[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

A$1,800 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

[Cover title]. [London? : privately published, c.1918]. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, window-mounted four-per side on [12] card leaves, all with gilt-printed captions on the mounts, and including images taken by Trooper Ellis in Cairo, Romani, Katia, El Arish, Mesaid, Rafa, Khan-Yunes, Bilah, Shallal, Wadi-Ghuzzeh, and Gaza, documenting operations against Ottoman Turkish and German forces, including many shots of captured prisoners and ordinance, and Lighthorsemen in action in the field; the album s contents have been exceptionally well preserved, with the prints and mounts in virtually flawless condition; the binding is likewise in excellent condition. An important photographic record of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade s campaigns in the Middle East during World War One. Rare self-published album by Trooper J. Ellis (7th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Light Horse Brigade) containing photographs taken by him which cover the period from the Battle of Romani to the Third Battle of Gaza (August 1916 October 1917). Trooper Ellis is known to have compiled a similar album, Souvenir of Palestine , which has entirely different content. We believe that both of Ellis s albums are likely to have been published imme

• Binding: Hardcover

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