12mo. 48 manuscript leaves on creme paper, with two colored images 18th century. Al-Jazuli is one of the seven saints of Islam. This prayer book has been used for centuries by devout Muslims. It is bound in original envelope style leather decoratively stamped in blind... More
[1732]. Octavo. 46 leaves, text on both sides of 13 lines each. Written in a clear naskhi script in black ink, with headings, key words, and markings in red. Undated but notes work was endowed by Muhammad 'Awad as-Saluni to the Great Mosque in the year 1145 A.H. [1732 A.D.]..... More
Hildesheim/Zurich and New York: George Olms. Thick Quarto. 923p. Text in English, German, Arabic. Bibliographic References (p. 917-923) and indexes. Illustrated with with over 500 color and black & white illustrations and photographs. A Superb copy of an essential reference for those who study or wish to acquire Arabians. A...... 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
(Comma Press, London, 2014). 1st Edition. Octavo. Signed by the Author on the title page 137 pages. Translated by Jonathan Wright. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by an insurgent into the ultimate act of terror. From legends of the desert to the horrors..... More
Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1979. Thick Quarto. 993 pp, text in Arabic with entries & derivatives printed in red for easy reference, Celebrating 35 years of international publishing, Librairie du Liban, 1944-1979.Bound in maroon simulated leather lettered in giltspine lettered and ruled in gilt, only very minor shelf wear to..... More
London: T. Caddell & Davies, 1810. Octavo. xvi, 143 pages, 70 pages of Arabic text, Leigh Hunt regarded the fable 'Abou ben Adhem' as one of the best and a translation of it adorns his tomb though he himself did not read Arabic. It is this work of J.D. Carlyle..... More
London, 1986-2009: Brill. Small Quarto. In 13 Volume with the Index plus the Six Supplemental Volumes. Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen was an Arabic scholar who was born in Alexandria, Egypt but at age 5 sent to England for his education. His major articles on Islam led to his becoming the..... More
London: A. & C. Black, 1937. Octavo. Frontispiece, 410 pages, index, with 16 plates and 4 maps (some folding). With the coming of World War I, this region became of vital interest in geopolitics. The first 260 pages give in detail the social structure of the region around Syria. Beginning..... More
(Washington, D. C.: Embassy of Pakistan, nd.ca.1965). Octavo. xiii; 110pp. index. with laid in letter from the Economic Minister of Pakistan. Written by the President of Pakistan which deals with several issues , in particular, those dealing with India and the Kashmir question. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was a...... More
New York; (1990, 1991 and 1992): Doubleday. First American Editions. Octavo. In three volumes. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) became the Arab world's first Nobel laureate in literature in 1988. The trilogy won Egypt's State Prize for Literature in 1957 and was translated into English in 1990. The richness of his descriptions..... 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: 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
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
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; (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 (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
(Oakland, California; 1955): Published By Author. Small Octavo. 2nd edition. Limited to 1000 copies, this is no. 469. Signed by the author in Arabic and English on a tipped in bookplate. xii, 148 pages, illustrations and with an introduction by Jane Llewellyn Ott. The Second Edition has added a 12..... More
Mexico: Editorial Anthony, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. x, leaves a-i, 78 leaves, text in English, 35 leaves of Arabians (over 65 images), with Nahdat-ar-Arab article "Death of a German Born Arabized Scholar and Adventures" lamenting the death of Raswan, 2 leaves, Mutib As-Sha'alan's note on the death of Raswan, 1..... More
Paris: Libraire Hachette et C, 1912. Quarto. Frontispiece, 267 (1) pages. Rousselet was the Secretary of the Anthropology Society in Paris. His photographs were among the earliest in Morocco. A very beautifully designed book by Hachette bound in red pictorial gilt cloth depicting a floral design and lettering in gilt..... 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