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From Aden to Edinburgh. An albumen album of a Grand Tour
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First edition. A lovely album, sized 28cm x 37cm. Most of the albumen photographs are sized 21cm x 27cm. Sadly, the album has no ownership details, but the first photograph is of a British ship, This is HMS Malabar, a Euphrates-class troopship which appears in several of the photographs, so we assume that our traveller was aboard this vessel. Next is a fabulous photograph of what seems to be a theatre troupe, perhaps for a fancy dress event on the cruiser, as the outfits seem to bear little connection to each other. Sadly there is nothing to identify the participants. Then follows a large photograph of Aden in the Yemen, and one of the Suez Canal from Suez itself. The following three photographs are of Port Said, at the other end of the canal. Then follow Sixteen photographs of Cairo and district, including the pyramids, mosques and including several photographs by Félix Bonfils and H Arnoux. Two of the photographs have a small area of loss where the photos have stuck together in the album, but with fairly minor loss. Included in these are a lovely photographs of date sellers and a praying man (both studio photographs by Zangaki Brothers Janos and Adelphoi) and a group of camels about to set off. We return to the Suez canal for the next photograph, where the Malabar is photographed by the Zangaki brothers. This image was lately used in the Larousse dictionary, with two more photgraphs of the Malabar on the canal. (Photographed by the Zangaki brothers). These 26 photographs make up the "Middle Eastern" portion of the album. The next photograph is of the harbour at Malta, and there are a total of nine large photographs of Malta. As an interlude is a curious photograph of a cartoon / caricature of a boat being pulled, and labelled "The Nile 1884-5." Next we find a lovely photograph of the Rock of Gibraltar from the Spanish coast and two further photographs of Gibraltar landmarks. The next stop on our journey is Norway, where there are seven photographs of Christiania (Oslo). There is a final Norwegian photograph which is a hand coloured photograph of young women in traditional Norwegian costume. Finally, the traveller returns to the United Kingdom, and arrives at the Forth Bridge and Edinburgh with two beautiful large sized photographs. Finally are seven smaller (but still very respectable) albumen photographs of Edinburgh landmarks. These each are 13cm x 21cm. So in total, we offer an album of 50 pages, containing a total of 56 albumen photographs (49 large format and seven slightly smaller). .
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