Lot 72
"Souvenir from the Orient" - Album of Photographs by Felix Bonfils - France, 1878
Souvenirs d'Orient, Album Pittoresque des sites, Villes et Ruins les plus remarquables de la Terre-Sainte / Photographié et édité par Félix Bonfils [Souvenirs from the Orient, photo album… photographed and edited by Felix Bonfils]. Alais (Alès, France). 1878.
"Souvenirs from the Orient", an album with one hundred and ten photographs from Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Turkey. The album contains 55 cardboard leaves; mounted on each leaf are two photographs, most of them titled by hand (in French). The album opens with an introduction in French by G. Charvet.
The album contains photographs of various sites in Jerusalem (Western Wall, Tower of David, Dome of the Rock, Gates of the Old City, and more), Jericho, Jaffa, Tiberias, Haifa, Cairo, Damascus, Alexandria, Athens and other towns, as well as photographs of the residents of the different towns in traditional garments (group of women in Jaffa, residents in Jerusalem, a woman from Bethlehem, Bedouins in Jericho, and more).
[2] leaves (title page and introduction), [55] leaves (two photographs on each leaf). Photographs: approx. 10X8 cm. Album: 29X16 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Slight stains and defects to some of the photographs. A number of photographs are slightly faded. Stains to album leaves. A number of leaves are partly detached. Damaged and worn binding, partly detached (spine is partly detached from album body).
