Rougé, Emmanuel de — Aymard de Banville | An exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography

Rougé, Emmanuel de — Aymard de Banville

Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte par le vte Emmanuel de Rougé, accompagné de M. le vte de Banville et de M. Jacques de Rougé, attachés à la mission, 1863-1864. Paris: Samson, 1865

Folio (502 x 395 mm). Title-page, nine text leaves including the Avertissement, 155 albumen prints (various sizes and orientations, approximately 41 x 178 mm to 195 x 251 mm), mounted on card (some out of order), printed captions mounted below images, tissue guards; some prints with toning to sky or foxing, heaviest to final prints, but generally very clean, some mounts foxed, a few tears to tissue guards, one or two detached, rippling to final few mounts. Brown three-quarter pebble-grained morocco and brown cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and fourth gilt-lettered; light rubbing to extremities.