Book Description

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.
Author CHEESMAN R E.
Date 1926
Publisher Macmillan and Co

Price: £400.00

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