[ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien). Algérie historique, pi - Lot 339

[ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien). Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale. Collection of views, monuments, ceremonies, costumes, weapons and portraits drawn from life, with descriptive text on the localities, customs, habits, games and amusements of the inhabitants of Algeria. of the inhabitants of Algeria. À Paris, Chez J. Delahaye, Éditeur, 1843. 5 parts in 3 volumes in-folio, green half-percaline (period binding). FIRST EDITION. A chromolithographed title by RIGOT, two maps with colored lines, 134 lithographed plates, including 124 two-tone plates and ten botanical plates and 25 vignettes, also lithographed, in the text, all after BOUR, BRO, FLANDIN, GENET, PHILIPPOTEAUX, RAFFET, etc. First volume: -First part. Province of Algiers. 2 maps and 51 other plates; ten vignettes and three plans in text. Second volume: -Part Two. Province of Oran. 34 plates, including 33 in two-tone, and three vignettes. -Third part. Province of Bone. 17 plates and one vignette. Third volume: -Part four. Province of Constantine. 16 plates and 8 vignettes. -Fifth part. I - Algerian races, coins, flora of Algeria. 6 plates, including one in color ("Young boys, Jews - Children, Moors"), and one vignette. -Fifth part. II - Monnaies diverses ayant cours en Algérie [...], by J. MARCEL. A relay title adorned with a lithographed vignette and metal vignettes. -Fifth part. III - Flora of Algeria [...], by P. CHAMPY. A relay title adorned with a vignette and 10 plates (bearing 72 illustrations) after Th. TOULET. The lithograph depicting "Jeunes garçons, juifs - Enfans, maures" (t. III, 5e part) is here in color. Spine damaged: freckles, several plates russeted; one plate loose in volume I; small marginal worm gallery in the second half of volume I. half of volume I. Brunet, I, 782; Playfair, A Bibliography of Algeria, 198-984; Tailliart, L'Algérie dans la littérature française, 91-718 ("Ouvrage très rare")