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[Red Sea]. KAMMERER, Albert. The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Arabia since Antiquity. Introduction by M. G. Hanotaux. Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1929-1952. In-4 (36 x 28 cm), 6 volumes (out of 7, without the vol. of parts 1 and 2 of volume I). 5 publisher's half-percaline volumes and one unclipped vol. (spotting and soiling to bindings, scattered foxing). Published under the Auspices of King Fouad I of Egypt, it is devoted to the history of the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Arabia, from antiquity to the XVIIIᵉ century. Published in Cairo by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Royal Geographical Society of Egypt. The illustration consists of 430 plates and numerous figures in the text. From the series Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte. Tome I. Part III. Les pays de la Mer Erythrée jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Âge. Cairo, 1929. pp. 193-451-[1] , 74 plates including a folding color map (numbered XXXIX to CXII) - Tome II. Part I. Les Guerres du Poivre. The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea in the 16th century. History of Oriental Cartography. Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte, 1935. [2] ff. XVI-262 pp. 109 plates (numbered I to CIX) - Volume II. Part II. Les Guerres du Poivre. The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea in the 16th century. History of Oriental Cartography. Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte, 1935. pp. 263-555, [14] ff (Appendix I-VII), 60 plates (numbered CX to CLXVIII with an unencrypted folding map of Abyssinia in color) - Volume III. La Mer Rouge, l'Abyssinie et l'Arabie aux XVIe et XVIIIe siècles et la Cartographie des Portulans. Part I. 16th century. Abyssinians and Portuguese before Islam. Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte, 1947. 3 ff, XVI-260 pp, 84 plates (frontispiece and plates II to LXXXIV (no missing frontis. is considered plate I), plates XLV to L on a large folding leaf) - Volume III. End of Part I. 16th century. Abyssinians and Portuguese facing Islam (End). Part II. Seventeenth century. The Portuguese Jesuits and the Ephemeral Triumph of Catholicism in Abyssinia (1603-1632). Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte, 1949. 1 f., pp. 261-620, 54 plates (numbered LXXXV to CXXXVIII) - Tome III. Part III. Cartographie du Monde Oriental, Mer Rouge, Océan Indien et Extrême-Orient jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle cartographes Portugais et Français. Cairo, printed by the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale for the Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte, 1952. 1 f., 268 pp. 49 plates (numbered CXXXIX to CLXXXVII) and two folding tables.