[Africa] Autour du Monde 1911-1912. Afrique: Egypte-Soudan - Canal de Suez - Somalis

Album w. 49 mounted albumen photographs of var. sizes, 88 (col.) picture postcards, a few menu-cards and some other mounted items. Orig. gilt-lettered leather, obl. large folio (43.5 x 60 cm). Exposed to fire and firefighting water at the fore-edge throughout (bookblock cut short by removal part of that outer margin), affecting the binding, the board lvs of the album and the mounted items at that place. A number of items crudely removed from the album. Sold w.a.f.

Originally part of a set of at least four de luxe albums documenting a tour around the world in 1911–1912. Other volumes from the same set, sold by us in December 2015, showed comparable fire damage, suggesting that the albums were affected by the same incident.