L'EGYPTE SATIRIQUE ALBUM D'ABOU NADDARA ILLUSTREE DE 48 PAGE DE GRAVURES. LES DEUX AFFREUX TYRANS DU NIL TEWFIK ET SON PERE ISMAIL, VISION DU SHEIKH ABOU NADDARA

Paris: Lefebvre, 1886 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 112 PP FRENCH STUDY ON ABOU NADDARA'S MAGAZINE WHICH WAS ISSUED IN THE SAME PRINTING OFFICE, LEFEBVRE, IN PARIS AFTER ABOU NADDARA (JAKOB SANUA) WAS DEPORTED FROM EGYPT BY KHEDIEVE ISMAIL PASHA AND DENY HIS POLITICAL MAGAZINE. RESTORATED ORIGINAL PRINTER WRAPPERS, FRONTISPIECE OF ABOU NADDARA (YACOUB SANUA), COMPLETE INDEX OF THE MAGAZINE BEGINNING FROM 1877 TO 1886 WITH 48 PAGES OF THE MAGAZIN'S TITLE PAGES CARICATURE FIGURES WITH THE ARABIC AND FRENCH TEXTS. MOST OF PAGES WITH MARGINAL WATER STAINING BUT THE TEXT IS VG. IN MODERN FINELY DECORATED FULL LEATHER BINDING IN ORIENTAL MOTIF. ABOU NADDARA IS THE FIRST ARABIC MAGAZINE TO FEATURE CARTOON. MANY CAPTIONS FOR THESE BEING GIVEN IN ARABIC AND FRENCH, AS WELL AS BEING THE FIRST TO USE A FORM OF COLLOQUIAL ARABIC, A LANGUAGE RADICALLY DIFFERENT FROM LITERARY ARABIC. In the extraordinary, rich, and multi-layered culture of Egypt in the nineteenth century, with its polyglot and ethnic diversity flourishing under the weakening aegis of the Sublime Porte, and the ever more intrusive British economic and political influence, one remarkable figure stands out as both cultural innovator in the field of Arabic drama, as political commentator, and, with al-Afghani and others, as one of the founders of Egyptian naitonalism. This is James Sanua, called in Arabic Ya'qub Rufa'il Sanu'' but often referred to simply by his pseudonymn, Abu Naddara ('father of spectacles'.) Born into a family of Sephardic Jews and partly educated in Italy at Livorno in the 1850. [SEE SOTHEBYS NOTE].