Photos and Postcards
Vellum covered photo album with GUERA LIBICA 1911-1912 stamped into the cover. 84 photos in all, glued on one margin only so captions on reverse are accessible. Good quality photos measuring 8x14cm. Shows navy landing at Bengazi, bombed mosque at Sidi Hussein, navy personnel under attack on land, battery at Tobruk, visiting arabs, local arab dignitary, Libyan colonial troops, arab prisoners at Tobruk, barracks at Tobruk, Italian fort, redoubt at Tobruk, General Caneva with Guglielmo Marconi, several photos of Marconi, wireless station at Derna, Turkish prisoners, arab dead at Bengazi. Also photos taken at the newly acquired Dodecanes Islands: Symie, Patmos, Rhodes, Kos, Klimnos, Notia and another named island in the chain. Many photos with captions. This album appears to combine his time in Libya during the invasion of Libya and it then appears he is part of the entourage of the royal inspection of the newly acquired islands in the Aegean. The Duchess of Aosta…….a cousin of the king by marriage is on that tour, along with other women. A rare album. M SOLD
Price: $900.00
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MPH 191
MPH 191
MPH 191Photo collection from an Italian soldier in Libya 1912-1913. Rare photo of local banda, transporting prisoners by horse from El Albiar, transporting wood at Bengazi port, military tribunal over El Albiar incident, local Bedouins, Eritrean ascaris, transporting men by truck, fraternity between the Italians and the arabs, inside a redoubt, much more. 31 photos, some with captions. M
Price: $490.00
Homogenous collection of photos from the 1911 Italo-Turco war and its aftermath. Rare photo of Eritrean cavalry NCO’s posting with Libyan and Italian officers, inspecting Roman ruins, military transport, fraternising with locals, grounded ship, arab fantasia, mosque, brothel, Italian fort in Cirenaica, more. 44 photos, no captions. m
Price: $390.00
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