Horeau, Hector.

First edition, folio (591 x 434mm.), half-title, title with engraved vignette, sepia aquatint portrait and 59 views on 37 plates, many after Horeau, other illustrations in the text, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards [Gay 1895; Hilmy I 309; not in Atabey or Blackmer], occasional browning and spotting, some plates with small tears (some repaired) in margins, not affecting images, rebacked retaining original spine, corners restored

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Rare. Horeau (1801-1872) was a talented illustrator and architect and one of the first artists to use daguerreotypes. In 1837-1838 he travelled extensively throughout Egypt, producing on his return to France a work that provides an unusual combination of realistic views (for example the monuments of Cairo), architectural details and views of an ethnographic character. Many of the original watercolours engraved for this work are now in the Griffith Institute (University of Oxford). Only 2 copies are recorded as sold at auction on ABPC in the last 35 years.