Travels in Arabia Deserta (Folio Society Limited Deluxe Edition)

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DOUGHTY, Charles M. (preface Rory Stewart; intro. T. E. Lawrence; illus. Félix Bonfils et al.; marbled paper Jemma Lewis). Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: The Folio Society, 2013. 3 vols. (2 text vols. map portfolio). Large Octavo. Both text volumes half-bound in Indian goatskin by Lachenmaier, Reutlingen, Germany, with marbled paper sides by Jemma Lewis. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Light brown endpapers. Text printed on wove paper. Approximately 200 integrated illustrations throughout; 52 pages of duotone plates printed on art silk paper, mainly after photographs by Félix Bonfils and others. Map volume: large folding coloured map of Doughty's route, mounted in panels on linen and case-bound in Arbelave library buckram; limitation statement on front pastedown. Dark brown buckram slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco title-label to spine. Vol. I: lii, 610 pp; Vol. II: xvi, 644 pp. Limited deluxe edition. Limited to 780 numbered copies for sale (plus 20 lettered copies not for sale), this being number 159. Originally published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1888. Originally published at £495. Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) spent twenty-one months in the Arabian Peninsula between 1876 and 1878, travelling with Bedouin tribes through the Hejaz and Nejd in conditions of intermittent danger, poverty, and extraordinary physical beauty. He was an Englishman and a Christian in a country inhospitable to both, and he survived through a combination of stubbornn

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