MOROCCO / CATROUX (Georges) & SCHMIED (Théo).... Lot 574

[MOROCCO / CATROUX (Georges) & SCHMIED (Théo)]. South Morocco. Grand Atlas. Anti-Atlas. Text by General CATROUX commanding the region of Marrakech. Paris, Theo Schmied, 1936. In-folio in sheets, in a fawn morocco cover and slipcase, decorated with a large mosaic pattern running across the boards and the spine (Abbaye de Maumont). 30 wood-engraved plates in colours by Théo SCHMIED after the paintings of his father F[rançois]-L[ouis] SCHMIED". 126 COPIES ON JAPON, this one (n° IV), ONE OF THE SIX COLLABORATORS, containing: - the colour breakdown of plate no. 25 ("Bathers in the High Draa"), titled by hand by Schmied: "State of plate no." and two additional suites of illustrations: - one of the "smokes" and - one in black bearing this handwritten inscription by Theo Schmied: "The only copy of which the text is printed on the same japon as the plates".BEAUTIFUL EXEMPLAIR OF THIS HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF MOROCCO.