'alf laylat walayla. alkitab alththani. [Alf Layla wa Layla] One thousand nights and one night. The second book. [1001 Arabian nights]

Beirut, al-Matba'a al-Katholikia - Catholic Press. 1889. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 455 pages. Corrected and edited by one of the Jesuit fathers. Volume II only. Wear on edges, old name on front endpaper: 'T.W. Thacker' (in English and Arabic script) probably the publisher or related to the publisher W. Thacker who had published the four volume Calcutta II edition between 1839 and 1842. A rare early Arabic edition of this classic. Good.

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Book number: 010607

Catalogue: Middle East

ANDERSON, MARGARET

Arabic Materials in English Translation: A Bibliography of Works from the Pre-Islamic Period to 1977 (Reference Publication in Middle Eastern Studies)

Boston, G K Hall. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780816179541) Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xiii, 249 pages. A very clean, unread ex-library copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 010874

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: 9780816179541

GISSER, KORDULA

Iran: Impressions. March 8-15, 2008.

Vienna, 2008, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 83 pages, hundreds of colour photos. Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Pasargadae (Persepolis), Shiraz. Very Good.

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Book number: 6603

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Persia

LUXFORD, MAJOR J.H.

With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine: being the Official History of the New Zealand Machine Corps in the Great World War 1914-1918

Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs. 1923, First Edition. Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 255 pages, frontispiece, numerous plates and portraits. Also contains several folding maps and battle plans. Old name on front endpaper "S.J. Godfrey Kaiterangi Westland". A nice copy with only minor wear on the covers. Very Good.

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Book number: 012085

Catalogue: Middle East

MARKS, T. SEPTIMUS

The Great Pyramid: Its History and Teachings.

London, Partridge. 1879, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Folding frontispiece, 84 pages. Lacks front flyleaf, neat handwriting on a blank page at the back. Nearly Very Good.

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Book number: 5296

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Egypt

STARK, FREYA

Baghdad Sketches

London, John Murray. 1937, First Edition. Green Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xiv, 269 pages, map, 57 photgraphis illustrations, 10 drawings by E.N. Prescott. Old name on front endpaper, slight soiling on the spine. A sound copy. Freya Stark's first book covering her travels in the Middle East. Good.

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Book number: 012105

Catalogue: Middle East

TWEEDIE, W.K.

Jerusalem: Pictorial and Descriptive.

London, Nelson. 1877. Hardcover, 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book, Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. 16 x 10 Cm. 144 pages, many b/w illustrations, beautiful pictorial front cover and spine printed in gilt and black, names on front endpaper. Light edgeware. Very Good.

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Book number: 6391

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Jerusalem, Palestine, Holy Land, Judaica Geography, Atlasses

WATERBURY, JOHN

Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley.

Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. Syracuse University Press. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0815621922) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, xii, 301 pages, maps, diagrams. tbo. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007571

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: 0815621922 Agriculture, Africa, Aswan Dam, Cotton, Egypt, Ethiopia, Irrigation, Khartoum, the Sudan, Lake Tana, Victoria, White Nile, Blue Nile

WINSTONE, H.V.F. AND ZAHRA FREETH

Kuwait. Prospect and Reality.

London, Allen & Unwin. 1972, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 232 pages, b/w illustrations, maps. ex-library, lacks front endpaper, clean. Good.

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Book number: 1241

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Kuwait, Middle East, Arabia, Arabs, Beduins, Persian Gulf, King Ibn Suad, 0 04 953007 Geography, Atlasses

MOHAMMAD AL-ZUBAIR

This is Oman 1985.

Government of the Sultanate of Oman. 0, First Edition. Hardcover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book, unpaginated, 234 colour photographs, one map. Beautifully produced book on modern Oman and its achievements as well as the history and heritage. Text in Arabic and English. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 6550

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Arabia, Arabs, Arabian Countries, Persian Gulf