{"product_id":"ottoman-empire-four-albums-1860-116642","title":"Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:","description":"Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTancrède Dumas (1830–1905) was an Italian photographer of French descent who opened a photographic studio in Beirut in 1860. In 1875 he was hired by the American Palestine Exploration Society to document the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFelix Bonfils (1831-1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Bonfils initially worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined General d'Hautpoul's expedition to the Levant. Soon after returning from Lebanon he became a photographer. The family moved to Beirut in 1867 where they opened a photographic studio called 'Maison Bonfils'. In his first four years as a photographer Bonfils reportedly produced 15,000 prints of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Greece, and 9,000 stereoscopic views. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Bergheim (1813-1895) was born in Jewish family and converted to Christianity after emigrating to Britain in 1834. In 1838 he arrived in Palestine with the British Mission and worked first as a pharmacist at the Mission hospital in Jerusalem. Bergheim began taking photographs in the late 1850s or early 1860s, inspired Tancrède Dumas. He joined Dumas studio in Beirut, while also maintaining a successful photography shop in the Old City of Jerusalem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHippolyte Arnoux (c.1860 – c.1891) was a French Orientalist photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers, alongside Bonfils, to produce images of people and places in Ottoman Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour vols, oblong folio, restored original half-calf with blind-tooled gilt ornaments and gilt titles to front; TBC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57641467117943,"sku":"116642","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/116642.jpg?v=1793037417","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/ottoman-empire-four-albums-1860-116642","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}