IN UNKNOWN ARABIA.
by CHEESMAN R E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Macmillan and Co, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. 25.5 cm x 18 cm, (7 x 10 inches) xx - 447 pp top edge gilt . Numerous b/w illustrations from photographs, sketch map - a plan of Hufuf and large coloured folding map at rear. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks light spotting to closed page edge. Publishers dark green cloth gilt vignette to upper board, the cloth clean with no defects. A very good + copy. Cheesman main interest was in zoology, geography, and archaeology. Spending three months at Hufuf, travelling between Oqair and Jabrin Oasis in Eastern Nejd. During this period, he mapped 150 miles of desert, identified the site of the ancient Gerra,
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- Bookseller
- Hereward Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0013416
- Title
- IN UNKNOWN ARABIA.
- Author
- CHEESMAN R E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Middle East
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...