Travels in Arabia Deserta.

Publisher: Cambridge, At The University Press, 1888

Stock code: 39460

Price: £3,750

First Edition, First Impression. “Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which Doughty laboured from 1879 to 1884 and which he continued correcting until its publication in 1888, is an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia. In a notable contemporary review in Academy, Sir Richard Francis Burton praised the book's scientific knowledge and its style... So reliable was the book's anthropology of the Bedouin peoples and its topography, that British intelligence mined it for information during the First and Second World wars. Doughty's contributions to all areas of Arabian knowledge continue to be praised by scholars.” [Stephen Tabachnik in ODNB]

2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single ruled panel to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, plain burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt. Numerous plates, maps &c., some folding, colour folding map in end-pocket to Volume I. Text lightly browned, else a very good copy handsomely bound.