IACOVLEFF (Alexandre). Drawings and paintings of Africa. Paris: Jules Meynial, 1927. - In-folio, 381x282: (20 ff., first 2 and last 3 blank), 49 plates. Text leaves bound in havana half suede with black moiré silk boards, and decorated with a vertical tribal painting on the right-hand side of the first board, plates in leaves, all in publisher's full havana Marrakech filali flap folder with laces of the same leather. First edition published under the direction of Lucien Vogel, of the travel notes and drawings executed by Alexandre IACOVLEFF during the Citroën Centre Afrique expedition, corresponding to the second Haardt, Audouin-Dubreuil mission. The printed text is framed on each page by reproductions of Iacovleff's drawings; it is followed by 49 color plates, numbered from 1 to 50, the first counting as two, featuring reproductions of paintings on laminated paper, and drawings directly on the folio. One of only 1000 deluxe copies, with the travel notes printed on Madagascar-Lafuma paper and the plates on Lafuma pure rag vellum. Some soiling and rubbing to the slipcase. Some marginal spotting.