[ Photographs ] Frith, Francis "Sinai and Palestine," vol. I "Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids," vol. II "Upper Egypt and Ethiopia," vol. III. Together 3 volumes, each illustrated with 37 mounted albumen photographs by Frith, for a total of 111

[ Photographs ] Frith, Francis "Sinai and Palestine," vol. I "Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids," vol. II "Upper Egypt and Ethiopia," vol. III. Together 3 volumes, each illustrated with 37 mounted albumen photographs by Frith, for a total of 111 plates and accompanying text leaves. Albumen prints, 6.5 x 9inches or the reverse, several signed in the negative, with a printed title on mount recto. Folio, vol. I bound in gilt-stamped full red morocco; vol. II bound in quarter green morocco; and vol. III bound in 2 parts with half red morocco, corners bumped, scuffed; signature on front endpaper of vol. I; light foxing to mounts in vols. I and III, photographs crisp and clean. London, Glasgow & Edinburgh: William Mackenzie, [1863] E15000-25000 A Bright, Rich Series Of Prints Of The Middle East and North Africa. A citation for this set appears in Helmut Gernsheim's Incunabula Of British Photographic Literature, 1839-1875, #195, p. 38 According to Gernsheim "The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition having been gold-toned." With - "Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt. "A series of 60 photographic views by Francis Frith, with descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. "Albumen prints, 6 x 9inches or the reverse, several signed in the negative, with a printed title on mount recto. Folio, gilt-stamped quarter green morocco, corners bumped; light foxing on mounts, photographs crisp and clean. See also Gernsheim, S Incunabula, 129 London & New York, [1860]