Une stèle du Temple de Jérusalem découverte et publiée

First edition, printed in a very small number of copies, of this extract from the Revue archéologique.

The booklet is illustrated with several figures in the text and, at the beginning of the volume, a full-page plate.

Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923), orientalist and archaeologist, made major archaeological discoveries in Palestine, where he had resided since 1867 as dragoman-chancellor at the French consulate. Appointed consul in Jaffa in 1881, he accepted a mission on the Egyptian coast east of the Nile, in Philistia, Phoenicia and Palestine; he published the results in the Archives des missions scientifiques.

Until his death, he pursued a dual career as diplomat and archaeologist. Clermont-Ganneau also unmasked numerous archaeological forgeries.

Precious autograph presentation inscription from Charles Clermont-Ganneau to Viscount Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (1829-1916), himself both archaeologist and diplomat.