Six mois en Orient en MDCCCLI & MDCCCLII

First edition illustrated with 9 copper-engraved plates hors texte after drawings by Hippolyte Jordan and Baron Charles-Louis de Coubertin (1822-1908, father of Pierre de Coubertin), including one double-page map and one folding plate.

Frédy de Blackmer 177 (calling for 17 plates).

Contemporary half cherry-red shagreen over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands showing a few rubs and darkened at the foot, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, शीर्ष edge gilt, corners lightly bumped.

A light dampstain to the edges without affecting the text, joints restored at head and foot.

The sole edition, printed in an edition of 500 copies and uncommon, of this account of a journey to the Levant in which the author, a native of Lyon, dwells at length on the life of the French religious institutions established in Palestine.

Copy from the library of Désiré Chevallier, with his manuscript ownership inscription at the head of a flyleaf.