In Arab Lands: The Bonfils Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Hardcover. English. Zeitoun Press. 1999. ISBN: 9789775864024. 96pp.

Good condition in slightly worn black boards.

From street scenes to portraits, landscapes to architectural studies, this fascinating collection of photographs allows us to glimpse a time and way of life now past: Ottoman Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in the latter half of the nineteenth century. P. Felix Bonfils was the first French photographer, and one of the first European photographers, to settle in the Near East, establishing a studio in Beirut in 1867. Book No: 47385