Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...

Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...

The Resolute, under Captain Kellett was part of Belcher's five-ship squadron. It was abandoned in May 1854, and eventually drifted into Baffin's B...

Cornerstone of Antarctic exploration. The account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full-pa...

The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...

A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

A scarce account of military and naval operations in Arab lands including the Arabian Gulf in the period 1910-1918. Includes the rebellion in Oman...

On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin'-fishes play, an' the dawn comes up like thunder.... Moore's views of Rangoon constitutes the finest depic...

One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...

Limited edition. One of 360 copies numbered 41 to 400 on BFK Rives. In addition, there were 20 copies (numbered 1-20) on Japan paper which also in...

'Xenos, who had been established in England since the late 1840's, developed a very successful shipping agency, but in extending his interests he ...

Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 19.Important early East India Company voyage to theEast Indies.The appendix includes commissions, letters of Ja...

With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

Younghusband narrates the story of the corps of the guides as a fighting unit in Kashmir. Includes accounts of the Cavagnari Mission to Kabul, Sec...

Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...

Written by Ali 'for all fair-minded non-Muslims on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of that great benefactor of humanity'.First edition. 8...

Well illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.Second edition. 4to, x, 84...

The history of Petromin (The General Petroleum and Mineral Organization) from its foundation in 1962 up to 1977. Petromin was founded to develop p...

'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and as much as the discovery of Troy, this book w...

'On 22 October 1854... The Arctic explorer John Rae arrived back in England with the first certain intelligence of the fate of Sir John Franklin's...