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Lot of 6 books on Middle East, including Egypt

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Lot of 6 books on Middle East, including Egypt
Lot of 6 books on Middle East: 1. TYNDALE, WALTER. Below the Cataracts. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company; and London: William Heinmann, 1907. 8vo. With sixty plates in color by the author. Original red cloth, gilt, with black stamped image of the Sphinx. Top edges gilt.  Good. Light edge and corner wear, top and foot of spine bumped and worn, fading to spine, foxing throughout, illustrations are clean. 2. DE KUSEL (BEY), BARON. An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt 1863 to 1887, with an Epilogue Dealing with the Present Time 1914. London and New York: John Lane, 1915. Original green cloth with gilt to spine. 8vo. With 32 black and white illustrations and a fold-out map. Good. Slight darkening of the spine, but gilt is bright. Remnants of bookplate and inked catalog number. Fold-out map is clean and crisp, pages clean. 3. ST. JOHN, J. A. Egypt and Nubia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 8vo. With engraved illustrations throughout. Original green cloth with all-over stamped design, gilt to spine. Poor. The cover are spine are all over soiled, stained, worn. Spine is loose and split inside with a signature coming loose, and others loosened. Foxing to endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown. 4. HICHENS, ROBERT.  The Garden of Allah. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Biskra edition. 12mo. With illustrations from photographs by Helene Philippe. Original burgundy cloth, gilt to spine, gilt and gray-stamped pictorial cover. Good. Light wear and staining, corners and spine worn, top and foot of spine bumped and worn, two flyleaves cut out but frontispiece illustration is present. 5. FEIRAN, WADY. Forty Days in the Desert, On the Crack of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo. London: Arthur Hall & Co., n.d. 4to. Original gray cloth with all-over gilt decoration.  Fair. Spine darkened and head and foot worn, covers discolored/soiled, corners bumped and worn; illustration at front nearly detached, spine loose, inner back hinge split, inner front hinge split, and splitting/coming detached several signatures in. Foxing, mostly to title page and front illustration. 6. DE AMICIS, EDMONDO.  Constantinople. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1896. Only Vol. I (of 2). 8vo. Translated from the fifteenth Italian edition by Maria Hornor Landsdale. 25 photogravures by W. H. Gilbo. Original white cloth with gilt decoration to cover and spine. Top edges gilt. Good. Soiling and staining to covers, red ribbon place marker has left a red dampstain affecting three pages, including one illustration page (though image is okay); bookplate on front pastedown.