[ARCHAEOLOGY - LEBANON and TURKEY]. DESCHAMPS, Paul. The Def - Lot 9

[ARCHAEOLOGY - LEBANON and TURKEY]. DESCHAMPS, Paul. The Defense of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch. A Historical, Geographical, Toponymic, and Monumental Study. An important reference work on the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch in very good condition, with its album. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1973. 2 in-4 volumes in gray half-cloth; the text is bound, and the album is in a slipcase. Text: X - 422 pp. - several illustrations and maps, including one fold-out; album: 1 f.n.ch. - 15 plates of diagrams - 96 plates of photographic reproductions (uncollated) and 11 fold-out maps. Some minor soiling at the bottom of the album’s front cover. A very fine edition of this important study on the defense of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch (Lebanon and Turkey), a rare copy accompanied by its album of 111 plates and 11 fold-out maps. This is the third volume devoted to the Crusader castles in the Holy Land, volume 90 of the Archaeological and Historical Library of the French Institute of Archaeology in Beirut. Very good condition.