MAUSOLEE D'AFFIFI ERIGE A LA MEMOIRE DE FEU SON ALTESSE LE KHEDIVE TEWFIK PACHA PRIVATELY BOUND BY THE ARCHITECT GARO BALIAN

Cairo: Privately printed, 1894 Book. Illus. by FABRICIUS BEY. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. EXTREMELY SCARCE, PRIVATELY BOUND BY THE ARMENIAN ARCHITECT GARO BALIAN. FULL LEATHER BINDING GILTED AND DECORATED IN ORIENTAL STYLE. DEEPLY PRESSED. BINDING EDGES SLIGHTLY FADED, PARTIAL LEATHER FLAYING. TITLE PAGE HEADED WITH THE KHEDIVAL CROWN. NO PRINTING PLACE OR NUMBER OF COPIES, BUT POSSIBLY 50 COPIES OF THIS ALBUM, AT MOST, WAS PRINTED. FRENCH INTRODUCTION (Le mausolee d'affifi a ete erige par la famille khediviale a la memoire de feu S. A. Le khedive Mohammed Tewfik Pacha, mort le 7 janvier 1892. IL a ete inaugure le 5 janvier 1894 par son august fils, le Khedive actuel Abbas Hilmi. L'elaboration du projet du dit Mausole, ainsi que sa construction, son dus a Fabricius Bey, architecte des palais khediviaux. S. A. la Khedivah Mere, ainsi que S. A. le Khedive ayant voulu que la construction eut un caractere grandoise, et et soit concue de facon a perpetuer la memoire de leur Auguste Epoux & Pere, Fabricius Bey a cherche a s'inspirer des plus beaux monuments de l'architecture arabe de la bonne epoque. Le caire le 25 Mai 1894). ONE PLAN (PLATE NO. 1) OF THE TOMB BY FABRICIUS BEY. 21 HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES OF THE TOMB AND RELATED ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS, NUMBERED ii TO xxii. GARO BALIAN WAS AN OTTOMAN ARMENIAN COURT ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER ACTIVATED IN THE LATE 19th AND EARLY 20th C. DIMITRI FABRICIUS BEY WAS THE CHIEF ARCHITECT OF THE KHEDIVIAL BILDINGS, WHO DESIGNED THIS MAUSOLEUM TO BE THE EARLIEST BUILDING ACCORDING TO THE MAMLUK STYLE WHICH COMMISSIONED BY KHEDIVE ABBAS HILMI, THE SON OF KHEDIVE MEHMED TEWFIK. (For furthe details see: Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, And Eclecticism By Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Stephen Vernoit. P 141)..