INDOCHINA - CAMBODIA - ITALY - ÉMILE GSELL 1838-1879 - GIORG - Lot 17

INDOCHINA - CAMBODIA - ITALY - ÉMILE GSELL 1838-1879 - GIORGIO SOMMER 1834-1914 Album "Mes Voyages" by a Frenchman in Indochina, Cambodia, Angkor Wat temple, Cyprus, Italy, Naples, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, ca. 1879. Photographs. Album with approx. 109 albumen prints, some with captions, including approx. 55 by Émile Gsell, some by Giorgio Sommer, 1 by Comianos et Sarolidis, 2 by Félix Bonfils, 1 by Émile Béchard, 1 by Roberto Rive. Advertising photography by "Gsell Photographe Saigon" consisting of a jumble of portraits and views, Cyprus Leykosia, Athens, Italy: Pompeii, Naples, Panorama; Egypt: Cairo, Arrival of the Prince of Wales at Port Said, Moses Fountain, Suez Canal, Pyramids and Sphix of Giza, Palanquin, Aden, Baalbek; Ceylon: Jaffna-Tamil types in traditional costume, Colombo harbor, outrigger pirogue, Kandy, Singapore; Indochina: Avalanche River, Saigon harbor, the market, Governor General's palace, notable of Annam, types, musicians, mandarin hands, inauguration of the monument to the memory of Charles Rigault de Genouilly admiral of France on February 17, 1879; Cambodia: Angkor-Vat, the esplanade, panorama, exterior view of the bas-relief gallery and the west-façade staircase, south façade, third-floor courtyard, Ballambang province, Tuctio bridge, sculptures and details of Angkor Wat, Groups of idols at the end of the main gallery, pirogue race, map of Angkor Wat, signal mast in Saigon's commercial port, Naples, Strada del Chiatamone, Largo del Plebiscito, Lago d'Agnano, Caserta, Cloister of San Martino, Ponte della Maddelelan, Pompeii tombs. Images: 9.5 x 5.5 cm to 20 x 27 cm; album: 31 x 43 cm