12mo. Volume I: xv, 218 pp., frontispiece, 5 engravings of which 2 are folding / Volume II: 268 pp., frontispiece / Volume III: 325 pp., frontispiece, 6 engravings of which 2 are folding / Volume IV: 290 pp., frontispiece, 14 engravings of which 3 are folding, includes a dedicated chapter on Mouers et Coutumes (Manners and Customs) / Volume V: frontispiece, 327 pp., frontispiece, 9 engravings; contemporary full calf, title gilt on decorated spine, gilt filaments, marbled outer edges, set fitted in modern marbled box, bookplate of Jacques Pouquet on front endpaper of Volume 1, light damp stain to title page of volume 1 & margins of 2 leaves in volume 3, otherwise set in very good condition, Chez Ferra & B. Imbert, Libraires, Paris, 1814.

Synopsis

Amable Jourdain (1788-1818), was a French historian and Orientalist, a specialist on Persia and a student of two leading French Orientalists Louis-Mathieu Langles and Silvestre de Sacy. He was also one of the contributors to the ‘Biographie Universelle; the Annales des Voyages; Mines d’Orient’.
Becuase of his well knowledge of Arabic he supplied Michaud with valuable texts collected from Arabic sources in order to be used in his monumental work ‘History of the Crusades’. He was also awarded with a prize from the Academie de Belles Lettres for his dissertation of those works of Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers.
The plates in this book depict ceremonies, sporting, customs, landscapes, ruins ect.
Bibliographic references: Atabey III, 617; Chadenat 5227; Chahine 2388; Querard IV 251, Wilson p. 112.