Middle East.- Lottin de Laval (Victor) Voyage dans la Peninsule Arabique

Middle East.- Lottin de Laval (Victor) Voyage dans la Peninsule Arabique, Atlas vol. only, double-page map (browned),14 tinted lithographs (only, of 15) by Eugene Ciceri and Sabatier after drawings by the author, 17 photolithographic reproductions of bas-reliefs using the Poitevin process plus 5 duplicates, and 80 details of epigraphic inscriptions on 40 plates, all loose as issued, some foxing, marginal browning and chipping at egdes, original cloth portfolio with printed paper label to upper cover and original silk ties, rubbed, spine repaired, folio, Paris, Gide & Cie., 1855-59. *** The work recounts the journey to the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai, and Middle Egypt by the French archaeologist, writer, and painter Victor Lottin de Laval (1810–1903).

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