[ARCHITECTURE - NEAR EAST]. AURENCHE, Olivier. The Oriental - Lot 26

[ARCHITECTURE - NEAR EAST]. AURENCHE, Olivier. The Oriental House: Architecture of the Ancient Near East from Its Origins to the Middle of the Fourth Millennium. A rare first edition of the leading study on Near Eastern housing during the Neolithic period. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner S.A., 1981. 3 volumes, in-4 format, paperback. 324 pp. - 216 figures in the text; 282 plates - 1 folio and 37 tables - 29 double-page maps. First edition of this important archaeological study on housing in the Near East from the transition to a sedentary lifestyle through the very early ancient period, volume 109 of the Archaeological and Historical Library of the French Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology. The first volume is devoted to the text and contains 216 figures; the second contains 282 plates; and the third contains 37 tables and 29 maps. Complete set. Very good condition.