AUGUSTE SALZMANN 1824-1872 - IMPRIMERIE BLANQUART-EVRARD - Lot 34

AUGUSTE SALZMANN 1824-1872 - IMPRIMERIE BLANQUART-EVRARD Albums "Jerusalem. Etude et reproduction photographique des Monuments de la Ville Sainte depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours par Auguste Salzmann, chargé, par le Ministère de l'Instruction Publique, d'une Mission scientifique en Orient", Imprimerie Blanquart-Evrard, Gide et J. Baudry éditeurs, Paris, 1856. Album 1: "Salzmann - Jerusalem - Plates". 40 prints on salted paper mounted on cardboard with credit, title and mention of the printing house and publisher. Original cover with title on spine. Title page and Table of Contents page. Jerusalem: Temple Wall, Valley of Hinnom, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Village of Siloam, Tomb of the Kings of Judah, Tomb of the Judges, Biket-Mamillah, Birket-es-Soultan, Fortress of Zion, Arch of Ecce Homo, Fountain of Saint Philip, Cave of Jeremiah, Holy Sepulchre, Portal of Saint Mary the Great, Tomb of the Virgin, Beit-Lehem, Mosque of Omar, Jaffa Gate, David's Gate, Saint Stephen's Gate, Herod's Gate, Damascus Gate, Arab Fountain, Nablus Way, Beit-Lehem Way. Images: approx. 14 x 20 cm; album: 43.5 x 33.5 cm Album 2: "Salzmann - Monuments of Jerusalem". Text by Auguste Salzmann describing the Mission, illustrated with plans, reproductions of drawings of architectural details, reproduction of the Mosaic of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in chromolithography. Title page and Table of Contents page. 92 pages. Album size: 44.5 x 31 cm Bibliography: Isabelle Jammes "Blanquart-Evrard and the origins of French photographic publishing. Catalog raisonné des albums photographiques édités 1851-1855", Librairie Droz, Genève-Paris, 1981, p.93-103. "Des photographies pour l'Empereur", BNF, Paris, 2004, cat.65.