Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

[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

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT]. [Collection of twelve photographs, capturing daily life in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s].
[Saudi Arabia or Kuwait], 1954. Ca. 28.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet size: ca. 35.3 x 27.8 cm). Twelve photographic prints, all signed and dated. Housed in clear plastic folder. [12] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHARJAH]. [The Blue Souk in Sharjah].
[Sharjah, 1980]. Ca. 19.5 x 29 cm. One photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder, with a piece of cardboard for protection. 1 photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SULTAN OF LAHEJ]. [The Sultan of Lahej and his family].
[Ca. 1877]. One albumen print (ca. 18 x 21 cm). Mounted onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 23 x 29 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. [Album with photographs showing parts of Israeli captured territories including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula].
Israel, 1967. Oblong album (ca. 20 x 26 cm); photographs in slightly varying sizes (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). 44 silver gelatin photographs (including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted). Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. Full description

[POSTCARDS - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Hajj].
[Second half 20th century]. Various sizes. Four postcards and one press photograph. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [5] photographs. Full description

[PUZZLE POSTCARDS - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]. [Collection of puzzle postcards relating to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte].
[Ca. 1910]. All postcards ca. 9 x 14 cm. With 81 (hand-)coloured or black-and-white (photographic) picture postcards, including 9 duplicates. In a 20th-century ring binder with the title ("Postzegelmapje van Nederland") lettered in gold on the spine and the front, underneath a gold embossed coat-of-arms of the Netherlands. The postcards are loosely inserted in 21 translucent plastic covers. Full description

QUILLIAM, Andrew. An abridged collection of photographs, taken in various departments of some of the hospitals which I have attended whilst a student 1940-43.
[England], 1940-1943. With 137 gelatin silver prints (including many repeats) and 161 celluloid negatives, most of them measuring ca. 5.5 x 8 cm, but some larger formats. Five albums of varying sizes with photographs, one box with some loosely inserted photographs and 2 albums with negatives. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHS - IRAQ]. REYNISH, William. [Views, scenes, monuments, airplanes, military vehicles, British troops and local inhabitants].
[Iraq (plus Malta and Egypt), ca. 1928-1933]. Oblong albums (25 x 34.5 cm & 21.5 x 28.5 cm). Two albums containing about 275 silver halide photographic gelatin prints (6 x 8.5 cm to 16 x 21.5 cm) assembled and mostly taken by a British Royal Air Force pilot while stationed in Iraq and then briefly Malta, with a visit to Egypt. The photos mounted with paper corner-mounts in two contemporary cloth-covered albums, the larger with padded boards covered in alligator-skin patterned dark green cloth, with the photographs on both sides of 24 dark grey album leaves, each leaf with a glassine paper guard-leaf (embossed with a spider-web pattern) bound in before it; the smaller covered in black cloth with a grey-white bird in a cloud painted on the front board and the word "snaps", with the photographs on both sides of leaves 2-35 & 51-52 of 54 light brown album leaves. Full description

RIBOUD, Marc (photographer). [Visitors awaiting an audience with King Faisal].
[Riyadh], 1974. The sheet is ca. 33 x 47 cm. One photographic print (ca. 25.5 x 40 cm), signed by hand. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description