Jean-Jacques BARRAU
Histoire politique des peuples musulmans, depuis Mahomet jusqu'à nos jours. Suivie de considérations sur les destinées futures de l'Orient
Charles Thomine|Paris 1842|13.2 x 21.3 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this broad overview, largely compiled from more detailed monographs then available.
It was reissued as early as 1843.
Contemporary half black sheepskin bindings, flat spines decorated with quadruple gilt fillets and gilt romantic arabesques, gilt rolls at foot, some wear to the headcap of the first volume and to the tail of the second. Boards decorated in blind with romantic motifs, school insignia [Institution Hortus], corners slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges.
Some foxing, light rubbing to edges, endpapers and pastedowns slightly soiled at margins.
€650