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671 - PICARD, Edmond *El Moghreb-Al Aksa*. A Belgian Mission to Morocco [...]. With illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe and a frontispiece by Odilon Redon. Brussels: F. Larcier, 1889. Large 4to. Paperback, in the publisher’s ornamented cover, with brown silk bookmarks (spine heavily worn, slight crease on the upper edge, and slight foxing on the inside front cover). In an ornate publisher’s slipcase with flaps (worn, small stains, 2 flaps missing and 1 torn). First edition illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece by Redon, 26 monochrome printed on Japanese paper and protected by labeled serpentine sheets, 24 of which were composed by van Rysselberghe; the last two depict the artist and the author in local costume, along with a few full-page vignettes. Limited edition of 205 numbered copies; one of four on large Imperial Japanese paper (No. 5, for Louis Canon), following the single copy presented to the Emperor of Morocco. With an unsigned autograph inscription by the author to the Belgian industrialist Louis Canon (1860–1940), who was also part of the expedition: "To my dear traveling companion, my dear friend [...] with whom I roamed the roads of Morocco, this affectionate memento of an unforgettable journey," dated July 19, 1889. Ref.: Bibliography of Belgian Writers V:63. - Mellerio 103. From the collection of Louis Canon (signed and inscribed copy).
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PICARD, Edmond *El Moghreb-Al Aksa*. A Belgian Mission to Morocco [...]. With illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe and a frontispiece by Odilon Redon. Brussels: F. Larcier, 1889. Large 4to. Paperback, in the publisher’s ornamented cover, with brown silk bookmarks (spine heavily worn, slight crease on the upper edge, and slight foxing on the inside front cover). In an ornate publisher’s slipcase with flaps (worn, small stains, 2 flaps missing and 1 torn). First edition illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece by Redon, 26 monochrome printed on Japanese paper and protected by labeled serpentine sheets, 24 of which were composed by van Rysselberghe; the last two depict the artist and the author in local costume, along with a few full-page vignettes. Limited edition of 205 numbered copies; one of four on large Imperial Japanese paper (No. 5, for Louis Canon), following the single copy presented to the Emperor of Morocco. With an unsigned autograph inscription by the author to the Belgian industrialist Louis Canon (1860–1940), who was also part of the expedition: "To my dear traveling companion, my dear friend [...] with whom I roamed the roads of Morocco, this affectionate memento of an unforgettable journey," dated July 19, 1889. Ref.: Bibliography of Belgian Writers V:63. - Mellerio 103. From the collection of Louis Canon (signed and inscribed copy).
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