PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DOCUMENTING A JOURNEY THROUGH EGYPT

Original photograph album containing 30 silver gelatine prints. Oblong (24 x 11cm), bound in full contemporary navy textured cloth. Red-stain to the textblock edges. The 30 photographs in an unusual panoramic format (17.5 x 5.7 cm) tipped on to the recto of each page. The album is complete (with three unused pages at the rear) and in very good condition; the binding is firm with the odd minor mark. The contents, slightly bowed, with a little toning, the odd faint spot of foxing and an occasional touch of wear to the edges of a small number of photographs are otherwise in very good order. A very well preserved album, with the photographs remaining clean and sharp.

A most attractive turn of the century photograph album documenting a journey through Egypt and along the Nile, containing beautifully composed panoramic images capturing famous sites and many scenes of local Egyptian life and native peoples. Included are photographs of markets, groups of Nubian children, nomads with their camels and tents, cattle and herdsmen, an uncommon shot of a travelling amusement park, a train steaming through the desert, a bustling Tell El Kebir railway station, donkey racing, ancient sites (such as the Giza pyramids), Port Said harbour, the Aswan Dam and the flooding of the Philae Temple, amongst others. Due to their breadth in terms of both size and subject matter, the collection forms a wonderfully atmospheric exploration of Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century.