Note sur la méthode employée pour tracer le plan de la Mosquée d'Omar et de la rotonde du Saint-Sépulcre à Jérusalem

First edition, printed in very limited numbers, of this offprint from the Revue archéologique, illustrated with 12 textual figures and 3 plates; only two copies listed in the CCF (Quai d'Orsay and Strasbourg).

Contemporary Bradel binding in olive green cloth-backed marbled boards, smooth spine with red morocco title label, original wrappers bound in.

Christophe-Edouard Mauss (1829–1914), architect to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was entrusted with several archaeological missions in the East (Thessaloniki, Smyrna, Alexandria), and was later sent by the French government to Jerusalem (1862–1874) to oversee the restoration of the Church of Saint Anne. He also developed a keen interest in ancient metrology, to which he devoted several monographs.

Bound at the end, three additional works by the same author:

• I. Note pour faire suite au tracé du plan de la Mosquée d'Omar, published June–July 1888. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1889, 6 pp.
• II. Note sur une ancienne chapelle contiguë à la grand'salle des Patriarches et à la rotonde du Saint-Sépulcre à Jérusalem. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1890, 23 pp., 12 textual illustrations.
• III. L'Église de Saint-Jérémie à Abou-Gosch (Emmaüs of Saint Luke and Castellum of Vespasian), with a study on the stadium in the time of Saint Luke and Flavius Josephus. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1892, 54 pp., then pp. 55–106, 25 textual figures.
• The first two works bear signed autograph inscriptions from Christophe-Edouard Mauss to the archaeologist Alban-Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey (1837–1916, also known as Guillaume Rey or Emmanuel Rey, though the correct surname is Guillaume-Rey).
• His many travels in Syria made him a most suitable interlocutor for such scholarly exchanges.