ALGERIA. PHOTOGRAPHIES. - Lot 131

ALGERIA. PHOTOGRAPHIES. [LEROUX, Alexandre]. [Composite album of picturesque views]. S.n.n.d., [ca 1890-1900]. Small oblong folio (ca. 25 x 34 cm.). Contemporary brown Russian half-leather with corners, boards outlined with a cold fillet, smooth muted spine decorated with gilt roulettes, contemporary Japanese-style embossed paper boards with floral motifs, red edges (some photos a little faded). A handsome album of 39 silver or black albumen prints, mounted on strong cardboard and mounted on tabs. It opens with 25 views of Algiers, its surroundings or its inhabitants, taken by Alexandre Leroux (1836-1912), an Orientalist photographer who lived until his death in Algeria and specialized in the region, with title and signature engraved in the negative "par Leroux à Alger, vues d'Alger et ses environs" (ca. 20 x 25, 5 cm or 23 x 28 cm). View of the port, Notre-Dame d'Afrique, quays, Governor's palace, Rue Kléber, Café maure, interior of El-Kebir mosque, mosques, the Kasbah, official monuments, Koranic school, Arab riders, Algerian or Moorish types, women in m'rama haik. Complemented by various views, mainly of the European Alps: -" C. J. Photo", Vésubie valley (Provencal Alps), 3 albumen prints with mountain views and Baroque church interiors (21 x 27, 5 cm), titles and signature in lower margin (slight defects including a small angular lack). -SWITZERLAND. "Edit Photoglob" in French or German. Several silver prints in black, including Einsiedeln Abbey, the Jungfrau, a village near Lake Como... -A black photograph titled "Gebr. Wehrli Kilchberg Zurich 6129 Nicolo d'un Villagio dell'Lago di Como". Rurality, with modestly dressed men and women in an old village (ca. 1880-1890). Filled with 2 large albumen prints (20 x 27 cm) of the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine), exterior and interior with the great pulpit, and 2 very large old black heliogravure postcards (23 x 28 cm) of panoramic views of Grenoble (printed on reverse, left blank).