Lebanon/ Jordan/ Syria

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Early Italian colonial postcard of a Syrian waitress. B

Price: $25.00

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Two French postcards printed in Beirut of French tanks in Lebanon. M

Price: $40.00

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1963 Mexican comic book Burckhardt Entre Los Arabes. m

Price: $90.00

Note: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784 – 1817) was a Swiss traveller, geographer and orientalist, best known for rediscovering the ruins of the ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan.

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Photo Album with 139 original photos with captions. It was taken by a traveler starting in Syria in 1949, and continuing through Alexandria, Lebanon and other countries. Roughly half of the album concerns the Middle East and North Africa. Interesting views of monastaries and local life within a few months of the end of the Arab-Israelis war. M

Price: $600.00

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Collection of four English illustration of Syria and Lebanon from 1861-1880. Shown are the British fleet off of Beirut, silk manufacturing in Lebanon, quail – catching and sponge diving in Syria.B

Price: $160.00

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Tour du Monde, Lebanon, 1965. Complete with all stickers. B EN

Price: $120.00

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English illustration of the Campaign on the Coast of Syria, 1840-1841. EN B

Price: $30.00

Note: In July, 1840, the Allied Powers Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia, concluded a treaty with Turkey with the object of preventing the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire by Mehemt Ali. A British Squadron, under Commodore Charles Napier, was ordered to the coast of Syria to take possession of the seaports in the name of the Sultan, and to summon the Egyptian troops under Ibrahim Pasha, a son of Mehemet Ali, to withdraw from the province. On September 27th, Commodore Napier appeared before the important town of Sidon with the “Thunderer”, “Wasp”, “Cyclops”, “Gorgon”, “Stromboli” and “Hydra” – with the Austrian frigate “Guerriera” and the Turkish corvette “Gulsefide”. On the Governor refusing to surrender the Fleet opened fire, and having driven the enemy from their guns a Naval brigade landed, commanded by the Commodore in person, and carried the place by storm, capturing many prisoners and a vast quantity of warlike stores of every description.

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1862 English illustration of Miguel El Musrab, Sheikh of the Anazeh Tribe. EN B

Price: $20.00

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1862 English illustration of a departure from Palmyra. EN B

Price: $35.00

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1900 postcard of a Turkish military hospital in Aleppo, showing Ottoman cemetery, as well a slightly later photo postcard of Hotel Omayad in Place de Merje in Damascus. Also an early panorama of Baalbeck. B

Price: $60.00

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Large engraving of Palmyra Alias Tadmor, done in 1698. Size: 32 x 64cm. B

Price: $250.00