BERBRUGGER. Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale, - Lot 265

BERBRUGGER. Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale, ou Recueil de vues, Costumes et Portraits faits d'après nature dans les Provinces d'Alger, de Bone, Contantine ou Oran. Paris, Delahaye, 1843. 4 parts in 3 volumes in-folio, red morocco basane, smooth spine decorated (period binding). First edition of this monumental illustrated work on Algeria. Copy includes gold and color chromolithographed title, 2 maps, plan and 115 lithographs. Missing one plate in the first part and part III of the book (Province de Bone, text and plates). Some foxing, some plates entirely foxed as usual, worn binding. We enclose 2 volumes of the same book in different bindings (contemporary green half-percaline), comprising parts II to V, with 80 plates and a plan (some foxing and browning, binding very worn and missing).