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Beautifully illustrated account of the first Earl of Munster's journey overland from India via Egypt to England

FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in a latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818.
London, printed by Thomas Davidson for John Murray, 1819. Large 4to. With 12 plates, including one of "Pettah the Citadel etc." as a frontispiece and 7 maps and plans, including 1 folding, with 3 additional explanatory letterpress leaves for maps 2-4 (Jubbulpoor [Jabalpur], Nagpoor [Nagpur], Meinpoor [Mahidpur]). 9 of 12 plates are hand-coloured aquatints and 5 of 7 maps and plans are coloured in outline. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a blind-tooled decorative border. XXIV, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 502 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Egypt India & Sri Lanka North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Description of the plants collected by the Danish Arabia expedition, with an original drawing

FORSSKÅL, Peter and Martin VAHL. Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum, tam earum, quas in itinere, inprimis orientali, collegit Petrus Forskål, quam aliarum, recentius detectarum, exactiores descriptiones, nec non observationes circa quasdam plantas dudum cognitas.
Comprising:
(1) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars prima.
(2) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars secunda.
(3) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars tertia.
Copenhagen, for the author by Nicolaus Möller and son, 1790, 1791, and 1794. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (40 x 25 cm). With 75 numbered, full-page plates (74 engraved, 1 ink drawing). Near contemporary half mottled calf. [8], "81" [=85], [1 blank]; [2], 105, [3]; [4], 104, [2] pp. + 75 plates Full description
€ 35,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt Floras & General Botany West Asia
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"one of the most renowned nineteenth-century photobooks"

FRITH, Francis. Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and described.
London, James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes. Folio (44.5 x 32.5 cm). With 76 photographs on plates by Francis Frith (ca. 14.5-16.5 x 21.5-23 cm), each with a separate leaf of text. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spines and boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Full description
€ 40,000
Egypt North Africa Photography
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French commerce via Egypt and the Red Sea before the opening of the Suez Canal

FROMENT, Dominique. Du commerce des Europeens avec les Indes, par la Mer Rouge et par l'Egypte.
Paris, Dugour et Durant, an VII [= 1799]. 8vo. With a very large, folding map showing the fastest route from France to India (via the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), 7 folding tables, and a woodcut illustration at the head of the first chapter. Contemporary dark blue paper wrappers, protected by a semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [2], XIV, 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
East Africa Economic History & Trade Egypt France India & Sri Lanka North Africa
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On the conquest of Africa and the Ottoman corsair Dragut

FUENTES, Diego de. Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.
With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco "71" [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Honouring Duke Theodosius II, who fought in the Battle of Alcacér Quibir

GUERREIRO, Bartolomeo. Sermam que fez o R. P. Bertolameu Guerreiro da Companhia de Iesu, nas exequias do anno que se fizerao...
Lisbon, Mathias Rodrigues, [1632]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Duke Theodosius II on the title page, two woodcut initials and an ornamental head-piece. Plain paper wrappers with a small label on the front wrapper. [4], 28 ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Military History (17th Century) North Africa Portugal
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Rare album with magnificent lithographed views of an untouched Northeast Algeria (Constantine),
shortly after the French occupation

GUYON, Jean Louis Geneviève. Voyage dAlger aux Ziban lancienne Zebe en 1847. Avec vues des principales oasis et de quelques monuments du Tell, en deça des Aurès, et un portrait du dernier Bey de Constantine. Atlas.
Algeria, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1850. Oblong 4to. With 35 plates, namely a portrait of Hadj Hamed (or Ahmet Bey ben Mohammed sherif, the last Bey of Constantine; 1784-ca. 1850), and 34 views of various parts, cities and Roman remains in Algeria (Constantine), Half black morocco, brown cloth sides, gold-tooled spine. [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East
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The statue of Kamehameha shortly after its unveiling, together with photographs
of China, Indonesia, California and Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - HAWAII - CHINA]. [Lai FONG(?), A CHAN, WOODBURY & PAGE, I.W. TABER and Hippolyte ARNOUX]. [Collection of 12 photographs of China, Indonesia, the Hawaiian Islands, California and Egypt].
Late 19th century. With 12 albumen prints, ranging in size from ca. 16.5 x 23 cm to 21 x 28 cm. Full description
€ 2,850
Charts & Maps China Egypt Indonesia / Dutch East Indies North Africa North America Pacific Islands Photography
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Deluxe copy with a beautiful hand-coloured Arabic miniature on parchment

HEINE, Maurice. L'Islam sous la cendre.
Paris, [Jules Meynial] (colophon: Frazier-Soye), (19 February) 1918. Square 4to (25 x 26 cm). With three different versions of the frontispiece: a lithographed plate, a hand-coloured miniature painting on vellum, highlighted with gold, and an engraved plate; and with the half-title printed in blue and several words in the text printed in green and blue. Original green cloth. 26 ll. Full description
€ 8,500
France Islamic Art, Culture & Science Literature North Africa
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