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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.

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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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  • 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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  • Western Arabia and the Red Sea.

    [GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].
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    Includes Mecca and Medina. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, history, people, ports and towns, etc. The Geographical Handbook S...

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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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  • 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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  • Travels,

    SHAW, Thomas.
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    A valuable work. 'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited ...

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  • Storia degli Arabi sotto il governo de'Califi.

    MARIGNY, François Augier de.
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    A splendidly bound first edition set in Italian of this chronological history of the Eastern Caliphs, successors of the Prophet and the Emperors o...

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  • Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar;

    OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.
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    Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...

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  • Joppa to Jericho.

    [PALESTINE]. H.M.S. Royal Oak
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    A scarce privately printed journal of a shore excursion from H.M.S. Royal Oak in 1928, when the ship was serving with the Royal Navy's Mediterrane...

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  • Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

    FULLER, Thomas.
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    The first true Biblical atlas. Pisgah refers to Mount Pisgah, the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time.T...

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  • Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte.

    DENON, Dominique-Vivant.
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    Magnificent large format classic of Egyptology, the first major work on the subject. A superb example, very fresh and finely bound in contemporary...

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