New York: Limited editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. 232 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 1298 of 1500 copies signed by Valenti Angelo, and designed by him and A. Colish. The embellished decorations by Angelo enhanced by his oriental style wallet-flap of the front cover. NEWMAN & WICHE 284. More about Koran Selected Suras; Translated from the Arabic by Arthur Jeffrey
London: James Blackwood, [1858]. Bartlett, W.H. First edition. Hardcover. 24 pages in text. 26 x 18 cm. Ten engraved full page color plates (with tissue guards) from drawings by W.H. Bartlett with descriptive letterpress -- Bethlehem, The Dead Sea, Mount Lebanon, Mount of Olives from the Wall, Solomon's Pools, Nain... More about Bible Scenes Of Interest And Beauty A Series Of Ten Views In Palestine
London: Printed For T. Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, 1798. Second edition. Hardcover. 56 pages. 21 x 13 cm. With folding copper-engraved plan of the Battle of the Nile, also called the Battle of Abu Quir, one of Nelson's greatest victories, restoring the British presence in the Mediterranean and dooming... More about An Authentic Narrative Of The Proceedings Of His Majesty's Squadron Under The Command Of Rear...
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs... More about Unexplored Syria Visits To The Libanus, The Tulel El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern...
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 330 pages. 20.4 x 14 cm. Frontispiece, a colored map of the Sinai. Fresh copy, slight rubbing backstrip extremities. More about On The Desert: With A Brief Review Of Recent Events In Egypt
Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. 250 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece. Translated into German by Oskar P. Trautmann from the second Russian edition, Moscow, 1946. Signed presentation copy from Peter Amelung to Bernard H. Breslauer. Text embrowned. More about Uber arabische Handschriften gebeugt. Erinnerunge und Menschen
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1812, 1818. First editions. Hardcover. 437 & 435 pages. 4to, 28.5 x 24 cm. Seventeen aquatints, three engraved folding plates, and nine engraved plates, most after designs by the author. Index. Lacks errata sheet, half title and list of plates re first journey... More about A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, And Asia Minor, To Constantinople, In The Years 1808 And 1809;...
Utrecht: Guilielmi Broedelet, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. 511 pages. 20.5 x 16.5 cm. 14 leaves of plates, additional engraved title, large folding map, folding table, 11 maps and plans, four of which are folding. Title page printed in red and black, text in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. Jan Goeree... More about Palaestina Ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 292 pages in text. Folio, 36 x 26.5 cm. Seventy-eight plates, and 81 text figures, and 12 folding plates, some colored at back cover pocket. The pyramids of the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty are associated with the name of one of the three... More about Mycerinus the Temples Of The Third Pyramid At Giza
Portland: Graphic Arts Center, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Photography by David Fitzgerald. Ninety-five color plates. More about Israel Land of Promise
Dublin: Luke White, 1787. leather_bound. 414 & 425 cm. 21 x 13 1/2 cm. Three folding plates (two maps). Robert Young Hayne's (1791-1839) copy, a Senator and Governor [South Carolina] and Mayor of Charleston, with his bookplates and signatures on title pages of both volumes. Hayne was a keen advocate... More about Letters On Egypt. With A Parallel Between The Manners Of Its Ancient And Modern Inhabitants, The...