Two photo albums, Egypt, 1920s, silver gelatin prints on baryta paper. Partially inscribed on verso "Gaddis ...

Two photo albums, Egypt, 1920s, silver gelatin prints on baryta paper. Partially inscribed on verso "Gaddis, Luxor". With respectively 41 and 53 black and white photographs with views of ancient Egyptian cultural monuments such as the temples of Luxor, Karnak, Dendera, Sethos I, the Valley of the Kings, Abu Simbel, the Colossi of Memnon and temples of Hatshepsut etc. Photo size 19.5 x 26,5 cm. Legends in white ink each at the bottom of the cardboard - In two albums with Egyptian motifs, Q.-4°, corners more heavily bumped, binding slightly damaged. Interesting collection of photographs, taken during the time of the great discoveries in the 1920s. The photos were taken by the well-known Attiya Gaddis photo studio, founded in Luxor in 1907. Provenance: Estate of Anton R. Badrutt (1888-1967), hotelier of the legendary Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor during the years 1920-1935. Swiss private property. Label "E.&A.R. Badrutt" on front cover. According to his heirs, the British Egyptologist Howard Carter gave these albums to his wife Erna during a visit to the Badrutt family in St. Moritz in 1938, together with his work "The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen", with personal dedication "...to Madame Badrutt with the homage of the author. Howard Carter 1938