£ 500
Doughty, Charles M.
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESETA.
Jonathan Cape.
1936
First issue of the 1936 ‘New and Definitive Edition’ with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence.
One of the classics of exploration and travel: Doughty’s ‘Travels’ had little immediate influence upon its publication in 1888 however it slowly became a text which was valued for its language as well as its content. T.E. Lawrence rediscovered the book and contributed an admiring Introduction of his own. The book is a vast recounting of Doughty's treks through the Arabian deserts, and his discoveries. These books remain as an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about nineteenth-century Arabia. Scarce.
Two volumes. 672pp and 696pp including portrait frontispiece in first volume, profusely illustrated througout with maps, plans and plates, some folding, and large folding maps in the inside rear covers of both volumes. In publishers’ original brown polished buckram with gilt spine lettering. No inscriptions or other blemishes. Text block, tight and square. Fine contents / cloth. The dustwrappers (d/w) have chips and creases to d/w extremities (most notably at the foot of the spine of Volume 1) and a few scattered surface marks.
     
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