Search Results: Egypt from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1921. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 Vo. Near fine black cloth, blind stamped along edges on both boards, gilt title on the spine. Vol. XV of the Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, translated from the third volume of the Arabic chronicle of Muhammed Ibh Ahmed Ibn Iyas, an eyewitness of the scenes he describes. Pages xvi, 117. Inside, a stain on the inside of the front board where a book plate has been removed. Otherwise, very clean and tight, no foxing, no other stain and no prior owner marks. Scarce. No other copies on the internet at this writing..

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1903. Book. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. Later Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. As customary, this is a rebinding of the Tauchnitz reprint, this time in 3/4 brown morocco, with brown boards and raised bands on the spine. Fresh gilt title. Slight wear at the corners and the spine is not faded. Very clean and tight inside, with no prior owner marks. This might have been a library book, as there is a slight scar at the back inside board, where something has been removed. No other marks inside or out. No foxing and no browning to the paper. No evidence of the publication year after 1903, but probably 1910s or 1920s. Quiller-Couch was a prolific novelist, knighted in 1910, also known for his Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900..

Cairo: The Amalgamated Press of Egypt, 1929. Book. Illus. by profuse advertisements for local businesses, book stores, typewriters, etc. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A most unusual and now scarcee pamphlet of useful gauges, conversion rates Egyptian and British & Metric weights and Measures, interspersed with interesting advertisements from the era of British rule in Egypt. No date of publication , but the ad for the Remington Noiseless Typewriter is the 1925 model, so circa late 1920s. Beige card covers are a bit soiled. Inside is solid, resewn and clean. Lots of Arabic phrases to help the Egyptian user, but mostly in English. .

New York: Random House, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine black cloth with dark blue boards and no edgewear, bright gilt title on unfaded spine. Dustjacket near fine, Not price-clipped, no tears and only a hint of edgewear. Sadly, there is some pencil underlining to an otherwise clean and tight inside. Pages xviii, 333 with index and 4 page bibliography. Author lived in Cairo 4 years as the L.A. Times mid-east correspondent during the mid-80s. Part travelogue , part adventure, part political and cultural observer, still a fine read..

New York: Tim Duggin Books, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An unread copyy. Original cloth with no edge wear nor other defects, with a fine dust jacket that is NOT price clipped. An astute portrait of Cairo after the Arab Spring. Beautifully written. Recommended. .

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. Book. Very Good Plus. 3/4 Leather. Third Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Travel in 1843 to the Middle East. Pages xiv, 238 and 242.Volume one is mostly on Egypt, with a bit on Nubia (Sudan) and Ethiopia. Volume two is mostly on Syria,Lebanon and Palestine with a bit on Turkey and Greece at the end. Some minor foxing , otherwise clean and tight. Black 3/4 calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. The spines have raised bands with gilt decoration, and gilt titles, some slight edgewear. A very popular book in its day, and still very readable. Pages vix, 268 and vii, 242..

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. Book. Illus. by 16 Full Page Plates Including Engraved title/frontispiece. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All plates as called for in the list of illustrations, including 4 full page woodcuts, 8 lithographs in color and 4 tinted lithographs. A fine exploration of Egypt from Alexandria to Thebes, Goshen, the desert and Karnak. Pages x, 289. Original green cloth with gilt bands along the borders on the front and a gilt palace and palm trees. The spine is neatly rebacked with the old cloth and gilt title and gilt oblisk laid onto the new spine. The front board has some wrinkles. Inside clean and tight, with new endpapers. Protected in a clear, mylar dust jacket..

NYC: D. Appleton, 1902. Book. Illus. by Color Frontispiece. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Slight edgewear at the corners and spine ends, with gilt design of flowers and British and Egyptian flags on the front. Top edge gilt, no fading to the dark blue cloth. Donovan Pasha being an important colonial figure of his time. .

New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1977. Book. Illus. by 7 Maps, 14 Illustrations. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very nice copy, with no prior owner marks, clean and tight inside and out. Very readable account of the modern history of Egypt from Napoleon's invasion to the free officer revolt. .

New York: MacMillan ., 1914. Book. Illus. by 6 portraits. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. near fine original green cloth, with fresh gilt title on the front and the spine. Very unusual, the dustjacket is still present, has some edgewear and a one inch square piece missing from the bottom edge of the front, but has been repaired and is protected in a mylar, clear dj. Introduction by the Earl of Cromer. Pages xxiv, 316 with index. This is a travel assessment of conditions in the Sudan, and down the Nile into Egypt, looking more at political and social conditions than at culture and scenery. An interesting period piece of British rule in Egypt and the Sudan..

New York and Milan: Newsweek & Arnoldo Mondadori, 1978. Book. Illus. by Profuse Color Photos. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A splendid book of ancient Imperial Egypt, as housed in one of the world's great museums. Book design in grey cloth with gilt lettering by Fiorenzo Georgi, with no edgewear, no foxing or stains inside or out. Only a hint of edge wear to the dust jacket, NOT price clipped. No prior owner marks..

London: Edward Arnold, 1890. Book. Illus. by 16 Photo Plates. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 2nd Edition. Very good binding except fading at the bottom of rear board. This traveller was in Egypt for six months. Good read on British rule at the end of the 19th Century. Pages 250. Bright gilt titles on spine and front, on a turquoise cloth binding. Inside, very clean and tight with no foxing or stains. Prior owner signatures on the page after the endpaper, no other prior owner marks. .

London: A & C Black, 1909. Book. Illus. by 26 Watercolors & 21 Chapter Head & Tail Pieces. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With the scarce dustjacket, intact except for the top inch of the spine. Gilt title on spine is some dulled. Nice travel writing in Ireland, Egypt, Italy and South Africa by the sister of the poet, Alice Mayrell. Pages x, 177. Inman 114 in the 10 shilling series. Very clean inside, with no foxing or browning, and no prior owner marks...

London: Century , 1987. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps and 8 pages illustrations. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in green cloth with bright gilt title on the unfaded spine. Dustjacket fine, not price-clipped. Inside, as new, no prior owner marks. Through Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Parkyns went native in his 1840s intrepid travels. I.

London: Murray, 1873. Book. Illus. by 11 Maps and 29 Plans, 7 Views, complete. Good. Cloth. 4th Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limp red cloth in imitation of the German Baedeker guides. John Murray was the leading publisher of travel books in English at this time. The 1872 advertisements are interesting, but 30 pages have been torn out in the middle of the adverts. This is a thorough revision of the first editions by the leading Arabist, Sir Gardner Wilkinson. Solid and clean inside. The Binding has some rubs, and a split is starting along the front hinge cloth, but is protected from further damage by a clear, mylar dust jacket. I would not want to visit Egypt today without this thorough 19th Century guide , to compare the changes. .

Cairo : Lehnert and Landrock, 1974. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine copy, a primer in reading the ancient Egyptian language. No prior owner marks.

Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1970. Book. Illus. by 24 Pages Plates, 3 Maps, Plus Text Illustr.. Fine. Cloth. A Modern Reprint of a Travel Classic. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edited and with an introduction by Victor W von Hagen. A very nice copy with no prior owner marks. Clean and tight inside and out..

London: Hakluyt Society, 1996. Book. Illus. by 4 Maps and 14 Illustrations. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Schuver was a Dutch explorer, who went south from Cairo in 1880, seeking a new route to East Africa. The Mahdist revolt in Sudan forced him into the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the Eastern watershed of the White Nile. At the middle of 1883 he took a steamer up the White Nile. Ignoring advice not to travel further overland, he was murdered just a few days into western Dinka trbal country. An edited German edition was published in 1883, but the family provided the original manuscripts to the editors, Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas Johnson. This is the first editio in English, and a much fuller account, also drawing on Schuver letters and manuscripts, than the first German account. Several interesting appendices and an admirable 15 page bibliography. Slight rubs to the dustjacket, but no tears, protected in a clear, mylar sleeve..

Germany: self published, 1934. Book. Illus. by 207 mounted photos, about 1/3 postcards, plus a route map in color . Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A thick photo album 32 cm (12 1/2 inches) tall in brown cloth with a gilt title on the spine. Solid hinges, only a hint of edge wear. The ship was the Monte Rosa, departing Genoa - to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Baalbek, Rhodes, Corfu and ending in Venice. This German tourist records what he saw, delays and inconveniences, and what he liked in 67 pages of typed German manuscript, interspersed with the black/white photos. This voyage would undoubtedly have been part of Hitler's Traumschiffe, "Die Kraft durch Freude KDF (Strength Through Joy. It was the world's largest tourist operation from 1934 to 193, part of the German Labor Front..The ship was only two years old, one class, and 700 passengers. .

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. Book. Illus. by 15 Pages of Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original yellow cloth with a hint of edgewear.Title in black on the unfaded spine. A red dust jacket that is NOT price clipped and has only one small closed tear along the bottom edge. With endpaper maps. The photos taken circa 1950 illustrate life in the deserts of North Africa, Sinai and Iran. A fine travel book of its time and a bench mark, as these deserts have changed. Pages 186, index..