London: John Murray, 1883. First edition. 8vo. ix, (2), 430 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the subject in Arabic dress, facsimiles. Palmer (1840-1882), an Orientalist by training, was killed in the Suez while on a mission for the British government. Inscribed on the front endpaper, “A. M. Charrington / from the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, 1853. First edition. 19cm. 421pp., illus. Three quarter brown leather and marbled boards, with gilt rules, and title and author gilt stamped on spine. Some rubbing to joints and edges, top of spine worn down. Rear pastedown..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Second edition (same year as the first; a third edition was also issued in 1854). Small thick 8vo. xi, 353, (2, publisher’s ad leaf) pp. Includes entries from spots around the Mediterranean, Constantinople, Troy, The Hellespont, The Bosphorus, Rhodes, The Dardenelles, Athens, Marathon..... More
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. 4to. 126p., [i]. Quarter blue morocco & cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Spine slightly faded. His reminiscences of his time as an intelligence officer with the 4th Cavalry Brigade during Anglo-Iraqi War and..... More
London: John Murray, 1852. Second, abridged edition (first published in 1839 and 1841). Small 8vo. xvi, 510 pp. Two folding maps, six folding plates, many illustrations in the text. Fellows made to journeys into Lycia, in 1838 and 1839, publishing journals of those explorations in 1839 and 1841; he discovered..... More
Newport, RI: Frederick A. Pratt, printer, 1868. First edition. 8vo. 23 pp. Original printed wrappers (somewhat soiled). Very good. More
London: John Murray, 1896. Second edition. 8vo. xiii, (2), 206 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece and 12 plates, folding map. Hogarth (1862-1927), a British archaeologist who worked in Turkey, Syria, Cypress, and Egypt, was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1909-1927. Original gilt-stamped olive cloth. Small book label on pastedown, owner’s..... More
London: Henry Colburn , Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1842. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, (4), 301, (8, publisher's catalogue); v, (3), 312 pp. Lithographed frontispiece portraits, map, plan, and five lithographed or wood-engraved plates. Blackmer sale 850: "Hunter was present on board H.M.S. Dido during various scenes of action..... More
Richmond, (VA): Published by William Pritchard, 1800. "Third edition, with additions and corrections" (sheets from the 1794 Philadelphia edition, with the new Richmond title page). 12mo. xi, 330 pp. The author was a doctor stationed with the English army on Gibraltar in 1789 when the Emperor of Morocco sent a...... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Second edition, (first published in 1838). 12mo. 2 volumes: xii, 361; iv, 377, (1, errata) pp. Engraved frontispiece view in each volume. Cairo, the Pyramids, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Suez, Akaba, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Jordan, Palmyra, and Damascus, among other places visited. Later..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1847. Fourth edition, revised and corrected (first published in 1838). Small 8vo. xii, 445 pp. Engraved frontispiece view of Gebel Serbal in the southern Sinai. Cairo, the Pyramids, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Suez, Akaba, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Jordan, Palmyra, and Damascus, among other places..... More
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. 16mo. 3 volumes: lxxv, 272; (4), 403, (1); (4), 388, (1) pp. Half-title to each volume. "The humour and true insight into oriental life displayed in this oriental 'Gil Blas' immediately seized the popular fancy" (DAB). Sadlier 1793. CBEL III, p. 410. Lowndes, p...... More
Jerusalem: Jamal Bros. c1921. First edition (?). 4to. Title and contents leaf, 24 photogravures of scenes from the Holy Land, each captioned and signed by the photographer in brown ink and protected with a tissue guard. All of the scenes are from Palestine: David's Tower, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem..... More
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1866. First edition in French (first published London, 1865). 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 346; (4), 429, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, double-page map, four plans. As a Catholic missionary in Syria, Palgrave "undertook an adventurous journey across Central Arabia in 1862 and 1863. His object was..... More
London: Trigraph for the A. G. Leventis Foundation, (c1984). First edition, 1/200 copies (this #8), first publication of the manuscripts. Small 4to. Illustrated from old art, frontispiece and 22 plates, portraits, facsimile, double-page map. Publisher’s gilt-stamped green leather, gilt spine title. Fine. More
London: James Burns, 1839. First edition. 8vo. vi, 402 pp. Raised as a Jew, Wolff (1795-1862) became a Roman Catholic in 1812, eventually studying in Rome and entering the priesthood. Wolff’s 1820s journey, a search for the Lost Tribes of Israel, took him to Anatolia, Armenia Afghanistan, Kashmir, Calcutta, Madra..... More
