mongol Temple City in the Ordos Desert...

Ca. 1930s. 55 loose gelatin silver photographs; including a large photo ca. 19,5x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in).....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - ALGERIA] NEURDEIN FRÈRES (active ca. 1870s-1890s); JOUVE, Noël (ca. 1880s-1910s) & OTHERS

[Album with 49 Original Albumen Studio Photos of Algeria, Showing Algiers, Oran, Tlemcen, Mers El Kebir, Mansoura, Constantine, Algerian People, French Colonial Residents and Catholic Missionaries, etc.]

Ca. 1880s-1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 35,5x44 cm). 28 paper leaves (mostly, double). With 49 pasted on original albumen photographs.....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - EGYPT] BEATO, Antonio (after 1832 – 1906; active 1862- ca. 1900); SÉBAH, Pascal (1823-1886); RAE, Gray Kynoch Leathart “Bino” (1887-1947)

[Two Albums with 144 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Nile River Cruise and a Trip to the Holy Land in 1908, and Showing Ancient Temples and Sites of the Upper and Lower Egypt, River Nile and Boats, Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Edinburgh Medical Mission in Damascus, and...

Albums: ca. 1908; most studio photos: ca. 1880s-1890s. Two Large Quarto albums, each ca. 30,5x24,5 cm (12 x 9 ½.....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - IRAN - PERSEPOLIS] HEIDER, Karl G. (b. 1935)

[Album with 36 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Persepolis (Aerial View, Entrance Hall, Apadana Palace Columns and Reliefs, Throne Hall, the Tachara, Tombs of Darius I and Xerxes I at the Naghsh-e-Rostam Necropolis); Titled:] Persepolis or Tacht-i-Jamshid, from the Travels of KGH, April 11 and 12, 1957.

1957. Oblong Quarto album ca. 20,5x31,5 cm (8 x 12 ¼ in). 18 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With.....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - ISRAEL - PALESTINE]

[Extensive Collection of 88 Original Gelatin Silver Mounted Photos of Ottoman Palestine, Showing Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Nablus, Samaria, Nazareth, Tiberias, Galilean Hills North of Lake Tiberias, Scenes of Nebi Musa Muslim Religious Festival near Jerusalem, Numerous Portraits of Palestinian Arabs, &c.].

Ca. 1905. Eighty-eight loose gelatin silver photos ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in) mounted on period card.....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - PALESTINE, SYRIA & TURKEY] BONFILS, Félix (1831-1885); FIORILLO, Luigi (active ca. 1870s-1890s); ABDULLAH FRÈRES (active ca. 1858-1899); BERGGREN, Guillaume (1835-1920); SÉBAH, Pascal (1823-1886).

[Collection of 72 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Housed in an Attractive Period Folder, Titled:] Constantinople, Athènes, Syrie, Palestine.

Ca. 1870s-1890s. Elephant Folio folder (ca. 41x32 cm). With 72 albumen photographs, mounted on the original studio card; the photos.....

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[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - TURKEY - ISTANBUL] SEBAH & JOAILLER STUDIO (1888-1908)

[Album with Forty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including Thirty-Seven Views of Istanbul and the Strait of Bosphorus (Including Eight Wide-angle Panoramas), and Five Views of the Acropolis in Athens].

Ca. 1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27x33 cm or 10 ½ x 13 in). 20 card stock leaves with tissue.....

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[Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including Thirty-Four Images Taken while on Service in Sierra Leone and during the Hut Tax War of 1898-1899; With a Lithographed Plan of the Cape Coast Castle, Compiled by Foulkes for the War Office].

[Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931].

[Album with 49 Original Albumen Studio Photos of Algeria, Showing Algiers, Oran, Tlemcen, Mers El Kebir, Mansoura, Constantine, Algerian People, French Colonial Residents and Catholic Missionaries, etc.]

[Two Albums with 144 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Nile River Cruise and a Trip to the Holy Land in 1908, and Showing Ancient Temples and Sites of the Upper and Lower Egypt, River Nile and Boats, Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Edinburgh Medical Mission in Damascus, and...

[Collection of 72 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Housed in an Attractive Period Folder, Titled:] Constantinople, Athènes, Syrie, Palestine.

[Album with Forty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including Thirty-Seven Views of Istanbul and the Strait of Bosphorus (Including Eight Wide-angle Panoramas), and Five Views of the Acropolis in Athens].

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