11. Hooke, Nathaniel.

The Roman History, From the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth [with the printed Dedication to Alexander Pope]. Illustrated with 17 folding Maps, 4 Fontispieces and 11 other Plates [32 copper-engravings in total].

The Fourth Edition. Four Volumes (complete set with all maps and plates). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson; Hawkins and T.Longman, 1766 – 1771. Quarto (27 cm x 22 cm). Collation: Volume I: Frontispiece, XLVI, XLVI, 634 pages with 10 plates and 3 maps / Volume II: Frontispiece, XXXII, XXXII, 668 pages with 8 maps / Volume III: Frontispiece, VI, 694 pages with 5 maps / Volume IV: Frontispiece, VII, 464 pages plus 76 unnumbered pages of a General Index and 1 plate and 1 map. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with gilt lettering and labels on spine. Interior of this set with all maps and illustrations in excellent, very clean condition. The boards of the bindings with abrasions and some bumping but overall very firm. Some stronger peeling of the leather on board of Volume I, Only three pages with minor tears. The large map of Northern Africa (Palestine, Egypt and Libya) with a minor tear. The stunning maps and plates in timeless beauty. Highly underestimated work, in the shadow of Gibbon but with meticulous detail in presenting the geographical impact of the Roman Conquest. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

12. Kelly, Laurence.

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.

London / New York, I.B Tauris, 2002. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 314 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

13. [Kuwait Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – [Gill, William Daniel] / Sahabi, Fereydoun.

The Subsurface Geology of the Wafra Field (Kuwait-Saudi Arabia neutral zone). [Personal copy of eminent geologist William Daniel Gill / Excellent Association – copy with inscription of Sahabi to Gill]. With special reference to the stratigraphy of the Cenomanian. Original Thesis (printed with hand-coloured sections) submitted for the Degree of Master of Science of the University of London.

London, Oil Technology Department of the Imperial College, 1966. Quarto. Pagination: 25 pages text with 23, often large (!) fold-out-maps (some hand-coloured). Hardcover / Private cloth-binding. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: This set belonged to William Daniel Gill who held it at one point in the Watts Library. It was sold to us from the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor who had this set gifted to him by William Daniel Gill. Inscribed by Fereydoun Sahabi on the endpaper: “To Professor W.D.Gill with best compliments – F. Sahabi – Jan. 1967”. One of the extremely Rare publications on the Geology of Kuwait !

14. [Marana, Giovanni Paolo].

The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy, Who lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe : And discovering several Intrigues and Secrrets of the Christian Courts, (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682 [plus the Supplement Volume covers the Years 1687 to the Year 1693]. Mixed Edition: Volume I: 24th Edition (1754) / Volume II , Volume III, Volume IV and Volume V in Seventh Edition (1717-1718) / Volume VI is missing (!) / Volume VII and Volum VIII (1718) / Supplement-Volume IX is titled: “A Continuation of Letters – Written by a Turkish Spy….continued from the Year 1687 too the Year 1693. Written originally in Arabick, Translated into Italian, and from thence into English.

Eight Volumes (of 9, inluding Supplement). Dublin / London, G.and A. Ewing / W.Taylor, 1717-1754. Small Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece showing Mahmut the Turkish Spy, XXV, 312 pages / Volume II: 276 pages / Volume III: 287 pages / Volume IV: 287 pages / Volume V: 276 pages / Volume VI (missing) / Volume VII: 248 pages / Volume VIII: 280 pages / Volume IX: Frontispiece “Mohamet the Turkish Spy”, VIII, (6), 304 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather of the 18th century with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and boards. Only the first Volume (Dublin Edition) with some stronger damage to endpapers but very good and firm inside. All other Volumes in very good condition. Extremely rare with Volume IX, the nearly always missing Supplement Volume. Provanance: Volume I (Dublin Edition) from the library of John Morrison / Volumes 2 – 9 from the library of Chris Rogers. Both names written in contemporary ink to titlepages.

15. Miller, Donald E. / Touryan Miller, Lorna.

Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide.

Berkeley / London, University of California Press, 1999. 15.5 x 23cm. (12), 242 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than minor signs of shelf wear.

16. Mitford, William.

The History of Greece. [The very rare Large Paper Quarto-Edition / Together with the later Octavo Edition].

Five Volumes (complete set). London, Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln’s-Inn Fields for T.Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1808 – 1818. Quarto (22.3 cm wide x 27.7 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: VII, 590 pages / Volume II: VIII, 551 pages / Volume III: VIII, 572 pages / Volume IV: XII, 647 pages plus Errata / Volume V: XI, 565, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original, full 19th century leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. All boards firm and sturdy attached with only Volume III and IV with minor traces of splitting to upper spine but firmly holding. Volume IV with minor loss to upper spine. Overall better than very good condition with some signs of external wear in form of lesions to the leather. All Volumes in expertly applied, protective Mylar. The interior of this set in stunning condition. Very unusual and rare set, the only complete Quarto-Version on the international market. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. [Important: This set also comes with the important 1835-edition of “The History of Greece” – From the Earliest Period to the Death of Agesilaus. By William Mitford but continued to the Death of Alexander the Great by R.A.Davenport. A reading-copy with some defect but an important addition to the rare Quarto-set (8 Volumes, London, 1835) (see images)].

17. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar [Nassereddin Shah Qajar, the King of Persia].

Two vintage photographs of the visit of the Shah to England in 1873. The Two photographs show: 1. Forerunners of Shah crossing Artillery Square” and 2. The Shah crossing Artillery Square”.

London / England, Artillery Square, 1873. 21.5 cm x 16 cm. 2 photograph sheets. Original Softcover. Both photographs frayed but in overall good condition. condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two extremely scarce and early photographs of a state visit under Queen Victoria.

18. Sarton, George.

The Incubation of Western Culture in the Middle East. A George C. Keiser Foundation Lecture delivered by George Sarton, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University in The Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, March 29, 1950.

Washington, The Library of Congress, 1951. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Very good condition.

19. [Seymour, William Deane, Cobh] Wilson, Colonel Sir Charles W.

Picturesque Palestine – Sinai and Egypt [Volume III and IV of the First Edition in Full Red Morocco, from the library of Captain William Deane Seymour of Cobh [Queenstown, Ireland] with his bookplate to endpaper – these possibly working copies for his later work “A Tour in Syria and Palestine”].

First Edition. London, J.S.Virtue and Co., [1870]. Folio. Volume III: VI, Map of Palestine, 240 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings / Volume IV: VI, Map of Egypt and Sinai, 236 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings. Very decorative full red Morocco with gilt lettering and ornament, bound by Francis Guy, Cork. Bindings rubbed with some minor wormhole-damage to Volume IV. PAstedowns and endpapers a little stained and dusty but interior absolutely excellent besides some foxing to tissue-guards.

20. [Tasso, Torquato] / Hoole, John.

Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem. [Large / Better Paper Edition of “Gerusalemme liberata”]. Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. [Including a biographical account “Life of Tasso”]

The Eighth Edition – With Notes. In Two Volumes. [Two Volumes bound in one]. London, T.Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1803. Quarto (22 cm x 28 cm). Frontispiece, XLVII, 339, [3], 335 pages plus 44 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index. Illustrated with thirteen (13) beautiful copper engravings (plus the Frontispiece). Hardcover / Stunning, modern half leather with new boards, preserving the original spine. With gilt lettering and ornament, bound to style of the 18th/19th century by an english masterbinder. Excellent condition. With some occasionall foxing. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.