- Lot 308

[ASIA] Henri GUERLIN / JULES HOCHE / GUSTAVE LE BON / LUDOVIC DE VAUX - Set of 4 volumes on Jerusalem, Palestine and the civilization of the Arabs. - Henri GUERLIN - Towards Jerusalem. Illustrated with 150 photographs by the author and numerous pen-and-ink sketches. Tours, Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, s.d. Large in-4, 330 x 240 mm, 252 pp (scattered foxing). Publisher's red percaline boards, 1 vignette on the first plate (1 booklet inverted and disbound). Frontispiece, 15 off-text, numerous figures in the text. - Jules HOCHE - The Land of the Crusades. Work illustrated with a considerable number of engravings and a map of Palestine. Paris, Librairie Illustrée, s.d. Large in-8, 295 x 200 mm, [6], 646, [2] pp. Publisher's cardboard from a model by A. Souze, gilt edges (binding in poor condition, spine loose, volume broken, headbands torn). Numerous illustrations, entirely included in the pagination, 1 map out of text. - Gustave LE BON - La Civilisation des Arabes. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1884. In-4, [4], xv, 705 pp. (Numerous scratches). Publisher's cardboard in the oriental style, gilt edges (spines rubbed, corners dull, gilt rubbed). Illustrated with 10 chromolithographs, 4 maps and 366 engravings including 70 large plates from the author's photographs. - Ludovic de VAUX - Palestine. Work illustrated by P. Chardin and C. Mauss. Paris, Leroux, 1883. Large in-8, 275 x 175 mm, [4], ii, 525, xxxv, [3] pp. Red half-chagrined prize cardboard of the Collège Stanislas, spine decorated with four nerves, gilt edges (jaws rubbed at the seam of the nerves, several pages inverted). Abundant iconography included in the pagination. TOGETHER 4 VOLUMES, WORKING COPIES.