First edition, printed in a limited number, of this extract from the Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, volume XXXIX.
Only two copies recorded in the CCFr (BnF and BULAC). Not listed in Hage Chahine.
This fascicle is illustrated with one in-text figure and two folding plates; our copy is exceptionally enhanced with an additional hand-coloured plan, featuring manuscript annotations in pencil.
Contemporary half-cloth binding in almond percaline, smooth spine with a central gilt ornament and double gilt fillet at the tail, red morocco leather title label, pebbled paper boards, original rear wrapper preserved.
Archaeologist and orientalist, Baron Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey (1837–1916) authored several works on the history of the Near East, particularly on the military architecture of the Crusaders in Syria and Latin rule in the Orient.
Bound in at the end is the author’s "Supplément à l’étude sur la topographie de la ville d’Acre au XIIIe siècle", extracted from the Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, volume XLIX, printed in Paris in 1889 (title, 18 pp.), and illustrated with a large folding plate.