DINET (Étienne) - IBRAHIM (Sliman Ben). - Lot 154

DINET (Étienne) - IBRAHIM (Sliman Ben). Rabiâ el Kouloub ou le Printemps des Cœurs. Paris: Édition d'art H. Piazza, 1902. - In-8, 227x163: 175 pp, (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Bordeaux morocco, boards decorated with a central gilded oriental rosette mosaiced in blue, green and mustard morocco, and framed by a blue morocco listel bordered by a gilded fillet on the outside and inside a gilded fillet on the right and left edges and a horizontal rectangular composition at the top and bottom, formed at the ends by two mosaic squares in blue and mustard morocco with a cold arabesque motif, connected by two gilded fillets framing a gilded rectangle cut in the center by a star-shaped piece of green morocco decorated with cold arabesque and edged on either side with a gilded finial, smooth spine decorated with gilded motifs and mosaics in the same spirit, green box lining with gilded fillet and decorated with a burgundy morocco listel, fillet and gilded motifs, green moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, lined case (H. E. Laskine). Superb and very luxurious edition of this collection of 3 oriental tales collected by Sliman Ben Ibrahim, translated and illustrated by Étienne DINET (1861-1929). The illustrations include 50 full-page and in-text color compositions, as well as beautiful decorations, framed in black or color around the text or illustrations, or full-page in color and gold. Edition of 300 copies; this is one of 260 on vellum, not numbered. A superb copy in a later lined binding signed H. E. Laskine. Enriched with the publication prospectus, bound at the end. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Dr. Lucadou, with a signed letter from the bookseller Dambournet dated April 24, 1936, offering him the book for 25,000 francs. The copy was then in paperback.