[Tunis] Lallemand, Ch. Tunis et ses environs

Paris, Maison Quantin, 1890, 245 p., w. 150 chromolithogr. plates and ills. With an ADD. SUITE of 100 proofs without captions, bound in. Cont. hmor., t.e.g., large 4to. Endpapers and htitle browned from binding, some occas. foxing, spine a bit discol.

Special copy of the first edition (a second edition appeared in 1892) of this lavishly illustrated work by the French watercolourist Charles Lallemand (1826-1904). The text, also by Lallemand, deals w. all kinds of aspects of cultural life in Tunis, such as Muslim women, mosques, antiquities, coffeeshops, etc. Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur, p. 946, not in Monod.