Auction 097 Winner's Unlimited - Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Posters & Periodicals, Postcards, Maps, Zionism, numismatics.
Jan 31, 2017 (your local time)
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LOT 251:

Histore de la ville de Tunis, Algeria, 1924. First, Numbered Copy

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Histore de la ville de Tunis, Algeria, 1924. First, Numbered Copy
[207] pages. 
The history of Tunisia by C.H.Roger Dessort, published by Emile Pfistert, Algeria 1924. First edition which was printed in only 4000 copies.
Before us is one copy out of the 4000 copies which were printed in the first edition, and which were quickly snatched up. The publishers then printed a second edition in 1926. [Most of the known copies of this book are from the second edition]. The book is an album format which was printed on special paper, with a decorated border on each page, many photographic plates of various villages and characteristic Tunisian figures. Includes an extensive historical background of the different regions of Tunisia, population records, landscapes, maps and more.
A tear on the top section of the binding, the back binding is broken in the middle, a tear on the spine.  
Fine-moderate condition.  

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