Maurice TAMISIER
Voyage en Arabie. Séjour dans le Hedjaz. - Campagne d'Assir. Accompagné d'une carte[Travels in Arabia. Sojourn in the Hejaz. – Campaign in Asir. With a Map.]
Louis Desessart|Paris 1840|13.8 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, illustrated at the end of the second volume with a folding map outside the text (cf. Gay 3608. Numa Broc 307).
Contemporary cherry-red half calf bindings, spines with four false raised bands ruled in gilt and black, red paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Scattered foxing, restorations to the joints and spines, a light dampstain to the lower margins affecting approximately the final two-thirds of the first volume.
A follower of Saint-Simon, Maurice Tamisier (1810-1875) travelled to Egypt in the aftermath of the 1830 Revolution with a small group led by Père Enfantin, who, following his imprisonment, hoped to unite in...
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