PHOTOGRAPHS BY NADAR AND OTHERS. Album de la Galerie Contemporaine. Biographies et portraits. (No title). Paris (Goupil & Cie) about 1880. Folio (340x260 mm). 40 portraits/ photographs, called woodburytype, in various sizes, about 23 larger and 17 smaller (about 240x190 - 195x160 - 115x190 mm), and other illustrations. 5 by Nadar, 6 Carjat, 3 Bertall, 2 Adam-Salomon etc. Portraits of famous authors, militairs etc, for example Victor Hugo Thiers, Georges Sand, Sarah Bernhardt Alexander Dumas fils, Gounod, Daudet, Erckmann-Chatrian, Mac-Mahon, Coppée, Jules Janin, Velpeau and others. Red contemporary leather, boards gilt with bordure and ornaments, inner gilt dentelles, partly rubbed and worn, upper board with gilt text "A son altesse Ismaïl Pacha Khédive d'Egypte", gilt spine in compartments with gilt title, gilt edges. Some spotting to endpapers. Ismail Pacha (Basha, Turkish: Ismail Pasa), known as Ismail the Magnificent (December 31, 1830 - March 2, 1895), was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanisation, and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa (Wikipedia). Photo.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NADAR AND OTHERS. Album de la Galerie Contemporaine. Biographies et portraits. (No title). Paris (Goupil & Cie) about 1880. Folio (340x260 mm). 40 portraits/ photographs, called woodburytype, in various sizes, about 23 larger and 17 smaller (about 240x190 - 195x160 - 115x190 mm), and other illustrations. 5 by Nadar, 6 Carjat, 3 Bertall, 2 Adam-Salomon etc. Portraits of famous authors, militairs etc, for example Victor Hugo Thiers, Georges Sand, Sarah Bernhardt Alexander Dumas fils, Gounod, Daudet, Erckmann-Chatrian, Mac-Mahon, Coppée, Jules Janin, Velpeau and others. Red contemporary leather, boards gilt with bordure and ornaments, inner gilt dentelles, partly rubbed and worn, upper board with gilt text "A son altesse Ismaïl Pacha Khédive d'Egypte", gilt spine in compartments with gilt title, gilt edges. Some spotting to endpapers. Ismail Pacha (Basha, Turkish: Ismail Pasa), known as Ismail the Magnificent (December 31, 1830 - March 2, 1895), was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanisation, and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa (Wikipedia). Photo.
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