Author: GUYON, Jean Louis Geneviève.
Title: Voyage d’Alger aux Ziban l’ancienne Zebe en 1847. Avec vues des principales oasis et de quelques monuments du Tell, en deça des Aurès, et un portrait du dernier Bey de Constantine. Atlas.Algeria, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1850. Oblong 4to. With 35 plates, namely a portrait of Hadj Hamed (or Ahmet Bey ben Mohammed sherif, the last Bey of Constantine; 1784-ca. 1850), and 34 views of various parts, cities and Roman remains in Algeria (Constantine), Half black morocco, brown cloth sides, gold-tooled spine.
Description: [4] pp.First and only edition of a rare series of 34 views plus a portrait, showing the most important oases and their houses, mosques and other buildings, such as El Kantara, El Outaia, Biskara (5), Zaouia, Toouda, Sidi-Okba (6), Saâda, M’Lili, Ourlad, Tolga, Marabout, El Bordj, Farfar, Lichana, Bou-Chagroun, Touda, and Caïd de Khanga, and Roman antiquities at Lambasa (Lambaesis) and Diana veteranorum (7: Temples of Victoria and Aesculapius, Arc de Triomphe, etc.) in the region Constantine, northeast Algeria: the Zebe-region as it was called in Roman times.A text to accompany the views was added two years later in a separate 1852 octavo volume, not included here and also not in most of the few copies of the print series that we have traced. The magnificent plates provide a good impression of Algeria shortly after the French occupation, when it still showed relatively little European influence.Binding worn, plates a little foxed, otherwise in good condition.l Bibl. des ouvr. impr. à Alger, 238; Gay 1065; Taillard 777; not in Blackmer.
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Title: Voyage d’Alger aux Ziban l’ancienne Zebe en 1847. Avec vues des principales oasis et de quelques monuments du Tell, en deça des Aurès, et un portrait du dernier Bey de Constantine. Atlas.Algeria, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1850. Oblong 4to. With 35 plates, namely a portrait of Hadj Hamed (or Ahmet Bey ben Mohammed sherif, the last Bey of Constantine; 1784-ca. 1850), and 34 views of various parts, cities and Roman remains in Algeria (Constantine), Half black morocco, brown cloth sides, gold-tooled spine.
Description: [4] pp.First and only edition of a rare series of 34 views plus a portrait, showing the most important oases and their houses, mosques and other buildings, such as El Kantara, El Outaia, Biskara (5), Zaouia, Toouda, Sidi-Okba (6), Saâda, M’Lili, Ourlad, Tolga, Marabout, El Bordj, Farfar, Lichana, Bou-Chagroun, Touda, and Caïd de Khanga, and Roman antiquities at Lambasa (Lambaesis) and Diana veteranorum (7: Temples of Victoria and Aesculapius, Arc de Triomphe, etc.) in the region Constantine, northeast Algeria: the Zebe-region as it was called in Roman times.A text to accompany the views was added two years later in a separate 1852 octavo volume, not included here and also not in most of the few copies of the print series that we have traced. The magnificent plates provide a good impression of Algeria shortly after the French occupation, when it still showed relatively little European influence.Binding worn, plates a little foxed, otherwise in good condition.l Bibl. des ouvr. impr. à Alger, 238; Gay 1065; Taillard 777; not in Blackmer.
Keywords: [4C531C9794C4] AFRICA|[4C531C9794C4] AFRICA -> [C98C41A79B35] North Africa & Egypt|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [F94AEB0D1632] Voyages & Travel|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD|[G8L0P27N9XV
Price: EUR 2250.00 = appr. US$ 2445.41 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
- Book number: ABC_46076
- Book number: ABC_46076