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Middle East photography-The Mohammed B. Alwan collectionPhotographs of the Near and Middle East, 1860s to c. 1930s Collection of over 4,800 photographs, including albumen and silver prints, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and glass magic lantern slides, comprising: INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHS:Near and Middle East. c. 2,300 photographs (mostly 200 x 260mm., or the reverse), mostly albumen prints, some photochroms and collotypes, together with some cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, housed in 43 modern black fabric portfoliosNear and Middle East, c. 74 cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and smaller photographs of the Middle East, Egypt, Turkey, the Caucasus and Persia, housed in a modern blue ringbinder folder, and sleeveTurkey—Collection of 25 Ottoman cartes-de-visite, [c. 1870s-80s], comprising 19 albumen print cartes-de-visite portraits of Ottoman officials and military figures, including 15 by B. Kargopoulo, one by R. Caracachian, and one by P. Sebah, together with 6 others, in a modern ringbinder album, some mounts slightly trimmed, occasional slight wear PANORAMAS:Jerusalem, 3-part panorama (overall 210 x 820mm.), 3 albumen prints, circa 1870, joined and backed on linen, captioned in the image in the central image “Panorama de Jerusalem”, mounted in nineteenth-century olive wood binding, slightly faded, covers detachedConstantinople--Pascal Sebah 8-part albumen print panorama of Constantinople, c. 1880s (each print 260 x 340mm.), individually mounted on card (not joined), preserved in a modern black card box, slight wear to mounts PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS:Palestine and the Mediterranean. Album of photographs of a Mediterranean voyage and travels in the Holy Land, 1925, oblong folio (250 x 300mm.), approximately 400 silver prints (72 x 124mm., or the reverse), mounted on card, recto and verso, most with typed captions pasted on the mounts, including views of Egypt (38), Jerusalem and Palestine (74), Syria (20), Constantinople (18), Smyrna, Patmos, Cyprus, Malta (8), Athens (18), and Naples, Pompeii and the Amalfi coast (28), Rome (26), Florence, and Venice, original textured brown cloth, one mount detached, some wear and minor tearsPalestine and Constantinople. Album of photographs of the Holy Land and Constantinople, [late nineteenth and early twentieth century], 4to album (280 x 210mm.), 46 photographs (from 80 x 90mm. to 190 x 230mm., or the reverse), mostly topographical views of the Holy Land, some portraits, and 5 of Constantinople by P. Sebah, loose in plastic album sleeves, modern ring-bound brown card covers, minor wearMediterranean. Album of 39 photographs of a voyage in the Mediterranean, [twentieth century], oblong folio (230 x 370mm.), 39 silver prints (150 x 230mm., or the reverse), including images of Jerusalem, Istanbul, the Suez canal, and Venice, corner mounted, mostly recto and verso, cloth spine, lacking covers, some stains to mountsNorth Africa. Album of seven photographs, [c. 1880s], oblong folio (272 x 340mm.), 7 albumen prints (160 x 220mm., or the reverse), mounted on card, recto only, including a view of Gibraltar and 6 views in North Africa, cloth spine, without covers, view of Gibraltar rather spotted and stainedEgypt. Album of one hundred and eight photographs, [c.1890], oblong folio (260 x 360mm.), 108 photographs (224 x 278mm., or the reverse), mounted on card, recto and verso, mostly albumen prints, by various photographers and publishers, including Bonfils, Zangaki, Schroeder & Co., Photoglob, contemporary black roan-backed cloth boards, some fading, binding rather rubbedAlgergia and Tunisia. A pair of photograph albums of North Africa, [c. 1890], 2 volumes, 4to (313 x 225mm.), over 180 photographs (from 90 x 95mm. to 275 x 212mm., or the reverse) of Algeria and Tunisia, most full-page albumen prints, mounted on card, recto and verso, many with detailed manuscript ink notes on the mounts, contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, fading to images, occasional spottingEgypt, India, Burma, Penang