Photograph album – Algeria and Tunisia 1890, 40 x 29,5 cm, contemporary half shagreen
Album of 100 original photographs, contemporary albumen prints. 72 signed by Alexandre Leroux or Charles Albert as well as a caption, 28 unsigned. 4 photographs of Tunisia, the others representing Algeria.Contemporary binding in half cloth and black shagreen, spine embellished with quintuple gilt fillets.
Each photograph mounted on guarded cards. Cards slightly yellowed in margins. Series of portraits and landscapes taken in Algiers, El Kantara, Biskra, Sidi Okba, Chellala, Batna, Lambaesa, Tebessa, in the Sahara desert, and in the ruins of Timgad and Tunis.