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193395 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak, 1932; The Japanese South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912; The Administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; A Roman Bridge in the Fens; Geodesy and Geophysics at Lisbon; The Empty Quarter of Arabia; Air Survey by Multiple Lens Cameras. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements, otherwise unmarked with average wear. One-inch chip hanging from backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
194648 pages. Songs include: Waltzing in a Dream; Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes; La Golondrina; Vienna Beauties; Souvenir De Lucerne; Ma-Ha-Lo; Love's Last Word; Espana; Tesoro Mio; Valse Triste; Storvals; Minute Waltz; Monte Cristo; Dark Eyes; In Pekin; Kroll's Echoes of the Ball; La Belle Roumaine; Ny Fiskar; Poeme; Rose of Arabia, the; Slavonic Dance No. 1; Sounds from Aberdeen Medley; Sweet Molly Malone; Vision of Salome. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
198940 pages. Features: The last wild adult bald ibis dies in Turkey; Education Americans about Saudi Arabia; Jordan's Royal Falcons; Fine Muslim Architecture; The painting of Lebanon's Mustafa Tahoukji; The Imbaba camel market; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Moderate moisture exposure, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
199248 pages. Features: The Orient of Pierre Loti; Deck and the Islamic Style; Early mankind in Arabia; The Journey of a Lifetime - the hajj; Blending Flavors - Iraqi-born chef Yahya Salih; Albania's Islamic Rebirth; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
201048 pages. Features: Risotto's Roots; Photos of wind-powered dhow in 1938; Bee-eater (bird) of Saudi Arabia; Shodo Arabi - Japanese calligraphers try their hand at Arabic; The Life of Omar ibn Said - this Muslim/African slave taken to American wrote a brief autobiography, now located in Fayetteville, North Carolina; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1949134 pages. Features: Lost - two hundred million pounds of meat; Speed-up hormones for livestock; Less time for chicken chores; Maple-Leaf Clan - The Will and Agnes Barrie family and their Mount Pleasant Farm near Galt, Ontario - article with photos; The King's County Agents - fascinating photo-illustrated article on the handful of Americans helping the ruler of Saudi Arabia make the Garden of Eden bloom again; Green Thumbs Up; Is this America's finest dairy herd? - The Lew Zimmerman farm in the Mahoning Valley, west of Lehighton; Agriculture's future lies with Livestock; and more. Ads: New Idea manure spreader (color photo inside front cover); GE radios; Jergens ad features the John Rich family of Wake Forest, NC; Weed-No-More one-page photo ad for their formulation of 2,4-D; 1949 Ford cars (color); New Holland equpment - with photo of Lloyd Van Deburg and horse-drawn wagon of the Snake River Ranch, Jackson Hole, WY; Firestone ad with photos of champion plowers Lloyd Eipers, Carl Schoger, Graeme Stewart, Paul Steifbold, Robert Erickson and Carl Hagemann; Farmall tractors (color photos); Two-page color-photo Case machinery ad; Blue Bell denim ad with Ward Thorson photo; Life insurance ad features the Spike and Myrtle Bisping family of Clarksburg, West Virginia; One-page ad for the Spiegel catalog; Disston 'one-man' chainsaw; Ford tractors (2 pages); Massey-Harris model 22 tractor; and more. Front cover and first page loose but present. Back cover and last page missing. A rough but worthy reference copy. Magazine
193458 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of young lady on snowshoes at her wintry mailbox; Interesting editorial explains why 'Mac' made the trip to attend the Mount Royal burial of General Currie; The Real Tragedy of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford - article with photos; Romance! - a lively tale of dreams come true; Nostalgic one-page color ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup; Liberty's All-Players All-America Football Team for 1933 - article with photos; What is the Modern Idea? - Frank Lloyd Wright looks into the future; Three Hundred a Month - a story of human hearts and a successful calamity; The Things Men Fear - Talbot Mundy confesses his moments of terror while hunting; The Case of the Howling Dog - Perry Mason unmasks a woman of mystery (part 5); To the Ladies; I Flew Lawrence [of Arabia] in War-Crazed Arabia - photo-illustrated article by Captain John H. Norton; Movie Photos and Reviews - Lady Killer, Man of Two Worlds, Son of Kong, Woman Spy; Vox Pop; Transient Lady - part 8 of a vivid novel of dangerous days and a girl's devotion; A Nice Quite House (short story); Back cover color-photo ad for Royal York cigarettes features young couple in formal attire. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1988A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in very pale yellow. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes the thrillers of Edgar Wallace, books on Western films, rare fencing books, Iris Murdoch, early life and works of Lawrence of Arabia, the Booker Prize and Kathleen Hale and 'Orlando the Marmalade Cat'.
1978Folio 650p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1927335p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
1926305p., illus. 12 col. plates Hardcover Good condition, some foxing, spine faded
1998364p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1927335p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1987433 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1980275p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1977631p. Hardcover Very good condition, dj price clipped fair Arabia and the House of Saud
191741p. Disbound Good condition Advocating Arabic self-rule without European influence.
Firenze, La Nuova Italia,1966. In 8°pp.35n.bross.edit.
Napoli, Melfi & Joele, 1915. In 8°picc.pp.243n.+9nn. bross.edit. intonso.
ST. Pietroburg, 1902. In 8°pp.106n.+2nn. copertina muta.(Frontespizio macchiato al margine superiore con fioriture.-Ult.pag. restaurata.
18203 volumi, cm. 18, brossura editoriale, pag. XII, 292 (2) più 3 tavole a colori f.t.; 317 più 3 tavole ed 1 carta geografica ripiegata f.t.. Da pag. 109 inizia l'opera "Viaggio al Lago Manasarovar situato nell'Undes provincia del Piccolo Tibet fatto nel 1812 dai Signori Moorcroft e Hearsay dal tomo XII delle Asiatic Researches". Interessante descrizione del viaggio iniziato in India e ricordato per la descrizione del assaggio attraverso le montagne del Kurdistan. Molto interessante anche la relazione del viaggio al lago Manasarovar in Tibet. Manca metà dell'ultima carta con elenco delle tavole al primo volume. Collana "Raccolta de' viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare, dopo quelli del celebre Cook...".
1986Inscription on ffep. No other marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright boards and gilt lettering and with no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. The delightful slip-case with gilt English and Arabic writing and design on a dark green vellum-type background is in excellent condition. 256pp.
1987No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little indenting and with minor creasing to edges. 571pp. A massive compendium of all the significant travellers, explorers, adventurers and wanderers from the ibn Battuta to Michael Loyd, from Englebert Kaempfer to Bertram Thomas, who have left written records of their journeys in Oman.
1836Boards faded and professionally repaired. Very light occasional foxing. Front free endpaper dog eared ; Scarce. SIGNED on front endpaper by the Earl of Ellenborough with his bookplate. Frontispiece of "Interior View of the Khasne". One fold-out map and Numerous tissue guarded b&w illustrations; 8vo; xxviii, map, 331, 4 pages
