Auguste MARIETTE, Emile BECHARD
Album du Musée de Boulaq, comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Délié et Béchard, avec un texte explicatif[Album of the Bulaq Museum, comprising forty plates photographed by Messrs. Délié and Béchard, with an explanatory text]
Imprimerie Mourès & Cie|Cairo 1871|34.5 x 50.2 cm|Relié
Very rare first edition of this splendid photographic album, produced in Cairo in 1871, representing the first illustrated catalogue of the earliest museum devoted to Egyptology.
The photographs by Hippolyte Delié and Émile Béchard depict the rooms and antiquities of the Boulaq Museum, founded in Cairo in 1863 by the eminent Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (1821–1881).
The album comprises forty albumen prints (approx. 24.5 × 18 cm), mounted on thick card leaves set on guards, each accompanied by a letterpress commentary leaf (except plates 4 and 11, which each have two). The prints are mounted on the versos of the plates, the rectos bearing the printed captions.
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€23,000