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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Photography
Aden, Yemen
- 1,500.00€
- Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century
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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Photography
CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
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- Maps and Prints, Photography
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY / IRAQ / ENGINEERING
- 2,200.00€
- Rare documentary photographs of the inaguration of the Hindiya Barrage, south of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1891 with Arabic, Ottoman and European participants of the project. 4 photographs: albumen prints, 1 image: circa 11 x 16,5 cm (4.3 x 6.5 inches), 3 images: circa 12 x 17 cm (4.7 x 6.7 inches), contemporary mounted on thick cards: 22 x…
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- Photography
Josip Broz-Tito: 4 original photographs, ca 1950 -1978.
- 350.00€
- A set of original fotos of Yugoslavian president Josib-Broz-Tito was made by Yugoslav official photographers, for the central agency, which distributed the copies to the national and international newspapers.
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Photography
ORIENATLISM IN PRAGUE: Linguistische Verein in Prag [Linguistic Society in Prague]
- 550.00€
- A photograph of today little known Prague-based Linguistic Society, joining the prominent Austro-Hungarian researchers of Africa, as well as Indian, Arabic and Classical languages. Gelatin silver photo, contemporary mounted on thick card, manuscript numbers recto in margin, black manuscript in black ink and pencil on the back, 12 x 16,5 cm (4.7 x 6.5 inches), (minor foxing verso,…
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- Maps and Prints, Photography
PERSIA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE / PHOTOGRAPHY TRADE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- 1,800.00€
- A set of three photographs, made in the Ottoman Empire, but distributed by a photographic studio Joseph (Papazian) from Iran, touches a little researched subject of documentary photography trade in the Middle East in the late 19th century. The motifs of the photographs concentrate on the formation of controversial Hamidiye Cavalry, which was at the time responsible for the…
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- Maps and Prints, Photography
SOUTH AFRICA / PHOTOGRAPHY / SIEGE OF MAFEKING / BADEN-POWELL, FOUNDER OF THE BOY SCOUTS: Collection of 37 Glass Photographic Slides of the Siege of Mafeking (1899 – 1900).
- 2,800.00€
- A fascinating and lovely artefact from the Siege of Mafeking (1899 - 1900), the highest profile event of the Second Anglo-Boer War and one of the greatest global media spectacles of the fin de siècle era, being a set of 37 diapositive glass photographic slides made from contemporary photos apparently by Frank Whiteley, the Mayor of Mafeking and one…
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