Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
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Détails
- Auteur
- Doughty, Charles M[Ontagu].
- Éditeurs
- London, Jonathan Cape, 1936.
- Thème
- Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Description
2 vols. 674 pp. 696 pp. With two folding maps. Original cloth with giltstamped titles to spine. 4to. New and definitive edition of the famous work first issued in 1888, with a new introduction by T. E. Lawrence. Doughty's journey, undertaken between 1875 and 1878, "did much to advance knowledge of north-western and central Arabia" (cf. Henze). - Slight foxing to untrimmed fore-edge, otherwise well-preserved. From the library of Peter Fraser with his bookplate to pastedown. - Howgego III, D29. OCLC 6443964. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 859. Henze II, 88 (1888 first ed.). Weber I, 1092 (1924 ed.). NYPL Arabia coll. 166 (1st ed.). Fück 198 (1888 & 1923).