Beschreibung:

an album containing 72 photographs of Cairo, the Pyramids, and ancient Egyptian buildings at Luxor, Thebes, Karnak, Philae, Abu-Simbel, and other locations, each 104mm. by 149mm., mounted and captioned, within recessed mounts, inscribed to Constance Belliss “with affectionate love from her fellow travellers Uncle, Aunt, & Cousin, Xmas 1894, original roan gilt, titled on upper cover, g.e., a head and shoulders portrait of the recipient, and a manuscript “Ode to Constance” loosely inserted, folio § B[elliss] (M[argueritte] A[nn]) Diary of Travels through Palestine 1898, presentation copy, inscribed on loosely inserted slip by the author, Xmas, 1911, 31 mounted photographs, double-page map, original boards, small piece torn from tip of spine, 8vo, Women’s Printing Society, for Private Circulation Only, [1898?] § Tyndale (Walter) Below the Cataracts, 60 coloured plates reproducing watercolours by the author, original cloth gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, 1907, 8vo and folio (3) *** The travel diary by Margueritte Belliss is listed in the British Library catalogue with the author identified only with initials. She was the wife of George Belliss, and a member of the 1894 trip to Egypt. Below the Cataracts is inscribed by George E. Belliss to Constance Belliss. It appears from the inscription “To my youthful patient ‘Camera Boy’…” that the photographs of the 1894 visit were taken by her, and possibly those of Palestine too.