John Jourdain (d.1619) was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India. ...

First edition of the 1951 issue of the R.A.F. Aeronautical map of Bahrain and Qatar. The War office issued the R.A.F. series alongside a separate ...

Wellsted's classic work on Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Much of this work is based on the travels of Lieut. Ormsby, conveyed to Wellsted verbally ...

A beautiful and exhaustive work exploring several areas of the Levant, including territories of modern day Israel and Egypt, as well as parts of L...

The complete facsimile text of the fabled Oxford 1922 printing of Seven Pillars, with the 48 plates which accompanied the 1926 Subscriber's issue,...

Large scale map of the Arabian Peninsula. The first edition, English language issue of this large-scale chromolithographed map of the Arabian Penin...

Signed by the author. The signed limited edition of William Robinson Brown's The Horse of the Desert, a comprehensive account of the Arabian horse ...

William Hughes FRGS was an English geographer, cartographer, author and academic.Colour lithograph map, centre fold as published, sheet size: 535m...

Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Lawrence's classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, writte...

A scarce first edition of this personal account of Lady Montefiore's travels in the Levant, published anonymously and dedicated to her husband.The...

Dickson's classic work on Saudi Arabia. Dickson the son of the British consul in Damascus, had unrivalled access to the desert tribes as a result ...

Philby made a series of remarkable journeys, of which the greatest was his crossing of the 'Empty Quarter' in 1932. On these journeys he travelled...

A finely bound copy of Hogarth's survey of Western exploration into Arabia, describing chronologically the key European explorers and reproducing ...

The account of a journey made by Philby, Ibn Saud's official adviser, from the King's camp on the Mecca to Riyadh Road to the Indian Ocean. Philby...

A finely bound copy Philby's survey of the achievements of 'Abdul-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud. Scarce.First edition. 8vo, xix, 394 pp., leaf of ads at end ( p...

The account of Rutter's pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Rutter lived as a Muslim in a Mecca. Includes interviews with Ibn Saud.First one volume ed...

A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...

Thomas' indispensable guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtain...

Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...

A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...