La Mer Rouge l'Abyssinie et l'Arabie depuis l'Antiquité: Essai d'Histoire et de Géographie Historique. Tomes I (Les Pays de la Mer Érythrée Jusqu'a la Fin du Moyen Âge) and II (Les Guerres du Poivre/Les Portugais dans L'Océan Indien et la Mer Rouge au XVIe Siécle/Histoire de la Cartographie Orientale), in three volumes
by Kammerer, Albert M
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Cairo, Egypt: French Institute of Oriental Archeology, 1935. Hardcover. G+/G+/G+. Folio (14"x11"). 451 (in 2 vols.) +262pp. Tan buckram-covered boards with black/gilt spine, library binding, red-flecked edgestain. Tome I: 115 plates & maps, 7 of which are in color, 41 engraved cuts. Tome II: 169 plates including 15 in color, among which are 13 large facsimile portulans (sea navigation maps), 95 engraved cuts. General shelfwear. Toned. Nat. Geographic Society Library preforated stamp to title pages. Frontis cracked at gutter to Tome I/vol. I, half title & title page mostly loose (connected still by sewn binding at tail). Library's mylar taped to pdeps, envelope removal damage to rear pdeps. From the series, Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte (XV and XVI).
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- La Mer Rouge l'Abyssinie et l'Arabie depuis l'Antiquité: Essai d'Histoire et de Géographie Historique. Tomes I (Les Pays de la Mer Érythrée Jusqu'a la Fin du Moyen Âge) and II (Les Guerres du Poivre/Les Portugais dans L'Océan Indien et la Mer Rouge au XVIe Siécle/Histoire de la Cartographie Orientale), in three volumes
- Author
- Kammerer, Albert M
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+/G+/G+
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- French Institute of Oriental Archeology
- Place of Publication
- Cairo, Egypt
- Date Published
- 1935
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