SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM. DINET, Etienne, transl. - Lot 194

SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM. DINET, Etienne, transl. Mirages. Scènes de la vie arabe... commentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Paris, Piazza, (1906-Année 1323 de l'Egire). In-8 square, 222 pp. numbered, title in a rich frame, a color frontispiece reproducing the cover, a portrait of Etienne Dinet, 22 color illustrations out of text and 30 in the text enhanced with gouache and watercolor, numerous culs-de-lampe and ornaments (spine of inner case faded, very slight wear of a cut of the cover a little split). Enriched with an original watercolor by Dinet, signed and bound at the head. Limited edition of 400 copies, numbered 16, with black suite on japon. Portrait of Dinet First edition of this superb work. One of 40 on japon with a state in black of the suite including the front and the portrait. Cons. covers and spine dedicated to Léonce Bénédite, curator of the Musée national du Luxembourg. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies. A very fine copy on japon. In a magnificent oriental binding by Charles Lanoë. Illustrated with 54 paintings by the famous Orientalist painter Étienne Dinet (1861-1929), reproduced in full-page or in-text chromolitho, and accompanied by a text by his Algerian friend Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer (1871-1953), with whom he traveled through the desert and the Algerian, Oranese, Tunisian and Egyptian regions. Mosaic fir morocco signed Charles Lanoë, rich orientalist-style framing on the boards with crescents and floral motifs, framing fillets and gilded punches, smooth spine with gilded title and mosaic ornaments in the same style, all in a flap and band folder of fir morocco and marbled paper, decorated spine and interior of forest marbled basane, gilt edges, green tabis double endpapers and framing on counterpanes, and gilt marbled paper, covers and spines preserved. All in green gilt paper wrappers. A perfect copy.