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 - PALESTINE - EGYPT]. [34 photographic prints of Egypt, Jerusalem and Turkey].
[1880-1900]. With 34 albumen prints (various sizes), of which most signed and captioned in French in the negative, several with a manuscript caption in the lower margin. The photographs are mounted on cardstock or in a passe-partout, the two largest photographs are mounted on opposite sides of the same sheet of thick cardboard. 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 - 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 - SHAH JAHAN ALBUM]. [20th-century photographic reproduction of the Shah Jahan Album].
[20th century]. 2 volumes. Folio. With 50 photographic reproductions in black and white mounted onto thick passepartout leaves, separated by thinner leaves, onto which typed descriptions are mounted. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled burgundy buckram, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the front and spine, a double fillet border on both boards, blind-tooled turn-ins, gold and burgundy floral end papers, gilt edges. [1 blank], [26], [2 blank]; [2 blank], [25], [2 blank] ll. 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 - SRI LANKA - HOSPITAL]. [Photograph of Sri Lanka's first hospital].
Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), [ca. 1893]. Photograph (10 x 14.6 cm.) on card (10.6 x 16.3 cm). Photograph (Albumen print) mounted on board (106 x162 mm), gilt edges, round corners. Advertisement of the photographer S.W. Lawton on verso, with a lady standing next to a late-19th-century camera, with the text: "Additional copies or enlargements of this Photograph can always be had", produced by Adams & Co, London. 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

[PHOTOGRAPHY - YEMEN - EGYPT]. [Album containing photographs of Yemen and Egypt].
Yemen, Egypt, and other places, ca. 1889. Oblong folio (37.8 x 28 cm). An album containing 25 albumen prints (ca. 20 x 27 cm), including 1 double page, mounted on thick card leaves, many captioned in English. Contemporary burgundy/auburn gold- and blindstamped calf (lozenge-patterned blindstamping). Re-backed with the original back strip laid down. Gold-stamped turn-ins, white watered silk endpapers, gilt edges. [26] ll. Full description