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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 202

A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race.

Estimate: $300 - $400

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Blunt, Lady Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. London: John Murray, 1881. First edition. Two vols., original pictorial gilt cloth, greyish-brown endpapers. Half-titles, folding map (closed tear) to rear of first vol., frontispieces, over 30 plates or illustrations by the author. 8vo. (vol. 1) xxxi, 273pp.; (vol. 2) ix, 283pp, 24pp. pub.?s ads. Ex-libris bookplate, annotations to prelims.; canted, cloth worn and soiled, but still a desirable set. With: Blunt?s Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates (1879), pict. cloth, beveled edges, plates, folding map [good, but dampstained lower right edge throughout].