187 - [Arabia]. PRISSE D’AVENNES, Achille Constant. HOUSTON, John Adam.

[Arabia]. PRISSE D’AVENNES, Achille Constant. HOUSTON, John Adam. [Set of seven plates]. London, James Madden, [1851]. Folio (40 x 29 cm). Set of 7 black lithographs on tinted ground (a few spots and foxing, dulled edges and slightly rubbed corners; two plates with narrow margins). A fine set of seven Orientalist lithographs from Émile Prisse d’Avennes’s *Oriental Album*, published in London, lithographed by Lemoine, Saint-Germain, Freeman, Leroux, Bour, and Mouilleron. Titles handwritten at the bottom of the plates. The seven plates depict: Arab Sheikh Smoking (an Arab sheikh smoking on the Red Sea coast); Portrait of the Late George Lloyd Esq.; Zeyat (Oilman), His Shop and Customers at Cairo (an oil merchant and his customers in Cairo); Abâbdeh, Nomads of the Eastern Thebaid Desert; Bedouins from the Vicinity of Suez; Nubian and a Fellah; Fellahs, a Man and a Woman. This important work, devoted to the costumes, peoples, and scenes of daily life in the Nile Valley, Nubia, and the regions bordering the Red Sea, was based on the observations and drawings collected by Prisse d’Avennes during his travels in Egypt. The portrait of George Lloyd, Prisse d’Avennes’s traveling companion to whom the book is dedicated, was based on a painting by John Adam Houston.