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1927réf. 208311927. Photo album documenting a multi country group यातà¥à¤°à¤¾ in 1927 records interwar travel across southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean including regions under colonial administration and recent political transition. The album follows a group of travelers moving from France through Italy Greece Turkey British administered Palestine and Egypt capturing urban landmarks archaeological sites and local populations encountered along the route. The sequence provides visual evidence of tourism infrastructure mobility and cross cultural observation during a period when former imperial territories such as Constantinople were undergoing redefinition following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states. Album contains 93 black and white silver gelatin photographs and four real photo postcards with images ranging approximately from 2.5 x 4 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches and one larger group photograph measuring about 9 x 7 inches. Photographs are mounted on black paper boards with handwritten captions in white pencil and interleaved tissue guards; string bound in patterned cloth boards. The album opens in Avignon with views of St. Pierre's Church and the Palais des Papes then continues through Italy with scenes of Naples and Pompeii as well as shipboard images captioned S.S. Adriatic. Subsequent sections include Athens with views of the Parthenon followed by Constantinople where four postcards depict the harbor the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the Hagia Sophia shortly after the end of the Ottoman Empire. In British Mandate Palestine images show street scenes in Nazareth and Jerusalem including sites along the River Jordan the Western Wall and the Garden of Gethsemane alongside a captioned portrait labeled "A Jewish Maiden." The album concludes in Egypt with extensive views of archaeological and urban sites at Thebes Memphis Cairo and Luxor including the Obelisk of Hatshepsut Edfu Temple the tomb of Amenhotep II the Colossi of Memnon and the pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza where the final group portrait shows the travelers posed on camels. Produced during the interwar period the album reflects expanding international tourism networks alongside ongoing European influence in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The juxtaposition of ancient sites modern transport and local populations situates the material within broader histories of archaeology empire and travel culture in the early twentieth century. Light general wear to album and mounts; images well preserved with clear captions; overall very good condition. unknown
1900réf. 180921900. Archive of 9 stereoview photographs bearing a double 6" x 3" inch photograph showing various scenes from turn of the century Egypt. 1896-1900. Images include the Temple of Luxor village women carrying pitchers of water on their heads a caravan at the Tomb of the Khalif's the Virgin's tree and the Great Nile Bridge. Locations are marked beneath the images in text. 5 include identifying information in multiple language on verso. Most are marked "J.F.Jarvis Publisher Washington D.C" in cursive script with small black "x" mark in corner and "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood New York London Toronto Canada Ottawa Kansas." Images are clear and detailed. Most in very good condition. unknown
1885réf. 139691885. Beato Antonio. Two photographs of a Ramesses statue and monumental Egyptian architecture circa 1880s document the archaeological landscape of Upper Egypt during the expansion of commercial photography and European travel along the Nile. The images preserve the scale surface condition and immediate surroundings of ancient remains as they appeared before many subsequent excavation conservation and tourism projects altered their presentation. Their attribution to Beato connects them to a photographer who maintained a long career in Luxor and produced albumen views of Egyptian monuments for an international market supporting research into the visual reception of ancient Egypt archaeological tourism nineteenth-century photographic commerce and the documentation of historic sites. Museum collections date comparable Beato photographs of Luxor and Egyptian monuments to the 1870s and later nineteenth century. Two albumen photographs circa 1880s each measuring approximately 8½ × 10 inches and mounted recto and verso on a single 10 × 10 inch board. One photograph shows a monumental statue identified as Ramesses and bears the ink signature "A. Beato" on the image. The second presents a large Egyptian monument from a different viewpoint and appears to carry the signature "A. Beato" within the negative. The absence of more specific captions prevents a secure identification of the second structure from the available description. The paired mounting brings together two examples of Beato's emphasis on isolated architectural remains and monumental scale using the albumen process to render carved stone structural mass and the surrounding archaeological terrain with clarity. Antonio Beato worked extensively in Egypt and became particularly associated with photographic views of Luxor Karnak and nearby ancient sites; surviving institutional holdings include his photographs of Luxor Temple Karnak and the Ramesseum. Earlier scholarship sometimes confused Antonio with his brother Felice because photographs circulated under overlapping forms of the Beato name but the Egyptian subjects and "A. Beato" signatures here support attribution to Antonio whose career centered on Egypt. The mount has cockling and a bent upper corner not affecting either image; both photographs have scattered surface scratches. Photographs good mount fair. The recto-and-verso presentation offers two complementary records of ancient Egyptian monuments as they were encountered and marketed through late nineteenth-century Nile photography. unknown
1896réf. 144071896. Underwood & Underwood. Seven stereoviews of Egypt circa 1896 to 1904 record Egyptian people animals commerce Nile water gathering and ancient monuments within the American publisher's extensive photographic survey of the country. The group ranges from women drawing water from the Nile and a crowded market to the obelisk at Heliopolis and statues of Ramesses II pairing contemporary Egyptian life with the Pharaonic sites that figured prominently in Western photographic representations of Egypt. Underwood & Underwood's larger Egypt through the Stereoscope series comprised approximately 100 views produced principally between 1896 and 1904 intended to create a sequential three-dimensional photographic tour of the country. Seven original Underwood & Underwood stereoview photographs Egypt circa 1896 to 1904. Each card bears descriptive text on the verso. The subjects comprise: 1 the obelisk at Heliopolis; 2 a group of Egyptian women drawing water from the Nile; 3 an Egyptian drummer mounted on a camel with palm trees behind him; 4 a mother camel and recently born calf with the pyramids of Giza visible in the background; 5 villagers seated outside a tent captioned by the publisher "Wretchedness of the People"; 6 a large crowd gathered at a local market; and 7 statues of Ramesses II surrounded by palm trees. The views move between archaeological monuments and scenes of work transportation trade domestic life and the Nile while the stereoscopic format was designed to give viewers an illusion of spatial depth when seen through a stereoscope. Underwood & Underwood marketed stereoscopic tours as a means for audiences abroad to encounter distant countries through paired photographs and accompanying explanatory text. Institutional holdings confirm that its Egypt through the Stereoscope photographs date principally from 1896 to 1904 and encompass monuments landscapes city views people and animals. The publisher's caption "Wretchedness of the People" is particularly revealing as historical evidence of the interpretive framework imposed upon Egyptian subjects for Western consumers: rather than a neutral identification of the people pictured the wording directs the viewer toward a judgment about their material circumstances. The seven cards therefore preserve both photographic evidence of Egypt around the turn of the twentieth century and the captions through which Underwood & Underwood presented the country to its international audience. Each photograph retains descriptive text on the verso; all are in very good condition. unknown
1885réf. 140491885. Zangaki Adelphoi. Interior of the hypostyle hall at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera circa 1880s records one of Upper Egypt's major surviving temple interiors during the period when commercial photographers produced extensive visual records of Egyptian antiquities for an international audience. The Zangaki studio active in Egypt during the later nineteenth century specialized in views of archaeological sites cities landscapes and life along the Nile. This image preserves the appearance of Dendera's monumental columned interior during the same decade in which British occupation of Egypt began in 1882 and European archaeological and photographic activity in the country continued to expand. Albumen photograph circa 1880s measuring 11 x 8 inches. The view looks through the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor where massive columns rise to capitals carved with the face of Hathor. Sunlight striking the columns and upper masonry emphasizes their scale while the central perspective terminates in a small doorway opening onto a darker interior containing visible rubble. The contrast between the monumental columns and the human scale of the distant doorway gives the photograph a particularly clear record of the hall's architecture and spatial arrangement. Dendera was among the Egyptian sites repeatedly photographed by commercial studios during the nineteenth century when photographs of temples and ancient monuments circulated through the developing European and American market for archaeological and travel imagery. The period also coincided with increasing European political and financial intervention in Egypt and after 1882 British military occupation; these developments formed part of the larger colonial setting in which antiquities excavated objects and photographic records circulated abroad. Small tear near the top margin; otherwise exceptionally well preserved with the architectural details and tonal contrasts remaining clear. Overall near fine condition. unknown
réf. DADAX027041536XWentworth Press 2018-07-26. hardcover. New. 6.14x1.06x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wentworth Press hardcover
1905réf. 049551Egypt: ca. 1905 1905. Soft cover. Very Good. Original business card. 7x11 cm. Written 'Le Khedive'. Abbas Hilmi Pasha was the last Khedive Ottoman viceroy of Egypt and Sudan ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914 after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I the nationalist Khedive was removed by the British then ruling Egypt in favor of his more pro-British uncle Hussein Kamel marking the de jure end of Egypt's four-century era as a province of the Ottoman Empire which had begun in 1517. Extremely rare. See. 'Tamga pençe tugra imza' by Kologlu Orhan. p. 98. [ca. 1905] paperback
1933réf. 3730London: Macmillan. Very Good. Hardcover. Both volumes have light rubbing to extremities. Vol one has light foxing throughout and front hinge starting; Vol two has foxing to edges; Volume one has fold-out map of the region in rear. Intended as a follow-up to the Earl of Cromer's 'Modern Egypt ' Lloyd covers the fifty years since the British occupied Egypt to install a new government supposedly for their own good.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 390 418 pages . 1933. Macmillan hardcover
1905réf. 3751Chicago: Fleming H. Revell. Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light Rubbing to extremities. Binding gapping in a couple of places but holding together.; Gray boards with red lettering and a picture in silhouette of a rider on a camel; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 399 pages . 1905. Fleming H. Revell hardcover
1893réf. 21885London: J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Hinges started. Former owner's name on front free endpaper and writing on half-title page. Internally a handsome and tight copy.; Profusely illustrated. Among the most detailed descriptions about the City of the Thousand Minarets. Lane-Poole was a well-known Egyptologist and Orientalist and later also a professor at Trinity College in Dublin. Light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial design of a small passenger boat with a strange-looking sail - assumingly on the Nile. Lane-Poole was also publishing "The Story of Cairo" 1906 which is part of the renowned "Medieval Towns Series" that was popular during the turn of the century.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv 320 8 pages . 1893. J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited hardcover
1851réf. 21724New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. A very handsome and tight copy. Very light occasional foxing. Former owner's inscription on first blank page.; Full decorative calf boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt linear design. Spine with five raised boards and gilt spine decoration. All edges gilt. Decorative dentelle binding. Numerous tissue guarded b&w illustrations from beautiful steel engravings. This is a travelogue from an extensive trip up the Nile river during the times when everybody in Europe started to show interest for Egypt. The pictures include typical scenes: A street in Cairo The Bazaar A Slave Boat at Girgeh Valley of the Tombs of the Kings The Hall of Beauty in the Tomb of Pharao Seti.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages . 1851. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
réf. 21303Cairo: L. & L. Edition. Very Good. Softcover. Wraps with light rubbing to extremities. Very minor foxing to illustration pages.; A brief travel guide with a few sepia toned b&w illustrations from photographs. Rear monochrome fold-out map in red. Nd. 1930s; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 62 pages . L. & L. Edition paperback
réf. 1J85921971. Maße: ca. 18 cm x 13 cm rückseitig mit Stempel/1 Foto mit Transparentpapier zur Namenszuordnung an den oberen Rand montiert. - 1 Aufnahem zeigt Präsident Sadat / Anbei: 2 Fotos von 1967 - unknown
1892réf. 21129Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit slanted. Former owner's name on first blank page.; Decorative brown boards with gilt pictorial design of the boat. Gilt spine lettering. - A description of one of the many journeys Warner took. He was a friend of Mark Twain's and also lived in Hartford CT which used to be publisher's heaven. Not unlike Twain's writing - his books are full of anecdotes and wit.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 496 pages . 1892. Houghton and Mifflin hardcover
1909réf. 21173Leipzig Und Wien: Bibliographisches Institut. Very Good. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. A handsome and tight copy.; 11 color maps 31 plans and numerous b&w illustrations. Brown boards with blindstamped linear design. Gilt lettering and gilt spine lettering.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xiv 437 52 pages . 1909. Bibliographisches Institut hardcover
1902réf. 21105Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Usual browning and light chipping to dustjacket. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper and with a small chip. Browning to half-title page. Else a handsome and tight copy with nicely marbled edges.; With 23 maps 66 plans and 59 vignettes. Including the 1904 supplement: "The Egyptian Museum at Cairo" a 24 page pamphlet with a little bit of tanning to the covers and with a small inkstain. Both supplement and dustjacket make this copy very rare. Hinrichsen 250.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; cxcii 408 pages . 1902. Karl Baedeker hardcover
1912réf. 20435London: A & C Black. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards lightly worn. Some rubbing and fading to spine. A bit of fraying to spine ends. Hinges professionally repaired. Light foxing throughout the book and with moderate foxing to first and last few pages as well as light foxing to edges; Numerous color plates highlight this revised edition of the 1902 classic. Light blue boards with orange design. Gilt spine lettering; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages . 1912. A & C Black hardcover
1983réf. 20264Geneva: Nagel Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 61 plans in black and white 6 maps and plans in colors. Including publisher mail-in card and "note of control" card laid-in. In VG slipcase; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 815 pages . 1983. 2826307266 . Nagel Publishers hardcover
réf. 18692Boston: Dana Estes & Company. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and a bit darkened; Tourist Edition. Nd 1901 . Including Appendix consiting of letters from Assouan describing the new barrage by Dana Estes an American Tourist of 1901; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 348 pages . Dana Estes & Company hardcover
1921réf. 18312London: Thos. Cook & Son. Very Good. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Internally a nice and tight copy. Small pinhole to title page.; Fold out maps in NF condition; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xx 955 pages . 1921. Thos. Cook & Son hardcover
1882réf. 18018Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good. Hardcover. Minute tears to spine ends. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; A nice and early edition: Decorative brown boards with gilt pictorial design of the boat. Gilt spine lettering.; 8vo; 496 pages . 1882. Houghton and Mifflin hardcover
1908réf. 17408Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. Very Good-. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to spine and spine heels. Two maps detached but present. Edges a bit tanned; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 439 pages . 1908. Karl Baedeker hardcover
réf. 17501New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good. Hardcover. Later printing. ND seemingly from the 1920's.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 454 4 pages . A. L. Burt Company hardcover
1852réf. 13640New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards with light wear to extremities. Label on front endpaper. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing to first few pages; Decorative dark brown boards with gilt pictorial decoration and gilt frame; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 320 pages . 1852. Harper & Brothers hardcover
réf. 12514Paris: G. Doin & Co. . Very Good. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Tape to both endpapers; INSCRIBED by author to half-title page. DJ front bound in. No date ca. Late 30s. In French. Various newspaper clippings laid in; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 249 pages . N.D. G. Doin & Co. hardcover
