L’Égypte Satirique. Album d’Abou Naddara.

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112 pp. French text, modern hardback binding, title gilt on cover and spine, illustré de 48 pages de gravues. Les deux affreux tyrans du Nil, Tewfik et son père Ismail. Vision du Cheikh Abou Naddara. Conférences: l'Egypte au xixe siècle, l'invasion anglaise, le mahdi, fascimile reprint of the first edition, 1886, copy new in very good condition. Abou Naddara was the first Arabic magazine to publish cartoons (with captions in both French and Arabic) and among the first periodicals to employ a form of colloquial Arabic in print, marking a significant departure from the classical literary language.