LAYARD TO RAWLINSON
Autograph Letter, signed (“A H Layard”), to Sir...
Baghdad: Nov 8, [18]50. LAYARD TO RAWLINSON. Sir A.H. Layard (1817-1894), the discoverer of Nineveh, on the matter... Read More
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An Account of the Construction in the Years 1932 to 1934 of the Pipe-Line of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited...
N. P: Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd, 1934. First edition. The Iraq Petroleum Company which was a British, Anglo-Dutch, American, French and Gulbenkian concern was awarded the concession for oil development in northern and central Iraq in 1925. In 1961, after various revisions in the original grant the company was deprived... 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
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A Search for the Masked Tawareks.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1903. First edition. Read More
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Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même.
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
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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
Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates.
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Attractive copy of this classic of Arabian travel, with considerable information on the Arabian thoroughbred horse. Read More
Price: $1,000
Shifting Sands. Foreword by Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain.
London: Unicorn Press, [1934]. First edition. Read More
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah … Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton.
London: Bell, 1898. Bohn’s Standard Library, reprinted from the Memorial Edition. Read More
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The Land of Midian (Revisited).
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. Read More
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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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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
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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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Islamic Society and the West. Islamic Society in the Eigteenth CenturyVolume I, Parts I & II.
London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Second Impression. Read More
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The Golden Carpet.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 470 numbered copies (total edition 500), this being No. 210. Read More
Price: $325
The Golden Carpet.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 470 numbered copies (total edition 500), this being No. 330. Read More
Price: $400
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
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