Agostini Colonel (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original green printed wraps 17 x 24cm. Italian language. Printed by the Bengasi Government. 89pp + (8)pp b/w drawings from Rosita Forbes, Hassanein Bey, and others + 3 folding maps (complete) in a band inside the back cover. Wraps near fine to the front, fading to the edges, good to the spine and back with tears and some loss. Interiors very good, lightly tanned and creased. Maps neatly folded without tears. Provenances - unsigned inscription on the title page dated 1928 to Capitano ---(?), and armorial bookplate of Conte Barattieri di San Pietro in Cerro to the ffep. The author "Enrico De Agostini (1878-1973) was an officer involved in the Italian occupation of Libya from 1911. After fighting in Europe during World War 1 he returned to Tripoli, leaving active duty in 1916 to head the 'research department' that had been set up to serve the Italian Government of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. De Agostini was put in charge of mapping the country and reporting on the local ethnic groups and their history. Back in Italy in 1935, he became an editor of the Italian Royal Geographical Society and honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland" (Mouldi Lamar in After Orientalism). In this work, he describes the Libyan Desert, and the Kufara Oasis and its tribes, drawing on the works of Rohlfs, Laurent, Laborie, Forbes, Hassanein Bey and others. In another part he describes 8 different routes to and from Cufra. The maps are of the Libyan Desert, explorers' routes, and Kufra District. Rare - 6 locations only on Worldcat and Jisc.