THE LOST WORLD VISIONS OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST

Monday, 13th July 2015 James Murray July 2015

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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. London: John Murray. 1849-50. Fourth and Fifth Editions. Octavo. In two volumes. pp. xxxi, 399; xii, 495. Vol. 1 fourth edition, vol. 2 fifth edition. With many engravings and fold-out maps. In publisher's red cloth with black titles and tooling to boards and spines. Spotting to vol. 1 prelims, and front end papers split to vol. 2. Bumped corners and shelf-wear, particularly to spine edges. Fair to good overall. Layard excavated what we now know to be the site of Nimrūd between 1845 and 1851, and discovered the site of Nineveh in 1849. As well as countless important artifacts, Layard also notably discovered the cuneiform state archives of Nineveh, which form the basis of our knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia to this day. £150

14. LYNCH, William. F. (1801-1865). Narrative of the United States’ Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. With Maps and Numerous Illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. 1849. First Edition. Octavo. pp. xx, 508. With 2 folding sketch maps, and 28 wood block plates. Publisher’s catalogues at end. In publisher’s dark brown cloth with gilt pictorial boards and spine, cream endpapers. Armorial bookplate and pencil autorgraph of Vaux family, Pa., contemporary news; clippings inserted at rear. Binding expertly re-backed, bright gilt, some wear to corners; very good. Lynch carried out the first successful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Lynch’s exploration had no political motivation but arose from his enthusiasm to visit the Holy Land; he also visited Ephesus, Smyrna and Constntinople. The plates are after drawings by members of the expedition. Blackmer 1043. £125 15. MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard (1878-1967). Middle East Diary 1917 to 1956. London: The Cresset Press. 1959. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with red title label to spine. Dust wrapper shows menorah and title to front cover, titles to spine, and review of "The Seat of Pilate" by John Marlowe to rear cover. Originally priced 35 s. Binding is tight, with minimal shelfwear. Dust wrapper rubbed to top edge, including top of spine, with some fading to spine and covers. Colonel Meinertzhagen was a British solider and intelligence agent. Initially praised for his adventurous exploits, he was mired in controversy for most of his adult life. His views on Israel typify this conflicted character: a friend of Zionism, but apparently also an antisemite, this book recounts in diary form the part that Meinertzhagen played in the formation of the Palestine Mandate. £100

16. MONTULE, Edward De. Travels in Egypt, during 1818 and 1819. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1821. Small Quarto. pp. iv, 116. Complete with 12 plates of which 7 folding, 1 tinted. Bound in recent dark green half calf with gilt titles to spine, marbled boards. Some 25 leaves have been added at the end to give the book a more appealing thickness. Light foxing to some plates; light, occasional foxing to text. Very attractive. Voyages, Vol. V. £500

17. PHILBY, Harry St. J. B. (1885-1960). The Empty Quarter. London: Constable. 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's second issue sand coloured cloth titled in dark brown to spine. Near fine save for some light sunning to the spine panel. Internally clean and bright, offsetting to pastedown and fly, Dutch bookseller's label to pastedown. A handsome copy of Philby's account of The Great South Desert, also known as The Rub 'al Khali. £375 18. POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. (1770- 1838). Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1820. Small Quarto. pp. 122. Complete with 4 engravings including the engraved portrait frontispiece of Ali Pacha Vizier of Janana. Bound in recent light brown half oasis morocco with maroon title label and gilt titles to spine, marbled boards. Some 25 leaves have been added at the end to give the book a more appealing thickness. Offsetting of text on to plates and frontis on to title page with browning. A handsome copy. The French government appointed Francois Pouqueville as consul general in Janina, to the court of Ali Pasha Tepelena, after the successful publication of his first travel memoirs, Travels in the Morea, to Constantinople, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire in the years 1798, 1799, 1800 and 1801 (Paris 1805). He remained in Epirus from 1806 to 1815, had a close personal relationship with the “Lion of Janina” and was able to travel widely in the region. His “Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly,” London 1820, offers a detailed description of his impressions of Epirus and southern Albania in early 1806. Voyages and Travels, No. 4, Vol. IV. R. Elsie: Texts and Documents of Albanian History. £180

19. [ROSS, Alexander, trans. (1591-1654)], [DU RYER, André, trans. (c. 1580- 1660)]. The Alcoran of Mahomet, Translated out of Arabique into French; by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. [QUR'AN] London. 1649. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE QUR'AN. Octavo. pp. xxi, 407 [14]. Includes also 'The Life and Death of Mahomet', pp. 395-407, and 'A Needfull Caveat or Admonition for them who desire to know what use may be made of, or if there be danger in reading the Alcoran', pp. 1-14, to rear of book. Small portions of page edges missing to pp. 151; 173; 259 and 385. p. 277 miss-printed as p. 282. Otherwise complete, undamaged and clean. In original brown calf boards, with recently replaced spine. Raised bands with gilt titles to red morocco label. All edges originally a deep red, now somewhat faded. Ross translated Du Ryer's French Qur'an, published in 1647 and itself only the third western translation, with a great deal of poetic license; perhaps to emphasise its theological errors. As Charles I's personal Chaplain Ross, who was born in Aberdeen, was based in Southampton and later the Isle of Wight, remaining there until his death. £1450 20. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita (1892-1962). Twelve Days: An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-Western Persia. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1928. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's brown and black mottled cloth with 32 full- page black and white photographs, ownership plate of Aida Foster (founder of one of Britain's foremost stage schools, the 'Aida Foster Theatre School') to pastedown. Cloth boards in excellent condition excepting some very minor scuffing to lower side of rear board, all corners bumped, some dustiness has darkened top edge, fascinating appendix detailing notes on 'distances, camping grounds, etc.' contributed by Gladwynn Jebb, moderate age-toning to text block, relatively clean internally, endcaps a little rubbed and showing some shelf wear. A very good copy overall. £55

21. SHAW, Thomas (1694-1751). Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford: The Theatre. 1738. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Demy Folio (43 x 27cm). pp. xvi, 442. Also including 'A Collection of such Papers as serve to Illustrate the Foregoing Observations' following the main text, pp. 61, and an un-paginated index. These papers serve as a series of appendices, including a list of references to Classical sources such as Herodotus and Strabo, as well as a collection of botanical sketches and an account of the weather in Alexandria. With 34 copper plates, including maps, plans etc. Modern re- binding, featuring the tooled tan calf leather coverings of old boards and a new matching calf spine with raised bands and gilt titles to a black morocco label. Book plates of Sir Abraham Hume Bart and Norman Douglas Simpson to front paste down. The new binding has seen some wear, but in general the book remains very good. Map of Algeria following preface has one 4 inch tear to the bottom left, extending about an inch into the printed map itself. Shaw originally came from Kendal and was educated at Queen's College Oxford before being sent as a chaplain to Algiers. His book, published five years after his return to Oxford, covers Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and the Levant, and is accompanied by extensive footnotes reproduced from Ancient Greek and Latin sources. Pritzel 8649; Blackmer 1533; Lowndes 2372. £1650 22. STARK, Freya [Dame] (1893-1993). Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. A Complete set of Freya Stark's four volume Autobiography. London: John Murray. 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo. pp. xii, 346; xiii, 341; xiii, 287; xii, 297. All in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All with original dust jackets (red, blue, green and yellow respectively). Latter 3 vols. all in near-fine condition with just a few very small chips from jackets. 'Traveller's Prelude' more worn, but still very good. Larger chips from jacket, particularly spine, but clean and un-faded. Overall an attractive set. Alongside Gertrude Bell, Stark remains one of the best known female travellers in the Middle East, becoming one of the first westerners to cross the southern Arabian Desert. £250

23. STARK, Freya [Dame] (1893-1993). The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan. London: John Murray. 1970. First edition. Octavo. Fine in publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt. In a fine unclipped dustwrapper. Quite simply a lovely copy of the intrepid and fearless Ms. Stark's trips into the wilds of Afghanistan. Illustrated throughout. Fascinating, and given recent events, more than a little tragic. £95

24. STARK, Freya [Dame] (1893-1993). Space, Time, and Movement in Landscape. London: Her Godson. 1969. First Limited Edition. Oblong Folio. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this No.36, SIGNED by the Author. Bound by Zaehnsdorf with mustard coloured morocco spine with gilt titles, marbled boards, dark green end papers. With a large selection of photographic plates. Clear text on tinted laid paper. A beautiful presentation of the author’s style and work, in a protective slipcase. £210

25. THESIGER, Wilfred (1910-2003). The Marsh Arabs. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. 1964. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth with titles in gilt and black to spine, near fine, in near fine dustwrapper just a little rubbed to head and tail of spine. Illustrated with maps and 110 superb photographs taken by the Author. A bright, lovely copy of a ‘... book about the tribes that live in the Marshes of Iraq, around the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates... The author lived among these people for 8 years...’. £210 26. TRUMBULL, Henry Clay (1830-1903). Kadesh-Barnea Its Importance and Probable Site with the Story of a Hunt for it Including Studies of the Route of the Exodus and the Southern Boundary of the Holy Land. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1884. Octavo. With large map in pocket at end of book, maps and illustrations. In publisher’s green cloth. top edge gilt. Small repairs to head and tail of spine, light shelf wear. Overall a very good copy. £95

27. WAUGH, Evelyn (1903 - 1966), [illust. Reynolds Stone]. The Holy Places. London: The Queen Anne Press. 1952. Limited Queen Anne Press edition designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. no. 344. Large Octavo. pp. 37 [3]. Bound in red Buckram with Cream Wove paper. Gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board. Top edge red. Some pages un-cut. Waugh gives a short account of his travels in the Holy Land, seemingly a British colonial success story, towards the end of 1935 and shortly before the Arab Revolt. A very special edition in fine condition. £95

28. WEBBE, Edward (1554-?), HOWELL, James (1594-1666), SELDON, John (1558-1654). Edward Webbe, Chief Master Gunner, His Trauailes. 1590, Instructions for Forreine Travell, 1642, Table Talk, 1689. London. 1869 Reprint. In three volumes, bound together. Octavo, pp. 40; 88; 120. Half bound in vellum over blue cloth. Gilt decoration to spine with black leather title squares. Marbled endpapers and edges. Some spotting to prelims, general moderate wear to the covers. A very good copy. £65

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