(Travel, Middle East, Arabia, North Africa), a collection of...

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(Travel, Middle East, Arabia, North Africa), a collection of 13 titles and a map relating to the Middle East and North Africa, including Ahmad ibn Ali al-Makrizi & Etienne Marc Quatremere: 'Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks de l'Égypte', Paris, The Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1845, 1st edition. 4 parts in 2 volumes, vol. I xix,253,[1]pp;278pp, vol. II vi,288pp;324pp, ex Repton School Library, 4to, contemporary green morocco gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt. Scarce; Yacoub Pasha Artin: 'England in the Sudan', translated George Robb, L, Macmillan, 1911, 1st edition, folding map + ils. from photos as called for, original cloth gilt; Edward Stanford Ltd (published): 'The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan', engraved folding map, coloured in outline, dissected & backed onto linen, printed at the War Office, December 1921, approx. 91 x 69cm, folding into original cloth slipcase, printed paper label to front; Sir Martin Conway: 'Palestine and Morocco, Lands of the Overlap', L, Edward Arnold, 1923, 1st edition, 8 plates as called for, ex Repton School Library, orig. cloth gilt; Freya Stark: 'A Winter in Arabia', London, John Murray, 1940, 1st edition, 3 maps (of which 1 folding), plus numerous photogravure illustrations by the author as called for, original cloth gilt (spine faded), dust wrapper (with tape repair, else 16s price intact and generally VGC). The author's beautifully illustrated account of her time in the Hadhramaut (in what is now Yemen), at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored the vast hinterlands of Arabia. One of the most important pieces of literature on the region and a book that placed Freya Stark in the pantheon of great writers and explorers of the Arab World; Budgett Meakin: 'The Moors, a Comprehensive Description', L, Swan Sonnenschein, 1902, 1st edition, lacks front and rear endpapers, ills. throughout, original cloth gilt (worn/soiled); T.E. Lawrence: 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', L, Cape, 1935, 1st trade edition, folding maps & plates as called for, 4to, original cloth gilt; Bertram Thomas: 'Arabia Felix', L, Cape, February 1932, 1st reprint, large folding map + numerous photographic plates, ex Repton School library, orig. cloth gilt; Richard Burton: 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah', L, George Bell & Sons, 1898, 2 volumes, colour frontis to volume 1 + 3 folding maps/plans + 14 black & white plates as called for, uniform original cloth gilt. Disguised as a Pashtun Muslim and supported by the Royal Geographical Society, in 1853 Burton undertook a hajj journey to the two Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, this two volume work recounts that journey. Burton spent years in preparation, mostly during his time in India. Although Burton was not the first non-Muslim to perform the hajj, the accuracy of his well-documented account, including his measurements of the Kaaba in Mecca and his Victorian-era observations on Muslims (especially his copious notes on manners), brought him immediate fame; two mid 19th Century Murray's Handbooks for Travellers in Egypt (1858) & Turkey (1854), each with folding maps/plans etc, each original cloth gilt (slightly worn), plus 1 other (14)