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Persian Gulf: An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
by Arnold T Wilson  Notes Oxford; At the Clarendon Press; 1928. Original dark blue cloth, showing wear to joints. Traces of a bookplate on front paste down, contemporary owner's inscription to ffep. Color frontis, illustrations and photographs, color map in pocket at rear. Color...
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$225.00 Set Hardcover
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Travels in Arabia Deserta 2 Volumes
by Charles M Doughty Notes London: Jonathan Cape, 1949. 2v, lg 8vo, brown buckram. New & Definitive Edition, 3rd ptg. Introduction by TE Lawrence. V1, frontis & 7 plates, colored folding map at rear. V2, colored folding map at rear. Corners bumped, some stains and sunning to...
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$175.00 Hardcover
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On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia
by Earl of Ronaldshay Notes Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1904. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth, xxii, 408 pages, 56 plates 2 large folding maps. Spine and all corners bumped and rubbed. Bottom corners creased and rubbed through cloth. Spine slightly cocked, repaired...
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$125.00 Trade Paper
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Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay
by Mme A R de Lens Notes Paris; Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste; 1925. Brown wraps stamped in red, wear to corners, spine darkened. 95 pp including index. Mme de Lens was the daughter and granddaughter of French physicians: "Mme A R de Lens ne pouvait manquer de s...
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$120.00 Hardcover
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Ali's Dream: The Story of Baha'u'llah
by John Hatcher Notes Oxford: George Ronald. 1980. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, pp.248. Dust jacket has some soiling and minor tears, the book is in good condition. ISBN: 0-85398-092-6...
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$300.00 Hardcover
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Perfumes of Araby: Silhouettes of Al Yemen
by Harold Jacob Notes London: Martin Secker, 1915. 8vo, 170x225mm. 264pp. First edition. Bound in original cloth with title stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Top edge stained. Boards soiled. Corners bumped. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front paste-down...
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$550.00 Leather
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Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and Back Again . . . To Which are Added Remarks on the Origin on Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the Ancient Heathens 1st Edition
by Robert, Bishop of Clogher Clayton Notes London: Printed by and for William Bowyer, 1753. 4to, 1/2 tan straight grain morocco, marbled paper over boards, 138pp, 2 engraved plates. Cover is bumped and worn, leather chipped and cracked, front top corner is worn almost to board. Occasional...
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$115.00 Hardcover
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The Golden Reign: the Story of My Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia" 1st Edition
by Clare Sydney Smith Notes London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., (1940) Original green cloth boards, title in gilt. Dust jacket printed in red & black. Spine slightly soiled. Ownership inscription on ffep. Light foxing to prelims, all edges. Dj is good with a darkened spine, minor...
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$85.00 Leather
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Jerusalem et la Terre-Sainte Notes de Voyage Recueilles et Mises en Ordre
by Abbe Georges Darboy Notes Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, no date. 4to, green pebbled calf, gilt decorations and title. Engraved frontis, 22 plates, and 2 maps. 2" tear to leather at exterior top front hinge. Foxing throughout. Fair condition. JAM...
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$200.00 Hardcover
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The Moslem Noble: His Land and People; With Some Notices of the Pharsees, or Ancient Persians, 1st Edition
by Marianna Postans as Mrs. Young Notes London: Saunders and Otley, 1857. 8vo, 230x145mm. 192pp + errata(1p) + ads(8pp). First edition. Bound in the original decorated red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Color frontis. Illustrations in color and black & white. Joints and spine rubbed. Boards...
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$275.00 Hardcover
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Perfumes of Araby: Silhouettes of Al Yemen
by Harold Jacob Notes London: Martin Secker, (1915) 8vo., 264pp. Original cloth binding, title in gilt on front board and spine. Boards soiled & spotted, remainder of calling card attached to front paste down. Interior clean and bright. OCLC 5142318 MPA/kb...
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$150.00 Hardcover
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Selected Works of C. Snouck Hurgronje
by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje Notes Leiden, Netherlands. E. J. Brill. 1957. First edition. 8vo.(xxi), 299pp. Hard cover. No DJ. Text in English and French. Green cloth with gilt titles on the face and spine. Pages are clean. Binding is good. Boards are good. Some shelfwear to the boards. A...
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$95.00 Leather
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Jerusalem, 2 Volumes in 1
by Selma Lagerlof Notes Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1931. Two volumes bound in one "I Dalarne" and "I Det Heliga Landet", 325/373pp. Half calf, raised bands, gilt spine, TEG, beautifully marbled endpapers, originally pictorial wraps bound in, text in Swedish. Boards are...
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$500.00 Leather
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Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum
by Valentin Schindler Notes Hanover, Joannis Jacobi Hannei, 1612. First edition. Folio, contemporary calf. 8 leaves, 1992 columns, [152]pp. Signature 4Q bound before 4P. Front hinge cracked externally, splitting to leather along both hinges; tears & chips to to extremities...
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$2200.00 Set Hardcover
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Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, The Tulul El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus and the 'Alah
by Richard Burton and Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake Notes London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo rebound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Vol 1: 360pp. large colored folding map (1 1/2" tear at hinge), 10 folding plates, somewhat pulled. Vol 2: 400pp. frontis, 30 illus (11 in text...
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$1200.00 Leather
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Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing A More Accurate and Interesting Account of the Religion, Government, Military Establishment... of the Turks
by Elias Habesci Notes London; R Baldwin; 1784. Contemporary tree calf leather, gilt rule and decorations on spine, leather labels. Some loss to back joint, corners worn. Some dampstaining to last 1/4 of pages at head. 443 pp. MPA/kb...
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$450.00 Hardcover
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess An Autobiography
by Emily, Nee Princess of Oman and Zanzibar Ruete Notes New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. Small 8vo size (18x12cm), pictorial blue cloth, 307pp, 4pp catalogue. Frontis with tissue guard. Endpapers pasted to pastedowns. Wear to extremities. Originally published in German as "Memoiren einer arabischen...
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$700.00 Set Hardcover
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Land of Midian Revisited, 1st Edition, 2 Volumes
by Richard F Burton Notes London, C. Kegan Paul, 1879. First edition. 2vols, 8vo, pictorial ochre cloth, gilt titles, bevelled edges. Both volumes re backed. 6 colored lithos & flding map & 10 black & white plates. Vol. 1: xxviii-338pp, (4 plates of hieroglyphs on brittle paper...
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$295.00 Hardcover
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La Terre-Sainte: Voyage dans L'Arabie Petree, La Judee, La Samarie, La Galilee, et La Syrie; Deuxieme Edition
by J J Bourasse Notes Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, Editeurs, 1867. Red cloth, with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering on spine. All edges are gilt, and there is a frontispiece and 31 additional full-page illustrations by Karl Girardet. There is some foxing on half...
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| $350.00 Hardcover
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Gordon At Khartoum: Being a Personal Narrative of Events
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Notes London: Stephen Swift, 1912. Second impression. Blue cloth, corners bumped, teg. An unopened copy. VG/- MP...
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