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.

Beschreibung

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. Half black morocco, brown cloth sides, gold-tooled spine. With 35 plates, namely a portrait of Hadj Hamed (or Ahmet Bey ben Mohammed sherif, the last Bey of Constantine; 1784-ca. 1850), leader of the local population in a fierce resistance to the French occupation forces, drawn by Etienne Bocourt and lithographed by Bouijer; and 34 views of various parts, cities and Roman remains in Algeria (Constantine), drawn by Aristide Verdalle (33) and Etienne Bocourt (2) and lithographed by Mme. Philippe (23), Bouijer (10), and Bastide (1), all three working in Algiers. The plates, each with its original protective tissue, are numbered 1-26 plus 20 bis and 1-5 plus 2 bis, 4 bis. Pages: [4] pp.

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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.

Verlag

Imprimerie du Gouvernement,, Algeria,

Erscheinungsjahr

1850

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