BLUNT (Lady Anne).

Trip to Arabia. Pilgrimage to Nedjed, cradle of the Arab race. Translated from the English by L. Derome. Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1882 In-8, 2 ff.n.ch. lxviii-447 pp, contemporary red half-chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges (Magnier binding). First French translation. Decorated with a folded map, 60 woodcuts drawn by G. Vuillier after watercolors by Lady Anne Blunt and a genealogical chart of the Ibn Rashids. Anne Blunt and her husband traveled to the Nejd region in the heart of present-day Saudi Arabia in the winter of 1878-1879. The purpose of the trip was to find and buy Arabian horses for their stud farm at Crabbet Arabian Stud in Sussex. They brought back from the Middle East the famous Azrek, Dajania, Reine de Saba, Rodania, and the renowned stallion Ali Pacha Shérif Mesaoud, from whose bloodlines the leading Arabian thoroughbreds are descended. In 1882, they founded a second stud farm on the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo, where Lady Blunt spent the last years of her life. In this book, she recounts her meeting with the Emir of Haile, Ibn Rashid, who owned some forty mares, eight stallions and some thirty foals. Anne Blunt explains that Ibn Rachid's stud is the most famous in Arabia, replacing that of Faysal Ibn Saoud. Anne Blunt travelled with her husband to the Nejd region in the heart of what is now Saudi Arabia in the winter of 1878-1879. The aim of the trip was to find and buy Arabian horses for their stud farm at Crabbet Arabian Stud in Sussex. They brought back from the Middle East the famous Azrek, Dajania, Reine de Saba, Rodania, and the renowned stallion Ali Pacha Shérif Mesaoud, from whom the main lines of thoroughbred Arabian horses are descended. In 1882, they founded a second stud farm on the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo, where Lady Blunt spent the last years of her life. In this book, she recounts her meeting with the Emir of Haile, Ibn Rashid, who owned around forty mares, eight stallions and some thirty foals. Anne Blunt explains that Ibn Rashid's stud is the most famous in Arabia, replacing that of Faysal Ibn Saoud.