Atabey, 940 ; Vinet, 1802. Not in Blackmer.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of one of the first books on Asia Minor to be illustrated by photography.<\/span><\/p>\n Important account by Georges Perrot (1832-1914) of his expedition to Asia Minor, one of the earliest photographically illustrated works on the area. Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet undertook their six-month expedition to Asia Minor in 1861 to establish the definitive text of the Monumentum Ancyranum<\/i> (the political testament of the Emperor Augustus), which was of interest to Napoleon III.<\/p>\n Their achievement is described thus by Vinet: “L’exploration a dur\u00e9e six mois ; le 2 mai 1861, M. Perrot et ses deux compagons de voyage mettaient le pied sur la terre d’Asie, et le 17 octobre ils s’embarquaient \u00e0 Samsousn, l’ancienne Amisius, pour retourner \u00e0 Constantinople. Pendant ces six mois, ils ont visit\u00e9 la Bithynie, la Mysie, la Phrygie, la Cappadoce et le Pont; recueilli deux cents inscriptions, fait des d\u00e9couvertes, rectifie les erreurs de Texier, compl\u00e8te Hamilton et Barth, mesure, dessine, photographie assez de monuments pour pouvoir publier quatre-vingts planches, et rapporte un v\u00e9ritable joyau \u00e9pigraphique, la copie la plus fid\u00e8le du testament politique d’Auguste, grave en latin et en grec sur les murs du temple \u00e9l\u00e8ve par la ville d’Ancyrea a ce ruse demi-dieu… De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, M. Waddington a expos\u00e9 devant l’Acad\u00e9mie des inscriptions les principaux r\u00e9sultats du voyage et des recherches de M. Perrot… Il a signal\u00e9 l’influence assyrienne en Cappadoce comme \u00e9tant d\u00e9montr\u00e9e, et les monuments de cette province, peu connus jusqu’e l\u00e0, se trouvant soumis pour la premi\u00e8re fois \u00e0 une \u00e9tude approfondie. Ce n’est pas tout. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 son habile restauration du temple d’Auguste \u00e0 Ancyre, M. Edmond Guillaume nous a fait conna\u00eetre un des plus beaux sp\u00e9cimens de l’\u00e9cole d’architecture ionienne apr\u00e8s la conqu\u00eate de l’Asie Mineure par les Romains”.<\/p>\n The work is also notable as one of the first photographically illustrated works on Asia Minor, with 31 of the 80 plates being photolithographic plates produced by the Poitevin process after Delbet’s images. The plate volume appears to have been issued with the title in two states: the first dated ‘1862’ (cf. Atabey) and then later dated ‘1872’ (as this copy).<\/p>\n Provenance<\/p>\n Partially faded inscription on the title page to Emmanuel Guillaume Rey (1837-1916). Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey, born in Chaumont and died in Chartres, was an eminent French archaeologist, topographer and Orientalist. Fluent in Arabic, he made his first trip to the Orient in Syria in 1857. Following this trip, he joined the Fondation de l’\u0153uvre des \u00c9coles d’Orient, where he was a member of the board of directors from 1858 until his death in 1916. Thanks to his scientific, topographical, and historical research, he is regarded today as the founder of crusade archaeology. He was the author of the beautiful Voyage dans le Haouran et aux bords de la Mer Morte, ex\u00e9cut\u00e9 pendant les ann\u00e9es 1857 et 1858<\/i> (Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1861).<\/p>\n Very good copy, complete with its 80 plates and 7 maps called for. Some occasional foxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 folio volumes, text and plates (455 x 310 mm) 2 un.l., 392, 2 pp. for the text ; 2un.l., 80 numbered plates (including 49 engraved and\/or lithographed plates by Erhard, A.F. Lemaitre, Guillaume, J. Laurens, Mangeant and others after Guillaume, including 6 double page plates as well as 12 tinted plates; and 31 photolithographic plates reproduced after the Poitevin-process by Lemercier after Delbet), 7 engraved route maps marked ‘A’ to ‘G’. Contemporary light blue buckram backed marbled boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1382,1390,1205,620],"class_list":{"0":"post-78337","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-asia","8":"product_tag-europe-2","9":"product_tag-photography","10":"product_tag-travel","11":"pa_auteur-perrot-georges-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Georges PERROT","chapeau":"One of the first photographically illustrated works on the Middle East","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Firmin Didot fr\u00e8res, fils et Cie., 1862-1872","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n