Lot n° 9
Estimation :
1000 - 1500
EUR
DAHOMEY and SENEGAL. Oblong in-8 album in red percaline, fea - Lot 9
DAHOMEY and SENEGAL. Oblong in-8 album in red percaline, featuring approximately 136 albumen photos taken in Dahomey (now Benin) between 1892 and 1894 in "carte de visite", "cabinet" and 18 x 24 cm formats. Most photos are precisely captioned in pencil on the album or on the back (place, date, people). Cities (Porto-Novo, Abomey, Goho, Dakar, Saint-Louis), villages, infrastructures, factories, markets, religion (Ouida-le Temple des Serpents), individual or collective portraits (King Béhanzin, ministers Yohomé and Imavo, coronation of Agoli-Agbo in January 1894, Compagnie d'Amazones du Cha-Cha), genre scenes, soldiers. Provenance: General Taverna (1854-1945) then by descent
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