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Herbert Read Collection3

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voyages and travels5
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civilization, ancient1
eastern question (central asia)1

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Begon, Michel3
Begon, Michel (1638-1710)3
Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)3
Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene Vicomte De (1768-1848)3
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De3
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De (1657-1757)3
Hogarth, William (1697-1764)3
La Mottraye, Aubry De (1674?-1743)3
Lauthier, Honore Maria3
Ozell, John3

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Travels and adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff

Wolff, Joseph (1795-1862); Gatty, Alfred (1813-1903)

1861

Edited by Alfred Gatty.

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Before philosophy : the intellectual adventure of ancient man : an essay on speculative thought in the ancient Near East

Frankfort, Henri (1897-1954)

1949

Originally published in America under title: The intellectual adventure of ancient man.

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Masaʻot shel Rabi Benyamīn = Itinerarium D. Beniaminis

Benjamin of Tudela; L'Empereur, Constantijn (1591-1648)

1633

Latin translation based on Friburg edition of 1583. Hebrew and Latin texts in parallel columns. Printer's mark: le Solitaire; headpiece; initials.

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Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675. & 1676 (v.1)

Spon, Jacob (1647-1685); Wheler, Sir George (1650-1723); Boom, Henrik; Boom, Theodore

1679

Title vignette.

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Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675. & 1676 (v.2)

Spon, Jacob (1647-1685); Wheler, Sir George (1650-1723); Boom, Henrik; Boom, Theodore

1679

Title vignette.

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Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia

Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713); Lloyd, Edmund; Penzer, N M (1892-1960); Sykes, Sir Percy Molesworth (1867-1945); Argonaut Press

1927

"This edition... is the third publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 975 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 975 ... printed by Walter Lewis, M.A., at the University press, Cambridge." ...

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Miss Haroun Al-Raschid

Kerruish, Jessie Douglas

1917

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The crescent and the cross, or, Romance and realities of eastern travel

Warburton, Eliot (1810-1852)

1886

Includes index.

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The letters of Gertrude Bell (vol.2)

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926); Bell, Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe (1851-1930)

1939

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Eothen

Kinglake, Alexander William (1809-1891)

1948

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Travels into divers parts of Europe and Asia, undertaken by the French king's order to discover a new way by land into China

Avril, Philippe (1654-1698)

1693

Booklist of Tim Goodwin (2pp.) at end. First gathering of the second part is signed A1-2, B3-[12].

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