8vo. Arabic & French text, xxxv, 183 pp., [3], 14 b/w plates, 1 map hors text, uncut, publisher’s original wraps, biblio, index, wrapper lightly foxed, otherwise copy inside in Mint condition, Institut Français de Damas, 1968.

Synopsis

A highly important Arabic military treatise published here in Arabic and French with an introduction by a leading French scholar in Islamic studies. Boudot-Lamotte used a manuscript kept at the Bodleian Library in Oxford written by a Syrian author Ali Bin Al Mardi al Tartusi.