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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

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 ...

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