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Auction Closed
November 12, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
CONSTANTINOPLE--FRERES, ABDULLAH, AND OTHERS?
Album of photographs 69 of Constantinople. [Late nineteenth-century]
Oblong 4to (234 x 298mm.), 69 albumen prints (197 x 253mm., average), mounted on thick card, recto and verso, or recto only, mostly signed and titled in the negative, French manuscript notes in pencil to some mounts, contemporary morocco-backed boards, some fading, light wear to edges at places, a few slightly trimmed, one mount crudely repaired (marginally affecting photographs), worn
A collection of portraits and landscapes by Abdullah Freres (46), in addition to 23 unsigned.