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Photograph Album of a tour of North Africa, Egypt, and Palestine. Algeria — Jerusalem, Bonfils Zangaki.

From the Bay of Algiers to the Wailing Wall

Photograph Album of a tour of North Africa, Egypt, and Palestine.

[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

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Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration...Now Edited with an Introduction and Occasional Notes by N.M. Penzer. Richard Burton.

Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration...Now Edited with an Introduction and Occasional Notes by N.M. Penzer.

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

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Hogarth's "Arabia" Charles M. Doughty.

One of 25 copies, signed

Hogarth's "Arabia"

[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

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Travels in Arabia Deserta. Doughty, harles, ontagu.

First Edition in Original Cloth

Travels in Arabia Deserta.

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

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Divina quaedam S. Ephraem Opera Mille Ducentis Iam Annis e Syra in Graecam Linguam, Nunc Autem e Graeca in Latinam Versa. Petro Francesco Zino, Veronensi Interprete. Ephraem Syrus.

Divina quaedam S. Ephraem Opera Mille Ducentis Iam Annis e Syra in Graecam Linguam, Nunc Autem e Graeca in Latinam...

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

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A Fortnight's Tour Amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon, Including a Visit to Damascus, Ba'albek, the Cedars, Natural Bridge, Etc. C. G.

A WOMAN'S TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

A Fortnight's Tour Amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon, Including a Visit to Damascus, Ba'albek, the Cedars, Natural Bridge, Etc.

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

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