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Mecca rare books
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First edition, 8vo, 296 pp., ads at end, 41 photographic illustrations, 4 sketch maps, original red cloth gilt, spine faded, a good copy.
£275 -
First edition, 8vo, 296 pp., ads at end, 41 photographic illustrations, 4 sketch maps, original red cloth gilt, old ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy.
£450 -
8vo, with 20 photographic plates, a folding plan of Mecca and a plan of the mosque, original navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, a very good copy.
£600 -
Second edition; 2 parts in one vol., 12mo (15.4 x 10 cm); title printed in red and black, 10 full-page engravings, including frontispiece, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials, scattered light foxing; contemporary black straight-grained morocco, gilt lettering to spine, light rubbing to spine and extremities, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, an attractive copy; 442, [2]pp.
£750 -
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 659 pp, large folding coloured map in rear pocket, 357 photographic illustrations, with further maps, illustrations and tables (many folding) in the text, original green cloth, spine faded with a little discolouration, a good copy.
£350 -
First edition. 8vo, x 349 pp., folding map, 7 plates, original blue cloth gilt, light wear, a very good copy.
£550 -
Memorial edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xxviii, [4], 436; xii, [4], 479 pp., edited by Isabel Burton, her portrait as frontispiece to Vol. I, tinted lithographed plates, one coloured, folding map, original gilt pictorial cloth, light wear, occasional light spotting, a very good set.
£850 -
First edition. 8vo, viii, 174 pp., 10 pages of ads at end, photographic frontispiece, fine original green decorative cloth gilt, bevelled boards, edges red, short splits to rear inner hinge but firm, a very good copy.
£900 -
First edition, 8vo, viii, 215 pp., 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco label lettered in gilt; rebacked to style retaining label, corners a bit rubbed.
£2,850 -
First edition, 8vo, vi, 71pp., 7 photographic plates, 3 maps (1 double-page and another torn with slight loss), contemporary morocco-backed boards, a very good example.
£850