The Image of the east: Nineteenth-Century Near Eastern Photographs by Bonfils From the Collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum
by Gavin, Carney E. S.; edited by Ingeborg Endter O'reilly
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0226690512
- ISBN 13
- 9780226690513
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Discussion of the importance & scope of the work of the Bonfils family, Huguenots who moved to Beirut in 1876, where they founded an important photographic studio, traveling & photographing notable sites and scenes, but also ordinary people, throughout the near east. Harvard's Semitic Museum appears to hold the largest organized group of the studio's work, which is frequently the only record of long-vanished lifeways. The book, one of the publisher's Visual Library Text-Fiche Series, includes commentary on family, their work, a family tree, chronologies, list of photos, ten micro-fiche sheets, most with 84 b/w images, 815 images in all, suitable for enlargement with a 20-24x lens, or some modern scanning devices. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear; text clean, no names or marks; xix, [3], 115 pages; appendixes, bibliography, notes, index, 10 michrofiche sheets in rear pocket, complete. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- x1177
- Title
- The Image of the east: Nineteenth-Century Near Eastern Photographs by Bonfils From the Collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum
- Author
- Gavin, Carney E. S.; edited by Ingeborg Endter O'reilly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226690512
- ISBN 13
- 9780226690513
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago & London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Photography, Middle East, holy Lands, Syria, Lebanon, Beirut, Turkey, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Nile, Nile Valley, Greece, Ancient World, Ruins
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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