183 - [Arab Art]. GIRAULT DE PRANGEY, Joseph-Philibert.

[Arab Art]. GIRAULT DE PRANGEY, Joseph-Philibert. Arab and Moorish Monuments of Córdoba, Seville, and Granada. Paris, Veith and Hauser, 1837. Folio, 57 folios, including one double-page spread. Contemporary brown half-percale binding (out of blocks, foxing, water stains on the margins of most pages, a few folios bound out of order, a tear in the side margin of plate 6, marked 3, from the section on the Córdoba Mosque). An important and magnificent work by Girault de Prangey featuring reproductions of Arab and Moorish monuments in Spain, drawn and surveyed between 1832 and 1833. Illustrated based on his drawings and surveys. It consists of three parts, containing impressions of Granada and the Alhambra, the Mosque of Córdoba, the Alcázar, and the Giralda in Seville. The work includes a general title page, three frontispiece title pages for each part—lithographed by Asselineau and Monthelier, Bernand and Frey—as well as 8 plates devoted to the Mosque of Córdoba, 6 plates on the Alcázar and the Giralda in Seville, and 30 plates on Granada and the Alhambra (including a fold-out plate illustrating cross-sections, elevations, and details of the Alhambra palace). For a total of 44 plates (most of which bear a dry stamp featuring the Girault de Prangey coat of arms in the lower margin). The volume also includes 9 pages of text containing explanations of the plates. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892), photographer, draftsman, and archaeologist, is considered a pioneer of photography. Around 1840, he traveled throughout the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, producing some of the earliest known daguerreotypes of Islamic architecture and ancient sites, particularly in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. ANDALUSIA. MAGHREB. Graesse, III-89. Brunet, II, 1614.