L'Algérie devant le Sénat

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 colonial, concerning the French possessions in North Africa.*

Bound at the end are by the same author: "L'Algérie devant l'opinion publique pour faire suite à L'Algérie devant le Sénat. Indigènes et immigrants. Examen rétrospectif." Algiers, Imprimerie Molot, 1864, VIII pp., 176 pp. Tailliart, 2585.

This is a collection of articles published in the Journal d'Alger.

And by Marshal Pélissier: "Etat actuel de l'Algérie, publié d'après les documents officiels par ordre de S. Exc. le Maréchal Pélissier, duc de Malakoff, sous la direction de Mercier-Lacombe". Paris, 1863, Imprimerie impériale.