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WOOLLEY, Charles Leonard (1880-1960) and Thomas Edward LAWRENCE (1888-1935). The Wilderness of Zin--Palestine Exploration Fund. Annual I [-VI]. London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1911-1953. 6 volumes, 4° (281 x 220). Plates and illustrations, some folding. (Occasional spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards [I-V] and original wrappers [VI], vol. III first issue binding with point after '1914-1915' (spines a little faded, some fading, light marking, or rubbing to extremities). COMPLETE SET. O'Brien A004 (vol. III).
Harry PIRIE-GORDON (editor). A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Cairo: The Palestine News, 1919. 4° (295 x 220mm). Linen-backed portrait frontispiece, full-page colour-printed key illustration and 55 colour-printed maps. Original cloth-backed printed wrappers (a little marked, wrapper edges rubbed, head and tail of spine slightly frayed). FIRST EDITION. O'Brien A011.
H. PIRIE-GORDON (editor). A Brief Record ... London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919. 4° (278 x 214mm). Portrait frontispiece, full-page colour-printed key illustration and 55 colour-printed maps. Original cloth-backed printed boards (lightly spotted, extremities a little rubbed). Second [first English] edition. O'Brien A012.
THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN WITH A BRIEF RECORD: Lawrence's first publication in book form and one of his 'first published accounts of the Arab campaign' (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 archaeological 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 archaeological 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 archaeological researching, p.d.q. as whitewash. Woolley and I had instructions to get it done instanter' (Letters, London: 1938, p. 181). Included in the lot is Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement April 1914 (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914), which contains Woolley's article 'The Desert of the Wanderings' describing the survey. A Brief Record gives the order of battle and maps of the campaigns for the Near Eastern front, and contains two unsigned pieces by Lawrence: 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement' on the versos of plates 48-52. With the second English and first American editions of The Wilderness of Zin (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936, both with plates before the index, the latter with dustwrapper). (11)
Harry PIRIE-GORDON (editor). A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Cairo: The Palestine News, 1919. 4° (295 x 220mm). Linen-backed portrait frontispiece, full-page colour-printed key illustration and 55 colour-printed maps. Original cloth-backed printed wrappers (a little marked, wrapper edges rubbed, head and tail of spine slightly frayed). FIRST EDITION. O'Brien A011.
H. PIRIE-GORDON (editor). A Brief Record ... London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919. 4° (278 x 214mm). Portrait frontispiece, full-page colour-printed key illustration and 55 colour-printed maps. Original cloth-backed printed boards (lightly spotted, extremities a little rubbed). Second [first English] edition. O'Brien A012.
THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN WITH A BRIEF RECORD: Lawrence's first publication in book form and one of his 'first published accounts of the Arab campaign' (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 archaeological 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 archaeological 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 archaeological researching, p.d.q. as whitewash. Woolley and I had instructions to get it done instanter' (Letters, London: 1938, p. 181). Included in the lot is Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement April 1914 (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914), which contains Woolley's article 'The Desert of the Wanderings' describing the survey. A Brief Record gives the order of battle and maps of the campaigns for the Near Eastern front, and contains two unsigned pieces by Lawrence: 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement' on the versos of plates 48-52. With the second English and first American editions of The Wilderness of Zin (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936, both with plates before the index, the latter with dustwrapper). (11)
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