Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays...
Price: $4,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. First American edition. Read More about The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years’ Wanderings;...
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Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926. New Edition. Read More about A Year Amongst the Persians. Impressions as to the Life, Character, & Thought of the People...
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Ithaca, N.Y: Published by the Cornell University Press for the Middle Eastern Institute, [1952]. First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip. This book chronicles Philby's two trips to the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia in 1932 and in 1936-1937 which were at the time almost unknown and uncharted..... Read More about Arabian Highlands
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London: Royal Geographical Society, December, 1920. An early appearance in print of Philby's epic journey across the Arabian Peninsular. The first three photographs appear in the Heart of Arabia, however the rest don't, nor do they appear in Arabia of the Wahhabis. This could well be their sole appearance in..... Read More about "Across Arabia: From the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea" in The Geographical Journal Vol....
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London: Richard Bentley, 1884. Read More about Travels in the East Including a Visit to Egypt and the Holy Land
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London: Hutchinson, 1901. First edition. Read More about By the Waters of Sicily
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Read More about On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
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London: John Murray, 1896. New Edition. Read More about Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history
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London: John Murray, [1953]. First edition. Read More about The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939
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London: John Murray, [1959]. First edition. Read More about Riding to the Tigris
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1960]. First American edition. Read More about Riding to the Tigris
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Asolo: Magnifica Comunita Pedemontana dal Piave al Brenta, 1984. First edition. Signed by Stark on the half title, with an ink stamp commemorating the Omaggio a Freya Stark in Asolo on 26 May 1984. Read More about Freya Stark in Asolo
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Various places: Delhi, Baghdad, Asolo, Aden, Cairo, London, Cyrenaica, etc: 1935 to 1979. A substantial archive of unpublished letters of Freya Stark (1893-1993), author and intrepid traveller in the greater Middle East who moved in military and intelligence circles during the war years. Stark wrote a multi-volume autobiography and an..... Read More about Archive of 88 Autograph letters, signed, from Freya Stark, to Lucy Beach, Minnie Gray Granville,...
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London: 1 October 1947. The Explorer on Marriage : ‘a very surprising adventure’. Brief but rich personal letter from author and explorer Freya Stark (?1893-1993), evidently unpublished: Reading in part, “How nice to hear from you after all this long while — & thank you so much for your good..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Freya Stark”), to Miss Wade, discussing Stark’s impending...
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London: Royal Geographical Society, 1939. Includes Stark’s account of travel, “An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast”, presented at an evening meeting of the RGS in November 1938, and the Discussion (pp. 14-17), citing William Goodenough, Stewart Perowne (later Stark’s husband), Lord Wakefield, and Lady Leconfield; and..... Read More about An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast [in:] The Geographical Journal, Vol....
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[London]: William Blackwood, 1982. First edition. Fascinating selection of Stark’s early travel photographs in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Transjordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Persia, South Arabia, Turkey and Egypt. Read More about Rivers of Time. Photographs … With an introduction by Alexander Maitland
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London: Hollis and Carter, [January, 1954]. Fourth Impression. Lawrence's Chief Staff Officer in Arabia. Lawrence's Chief Staff Officer in Arabia. Stirling's work describes the areas he served both as soldier and later administrator including South Africa, Malta, Egypt, the Sudan, the Palestine Campaign, Arab Revolt, the Balkans and Syria, his..... Read More about Safety Last. With a Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon and an Epilogue by Lord Kinross
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Toulon: Imprimerie de Ve Baume, 1853. A Fictional Advocate of the Canal in Egypt. Colorful oriental romance set in the Muslim Mediterranean, with numerous sailing scenes and interviews with the Ottoman Sultan. In one of these, the narrator remarks: “Egypt, that ancient cradle of the world and first conduit for..... Read More about Scènes Orientales. Rêve d'un vieux Marin (15 décembre 1852
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Paris: aux Bureaux du Journal, 25 Juin 1856 -25 Février 1857. Scarce Suez Canal Periodical. First 17 numbers of this scarce periodical devoted entirely to the Canal project and related subjects; it includes progress reports, bulletins from Egypt on local conditions as they relate to the project, international "faits divers"..... Read More about L'Isthme de Suez Journal de l'Union des Deux Mers
Price: $900
Paris: aux Bureaux du Journal, 25 Juin - 25 Décembre 1856. Scarce Suez Canal Periodical. First 13 numbers of this scarce periodical devoted entirely to the Canal project and related subjects; it includes progress reports, bulletins from Egypt on local conditions as they relate to the project, international “faits divers”..... Read More about L'Isthme de Suez Journal de l'Union des Deux Mers
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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Account of the lands and tribes of Syria, written by Burton and Drake while Burton was British consul in Damascus. Drake had walked from the Sinai through desert Palestine with Edward Palmer on the first surveying expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Burton was..... Read More about Unexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, The Tulul El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern...
Price: $1,250
London: Richard Bentley, 1883. First edition. Read More about Heth and Moab. Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882
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London: Longmans, 1959. First edition. "I went to Southern Arabia only just in time." Rare signed copy in the dust jacket. Arabian Sands is Thesiger's first and most important work, recounting his crossing of the Empty Quarter under the aegis of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit in 1946-7. Although brief..... Read More about Arabian Sands
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959. First American edition. Arabian Sands is Thesiger's first and most important work, recounting his crossing of the Empty Quarter under the aegis of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit in 1946-7. Although brief reports of the journey were published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical..... Read More about Arabian Sands
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Dublin: Printed for J. Smith, on the Blind-Quay, 1757. Same year as the London edition. Volume I A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, By Mr. Henry Maundrel The Travels of Thomas Shaw An Account of a Journey to Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the Desart Volume II: The Travels of Richard..... Read More about A Compendium of the Most Approved Modern Travels. Containing a distinct account of the religion,...
Price: $400