Egypt and Aden—Zangaki and others | Collection of 25 photographs of views and portraits, c. 1880s

Egypt and Aden—Zangaki and others

Collection of 25 photographs of views and portraits. Circa 1880s

25 albumen prints (approximately 190 x 262mm., or the reverse) by Zangaki and others, individually mounted on card (mounts 328 x 460mm.), most captioned in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled "Aegypten, Aden", some fading, occasional spotting and edge wear to mounts, box stained and slightly worn

The photographs comprise 16 portraits of people in Egypt, Arabia and the Sudan, 3 views of Suez and Port Said, and 6 views of Aden.

PROVENANCE:

One of a series of portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s.