Craufurd Commander C E V (4 results)
Published by Skeffington & Son, London, 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. frontis, photos, 288p. Original reddish brown cloth. 24cm. A few minor cover spots. Spine slightly sloped. Lacks the plate with two photos that should face page 166. No Jacket.
Published by Skeffington & Son N.d. c., 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United KingdomFrancis Edwards ABA ILAB
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Add to basket1st Ed. 288pp. Port. frontis., numerous ills., 3 maps. Light browning, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, light fading, spine sl. bumped. US$74.
Published by Skeffington, London, no date.
- Hardcover
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United KingdomJane & John Kinnaird
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Add to basket288pp + 25 b/w photo illus. With 3 b/w maps in the text. Travels in Arabia in search of Ophir, fullfilling a childhood ambition. Cloth boards, scuffed and marked. Corners and top and bottom of spine little bumped and frayed. Contents little fingered and foxed. 24x16cms.
More imagesPublished by London Skeffington, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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Add to basketFirst edition; 8vo (24 x 16 cm); 25 photographic illustrations and 3 maps; publisher's red cloth, touch of bumping to spine otherwise fine, a very good copy; 288pp. An entertaining account of the author's realisation of his childhood dream to search for the Biblical Lost City of Ophir in the Arabian Peninsula. Charles Edward Ver…eker Craufurd (1884-1947) believed the coast of Yemen was the historical land of Ophir, the fabled Biblical location said to contain great hosts of gold, and that the city itself lay between Mirbat and Rayzut. He identified it as the same city as Mesha, one of ancient cities of the Hebrews in Genesis, and the biblical Mount Sephar being Jabal Samhan, the mountain behind Mirbat. This differs to modern interpretations which put both Mesha and Sephar in Western Oman around Dhafar, and Ophir itself further up the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia. Despite this Craufurd, has been subsequently vindicated in his belief in the existence of Ophir by the discovery of a tablet in Tel Aviv in 1946 which reads "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon. 30 shekels".
