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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman . Written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains . 1891. [Edited by Frederic Pretyman. With plates, including a portrait.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection reflects the changing perceptions of Western historians, travellers, traders, and others surveying the Middle East. Texts and first-person travelogues include illustrated volumes. Other works focus on the earlier history of Persian and Arabic areas of the world. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Pretyman, Herbert Edward; Pretyman, Frederic; br/b/b 1892.br/b/b vi, 50 p. ; 8º.br/b/b 09079.d.51.br/.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman . Written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains . 1891. [Edited by Frederic Pretyman. With plates, including a portrait.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Prin.

4to. VI, 50 pp. With a portrait frontispiece of the author, from a photograph, 34 other photographic illustrations on plates, and a double-page sketch map of the Kittar Mountains. Publisher's purple cloth, blocked in black and gilt with ibex and palm tree. All edges gilt. First edition. Extremely rare example of this journal which covers Pretyman's 1891 hunting expedition to the Kittar mountains, the Eastern Desert of Egypt between Qena on the Nile and Quseer on the Red Sea, using the only known map of the area produced by Floyer four years earlier. H. E. Pretyman, a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, travelled back from Ismalia to London in 1891 but died the same year, whilst Camp Adjutant at Bisley, and it is believed he had not fully recovered from a severe attack of typhoid and jaundice in 1889. His father, the Rev. Frederic Pretyman, arranged to have the journal published as a memorial volume. - Extremities insignificantly rubbed, light brownstaining or foxing to a few places in the first and last few leaves. An excellent copy. - Meckly, Alpine Journal. Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books 204. Lloyd, Cat. of the Graham Brown and Lloyd Collections in the NLS, 813. Not in Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting Books.…