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All CollectionsFirst 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.