LAWRENCE (T.E.)


Crusader Castles, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, plates and illustrations (some photographic), 2 folding maps in separate pocket at end, uncut in original red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g. [O'Brien A188, A189], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936
|T.E. Lawrence's thesis on Crusader Castles, research for which involved him travelling "on foot during the three hottest months of the year, with a passport obtained by Lord Curzon from the Turkish Government... He landed in Beyrout, went south to the Sea of Galilee, and then turned north to Aleppo... to Urfa (Edessa). He returned to Beyrout by Damascus" (Foreword by A.W. Lawrence).