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Levant—Turkey, Greece and the Near EastLarge album of photograph portraits and views of Rhodes, the Near East, Smyrna and Constantinople, circa. 1870s-80s Large folio (638 x 502mm.), 130 albumen prints (from 90 x 140mm. to 10 x 257mm., or the reverse) by various photographers including F. Quarelli (2) and Abdullah Frères (8), mounted on card, recto and verso, including a double-page 3-part panorama of Rhodes, a 6-part panorama of Smynra, and a pair of folding panoramas of Constantinople (6-part and 8-part) mounted together on card, contemporary crushed red morocco-backed red cloth boards, flat spine titled in gilt, spotting to mounts, slight wear to folding panoramas of Constantinople at folds, tears to mounts (some repaired with tape), spine and corners rubbed A LARGE ALBUM OF VIEWS AND PORTRAITS INCLUDING RARE EARLY PHOTOGRAPH PANORAMAS OF RHODES AND SMYNRA, TOGETHER WITH 40 PORTRAITS OF ARAB, GREEK AND TURKISH SITTERS. The views show Rhodes, Damascus, Baalbeck, Smyrna (and environs), Ephesus, and images around Constantinople.