Alexandre IACOVLEFF. Dessins et peintures d'Afrique, Exécuté - Lot 41

Alexandre IACOVLEFF. Dessins et peintures d'Afrique, Exécutés au cours de l'Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique, Deuxième mission G.-M. Haardt, L. Audouin-Dubreuil. Paris, Vogel, Meynial, 1927. In-folio, explanatory text bound in half suede with painted black silk boards and a suite of plates in leaves, flap folder in Marrakech filali with leather ties executed by the bookbinder Félix. Monod, I-6237 /// (15f.)-50pl. Numerous drawings around and superimposed on the text and 49 color plates by Alexandre Iacovleff, numbered 1 to 50. Edition of 1,020 copies, this one of 20 hors commerce, printed entirely on Madagascar-Lafuma for the text and plates, containing a separate edition of the sketches illustrating the author's travel notes as well as those illustrating the specimen. The copy was printed for General Gouraud (n°VIII), Military Governor of Paris. The suite consists of 10 double plates and an additional plate of unpublished drawings. Browning and spotting to dust jacket, one string partly missing.