Travels in Arabia Deserta
London: The Folio Society, 2013.
Large octavos. Two text volumes (lii, 610 pp. & xvi, 644 pp.) plus independent folding map portfolio. Half-bound in dark brown leather over hand-marbled paper sides. Spines decorated and lettered in bright gilt; top edges gilt. Map mounted in panels on cloth and housed in a standalone buckram folder. Complete three-volume set enclosed in heavy cloth-bound slipcase with a gilt-lettered leather label.
The definitive Folio Society Limited Edition of Charles M. Doughty's landmark masterpiece of travel literature, limited to 780 numbered copies of which this is number 315. Recounting his journey through uncharted desert lands, this deluxe presentation features a new preface by diplomat Rory Stewart, a classic introduction by T. E. Lawrence, and 48 pages of rare, contemporary 19th-century photographs from the Bonfils collection.
Price: $950.00