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3 - [ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien).
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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[ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien). HISTORICAL, PITTORESQUE AND MONUMENTAL ALGERIA. A collection of views, monuments, ceremonies, costumes, weapons and portraits drawn from life, with descriptive text on the localities, customs, traditions, games and pastimes of the inhabitants of Algeria. Paris, published by J. Delahaye, 1843. Five parts bound in three folio volumes in fawn morocco with a long grain, covers adorned with a rich decoration of gilt fillet frames, cold-stamped scrolls and gilt corner fleurons, a large central medallion with a decoration of foliage and arabesques cold-stamped, spined with raised bands adorned with compartments framed by gilt fillets, blind-stamped ironwork and gilt fleurons, gilt title, gilt edges, and gilt fillets on the edges of the endpapers (Saulnier). Pronounced foxing and some plates entirely foxed, as is always the case, with small dark spots on the spines. FIRST EDITION of this remarkably illustrated work. A title page chromolithographed by Rigot, 2 out-of-text MAPS with coloured outlines, 132 lithographed PLATES on heavy vellum, including 2 in COLOUR (“Mustapha Ben Ismaïl” and “Young Jewish boys and Moorish children”), 119 in two colours, 2 in black depicting a ‘Moorish woman’ and the ‘Schematic plan of the layout and layout of Abd-El-Kader’s Zemala’ and 10 botanical plates in COLOUR, as well as 25 lithographed vignettes in black within the text, all based on works by Bour, Bro, Flandin, Genet, Philippoteaux, Raffet, etc. Limited edition of 500 copies. A CHARMING COPY, preserved in a LUXURIOUS ROMANTIC-STYLE BINDING IN DECORATED MOROCCAN LEATHER SIGNED BY SAULNIER. ¶ Brunet, I, 782 – Colas, I, 298 – Playfair, 984 – Tailliart, 718: ‘Very fine plates; a few pages of explanatory text. A very rare volume.’
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Auction time 11/12/2026 at 2:00 PM
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