Description
First American edition of Lady Anne Blunt’s Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates.
Octavo, 445pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, front cover stamped in gilt with an illustration of a man on a horse. Illustrated with 12 full-page plates and one folded pedigree chart, lacks color map. Blue endpapers. Front endpapers cracked, but binding is sound. Tear to upper corner of front free endpaper repaired with tissue. Label on rear pastedown endpaper partially removed. Toning to text pages, occasional finger marks and pencil marks, few pages with short tears along the edge but not affecting text. Spine darkened. Spine ends and corners worn and frayed. Shelf wear to bottom edge of boards, soiling to covers.
Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917) was an accomplished horsewoman and breeder of Arabian horses. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates is based on her travel diaries, which she kept during the time she and her husband journeyed to the Middle East to purchase Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen.
