London: Woodman, Lyon and C. Davis, 1727. Reissue of the 1725 edition, with cancel title-page. Translation of a.... Read More about The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundeville, Kt. Which treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and...
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London: John Milne, 1910. First Edition. Read More about An Idler in the Near East
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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
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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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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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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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New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. [R. Craighead, Printer], 1856. First American edition. First published in 1855. Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. With Introduction by Bayard Taylor
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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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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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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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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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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. No ads. 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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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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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New York: The Century Co, [1928]. First printing. Read More about The Sunny Side of Asia
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New York: Sheridan House, [1938]. First edition. Read More about Arabian Antic
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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
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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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London & Paris: Printed for Subscribers Only, 1900. Read More about Musk Hashish and Blood
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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
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London: W & G Foyle Limited [Printed by John Roberts Press Limited], 1928. First edition limited to 375 copies, this being number 172. Read More about Bibliographical Notes on T. E. Lawrence's ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ and ‘Revolt in the...
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London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Second Impression. Read More about Islamic Society and the West. Islamic Society in the Eigteenth CenturyVolume I, Parts I & II
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Mayfield Sussex: 23rd Sept. 1979. Typescript published in: Into Battle. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (Cassell, 1978). Nice late letter in a bold hand from Glubb Pasha, Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), who served with distinction in France in the first world war, and was thrice wounded. Glubb’s..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon...
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