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Middle East - DURAND-BRAGER (Jean-Baptiste Henri). Voyage dans la Mer Noire, le Bosphore, la Mer de Marmara et les Dardanelles. Paris, Goupil & Cie, [c. 1855]. In-folio, black half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, title stamped in gold on the upper board (period binding, spine rebound in imitation). Uncommon album composed of a lithographed title with the list of plates on the reverse side, and 24 views lithographed by Sabatier, Cicéri and Benoist, from drawings by Durand-Brager while he was attached to the Black Sea expedition under the command of Vice-Admiral Hamelin during the Crimean War. Under each illustration, the captions are in French and English. There are views of Gallipoli, Trebizond, Varna, Sevastopol, Kaffa, Soukoum-Kaleh, Bâtoum, Bourgaz, Schousgab, Platane, Redout-Kaleh, Sulina, Touaps, Anara, Sotcha, Khelindijk, Kavarna, Odessa, Baltchick, Thérapie, Sinope, and Kilid-Bas. After several long-distance campaigns, Durand-Brager studied in the workshop of Eugène Isabey. A great traveler, he traveled through Europe, Algeria, Senegal and the Atlantic coast of Africa. He painted military scenes and made a solid reputation as a painter of seascapes. He was a correspondent for several French newspapers and executed in particular a series of 20 paintings constituting a panorama of the siege of Sebastopol now preserved in the Museum of Versailles. Nice copy.
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Middle East - DURAND-BRAGER (Jean-Baptiste Henri). Voyage dans la Mer Noire, le Bosphore, la Mer de Marmara et les Dardanelles. Paris, Goupil & Cie, [c. 1855]. In-folio, black half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, title stamped in gold on the upper board (period binding, spine rebound in imitation). Uncommon album composed of a lithographed title with the list of plates on the reverse side, and 24 views lithographed by Sabatier, Cicéri and Benoist, from drawings by Durand-Brager while he was attached to the Black Sea expedition under the command of Vice-Admiral Hamelin during the Crimean War. Under each illustration, the captions are in French and English. There are views of Gallipoli, Trebizond, Varna, Sevastopol, Kaffa, Soukoum-Kaleh, Bâtoum, Bourgaz, Schousgab, Platane, Redout-Kaleh, Sulina, Touaps, Anara, Sotcha, Khelindijk, Kavarna, Odessa, Baltchick, Thérapie, Sinope, and Kilid-Bas. After several long-distance campaigns, Durand-Brager studied in the workshop of Eugène Isabey. A great traveler, he traveled through Europe, Algeria, Senegal and the Atlantic coast of Africa. He painted military scenes and made a solid reputation as a painter of seascapes. He was a correspondent for several French newspapers and executed in particular a series of 20 paintings constituting a panorama of the siege of Sebastopol now preserved in the Museum of Versailles. Nice copy.
