Arabia Collection of works

Arabia Collection of works Palgrave, William Gifford. Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, half-titles, 5 folding lithographic maps and plans, advertisement leaf to rear of each volume, bindings rubbed and marked, evidence of removal of labels from front boards, volume 1 front inner hinge tender, map of Arabia facing p. 1 with 8cm closed handling tear to inside fold and shallow chipping along fore edges [Macro 1731 for the first edition] Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all photographic plates as called for, maps in text, spine faded, fraying to foot of spine, spotting to text-leaves [Macro 2182]; Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: John Murray, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 3 folding maps, dust jacket (spine panel darkened and chipped); Philby, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plan, 2 folding plates, 32 halftone photographic plates, pp. 19/20 creased, a few spots to text [Macro 1781] Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, 5 halftone photographic plates numbered 1-9, 19 colour plates, dust jacket price-clipped, nicked and slightly dust-soiled; and 12 others (these not collated), including: Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, 1932 (first edition, second impression, original cloth); idem, The Arabs, 1937 (first edition, original cloth); G. Wyman Bury, Arabia Infelix, 1915 (first edition, original cloth); Harold Ingrams, Arabia and the Isles, 1942 (first edition, original cloth); D. van der Meulen, Aden to the Hadhramaut, 1947 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Wilfred Thesiger, Desert Borderlands of Oman [extracted from The Geographical Journal], 1950 (later card wrappers); Richard Meinertzhagen, Pirates and Predators, 1959 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, New York, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth); and 4 similar Qty: (19) Note: Palgrave's work is of special importance for the history of the modern Gulf states as well as what is now Saudi Arabia. In the second volume chapter 14 covers Bahrain and Qatar, while chapter 16, headed 'The Coasts of Oman', covers Sharjah and elsewhere.