Large 4to. 22 pp., Introduction in French, double page map, 160 plates in collotype, loose as published, each accompanied with full page description, 5 pp., List of Plates, fitted in hard cardboard folder with flaps and ties, occasional minor spotting, otherwise set in very good condition, published by Haute-Commissariat de la Republique Francaise en Syrie et au Liban, Service des Antiquites et des Beaux-Arts, Bibliotheque Archeologique et Historique Tome XVII, Paul, Geuthner, Paris, 1931.

Synopsis

The set was published on the occasion of the 1931 Colonial Exhibition in Paris, to give an overview of the archaeological riches of the Syrian countries with all the excavations findings.