Hogarth David Editor (5 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt, upper hinge just starting but binding remains tight, presentation stamp from the publisher, brief gift inscription to a previous owner on front free endpaper, the remainder of the text is clean and unmarked, xv + 440pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 440 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light discoloration along foredge of front cover. Covers slightly cocked; corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Contents nice.

Second Edition, same year as the first and without changes, probably the sheets of the first edition, with a slug added to the title-page. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover decorated and lettered in blind. xiv, 440 pp. A fine copy, bright, clean, tight and with very little age evidence. A SIGNIFICANT WORK EDITED AND WITH EMENDATIONS AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS BY DAVID HOGARTH, ONE OF THE GREAT ARCHEOLOGISTS OF THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES. The essays show in what ways and to what degree the results of archaeological research may affect the views of those who, without special archaeological knowledge, concern themselves with the antiquity of civilization. Chapters contain significant findings from the Hebrew, Classical and Christian histories and are concerned with the Biblical, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Christian worlds. D.G. Hogarth, was the British archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1909 to 1927. Commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the First World War, he served with the Naval Intelligence Division. During 1916, he was the acting director of the Arab Bureau, and was later responsible for delivering the Hogarth message. In 1886, Hogarth was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Between 1887 and 1907, he traveled to excavations in Cyprus, Crete, Egypt, Syria, Melos, and Ephesus (the Temple of Artemis). On the island of Crete, he excavated the Zakros and Psychro Cave. Hogarth was named director of the British School at Athens in 1897 and occupied the position until 1900. He was the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1909 until his death in 1927. In 1915, during the First World War, Hogarth was commissioned with the temporary rank of lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and joined the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division. Professor Hogarth was appointed the acting director of the Arab Bureau, for a time during 1916 when Sir Mark Sykes went back to London. Hogarth was close with T. E. Lawrence and worked with Lawrence to plan the Arab Revolt. Sykes befriended Hogarth, who had described India Government as believing they had a moral imperative to the British Raj as the best form of government and could not fail in their duty to impose it on a Province of Mesopotamia. The Arabists rejected this proposal vehemently; Sykes taking Hogarth's research as evidence of the uniquely different situation in the protectorate. The archaeologists knew it was clear that the Raj had no understanding of the different conditions, that there needed to be a specific "Arab Policy" for what had become a frontier of empire. Hogarth returned to Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum in June 1919.From 1925 to 1927 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1896, Hogarth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). In 1905, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 1917, he was made a Commander of the Order of the Nile by the Sultan of Egypt,and awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In the 1918 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his efforts during the First World War. In 1919, he was awarded the Order of Nahda (Hejaz) 2nd class by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

Second edition. 15 photographic plates and 4 folding maps in end pocket. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine sunned, a few small professional repairs to joints, hinges reinforced, dent to rear board, otherwise near very good. Stamp of the Bibliothèque Institut Missionnaire de l'Assomption (Ecully) to title-page. Ms. date of 1920 also added to title-page. 708pp. [London], His Majesty's Stationery Office, A rare handbook on the Arabian Peninsula, prepared by the Admiralty during the First World War. Compiled by the Naval Staff Intelligence Department it includes an impressive range of information gathered from the reports of Western explorers and indigenous informants. Very few English-language publications, of an official or non-official status, contained detailed up-to-date information on the Arabia and the Gulf, so the sections on Nejd, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE (then called Trucial Oman) are of great interest. Though not stated, this is the second edition of the handbook. The first edition was issued in 1916-17 in two volumes: 'Vol. I General' (May 1916) and 'Vol. II Routes' (May 1917). As an official publication, it was intended for an exclusive readership of British officers, with the title-page stating ?For Official Use only. Attention is called to the penalties attaching to any infraction of the Official Secrets Act.? This edition does not have that stipulation and was published by H.M.S.O. instead of the Admiralty, suggesting it is the public issue of the handbook. The title-page is undated but there is a date of 1920 in gilt at the foot of the spine, indicating it was published after WWI. Volume II was not reissued, making this a complete example of the second edition.  The remarkable fullness of the handbook reflects the depth of British interest in Arabia before and during the war, drawing on the accounts of explorers, scholars, soldiers and political officers, such as Captain W.H.I. Shakespear and Lt.-Col. S.B. Miles. Although the Peninsula was not directly involved in the main campaigns of the Middle Eastern Theatre of WWI, it was the locus of the Arab Revolt, in which Hashemite-led Arab forces took up arms against the Ottoman presence in the Hejaz. It is likely that copies of the handbook were issued to officers serving across the Middle East, for wartime use and then retained by those individuals and entities (political residencies, embassies, colonial libraries etc.) that persisted in the region.  In addition to covering the Hejaz and other active sites of conflict, it contains uncommon information on Qatar and Trucial Oman (modern-day United Arab Emirates). The section on Qatar, which is unusually thorough for the time, relies on ?fairly comprehensive native accounts? (p.326) and provides good accounts of Doha, which was under Ottoman occupation, and Al Wakrah. The same is true of the Trucial Oman section, which gives an overview (climate, population, trade etc.) and individual descriptions of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain. Several passages record recent changes, such as Dubai?s increasing significance as ?a port of call for steamers, which lie outside the creek; the place has largely supplanted Lingeh in Persia as the chief distributing centre of foreign goods to the interior, especially to the Bireimi oasis.? (p.340). The text is complemented by four folding maps ? ?Districts and Towns?, ?Orthographical Features?, ?Land Surface Features? and ?Tribal Map of Arabia?  ? all of which were specially designed for the publication. There are also photographic plates at the end of the volume, showing architectural and geographical features in, inter alia, Tabuk, Riyadh and Diriyah. Not in Macro. .

xv, 440 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Condition: Green cloth. Fine. First edition. First edition. xv, 440 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.