In Unknown Arabia by Cheesman, R.E - 1/1/1926

Macmillan and Co, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Complete with all plates and maps. With its own matching, handmade slipcase. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, the book is in near fine condition, with neat, crisp and unmarked pages. Securely bound and handsome! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.. FIRST EDITION 1926, With a foreword by Major.-General. Sir Percy Z. Cox. Tall 8vo, approximately 250 x 170 mm, 10 x 6¾ inches, 66 photographic illustrations on 32 plates including frontispiece, large folding map in colour at rear, 2 sketch maps and a sketch of a fish in the text, pages: xx, 1-447 including appendices and index, original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, central gilt picture of a bedouin riding a camel on upper cover, gilt top edge. Pale stain to rear cover (see attached illustration), 4 leaves have small dark brown stain to edge of top margin, and 2 pages have a pale brown spot to top margin, occasional small fox spot and a few fox spots to edges, otherwise a very good tight copy. Major Robert Ernest Cheesman, CBE (1878 – 1962) was a military officer, explorer and ornithologist. Cheesman was Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox during his tenure as High Commissioner in Iraq. In 1923, during a journey into the Arabian… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1926. 447 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Large folding map is unattached at the back of the book. Dedication page has a small tear at the head edge. Page edges are lightly darkened and foxed. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Small puncture holes near the spine. SCARCE. VG/- -. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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,

1926. London, Macmillan and Co., 1926. 8vo. Original grey-green cloth, gilt vignette of camel-rider to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine, top edge gilt; pp. xx, 447; photographic plates, 3 maps including one large folding and in colour; very light rubbing; a little brown-spotting to endpapers, otherwise very good. First edition. An important account of travels in the Arabian peninsula. Cheesman had known Boyd Alexander (author of From the Niger to the Nile) and became fascinated with the idea to travel through the Arabian desert. Following Alexander's death, and with the encouragement of Percy Cox, Cheesman made a journey in 1923-4 from Oqair on the coast of the Gulf of Bahrain to the oases of Jabrin and Hufuf in the Arabian interior. Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwa to Uqair. In 1924 he fixed the position of Hofuf and identified the site of ancient Gerrha. He presented his findings to Ibn Sa'ud at his court in Hofuf. - The present account of that… Read More