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Rare photographic documentation of the very beginnings of the Egyptian oil industry

ZANGAKI BROTHERS and others (photographers). [Cover title:] Egypte.
[Egypt, ca. 1870-1913]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 41 cm). With 83 albumen prints, of which 2 folding panorama photographs, 17 signed and numbered in the negative by the Zangaki brothers, and 66 larger prints of the oil industry. Contemporary embossed brown cloth (made to imitate reptile skin), with the title blind-tooled on the front board, decorative paper endpapers. [42], [8 blank] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Unique panoramic photographs of Zanzibar and Madagascar in 1900

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ZANZIBAR - MADAGASCAR - MAYOTTE]. [Album with unique panoramic photographs of Zanzibar and Madagascar].
[Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mayette, 1900]. Oblong album (25 x 34 cm) with 47 silver gelatin photographic prints, many with handwritten captions in French. The photographs vary in size from 8 x 5.5 cm to 27 x 20.5 cm. The 30 panorama photographs measure 5.5 x 17.5 cm. Brown cloth album made by M. Andouard in Paris, decorated endpapers. 10, [10 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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