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Philby, H. St. J. B.
Sheba’s Daughters being a Record of Travel in Southern Arabia:
Publisher: Methuen & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 9792
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. xix, [1], 485, [1]. With 47 photographic black and white plates, including frontispiece, folding map to rear. Bound in the original pale green cloth, gilt titles and gilt Owl of Athena ornament to spine. A very good copy, with a neat contemporary ownership inscription and mid century pictorial bookplate to front free endpaper. Otherwise clean, bright and free of annotations. No dustjacket. Cloth very lightly soiled with two small patches of fraying to top edge. Some foxing to prelim and fore-edges. Generously illustrated account of the journey made by the author from Central Arabia to the Indian Ocean. Philby was the first European to enter Abha, the capital of Najran, the frontier district between the Wahhabis and the Yemenites, and the first to explore the ruins at Shabwa where he discovered the great temple of Astarte. £85.00