![WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and T.E. LAWRENCE. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914. The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report.) ... With a Chapter on the Greek Inscriptions by M.N. Tod, London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, [1915]. 4°, series title, 4-page publisher's catalogue at the end, 37 plates after Woolley and Lawrence, one folding plan, illustrations, maps and plans in the text after B.V. Darbishire and Woolley and others, 7 full-page, original cloth-backed printed boards, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt publisher's device (spine slightly faded, upper endpapers lightly browned, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped). Provenance: Sir Wilfred Thesiger (b.1910, bookplate with signature below) -- sale, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 96, part lot. FIRST EDITION. O'Brien A004.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09066_0007_000(024111).jpg?w=1)
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WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and T.E. LAWRENCE. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914. The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report.) ... With a Chapter on the Greek Inscriptions by M.N. Tod, London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, [1915]. 4°, series title, 4-page publisher's catalogue at the end, 37 plates after Woolley and Lawrence, one folding plan, illustrations, maps and plans in the text after B.V. Darbishire and Woolley and others, 7 full-page, original cloth-backed printed boards, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt publisher's device (spine slightly faded, upper endpapers lightly browned, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped). Provenance: Sir Wilfred Thesiger (b.1910, bookplate with signature below) -- sale, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 96, part lot. FIRST EDITION. O'Brien A004.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE WRITER AND EXPLORER WILFRED THESIGER. 'THE FIRST OF LAWRENCE'S WORKS TO APPEAR IN BOOK FORM' (O'Brien). 'During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archeological survey, mapped out the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of the archeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin' (O'Brien). As Lawrence wrote, 'K. [Kitchener] (the only begetter of the survey) insisted on the Palestine Exploration Fund's bringing out its record of our archeological researching, p.d.q. as whitewash. Woolley and I had instructions to get it done instanter' (loc. cit.). Thus, the work bears the ironic dedication, 'To Captain S.F. Newcombe, R.E. Who showed them ''the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do'' '.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE WRITER AND EXPLORER WILFRED THESIGER. 'THE FIRST OF LAWRENCE'S WORKS TO APPEAR IN BOOK FORM' (O'Brien). 'During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archeological survey, mapped out the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of the archeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin' (O'Brien). As Lawrence wrote, 'K. [Kitchener] (the only begetter of the survey) insisted on the Palestine Exploration Fund's bringing out its record of our archeological researching, p.d.q. as whitewash. Woolley and I had instructions to get it done instanter' (loc. cit.). Thus, the work bears the ironic dedication, 'To Captain S.F. Newcombe, R.E. Who showed them ''the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do'' '.
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