Oblong large 4to. Unpaginated, [2 French text], 8 watercolours with captions after the photography of Paul Blanche, soft covers, lightly creased and repaired at spine, plates with captions and numbered CXXI to CXXVIII, all in very good condition, L. Boulanger, Paris, circa 1890.

Synopsis

Early photographs taken by the French photographer Paul Blanche who served as a Consul in Tripoli. The photographs depict the following:
CXXI – Tripoli. Mosquee et Cemetiere de Tailen
CXXII – Tripoli. Le Chateau
CXXIII – Chameaux au repos
CXIV – Couvent de Koshaia [Monastry of Qozhaya – Qadisha Valley]
CXXV – Les Cedres du Liban
CXXVI – Baalbeck. Temple of the Sun
CXXVII – Faubourg du Meidan a Damas
CXXVIII – Baalbeck. Mosquee de Saladin