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One of the world’s earliest photobooks, which features 125 images of Egypt, Jerusalem and Baalbek from the 1850s, is on the auction block with a starting bid of £100,000 ($139,177).
The volume
Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie by Maxime Du Camp is part of the Sotheby’s Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History sale, which focuses on illustrated works of natural history, geography and world maps.
Du Camp’s book is the outcome of a trip to the Middle East in 1849. The French writer ventured to Egypt with novelist Gustave Flaubert, commissioned by the French government to photograph archaeological sites and document the state of commerce and agriculture in various areas.