Geere, H. Valentine (1874-1923) — By Nile and Euphrates; with Maps and Illustrations

Edinburgh T. & T. Clark | Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited (Edinburgh) First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 355. Octavo (6" x 9"). Publisher's decorated terracotta cloth over boards with a lovely image of an Arab man wearing a traditional shemagh to the centre, blocked in red, black and white. Title in gilt to the spine. Black-and-white photographic plate of the Euphrates valley, accompanied by 34 additional remarkable and striking photographic plates, maps, and fold-outs, each capturing in vivid detail the region's landscape, landmarks, the Indigenous Peoples, excavation work, among much else (collates complete). Spine ends, and tips gently frayed, neat period ink name and date to the ffep, endpapers foxed, save for the rare occasional spot of foxing the text-block otherwise remains crisp, clean and unmarked alongside a firm, sound binding. A lovely work. Scarce in commerce. See OCLC #1017351758 which records five institutional holdings at time of cataloguing. ¶ "In the following pages I have tried to give some idea of life in an excavator's camp and to sketch certain out-of-the-way places and their inhabitants. If they succeed in interesting the reader in the life and scenery of the Euphrates, and in showing that it has charms quite equal to the better known places of the Nile, they will serve their purpose."