Lot n° 236
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Persia - Lot 236
Persia
DIEULAFOY (Jane)
Persia, Chaldea and Susiana. Relation de voyage containing 336 woodcuts. Paris, Hachette & Cie, 1887.
In folio; illustrated with engravings from the author's photographs (monuments, ruins, inhabitants, landscapes) and 2 maps.
Publisher's red boards, spine and boards decorated with polychrome orientalist decoration, wear rubs, gilt edges.
An account of the journey that writer Jane Dieulafoy undertook with her archaeologist husband in 1881. She is notably credited with the discovery of the Lions frieze and the Archers frieze, now in the Louvre.
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