3rd Dec, 2025 11:00

Photographs, Optical Toys & Science

 
  Lot 31
 

Bonfils Albumen Prints of Palestine

8 albumen prints, size 220x280mm and 1 albumen 170x220mm, showing scenes in Palestine, 7 inscribed "Bonfils" with negative number in the print.

Including

Bonfils no.190 Jerusalem Village de Siloe (Palestine)

No.60 Ruins of Jericho, no.67 Tiberius, no.202 Hebron, no.32 Mount of Olives, no.31 and no.65 Mount Tabor and 2 others, not inscribed Bethlehem and no.132 Dead Sea.

Maison Bonfils was a Beirut based photographic company, run by Frenchman Felix Bonfils with his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis Bonfils and son, Adrien. The studio produced thousands of views in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Greece.

Sold for £138

Result including buyers premium


 

8 albumen prints, size 220x280mm and 1 albumen 170x220mm, showing scenes in Palestine, 7 inscribed "Bonfils" with negative number in the print.

Including

Bonfils no.190 Jerusalem Village de Siloe (Palestine)

No.60 Ruins of Jericho, no.67 Tiberius, no.202 Hebron, no.32 Mount of Olives, no.31 and no.65 Mount Tabor and 2 others, not inscribed Bethlehem and no.132 Dead Sea.

Maison Bonfils was a Beirut based photographic company, run by Frenchman Felix Bonfils with his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis Bonfils and son, Adrien. The studio produced thousands of views in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Greece.

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