Jerusalem: Elizabeth L. McQueen, 1919. First printing. Hardcover. Vol. 1, No. 1, December 9, 1919, through Vol. 1, No. 111, April 20, 1920, to 133 (pasted over with 2 x 2 1/2, 1 x 4 inch x 3/8 inch paper tape), No. 149 (2 sheets) to 151, Tuesday June 8..... More
Abu Dhabi: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, 2015. First edition. Box. Square Quarto (10 x 10"). 435pp. Original white wraps with black lettering on cover and white cloth label of spine, housed in black paper-covered box with black lettering in white cloth label in debossed frame. Black cloth lever..... More
Hartford: J. Babcock, 1796. 12mo. 132pp. Leather over blue paper covered boards. This a later edition of the original published in 1794. Blue front free endpapers with original inscription of previous owner, reading "Isaac Grant's book". This work, published many years after Crouch's death is his printing of this fascinating..... More
London: Bell and Daldy, 1864. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Vol. 1: xii, 339, (1) with errata and addenda slip bound in. Original half leather over royal blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Title page in red & black with publisher's device. Vol. II: (8)pp., 63..... More
Hartford: Printed by J. Babcock, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 132pp. Half-leather over blue paper covered boards, protected by modern mylar. Blue front free endpapers. Later edition of the original published in 1794. This work, published many years after Crouch's death is his printing of this fascinating travelogue to the..... More
Najaf: Matbaʻat al-Adab, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 343pp. Pink printed wrappers with black lettering on the covers and spine. This work is a comprehensive catalog by Iraqi poet and professor Abdullah al-Juburi (b.1939) which enumerates and describes the manuscript content of the personal library of Mosul-born scholar Hassan Ankerli..... More
Jerusalem: Keren Hajessod, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 32pp. Original illustrated wraps with brown lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. History and rise of Tel Aviv as a city in the first part of the 20th century. Describing the founding in 1909 and the first years of its development..... More
Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1930. Softcover. 8vo. 265pp. Gray wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine. Staining, discoloration and creasing. Two small closed tears to upper edge of wrappers. Some foxing to fore page edge. Top half of wrappers coming loose from pages but still attached. Inscribed..... More
London: Palästina-Kommission, 1928. First edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 173pp. Original textured blue wrappers with black lettering on cover, protected in modern mylar. Detailed report on the British Mandate of Palestine by the Joint Palestine Survey Commission, the Rt. Hon. Lord Melchett, Lee K. Frankel, Felix M. Warburg, Oskar Wassermann, with..... More
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xi,(3),208,(2)pp. Index and bibliography. Off white dust jacket printed in gray. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, black & light blue. Illustrated with photographic plates with 217 black & white images; and plates with 60 architectural drawings and ground plans..... More
Neukirchen-Vluym: Neukirchener Verlag/ Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer, 1973 (vol. 1-4), 1986 (vol. 5). Hardcover. 5 volumes. xii, pp.1275 (continuos pagination vols. 1-3), 856pp. 814pp. Vol. 1-4: Gray cloth with black lettering to spine in original dj. 3" tear to bottom of rear side of dj on vol. 2. All the..... More
Oxford: University Press for the Society of Antiquaries, 1944. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 191pp. ixxxi plates. Original beige paper-covered boards with black lettering and Society of Antiquaries symbol on cover. 81 plates containing plans of moon temple, b/w photographic images, and diagrams. Report of the archeological surveys carried out in the..... More
Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 474 (2)pp. Original illustrated white boards with black lettering on cover. Printed photographic imagery on orange endpapers. Illustrated title page. Account of the history of Zionism, the events leading up to Israel's war of independence, and an attempt to describe the claims and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes. ix, 294pp., vi, 312pp. Muttled brown cloth. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Bookplate and signature of Bruce Bruyan on front endpapers. Faded gilt top edge. Frontispiece. An account of the Mesopotamian Campaign as witnessed by Candler..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, (1877). First English language edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 176pp. Quarter cloth over marbled boards. A wonderful small edition of 'A Brief History of Turkey'. The book was originally written by Dr. Johannes Blochwitz and was first published in Germany. This edition has been translated by..... More
Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xiii, 500pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The essays in this volume discuss the life and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. There are essays also on the New Testament world..... More
Lisbonne; Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 230pp. Original pictorial wrappers with red and black lettering on front cover and spine. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work based on the manuscript of Jerónimo Calvo in which the author wrote about his journey in the Holy..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (8), 359, (1)pp. Index. Cream dust jacket lettered in black, blue and orange. Blue cloth, front cover stamped in blind, spine stamped in silver. Signed on the front free endpaper by Amos Elon. D.j. price clipped, slightly dusted and..... More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1912-1913. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 6 3/4"). [4], iv, 381, [3]pp (Vol. 1); [4], 512pp (Vol. 2). Modern full burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. First edition of French orientalist Clément Huart's two volume set "Histoire des Arabes" (History of the Arabs)..... More
Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1828. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 294 [2]pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with handwritten title-label. Age wear to binding, red page edges. Signature of previous owner on free front endpaper. Collection of 25 lectures by Professor D. Heinrich Leo on the history of the Jewish state held at the..... More
Madrid: Pentacrom, (1971). Hardcover. Folio. 152,[56],pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on cover in original dust jacket. Minor creasing and staining to dj. Slight chipping to bottom edge of dj. Frontisportrait of Anwar El Sadat. A magnificent book focusing on the some of the great achievements of Egyptian architecture. Also..... More
Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xv, (1), 431, (1)pp. Indices. Original gray stiffened wrappers with stamped publisher's device and black lettering on cover and spine. Block printed on special yellow paper stock. A near fine, unopened copy. Volume 43 in the series "Analecta Orientalia" "The purpose..... More
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1974. Softcover. 8vo. 289,20pp. Blue wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine. Some creasing, discoloration and staining to wraps. Some pages unopened. Literary documents on the civilization on 'Arados' Island during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine period. Illustrated with b/w photographs from the 1930s..... More
London: John Murray, 1864. Twelfth Thousand. Hardcover. Octavo. lviii, 560, 16pp. Original blind-embossed cloth with gold lettering on spine. Color folding frontispiece showing a diagram of the elevations of Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Captivating account by English churchman, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley of his travels to Egypt and the Holy Land..... More
Berlin Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 382 (6)pp, 1 map. Original gray cloth with gilt stamped illustration and lettering on cover and spine. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with 56 b/w plates, one color plate and a map of Babylon in pocket at rear. Historical account on..... More