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Late 19th-century album with beautiful photographs of Jerusalem

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JERUSALEM]. [Photo album of Jerusalem].
[Jerusalem?, late 19th century]. Ca. 20 x 15 cm. With 20 albumen prints (each ca. 5.5 x 8.5 cm). Later black shark (?) leather. [10] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Islamic Art, Culture & Science Photography

Two beautiful, large portraits of king Faisal of Saudi Arabia

[PHOTOGRAPHY - KING FAISAL]. [King Faisal].
[Ca. 1970]. Ca. 40 x 30.5 cm. Two large photographic prints. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography Saudi Arabia

Photographs and illustrations of a British warship's travels in Latin America

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Argentina Brazil Drawings & Watercolours Naval History North Africa & Egypt Photography South America Travel & Voyages South America UK - United Kingdom

Beautiful action shot from the Lawrence of Arabia movie

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA]. [Lawrence of Arabia].
[Ca. 1962]. One glossy photograph (ca. 20 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

€ 350

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography Saudi Arabia UK - United Kingdom

Rare late 19th-century photograph of Arabic men praying outside

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Arabic men praying outside].
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 22.5 x 27.5 cm). Tipped onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 40 x 30 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

€ 200

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Islam & Qurans Photography

Military snapshots from the early 1920s, showing daily life in the Middle East during a time of British rule

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Collection of eleven snapshots from the Middle East].
[Iraq?, early 1920s]. With 11 snapshots (all ca. 6 x 9 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [11] photographs. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Military History (20th Century) Photography UK - United Kingdom

Remarkable collection of photographs from Palestine in the 1940s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - LEBANON - EGYPT]. [Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].
[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board. [17] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus North Africa & Egypt Photography

Remarkable portrait of a Bedouin

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAIT]. [Arabic Bedouin].
[1935]. One photographic print (ca. 30.5 x 23.5 cm), signed and dated. Mounted on beige cardboard (ca. 33.5 x 25.5 cm), with a gold-coloured border around the photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder. [1] photograph. Full description

€ 500

Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography

Celebrations in 19th-century Moscow: photographic prints showing an Imperial coronation
and the consecration of a cathedral

[PHOTOGRAPHY - RUSSIA - MIECZKOWSKI, Jan]. [Collection of photographic prints depicting Moscow during the coronation of Alexander III & Maria Feodorovna and the consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in May 1883].
[Russian Empire (probably Warsaw in present-day Poland)], Mechkovsky (= Jan Mieczkowski), [1883]. 9 photographic prints mounted on large white paper boards, captioned in Russian above and below the image. Kept together in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

€ 18,000

Photography Russia (incl. Siberia)

Beautiful photographs from the 1930s, showing important Saudi Arabian leaders during diplomatic visits to Europe

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Collection of thirteen press photographs].
[1930s]. With 13 gelatin silver prints (various sizes). Housed in a brown kraft paper envelope. [13] photographs. Full description

€ 1,250

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Photography

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