Lallemand, Charles, [and Ludovic Hart]

LIMITED EDITION, number 20 of 60 copies, 4to (272 x 230mm.), half-title, photographic illustration on title and 18 photographic plates by Ludovic Hart, all mounted, original cloth, gilt edges

Jacobson, Odalisques & arabesques, p.242; Perez, Focus East, pp.174-6; not in Atabey, Blackmer or Weber

A good copy
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This rare work contains photographs of various occupations and religions, including Musique arabe à Damas, Paysans Kurdes, Cawas nègre de la Cie. Messageries Impériales ottomans, Eveque maronite, Femmes juives de Damas, Eveque grec melchite, and others.

The volume has two title pages as noted above. The second one (Galerie universelle des peuples) bears the date 1865. "In 1863-64, [Ludovic] Hart published, in partnership with the Alsatian draughtsman and columnist Charles Lallemand, the major work Galerie universelle des peuples... The two partners, with Hart as photographer, produced a large number of images and began to supply their subscribers with the promised pictures. The photographs, of excellent quality, cover the entire Near East from Syria in the north to Egypt and Nubia... Strangely, Hart's name was not mentioned in most of the publications; usually Lallemand was identified as the author of the photographs. Even the little book of nineteenth hand-coloured photographs of Syrian costumes and landscapes, of which only sixty copies were printed, was published under Lallemand's name" (Perez).