New York: Thos. Cook & Son, 1931. Octavo. 117pp. (4)pp. ads. It was Cook who brought to Victorian England the idea that travel to exotic places in the Near East (particularly those that ended up in Palestine) would be akin to a religious experience. They would understand exactly when they..... More
Cairo: Np, 1954. Small Quarto. 7th edition. A signed card is tipped in along with his inscription on the title page: "to my little brother and companion, John Habib, June 1955. 122 leaves(printed on rectos only). This edition was revised by the author. Father Ayrout was an educator and sociologist..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880. Original Wraps. Limited. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 32 pp. Offprint. Extract of Journal Asiatique. Cover semi-detached. More
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. 329pp. A thorough treatment on the reform of justice in 19th century Egypt, the center of political and financial changes in the Middle East. Bound in gold pictorial paper covered boards lettered in red and black, spine lettering..... More
Tucson, Arizona, )2007): Univ of Arizona Pr. First Edition in English. Octavo. 254p. index, references, appendix. Bound in green cloth, spin lettering gilt. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: Scribner's and Sons, 1884. Octavo. 330 pages, (1) pp. publisher's ad. Henry M. Field was a world traveler whose writing captured the excitement of a world of which most Americans new very little. His account of when he and his companion were sick, and they and their camels..... More
Philadelphia: A.J. Holman, 1903. xxiv, 809 pages, illustrations, with all four maps present in pockets. The contents cover Assyrian, Babylon, Egyypt, Arabia and the so-called Hittites. H.V. Hilprecht was a leading scholar on the Near East with a specialty on Assyriology, he was able to get the leading scholars on..... More
Oxford University Press New York 1968. First American. Hard Cover. More
Warminster, England; (1973): Aris & Phillips. First Edition. Octavo. 525 pages, 12 maps, plans, diagrams, and index. K.A. Kitchen, has solved many of the seemingly unsurmountable obstacles on this era. He subjects the conflicting chronological data for this period to a systematic and penetrating scrutiny. Piecing together with meticulous care..... 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
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874. Octavo. 331pp., bound a brown pictorial gilt cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Only very miinor wear to spine ends with a couple of signatures a bit pulled, internally clean. More
Budapestini: 1937. Octavo. 509p. (2)pp.addenda, some additional leaves p. 3-35 bound in at rear in hebrew, frontispience of Edward Mahler who was not only known as a great Hungarian astronomer but also for his expertise in Assyriology, Egyptology and Oriental history. This work is essentially written in his honor with..... 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
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1873. First Edition. Octavo. 86 pages, (2) pp. ads, illustrated by fourteen autotype views of Egypt and Palestine after David Roberts. The autotype process allowed the publisher to reproduce images without the cost of having more expensive systems. His masterful works on the Holy Land..... More
The Hague: Dr. W. Junk B.V., 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 417pp. Volume 29 of this series, Monographiae Biologicae. A compendium of biological, conservation, and cultivation themes of the ancient and vast Nile River Basin, with 101 figures, 2 color plates, maps and 1 foldout map. Bound in maroon [pictorial gilt..... More
Austin; (1992): University of Texas Press. First Edition. Quarto. Both volumes are large hardcovers quartos in fine condition in fine dust jackets. Volume 1 gives an introduction to the role of tokens in the rise of agriculture until the invention of writing about 3100 B.C. Volume 2 was issued in..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co, 1859. Octavo. From the library of [Henry Herbert], 4th Earl of Carnarvon. 4th edition. In two volumes, Vol. I: Frontispiece map, 407pp. Vol. II: Frontispiece map, 411pp., textual illustrations throughout. An interesting history which also gives us some history of family, from the Greeks, Romans..... More
Tucson, (2007): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 338(1)pp., With a foreword by Ofer Bar-Yosef. Based on 30 years of fieldwork, this volume examines the Neolithic Revolution in the Levantine Near East and on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Each chapter includes sections on history, terminology..... More
Bonn: A. Marcus Und E. Weber, 1908. First American. Orginal Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16 pp. Tear on upper back cover. Text with notes from Elphantine, Strassburg papyrus, and Esra, with notes. More
Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1978. First Edition. Quarto. 157p. 6 plates, 37 figures (2 folding plates). stamped "review copy American Anthropologist"--. The author discovered in 1967 this region about 80 km south of Luxor locating a series of well-stratified epipaleolithic campsites. Using Radiocarbon-dating they fit the area 6400-5980 BC;..... More
Paris: Chez Courcier, 1807. Octavo. Fourth edition. In two volumes: Vol. I, x, 487 pages (1) p. advertisement and Vol. II 492 pages, half-titles present in both volumes, printed on laid paper with each map and image on very thick paper to enhance the preservation. The French academic philosophers of..... More
Cairo: Institut Francais D'archeologie Orientale. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 180p. French text a good copy with bump at midpoint of back cover, no writing or notes. More
Paris; 1935 and 1936: Imprimerie Nacionale. Quarto. 2 Volumes in four: Volume 1 in 2 volumes dated 1935, superbly illustrated with 102 gravures and 2 maps. Volume 2 in 2 volumes dated 1936 with 99 gravures and 7 maps. One of the most important military histories of Egypt in the..... More
Bonn: Carl Georgi, Universtaets-Buchdruckerei Und Verlag, 1912. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 97 pp. 6 fold-out plates after text. Ribbon bookmarker. Vertical crease through half the volume, former owner's name in ink. More