En Orient, Récits et Notes d'un Voyage en Palestine et en Syrie by Abbe Roboisson (Pierre August Raoisson). Paris: Librairie Catholique de l'Oeuvre de Saint-Pau, 1886-1887. French. Two volumes.
Books documenting the journey of the French abbot Pierre Auguste Raboisson in Egypt, Sinai, Palestine and Syria. The two volumes of the book include 150 plates of prints (75 plates in each volume) and 14 maps. The prints were created after photographs and they depict views, figures and sites. Among the photographs of Palestine are photographs of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus, Nazareth and other towns. Among the maps: map of Sinai, map of Jerusalem, map of Palestine, and more.
Abbot Raboisson was an amateur photographer who learned the art of photography shortly before the journey documented in this book. Even though he claimed that all the prints in this book were created after photographs which he shot during his journey, it was later discovered that some were created after photographs by Felix Bonfils and other photographers. See: "Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839-1885)" by Nissan Perez (New-York-Jerusalem, 1988), p. 270.
Vol. I: [2] leaves, 318, [1] pp + [84] plates (9 of which are maps). Vol. II: [2] leaves, 354, [1] pp + [80] plates (5 of which are maps). 35 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Tears at margins of a number of leaves. Slmall worming holes to first volume. Uncut sheets in second volume. Bindings with leather spines and corners (tears and defects. Open tears to spines).