A SELECTION OF MIDDLE EASTERN VIEWS BY FELIX BONFILS (1831 - 1885)

LES CÈDRES AVEC LE NIEGE, Lebanon, c. 1870s. albumen print, image size 27.7cm x 21.5cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

TYR - VUE GÉNÉRALE. (PALESTINE), Lebanon, c.1870s. albumen print, image size 27.7cm x 20.7cm, titled and numbered with photographer signature in negative, ink handwritten title on mount.

SAINTE SOPHIE, ISTANBUL, c.1870s. albumen print, image size 24.6cm x 18.3cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

DAMASCUS, TOMB OF THE MAHOMETS FAMILY, SYRIA, Levant, c. 1865. albumen print, image size 27.5cm x 21.7cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

DAMASCUS, INTERIOR OF THE TOMB OF SALADIN, Levant, c.1865. albumen print, image size 27cm x 20.5cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

BEIRUT AND GARDENS OF BUSTEINS - PACHA TAKEN FROM THE DAMASK ROUTE, Lebanon, c. 1870s. albumen print, image size 27.5cm x 21.2cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

MONT LIBAN. DEIR EL KAMAR, GENERAL VIEW (SYRIA), Lebanon, c.1870s. albumen print, image size 27cm x 20.8cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

JERUSALEM GENERAL VIEW OF THE SITE OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON (PALESTINE), Lebanon, c.1870s. albumen print, image size 28cm x 23cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

GENERAL VIEW OF BEIRUT AND MOUNT LEBANON-SYRIA, Lebanon, c.1870s. albumen print, image size 27.7cm x 22.2cm, signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer in the negative, titled in ink on mount recto, framed under glass.

Provenance: Yann Le Mouel, Hotel Drouot-Richelieu Paris, 22 February 2017, part of lot 138.