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51 - [ETHIOPIA] – AZAIS (François Bernardin) and CHAMBARD (Roger)…
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[ETHIOPIA] – AZAIS (François Bernardin) and CHAMBARD (Roger). Five Years of Archaeological Research in Ethiopia. The Harar Province and Southern Ethiopia. Text and Atlas. First edition of this important archaeological study, accompanied by an atlas comprising 111 plates of photographs, the result of five years of research conducted by the author in southern and eastern Ethiopia between 1921 and 1926. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1931. 2 volumes in-4 (230x280 mm), comprising 1 text volume with a grey cover printed in black and red and 1 atlas in a grey half-cloth slipcase with laces, with cardboard covers, the front cover of which is printed in black and red. Text volume: XV and 348 pp., 6 plates and 1 black map as a separate insert, several black figures within the text. Atlas: 10 pp. and 111 loose plates of black-and-white photographs, numbered from I to CX with a plate XXV bis. Loose cover; spine creased and worn with tears and losses to the head and foot; the back cover of the text volume is frayed; covers slightly browned and scuffed, headbands and corners somewhat rubbed, plate II very slightly frayed along the upper edge, a few plates in the atlas browned at the margins. First edition. This work is the result, published in the form of a travel journal, of five exploration expeditions carried out in Ethiopia between 1921 and 1926, with the assistance of the French Government and financial support from the Abyssinian Government. “Over the course of five expeditions spread from 1921 to 1926, Reverend Father Azais, a former military chaplain, and his young companion Mr Roger Chambard […] explored several vast regions from which they brought back more than six hundred photographs and a wealth of notes on geography, ethnography and archaeology, linguistics” (Preface by Edmond Pottier, p. VI). Among the findings of this expedition, Edmond Pottier highlights five discoveries in his preface: the funerary dolmens of Harar; the burial mounds of Gouragué; menhir-like standing stones; the carved funerary slabs in the Ouallamo region, in Soddo; and, in the Sidamo region, stone columns of phallic appearance, often grouped in clusters of eight to ten. In total, François Bernardin Azaïs undertook ten archaeological and ethnographic expeditions there, covering the eastern and southern parts of the country, which earned him the nickname ‘the father of archaeology in southern Ethiopia’. A copy containing a loose photograph (120x180 mm). A very complete atlas of his plates, with clean and fresh interior pages.
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