BONFILS AND DUMAS, ALBUM OF 177 PHOTOGRAPHS OF PALESTINE, LEBANON AND SYRIA, [C.1880S]

Folio (380 x 290mm.), 117 albumen prints (from 188 x 124mm. to 287 x 232mm., or the reverse), mounted on card, recto only, or recto and verso, some signed and/or titled in the negative, a few duplicate images, contemporary brown half morocco, pebbled boards, some minor wear to images, slight fading or occasional cropping, lightly rubbed

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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A good album of portraits and landscapes; 80 signed in the negative by Bonfils and 4 by Dumas.