First edition of an account of travels through the Middle East in 1893, from Beirut and Damascus via Hauran (southwest Syria, then in Ottoman hands) including al-Harra and al-Safa to Palmyra and through the Syrian desert to Bagdad, the Gulf and Muscat, then (described in less detail) on to north India and the German controlled East Africa, by the diplomat, jurist, archaeologist and orientalist Max Oppenheim (1860-1946), a work that made his name as an expert on the orient. He devotes chapters XI and XII to the Bedouin. Given his background in politics and law, his account is especially strong in these areas. With numerous, mainly photographic illustrations, many full-page. The photographs include not only people and views of the sites, but also implements and weapons.
Bindings rubbed, lacking the large general map. Some slight browning; one map in vol. 2 loose with frayed edges. Henze III, 650ff; Bruno Meissner, [review], in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 15 (1901), pp. 289-290; Hans Stumme, [review], in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 24 (1901), pp. 43-45; WorldCat 13166400, 459001843, 874785445, 930867721, 977009518, 1204443757, 1204443873.