Middle East & Islamic World

PEUCKER, Karl. Musils explorations in Northern Arabia, 1908-9.
[London, W. Clowes, May 1910]. With a full-page black and white lithographed map (19x12.5 cm). 4to. With a full-page lithographed black and white map. Modern blue wrappers. 579-581 pp. Full description

PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger and Alfred Felix Landon BEESTON. Sheba's daughters beign a record of travel in southern Arabia. With an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston.
London, Methuen & Co., [1939]. 4to. With photographic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates (1 of which double-page), 1 folding map of southern Arabia, and several photographic illustrations in the text. Contemporary light yellow cloth with giltstamped title and ornament to the spine. XIX, [1 blank], 485, [1] pp. Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The empty quarter, being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.
London, Constable, 1933. 8vo. With 3 folding maps an 47 illustrations on 32 plates. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth. XXIV, 433, [1] Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Routes in South West Arabia. From surveys made by J. B. Philby.
London, 1938. Colour-printed map (56 x 36 cm) Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The land of Sheba (The Geographical Journal Vol. 92, no. 1).
[United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], July 1938. 8vo. With 1 large folding coloured map, 1 smaller uncoloured folding map, and numerous photographs on 7 plates. Later half black cloth. 21, 107-132 pp. Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Halévy in the Yaman (The Geographical Journal Vol. 102, no. 3).
[United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], September 1943. 8vo. Contemporary blue cloth with gilt-stamped abbreviated title to front cover: "Philby - Yaman". 115-124 [=10] pp. Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian jubilee.
London, Robert Hale Limited, 1954. 8vo. With a portrait of king 'Abdul-'Aziz Ibn Sa'ud as the frontispiece, 1 map of Arabia in 1950, and 16 double-sided plates. Black cloth with title information in gold on spine. XIV, 280 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALHAMBRA]. MAUZAISSE, Charles (photographer). [Collection of 13 photographs of the Alhambra in Granada].
[Granada, ca. 1865]. All albumen photographic prints (18 x 24 cm) are mounted on black card stock (29.5 x 21 cm). [13] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT], SÉBAH, Jean Pascal. [Collection of 34 albumen prints of Egypt].
[Cairo?, 1888-1900?]. 34 albumen prints (ca. 22 x 27 cm) mounted on cream cardstock (ca. 28 x 35.5 cm). Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. ZANGAKI BROTHERS. [Cover title:] Aegypten 1891.
[Egypt, Zangaki brothers, 1891]. Oblong album (31.5 x 41 cm). With 34 large albumen prints mounted on heavy cardstock leaves. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French in the negative and signed 'Zangaki'. The last one is signed Sebah & Joallier. The Zangaki prints measure 22.5 x 28.5 cm; the Sebah & Joallier one is 20.5 x 26.5 cm. Original gold-stamped bubble-grained maroon cloth over boards. [36] ll. Full description