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271 [Persia]
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90 diapositives
.
€ 600/100
Images mostly of
Turkistan
(formerly known as Turkestan, Kazakhstan),
Persia
and surroundings:
waterpipe smoking men, water wheel beside the Euphrates, the Caucasus, a mosque, a palace,
musicians, prisoners, beggars waiting for the Shah, men drinking coffee, a village scene, a
gentleman in wedding dress. More specific in Persia: Kerman, Shah of Persia and his court, salute
of the soldiers at the Palace of Isfahan, Julfa’s opium poppies (Armenian quarter of Isfahan), an
Armenian cathedral, the Tomb of Cyrus, the Palace of Darius in Persepolis, Sivand River, Jewish
school in Isfahan, the road between Yazd and Kerman, the Salt Dessert, Caravanserai, derwishes,
kajavehs, etc.
Portraits
of people and families in traditional clothes. Labels: “Newton”.
272 [Pyrenees]
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86 diapositives
.
€ 200/300
Images of Betharram, Lourdes (Notre Dame du Rosaire de Lourdes, esplanade, ambulance,
a procession, the house of Bernadette, the baths, disabled people in wheelchairs,...), Luchon,
Cauterets, Biarritz (the strand and the lighthouse), Pau, Orthez, Lucha, St-Jean-de-Luz, Jurançon,
le Chaos (route de Gavarnie), people living in the mountains, a dancing bear...
273 [Russia]
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71 diapositives
.
€ 500/600
Images of the monuments in
Moscow
: Kremlin, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Palace of Petrowski,
St Basil’s Cathedral, the Red Square, Cathedral of the Annunciation,... and of
St Petersburg
: the
Marble Palace, Tzarko-Selo, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, the Winter Palace, Olga’s Pavillion, the
Hermitage Museum, the Senate, Stock Exchange, St Vladimir’s Cathedral,... Labels: “E. Mazo”
and “Beernaert’s DPC”.
274 [Scotland & Ireland]
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76 diapositives
.
€ 200/300
45 images of
Scotland
’s nature, lakes, caves, waterfalls, etc.: Edinburgh, Ben Venue (mountain),
Killiecrankie, Melrose Abbey, Inversmaid, Glenfinlas, Fingal’s Cave, Loch Lomond, Balmoral, Isle
of Iona, Loch Achray, etc. - 31 images of
Ireland
’s nature: Killarney, Causeway (County Kerry),
Clonmacnoise, Dublin, Wicklow. Also some slides with illustrations of old mansions. Together with
a booklet: “Reading descriptive of the Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, and Alderney”.
275 [Second Boer war - Ladysmith]
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11 diapositives
.
€ 150/250
Images of the Second Anglo-Boer war, the clash between the British and the Transvaal Boers in
South Africa showing the garrison town of
Ladysmith
where a large British force had concentrated.
Pictures of British
troops
, their
encampment
, artillery,
family
, the Klip River, etc.
276 [Spain]
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310 diapositives
.
€ 500/800
Images of cathedrals, palaces, chapels, tombs, churches, streets, views, cloisters, ancient
monuments (a Roman aqueduct),... in Avila, Alicante, Algecir, Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Burgos,
Cuenca, Cordoba, Cartagena, El Escorial, Elche, Granada, Loyola, La Granja, Marcia, Madrid,
Montserrat, Saragossa, Segovia, San Sebastian, Sevilla, Tarragona, Toledo, Valladolid, Valencia,...
Sevilla
: Alcazar, House of Pilate, House of Don Manuel de las Héras.
Granada
: Alhambra, the
cathedral, Palace of Charles V, bullfighting, Matador Carra-Ancha, mandolinist Antonio Perez.
Cordoba
: the mosque, the cathedral. Other cities: Toledo, Cadix, Escurial, Gibraltar, etc. Some
images taken from a textbook (?).
People
in original costume, markets, bullfighting, etc. Labels:
“E. Mazo”, “Beernaert’s”.
277 [Sports]
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151 diapositives
.
€ 650/900
Images of
sport
events, possibly in Ghent, showing the teams and the spectators. Athletics: long-
jump, relay race, hurdling (11 pcs), football (10 pcs), swimming (10 pcs), sailing (28 pcs), rowing
(36 pcs), fencing (2 pcs),
horse push ball
(8 pcs), tennis (16 pcs), cycling: “
Tour de Belgique
” (14
pcs), dog race (gazehounds, 16 pcs), all in open air.