Book# 42988

Trémaux, Pierre (1818-1895)

Voyage au Soudan oriental et dans l’Afrique septentrionale executés de 1847 a 1854. Comprenant une exploration dans l’Algérie, les Régences de Tunis et de Tripoli, l’Egypte, la Nubie, les déserts, l’Ile de Méroé, le Sennar, le Fa-Zoglo et dans le contrées inconnues de la Nigritie. Atlas de vues pittoresques, scénes de moeurs, types de végétation remarquables, déssins d’objets étholgiques et scientifiques, panoramas et cartes géographiques, par Pierre Trémaux, Laureat de l’Institut de France et de la Société de Geógraphie, membre de plusieurs académies et sociétés savantes. Ouvrage publiée aves encouragement de l’Institut et de la gouvernement Francais.

Ort   Paris/ London/ Saint-Pétersbourg/ Berlin
Verlag   chez Borrani, libraire-commissionaire [...]/ J. Madden/ librairie Hauer, A. Cluzel, succr./ A. Asher et Cie.
Auflage   first edition
Einband   half levant, back with golden patterns
Illustration, Ausstattung   frontispiece, 9 photos, 56 lithographic plates with 2 fold-out panoramic double pages and 4 fold-out maps
Medium   Buch

 

Text fr. - The nine original photographs were taken by means of the calotype process, on salt paper (pl. 36, 38, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 55, 56). Another ten lithographic plates are in color, some of them in dar brown or bistre in red chalk color. The books is an exquisite atlas of picturesque, views, manners, sceneries, types of vegetation, ethnological and scietific objects, panoramas and geographical maps. Trémaux the archaeologist travelled in unknown parts of Africa with a European expedition organized for the Egyptian gouvernement. The photographs taken testify of the use of one of the first photographic processes in these areas. In 1852 this book was published with lithographic plates (in b/w and color) from Trémaux’s drawings and photographs only. At a later time the author decided to enrich the publication with photographic prints. He could not, however, achieve the insertion of all the photographic plates because of the difficulty to stabilize the calotype process. - Only afe copies of this book exist. They are not exactly the same, especially in the choice of certain lithographic plates. The British Library has a lithographic plate of Tunis which is not in Tatarin copy. The Bibliothèque National copy does not have the lithographic plate corresponding to Tatarin copy plate no. 38.1. Other copies are in Lyon, in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, and in the University of Chicago Library. In the Tartarin copy the lithographic plates no. 10 and 30 are missing, and instead of plate no. 44 the is ony the photo. (After antiquarian dealer Bruno Tartarin’s text in: Cat. 32. Antiquaria. Bücher, Autographen, Graphik. Antiquariatsmesse Ludwigsburg 25.-27.01.2018, p. 120-121).
Antiq. Photovintagefrance Bruno Tatarin, Arnaville (01.2018): 50.000 €.
Reisephotographie 19. Jahrh. Expeditionsphotographie Expeditionsbericht Africa, Afrika, Egypt, Ägypten 

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