Binder of Lithographs from Algeria and Surroundings by Adolphe Otth. 1839.

Esquisses Africaines. Dessinées pendant un voyage a Alger et Lithographies par Adolphe Otth. 1839. 

Album with 30 plates of large lithographs depicting Algeria and its surroundings - scenic views, religious sites, historic buildings and more. The views were painted during a journey to Algeria and its surroundings, and were published bound with notes from the trip. The album opens with a portrait of Otth. French.

Adolphe Otth conducted his trip to the Balearic Islands and Algeria in 1836 as a naturalist mainly interested in insects, reptiles and amphibians living around the Mediterranean. He returned at the end of his journey with many sketches, the finest of which he converted to lithographs and published in the collection of lithographs in the album before us.

[39] pages, 36x49 cm., album: [30] plates with color lithographs, with an introductory preface with a detailed description of each one of the lithographs.

Original binding with stamping. Stained and rubbed binding. Aging stains in the wide margins of the lithographs, two lithographs have large stains, the rest are in fine condition.