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1st Ed. 200pp. Cold. port. frontis., 6 ills. Lightly browned, original cloth with gilt devices, spine darkened, sl. rubbed, t.e.g.
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1st Ed. 2 vols. [xii] + 353pp. + [xii] + 305pp. Photogravure port. frontiss., 8 plates [only of 9] including 2 photogravure and 2 folding maps. F.e.ps. and margins lightly browned, pp.139-142 of vol. 2. with sm. scrapes with loss to paper and text, sm. ownership signature, lightly soiled and rubbed gilt lettered cloth with blind tooled decorations to edges and spines.
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Ahmad, Feroz. THE YOUNG TURKS. The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-1914. Clarendon 1969.
1st Ed. [xiv] + 205pp. Some occasional marginal pencil ruling, good in gilt lettered cloth.
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Slim 4to. Map and cold. facsimile of the ms. Very good in d/w.
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Arlen, Michael J. PASSAGE TO ARARAT. Chatto & Windus 1976.
1st Ed. 293pp. E.p. maps, good in chipped d/w. torn and repaired with selotape to lower part of wrapper.
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Bier, Lionel. SARVISTAN A Study in Early Iranian Architecture. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press 1986.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. xv + 81pp. 88 figures. Original gilt lettered cloth, some fading.
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1st Ed. 4to. 61pp. 62 plates and maps including several folding, 13 ills. Upper corner sl. creased, very good in original red lettered cloth.
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Brockhaus, Dr Hermann. VENDIDAD SADE. Die heiligen Schriften Zoroaster’s Yaçna, Vispered und Vendidad. Nach den lithographirten von Paris und Bombay mit Index und Glossar ... Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus 1850.
xiv + 416pp. Foxed, ink stamp to t.p. partially obliterated, label, half roan with boards, extremities and spine rubbed, with sl. loss to head and tail of spine.
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1st Ed. 2 vols. ccv + 409pp. + 732pp. Folding frontis. map. Ex.-lib. with bookplates, occasional discreet ink stamps, very light browning, original bright gilt lettered cloth, sm. nick to upper joint of vol. 2.
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Sm. thin 8vo. 43pp. 1 plate. Ex.-lib with bookplate, ink stamp to verso of t.p., gilt lettered cloth backed marbled boards, sm. lib. stamp to upper board.
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