Biography

Delhi: Kutub Khana Ishayat-ul-Islam, 1980 Biographical studies of Hazrat Muhammad, Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Omar, Hazrat Othman, Hazrat Ali. c.1980s.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Mitre Press, 1970 Memoirs and travels in Australia.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959 Biography of Theodor Herzl, regarded by many as the father of the Jewish state. After establishing the world organization that brought Israel into being Herzl evolved from law student to statesman and diplomat.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969 Egyptian life as recorded in letters by an English visitor in the 1860's. Re-edited, with additional letters by Gordon Watrerfield.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966 Biographical studies of pioneer anthropologists.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Library Association, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Quartet, 1977 Isabelle Eberhardt (17 February 1877-21 October 1904) was an explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For the time she was an extremely liberated (but troubled) individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam. She died in a flash flood in the desert at the age of 27. Some creasing to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Washington Square Press, 1975 Autobiography of the famous anthropologist.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1963 Moses (Moshe) Hess (June 21, 1812 - April 6, 1875) was a Jewish (Pharisaic) philosopher and one of the founders of socialism. Hess was born in Bonn. He adopted the name "Moritz," but subsequently reverted to his birthname "Moses", thus re-claiming his Jewish identity. He was an early proponent of socialism, and a precursor to what would later be called Zionism. His works included Holy History of Mankind (1837), European Triarchy (1841) and Rome and Jerusalem (1862). He married a working-class woman (some say a prostitute) in defiance of bourgeois values. Hess received a Jewish religious education from his grandfather, and later studied philosophy at the University of Bonn, but never graduated. As correspondent for a socialist newspaper that he helped to found, he lived in Paris, fleeing to Belgium and Switzerland temporarily following the suppression of the 1848 commune and again during the Franco-Prussian war. Hess originally advocated Jewish integration into the universalist socialist movement, and was a friend and collaborator of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Hess converted Engels to Communism, and introduced Marx to social and economic problems. He played an important role in transforming Hegelian dialectical idealism theory of history to the dialectical materialism of Marxism, by conceiving of man as the initiator of history through his active consciousness. Hess was probably responsible for several "Marxian" slogans and ideas, including [need reference - more likely Heinrich Heine] religion as the "opiate of the people." Hess became reluctant to base all history on economic causes and class struggle, and he came to see the struggle of races, or nationalities, as the prime factor of past history.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Robson Books, 1977 Yitzhak Rabin, born 1 March 1922, died 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. He was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Israeli radical who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords. He was the first native-born Prime Minister of Israel, the only Prime Minister to be assassinated and the second to die in office after Levi Eshkol.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: William Clowes and Sons, 1897 Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (March 12, 1776 - June 23, 1839), the eldest child of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope by his first wife Lady Hester Pitt, is remembered by history as an intrepid traveller in an age when women were discouraged from being adventurous. Born in 1776, the year of American independence, Lady Hester was a daughter of the liberal Earl of Stanhope, from whom she inherted both her rare intelligence and her famous eccentricities, and grand-daughter to the Earl of Chatham. As hostess to her uncle William Pitt the Younger, until his death in 1806, Lady Hester had a taste of power, intrigue, and influence which she could not easily forget, and it was due to her inability to settle down to a quiet and uneventful life, once this preeminent position was lost to her, that she was driven to seek high adventure in the East. From 1810 until her death in 1839, for almost three decades, Lady Hester was Europe's 'Mystery Lady of the Orient'. As the first European woman to enter then inaccessible Palmyra, the Sitt staged a regal progress through Queen Zenobia's ruined capital, being feted by its Bedouin possessors as a second Zenobia. By 1818 she had settled permanently in Lebanon, at first as an honored friend and guest of the Emir Bashir II and later as his hated but respected enemy, busily intriguing with the Sublime Porte, with her special friend Mustafa Barbar Agha, Wali of Tripoli, and with various Druze factions. Boards a little grubby.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Woolmer, 1884 John Wicklif was a disciple of the abundant life, and the fruitfulness of his labours leaped from isle to mainland, found good soil in Prague, the Bohemian capital. Illustrated. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1973 Biographical study. Kidder was the foremost American archaeologist of the southwestern United States and Middle America of his day and the force behind the first comprehensive, systematic approach to North American archaeology.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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