‎Golf‎

‎Strabo.‎

‎En tibi lector studiose Strabonis geographicorum co[m]me[n]tarios, olim a Guarino Veronese, & Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donatus, iam vero denuo a Conrado Heresbachio ad fidem graeci exemplaris [...] recognitos. Basel, (Valentin Curio), (March) 1523.‎

‎Folio (220 x 325 mm). (36), 566, (2) pp. With woodcut title border by J. Faber after Hans Holbein, 2 additional borders, printer's device, and numerous initials. Blindstamped limp leather on four raised bands. Early Latin translation of the geography of Strabo, who had visited Egypt and sailed up the Nile in 25 BC. - Even in the introductory chapters, Strabo provides important details on the Arabian Peninsula: "Adjoining the Ethiopians, a needy and nomad race, is Arabia: one part of which is distinguished above all other lands by the title of Felix [i.e., Hedjaz and Nejd-ed-Ared], and the other, though not dignified by that name, is both generally believed and also said to be pre-eminently blessed. Though Homer knew of Arabia Felix, at that time it was by no means wealthy, but a wild country, the inhabitants of which dwelt for the most part in tents. It is only a small district which produces the aromatics from which the whole territory afterwards received its name, owing to the rarity of the commodity amongst us, and the value set upon it. That the Arabians are now flourishing and wealthy is due to their vast and extended trade" (p. 30f.); "Arabia Felix is bounded by the entire Arabian and Persian Gulfs, together with all the country of the tent-dwellers and the Sheikh-governed tribes. [...] Beside the ocean the country is tolerably fitted for habitation of man, but not so the centre of the country: this for the most part is barren, rugged sand desert. The same applies to the country of the Troglodytic Arabians and the part occupied by the fish-eating tribes" (p. 90f.) Furthermore, chapters 15 and 16 are devoted entirely to the Orient (chapter 16 on Arabia in particular), while the final chapter 17 discusses Egypt and Libya. - The fine title border shows King Solomon among the philosophers and poets of Greco-Roman antiquity; at the bottom, the Nine Muses lay a wreath on the head of Homer. Occasional insignificant brownstaining. The uncommon binding is slightly rubbed; some edge defects professionally restored. Title page has contemporary ms. ownership of the classical scholar Johannes Lyresius from Kleve, professor of Greek at Ingolstadt from 1568 onwards. A few marginalia and underlinings by his and later hands. VD 16, S 9346. Hoffmann III, 457. Schweiger I, 304. Cf. Macro 2148 (only later English translations).‎

‎Strange Curtis signed‎

‎Win and Win Again ! Techniques for Playing Consistently Great Golf‎

‎Chicago Illinois: Contemporary Books 1990. Boldly signed by Curtis Strange his signature only NOT personalized to anyone. SEE PHOTOS. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. NO rubbing. NOT price clipped $22.95. SEE PHOTOS. Bright shiny square and tight. Sharp corners. 1990. First Edition. Well illustrated with drawings and photographs including 8 pages in full color. Foreword by Arnold Palmer. Co-written with Kenneth Van Kampen. Laid in is a typed letter indicating this signed copy was a prize awarded to a runner-up in the Kingsmill Resort "Curtis Strange Challenge." Appendix: Tournament Record and Achievements. Index. Bound in the original dark green boards with a white cloth spine stamped in bright gold. 8" wide by 10.25" tall. Complete with dust jacket. Signed by the Author his signature only. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. xxiv 228pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Contemporary Books Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 020405 ISBN : 0809243229 9780809243228

‎Strass, Friedrich.‎

‎Allgemeine Uebersicht der Weltgeschichte von den aeltesten Zeiten bis auf gegenwärtige in Strömen und Flüßen dargestellt von Friedrich Strass. Augsburg, V. Zanna et Comp., [1830].‎

‎Copper engraving with full original colour, in 3 unjoined sheets. Each sheet 47 × 71 cm. Very good condition, lovely original colour, mild toning, small nicks in blank margins and light stains in lower area. A very rare edition of Strass's large and resplendently coloured time chart depicting the inter-connecting streams of the histories of different World civilizations and nations from 3984 BC up to 1830. This large and colourful time chart employs ingenious visual methods to graphically illustrate historical events. The history of the world is presented as interwoven streams featuring the stories of its great civilizations/nations weave their way down the time chart like the paths of streams. History is shown to commence with Genesis, which is shown here to have occurred in 3984 BC, a date close to that asserted by the Ussher Chronology. This theory as to the timing of Genesis (which was said to have occurred in 4004 BC) was devised by James Ussher (1581-1656), the Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland (in office 1625-56), and is based on his "literal reading" of the Bible. The Ussher Chronology gained widespread popularity in certain Protestant circles during the 19th century. The time line starts at the top of the composition with the great ancient civilizations, namely, the Italians; Greeks; Asia Minor; Assyrians; Syrians; Phoenicians; Jews; Egyptians and the Chinese. Down the various streams are plotted the names and dates of different eras and rulers. The stream on the furthest right details major world events. Part way down, the civilizations in the Western and Mediterranean world converge into the 'Roman Empire' before splintering again into various new entities. The streams then continue to weave, combine and separate, mitigated by the interconnecting streams of major events and characters, towards the bottom of the time line, where the individual streams are represented by the nations and regions of Denmark; Sweden; Russia; the German States; Austria; Holland; Switzerland; France; the Italian States; States of the Church (Papal States); Spain; Great Britain; Greece; Persia; and China. William Bell, who issued his own version of the time chart in London in 1849, described the merits of Strass's conception to the study of history: "However natural it may be to assist the perspective faculty, in its assumption of abstract time, by the idea of a line [...] it is astonishing that [...] the image of a Stream should not have presented itself to any one [...] The expressions of gliding, and rolling on; or of a rapid current, applied to time, are equally familiar to us with those of long and short. Neither does it require any great discernment to trace [...] in the rise and fall of empire, an allusion to the source of a river, and to the increasing rapidity of a current, in proportion with the declivity of their channels towards the engulfing ocean. Nay, the metaphor [...] gives greater liveliness to the ideas, and impresses events more forcibly upon the mind, than the stiff regularity of the straight line. Its diversified power likewise of separating the various currents into subordinate branches, or of uniting them into one vast ocean of power [...] tends to render the idea by its beauty more attractive, by its simplicity more perspicuous, and by its resemblance more consistent" (Rosenberg & Grafton, pp.143 & 147). The present time chart is derived from Strass's exceedingly rare "Strom der Zeiten" ("Stream of Time", 1804). Strass's work proved to be highly influential and was widely copied in both Europe and America, and translated into several languages, including Russian. All of the large German editions are very rare, and the present example, in unjoined sheets with resplendent original colour, is an especially fine example. Cf. OCLC (Re: 1818 Zanna ed.) 165398011. (derivative 1849 London ed.). Daniel Rosenberg & Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time, pp. 143f. & 147, fig. 4:45.‎

‎Strawn John‎

‎Driving the Green: The Making of a Golf Course‎

‎Harpercollins Publishers 1991. Dj has very light edgewear & has been price clipped. Light wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Harpercollins Publishers Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 12206 ISBN : 0060166592 9780060166595

‎Strawn John‎

‎Driving the Green: The Making of a Golf Course‎

‎New York: HarperCollins 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. viii 344 pp. Moisture mark at lower edge of front cover; presentation inscription on reverse of front free endpaper. Jacket has light rubbing at corners. The birth of the Ironhorse Golf Course in Florida. HarperCollins hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 003324 ISBN : 0060166592 9780060166595

‎Stricklin Art‎

‎The Texas Golf Guide‎

‎Plano Texas U.S.A.: Republic of Texas Press 1997. 293 pp. Forward by Lee Trevino. Book unread spine unbent. Pages are clean text has no markings. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Republic of Texas Press Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 239066 ISBN : 155622575x 9781556225758

‎Strümpell, Adolf von / Feyzi Pasha (Feyzullah Izmidî, transl.).‎

‎[Ilm-i emraz-i dahiliye]. Maladies des Reins, des Bassinets et de la Vessie (Knowledge of Internal Medicine. Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder, Part 2, Volume 3). Istanbul, Mahmud Bey Matbaasi, [1888-1891 CE] = 1305-1308 H.‎

‎8vo. (6), 783-1084 pp. With lithogr. illustrations within the text and three lithogr. plates. Contemporary giltstamped red morocco binding with the tughra of sultan Abdul Hamid II, marked as vol. 7, moirée paper pastedowns and endpapers with red cloth gutter. All edges gilt. A rare first edition of the Ottoman Turkish translation of this medical textbook on internal diseases, published in instalments between 1888 and 1891. "Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie der inneren Krankheiten", written by the German physician Adolf von Strümpell (1853-1925), appeared in two volumes in Leipzig in 1883/84. This volume discusses the diseases of the kidneys and bladder. The translator was the physician Feyzullah Izmidî (1845-1923), known as a researcher of cholera in Damascus during the epidemic of 1903; the Damascus Medical Faculty developed from Feyzi Pasha’s medical office for researches. - Endpapers slightly stained, inner hinges broken. Binding slightly scuffed with insignificant chipping to edges and spine. Very rare: we could only trace one complete series of the Turkish translation via Worldcat (Princeton University Library) and no separate volumes. - From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918), the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to exert effective contol over the fracturing state and also remembered as a poet, translator and one of the dynasty's greatest bibliophiles. While his passion for books is memorialized by the many precious donations he gave to libraries all over the world and which mostly have remained intact to this day (including the 400-volume "Abdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials" gifted to the Library of Congress), his own library was dispersed in the years following his deposition in 1909: books were removed to other palaces and even sold to Western collectors; the greatest part of his collection is today preserved in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. OCLC 25347275. H. Kadircan Keskinbora, Osmanlinin Suriye’ye son hizmetlerinden sam tip fakültesi zorunluluktan mi kuruldu?‎

‎Sturmy, Capt. Samuel.‎

‎The Mariners Magazine. [...] Revised, corrected and enlarged by John Colson. London, Richard Mount, 1700.‎

‎Folio. (10), 148, 116, (48) pp. (pages 109, 100, 111, and 112 bound out of order). With plates, tables and 3 volvelles. 18th century panelled calf with the binding dated "1734" and with a newer, and heavily buttressed, spine added. A very good copy of this important, influential and rare-to-the-market nautical classic, being the fourth edition with "Useful Additions". - Samuel Sturmy states that he was apprenticed to a Bristol sailmaker and thereafter commanded ships sailing out of Bristol, primarily to Virginia and to the West Indies. His experiences formed the core of the work herein described, a work produced by him to provide his three brothers, his sons, and other young seamen with all of the information they would need - even if their own mathematical abilities were restricted to ordinary arithmetic. Sturmy wrote in a lively fashion, and in the sections pertaining to seamanship the usual commands and responses were set forth as a dialogue between the ship's captain and the crew, parts of which were used verbatim by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels". It is from Sturmy's book that Dampier remembered the recipe ("receipt") for gunpowder. Sturmy's work also contains what may be one of the earliest complete explanations of the construction of a polar gnomonic chart, presenting a detailed example of a great circle route from the Lizard to the Bermudas. The Oxford Reference states: "The gnomonic chart became popular with the publication by Hugh Godfray in 1858 of two polar gnomonic charts covering the greater part of the world, one for the northern and the other for the southern hemisphere. Although it was generally believed that Godfray was the original inventor of this method of great circle sailing, it is interesting to note that a complete explanation of the construction of a polar gnomonic chart, with a detailed example of a great circle route from the Lizard to the Bermudas, appeared in Samuel Sturmey's 'Mariners' Mirror', of 1669." - A superior copy of a rare and highly notable book: an early classic of navigation, of which few copies in any edition have come to auction over the last several decades and which constitutes a critical component of any any nautical library.‎

‎Subcommittee on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic Psychologic and Psychosocial Effe‎

‎Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment‎

‎National Academies Press. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. National Academies Press unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : GRP89325586 ISBN : 0309102073 9780309102070

‎Suggs Louise and Marlene Hagge Beverly Hanson and More‎

‎GOLF FOR WOMEN THE TOP PROS WRITE‎

‎Good in Good dust jacket; Some scuffing to edges. 1960. Hardback. 192 pages . hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 128097

‎Sulphur Texas Gulf‎

‎Facts About Sulphur‎

‎Texas Gulf Sulphur. B000J5087G 1953 Texas Gulf Stapled wraps light wear covers have light fading and rubbing bump at top corner Clean text well-bound no markings of any kind. 52 pages. .Package carefully to protect the corners. . Very Good. 1899-12-30. Texas Gulf Sulphur paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 411979

‎SUPPORT COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN THE GULF.‎

‎The Gulf Solidarity. Iranian invasion - 1 year after. Volume 3: 2-1.San Francisco CA spring 1975. 4to 28 x 21.5 cm. With an illustration on the wrappers and some reproductions of photographs and some maps in the text. Original printed paper wrappers.‎

‎16 pp.Third volume third issue of the quarterly journal The Gulf Solidarity published by the so-called support committee for the liberation movement in the Gulf. The majority of the journal is devoted to the "Iranian invasion" referring to the Iran's help during the Dhofar Rebellion. Other sections deal with the influence of Great Britain and other nations in the Gulf and military campaigns. In very good condition. unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : K35FNHRXEKM3

‎SURFACE CIRCULATION IN THE GULF OF MAINE AS DECUCED FROM DRIFT BOTTLES‎

‎Wash‎

‎USDI/FWS/BCF Bull.141. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. USDI/FWS/BCF Bull.141 unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : GRP101795001 ISBN : 2714455956 9782714455956

‎Susan Brierley; Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board 1985‎

‎The Story of Mansion House New Zealand‎

‎Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board 1985 1/1/1985. Paperback. Very Good. NICE CONDITION LARGE OBLONG SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board 1985 paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : SKU-95331 ISBN : 0477061249 9780477061247

‎Suwaydi, Muhammad Amin.‎

‎Hadha kitab Saba'ik al-dhahab fi ma'rifat qaba'il al-'Arab [The book of gold bars: the knowledge of Arab tribes]. Baghdad, dar al-tiba'ah, dar al-salam, [1864 CE] = 1280 H.‎

‎4to (235 x 325 mm). (1), 118 pp. Lithographed throughout; pp. 8-97 comprise a continuous genealogical tree. Contemporary plain black cloth-covered boards with black sheepskin spine. First edition: a rare and important work on the genealogy of the Arab tribes, also an early, graphically sophisticated lithographic effort from the Arab World. The "Book of Gold Bars" by the prominent Iraqi theologian and historian Suwaydi (1786-1831) is a revised and expanded interpretation of the "Dictionary of the Arab Genealogy" by the legendary Medieval Egyptian scholar Ahmad ibn Ali Qalqashandi; notably, Suwaydi continued the genealogical profile up to modern times. The book seeks to trace the genealogy of the Arab peoples, and the branches of their tribes, from Biblical times up to the age of Muhammad and then to the modern era. The introductory text (pp. 1-7) is followed by the grand, 90-page genealogical table and ultimately by an alphabetical reference section and analytical section (pp. 98-118). - Suwaydi is thought to have commenced preparation of the work as early as 1814, although he did not complete the treatise until 1830 or 1831, shortly before his death. Highly regarded in its time, for some years a small number of manuscript copies circulated in Islamic academic circles. The present publication represents the first printed edition of the work. The second edition was published in Bombay in 1877 (and is likewise rare), while several subsequent editions appeared during the 20th century. - Covers slightly stained. Last 3 leaves with light tide-marking to outer margins and some sporadic light stains elsewhere, but overall in a good clean condition, a few leaves with short marginal tears some closed with discreet old restoration. Very rare: we can trace only six institutional examples (British Library; University of Cambridge; Bibliothèque de Genève; Yale University Library; University of California at Berkeley; National Library of Israel). No examples have appeared on the market over the last generation. OCLC 708712572 & 32728624. British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa 14548.c.5. Yale University Library: CS1129.A2 S8 1864. On early lithography in Iraq, cf. A. Al-Rawi, Media Practice in Iraq (2012), passim.‎

‎Suyuti, Jalal al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr al-.‎

‎Kitab al-Muz'hir fi'ulum al-lughah wa-anwa'iha. Bulaq, al-Matba'ah al-kubra al-saniyah, [1865 CE =] 1282 H.‎

‎8vo (166 x 234 mm). 2 parts in one volume. 8, 4, 299, (1) pp. 10, 7, (1), 272 pp. Contemporary full red morocco with fore-edge flap, covers with blind rules and stamped oriental ornaments in central compartment. First printing of "Al-Muzhir", an encyclopedic work on Arabic linguistics and its various disciplines, compiled from earlier philologists by the prominent Egyptian scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505). It counts as a significant contribution to the study of Arabic linguistics. Al-Suyuti was an enormously prolific polymath whose "versatility stands out as unique in the history of Arabic literature" (GAL II, 144). - Binding a little rubbed, one corner bumped. Light fore-edge flaws to the preliminary matter of the first juz' (part); old pencilled and typed bibliographical notes to front pastedown. A very good copy. GAL II, p. 155, no. 258. OCLC 20066914.‎

‎Sverdlov, Rafael.‎

‎Ha-Levanon: tsiyure masa. [Lebanon: Travel Sketches]. Tel-Aviv, 1930.‎

‎Small 4to (125 x 175 mm). 67, (5) pp. Original printed wrappers. A description of travels throughout Lebanon, written in Hebrew and including a map of the region labeled in Hebrew as well as numerous half-tone illustrations from photographs. Rafael Sverdlov (b. 1885) was a geography teacher at schools in Tel Aviv, and as both resident and teacher had both a personal and professional understanding of the landscapes of the area. The in-text illustrations show Roman-era ruins, rivers, and tree plantations. - A touch of wear, otherwise quite well preserved. OCLC 19179078.‎

‎SWEDEN / GOLF‎

‎Holiday Magazine. July 1946.‎

‎Philadelphia.: Curtis Publishing. Vol 1 No. 5. 07- 1946. July 1946 complete issue of the magazine in wrappers as issued profusely illustrated in color and black and white 120 pages 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches 35x27cm. Slight curl to bottom edge from storage; light wear to extremities overall very good condition. This issue includes a photographic cartograph of American butterflies and a women's piece boldly promoting the wearing of shorts "Wearing them is not a matter of courage but of good common sense". Other articles include: "Dudes in the Rockies" "Sweden Spreads the Carpet" "Manhattan Frontier" "Weep No More You Duffers" golf Gloucester Harbor shell collecting and many more. Extensive period advertising includes ads for Cadillac Greyhound and Studebaker. This item requires extra shipping charges for priority mail within the US and for orders sent outside the US. For overseas orders this is approximately $15 additional. Non-priority mail within the US does NOT incur an extra charge. Please contact us for a quote. . Curtis Publishing. unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 44610

‎Swofford Anthony‎

‎Jarhead A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles‎

‎New York: Scribner 2005. Trade paperback. First edition first printing thus with number line intact. A clean bright square copy with no spine crease no previous owner's name no writing or marking etc. Very good. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Scribner Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 004980 ISBN : 0743287215 9780743287210

‎Swofford Anthony AUTOGRAPHED‎

‎Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles‎

‎NY: Scribner 2003. 5th printing. VG/VG dust jacket bottom corners bumped. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 10 261 p. 8vo; Scribner hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 63889 ISBN : 0743235355 9780743235358

‎Sébah, P[ascal] / Beato, [Antoine] et al.‎

‎Photograph album. Egypt and Italy, mid-1870s.‎

‎Large folio (ca 35 x 47 cm). An album of 87 albumen photographs, mostly ca 36 x 26 cm to 26 x 20 cm, of which 17 show Egyptian locations. Mounted on cardboard leaves, bound in heavy, relief-stamped full calf. White moirée endpapers. All edges gilt. Among the Egyptian images (mostly unsigned, but several by Pascal Sébah and another by Antoine Beato) are a plan of the Suez Canal (with several inset images), Pompey's Column, the obelisk now known as "Cleopatra's Needle" (in New York City's Central Park), the Heliopolis Obelisk, the ruins of the ancient town of Hermonthis (Armant), the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, a palm grove near Giza, groups of Arab men and women, street scenes, a panoramic view of Cairo, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, etc. Loosely inserted are a large (19 x 28 cm) portrait of an Arab warrior in Bedouin costume and a composite photo of eight portraits of Arab men and women in various types of local costume, with a handwritten note by the owner: "Bought at Port Said July 1876". The remainder of the photos of this fine souvenir album shows views and sights in Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Salerno, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, and Pisa. - Binding rubbed and bumped, but a well-preserved set.‎

‎Tairaz Jean-Pierre‎

‎Golf, mode d'emploi‎

‎E/P/A Broché 2010 In-4 (20*25 cm.), 159 pages, couverture à rabats décorée d'un golfeur en relief, mode d'emploi, nombreux dessins d'illustrations des postures de golf, par Jean-Pierre Tairaz, professeur à Paris au Golf de St Cloud ; quelques incidents sur la couverture, intérieur très frais, bel état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : gr536

‎Tallis, John.‎

‎Arabia. London, Rogers, 1851.‎

‎Hand-coloured engraved map (355 x 263 mm). Gorgeous full color example of Tallis's map of Arabia. Includes decorative vignettes showing Mount Sinai, Arabs, Camel and Arab Women. Engraved for R. Montgomery Martin's Illustrated Atlas. Tallis was one of the last great decorative map makers. His maps are prized for the wonderful vignettes of indigenous scenes, people, etc. Al-Qasimi 261. Not in Tibbets and Al Ankary.‎

‎Tamani, Hüseyn Rifqi.‎

‎Imtihan ul-mühendisin. Üsküdar (Istanbul), Mühendishane Matbaasi (Dar üt-tibaat ül-amire), [1802 CE] = 1217 H.‎

‎Small 4to (140 x 188 mm). 115, (1) pp. With 7 lithographed folding plates. Contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and edges. First edition of this Ottoman Turkish treatise on geometry, published by the Imperial Engineering School in Scutari (Istanbul): the official examination coursebook for the engineers of Sultan Sultan Selim III. Contains 88 problems with their practical applications and solutions; the folding plates at the end of the volume boast a total of 180 diagrams. Published just before the famous "Cedid Atlas", by the same press, and re-issued in 1844. - Binding rubbed, extremeties bumped, paper a little stained in places, but generally very good. OCLC lists only two copies, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Özege 9109. OCLC 255316387.‎

‎Tannous, Afif.‎

‎The Arab Village Community of the Middle East. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1944.‎

‎8vo. II, (523)-543, (1) pp. With 14 pages of black and white plates after photographs. Original printed wrappers, stapled. A highly detailed Smithsonian report illustrating daily life in 1940s Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, profusely illustrated from photographs of buildings, markets, and rural life. The text is produced from an excerpt of the Smithsonian Report for 1943 and retains its pagination. Smithsonian reports, given annually to the institution's board of regents, cover a wide array of topics relating to the operations and expenditure of the institute; as a cultural institution and museum, they often went into detail regarding underlying social and economic structures when describing communities. Here, village life is illustrated via carefully described examples. Land ownership, inheritance, and family traditions are examined in economic, social, and cultural terms, along with relevant vocabulary (i.e., the four different terms for owned or leased property, or the worst insult one could level at a family). Much space is given to farming techniques and staple cereal crops (in order, wheat, barley, maize, dura, and rice) and to the central and unifying role of Islam in economic and cultural life. In the final years of WWII, American and other Western governments and institutions were increasingly interested in both the present and the future of countries like Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. - Binding a touch delicate, otherwise in good condition. OCLC 1424819.‎