‎Middle east‎

‎Vincent Cronin‎

‎The Last Migration‎

‎London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1957. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Overall jacket condition is Good Plus. Book: Inscribed and signed by the author to front free endpaper. From the library of British diplomat Sir Leslie Fielding who was based at the British Embassy in Tehran at the time of publication. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 343 Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1157E032

‎Moustafa Mtre Mohamed‎

‎Egypt Between Two Revolutions‎

‎Cairo: Selected Studies Committee n.d. 1955. Paper bound first edition. Uncommon. No. 1 of a series of selected studies originally published in Arabic and the first of its kind to appear in Egypt. Unopened. 159pp. Wraps light-moderately creased else very good. 185 grams - ships lettermail at reduced postage! Scan available on request. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Cairo: Selected Studies Committee, n.d. (1955) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26655

‎W. H. Bartlett‎

‎The Nile Boat or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt‎

‎London: Henry G. Bohn 1862. 5th Edition . Good Plus. 5.5 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Red blind stamped cloth binding gilt decoration to spine. Very light wear to head/foot of spine a few marks to covers. Binding is loose with some gatherings protruding from the page block however all pages are securely attached. Engraved bookplate to front paste down endpaper - glue from bookplate has marked and slightly torn facing free endpaper. Some marks and foxing to text and plates. Well illustrated several fold out plates. . Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.5 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 229 Henry G. Bohn hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1121E060

‎John Laffin‎

‎The Israeli Mind SIGNED‎

‎London: Cassell 1979. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22 cm. Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Slight fading to spine unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Beige cloth binding small mark to front board slight bumping to board corners otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper: 'For Ian McIntyre with the author's best wishes John Laffin January 1980.'. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 243 Cassell hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1132E515 ISBN : 0304303992 9780304303991

‎John Simpson and Tira Shubart‎

‎Lifting the Veil: Life in Revolutionary Iran. SIGNED‎

‎London: Hodder and Stoughton 1995. 1st Edition . Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25 x 9.5 inches 16 x 24 cm. Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Near Fine. Book: First edition first impression. Black cloth binding very slight marking and browning to page edges otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Signed by both authors to title page. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches 16 x 24 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 373 Hodder and Stoughton hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1131E488 ISBN : 0340628146 9780340628140

‎Higgins Godfrey‎

‎An Apology For The Life And Character Of The Celebrated Prophet Of Arabia Called Mohamed Or The Illustrious‎

‎London: Rowland Hunter 1829. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Plates. Viii 108 Appendix 1 P. With Half Title And With Erratum On P Vi. Hand Correction Of Text On P. 99. Black Morocco Spine And Tips Gilt Over Ribbed Cloth. Light Yellow Endpapers No Names Or Marks. Near Fine Contents Immaculate And Crisp.This Volume With Small Engraved Plates Tipped In Apparently 18Th Century All With Similar Format And Apparently Extracted From Another Book Including Portraits Of 13 Turkish Rulers Also One Of Scanderbeg Referencing Vol. 1 P. 163 Of An Unidentified Work And Another Of Tamerlane Referencing Vol. 1 P. 138 Otherwise Plates Have Just Portrait Busts And Their Names Titles And Dates Of Accession. Godfrey Higgins 1772-1833 Was An English Magistrate And Landowner Who Was A Prominent Advocate For Social Reform. He Was Also A Keen Antiquarian. He Is Now Best Known For His Writings On Ancient Myths In Which He Asserts A Commonality Among Various Religious Myths Which He Traces Back To The Supposed Lost Religion Of Atlantis. He Has Been Called A "Political Radical Reforming County Magistrate And Idiosyncratic Historian Of Religions". Higgins' Work As A Magistrate Was Highlighted By Reformist Campaigns Within Which He "Courageously Exposed The Scandalous Treatment Of Pauper Lunatics And Campaigned For Parliamentary Reform Criticizing Excessive Taxation The Corn Laws And The Exploitation Of Children In Factories. In 1814 He Played A Leading Role In Uncovering The Abuse Of Patients At The York Lunatic Asylum After Rumors Of Serious Misconduct Had Come To His Attention. Higgins Was Appointed As A Governor Of The Asylum. In Anacalypsis Higgins Asserts A Commonality Among Various Religious Myths. "One Thing Is Clear-The Mythos Of The Hindus The Mythos Of The Jews And The Mythos Of The Greeks Are All At Bottom The Same; And What Are Called Their Early Histories Are Not Histories Of Humankind But Are Contrivances Under The Appearance Of Histories To Perpetuate Doctrines." Higgins Bluntly Declares That Every Ancient Author Without Exception Has Come To Us Through The Medium Of Christian Editors Who Have "Either From Roguery Or Folly Corrupted Them All.". "Osiris And His Bull Were Black; All The Gods And Goddesses Of Greece Were Black: At Least This Was The Case With Jupiter Bacchus Hercules Apollo Ammon.The Goddesses Venus Isis Hecati Diana Juno Metis Ceres Cybile Are Black. " . "There Seems To Be Nothing Improbable In These Ethiopians Being The Tribe Of The Jews-The Tribe Of Jacob Or Israel. I Think These Ethiopians Did Come Under Jacob And Did Settle In Goshen And Gave The Names Of Maturea And Avaris To The City In Which They Dwelt." ."Solomon Was A Personification Or Incarnation Of Wisdom And The Jews Of Asia Minor Were A Tribe Or Colony From India Of Black Buddhists At Or About The Same Time With The Ioudi To SyriaUnder The Brahmin."."Theseus Bacchus �sculapius &C. Were Saviours And Black Saviours Too. These Black Icons Were Made When Man Himself Was Black. He Made His God After Himself And Then Said That Man Was Made After The Image Of God. <br/> <br/> Rowland Hunter hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 028761

‎Campbell Colin‎

‎Two Theban Princes: Kha-em-Uast & Amen-Khepeshf Sons of Rameses III. Menna A Land-Steward and Their Tombs‎

‎London: Oliver and Boyd 1910. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/Very Good. 7 5/8" Tall. Photographs and Drawings By the Author. X 106 Plates At End. Red Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt Cover Printed In White. Well Preserved Book With Just A Touch Of Wear At Corners Spine Gilt Brilliant White Stamped Lettering On Cover Strong No Fraying Light Foxing Spots. Dj With Light Wear Spine Sunned And With 5/8" Tear Down Upper Spine Edge 1./2" Tear At Bottom Front Spine Edge Minute Losses 1/4" Tear Along Top Of Rear Flap Fold With A Nearby 1" Closed Tear Along To Edge Of Rear Panel Entire Jacket Almost 1/8" Shorter Than Book But Apparently As Issued As It Does Not Appear To Have Been Cut Down <br/> <br/> Oliver and Boyd hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 025537

‎Fraser James B. Baillee‎

‎An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With a Detailed View of Its Resources Government Population Natural History and the Character of Its Inhabitants . Including .Afghanistan and Beloochistan‎

‎Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1834. Second Edition . Quarter Morocco. Fine Book. 6 5/8" Tall. Folding Map and 13 Engravings By Jackson. 472 Pp. 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 Queens Dragoon Guards" On Verso Of First Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Oliver & Boyd unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 023418

‎Brecher Michael With Benjamin Geist‎

‎Decisions in Crisis. Israel 1967 and 1973‎

‎Berkeley: University of California Press. 1980 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 479 pp. Figures tables appendixes bibliography indexes. Very minor spine twist otherwise fine. Jacket has light shelfwear. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. BW4-9. University of California Press. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 260476 ISBN : 0520037669 9780520037663

‎MIDDLE EAST.‎

‎Life Line. Abadan Merchant Navy Magazine.‎

‎Abadan: Abadan War Charities Central Fund 1943. Square octavo 205 x 170 mm 54 pp. wire-stitched in original printed paper wrappers. With laid-in "Supplement to the Abadan Merchant Navy Magazine" 8 pp. unbound as issued. Ship motifs in bronze to panel versos line-drawings to the text. Photographic illustrations to the Supplement. Wrappers detached from text-block the staple oxidised corners bumped rear panel variably discoloured. First edition of this magazine published by employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to raise money for the Merchant Navy in the midst of the Second World War. The phrasing of the "Editorial Epilogue" and the foreword of A. V. Alexander First Lord of the Admiralty suggest that this was a one-off venture to coincide with a "Merchant Navy Week" to be held in October 1943; we trace no copies of this or any further iterations in libraries or in commerce and no references in secondary literature. Abadan was the site of first APOC refinery completed in 1912 and as a key oil field and the pre-eminent Gulf entrepôt it was one of the first targets to be secured during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941. A notice explains that "the Abadan War Charities Central Fund was inaugurated early in 1940 under the Chairmanship of His Britannic Majesty's Consul to co-ordinate and encourage voluntary efforts to raise money for war charities by the British and Indian staffs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. at Abadan Refinery Khorramshahr Ahwaz and Pipe Line Stations in Southern Persia and other British and Indian Communities in that area. Much generous support has also been given by the British and Allied Forces stationed in the vicinity and local Persian residents" p. 52. The fund projected to reach £50000 by the end of 1943 at the time of going to print was distributed between various causes with those in addition to Merchant Navy seamen and their dependants including "Welfare of Forces in Middle East" and "Welfare of Forces in Persia Iraq and Persian Gulf" though the largest sum £8000 was in fact earmarked for "Relief of Air Raid Distress" on the Home Front. Contributions include cartoons satirical verse a piece on "Wildfowl of the Shat-al-Arab River" "Concerning Oilwells" a brisk description of mishaps at sites including Masjid-i-Sulaiman Naft Khaneh and Haft Kel and "The Persian Gulf An Historical Sketch" which is based on the well-known book by Arnold Wilson. All pieces are signed anonymously pseudonymously or with initials with the exception of two short stories by Alec Waugh brother of Evelyn: "An Officer Learns a Lesson" and "A Happy Inspiration". An unusual and highly appealing survival. Abadan: Abadan War Charities Central Fund, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 121716

‎Severin Tim‎

‎Crusader : By Horse to Jerusalem‎

‎London: Hutchinson 2001 Tim Severin home from the sea takes off on an Ardennes Heavy Horse to follow the overland route that Geoffrey de Bouillon took through Europe and the Byzantine Empire on the First Crusade to Jerusalem. Full of fascinating detail that demonstrates the difficulties of taking an army with war horses through difficult terrain. 338p. plates.index. 1st UK Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Hutchinson hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21291 ISBN : 0091735157 9780091735159

‎Malise RUTHVEN‎

‎Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Garnet Publishing Reading 1994. 4to. First Edition with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs the majority full-page and map in the text; black cloth gilt back backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. St. Anthony's College Middle East Archives. Garnet Publishing, [Reading, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27253

‎PERO TAFUR‎

‎Pero Tafur. Travels and Adventures 1435-1439. Translated and edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Letts.‎

‎Routledge 1926. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with a frontispiece map title in red and black and 8 plates some light marginal spotting; original series binding of red buckram gilt back red top backstrip lightly sunned else a very good bright copy. With 4pp series catalogue bound in at end. Routledge, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26345

‎Hans WEHR‎

‎A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Edited by J. Milton Cowan. First English Edition. NEAR FINE COPY‎

‎Harrassowitz Wiesbaden 1961. 8vo. First Edition thus inscription and signatures on front endpapers blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25939

‎Wilson MACARTHUR‎

‎Auto Nomad in Barbary. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Cassell 1950. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece 70 plates on 34 and a large folding map; original terracotta cloth gilt back backstrip mildly faded but all gilt wholly legible edges lightly spotted a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chipped with minor loss not affecting lettering at head of backstrip. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The 'auto' in question is a 18HP Wolseley; the route travelled is from France to South Africa via Spain Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt the Sudan and so down through East Africa to Durban. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION Cassell, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25457

‎AEP. WEIGALL A. E.‎

‎The Life and Times of Akhnaton Pharaoh of Egypt.‎

‎Blackwood 1910. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece coloured plate and 23 plates in monochrome moderate to heavy foxing throughout; original blue cloth backstrip lettered in white covers mildly age-soiled else a good firm copy. Blackwood, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 24746

‎EA. Wallis BUDGE E. A.‎

‎A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII. Books on Egypt and Chaldea. BRIGHT CLEAN SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH‎

‎Kegan Paul Trench Trubner 1902. 8 vols. 8vo. with large folding map; original tan cloth upper boards and backstrips lettered in black a very good bright clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: Egypt in the Neolithic and Archaic Periods; Vol. II: Egypt under the Great Pyramid Builders; Vol. III: Egypt under the Amenemhats and Hyksos; Vol. IV: Egypt and the Asiatic Empire; Vol. V: Egypt under Rameses the Great; Vol. VI: Egypt under the Priest-Kings Tanites and Nubians; Vol. VII: Egypt under the Saites Persians and Ptolomies; Vol. VIII: Egypt under the Ptolomies and Cleopatra VII. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 24580

‎J. BAIKIE‎

‎Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley.‎

‎Methuen 1932. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece plates plans in the text and a map; original red cloth gilt back lower board lightly mottled at fore-edge else a very good bright clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION Methuen, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23602

‎Charles Montagu DOUGHTY‎

‎Wanderings in Arabia. Being an Abridgement of 'Travels in Arabia Deserta'. Second Impression thus.‎

‎Duckworth 1927. 8vo. Second Impression thus with a frontispiece and folding map small neat signature on half-title; original green cloth gilt back a very good clean copy. Nice copy of the second impression of the first single-volume edition. Garnett's abridgement of Doughty's nineteenth century classic first published in two volumes in 1908 brought the work to a new and appreciative audience including T E Lawrence. Professor Bonney Doughty's geological tutor attributed to this publication the award by the RGS of the Founder's Gold Medal in 1912. The first single-volume edition appeared in 1926. Scarce. Duckworth, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21878

‎EW. LANE E. W.‎

‎An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835. IN FULL MOROCCO‎

‎Alexander Gardner 1895. 8vo. with engraved frontispiece original tissue guard present illustrated title printed title in red and black and 92 engravings 26 full-page in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco back gilt with five raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt chocolate endpapers uncut original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf at front a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on printed title and small stamp on half-title and last leaf of index. A lovely copy. Alexander Gardner, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21469

‎A. ZE'V‎

‎Israel Reborn.‎

‎Lewin-Epstein Tel-Aviv 1965. 4to. First Edition with very numerous photographs many full-page in the text and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth backstrip lettered in brown a very good bright clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front free endpaper verso and presentation bookplate on half-title. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO. Collects over 140 photographs many not previously published recording the events between 1947 and 1949. Captions include extended text and poetry. Very scarce. Lewin-Epstein, Tel-Aviv, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21099

‎DP. BARROWS D. P.‎

‎Berbers and Blacks. Impressions of Morocco Timbuktu and the Western Sudan. IN FULL MOROCCO‎

‎Appleton-Century Company 1927. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece 43 plates on 30 2 plans in the text a full-page map in the text and 2 maps on 1 folder; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco back gilt with five raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt uncut a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Handsome copy of a very scarce account Appleton-Century Company, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20969

‎John Bagot GLUBB‎

‎Britain and the Arabs. A Study of Fifty Years 1908-1958.‎

‎Hodder & Stoughton 1959. 8vo. First Edition with 31 maps several double-page and full-page and front and rear endpaper maps; blue cloth gilt gilt back a very good bright copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front paste-down bookplate on front free endpaper verso and small blind stamp on title. First edition of Glubb Pasha's third book and a well-known standard reference. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20550

‎H. St. John PHILBY‎

‎Arabia. IN FULL MOROCCO‎

‎Ernest Benn 1930. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with a large folding map on japon title very lightly spotted; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco back gilt with five raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a double-page genealogy of the House of Sa'ud. Lovely copy of a key work by the great Arabist. Ernest Benn, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 19771

‎HJL. BEADNELL H. J.‎

‎An Egyptian Oasis. An Account of the Oasis of Kharga in the Libyan Desert with special Reference to its History Physical Geography and Water-Supply.‎

‎John Murray 1909. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece original tissue guard present 34 plates on 27 a full-page map full-page diagram full-page map in the text and a large folding map; original blue cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back gilt top uncut backstrip lightly faded else a very good bright clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate and press-mark on front paste-down and small neat blind stamp on title. The author served with the Geological Survey of Egypt. Extremely scarce especially in this condition. John Murray, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 19627