DINET (Étienne). - Lot 155

DINET (Étienne). Mirages. Scènes de la vie arabe... commentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Paris: H. Piazza, [1906]. - In-8, 229x163: 222 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Brown morocco, boards decorated with oriental motifs in mosaic of beige, olive, green, havana and burgundy morocco, as well as gilt fillets, ornate ribbed spine, framed in brown morocco inside, decorated with a gilt fillet and gilt fleurons at the corners, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (G. L.R.-D). First edition of this superb work illustrated with fifty-four paintings by the famous Orientalist painter Étienne DINET (1861-1929), reproduced in color in the text or full-page, and accompanied by a text by his Algerian friend Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer (1871-1953), with whom he forged a strong bond of friendship and traveled the desert as well as the Algerian, Oranese, Tunisian and Egyptian regions. Edition of 400 numbered copies, this being one of 348 on vellum, manufactured by Blanchet et Kléber. Superb mosaic binding by Gabriel Le Roy-Desrivières, signed with his initials G. L.R.-D. A very well preserved copy.