The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs by Baker, Sir Samuel W - 1867

Torrington, Wyoming: The Narrative Press LLC, 2001. Book. New. Soft cover. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. N/none, new pb, 438 pages. Perfect bound, color illustrated stiff paper wraps with black colored text on upper and orange colored text on spine; no chips or tears; spine not creased. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight..

DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP, 2022. Paperback. New. 328 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.73 inches.

Nuvision Pubns, 2008. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1868. Hardcover. Good. . Rubbing at spine edges, general shelf/age wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Santa Barbara: The Narrative Press, 2001. 1st edition. New book. octavo. stiff wrappers 438pp.,,

London, England: Macmillan and Co, 1867. Hardcover. Good- (Considerable wear to extremities of boards, inc. a small chip at top of spine; Binding a bit loose but intact; Some light dampstaining). Colored paper over boards; Green cloth at spine; 596 pp.; 24 bw plates. An account of the author's twelve-month exploration through the Nile river system, including his encounters with the native people, animals, customs, and more.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1872. Cloth. Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Sir Samuel W. Baker. A new edition of this detailed work on the Nile and its tributaries, with a folding map. New edition. Illustrated with a map frontispiece, one folding map, and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive work following the author's time in Africa exploring the Nile and its surrounding area. With chapters on Cairo, the Nubian Desert, shooting crocodile, Cassala to Souakim, desert storms, plagues of Egypt, rafting, lions and buffalo, and more. Written and illustrated by Sir Samuel White Baker, an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and board edges with the odd mark to the spine. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with a 2" split to the rear joint. Hinges… Read More

"The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs" by Sir Samuel W. Baker. 1868 1st American edition (with the year "1868" [and not 1867] stated on the title page); J.B. Lippincott & Co.; Philadelphia. The book contains two color maps (one of which is fold-out), a frontispiece portrait and numerous full-page plates (all illustrations are present). There is an Index at the back. From a review: "Baker spent 12 months exploring the Nile and the area surrounding it. His explorations included the Atbara, Settite, Roya, Salaam, Angrab, Rahad, Dinder, and the Blue Nile. Baker states that 'The interest attached to these portions of Africa differs entirely from that of the White Nile regions, as the whole of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capable of development, and is inhabited by races either Mohammedan or Christian; while Central Africa is peopled by a hopeless race of savages, for whom there is no prospect of civilization.'"Here are a few examples of the contents: Girls Carried… Read More

London & New York. Macmillan & Co. 1871. Hardcover. thick8vo, 21.5m, The Third Edition, xix,568p., frontis & 23 plate illustrations from engravings, (one plate has two illustrations called for in the list of illustrations as 2 plates at 216 & 219), in contemporary half calf, gilt and blind ruled raised bands, elaborate gilt decorations and borders in the panels, crushed black & brown morocco labels, gilt titles, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, some wear on the edges, more noticeable on the front corner else a very good sound clean copy in attractive binding. (Tr).

Macmillan and Co., London, 1874. Small 8vo, 413pp, b/w plates. Good original cloth. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First US Edition. Translated from the original Italian title Un Uomo by William Weaver, about a Greek revolutionary hero who fights alone and to the death for freedom and truth. Fallaci (1929-2006) was an Italian journalist and author and became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders. A Man is based on Alexandros Panagoulis, with whom Fallaci had a long relationship. She maintained that he was assassinated due to his work with the Greek resistance and his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt of Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos. A Man received the Italian awards Premio Viareggio and Premio Nazionale. 9½ x 6½". 0671252410. Purple over grey boards, gold letters on spine, title blind stamped on front board. 463 pp. Dust jacket has crease to front flap, small chips, discolored edges of DJ and boards. Text edges scattered light foxing not extending onto pages, else a Good… Read More

Carlsbad, California:: Published by the author, 2019., 2019. 4to. [8.5x11 inches]. xiii, 185, [1] pp. Illustrated, index. Color printed wrappers. New. ISBN: 9781950724512 First edition. The author's first book, this is a personal story of Mahin, raised in a respected Imam's home in Kashan, Iran, following a chronology of events and family activity, Mahin, like so many Iranians, faced a dilemma of how to deal with the events of 1978 and beyond. Now with this book a lineage is established going back to Agha Bozorg, a highly revered Ayatollah of Kashan. The Agha Bozorg Mosque, one of the sublime monuments of eighteenth century Kashani architecture, is built in his honor, where he taught and preached. THIS BOOK EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED FROM WEBER RARE BOOKS.

THE KING OF KINGS, Copyright 1927, Grosset & Dunlap. Written by Jeanie Macpherson and Henry Macmahon. USED. 257 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Light brown boards with delft blue titling and ornamentation. VG Condition/Acceptable RARE original H.B. Warner dust jacket. The jacket is in acceptable condition with wear and loss to back panel and spine. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Sorry about the stack of books photos. King of King is the only title available here. Summary: "The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the lasts weeks of Jesus of Nazareth before his crucifixion, and stars H.B. Warner in the lead role.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1994. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr., 1994. 8vo., 358 pages, illustrated b/w photos. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

London Richard Bentley 1886. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original blue gilt decorated cloth, bit of spotting, and internal hinge paper is cracked. But a very clean, solid copy. A fine history of Syria and Palestine published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Conder's approach was to ignore Hebrew literature, basing his archaeological history on the evidence only of uncovered monuments and inscriptions, etc. Illustrated by 29 illustrations, 3 folding maps. first edition..

Berlin:: Reuther und Reichard, 1894., 1894. Series: Porta linguarum orientalium. 15. Small 8vo. XVI-270 pp. Contemporary half black pebbled cloth, marbled paper over boards, gilt spine title. Scarce. Handsome copy. Johann Peter Adolf Erman (1854-1937) was a renowned German Egyptologist and lexicographer. He became associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Berlin in 1883 and full professor in 1892. In 1885 he was appointed director of the Egyptian department at the royal museum. "The Neuagyptische Grammatik (1880) dealt with texts written in the vulgar dialect of the New Kingdom (Dyns. XVIII to XX). Next followed, in the Zeitschrift fur agyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde, studies on the Old Kingdom inscription of Unas, and the Middle Kingdom contracts of Assiut, as well as on an Old Coptic text of the 3rd century CE. At this point a papyrus of stories written in the popular language of the Middle Kingdom provided Erman with a stepping-stone from Old Egyptian to the Late Egyptian of… Read More

T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 8vo., xi+227 pages, illustrated with tables, charts. Name on fly leaf, minor sun fade along botoom edge from dust jacket shift, else a very good plus, clean, bright, tight copy - no shelf wear, in a very good spine sunned dust jacket chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..

Inscribed by the publisher, In memory of Ada Seeley from F.P Seeley 9 March 1929. 325 pp. 22 x 14.5 cmz. 780 grams. 1.5 cm tear in middle of top spine. photo loose opposite page 48.
The title reads in full: "An intimate account of the family life of the Arabs of Syria, their manner of living in, desert & town, their hospitality, customs, & mental attitude, with a description of the animals, birds, flowers & plants of their country."

Adela Monica Goodrich-Freer Spoer (1870-1931) was an author who initially wrote under her maiden name of A. Goodrich-Freer, and then under her married name of A. M. Spoer.

New York, Pantheon Books, 1997, hardcover, 226 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean, one red dot to top edge of textblock. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. This first, full-length work from the well-known journalist, freelance writer, founder of the literary magazines Normal and XXIst Century, and author of Diary of a Djinn, presents stories of some unique characters in her family and their adventures and travails throughout Europe, The Middle East, The United States, and Japan. ISBN 9780679417637