Bida Alexandre Prosper Barbot (2 results)

First edition of a beautiful album with 24 spectacular plates. The first 12 plates, made by and after Bida, consist of character studies of people encountered in the region, such as a veiled woman, a horse groom, a dancing girl and an Arabic man from Hedjaz. The other 12 views, after Barbot, include views of ancient and modern Egyptian cities (from Philae to Cairo) and surroundings, the Mosques of Abdoulala at Bulaq, Ahmed ibn Tolon and Ibrahim Agha (Aqsunqur), all in Cairo, tombs of sultans and much more.Alexandre Bida (1823-1895) studied under Eugene Delacroix and travelled widely through Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine. Prosper Bardot (1798-1878), a pupil of Jules Coignet, made 2 journeys to Algeria (1842) and Egypt (1844-1846).Beautiful copy.l Colas 326; Chadenat 761 ("Très belle album non mis dans le commerce": very beautiful album not found in the trade); Lipperheide 1600; not in Ibrahim-Hilmy. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. With a lithographed title-page and 24 tinted lithographs with captions in Arabic, French and English, all mounted on cloth.…

Condition: Good. Folio. 35.5 x 49cm. 15 tinted lithograph plates mounted on hinges with captions in French, Arabic and English. 19th Century half cloth and marbled boards. Without text. There may be as many as 24 plates in a complete volume.The plates in this volume include: Mosquée du Sultan Barqouq, Mosque of the Sultan Barqouq.; Rue de la Citadelle, Citadel Street; Mosquée D'aboulala A Boulaq, Mosque of Aboulala at Boulaq; Quatier de la Mosquée de Touloun, Mosque of Touloun; Femme Fellâh du Caire, A Fellâh Woman of Cairo; Siout, Siout; Miniéh (Haute Egypte), Minieh (Upper Egypt); Nubien (Baquâb), A Nubian; Copte (Écrivain), A Copt (Writer); Ile de Phil?, Phil?a Island; Arnaout (Albanais), An Arnout (Albanese); Girgeh (Haute Égypte), Girgeh (Upper Egypt); Assouân (1re Cataracte), Assouân (1st Cataract); Bâb-En-Nasr (Dite Porte De La Victoire), Bâb-En-Nasr (Victory's Gate); Femme Voilée, A Women with the Veil.OCLC Number:1 040811791.Grand in-folio, relié demi-percaline rouge (reliure postérieure).Album composite réunissant 15 LITHOGRAPHIES EN BISTRE sur papier fort, montées sur onglet dont 5 de costumes dessinées et lithographiées par Bida, élève d'Eugène Delacroix, les autres étant des vues dessinées par Barbot et lithographiées par Cicéri. Mouillures claires, piqures éparses.Expertise by: Cabinet Edgard Daval (Expert CNE).…