A scarce popular history and guide to fortune telling. OCLC records just three copies in institutional holdings worldwide at the National Library ...

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 handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...

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 of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...

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

Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

One of 30 copies. The beautifully designed Corvinus Press edition of the diary that Lawrence kept during his first trip to the Middle East in 1911,...

A handsome set. A handsome set of the first editions of William Scrope's two most important books, classics in the history of British sporting.Scro...

Charming hand-coloured plates. A handsomely bound copy of this classic of British natural history, illustrated with 71 hand-coloured plates of butt...

A charming edition, illustrated by the well-known illustrator Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938).First edition thus, third printing; 8vo (200 x 130 ...

A scarce wartime guide to Calcutta. Library Hub lists BL only.First edition. 8vo, xiii, 300 pp., 3 maps, 64 photographic illustrations, original g...

An attractive copy of Wyld's hemisphere map of the Arctic regions, dedicated to Lady Franklin, in its original binding. The map can be approximate...

A beautiful copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with 16 colour-plate illustrations after the Hungarian artist Willy Pogany (1882-1955).This editi...

Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...

With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...

A very good example of this comprehensive and detailed guide book to the United States. The large coloured map at the rear which only covers half ...

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...

A comprehensive description of the most famous golf courses of the British Isles, accompanied by an attractive set of illustrations from original ...

A beautiful copy. First edition, first printing. A lovely copy in uncommonly good condition. The orange dust jacket and binding of this book are no...

Inscribed association copy. First edition, first printing of 'the first carefully crafted and widely accepted popularization of computers' (IEEE ob...