Du Caucase au Golfe Persique a travers l'Armenie, le Kurdistan et la Mesopotamie

Washington, DC: Universite Catholique D'Amerique, 1892. Hardbound. Very clean and tight but for art museum library markings on spine and page edges; bookplate; missing two color pull-out maps;. Red cloth library binding with gold spine lettering; 628 pp. with bw frontispiece and 25 additional plates; with bw figures throughout. Heavy and will require extra postage (6 pounds / 2.75 kilos). Text in French. On spine: L'Armenie le Kurdistan, Muller Simonis. The fascinating travelogue of Muller-Simonis and his friend, H. Hyvernat (Professor at Catholic University), who travelled for 10 months to such exotic places as Isfahan, Baghdad, Constantinople, Russian (truncated) Armenia, Diyarbakir, Azerbijan, and many more places; a hefty book with wonderful photographs; an exquisite piece of history and culture. The pre-title is: Relation des Mission Scientifiques de MM. H. Hyvernat et P. Müller-Simonis (1888-1889); subtitle is: Notices sur la geographie et l'histoire ancienne de l'Armenie et les inscriptions cuneiformes du Bassin de Van. With bw images of a bygone era. (Inventory #: 116785)