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HOREAU, Hector.
Panorama d'Egypte et de Nubie avec un portrait de Mehmet Ali...
- Published
- Paris: chez l'Auteur, Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, 1841.
- References
- Not in Abbey; Hilmy I, 309; Bobins supplementary list 08/14.
- Plates
- 55
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 25001-100000
- Published
- Paris: chez l'Auteur, Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, 1841.
- Ref
- 5692
Folio, in later red straight-grained morocco gilt with armorial crest and decorative designs to boards, spine with decorative gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Preserved in a marbled slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Good condition. 55 hand-coloured lithographs on 35 plates, including a long panorama of Cairo. Loosely inserted is a large page of signatures, with an accompanying envelope detailing those that signed that page. The page is headed with 'Au Baron de Benoist en Temoignage de Respectueux Attachement.' Baron de Benoist was one of the Administrators of the Company of the Suez Canal. Coloured plates in order: 1. Mehmet Ali, Ibrahim Pacha, Soliman Pacha (Seve) et Leur Suite. Montant a la Citadelle du Caire. 2. Frontispiece. Vallée du Nil depuis Alexandrie jusqu'a la deuxième cataracte. 3. Alexandrie. Colonne dite de Pompee / Bain de Cleopatre. 4. Aiguille de Cleopatre / Marche d'esclaves. 5. Panorama du Caire pris de la Citadelle. 6. Caire. Grande Rue / Cour de la Mosquée El Moyed. 7. Pyramides et Sphinx de Giseh / Colosse de Memphis. 8. Vue pris du Caire / Beni-Hassan. 9. Melwi-el-Arich / Syout. 10. Denderah (2 plates) 11. Karnac. Salle Hypostyle / Temple de Khons. 12. Thebes. Salle Hypostyle de Karnac. 13. Temple de Khons / Avenue des Sphinx. 14. Thebes. 15. Luxor. Vue de Face / Vue de Cote. 16. Luxor / Medinet Abou. 17. Thebes. Vue de la Salle Hypostyle du Rhamesseion. 18. Rhamesseion. Details of d'Architecture. 19. Thebes. Vue de la Vallee des Tombeaux / Entree du Tombeaux de Rhamses-Meiamoun / Intérieur du Tombeaux de Rhamses VI. 20. Esne. 21. Edfou. Vue Extérieur / Vue Intérieure. 22. Koum Ombos / Carriere de Silsilis. 23. Ile de Philae. 24. Ile de Philoe. Vue prise de l'Isle de Beghe / Entree du Grand Temple. 25. Ile de Philae. Vue du Temple de Venus Athor. 26. Kalapche / Dandour / Guirche. 27. Gartassy / Taffa. 28. Dakke / Korti. 29. Asseboua / Amada. 30. Derri. Vue Generale / Vue du Temple. 31. Ibsamboul. 32. Temple d'Ibsamboul (exterior). 33. Temple d'Ibsamboul (interior). 34. Frontispiece de la Deuxième Cataracte a la Méditerranée. 35. Bouquet de Palmiers.
