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PALGRAVE, William Gifford [1826-1888].
Narrative Of A Year's Journey Through Central And Eastern Arabia (1862-63).
London & Cambridge: Macmillan And Co., 1865..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, [1 leaf], 466; 2 p.l., 398. engraved frontis. portrait, folding engraved map partly coloured in outline, & 4 folding lithographed plans. contemporary half calf, gilt backs (rubbed, extremities worn, small repair to map tear - no loss). First Edition. From 1853 to 1861 Palgrave served as a catholic missionary in Syria, being forced out of the country when the Druse persecution of the Maronite Christians broke out. He returned to Syria in 1862 and undertook the adventurous journey across Central Arabia described here in order to investigate how far missionary enterprise was possible among pure Arabs, and to report to Napoleon III on the attitude of the Arabs towards France, and the possibility of obtaining pure Arabian blood-stock for breeding purposes in Europe. Intimately acquainted with Arabic and Arabian customs, he passed as a Syrian christian doctor and merchant. At Rhiad he was suspected and accused of being an English spy, but managed to escape prosecution. '.one of the most fascinating of modern books of travel.' (DNB) Gay 3696.
$1600 USD Book Number: MLGrrPAL13 Order / Enquire
PARKER, Ann & NEAL, Avon.
Hajj Paintings Folk Art Of The Great Pilgrimage.
Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, [1995]..
4to. pp. xxvii, [1], 164. profusely illus. in colour (some full-page). cloth. dw. First Edition.
$79 USD Book Number: MRKjjPAR73 Order / Enquire
PATTERSON, James Laird.
Journal Of A Tour In Egypt, Palestine, Syria, And Greece: With Notes, And An Appendix on Ecclesiastical Subjects.
London: C.Dolman, 1852..
8vo. pp. xvi, 480 + [8]ads. 6 lithographed plates (1 folding - frontis., 4 double-page, 3 tinted). 2 wood-engraved text illus. A tight copy in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (the binding in quite good condition - the spine a bit dull & trifle frayed at ends, some foxing & waterstaining to plates, small library rubberstamps title, last page of text & verso of plates). First Edition. "Patterson's work describes a year's travels in the East, from October 1849 to October 1850. There is much discussion of religious practices and the differences between the various churches. The author, a Puseyite, was converted to Catholicism while in Jerusalem. The plates, after drawings by the author, include views of Karnak, Philae, and Jerusalem." (Blackmer) Blackmer 1269. Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 98. Röhricht 2230. Tobler p. 180. Not in Abbey.
$549 USD Book Number: elala2907 Order / Enquire
PITTS, Joseph, DANIEL, William, and PONCET, Charles Jacques.
The Red Sea And Adjacent Countries At The Close Of The Seventeenth Century.Edited by Sir William Foster.
London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society [Second Series: No. 100], 1949..
8vo. pp. xl, 192. with half-title. folding plate (frontis.) & 2 maps (1 folding). partly unopened in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (occasional foxing). National Maritime Museum Cat. I. 207.
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PORTER, J[osias] L[eslie] [1823-1889].
Five Years In Damascus: Including An Account Of The History, Topography, And Antiquities Of That City; With Travels And Researches In Palmyra, Lebanon, And The Hauran.
London: John Murray, 1855..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. x, [2], 395; vi, [2], 372. large folding partly hand-coloured engraved map, 6 plans (2 folding), 4 wood-engraved plates & 20 wood-engraved text illus. near contemporary half calf (spines sunned). bookseller's ticket of William Mullan of Belfast. First Edition. Porter was sent to Damascus in 1849 as a missionary to the Jews by the board of missions of the Irish Presbyterian church, and over the next ten years he travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. The present work describes Damascus and his experiences there, and relates his journeys to Palmyra, the Hauran, Lebanon, and other places. Blackmer 1333.
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PORTER, Rev. J[osias] L[eslie] [1823-1889].
The Giant Cities Of Bashan; And Syria's Holy Places.
London, Edinburgh & New York: T.Nelson And Sons, 1886..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., v, [5], [11]-371. 8 tinted plates (incl. frontis. & additional title). 2 text illus. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities bit rubbed). Porter was sent to Damascus in 1849 by the Irish Presbyterian Church as a missionary to the Jews, and over the next ten years he travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. He revisited the country in the 1860's. In the present work he argued that the massive buildings, whose ruins are found in Bashan, were constructed by the aboriginal inhabitants long before the occupation by Jewish tribes. cfBlackmer 1334. cfTobler p. 189.
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POUJOULAT, [Jean Joseph Fran ois] [1808-1880].
Histoire De Jérusalem.
Paris: L.F.Hivert, 1848.
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l.,iii, 460 ;2 p.l., 492, [1 leaf]errata. with half-titles. 2 engraved plates (frontis.) & 1 folding partly hand-coloured engraved map. A pretty set in black & gilt-stamped dark green chagrin, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt (few small nicks to rear cover & spine of Vol. II, occasional light spotting). Second Edition, revised and corrected. cfTobler 151.
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RAWLINSON, George [1812-1902].
The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy; Or The Geography, History, & Antiquities Of Parthia, Collected And Illustrated From Ancient And Modern Sources.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1873..
8vo. pp. xiii, [2]plate list & erratum, 458 + [24]ads. with half-title. 2 folding maps with partial hand-colour, colour lithographed frontis., & numerous text illus. contemporary half roan, functionally rebacked in cloth, retaining original free-endpapers (extremities worn, frontis. with dampstain in lower inner corner). First Edition. "Rawlinson summarised for his generation in scholarly form the results of research and excavation in the East, in a series of works of considerable constructive ability which have hardly yet been superseded in English." (DNB) Rawlinson's book on Parthia (the northeastern part of present-day Iran) is cited as one of two of the most important modern works on the history of the region and its inhabitants in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
$186 USD Book Number: MWLeRAWL76 Order / Enquire
RICHTER, Otto Friedrich Von.
Wallfahrten im Morgenlande.
[Berlin: Reimer, 1822]..
Plate volume only: lacking text. 5 sepia aquatints & 10 engraved plates by C.Senff after drawings by Von Richter. disbound (library blind & perforation stamps in first & last plates). First Edition. Plate volume only, including views of Bosra (5 sepia aquatints), Laodicea, Cyprus, Samothrace, Lemnos, &c.
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ROBINSON, B.W.; Dr. Ernst J. GRUBE; G.M. Meredith-Owens & R.W. SKELTON.
Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book (The Keir Collection).
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1976]..
4to. pp. 322, 157. 157 b/w illus. 22 double-sided b/w plates. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (minor wear to extremities). First Edition.
$300 USD Book Number: stela1200 Order / Enquire
RYCAUT, [Sir Paul] [1628-1700].
Histoire De L'Empire Ottoman.
The Hague: T.Johnson, 1709..
6 Parts in 3 Volumes (no separate titles to parts II & VI). 12mo. pp. xiv, 352, [22]index; 2 p.l., 48, 312, [14]index; 2 p.l., 335, [21]index, [2 leaves], 90, [10]index. with half-title in Vol. I. titles in red & black, 2 with engraved vignettes. 3 engraved titles. 2 folding engraved maps. later tree calf (rubbed, joints partly cracked, head of one spine chipped, some foxing & browning, outer margin of Vol. III title renewed, former owner's rubberstamp on titles & last page of each vol.). armorial bookplate of Le Comte Louis Taschen De Lapagerie. Rycaut spent six years (1661-67) in Constantinople as secretary to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea, British ambassador to the Porte. In 1667 he was appointed by the Levant Company to be their consul at Smyrna, where he remained for eleven years. The present work, first published in London, 1680-79, was intended as a continuation of Richard Knolles' Generall Historie of the Turkes (London: 1603), in the sixth edition of which it was printed as a supplement. cfBlackmer 1465. cfBrunet IV 1275. cfGraesse VI 108 (variant title).
$849 USD Book Number: MCAstRYC62 Order / Enquire
[SAFARIAN, A.E.] (Editor).
Letters From Armenia To Edward Safarian Translated By Eugenie Sheherian.
[Toronto: 632083 Ontario Ltd., 2002..
8vo. pp. xxiv, 88. wrs. Fine copy. First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: dola2097 Order / Enquire
SMYTH, Sir Warington W[ilkinson] 1847-1890].
A Year With The Turks Or Sketches Of Travel In The European And Asiatic Dominions Of The Sultan.
New York: Redfield, 1854..
12mo. pp. [2]ads, x, [11]-251, [8]ads. folding coloured frontis. map. original blind-stamped cloth (spine discoloured & slightly frayed at head, front flyleaf & bookplate removed). First American Edition. An account of the English geologist and mineralogist's travels to Orsova, Aleppo, Arghaneh, Charput, Tocat, Ladik, Samsun, Constantinople, Salonica, Upper Moesia, and Serbia. "Despite the disturbed state of the country at the date of his travels, his experience of the Turk in the rural districts, on the whole, was favourable, and he wrote in the hope of dispelling prevalent misconceptions." (DNB) cfWeber I 497.
$308 USD Book Number: MYTYeSMY40 Order / Enquire
SOUDAVAR, Abolala & Milo Cleveland BEACH.
Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection.
New York: Rizzoli, [1992]..
4to. pp. 423. profusely illus. in colour. index. wrs. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition.
$125 USD Book Number: stela1206 Order / Enquire
STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn [1815-1881].
Sinai And Palestine In Connection With Their History.
New York: Redfield, 1857..
8vo. pp. lv, [1], 535, 4(ads). 7 folding coloured maps (incl. frontis.) & 4 sketch-maps in the text. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (maps browned, scattered foxing). First American Edition. Account of the author's travels in Egypt and Palestine in the winter and spring of 1852-53. cfBlackmer 1600.
$231 USD Book Number: MANnaSTA89 Order / Enquire
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