Author: DOUGHTY, CH.M[ONTAGU],
Title: Travels in Arabia deserta. Reprinted.(thin paper edition in one volume, complete and unabridged). [with a] new preface by Author. Introd. by T.E. Lawrence.
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, 1926. thick 8°. Gilt lettered spine. (l), 690pp. frontisp.(author's portrait), some text-ills. and figs, fold. facsim. plate (heliographed after the original) of the Nabatean monumentan inscriptions at el Hejr, some other fold. plates, fold. profile, large fold. col. map with extensive legenda, extensive index and glossary of arab words (transcribed), author's C.V. pasted inside front boards (in dutch however). Arabia Deserta (orig. 1888) is one of the most gripping travelogues ever published, inspiring many authors and travellers. Good copy. (neat name on first blank, some occas. underlinings in pencil).

Keywords: travel arabia near east