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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. 4to. pp. 351, [1]. profusely illus. in colour. map & illus. on endpapers. biblio. index. cloth. dw. Fine copy. dola2398

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, [c1851]., 1851. 8vo. pp. xv, [1]blank, [9]-310, [1 leaf]ads. with half-title. additional wood-engraved title, frontis. & map. numerous text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (rear cover spotted, spine ends bit frayed).. Hardcover.

London: George Virtue, 1838., 1838. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 164. 1 steel-engraved map, engraved frontis. portrait of Ms. Pardoe, additional engraved title & 78 other steel-engraved plates. full contemporary blind & gilt-stamped roan, gilt edges, rebacked with spine mounted (some scattered foxing, generally light & confined to plate margins but several plates more extensively affected). First Edition. Including views of the Palace of Beshik-Tash, mausoleum of Solyman, bazaars of Constantinople, mosque of Sultan Achmet, Scutari, Fort Beil-Gorod, &c. Blackmer 1254.. F. Hardcover.

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [c1845]. folio. pp. 23, [1]. 20 tinted plates lithographed by Hullmandel after drawings by Allom (incl. additional title. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt edges, rebacked in morocco (corners worn, front cover bit spotted, light marginal foxing to some plates). ownership entry of American artist, John Sartain. Second Edition, with one less Italian plate. cfBlackmer 1400. cfColas 86. cfHiler p. 19. cfLipperheide 1282. cfVinet 2128.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Henry T.Coates & Co., 1896. First Edition of this English Translation by Maria Hornor Lansdale. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 303; 309. folding colour map & 50 photogravures. tissue guards with legends. original elaborately gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (spine ends frayed)

London & Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., [c1839]., 1839. 2 Volumes in 1. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xxxvi, 84; 2 p.l., 100. 2 engraved maps (1 double-page), 2 engraved titles, & 94 engraved plates (incl. frontis.). contemporary full blind & gilt-stamped roan, all edges gilt, rebacked with spines mounted (light marginal soiling & foxing to frontis. & engraved title in Vol. II, staining & creasing in gutter margin of frontis. & engraved title in Vol. I). First Edition. Including views of Constantinople from the Golden Horn, the great cemetery of Scutari, the Mosque of Sultan Soliman, the Great Bazaar, the Mosque of Santa Sophia, the Ruins of Ephesus, the Acropolis at Sardis, Philadelphia, the Gardens of the Seraglio, Obelisk of Theodosius in the Atmeidan, the Sultan's new palace on the Bosphorus, the Castle of Smyrna, the Monastery of St. George of the Precipice, the town and castle of Paramythia in Albania, the Ruins of Laodicea, &c. Blackmer 1766 (93 plates).. F. Hardcover.

London: Henry Colburn, 1848., 1848. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xii, 326 + 24(ads); viii, 332, [2]ads. with half-titles. 2 tinted lithographed plates (frontis.). 13 wood-engraved text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, joints & spine ends repaired (some foxing to plates). Seventh Edition. "In 1843 Warburton made an extended tour of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He wrote accounts of his travels for the Dublin University Magazine, then under the editorship of Charles Lever, who persuaded him to make a book out of them. The work achieved great popularity; seventeen editions appeared by 1880. It enjoyed even greater success than Eothen, which had been dedicated to Warburton by [Alexander] Kinglake, a life-long friend. Warburton dedicated his own work to Richard Monckton Milnes.’ (Blackmer) The last chapters are devoted to Constantinople and Greece. cfNCBEL III 1404. cfAbbey, Travel, 363. cfBlackmer 1771. cfRöhricht 2028. cfTobler p. 170.. Soft cover.

London: John Murray, 1877. First Edition. The Italian-born Cesnola served as United States consul at Larnaca in Cyprus from 1865 to 1877. During his stay he conducted numerous excavations and discovered a large number of antiquities. The collection was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Cesnola was appointed director. The Appendix contains a catalogue of the engraved gems found in the treasure vaults of the temple at Curium, by C.W.King of Trinity College, Cambidge, and a short description of the different types of vases discovered, with their inscriptions, written by A.S.Murray of the British Museum. 8vo. pp. xix, 448, 12(ads). with half-title. 2 maps. 48 plates, 12 plates of script & numerous text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends chipped, inner hinges partly cracked, library bookplate)

Leyden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier, 1632., 1632. 24mo. pp. 379, [4]index. engraved title. woodcut headpiece & initials. contemporary vellum over bds. (library rubberstamp on front flyleaf & final blank of third title). Second (First Elzevier) Edition, First Issue. Willems 366. Rahir 347. Blackmer 686. cfCox I pp. 222-23. [BOUND WITH:] GILLES, P[ierre]. De Constantinopoleos Topographia lib. IV. 24mo. pp. 422, [6]index, [2 blank leaves]. engraved title. woodcut ornaments & initials. Leyden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier, 1632. Third (Second Elzevier) Edition. Willems 367. Rahir 353. Blackmer 687. cfCox I pp. 222-23. [BOUND WITH:] REGNI Chinensis descriptio Ex Variis Authoribus. 24mo. pp. 4 p.l., 365, [9]index, [blank leaf]. engraved title. 2 full-page woodcuts. woodcut ornaments & initials. Leyden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier, 1639. First Edition. Willems 486. Rahir 482. Lust 69. Cordier 23. First published in 1561 and 1562, Gilles' De Bosporo Thracio and its… Read More

London: Constable and Company Limited, 1918. First Edition. The author was official correspondent of London newspaper with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, which was formed on March 10, 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. 12mo. pp. xvi, 178. folding map & 24 plates after drawings by James McBey. original cloth (dark discolouration to outer edge of rear cover, some scattered foxing). dola2471

London: John Ollivier, 1845., 1845. 8vo. pp. xi, 418. with half-title. 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates (incl. folding frontis.). modern quarter calf, original gilt-stamped cloth sides bound in (some foxing). Second Edition of this "classic of travel literature which has been reprinted innumerable times.Kinglake toured the Levant about 1835; his work is his third attempt at a description of his travels, after two unsatisfactory efforts to subdue the 'almost boisterous tone' of the original. Eóthen is not an ordinary account of a tour, but a work much more in the tradition of Sterne's Sentimental Journey, a 'delightful record of personal impressions rather than outward facts' (DNB). (Blackmer) cfAbbey, Travel, 362. cfBlackmer 911. cfIbrahim-Hilmy I 342. cfTobler p. 157.. Hardcover.

Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928. 8vo. pp. 339. numerous b/w illus. text in French. cloth (ex. lib with few library rubber stamps throughout)

London: John Murray, 1855. First Edition. Porter was sent to Damascus in 1849 as a missionary to the Jews by the board of missions of the Irish Presbyterian church, and over the next ten years he travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. The present work describes Damascus and his experiences there, and relates his journeys to Palmyra, the Hauran, Lebanon, and other places. Blackmer 1333. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. x, [2], 395; vi, [2], 372. large folding partly hand-coloured engraved map, 6 plans (2 folding), 4 wood-engraved plates & 20 wood-engraved text illus. near contemporary half calf (spines sunned). bookseller's ticket of William Mullan of Belfast

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1851. First Edition. cfBlackmer 91. cfRöhricht p. 402. cfTobler p. 167. 8vo. iv, [2], 237, [1], [14]ads. additional engraved title, engraved map & 21 engraved plates (inc. frontis.) by C.Cousen, A.Willmore, & others after drawings by Bartlett. 24 woodcut text illus. by Branston also after Bartlett. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. gilt edges (upper half of spine wanting, foot of spine chipped, inner front hinge cracked, lacking front flyleaf). elala5606

Stockholm: Carl Gust, Cronland, 1784., 1784. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 360. woodcut ornaments. contemporary half calf. No copies found in OCLC..

London, Edinburgh & New York: T.Nelson And Sons, 1886. Porter was sent to Damascus in 1849 by the Irish Presbyterian Church as a missionary to the Jews, and over the next ten years he travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. He revisited the country in the 1860’s. In the present work he argued that the massive buildings, whose ruins are found in Bashan, were constructed by the aboriginal inhabitants long before the occupation by Jewish tribes. cfBlackmer 1334. cfTobler p. 189. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., v, [5], [11]-371. 8 tinted plates (incl. frontis. & additional title). 2 text illus. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities bit rubbed)

New YorkÖ: Fleming H.Revell Company, [1911]. First Edition. 12mo. pp. 106. map, frontis. portrait& 14 other plates. original blind-stamped cloth (bit spotted, spine sunned)

Paris: L.F.Hivert, 1848., 1848. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l.,iii, 460 ;2 p.l., 492, [1 leaf]errata. with half-titles. 2 engraved plates (frontis.) & 1 folding partly hand-coloured engraved map. A pretty set in black & gilt-stamped dark green chagrin, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt (few small nicks to rear cover & spine of Vol. II, occasional light spotting). Second Edition, revised and corrected. cfTobler 151.. Hardcover.

The Hague: T.Johnson, 1709., 1709. 6 Parts in 3 Volumes (no separate titles to parts II & VI). 12mo. pp. xiv, 352, [22]index; 2 p.l., 48, 312, [14]index; 2 p.l., 335, [21]index, [2 leaves], 90, [10]index. with half-title in Vol. I. titles in red & black, 2 with engraved vignettes. 3 engraved titles. 2 folding engraved maps. later tree calf (rubbed, joints partly cracked, head of one spine chipped, some foxing & browning, outer margin of Vol. III title renewed, former owner's rubberstamp on titles & last page of each vol.). armorial bookplate of Le Comte Louis Taschen De Lapagerie. Rycaut spent six years (1661-67) in Constantinople as secretary to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea, British ambassador to the Porte. In 1667 he was appointed by the Levant Company to be their consul at Smyrna, where he remained for eleven years. The present work, first published in London, 1680-79, was intended as a continuation of Richard Knolles' Generall Historie of the Turkes (London: 1603), in the sixth edition of… Read More

London: Printed by W.Strahan, for the Author; And sold by G.Strahan, and J.Brotherton, J.Oswald…, 1742., 1742. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., vi, 234, [6]index & errata, 40. folding engraved frontis. & folding engraved map. woodcut ornaments & initials. later half calf, rebacked & recornered, endpapers preserved (map browned, occasional light foxing). First Edition of "the first book in English treating of Nãdir Shãh, ‘the scourge of God’. It is important not only as a first-hand contribution to the history of contemporary events [Nãdir Shãh invaded India in 1737-38], but also for the number of original documents which it alone has preserved." (DNB) Fraser collected materials for his account during his first stay in India, 1730-40 (he returned as a factor for the East India Company, 1743-49). He managed to acquire some 200 manuscripts in the Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit languages, a catalogue of which is appended here, with separate title (pp.… Read More