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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.
Amurath to Amurath.
Publisher: Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1911
Stock Code: 13024
First Edition. Octavo, pp., xvii, 370. Complete with 234 figures on photographic plates and within text, as called for; colour-printed fold-out map to end; half-title and publisher’s ad to fore. Publisher’s brown buckram, title stamped in black within architectural frame to upper board, publisher’s device blind-stamped to lower board, titles gilt to spine. Fore and bottom-edge uncut. Joints a trifle rubbed, corners bumped. Scattered light foxing to preliminary leaves, and to pp., 178-200. A tight, solid copy. Bell’s fifth published work and her third travelogue (after ‘Persian Pictures’ and ‘The Desert and the Sown’) detailing her travels along the Euphrates from Aleppo to Buseirah, from Kerbela to Baghdad and finally Mosul to Konia. Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was an explorer, archaeologist, diplomat, and writer. She was an expert Arabist; advocate, along with her friend T.E. Lawrence, of Arab independence, and participant in both the Paris Conference of 1919 and the Cairo Conference of 1921. Scarce, especially so in this condition. £650.00