{"product_id":"photo-album-with-48-original-photographs-of-egypt-1899","title":"PHOTO ALBUM WITH 48 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF EGYPT. 1899.","description":"\u003cp\u003eOblong album (21x26 cm) with 27 cardboard pages, including free fly pages. Containing 48 gelatin silver prints ca. 8x11 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary ink inscription in German on the first blank page dated «Zum 19. September 1899 ».\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary, possibly Egyptian, full calf binding (light brown with blind and gilt geometrical tooled in Arabic style) on the front board; decorative endpapers; and gilt edges .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good album. Interesting photography album by a German tourist in Egypt during his cruise up the Nile in the late 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images show the Nile banks, with small villages and numerous dahabiyas, boats, barges (ship «Assouan» belonging to the 'Cook \u0026amp; Son') and river steamers («Cleopatra» and «Cairo», the latter with the H\u0026amp;P flag on the mast).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA couple of images show the life aboard the Nile steamer in which the album compiler travelled, including an interesting scene of the souvenir trade between tourists and locals, and a group portrait of local third class passengers on the deck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also nice street views, probably of Cairo; images of the Luxor Grand Hotel and photos of the Philae Temple showing its original state before it was flooded during the construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1899-1902.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tourists pose in front of the temple with the local guides, children, or riding donkeys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral photos portray local farmers, horse and camel riders, boaters, women, etc..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album ends with a portrait of the tourists posing in front of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbec, Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garimpo dos Livros","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58295740367180,"sku":"1504JC015","price":24000.0,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1066\/5617\/0316\/files\/1504JC015_1.jpg?v=1785850381","url":"https:\/\/garimpodoslivros.com.br\/products\/photo-album-with-48-original-photographs-of-egypt-1899","provider":"Garimpo dos Livros","version":"1.0","type":"link"}