First edition illustrated with 4 watercolors, 19 photographs and 70 wood engravings, 17 of which are full-page. Publisher's binding. Half cream morocco-grained calf. Boards covered with orientalist-decorated paper in gold and cream. The 2 upper corners slightly bumped. Very handsome copy, with immaculate paper of luminous whiteness, on thick coated paper. Travel account by the draftsman, traveler and ethnographer Gaston Vuillier.