Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...

Written by Ali 'for all fair-minded non-Muslims on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of that great benefactor of humanity'.First edition. 8...

The history of Petromin (The General Petroleum and Mineral Organization) from its foundation in 1962 up to 1977. Petromin was founded to develop p...

'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and as much as the discovery of Troy, this book w...

Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...

A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles...

Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.

'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...

An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...

History of the holy kaaba and masjid al-haram. Mohamed Amin was among the first photographers to photograph sections of the Holy Mosques of Mecca a...

An evangelical missionary, Fanny Guinness believed that it was important to know more about Central Africa in order to better understand it, and h...

Gelatine silver print (17 x 13 cm). Label with James Carr signature, manuscript title on reverse.

Albumen print. Title and photographer's name printed on image. Dimensions 17 x 24cm.

Doorly was a junior officer on board the Morning, a relief ship used on Scott's Discovery expedition. It was the ship which took a disgruntled Sha...

The scarce English language edition of Coronelli's Morea. This was published to celebrate the new Venetian possessions reconquered from Turkey. Co...

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...

Scarce account of a three-month journey principally through Asiatic Turkey and undertaken for the purpose of making an objective assessment 'as to...