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1845776Roma: Dei Classici Sacri 1845. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes bound as one book. Leather spine with rules designs and title in gilt marbled boards 16 x 10 cm 264 151 pp. separate title pages some foxing tight. Italian text. St. Isaac the Syrian Bishop of Nineveh. "Writings of the abbot Isaac restored to his true lesson with the help and authority of the Latin text printed in Venice in 1506 with MS. Zanotti in 1454 and Venice in 1500."St. Isaac the Syrian lived during the sixth century a remarkable ascetic; his life was unknown to the West before a biography of the Saint was published in Rome in 1719. He is commemorated by the Orthodox on January 28. Dei Classici Sacri hardcover
1883320989London: Richard Bentley 1883. First edition. x 2 436 6 adspp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. x 2 436 6 adspp. 8vo. Richard Bentley unknown
1900144451900. Six original 19th century stereoviews of Arabian city-scapes warriors and locals circa 1900-1910 Published by Keystone view Company. Each has a long printed caption on the back. Photographs depict 1 "Land of Euphrates" a photograph taken in the Mesopotamian Valley which claims to be the location of the Garden of Eden with two young boys looking from rooftops toward an arid land beyond a fertile river 2 an Arab sheikh with his horse and his bodyguard who carries a rifle 3 view of Beirut showing many buildings and a few ships 4 an Arab village by the Euphrates in the Mesopotamian Valley 5 image of a minaret and rooftops in Damascus Syria 6 a city blacksmith shoeing a buffalo in the heart of Tarsus Syria. Very good condition. unknown
1872308355London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First edition. Lithographic frontispiece to each vol. folding map 25 other lithographic plates 11 of which are folding. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half brown morocco and cloth sides t.e.g. Front joint of vol. I tender headcap and joints of vol. II rubbed; short tape repair to verso of one fold of map still a very good set. First edition. Lithographic frontispiece to each vol. folding map 25 other lithographic plates 11 of which are folding. 2 vols. 8vo. Account of the lands and tribes of Syria written by Burton and Drake while Burton was British consul in Damascus. Drake had walked from the Sinai through desert Palestine with Edward Palmer on the first surveying expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Burton was dismissed from his post because of opposition to him from the Ottoman governor of Syria and high level intrigue in the British consular service. Penzer pp. 85-88; Blackmer 247; Casada 68 Tinsley Brothers unknown
