CHABOT, Jean-Baptiste. - Lot 193

CHABOT, Jean-Baptiste. Notice sur une mappemonde syrienne du XIIIe siècle. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1898. 2 fascicules in-8 of 15 pp. with figures and 19 pp. with figures and 1 plate. Publisher's paperback (edges of covers a little browned, very slight foxing, fold mark in center of one fascicle). Curious booklet of texts on a 13th-century Syriac map attributed to Bar-Hebreus: -Notice sur une mappemonde syrienne du XIIIe siècle. Additional notes based on observations by R. Gottheil and C.-A. Nallino. (Extract from Bulletin de géographie historique et descriptive no. 1, 1898). It consists of 15 pages, one of which includes a woodcut reproduction of the map. -Notice sur une mappemonde syrienne du XIIIe siècle (Extract from Bulletin de géographie historique et descriptive no. 2, 1897). It consists of 19 pages illustrated with 3 in-text figures and a fold-out plate featuring a phototypical reproduction of the map. Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860-1948) was a specialist in Syriac, which he learned at the Catholic University of Louvain. Both fascicles include text in Syriac. [World - Syria].