A brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula. Association Copy! First Edition, Review Copy from John Lane (embossed stamp on Title Page). 475 pp., 84 color plates. Inscribed by 19th-Century Travel author John Lawson Stoddard ("Stoddard's Lectures") on FFEP. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board, cloth rubbed along all edges with two chips on spine edges. Hinges cracked at front and pages 273 and 305. All edges gilt