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[Ottoman Empire] A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa

WAVELL, A. J. B. (Arthur John Byng, 1881-1916) · 1912 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London John Constable First Edition Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Prussia…

Equinox - the Magazine of Canadian Discovery: March/April 1987

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1987 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$49.95 (€45.32 | £37.81 | ¥7,976)

Canada: Equinox, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Corner of the Road - Peru's 'Shining Path' stirs up hope - and trouble - for the destitute descendants of the Inca Empire; Blooming Legacy - Steeped in mystery, the Butchart Gardens flourishes in modern-day British Colum…

Above The Law: How Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Became The World's Biggest Criminal Empire

Ross Coulthart and Duncan McNab · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Allen & Unwin 2010 Paperback. Above The Law takes a hard and chilling look at the global future of organised crime, and reveals that the world's most successful criminal empire is now being operated on a massive scale by outlaw motorcycle gangs - an empire that is growing in pow…

Finsbury Park Empire. A booklet "souvenir of opening Sept 5th 1910". A number of signed & unsigned photographs of acts appearing at the Finsbury Park Empire mostly pre 1920.signed photographs of Houdini, Jack Pleasant, R A Roberts (Dick Turpin) , George Robey Signed, Vivian Foster The Vicar of Mirth, The Harmony Four (Barrett etc), Mausby Williams, Bill Fields ( W C Fields) signed cartoon, Carl Hertz (magician) unsigned photos of Col Ling Soo (Herbert J Collings), George Leyton, Dagenham Girl Pipers, signed photos of four early managers, 1910-1915, W H Bebby, W S Rosee, G H Richardson, of the Empire. Four photographs of the Empire in 1965 in the process of demolition.

W S Rosee · 1910 · The Victoria Bookshop

£2,687.34 (€3,221.20 | $3,550.35 | ¥566,945)

Finsbury, Finsbury Park Empire. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. The presence of a press cutting of a letter by W S Rosee and that some of the photos are dedicated to Bill or Rosee suggest that the photos & other items belonged to W S Rosee who was box office manager on the openi…

The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years; Darkness Descends A.D. 350 to 565 The Fall of the Western Roman Empire [Vol. 4]

Ted Byfield (Editor) · 2003 · Rainy Day Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Book Very Good No Jacket Christian History Project Canada Very clean crisp copy. Other volumes in the series available.

Letters From the Front: From the First World War to the Present Day

Andrew Roberts · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Osprey Publishing 2014 Paperback, 272pp. Similar to Letters From Iwo Jima and All Quiet On The Western Front, this book tells the story of young men from many nations thrown into the crucible of war, fighting not just to survive, but to understand what was happening to them and …

Astounding Science Fiction: March, Mar. 1941 ("Sixth Column" - Vt. "the Day After Tomorrow")

ASTOUNDING (ROBERT A. HEINLEIN; CLIFFORD D. SIMAK; MALCOLM JAMESON; THEODORE STURGEON; VIC PHILLIPS & SCOTT ROBERTS; D. B. THOMPSON; R. S. RICHARDSON; ANSON MACDONALD - AKA ROBERT A. HEINLEIN) · 1941 · Books from the crypt

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Street & Smith. 1941. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Rogers for "Logic of Empire" (novelette) by Robert A. Heinlein. Includes "Masquerade" (novelette) by Clifford D. Simak; "Blockade Runner" by Malcolm Jameson; "P…

Cosa Nostra News The Cicale Files, Vol. 1: Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

Dominick Cicale · 2014 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€4.00 ($4.41 | £3.34 | ¥704)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2014, paperback, fine cond.. Life (and death) inside the Mafia... Dominick Cicale was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. From a young age he was closely associated with the Genovese crime family, considered the most powerful Mafi…

A Collection of 11 Plates from Views in Egypt, Palestine and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire: Volume One: Views in Egypt. Original Editions

Mayer, Luigi; Thomas Milton · 1804 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,750.00 (€1,587.76 | £1,324.61 | ¥279,452)

London: by Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804. Color aquatints. 18.25 x 12.5 inches. 46.5 x 32cm. Some watermarked J. Whatman, 1804. Very good, some matted. Included are Abbey, 369, I: 2, 6, 8,10, 28, 29, 35, 42, 43, 44, 46. Ref: Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860 : f…

Out in the Midday Sun. Singapore 1941-45. The End of an Empire. [First US Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

CAFFREY Kate · 0 · Island Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Stein & Day, New York NY, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with map as frontispiece, plates and maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.404.

New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day: Rethinking Councils and Controversy at Early Constantinople 381-451

Justin M. Pigott · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xiv + 231 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Greek. ISBN 9782503584485. Summary Traditional representations of Constantinople during the period from the First Council of Constantinople (381) to the Council of Chalcedon (451) portray a see …

Vostochnye provintsii Rimskoy imperii v I-III vv [Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire in the I-III centuries] (Russian edition)

Ranovich, A. B. · 1949 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€25.60 ($28.22 | £21.36 | ¥4,506)

Akademii nauk SSSR, 1949. Hardcover. Language: Russian. Condition: fair. Defects: rubbing (cover), spots (cover). No illustrations. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank transfer or PayPal); deliver…

Japan To-Day [Today]: A Souvenir of the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition Held in London, 1910. (A Special Number of the "Japan Financial and Economic Monthly").

Mochizuki, Kotaro. · 1910 · Librarium of The Hague

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Tokyo, The Liberal News Agency, (1910). 1st Edition. Hardcover. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Quarto. Pp. (xlvi), ii, iv, 772, (2), (60) advertisements. Plus 9 plates and maps bound-in, some folding, some laid on decorative card, printed in various…

Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of two British Campaigns in Africa

Stanley, Henry Morton · 1874 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle London xiv, 510, [2], 48-ads, portrait frontis, 16 plates, 11 text engravings, 2 folding maps. . HB. 8vo (221x141mm), recased in orig. cloth, rebacked with original lightly worn backstrip laid down, black and gilt-stamped dec. to front board a…

Oscar Serlin Presents Clarence Day's Life with Father. Made Into a Play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse with Percy Waram and Margalo Gillmore

Empire Theatre (New York); Clarence Day; Oscar Serlin (producer), Bretaigne Windust (dir.) · 1941 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York: Empire Theatre, 1941. Theatrical Program (Playbill for Empire Theatre). Folio. [20 pp.] Stapled Wraps, Good with damp-creasing throughout, minor staining, spot of debris stuck to back cover. Illustrated, photographs. Scarce. .

The Mint a Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 a/C Ross

T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. In the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Colonel T…

Ferishta&Apos;S History of Dekkan from the First Mahummedan Conquests: With a Continuation from Other Native Writers, of the Events in That Part of India, to the Reduction of Its Last Monarchs by the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe: Also, the Reigns of His Successors in the Empire of Hindoostan to the Present Day: And the History of Bengal, from the Accession of Aliverdee Khan to the Year 1780

Jonathan Scott; Ferishta [Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi] · 1794 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Shrewsbury, Printed for the Editor by J. and W. Eddowes , 1794. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this translation of Firishta's important history of Deccan dynasties, followed by the work of Deccan nobleman, Shaw-nowauz Khan. The first edition of this English tr…

Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Together with the Governor's Communications, &C. To the Court. Begun and Held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Twenty-Sixth Day of May, Anno Domini - Mdcccii

Massachusetts · 1802 · Kaaterskill Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston, Printed by Young & Minns, 1802. First edition. Disbound. 32 pp. Folio. Includes Caleb Strong's message attacking partisanship: "There is no evil to which free governments are more exposed, than the prevalence of party spirit. The extreme violence of this spirit degrades …

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept. ) 1, 1956: The Secret War of Charles Goodeve (Part 2) - How They Opened the Door for D-Day

NEWMAN, PETER C.; FRAYNE, TRENT; PHILLIPS, BLUEBELL S.; HARNER, HUGH; PAWLE, G; HOCKLEY, VERNON; JACKSON, A.Y.; ET AL · 1956 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Limited, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Little, John (Cover); Macpherson, Duncan; Anderson, Don. 64 pages. Features: Cover art by John Little features Grey Cup final game at Vancouver's Empire Stadium between the Edmonton Eskimos and the M…

Map of 'Northern Asia and Central Asia' - Sheet 44 disbound from the 1890 'The Library Reference Atlas of the World' including modern day Siberia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia

John Bartholomew · 1890 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Macmillan and Co. London, 1890. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Single disbound coloured map sheet, from John Bartholomew's Library Reference Atlas. Sheet is divided into to map panels showing 'Northern Asia' and 'Central Asia' (Central is at closer…