[ARCHAEOLOGY - HOLY LAND]. DESCHAMPS, Paul. The Crusader Cas - Lot 25

[ARCHAEOLOGY - HOLY LAND]. DESCHAMPS, Paul. The Crusader Castles in the Holy Land. The Defense of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. A Historical, Geographical, and Architectural Study. An extremely rare reference work on the defense of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, complete with its album of 96 plates and 13 fold-out maps. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1939. 2 vols. in-4, text in paperback, album in a cardboard slipcase with flaps. XI–267 pp., numerous illustrations and 96 plates—12 fold-out maps. Spine of the text volume slightly sun-faded and lower edge folded over the edge of the slipcase. Volume XXXIV of the Archaeological and Historical Library of the Antiquities Department of the High Commission of the French Republic in Syria and Lebanon, and Volume II of the series on Crusader Castles in the Holy Land. The album is complete with all 96 plates and 13 fold-out maps. This set, which is now virtually impossible to find, is in very good condition.