A Suse. Journal des fouilles. 1884-1886

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only deluxe issue.

Illustrated with 121 wood engravings and a folding coloured map.

Bound in modern half black oasis, flat spine decorated with double gilt fillets, brown oasis lettering-piece, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper, lower cover preserved and mounted on a tab.

Having married the archaeologist Marcel Dieulafoy (1844-1920) in May 1870, Jeanne Magre (1851-1916) accompanied her husband to Persia when he was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to undertake an excavation mission in 1881-1882, and again in 1883-1886.

This second stay corresponds to the excavations at Susa, carried out under the most arduous conditions, which Jeanne recounts in this Journal.

A handsome copy.