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174 onE oF 30 coPiES on cAnUTE PAPER 174. LAWRENCE, T.E. The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia during 1911. Corvinus Press. 1937. £4,995
4to. original reddy brown morocco by W.h. Smith & Son, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, gilt vignette of a bird on the lower cover, top edges gilt, others uncut; illustrated with 13 photographs taken by Lawrence, all with tissue-guards, also with a drawing at the head of the first page of text printed in black and gold; a very good copy.
First edition. Limited to 203 copies, this being one of 30 copies printed on ‘canute’ paper and bound in morocco.
“This diary was kept while the author was journeying through northern Syria during 1911. it consists of notes jotted down whenever he had a moment to rest. As he travelled to most places on foot and was extremely ill the greater part of the time, the consistency of writing and spelling cannot be relied upon, especially as the original manuscript was kept in pencil in a small canvas-backed note-book and was never revised. The contradictions in spelling have been here transcribed as faithfully as deciphering will allow, without any corrections whatsoever.” (prefatory note).
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175. LAWRENCE, T.E. — Sam Cottingham ROLLS. Steel chariots in the Desert. The Story of an Armoured-car Driver with the Duke of Westminster in Libya and in Arabia with T.E. Lawrence. Edited by Roy Brooks. [S.l.]: H. Shanley (Printers) Ltd for The Rolls- Royce Enthusiasts’ Club, 1988.
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8vo (199 x 131mm). original boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, cream endpapers, dustwrapper; pp. [4 (blank l., half-title, epigraph on verso)], 286, [2 (editor’s name, verso blank)]; 6 half-tone plates and 2 full- page maps in the text; a few light spots on edges, otherwise a very good copy.
Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts’ club edition. Recollections by Rolls, who had trained as a motor mechanic and had joined the forces in 1914, serving initially in the Royal naval Air Service Armoured car Division, which
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eventually became the Armoured car companies of the Tank corps. in 1917 he was sent to join the Arab campaign, and served under Lawrence, driving the armoured Rolls Royces. Lawrence wrote of Rolls in Seven Pillars of Wisdomthat Rolls was ‘our strongest and most resourceful man, the ready mechanic, whose skill and advice largely kept our cars in running order’. Steel Chariots in the Desert was first published by Jonathan cape in 1937, and this edition has a new preface by Eric Barrass, General Secretary of the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts’ club.
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176. LAWRIE & WITTLE. The European part of the Russian Empire and The Asiatic part of the Russian Empire. original engraving with colour by Lawrie & Whittle on thick laid paper, as published at 53 Fleet Street, 12th may, 1794. 495 x 1294 mm. £650
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