Trémaux, Pierre.

Oblong folio, atlas volume only (343 x 530mm.), tinted lithographed pictorial additional title, list of plates, 9 albumen prints, 48 lithographed plates on 46 sheets (including 2 double-page panoramas), some with several tints, 4 engraved maps (one double-page and 2 folding), descriptive letterpress and plate list, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, some light spotting, plate 2 with stain in image, the final map lightly browned, binding slightly rubbed

Goldschmidt and Naef, The Truthful Lens (NY, 1980), no.171; Perez, N., Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885 (NY, 1988), pp.227-228; Jacobson, K. Odalisques & Arabesques; Orientalist Photography 1839-1925 (London, 2007)

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Rare photographs by Trémaux, which 'rank among the earliest endeavours to record indigenous people by photography ... Trémaux complained, typically that the inhabitants of Islamic countries were not usually comfortable having their photographs taken. He persisted, however, revealing himself as one of the few early French photographers as interested in recording the people of a region as he was with its archaeological ruins.' (Jacobson). Trémaux (1818-1895) travelled to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Asia Minor in the late 1840s and began taking photographs around 1853-4, however the photographs were technically uneven, obliging him to substitute them with lithographs, however the rare images that survive have ensured the photographer's lasting reputation. The photographs are numbers 36, 38, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 55 and 56. Plate 47 is in two states, as a photograph on the recto and as a lithograph on the verso of the mount.