Revolt in the Desert
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First London edition, one of 315 large paper copies. Revolt in the Desert was... Read More about Revolt in the Desert
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An Idler in the Near East.
London: John Milne, 1910. First Edition. Read More about An Idler in the Near East
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Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même.
Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même
Price: $4,000
Servant's Hall, Windsor Castle
Mesopotamia and Assyria from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842. Servant's Hall, Windsor Castle. Read More about Mesopotamia and Assyria from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western Arabia.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878. First edition. In 1877, Burton sought to raise money from the Khedive of Egypt for a project to revive the gold mines at Midian near the Red Sea cost. “Burton took a ‘preliminary canter’ into Midian to size up the ground and assess..... Read More about The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
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The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. A Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments made and annotated...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Angelo, Valenti. One of 1500. Read More about The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. A Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights...
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The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Read More about The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
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Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc.
London: Richard Bentley, 1877. First edition. Burton’s return visit to the lands, and annotations to the text, of his 1851 book, Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley. An attractive copy. Read More about Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc
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The Land of Midian (Revisited).
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. This is Burton's second expedition to Midian (Saudi Arabia). He mapped and explored over 600 miles of territory and discovered many sites. The hope of a gold discovery didn't happen and Burton lost his potential backer, the Egyptian Khedive. Read More about The Land of Midian (Revisited
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by His Wife, Isabel Burton.
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. Memorial Edition & Fourth Edition. Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by His Wife, Isabel Burton
Price: $500
The Desert Route to India, being the Journal of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and...
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1929. First Edition. Second Series, Vol. LXIII. The four travellers were William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted and John Carmichael on the route through the Syrian Desert to Persia. Read More about The Desert Route to India, being the Journal of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route...
Price: $250
ONE OF 30
The Golden Carpet.
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 30 copies bound in full-morocco and signed by Somerset de Chair. ONE OF 30. Read More about The Golden Carpet
Price: $800
One of 25 copies, signed
Hogarth's "Arabia"
[London: printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, April 1922]. First separate edition, 25 copies signed by the author, this copy numbered "Fourteen" One of 25 copies, signed. Doughty's private edition of his review of D.G. Hogarth's Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1922), reprinted from The Observer 19 March 1922. David..... Read More about Hogarth's "Arabia"
Price: $7,500
Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence.
London: Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, 1936. New and definitive edition. Read More about Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence
Price: $950
Wanderings in Arabia. The Authorized Abridged Edition of "Travels in Arabia Deserta" (by Mr. Edward Garnett).
London: Gerald Duckworth, (1927). Second one volume edition. A beautiful copy. Read More about Wanderings in Arabia. The Authorized Abridged Edition of "Travels in Arabia Deserta"...
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First Edition in Original Cloth
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888. First edition. First Edition in Original Cloth. "And in truth if one live any time with the Aarab, he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert" (2:450). The classic of Arabian exploration, written in Doughty’s stately, mystical prose, here in..... Read More about Travels in Arabia Deserta
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The Sunny Side of Asia.
New York: The Century Co, [1928]. First printing. Read More about The Sunny Side of Asia
Price: $50
Across the Great Desert.
London: Lutterworth Press, [1948]. First Edition. Tuaregs, Blue Moors and Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. Read More about Across the Great Desert
Price: $60
A Journal, kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu;...
Horsham [althouth perhaps Lewes?]: Printed by Arthur Lee; and Sold by J. F. and C. Rivington, 1784. First edition. Published anonymously by a British agent of the East India Company returning from India by the desert route, this very scarce Journal has been attributed by some to Charles Eversfield (one..... Read More about A Journal, kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus,...
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Arabian Antic.
New York: Sheridan House, [1938]. First edition. Read More about Arabian Antic
Price: $50
Diplomatic History of Persia 1917-1923. Anglo-Russian Power Politics in Iran.
New York: Russell F. Moore Company, [1952]. Title page inscribed by the author to Francis Ketanneh. Read More about Diplomatic History of Persia 1917-1923. Anglo-Russian Power Politics in Iran
Price: $80
On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt.
London: T. Neslon, 1888. Author's Edition. Read More about On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
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Musk Hashish and Blood.
London & Paris: Printed for Subscribers Only, 1900. Read More about Musk Hashish and Blood
Price: $75
A WOMAN'S TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
A Fortnight's Tour Amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon, Including a Visit to Damascus, Ba'albek, the Cedars, Natural Bridge, Etc....
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1876. A WOMAN'S TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. A lovely example of this uncommon work. Although the text relies mostly on the author's diary, she has also drawn on the works of Robinson, Porter, Stewart and Thomson. The frontispiece photograph is a...... Read More about A Fortnight's Tour Amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon, Including a Visit to Damascus, Ba'albek,...
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Annotations on Some Minor Writings of ‘T. E. Lawrence” by G.
London: Eric Partridge Ltd, 1935. First edition. Number 485 of 500 copies printed of which 450 only were for sale. Read More about Annotations on Some Minor Writings of ‘T. E. Lawrence” by G
Price: $200