DINET (Étienne). Mirages. Scenes of the Arab life... commented by Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Paris : H. Piazza, [1906]. - In-8, 230 x 163 : 222 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Turquoise morocco, large orientalist gilt and mosaic decoration framed on the boards, composed of listels of havana morocco forming compartments decorated with mosaic flowers in garnet, ochre and dark green morocco, spine decorated in the same spirit, turquoise morocco framed inside, decorated with nine gilt filets, lining and endpapers of brocaded silk with floral motifs, double marbled paper endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (Blanchetière-Bretault). First edition of this superb work illustrated with fifty-four paintings of the famous orientalist painter Etienne DINET (1861-1929) reproduced in colors in the text or on full page, accompanying a text of his Algerian friend Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer (1871-1953) with whom he created a very strong bond of friendship and travelled the desert as well as the Algerian, Oranese, Tunisian and Egyptian regions. Edition at 400 numbered copies, this one being one of the 348 on vellum, manufactured by Blanchet and Kléber. SUPERB MOSAIC BINDING OF THE PERIOD, MADE BY HENRI BLANCHETIÈRE. Spine lightened, first cover partly disbound. Provenance : ex-libris with the monogram HBS.