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Musil, Alois: Northern Arabia, American Geographical Society, Oriental Explorations and Studies, 1978, reprint of the 4 maps from the rare work of 1928 in a linen slipcase, Musil was an oriental traveller and then professor of oriental studies at the University of Vienna and Prague, during the First World War Musil undertook trips to the Ottoman Empire on behalf of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in 1914/15 and 1917 and was an opponent of Lawrence of Arabia, very well preserved #71502