105- BERCHERE (Narcisse). The Desert of Suez. Cinq mois dans l'Isthme. Paris, Jules Hetzel [Imprimerie de Claye], s.d. (1861), in-12, green half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, printed cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet). Spine faded. Orientalist painter Narcisse Berchère (1819-1891) returned to Egypt in 1856, crossing the Sinai desert with his friend Léon Belly. The two painters, accompanied by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi, then travelled up the Nile valley from July to October 1856. Our book contains the account of this expedition, dedicated to Fromentin. Color fold-out map. Hage Chahine, 435. Autograph letter from the author (recipient's name scratched out). Wet stamp: "Bibliothèque D. de M.".
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105- BERCHERE (Narcisse). The Desert of Suez. Cinq mois dans l'Isthme. Paris, Jules Hetzel [Imprimerie de Claye], s.d. (1861), in-12, green half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, printed cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet). Spine faded. Orientalist painter Narcisse Berchère (1819-1891) returned to Egypt in 1856, crossing the Sinai desert with his friend Léon Belly. The two painters, accompanied by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi, then travelled up the Nile valley from July to October 1856. Our book contains the account of this expedition, dedicated to Fromentin. Color fold-out map. Hage Chahine, 435. Autograph letter from the author (recipient's name scratched out). Wet stamp: "Bibliothèque D. de M.".

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105- BERCHERE (Narcisse). The Desert of Suez. Cinq mois dans l'Isthme. Paris, Jules Hetzel [Imprimerie de Claye], s.d. (1861), in-12, green half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, printed cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet). Spine faded. Orientalist painter Narcisse Berchère (1819-1891) returned to Egypt in 1856, crossing the Sinai desert with his friend Léon Belly. The two painters, accompanied by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi, then travelled up the Nile valley from July to October 1856. Our book contains the account of this expedition, dedicated to Fromentin. Color fold-out map. Hage Chahine, 435. Autograph letter from the author (recipient's name scratched out). Wet stamp: "Bibliothèque D. de M.".
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