GUILLAUMET (G.). Tableaux algériens. Précédé d'une... Lot n° 291

Large in-4, natural box decorated with a large chased, cold-stamped and partially enhanced with green and gold arabesques punctuated with carmine mosaics (camel's head on the upper board, stylized decoration on the lower board), spine with 2 nerves, author's name cold-stamped and enhanced with red in the central compartment, gilt head, covers preserved. The illustration includes 12 etchings on chine appliqué by Guillaumet, Courtry, Le Rat, Géry-Bichard, Muller and Toussaint, 6 heliogravures by Dujardin, 128 engravings (including 35 hors-texte) in relief from the author's paintings, drawings and sketches. Copy enriched with 3 original drawings in various black pencils: - ""horse"" on tinted paper (218 x 180 mm), signed with the studio stamp - Arab camp" on fine tinted vellum (135 x 214 mm) initialed in the left corner - mare and foal" on vellum (98 x 165 mm) signed with the studio stamp Posthumous first edition of this collection of articles by the orientalist painter-writer Gustave Guillaumet (1840 - 1887), fruit of more than 10 stays in Algeria and published between 1879 & 1884 in the new review. Limited edition at 1080 copies, one of 900 on vellum (Vicaire III, 1163). A very nice copy in a spectacular oriental binding by Nathalie Martin-Sabon (1855 - 1931), wife of the engineer and photographer Felix Martin-Sabon who worked for the French Historical Monuments Commission. She participated in several exhibitions of bookbinding between 1900 and 1914 but her achievements are rare. Minor foxing in places. "