FOBO - Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (page 1/2)

Some sample images

Bab En Nasr, or Bab El-Nasr, is the ancient Victory Gate of Cairo, built around 1090 and rebuilt in 1212. It is the North Gate to the city. [more...] [$]

Widow Mourning

The book describes a train journey from Cairo to Kafr et Zayat station at Tantah. This illustration appears to depict a woman clad in black and wearing a shawl, citing in amidst the ruins of some ancient city, weeping, presumably for her lost husband. It is not clear whether she is in a graveyard or by a some ancient tomb. The engraving is signed by the engraver or artist, Leopold Carl Müller.

“An endless breadth of green fields spreads on every side, interspersed withvillage that look from afar like tumuli, or ant-hills, shaded by palms, and not unfrequently clustering round the rubbish heaps and ruins of some destroyed city. Camels and asses, with their drivers, pass in long files along the dykes that stand up high above the plain; black buffaloes go down to the water to drink, and [more...] [$]

Bab El-Footoh

The modern spelling of this Egyptian fortification is Bab El-Fotouh. You can also find Bab al Futuh or Bab el Fatuh. It is the West Gate of the city of Cairo in Egypt; the name means ‘Gate of Conquests’ and it, along with the East Gate, was built in the late 11th [...] [more...] [$]

Court of an Egyptian House at the Time of the Khalifs

120x185mm, signed by Gustav Richter. [$]

Catacombs in Alexandria

“By far the most magnificent portion [of Alexandria] was the Bruchium (granery, or height), bathed by the waters of the Great Harbour, and adjoining the oldest part of the city, namely, the original fishing port of Rhacotis. This old quarter was always the residence chiefly of Egytians; and, as in all Egyptian cities, on its western side lay its “City of the Dead.” For, as the sun after its day’s course sinks in the [...] [more...] [$]

Pictures from Pictureseque Egypt, by George Moritz Ebers (1837 – 1898), translated by Clara Bell, Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1878, and measuring approx. 290x370mm (44.5 x 14.5 inches), is a huge two-volume collection of engravings and text. The illustrations that are signed are by Leopold Carl Müller (1834 – 1892). Copies of the plates are often sold on eBay, which is sad because it often means a bookseller has ripped apart a copy of the book.

This is volume one; the next gallery is for volume two.

There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for George Moritz Ebers.

These books are big (about A3, or 11x17") and did not fit on my older scanner. They’re pretty heavy, too!

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Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (page 1/2)

Some sample images

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