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TRAVEL BOOKS
ARABIA -- PLAYFAIR, R.L. A History of Arabia Felix or Yemen ... including an Account of the British Settlement of Aden. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1859. Large 8° (246 x 168mm). Folding map of Yemen, hand-coloured in outline. (Most edges a little discoloured.) Original cloth, paper label on upper cover (lacks spine).
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ARABIA -- PLAYFAIR, R.L. A History of Arabia Felix or Yemen ... including an Account of the British Settlement of Aden. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1859. Large 8° (246 x 168mm). Folding map of Yemen, hand-coloured in outline. (Most edges a little discoloured.) Original cloth, paper label on upper cover (lacks spine).
COWPER, H. Swainson. Through Turkish Arabia. London: W.H. Allen, 1894. 8° (221 x 136mm). Plates and illustrations. (The two frontispieces and title repaired at inner margin.) Modern green cloth -- BENT, Theodore. Southern Arabia. London: Smith, Elder, 1900. Photogravure portrait, 6 maps in colour, all but one folding, numerous plain plates. Original cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover, uncut; and 7 other volumes on Arabia and the Yemen including Bertram Thomas's Arabia Felix... with a Foreword by T.E. Lawrence (London, 1932) and Abdullah Mansur's The Land of Uz (London, 1911). (10)
COWPER, H. Swainson. Through Turkish Arabia. London: W.H. Allen, 1894. 8° (221 x 136mm). Plates and illustrations. (The two frontispieces and title repaired at inner margin.) Modern green cloth -- BENT, Theodore. Southern Arabia. London: Smith, Elder, 1900. Photogravure portrait, 6 maps in colour, all but one folding, numerous plain plates. Original cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover, uncut; and 7 other volumes on Arabia and the Yemen including Bertram Thomas's Arabia Felix... with a Foreword by T.E. Lawrence (London, 1932) and Abdullah Mansur's The Land of Uz (London, 1911). (10)