Journey Through Arabia Petraea, to Mt Sinai & the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of Prophecies by Laborde, Leon de - 1838

London, James Nisbet, 1858. Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. vii, (1) errata, 424. Plus folding engraved map of the Sinaitic Peninsula as frontispiece (neat paper repair on verso), and 3 engraved plates bound in. With an appendix describing the route through the desert with a list of place names; an extended index, in practice a glossary, incorporating numerous words in Hebrew; a list of mountains' heights; and an index of scripture sources quoted in the text. Some illustrations to the text, footnotes. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's decorated brown cloth, large illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, joints worn, partly split. In good condition. ~ Second edition. "This volume is really what it professes to be - 'Notes of a journey.' The notes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, and extended afterwards." The author, Kelso, 1856. Not in Tobler. F-5 OUT

Chatto & Windus, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket intact with flaps, but has chunk missing from spine, and other signs of wear. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13180. .

London, England: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Leather. Green leather w/gilt page edges and gilt to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and blue ribbon bookmark that is detached; Toning to spine and edges of covers, pages very lightly toning; illustrated; 447 pages .

ix+366 pages. Small octavo ( (7 1/4" x 4 1/4") in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. (Howes:354) First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.Thomas Ashe (1770-1835), was born in Dublin, Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions (1815) is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France. In America he edited the National Intelligencer, and was arrested when attempting to steal treasures from churches in Latin America. His Travels in America first appeared in 1806. The narrative, chronicles Ashe's travels by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806 and is one of the first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically on the American inhabitants of the region. A unrestrained hatred of Americans can be found throughout the work. While the account is interesting and highly readable… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 405, [1] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Contemporary half morroco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Brown and red decorated endpapers. Errata on unpaginated page following Preface. With: 1920 clipping from the Daily Chronicle of article by Trevor Allen, "Kensington in The Season: Things Seen in a Twilight Stroll." In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; clean and bright.

Lotus books. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. VGC.Lotus books,1985.Rare first edition.Large format brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the edges of the cover) with laminated Dj cover(a couple of nicks,scratches and light shelf wear on the laminated cover),both in VGC.Ex-library book with stamp,pocket,sticker but in VGC.Illustrated with 80 colour,b/w photos,drawings,maps.Nice and clean pages with some creases and nicks on the edges,small mark on the edge of the first blank page of the book,ink mark inside the front cover.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.128pp.A Collectable book.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 405, [1] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Contemporary half morroco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Brown and red decorated endpapers. Errata on unpaginated page following Preface. With: 1920 clipping from the Daily Chronicle of article by Trevor Allen, "Kensington in The Season: Things Seen in a Twilight Stroll." In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; clean and bright.

Reprint of 1908 First Edition. With 2 new and original maps by Mr. Godfrey Sykes and 72 half-tones after original photographs by Dr. Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Mr. John M. Phillips and the Author. xx, 366, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original red ribbed cloth, with photo on front cover.

New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First U.S. Edition / First Printing. Green cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Dr. Eduardo Röhl (1891-1959), individuo de Número de las Academias de Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y de la Nacional de la Historia. Ejerció cargos públicos, entre los cuales la Dirección Forestal (1948) del Ministerio de Agricultura y Cría.Prólogo de Jorge Schmidke (1890-1981), Periodista y funcionario público.El libro, describe la labor de los exploradores y viajeros alemanes, que visitaron Venezuela durante el siglo XIX: Alejandro de Humboldt, Jean Jules Linden, Karl Moritz, Ferdinand Bellermann, Hermann Karsten, Karl Ferdinand Appun, August Fendler, Anton Goering y Carl Sachs.Incluye una dedicatoria escrita y firmada por Jorge Schmidke a uno de los participantes de la conferencia. La portada posterior está despegada, si bien todo el libro se mantiene completamente limpio, fuerte y sólido. Requiere encuadernación.NOTA IMPORTANTE:Los costos por concepto de envío reflejados en la presente página, son puramente referenciales.Si quiere conocer el costo de envío real a su pais (el cual… Read More