Travels in Arabia Deserta (Two Volumes) Complete [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1964] Doughty, Charles M. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. In two volumes. Pp. 674+696, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates (2 folding), numerous text figures (some full page), 2 folding coloured maps, the title pages printed in red & black, appendices, index and glossary of Arabic words; cr. 4to; brown buckram, spines lettered in gilt, boards slightly flecked, fore-corners bruised; top edges brown, others uncut; dust wrappers, slightly soiled, with a couple of spots of foxing, edges and backstrips lightly rubbed (heavier Volume I), with splits and small tears (some tape repaired) to edges and backstrip extremities of Volume I; a couple of short closed tears to inner edge of folding map at end of Volume I neatly repaired on reverse with cloth and tape, pp. 567/8 in Volume II slightly creased, a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1943. New and definitive edition, second printing [sixth UK edition, reprinted]. O'Brien A017, notes. *Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1888.. Read More

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1936. New and definitive edition, first impression, in a handsome binding. Travels in Arabia Deserta, "an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia" (ODNB), was first published in 1886. T. E. Lawrence was instrumental in having the book republished in 1921, with a new introduction and preface by himself and Doughty, both included here. This edition was published in a format matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 2 volumes, large octavo. Attractively bound in recent reddish-brown morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, roll to boards gilt, marbled endpaers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates (2 folding), 2 large folding coloured maps showing Doughty's routes, illustrations to text; title pages printed in red and black. An excellent copy. O'Brien A017.