Description: Carchemish Report on the Excavations at Jerablus Part II, 1921, by C. L. Wooley. Extremely rare. British Museum, Printed by Order of the Trustees, London, 1921. First edition. Large quarto,pages xvi & 33-156 pages, 32 plates included. Bound in gray printed boards. Text in English.Ex-library with pocket attached to back pastedown and card pasted on last blank page. Small library stickerw/ barcode on upper right of back cover. Small library shelf number taped to bottom of spine. Some writingon inner margin of the first page of the preface. Tape on plate 2 (see photo). Smudges andstaining on front and back covers. Overall clean on the inside and tightly bound.LAWRENCE'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. He worked as an archaeologist at the site of Carchemish inMesopotamia from 1911-14 under the direction of his lifelong friend D. G. Hogarth. The archaeological dig innorthern Syria, coming at the end of his walking tour of Syria when researching his thesis on crusadercastles, was a key moment in forming Lawrence's devotion to the Middle East. Lawrence contributed text tovolume 1, and photographs and notes to all three volumes.
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