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BENOIT (Pierre) – LOBEL-RICHE (Almery).
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BENOIT (Pierre) – LOBEL-RICHE (Almery).
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
BENOIT (Pierre) – LOBEL-RICHE (Almery).
*L’Atlantide*. Definitive edition.
Paris: Albin Michel, [1922]. — 4to, 320 x 250: frontispiece, (2 blank folios at the beginning), 194 pp., (5 folios, the last 2 blank), 11 plates, printed cover. Red half-maroquin with corner pieces, ribbed spine decorated with gilded and mosaic motifs, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Blanchetière).
First illustrated edition of Pierre Benoit’s famous novel *L’Atlantide*, whose plot, set in the Algerian desert, blends adventure, colonial exoticism and an impossible romance, drawing on the myth of Atlantis and Tuareg legends. It was first published in 1919.
The illustrations consist of 24 original etchings by the painter and engraver Alméry LOBEL-RICHE (1877–1950), including one frontispiece and 11 out-of-text plates.
The print run was limited to 592 copies; this one is one of the 10 non-commercial copies on Arches vellum (no. I).
A very fine copy in a mosaic-bound cover by Blanchetière.
Very rare faint foxing on a few pages, nothing serious.
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About the sale
Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
Auction location
Auction time
10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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