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Gavin, Carney E. S.

The Image of the East: Nineteenth-Century Near Eastern Photographs by Bonfils From the Collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum

University of Chicago Press,, 1982

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Year of publication
1982
Author
Gavin, Carney E. S.
Publishers
University of Chicago Press,
Keyword
Nineteenth Century Photography
Binding description
S
Inscription description
Signed by Author
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
No

Description

This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. SIGNED by the author, Carney Gavin, and briefly inscribed to a collector and dated 2003, on the front cover. Otherwise completely clean. Primarily about the French nineteenth century photographers the Bonfils family, including Felix Bonfils and his wife Lydie, the founders of the Bonfils photography company. Working for fifty years or so several members of the Bonfils family documented life in the Near East. The Harvard Semitic Museum has a particularly rich collection of Bonfils photographs. Bibliography. 9" high X 6" wide, 115 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.
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