Brockhaus et Avenarius

First edition.

Contemporary Romantic bindings in half green Empire calf, flat spines slightly faded, richly gilt with Romantic decorative motifs, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; Romantic period bindings.

A few light spots of foxing; a discolouration mark on a blank endpaper of the first volume.

First edition (cf. Tailliart 2269).

Contemporary half cherry calf, the spines with five raised bands tooled with gilt pointillé and framed by double gilt panels, light rubbing to the spines and headcaps, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled.

Scattered foxing.

Drawing on a meticulous assessment of the Algerian situation ten years after the conquest, the author challenges the presumed merits of military administration and advocates the establishment of a fully civilian regime. The lawyer Evariste Bavoux (1809–1890) would later embark, in 1848, on a political career that led him to represent Seine-et-Marne in Parliament.