Gabriel Legekian, Pascal Sebah, Paul Dittrich PHOTOGRAPHS,... Lot 5

Gabriel Legekian, Pascal Sebah, Paul Dittrich PHOTOGRAPHS, VIEWS AND PORTRAITS OF EGYPT, AROUND 1895 Two oblong albums, red edges, beige-red mottled cloth covers, 96 albumen prints in all (44 + 52), generally 270 x 210 mm, 65 signed in the negatives "G. Legekian & Cie", 18 signed "P. ?Dittrich", 4 signed "J.P. Sebah" and 5 uncredited. Classic subjects for albums intended for travelers who have now become "?tourists?" : Cheops pyramid, Nile banks, Sultan Hassan mosque, Citadel, Seideh-Zeineb mosque, Soute el silah street, Arab cemetery, Cairo railway station, Kasr el Nil bridge, caliphs' tombs, Bab-el-Vazir street, Mohamed Ali mosque, mosque and tomb of Kaït-Ber, Shepheards Hotel, Savoy Hotel, Sphinx, Darb-el-Gamani street, Arab singer, veiled Turkish lady, Bedouin, journey of a bride on a camel, transport of straw on the Nile, child leading buffaloes to the pasture. Paul Dittrich (1868-1939) was an Austrian photographer who settled in Egypt in 1894. He took over Ignaz Heyman's studio in Cairo. Dittrich was one of the official photographers of the Egyptian Court