BLUNT, Anne, Lady (1837-1917). Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses b
BLUNT, Anne, Lady (1837-1917). Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses b
2 volumes, 8vo. With folding color-printed route map, 12 plates after the author's drawings, and a folding pedigree at end. (Light spotting to pre- and post-lims.) Original publisher's red cloth gilt (spines slightly sunned). Provenance: Abraham and Marcie Kanner (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Blunt's first desert expedition in 1877-78, from Beirut to Baghdad through the Syrian Desert and Mesopotamia. Lady Anne Blunt was the granddaughter of Lord Byron and the wife of the famous Arab scholar and poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ("W.S.B."). The couple travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East from the late 1870s normally mainly without guides or the usual caravans. During this period Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and she gained insights into the people and their customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life and this work remains one of the best late- 19th century books on the Bedouin of Syria. Along with the preface, her husband contributed the final chapters on Bedouin politics, the Arab horse and the planned Euphrates Valley Railway. A FINE COPY.
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BLUNT, Anne, Lady (1837-1917). Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses b
2 volumes, 8vo. With folding color-printed route map, 12 plates after the author's drawings, and a folding pedigree at end. (Light spotting to pre- and post-lims.) Original publisher's red cloth gilt (spines slightly sunned). Provenance: Abraham and Marcie Kanner (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Blunt's first desert expedition in 1877-78, from Beirut to Baghdad through the Syrian Desert and Mesopotamia. Lady Anne Blunt was the granddaughter of Lord Byron and the wife of the famous Arab scholar and poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ("W.S.B."). The couple travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East from the late 1870s normally mainly without guides or the usual caravans. During this period Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and she gained insights into the people and their customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life and this work remains one of the best late- 19th century books on the Bedouin of Syria. Along with the preface, her husband contributed the final chapters on Bedouin politics, the Arab horse and the planned Euphrates Valley Railway. A FINE COPY.
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