Travels in Arabia Deserta

£2,250 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Lawrence had long admired Doughty's Arabia Deserta, and was instrumental in getting the second edition published in 1921 with an introduction by himself. The New and Definitive edition is a very handsome publication designed to be uniform with the 1935 edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. New and Definitive edition. 2 vols, 4to, 674; 696 pp., frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, 8 plates, illustrations in text, original brown cloth gilt, dustwrappers, prize bookplate to front pastedown, tiny stain to title and frontispiece else a fine set. O'Brien A017.

• Binding: Hardcover

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