MIDDLE EAST). THUBRON, Colin. The Hills of Adonis. A Quest in Lebanon. London: Heinemann, (1968). First edition. Cloth, 179pp. Fine in d/w with light wear to spine ends and corners. Author's five hundred mile journey around Lebanon, concentrating on the historic ports and the classical ruins.
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$225 | Book Number: 24185 | Order / Enquire |
NWEEYA, Samuel K. Persia. The Land of the Magi or The Home of the Wise Men. An Historical and Descriptive account of Persia from the Earliest Time......Including Afghanistan and Beloochistan. Philadelphia: Samuel W. Nweeya, (1913). Later edition. Orig. cloth, 426pp. A nice copy.
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$350 | Book Number: 31271 | Order / Enquire |
$350 | Book Number: 31270 | Order / Enquire |
$350 | Book Number: 31268 | Order / Enquire |
$350 | Book Number: 31269 | Order / Enquire |
PARFIT, Canon. Mesopotamia The Key to the Future. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. printed wrappers, 41pp. Fine.
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PENFIELD, Frederic Courtland. Present-Day Egypt. Illustrated by Paul Philippotequx and R. Talbot Kelly. New York: Century, 1907. Revised and enlarged edition. Tall 8vo., orig. red cloth with small gilt decoration on the upper cover, (xvi), 396pp. Spine very slightly faded o/w a fine copy.
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$500 | Book Number: 33404 | Order / Enquire |
PHILBY, H. St. John. The Land of Midian. London: Ernest Benn, (1957). First edition. Green cloth, (xiv), 286pp. A fine copy in an about fine, price clipped d/w. An account of the author's three thousand mile journey from Riyadh through Madina, Khaibar, Taima and Tabuk to the land between the sea and the Jijaz railway.
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$150 | Book Number: 33422 | Order / Enquire |
PHILBY, H. St.J. B. Forty Years In The Wilderness. London: Robert Hale, (1957). First edition. Tall 8vo., cloth, 272pp. Lacking the front free e/paper, name on the half title o/w fine in a d/w with chipping to head of the spine and light wear, very good. "This book, a further installment of the author's autobiography, the complement of his 'Arabian Days.' From four decades of intimate association with Sa'udi Arabia and its great king, Abdul-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud, the experiences he now recalls illustrate the rise, decline and fall of that unique modern phenomenon: a theocratic state." (rear panel of the d/w).
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PHILBY, H. St.J. B. The Empty Quarter being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, second issue. Tall 8vo., orig. tan cloth stamped in dark brown, xxiv, 433pp. Mark on front pastedown from removal of a bookplate, inner hinges starting, spine slightly faded with very light rubbing in fact a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
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$300 | Book Number: 8532 | Order / Enquire |
PITMAN, Mrs. E.R. Missionary Heroines In Eastern Lands: Woman's Work in Mission Fields. New York: Fleming H. Revell, nd. (188-?) Sm. 8vo., orig. red pictorial cloth, 160pp. Very good.
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ROSS, Minne S.C. Around The Mediterranean. New York: Grafton Press, (1906). First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth with a small pictorial paper panel, 274pp. A near fine copy. Seven of the 20 chapters of this work are devoted to the authors experiences in the Holy Land (Egypt, Jerusalem); the rest of the chapters cover Algiers, the Sahara, Italy (3 chapters), Athens, Budapest/Vienna as well as some general chapters.
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SARGENT, John. A Memoir of The Rev. Henry Martyn.......With an Introductory Essay and An Appendix by the American Editor. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1833. Third edition. (from the 10th London edition, enlarged and corrected). 8vo., orig. cloth, paper spine label, (lx), (61)-466pp. Foxing throughout, some rubbing and wear a good copy. Travels in India and Arabia.
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SCOTT, Hugh. In The High Yemen. London: John Murray, (1942). First edition. Cloth, xx, 260pp. Cloth faded and mottled, cloth speckled around perimeter but still a very good copy. Account of travels during a scientific expedition to South West Arabia in 1937-8. The firsts part of the books discusses the reasons for the scientific expedition. The second part is "a personal narrative of our journey into two Arabian countries. The Western Division of the Aden Protectorate.....The Kingdom and IMamate of the Yemen. The final section is devoted to the "present state of knowledge of the tribes inhabiting this part of Arabia...."
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SEARIGHT, Sarah. The British in the Middle East. London: East-West Publications, (1979). Revised edition. Cloth, 290pp. Fine in d/w. The author concentrates on the social and cultural aspects of British interest in the Middle East over a period of 400 years.
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