Cartography, Exploration & Voyages

SVINYIN, Pavel Petrovic (here Paul SWININ, elsewhere SVIN'IN or SUININE). Tafereelen uit eene reis naar Noord-Amerika.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1818. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. [4], IV, 127 pp. Full description

[SYRIA - BA'ATH ARAB SOCIALIST PARTY]. Syria after two years of the March Revolution.
[Syria, Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party], 1965. 24 x 17 cm. With 28 photos on 16 plates and some tables in the text.
With: [MAP - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM]. Syria.
Damascus, Tourist Office, [ca. 1965]. Folded. 70 x 49.5 cm.
A brightly coloured folding map of Syria with some information about the country and its principal cities with a table of distances on the back, all text in the map and on the back is in English and Arabic.
Original publisher's printed wrappers, stapled. 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SYRIA - EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE]. Damascus.
[Damascus?], Field Survey Co[mpan]y. R.E., E.E.F., 7 October 1918. Map of Damascus (73.5 x 51 cm) printed in black and tan, on a scale of 1:10,000. Full description

TACHARD, Guy, and Gotfried van BROEKHUIZEN (translator). Reis na Siam, gedaan door den ridder de Chaumont, gezant van zyn allerchristelykste Majesteit aan den Koning van Siam.
Amsterdam, Aart Dirksz Oossaan, 1687.
With:
(2) CHAUMONT, Alexandre de and Gotfried van BROEKHUIZEN (translator). Verhaal van het gezantschap des ridders de Chaumont aan het hof des Konings van Siam ...
Amsterdam, Aart Dirksz. Oossaan, 1687.
(3) HERBERT, Thomas, and Lambert van den BOSCH (translator). Zee- en lant-reyse, na verscheyde deelen van Asia en Africa ...
Amsterdam, Arent Gerritsz van den Heuvel, 1665. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with an etched frontispiece, a small woodcut device on the title page, 22 etched plates (including 2 with a small detail hand-coloured in red on p. 184 and p. 206), 5 etched folding plates, a small woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces throughout. All etchings were made by Jan Luyken. Ad 2: with a small woodcut device on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut tailpiece. Ad 3: with an engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, a small woodcut device on the title page, and several large woodcut initials. 18th-century half vellum and mottled paper boards, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 294, [14]; 83, [5]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 183, [1 blank] pp. Full description

TEESDALE, Henry. Persia and Arabia.
London, 1847. Engraved map (41 x 33 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Full description

TELLEZ (TELLES), Balthasar. The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia: containing ... travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many things of that country ... are treated of, as a particular description of Aden, Moca, and several other places ...
London, J. Knapton [and 3 others, and sold by 5 more], 1710. 4to. With engraved map of Ethiopia, including part of the Red Sea and the source of the Blue Nile. Modern calf. [4], 264, [16] pp. Full description

THESIGER, W. Southern Arabia a journey through southern Rub el Khali October 1945 to February 1946.
London, 1946. Colour-printed map (66 x 46 cm). Full description

THÉVENOT, Melchisedec Jean-Baptiste. Alle de gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen ...; mitsgaders de voornaamster byzonderheden van d'Archipel, Konstantinopolen, 't Heilige Land, Egypten, de woestynen van Arabie, Mekka ...
Amsterdam, Gerrit Bos, 1731. 4to. With engraved title-page, standing portrait of the author in Eastern garb, 19 engraved plates (including 2 folding) drawn, etched and engraved by Jan Luyken. 18th-century half calf, sprinkled-paper sides, refurbished in the 19th century and with a 20th-century spine label. [4], 484, [4] pp. Full description

THOMAS, Bertram. Anthropological observations in South Arabia.
[offprint from:] Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 42 (1932). Large 8vo. With 2 plates (XI-XII) from photographs: (1) two views on the landscapes of the Sands of Dakara and the Qara Mountains, Arabia; (2) 12 portraits of members of the various tribes of Southern Arabia/Jemen. Blue wrappers with printed title label on the front cover. 83-108 pp. Full description

THOMAS, Lowell. The boys' life of colonel Lawrence.
London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., undated [c. 1930?]. 8vo. With 31 illustrations on 16 leaves; the first of the entrance to the lost city (Petra) through a narrow gorge functions as a frontispiece. Red cloth. 285, [1] pp. Full description