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1. AHLWARDT, Wilhelm. Ueber Poesie und Poetik der Araber. Gotha: Perthes, 1856. 88+6(Arabic) pp. 28x23cm. Contemporary black cloth, with original decorated end-papers. A few light marks to cover, and some light foxing and a little dust on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy. [533664] £150 2. AKEHURST, John. We won a war: the campaign in Oman 1965-75. With a foreword by Field Marshal Lord Carver. London: Michael Russell, 1982. xxii+198pp. Illustrations and maps. 22x15cm. Hardbound, dustjacket. Slight toning to edge of dustjacket, otherwise an excellent copy. [534428] £110 3. ALDERSON, A.D. The structure of the Ottoman dynasty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. xvi+186pp. 63 tables (many folding). 3 maps in the text. 24x16cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent. [535800] £475 4. ALLEN, W.E.D. Béled-es-Siba: sketches and essays of travel and history. With a foreword by Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen. London: Macmillan: 1925. xviii+244pp. Maps. 20x14cm. Publisher’s maroon cloth. Excellent. [535783] £110 Morocco, Balkans, Caucasus. 5. ALLWORTH, E. (ed). Soviet Asia: bibliographies. A compilation of social science and humanities sources on the Iranian, Mongolian and Turkic Nationalities. With an essay on the Soviet-Asian controversy. New York: Praeger, 1975. lxiii+686pp. 24x16cm. Hardbound. Very good. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535773] £75 6. ATIL, Esin. Levni and the Surname: the story of an eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival. Istanbul: Koçbank, 1999. 247pp. Coloured plates throughout. 30x31cm. Dustjacket. Slipcase. Excellent. [535220] £90 "The Surname depicts the last truly magnificent imperial festival. --- Earthly pleasures were sung and celebrated. --- the masterpiece of Levni the greatest of all Ottoman manuscript illustrators, whose images vividly capture the spirit of the age. --- an invaluable sociological account of Istanbul at the apogee of Ahmed III's reign." v. Foreword by Omer Koç. 7. BARKER, William Burckhardt. A reading book of the Turkish language: with a grammar and vocabulary; containing a selection of original tales, literally translated, and accompanied by grammatical references: the pronunciation of each word given as now used in Constantinople. London: James Madden, 1854. xxiv+101+106+56pp. 18x12cm. Cloth-backed grey stiff card, with faded ink lettering on backstrip. [535809] £55 The work was originally issued in a red embossed cloth binding, but this copy does not appear to have been rebound, and is most likely a copy bound up about a hundred years ago using the publisher’s stock of unbound sheets. 8. BEININ, Joel & LOCKMAN, Zachary. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam and the Egyptian working class, 1882-1954. London: Tauris, 1988. xix,488pp. Hardbound, dustjacket. Excellent. [32351] £45 9. BELL, Gertrude. Persian pictures. With a preface by A.J. Arberry. London: Ernest Benn, 1947. 198pp. Original green cloth. Backstrip faded, titling clearly legible. Very good. [535746] £45 2nd edition preface was by E.Denison Ross; this third edition has an insightful preface by A.J.Arberry.

10. BELL, Gertrude Lothian. Amurath to Amurath. London: Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1924. xvii+370pp. 232 illustrations. Folding map. 23x15cm. Publisher’s cloth, gilt vignette. Two small snags at the head of backstrip, light string mark in the middle of the top cover edge. Otherwise, an excellent, bright copy, internally near fine. [535794] £350 Archaeological research travels through Northern Syria and Iraq in 1909, with some account of the hazards of the unstable political situation. "The five months of journeying which are recounted in this book were months of suspense and even terror. Constitutional government trembled in the balance and was like to be outweighted by the forces of disorder, by fanaticism, massacre and civil strife." From the prefatory letter to Lord Cromer. 11. BENEDICT, Peter & others (eds). Turkey: geographic and social perspectives. Leiden: Brill, 1974. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, ix). xi+446pp. Folding map. 25x17cm. Cloth, dustjacket, excellent. [535222] £85 Contributors include Tümerteken, Hütteroth, Elbruz, Kolars, Mardin, etc. 12. BLAIR, Sheila S. Islamic inscriptions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. xii, 243pp. Numerous illustrations, many in colour. Hardbound. Dustjacket. Excellent. [532788] £55 I: Introduction Why Read Inscriptions; II: Monumental Inscriptions: Languages used in Monumental Inscriptions - Foundation inscriptions - Other types of Monumental Inscriptions - Regional Studies - Inscriptions on Various Building Types - Stylistic Development. III: Inscriptions on Portable Objects: Metalwares - Woodwork - Ceramics - Textiles - Other Portable Arts - Types of Objects. IV: Reading and Recording Inscriptions: Sources, Methods and Conventions. 13. BLUNT, (Lady) Anne & Wilfrid Scawen. The Seven Golden Odes of pagan Arabia known also as The Moallakat. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into English verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. London: Chiswick Press, 1904. xxii+67pp. 25x19cm. Publisher's linen-backed boards. The paper label on backstrip is worn with small piece missing, some spotting to backstrip. Boards a little marked and dusty, corners rubbed, binding firm, internally excellent. Signed C.H.F. Cox. Cox had a military career before serving as British Resident in Amman 1924-34. [534489] £75 Includes introductory essay by Blunt on pre-Islamic poetry and the problems of translating it into English verse. 14. BODMAN, Herbert L. Political factions in Aleppo, 1760 - 1826. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. (James Sprunt Studies, 45). xvi,160pp. Map. Very good copy in original paper cover. [533892] £110 15. BOSCH, Donald / DANCE, S.P / MOOLENBEEK, R.G / GRAHAM OLIVER, P. Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing, 1995. 296pp. Many illustrations, in colour. 31x24cm. Hardbound. Dustjacket. Excellent. [531981] £121 16. BOVILL, E.W. (ed.) Missions to the Niger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964-1966. (Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 123, 128, 129, 130). 4 volumes. xii,406; xiv,306; xii,-309-595; x,-599-798pp. 37 plates, 24 maps, 1 plan. Cloth. Dustjackets. The dustjacket to volume 1 a little frayed and marked, otherwise a fine set. [423911] £75 Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the years 1797 - 98; The letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824 - 26. Volumes II-IV: The Bornu Mission 1822 - 25, parts 1-3.

17. BOWMAN, Humphrey. Middle-East window. With an introduction by Ronald Storrs. London: Longman, 1942. xxii, 346pp. Illustrations from photographs. End-paper maps. 20x14cm. Cloth. Very good. [535780] £160 "From 1903-36 --- I was engaged on educational duties --- in Egypt, the Sudan, `Iraq and Palestine." Author travelled widely; among many interesting encounters he describes working under Zaghlul Pasha (Egyptian Minister of Education), and other officials in the ministry, including `Abdul `Aziz Shawish, and Ahmad Pasha Heshmat. Sections on the Gordon College under Currie; Wingate, Kitchener and Slatin; Egyptians in England; Gertrude Bell; Educational developments in `Iraq; Mosul and southern Kurdistan; the visit to England of Amir Feisal; and work in Palestine. 18. BRAY, Major N.N.E. Shifting sands. Foreword by the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain. London: Unicorn Press, 1934 reprinted 1934. xii+312pp. 25 illustrations on 20 plates. Publisher's black cloth. Some wear at head and foot of backstrip. Otherwise a firm, clean from the library of the late H.St.J.B.Armitage with his ownership inscription and various ink and pencilled annotations and underlinings in his handwriting. [535785] £85 An account of the Arab Revolt, critical of the part played by T.E. Lawrence, particularly of his failure to delegate, as a result of which he `failed to attain either his own ambitions or those of the people whose destiny was entrusted to his care.' Also much on Leachman. 19. BUHTURI. (ed. H.K. al-Sayrafî). Dîwân al-Buhturî. Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1963-4. (Dakhâ'ir al-`arab, 34). 4 volumes. 23x17cm. Quarter leather. Light scuffing to backstrips, otherwise an excellent set. Bookplate of Jan Brugman. [535540] £85 20. BUXTON, Noel & Harold. Travel and politics in Armenia: with an introduction by Viscount Bryce and a contribution on Armenian history and culture by Aram Raffi. London: Smith, Elder, 1914. xx+274pp. 22 plates. Folding map. 19x13cm. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titling on backstrip and top cover. Fine, bright copy. [535793] £280 “The Eastern Question, as we call it --- has occupied Europe for nearly a century, and is still far from solved. That it should have made such slow and uncertain progress may be ascribed to two causes. One is that it was not allowed to solve itself. The mutual jealousies of the Great Powers --- prevented a normal development of those natural forces which destroy bad governments. --- The other cause was that the statesmen of Western Europe were very ignorant of the real conditions of the East --- “. [!]. Introduction, p.v. 21. BUXTON, (Rev.) Harold. Trans-Caucasia. London: Faith Press, (1926) 98pp. 8 plates. Map. 19x13cm. Publisher’s red cloth. Excellent. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535762] £110 I: Ancient and Classical times; II: The Christian Era down to 1700 A.D. III: The advent of the Russians; IV: The Great War and the Revolution; V: Since the Revolution; VI: The Trans-Caucasian Federation; VII: The Future. “What is written here with regard to the War and the Revolution is based on my personal experience as a relief worker. --- My first journey was with --- my brother, Noel Buxton in 1913.” Subsequently he worked in field hospitals and in the Russian trenches in 1916 and, in 1922, reported on famine conditions in Georgia and Azerbaijan for the Save the Children Fund Council. 22. COAKLEY, J.F. The Church of the East and the Church of England: a history of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. x+432pp. 26 illustrations, maps and plans in the text. Cloth. Excellent copy in dustjacket. Dustjacket shows minimal signs of use. [534749] £120

23. [CONDER, Josiah] Arabia. London: James Duncan, 1825. iv+362pp. 3 plates. 1 folding map. 14x9cm. Full contemporary gold calf, brown and black lettering pieces. spine gilt in compartments, blind-embossed and gilt panelled sides, marbled end-papers and edges. Minor rubbing to extremities, small hole (5mm square) in contents leaf, some offsetting from the plates (as usual). Otherwise in excellent condition. [535760] £160 An early unnumbered volume in Conder’s 30 volume series, The Modern Traveller: a description geographical, historical and topographical of the various countries of the Globe. 24. CONKER, Orhan. Les chemins de fer en Turquie et la politique ferroviaire turque. Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey, 1935. (Bibliothèque de l’École Superieure des Sciences Commerciales et Économiques de l’Université de Liège, X). 192pp. 3 maps in the text. 25x16cm. Original paper covers. A little dusty, with slight fraying to extremities, bruising and loss of lower 2cm backstrip, otherwise a firm copy, internally very good. [535756] £220 25. CONQUEST, R. The Soviet deportation of nationalities. London: MacMillan, 1960. xiii+203pp. 22x14cm. Original cloth. Excellent in slightly frayed dustjacket. [535769] £52 Volga Germans, Karachai, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Balkars, Crimean Tartars. 26. CORBIN, Henry & MO'IN, Moh. (eds.) Commentaire de la Qasida Ismaelienne d'Abu'l-Haitam Jorjani. Attribué à Mohammad Ibn Sorkh de Nishapour (iv/x -v/xi siècles. Texte persan édité avec introduction et esquisse comparative en français par ---. Teheran: Département d'Iranologie de l'Institut Franco-Iranien, 1955. (Bibliothèque Iranienne, 6). 125+[1]+123+[1]pp. 1 plate (mss facsimile). Original paper covers. Lacking top 3cm of cover backstrip, otherwise very good. [533624] £120 27. COUPLAND, R. East Africa and its invaders: from the earliest times to the death of Seyyid Said in 1856. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938 reprinted 1956. viii+584pp. 2 folding maps. 22x15cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Very good. From the library of H.St.J.B.Armitage [534313] £85 Includes account of France and Britain in the Indian Ocean and Seyyid Said at Muscat. 28. CRAUFURD, C.E.V. Treasure of Ophir. London: Skeffington, n.d. [1920s]. 288pp. 20 plates, 3 sketch-maps. 24x16cm. Publisher’s blue cloth. Minor rubbing to extremities, a few light marks, binding else firm and clean, internally very good. [535795] £120 Yemen and the Gulf. Naval activities and fable-hunting. 29. CRONE, Patricia. Meccan trade and the rise of Islam. Princeton University Press, 1987. vii+300pp. 24x17cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent copy. [532161] £85 30. CZAPLICKA, M.A. The Turks of Central Asia in history and at the present day: an ethnological inquiry into the Pan-Turanian problem and bibliographical material relating to the early Turks and the present Turks of Central Asia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918. 242pp. Folding map. 23x16cm. Publisher’s dark blue buckram. extensive bibliography. Some rubbing to extremities. A very good, largely unopened copy. Ex-libris of the OUP Printers Library. [535787] £190 “The Pan-Turkic --- movement, supported by the most aggressive portion of Turkish and German public opinion, is a diplomatic activity, the object of which is to subjugate to the Osmanly Turks directly, and to the Germans indirectly all those countries in which various Turkic languages are spoken.” p. 9.

31. DALY, Martin W. & L.E. Forbes. The Sudan: photographs from the Sudan archive, Durham University Library. Reading: Garnet, 1994. 208pp. Illustrations from black & white photographs. Cloth, dustjacket. Very good. [535460] £120 "This splendid selection of black and white photos is nothing less than a complete history of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium". The Scotsman. 32. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Golden Carpet. London: by Permission of the War Office. Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. 128pp. Frontispiece. End-paper maps. Loosely inserted the Golden Cockerel "Announcement". Dark green quarter morocco, cream linen sides. Limited edition, no.250 of 500 copies. Backstrip faded, titling remains bright. A few slight dust marks (as often with this binding), minor bruising to lower corners. Generally a very good copy. [535236] £110 "--- the experiences of our column during its lightning campaign across the desert to relieve Habbaniya and capture Baghdad". v. publisher's "Announcement". Much on Glubb Pasha's part in the campaign and episodes involving Gerald de Gaury, Sir Kinnahan Cornwallis and others. 33. DEVEREUX, Robert. The first Ottoman constitutional period: a study of the Midhat constitution and parliament. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1963. (Studies in Historical and Political Science, LXXXI/1). 310pp. 24x16cm. Publisher's cloth. Slight bruising at head of backstrip otherwise an excellent copy in slightly faded dustjacket. [534714] £120 34. DICKSON, Violet. Forty years in Kuwait. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971. 335pp. 16 plates, 5 maps. 22x15cm. Hardbound. Excellent in slightly frayed dustjacket. Loosely inserted, photocopy of a cutting from the London Independent dated 23 September 1990, recounting the life of Violet Dickson and her husband in Kuwait. Ownership inscription of H.St.J.B. Armitage. [535803] £85 35. DICKSON, William Kirk. The life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith. By his son-in-law ---. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1901. xii+376pp. 17 plates, including portrait frontispiece and maps. Several illustrations in the text. 23x15cm. Dark blue cloth, with "Times Book Club" gilt device at base of backstrip. With ex-libris of the author, W.K. Dickson, this volume has also been in the National Army Museum (a few small stamps on end-papers) and in another private military library (bookplate) No other library evidence. A firm copy with minor fraying to extremities, faint ring mark on back cover, end-papers browned, otherwise internally very good. This copy does not have the gilt & black representation of a ceremonial sword presented by Nasr-ed-Din Shah to Murdoch Smith which is on public issues , but instead has a contemporary real photograph of the item tipped in on the rear paste-down by the author with his note elsewhere in the book. An attractive association copy. [532794] £85 Includes chapters on Murdoch Smith's excavations at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Cyrene. Much on his work in Persia in connection with the development of telegraphy; and his work in developing collections at the South Kensington and Edinburgh Museums. 36. DOWLING, Theodore Edward. The Orthodox Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem With an introduction by the Lord Bishop of Chichester. 3rd edition revised and enlarged, London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1913. 162pp. 18 plates. 19x13cm. Cloth. Shelf-mark on backstrip in small, neat handwriting in white ink, small inked ownership stamp of Elsmore Abbey, no other library evidence, very good. [535052] £95

37. DOZY, Reinhart. Het Islamisme. Haarlem: A.C. Kruseman, 1863. xi, 356pp. 13 lithographed plates including frontispiece. 28x18cm. Binder's cloth. Titling piece is worn cutting from original backstrip. Damp-marks to cover edges. End-papers renewed. Pages toned with a few light marks and some neat inked notes in the margins. The plates are generally in good condition with a few spots mainly in the margins. Binding firm, a sound and serviceable copy. [196091] £85 38. DUFF, Douglas V. Galilee Galloper. London: John Murray, 1935. xii, 297pp. 2 plates. 20x15cm. Publisher’s light blue cloth. Excellent. [535784] £220 Duff, a former member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, joined the Palestine Police in 1922, and eventually became Commander of the Police in Jerusalem. Dismissed in 1931, he took up writing for a living. Galilee Galloper is an account of a ten year period in the career of the Superintendent of the prison in the old Crusader fort at Acre. According to Duff, he was known, by his respectful charges and “the humble folk of the local villages” as Abu George, his real name being Edwin G. Bryant. He was awarded an M.B.E. by the British Government, but eventually fell out with them and spent a year working as a Nairn bus driver, then as a quarter-master with the Iraq Petroleum Company and by the end of the book was proprietor of a restaurant in Damascus. 39. EDROOS, Syed Ali El- (Brig.) The Hashemite Arab Army, 1908 - 1979: An appreciation and analysis of military operations. Amman: 1980. xxxii, 788pp. 67 b/w illustrations, 38 maps Hardbound, dustjacket, excellent. [25101] £75 Military operations of the Hashemite Arab Army since its inception in 1916 until the 4th Arab-Israeli war of 1973, including names, dates and disposition of units and analysis of battles etc. 40. EDWARDS, Frank. The Gaysh: a history of the Aden Protectorate Levies 1927-61 and the Federal Regular Army of South Arabia 1961-67. Solihull: Helion, 2004. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Hardbound. Dustjacket. Excellent. [535562] £85 41. EHINGEN, J. von. (tr. Letts, M.) The Diary of Jorg von Ehingen. Translated and edited by Malcolm Letts. London: Oxford University Press, 1929. 71pp. 12 plates. 27x19cm. Cloth. Dustjacket within protective cellulose is a little spotted and damaged at rear corners with some loss. Otherwise volume is in excellent condition [535796] £85 Ehingen was born in A.D 1428 of a noble Swabian family. Between 1450 & 1460 he went to Rhodes and served with the Knights of Malta, with the intention of fighting Turks, but after a year when no such opportunities arose, the Knights being at peace, he continued on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem; after imprisonment in Damascus he continued to Cyprus where he was received by King Janus III (portrait) His second expedition was against the Moors in Granada and Morocco (battle of Ceuta). 42. ESRAR DEDE, Mevlevi. Divan-i Belagat Unvan-i Esrar Dede Efendi. Istanbul: Takvimhane-i Amire, 1257 [1841]. Ottoman Turkish. 160pp. 25x19cm. 26x17cm. Full contemporary leather, gilt panel with vegetal and floral motifs. Lacking backstrip, the surface of the leather damaged, with pits and scuffing, a few light marks and marginal stains, pencilled annotations by previous owner, internally very good. [534423] £85

43. FARMER, Henry George, (ed.) Al-Farabi's Arabic-Latin writings on music: in the Ihsa' al-`ulum (Escorial Library, Madrid, no 646), De Scientiis (British Museum, Cott.MS. Vesp. B.X., and (Bibl. Nat. Paris no. (9335) and De ortu scientiarum (Bibl. Nat. Paris no. 6298.) and Bodleian Library, Oxford, No. 3623), etc, The texts edited, with translations and commentaries by ---. New York: Hinrichsen, 1965. (No. H-322 Collection of Oriental writers on Music, II). viii+65pp. Frontispiece. 25x19cm. Hardbound. Very good in worn dustjacket. [535777] £110 44. FINN, Mrs E.A. Reminiscences of Mrs Finn. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, no date (1929). 256pp. 3 plates. 23x15cm. Publisher’s dark red cloth. Slight fraying to dustjacket, otherwise an excellent copy. [535765] £250 Dictated by Mrs Finn in 1913. Most of the book is about the time she spent in Palestine with her husband James Finn who was H.B.M. Consul for Jerusalem and Palestine 1846 to 1863. 45. FRIENDLY, Alfred. The dreadful day: the Battle of Manzikert, 1071. London: Hutchinson, 1981. 256pp. 3 illustrations and 8 maps in the text. 22x14cm. Hardbound, dustjacket, excellent. [535097] £120 46. GARWOOD, Alfred Edward. Forty years of an Engineer's life at Home and Abroad. With notes by the way. Newport, (Mon.): A.W.Dawson, No date. (c1903). 222+viipp. 15 plates. 22x15cm. Publisher’s blue cloth, with elaborate gilt pictorial decoration. Excellent. [535782] £550 “I entered the Egyptian Government service under the rule of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, the late Ismail Pasha, and continued later on under the his son, the late Thewfik Pasha, on the recommendation and at the request of the Late Lieut.-General W.F. Marriott, President of the Egyptian State Railways Administration.” 47. GAUDEFROY-DEMOMBYNES. [Maurice]. La Syrie à l'époque des Mamelouks, d'après les auteurs arabes. Description géographique, économique et administrative précédée d'une introduction sur l'organisation gouvernementale. Paris, Geuthner, 1923. (Haut-Commissariat de la République Française en Syria et au Liban. Service des Antiquités et des Beaux-Arts. Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, III). cxix+288pp. 25x17cm. Softbound. Top paper cover loose,re-attached with archival tape, first gathering loose, otherwise sound and clean, partly unopened. [534997] £121 48. GEIGER, Bernard / HALASI-KUN, Tibor / KUIPERS, Aert H. / MENGES, Karl H. Peoples and languages of the Caucasus: a synopsis. ‘S-Gravenhage Mouton, 1959. (Janua Linguarum, VI.) 77pp. Coloured folding map. 23x15cm. Publisher’s card covers. Loosely inserted a cyclostyled review by V[iolet] Conolly and a note written on the back of a Royal Asiatic Society compliments slip. A note in the text in the same handwriting and a few unobtrusive inked underlinings. Excellent. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535763] £36 49. GOODSALL, Robert H. Palestine memories, 1917 -1918 - 1925. Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1925. Subscription edition, limited to 300 copies. [10]+223pp. 6 coloured plates, 57 photographic illustrations on 42 plates, 12 line sketches on plates. 4 maps. Half calf, red lettering piece and gilt decoration to spine. A fine copy, with an additional map loosely inserted. [535805] £350

50. GOVSA, Ibrahim, Alaettin. Türk meshurlari ansiklopedisi. Edebiyatta, sanatta, ilimde, harpte, politikada, ve her sahada söhret kasanmis olan Turklerin hayatlari, eserlari. No place: Yedigün nesriyati, No date [c.1950] 416+[4]pp. Many illustrations. 28x21. Original cloth-backed, paper covered boards, some fraying to extremities, binding otherwise firm, internally sound and clean. [535007] £121 51. Great Britain: Government of: Trans-Jordan. Agreement. Between His Britannic Majesty and His Highness the Amir of Trans-Jordan supplementary to the Agreement signed on 20th February, 1928. Signed at Amman on 19th July, 1941. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. December, 1941. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1941. Cmd. 6323. 3pp. Disbound pamphlet (as issued) . Very good. [241451] £35 52. GREENE, F.V. Sketches of Army Life in Russia. New York: Charles Scribner, 1880. iv+326pp. 20x14cm. Publisher’s tan cloth, with black lettering and small gilt motif. A few light spots, slight rubbing to extremities. Ex-library with presentation inscription and stamp on fly-leaf. No other library evidence. Generally a very good copy. [535758] £110 By an American military attaché. The campaign in Turkey; includes Shipka Pass, Plevna, Winter Campaign in Bulgaria, Constantinople during the peace negotiations, a chapter about the role of war correspondents, particularly J.A McGahan; another on Russian generals, including Skobeleff, Gourko and Radetsky. A chapter on The Eastern Question, from an American viewpoint, criticising the stance of British Liberals. 53. HACOBIAN, A.P. Armenia and the War: an Armenian's point of view with an appeal to Britain and the coming Peace Conference. With a preface by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M. London:. Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. xx+200pp. 18x13cm. Original dark blue cloth. Gilt titling on spine dull (though entirely legible), with blind-embossed titling on top cover. Some trivial rubbing to extremities. "With the Author's compliments" lightly stamped on title-page. Cancelled bookplate of Glasgow University on front pastedown, with an unsightly machine readable stock number label, mitigated a little by two small art nouveau style Glasgow University Library inked stamps on verso of title-page, and at foot of last page. Otherwise a very good, firm copy. [535779] £220 54. HADJIANTONIOU, G.A. Protestant Patriarch: the life of Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638), Patriarch of Constantinople. Richmond (Virginia): John Knox Press, 1961. 162pp. 21x14cm. Cloth. Excellent in very good dustwrapper. [535798] £65 55. HOPWOOD, Derek, Habib Ishow, Thomas Koszinowski (eds.) Iraq: power and society. Reading: Ithaca Press for St Anthony's College Oxford, 1993. (St. Antony's Middle East Monographs, 29) viii+400pp. Map, tables. Hardbound. Dustjacket. Excellent. [535043] £85 56. HUNTER, F. M. Captain. An account of the British settlement of Aden in Arabia. London: Frank Cass, 1877, reprinted 1968. xii, 232pp. Two folding maps. Cloth, excellent. [64951] £55 57. IBN al-QALANISI (Gibb, H.A.R. ed. & tr.) The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: extracted and translated from The Chronicle of Ibn al-Qalânsî. London: Luzac, 1932. (University of London, Historical Series, V.) 368pp. 20x13cm. Cloth. Very good. [534990] £95 With editor's introduction and notes.

58. [Imperial Russian Geographical Society] Pamyati Nikolaya Mikhailovicha Przheval’skago [Memories of --- --- Prjevalski.] Izdaniye Imperatorskogo Russkago Geograficheskogo Obshchestva. St Petersburg: A. S. Suvorina Second edition, 1890. 63pp. Portrait frontispiece, 24x16cm. Original paper covers. Very good. [535811] £110 59. INNES, Neil Mcleod. Minister in Oman: a personal narrative. Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1987. ix+292pp. Illustrations. Hardbound. Excellent. [45811] £75 Memoirs of the Minister of Foreign and External Affairs, Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1953 - 1958. 60. JACKSON, H.C. Tooth of Fire: being some account of the ancient Kingdom of Sennar. Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1912. vii+106pp. Folding map. 19x13cm. Cloth. A small light spot to slightly faded backstrip, gilt titling on backstrip and top cover bright. Generally a very good copy. [534794] £85 "The following pages are an abstract of some notes on the history of Sennar--- based on the written traditions of the Fungs themselves and supplemented from various authors, ancient and modern --- [including] the reproduction of some old wives' fables, that the "oldest inhabitant" thought would amuse the inquisitive Inspector". Introduction, ppiii-iv. 61. JOANNE, Adolphe & ISAMBERT, Emile. Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de L'Orient. Ouvrage entièrement nouveau contenant Malte, La Grèce, La Turquie d’Asie, la Syrie, La Palestine, L’Arabie Pétrée, le Sinaï et l’Egypte. Paris: Hachette, 1861. xliv+1164+12(publishers advert)pp. Maps and plans present as listed, including large folding plan of Constantinople in end-paper pocket. 18x12cm. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, blind-embossed and with gilt lettering on backstrip and top cover. Small snag at head of backstrip and and at lower edge, corners lightly knocked, a few small spots (ink?) to front paste-down, blind-embossed stamp to half title, otherwise a very good, bright, fresh and little used copy of this useful guidebook. [535771] £220 62. JOB of Edessa. (ed./tr. Mingana, A.) Encyclopaedia of philosophical and natural sciences as taught in Baghdad about AD 817, or Book of Treasures. Cambridge: Heffer, 1935. (Woodbrooke Sc. P. 1). Syriac/English. xlviii+470pp. Diagrams. 25x17cm. Cloth, very good. [523699] £85 63. JOSEPH, John. The Nestorians and their Muslim neighbours: a study of western influences on their relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. xv, 281pp. Cloth. A few marks to end-papers at the hinges, otherwise an excellent copy in very good dustjacket. [533609] £120 64. KERR, Malcolm H. Islamic reform: the political and legal theories of Muhammad `Abduh and Rashid Rida. Berkeley: California University Press, 1966. vii+249pp. 22x15cm. Cloth. Very good in slightly frayed, lightly marked, dustjacket. [534590] £110 65. KHOURY, Adel-Theodore Les Théologiens byzantins et Islam: textes et auteurs (viiie - xiiie S.) Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 2nd edtion, 1969. 334pp. 24x16cm. Card cover (as issued). Very good. From the Library of the late D.M. Dunlop, with ownership inscription and a few marginal pencilled notes. [535804] £110

66. KLIEMAN, Aaron. Foundations of British policy in the Arab world: the Cairo Conference of 1921. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. xiv+322pp. 4 maps. 24x16cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Slight chipping to the front free end-paper edge,otherwise excellent. [535802] £78 67. KOROLEVSKY, Cyril. Living languages in Catholic worship: an historical inquiry. Translated by Donald Attwater. London: Longmans, 1957. ix+195pp. 22x15cm. Hardbound. Slight fading to edges, otherwise excellent in worn dustjacket. [535053] £35 Includes-: The older Eastern Liturgical Languages; Later Developments in the East; sections on Armenian, Albanian; Georgian; Persian and Arabic in the Roman Liturgy; Syriac and Ge’ez. 68. KUSHYAR IBN LABBAN. Principles of Hindu Reckoning: a translation with introduction and notes by Martin Levey and Marvin Petruck of the Kitab fi usul hisab al-Hind. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. 114pp. Illustrations. 24x16cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent. [535797] £75 Introduction, English translation, with facing facsimiles of the Arabic test 69. LANDES, David S. Bankers and Pashas: international finance and economic imperialism in Egypt. London: Heinemann, 1958. xvi+354pp. Frontispiece and 8 other illustrations. 22x14cm. Cloth. Very good, in worn dustjacket. [535011] £85 `---based on an unusually large and intimate correspondence between two businessmen of the nineteenth century: one, Alfred André, a leading international financier; the other, Edouard Dervieu, private banker to the Viceroy of Egypt, [written] from 1858 to 1868, ---' Author's preface, p.xi. 70. LE STRANGE, Guy. Palestine under the Moslems: a description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Translated from the works of the Mediaeval Arab Geographers by ---. London: Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, by Alexander P. Watt, 1890. xxii+604+15[publisher's advertisements]pp. 14 plates (views, plans, elevations), 3 other illustrations in the text. 2 folding maps. 21x14cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt titling to backstrip, gilt vignette and titling on top cover. Minimal rubbing to corners, covers bright, internally fresh, largely unopened. A near fine copy. [535778] £650 71. LEATHERDALE, Clive. Britain and Saudi Arabia 1925-1939: the imperial oasis. London: Frank Cass, 1983. viii+403pp. 24x16cm. Hardbound. Dustjacket. Excellent. [535788] £110 72. LEWIN, Evans. The German Road to the East: an account of the “Drang nach Osten” and of Teutonic aims in the Near and Middle East. London: William Heinemann, 1916. 340pp. Folding map. 21x14cm. Publisher’s brown cloth, with gilt titling to backstrip, blind-embossed titling and dark green double border to top cover. Very good. [535790] £250 I: Germany and Asia Minor; II: The strategic importance of Asia Minor; III: The Bagdad Railway: IV: Germany and the Persian Gulf; V: The Germans in Palestine; VI: The Russo-Turkish War; VII: The Berlin Congress; VIII: Germany, Turkey and the Balkan Wars; IX: Pan-Germanism and Austria-Hungary; X: Austro-Germany and the Serbs; XI:The Adriatic Gateway; XII: Germany and Rumania; XIII: Germany and Poland; XIV: The Germans in Russia. Includes extensive bibliography. 73. LEWIS, Bernard British contributions to Arabic studies. With a preface by A.J. Arberry. London: Longmans, Green, for the British Council, 1941. 29pp. 8 illustrations. 21x14cm. Publisher’s thin card covers. Excellent. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535764] £45

74. LLOYD, Lord [G.A]. Egypt since Cromer. London: Macmillan, 1933-4. 2 volumes. xi+390; viii+418pp. 2 folding maps. Table. 22x14cm. Cloth, minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise an excellent set. With the bookplates of Loraine of Kirkharle i.e. Sir Percy Loraine. [533596] £85 75. MACLAGAN, (Sir) Edward. The Jesuits and the Great Mogul. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1932. xxi+434pp. 3 maps on 2 plates. 23x15cm. Publisher’s buckram. With minor fading to backstrip, an excellent copy. [535789] £250 76. MAKDISI, George. Ibn 'Aqil: religion and culture in classical Islam. Edinburgh: University Press, 1997. 288pp. Cloth, dustjacket. Excellent. [534865] £110 Part I: His Life and Times; Part 2: Ibn `Aquil and Scholasticism; Part 3: Ibn `Aquil and Humanism. This biography of the Muslim scholastic and humanist Ibn 'Aqil (AH 431-513/ AD 1040-1119) sheds light on one of the most important periods of classical Islam, one which has had a significant impact on religious and intellectual culture in the Christian Latin West. The century of Ibn 'Aqil is a pivotal period in religious thought and in the development of institutions of higher learning. 77. MEAKIN, Annette. In Russian Turkestan: a garden of Asia and its people. London: George Allen & Unwin, 2nd (Popular) edition, 1915. xvii+316pp. 16 plates. Folding map. 19x14cm. Publisher’s cloth with black lettering, double black border to top cover, double rules at head and fort of backstrip. Titling to backstrip slightly faded, but entirely legible. An excellent copy. Ex-libris of Cavalry Club, by Nevile Wilkinson. [535791] £350 “Popular edition” issued with new preface “to meet the sudden demand made by the British public for information about Russia” Apart from the additional preface, this edition is in essentials identical to the first edition of 1903. Author travelled in a luxuriously fitted up governor’s carriage provided by Colonel Horvat, Chief of the Central Asia Railways at Ashkabad. Includes-: Islam; Sarts; Jews; Khirgiz; Afghans; Bokhara; Tashkent; Samarkand; Kokand; Chyust; Namangan; Margelan; Andijan; Tekke Turkomans; cookery; marriage; medicine; baths; etc. 78. MINGANA, A. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of manuscripts. now in the possession of the trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement. Cambridge: Heffers, 1933-39. 3 volumes. English/Syriac/Arabic. viii+628; xxvii+138; vi+207pp. Frontispiece to volume 2. 31x25cm. Cloth, a few scratches and other marks, creasing and marks to a few pages, otherwise very good. [524975] £110 Vol I: Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts. Vol. 2: Christian Arabic manuscripts and additional Syriac manuscripts. Vol 3: Additional Christian Arabic manuscripts and Syriac manuscripts. 79. NAUMKIN, Vitaly (ed). State, religion and society in Central Asia. A post-Soviet critique. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1993. xv, 289pp. Tables. Cloth, dustjacket, excellent. [535651] £45 A collection of 13 essays by prominent Oriental studies experts from the former Soviet Union. 80. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Western Arabia and the Red Sea. June 1946. (B.R. 527 [Restricted], Geographical Handbook Series). xix+659pp. Numerous photographic illustrations, some extending. Many maps and plans, some folding. Folding map in end-paper pocket. Original green cloth. Covers unevenly faded, titling darkened, but still clearly legible, few light marks to covers, contents excellent. [336361] £110 The Naval Handbooks produced during WW2, were "by no means confined to matters of merely naval interest" This volume is concerned with Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Aden, in all aspects including geography, history, administration, ethnology, public health and disease, agriculture, ports and towns, and includes the

physical geography, geology, climate, vegetation and ethnology of Oman, as well as the Red Sea Coasts, the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba and Sinai. 81. Naval Staff Intelligence Department: A manual on the Turanians and Pan-Turanianism. November 1918. I.D.1199. London: H. M. Government. For Official Use only. (1918) 256pp. Large folding map in end-paper pocket. 23x15cm. Standard dark blue cloth of the Naval Intelligence publications of the period. A little sunned. Withdrawn from Kings College Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Small handwritten library shelf label fixed to foot of backstrip, cancelled library stamp on front free end-paper, small stamp on fly leaf, title-page and final page, small label and handwritten numbers on front paste-down. The library evidence is relatively unobtrusive, the map is unmarked. A very good copy. [535786] £380 ---- “While the primary object of the National Pan-Turanian ideal is the inclusion and union of all branches of the race within the Turkish Empire, it is an important secondary aim to give independence to all the followers of Mohammed, the united Turks being then the centre of gravity of the world of Islam. In view of this new situation it is of importance to examine the geographical, historical, ethnological, religious and social facts bearing on the populations that may be affected by Pan-Turanian aspirations. It will then be easier to estimate the likelihood of these aspirations, if unchecked, being realised. Such is the purpose of the following pages.” --- Introduction, p.11. 82. NEIL, (The Rev.) William (ed.) The Cleghorn Papers: a footnote to history. Being the Diary, 1795-1796 of High Cleghorn of Stravithie. With a foreword by Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot. London: A. & C. Black, 1923. xx+295pp. 3 plates (portraits). Folding map. 23x15cm. Publisher’s blue cloth. Minor rubbing to extremities, generally an excellent copy. [535759] £290 A detailed account of a journey from London to Ceylon, via Cairo Suez, Jeddah, Hodeida, the English factory at Mocha, Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb and across the Indian Ocean. Much on the difficulties and dangers of the journey (undertaken to arrange the surrender of Ceylon by the Dutch to the British Government). 83. O'LEARY, De Lacy. A short history of the Fatimid Khalifate. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1923. 267pp. 21x14cm. Publisher's cloth. A little rubbed, few light marks, small paper library shelf label on backstrip and "Wigan Free Public Library" bookplate on front paste-down, no other library evidence, a very good copy. [534574] £120 84. PEARSON, M.N. Pious passengers: the Hajj in earlier times. London: Hurst, 1994. xii, 217pp. Frontispiece map and several other illustrations. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent. [515061] £85 Chapters include: The Early Modern Hajj, The Politics of the Hajj, the Mughals and the Hajj, Economics of the Hajj, The Land Routes, The Sea Routes, The Economy of Mecca. 85. PHILBY, H. StJ. B. Arabian Jubilee. First American edition New York: John Day, 1953 xvi, 280pp. Portrait frontispiece, numerous other illustrations. Black cloth. Dustjacket is a little rubbed with short sections torn away at head and foot. 2 small nicks at foot of backstrip. light dustmarks along the rear foredge. Otherwise an excellent copy. [395291] £120 "This book does not pretend to be a full historical record of the life and reign of Ibn Sa`ud --- rather a pageant of his achievement, set forth in a series of tableaux illustrating characteristic phases of his career ---." Preface p.xi.

86. PORTER, James. Turkey: its history and progress. From the journals and correspondence of Sir James Porter, fifteen years ambassador at Constantinople; continued to the present time with a memoir of Sir James Porter by his grandson Sir George Larpent. London: Hurst & Blacket, 1854. 2 volumes. viii+[2]+497+[1(advert)]; iv+451+(32 advert)pp. 2 portrait frontispieces. 23x15cm. Original green, embossed cloth, with gilt arms of de Hochepied on top cover of each volume. Backstrip faded, lettering remains bright. Minimal fraying to cloth at head and foot of backstrip. Some foxing to frontispieces and title-pages, otherwise internally excellent, the second volume largely unopened. An excellent set of this rare item. [535807] £1,100 In 1819 George Larpent was granted permission to assume the Hungarian title of Baron de Hochepied, which came through his mother's line. 87. PRESSENSE, Edmond. Pays de l'Evangile: notes d'un voyage en Orient. 3rd edition, Paris: Librairie de Ch. Meyrueis, 1865. 332+[1]pp. Folding map. 17x12cm. Contemporary black morocco, raised bands, blind embossed panels, marbled end-papers. Slight rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to a few pages, a very good, firm, copy. [534134] £120 "--- notes de voyage, écrites pour la plupart sous la tente et devant les lieux que je décris ---." Includes Lower Egypt, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar, Bethlehem, Samaria, Mount Carmel, Lake Tiberias, Banias, Ephesus, Damascus, Baalbec, Beirut, Smyrna, Constantinople and the Bosphorus, Athens, Venice. 88. RABIE, Hassanein. The financial system of Egypt A.H.564-741 / A.D.1169-1341. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. (London Oriental Series, 25). xii+242pp. Tables. 22x14cm. Cloth, dustjacket. Excellent. [535200] £110 "The study --- deals with some of the central institutions of the Muslim State, and analyses their development through a period of major change." See foreword by Bernard Lewis. Includes extensive bibliography. 89. RASHED, Roshdi / Hélène Bellosta. Ibrahim Ibn Sinan: logique et géometrie au Xe siècle. Leiden: Brill, 2000. (Islamic Philosophy Theology & Science, Texts & Studies, xlii). French / Arabic. ix, 809pp. 24x16cm. Cloth. Excellent. [452921] £120 Arabic texts of works on philosophy and mathematics by Sinan, with translations into French, commentary & critical apparatus. 90. RAYNAUD, (Le Dr.) L. Etude sur la médicine au Maroc: suivie d’une notice sur la climatologie des principales Villes de l’Empire. Alger: Imprimerie Typographique et Lithographique s. Léon, 1902. [1]+203+[1]pp. 5 plates. 8 tables (of which 4 folding). Map. 25x16cm. Dark green half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, marbled end-papers with Foreign Office blind-stamp on the leather side and old paper label on spine. Old Foreign and Commonwealth Office label on front paste-down. Pages browned and a little brittle, with 2 short closed tears to title-page and a little chipping. Otherwise very good. [535801] £440 91. RIDDELL, John (ed.) To see the Dawn: Baku, 1929 - First Congress of the Peoples of the East. The Communist International in Lenin’s time. New York: Pathfinder, 1993. 344pp. Illustrations. 21x13cm. Paper. Excellent. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535792] £35

92. RUTTER, Eldon The Holy Cities of Arabia. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. 2 volumes. xv+303; vii+288pp. Frontispiece to each volume. 8 maps and plans. 24x16cm. Cloth. Gilt calligraphy on top covers. A little scattered foxing, Otherwise a fine set in torn dust-jackets. The front and back of the dust-jackets with the author's portrait and itinerary are intact except for a few chips and tears along the edges. The dustjacket backstrips are torn with loss at head and foot. The jackets are protected by a clear cover with white backing, and the cloth underneath shows no discoloration. [531326] £350 Volume I. The author describes his pilgrimage from Suez by sea to Massowa and El Gahm, and thence by land through Birk, Halli, El Gunfida, El Lith, and Wadi Yelamlam to the Holy City of Mekka where he stayed for nine months. Volume II. An excursion from Mekka to Es-Sayl and to Et-Taif, his final departure from Mekka and his journey through Rabigh to El Medina, and concludes with his passage from El Medina to El Yanbua. (This summary of author's journey appears on the dustjackets with portraits of the author). 93. SCHMIDT, Rochus. Geschichte des Araberaufstandes in Ost-Afrika: seine Entstehung, seine Neiderwerfung und seine Folgen. Frankfurt a. Oder, Trowitsch, no date (1892). vi+360pp. Folding map. Original dark red cloth, gilt titling to backstrip and top cover. Slight rubbing to head and foot of backstrip, a few light spots, otherwise an excellent copy. From the library of Hugh Winterton, the Africanist, with his small monogram bookplate. [534520] £120 94. SCHNURRER, Christianus Fr[idericus] de Bibliotheca arabica auctum nunc atque integram edidit tabula auctorum dt rerum digessit Victor Chauvin. Amsterdam: Oriental Press, 1968. (Latin/Arabic). xxi, 529pp. 23x15cm. Cloth. Excellent. [531631] £120 95. SEVÜK, Ismail Habib. Türk Güreşi: ve elli yıl önce, Garp Alemindeki on Yıllık Kasırgası. Istanbul: Ocak Matbaasi, 1948. 296pp. Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text (photographic portraits of wrestlers). 21x14cm. Paperbound. Very good. [534409] £85 96. SHAW, Stanford J. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976-7 2 volumes. Slight flecking to edges otherwise a very good set in very good dustjackets. [534272] £85 Volume I: Empire of the Gazis: the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280 - 1808. Volume II: Reform, revolution and republic. The rise of modern Turkey, 1808-1975. Now out of print in hardback. 97. SILIOTTI, Alberto (ed.) Belzoni's travels: narrative of the operations and recent discoveries in Egypt and Nubia. London: British Museum Press, 2001. 336pp. 630 illustrations (80 coloured). Dustjacket. Previous owner's engraved bookplate. Excellent condition. [535539] £150 Belzoni's account of his travels reprinted for the first time in unabridged form with introductory material by Silloti, and reproducing many of the original illustrations of Egypt in 1815 to 1819. Belzoni was the first to enter and describe monuments such as the temple at Abu Simbel, and the tomb of Seti I. 98. SIMPSON, G.E. The heart of Libya: the Siwa Oasis, its people, customs and sport. London: H.F. & G. Witherby 1929. 207pp. 24 illustrations on 12 plates. Publisher’s cloth. Very good. [535799] £120 Includes chapters on carpet making, date cultivation; olive oil; falconry; Senoussi; folklore; etc

99. TANCOIGNE, J.M. Lettres sur la Perse et la Turquie d’Asie. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Paris: Nepveu, Libraire, Passage des Panoramas, 1819. 295pp. 2 engraved, hand-coloured plates (in the style of ) Persian miniatures. 19x13cm. Later, (probably 19th century) half leather, marbled boards. A little foxing in the text, generally very good condition. [535767] £250 100. TCHARYKOW, N.V. Glimpses of high politics through war & peace 1855-1929. The Autobiography of ---. Foreword by Sir Bernard Pares. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931. 330pp. 8 plates. Folding map. 22x15cm. Publisher’s blue cloth. Very good. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk, with his pencilled notes on the front free end-paper. [535776] £250 Author was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, thus this is not a translation, as he was fluent in English. Returning to Russia and after the liberation of the serfs on his ancestral lands, he embarked on a diplomatic, political and military career in the Balkans and Central Asia. Includes accounts of action at Plevna; Central Asian politics at the coronation of Alexander III; Under Turkoman fire in Merv; Central Asian Mahdism in 1884 nipped in the bud; A ride through the Herat Valley; I become First Russian Political Agent in Bokhara; Amir Said Abdul Ahad the reformer; Islam in the Near East and in Central Asia compared; The Central Asian Railway reaches Samarkand and its cultural consequences. A section entitled Balkan Scenes and Problems- includes Constantinople; Bulgaria; Serbia; Balkan Federation. Etc. 101. TIBAWI, A.L. Anglo-Arab relations and the question of Palestine 1914-1921. London: Luzac, 1977. 2nd edition, 1978. xxvii, 523pp. Endpaper maps. Cloth, dustjacket. Excellent. [18851] £45 Based on the archives of the British Cabinet and Foreign Office and also on sources in Arabic and other languages. “One of the aims of the book is to establish order in place of half a century of chaos. Allowing for human error, I vouchsafe the accuracy of the facts and take full responsibility for my understanding of them. But I am in distinguished British company when I maintain that British policy regarding Palestine from 1917 onwards constituted an injustice to the Arabs.” Author’s preface, pvi. 102. TITLEY, Norah M. Persian miniature painting and its influence on the art of Turkey and India: the British Library Collections. London: British Library, 1983. 272pp. 47 coloured plates. 83 black & white text illustrations. Map. 27x22cm. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent. [94911] £54 103. TOZER, Henry Fanshawe. Researches in the highlands of Turkey. Including visits to Mount Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Myrdite Albanians, and other remote tribes. With notes on the ballads, tales, and classical superstitions of the modern Greeks. London: John Murray, 1869. 2 volumes. xi+397; vii+290pp. 8 plates. Folding map. Maps and plans in the text. 19x14cm. Original green cloth, backstrip gilt. blind-embossed panels to sides. Covers rubbed and worn, small ink-stain at head of volume 1 backstrip, hinges and stitching weak. A few neat pencilled annotations in the margins, some localised foxing, light dampstain affects top left corner of the plates in volume II, contents otherwise good. [534924] £250 104. TRIMINGHAM, J. Spencer. Islam in East Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. xii+198pp. 3 maps (1 folding). 23x15cm. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. Very good. [534861] £110 105. TUSHKAN, Georgi. The Hunter of the Pamirs: a novel of Adventure in Soviet Central Asia. Translated from the Russian by Gerard Shelley. London: Hutchinson, no date [c1944] 327pp. 19x14cm. Publisher’s cloth. Excellent copy in frayed, creased and dusty dustjacket. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535768] £35 One of a series of “Important Hutchinson Books of Russian Interest” published in the early 1940’s.

106. WANSBOROUGH, John. The Sectarian Milieu: content and composition of Islamic salvation history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. (London Oriental Series. Vol 34 ). xxii, 157pp. Cloth. Slight bruising at lower corners, otherwise an excellent copy. [535226] £120 107. WATKINS, J.W. (Capt). Popular history of Egypt. Illustrated with numerous engravings on steel & wood, plans, maps, etc. London: James Hagger, No date. c.1886. 768+160+xxxivpp. Numerous steel engraved plates and other illustrations, several in colour, many full page. 1 coloured map. 27x19cm. Modern cloth sides and new marbled endpapers, the original gilt panelled backstrip and corners retained. Gilt lettering piece. Pages slightly browned. Binding otherwise firm and sound. A very good copy. [515015] £120 From the Pharoahs through to the War of 1882. 108. WATT, William Montgomery. Early Islam: collected articles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. xi, 207pp. 22x14 cm. Hardbound, dustjacket, excellent. [138401] £65 "The[se] articles --- contain material not found, or at least not found in such detail in my books --- in my main fields of research, namely, Muhammad, the Qur'an and the early history of the Islamic sects". Author's introduction, pvii. 109. WAVELL, A.J.B. A modern pilgrim in Mecca and a siege in Sanaa. London: Constable, 1912. viii+349pp. 7 plates including frontispiece, folding map. 22x14cm. Publishers dark blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and top cover. Minor rubbing to extremities, with slight fraying to a corner, else a very good, firm, bright copy of the first edition. [535103] £240 110. WAVELL, A.J.B. A modern pilgrim in Mecca. New cheaper impression. With an introduction by Major Leonard Darwin. London: Constable, [3rd edition] 1918. xv+232pp. Portrait frontispiece. Map. 19x13cm. Publisher’s brown cloth. Scarcely visible 'bubbling' along the joints, a few light spots, cover a little dusty, pages browned (as usual), otherwise a very good, firm copy. Loosely inserted a picture postcard of the Wavell Memorial in Mombasa. Book plate of Peter Hopkirk. [535774] £45 Published after Wavell's death (in 1916) with an account of his life in an additional 8pp preface by Leonard Darwin. 111. WRATISLAW, A[lbert] C[harles]. A Consul in the East. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1924. ([8]+361pp. 20 photographic illustrations on 16 plates. 22x15cm. Publisher’s cloth. Backstrip a little faded, light rubbing to extremities, slight strain to rear hinge, binding otherwise firm. A very good copy. [535806] £350 Albert Wratislaw worked in the Levant Consular Service. Trained as an interpreter in Constantinople and Erzerum, appointed vice-consul Smyrna 1888; vice-consul at Philippopolis (now Plovdiv) 1892-1896, Constantinople 1896-98, consul at Basra 1898-1903, consul-general Tabriz; 1903-1909, consul-general Crete 1909-1913, Turko-Persian boundary commission 1913-1914, consul-general Salonica 1914-1919, consul-general Beirut 1919-1920. 112. ZACHS, Fruma. The making of a Syrian identity: Intellectuals and merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiv+277pp. Cloth. Dustjacket Excellent. [535514] £85