STARK'S FIRST BOOK
Baghdad Sketches
Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd, 1932. First edition. STARK'S FIRST BOOK. The scarce first book by one of... Read More
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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
Price: $3,750
Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated … With Descriptions of the Plates by John Carne.
London, Paris, & America: Fisher, Son, & Co, [1836-8]. Bartlett, W.H. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,500
Shifting Sands. Foreword by Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain.
London: Unicorn Press, [1934]. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
The Land of Midian (Revisited).
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. Read More
Price: $3,750
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
Price: $200
Catalogue of the Oriental Museum.[Wyld's] Great Globe, Leicester Square.
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
Price: $750
APPARENTLY UNRECORDED
A short account of travels in Palestine and on the coast of Syria.
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
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The Arab of the Desert. A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau’di Arabia.
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
Price: $300
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
Price: $7,500
Doughty's Classic
Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and all original maps...
London: Jonathan Cape and The Medici Society, [1927]. Thin-paper edition in one volume, i.e., fourth edition, later printing. Doughty's Classic. Read More
Price: $225
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
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $850
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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Bibliographical Notes on T. E. Lawrence's ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ and ‘Revolt in the Desert’.
London: W & G Foyle Limited [Printed by John Roberts Press Limited], 1928. First edition limited to 375 copies, this being number 172. Read More
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Islamic Society and the West. Islamic Society in the Eigteenth CenturyVolume I, Parts I & II.
London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Second Impression. Read More
Price: $150
The Golden Carpet.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 470 numbered copies (total edition 500), this being No. 330. Read More
Price: $400
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With Lawrence to Damascus. [At head of title:] Great Exploits.
London: Oxford University Press, [n.d., 1940]. Read More
Price: $175
The Nestorians; or, The Lost Tribes. Containing evidence of their identity, account of their manners, customs and ceremonies….
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
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'Twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, n.d. [Ca. 1918]. A study of the history and customs of the peoples of North Africa. Read More
Price: $75
Jeremy Wilson’s Copy
Annotations on Some Minor Writings of ‘T. E. Lawrence” by G.
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
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Authority and Archaeology Sacred and Profane. Essays on the Relation of Monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature.
London: John Murray, 1899. First edition. Read More
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Syria and the Holy Land, Their Scenery and Their People ….
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
Excavations at Jericho. Excavations at Jericho, Vol. I: The Tombs excavated in 1952-4. Volume II The Tombs excavated in 1955-58.
London: Published by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960-1965. Read More
Price: $500
A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Comprising Recollections, Sketches and Reflections Made during a Tour in the East, in 1832-1833.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1835. Second American edition. Read More
Price: $400