Каталогъ Фотографическихъ Видовъ и Типовъ, Кавказа, Персіи, Европейской и Азіатской Турціи Katalog Fotograficheskikh Vidov i Tipov Kavkaza, Percii, Evropeĭskoĭ i Aziatskoĭ Turtsii (Catalogue of Photographic Views and Types of the Caucasus, Persia, European and Asian Turkey)

Тифли́с (Tbilisi): Паровая Типографія Штаба Кавказскаго военнаго округа (Steam Printing House of the Headquarters of the Caucasian Military District), 1896. First edition. Softcover. g- to near fine. Large octavo. 289, 44pp. Original printed pink wrappers with black lettering and period typography on the front and back covers.

This extremely scarce publication is a massive catalog containing a list of 18,00 prints, representing the entire professional output to date of the noted Georgian/Russian photographer Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (1846-1916). Based mostly in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, Yermakov traveled extensively, taking photographs in the Middle-east, Persia, and Europe. He is most known for his invaluable photographic documentation of the Caucasus. His work is comprised of both location photographs as well as studio images, landscapes and ethnography. The catalog is an important piece of Russian photographic history, as well as an invaluable reference on Yermakov's body of work.

The first two pages contain introductory text advertising and summarizing the content of Yermakov's available works. Each line of the catalog includes the photograph's inventory number, title/brief description, size, and box and album number. The vast collection is roughly organize alphabetically by the location where the photograph was taken. Following the main section of the catalog are an additional 44 pages containing listings for 2000 stereoscopic images. Copies of the work are known to have been issued in a variety of different colored wrappers.

Text in Russian.

Wrappers with some smudges and stains as well as light age toning. Minor chipping and rubbing to corner, with some more significant chipping and rubbing to the spine. Interior extremely clean, save for some light age toning to the title page. Book block tight overall. Wrappers in good-, interior in near fine condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Extremely scarce. An even scarcer supplement to this catalog with additional photographic listings was issued in 1901.

Only 4 copies of this original 1896 catalog located on OCLC worldwide, with only one in North America.