The privately printed true first edition. The rare privately printed edition, preceding the trade edition by twenty-one years. The text consists of...

Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...

An account of ten years life in Abyssinia; and sixteen years in Syria.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 339 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, numerous engra...

Scarce photo publication of both Iraq and Central Arabia during the Great War, brought out by St John Philby at the end of 1918. Philby had served...

Scarce historical account of the pilgrimage to Mecca illustrated with seven photographic plates.First edition, 8vo, vi, 71pp., 7 photographic plat...

Asia Minor & Mesopotomia. Although Dapper (1636-1689) never left the Netherlands, he garnered information for his authoritative works from Dutc...

Holland House copy. Griffiths travelled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to t...

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...

The second part of Buckingham's overland journey to India from Egypt in 1816-17.First octavo edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xx, [ii], 479; vi, [ii], 53...

The first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims. Rare. Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), travelled with his family to Baghdad in 1829 wher...

A 'very interesting work' (Blackmer), containing long accounts of Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo, as well as detailed accounts of the Druses. A caree...

First separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; originally published as part of Ferrario's immense Il Costume Antico e Moderno, issued...

After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discov...