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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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8 colonial period postcards of Libya issued by missionary societies. Most with handwritten notation on reverse. As Libya was an Italian colony for less than 30 years, there is not much in the way of missionary material. B

Price: $240.00

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Collection of 112 colonial postcards on Libyan female types. B

Price: $2240.00

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Italian colonial postcard of a battery salute at Tobruk. B

Price: $25.00

t-mph191MPH 191t-mph191aMPH 191t-mph191a1MPH 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

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Collection of 93 Italian postcards relating to the 1911-1912 war in Libya. Many with military stamps, correspondence on reverse, patriotic motifs. M

Price: $1860.00

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Set of 20 colonial Italian postcards by the illustrators Delneri and Romano Dazzu. M

Price: $900.00

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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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Two studio photos of named Eritrea ascaris in Bengazi, 1921 and 1923. Also a studio photo of a Turkish colonel with a former Libyan deputy. m

Price: $120.00

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Two photos of Italian soldiers in Tripolitania in 1922. B

Price: $50.00

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