Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated, [8], profusely illustrated in 59 sepia colour photographs by Arnoux, selected from 11 albums donated to the National Archives by l'Association du Souvenir de Ferdinand de Lesseps et du Canal de Suez, publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, copy in mint condition, Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris, 1996-97.

Synopsis

A catalogue of an exhibition held at the Centre Historique des Archives Nationales in Paris from 6 November 1996 – 3 February 1997.
Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. During the 1860s, he documented the excavation of the Suez Canal and published the resulting photographs. At the same time, he occasionally worked with the Port Said photographic studio, Adelphoi Zangaki. In the late 1860s, Arnoux was a partner of Antonio Beato.