INDOCHINA - HONG-KONG - INDIA - EGYPT - TURKEY - ALGERIA - M - Lot 33

INDOCHINA - HONG-KONG - INDIA - EGYPT - TURKEY - ALGERIA - MARTINIQUE - GABON - SENEGAL - WEST INDIES - CARTES DE VISITE Album featuring carte-de-visite portraits, 1864-1899. Gabon: men in front of their house, women and drumstick, Gabonese women holding spears, portrait of young man; Senegal: woman and child, portrait of woman; West Indies: woman with flowered hat; Indochina: portraits of European men and women, Saigon, Indochinese soldier in French army uniform, Europeans dozing on armchairs, portraits of men, women, religious, colonist. Photographs. Album comprising 45 carte-de-visite format albumen prints mounted on cardboard by Blaise 1824-1906 & Félix Bonnevide 1857-1935, Émile Gsell 1838-1879, Studio Pun Lun (act.1864-1907), Jean Cigala, Trill & Co, Pascal Sébah 1823-1886, G.Dautez (act.1870-1880), Abdullah Frères, C.Moyne (act.1865), Alary et Geiser, Nesme et Coulon, Nisme, Franck, C.L. Bonnemer, Hippolyte Hartmann 1818-1902, F. Cochet et Roger Budan 1856-1902. Black embossed cover with escutcheon on 1st plate marked J.M. in gilt lettering, brass clasp. Attached is a business card from Eugène Blanc, importer of Brazilian coffees, with pencil sketches of a sailboat on verso. Images: approx. 8.5 x 5.2 cm; mounts: approx. 10.5 x 6.2 cm; album: 15.7 x 23.2 cm