Pierre Benoît / Lobel-Riche - L'atlantide - 1922

Superb numbered edition on vellum and illustrated with 24 original etchings by Lobel-Riche!

This captivating tale transports the reader to the Sahara Desert, where two French officers discover a mysterious city led by the fascinating Antinéa -

Inspired by the legends of Atlantis, the novel blends exoticism, mystery and romance, while exploring the themes of obsession and destiny -

The text, which earned Benoît fame by inscribing his name among the great adventure novelists, unfolds an exotic and entrancing plot around the myth of Queen Antinéa and her Saharan realm, blending a fascination with the Orient, sensuality, and mystery -

The illustrations by Lobel-Riche, etched with dramatic intensity and graphic refinement, emphasize the mythological and erotic dimension of the tale, offering the reader a powerful and suggestive visual interpretation -

This copy thus illustrates the meeting between popular literature and the art of illustration, and remains a key milestone for understanding France's colonial and mythical imagination in the 1920s.

Pierre Benoît / Lobel-Riche - The Atlantis - 1922 - Albin Michel -
194 pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its edition soft cover with a wrapper, showing signs of wear, small loss at the top of the spine, edges rubbed, spine smooth and titled in red, hinge cracked on the lower part of the upper joint, superb black engraving in the center of the second plate -

Good interior condition, title page printed in red and black, work enriched with 24 original etchings by Lobel-Riche (frontispiece, 11 plates hors texte with captioned snakes, 12 in-text plates), limited edition of 592 copies, this being no. 411 on laid vellum -

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