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London: Printed For T. Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, 1798. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine. 56 pages. 21 x 13 cm. With folding copper-engraved plan of the Battle of the Nile, also called the Battle of Abu Quir, one of Nelson's greatest victories, restoring the British presence in the Mediterranean and dooming Napoleon's venture in Egypt. Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831, was captain of the flagship during the battle, and when Nelson was wounded, prevented him from falling by catching him in his arms. Berry afterwards published the above work anonymously. Berry is said to have been the only officer in the navy, of his time, except vice-admiral Collingwood, who had three medals, having commanded a ship in three general actions -- the Nile, Trafalgar, and St. Domingo. The DNB calls this work, "a pamphlet which under the special circumstances of its authorship, is of singular interest and value." Clean, fresh copy with plan in excellent condition.

Portland: Graphic Arts Center, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 112 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Photography by David Fitzgerald. Ninety-five color plates.

London: I.B. Taurus, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 272 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Index. This volume presents some of the earliest records of the region.

New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 909 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Two maps at rear, refrained as endpapers in color: The Locale and The Galilee.

London: Charles Knight, 1841. First edition thus. leather_bound. Black polished calf. Teg. Fine. 3 Vols. (XXXII) 618, 643, 763 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Hundreds of engravings on wood by William Harvey. Index. Lane, a noted Oriental scholar resided many years in Egypt in the early 19th century also authored a valuable Arabic lexicon. "William Harvey (1796-1866) was Bewick's favorite pupil, and by all accounts, a most amiable man, one who reached the top of the tree as both engraver and artist." Lane added abundant and scholarly notes, elucidating terms, explaining customs and illustrating points of Islamic faith, which were later assembled to form a book entitled Arabian Society in the Middle Ages. The translation was almost entirely from the Arabic edition of the text published at Bulaq in Cairo in 1835. He was unquestionably the most eminent English Arabist of his time. Raised bands, panels elaborately decorated in gold motifs with a center oval in brown,… Read More

Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and cloth. Very good. 250 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece. Translated into German by Oskar P. Trautmann from the second Russian edition, Moscow, 1946. Signed presentation copy from Peter Amelung to Bernard H. Breslauer. Text embrowned.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth, front cover border fillets in black, frame interior rectangular designs also in black with back covers a design mirror, but in blind. Very good. 2 vols. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs. Burton and others -- rather than a continuous and smooth narrative -- compiled during sundry desert explorations Burton was Consul in Damascus from 1865-197, and Drake came to Syria under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Society. PENZER 85-88. Scarce set in original cloth, interior contents clean, a few map folds reinforced with archival tape, light cover soiling, a few corners bumped, two small cloth puckers (approx. one by one inches) cover of Vol.I and back cover Vol.II.