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Monday, 13Th July 2015 James Murray July 2015 THE LOST WORLD VISIONS OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST Monday, 13th July 2015 James Murray July 2015 All items are priced in £ sterling and are offered subject to availability. Prices do not include shipping. We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express or payment by cheque in £ Sterling payable to Adrian Harrington. Payment may also be made via bank transfer by arrangement. Please contact us if you have any queries or requests, and please quote the reference number when enquiring about a specific item. We look forward to hearing from you. 20-22 Chapel Place ● Royal Tunbridge Wells ● Kent TN1 1YQ ● UK Tel +44 (0) 1892 547 531 ● email: [email protected] Company No. 3428373 ● VAT No. GB 702 0559 73 website: www.harringtonbooks.co.uk THE LOST WORLD With so much of the Near and Middle East in turmoil, even to the extent that ancient sites such as Nineveh and Palmyra, left untouched for millennia, have been destroyed or face irreparable harm, the written records of our ancestors who knew this region in centuries and decades past seem more precious than ever. Stretching from Rome in the West to Oxiana in the East, this catalogue includes examples of travel writing, archaeology and architectural studies between the years 1590 and 1970. Although much of it will of course be seen through the distorting prism of Orientalism, in a world where so much has been lost in so short a time they may represent all that is left of some civilisations and ways of life. In the following catalogue you will find titles listed alphabetically by author. 1. BRAY, Major N. N. E. [LEACHMAN, Brevet Lt. Colonel. Gerard Evelyn] (1880-1920) A Paladin of Arabia. London: John Heritage. 1936. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 429. With three folding maps. Illustrated throughout with photographs of various aspects of Leachman's life and campaigns. Bound in recent half green morocco over green cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Internally clean. A handsome copy in an attractive recent binding. A scarce account of the man whom many think Lawrence aspired to emulate. £250 2. BRYANT, Jacob (1715-1804). Observations and Enquiries Relating to Various Parts of Ancient History; Containing Dissertations on the Wind Euroclydon, and on the Island Melite, Together With an Account of Egypt in its Most Early State, and of the Shepherd Kings: Wherein the Time of Their Coming, the Province which they Particularly Possessed , and to which the Israelites Afterwards Succeeded, is Endeavoured to be Stated. The Whole Calculated to Throw Light on the History of that Ancient Kingdom, as well as on the Histories of the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Edomites and Other Nations. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon. 1767. First Edition. Quarto. pp. xiv, 324. With six folding maps, and one folding illustration. In recent brown calf with original speckled calf boards and red label, gilt, raised bands, blind stamped super libris to boards. Fine. £195 3. BURTON, Richard F. (1821-1890). Etruscan Bologna: A Study. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1876. Octavo. 22 x 14cm. pp. xii, 275. Illustrated with folding pullout frontispiece, sepia tone lithograph illustration: 'Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy’, wood block illustrations throughout text. Bound in Publisher’s blue cloth with decorative friezes in black relief to top and bottom of boards. Gilded motif to upper, gilt titles to spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed, otherwise a clean and sound copy. Internally clean, two small areas of tape residue to half title. Very good indeed. £395 4. BURTON, Richard F. (1821-1890). The Gold Mines of Midian. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1878. First edition. Octavo, pp. xvi, 398 [1]. Fold out map bound into front. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue half Morocco over blue cloth boards. Raised gilt stamped bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt top edge, grey endpapers. Some browning to the pages, small area of staining to the top of right corner of the fore edge. Slight tanning to the spine, and rubbing along the bottom edges, and some wear to the rear board. Ownership bookplate to front flyleaf. £975 5. BYRON, Robert (1905-1941). The Byzantine Achievement. London: Routledge. 1929. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Minor bumping to spine ends and perhaps the faintest discolouration to spine, a very good, sharp clean copy indeed. Lacking dustwrapper. A handsome copy of the author's thrid book, a historical analysis of Byzantium and its influence. Illustrated throughout. £300 6. BYRON, Robert (1905-1941). The Road To Oxiana. London: Macmillan and Co. 1937. First Edition. Octavo. pp.341 [2]. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Minor wear to extremities, some fading to spine. Internally clean, including the photographs. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead set immortalized by Evelyn Waugh, but he was also the foremost travel writer of his age. He is best known for The Road to Oxiana, a description of his journey in 1933-34 through modern Iran and Afghanistan. Paul Fussell recently suggested that what Ulysses is to the novel and what The Waste Land is to poetry, Byron’s book is to travel writing. Listed in National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure books. £550 7. DOUGHTY, Charles M. (1843-1926) [LAWRENCE, T.E.]. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. New and Definitive Edition. London: Jonathan Cape. 1936. First Edition thus. In two volumes. Quarto. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spines, top edges tinted, others untrimmed. In dustwrapper, with titles in black to spines and uppers. Portrait frontispiece to vol. 1. Large folding colour map to rear of each volume and several other illustrations, many folding. The books are fine but for a little foxing to end papers and edges. The dustjackets are dusty but still bright, a little frayed along extremities, chipped to head and foot of spines and to corners; strengthened along the top and bottom edges with brown tape. A very attractive copy. Doughty's epic two-year journey through Europe to The Holy Land and Syria in the 1870s remained almost unknown to the public until, in 1908, an abridgement by Garnett under the title Wanderings in Arabia immediately gained for Doughty a host of admirers. In 1921 Travels in Arabia Deserta, long since out of print was reissued with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence. A new generation of readers accepted it as a classic of travel. Listed in National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure books. £675 8. DYER, Thomas H. (1804-1888). A History of the City of Rome: Its Structures and Monuments. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1865. Prize Binding. Octavo. pp. lxiv, 415. Two folding maps highlighted in colour. Bound in full black morocco, gilt, with gilt arms of King's College London to front board, with raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, coated yellow endpapers. Presentation bookplate (for Classics, naturally) to pastedown. Bingin shows light handling, some offset to endpapers; near fine. £75 9. GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell. 1777, 1781, 1788. In six volumes. Medium quarto. Vol. 1 is a Third Edition; the remainder being First Editions. With a portrait frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds and three folding maps. Half-titles (vols. 2 - 6) and errata (2, 3, 6). Elegantly bound in original mottled tan calf, re-spined to style with red and green title labels, gilt rules and decoration. Some minor toning and a few creases within, binding a little rubbed and marked to boards. Overall a most presentable copy of this monumental work. Norton, PMM222. £3500 10. KELMAN, John [illustr. John FULLEYLOVE]. The Holy Land. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1912. Prize Binding. Octavo. Bound in contemporary green morocco, with gilt panelling and gilt device of New College, Harrogate to front board, raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spine; all edges gilt, gilt decoration to board edges, gilt dentelles. Binding is tight, and, with the exception of some fading to spine, remains attractive with only marginal signs of wear. Internally clean, plates are clean and vibrant. Old Boys War Memorial prize awarded to Clarence Francis Shackleton for Commercial Subjects in 1925, pasted in opposite reproduction of War Memorial listing those old boys lost during the war. £150 11. LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935). Oriental Assembly. London: Williams and Norgate. 1947. Sixth Impression, first reset and corrected thus. Octavo, pp. xii, 227. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, in brown dustjacket with black text. Hint of browning to the textblock, some browning to the endpapers and to the edges. A touch of rubbing to the top and bottom edges of the covers. Dustwrapper is price clipped losing some of the text from the upper flap. Some light wear to the top and bottom edges. A very good copy. £85 12. LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape. 1935. First Trade Edition. Quarto. pp. 672. Bound in recent half brown Morocco over brown cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles, and decoration to spine. Top edge stained brown, fore and tail edge untrimmed. Four folding maps, numerous illustrations. A very good copy in a smart modern binding. £375 13. LAYARD, Henry Austen, [Sir, D.C.L.] (1817-1894). Nineveh and its Remains: With an account of a visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians.
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