Middle East and Arabia Four works

Middle East and Arabia Four works Tamisier, Maurice. Voyage en Arabie. Séjour dans le Hedjad. Campagne d'Assir. Paris: Louis Desessart, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 12.8cm), [4] 399, [4] 402 pp., contemporary quarter sheep, half-titles, engraved folding map of the Hijaz, spines worn, spine of volume 1 with loss and repair, large section of leather on spine of volume 2 detached (now laid in), contents spotted [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2163]; [Firmin-Didot, Ambroise]. Notes d'un voyage fait dans le Levant en 1816 et 1817. Paris: Firmin Didot, [1826]. First edition, 8vo (20 x 11.8cm), [8] 403 pp., contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides and endpapers, joints cracked, top compartment of spine reattached, spotting to outer leaves and to margins [Blackmer 485; Cobham-Jeffery p. 67]; Buckingham, James Silk. Travels in Palestine, through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead ... including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition, 4to (29 x 22cm), xxv [3] 553 pp., uncut in original boards, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, 6 plans, plate of inscriptions, wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings, 4 advertisement leaves of different dimensions tipped to recto of frontispiece, contemporary bookplate of William Foster to front pastedown, front board detached, rear board reattached, spotting to map and plans, map loose; Lucas, Paul. Voyage au Levant. Nouvelle edition revue et corrigée. Paris: Nicolas Simart, 1714. 8vo (15.6 x 9cm), [24] 244 [2] 245-499 [3] pp., 10 engraved plates including natural history subjects and a view of Isfahan, engraved folding map of the Nile, loss to head of spine, light browning, folding map with adhesive staining from attempted tape-repair to closed tear Qty: (5) Note: Maurice Tamisier served as secretary to the medical officer of the expeditionary force sent by Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt to pacify the Hijaz in 1833-4. His work contains extensive accounts of Jeddah and Taif. Ambroise Firmin-Didot visited Greece, Constantinople and environs, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, modern-day Lebanon, Cyprus and Rhodes. According to Blackmer 'only a few copies' of his work were printed; a projected second part never appeared. Paul Lucas's Voyage au Levant was first published in 1704. Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile (gilt stamps to foot of spines; ownership inscriptions to half-titles or initial blanks).