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LOT 3115
19th February 2019
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LOT 3115
AFRICA. - T.I. DUN. From Cairo to Siwa, Across the Libyan Desert With Armoured Cars. Cairo: E. & R. Schindler, 1933. Limited, first edition, this being one of 750 copies, 4to (328 x 249mm.) Folding map, 2 tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations including wood-cuts from students at the Cairo School of Fine Art, a hieroglyphic bookplate (as issued) to front pastedown. (Surface wear to the plates, moderate spotting, a gift inscription to the front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial cloth-backed boards (wear to spine ends). Note: this is an account of a trip across the Libyan desert and Siwa Oasis in 1932 by the major of the Xllth Royal Lancers, undertaken in an armoured Rolls-Royce car. - And a quantity of volumes relating to the Sahara, Africa, and the Middle East (including a signed copy of Gilbert Watson's 'The Voice of the South', 1905, 8vo) (a quantity).
Hammer price: £180
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