8vo. [1], 100 pp., half-title, title, 8 b/w plates, 19 figures in text, publisher’s original wrappers, lightly foxed, biblio, appendices, Unopened, copy inside clean & in very good condition, Librairie d’Amerique et d’Orient, Paris, first edition, 1941.

Synopsis

An academic study by a leading French scholar discussing the creation of the postal service during the Mamluk period by Sultan Baybars, their organisation, development and the routes of that service.