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Washington, George (1732-1799) Autograph document signed, White Plains, 10 November 1776Washington, George (1732-1799) Autograph document signed, White Plains, 10 November 1776. Sold for US$252,375 inc. premium
Roberts, David (1796-1864) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849.Roberts, David (1796-1864) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849.. Sold for US$25,500 inc. premium
[Secombe, Rev. Joseph] Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. A discourse, utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg Falls, in the fishing season. 1739, Boston: Printed for S. Kneeland and T. Green in Queen Street, 1743[Secombe, Rev. Joseph] Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. A discourse, utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg Falls, in the fishing season. 1739, Boston: Printed for S. Kneeland and T. Green in Queen Street, 1743. Sold for US$20,400 inc. premium

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Washington, George (1732-1799) Autograph letter signed, Valley Forge, 22 April 1778
Washington, George (1732-1799) Autograph document signed, White Plains, 10 November 1776
Washington, George (1732-1799) Autograph letter signed, New York, 12 August 1776
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories, first edition, New York: by J.J. Audubon [and] Philadelphia: by J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844.
Bonfils, Felix (1831-1885) Photograph album
Buckingham, J.S. (1786-1855) Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
Burckhardt, John Lewis (1784-1817) Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, London: John Murray, 1822
Flaxman, John (1755-1826) Illustrations of the Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri, London: Bell and Daldy, 1867.
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) Typed letter signed
El-Mukattem [Howard Crosby] Lands of the Moslem: A Narrative of Oriental Travel, New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1851.
Frith, F. [Francis] (1822-1898) Sinai and Palestine, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [circa 1862]
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661) A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, With the History of the old and new Testament acted thereon , first edition, London: Printed for J.F. by John Williams, 1650.
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661) The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck, 1651.
Halma, François (1653-1722) Kanaän en d'Omleggende Landen, vertoont in een woordenboek uit de h. schrift en Josephus...., Leeuwarden: F. Halma, 1717.
Harmer, Thomas (1715-1788) Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture, London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1776.
Heiden, Konrad, (1901-1966) A History of National Socialism, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934.
Henniker, Sir Frederick, Bart. (1793-1825) Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem, London: John Murray, 1824.
Irby, Charles Leonard (1789-1845) and James Mangles (1786-1867) Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor During the Years 1817 & 1818, London: Printed by T. White and Co. for Private Distribution, 1823
Johnston, Robert Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland, first edition, London: Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1815.
Light, Henry Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus, in the Year 1814, London: For Rodwell and Martin, 1818.
Group of 11 books by women travelers to the Near East
Luigi Mayer, Views in Palestine Mayer, Luigi (1755-1803) Views in Palestine and the Ottoman Empire (2 vols. bound as 1), London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804
Maundrell, Henry (1665-1701) A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem, A.D. 1697, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1714.
Mitchell's New General Atlas, Philadelphia: Wm. M. Bradley & Bro., 1885.
Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305) Zohar, Zhitomir: Chananyah Lipa and Yehoshua Heschel Shapira, 1863
Narinsky, S. [Shlomo] (1885-1960) The Holy Land 1910-1921, 70 Photogravures by S. Narinsky
Photograph album, 1901
Photograph album, 1926
Pierotti, Ermete (1820-1880) Jerusalem Explored, London: Bell and Daldy, 1864.
Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A Description of the East, and Some other Countries, first edition, London: Printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1743-45
Reland, Adriaan [Hadrianus Relandus] (1676-1718) Palaestina Ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata, Utrecht: Guilielmus Broedelet, 1714.
Roberts, David (1796-1864) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849.
Schwarz, Rabbi Joseph (1804-1865) A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine, Philadelphia: A. Hart, 5610-1850.
Shaw, Thomas (1694-1751) Travels, or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, London: For A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757
Spilsbury, F.B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800, London: Printed for Thomas McLean by B.R. Howlett, 1819
Stebbing, Henry (1799-1883) The Christian in Palestine, or, Scenes of Sacred History, Historical and Descriptive., London: Virtue & Co., n.d. [1847]
Stephens, John Lloyd ["An American"] (1805-1852) Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.
Tel Aviv, Jaffa Photobook Braun, Werner (photographer) Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Haifa–Tel Aviv: Carmel-Edition, n.d. [early 1950s].
Volney, C.F. [Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf de] Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785, London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788.
Walasse Ting, One Cent Life Ting, Walasse (1929-2010) 1¢ Life, Bern, Switzerland: E.W. Kornfeld, 1964
Wey, William (c. 1407-1476) The Itineraries of William Wey, Fellow of Eton College, to Jerusalem, A.D. 1458 and A.D. 1462; and to Saint James of Compostella, A.D. 1456, from the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons for the Roxburghe Club, 1857.
Wischnitzer, Rachel (1885-1989) Synagogue Architecture in the United States: History and Interpretation, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955.
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000), Four books.
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000) Two card sets, first editions, signed and numbered.
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000) Three books, first printings, signed
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000) Five first editions
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000) Seven books
Gorey, Edward (1925-2000) Three books, first editions, signed
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