DINET, Etienne and BEN-IBRAHIM Sliman. Rabia el Kouloub ou l - Lot 40

DINET, Etienne and BEN-IBRAHIM Sliman. Rabia el Kouloub ou le Printemps des Cœurs, published in Paris by H. Piazza et Cie. Piazza et Cie in 1902, one volume, In-8 paperback, illustrated paperback cover in original folder with gilded emblems and title. 175 pages, 50 color compositions, 6 full-page. Text framed in black or Moorish-style colors. Pages 1 to 30 fragile. Original edition translated and illustrated from watercolors by painter Etienne Dinet (1861-1929). One of 260 numbered copies on vellum (no. 200). These Saharan legends were collected by Sliman Ben Ibrahim ("Les Aventures d'Afrit el Nisouane, le Démon des Femmes", "Aventures de Zénïeb l'Enchanteresse, qui retourne les cœurs comme les bagueues de ses doigts", and "Ba-Mendil et Krima"). "This is the rarest of Dinet's works" (Carteret Illustrés IV, 141).