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New York: Wellfleet Books, (1989) Facsimile edition Folio, five volumes, variously paginated, bound in one: 1 Jerusalem -- 2 Galilee & Lebanon -- 3 Judea & Jordan River --4 Samaria & Idumea (Petra) -- 5 The Desert (Negev & Sinai). Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket & slipcase. A fine copy in like dust jacket Slipcase lightly rubbed & bruised at the corners, very good or better. "In this lavishly illustrated book, with over 120 color plates, the reader can retrace the artistic and courageous steps of Roberts on this adventurous eleven month journey from 1838 - 1839, through the Holy Land where he had permission to enter whichever sacred mosque or monument he desired ." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Beyrouth: Cahiers de l'Est, (1985) First edition. 4to, 376 pp & 64 unnumbered pages of plates (some color). Original pictorial stiff paper wraps. Text in French. Slight edge wear, presentation inscription in ink at half-title page to Middle East policy expert Ronald McLaurin (illegibly signed), otherwise Near Fine. Editor & contributor Camille Aboussouan was Ambassador of Lebanon to the UNESCO & additionally a bibliophile whose library was sold at Sotheby's London in 1993

Paris: J. Mallet et Cie, 1841. "Edition Illustree." Quarto (10.5" x 7.25"), xx & 525 pages including numerous illustrations in text plus 18 plates only (of 20 per list) printed on China paper & mounted to light card stock. Contemporary half black morocco & pebbled green cloth, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or ruled in gilt in all compartments. Top edge gilt. Text in French.
Binding rubbed, corners bruised, foxing (heavy at times), lacking two plates per list but no evidence of removal, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the recto of the frontis, otherwise good.
First published in 1591, Jerusalem Delivree, an epic poem which is characterized as highly imaginative, treats of the First Crusade & the efforts to wrest Jerusalem from Muslim control at the hands of the Latin Church.

New York: Carleton, Publisher; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXIX (1869). First edition, this copy with presentation in ink by the author at the ffep: "A M[onsieur] Chabot/ avec les compliments/ de M'elle Kraft."
12mo, viii, [9] - 316 & 8 (ie 6) pages of publisher's ads plus 5 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's rust/ brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Not found in The Truthful Lens.
Recently rebacked preserving original spine, long tear at the ffep now repaired on the verso (presentation not affected), binding moderately rubbed & soiled, scattered foxing, a very good copy.
Ms. Kraft departed Paris on December 1, 1868 in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ferris (her sister and brother in law) and traveling companion J.S. Rogers. The group arriived in Egypt on December 11. As she notes in her prologue,"In presenting this little work for the perusal of my friends, I beg to remind them that I have, as nearly as was consistent, adhered to the original design of giving a "diary"… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, no date (ca. 1930). Octavo (9" x 6.5"), 172 pages plus 12 tipped in color plates including frontis by Willy Pogany. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated terra-cotta cloth, in gold pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers.
Spine slightly cocked, brief shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns with modest foxing, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear including small losses short tears & creasing, still good or better.
A delightful example of Khayyam's work which is greatly enhanced by the mildly erotic illustrations of Willy Pogany.
As characterized by philosopher Roman Krznaric,"The Rubáiyát was an unapologetic expression of hedonism, bringing to mind sensuous embraces in jasmine-filled gardens on balmy Arabian nights, accompanied by cups of cool, intoxicating wine. It was a passionate outcry against the unofficial Victorian ideologies of moderation, primness and self-control."