1 volume. First Edition 1863.
Scarce classic work on Arab equitation.
Full dark blue calf, with gilt, lineal borders.
Coat of Arms of Blackheath Proprietary School.
Triple gilt page edges. Marbled endpapers.
Gilt titles and decorative panels. Raised bands.
Bookplate of John Cecil Power on inside front endpaper.
xi, 355 pages. Slight split to upper hinge
One of the earliest exhaustive studies of the Arabian
and Barb breeds. Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) was
posted to Algeria in 1835. From 1837 to 1839 he was
consul at Mascara, during which time he won the respect
of Abd El-Kader, the leader of the native resistance
to the French invasion, who after his surrender in 1847
was taken to France and lived in gilded captivity.
Daumas was widely recognised as the French Army's leading
expert on Arab culture, and on his return to France in 1850 was
made director of Algerian affairs in the Ministry of War.
The original French edition appeared in 1851 as
'Les Chevaux du Sahara et les moeurs du désert'.
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