Blunt (Lady Anne). A Pilgrimage to Nejd, 1st edition, 1881, ex libris Gerald de Gaury
Sold for £580
Blunt (Lady Anne). A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1881, half-title to each volume, 15 wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, folding map, wood-engraved tailpieces, 24 pp. advertisements dated October 1880 to rear of volume 2, marginal damp-staining to plates and intermittently to text-leaves, occasional generally light spotting, plate facing volume 1 p. 104 creased and damp-stained, volume 2 quire O-P creased across upper outer corners with concomitant shallow chip appearing in top edges, a few pencil underlinings and marginalia, bookplates, original cloth, recased, rubbed, bumped and worn, 8vo
(Qty: 2)
Provenance: Gerald de Gaury (1897-1984) British colonial officer and Arabist (bookplates to front pastedowns; earlier bookplates visible underneath).
Macro Arabian Peninsula 555.
A second edition was printed later the same year.
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Sold for £580
Blunt (Lady Anne). A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1881, half-title to each volume, 15 wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, folding map, wood-engraved tailpieces, 24 pp. advertisements dated October 1880 to rear of volume 2, marginal damp-staining to plates and intermittently to text-leaves, occasional generally light spotting, plate facing volume 1 p. 104 creased and damp-stained, volume 2 quire O-P creased across upper outer corners with concomitant shallow chip appearing in top edges, a few pencil underlinings and marginalia, bookplates, original cloth, recased, rubbed, bumped and worn, 8vo
(Qty: 2)
Provenance: Gerald de Gaury (1897-1984) British colonial officer and Arabist (bookplates to front pastedowns; earlier bookplates visible underneath).
Macro Arabian Peninsula 555.
A second edition was printed later the same year.
