211 - [Algeria]. LEROUX, Alexandre.

[Algeria]. LEROUX, Alexandre. [ALGIERS, God’s Protected City]. Winter 1877–78. Small Italian-style folio. 65 albumen prints (approx. 5.5 x 9 to 19 x 25 cm), mounted on cardboard sheets with gilt edges. Ink captions on the mounts. One page with a title in Arabic, date, and handwritten name. Red embossed leather from the period; plain, unmarked spine highlighted with blind-stamped lines; “Alger” cold-stamped on the front cover within a frame of multiple lines and a cold-stamped scroll (slight wear on the cover; a few prints are faded). Travel album of Countess Louise de Rayneval. She died in 1909 and was a great traveler, devout and socially committed, the daughter of General Auguste Bertin de Veaux. Bay of Algiers. Government Square. Quai de la République. The Great Mosque. Notre-Dame d’Afrique. The Casbah. Streets of Algiers. Sidi-Abd-el-Raman Mosque. Birkhadem Fountain. Cemetery in Blida. Farm in Kabylie. Kabyle, Jewish, and Moorish women. Arab chiefs. Moorish merchant. Included: ALARY and GEISER. MOULIN, Félix. Photographs. [ALGERIA]. Small Italian-style folio. 25 albumen prints, mounted on cardboard. Pen-and-ink captions on the mounts. Prints measure approx. 20 x 25 cm. Red half-shagreen binding of the period, covers of embossed red percaline, gilt title on the front cover, ribbed spine (binding rubbed, some pages torn). Journey to Algeria by Major General Auguste Bertin de Veaux (ca. 1860–1870), father of Countess Louise de Rayneval. Military hospital in Philippeville. Roman cistern. Mosque in Philippeville. Constantine. Palace of the Bey. Lambessa. Kasbah and oasis in Biskra. Ouled Nails. Suburbs of Oran. Tlemcen. Château de Villepreux. Handwritten notes on the title page, likely in the Countess’s own hand: “Photographs brought back by my father from Algeria during his General Inspection of the Cavalry, while he was a Major General.” Auguste Bertin de Vaux (1799–1879), son of Louis François Bertin de Vaux, was a cavalry officer and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Orléans. He served as a deputy for Seine-et-Oise from 1837 to 1842 and as a Peer of France from 1845 to 1848. He resumed his military career in 1848 as a colonel, becoming a brigadier general in 1852 and a major general in 1861.