Islamic pottery

Broussaud, [Marie Emmanuel André]. Les Carreaux de faïence peints dans l'Afrique du Nord.

Paris, Plon, 1930.

Folio (238 x 313 mm). (4), 17, (3) pp. (all on loose bifolia), 38 plates in colour and black and white with tissue guards (containing descriptive letterpress) attached. Stored loosely in a printed half cloth portfolio with ties.

 850.00

Only edition, published for the centenary of the French conquest of Algeria (Collection du centenaire de l'Algérie. Archéologie et histoire). The plates (15 in vivid chromo) feature North African Islamic pottery, tiles, decorations and ornaments.

Light foxing to text, otherwise very well preserved. From the collection of Jean-Charles Tauzin (1889-1957).

References

OCLC 1008368662.