Author: Herbert, Aubrey & MacCarthy, Desmond [editor]
Title: Ben Kendim - A Record Of Eastern Travel
Description: Hutchinson & Co, 1925, 2nd edition. Cloth, G+. xvi+380pp, 6 b/w maps, endpapers yellowed, head & tail of the spine a little bumped, water stain to the top of the rear board, internally a nice copy. Ex Libris S C Lister of Swinton Park with their bookplate ( the 'S' overwritten in ink to an 'M' ). Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The travels of Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert [ 1880 - 1923 ], of Pixton Park in Somerset, British soldier, diplomat and traveller who was associated with Albanian independence. The book, published after Herbert's death covers his travels in Yemen, Turkey, Persia, Mesopotamia and Albania. The bookplate is that of Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham [ 1815 - 1906 ] who moved to Swinton Park in 1882. An English inventor and industrialist, he must have had more bookplates printed than he could use in his lifetime.

Keywords: travel, middle east, albania, yemen, persia