Egypt—Bonfils and others | Album of photographs, c.1870s-1880s

Egypt—Félix Bonfils, Hippolyte Arnoux, Paul Dittrich, Félix Bonfils, Zangaki Brothers, Jean Pascal Sébah

Album of 48 photographs of Egypt, c.1870s-1880s

Oblong folio (280 x 370mm.), 48 albumen print photographs (mostly 225 x 280mm., or the reverse), nineteenth-century black half-morocco, silk endpapers, some spotting, binding rubbed

A good collection of views, by some of the principal early tourist trade photographers active in the region. These photographs include depictions of ancient monuments like the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphynx, and views of the newly constructed Suez Canal, a technological wonder of the modern world.