DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu (1843-1926) - Documents epigraphiques recueillis dans le nord de l'Arabie. Paris: n.d. [1884]. First edition and the first publication in English of any account of Doughty's travels, predating Travels in "Arabia Deserta" by four years. Doughty first met the great French orientalist and writer Ernest Renan in late spring 1883, and after the failure of his attempt to sell the copies of the inscriptions he had made in the region of El-Hejr and Medain Salih to Berlin, Renan wrote the preface and supervised the publication of Doughty's work in Paris. 4to (285 x 225mm). Half-title, 57 plates, mostly heliographed, of archeological inscriptions, sites and maps, some folding, original printed wrappers, uncut, partly unopened (rebacked).

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