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Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics, or "The Book Of Medicines" the Syriac Text, Edited From a Rare Manuscript, With an English Translation, Etc Volume I
by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Les Peintures De La Synagogue De Doura-Europos, 245-256 Apres J-C
by Robert, Comte Du Mesnil Du Buisson
The Philosophy Of Illumination a New Critical Edition Of the Text Of Hikmat Al-Ishraq
by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai Suhrawardi
Syria Books & Ephemera
The Trail of Marco Polo.
by Shor, Jean Bowie
London: The Travel Book Club. No DateCirca 1950. Octavo Size [approx 13x20cm]. Very Good condition in a Good+ Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ has some light edgewear and the spine is age-toned. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs & Maps. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 251 pages. A young American couple follow Marco Polo's journey from Venice to Peiping in the middle 1950's. . Book Club...
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NZ$13.35
![Narrative of a Visit to the Syrian [Jacobite] Church of Mesopotamia; with Statements and Reflections upon the Present State of Christianity in Turkey, and the Character and Prospects of the Eastern Churches](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/398/773398741.0.b.jpg)
Narrative of a Visit to the Syrian [Jacobite] Church of Mesopotamia; with Statements and Reflections upon the Present State of Christianity in Turkey, and the Character and Prospects of the Eastern Churches
by Southgate, Horatio, bp., 1812-1894
New York: D. Appleton & Co.; Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1844. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis (folding map), xvi, [13]-275p. plus (22)p. publisher's adverts. Original dark cloth. 19cm. Chipping at ends of backstrip and along nearby joints. Edges rather worn. Large brown stain in lower corner of first two dozen leaves (including frontis map and title-leaf). Foxing. Sunday School library bookplate inside front cover.
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NZ$851.10
Dispatches from Rojava
by Simons, Paul Z
n.p., [201-]. Pamphlet. [20p.] staplebound photocopied zine, very good. Originally a series of dispatches attributed to "El Errante," identified only as an American anarchist traveling in Rojava; the author's identity was revealed in the last dispatch.
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NZ$25.53
The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,) with Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Nineveh
by Walpole, Frederick, 1822-1876
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 3 vols. frontis (in Vol. I), xv, 402, xi, 378, viii, 458p. plus (2)p. undated publisher's advertisements in the back of each volume. Original green cloth, recently rebacked with center portion of original brown backstrip mounted. 23cm. Vols. II and III lack frontispieces. Rubbing and some wear along cover extremities. Former owner's name on new endpapers. An account of Walpole's travels in mountainous Western Syria.
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NZ$851.10
The Duty of Christians to Proclaim the Gospel Personally. A discourse, delivered before the Palestine Missionary Society of Norfolk County, at their Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, held at Easton, Mass., June 17, 1857
Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1857. Pamphlet. 30, [2]p., printed wrappers. 9 x 5.5 in. "Remarks of Rev. Mr. Schneider" begin on page 23. Covers dusty and spotted. Sermon on the personal duty of Christians to proselytize, for which Christians must engage in active, disciplined, and efficient study and self-education. The remarks by Reverend Schneider discuss the Society's efforts in Syria, noting the circulation of numerous books and tracts and their importance to missionary work in that region at...
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NZ$85.11
Socialisme en Irak et en Syrie; Preface de Pierre Rondot
by Samarbakhsh, A.G
paris: Editions Anthropos, 1978. 344p., wraps, 5.5 x 8.75 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Text in French.
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NZ$42.56
Le Droit Franc en Syrie pendant les Croisades: Institutions Judiciaires
by Hayek, Dimitri
Paris: Editions Spes", 1925. 1st ed. Paperback. Fair. 162p. plus [1]p. errata. Original wrapper. 26cm. A well-worn copy with chipping, staining, browning and other wear. French text.
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NZ$238.31
DAMASCUS PALMYRA BAALBEK
by Jamil, Rouhi
Damascus: Librairie Universelle. Very Good+. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Soft boards have some toning. Pages unopened ; Profusely illustrated and with many travel descriptions. ; The Green Guide Books; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 260 pages .
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NZ$202.14
Greece, Crete and Syria
by Long, Gavin
Canberra: Australian War Memorial. 1962. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 587 pages.. Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 1 Volume II. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$44.50
Places and Names
by Elliot Ackerman
"Places and Names: on war, revolution, and returning" by Elliot Ackerman. Penguin Pres 2019 First edition hardcover. 232pp. "... a profound reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria." --- front flap. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket.
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NZ$8.09
Palmyrena: A Topographical Itinerary
by Musil, Alois
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis map, folding map (in cover pocket), photos and illustrations, index, xiv, 367p. Original gray cloth. 26cm. Head of backstrip chipped. Split at head of front joint reglued. No jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 4.
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NZ$340.44
Oeuvres Completes
by VOLNEY, C.F
Paris: Bossange Freres, 1821. hardcover. very good(+). Frontispieces, folding maps and charts, and other illustrations. 8 volumes. 8vo, full red straight-grained morocco, gilt-dec. bands; (light foxing on some pgs.). Paris: Bossange Freres, 1821. A very good(+) set.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$4,255.50
The Golden Carpet
by De Chair, Somerset
London: Faber & Faber. 1945. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Yellow boards with title patch to spine. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps on Endpapers. Previous owner's name/details to prelims. Bookplate to front pastedown. Fold-out Map to rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. The campaign in the middle East and the capture of Baghdad. . 3rd Impression. Hardback.
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NZ$22.25
My Country A Syrian Memoir
by Eid, Kassem
London: Bloomsbury. 2018. Near Fine condition. Excellent copy. Introduction by Janine Di Giovanni. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 194 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.
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NZ$16.69
Palmyrena: A Topographical Itinerary
by Musil, Alois
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. frontis map, folding map (in cover pocket), photos and illustrations, index, xiv, 367p. Original gray cloth. 26 cm. No jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 4.
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NZ$680.88
EOTHEN; or Traces of Travel brought home from the East
by [KINGLAKE, Alexander William.]
London: John Ollivier, 1845. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 418. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco (rubbed along the hinges and at the extremities), illustrated with a folding hand-colored lithographed frontis. & one colored plate. Abbey, Travel, 362; Blackmer 911; Ibrahim-Hilmy I 342; Tobler p. 157. "In August 1834, Kinglake set out on an eighteen-month odyssey through Europe and the Ottoman empire. After encountering plague in Constantinople, he travelled to Smyrna, Cyprus, Beirut, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem,...
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Arabia Deserta: A Topographical Itinerary
by Musil, Alois, 1868-1944
New York: American Geographical Society, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (map), photos, index, xvii, 631p. Original gray cloth. 26cm. Moderate cover soil. No Jacket. American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 2. This copy issued without the pocket map (or the cover pocket in which it should be found). A separate map case containing a Map of Northern Arabia (in 4 sheets) was also issued but is not present here.
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NZ$595.77
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
by Saleh, Yassin al-Haj; Foreword by Robin Yassin-Kassab
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. Paperback. xvii, 312p., paperback, 5.25x8 inches, very good.
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NZ$20.43
Arabisch (Syrisch)
by Lammeyer, Josef and Ludwig Darian
Berlin-Schoneberg: Langenscheidt, 1913. Zweite Auflage. Paperback. Good. 160, 15p. Softcover in original purple wrapper. 14 cm. Backstrip worn at top. Pages 33-48 browned and brittle. German text. Appears to a small format German conversation and phrase book for Arabic as spoke in Syria and/or Lebanon at that time.
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NZ$42.56
Being Arab
by Kasir, Samir, translated by Will Hobson, introduction by Robert Fisk
London: Verso, 2006. Hardcover. xiii, 96p., introduction, foreword, notes, very good first English language edition in boards and unclipped dj. The late author was a Lebanese journalist who was assassinated by car bomb in 2005.
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NZ$17.02
Excavations In Mesopotamia And Western Iran Sites Of 400-500 B.C.
by ELIOT JR., Henry Ware
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Peabody Museum of American Archaeology And Ethnology, Harvard University, 1950. Original portfolio. 33 plates. Cover measures 18 x 23 1/2.<br/><br/> Large portfolio with artwork by Theresa Garrett Elio and graphic analysis by Henry W. Eliot Jr. Contains 33 plates including a map and a table of pottery forms. Inside folding wrapper scuffed along edge but plates are in excellent condition, loose in the original cloth backed board folder with ties. This was a...
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A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697
by Maundrell, Henry; introduction by David Howell
Beirut: Khayats, 1963. Hardcover. xxxv, 214, [8]p.,xxxvi-xlviii p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x8.75 inches, illus., 7 fold-out illustrations, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper else very good facsimile reprint in an unclipped, lightly worn and yellowed dj. Khayats Oriental Reprints No. 3.
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NZ$42.56
Aigentliche Beschreibung des Raiss inn die Morgenlander
by Rauwolf, Leonhard, ca. 1540-1596
Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. 487p. plus some botanical illustrations. Original yellow hardcover binding. 24 cm. No Jacket (as published). The Islamic World in Foreign Travel Accounts (series), Volume 54. German text. Added title-page in Arabic at end. Reprint, limited to 80 copies, of the 1583 edition published in Lauingen.
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NZ$68.09
Euphrates Valley Route to India, in Connection with the Central Asian and Egyptian Questions. Lecture Delivered at the National Club on the 16th June 1882
by Andrew, William Patrick, 1806-1887
London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1882. Second Edition, with Map and Appendix. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map (as frontis), folding table, 95p. plus a total of [48] pages of publisher's advertisements dated July, 1882. Original cloth. 25cm. Light cover wear and just a touch of fraying of cloth at corners. We have seen this occasionally described as having 2 folding maps but suspect that the folding table has been misdescribed as a second folding map.
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NZ$595.77
Syria (North Division) and Syria (South Division) including Palestine & the Hauran
by BLACKIE & SON
Edinburgh & London: Blackie & Son, 1883. unbound. Maps, set of 2. Color lithographs. Each sheet measures 14 3/4" x 11"<br/> <br/> Incredibly detailed map of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, extending from Rafah to the Taurus Mountains. Major cities, rivers and hydrological features, important structures, and topographical details are labeled. Roads are carefully delineated, showing major routes, Roman roads, and the Hajj. An inset in the lower right corner of the southern...
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![The Massacres in Syria. [Second edition. 1861]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/614/445/375445614.0.m.1.jpg)
