Ɵ Algiers and Tunisia, album of photographs [Algiers and Tunisia, c.1905]

Ɵ An album of 62 photographs of a visit to Algiers and Tunisia, most early prints from originals with a few original photographs [Algiers and Tunisia, c.1905] single album comprising of 62 black and white early prints from originals with some original photographs mounted on 30 leaves, some images numbered and titled with text in French printed onto bottom edges or corners of photographs, original tissue-guards protecting the pages, some tissue guards loose but all present, spotting to most leaves, varying sizes from 105 by 143mm to 250 by 193mm; housed in contemporary album, bound in black leather, bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands bordered in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, corners fairly rubbed and worn, boards rubbed and soiled, head and tail of spine cracked, inner crease cracked but holding This is a tourist album of a trip to Algiers and Tunisia containing scenes of famous sights, local scenery, the local community, market scenes, and scenes of historical and archaeological interest; including the Palace of the Dey (with an exterior shot of the fan house pavilion), the site of the 'Fan Affair' of 1827 (which escalated to a blockade of the port of Algiers), the Carthage tanks in Tunisia, the cisterns of La Malga and some of the best preserved Roman cisterns in the world (now a UNESCO World Heritage site).