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REFERENCE LIBRARY – ORIENTAL CARPETS & RUGS
Approximately 400 volumes published between 1902 and 2006 in various European languages (mostly English and German)
This rich reference library on oriental carpets comprises around 400 volumes and is now for sale in its entirety.
In addition to numerous handbooks and monographs, this reference collection also contains a range of important exhibition and auction catalogues. Most of the titles contain large-format colour illustrations, maps and tables. The condition is very good.
The collection focuses on the varieties, production methods and history of oriental carpets over the centuries. Countries and regions of origin covered are Pe...
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Lekegian, Bonfils, et al.
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE OF CAIRO (1890/1900)
Album with 96 photos exclusively on Islamic Architecture, mainly by Lekegian and Bonfils.
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
Focus of this album is exclusively on Islamic Architecture of Cairo. It’s mosques are in the center of interest of the collector: Abu Bakr Mosque, Amr Mosque, Mosque of Ibrahim , Al-Azhar Mosque, Mosque of Barquq, Qalawun Mosque, Mosque of al-Burdayni, Qayt Bey Mosque, Ibn Touloun Mosque, Sultan Hassan Mosque, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Mamlouk Tombes in the City of the Dead. Further a number of views on Bab-el-Wazir, Souk el Selah, Darb el Labban, Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, Church of St. Barbara in Old Cairo. 96 s...
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Beato, Bonfils, Lehnert & Landrock, et al.
PHARAONIC MONUMENTS IN CAIRO AND UPPER EGYPT (1890/1900)
Album with 82 photos, half of which by Beato, Bonfils and Lehnert & Landrock, c. 1890-1900
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
Focus of this album is exclusively on Pharaonic monuments in Cairo and Upper Egypt. 82 splendid, mostly large format photographs (mostly c. 20 x c. 26 cm) are in excellent condition. Of the photographs 41 are by Beato, Bonfils and Lehnert & Landrock. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproduction of each motif in high resolution (approx. 2 MB per item)....
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ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN USBEKISTAN c. 1930
Lot of 15 Photographs taken in Samarkand, Bukhara, and Taschkent
Picture size between 8 x 11.1 cm and 16.5 x 12 cm
c. 1930
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
Rare pictures from architectural sites in Samarkand, Taschkent and Bukhara such as the Madrasah at Registan square in Samarkand or the mosque in Bukhara. Some pictures verso with stamps in Cyrillic. The collection is conservationally processed for archival purposes and is stored in PAT material (photographic activity tested): - Original photos mounted on carton (acid-free, unbuffered, PAT) - Each photo in acid-free sleeve (PAT) - Stored in photographic archive boxes (acid-free, unbuffered, PAT) - Digital reproduction i...
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Lehnert & Landrock
GRANDE TOUR AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN: Gibraltar, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Malta
Collection of 37 vintage prints by Lehnert & Landrock
Taken between 1910 and 1930.
Size of photos: 17 x 12.8 cm
c.1910-1930
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
This very well preserved collection of 41 vintage prints by the famous photographers Lehnert & Landrock covers many well-known sujets in the Mediterranean. Lehnert & Landrock was based in Tunis before WW I and moved to Cairo after the war. The foremost interests of Lehnert and Landrock were in the Maghreb and North Africa. However they covered the whole range of sites in southern Europe and around the Mediterranean. The collection is conservationally processed for archival purposes and is stored in PAT material (p...
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ALGERIA IN THE 1880s
Photos taken in Stora, Biskra, Tlemcen, Mansoura, Algiers, and Tunis
55 Albumen Prints in Album (36 x 26.5 cm)
Picture size c. 17 x 28 cm
1880s
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
This well preserved heavy album with 55 mainly private albumen prints covers among others sujets at Tlemcen, Biskra, Algiers and in the countryside. The photographer had a good eye for composition and framing and a special interest in some unusual subjects such as the Trappist monastery in Staouli or the house of Lady Tennison, who was an English painter and well-known traveller. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproductio...
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BAALBEK, DAMASCUS, TRIPOLI IN 1932
Private Album of French Army Officer with 99 vintage prints
Size: 24 x 18 cm
1932
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
The album contains 99 pictures which, in addition to illustrative scenes from army and camp life, mainly contain impressions of excursions to Baalbek, Damascus and Tripoli with numerous details. The unknown photographer seems to have had a keen interest in archaeological sites. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproduction of each motif in high resolution (approx. 2 MB per item)....
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Philips Demonstration Tour "La voix du géant" – Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, 1930
Photographic diary of 89 concerts and demonstrations in three months on a tour over 9000 km through the three Maghreb countries
Our offer includes original photos, their digital reproduction, and cataloguing data. Reproduction and description of each photo as on the flyer.
Presumably an internal documentation of a promotion tour of the Philips company for a radio and speakers system called "La voix du géant". Stops of the tour through Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia from end of February til May 1930 are meticuously recorded in the form of a diary. Daily handwritten entries are accompagnied by photographs, newspaper clippings and other original documents. The promotional events (“concerts“) in the various towns and villages are documented, as are the locations themselves. For cata...
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