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North Africa/ Arabia - Travel:

(arab states) . ARAB STATES TOURIST GUIDE
El Hazaar 1961. Covers all of the Arab States. 8vo., 145pp., photo illustrations, wraps. Good, bump on right edge, light soiling and wear. (a38478)
$30.00 (casablanca) . CASABLANCA ET SA REGION LIVRET GUIDE OFFICIEL DU SYNDICAT D'INITIATIVE
Casablanca 1934. In French. Tall narrow 8vo., 36pp. plus advertisements, photo illustrations, wraps. Foldout brochure on Algeria tipped in. Also included, 3 tourist brochures from the same period on Algeria and Morocco. Good, light wear. (a38484)
$50.00 Abulfeda (1273-1331) . DESCRIPTIO AEGYPTI ARABICE ET LATINE
Goettingae 1776 Christian Dieterich. Ex Codice Parisiensi edidit Latine vertit notas adiecit, Ioannes David Michaelis. Description and travel in Egypt. Octavo, 36pp. in Arabic, 134pp. of notes in Latin, later black paper-covered boards with white and gilt spine label. Small owner signature on front blank. Small institution name on title page and two institution names on verso. VG, corners worn, a bit of light foxing on initial and final pages. Rare. (a41574)
$575.00 Belloc, H . ESTO PERPETUA - ALGERIAN STUDIES AND IMPRESSIONS
New York 1925 1st McBride. Small octavo.,191pp., illustrations, original lime-green cloth hardcover. VG, some browning on mounted paper spine label. Scarce. (a61558)
$50.00 Bennet, James Henry M.D. . WINTER AND SPRING ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
London 1875 5th J & A Churchill. Covers: Geneoese Rivieras, Italy, Spain, Corfu, Greece, Constantinople, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Algeria, Tunis, Smyrna, Asia Minor, Biarritz and Arcachon as winter climates. Octavo, 655pp., color frontis, woodcut illustrations, 4 large color foldout maps, original green cloth hardcover. Good, new endpapers, light foxing, spine ends a bit worn. (a68565)
$275.00 Bodley, R.V.C. . WIND IN THE SAHARA
NY 1944 4th Creative Age. True story of a man who leaves life in the West to live as an Arab on the Sahara desert. Interesting reading. Hardcover. Octavo, 224pp., cloth.. Good in Good DJ. (a6039)
$22.00 Buchanan, Angus . SAHARA
London 1926 John Murray. 301pp., photo illus., map, index. Pictorial cover a bit worn. Good, no dj (a12991)
$75.00 Campbell, Thomas . LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE) (ORIGINAL PRINTINGS, NOT MODERN REPRINTS)
London 1837 1st Henry Colburn. Travel in Algeria. Hardcover. Octavo, 358pp., three full page engravings, blue cloth with later paper spines. Bookplate and blind stamp (on title page) of Silas Bronson Library with withdrawn stamp on title page. Good. Two volumes, complete. (a71764)
$200.00 David, Charles Wendell . ANRRATIO DE ITINERE PEREGRINORUM HIEROSOLYMAN TENDENTIUM ET SILVIAM CAPIENTUM, A.S. 1189
Philadelphia 1935. The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 81 No. 5, pp.591-676, text maps, index, wraps. Text in Latin and in English. VG, small pen number on margin of front. (a28941)
$50.00 de Monfried, Henri and Ida Treat . PEARLS ARMS AND HASHISH, PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A RED SEA NAVIGATOR
NY 1930 1st Coward-McCann. Adventures include gun smuggling, prison, pearl diving, drug running and conversion to Islam. Hardcover. Octavo, 356pp., photo illustrations, endpaper maps, brown cloth with gilt lettering. VG plus, fainting soiling on cover, no DJ. No ownership marks. (a73061)
$65.00 Furlong, Charles Wellington . THE GATEWAY TO THE SAHARA OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES IN TRIPOLI
NY 1909 first edition. Scribner's. Hardcover. Octavo, 306pp., color illustrations, monochrome photo illustrations, gilt printed blue cloth with gilt. VG, new endpapers. no dj. (a72246)
$38.00 Gers, Jose . TERRE MOZABITE RHAPSODIE SAHARIENNE
Brussels 1933. In French. Number 13 of 53 copies signed by Gers on the verso of the title page (limitation page), with an original photograph of Gers in North Africa and an original leaf from the manuscript for the book, tipped in. Also inscribed and SIGNED by Gers on the title page. Sm.8vo., 212pp., wraps in DJ. Unopened. Fine in VG DJ that is foxed on the front and rear panels. Very scarce. (a41468)
$485.00 Gyula, Germanus . ALLAH AKBAR! II. KOTET
Budapest 1936 1st Revai Kiadas. In Hungarian. Small octavo, 311pp., photo illustrations, original black cloth with portrait of explorer on front. VG. Volume 2 only. (a66489)
$50.00 Kamil, Murad . DAS LAND DES NEGUS
Innsbruck 1953 Inn-Verlag. In German. 8vo., 116pp., photo illustrations, index., hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a37984)
$22.00 Lilliehook, John . TVENNE AR BLAND ZOUAVERNE MINNEN OCH ANTECHNINGAR
Stockholm 1862 Bonniers Forlag. Fran Falttaget uti Italien och Expeditioner uti Afrika aren 1859 och 1860. In Swedish. 8vo., 290pp., 4 foldout maps (one colored), 8 plates (5 monochrome, 3 in color), index, originsl boards. Plates by Grumbach, Leipzig.) Good, later end papers, text foxed throughout with some old dry water staining on first 34 pages; later end papers. (a40791)
$165.00 Matthias, Leo . GRIFF IN DEN ORIENT EINE REISE UND ETWAS MEHR
Leipzig 1931 1st Bibliographisches Institut. Travel in Persia, Syria, Palestine, etc. In German. Sm.4to., 318pp., monochrome photo illus., map, later wraps. Date stamp on front. VG, light wear. (a41973)
$35.00 McLaurin, Hamish . WHAT ABOUT NORTH AFRICA? TRAVEL IN MOROCCO, ALGERIA AND TUNISIA
NY 1927 1st Scribners. Sm.8vo., 362pp., photo illustrations, index, hardcover. Good plus, light cover soiling and wear, no DJ. (a26113)
$30.00 Meyers, Jeffrey . T. E. LAWRENCE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. ISBN 0-8240-1052-3
NY 1974 1st Garland. ISBN 0-8240-1052-3. Hardcover. Small octavo, 48pp., red cloth. Fine. (a73163)
$20.00 Monmarche, Marcel (editor) . ALGERIA AND TUNISIA
Paris 1926 Hachette. Travel guide in English. Small octavo, 340pp., 77 illustrations, 22 maps, 20 plans, original printed orange cloth hardcover. Owner signed. Good, light wear. (a70030)
$35.00 Powell, E. Alexander . IN BARBARY TUNISIA, ALGERIA, MOROCCO AND THE SAHARA
NY 1926 Century. 483pp., index. G-VG in Fair DJ, worn, stained and chipped. (a11574)
$35.00 Prime, William C. . BOAT LIFE IN EGYPT AND NUBIA
NY 1857 1st Harper. 8vo., 498pp., illustrations, cloth. Good, backstrip tearing, cover edges worn, spine end worn down. (a12053)
$60.00 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis . THE SAHARA HUNTERS
Boston 1923 1st Lothrip Lee. Hardcover. Small octavo, 329pp., illustrations, pictorial orange cloth. VG, light wear, mounted picture illustration on front is lightly stained and chipped. (a72257)
$27.00 Romanelli, Samuel . TRAVAIL IN AN ARAB LAND
Tuscaloosa 1989. Translated from Hebrew with introduction and notes by Yedida Stillman and Norman Stillman. True story of authors 4 years of adventure in Morocco in 1786. 8vo., 222pp., index, hardcover. Fine in VG DJ. (a28147)
$25.00 Rutter, Owen . TRIUMPHANT PILGRIMAGE AN ENGLISH MUSLIM'S JOURNEY FROM SARAWAK TO MECCA
Philadelphia 1937 1st Lippincott. Hardcover. Octavo, 296pp., portrait frontispiece of the English Muslim David Chale, original orange cloth. VG, no DJ. (a57760)
$24.00 Thomas-Stanford, Charles . ABOUT ALGERIA ALGIERS, TLEMCEN CONSTANTINE BISKRA TIMGAD
London 1912 1st John Lane. Hardcover. Octavo, 306pp., 32 illustrations from drawings by F. Dorrien Thoroton and from photographs, map, brown cloth. A few institution markings, name cut from free blank. VG. (a70921)
$44.00 Todd, Mabel Loomis . TRIPOLI THE MYSTERIOUS
Boston 1912 Small Maynard. 8vo., 214pp., photo illustrations, index, original gilt printed hardcover. VG. (a57631)
$65.00 Vernon, Paul E. . MOROCCO FROM A MOTOR
London 1927 1st Black. Sm.4to., 184pp., color illustrations, foldout map, pictorial hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Vernon in presentation to Frank Gottsch. VG, no DJ. (a58179)
$150.00 Vernon, Paul E. . MOTORING IN NORTH AFRICA
NY 1923 1st Author. 72pp., numerous photo illustrations, hardcover. Owner signed. VG plus, slight cover wear, in Fine later glassine removable jacket. (a26102)
$75.00 Waterfield, Gordon . MORNING WILL COME
London 1944 John Murray.Travel in Africa, especially Somalia, and in India and Burma during WWII. 8vo., 198pp., photo illustrations (many by Cecil Beaton), index, cloth. Maps on end papers. VG, no DJ. (a7498)
$20.00 Woodberry, George E. . NORTH AFRICA AND THE DESERT
NY 1914 first edition Scribners. Travel in Tunisia and Tripoli. Hardcover. Octavo, 364pp., cloth. Top edge gilt. VG plus, no ownership marks; no dj. (a62517)
$40.00 Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman . ALGERIAN MEMORIES A BICYCLE TOUR OVER THE ATLAS TO THE SAHARA
New York no date (c.1900) Anson Randolph. Small octavo, 216pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Hospital name in ink and hospital stamp on end paper. Good, heel of spine chipped, head of spine worn, corners worn, rear hinge cracked, cover faded. In later clear protective glassine jacket. Scarce. (a65478)
$295.00 Wright, Dr. William . AN ACCOUNT OF PALMYRA AND ZENOBIA WITH TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN BASHAN AND THE DESERT (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
NY 1895 (1894) Thomas Nelson. Hardcover. Octavo 8vo., 394pp., photo illustrations and woodcuts, index, dark green cloth with gilt design. Top edge gilt. Institution bookplate. Near VG. (a29004)
$47.00 Wyndham, Richard . GENTLE SAVAGE A SUDANESE JOURNEY IN THE PROVINCE OF BAHR-EL-GHAZAL, COMMONLY CALLED THE BOG
London 1936 3rd Cassell. Octavo, 245pp., color frontis, photo illustrations, map, hardcover. Good, light wear, no DJ. (a7350)
$28.00 Zwemer, Samuel M. . THE MOSLEM WORLD
NY 1908. 12mo., 239pp., photo illustrations, index, foldout map at rear, wraps. Good, spine repaired, wraps a bit chipped. (a33215)
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