HOGARTH, D.G. The Penetration of Arabia. A Record of the Development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsular. London, Lawrence and Bullen,, 1904.
8vo. Original green cloth gilt; pp. 359; numerous plates after maps, drawing and maps, two colour-printed maps on one lage folding sheet; one corner with a little bump, head of spine with a little wear, slight embrowning to endpapers, else a very attractive copy.
First edition, very uncommon. An impressive overview of the subject, from Niebuhr to the 1890s by the archaeologist David George Hogarth who was from 1909 on keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and president of the Royal Geographical Society. During the First World War he worked at the Arab Bureau in Cairo, launching the Arab Revolt.
Provenance: Royal Institution blind-stamp to title-page, release stamp on lower fly-leaf. Accessioned on March, 31, 1904.
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