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Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). London: John Murray. Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1947. Hardcover. 8vo., 260 pp. .
Published by Butler & Tanner Ltd, 1942
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has mild wear to the edges and moderate sunfading on the spine which has lightened the original shade of red. There is also heavy foxing on the page edges and on the pages themselves. There is writing on about 40 of the pages and the previous owner write their name on the front endpage. The book is presentable overall and the binding remains strong.
Published by John Murray, London, 1947
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Xx, 260 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Printing Of The 1947 Corrected Second Edition. Near Fine, Tiny Bumps To Tips. No Marks. From The Library Of U. S. Mideast Diplomat John S. Habib Although Not Marked As Such.
Published by John Murray, London, 1947
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . Second edition 8vo, hardcover, red cloth. Vg condition in fair, partial, dj. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 260 pp., illus. Arabian, Ethnology, History, Modern, Peninsula, Travel,
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. In a good dustwrapper which has fairly minor edge chips and tears. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Pp.xx,260. 114 photographs. 4 maps (one folding). 8 figures. "This is mainly the story of the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to South-West Arabia, told in non-technical language; also a brief review of the Yemen's place in Arabian history and art, its immediate importance and potentialities." This edition makes corrections to the first edition and adds further information.
Published by John Murray
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.
Published by John Murray, London, 1942
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: VG. 1st. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt Yemenese flag on front panel. All maps and photos present. General wear especially to extremities. Stain on front panel. Hinges starting. Acceptable copy.
Published by John Murray., London., 1947
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. xx, 260pp, photos, ,maps, figures, bibliography. Expedition to South West Arabia under auspices of British Museum. Clean crisp copy without marks. 750g.
Published by John Murray, 1947
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Edition. The dust wrapper has small nicks and tears.With illustrations and maps. Previous owners name to endpaper Size: Octavo . Category: Travel & Places; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A good copy bound in original red cloth, gilt flag to front cover, some minor sunning to spine. A history of Yemen. 260pp illustrated with photographs.
Published by John Murray, London, 1942
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Small tear on spine head, front hinge crack; Light wear & soil.
Published by Routledge, 2016
ISBN 10: 1138972452ISBN 13: 9781138972452
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
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Published by London. Murray., 1947
Seller: Antiquariat Löwenstein, Göllersdorf, NÖ, Austria
2. ed. XX, 260 p., with over a hundred photographs. cloth.
Published by John Murray, London, 1947
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Spine slightly cocked. Moderately worn unclipped dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Clean, unmarked text. Fold-out map. 260 pgs.
Published by London: John Murray, 1942
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Gut. XIX, 260 p.: Ill., Maps. Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren (verschmutzt, berieben, Buchrücken ausgeblichen), Buchschnitt stockfleckig, innen sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Binding with heavier signs of use (soiled, rubbed, spine faded), book edges foxed, inside clean and without annotations. - CONTENTS Preface Note of Acknowledgment Note on Transliteration and Dates List of Photographs * Note on Photographs List of Maps and Figures PART I. INTRODUCTORY Chapters I. Outline of the journey : difficulty of entering the Yemen II. Our scientific quest III. What we sought, and how our collections were made IV. Previous exploration of the Yemen by naturalists PART IL THE JOURNEY V. Aden and Lahej VI. Gateway to the highlands: Aden to Dhala VIL Dhala, capital of the Amiri highlands VIII. Life on Jebel Jihaf IX. Recesses and heights of Jebel Jihaf X. The upper Wadi Tiban and Jebel Harir. XL The hot springs of Huweimi. Entry to the Yemen XII. Taizz, chief city of the Southern Yemen, and its Amir XIII. Through the central highlands to San a XIV. Many-towered San a XV. Treks in San a district: our farthest north XVI. The Great Festival: we meet the Imam at last XVII. Last days in San a and exit via Hodeida PART III. HISTORICAL AND THE FUTURE Chapters XVIII. The peoples of South-West Arabia, and beginnings of their history XIX. History before the coming of Islam XX. Remains of the pre-Islamic civilisation XXL Since the coming of Islam XXII. Products and possibilities Notes Bibliography Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 260, 113 plates, four maps. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown.
Published by John Murray, 1942
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. STATED FIRST EDITION with rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.
Published by John Murray, London, 1942
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this hardcover book in red buckram cloth boards with bright and vivid gilt tile lettering to spine and with further gilt flag design to the front cover.No Dust-Jacket.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Illustrated with over a hundred photographs by the Author and Everard B Britton.There is some light spotting present to the text block edges and the spine of the book is ever so slightly sunned.Lovely copy for the collector 8vo 260pp First Edition 1st Impression [1942].
Published by John Murray, 1942
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Scarlet boards and spie lettered and decorated in gilt; slight loss of surface sheen around lower rear corner and two (insignificant) finger sized ones at front. Internally ffep a little foxed, with gift inscription; occasional foxing in text; maps and plates all present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by John Murray, London, 1942
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Contains 113 photographs, 4 maps and 8 figures in the text by the author and E. B. Britton. Bumped and rubbed, edges of the text block and end papers foxed. Jacket rubbed with several 1" chips and tears. Some sunning to the red boards corresponding to the chips. Jacket price clipped, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by John Murray, London, 1947
Seller: Reg & Philip Remington ABA ILAB, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. SECOND EDITION, 8vo, xx, 260 pp, 100 photographs by the Author and E.B. Britton, 4 maps, 8 figures, original cloth, spine slightly faded, text very clean, in good condition, Ever since Niebuhr's remarkable scientific expedition to the Yemen in 1762-63, it has been recognized that to the biologist South-West Arabia holds a geographical position of great importance for questions relating to plant and animal distribution. For its varied and still largely unexplored confines, ranging from mountainous high altitudes with temperate conditions and abundant rain, to the tropical heat of the lower levels and coastal regions, are the meeting place and areas of overlap of the three great biogeographical regions : that of the Northern, the Oriental and the Ethiopian. Moreover, even now, nearing two hundred years since the plant collections of Niebuhr's botanist, Forskál, were made, published and finally reached the British Museum, the region has been so little investigated owing to political difficulty of access that Dr. Scott, in his most interesting book, can write of the 600-odd plants collected on his expedition that in many cases no examples of these species from Arabia were received at the Museum from that tune until we brought home fresh material in 1938.
Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, W1., London, 1942
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9 inches. xix + [i] + 260 pp. Bound in the original red cloth, gilt. Spine sunned, a little wear to inner front hinge (now repaired) and a few fore edge and margin stains; otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. Illustrated by 67 pages of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece and one folding, by 3 maps in text and one folding and by 8 text figures. Personal narrative of travels in the western part of the Aden Protectorate and in the Yemen. The journeys were made in the context of the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to South-West Arabia, 1937-38 by Hugh Scott (1885-1960), entomologist and geographer. The 114 photographs were taken by the author and by his colleague, Everard Baldwin Britton (1912-2012). * This copy comes from the library of Mahmud al-Ghul the distinguished Arabist and Scholar, each volume has his bookplate. He specialised in ancient South Arabian languages; taught Arabic at SOAS from at least 1957-59, during which time he inspired Major M. D. van Lessen to collect and record South Arabian inscriptions; Ghul later taught at the American University in Beirut and Yarmuk University in Irbid, Jordan. During the early 1970s he was the first scholar to identify a class of so-called South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wooden sticks which were used to record daily records, and for which he proposed an initial decipherment in late 1977. In 1959 he presented three ancient South Arabian stone inscriptions to The British Museum and published numerous scholarly papers on Arabian language and archaeology. He died in December 1983. TOPOGRAPHY ARABIA TOPOGRAPHY TRAVEL NATURAL HISTORY ASIA 20TH CENTURY TOPOGRAPHY.
Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, W.1, London, 1942
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9 inches. xix + [i] + 260 pp. Bound in the original red cloth, gilt. Spine sunned, extremities a little worn, some wear to inner front hinge (now repaired) and occasional stains; otherwise a very good copy. Brief Arabic inscription on first free endpaper and bookplate. Illustrated by 67 pages of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece and one folding, by 3 maps in text and one folding and by 8 text figures. Personal narrative of travels in the western part of the Aden Protectorate and in the Yemen. The journeys were made in the context of the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to South-West Arabia, 1937-38 by Hugh Scott (1885-1960), entomologist and geographer. The 114 photographs were taken by the author and by his colleague, Everard Baldwin Britton (1912-2012). * This copy comes from the library of Mahmud al-Ghul the distinguished Arabist and Scholar, each volume has his bookplate. He specialised in ancient South Arabian languages; taught Arabic at SOAS from at least 1957-59, during which time he inspired Major M. D. van Lessen to collect and record South Arabian inscriptions; Ghul later taught at the American University in Beirut and Yarmuk University in Irbid, Jordan. During the early 1970s he was the first scholar to identify a class of so-called South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wooden sticks which were used to record daily records, and for which he proposed an initial decipherment in late 1977. In 1959 he presented three ancient South Arabian stone inscriptions to The British Museum and published numerous scholarly papers on Arabian language and archaeology. He died in December 1983. TOPOGRAPHY ARABIA TOPOGRAPHY TRAVEL NATURAL HISTORY ASIA 20TH CENTURY TOPOGRAPHY.
Hardcover. First edition. Cloth, xx, 260pp. With illustrations and map. Cloth faded and mottled, cloth speckled around perimeter but still a very good copy. Account of travels during a scientific expedition to South West Arabia in 1937-8. The firsts part of the books discusses the reasons for the scientific expedition. The second part is "a personal narrative of our journey into two Arabian countries. The Western Division of the Aden Protectorate.The Kingdom and IMamate of the Yemen. The final section is devoted to the "present state of knowledge of the tribes inhabiting this part of Arabia.".
Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First printing. Lacking the jacket. Red buckram binding with gilt illustration to front board. Slight fading to spine, slight spotting to page edges. Some lightly pencilled notes to margins, text is otherwise very clean throughout. Complete with all photographic plates (including a double sided fold-out) and the fold-out map. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Excellent example. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 6.25 x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xix, 260.
Published by John Murray., 1947
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. xx, 260pp, photos, ,maps, figures, bibliography. Expedition to South West Arabia under auspices of British Museum. Signed and personal address stamp to ffep, hints of foxing to first and last couple of pages otherwise clean, wrapper is light wear with small chips, scratches, missings, it is clipped and small price label removed. 750g. Signed by Author(s).
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Hugh Scott; Everard B. Britton (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this densely illustrated travel journey from the mid twentieth century. First edition of In the High Yemen by Hugh Scott in the original publisher's cloth bindings.An insightful travel journal covering their journey and obstacles travelling through Yemen and the rich history of the surrounding area.With photographs by the author and Everard B. Britton.Densely illustrated with four maps including a folding map, 66 monochrome plates with 114 photographs, one folding monochrome plate, and figures throughout the text. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The spine is slightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Published by Kegan Paul Intl, 2003
ISBN 10: 0710307861ISBN 13: 9780710307866
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 280 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
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