Books on Arab World
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Map of Northern Arabia. According to the Investigations of Alois Musil.
Four folded maps, each measuring 64cm x 58cm, forming a single large map of northern Saudi Arabia, ...
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The Chester Beatty Library: A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts. Eight Volumes Complete Set.
eight large volume in burgundy cloth, many plates threoughout, bindings are tight and clean, there ...
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Travels in Asia Minor: or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. By Richard Chandler, D.D Fellow of Magdalen College and of the Society of Antiquaries. 2nd Edition.
xiv xiii 283p quarto format, full calf, boards worn, hinges breaking, spine dull, name stamp to ...
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A Family Archive from Siut, from Papyri in the British Museum, including an Account of a Trial before the Laocritae in the Year BC 170.
xxiii 148p (largely printed lithographically), plus a folder of plates, many folding. This set has ...
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Through Persia on a Side-Saddle.
vi 362p original cloth repaired with new endpapers (marginally short), some explanatory and ...
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Arabic English Lexicon. Eight Volume Set.
eight large format volume in black boards, all edges gilt, attractive and clean set
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-worshippers; and an Enquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. (2 vols)
xxx 399p 491p bound in half calf with spine well gilt with two title labels (red and green), spine ...
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Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions. Oriental Series.
One very very large and very heavy volume (8 kilos), 50cm tall, bound half morocco, black boards, ...
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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Journal de l'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient. Volume 4 (1961) - Volume 13 (1970).
large format paperback, A4 size issues, as published, card cover, a very clean set, three issues ...
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Nor ktakaran Tearn meroy Yisusi K'ristosi. (New Testament in Armenian)
708p original black blindstamped calf, gilt lettering to spine, front hinge worn, text clean and ...
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France, Spain and the Rif.
338p red cloth, 27 photographs, 3 maps, account of the 1911-1927 war between the people of Rif (a ...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones. Second Edition.
531p quarter leather with marbled boards, 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, attractive ...
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The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, known also as the Mo-Allakat.
xxii 67p quarto format hardback, cloth spine and blue paper-covered boards, remains of title label ...
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Gazetteer of Arabia: A Geographical and Tribal History of the Arabian Peninsula. Volume 1: A - E.
vi 733p very large format hardback, bright orange dustjacket, as new, volume 1 only
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![[Kitab al-I'tibar]. Souvenirs historiques et récits de chasse par un émir syrien du douzieme siècle. Autobiographie d'Ousâma ibn Mounkidh intitulée: L'Instruction par les exemples. Traduction francaise d'après le texte Arabe.](images/books/227022_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "[Kitab al-I'tibar]. Souvenirs historiques et récits de chasse par un émir syrien du douzieme siècle. Autobiographie d'Ousâma ibn Mounkidh intitulée: L'Instruction par les exemples. Traduction francaise d'après le texte Arabe.")
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[Kitab al-I'tibar]. Souvenirs historiques et récits de chasse par un émir syrien du douzieme siècle. Autobiographie d'Ousâma ibn Mounkidh intitulée: L'Instruction par les exemples. Traduction francaise d'après le texte Arabe.
vi 238p period hardback, marbeled boards with cloth spine and decorative title label to spine, ...
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Les photos de mon grand-père.
158p very large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, many black & white photographs throughout, fresh ...
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Middle Eastern Studies. Volume 1 (1964) to Volume 8 (1973).
volumes 1 to 8 in single issues as published, plus issues 1 of volume 9 and issues 1 and 2 of ...
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Nineveh and its Palaces. The Discoveries of Botta and Layard, Applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ.
xx 402p plus illustrated publisher's catalogue, original cloth binding with gilt figure to front ...
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Synaxarium Alexandrinum.
iv 526p ii, 344p, plus approx 500p, this is Vol 18 and Vol 19 of Scriptores Arabici, also ...
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The Eastern Libyans. An Essay.
xxii 298p 12 plates, many illustrations, plans and maps throughout, frontispiece with tissueguard, ...
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The Zoological Section of the Nuzhatu-l-qulub of Hamdullah al-Mustaufi al-Qazwini.
xix 100p plus 127 pages with Arabic text, original dark blue buckram cloth, binding tight and ...
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Travels and Adventures of the Rev Joseph Wolff, DD, LLD, Vicar of Ile Brewers, Near Taunton; and Late Missionary to the Jews and Muhammadans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmeer, etc. Second Edition.
viii 535p xi 463p appendix protesting some errors in dictation, original brown ribbed cloth with ...
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Turski izvori za bulgarskata istorija III = Fontes Turcici historiae Bulgaricae III. Volume XVI in 2 parts.
Volume 1 has 502 pages of facsimile plates, volume 2 has 570 pages of text, uniform bound in green ...
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Gazetteer of Arabia: A Geographical and Tribal History of the Arabian Peninsula. Volume 2: F - H.
371p plus 101 maps in the back, very large format hardback, bright orange dustjacket, as new, ...
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Iran- Shahr. A Survey of Land, People, Culture, Government and Economy. Volume 1, Volume 2.
18p 944p; 10p 948p two very large and very heavy volumes, brown cloth a little soiled and dusty, ...
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Kasar Akil. Lebanon. A Technological and Typological Analysis of the Transitional and Early Upper Palaeolithic Levels of Ksar Akil and Abu Halka. Volume 1: Levels 25 - 12 (in two parts), Volume 2: Levels 13 - 6.
viii 244p 469p ix 334p three red large format paperback, A4 size, minor wear to covers, spines show ...
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La Palestine Illustrée. 1: Porte d'Entrée, Jaffa; 2: Jaffa la Belle. Tableau Complet de la Terre Sainte par la Photographie.
two very large format paperback volumes, photographic illustration to cover, photographic plates ...
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Ancient Arabian Poetry. Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry. Chiefly Pre-Islamic, with an Introduction and Notes.
lii142p original dark green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to spine fresh, neat and tight copy, ...
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Memoir of the Illustrious and Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, From the Capitulation of Malta in 1798, to the Present Period.
(x) 237p plus 3 page publisher's catalogue in back, original dark cloth with gilt ornaments, ...
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Records of the Egyptian Government School of Medicine. Volume 2.
173p large hardback with cloth spine, boards creased, from a Cambridge college library with label ...
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Records of the Egyptian Government School of Medicine. Volume 3.
157p large hardback with cloth spine, boards creased, front board detached but present, with red ...
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The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart. 2 Volumes.
448p 442p frontispiece, folding map (Cairo/Suez), half calf with marbled paper boards, very good ...
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Bibliographie über das Sultanat Oman Stand Juli 1980.
xvii, 141p, xix, large format paperback, embossed green card cover slightly faded, small crease to ...
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Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects. Now first edited from the Collation of several MSS. by the Rev. William Cureton.
ix 463p bound in burgundy cloth with some flaws from use and age, this is the 1923 Leipzig reprint, ...
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Cosmographie de Chems-ed-Din Abou Abdallah Mohammed ed-Dimichqui. Texte Arabe, Publie d'apres l'Edition commencee par M Fraehn et d'apres les Manuscrits de St.-Petersbourg, de Paris, de Leyde et de Copenhague, par A F Mehren.
xi lxxxvii approx 260p (paginated in Arab numerals) very large hardback volume excellent condition, ...
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Essai de Grammaire Kabyle, Renfermant les Principes du Language Parle par les Populations du versant Nord du Jurjura etc.
xxiv 393p nice half calf binding with minor library labels to spine, oversized "Do not remove" ...
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Les Charactéristiques de l'Art Copte.
193p + 65 plates, this is a large format hardback with vellum spine, binding tight and firm, ...
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Pages Arabico-Madécasses: Histoire, Légendes et Mythes. Together with: Deuxieme Série. / Un Syllabaire Antemahuri.
The essay "Pages Arabico-Madécasses" by Julien was published in two parts in volume 3 (1929, 125 ...
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Persian Poetry for English Readers: Being Specimens of Six of the Greatest Classical Poets of Persia: Ferdusi, Nizami, Sadi, Jelal-ad-Din Rumi, Hafiz, and Jami, with biographical notices and notes.
xvi 646p original paperback binding, front cover missing, spine partly incomplete, binding still ...
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Sultan Qaboos Dictionary of Arab Names. Edited by Mohammad Al-Zubair.
two large and heavy volumes with still fresh dustjackets, together 1900 pages, a nice tight set, ...
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Trois Ans a la Cour de Perse. Nouvelle Edition, Illustree de Nombreuses Gravures.
viii 419p hardback private half calf binding with shelfmark to spine, probably bound in Teheran ...
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A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916 - 1917.
183p original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece and additional plates, first ...
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Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
xvii 682p large hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, fair condition, wear to edges, spine ...
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Persian Letters. In Two Volumes. Translated by John Davidson. Limited Edition.
xliii 175p vii 203p hardbacks, navy cloth with labels to spines, good condition, binding firm if a ...
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Homélies Coptes de la Vaticane. Volume 1 & 2.
220p 315p two volumes, from a Cambridge college library, re-bound in plain burgundy cloth with gilt ...
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Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac. Bar Hebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Book of Rhetoric.
viii 484p hardback, black cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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Al-Barrak: Poemy.
35p slim pamphlet white cover, paper yellowing but well preserved, contains 'Al-Barrak', 'Al-Kadr', ...
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Al-Fakhrî. Histoire des Dynasties Musulmanes depuis la mort de Mahomet jusqu'à la chute du khalifat 'Abbasîde de Baghdâdz (11-656 de l'hégire = 632-1258 de J.-C.)
xxviii 628p library bound in full green cloth, nice calf label to spine, text clean and tight, ...
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Annual Report by the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer on the British Military Administration of Tripolitania for Period 23 January 1943 to 31 December 1943.
118p large format (22x32cm) pale red cloth boards with black titles, a few splash marks and light ...
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Black Tents of Arabia (My Life Amongst the Bedouins)
280p red cloth with gilt title in fine condition, first edition, photographic illustrations by the ...
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