Middle Eastern History

3 Volumes. xii+139 pages lacking frontispiece; 168 pages lacking frontispiece with 6 color plates of 10; 141 pages lacking frontispiece with 9 color plates of 11. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in half red leather with gilt lettering and stamping to spine and along edge of half leather. First American edition. Antoine-Laurent Castellan was a French painter, architect, and engraver. After having studied landscape painting under Valenciennes, he visited Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and published several series of letters upon those parts, illustrated with views drawn and engraved by himself. His best-known work is the Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, published in 1812, and highly praised by Lord Byron. He also wrote Etudes sur le Chateau de Fontainebleau, which was not published until after his death. He was also the inventor of a new process of painting in wax. Condition: 15 or 24 plates. Spines sympathetically repaired, corners rubbed, some foxing and pencil marginalia, previous… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1923. (Hardcover) 267pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Bibliography, index. Small white patches on the endpapers, and light wear at the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Book about Fatimid Khalifate, First Crusade, Fatmid Khalifa, Second Crusade. Time Period Medieval & Medieval. Publisher series: Trubner's Oriental Series. Locale: ; ; Middle East. (History--Middle East, Crusades, Islam).

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard , 1849. Book. Illus. by 28 wood engraved plates and 2 Folding Maps. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contemporary 3/4 brown calf, elaborate gilt spine panels and raised bands. Attractive and fresh marbled page edges, with matching boards and endpapers. A bit of wear at the edges, and crown slightly chipped. An handsome copy of the U.S. Navy's first foray into the Holy Land, over which young Lynch and his men hauled their boats with camels to the Sea of Galilee, then down the River Jordon to the Dead Sea. er. This copy has repairs on the verso of the map folds, and a few small chips at the edges. The expedition also visited Smyrna and Constantinople. Blackmer 1043 The official report of this Naval adventure was published in 1852. .

London, 1753. First Edition . Full Leather, Gilt. Very Good. 20 5/8" x 14 1/8. Plates. Vi, 50 Pp, Followed By 38 Plates. The Index Indicates There Should Be 57 Plates, Of Which 19 Are Lacking (The Plates Still Present Are 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56). 20" X 14 1/2". Contemporary Full Calf, Blind Tooled Panels With Corners Tooled On Boards, Ornately Gilt Spine, Morocco Spine Label, All Edges Colored Red. No Names Or Marks Except A Couple Of Tiny Pencil References. Covers Worn, Corners Worn And Frayed, Joints Cracked But Held Firmly By Cords, 3/16" Loss Along Bottom Edge Of Spine. Pages Clean And Fresh. A Classic Of Archaeological Investigation And Illustration; Unfortunately Also A Classic Example Of How Poorly Mankind Preserves Its Historical Monuments, Particularly So Since Many If Not Most People In The Near East, Mediterranean, And Europe Have Some Distant… Read More

New York: Random House, 2006. Signed on the title page by the author, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered spine, light blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2006.

Privately Printed, 1955 Black/ gilt leather spine with four raised bands, black patterned cloth. 339 pgs. Index. In Arabic with English and Arabic footnotes. Table of Contents in English. Recommendation Letter from Professor F. Lee Benns to the Iraqi Minister of Education. Inscribed to Prof. Benns and Signed by Hussain Sept. 28, 1955 ink on title page. Very Rare OCLC finds 1 copy held in France. Printed by Sa'Ad Press Baghdad. Clean. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, dark blue endpapers. Spine and gold lettering on spine is worn and faded. Including colored portrait frontispiece, 10 colored plates, 7 black and white plates and one folding map at the end. First US edition, large paper issue of 250 copies, numbered 196. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars meant that T.E. had to produce an abridged edition. Included are several newspaper articles from 1935 about T.E. Lawrence's death placed in book by previous owner.

London:: Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head, over against St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, 1742., 1742. Second edition. 8vo. [2], vi, 234, [6], 40 pp. Frontispiece engraved folding portrait (by J. Hulett), engr. plates, engraved folding map of the Monghol Empire and Part of Tartary. Original full calf, spine stamped spine, raised bands, maroon spine label; joints reinforced with kozo, corners showing. Very good. Modern brown cloth slip-case (fine). Rubber stamp of the Scottish Rite Memorial Library, Portland, Oregon. RARE. SECOND EDITION, corrected, of an important source for study of 18th century Persia and the reign by Nadir Shah (1688-1747). This account is remarkably detailed, but it also records most notably, Nadir's invasion of India during 1737-38. It was the first book in English treating of Nãdir Shãh, 'the scourge of God.' It is important not only as a first-hand contribution to the history of contemporary events, but also for the number of original documents which it alone… Read More

Istanbul: Altin Kitaplar, 1977. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. With its rare dust wrapper. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 410, [4] p. [RARE FIRST TURKISH EDITION: PSYCHEDELIC COVER] Medyum. [= The shining]. Translated by Mehmet Harmanci. Cover design by Oral Orhon. Mehmet Harmanci (translator), (1932-), was a Turkish translator, author, and the founder of 'Koza Publishing House' together with Tarik Dursun K., (1931-2015). He is known for his translations from American contemporary and modern literature to Turkish as well as Stephen King's books. Oral Orhon was a famous contemporary Turkish graphic designer. He was a productive illustrator between the years 1930-1970, has also drawn many comic books, cartoons, covers, advertisements, movie posters. This book's dust jacket is designed by Orhon in psychedelic photographic style. Extremely rare first Turkish Edition. With its original dust jacket, very difficult to… Read More

Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. xiv, 311 pp. New. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on board. Volume 84, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies.

London:: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1821-1822., 1821. Two volumes. Large 4to. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. xxiii, 720; [v]-xiv, [2], pp. Volume I: illustrated with 42 full-page plates, 4 full-page colored plates, 14 folding plates [60 total]; volume II: 23 full-page plates, 1 colored plate, 5 folding plates, and 1 large folding map [30 in total], index; some foxing to contents. Bound in full modern russet morocco, tooled and lettered in gilt; corners with gentle repairs. Handsome copy. Bookplate of Kimbolton Castle. Very good. First edition of this grand descriptive tour of Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, profusely illustrated with 90 plates (including 5 colored plates). Porter, knighted and married to a Russian princess, traveled through much of Persia in 1817. This detailed account of his travels includes visits to Persepolis and the tomb of Cyrus the Great wherein he recorded inscriptions, now lost, & much more worn with time passed. He was himself an artist and drew of… Read More

Istanbul: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Hükümeti Maarif Vekâleti Nesriyâti / Matbaa-yi Âmire., [AH 1339], 1923. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (19,5 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 14 p. First and only Turkish edition of this important, rare, and the first work on eugenics in Turkey in book form, translated by Balaban from English, from a lecture Pearson gave at Oxford University, including the idea of the human race can be grown more perfectly in the future as well as the species of animals and plants. Balaban indicated in his preface of the work that Eugenism is discussed in the western world under the leadership of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), and it should be progressed in Turkey as well. Especially in this period when epidemics are common, the book emphasizes how important it is to combat these diseases. Mustafa Rahmi Balaban (1888-1953),… Read More

Constantinople (Istanbul): Neologos Litografyasi - Votîra ve Sürekasi Matbaasi., [AH 1292], 1875. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary 1/4 leather bdg. with marbled boards. Small 4to. (27 x 19 cm). 23 p. (11 p. in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters; 12 p. in French), with rare 4 folded maps. A very good copy. First and only edition of this extremely rare bilingual book in French and Ottoman Turkish, including the first records on the formation and characteristics of storms to explain how storms and hurricanes occurred, which route they followed, and how they were conveyed to the regions that need to be warned by telegraph, for the vessels sailing in the seas, by French expert Coumbary who was founded the Rasathâne-i Âmîre [i.e. Ottoman Imperial Observatory]. Both the original French and Turkish translations of the work were published together in one volume. The work also included four maps which were… Read More

Mahwah, New Jesey: The Newman Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. New/New. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9.25 inches tall; 984 pages with with a Bibliography and Index.. A groundbreaking study of the use of the Didache in the earliest of Jewish-Christian communities, and for today's Church.  [Dennis D. McManus, Georgetown University] The Didache also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise (ancient church order) written in Koine Greek. The Didache is considered the first example of the genre of Church Orders. The Didache reveals how Jewish Christians saw themselves and how they adapted their practice for Gentile Christians. The Didache reveals a tantalizingly detailed description of the prophetic faith and day-to-day routines that shaped the Jesus movement some twenty yearsafter the death of Jesus. Milavec's clear,… Read More