Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA]. [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].
[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. [12]; [12] ll. Full description

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAIT]. Dr. Midhat Sheikh-el Ard.
[Saudi Arabia?, 1930s]. One photograph (37 x 29. cm). Mounted on later beige cardboard (ca. 52 x 41 cm). [1] photograph. Full description

[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

[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