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Khalidi Walid
Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East Harvard Studies in International Affairs
Cambridge MA: Center for International Affairs Harvard University 1979. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 213 pp. Binding is tight with light rubbing on cover. Library marks include labels on jacket and endpaper with library name stamped on top and bottom edges. Text is otherwise tight clean and unmarked Center for International Affairs, Harvard University hardcover
Bookseller reference : 102590 ISBN : 0876740379 9780876740378
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Khalifa Saida Miller
The Fifth Pillar : The Story Of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina
New York: Exposition Press 1977 Account of the participation of a young English woman and her Egyptian husband in the Haj - the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Illustrated with personal photographs taken on the trip. 131p. plates bibliography laid in is a short note about the death of the author in 1979. 1st.US Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine - Price Clipped. Exposition Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21960 ISBN : 0682487724 9780682487726
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Khalil Samir
Republic of Fear : Saddam's Iraq
London: Hutchinson Radius 1990 Covers are moderately worn and have some creasing near and on spine. Ink stampings on first page. Otherwise pages are clean lightly toned and free of markings. Binding is secure. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - 7�" - 9�" Tall. Hutchinson Radius paperback
Bookseller reference : 201082 ISBN : 0091746833 9780091746834
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Khamsin Journal
Forbidden Agendas -
Al Saqi Publishing - 1984. PB/pub.1984/Gd.condition/400 pages - Intolerance and defiance in the Middle East is discussed in this text. TR3v35044. Soft Cover. Good. Al Saqi Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : v35044
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Khamsin Journal
Forbidden Agendas -
Al Saqi Publishing - 1984. PB/pub.1984/Gd.condition/400 pages - Intolerance and defiance in the Middle East is discussed in this text. TR335044. Soft Cover. Good. Al Saqi Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 35044
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KHANZADIAN (Zadig)
Atlas de géographie économique de Turquie.
Paris, Bertalot, 1924. In folio br., sous chemise moderne en toile marron à lacets, 3f., 28pp., couverture imprimée en deux couleurs décorée d'un encadrement oriental rouge, 30 planches de cartes, croquis et schémas, la plupart en couleurs (pl. 14 renouvelée, identique à l'originale).
Bookseller reference : 560557
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KHATCHATRIAN (A.)
L'architecture Arménienne du IVe au VIe s. Préface par A. Grabar.
P., Editions Klincksieck, 1971. In-4°, cartonnage d'édition imprimé, 126pp, 176 illustrations photographiques, plans réunis en 40 planches.
Bookseller reference : 528052
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Khatib al-Tibrizi, Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah / Matthews, Arnold N. (transl.).
Mishcàt-ul-Masábìh, or, a Collection of the Most Authentic Traditions, Regarding the Actions and Sayings of Múhammed; Exhibiting the Origin of the Manners and Customs, the Civil, Religious and Military Policy of the Muslemàns. Calcutta, T. Hubbard at the Hindoostanee Press, 1809-1810.
Small folio (237 x 308 mm). 2 vols. (6), IX, (1), VI, 665, (1) pp. (2), VI, 817, (13) pp. Contemporary full sheep, flat spines with red morocco labels. The "Mishkat al-Masabih" ("A Nic33357he for Lamps") of Al-Khatib al-Tabrizi (also known as Wali al-Din, d. 741 H), a revised and expanded version of the "Masabih al-Sunnah" by al-Baghawi, with approximately 1500 hadith added. This important Sunni text was first translated into English by Capt. Matthews of the Bengal Artillery. Although some of the original hadith are not included and others incorrectly translated, this attempt at publishing a translation from the Arabic was a noted accomplishment for the time. - The List of Subscribers accounts for 122 copies, with an additional 100 copies noted as being published on order of the Governor General in Council for the Honourable Company. A statement in an 1848 issue of the Journal of Sacred Literature suggests that most copies of the work were destroyed at sea, yet it was still advertised for sale in 1817 in the Literary Panorama (at the price of £4.4s). - Some browning throughout, more pronounced in endpapers. A short tear to lower edge of vol. 1. A good copy of this rare Calcutta imprint, bound in India. OCLC 15466515. BLC v. 229, p. 302.
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Khavari Farid A
Oil & Islam. the Ticking Bomb
Malibu California: Roundtable Publishing Inc. 1990 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 277 pp. Tables notes bibliography index. Jacket has some minor edgecreasing otherwise Fine/Fine. Book. Roundtable Publishing, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19987 ISBN : 0915677555 9780915677559
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KHAYYAM (Omar).
Rubaiyat.
OLLENDORF Hodder and Stoughton 1909 1 Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fittzgerald. With Illustration by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stoughton, (1909), in-4, vélin orné de motifs dorés orientalisant, titre au dos, tête dorée, fermé par un ruban.
Bookseller reference : 20205
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KHAYYAM (Omar).
Rubaiyat.
OLLENDORF Hodder and Stoughton 1909 1 Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fittzgerald. With Illustration by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stoughton, (1909), in-4, percaline ornée de motifs dorés orientalisant, titre au dos.
Bookseller reference : 21939
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KHAYYAM (Omar).
Rubaiyat.
Paris OLLENDORF 1910 1 Traduction française de Edmond Dulac, d'après la version de Edward Fittzgerald. Paris, Piazza, (1910), in-4, broché, couverture illustrée décor persan or, 12 planches.
Bookseller reference : 24223
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Khayyam, Omar; Whinfield, E. H.
THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Translated into English Verse by E.H. Whinfield. Second Edition, Revised.
124p. Large bookplate of S. M. Boddington. Foxed. A few penciled marks. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding. Front board decorated and embossed in gold with publisher's device. Binding soiled. Hardbound. Second edition. The first edition of this book was published in 1882, and contained 253 quatrains. Whinfield brought out this edition in 1893 containing the English text of 267 quatrains, based on a collation of eight authorities. Very good. Scarce. ISLAM BOX 1
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KHITROWO B. DE
Itineraires Russes en Orient traduits pour la Societe de l'Orient Latin
Cm. 25; pp. 334. 1930 Half leather. Very good copy. (Middle East) 1390/P
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Khomeini Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi & Borujerdi J
A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of Resaleh Towzih al-Masael
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1984. Comprehensive scholarly text presents an unabridged translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's "A Clarification of Questions" which provides a unique picture of the belief structure of Shi'ism. A compendium of 3000 "problems" Khomeini's treatise is intended to guide laymen in their religious duties as well as to cover all of life's questions and needs from personal hygiene and ritual purity to organ transplants and modern banking. The Resaleh Towzih al-Masael reveals how the external world is viewed by the Shi'ite faithful. 432 pp. No spine cracks or creases. Scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : MS-22 ISBN : 0865318549 9780865318540
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Khorsandi Hadi
The Ayatollah and I
London: Readers International 1987. Dj. Iranian satire. Translated from Persian. 160 pp. 8vo. Hardcover . Catalogs: IRAN. London: Readers International, (1987) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3472
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Khouri Fred J.
The Arab Israeli Dilemma
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1969. Trade paperback first paperback printing extensively referenced 436pp includes appendices bibliography and index. Very good. 580 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969 paperback
Bookseller reference : 21402 ISBN : 0815600666 9780815600664
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Khouri Fred J
The Arab-Israeli Dilemma
Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Pres 1969. Map. Bibliography. Index. Owner's name on first page. A few pencil annotations. xi 436 pages. 22.8 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-8156-0066-6 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Pres, (1969) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7781 ISBN : 0815600666 9780815600664
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Khouri Rami G.
Pella a Brief Guide to the Antiquities
Amman Jordan: Al Kutba Publishers 1988. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. 32 pages. Slim soft cover bound in tan and green stapled wrappers. Prior owner's inscription and embossed blind stmap on the title page. Some rubbing to the binding; otherwise a fresh clean copy. <br/> <br/> Al Kutba, Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 025949
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Khouri Rami G.
Pella Pella of the Decapolis
Amman Jordan: Al Kutba / University of Sydney 1990 Samll publication outlining the results of the archaeological reseach by the University of Sydney at Pella of the Decapolis in Jordan.32p. ilus. maps. Reprint. Original Wraps. As New. Brochure. Al Kutba / University of Sydney paperback
Bookseller reference : 32209
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Khoury, H(eneine) B.
Glimpses Behind the Veil. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1935].
Large 8vo. X, 342 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 62 illustrations on 23 plates. Original red cloth. First edition. - "The travels (c. 1934) of an Arab girl in the Near and Middle East, including a journey with her brother through Lebanon, Iran and the Persian Gulf. The author, a feminist of sorts, visits Tehran, the Caspian region, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz and Bushehr. She views Reza Shah favorably, 'the roads are safe', modernization, industrial plants, etc." (Ghani). Also contains chapters on her sojourn in the "romantic pearl islands of Bahrein" (with an illustration of the author in local Bahraini costume, a gift of the ruler and his wife). - Occasional slight foxing, but well preserved. Ghani 208. OCLC 18175528. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Khuri Richard
Freedom Modernity and Islam: Towards a Creative Synthesis
London: The Athlone Press 1998. Book. Fine. Cloth. First U.K.Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 384pp. The Athlone Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033980 ISBN : 0485300850 9780485300857
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KIAZIM (Omer)
L'aventure kémaliste. Elle est un danger : pour l'Orient, pour l'Europe, pour la paix.
P., L'Edition universelle, 1921. In-12 broché, 104-IX pp., [1] f.
Bookseller reference : 556292
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Kibbutz Members Editor
The Seventh Day -
Andre Deutsch Publishing - 1970. Hardcover/pub.1970/Gd. condition/246 pages - Soldiers' Talk about the Six-Day War. AI84623z. Hardcover -. Good. Andre Deutsch Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4623z
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Kiepert, Heinrich.
Specialkarte vom westlichen Kleinasien. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1890.
Folio (365 x 545 mm). 14 (instead of 15) maps (lacking no. 11). Contemporary black half-leather binding over brown cloth. Kiepert's map of the western part of Asia Minor: the personal copy of Paul Gaudin, the archaeologist and engineer in charge of the completion of the Hejaz railway. - In the margins, the numbers of the adjacent maps are written in blue pencil. On maps VIII and IX the route of the railway line as well as the names and numbers of the stations between Alasehir/Philadelphia and Karahissâr/Afiûn were added by Gaudin in red ink. - Binding rubbed. Interior in good general condition despite some minor soiling, tears and pinholes. Also included are maps of Turkey, drawn on tracing paper, showing the route of the Smyrna-Panderma and Smyrna-Afion/Karahissar railway lines. - Provenance: from the library of the archaeologist, collector and railway engineer Paul Gaudin (1858-1921), in charge of the completion of the Hejaz railway in the first decade of the 20th century and later a major donor to the Louvre Museum. OCLC 32646128.
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Kimche David; Bawly D.
Sandstorm: The Arab-Israeli War of 1967: Prelude and Aftermath
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1968. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Rubbing to edges and corners of D/J with heavier rubbing to bottom right corner of front D/J. Small closed tear to head of D/J spine. Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 037970 ISBN : 0436233800 9780436233807
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Kimche Jon and David
Both Sides of the Hill: Britain and the Palestine War
London: Secker & Warburg 1960. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Fading to top edge of front boards. Rubbing to edges and corners of D/J with some chipping and small closed tears. D/J is price clipped. Some loss to head and tail of D/J spine. Secker & Warburg Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 046952
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Kimche Jon
The Second Arab Awakening: The Middle East 1914-1970
London: Thames and Hudson c. 1970. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Dust jacket has a small closed tear. 288 pages. 22.2 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 0-500-25026-X . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Thames and Hudson, (c. 1970) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7329 ISBN : 050025026X 9780500250266
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Kimche Jon
The Second Arab Awakening: The Middle East 1914-1970
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1970. Maps. Chipped dj. 288 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1337
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Kimche Jon
The Second Arab Awakening: The Middle East 1914-1970
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1970. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Worn dj. 288 pages. 21.5 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6343
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KIMCHE JON
There Could Have Been Peace
The Dial Press NY: 1973. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket has slight chips and tears. Was there ever a chance - and can there still be a chance - that Jews and Arabs can live in unity in Palestine Kimche's answer to the first part of the question is Yes; to the second No - at least not in the foreseeable future. Includes an index. The Dial Press, NY: 1973 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2310X2
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KIMCHE JON
There Could Have Been Peace
The Dial Press NY: 1973. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fair condition. Dustjacket has slight chips and scratches. Was there ever a chance - and can there still be a chance - that Jews and Arabs can live in unity in Palestine Kimche's answer to the first part of the question is Yes; to the second No - at least not in the foreseeable future. Includes an index. The Dial Press, NY: 1973 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2310X3
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Kimche, Jon.
THE SECOND ARAB AWAKENING.
288p. Illustrated with maps. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly spotted. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. First edition. Books such as this become increasingly significant with each passing day. Very good. ISLAM BOX 1
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Kimmerling Baruch and Migdal Joel S.
The Palestinian People: A History
London: Harvard University Press 2003. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. reading crease to spine. 568pp. Harvard University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032767 ISBN : 0674011295 9780674011298
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Kindleben, Christian Wilhelm.
Galanterieen der Türken. "Frankfurt und Leipzig" [= Altona, J. H. Kaven & Comp.], 1783.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. XVI, 340 pp. (3)-136 pp. With engr. frontispiece by Wentzel (counted in the pagination) and 40 folding costume plates by Endler, in original hand colour. Modern marbled boards retaining original giltstamped red spine label. First edition. - A frequently loose account of oriental conditions and excesses; "based exclusively on earlier travel publications" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-S.). The appendix of pt. 2 has a separate title: "History of a noble Turkish lady who, dressed as a man, found her fortune and death amongst weaponry in Europe". The prologue admits that this appendix "bears no connexion with the preceding matter" - indeed, it has nothing to to with Ottoman history at all, but is a satire on German conditions during the Seven Years' War, replete with allusions which would bear closer study. The author, Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (1748-85), was sometime assistant to Basedow at the Philanthropinum reform school in Dessau. - The engravings show costumes for gentlemen and ladies; "the images of the Sultana combine elements drawn from various illustrations found in Ferriol's 'Recueil'" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-S.). - Evenly browned throughout. German postwar trade records cite a single coloured copy. Chatzipanagioti-S. 481 (= 482; citing merely 39 plates). Frauen reisen 316. Lipperheide 1419 (Lb 3). Colas 1607. Hiler 496. Hayn/Gotendorf III, 559 (and V, 111; VII, 723). Goedeke IV/1, 929, 33.
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King Anthony
Jerusalem Revealed: A Comprehensive Guide
Cambridgeshire: Boxer Pub 1997. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Boxer Pub Paperback
Bookseller reference : 047256 ISBN : 0952543222 9780952543220
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King Michael Christopher
THE PALESTINIANS AND THE CHURCHES: VOL. I 1948-1956
Geneva: World Council of Churches 1981. PB. good wraps softcover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 2825406759 This is the first of a three-volume history of ecumenical work with Palestinian refugees from 1948 to 1974. It covers the period from the end of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1948 until the Suez Campaign of 1956. 138pp. World Council of Churches unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS042703I ISBN : 2825406759 9782825406755
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King Peter ed. & intro.
Curzon's Persia
London UK: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited 1988. reprint. Oversize Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight bright clean with faint curl. Light rubbing to cover edges and faint corner bump to bottom corner. An abridged version of the 2 volume 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad Kuchan Kelat-I-Nadiri Meshed Teheran The Northern Provinces Teheran Ishfahan Shiraz to Bushire.192 pages full of illustrations and with double page detailed map of Persia Afghanistan & Beluchistan. dated 1891. 7.5x10" 1.2 Sidgwick & Jackson Limited paperback
Bookseller reference : 6-6Y001 ISBN : 0283997427 9780283997426
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King ABDULLAH preface signed
Kingdom of Peace
No Place Stated: Zohrab Markarian 1995. Book. Illus. by Zohrab. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 4to - over 9�. This is no ordinary book. It is a celebration of two major events; the 60th birthday of H.M. King Hussein November 1995 and the celebration of the Peace Treaty 1994 between Jordan and Israel. Inscribed by King Abdullah II in 1995 asl Prince. Zohrab Markarian Hardcover
Bookseller reference : kh58
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King Abdullah II
Our Last Best Chance : The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
New York New York U.S.A.: Penguin Group USA Incorporated 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First published in 2011 with complete number line including the number one. Hard Cover in very good condition. Cream beige boards with darker cream beige spine cloth. Gold spine lettering with outward crease along spine center from top to bottom. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Front free end paper has scar where previous owner's name sticker was removed. Dust jacket very good with only hint of shelf & edge wear. Not price clipped. Contains two sections of black & white photographs. 346 pages. From the jacket flap ' . . . almost unprecedented for a king to write a memoir that tackles head-on the most explosive issues he faces. . . . decided to do so now out of a sense of urgency a conviction that the window for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is closing. . . . a passionate plea for making the tough decisions necessary to secure a lasting peace before it's too late.' Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : M000682 ISBN : 0670021717 9780670021710
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Kinglake Alexander William
Eothen
London: J.M. Dent & Co No.337 in the Everyman's Library Series. Edited by Ernest Rhys with an introduction by Harold Spender. The log of the author's journey through Palestine Syria and Egypt. Previous owner's name to endpaper dated 5/57. Previous owner's sticker to front pastedown. Loss to leather at head of spine and wear to both spine ends. Else a good clean copy in burgundy leather over soft cards with gilt lettering and decoration and gilt top edge. 238 pages. Full Leather. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. J.M. Dent & Co
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Kinglake A. W.; Spears Major General Sir Edward
Eothen
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1962. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Later Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean slightly tanned pages. Cloth over boards is a bit cocked with light edge rubbing. DJ has overall heavy shelf wear including scuffing and some creasing. ; Account of the author's journey from the Danube through the Ottoman Empire to Cairo in 1835. ; Everyman's Library Travel & Topography; Vol. 337; 7.25" tall; 238 pages. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4990025
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Kinglake AW. A. W.
Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Picador Travel Classics
London: Picador 1995. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Picador Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 038135 ISBN : 0330337769 9780330337762
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KINROSS (Lord)
Within the taurus. a journey in asiatic Turkey.
London, John Murray, 1954. In-8, rel. d’éditeur toile ocre, dos titré, sous jaquette ill., XI-191 pp., carte sur double page, ill. photogr. en noir en planches h.-t. dont le frontispice. Index.
Bookseller reference : 556953
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Kinzer Stephen
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
U.S.A.: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2001. Stated first edition. Black cloth over red boards black/gilt titles. An insider's look at Turkey by a veteran foreign correspondent and the author of other books on foreign affairs. Book unread near fine. DJ likewise near fine. 252 pp. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13803 ISBN : 0374131430 9780374131432
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KIRK (George E.).
A Short History of the Middle East, from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times.
New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1959, in-8°, x-336 pp, 14 cartes, index, reliure pleine toile vermillon de l'éditeur, sans la jaquette, bon état. Texte en anglais
Bookseller reference : 100339
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Kirk, John, British administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922); co-explorer with David Livingstone.
Autograph letter signed ("very sincerely John Kirk"). Zanzibar, 14. VII. 1868.
4to. 6 pp. of 3 ff. With autograph envelope. To the English diplomat and army officer Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul of Zanzibar from 1858 to 1861. Kirk raises his doubts about Sultan Majid bin Said's desire to end the slave trade, whilst already foreseeing that his successor-to-be Burghash bin Said would be more open to this aim. - Kirk expresses his hopes that in Zanzibar there will "soon be a more rigorous policy for suppression of [the] slave trade", noting that "this year the Arabs have had it all their own", as Britain was engaged in the Abyssinian Wars, and that "my experience of the Arabs is [...] they are all liars, but Suliman bin Ali the real Sultan and only man to go to if you wish anything done is decidedly no exception", discussing the poor health of Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar, and a school of thought that his expected successor, Burghash bin Said ("a very intelligent Liberal man, outspoken and quick"), would be more friendly with the English, expanding on the rivalry between various local factions within Zanzibar. - John Kirk, chief assistant to David Livingstone during his celebrated expedition from 1858 to 1863, was appointed vice-consul of Zanzibar in 1866, and in 1873 "persuaded the sultan of Zanzibar to sign an anti-slavery treaty, closing the island's slave markets, and providing protection for all liberated slaves" (ODNB). An incomplete transcription of this letter is reproduced in Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935, pp. 301f.
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Kirk, John, British administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922); co-explorer with David Livingstone.
Autograph letter signed. Zanzibar, 3. VIII. 1884.
4to (240:190 mm). 8 pp. on two double-leaf stationery, watermarked "Original Malling Mill Kent". To "my dear Smith": "It is most pleasing to see here the S[lave] T[rade] is driven back [...] In fact Kilwa now seems the saintly place [...] If this scarcity of food and failure of crops extends far inland we shall have the population begging to be sold. Mafia [Island] may take in slaves but it is so near the mainland that no person on earth could prevent it while the institute exists - but is their demand enough on Mafia for any great number of slaves? Boette and coconuts are its chief exports. When you go there visit Kisiwani [...] where corals are washed out of the bank in thousands [...] The Kilwa ruling family fled at one time it is mentioned in the old Kilwa chronicle. Did these old Kilwa kings [grow?] nothing but coffee & do the Bavarians buy up the silver and gold? Native traders are no fools and if gold & silver is ever found I would gladly pay a little over the value of the metal to settle a few permits [...] If you see your way I think a trip south should may be time well spent. I daren't visit the Kilwa people (Indians) [...] I feel sure the end of the land S[lave] T[rade] is further south and the local demand must be very great. I have little faith in estimates made on short experience, so often a man takes the one month or two when slaves are brought down and multiplies it by twelves for the year's estimate. One thing is to find out the caravan men [...]". - Written during the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 which regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power, Kirk discusses trade of slaves, as well as gold and silver, the latter mainly in reference to Germans. He suggests that slave trade activity is diminishing near Kilwa due to British abolition efforts, though not as much further south. He then presents theories on estimating the numbers of slaves captured. Also interesting and infrequently documented, he presents concern respecting slavery on Mafia Island. [In the mid-1820s, the town of Kua on Juani Island, the southernmost of the Mafia archipelago, was attacked by Sakalava cannibals arriving from Madagascar with 80 canoes, who ate many of the locals and took the rest into slavery. Under a treaty of 1890, Germany took control of Mafia and constructed the buildings still evident on Chole Island.] - The recipient of the letter, identified as 'Smith', may be Sir Charles Euan-Smith, a Colonel in the British Army who in 1887 he would be appointed Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General for the Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar. [In February 1890 the Sultan died and Euan-Smith took advantage of the situation to persuade the new Sultan, Ali bin Said, that Zanzibar should be a British protectorate. This resulted in the so-called Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of July 1890 in which Germany and the United Kingdom agreed on territorial interests in East Africa.]. - By 1868 Omani traders of Zanzibar had long since driven the Portuguese out and Kilwa had been a leading Arab center of the East African slave trade for more than a century. Thriving European plantation economies as close as Mauritius and as far away as Brazil perpetuated the nefarious trade. Kilwa was eventually absorbed into the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1841-1884) which controlled the lion's share of the East African trade. Zanzibar attracted the attention of European imperial and anti-slavery interests which forced the Sultan to close its then-famous slave market in 1873. To this end, the Sultan Bargash signed an edict making slavery illegal and imprisoned the Governor of Kilwa. Even so, the trade for a time remained brisk and a slave was allegedly sold there as late as 1935. Kilwa was part of the colony of German East Africa from 1886 to 1918. - Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) was a Scottish physician, naturalist, explorer, and British administrator in Zanzibar. He accompanied David Livingstone on his second Zambesi expedition from 1858 to 1863. In 1873 Kirk was made the first British Agent and Consul General of Zanzibar, where he eventually convinced the Sultan of Zanzibar to ban the highly lucrative slave trade. He held this post until he returned to England in 1887. He was also a keen botanist, highly regarded by Sir William Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thistleton-Dyer. After the death of Livingston, Kirk pledged to continue Livingston's work to end the East African slave trade. For years he negotiated with the ruler of Zanzibar, Sultan Bargash, gaining his confidence and promising to help enrich the East African domain through legitimate commerce. The Sultan officially banned slave trading in 1873, but it would continue. In 1881 Kirk decided to post a vice-consul, Mr. Jack Haggard to Lamu, Kenya. By 1885, the region was larger and more profitable, his endeavours becoming ever more challenging. Unfortunately, after the Berlin Conference, the British Government forced Kirk as British Consul in Zanzibar to drop the Sultan as part of the "Scramble for Africa". - In 1873, British agent John Kirk by threatening to blockade Zanzibar got Sayyid Barghash ibn Sa'id to sign a treaty banning the slave trade by sea and promising to protect all liberated slaves. On 5 March, the Sultan passed a decree prohibiting the export of slaves from main land and closing of slave market at Zanzibar. Zanzibar slave market was to be closed within 24 hours. In 1875 Sayyid Barghash visited Queen Victoria in England, and in 1876 he proclaimed that conveyance of slaves by land was prohibited nor could slave caravans approach the coast from the interior. Riots broke out in Mombasa against the freed-slave work of the missions, and at Kilwa slave-traders hid 6,000 slaves near the coast. In 1876 the Sultan decreed that no slaves were to be transported overland. Kirk persuaded Barghash to raise an army, and in 1877 Lt. William Lloyd Mathews was appointed to drill the recruits. Slave-trading continued until the Sultan put the Governor of Kilwa in prison. Kirk estimated that during the 1870s about 10,000 slaves a year crossed the Juba River into Somaliland. As the slave trade eventually declined, the export of rubber, cloves, and ivory greatly increased. In 1907 slavery was finally abolished entirely in Zanzibar and Pemba. Kirk died in 1922 at the age of 90.
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KIRKBRIDE (Alec Seath)
A Crackle of Thorns. Experiences in the Middle East.
London, Murray, 1956. In-8, rel. d’éditeur toile rouge sous jaquette ill. en couleurs, 201 pp., texte anglais, ill. en noir in et h.-t. Index.
Bookseller reference : 555955
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Kirkby Bruce
Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2000 Introduction by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Three Canadians set out with three Omani Bedu guides - and camels - to recreate the crossing of the Empty Quarter made Wilfred Thesiger in 1947. Setting out from Salala in Oman to travel over 1200 kilometers of desert to Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf. 224p illus. bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the ffep else fine. Promotional bookmark laid in. FFEP The book is illutrated From Salla iby vyycrfollow the famous crto recreat Sir Wilfred Thesiger's 1947 crossing of the Empty Quarter. Signed by Author. 1st Can Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28227 ISBN : 0771095643 9780771095641
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