Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates : edited with a preface and Some Acount of the Arabs and their Horses, by W. S. Blunt. 2 volumes
London: Frank Cass & Company, Ltd., 1968. Facsimile. Hardcover in full cloth. Octavos (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Small indentation in the foredge of pages affecting a number of pages in vol. 1. Slight foxing and spotting to cloth covers and top of text block. v. 1 : xvix, 346 p. w/illus. and fold out map. v. 2: ix, 283 p. w/illus.. Blunt, a multilingual English aristocrat, traveler, and famous horse breeder. She and her husband has an estate outside Cairo, and from there she traveled throughout Arabia and the Middle East and wrote extensively. She died at her Cairo estate in 1917. This was her most famous book, originally published in 1879. Very good. Item #20559
Price: $125.00