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| BARNETT, R.D. AND D.J. WISEMAN Fifty Masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, British Museum London, Trustees of the British Museum. 1960. First Edition. 96pp, preface by R.D. Barnett, section by D.J. Wiseman on cylinder seals, fifty monochrome illustrations. 12mo/18.5cm. Pictorial orange card wrappers, light rubbing, internally fine. A selection of the choicest and most characteristic specimens of the arts of the ancient near east held by the British Museum. R.D. Barnett ( ) was Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiques at the British Museum from ??? until 1974. D. J. Wiseman was a curatorial member of his staff (?) and later Professor of Assyriology at the University of London as well as a Fellow of the British Academy.. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 003917 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| HANSEN, ERIC Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1991. First Edition. xiii, 240pp, enpaper map, 2 text maps, bibliography. 8vo/21.5cm. Quarter cloth gilt. NF/NF. A true story about a journey in Yemen and the Red Sea area with a guide named Mohammed. Eric K. Hansen has written several other books including a biography of the Himalayan mountain traveler, Hugh Swift. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 003507 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| HITTI, PHILIP K The Near East in History: A 5000 Year Story Princeton, New York, Etc. D.Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1956. N.d. (ca.1960--date of Preface). xviii, 574pp, Preface, list of coins illustrated, 25 maps in monochrome, more than fifty illustrations (some in color), index. Tall 8vo/23.5cm. Green and tan cloth gilt, light wear, previous owner name on ffep, otherwise internally fine. The book is divided into six parts: The Preliterary Age, Ancient Semitic Times, The Greco-Roman Age, The Islamic Age, In Modern Times--Ottomans and Persians, The Arab States. A solid introduction to the Near East. Dr. Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) has been callled 'the founder of Near Eastern studies in the U.S.' primarily for his work at Princeton where he founded a now renowned Department of Near Eastern studies in the forties. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1376] Book number: 003952 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| LANE, ARTHUR Medieval Near Eastern Pottery London, Victoria & Albert Museum/HMSO. 1957. First Edition. Small Picture Book No 42. [2]pp text, 28 plates. 12mo/18cm. Patterned wrappers, light wear. VG+. Arthur Lane (1909-1963) was Keeper of Ceramics at the V & A and a world-renowned specialist on the subject. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 001570 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| RIZK, SALOM Syrian Yankee. Foreword by DeWitt Wallace, Editor of Readers Digest Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. 1944. (1943). xiii, 317pp. 8vo20.5cm. Red cloth, light wear, in slightly chipped dj, inscribed by author with date in Arabic, otherwise internally fine. A rags to riches story of a poor Syrian Arab boy who found out his dead mother and disappeared father had been American citizens and managed to get himself to the U.S. Backed by journalist Lowell Thomas who introduced him to Readers Digest staff which then sponsored him for lecturing on his story to American high schools eventually reaching more than a million students in nearly fifteen hundred schools, according to Readers Digest Editor De Witt Wallace in his Foreword. The book was apparently ghost written by Harold E. Schmidt (1908-2003) a Unitarian-Universalist minister who spent two years with Rizk in the thirties booking him for lectures under contract with Readers Digest. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 946] Book number: 003697 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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