ROZET, (CLAUDE ANTOINE).

Voyage dans la Régence D'Alger, ou Description du Pays occupé par L'Armée Francaise en Afrique; contenant des Observations sur la Geographie, Physique, la Géologie, la Meteorologie, L'Histoire Naturelles, etc.. Suivies de Détails sur le Commerce, L'Agriculture, les Sciences et les Arts, Le Moeurs, les Coutumes et le Usages des Habitant de la Régence, de L'Histoire de son Gouvernement, de la Description complete du Territoire, d'un Plan de Colonisation, etc. 3 vols + Atlas.

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1833. 8vo and small folio. Bound in 4 near contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine on vol. 1, a small tear to upper part of hinge to vol. 3. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on titlepages. XV,286;(1),326;(1),459 pp. and Atlas, Titlepage,2 pp. of "Explication des Planches" , 1 folded engraved plate, 30 lithographed plates (of 8 are costume-plates in colour), and most of the other 28, are views. Two leaves in the first text-volume with a brownspot in margin; textvols. otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper. Atlasvol.: titlepage and the 2 textleaves brownspotted. Some brownspots to the folded map. Plates with varying brownspots and light foxing, mostly marginal.

First edition of this important description of Algeria from the first years of the French possession of the country as they ended the Turkish rule in 1830. - Brunet IV:1440.

Order-nr.: 39687