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ÖNT14 In aesthetic modern dark black cloth bdg. with Ottoman lettered gilt and embossing. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script. [4], 138 p., 1 folding huge map. Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1925. First and Only Edition. A rare travel book printed in the Ottoman Empire. Antoine Poidebard, (1878-1955) was a French archaeologist and Jesuit missionary. He pioneered aerial archaeology in the Middle East. In 1925, during his flights in the Syrian desert, Poidebard discovered tiny reliefs thanks to the shadows brought to the ground by the evening shining light, which revealed geometric structures. It was on this basis that he became the first known airborne prospector, as he was able to map all the layout of the Roman limes using the technical means of the air force. Aerial archeology was born. The air explorer Raymond Chevallier identifies two periods of study in the works of Antoine Poidebard: A first, from 1925 to 1932, during which the researches of Antoine Poidebard fixed the course of the Imperial Limes of Basrah at Palmyra and the Tigris; A second, from 1932 to 1942, which made it possible to specify the Roman organization of the rear of the Euphrates and the Orontes. The result of his work is 550 hours of flight divided into 250 missions during which were taken thousands of photographs on a zone of 1,000 kilometers over 300 kilometers. Only one copy in OCLC: 949521769; Koray 1779.; Özege: 9312.

Lingue: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)