Eight original albumen photographs of Palestine & the Middle East

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Sale 466: Travel - Natural History - Medicine - Cartography (#466) 11/03/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #162Eight original albumen photographs of Palestine & the Middle East

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Sale 466: Travel - Natural History - Medicine - Cartography (#466) 11/03/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Heading:

(Photographs - Palestine)

Title:

Eight original albumen photographs of Palestine & the Middle East

Author:

Bonfils, Felix

Place Published:

[Beirut]

Date Published:

c.1880

Description:

Includes: Grotte des Jeremie et couvent Saint-Etienne a Jerusalem. * Palestine - Mont Chabot. * Groupe de Buffles. * Interior of Church, with caption illegible. * Minaret a Jerusalem. * Vue sur le lac Asphaltt(?). (tiny chips in lower edge). * Palestine vie generale de Canale Galilee. * Palestine vue de ____(?) presc de l'ouest. Together, 8 albumen photographs. Captioned and signed in the negatives. Approx. 22x28.5 cm. (8½x11"), unmounted.

Views of the Holy Land by the French photographer who transplanted himself in Beirut.

Condition:

These have never been mounted, and but for mild fading, are in unusually nice condition.

Item#:

213999

Headline:

8 albumen photographs of Palestine by Bonfils
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