MONUMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF ALGERIA

BERBRUGGER, (LOUIS-ADRIEN).

Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale, ou Recueil de Vues, Costumes, et Portraits faits d'après Nature dans les Provinces d'Alger, Bone, Constantine et Oran Par Bour, Ol. Bro, Al. Genet, E. Flandin, Philippoteaux, Raffet &c. Avec le Texte descriptif par M. Berbrugger. 3 Vols in 5 Parts. (1: Province d'Alger - 2: Province d'Oran. - 3: Province de Bone. - 4: Province de Constantine. - 5: Races Algériennes, Monnaies, Flore d'Algérie.).

Paris, J. Delahaye, 1843.

Large folio. (58x42 cm.). Bound in 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Covers with inlaid cloth with ornamentation in gold. Wear to spine ends. Spines rubbed. A repair to lower part of spine on volume one. Chromolithographed frontispiece. XIV,(4),80;(2),68;(4),20;(4),42;(4),21,18,(2) pp. and 2 lithographed maps, 127 lithographed and tinted plates (2 coloured) and 10 handcoloured lithographed plates of flowers. Textillustrations. Cul de lamps. All plates with tissue-guards. Some browning and spotting to many of the plates.

First, and only, edition of Berbrugger's monumental description of Algeria. The plates depicts city views, landscapes, costumes, scenes from daily life etc.
Colas, 298. - Lipperheide, 1594. - Brunet I, 782.

Order-nr.: 51187