Joseph Etienne GAUTIER
Note sur les fouilles entreprises dans la haute vallée de l'Oronte, pour retrouver l'emplacement de l'ancienne ville de Kadech[Note on the Excavations Undertaken in the Upper Orontes Valley to Locate the Site of the Ancient City of Kadesh]
L'imprimerie Nationale|Paris 1895|14.5 x 23.3 cm|Broché
First edition, printed in a very small number of copies, of this offprint from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
Illustrated pamphlet with 13 figures in the text and a double-page folding map.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (BnF and Bibliothèque Mazarine).
The archaeologist Joseph-Etienne Gautier (1861-1924) conducted numerous excavation campaigns throughout the Middle East (Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, etc.).
A rare and attractive copy.
€680