[MAÏMONIDE] Le Guide des Égarés, a treatise on theology and philosophy by Moses ben Maimoun, known as Maimonides, published for the first time in the original Arabic and accompanied by a French translation and literary and explanatory critical notes by S. Munk. Paris, A. Franck, 1856 to 1866. Bound with: Discourses prononcés sur la tombe de Salomon Munk. Paris, Imprimerie Vallée, 1867. Three vol. in-8, half-leather binding, spine ribbed (binding rubbed, wear to corners of bindings and a few interior freckles, otherwise a good copy). Sent by Salomon Munk to Baron Gustave d'Eichthal. First edition of the text of the Guide des Égarés in Arabic and Hebrew characters, and of this first translation into French of a major text in medieval Jewish philosophy, dedicated by the translator to Baroness and Baron James de Rothschild. Baron Gustave d'Eichthal was born into a family of illustrious bankers. His grandfather Aron Elias Seligmann was the official banker to the Bavarian Court. Gustave, for his part, turned to the sciences. A student of Auguste Comte, he met Hegel and helped translate and disseminate works by Kant and Lessing. He was also one of the main founders of the Société d'ethnologie. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba