[Rarebooks] fa SIX MONTHS in HEJAZ,Keane. Skene's Copy

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SIX MONTHS IN THE HEJAZ. An Account of The Mohammedan Pilgrimage To Meccah And Medinah Accomplished By An Englishman Professing Mohammedanism, by John Fryer Keane ( Hajj Mohammad Amin). London: Ward and Downey, 1887. xi, 307 pages. Octavo. Original green cloth binding with gilt front pictorial of a camel and gilt lettering on spine. This copy is in unusually good condition with tight hinges and only mild foxing on the first few and last few pages. No blind stamps, libray markings or notations, tears, writing etc. Hopkirk 898. Burrell 429. One dealer noted that only one copy has appeared at major auctions over the last five years. 
This has the ownership signature of RALPH SKENE on the front endpaper. I believe this is the Ralph Skene who was a District Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate in Kenya's Lamu, Malindi, and Kipini Districts 1897- ). "The East Africa Protectorate was later known (after 1920) as the Kenya Colony and Protectorate until Kenya became independent in 1963. His collection of papers is at UCLA. The collection (#1215) consists of Skene's official correspondence and reports while serving as District Commissioner. There is also a diary (1908), notes on the Arab clans of East Africa, photographs and postcards (1903-58)."
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Robert Azzi
Samarkand Books
Exeter NH