[Middle East] A Group of Antiquarian Works on Travel in the Middle East. Seventeen vols. total, comprising: Nineveh and Its Remains (New York, 1852), two vols. in one; Wild Life Among the Koords (London, 1870), frontis., folding map; A Year Amongst the Persians (London, 1893), folding map; The Moorish Empire (London, 1899); Unexplored Syria (London, 1872), two vols., plates, some folding, defective bindings; Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary (Philadelphia, 1818); Travels Through Egypt and Syria (New York, 1798), two vols. in one; Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and Its Governors (London, 1853), folding map, frontis.; Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Boston, 1858); Observations in the East (New York, 1845), folding maps, plates; History of the Afghans (London, 1858), color frontis., lacks map; Heth and Moab (London, 1892), frontis., plates; Yaman: Its Early Medieval History (London, 1892), lacks half-title, fold-out map in rear pocket, English and Arabic text; and Forty Days in the Desert (Arthur Hall, n.d.), engr. half-title, frontis., plates. Ex-library copies, scattered defects, should be examined. Sold as is.