Gaudefroy-Demombynes, [Maurice]. Le pèlerinage a la Mekka. Étude d'histoire religieuse.

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First edition.

Principal work of the French Arabist Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (1862-1957), a religio-historical study of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The author taught at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes (now the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales) and also translated into French the travelogue of the Arabic explorer Ibn Jobair (1145-1217).

Margins slightly browned and brittle, still a very good, untrimmed copy.