Middle East - DIEULAFOY (Jane). Persia, Chaldea and Susiana. - Lot 108

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Middle East - DIEULAFOY (Jane). Persia, Chaldea and Susiana. - Lot 108
Middle East - DIEULAFOY (Jane). Persia, Chaldea and Susiana. Travel report containing 336 woodcuts from the author's photographs and two maps. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1887. In-folio de (4) ff.n.ch., 739 pp., (1) p.n.ch. Half red chagrin, spine and covers decorated with a polychrome oriental decoration, gilt tr. (publisher's binding). Portrait of the author, 2 colour maps and 336 figures engraved in the text and full page. Original edition of this exciting journey on the traces of Persian civilization. Both passionate about art and archaeology, Jane and Marcel Dieulafoy travelled the roads of Persia for 14 months between 1881 and 1882, cataloguing and photographing monuments, ruins, inhabitants and landscapes... They left the following year to carry out excavations in the city of Susa, where they discovered the frieze of the Lions and the frieze of the Archers, now in the Louvre. A feminist before her time, Jane Dieulafoy challenged the conventions of the time by taking part in military operations alongside her husband during the War of 1870, dressed as a maverick (she would also campaign for the integration of women into the army as the Great War approached), or by cutting her hair very short during their travels so that she could accompany her husband everywhere on their archaeological expeditions. In addition to her travel stories and historical studies, she also wrote short stories, plays, and novels, including Parysatis, which was adapted into an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns. Small rubbed caps and bits, worn back, worn leggings. Nice copy in its publisher's binding.
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