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BERBRUGGER, Louis Adrien. Algrie historique, pittoresque et monumentale ou recueil de vues, costumes et portraits faits d'aprs nature. Paris: J.Delahaye, 1843.
5 parts in 3 volumes, large 2 (575 x 410mm). Half-titles. Chromolithographed title to vol. I, 2 lithographic maps, hand-colored in outline, 134 lithographic plates, the majority tinted views or portraits by Genet, Bro, Flandin, Raffet and others, also including 10 hand-colored botanical plates, and 1 hand-colored portrait. (Some general spotting or browning, severe to about 20 plates.) Contemporary red morocco-backed textured paper boards, spines gilt (some light bumping and scuffing to extremities, lower outer corner of upper board to vol. III broken away).
The work includes sections on each of the provinces of Morocco, its people, the coinage and the botany of the area. Brunet I, 782. Scarce. (3)
5 parts in 3 volumes, large 2 (575 x 410mm). Half-titles. Chromolithographed title to vol. I, 2 lithographic maps, hand-colored in outline, 134 lithographic plates, the majority tinted views or portraits by Genet, Bro, Flandin, Raffet and others, also including 10 hand-colored botanical plates, and 1 hand-colored portrait. (Some general spotting or browning, severe to about 20 plates.) Contemporary red morocco-backed textured paper boards, spines gilt (some light bumping and scuffing to extremities, lower outer corner of upper board to vol. III broken away).
The work includes sections on each of the provinces of Morocco, its people, the coinage and the botany of the area. Brunet I, 782. Scarce. (3)