Travels in Arabia Deserta. With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence

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With a new preface by the author. Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. In two volumes. Pp. xxxvi+624+ xiv+690, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 8 plates (5 folding), title page decoration both volumes, text illustrations and figures, large colored folding map in pocket at end of Volume I, appendices, index and glossary of Arabic words; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle scuffed, spines and part of the boards of Volume I lightly faded, edges a trifle worn; t.e.g., others uncut; corners of a few leaves slightly creased, pp. 444/5 faintly browned in Volume I, a little light foxing; an excellent copy. First published in 1888, this is the second edition, the first with Doughty's new preface, and Lawrence's introduction, one of 500 copies only. "Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which Doughty labored from 1879 to 1884 and which he continued correcting until its publication in 1888, is an unrivalled encyclopedia 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). Lawrence had long admired Doughty's work and was instrumental in getting it republished by Jonathan Cape, it was to be the publisher's first book, "Lawrence's notoriety was desired for the expensive two volume set [it was published at 9 guineas, somewhere over £1, 000 today] and he was persuaded to write his first introduction" (O'Brien). O'Brien A013. N° de ref. del artículo 318

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