3 - [ALGERIA]. BERBRUGGER (Louis-Adrien). HISTORICAL, PITTORESQUE, AND MONUMENTAL ALGERIA. A collection of views, monuments, ceremonies, costumes, weapons, and portraits drawn from life, with descriptive text on the localities, customs, traditions, games, and entertainments of the inhabitants of Algeria. Paris: Published by J. Delahaye, 1843. Five parts bound in 3 folio volumes in fawn morocco leather with a long grain, covers adorned with a rich decoration of gilded fillet frames, cold-stamped scrolls, and gilded corner fleurons; a large central medallion with a cold-stamped design of foliage and arabesques, spined back adorned with compartments framed by gilt fillets, blind-stamped ironwork, and gilt fleurons; gilt title; edges and mounts adorned with gilt scrolls; gilt edges; edged cases (Saulnier). Pronounced foxing and entirely foxed plates, as is always the case, with small dark spots on the spines. FIRST EDITION of this remarkably illustrated work. A chromolithographed TITLE page by Rigot, 2 out-of-text MAPS with colored outlines, 132 lithographed PLATES on heavy vellum, including 2 in COLOR (“Mustapha Ben Ismaïl” and “Young Jewish Boys and Moorish Children”), 119 in two tones, 2 in black depicting a “Moorish Woman” and the “Schematic Plan of the Layout and Arrangement of Abd-El-Kader’s Zemala” and 10 botanical plates in COLOR, as well as 25 black-and-white lithographed vignettes within the text, all based on works by Bour, Bro, Flandin, Genet, Philippoteaux, Raffet, etc. Limited edition of 500 copies. A CHARMING COPY, preserved in a LUXURIOUS ROMANTIC-STYLE BINDING IN DECORATED MOROCCAN LEATHER SIGNED BY SAULNIER. ¶ Brunet, I, 782 - Colas, I, 298 - Playfair, 984 - Tailliart, 718: “Very beautiful plates; a few pages of explanatory text. A very rare work.”