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Venice: Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1591. First edition, title page corrected at lines 6-8 (as per Mortimer). The “first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine. Alpini became professor of botany at Padua after having spent three years (1581-3) in Egypt” (Garrison-Morton). He was the physician top the..... Read More Item Details for De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor Add to Wish List
Item #370924
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London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co, 1850. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nile Boat Add to Wish List
Item #369088
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London: T. Neslon, 1888. Author's Edition. Read More Item Details for On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt Add to Wish List
Item #318596
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[Cairo: ca. 1860s]. The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the Citadel in Cairo. Its construction began 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later "without even a single day of idleness". Hammerschmidt (fl. 1858-1870) operated photographic studios in Berlin and..... Read More Item Details for Mosquée Sultan Hassan au Caire Add to Wish List
Item #256030
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Cairo: 1886. Gezira Sporting Club is the largest multi-sport facility in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 and was originally called Khedivial Sporting Club. Both of these programs are annotated in pencil by an unknown spectator - "all that didn't run have a heavy black mark. All that won have..... Read More Item Details for Khedivial Sporting Club. Cairo 1st Winter Races. First Day Wednesday 29th December 1886. WITH: Second Day Friday 31st December 1886. Under the Patronage of His Highness the Khedive [Sir Tewfik Pasha (Tawfiq of Egypt)] Add to Wish List
Item #238620
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New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. Second edition. Inscribed on the half-title by the photographer to Zosia New York Spring 1945. Read More Item Details for Egypt with text by George Steindorf Add to Wish List
Item #37388
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New York: J.J. Augustin, 1943. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title by the photographer: "Dear Zosia with friendship froim Georgy New York Xmas 1943" Read More Item Details for Egypt. Text by George Steindorf Add to Wish List
Item #37387
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c. 1891-1898. Anonymous album containing numerous photographs of scenery, people, and sport, primarily in India (Kashmir and surrounding area, Zoji La is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas in the Indian union territory of Ladakh, The Sind Valley 4 are large 11-1/2 x 9 inch plates.) but with a...... Read More Item Details for Photograph album depicting sights, hunting, and equestrian themes in India and Egypt Add to Wish List
Item #318033
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Nr. Aberystwyth: at The Hafod Press by James Henderson, 1807. Read More Item Details for Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, Grand Seneschal of Champagne, written by himself; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX., king of France, surnamed Saint Louis, including an account of that king's expedition to Egypt in the year MCCXLVIII. To which are added, the notes & dissertations of M. Du Cange on the above; together with the dissertations of M. le baron de la Bastie on the life of St. Louis, M. L'Evesque de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the Assassins of Syria; from the 'Memoires de l'Academie de belles lettres et inscriptions de France. The whole tr. by Thomas Johnes, Esq Add to Wish List
Item #322969
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[Woolwich: 1868-1870]. Highly competent album of drawings of fortifications, mines, and elevations by the young Kitchener while a student at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Kitchener (1850-1916), born in Ireland to English parents and raised in Switzerland, spent “an undistinguished two years” at the Royal Military Academy. When he progressed..... Read More Item Details for Album of ink and watercolor drawings Add to Wish List
Item #313390
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady..... Read More Item Details for Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert Add to Wish List
Item #316798
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A fine composition by this highly accomplished Italian painter born in Naples April 16, 1881. Read More Item Details for Watercolour of Egyptian Columns being built, with workers in the foreground. Signed lower right Add to Wish List
Item #32436
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1920s. An extensive album of photo postcards from the Mediterranean region, likely produced in the 1920s. Includes approximately 40 photos of Cairo and other locales on the Nile and in Egypt, including mosques and other architectural views, port and river scenes, Cairo street life, etc, as well as street scenes..... Read More Item Details for Album of 181 real photo postcards of the Mediterranean Add to Wish List
Item #309467
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London: F.G. Moon, Aug. 1, 1846. Read More Item Details for Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Temple at Esneh, Nov. 25, 1838." Add to Wish List
Item #32485
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London: F.G. Moon, Dec. 1, 1849. Read More Item Details for Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Interview with The Viceroy of Eygpt at His Palace, Alexandria, May 12th, 1839." Add to Wish List
Item #32486
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(London: F.G. Moon, August 1, 1849. Read More Item Details for Hand-Colored Lithograph: "View on the Nile---Ferry to Gizeh" Men sitting on riverbank at right, next to dhow, left bank with minaret Add to Wish List
Item #247657
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London: F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, August 1, 1849. Read More Item Details for Lithograph: "Dancing Girls at Cairo", 2 dancing girls and three musicians Add to Wish List
Item #247658
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London: Published by Sir Richard Phillips & Co, 1822. First edition. Read More Item Details for Travels in The Countries between Alexandria and Paraetonium, The Lybian Desert, Siwa, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, in 1821 Add to Wish List
Item #54277
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Read More Item Details for On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt Add to Wish List
Item #228192
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London: William Heinemann, 1907. First edition. Read More Item Details for Below the Cataracts. Written and Illustrated with Sixty Plates in colour by. Add to Wish List
Item #320990
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Comapny, 1928. First Edition. Inscribed on ffep "for (see dedicatory page) Jim and Bess (Breasted) because...& because. Louis. September 17th, 1928." James Breasted and his wife Frances (Bess) were one of three dedicatees of this book and acknowledged in notes for their help. Breasted was..... Read More Item Details for Moses. A Novel Add to Wish List
Item #378136
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Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1869. McDonald, Sgt. James. First edition. "In 1868, a larger and more complex survey, again supported by private subscription, was organized to map the Sinai Peninsula. Although the size and complexity of the proposed survey were considered beyond the financial capabilities of the fledgling Palestine Exploration..... Read More Item Details for Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai Add to Wish List
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