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IN DUSTJACKET

Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert.

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 about Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert

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Letters from Egypt and Syria.

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 about Letters from Egypt and Syria

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The Nile Boat.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition, having appeared in London the previous year. Spectacular Copy. Read More about The Nile Boat

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The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt.

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 about The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt

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Mosquée Sultan Hassan au Caire.

[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 about Mosquée Sultan Hassan au Caire

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Khedivial Sporting Club. Cairo 1st Winter Races. First Day Wednesday 29th December 1886. WITH: Second Day Friday 31st December 1886...

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 about Khedivial Sporting Club. Cairo 1st Winter Races. First Day Wednesday 29th December 1886. WITH:...

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Album of ink and watercolor drawings.

[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 about Album of ink and watercolor drawings

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An Annotated Check-List of A Collection of Writings by and About T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) With Many Others...

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 about An Annotated Check-List of A Collection of Writings by and About T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of...

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Album of 181 real photo postcards of the Mediterranean.

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 about Album of 181 real photo postcards of the Mediterranean

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The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Part III. [...] Thirty-Second Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

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 about The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Part III. [...] Thirty-Second Memoir of the Egypt...

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One of 20 Copies, Inscribed to J.P. Morgan by the Author

The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive.

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 about The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive

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Orientations.

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 about Orientations

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