Bida Alexander and Barbot E (1 results)

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Folio (565 x 390mm.), lithographed pictorial title and 24 plates by Bida and by Cicéri after Barbot. Original half leather, spine in green and original red label with gilt lettering on front cover. Rare. Not listed in Hilmy, Atabey or Blackmer, and ABPC records only one copy at auction in the last 35 years. The plates, which are captioned in French, Arabic and English, comprise 12 full-length portraits by Bida and 12 views by Barbot.The views are unusual representing some egyptian citiexs like Siout in Middle Egypt that are not usually represented in others plate books on Egypt during the XIX century.…