Adolphe DEITTE
Pensées scientifiques, philosophiques et religieuses d'un Arabe de l'Algérie
[Scientific, Philosophical and Religious Reflections of an Arab from Algeria]
Garnier frères • Cardon|Paris • Troyes 1853|17 x 27 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with an engraved view of Oran by Fichot.
Only three records in the CCF (BnF, Troyes, Saint-Geniez). Not listed in Tailliart.
Contemporary half bottle-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with false raised bands and blind-stamped fillets, marbled paper boards, rubbed corners.
Some minor foxing, endpapers partly shaded.
Sole edition of this curious work composed by a "first-class engineer guard," intended to counter metropolitan prejudices against the Arabs of Algeria.
€680