Amateur photographer - Lot 26

Amateur photographer Trip to Ethiopia, 1931-1944. Aboard an ocean liner. Suez Canal. Djibouti. Awash River. Vegetation. Herds. Hunting scenes. Shepherds. Water holes. Hunting huts. Modjo River. Addis Ababa. Mission chapel. Ethiopian child. Forest. Monkey. Hanged man. Emperor Haile Selassie. Coffee plantations. Assella. Family portraits. Plough. Termite mound. Zebus. Banana harvest. Papaya tree. Ethiopian wedding. Temket (Epiphany). Spinners. Basket-making. Weaver. Blacksmith. Women's hairstyles and jewelry. Sorcerer. In-4 travel book composed of approximately 140 vintage silver prints mounted on folios. Handwritten account and captions in ink in the notebook. Sizes: from 5 x 4 to 12 x 18 cm Also included: - An oblong in-8 album on the Paris Colonial Exhibition, 1937, consisting of 37 vintage silver prints mounted on cardboard. Numerous annotations on the mounts. Average size of prints: 7 x 11.5 cm - An oblong in-8 album, Ethiopia c. 1930, comprising approximately 50 silver prints. Some annotations on the backs of the prints. Sizes: 5.5 x 4.5 to 17 x 12 cm - Two (2) paperbacks (Le roi des rois by Paul Gilson, Denoël, Steele, 1935 and Monsieur Jarosseau by Gaëtan Bernoville, Albin Michel, 1950).