Souvenir D’un voyage en orient

Messageries Maritimes. Souvenir D’un voyage en orient. Paris: Imprimerie Hayman, 1930s. First edition. Quarto (9 5/8 x 8 1/8″). 13 plates. Original brown portfolio with embossed gilt lettering on cover. Thirteen b/w offset reproductions of a voyage on the “Champollion,” a passenger cruiser operated by the French company Messageries Maritimes. All reproductions contain printed company name and captions in French.

Traditional meditarenea cruise illustrating many of the highlights including the pyramids, Baalbek, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Hagia Sophia, the Parthenon, among others. The photographs include the ship Champollion; Naples – Vue Générale; Athèns – Le Temple de la Victoire Aptère; Athèns – Les Cariatides de L’Erechteion; Constantinople – Vue Gènérale; Constantinople – La Nef de Saint-Sophie; Baalbeck – Le Temple de Vénus; Jérusalem – L’Église du Saint-Sépulcre; Jérusalem – Vue Prise du Mont des Oliviers; Bethléem – L’Entrée de la Grotte de la Nativité; Le Caire – La Porte de la Citadelle et la Mosquée Mohammed-Ali; Le Sphinx et la Grande Pyramide; Sur les Bords de la Mer Morte. Text in French. Portfolio with wear along edges, some closed tears at folds of flaps and spine, and sunned along edges. Two plates with small creasing at corners. Portfolio in good-, plates in very good condition. g- to vg. Loose leaf. (47352) $95