Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - July - 2008 Issue
Vintage Travel Photography From Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books
A young Burmese woman, seven Chinese girls, and the Sahara Desert.
Item 64 is a young Egyptian woman, also from around 1870, photographed by Pascal Sebah. Her eyes are those of beauty, but that beauty remains a mystery, as the rest of her features are covered by a veil. £2,000 (US $3,908).
There is nothing quite so stark as the Sahara. Item 67 is a circa 1920 photo from Lehnert and Landrock of the rolling dunes, void of life except for the camel riders peering off in the distance. £1,500 (US $2,931).
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books may be reached at +44 (0)20 7493 0876 or [email protected]. Their website is www.shapero.com.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
