Item 314160An Idler in the Near East.
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London: John Milne, 1910. First Edition. Read More Item Details for An Idler in the Near East Add to Wish List
Item #314160
Price: $100
London: John Milne, 1910. First Edition. Read More Item Details for An Idler in the Near East Add to Wish List
Item #314160
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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 Item Details for Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même Add to Wish List
Item #212288
Price: $300
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842. Servant's Hall, Windsor Castle. Read More Item Details for Mesopotamia and Assyria from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Add to Wish List
Item #318026
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London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square, 1886. First and only edition. Translated by Richard and Isabel Burton. “Translations, the publishers assure us, are not popular in England. So much the worse. Surely a good tale imported from a foreign source is worth a dozen of the flimsy ‘sensation novels,’..... Read More Item Details for Manuel de Moraes A Chronicle of the Seventeenth Century. By J.M. Pereira da Silva. Translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton. [Bound after:] Iraçéma The Honey-Lips A Legend of Brazil. By J. de Alencar. Translated, with the Author's permission, by Isabel Burton Add to Wish List
Item #366861
Price: $1,750
1889. Burton and The Scented Garden. The second attempt at a biography of the legendary explorer, linguist, and author Richard F. Burton, utilizing the contents of a short "Sketch" by Richards, Burton's closest friend at Oxford (published in 1880 and unobtainably rare), with new material bringing his life up to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Richard F. Burton”), to a prospective subscriber to a new edition of The Perfumed Garden, datelined Milan, 23 February 1889. [Bound with:] A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton (London, 1886) Add to Wish List
Item #366882
Price: $17,500
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. WITH THE RARE APPENDIX IV. “Exceedingly rare and practically unobtainable" (Penzer). Barely a year after returning from his pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina Burton set out once again in disguise, this time as an Arab merchant, with the intention of travelling..... Read More Item Details for First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar Add to Wish List
Item #366685
Price: $1,500
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 Item Details for The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western Arabia Add to Wish List
Item #315951
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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 Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Add to Wish List
Item #314798
Price: $500
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. [R. Craighead, Printer], 1856. First American edition. First published in 1855. Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. With Introduction by Bayard Taylor Add to Wish List
Item #314159
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Read More Item Details for The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California Add to Wish List
Item #317049
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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 Item Details for Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc Add to Wish List
Item #315945
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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 Item Details for The Land of Midian (Revisited) Add to Wish List
Item #211044
Price: $3,000
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 Item Details for The Land of Midian (Revisited) Add to Wish List
Item #321010
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London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. Memorial Edition & Fourth Edition. Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by His Wife, Isabel Burton Add to Wish List
Item #323858
Price: $7,500
London: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Co-Author Christopher Sykes’ Copy. Innocence and Design is satirical novel and travel book about Persia (called Media in the book), written under the Waughburton pseudonym by Robert Byron and his friend Christopher Sykes, with illustrations by Sykes. This is Sykes’ copy of the first edition..... Read More Item Details for Innocence and Design by Richard Waughburton Add to Wish List
Item #367022
Price: $250
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 Item Details for The Desert Route to India, being the Journal of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751 Add to Wish List
Item #316739
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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 Item Details for The Golden Carpet Add to Wish List
Item #321907
Price: $7,500
[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 Item Details for Hogarth's "Arabia" Add to Wish List
Item #243962
Price: $950
London: Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, 1936. New and definitive edition. Read More Item Details for Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence Add to Wish List
Item #317096
Price: $450
New York: Random House, 1937. New and definitive edition. Attractive copy of this classic of Arabian exploration, with Lawrence’s 1921 introduction. Read More Item Details for Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence Add to Wish List
Item #366446
Price: $2,500
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 Item Details for Travels in Arabia Deserta Add to Wish List
Item #308323
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New York: The Century Co, [1928]. First printing. Read More Item Details for The Sunny Side of Asia Add to Wish List
Item #228194
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Horsham [England]: Printed by Arthur Lee; and sold by J.F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1784. First edition. First edition. Octavo. [8], xi [1 (blank)], 155 [1 (blank)]pp., including a three page list of subscribers. Small contemporary library name and owner name on top margin of title page together..... Read More Item Details for A Journal, kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu; and Otranto, in Italy; in the Year 1779 Add to Wish List
Item #332843
Price: $50
New York: Sheridan House, [1938]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Arabian Antic Add to Wish List
Item #228195
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New York: Russell F. Moore Company, [1952]. Title page inscribed by the author to Francis Ketanneh. Read More Item Details for Diplomatic History of Persia 1917-1923. Anglo-Russian Power Politics in Iran Add to Wish List
Item #228242