3- [ALGERIA]. GASTINEAU (Benjamin). Lion and panther hunts in Africa. Illustrated with seventeen drawings by Gustave Doré. Paris, Louis Hachette, 1863, in-8, with 17 compositions in the text, green half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with cold filets, single cold filet on the boards, speckled edges (period binding). Corners bumped, brown spots. First edition. The Proudhonian journalist Benjamin Gastineau (1823-1904) had first-hand experience of Algeria after Louis-Napoléon's coup d'état: he was deported there in 1852 for his opposition. Thiébaud, 446. Tailliart, 709bis. Heraldic bookplate of Alfred Asselin (1824-1876), mayor of Douai from 1863 to 1869.