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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.

Title: In Unknown Arabia, An Expedition to An Unexplored: Bahrain, Hufuf, Jabrin, OQair" First Edition, Includes Qatar..Trucial Oman
Author: Robert Ernest Cheesman; Arabia
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1926. CHEESMAN, Robert Ernest. In Unknown Arabia, of an expedition to an unexplored tract of Eastern Arabia: Bahrain, Hufuf, Jabrin, OQair. London, Macmillian & Co., 1926. With 67 photo illustrations, 3 maps, including one large folding map of Arabia, 447 pages. First edition travel account of a previous unexplored tract of Eastern Arabia with large folding map of Arabia that illustrates Qatar and Trucial Oman. Major Robert Ernest Cheesman, was a military officer, explorer and ornithologist. In 1923, during a journey into the Arabian Peninsula, Cheesman collected over 300 specimens from the Hasa oasis. He is credited with discovering Cheesman's Gerbil (Gerbillus cheesmani) that inhabits the Arabian Peninsula. Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwa to Uqair. In 1924 he fixed the position of Hofuf and identified the site of ancient Gerrha. He presented his findings to Ibn Sa'ud at his court in Hofuf. Library binding copy with small sticker on front end-paper,edges rubbed, some light foxing, pencil annotations [71], small tear to bottom edge of pp 40, 42, 2 inch seperation along centerfold of folding map near edge and margins. Otherwise book complete with large folding coloured map, in good condition.

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Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop

Title: The Facetiae or Jocose Tales of Poggio. Now First Translated into English with Latin Text. 2 volumes
Author: Poggio [Bracciolini]
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Poggio (1380 - 1459) was an Italian scholar and early Renaissance humanist. He is best known for rediscovering many classical Latin texts. This set includes the life of Poggio, a memorial of the works of Poggio, and his tales. Ex-library with library stamp mostly removed from bottom of title pages and library stickers removed from front boards and rear endpapers. Both volumes are bound in three quarter red leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt titles to spines. Minor wear to hinges and edges of boards. Marbled endpapers and top edges gilt. Both volumes have the original vellum wrappers bound in to the rear. Clean interiors with head and tailpieces and engraved initials. Text in English and Latin. An attractive set despite being ex-library. Volume I has 203 pages; Volume II has 248 pages plus 7 pages of ads.

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Seller: Argosy Book Store

Title: The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Author: ANDERSON, M.T.; YELCHIN, Eugene
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780763698225
Condition: near fine
Description: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2018. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated in black and white. 544 pages. 8vo, decorative red cloth (lightly worn at corners). Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2018). Signed by the authors on facing title page. Near fine.