PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. - The land of Sheba (The Geographical Journal Vol. 92, no. 1).[United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], July 1938. 8vo. With 1 large folding coloured map, 1 smaller uncoloured folding map, and numerous photographs on 7 plates. Later half black cloth.

21, 107-132 pp.First edition of this fine account of travels in southern Arabia in 1936, particularly in the Hadhramaut, by the Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer St. John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdullah". It describes the longest of Philby’s journeys, ostensibly to map the new frontier with Yemen, containing excellent photographs taken for the first time in that area by a European. Until the 1930s the highlands of the south-west corner of Arabia were among the world’s few remaining lands not fully explored or charted.Clear tape on the first page, covering part of the title of the journal without affecting the page or legibility of the text, very slight foxing on the large coloured map (mainly on the back). In very good condition.l Macro 1788.

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