LALLEMAND, CHARLES (1826–1904) Syria: Costumes, Travels, Landscapes. Librairie du Petit Journal, Paris, 1866. Quarto-sized album in its original publisher’s brown percaline binding, with the title in gold lettering on the front cover, containing 18 albumen prints mounted on cardboard with tabs featuring serpentine designs. Another albumen print serves as the title vignette. The album contains 68 pages of text. The print run of the album was limited to only 60 copies. Our copy is numbered 13. The average size of the prints is 10.5 x 8.3 cm. The photographs depict lemonade vendors in Beirut, a shepherd from Lebanon with a kid, Arabic music in Damascus, Kurdish peasants, a lemonade vendor in Damascus, two Cawas from the French consulate in Beirut, two porters in Beirut, a merchant and a peasant from the Damascus region, Black Cawas from the Ottoman Imperial Courier Company, a woman from Zuck, a Maronite bishop, a young girl and a young Jewish woman from Damascus, Jewish women from Damascus, Emir Melhem, the governor of Schouffas and his son, a Christian lady from Damascus, Greek Melkite deacons, a Greek Melkite bishop, an altar vestment, and the divan from the English consul’s residence in Damascus. Extremely rare.