Art, Architecture & Photography / Photography

[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]. [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

[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 - 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