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
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
Brussels: Vromant, 1914. First American. Original Wraps. . 46 pp. 29 b&w photos. 1" tear on upper, lower spine. Spine loose. 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
Cairo: (1949): Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, Octavo. 168 pp. A new English edition with additional chapters. The two complementary chapters contained in this new edition bring the story of Egypt from 1935 where Lt. Col. Elgood left it, to the allied victory of Alamein, November 1942. They have been contributed by..... 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
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
Princeton and Oxford; (2004): Princeton University Press. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 239pp. In 1856m Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. He traveled up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. He took exquisite photographs..... 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
Cario: Al-Hay.ah, 1984. Small Octavo. 64 pp. Arabic text. 42 full-color reproductions.Bound in cloth, in dust jacket. 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
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
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
London; 1841 and 1842: John Murray. Octavo. In six volumes. Comprising of the First series (2nd ed) and the Second series (First edition). Wilkinson was considered the father of British Egyptology. He traveled extensively, visiting virtually every known ancient Egyptian site, skillfully recording inscriptions and paintings, studying the various monuments..... More