Egypt--Sebah, Pascal, Paul Dittrich, G. Lekegian, and others

Oblong folio (300 x 400mm.), 30 professional photographs mostly by Sebah, Dittich or Lekagian (210 x 165mm., or the reverse) and approximately 125 amateur photographs (average 85 x 140mm., or the reverse), 11 other professional photographs (mostly of North Africa) loosely inserted (average 190 x 260mm.), contemporary calf by Victor Wachter binder to the Khedive of Egypt (blindstamp on upper cover), pictorial upper cover with the Sphinx, pyramids and Egyptian motifs in blind relief, flat spine, some fading to amateur images, lacking clasp, binding slightly rubbed

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The album appears to have been compiled by a German traveller who stayed at Shepheards Hotel in Cairo. The images include views in Cairo, the procession of the Mahmal to Mecca, ancient Egyptian monuments, the construction of the Aswan dam, a camel market, agricultural scenes, and portraits.