Charles Montagu Doughty

A first edition copy of Travels in Arabia Deserta.

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
• Charles Montagu Doughty (English).
• Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888.
• Octavo.
• Hand-colored folding map (loose, as issued), 8 folding plates, numerous illustrations in the text.
• Bound in the original green cloth gilt.

"And in truth if one live any time with the Aarab, he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert" (2:450).

The classic of Arabian exploration, written in Doughty’s stately, mystical prose, here in the first edition with a family presentation on the half title of the first volume, “Grace Adelina Roun Hotham with love from the author’s niece Frederica H. Doughty Agust 25th 1949.”