New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. IN DUSTJACKET. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author..... Read More
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London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1856. First edition. Inscribed by author's sister for her late brother (who dies of a fever in Damascus) on the half-title "To Mrs. Butt/ With the best remembrances of/ the writer's sister." Bromfield was a well known boitanist whose collection went to Kew. Read More
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Paris: Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. First edition. Read More
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition, having appeared in London the previous year. Spectacular Copy. Read More
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London: Thos. Cook & Son; Cairo: Cook's Tourist Office, 1890. First edition. Budge, the noted Egyptologist was keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1893 to 1924. He is well known for his excavations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Read More
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Brussels: 1850. First editions. Read More
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New York: The Grafton Press, 1904. First Edition. An account of the former President's 1878 Egyptian tour, by the former US Consul General at Cairo. Read More
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Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1938. Second edition, published under the auspicies of Royal Archaeological Society of Alexandria. With ALS. Includes autograph letter, signed, addressed to Kenneth Bailey — mentioning Lord Nelson, Charlotte Yonge and George Washington and remarking on how difficult it is to get a copy of this book. With... Read More
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[Cairo: ca. 1860s]. The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the Citadel in Cairo. Its construction began 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later "without even a single day of idleness". Hammerschmidt (fl. 1858-1870) operated photographic studios in Berlin and Cairo... Read More
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![Khedivial Sporting Club. Cairo 1st Winter Races. First Day Wednesday 29th December 1886. WITH: Second Day Friday 31st December 1886. Under the Patronage of His Highness the Khedive [Sir Tewfik Pasha (Tawfiq of Egypt)]. Horse racing.](/pictures/thumb/238620.jpg?v=1534805623)
Cairo: 1886. Gezira Sporting Club is the largest multi-sport facility in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 and was originally called Khedivial Sporting Club. Both of these programs are annotated in pencil by an unknown spectator - "all that didn't run have a heavy black mark. All that won have... Read More
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London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Read More
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[Woolwich: 1868-1870]. Highly competent album of drawings of fortifications, mines, and elevations by the young Kitchener while a student at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Kitchener (1850-1916), born in Ireland to English parents and raised in Switzerland, spent “an undistinguished two years” at the Royal Military Academy. When he progressed to..... Read More
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Los Angeles: Frank C. Baxter, 1968. Second issue?. The first edition was published in 1968 in sixty copies, this is one of twenty copies reprinted (reproduced ) November 1, 1968. One of 20 copies. A very interesting collection including works by Lawrence, literary associations, tributed in verse, Lawrence as a.... Read More
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1920s. An extensive album of photo postcards from the Mediterranean region, likely produced in the 1920s. Includes approximately 40 photos of Cairo and other locales on the Nile and in Egypt, including mosques and other architectural views, port and river scenes, Cairo street life, etc, as well as street scenes... Read More
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1896. First edition. Read More
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![The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Part III. [...] Thirty-Second Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Edouard Naville, H R. Hall. With an, C T. Currelly.](/pictures/thumb/234949.jpg?v=1534805475)
London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1913. This last volume published by the Egypt Exploration fund on the two temples of Deir el-Bahari describes the votive statues, steles, and small objects deposited in the tombs. Read More
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London: 1848. Read More
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London: F.G. Moon, Aug. 1, 1846. Read More
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London: F.G. Moon, Dec. 1, 1849. Read More
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(London: F.G. Moon, August 1, 1849. Read More
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London: F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, August 1, 1849. Read More
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New York: The Scribner Press, 1908. First edition, Copy No. 3 of only 20 printed. One of 20 Copies, Inscribed to J.P. Morgan by the Author. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, Esq. / With sincerest regards / & compliments of the Author / John Barry Ryan / July 5th 1918 / (Confidential until produced.)" Read More
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London: Published by Sir Richard Phillips & Co, 1822. First edition. Read More
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Read More
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London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1937. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank “To Ruth Mandalay, [tag in Greek] Ronald Storrs, 1937” Erudite and accomplished diplomat Sir Ronald Storrs was Oriental Secretary at the British agency in Cairo, under Sir Eldon Gorst, and then Lord..... Read More
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