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1967MS-7Berkeley CA.: University of California Press 1967. Scholarly highly regarded text examines the impact of the "Egyptian Phase" 1382-1406 on the great historian Ibn Khaldun's writings and interest towards Eastern Islam and non-Islamic peoples. First part of the text covers Khaldun's life in Mamluk Egypt and his roles as educator Chief Cadi and public servant; including details of the six topics he and Tamerlane discussed during their confroontation outside Damascus. Second part of the text investigates the Egyptian influence on the products of Ibn Khaldun's historical research which included a biography of the Sultan Barquq a historical survey of the Mongol and Tatar tribes biographies of Jenghiz Khan his descendants and Tamerlane; etc. 217 pgs. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper. Dustjacket has a few tiny creases on top edge; in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of California Press Hardcover
19271139E032London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1927-1928. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 136; 32. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Five issues retaining the original front covers for 1927 Part 1 & 1928 Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Includes an index for all issues 1924-1927. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
19221139E027London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1922. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 128. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Four issues retaining the original front cover for Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
19231139E028London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1923. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 136. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Four issues retaining the original front cover for Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode and stamp to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Includes an index for all issues 1920-1923. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1993MS-29Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1993. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of Iran beginning with the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and tracing the transformation of Iran'a social structure offers an interpretive synthesis of Iranian history. It argues that Iranian social structure is historically the product of both internal and external dynamics and that growing dependence on the West has produced a series of resistance movements that have been built on fragile social bases. 452 pgs. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
192336861London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1923. Hardcover. Maroon beveled cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many sepia-tone photogravures of archaeological and historic sites and local Bedouin and other residents in the areas of modern Jordan and Lebanon that house the ancient lands of Petra Perea and Phoenicia. ; 112 pages . Marshall Brothers hardcover
19751211J070London: Frances Pinter 1975. 1st Edition . Paperback. Printed pages: 215. Good Plus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Orange card wraps with slight fading and a little bubbling to the laminate. Binding strained in a couple of places. Pages browned but otherwise clean throughout. Very scarce first printing. Overall condition is Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Frances Pinter paperback
1834023418Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1834. Second Edition . Quarter Morocco. Fine. 6 5/8" Tall. 472 Pp. Quarter Morocco. Asecond Edition. A Fine Copy Spine Gilt Very Strong Original Purple Morocco Spine And Tips Original Purple Cloth Original Watered Endpapers And Watered Edges Of Page Block Contents Fine Leather Just Recently Professionally Refreshed. Contents Immaculate Pages Crisp Map Undamaged No Foxing. Heraldic Bookplate "Sperate Et Vivitefortes" Of The Welsh Cavalry Senior Cavalry Of The British Army On Front Pastedown Ownership Signature "John Clements Queen's Dragoon Guards" On Verso Of First Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Oliver & Boyd unknown
19571211J071Michigan: B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1957. 4th Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 429. Very Good/Good. 6.25 x 9.25 inches 16 x 23.5 cm. Dust jacket: Wear to edges fading to front cover and spine. Staining to spine. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Red cloth binding leaning slightly. Light marking to page edges. Browning to endpapers clean text throughout. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. A revised and enlarged edition of Owen's 1939 work 'Abraham to Allenby'. Scarce. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches 16 x 23.5 cm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company hardcover
1986317841986. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1986/Gd. condition/661 pages - Jawaharlal Nehru's letters to chief ministers 1947-1964 vol. 2 1950-1952. TA531784 hardcover
186421186Alfred Gadsby 1864. 8vo. First Edition with 4 engraved illustrations 2 full-page and a full-page engraved map in the text; neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original brown cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind upper board lettered in gilt yellow endpapers upper joint very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Vividly-written personal account of the author's journey from Marseilles through Palestine and Egypt in 1864. A MOST DESIRABLE COPY IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL AND FRAGILE BINDING OF A WORK FAR SCARCER THAN ITS PREDECESSOR 'MY WANDERINGS'. RARE. Alfred Gadsby, hardcover
003056Exhibition Catalog. No place no publisher c. 1970's. Oblong 8vo. 4114 pp. illus. b/w plates. Bilingual half in English half in Arabic. Artists include Gary Bower Stanley Boxer Barbara Chase-Riboud Jaime Davidovich Joel Fisher John Ford Jerry Jones Dolores Pacileo Andrea Rosenberg Gary Spinosa Neal Spitzer Glenn Thomas Michael Vessa Terry Weldon. Light soiling to covers small chipping to the corner of half title and first page on introduction else very good. . Very Good Minus. Soft cover. 1st. paperback
19843871z1984. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1984/gd. condition/158 pages - An analysis of Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the implications for U.S. - Israeli relations. A73871z paperback
1355Amsterdam de Hoogh 1863-64. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Three books in one volume. Octavo. Pp. vii 343; 2 310 1 verso blank; 1 verso blank 302 1 verso blank. Three title-pages and three chromolithograph frontispieces with tissue guards a pair to each book. Plus 10 other chromolithograph plates with facing tissue guards and two hand-coloured folding lithograph maps bound-in. Index. HARDCOVER contemporary tan half calf corners forest-green and marbled boards. Spine gilt-stamped richly decorated. In about fine condition paper on boards rubbed and dull endpapers dusty small stain or two. Overall an excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Tobler p. 226 wrongfully dating the edition as 1862. Eduard Gerdes 1821-1898. With charming views of Hebron Bethlehem Jaffa Jericho Mount of Olives Sinai Suez Damascus and other locations in the region. A-1 <br/> <br/> Amsterdam, de Hoogh, 1863-64. hardcover
1994MS-12Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1994. Comprehensive highly acclaimed scholarly text presents a detailed analysis of the interrelations of global and regional politics and the complex relationship between the superpowers and the Arab world. Topics covered include inter-Arab dynamics; the Arab subsystem regional and outside powers; superpower engagement in the Middle East 1955; the Suez crisis;the Eisenhower doctrine; the Egyptian-Syrian union; end of an era in Arab -superpower relations 1958-1961; the breakup of the UAR; the Egyptian-Saudi conflict in Yemen and the superpowers' response 1961-1964; the Israeli factor in Inter-Arab and Arab-Superpower relations 1964-1966; the Yemeni war; march toward war 1966-1967; U.S.-Arab relations; the emergence of a new Middle Eastern order; etc. 274 pgs. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Paperback
2002146707Dunyai Kitab 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Pictorial Boards. Book is in excellent condition with a few very light indications of shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. About 325 pages text is in Persian. Maps b&w photos line drawings throughout. Keywords: Ancient History Iran Middle East Persia Scythians Cimmerians Judaea Semites Sythes Kassites Inshushinak Shala Hammurabi Anzan Larsa Isin Pandishir Giyan Kelermes Melgunov Phygia Samos Mycale Mardonius Rhi Pillars of Hercules Horus Xenophon Zam Mithra Hippias Hellespont Thrace Ioniens Paragade Marduk Harhar Manneens Ecbatane Amytis Assarhaddon Khshathrita Treres Gimirraf Vieux Perse Slaves Baltes Ossetesninni Tar-Lunni Annubanini Uruk IV Proto-Etamite Jemedet Nasr Giyan Jouarre Indre Bic Aguiberta Orleans Dunyai Kitab hardcover
1979MS-15Cambridge England: Middle East & North Africa Studies Press 1979. Comprehensive reference text presents a detailed ten-year study which assesses the scale of renewable and fossil water resources and the achievements and problems of managing water in the arid and semi-arid Middle East and North Africa. Topics covered include: water resource management; surface water; occurrence of natural water resources; groundwater in primary and secondary permeable material; hydrology; technological modifications of the hydrological cycle; integrated technology and its impact in arid areas; etc. 132 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front and rear endpapers. Dustjacket in mylar. First Menas Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Middle East & North Africa Studies Press Hardcover
1948010314London: Hodder & Stoughton. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Hodder & Stoughton 1948 first printing. 8vo. 371pp. illustrated with 53 b/w plates 5 maps map endpapers. Salmon cloth with gilt titles in burgundy block gilt cover crest top edge titnted pink printed on laid paper. Some sun fade to the spine and cover mild foxing to preliminaries paper clip ghost on top edge of first few sheets. Very good clean bright. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1948. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
198862000<p>NY: Dorset Press. Very Good; Small newspaper clipping taped to rear endpaper. 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0880292261 . Notes black and white illustrations and maps bibliography and index. Sir John Glubb presents afresh the main substance of his magnificent four volume history with an extension to our own time and sets the history of the Arab peoples in perspective for Western civilization. from the front jacket flap ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages .</p> Dorset Press hardcover
51624Chapel Hill: University of North Carolna Press 2009. Goldman ofers a fresh perspective on the history of Zionism deftly weaving together the stories of poets and diplomats Christian scholars and Jewish leaders the Vatican and the State of Israel and modern literary masters." Pp.xiv/367 inscribed by the author to title page 15 illustrations. Blue boards dustwrapper has minor wear to top of spine. VG/VG. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolna Press, 2009. hardcover
69976David Philip 1992 N.D. Paperback. VG. 8x5x0. VERY-GOOD TRADE-PAPERBACK. 1992 David Philip South Africa edition. David Philip, 1992 paperback
19962022ml1996. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition / HB/. Palestinian culture . HI6A hardcover
195921079London: Adam and Charles Black. 1959. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Slight browning and rubbing to DJ. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Very light foxing to edges ; With a Memoir by Sir E. Denison Ross and a foreword by Sir Ellis H. Minns. This title was originally published in 1895. The second edition was in 1926 and this is the reprint of the 3rd edition from 1950. The frontispiece shows the author in Persian dress. Including rear fold-out map. Chapters include: From England to the Persian Frontier From the Persian Frontier to Tabriz From Tabriz to Teheran From Teheran to Isfahan From Isfahan to Shiraz From Shiraz to Yezd From Yezd to Kirman. From Kirman to England. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxii 650 pages . Adam and Charles Black hardcover
18394430045London: Edward Lumley 1839. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Rebound. Sound binding and hinges. Tanned pages with occasional minor notes in pencil. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear label at lower spine. 14th-century book of supposed travels written in Anglo-Norman French this edition in old English that became a medieval bestseller despite being a fantastical blend of fact myth and plagiarism claiming to detail the adventures of an English knight in the Holy Land Egypt India and China and influencing explorers like Columbus. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 326 pages. Edward Lumley hardcover
14154<p>Oxford Univ. Press Clarendon 2005 1st ed. 307pp. illus. black cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.</p> Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon) hardcover