Lot 135
  • 135

Egypt--Sebah, Pascal

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Album of 66 photographs of ancient and modern Egypt. [c.1880s]
  • paper
Oblong folio (268 x 340mm.), 66 ALBUMEN PRINTS (average 202 x 262mm., or the reverse), most titled and signed by P. Sebah in the negative, mounted on card, recto and verso, contemporary black morocco gilt, upper cover titled in gilt, spine gilt, occasional light marginal dust-soiling, binding rebacked and restored retaining original spine, wear to spine

Condition


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Catalogue Note

A good album of portraits, urban and rural street scenes and everyday life, views of the Nile, and images of antiquities and ancient sites in Egypt. The images are mostly in and around Alexandria and Cairo.