‎Middle east‎

‎HOUSMAN (Laurence).‎

‎Stories from the Arabian Nights.‎

‎London HODDER AND STOUGHTON PUBLISHER 1907 1 Retold by Laurence Housman. With drawings by Edmond DULAC. London, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1907, demi-maroquin bleu pétrole à coins, dos estampé à trois nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin caramel, plats toilés bleu, tranches dorées, xvi pp. dont titre et frontispice, 134 pages de texte, 49 feuillets d'illustrations contrecollées en couleurs.‎

‎Bien complet des 50 feuillets d'illustration. Contient six contes des Mille et Une Nuits. Les Mille et Une Nuits est un recueil de contes initiatiques, destinés à l'origine à l'éducation des souverains en Perse. Autour du récit-cadre qui reste stable (l'histoire de Shéhérazade) le texte est enrichi de nombreuses variantes depuis le VIIIe siècle. Il est traduit en anglais à la fin du XIXe, et très tôt illustré. Edmond DULAC (1882-1953) se forme aux Beaux-arts de Toulouse dirigés par Jean-Paul LAURENS ses débuts difficiles dans la peinture l'amènent à se tourner vers l'illustration et à partir pour l'Angleterre en 1905. Il obtient la nationalité britannique en 1912. Son travail sur les soeurs BRONTE lui vaut un contrat avec la Leicester Gallery de Londres qui lui commandent des illustrations pour Les Mille et Unes Nuits : les éditeurs Hodder & Stoughton lui font signer un contrat d'exclusivité. Stories of the Arabian Nights est la première collaboration de DULAC et HODDER & STOUGHTON, qui a lancé sa carrière. La reliure d'époque présente un dos un peu insolé et une petite tache claire sur la couverture.‎

Bookseller reference : 15668

‎HOVANNISIAN (Richard) [Ed.]‎

‎The armenian genocide. Cultural and ethical legacy.‎

‎New Brunswick, Transaction Publ., 2007. In-8 broché, XII-449 pp., ill., index.‎

‎Etat de neuf. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 555621

‎HOWARD ROGER‎

‎The Oil Hunters: Exploration And Espionage In The Middle East 1880-1939‎

‎Hambledon Continuum London / New York: 2008. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The fascinating stories of the explorers spies and entrepreneurs who led the hunt for oil in the Middle East from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World War. The Middle East had long been awash with rumors and legends of oil rumors that gradually seeped into Western Europe. The Greek historian Herodotus had once described the existence of "oil-pits" in Mesopotamia while Jebel Zeit a mountain on the west coast of the Gulf of Suez was known by the ancients as Mons Petroleus. However the discovery that kerosene could be extracted from crude oil and used as fuel for light and heat in the late nineteenth century shifted the hunt for oil into high gear particularly in the Middle East. Against the backdrop of British and Russian � and increasingly American � maneuverings for dominance in the region Roger Howard explores the history of oil exploration in anecdotal style and with a lively pace. He brings to life forgotten figures such as Frank Holmes revered by the Arabs as Abu Naft the "Father of Oil" and Harry St. John Philby father of the famous British double agent Kim Philby as well as figures from the world stage such as Julius de Reuter founder of Reuters News Agency the Armenian oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian and Chicago-born entrepreneur Charles R. Crane. Throughout the twentieth century the demand for petroleum increased and it eventually became one of the most valuable commodities traded in the world market. The Oil Hunters illustrates how today's oil giants emerged in Persia but also Iraq Mesopotamia Kuwait Saudi Arabia and Egypt. British Petroleum for example was originally the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Considered by many to be one of the most important events of twentieth century history the discovery of Persian oil in 1908 is related here as a vivid adventure story of exploration and exploitation peopled by eccentrics adventurers and magnates. Roger Howard is a writer and broadcaster specialising in the Middle East. His most recent publication is Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America 2006. Includes an Index. ISBN: 184725232X. Hambledon Continuum, London / New York: 2008 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 41520X3 ISBN : 184725232X 9781847252326

‎Hoy Claire and Victor Ostrovsky‎

‎By Way of Deception A Devastating Insider's Portrait of the Mossad‎

‎Toronto: Stoddart 1990. Hard bound first edition 371pp inc. appendices glossary of terms & index. Small remainder mark bottom edge. Two short tears to top edge of dust jacket else very good in very good dust jacket. 720 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Toronto: Stoddart, 1990 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 24140 ISBN : 0773724605 9780773724600

‎Huart, Clément.‎

‎A History of Arabic Literature. (Short Histories of the Literatures of the World XI.). London, William Heinemann, 1903.‎

‎4to. VII, (1), 478 pp. Giltstamped dark blue cloth with spine title. First edition. - A nice solid copy of this useful reference book by the French orientalist and translator Huart, who spent several years as a student-dragoman for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Damascus, followed by his appointment as Consul in Istanbul, before assuming a position as professor for Persian language at the Paris "École de langues orientales" in 1898. Translated from French by Mary Lloyd. As part of the 15-volume series "Short Histories of the Literatures of the World", edited by the literary historian Edmund Gosse and launched in 1898, it saw 8 reissues up to 1990. - Untrimmed, uncut copy. - A little fraying and scuffing to edges but remains a firm, clean copy.‎

‎Hudson Michael C‎

‎Arab Politics: The Search For Legitimacy‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1977. Map. Dj. A few pencil marks in margins. xi 434 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3906

‎Hudson Michael C‎

‎Arab Politics: The Search For Legitimacy‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1977. Map. Dj. xi 434 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4611

‎HUGH GODDARD.‎

‎Ortaçagdan günümüze hiristiyan müslüman iliskileri tarihi.‎

‎New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 312 p. Ortaçagdan günümüze hiristiyan müslüman iliskileri tarihi. Turkish edition of 'A history of christian-muslim relations' by Goddard.‎

‎Hughes Hugh Price.‎

‎The Morning Lands of History: A Visit to Greece Palestine and Egypt.‎

‎London Marshall 1901. Octavo. Pp. xii 340. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Plus folding colour lithograph map tipped-in at rear and a number of halftone illustrations printed on different paper bound in. Hardcover original red cloth spine gilt; cloth faded spine bit chipped at ends. Bit shabby but in good condition. ~ First edition. London, Marshall, 1901. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1940

‎Hughes, T[homas] P[atrick] (ed.).‎

‎[Ketab-e ganj-e pasto]. The Kalid-i-Afghani, being selections of Pushto prose and poetry for the use of students. Peshawar, Panjab Educational Press Lahore, 1872.‎

‎Large 4to (240 x 292 mm). (6), III, (3), 418, 4 pp. Contemporary Western quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt with title. First edition. - A reader issued to supply the "English Student of the Pushto (or Pukhto) language [with] some work written in the colloquial", published "under the sanction and patronage of the Government of the Panjáb" (preface). It became the official text book for the Pashto Examination. The editor Hughes served as a missionary in Peshawar (1865-84) with the Church Missionary Society. - In lithographed Pashto throughout save for the preliminary English letterpress matter. Binding rather rubbed and scuffed, spine and extremities professionally repaired; three leaves remargined at the lower edge (not affecting text). A few small wormholes. Contemporary pencil annotations to the text and endleaves. McLachlan, Bibliography Of Afghanistan, no. 6883. OCLC 5111396.‎

‎HULÛSI SIDAL.‎

‎Yakin Sarkta ekonomik isbirligi (Türkiye - Irak gümrük birligi ve Yakin Sark Federasyonu).‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 211 p. Yakin Sarkta ekonomik isbirligi (Türkiye - Irak gümrük birligi ve Yakin Sark Federasyonu).‎

‎Hume Professor Edgar Erskine‎

‎Medical Works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem‎

‎Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine corners a little bumped. Previous owner's stamp and written name on front free end paper. Light foxing on page fore edges and first few pages light shelf soil bottom page edges. ; A tight solid book gilt titles on spine. B&W illustrations throughout hinges intact. Tissue guard still on frontispiece. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.84 X 7.87 X 0.59 inches; 371 pages; "The Hospitallers arose in the early 12th century at the time of the great monastic reformation as a group of individuals associated with an Amalfitan hospital in the Muristan district of Jerusalem dedicated to John the Baptist and founded around 1023 by Gerard Thom to provide care for sick poor or injured pilgrims coming to the Holy Land. After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade the organisation became a religious and military order under its own Papal charter charged with the care and defence of the Holy Land. Following the conquest of the Holy Land by Islamic forces the knights operated from Rhodes over which they were sovereign and later from Malta where they administered a vassal state under the Spanish viceroy of Sicily." Wikipedia Despite their stated goals they were the subject of much controversy during the Crusades and medieval era. . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 18365

‎Hunt, G[eorge] H[enry].‎

‎Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign. London, (Cox & Wyman for) Routledge & Co., 1858.‎

‎8vo. VIII, 352 pp. Frontispiece and 7 tinted lithograph plates after Picken and Walker. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine. First edition. - An account of the Anglo-Persian War in the year 1857. The author, who had participated as captain in the 78th Highlanders, died from the cholera while the book was under the press. To his narrative, the editor George Townsend has prefixed "a summary of Persian history, an account of various differences between England and Persia, and an inquiry into the origin of the late war". - Cloth a little rubbed; some foxing to frontispiece. Contemporary handwritten ownership to flyleaf; later bookplates. Rare. A Persian translation ("Gang-i Inglis wa Iran dar sal-i 1273 higri-i qamari") appeared in 1984. Wilson 102.‎

‎Hunt, Thomas.‎

‎De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, in schola linguarum, VII kalend. Augusti, MDCCXXVIII. Oxford, Sheldon for Richard Clements, 1739.‎

‎4to. (2), 56, (2) pp. With engr. printer's device on t. p. Disbound. University oration on the Arabic language, its age, beauty, and usefulness, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747. - Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Trimmed rather closely. Some foxing near beginning and end; t. p. shows punched library ownership ("Philadelphia Divinity School") and shelfmarks. Schnurrer 12. OCLC 27855095.‎

‎Hunter, F[rederick] F[raser].‎

‎Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Calcutta, Survey of India Offices, 1908/1910.‎

‎Folding map of Arabia (180 x 135 cm), coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on cloth (24 sections). The exceptionally rare first independently issued edition of this famous, meticulously prepared map of Arabia and the Gulf. The "Hunter map" is an enormous, wall-size chart showing an astounding degree of detail. The "Gulf portion being largely based on actual surveys can be considered fairly accurate. [...] Kuwait (except that portion based upon actual surveys) Hasa, Jabal Shammar, Qasim, 'Aridh, Oman, Hadhramaut are the result of exhaustive use of detail supplied by travellers supplemented by months and months of enquiry by local Political Officers. The map of these portions can certainly claim superiority over any previous work of the kind" (Notes on the Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf [...] compiled by Capt. F. Fraser-Hunter 1905-1908 [Calcutta, 1910], p. 1). - The Canadian-born Hunter later became a major figure in British India's Intelligence Service. As the author recalled in his 1919 "Reminiscences", "a great deal of the information on the map was from sources considered secret at the time" (p. 357). Special surveys of the country's interior areas were carried out to achieve a hitherto unprecedented degree of accuracy: "The map was a distinct advance on anything which existed, as in 1908 no general map of Arabia on such a large scale existed" (p. 360). - Hunter's map was first issued in a very limited press-run to accompany John G. Lorimer's "Gazetteer of the Gulf" (1908); at that time it still bore the title, "Map of the Persian Gulf, 'Oman, and Central Arabia". It was subsequently used (and praised) by St John Philby during his journey across Arabia. Indeed, reliable topographical information was an invaluable asset not least to the local Sheikhdoms in their territorial disputes during this politically volatile age: Hunter recounts that on one occasion, the Sheikh of Umm-al-Qaiwan went so far as to torture his relative, the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, into signing away his right to strategically important islands in the Arabian Gulf, a stratagem foiled only by the happy intervention of the British Political Resident. - Stamp of the University Library of Nijmegen on the cloth backing. A very few minute traces of worming, otherwise in fine, spotless condition. Never seen in the trade: the only two copies of this map in auction records were both of the 1914 issue (Christie's, 2012, and Sotheby's, 2013). Not in Al Ankary or Al-Qasimi.‎

‎Hunter, Frederic Fraser (ed.) / Burrard, Sir Sidney Gerald (director).‎

‎Southern Asia series - Southern Persia sheet - Persia, Arabia and Turkey in Asia. [Dehra Dun, Survey of India Office], sold at the Map Record and Issue Office, Calcutta, 1912.‎

‎615 x 880 mm, on a scale of 1:2,000,000. Large heliozincographed folding map in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints. Folded. Large detailed terrain map of the Arabian Gulf and the surrounding area with a legend of geographic denominations in English, Arabic, and Farsi, such as "Fort: Qasr (Arabic), Kaleh, Kalat (Persian)". The map shows terrain levels in particular detail and the major roads, railways and telegraph lines. The sheet latitude limits are: 24°-32° north and 44°-60° south, including Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. - The map was published in 1912 by the India Survey Office under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard (1860-1953), who was Colonel and Surveyor General of India in that year. He was majorly invested in the geographical and cartographic survey of India, especially the Himalayas, and retired one year after the publication of the present map. The map is based on Frederic Fraser Hunter's (1876-1959) first large scale general map of Arabia for the India Survey Office in 1906-08. Hunter was also involved as editor in the creation of the present Southern Persia map. As the Southern Persia sheet the present map is part of a very large nine-sheet combined map covering the area from the Red Sea to India, called the "Survey of India Southern Asia Series" (1912-45). The present map and a separately published index could be obtained only on application through an officer at the Map Record and Issue Office in Calcutta. - Some slight foxing, a tiny tear on the crossing of two folds, bottom edge frayed. Otherwise in good condition. D. Foliard, Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula. In: Geographies of Contact (2019), pp. 71-76. F. F. Hunter, Reminiscences of the Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, in: GJ 54 (1919), pp. 355-363.‎

‎HUOT Jean-Louis‎

‎"Les Sumériens; entre le Tigre et l'Euphrate."‎

‎Paris, Armand Colin, 1989. 15 x 23, 259 pp., nombreuses illustrations en N/B et en couleurs, quelques cartes, broché, très bon état.‎

Bookseller reference : 102.960

‎Hurewitz J. C. editor‎

‎Soviet-American Rivalry in the Middle East‎

‎New York: The Academy of Political Science Columbia University 1969. Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science Volume XXIX Number 3. Bibliography. Index. vi 250 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: The Academy of Political Science Columbia University, (1969) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 7792

‎Hurewitz, J[acob] C[oleman] (ed.).‎

‎Documents of Near East Diplomatic History. New York, Near and Middle East Studies, School of International Affairs, Columbia University, 1951.‎

‎4to. XV, 332 pp. Published as a typescript printed on one side. Original cloth. An invaluable collection of primary source documents, mostly in English (a few in French), related to international relations and the Middle East. The volume is composed as an aid to students at Columbia University, using documents available from that library only, covering nearly every nation in the Middle East and their relations with European nations. Topics include the texts of commercial and territorial treaties (including regarding the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits), Napoleon's proclamation to the Egyptians, territorial negotiations, proclamations of goodwill and protection of foreign merchants, the Suez Canal concession, regulations for colonies in the region, the Baghdad railroad, the mandate for Palestine, World War I and World War II regional restructuring discussions, etc. Most documents are from the 19th and 20th centuries, with the earliest being "Capitulation with France of February 1535", and the most recent, "Nationalization of the Oil Industry in Iran, 2-30 May 1951." A brief commentary is provided before each document describing context and significance. These papers represent an enormously important work for scholars, students, historians and diplomats, bringing together, as they do, such core reference material. In 1956, Hurewitz would expand this collection to the two-volume publication "Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East: a documentary record". - J. C. Hurewitz (1914-2008) did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual decision to concentrate on the Middle East. He worked for the Near East section of the OSS during World War II, then worked successively at the State Department, as a political adviser on Palestine to the President’s cabinet and for the UN secretariat. As a Professor, Hurewitz began studying Middle Eastern politics in 1950, before the field had emerged as an academic discipline. From 1970 until his retirement in 1984, he was director of Columbia's Middle East Institute. - Handwritten ownership (dated Washington, October 1952) on half-title; later in the collection of the professor of oriental studies and Brandeis librarian Miroslav Krek (1924-2014), with his ownership stamp on the reverse. OCLC 5749457.‎

‎Hussain Iftekhar Bano‎

‎Prophets in the Quran : Volume 1 -‎

‎Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd 1994. PB/pub. 1994/Gd. condition/122 pages - The Early Prophets. TA35709z. Soft Cover. Good. Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 5709z ISBN : 1897940211 9781897940211

‎Hussein Madame Ahmed‎

‎Women in the Moslem World‎

‎Washington D. C.: Egyptian Embassy 1954. 29pp. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Egyptian Embassy Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 047485

‎Hussein, Saddam.‎

‎[On the Revolution and Women. Second edition]. Baghdad, [Revolution Publications, 1979].‎

‎12mo. 85, (3) pp. Original wrappers with lettering. A rare pamphlet in Arabic, containing Saddam Hussein's speech on the role of women in revolutions. The speech was given in 1977, two years before Saddam formally came to power in 1979. The pamphlet was reprinted in the year of his election. With this speech Saddam touched the problem of women's liberation vs. strong local traditional values in the time of the Arab national struggle. In the 1970s Iraqi women had free access to the education, voting rights, could own property and were encouraged to pursue posts in high positions, but during the following decades the importance of the traditional patriarchal family started undermining these rights. - Wrappers slightly stained and with soft folds, old signature on the top of the title-page, otherwise in good condition. Rare; we could not find any institutional examples.‎

‎Hutchinson E. H.‎

‎Violent Truce: A Military Observer Looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1951-1955‎

‎New York: The Devin-Adair Company 1958. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black vaguely leather-textured boards pale blue-grey cloth spine with red titles xxvi 199 pp 4 ff b & w photo plates 4 maps. Owner's name and gift inscription on ffep. DJ spine faded 1� cm chip to tail of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Publisher's survey postcard laid in. Author was a U. S. Naval officer assigned as a military observer. Three of his fellow military observers Vagn Bennike W. T. McAninch and John R. DeBarr have provided forewards to Commander Hutchinson's book. Shipping weight 2 lbs. International 1 lb. 8 oz. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 20� X 14 cm. The Devin-Adair Company Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : HIME00016

‎HUXLEY Julian -‎

‎Misteri di una terra antica.‎

‎Milano, Mondadori, 1955, 8vo tutta tela , pp. 388 con 46 ill. in nero e col. f.t.‎

‎Huyette Summer Scott‎

‎Political Adaptation in Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Council of Ministers‎

‎Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1985. Scholarly text examines the evolution of the Sa'udi government from 1901 to 1983 a period of major social and political transformation and the ways in which a traditional elite the Al Sa'ud has managed to surmount the formidable obstacles of tribal and regional differences compounded by rapid modernization. The Council of Ministers formed in 1953 is one method developed by the Sa'udis to cope with these problems and represented the first step toward a national administrative system. Dr. Huyette traces the Council's antecedents as well as the changes in its membership procedures and responsibilities and the concomitant changes in the political elite and its style of leadership. 201 pp. Publisher's stampon the half title page. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : MS-41 ISBN : 081330203x 9780813302034