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First edition of Richard Burton's The Book of the Sword, his classic treatise on the Sword including its history in Persia and the Middle East.
First edition of Richard Burton's The Book of the Sword, his classic treatise on the Sword including its history in Persia and the Middle East.
First edition of Richard Burton's The Book of the Sword, his classic treatise on the Sword including its history in Persia and the Middle East.
First edition of Richard Burton's The Book of the Sword, his classic treatise on the Sword including its history in Persia and the Middle East.

BURTON, Richard F.

The Book of the Sword.

London, Chatto and Windus, 1884.

$3,416.00
$3,416.00

The Book of the Sword.

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Richard Burton's classic work on the sword, including its history in Persia and the Middle-East. Burton intended this to be the first part of a comprehensive three-volume work on the sword, but parts II and III were never published.

First edition; royal 8vo; original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in brown, front board decorated in brown with crossed-sword motif and arabesques, light wear, spine faded, corners bumped, a very good copy; xl, 299 pp.

Casada 27; Penzer, pp. 107–8.

Stock code 112994

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First edition of Richard Burton's The Book of the Sword, his classic treatise on the Sword including its history in Persia and the Middle East.

The Book of the Sword.

$3,416.00
$3,416.00

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Richard Burton

Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.

DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire: c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
$20,493.00

Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia.
Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia.

LORIMER, John Gordon.
Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia. 2003.
$5,465.00

John Lorimer's Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia, one of the most important primary sources for the study of the Gulf.
John Lorimer's Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia, one of the most important primary sources for the study of the Gulf.

[ARABIAN GULF]. LORIMER, John Gordon.
Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia. 2003.
John Lorimer's Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia, one of the most important primary sources for the study of the Gulf.
$5,465.00

First edition of Jean de la Roque's Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse, a description of the Kingdom of Yemen and Moka, and a treatise of coffee including three attractive plates of the coffee plant.
First edition of Jean de la Roque's Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse, a description of the Kingdom of Yemen and Moka, and a treatise of coffee including three attractive plates of the coffee plant.

ROQUE, Jean de la.
Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse, 1716.
$3,416.00

First edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, his classic narrative of his time spent amongst the Bedouins of South Arabia.
First edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, his classic narrative of his time spent amongst the Bedouins of South Arabia.

THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands. 1959.
$684.00

The 1942 edition of the Persian Gulf Pilot, with the 1948 supplement, a scarce pilot guide of the Persian gulf describing Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi, and numerous other villages and towns along the Arabian coast.
The 1942 edition of the Persian Gulf Pilot, with the 1948 supplement, a scarce pilot guide of the Persian gulf describing Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi, and numerous other villages and towns along the Arabian coast.

[ARABIAN GULF].
Persian Gulf Pilot 1942.
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