Auguste-Hubert Warnier [Auguste WARNIER]
L'Algérie devant le Sénat[The Senate Debates on Algeria]
Imprimerie de Dubuisson|Paris 1863-1864|13.3 x 22 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of this collection of articles published in L'Opinion nationale (cf. Tailliart, 2584).
Half cherry calf binding, spine darkened with five raised bands, a date written in black ink at the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.
Auguste-Hubert Warnier (1810-1875), the son of a soldier of the Empire, first practised as a surgeon, then as a physician with the Army of Africa from 1834 to 1851, before embarking on a brilliant political career which briefly made him prefect, but above all deputy for Algiers from 1871. He was regarded as a specialist in all matters, indigenous or colo
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