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DOUGHTY (CHARLES) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1888 image 1
DOUGHTY (CHARLES) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1888 image 2
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DOUGHTY (CHARLES)
Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1888

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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DOUGHTY (CHARLES)

Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, plates (some folding), and illustrations in the text, folding lithographed map dissected and laid on linen in pocket at end of volume one as issued, without advertisements, half morocco by J.P. Bray & Son, of Cambridge, t.e.g., 8vo, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1888

Footnotes

Travels in Arabia Deserta "is an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia.... 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... In its authenticity, originality, and power, Doughty's English–Arabic style rivals the work of other Victorian prose masters such as Carlyle, Ruskin, and Pater. Poet Robert Bridges quickly recognized Arabia deserta's uniqueness, and it was one of William Morris's favourite books toward the end of his life" (ODNB).

Provenance: W.A. Harding, bookplate.

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