MADAGASCAR - SUEZ CANAL - ZANGAKI BROTHERS (act. 1870-1915) - Lot 138

MADAGASCAR - SUEZ CANAL - ZANGAKI BROTHERS (act. 1870-1915) Album presenting views of Madagascar and the Suez Canal, ca.1880-1890. Photographs. Album comprising 47 prints, including 33 silver prints, 14 albumen prints (9 of which are signed and titled in the negative by Zangaki) and 2 photogravures from a portfolio by John Stoddard. Chaise à porteurs, port, seaside, huts, Malagasy types, headdresses, war memorial, Queen's palace in Antananarivo, group portraits, colonist on bicycle, women of the Betsimisaraka tribe, harvest, camels; Port-Saïd, Saladin's citadel in Cairo, Suez Canal : Canal Company offices, ships stopped at Port-Saïd due to dredging, English transport, Ferdinand de Lesseps square, Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, Port-Saïd lighthouse. Images: 17 x 11.6 cm to 22.3 x 27.7 cm; album: 27.4 x 37 cm