Horace Vernet; Goupil Fesquet - Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient, rédigé par M. Goupil-Fesquet, orné de seize dessins - 1843

ORIGINAL EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING
(1843) COMPLETE WITH ALL OF ITS PLATES.
Pages 226 to 228 are incorrectly numbered 326 to 328. This typographical error is an essential technical feature for identifying the first printing of the original edition.

A major historical account of the artistic journey undertaken in the East (Greece, Malta, Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Turkey) between October 1839 and April 1840 by the famous Orientalist painter Horace Vernet and his nephew, the painter and photographer Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet. During this trip, the latter also produced some of the very first daguerreotype plates in history in Egypt.
The work is complete with its 16 superb lithographs hors-texte, finely hand-coloured and gummed at the time (including the frontispiece "Physionomie de l'Orient"). They brilliantly illustrate the local costumes, genre scenes and landscapes traversed (View of Malta, Maronite Costumes, The Almeh of Cairo, The Children of Soliman Pacha, etc.).