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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[N.p: n.d., ca. 1870s]. From the Bay of Algiers to the Wailing Wall. The photographs, many by the Zangaki brothers and Bonfils, include images of Algiers, Tunis, Carthage, Alexandria, Cairo, The Sphynx, portraits of locals (Dervishes, an Arab merchant, an Abyssinian, an Egyptian), the Suez Canal, the Wailing Wall, and..... Read More about Photograph Album of a tour of North Africa, Egypt, and Palestine
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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. Niebuhr really only covered a small triangle of Yemen in his exploration, but as Palgrave stated"... that (his) intelligence and courage which first opened Arabis to Europe.". He was..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même
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London, Paris, & America: Fisher, Son, & Co, [1836-8]. Bartlett, W.H. First edition. Read More about Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated … With Descriptions of the Plates by...
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London: Unicorn Press, [1934]. First edition. Read More about Shifting Sands. Foreword by Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain
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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. Read More about The Land of Midian (Revisited)
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London: A.M. Philpot Ltd, 1924. First Edition. An important volume of “the rarer and more inaccessible” of Burton’s contributions to journals and weeklies, compiled by his bibliographer Penzer. Includes the “scrap of autobiography” that serves as the only information on Burton's early career, which Penzer has here entitled “Early Days..... Read More about Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration...Now Edited with an Introduction and...
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London: Printed by W.J. Golbourn, Princes Street, Leicester Square, 1857. Wyld's Great Globe (also known as Wyld's Globe or Wyld's Monster Globe) was in Leicester Square from 1851-1862 and was owned by mapmaker James Wyld. It had as its cenerpice a 60foot diamter globe which had an interior staircase. Read More about Catalogue of the Oriental Museum.[Wyld's] Great Globe, Leicester Square
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Birmingham: White & Pike Ltd, [1849]. Sole edition. APPARENTLY UNRECORDED. Very rare: not in BL, OCLC, or COPAC. Davis states in the preface, "This little pamphlet is a description of my Travels in Palestine and on the Coast of Syria during the time I was allowed to go as servant to... Read More about A short account of travels in Palestine and on the coast of Syria
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1967]. Fourth impression. With the likes of Philby, Doughty, Betram Thomas and others having already published their experiences in Arabia, Dickson felt it necessary to outline his own credentials: "I have had the good fortune, during my seven years' life among the Muntafiq and... Read More about The Arab of the Desert. A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau’di Arabia
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[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 George... Read More about Hogarth's "Arabia"
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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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Venice: Fran. Rampazetum, 1561. First edition. Rare 16th-century collection of spiritual writings by the early Syriac Orthodox Church father Saint Ephraim (c. 306-373), translated into Latin from Greek and Syrian by Pietro Francesco Vinus. This edition not recorded in Adams, who does record a 1562 edition of the Vinus translation... Read More about Divina quaedam S. Ephraem Opera Mille Ducentis Iam Annis e Syra in Graecam Linguam, Nunc Autem e...
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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,...
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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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Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 470 numbered copies (total edition 500), this being No. 210. Read More about The Golden Carpet
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Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 470 numbered copies (total edition 500), this being No. 330. Read More about The Golden Carpet
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London: Oxford University Press, [n.d., 1940]. Read More about With Lawrence to Damascus. [At head of title:] Great Exploits
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Later printing. Grant believed the Nestorians to be one of the lost tribes of Israel, and met them at Urmiah, in Turkey, after a difficult journey in 1839, where he studied their ways and beliefs. Following a return to America, he returned as a.... Read More about The Nestorians; or, The Lost Tribes. Containing evidence of their identity, account of their...
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London: Sampson, Low, Marston, n.d. [Ca. 1918]. A study of the history and customs of the peoples of North Africa. Read More about 'Twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa
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London: Eric Partridge Ltd. at the Scholartis Press, 1935. First edition. Number 286 of 500 copies printed of which 450 only were for sale. Jeremy Wilson’s Copy. Read More about Annotations on Some Minor Writings of ‘T. E. Lawrence” by G
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London: John Murray, 1899. First edition. Read More about Authority and Archaeology Sacred and Profane. Essays on the Relation of Monuments to Biblical and...
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Bagdad: A. Kerim & Hasso Brothers, [ca. 1930]. Read More about Camera Studies in Iraq
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Cairo: Nile Mission Press, 1913. The Cairo Study-Centre was founded in 1912 by the American missionary Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952), who was "the driving force behind Protestant collaborative missions to Muslims in the early twentieth century" (Sharkey, American Evangelicals in Cairo, p 92). The report details the lecture series delivered by... Read More about Cairo Study-Centre for Arabic, Islam, and Mohammedan Evangelisation. Report of First Session,...
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