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Travels in Arabia Deserta [2 volumes + Mapcase]
by Doughty, Charles M
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society. 2013. Large octavo size [18x28cm approx]. Two volume set plus mapcase. Fine condition in Near Fine slipcase. Limited edition of 780 numbered copies - this is copy no. 232. Limitation plate mounted on front pastedown of map-case. Illustrated with 50 plates plus text drawings. Half-bound in Indian Goatskin over Merbles Papered boards [by Jemma Lewis]. The map is mounted in panels on Atlantic Cloth and case-bound in Arbelave Library Buckram. Typeset in Miller type, printed on Abbey Wove and the Duotones on profisilk. Preface by Rory Stewart. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Photographs by Felix Bonfils. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 610, 644 pages. This book was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1888 and reprinted a number of times. The text of this edition follows that of the 1936 edition by Jonathan Cape. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB321884
- Title
- Travels in Arabia Deserta [2 volumes + Mapcase]
- Author
- Doughty, Charles M
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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