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The Holy Land, Syria and Arabia

Embark on a journey of discovery through the Holy Land, Syria, and Arabia with our collection of rare travel and exploration books, inspired by the exploits of famous explorers like T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, and Wilfred Thesiger.
  • The Horse of the Desert.

    BROWN, William Robinson.
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    The first edition of William Robinson Brown's The Horse of the Desert, a comprehensive account of the Arabian horse describing its habitat, origin...

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  • Sana an Arabian Islamic city.

    SERGEANT, R. B.; Ronald Lewcock.
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    Sergeant's Sana is the standard work on the city. The work covers all aspects of Sana society, history, and culture and is lavishly illustrated.Fi...

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  • Kings of Arabia.

    JACOB, Harold F.
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    Jacob's Kings of Arabia is a comprehensive political sketch of Yemen from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.First edition. 8vo, 294 ...

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  • Relation d'un pèlerinage à la Mecque en 1910-1911.

    KAZEM ZADEH, Hoseyn.
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    Illustrated account of a pilgrimage to mecca. A personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911 illustrated with 16 pho...

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  • The Marsh Arabs.

    THESIGER, Wilfred.
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    Thesiger's account of his time with the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq in the 1950's.First edition, first impression. 8vo, xiv, 242 pp., 109 photogr...

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  • The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.

    ROBERTS, David.
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    The first quarto edition of Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, one of the most important and elaborate ventures of...

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  • An account of the construction in the years 1932 to 1934

    [IRAQ OIL].
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    Well illustrated history of the construction of the pipe line which played a major part in providing fuel for the Allies during WWII. The Haifa st...

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  • An account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia.

    HUNTER, Frederick Mercer.
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    A scarce work covering all aspects of contemporary life in Aden, intended to supplement Playfair's 1859 History of Yemen, with a useful list of 'a...

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  • The Oasis of Al-Hasa.

    VIDADL, F.S.
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    A well-illustrated account of the oasis, an important stop on the trade route to the interior of Saudi Arabia, being close to the shore of the Ara...

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  • Journal d'un voyage en Arabie (1883-1884).

    HUBER, Charles.
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    Explorer Charles Huber first went to Arabia in 1878 staying until 1882, and the results of his expedition were recorded in the Bulletin de la Soci...

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  • Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.

    BURTON, Richard F.
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    Finely bound set. Widely regarded as one of the greatest works of travel ever published, Burton's Pilgrimage to Mecca is rarely found in such a han...

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  • The recent history of the Hijaz

    PHILBY, Harry St. John B.
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    Offprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...

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  • Birds of Arabia.

    MEINERTZHAGEN, Colonel Richard.
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    The preferred enlarged edition. A controversial figure in his 'day job' of military intelligence and espionage, Meinertzhagen was also a keen ornit...

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  • The Arab of the desert.

    DICKSON, H.R.P.
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    The preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into...

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  • Kuwait and her neighbours

    DICKSON, H.R.P.
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    Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

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  • Kuwait and her neighbours

    DICKSON, H.R.P.
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    Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

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  • Arabian Gulf Intelligence:

    THOMAS, R. Hughes (editor).
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    An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

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  • Femme Juive.

    GEISER, Jean.
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    Jean Geiser (1848 - 1923) inherited his mother's photographic studio in 1875, which she opened in Algeria in 1853. He later became best known for ...

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