Le Temple De Jérusalem Monographie Du Haram-Ech-Chérif Suivie D'Un Essai Sur La Topographie De La Ville-Sainte Par Le Cte Melchior De Vogüé Membre De La Société Impériale Des Antiquaires De France, Correspondant De L'Institut Archéologique De Rome Etc., Etc. [Epigraph]
Paris: Noblet & Baudry, Libraires-Éditeurs 15, Rue Des Saints-Pères, Londres: Williams & Norgate 14, Henrietta Street (Covent Garden), Liége: Noblet & Baudry 6, Place Saint-Paul, 1864 Tous droits réservés
Physical Description
[4], viii, 142, [6] p., 37 pl. (3 dble.): [57] illus.; 441 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[Half-t., t.p.] - Préface - [Text] - Appendice - Additions Et Corrections - Liste Des Gravures Intercalées Dans Le Texte - Table Des Matières - [Blank leaf] - [Divisional t.p., 'Planches'] - Table Des Planches; [colophon] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
Most plates are signed as drawn by M. de Vogüé or E. Duthoit or both; but pl. 13 is signed as drawn by M. de Vogüé and W.H. Waddington, pl. 17 as 'suivant Catherwood'. They are signed as engraved by Erhard, J. Durond, Chappuis, Léon Gaucherel, Boullay, Ale. Guillaumot, Sulpis, Lecoq, Sauvageot, Digeon père et fils - but. pl. 15 is not signed by an engraver, and pl. 37 is signed as lithographed by Levie.
The double plates 1 and 36 carry the printer's imprint of Lemercier, Paris. All others carry the publishers' imprint of Noblet et Baudry and the printer's imprint of Lamoureux, Paris.
The text printer is named in the colophon and on the half-title verso: 'Paris. - J. Claye, Imprimeur, Rue Saint-Benoit, 7.'
References
R. Cagnat, 'Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. le Marquis de Vogüé', in Acad. Inscr. & B.-Lettres. C.R. Séances (1918), p.443-73.
Summary Note
Vogüé had worked with W.H. Waddington the epigrapher and E.C.M.L. Duthoit the architect from 1861, first in Cyprus and afterwards in Syria and the Holy Land. Here he describes the Temple Mount at Jerusalem, including the first and second Temples, the Temple of Herod, later Roman developments and the site after the Arab conquest and under the Templars. The two appendices describe the topography of Jerusalem and ancient inscriptions.
The plates are captioned and show: 1. Plan Et Nivellement Du Haram-Ech-Chérif; 2. Murailles Du Parvis Extérieur; 3. Porte Occidentale; 4-6. Porte Dorée; 13. Substructions De L'Angle Sud-Est; 14. Temple De Salomon Resuaration D'Après La Bible; 15. Temple D'Hérode Restauration Du Plan; 16. Temple D'Hérode Restauration; 17. Plan Du Haram-Ech-Chérif; 18-29. Qoubbet-Es-Sakhrah (Mosquée D'Omar); 30-33. Mosquée El-Aksa; 34, 35. Araq-El-Emir; 36. Plan Topographique Et Archéologique De Jérusalem; 37. Inscriptions De Jérusalem.
Several plates are printed in color (pl. 1, 20-29, 33, 36).
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Melchior De Vogüé - Le Temple De Jérusalem', 'R.A.' and '1864'.
Subject
Architecture - Architecture details - Antiquities - Temples - Mosques - Cities - Palestine - Israel - Jerusalem - History
Treatises - Views - Plans - Sections - Elevations - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Chromolithographs - Colour printing - France - 19th century