First edition, printed in a small number, of this scarce offprint from the Revue archéologique, illustrated with 11 figures in the text and 3 folding plates.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (Quai d'Orsay and Strasbourg).
The architect of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Christophe-Edouard Mauss (1829-1914), had been entrusted with several archaeological missions in the Levant (Salonica, Smyrna, Alexandria), before being appointed by the French government to Jerusalem (1862-1874) to restore the Church of Saint Anne.
He also developed a keen interest in ancient metrology, on which he published several monographs.
A pleasing copy.
Autograph inscription from Christophe-Edouard Mauss to the Marquis Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (1829-1916), himself a diplomat and archaeologist.