4to. 207 pp., profusely illustrated with 50 tritone and 169 halftone reproductions, cloth in pictorial dust wrapper, endpaper plans, appendix, biblio, copy in mint condition, Kraus - Hershkowitz - Weston, New York/London/Carmel, 1992.

Synopsis

A presentation copy signed by the author and dated 19 Feb 1993.
Félix Teynard (1817-1892) was a French civil engineer who practised in Grenoble. He visited Egypt in 1851-52 expressly to make a photographic companion to Description de l’Egypte, the lavish publication issued by Napoleon’s team of savants between 1809 and 1829.
This is the first monograph on Félix Teynard, the great French master of the calotype who photographed Egypt with considerable sensitivity in 1851-52. [Jacket].