[Syria]. - Lot 184

[Syria]. LALLEMAND, Charles. Syria. Costumes, voyages, paysages. Paris, Librairie du Petit Journal, 1866. Large in-4. (8)-68 pp. framed text, titles in red and black, 18 + 1 photgraphs. Publisher's eggplant percaline, title in gilt lettering on first board with cold-stamped scrollwork frame, gilt edges (corners dulled, inner jaw broken and spine partly detached, corners of leaves very slightly oxidized but a good copy). Beautiful album on Syria in the mid-19th century, illustrated with 19 albumen prints. Comprising one albumen print on the title page and 18 albumen prints under serpents (8 x 10 cm) by Ludovic Hart, mounted on cardboard with ochre lithographed background and mounted on tabs. Limited edition of 60 copies only, this one numbered 25 in pen with an autograph signature of the period "G. Richard". List of photographs: 1. Lemonade merchants in Beirut. - 2. Lebanese shepherd with a kid. - 3. Arab music in Damascus. - 4. Kurdish peasants. - 5. Lemonade merchant in Damascus. - 6. Cawas at the French consulate in Beirut. - 7. Portfaix in Beirut. - 8. Merchant and farmer near Damascus. - 9. Cawas nègre of the Cie des Messageries Impériales ottomanes. - 10. Zuck's wife (Maronite). - 11. Maronite bishop. - 12. Jewish girl and young woman from Damascus. - 13. Jewish women from Damascus. - 14. Emir Melhem, governor of Schouffas and his son. - 15. Christian lady from Damascus. - 16. Melchite Greek deacons. - 17. Greek Melchite bishop, altar costume. - 18. Divan in the British Consul's house in Damascus. The photograph illustrating the title is a view of the town of Zuck. The work has a faux-title and two titles; the second, Galerie universelle des peuples published by Charles Lallemand, is dated 1865. Jacobson,Odalisques & arabesques, 242. Missing from Atabey and Blackmer.