Dieulefils (Pierre). Indo-Chine Pittoresque & Monumentale..., [1907]

Dieulefils (Pierre). Indo-Chine Pittoresque & Monumentale, Ruines d'Angkor, Cambodge, Hanoi: Dieulefils, Photo Publisher, [1907], printed dedication leaf, printed title page and preface leaf, introduction (in France, English, and German), list of plates, and 67 plates (numbered 1-67), consisting of a single colour plate of King Sisowath presiding at a feast at Angkor-Wat (after Lorant Heilbronn), and 66 heliogravure plates after photographs, each with printed description in French, English and German on the tissue-guard, some light soiling to outer margins, patterned endpapers, original publisher’s brown half morocco, with upper cover lettered in gilt, rubbed and some marks and light soiling, oblong folio (textblock measures 27.5 x 38 cm), together with
De Beylié (General L.). Les Ruines d'Angkor, Notice illustrée de 16 gravures, Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1909, monochrome illustrations, including some after photographs, original printed wrappers, rubbed and somewhat soiled, some fraying to spine and outer edges, slim 4to

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Unusual publication on the ruins of Angkor-Wat in Cambodia, from a series of three albums by Dieulefils entitled L'indochine Pittoresque et Monumentale, the others relating to Annam and Tonkin, and Siagon and Cochinchina. Dieulefils opened a photographic studio in Hanoi in 1889, and became the most famous photographer of this region. 500 copies printed, including 200 numbered copies on Holland paper.

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