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Khayats, Beirut, 1963. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 131 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light wear, pages toned; a sound binding; good shape. No jacket. Contents are Trade Routes in the Pre-Islamic Era; Trade Routes Under the Caliphate; The Ships. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Inventory No: 185070. .

Beirut: Khayats, 1963 Hardcover 1st Printing Thus in gilt-stamped dark gray cloth boards, no markings, NOT ex-lib, no dj, pages clean & unfoxed, binding tight, light shelf wear to boards, small namestamp to front & rear pastedowns & bottom page edge, else clean tight copy; 8vo; 131pp indexed & illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Khayats. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Owner's name on rear endpage. (medieval history, naval history, middle east)

New York, Octagon Books 1975. (VIII) 131 p. Bound in the publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering (In good condition.)

Octagon Books, 1975. Hardcover. Like New. Like new Hardcover. SCARCE. Covers show very minor shelf wear, otherwise an unblemished copy. No Dust Jacket.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Princeton: Princeton University Press,, 1951. First edition, first printing, of Hourani's seminal study, his first work and yet to be superseded in the field, remaining a key text in the historiography of the maritime history of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Maritime heritage remains central to national identity in Gulf societies, and this title offers a highly readable general account, useful to the lay reader and historian alike. George Fadlo Hourani (1913-1984) was an Anglo-Lebanese historian and classicist, who became an authority on Islamic thought and philosophy. His brother, Albert Hourani, was also a distinguished historian, author of the popular and influential 1991 work A History of the Arab Peoples. Octavo. Original grey cloth, lettered in silver on dark green ground. With dust jacket. 4 plates of photographic illustrations, with illustrations and maps to the text. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A very good copy indeed, spine ends slightly bumped, extremities rubbed,… Read More