Mission au Mont Athos. Suivie d'un mémoire sur un ambon de Salonique et sur les représentations des Rois mages pendant les premiers siècles, par M. Bayet

Second edition, embellished with several figures in the text and illustrated with 5 albumen photographic plates, mounted on heavy paper and inserted on guards.

Contemporary half black shagreen, spine with five raised bands decorated with blind fillets, headcap rubbed, joints worn, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.

This was the first published work of Abbé Louis Duchesne (1843-1922), who would go on to revolutionize both the methodology and conclusions of ecclesiastical history.

Written in collaboration with the future Byzantinist Charles Bayet (1849-1918), it is the result of their stay at the French School at Athens.

This scholarly study brings together three lines of research conducted in 1874: copies of inscriptions from Thessaloniki, studies of manuscripts from Patmos and, in the third section, written solely by Bayet, a presentation of a sixth-century ambo from Thessaloniki bearing representations of the Magi. This final section is illustrated with 5 original photographs (11 x 16 cm) depicting the ambo.

Signed autograph inscription by Abbé Duchesne to the philologist and Hellenist Édouard Tournier (1831-1899) on the half-title page.