FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 volumes, folio (322 x 195mm.), mimeographed typescript, 15 genealogical plates of tribal pedigrees printed in red and green, 2 folding, one loosely inserted ('Pedigree of the House of Hashim'), original brown cloth-backed printed buff card wrappers, short clean tear to p. 312 (without loss), minor scattered spotting (mostly to edges)

'G.V. Fowler, Aug. '34, Aboukir, Egypt', inscribed and dated on upper covers (probably Group Captain Ivor G.V. Fowler AFC, who was posted to R.A.F. Depot, Middle East, Aboukir in September 1933)

Not in the British Library

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VERY RARE. The only other copy we have traced at auction is the Burrell copy, sold in these rooms, 15 October 1999, lot 604.
Major-General Frederick G. Peake, CMG, CBE (1886-1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army and police officer, and founder and commandant of the Arab Legion Trans-Jordan. He fought alongside T.E. Lawrence in the First World War, and later Lawrence described Peake in a letter of 1929 as 'a very good fellow. He has stuck splendidly to three or four thankless jobs, and made a deal out of them. A hot, impatient soul, too.' (Brown, T.E. Lawrence, The Selected Letters, p.413).

The first volume is a history of Transjordan from pre-history to 1933. The second volume contains an index to volume 1, a preface and history of the tribes of Transjordan (w♛ith tables, genealogies and essays on each tribe), an index to the tribes, and a bibliography.