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OPPENHEIM, Max Freiherr von (1860-1946). Die Beduinen, Leipzig and Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1939-1952. 4 volumes in 5, 4° (268 x 186 mm). 8 folding maps laid-in, 3 portrait frontispieces, and 32 illustrations from photographs, numerous genealogies (very light scattered spotting to edges, a very few pencilled annotations to vol. 1). Red quarter morocco, the first 3 vols. by Bachoura of Damas with their ticket to front pastedown (light scattered spotting to sides).
FIRST EDITION of this classic work, 'the most comprehensive work on the locations, genealogies, and interconnections of the Arab Bedouin' (Sweet, p. 157). In 1889 Oppenheim discovered Tell Halaf which he excavated until 1927. The museum he founded in Berlin to preserve the finds was almost totally destroyed during the Second World War. Sweet The Central Middle East (New Haven: HRAF, 1971). (5)
FIRST EDITION of this classic work, 'the most comprehensive work on the locations, genealogies, and interconnections of the Arab Bedouin' (Sweet, p. 157). In 1889 Oppenheim discovered Tell Halaf which he excavated until 1927. The museum he founded in Berlin to preserve the finds was almost totally destroyed during the Second World War. Sweet The Central Middle East (New Haven: HRAF, 1971). (5)
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