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Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at...
Letter from Ill-fated Expedition to Timbuktu

[Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he...

Marseilles: 28 August 1818. Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm), 1. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Mild fold marks and light.....

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Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional...
Watercolours of the Afghan Portraits in Montstuart Elphinstone's "An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul"

[Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional Dress of People and Leaders in the Kingdom of Caubul [Kabul] During the Durrani Dynasty (1747-1842) Perhaps used as the Original Archetype Illustrations for Montstuart Elphinstone's, 1815 Book:] “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its...

ca. 1815. Five cut-out portraits drawn in ink, pencil and watercolour drawings each ca. 21 x 12.5 cm (8 ½.....

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Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers,...
Interesting Early Photos of Algeria

[Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Bone, El Kantara, Katara Gorge, Roman Ruins in Timgad, Portraits of Native Algerians, Views of Smaller French Settlements and Country Houses, Algerian Villages etc.]

Ca. 1878. Oblong Folio album ca. 36x48 cm (14 x 18 ¾ in). 54 card stock leaves. Total of 58.....

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Collection of Two Albums with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a French Participant of...
Historically Important Photos Documenting the Algerian South-Oranese Campaign 1903-7

[Collection of Two Albums with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a French Participant of the South-Oranese Campaign in Southwestern Algeria, Showing Towns and Military Posts (Taghit, Béni Abbès, Mazzer, Igli, Kerzaz, Tamtert, Béni Ounif, Duveyrier, Ain Sefra, Saida), Native Ksars, Military Convoys, Wounded French Military Men, Funeral and...

Ca. 1903-7. Two oblong Quarto albums (ca. 19x29 and 19x26 cm). 22 and 50 (33 blank) card stock leaves. With.....

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Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a...
Rare Early Scenic Watercolours from a Nile Cruise to see the main Archeological Sites Along the River

[Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a Cruise in Winter 1864-1865 and Showing the Ancient Sites and Cliffs of Upper Egypt and Nubia, and the Second Cataract].

November 1864 - February 1865. Twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, including one three-part panorama ca. 13x108,5 cm (5 x 42.....

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Album with Twenty-three Large Original Albumen Photographs Including Two Panoramas by Hippolyte...
Rare Early Photos of the Suez Canal

[Album with Twenty-three Large Original Albumen Photographs Including Two Panoramas by Hippolyte Arnoux Showing the Newly Completed Suez Canal (1869) with Views of Port Said and Ismaïlia].

Port Said, Egypt: Ca. 1869. Oblong folio album ca. 36 x 46 cm (14 x 18 in.) with 23 large.....

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Collection of Sixty-nine Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing the...
Early Unique Stereoviews of a Nile Voyage made by an Associate of the Alexandria Waterworks

[Collection of Sixty-nine Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing the Alexandria Waterworks and Kom Ad Dikah Neighbourhood, Almost Certainly Taken by European Associates of the Waterworks and Their Servants, Views of Cairo, and Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile].

1863-4. Sixty-nine pairs of mounted albumen stereoview photographs on card, each pair ca. 8x14 cm (3 x 5 ½ in).....

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Collection of Twenty Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo,...
Interesting Collection of Early Stereoviews of Egypt

[Collection of Twenty Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo, Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile and Suez Canal Under Construction].

Ca. 1860s. Twenty pairs of albumen stereoview photographs, each pair ca. 7,5x14,5 cm (3 x 5 ¾ in) mounted on.....

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Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles...
Beautiful Artist Sketches used for "Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque"

[Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles Welsch, Used as Prototypes for Illustrations in Georg Ebers’ Encyclopaedic Work “Aegypten in Bild und Wort (Stuttgart & Leipzig 1879-80);” [Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque] [With]: Complete Sets of both the First German and the First...

ca. 1870s. Pencil, pen, ink and wash on album paper, some heightened in white, all but one signed by the.....

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Album with Twenty-One Original Albumen Photos of the Ancient Temples of Egypt (Djoser Pyramid in...
Early Rare Hammerschmidt Photos of Egypt

[Album with Twenty-One Original Albumen Photos of the Ancient Temples of Egypt (Djoser Pyramid in Saqqara, Temples in Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Abu Simbel, Philae Island), Nile’s First Cataract, Tombs of the Califs and Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, the Bacchus Temple in Baalbec, Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the Valley of...

Ca. 1870s. Oblong Elephant Folio (ca. 45,5x62 cm). 22 leaves. With 21 albumen photographs, from ca. 23x30,5 cm (9x12 in).....

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Album with Forty-five Early Large Original Black Signature Bonfils Albumen Photographs of Egypt...
Some of the Earliest and Rarest Bonfils Photos of Egypt

[Album with Forty-five Early Large Original Black Signature Bonfils Albumen Photographs of Egypt Showing Thebes, Dendera, the Pyramids, Cairo and Alexandria Titled:] Egypte.

Beirut: Ca. 1867-1870. Oblong Folio (ca. 35 x46.5 cm). With 49 beige card leaves. With 45 mounted (recto only) albumen.....

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Album with Fifty-seven Original Photos of the Holy Land and Middle East, Including Iconic Views...
Large Photos of Jerusalem, the Holy Land and Baalbec

[Album with Fifty-seven Original Photos of the Holy Land and Middle East, Including Iconic Views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Bethany, Baalbec, Beirut etc. by the Bonfils Studio, and Rare Unusual Photos of Damascus and Constantinople by the Local Studios of Suleiman Hakim and Mihran Iranian].

Ca. 1902. Oblong Folio (ca. 32x42,5 cm). 29 card stock leaves. With 57 original photographs (56 albumen photos and one.....

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Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:]...
Attractive Watercolours of the Holy Land by a British Traveller

[Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:] Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey)].

March-May 1893. Thirty original watercolours on paper, from ca. 8,5x17,5 cm (3 ¼ x 7 in) to ca. 8,5x12,5 cm.....

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Collection of Forty-Eight Original Albumen Stereo-view Photographs of Jerusalem, Bethlehem,...
Early Stereo-views of Jerusalem and Bethlehem

[Collection of Forty-Eight Original Albumen Stereo-view Photographs of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Bethphage and Bethany, Issued in the Series:] Souvenirs de Terre Sainte.

[Paris]: ca. 1860s. Forty-eight pairs of albumen stereo-view photographs, each pair ca. 8.5x16 cm (3 ¼ x 6 ¼ in).....

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Album from the Collection of Noted American Christian Missionary, Writer and Artist Henry John...
Historically Significant Early Photos of the Near East Compiled by Henry John Van Lennep

[Album from the Collection of Noted American Christian Missionary, Writer and Artist Henry John Van Lennep, with Thirty Original Albumen Photographs of Beirut, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Damascus, Baalbek, and Ancient Sites of Egypt - the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza, Pompey’s Pillar and Cleopatra’s Needle in Alexandria, Karnak...

Ca. 1869. Folio album (ca. 32x25 cm). 30 card stock leaves. With thirty albumen photographs, including twenty-nine large ones, from.....

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Seven Watercolour and Ink Drawings of the Euphrates Valley and the Environs of Baghdad After...
Attractive Early Sketches of Iraq

[Seven Watercolour and Ink Drawings of the Euphrates Valley and the Environs of Baghdad After Plates from J. Buckingham’s “Travels in Mesopotamia” and R. Mignan’s “Travels in Chaldaea”].

1828-1830. Watercolour, ink and pencil on grey and white paper, from ca. 11,5x18,5 cm (ca. 4 ½ x 7 ¼.....

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Bird's Eye View of Istanbul Titled:] Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies, quam hodie sub Turcae...
Important Early Bird's Eye View of Istanbul

[Bird's Eye View of Istanbul Titled:] Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies, quam hodie sub Turcae in habitatione habet.

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559. Map from the Fourth Latin Edition of Cosmographiae Universalis lib. VI. Woodcut view ca. 20 x......

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Bird's Eye Printed View of Jerusalem Titled:] Jerusalem Ciuitas Sancta, olim Metropolis Regni...
Important Early Bird's Eye View of Jerusalem

[Bird's Eye Printed View of Jerusalem Titled:] Jerusalem Ciuitas Sancta, olim Metropolis Regni Judaici, Hodie vero Colonia Turcae.

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559. Map from the Fourth Latin Edition of Cosmographiae Universalis lib. VI. Woodcut view ca. 15 x......

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Historically Important Collection of Thirteen Large Platinum Print Photographs of some of the...
Large Platinum Print Photos of Petra

[Historically Important Collection of Thirteen Large Platinum Print Photographs of some of the Main Sites at Petra, Jordan].

Ca. 1900. Thirteen large studio platinum print photographs, each ca. 24x 29.5cm (9.5x11.5 in), many captioned "American Colony, Jerusalem" in.....

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Collection of Two Albums with ca. 680 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Visually Documenting the...
Very Extensive Historically Important Collection of Original Photos Documenting the French Conquest of Morocco

[Collection of Two Albums with ca. 680 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Visually Documenting the Movement of the Fez Column during the French Conquest of Morocco in 1911, Office Work of “Bureau des Renseignements de Fes,” Relations with Moroccan Chiefs, Public Processions with Sultan Mulai Abdelhafid of Morocco; With Numerous Views...

Ca. 1911-1919. Two Oblong Folio albums (ca. 31x42 cm). 50 and 23 stock leaves. Ca. 680 gelatin silver photographs (including.....

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