New York (1953): The John Day Co. First American Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 280pp. illustrated with photographic images. In 1915 Philby was called by the Foreign and Political Department in Mesopotamia to worked with Sir Percy Cox in the building of what was to become modern Iraq. This was the..... More
Lakewood, Colorado; [2021]: Centipede Press. Large Octavo. 255 pages. Viking Press published The Haunting of Hill House in 1959 and it was immediately hailed as one of the best novels of the year and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Over the years the novel's legacy has grown..... More
Lakewood, Colorado; [2011]: Centipede Press, 2011. Quarto. 255 pages, unsigned. The large edition in the very scarce slipcase. Viking Press published The Haunting of Hill House in 1959 and it was immediately hailed as one of the best novels of the year and was a finalist for the National Book..... More
New York; (1985): Harper & Row. First American Edition. Thick Large Octavo. 880 pages. Translated by Robert Chandler. On its completion in 1960, this book was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later it was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the center of this epic work..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. First Edition. Small Quarto. . 203 pages. An important annotated translation of a rare manuscript in the Landburg Collection at Yale. An eye-witness of the events that describes the massacres in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860. The Ottoman Empire's move into darkness continued until..... More
London: A. Millar, 1755. Octavo. Each play has special title page and separate pagination. Advertisements throughout each volume. Some plays include unaccompanied melodies. The editions included vary from set to set. While Millar's 1762 issue of Fielding's Works became the most available, the very scarce 1755 octavo set was only..... More
Chicago; (2003): University of Chicago Press. First Edition. Quarto. xxxi, 443 pages, profusely illustrated (many in color). The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ..... More
New Haven; (2008): Yale University Press. Quarto. xi, 408 pages, rich color illustrations. Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry. This volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England, and the Netherlands over the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner;s Sons, 1931. First Edition. Large Octavo. xxi, 664 pages. Index. folding map at rear. A beautifully bound work, designed by Decorative Designers and of great scholarship with 187 photographs and 18 maps and plans. Using the model of his friend and colleague James Henry Breasted and..... More
London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 875 copies. The present copy is # 68 Inscribed twice by the Author to his friend, John Fulton with Fulton's bookplate. xxv, 289 pages [4] leaves of plates. One of the great association copies by Sir Geoffrey..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900. Octavo. viii, 527 pages, one folding brown map and 8 color maps, 30 sepia photographic images. While many aspects of ancient Palestine are covered, it is primarily a picture of the various Biblical locations as they existed at the end of the 19th..... More
London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1842. Octavo. 3rd edition expanded. xxiv, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates. This work remains an important classic on the British scholars' studies of Egypt culture. It is still used as a basic text by both Eastern and Western students of the Arab world..... More
Fall River, Mass: L'Independent, 1941. 12mo. Inscribed by Joseph Eid " God loves you/Jos. Eid. 24 pages. Published as a souvenir of the Pontifical Maronite Mass, Rt. Rev. P. Farah Assemani, clebrant, ninth National Eucharistic Congress, Saint Paul and Minneapolis, June 3-26-1941 where they held a huge parade with over..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Octavo. xvi, 367 pages, illustrated by Margaret Thomas with 86 unnumbered plates (some in color), folding map at the end. John Kelman had written important books on biblical aspects of geology and archaeology. He has integrated many ancient histories of the region and for..... More
London; (1952): Robert Hale. First Edition. Octavo. xiv, 280 pages, index. First Edition. In 1915, Philby was called by the Foreign and Political Department in Mesopotamia to worked with Sir Percy Cox in the building of what was to become modern Iraq. This was the first full-length biography of Ibn..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1907. First Edition. Large Octavo. xiii, 473 pages, 58 color plates including frontispiece and 4 line drawings in black and white, all by artists Reginald Barratt, Walter S.S. Tyrwhitt and P.B. Whelpley. The section on Cairo was based on Ali Pasha Mubarak's "Khitat Taufkikiyyah Jaddiah". He..... More
New York; (1933): Henry Holt and Co. Octavo. Frontispiece, xxiv, 433 pages, illustrated with black and white photographic images, three folding maps. Dr. L.J. Spencer of the British Museum has prepared the appendices (pages 365-412; index pages 413-433. Harry St. John Philby's initial mastery of Arabic along with the support..... More
1900. Quarto. 20 specimens of botanical flowers from the area near Lansing, Michigan each laid into a photo album on separate sheets and identified in pencil. This was before Michigan State was officially made a university and had both a Normal School and Agricultural College. Laid in is page identified..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Octavo. xix, 387 pages. Index, unopened. A work that introduced the West in vivid detail of Arabia especially after the growth of Wahhabi Imperialism. HThe author shows the First Wahhabit Empire in its glory until it was crushed by the Egyptians. There was an..... More
Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Egypt, 1947. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. The present copy is #285 and signed by Philby. 152 pages. This work not only is uncommon but it has the very scarce dust jacket. It is dedicated to his majesty King Abdu Azia Iba Sa'ud. William F...... More
Ithica, New York; (1952): Published for the Middle East Institute by Cornell University Press. First Edition. Octavo. xvi, 771 pages, errata slip laid in, illustrated and with a large folding map in rear pocket of Qizan (Jizan). Until the 1930's, the highlands of the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia were..... More
London: House of the Institution, 1919. Octavo. lv, 339pp., illustrated with maps, diagrams, and photographic images. Habby Stansich Ball was born in South Africa in 1888 and died at Haslemere after a long illness p. 189-249. Ball was a distinguished mining engineer with wide experience of South African and American..... More
London: Constable and Co. Limited, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. xiv, 422 pages, 29 unnumbered leaves of plates plus Plan of Buraida, several textual illustrations and a large folding map at rear. This is a continuation of what was in the classic The Heart of Arabia. Here he deals with the..... More
London: for William Rogers, 1697. Small Octavo. 2nd corrected edition, xxiii, [5], 180 pages. One of the major works of Islamophobias by Christian writers of the late 17th century. Prideaux who was the Archdeacon of Suffolk argues that because of the sins of Anglican Christians, God has allowed the religion..... More
London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. First Edition. 12mo. In two volumes, half-titles present, 340 and 251pp. both volumes with errata's on last page. The Man of Feeling was issued in 1771 and followed in February 1773 by The Man of the World, in which Sindall, a seducer..... More