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Account of the first scientific expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India

NIEBUHR, Carsten. Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen.
Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde; Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven and company (vol. 1) and Bartholomeus Wild (vol. 2) (colophons: Utrecht, printed by J.J. Besseling), 1776-1780. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, each with a vignette, 31 engraved maps and plans and 94 other engraved plates. 19th-century half calf. Untrimmed. VIII, [6], 484, [2]; [16], 455, [1] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Archaeology Architecture Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia North Africa & Egypt Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

From India to Egypt, with 19 hand-coloured plates and 2 maps

NOÉ, Louis Pantaléon Jude Amédée, Comte de. Mémoires relatifs a l'expédition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'orient.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale (back of half-title: [Auguste] Nepveu), 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographed maps, partly coloured by hand, and 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides. [3], [1 blank], III, [1 bank], 288 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Anthropology & Ethnography Costumes & Uniforms India & Sri Lanka Military History (19th Century) North Africa & Egypt

Historical work on the Saracens

OCKLEY, Simon. The conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt, by the Saracens: containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, and Othman, the immediate successors of Mahomet, giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, &c. ...
London, for R. Knaplock, J. Sprint, R. Smith and J. Round, 1708. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf with gold-stamped red label to gilt spine, leading edges gilt, red sprinkled edges. XXIV, [4], 391, [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Military History (18th Century) North Africa & Egypt West Asia

Shipwrecked Americans as slaves of Islamic hunters and nomads in the western Sahara in 1800

PADDOCK, Judah. A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, ...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (printed by Andrew Strahan), 1818. 4to. 20th-century tan goatskin morocco. XVI, 372 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa & Egypt Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East West Africa

Catalogue of a collection of antiquities bought for the Berlin Museum

PASSALACQUA, Giuseppe. Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Égypte ... contenant: 1. Le catalogue ... 2. Des notes et observations ... 3. Des notices et dissertationes scientifiques ...
Paris, Galerie dAntiquites Égyptiennes, 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographic plates. Later paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth. XV, [1], 303, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Archaeology Auction Catalogues & Bookselling North Africa & Egypt

Trade in Venetian cloth in early 18th-century Cairo

[AUTOGRAPH]. [PETEA(?)], Michiel. [Letter, signed, to Nicolò Caragiani in Venice concerning the trading conditions in Cairo for different woolen and silk fabrics].
Cairo, 22 October 1732. Manuscript letter in Italian, opening with a duplicate of an earlier letter, in a different hand, dated 26 September 1732, written in ink on one page of a bifolium originally folded 4 more times for sending (to 8.5 x 14 cm) with the address on one side and traces of a red wax on the other. Full description

€ 3,500

Autographs & Letters Economic History & Trade Italy North Africa & Egypt

“the historic cornerstone of the study [of mummification] in English”

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph. A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman (back of title-page and colophon: printed by P.P. Thoms), 1834. 4to. With 13 numbered lithographed plates (the first used as frontispiece), including 3 fully and 1 partly coloured by a contemporary hand, of which 2 highlighted in gold. Contemporary half calf, restored and rebacked with parts of the original backstrip laid down, with new tooling and title-label on spine, cloth sides, later endpapers. XXI, [1 blank], 264, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Archaeology Classical Antiquity Latin America North Africa & Egypt Peru South America

Rare photograph of three men praying in the Sahara

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALGERIA]. Sahara Algérien - la prière.
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 21 x 27.5 cm). Mounted on grey/green cardboard (ca. 28 x 39 cm), with a black border around the albumen print. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

€ 400

Islamic Art, Culture & Science North Africa & Egypt Photography

Collection of photographs of 19th-century Egypt, by the leading Orientalist photographer of the time

[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

€ 4,000

Islamic Art, Culture & Science North Africa & Egypt Photography

Photographs and illustrations of a British warship's travels in Latin America

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description