[ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien). - Lot 135

[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. À Paris, Chez J. Delahaye, Éditeur, 1843. 5 parts in 3 volumes, green half-percaline (period binding). FIRST EDITION. A chromolithographed title by RIGOT, two maps with colored lines, 134 lithographed plates, including 124 in two tints and ten botanical plates in color, 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 the text. Second volume: - Part Two. Province of Oran. 34 plates, including 33 in two-tone, and three vignettes. - Part Three. 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, 5th part) is here in color. Spine damaged; freckles, including several russeted plates; one plate unbound in volume I; small marginal worm gallery in the second half of volume I. Brunet, I, 782; Playfair, A Bibliography of Algeria, 198-984; Tailliart, L'Algérie dans la littérature française, 91-718 ("Very rare work").