Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £260 |
PHOTOGRAPHY, IRAQ - [Title stamped in gilt on the upper cover:] Camera Studies in Iraq. Baghdad: A. Kerim & Hasso Bros., [n.d. but c.1925]. Oblong 4to (238 x 310mm). 50 monochrome photographed plates of Iraq, some with 2 or more subjects, and including 3 aerial photographs with the small printed caption "R.A.F. Official Photograph" (the sheets with very light uniform sprinkled spotting, probably an integral feature of the paper stock). Original padded album lettered in gilt, with silk thread and with "Rotophot [?]A. G. Berlin" stamped in small letters on the rear pastedown (extremities lightly rubbed). RARE.