Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la Paris; Arthus Bertrand, [1868-74]. First edition, 3 volumes (text volumes 1-2 of 3, and atlas volume), 4to (36 x 27cm), later black quarter morocco, text-volume pagination [4] iii [1] 388, [4] 222 [6] pp., half-titles, text-volumes with original wrappers bound in (laid on card), volume 1 with 4 folding chromolithographic geological maps or profiles (numbered 1-4, including duplicates of 3-4), volume 2 with 2 folding maps, atlas volume with 59 photogravure plates by Charles Nègre (of 64: lacking nos. 2, 55, 61, 63, 64), a suite of 18 numbered plates titled ‘Voyage de M. Mauss’ (including 4 maps and plans, one folding, the rest tinted lithographs by Eugène Ciceri from photographs by Vignes or Sauvaire), folding colour map, folding engraved plate ('Le segor'), variable spotting [Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography I pp. 982-5 (Nègre); Parr & Badger I p. 33; Röhricht 2824] (3)

Note: A pioneering work of photographic book illustration.