CANARY ISLANDS - GABON -SIERRA LEONE - SENEGAL - IVORY COAST - Lot 120

CANARY ISLANDS - GABON -SIERRA LEONE - SENEGAL - IVORY COAST - CONGO - BELGIUM - FRANCE - TURKEY - GREECE - EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1900 - JORDAO DA LUZ PERESTRELLO (act.1890-1910) - ÉMILE NOAL (act.ca.1880) - JEAN-FRANÇOIS AUDEMA 1864-1921 Album of portraits and landscapes, mainly of the Canary Islands and Africa, ca.1880-1910. Photographs. Album comprising 138 period prints, mostly albumen, some captioned in the negative or in ink beneath the image, 2 with Audema's signature in the negative and 2 inscribed "Fotografia Alemana - Tenerife" in the negative. Cover damaged and spine missing. Fresh interior. Spain: Tenerife: marina, Teide peak, Spanish farmer and his bull terrier, milk merchant, washerwoman; Madeira: interior of the island, Funchal: Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption cathedral, harbor, view of the town, oxcart, men and children harvesting sugar cane, child on the side of a road, public garden, cathedral tower, bearded porters, canary dragon tree, banana trees, busy street, boats on the beach; Las Palmas; Gabon: Libreville: telegraph, mango tree alley, coconut tree promenades, Boulous and Sahouins, settlers in front of the government palace, women and children in front of a village, types, amputated man on crutches, Donguila: family and settlers in the forest; Sierra Leone: railway bridge at the gates of Freetown, Saupit Bay, crowded street at Kroo Town Road, sailboats in front of the town, women near a waterfall, French factorie, Soussou woman type, Gabonese women, Sierra Leone mulatto women, young Loangos men, young Yakomas soldiers from Haut Oubanghi, 2 different portraits of Béhanzin: King of Dahomey and his family aboard the Ségond in Dakar harbor, Béhanzin smoking, many types of women (Boulou, Gabonaise, Pabouines, Dahomean warriors, Soussou family; Ivory Coast: Anyi (Dahomean) warriors, government and courthouse; riverside village at Manji: encampment in the forest; Congo: Senegalese militiamen, banks of the Congo River (rapids in the Ongogni), Loango: colonial houses, mountains, lighthouse at Indian Point, convoy of soldiers in pirogues; Belgium: mail from England; Dunkirk: port, Sénart forest in 1900; Constantinople: Galata Tower; Greece: Salonika: block immersion; 1900 Universal Exhibition: panorama of 4 prints taken from the terrace of the Worthington Machine Pavilion, monumental gate, bas-reliefs, Blue and Light Pavilion, Cours-la-Reine greenhouses, Grand Palais, Eiffel Tower, Champ-de-Mars, Trocadéro. Images: 8.5 x 11.6 cm to 17.7 x 24 cm; album: 26.3 x 38 cm Another print of one of the two portraits of Béhanzin presented here is kept at the Musée du Quai Branly (PP0132791).