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2000rif. 52283Milano Milan: Electa 2000. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 223pp. Quarto 28.5 cm Black cloth over boards with a white ink stamped title on the backstrip. The front board is just a trifle warped. In a dust jacket with only minor surface and edge wear. Text in Italian. Centri e monumenti dell' antichità. Electa hardcover books
1912rif. 316798New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1912. With 60 illusrations from Photographs and a folding Map. ix iii 257 pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters brown polished calf and marbled baords green leather title label. Fine signed. With 60 illusrations from Photographs and a folding Map. ix iii 257 pp. 8vo. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady Evelyn Murray Cobbold. Another edition but under Cobbold's name appeared in London in the same year. This preface is signed NY Oct 1. 1912. Cobbold later converted to Islam changed her name to Zainab Cobbold and was the first British woman to make the hajj at the age of 65 in 1933. Little more is known of Frances Alexander who married Allen Gouverneur Wellman in 1910. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1819rif. 264989London: Henry Colburn 1819. Third edition. Seven hand-coloured aquatints one folding engraved map of the Regencies of Tripoly and Tunis. xv i 375; iv 396 pp. Printed by Cox and Baylis. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary diced russia gilt. Rebacked head of spine of vol. I repaired labels renewed. Very good. Third edition. Seven hand-coloured aquatints one folding engraved map of the Regencies of Tripoly and Tunis. xv i 375; iv 396 pp. Printed by Cox and Baylis. 2 vols. 8vo. Tooley 494; Abbey Travel 401; Atabey 1242; Weber 613; Blackmer 1682 Henry Colburn unknown books
