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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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50.00 GBP
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AVICENNA Metaphysices Compendium
Rome Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum 1926 First Thus 8vo
Translated from Arabic into Latin by Nematallah Carame. Full morocco with gilt titles and vignette of a facist emblem, AEG, 271pp. There is a signed, handwritten dedication to Mussolini by the translator on ffep verso. Covers are unevenly faded and the silk marker is frayed.
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125.00 GBP
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CHAIR, SOMERSET DE 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 signature of Major Pasha John Bagot Glubb over portrait photograph of same.
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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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GARNETT, DAVID Edited By The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia
London Jonathan Cape 1938 Second Impression Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo
"In this book the career of T E Lawrence from the time he was a schoolboy, interested in archaeology, until his death in 1935, is recorded almost entirely in his own words: in his letters and in unpublished secret documents and official reports...The reader of this book will find that it destroys the mystery of Lawrence and establishes more firmly his title to greatness - not only as a soldier and a writer - not because of what he did, but because of what he was." Bw illustrations and maps, some folding, 896pp inc index. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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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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KINGLAKE, AW Eothen
Edinburgh Willam Blackwood 1896 New Edition Very Good +. No Jacket 8vo
Blue cloth, gilt, Bw frontis portrait 371pp. Light wear to extremities.
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LAWRENCE, T E Seven Pillars of Wisdom 2 Volumes
London Reprint Society/Cape 1939 Reprint Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo
Bw illustrations and maps, pp 700 inc index. Endpapers parted exposing webbing in volume 1. Spines foxed but good reading copies. Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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