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Original Photo Album of Eighty-Six Albumen Views of Egypt by Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers

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Title: Original Photo Album of Eighty-Six Albumen Views of Egypt
Author: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good-
Description: Cairo: Lekegian and Zangaki, 1880. Very Good-. [Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned in image. Album rather worn with spine mostly detached and frayed, corners bumped with some exposure, otherwise Good to Very Good, images all bright and fine. Substantial album of photographic portraits and views produced by two of the most prestigious studios operating in Cairo in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The majority of the images (seventy-three in all) were produced by Gabriel Lekegian (ca. 1853-1920), an Armenian-born artist who first began his career in Constantinople as a water-colorist before setting up a professional photography studio shrewdly located across the street from the Shepherd's Hotel in Cairo's European District. (In fact the earliest image in this album is of the facade of the bustling Hotel). As well as producing images to quench the colonialist thirst of the tourist trade, Lekegian is today remembered for his modernist tendency to portray the everyday: the peasants, the workers, the women and children of Cairo. One researcher has written "His subjects were perhaps more multifarious and diverse than any other photographer working in Egypt at the time" (Armenian Photographer Foundation).The remaining thirteen images signed in image by the Zangaki Brothers, Greek Cypriots who, like Lekegian, discovered the fruits of the tourist photograph trade and opened their own studio in Cairo contemporaneously with their Armenian competitor, producing "some of the finest images of late Victorian Egypt" ("Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography," p. 1521). The album is a valuable display piece of both quotidian Victorian Cairo and its ancient environs, capturing its most destitute inhabitants as well as the monuments that brought the European tourists in by droves. Recognizable landmarks pictured here include the Pyramids and the partially uncovered Sphinx, the Mosque of Mohammad Ali, the Khalifa Tombs, the Obelisks of Heliopolis, the bas reliefs of the Temple of Rameses, the Colossi of Memnon, Luxor Temple, and Karnak.

1895 Military Equipment and Uniform Catalog, Documenting U.S. Army Uniform Styles of the 19th Century by Military Equipment and Uniform

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Title: 1895 Military Equipment and Uniform Catalog, Documenting U.S. Army Uniform Styles of the 19th Century
Author: Military Equipment and Uniform
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1895. [Military][Americana] Military Equipments and Uniforms catalogue from 1895, presents an illustrated commercial record of American military dress and ceremonial regalia during the late nineteenth century when militia culture, fraternal organizations, and civic pageantry formed a visible part of urban public life. Issued in San Francisco by one of the leading West Coast manufacturers of military and society goods, the catalogue documents the equipment and decorative elements associated with officers' uniforms, militia dress, and ceremonial attire shortly after the United States Army adopted new uniform regulations in April 1895. The publication reflects the broader culture of uniformed display that characterized the Gilded Age, when volunteer militia units, police departments, veterans' groups, and fraternal societies relied on specialized manufacturers to produce the elaborate insignia and regalia that signaled rank, affiliation, and civic authority. Pasquale, B. Military Equipments and Uniforms. Catalogue 50. San Francisco: B. Pasquale & Sons, 1895. First edition. Green cloth spine over elaborately lithographed pictorial wrappers with engraved illustrations throughout. The catalogue contains extensive engraved illustrations depicting helmets for line officers and enlisted personnel, swords and scabbards, epaulettes, aiguillettes, silk sashes, and other accoutrements associated with American military and ceremonial dress. Additional sections display decorative elements including "gold and silver trimmings," guidons, chevrons, and buttons used across military and paramilitary uniforms. The lithographed wrappers prominently advertise the firm's specialization in "Military, Naval, Theatrical and Society Goods," indicating the company's role in supplying uniforms not only to military officers but also to civic groups, police departments, theatrical productions, and fraternal lodges. Founded in 1856, B. Pasquale & Sons became a prominent supplier of uniforms and regalia throughout California and the Pacific Coast during a period when local militia units and ceremonial organizations were prominent features of public life. Trade catalogues such as this served both as sales tools and as visual references for uniform design during a time when military dress incorporated highly decorative elements influenced by European traditions of martial display. On the American West Coast these publications also documented the growth of specialized manufacturing industries that supplied military and ceremonial goods to expanding urban institutions. Light edge wear and corner chipping to wrappers with small loss to the upper front cover and minor marginal soiling; interior pages show scattered foxing and mild toning but remain bright and structurally sound. Overall very good condition. Because such catalogues were privately printed and produced for commercial distribution, relatively few survive, particularly those issued in San Francisco before the destruction of large portions of the city's commercial district in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Sun-Ray Hair Preparation. Notice to Drug Stores and Agents...One of the Best Known for Colored People [caption title] by [African Americana]: [Beauty]: [Oklahoma]

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Title: Sun-Ray Hair Preparation. Notice to Drug Stores and Agents...One of the Best Known for Colored People [caption title]
Author: [African Americana]: [Beauty]: [Oklahoma]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Oklahoma City, 1943. Very good.. Broadsheet, approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. With original mailing envelope. Original folds, light toning and wear. A rare advertising circular issued by Sun-Ray Hair Preparation, an African-American beauty supply company based in Oklahoma City. The circular features illustrations and brief descriptions for three main products -- a "Hair Dressing Comb," a "Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb" (available in both metal and wooden handles), and a "Curling Iron" aimed at African-American women ("Every woman has to have a curling iron and this one will give you service and satisfaction"). The verso of the broadsheet is an order form which is filled out in ink pen by a woman in Independence, Kansas who ordered a hair dressing comb and "hair pressers." Both the circular and the original transmittal envelope include the name of the company agent, M.F. Luster. OCLC lists just a single copy of this circular, in a small collection of Sun-Ray material located at the Hagley Museum.

Prince Albert and Victorian Taste by AMES, Winslow

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Title: Prince Albert and Victorian Taste
Author: AMES, Winslow
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: near fine
Description: New York, 1968. hardcover. near fine/very good. Many b/w illus. 238pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth, d.w. New York, (1968).

Chronicles: The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, 1889-1964. by Bethesda-by-the-Sea.

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Title: Chronicles: The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, 1889-1964.
Author: Bethesda-by-the-Sea.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Bethesda-by-the-Sea, 1964. Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illustrated boards), 216 pp. Fine. Illustrated with numerous photographs.

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