Book Description

Album of original photographs, no date, approximately 1890, consisting of 24 Sebah & Joaillier prints, a rare panorama of Corfu by Farrougia in three images, nine art photos, and three images of Switzerland by Schroeder and Co, Zurich. Album dimensions: 30cm x 24 cm, Sebah and Joaillier and Schroeder images approximately 26.5cm x 21 cm, Farrougia Corfu approximately 38cm x 10cm when assembled from the three small loose photos. Binding: contemporary half calf, spine detached, slightly worn, album pages rather browned, Sebah & Joaillier images slightly spotted, but otherwise in good condition pasted into the album. Farrougia photographs loose, in good condition, with A Farrougia Relieur de la Cour Depot de Photographies, Corfou in a blue ink stamp to verso (as usual), and a small distributors stamp Alois Beer, k.u.k. Hofphotograph, Klagenfurt to the verso of one of them, image numbers 3457, 3458, 3459 respectively, and each are titled Corfu vom Castell. The art prints are somewhat faded, loose, consisting of photographs of oil paintings, or Greek sculpture. The three Swiss views are of Oberhafen Lac de Thoune (183); Unterlaken (278), Chemin de fer funiculaire a Murren (908). A list of the Sebah and Joaillier images with the respective negative numbers where marked is as follows: 1 Interior view of the seven towers (number T8); 2 The Ambassadors Tower, seven tours (T9); 3 Panoramic view of Topkapi showing the Bosphorus (29); 4 View of the Bosphorus from the Pera Palas hotel (34); 5. Galata Bridge (13); 6. Acquaduct Valense (35); 7 Saint Sophia Mosque (99); 8 Sultan Ahmet and the Hippodrome (105); 9 Sculptured Fountain (163); 10 Tomb of the Sultan Valide (142); 11 Mansion on the Bosphorus (unnumbered); 12 Tree of the Janisseries (184); 13 Yerebatan Sarayi (201); 14 Tomb of Sultan Mahmout (269); 15 Suleymaniye Mosque interior (281); 16 Sultan Ahmet mosque interior (289); 17 Rustem Pasha Mihrab tiles (311); 18 Interior of Saint Sophie (501); 19 Bosphorus Panorama from Tophane (320); 20 Bosphorus view showing the banks on both sides (No number); 21 Saint Sophia interior (419); 22 Galata Bridge from above (no number); 23 Saint Sophia interior (484); Serpents column, Hippodrome (159). An evocative album, with some of the very finest Istanbul views that it is possible to obtain of the famous firm of Sebah and Joaillier. The small Corfu panorama is also of interest, being rather rare.
Author Sebah & Joaillier Istanbul; Farrougia Corfu; Schroeder Zurich; Alois Beer Klagenfurt
Date 1890
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Sebah and Joaillier; Farrougia; Schroeder; Alois Beer
Condition Good

Price: £1250.00

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