La Vie de Mohammed, Prophète d‘Allah (The Life of Muhammad, Prophet of Allah)

Étienne Alphonse Dinet and Sliman Ben Ibrahim, La Vie de Mohammed, Prophète d'Allah (The Life of Muhammad, Prophet of Allah), Paris: Edition d'art H. Piazza, 1918, first edition

[viiii] + ix + 178 pages including illustrations of 27 watercolour prints consisting of 19 single plates and 8 double plates by Étienne Dinet painted during his pilgrimage to Mecca, 12 introductory pages (text in French) with decorated chapters, cover, initials and various ornaments in the Moorish style by Mohammed Racim, of which one is a frontispiece and one is at the end of the text. The rest are at the beginning of each chapter, and 1 map of the Hejaz in black at the end, all protected by serpentes captioned; rebound in contemporary full leather with ornamental floral pattern debossed on the front and back boards, gilt title at the front board and at the spine with four raised bands
13.1 x 10.4 x 1.5 in (33.3 x 26.5 x 4 cm)

The work is dedicated "to the memory of the Muslims who died for France”.
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