4to. lii, 632 pp., 16 folding maps, publisher’s original wrappers, lightly soiled at spine, biblio, index, Unopened copy, weak spine, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, Haute Commissaire de la République Française en Syrie et au Liban, Services des Atiquités et des Beaux-Arts, Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, Tome IV, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, first edition, 1927.

Synopsis

René Dussaud (1868-1958), a French scholar who contributed several studies covering Arab history before Islam. Dussaud was known mainly for the studies he published in the journal Syria, which he established in 1920. Many studies he wrote covers Syria, its history, religious sects, geography and monuments. Contents: La Phenicie Meridionale – Tripoli et l’Emesene – La Phenicie du Nord – La Region d’Apamee et de Hama – Palmyrene et Damascene – Le Hauran, hermon et Beqa’ – La Haute Syrie.