Voyage D'horace Vernet En Orient. GOUPIL-FESQUET, (Frederic August Antoine.) Lifestyle, Hobbies And Leisure

French Bruxelles, Societe Typographique Belge, 1844. Deux tomes en un volume. 176 + 201 pages, in16. Tres belle reliure en cuir glace noir avec plein d'ornements en or. Seulement les deux coins en bas un peu pouses. Autrement bon etat general. * Frederic Goupil Fesquet ( 1817-1878), an artist who travelled with the company of another painter Horace Vernet to Egypt and Syria taking the first dagerreotypes in the area. Only two months after the announcement in Paris 19 August 1839 about the discovery of Photography, the first photographs in Egypt and Syria were taken by Frederic Goupil Fesquet. This work is an account of that famous journey which became a landmark in the history of photography in Egypt and Syria. A later edition appeared in Brussel 1844. According to Cataret the work appeared in 20 livraisons in a general wrapper in white paper with an ornament design. Goupil-Fesquet produced many books on design and ornaments, and manuels of painting. In addition to his description of the famous tour, Fesquet discusses the oriental decorative arts. Blackmer 718; Cataret III, p. 594. Weber 1 309, Not in Hilmy. Edition de 1844 tres rare