PHILBY, Harry St. J.B.

Sheba's Daughters being a record of travel in Southern Arabia.

With an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston.

Stock Code 113605

London, Methuen, 1939

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The account of a journey made by Philby, Ibn Saud's official adviser, from the King's camp on the Mecca to Riyadh Road to the Indian Ocean. Philby was the first European to enter Abha, the capital of Najran, the frontier district between the Wahhabis and the Yemenites, and the second to visit Shabwa, although he was the first to explore the ruins where he discovered the great temple of Astarte.

First edition, 8vo, xix, 485 pp., with frontispiece, 46 plates, folding map, modern sand oasis gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

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