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Tunisia
London Naval Intelligence Division 1945 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo
Geographical Handbook Series B.R. 523 (Restricted). Detailed description of Tunisia as it was before the Allied landings in French North Africa. Contains 72 text figures and maps, some folding and in colour, 226 bw photographs, 532pp inc index + folding map in pocket at back. Spine faded otherwise an excellent copy.
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DE CHAIR, SOMERSET The Silver Crescent
London The Golden Cockerel Press 1943 First Edition Very Good 4to
Limited edition, 162/500. Black morocco over white linen, map endpapers, bw plates, 126pp. Minor marks to covers. This copy is distinguished the by the signature of Major Pasha John Bagot Glubb over portrait photograph of same.
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150.00 GBP
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DE CHAIR, SOMERSET The Silver Crescent
London The Golden Cockerel Press 1943 First Edition Very Good 4to
Limited edition, 40/500. Black morocco over white linen, map endpapers, bw plates, 126pp. Minor marks to covers. Presentation copy from the author.
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150.00 GBP
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DUNCAN, ALISTAI The Noble Sanctuary Portrait of a Holy Place in Arab Jerusalem
London Longman 1972 0582780292 / 9780582780293 First Edition Cloth Fine Fine Landscape 4to
"Withing the Old City, girt by walls built by Suleiman the Magnificent upon earlier foundations built by Hadrian and by Herod the Great, three of the world's major religions have a point of focus and of controntation." Colour illustrations, 80pp. Inscribed to Dr Esmet El Aid by the author. Ink stamps of the Issam El-Said Foundation on reverse of ffep.
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5.00 GBP
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IRWIN, EYLES A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage Up the Red-sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a Route Through the Desarts of Thebais in the Year 1777.....2 Volumes..
London J Dodsley 1787 Third Edition
(title continued)..with a supplement of a voyage from Venice to Latichea; and of a route through the desarts of Arabia, by Aleppo, Bagdad, and the Tygris, to Bursrah in the years 1780 and 1781 in letters to a Lady... "Eyels Irwin, an East India Company official who travelled up the Red Sea coast of Arabia in the 1770s..His travel narrative of 1780 was a long recitation of Bedouin treachery.." (Tidrick). This octavo edition in two volumes omitted the four sepia aquatints which appeared in the first 4to edition, and was illustrated by 4 engravings on copper. However this set has had the earlier aquatints inserted in volume I as well as an extra one in volume II in addition to the engravings and maps as called for. The folding maps are Vol I 'A View of the Town of Yambo on the Coast of Arabia; A Map or the Red Sea (reinforced verso), Vol II The Nile Valley; Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia (torn and repaired); The Gulf of Catarro on the Coast of Dalmatia - (5 maps in all). Bound in full contemporary tree calf, gilt border and dentelles; recent professional restoration and relaying of back strips with blind-tooled and gilt decoration, raised bands and twin labels in red and black. NB the back cover of volume I, although of similar age has been taken from another volume and has a small gilt armorial motif appearing upside down - the gilt border and dentelles are of a different design but the whole restoration of the set has been very successful. Three armorial book plates have been relaid on new marbled endpapers. One of these book plates belonged to the author - Irwin of Brooke with a note to that effect in a contemporary hand). A note in the same hand appears under the frontis engraved portrait of Irwin and reads 'Bartolozzi fecit.' This is an extra plate inserted after publication. Given the additional insertions, inscriptions and bookplate, it is possible that this set was owned by the author, or someone closely connected. pp 387; 401. Digital images available on request.
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1200.00 GBP
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MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE Edited By Over the Rim of the World Selected Letters of Freya Stark
London John Murray 1988 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Nr Fine 8vo
"This selection of letters, which includes several never before published, covers far more than her famous journeys: she was often present where modern history was being made: the First World War nursing in Caporetto, the 1920s in Italy watching the rise of Mussolini, the 1930s exploring South Arabia and the Near East, the Second World War as an information Office in Aden, Cairo, Baghdad during the dramatic siee of the Embassy, India and the United States." With a foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor, bw map, 404pp inc index. Page edges slightly darkened.
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