[EGYPT] Ca. 1899. Oblong Quarto (ca. 21x26 cm). 27 card leaves, including free fly leaves. 48 gelatin silver prints from ca. 8,5x11,5 cm (ca. 3 ¼ x 4 ½ in) to ca. 8x10 cm (3x4 in). Period ink inscription in German on the first blank page dated 1899. Period light brown full calf album with blind stamped and gilt tooled geometrical ornaments on the front board; decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. A very good album. Interesting photograph album taken by a German tourist to Egypt during his cruise up the Nile in the late 1890s. The images show the Nile banks with small Arab villages and numerous dahabiyas, boats, barges ("Assouan", belonging to the "Cook & Son") and river steamers ("Cleopatra" and "Cairo," the latter with the H&P flag on the mast). A couple of images show the life on board the Nile steamer which the album compiler travelled in, including an interesting scene of the souvenir trade between the tourists and the locals, and a group portrait of Arab third class passengers on the deck. There are also nice street views, likely of Cairo, images of the Luxor Grand Hotel and photos of the Philae Temple showing its original state before it had been flooded during the construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1899-1902. The tourists pose in front of the temple with the local guides, children or while mounted on donkeys. Several photos portray local farmers, horse- and camel riders, boaters, women et al. The album closes with a portrait of the tourists posing in front of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbec, Lebanon.