Under the direction of Antoine Romand, the Gros & Delettrez Auction House will be selling books, manuscripts, and 83 photography lots on Thursday, June 23. The photographs feature early pictures taken from the Oriental banks of the Mediterranean, the Holy Land, or the Nile Valley.

Their photographers include: Bonfils, Béchard, Bougault, Bridges, Cammas, Cavilla, De Clerq, J. M. Diness, M. Du Camp, T. Dumas, E. Fréchon, F. Frith, J. Gervais-Courtellemont, Girault De Prangey, Greene, Hammerschmidt, Hart, Itier, Jouve, Le Gray, Lehnert & Landrock, Léon & Lévy, Neurdein Frères, Portier, Robertson, Sébah, Sébah & Joaillier, Vignes, Vogel…
Their pictures were taken in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egype, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Turkey, Armenia, or Iran.

Among the lots presented, an exceptional daguerréotype taken by Joseph-Philibert Girault De Prangey (1804- 1892):
“Fils du Grand Chérif de La Mecque, c. 1843. Abdallah [Ibn el Kherife] Mecka.”
Lot 128, 80000/100000€

Rare albums including:
Louis Vignes (1831 – 1896):
“Views of Phoenicia, Judea, the land of Moab and Petra, pictures by M. Vignes, vessel lieutenant, During his 1864 journey, with the Duke of Luynes, from Beirut to the Red Sea and his return from Jerusalem to Damas with M. Lartet along the left bank of the Jordan river. "
Lot 161 50000/70000€

George Wilson Bridges(1788 – 1863):
“Palestine as it is : In a series of Photographic Views, by the Rev. George W. Bridges, Illustrating The Bible.”
Published by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London ; and Messrs Hodges, Smith, and Co., Dublin. Part II. Subscriber’s Copy. 1858-1859.

Lot 160 60000/70000€

Henry Cammas (1813-1878):

“La Vallée du Nil. Impressions et Photographies.” 2 volumes, Hachette, Paris, 1862.

Lot 141 20000/30000€

A rare collection of 117 albumine paper prints by Henri Béchard (active from 1860 to 1890)." Haute Egypte et Nubie", c. 1870.

Lot 145 20000/30000€

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

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Antoine Romand
3, rue Crespin du Gast 75011 Paris
Tél. : + 33 0(6) 07 14 40 49 –
Email : aromand@gmail.com

Auction
Books, Manuscripts –ORIENTALIST PHOTOGRAPHY
THURSDAY JUNE 23, 2:30PM PHOTOGRAPHS towards 3:30pm
Drouot Richelieu Room 8
9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris

Public Access
Hôtel Drouot – Room 8
Wednesday June 22, 11am to 6pm
Thursday June 23, 11am to noon
Phone line during auction : + 33 0(1) 48 00 20 08