First Edition in Original Cloth
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition. Hand-colored folding map (loose, as issued), 8 folding plates, numerous illustrations in the text. 2 vols. Thick 8vo (8-5/8 x 5-3/8 in.). Original green cloth gilt. Rebacked, preserving original spines, inner hinges strengthened, corners repaired. Occasional light foxing internally. Map backed with linen. Presentation inscription on half titles. Very good.
Item #308323
"And in truth if one live any time with the Aarab, he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert" (2:450).
The classic of Arabian exploration, written in Doughty’s stately, mystical prose, here in the first edition with a family presentation on the half-title of the first volume, “Grace Adelina Roun Hotham with love from the author’s niece Frederica H. Doughty Agust 25th 1949”.
