DINET (Étienne) - SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM BAÂMER. Mirages. Scènes de la vie arabe... commentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Paris: H. Piazza, [1906]. - In-8, 231x160: 222 pp, (5 ff.), illustrated cover. Havana morocco, boards decorated with a handsome Oriental-style frame of gilded fillets and red morocco bands, decorated with stylized foliage motifs in havana and light green morocco on a green marbled morocco background on the outside, and, inside, between the two red bands, a wide band of marbled Havana morocco and an oriental motif in Havana, old rose and light green morocco at the corners, spine ribbed with gilt and mosaic frames, first lining covered with a rich mosaic pattern of gilded fillets, bands of dark green morocco, and stylized motifs in mustard, red and gray morocco on an old rose morocco background, and the same motifs in blue and gray morocco on a brown morocco background in the center, second lining decorated with the same design but with the colors reversed, brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, folder with tan morocco spine and flap bands, lined case (Ch. Meunier 1910). First edition of this superb work illustrated with fifty-four paintings by the famous Orientalist painter Étienne DINET (1861-1929), reproduced in color in the text or full-page, and accompanied by a text by his Algerian friend Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer (1871-1953), with whom he forged a strong bond of friendship and traveled the desert as well as the Algerian, Oranese, Tunisian and Egyptian regions. Edition of 400 numbered copies, this is one of 40 on japon, including a black suite of illustrations. A precious copy in Charles Meunier's mosaic-lined contemporary binding. It has been enriched with - a card bearing the words "Hommage des auteurs" in Étienne Dinet's hand, signed by him and Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer. - A superb original painting signed by Dinet, 156x113 mm, pasted on one of the endpapers, depicting a face in profile and bearing this dedication addressed to art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943): "à Louis Vauxcelles // l'éminent critique d'art // Hommage d'un peintre // ethnographe // EDinet." - From a LAS from Jeanne Dinet-Rollince (1865-1947), sister of Étienne Dinet, dated November 4, 1932, 2 pages in-8, to a friend whom she invited to become an honorary member of the newly founded "Société des amis de Dinet": "I have enrolled you as an Honorary - i.e. membre d'Honneur - involving no charge other than that of loving Dinet and taking an interest in the Dinet Museum in Algiers, where I want to collect all that it will be possible to collect - now and in the future." Wear to dust jacket, otherwise a perfectly preserved copy.