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1987376941987. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1987/Gd.condition/350 pages - Secret warfare & hidden diplomacy in the Middle East. HA337694 hardcover
192720969Appleton-Century Company 1927. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 43 plates on 30 2 plans in the text full-page map in the text and 2 maps on 1 folder; blue cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black expertly recased a very good bright clean copy. Bright copy of a very scarce contemporary account. Appleton-Century Company, hardcover
194117184Damascus: Librairie Universelle. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Soft boards have some toning. Pages unopened ; Profusely illustrated and with many travel descriptions. ; The Green Guide Books; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 260 pages . Librairie Universelle paperback
19421206T010London: John Murray 1942. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xix 260. Very Good Plus. 6.25 x 9 inches 16 x 23 cm. First printing. Lacking the jacket. Red buckram binding with gilt illustration to front board. Slight fading to spine slight spotting to page edges. Some lightly pencilled notes to margins text is otherwise very clean throughout. Complete with all photographic plates including a double sided fold-out and the fold-out map. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Excellent example. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 6.25 x 9 inches 16 x 23 cm. John Murray hardcover
1875223701London.: The Religious Tract Society. 1875. First edition. 32 full page illustrations one double-page including frontispiece map and numerous text illustrations 224pp 8pp "Illustrated Books of Travel" publisher's advertisement original green pictorial cloth elaborately embossed in gilt black and blind spine gilt lettered 28 x 19.5 cms binding bright and unmarked small bump to the lower corner affecting the inner leaves discolouration to the verso of the frontispiece early owner's inked signature a most attractive copy in very good condition. Richly illustrated in a fine pictorial binding from the "Pen & Pencil" series of travel books by the editor of the Religious Tract Society Rev. Samuel Manning 1821–1881. . The Religious Tract Society. hardcover
1470London Religious Tract Society Ca. 1840. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown quarto. Unpaginated. Ca. 100 pages of text. Plus 25 hand-coloured engraved plates each with facing tissue guard including frontispiece. Engraved vignette on title-page. Engraved tail-pieces. HARDCOVER bound in the original publisher's brown cloth neatly re-spined with plain cloth gilt illustration on cover sides with ornaments embossed in blind all edges gilt; extremities bit rubbed inner hinges cracked; few small spots. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. This is the rare edition with hand-coloured plates. The quality of the colouration is very high with dense and rich dyes and most plates are clean and well preserved. E-4 OUT <br/> <br/> London, Religious Tract Society, Ca. 1840. hardcover
1979AR-84Dhahran Saudi Arabia: I.P.A. 1979. Classic comprehensive lavishly illustrated text presents a detailed survey of Arabic social customs and rituals; traditional costumes fashion perfumery coffeemaking marriage and divorce nomadic carpets jewellery and spirituality. Includes a short historical background of Arab culture and heritage. 124 pgs. Full color illustrations. Decorative endpapers. Small stamp and library presentation label pastedown on copyright pg. small label on lower spine; label removal mark on front cover. Considerable edgewear and rubbing to spine. Upper and lower text corners minor moisture damage- no stuck pages or text damage. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Fair/ . Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Ex-Library. I.P.A. Hardcover
2000125St. Martin's Press/St. Antony's College 2000. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Dustjacket has some wear and a three-inch scratch on front. Cover has light wear. Light to moderate foxing on page edges. Light foxing on inside front and rear covers and front and rear endpapers. First printing. St. Martin's Press/St. Antony's College hardcover
190821080Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Slight fading to spine. A bit of soiling to back board. Author's portrait from newspaper clipping pasted on front pastedown. ; Chapters include: The Threshold of Asia Across the Caspian Teheran: The City of Contrasts The Rulers of Persia: The Palace The Rulers of Persia: The Parliament The Religions of Persia A Persian Caravan Hawking in Persia Bagdad of To-Day A pilgrimage to Kerbela The Persian Gulf. - Decorative blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial design of a mosque. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages . J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
19984586New Delhi India: Viking Penguin India 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo 439 pages brown cloth; small green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition which was <br/><br/>Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett Elizabeth Hardwick Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia Iran Pakistan and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions" it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this Islam in his view is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review". Viking Penguin India hardcover
20001385z<p>2000. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.2000/Gd. condition/352 pages - Life of the Atatollah. AN51385z</p> hardcover
277701. Soft Cover. Good. PB/Fair condition/40 pages - Discusses the teachings of Phra Ajaan Mun. AT927770 paperback
196142491961. Soft Cover. Good. PB/ pub. 1961/Gd. condition/131 pages- In 1880 the Egyptian Government started to collect objects of art from old mosques and monuments and preserve them in the eastern cloister of the Mosque of el-Ha kim. Dates of the objects are from the beginning of the Islamic periord in the 7th century A.D. thru the 19th .F34249 paperback
189914968George Allen 1899. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece original tissue guard present 3 coloured plates original tissue guards present and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth upper board lettered in gilt enclosing illustration mounted in gilt frame backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top uncut a very good bright clean copy. Very scarce in anything like this condition. George Allen, hardcover
1469London Religious Tract Society Ca. 1840. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown quarto. Unpaginated. Ca. 100 pages of text. Plus 25 hand-coloured engraved plates each with facing tissue guard including frontispiece. Engraved vignette on title-page. Engraved tail-pieces. HARDCOVER bound in the original publisher's blue full cloth gilt illustration on cover gilt spine sides with ornaments embossed in blind all edges gilt; extremities worn inner hinges cracked lacks last free endpaper; sporadic small stains and finger smudges one plate repaired on verso. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. This is the rare edition with hand-coloured plates marked with the words "Coloured Plates" in gilt at foot of spine. The quality of the colouration is very high with dense and rich dyes and most plates are clean and well preserved. E-4 OUT <br/> <br/> London, Religious Tract Society, Ca. 1840. hardcover
0872London James Clarke 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. 167. With line-drawn illustration to each chapter. HARDCOVER original light blue cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Trimmed rough. In a very good condition with many leaves still unopened bit dust-soiled. ~ FIRST EDITION. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy with her charming bookplate inside cover discreet under flap of dust-jacket. Thomas Ratcliffe Barnett 1868-1946. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> London, James Clarke, (1936). hardcover
18945250London James Nisbet 1894. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. x 194 8 Publisher's ads. Appendices indices footnotes and extended Preface. HARDCOVER bound in the original illustrated blue cloth spine discoloured. In good condition. ~ SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. With a presentation inscription in the Author's hand "To E. Taylor in memory of the Palestine lectures . September 1895 James Neil". Eleventh edition. This edition is printed throughout on exceptionally heavy paper actually card uncommon in small octavo. Also the cover differs from the plain leaf-green cloth of previous editions and displays now illustration of an orthodox Jew reading from the Torah. With interesting appendices about farming in Palestine the scenery of the land the Papal railway the state of Europe and Russia. With detailed General Index and Index of Texts which lists all passages of scripture explained or referred to in the text. Z-2 OUT <br/> <br/> London, James Nisbet hardcover
18980692Trier Paulinus 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. 100. Set in Gothic type. Original printed wrappers decorated in black shelf label to spine small institutional stamp. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare travelogue to the Holy Land at the end of the 19th Century. It contains: Stations of the journey with daily reports; visits to Jaffa Jerusalem Bethlehem Nazareth Cairo Alexandria. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> Trier, Paulinus paperback
19324609Frankfurt am Main Palästina-Zentrale der Agudas-Jisroel 1932. Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Small octavo. Pp. 77 3. Set in Gothic type; thumb-soiled in places. Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers incorporating publisher's and other announcements one of which is illustrated. In a very good condition. ~ First and only edition. Selig Schachnowitz 1874-1952 noted neo-Orthodox journalist and writer. In 1908 at the invitation of Agudat Israel in Germany he became editor of Der Israelit a post he held for 30 years until the journal was closed down by the Nazis in 1938. He escaped to Switzerland taking up residence in Zurich where he continued his public and literary work until his death. Following a visit to Israel in 1931 he wrote "Zwischen Ruinen und Aufbau in Erez-Israel" which praised agricultural settlement and expressed strong reservations about the lack of religious observance in the new Israel. He was a prolific writer and although his various publicistic works were of a religious propagandist nature many were of a high literary standard and attracted numerous readers. For a review of Schachnowitz's travelogue in Palestine see Wolf Kaise: "Palästina Erez Israel" Doctoral Thesis Berlin 1988. I-2 IN <br/> <br/> Frankfurt am Main, Palästina-Zentrale der Agudas-Jisroel paperback
2185Utrecht Paddenburg 1750. 1st Edition . Print. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 510 mm. Plate mark ca. 350 x 445 mm. Image size ca. 325 x 410 mm. Incorporates a detailed Plan of the City of Jerusalem within a general delicately illustrated topographical view of its environs. Plain cartouche encloses title and colophon. Fine strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First original state unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free pH-balanced buffered archival paper. In fine condition. Single outer corner finger-soiled well away from image and plate mark. - - FIRST EDITION. Willem Albert Bachiene 1712-1783 Dutch clergyman later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume "Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende" is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768 and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called "Jehovah Bible" i.e. "De Gansche H. Schrift Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments . Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden" published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance the works from "Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land" are very scarce seldom found in any state practically unavailable in their original uncoloured state. FOLIO <br/> <br/> Utrecht, Paddenburg, (1750). unknown
193624464London: Herbert Jenkins 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 317 pages. Black and white photographs. Blue cloth with gilt titles. King Faud was born on March 26 1868 and died on April 28 1936. Herbert Jenkins Hardcover
1991MS-2New York: New York University Press 1991. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the way in which two sharia courts in Libya deal with questions of divorce in an almost exclusively tribal and largely nomadic environment. Topics include unilateral divorce; divorce by consent; judicial divorce; consequences of divorce; Sharia and custom in the Cyrenaican family; Quadis and divorce; Arabic legal and technical terms; etc. 236 pgs. Spine title slightly faded. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York University Press Hardcover
61537<p>London: George Virtue. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn split along right side of backstrip scattered foxing to preliminary leaves and edges of some of the plates. no date. Second Edition. Hardcover. First edition was published in 1845 and this second edition appears to be circa 1850s. Brown leather gilt stamped spine with blue illustrated paper-covered boards. Many engravings folding maps and views of Jerusalem scenes. viii 252pp 8pp publisher ads. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> George Virtue hardcover
19240008935London: A. M. Philpot Ltd. 1924. First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 240 pages brown cloth untrimmed for and bottom edges. partially unopened; ex libris Thomas Barbour. <br/><br/>Penzer was of course Burton's bibliographer. He has selected ten excellent but obscure writings by Burton on Sind Mecca Harar Tanganyika and also Rome and Biovannie Battista Belzoni. A. M. Philpot Ltd. hardcover
1969852Stanford University Press Stanford CA 1969. Edition Unstated. Hardcover Original Cloth. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Book . Near Fine HB in VG DJ protected by mylar cover. viii 586 p. 8 p. of plates: ill. maps; 24 cm. Light gray cloth over boards with silver title on black field & decoration on spine. Minor shelf wear. Text block is tight bright and unmarked. Unclipped reddish orange DJ is a color that fades easily but the spine is as bright as the front panel; scattered specks on back panel. Important study of timely topic. Presumed First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo; up to 9 3/4" / 20-25 cm tall. 386 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Middle East / General; United States; 1960s; . ISBN: 0804707065. ISBN/EAN: 9780804707060. Main Picture: Gregorian 1969 - Dust Jacket in archival polyester cover. Picture 2: Gregorian 1969 - Cloth cover in Near Fine condition. Picture 3: Gregorian 1969 - Publication information from verso of Title Page. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 852. . 9780804707060 Stanford University Press hardcover