One of the prototypes for Levantine costume plates. a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic world. T...

Pendlebury's handbook gives us a detailed architectural history of the Palace at Knossos on the Island of Crete.First edition. 8vo, 63pp, 14 photo...

Rather than go to university in 1933, at the age of "18 and three-quarters", he set out in December that year to walk from the Hook of Holland to ...

Rare publication in English & French. This scarce volume was issued with the French text bound in at the rear. Athens was issued in five editio...

An essential work of reference and a beautifully produced book.4to (35 x 26 cm), 338pp, profusely illustrated throughout with colour and monochrom...

A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...

Adventures in arabia. Raunkier travelled to Rihadh in 1912 at the behest of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. His object was to examine the po...

This second and last edition has been extended to include the Balkans and Cyprus. This title was only published in German. Issued c.1923.Second ed...

The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

With censorship slip.. First edition of this scarce title with the rare censorship slip warning travellers to hide the book from the authorities.Th...

This second and last edition has been extended to include the Balkans and Cyprus. This title was only published in German. Issued c.1926.Second ed...

An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...

The American geologist Raphael Pumpelly led this important scientific expedition to Anau in Russian Turkestan in 1903-1904. He was accompanied by ...

The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...

Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and Irish antiquary, was the father of Oscar Wilde. Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant t...

Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...

This volume describes a much wider area than just Dalmatia. It covers the Danube from Vienna to Roumania, including Budapest and Belgrade. This is...

One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...

Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...