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[Iraq Oil Exploration]. - Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) / Mesopotamia Petroleum Company (MPC).
Joint Venture Agreement. Baghdad, 26. II. 2009.
Folio (212 x 298 mm). 25 ff. Contemporary brown leatherette binding with giltstamped cover-title. The original Joint Venture Agreement between the state-owned Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) and the Mesopotamia Petroleum Company (MPC), with the autograph signatures of Idriss Muhsen Al-Yassiri, General Director of IDC, Stephen Remp, Director of MPC and its associate Ramco Energy, and Peter Redman, Director of Midmar Energy and Firstdrill, other associate companies of MPC. - This joint venture, known as the Iraqi Oil Services Company LLC (IOSCO), was created with the objective of drilling 60 new wells each year in the Republic of Iraq, thus significantly increasing oil and gas production. This groundbreaking deal was the first joint venture of its kind between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and a foreign oil company since the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. On 7 July 2009, IDC terminated the agreement after MPC failed to fulfil financial obligations. MPC was unable to confirm funding of $44.1 million to meet the initial capital commitments to preserve its 49 percent stake in the venture. - Handwritten addition by Stephen Remp on fol. 4 specifying the territory of the joint venture: "(i.e. Missan Province or any other Provinces to be mutually agreed by The Parties.) [...]". - In mint condition.
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[Iraq. - Warren, Christopher (attrib.)].
A collection of photographs, taken by a British Intelligence Officer in Iraq. [Iraq, but some printed in London, ca. 1930s].
36 vintage small format silver gelatin photographs, plus a photographic postcard of Faisal II as a boy. A small collection of highly accomplished amateur photos of inter-war Iraq. With a handful of exceptions, the photographs show the local population, often children, recorded with a sensitive and sympathetic eye. - Though there is no material evidence to support the attribution, they came from a collection of similar material said to belong to Christopher Warren, who worked as an Intelligence Officer in Iraq, Lebanon and Kuwait in the 1930s. Other photographs, offered for sale at the same time as these, show that he was active in those locations and was, at one point, based at Dar Al Qamar (Moon House), Karradat Mariam, Baghdad. - The many intimate and beautiful portraits would suggest the photographer spoke Arabic and understood enough about his subjects to foment the mutual comfort necessary for such candid images. Several show young people from both the city and the countryside: the sons of shop-owners at ease in the hustle and bustle of Baghdad and children gathering crops, hunting and playing reed flutes in the open expanse of the desert. Some, such as the portrait of a suited young man in a local boat, potentially imply a professional relationship. Viewed together, the images express a peacefulness far removed from the tensions of the interwar period, in which protests against British influence were common, even after the independence of the country in 1932. Only a photographic postcard, present with the images, reminds one of the broader historical context: a portrait of Faisal II, still a child but standing upright in military dress. - All photographs clearly removed from an album, with residual scraps of brown album paper to versos.
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[Iraq].
42 lithographic WWII maps. [UK Government], Survey Directorate HQ Tenth Army / Indian Field Survey Co., 1942.
42 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:100,000 and 1:253,440 (a quarter-inch to a mile). 680 x 505 mm and 600 x 470 mm. An impressive collection of Iraq maps compiled from the most current aerial photography and produced by the British Army for use in the Persian war theatre. Includes 'Ain Sifni, Aqra, Tel Afar, Salman Pak, Ba'Quba, Sumaika, Penjwin, Halabja, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Dulaim, Erbil and Mosul divisions. - Previously folded. Generally well-preserved.
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[Iraq].
Collection of photographs. Iraq, 1920s-1940s.
44 albumen prints and 1 picture postcard. Various sizes (58 x 85 mm - 160 x 212 mm). Inserted in protective sleeves. Stored in a black calf binder. A substantial collection of rare images of Kings Faisal I and Faisal II of Iraq, showing the monarchs greeting international delegations, attending banquets and meetings, or inspecting the troops. Includes a photograph of the Arab delegation in the Blue House Hotel during a finance conference in 1944. - In addition, the set includes a portrait of Iraqi president Abdul Salam Arif. The postcard shows a group picture including the Ottoman Pasha and Mohamed Al Sheheri around 1925, after the Arab Revolt. - Finally, three small photographs of a group of white-dressed girls dancing also form part of this collection. - Many photos with stamps of the corresponding studio on verso; the bulk prepared by Elias Jamoua, several other photos produced by A. Abbosh and Arshak in Baghdad. - Some pictures with Arabic or English captions. Not traced in the Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives. Very well preserved.
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[Iraq].
Four postcards. Basra, Kerim / Raphael Tuck & Sons, ca. 1900s.
4 picture postcards. A collection of vintage postcards showing the Ordnance Depot, Basra; the Mouth of the Ashar Creek, Basra; Qashla (Ashar Barracks) Basra; and View, Right Bank, Shatt-El-Arab. - All evenly browned a little; some foxing to view of the Ordnance Depot. The view of Ashar Creek is pre-printed with "Christmas Greetings and all Good Wishes for a Happy New Year".
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[Iraqi coup d'état].
[The Trial of al-Istrabadi]. Baghdad, Abdul Karim Zahid / Dar as-Salam Press, [ca. 1958].
8vo. 64 pp. With 9 black and white half-tone photographic illustrations. Original light red wrappers, staple-bound. First edition. - A scarce ephemeron of the 14 July Revolution, which overthrew the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq that had been established by King Faisal in 1921 under the auspices of the British. The Istrabadi family were part of the Iraqi ruling class prior to the 1958 coup and unsuccessfully attempted to deliver the then Prime Minister Nuri al-Said to safety; Bibiya al-Istrabadi was killed in the attempt, while trying to exit Baghdad. - Wrappers sunned and a little dust-soiled, extremities worn. Upper corner of title-page clipped; old ink ownership. A good copy. Not in OCLC.
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[Isfahan].
Noticia certa de hum grande caso, succedido na cidade de Ispaham no reyno da Persia a que se ajunta a descripçam geografica do mesmo reyno & c. Lisbon, [publisher not identified], 1758.
4to. 8 pp. Sewn. Rare 1758 Portuguese account of the city of Isfahan, formerly the capital of Persia, published during the uneasy period in Iranian history between the end of Nader Shah's reign and the rise of the Qajar dynasty, more than a century after the Portuguese had withdrawn from the Gulf. WorldCat lists copies in Harvard, Ann Arbor, Princeton, British Library, Cambridge Univ., and Tübingen. - Well-preserved. Floor/Hakimzadeh, Acta Iranica, p. 32. OCLC 22325642.
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[Islamic Holy Sites].
Islamic Holy Sites. No place or date, first third of 20th century.
255 x 364 mm. Colour print. Showing several holy Islamic pilgrim sites in Saudi Arabia. The Baitullah Sharif in Mecca in the centre of the print is surrounded by eight illustrations, including Mount Arafat, Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, the mosque of Ta'if, and the cemeteries Jannatul Mualla and Al-Baqi'. The outer part of the oval shows by 24 illustrations of landscapes and architecture near Mecca (Jabal al-Nour, Muzdalifa, etc.). The corners are filled in with calligraphy. - Some chipping; edges professionally repaired. Cf. Murat Kargili, The Holy Journey. The Hajj Route through Postcards, Istanbul 2014, p. 277.
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[Islamic World]. El-Menoufi, Abul Faid (ed.).
The Islamic World - Le Monde Islamique - Al-'Alam Al-Islami. (A Monthly Magazine of Islamic Studies). Cairo, [1949-1951 CE =] 1369-1371 H.
3 volumes (Moharam 1369, Alqueda 1370, Moharam 1371). 32, 18 pp. 26, (2) pp. 26, (2) pp. Illustrated coloured printed wrappers. Staple-bound. Three rare issues of the Egyptian monthly "The Islamic World", published by the Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Abul Faid El Menoufi (1882-1972) in Arabic as well as (for features in the early issues) in English and French. El-Menoufi founded several Sufi-leaning Islamic periodicals through which he campaigned against the British occupation of Egypt. - The three issues at hand contain, inter alia: 1) Moharam 1369 (October 1949): an article in Arabic with statistics for the 1369 pilgrimage, articles in English ("Medina and the Mosque of the Prophet") and French ("Introduction au Livre de l'Existence"). - 2) Alqueda 1370 (August 1951): an illustrated article in Arabic about the pilgrimage of the late Muhammad Labib al-Battanuni in the year 1327 (1909), described in his book "Al-Rihlat al-Hijaziyya". - 3) Moharam 1371 (October 1951): an article in Arabic on the performance of the 'Umrah and Hajj pilgrimages, with a paragraph on the visit to Mecca by King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud for the performance of an 'Umrah and the return of Prince Faisal from his official visit to London. - Some fraying to wrappers; old rust stains from staples. A well-preserved ensemble of a very rare periodical. OCLC 459477009.
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[Israel Defense Forces].
Ha’Mizrach Ha-Tichon (The Middle East) Ha’Liga Ha’Aravit (The Arab League). Kfar Monash, IDF Cultural Service, 1949.
667 x 580 mm. Scale 1:7,500,000. A large folding map of the Middle East, with the states of the Arab League indicated in red and the Hashemite states shown in green. - Rare; a single copy known in the National Library of Israel as part of the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection.
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[Israel Defense Forces].
Ma’Rechet Sinai “Mivza Kadesh” (The Sinai War "Operation Kadesh"). Tel Aviv, Hotsa'at Matkal, Ketsin hinukh rashi, 'Anaf hasbarah, 1957.
4to. 3-36, (2) pp. With 1 folding map of the Sinai Peninsula (450 x 692 mm) in rear pocket. Original printed wrappers. Rare contemporary account of the 1956 Israeli "Operation Kadesh" in Sinai during the Suez Crisis, under the chief of staff of the IDF, Moshe Dayan, in Hebrew. Israeli military planning for this operation hinged on control of four main military objectives: Sharm el-Sheikh, Arish, Abu Uwayulah (Abu Ageila), and the Gaza Strip. Moshe Dayan's plan put an emphasis on air power combined with mobile battles of encirclement. Israeli forces would in a series of swift operations encircle and then take the main Egyptian strong points in the Sinai. Reflecting this emphasis on encirclement was the "outside-in" approach of "Kadesh", which called for Israeli paratroopers to seize distant points first, with those closer to Israel to be seized later. Thus, the 202nd Paratroop Brigade commanded by Colonel Ariel Sharon was to land in the far-western part of the Sinai to take the Mitla Pass and thereby cut off the Egyptian forces in the eastern Sinai from their supply lines. The map shows the main troop movements on the peninsula, highlighting military objectives such as Sharm-el-Sheikh as well as the landing points of the Paratroop Brigade. - Only 6 copies worldwide, 4 of which in the United States, and one in the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem. - A little worn at the edges, otherwise very well preserved. OCLC 763138388.
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[Java]. Radermacher, Jacob Cornelis Matthaeus.
Naamlyst der planten, die gevondenworden op het eiland Java. Met de beshryving van eenige nieuwe geslagten en soorten, [...] I-III. Batavia, Egbert Heemen (vols. 1-2) and Pieter van Geemen (vol. 3), 1780-1782.
7 parts in 3 volumes, bound as 1. 4to. 60; 67, [1 blank], 88, 40; [4], 84 (lacking pp. 85-102), 42, [2], 70 pp. Lacking pp. 85-102 in vol. 3. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers covered with paste-paper (calico pattern), with blank paper title-label on front. Rare first and only edition of a catalogue of the plants found on the island of Java, Indonesia. The work was published in three volumes, the first containing descriptions of plants not recorded by Rumphius and Houttuyn and the second and third listing all the plant names in Latin, Dutch and Malay/Javanese, with reference to Linnaeus, the Malay/Javanese set in roman type. The volumes were printed at the presses of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Batavia on the island of Java (now Jakarta, Indonesia). - Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de Radermacher (1741-1783), started as a Dutch merchant in service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and rapidly rose in position in the company. By 1781 Radermacher was named Commissioner for the Fleet and the Army, and Common Council of India. He was one of the founding members of Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen and a proponent of the establishment of the botanical gardens of Buitenzorg. In 1783 he left for Holland because of his health, but was murdered during a mutiny on his way home. - With a tiny tear in the second leaf and a couple of minor spots, otherwise in very good condition and only slightly trimmed, but lacking pp. 85-102 of volume three. Leaves E1-E2 of the same volume are included twice. The spine of the wrappers is tattered and its foot completely gone. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 615. Pritzel 7392. Stafleu & Cowan 8501 (2 copies, both incomplete). STCN (2 copies). WorldCat (3 copies). not in Hunt. Johnston. for the author: NNBW II, cols. 1153-1154.
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[Jazuli, Muhammad ibn Sulaiman, Al-].
Dala'il al-khayrat ("Waymarks of Benefits"). [Eastern Turkestan, now Xinjiang, China, early 17th century CE].
4to (140 x 190 mm). Complete Arabic manuscript on strong Chinese paper. 165 ff. (337 numbered pages), leaf size ca. 132 x 182 mm, written space ca. 82 x 128 mm). 6 lines, per extensum (except 4 lines on pp. 3-4; 11 lines on pp. 11-34). Illustrations of the Kaaba in Mecca and the burial sites of the first three Rashidun Caliphs on pp. 47-48. Text written in "sini" calligraphy typical of Chinese Muslims, in an archaic form oscillating between naskh and muhaqqaq. Black ink, various sections highlighted in red, text within single or double red rules; sporadic notes or corrections on the margins. Contemporary black, red and gold painted and lacquered over paper and cloth. Painted boards show floral designs in black and gold on a red background, all within a black border with red wave designs. With remnants of leather on the brown cloth spine. Extremely rare specimen of the famous Sunni prayerbook "Dala'il al-khayrat": an Arabic manuscript written in what is today Xinjiang, China. - The "Dala'il al-khayrat" ("Waymarks of Benefits" or "Proofs of Good Deeds"), an extensive book of poems in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, was compiled by the Moroccan Sufi scholar Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Jazuli (807-870 H / 1405-1465 CE) and was quickly received throughout the Islamic world, functioning as a kind of Muslim catechism. Al-Jazuli's inspiration for the book is said to have come before he left Fez to spend forty years in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, but he completed it in Fez during the last years of his life. The present manuscript, written in so distant an Islamic community as that of Eastern Turkestan, a territory dominated throughout by Mongols or Chinese, where Muslims were commonly viewed as strangers, gives striking evidence of the range and scope of a tradition lasting for almost six centuries: the utopia of Islam as the Religion of Oneness, aiming to unite all the Muslim peoples in a single community reaching from Europe to the Far East. - The text begins with an introductory praise of Muhammad, followed by the 99 names of Allah (leaves 1-46) and a compilation of eulogies and prayers divided into seven subsequent chapters (each referred to as "juz", or "section"): 1, pp. 46-113; 2, pp. 113-136; 3, pp. 136-181; 4, pp. 181-217; 5, pp. 217-236; 6, pp. 236-256; 7: pp. 256-end. Interestingly, the double page 47/48 does not show Mecca and Medina, as is typical for manuscripts of this text, but rather presents naive illustrations of the "Ka’ba of Allah" (!) and the burial sites of the first three Caliphs. No date in colophon, written in the form of prayer. Leaves 12 to 19, extraneous to the text proper and containing additional prayers and the 99 Names of Allah, are inserted on contemporary Chinese paper. Edges worn; lower corner rounded and fingerstained from long use, but very well legible and altogether well preserved.
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[Jeddah].
Bridge construction. [Jeddah and Mecca, 1960s].
Oblong small folio (258 x 355 mm). Photo album with 56 original silver gelatin prints, 10 picture postcards in colour, and 2 folding greeting cards. 4 photos captioned in Arabic, the remainder in English. Contemporary full calf. Private photo album of a Western engineer involved in bridge construction near Jeddah. The collection includes images of the workers' camp, construction machines, Saudi workers and supervisors, the rising bridge piers, and inspection rounds, as well as pictures of the engineer chatting with Saudi friends or repairing his SC truck. In addition, the set comprises views of Mecca, pilgrim buses and tents, as well as souvenir cards and postcards, suggesting a friend of the collector participated in the Hajj. - One postcard, showing a street view of Mecca, is dated Jeddah, 3 July 1964 (addressed to Silvia Pirani in Bologna). - The 4 photographs with Arabic captions, dated 1375/1955, show a family, including a small boy in formal uniform, before a mosque. - A very well-preserved album documenting the advance of infrastructure in the Saudi Arabian desert.
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[Jerusalem].
No. 2 Jerusalem Panorama. Mount Olivet/Palestine, 1889.
960 x 235 mm. Three albumen prints (vintage), mounted and joined. Fine photographic view of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, assembled from three separate, conjoining images and measuring nearly a metre in length. Various buildings and sites identified by number; dated "1889" in a shaded area at lower right. From the Beirut-based studio of Tancrède Dumas, active during the period 1860-1890, with his stamp at lower left (series no. 523).
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[Jesuit printing in Lebanon].
Kitab as-Salawat muqtatafah min al-kutub ar-ruhiya. Beirut, Matbaat al-'Aba' al-Yasuiyin, 1876.
16mo (60 x 88 mm). 448 pp. Text printed within red double rules. Contemporary green full morocco, covers and spine prettily giltstamped. Floral endpapers. All edges red, goffered with gilt stars. An anthology of prayers issued by the Jesuit Fathers of the Lebanon, translated into Arabic from Latin (or possibly Spanish), issued in support of the Jesuits' missionary work in the Muslim Middle East. The index contains references to various notable personalities of the Jesuit Order, such as the founder, St Ignatius Loyola, Luigi Gonzaga, Francesco Saverio, Stanislaus Kostka, and others. - Lower hinge professionally repaired. A rare, prettily bound volume.
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[Jewish Community of Palestine, General Council].
Tazkirim historiyim. 'Al tsefifut ha-ukhlusim ve-khamutam be-Erets-Yisra'el ha-'atikah, 'al ha-yishuv ha-Yehudi be-Erets-Yisra'el me-hurban ha-Bayit ha-Sheni ve-'ad 'aliyat ha-Biluyim, ve-'al gale ha-'aliyah la-Arets. [Historical survey on the number and density of the population of ancient Palestine]. Jerusalem, ha-Omen (the Council), 1946 [but: 1947].
8vo. 84 pp. 5 folding maps. Contemporary loose cardstock wrapper, stapled. Slightly altered version published in 1947 as "Historical Memoranda" or "Historical Survey". A rare Zionist booklet issued in Hebrew by the General Council of the Jewish Community of Palestine to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. This publication was part of a series of three such pamphlets issued in 1946-47, each presenting a history of Jewish populations in Palestine and diasporic movement. Of the three, this pamphlet deals the most with the history of ancient Palestine. The folding maps illustrate waves of Jewish immigration from 640-1882 CE and identify sites of Jewish settlements in Roman, early Muslim, Crusade, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods. - Somewhat toned; maps are bright and clear. OCLC 244129609.
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[Jigsaw Atlas]. Frémin, A. R.
Atlas. Paris, Monrocq & Geisendörfer for Auguste Logerot, ca. 1879.
8 jigsaw puzzles, 302 x 228 mm each: lithographs in original hand colour, laid down to wood panels. Relief shown by hachures. Stored in decorative box (320 x 250 x 55 mm). Charming hand-coloured geographical puzzle set, manufactured by Logerot in Paris, rarely encountered complete and with eight maps: World, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and France. Puzzles of this type were first produced in London by John Spilsbury in the 1760s, but the style passed to the continent and became a popular educational tool in France and Germany in the early to mid 19th century. Logerot issued his puzzles from the 1850s onwards; the European borders of this set point to a production date between 1878 and 1880. The puzzle maps are stored in the box fully assembled, each resting on a paper mat with cloth tabs for easy retrieval. - In excellent condition. Cf. OCLC 56131950. Tooley III, p. 148 ("99 jugsaw puzzles, c. 1850").
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[Jihad].
El Dschihad. Zeitung für die muhammedanischen Kriegsgefangenen. Nr. 46. Turkotatarische Ausgabe. Berlin, 14. XI. 1916.
Folio (469 × 314 mm). 3, (1) pp. The diplomat, orientalist, and historian Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) had published a memorandum as early as 1914 on "revolutionizing the Islamic territories of our enemies", i.e. trying to persuade religious leaders in the Muslim world to call for a Holy War against colonial powers such as Britain and France. Allied to this was a campaign to try and radicalize Muslim prisoners of war (a mosque was even erected in one camp, Wünsdorf - the first ever built in Germany) through printed matter, such as the camp newspaper "El Dschihad". Circulation began on 5 March 1915, with editions produced in Arabic, Russian, and - the largest print-run - Tartar (reaching 91 issues, the last published on 22 October 1918). Similar newspapers, under different names, were also issued in Georgian, Hindi, and Urdu. The only holdings outside Germany located by WorldCat are at the Hoover Institution (Arabic, Russian, and Tartar editions) and the Library of Congress (Russian edition). Not in COPAC. - Toned due to paper stock; two small wormholes at head; creased where previously folded. ZDB-ID 2079196-3. OCLC 643380726.
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[Journals - Western and Central Asia; India]. Olaf Caroe, Aurel Stein, Richard Temple, and Francis Younghusband a. o.
[Large collection of journal articles about the scientific exploration of Western and Central Asia and India]. Including: (I:) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. (II:) Geographical Journal. (III:) Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (IV:) Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. (V:) Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. (VI:) Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. (VII:) National Geographic. Various places, including London and Calcutta, various publishers, 1837-1981.
107 volumes, many containing multiple articles. 8vo. Some illustrated with plates and maps. Half calf with marbled sides and gilt lettering on spine or cloth with marbled sides and label on spine. Handsomely bound, extraordinary collection of important scientific journal articles by 19th and 20th century Western explorers of Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, the Himalayas, India (including Assam, Bengal, Kashmir, and Punjab), Karakoram, Pakistan (including Sindh), and Tibet, with content covering anthropology, archaeology, exploration, geography, geology, glaciology, history, language and grammar, mountaineering, and politics. At the time these were the far outskirts of the world for Western science, where a lot was yet to be learned. Often the maps in these journals are the first modern maps of such regions and findings were the first to be scientifically published. - Generally in very good condition. Please inquire for a full list of contents.
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[Jäger, Wolfgang?].
Leben und Meinungen Mahomeds, des Propheten der Muselmänner, und Stifters einer großen Monarchie. Nebst der Geschichte Arabiens. Lausanne, Samuel Berger, 1789.
8vo. 116 pp. Contemporary grey wrappers. Extremely rare, anonymous account of the "Life and opinions of Muhammad, the Prophet of the Muslims, and founder of a great monarchy, with the history of Arabia" (as the book is titled in German). Chauvin attributes the work to the Altdorf professor Wolfgang Jäger (1734-95), who taught Western languages but was not an oriental scholar. The chapter on modern life in the Arabian Peninsula is based on Niebuhr, while the section on Arab women and the liberties and privileges they enjoy is credited to John Richardson (being an original translation from his "Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations"). - A few professional restorations, spine rebacked, otherwise well preserved. Chauvin X, 586. Not in Holzmann/Bohatta.
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[Kalila wa Dimna]. Silvestre de Sacy, [Antoine Isaac] (ed.).
Calila et Dimna, ou Fables de Bidpai, en Arabe. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1816.
4to. 2 parts in one volume. VIII, 140 pp. (8), 315, (1) pp. 19th century cloth with giltstamped spine title. The complete text of the Arabic version by Ibn al Muqaffa of this collection of animal fables with didactic overtones designed to illustrate wise conduct, printed in the beautiful types of the "Imprimerie Royale", with an introduction and critical notes in French. The typeface, based on Arab or Turkish specimens of calligraphy and cut in Rome in the early 17th century for Savary, "was the mainstay of Arabic typography in France until the late 19th century; it also provided a model for others" (Roper, p. 145). - Spine sunned; occasional browning and foxing, but a good copy. Chauvin II, p. 11f., no. 17. Cf. G. Roper, Early Arabic Printing in Europe, in: Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution. A Cross-Cultural Encounter (Westhofen 2002), pp. 129-150.
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[Karte des Himmels - Südliche und Nördliche Halbkugel].
Harita-i Semaviyye Nisf-i Kürre-i Cenubi / Simali. [Karte des Himmels - Südliche und Nördliche Halbkugel]. Istanbul, Mahmud Bey, 1318 [1900].
460 x 670 mm. Farbige Lithographie auf Papier.
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[Katib Chelebi]. Al-Qirimi, Ahmed, Turkish draughtsman (fl. 1730s).
Zâtü'l-Kürsü. Autograph drawing signed. Probably Istanbul, ca. 1732.
Original watercolour drawing over ink. 267 x 196 mm. On thick oriental wove paper. Original ink drawing of the armillary sphere (Zâtü'l-Kürsü, "instrument on pedestal") published in 1732 in the famous universal Islamic geography "Kitab-i Cihânnümâ" of Katib Chelebi (1609-57). The present watercolour by Ahmed Al-Qirimi, who also contributed the maps to Ibrahim Müteferrika's famous publication of Katip's atlas, probably served as the direct model for the engraved plate. Müteferrika, a Hungarian convert to Islam, completed Katip's unfinished work, which had hitherto circulated in manuscripts only. He had the maps specially drawn and cut for it, and printed it at his own press, the first printshop in Turkey. - While extremely close in design and size to the present drawing, the published plate differs from it in several respects, lacking numerous details as well as - most conspicuously - the four additional instruments which here decorate the corners; on the other hand, the print shows the pedestal placed upon an additional short plinth not seen in the sketch. - Evenly browned and with a few small edge flaws, but well preserved.
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[Katib Chelebi]. Khalifeh, Mustafa ben Abdullah Haji / Mitchell, James (transl.).
[Tuhfat al-kibâr fi asfâr al-Bihâr.] The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks. Chapters I to IV. London, A. J. Valpy for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1831.
Folio. XIII, (1), 80, (4) pp. Orange cloth with giltstamped spine title, boards blindstamped "Foreign Office". First English translation of Kâtib Çelebi's great work on the history of the Ottoman navy, "The Gift to the Great Ones on Naval Campaigns". Written in 1657, the book was the second to be printed at Ibrahim Müteferrika's famous Constantinople press (in 1729). It emphasises the importance of the Turkish activities in the seas and the Ottoman contribution to the navigational history, long a strangely neglected subject. Kâtib Çelebi, who is one of the outstanding names of the Ottoman world of scholarship in 17th century and one of the most prolific authors in terms of the number and types of his works during that period, was a man of knowledge, ideas and culture who was widely spoken about in the Ottoman period of the Islamic World. - Withdrawn from the Foreign Office Library with their engraved armorial bookplate and withdrawal stamp. OCLC 29073533.
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[Katib Çelebi / Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von].
[Kesfü'z-zünun 'an esami el-kutub ve-l-fünun]. Encyclopädische Uebersicht der Wissenschaften des Orients, aus sieben arabischen, persischen und türkischen Werken übersetzt. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1804.
8vo. 2 vols. XIV, 283, (1) pp. (2), 285-699, (5) pp. With a few diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards with handwritten spine labels. Rare first edition, "dedicated to the devotees and connoisseurs of oriental literature, by an assiduous student of the same, in Constantinople". One of Hammer's earliest works, written as a barely 30-year-old while serving as secretary to the Austrian delegation in Istanbul, this is the first German version of the bibliographical encyclopedia compiled by the Turkish scholar Katib Çelebi (1609-57), already used by Herbelot. Hammer amplifies this text from six additional manuscripts. - Katib Çelebi's introduction investigates the history, divisions, and estimation of science in the orient. This is followed by more than 300 sub-branches in seven general subjects: writing and calligraphy; language and history; propedeutics; speculative philosophy including natural and arcane science, medicine, and music (the most substantial class, comprising some 250 pp.); practical philosophy (ethics, political science); law and theology; as well as the inward sciences (ascetics). Each branch is headed by its original title printed in Breitkopf's Arabic typeface, often provided with extensive commentary (even discussing the various musical and astronomical instruments) and bibliography. - Bindings rubbed and bumped; spine sunned; interior somewhat browned and foxed as common. From the library of the Prussian chamberlain Rudolf von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1804-82) with his armorial bookplate "Ex Bibliotheca Stillfridiana" on the front pastedown. Goedeke VII, 750, 13. Graesse III, 32.
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[Kazimierz IV Jagiellonczyk, King of Poland (1427-1492)].
Letter of safe conduct for an embassy to Persia. Kolo, 20. V. 1474.
Latin ms. on vellum. 372 x 295 mm. Secretarial letter of safe conduct for the merchant and diplomat Anselm Adornes (1424-83) for a Burgundian embassy to Persia, issued in the name of Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland. - From March to June 1474, Adornes, Lord of Cortachy, led an embassy in the name of Charles the Bold to the Shah of Persia Uzun Hassan (1423-78), whom the Duke of Burgundy sought to persuade to engage in a new military expedition against the Ottomans, following a campaign in the previous year which had ended in Uzun Hassan's defeat by Mehmed II. Adornes was chosen for this mission due to his knowledge of Muslim territories; he had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1470/71 (the account of his journey written by his son Jan is still preserved). - One of the most illustrious members of the Adornes-Adorno family, of Genoese origin, and a wealthy patron, Anselm was closely involved in international trade (mainly in alum and cloth from Tournai and England). He maintained commercial relations with Genoa as well as Spain and played an important role in Burgundian diplomacy. - Seal missing; a large tear touching the last lines of the text. Folded. Cf. Nationaal biografisch woordenboek XII, 2/25. C. van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires bourguignons (Turnhout, 2014), passim.
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[Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1932-2016)].
Original photograph. [Cairo, 1970s].
168 x 215 mm. Showing Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Ruler of Qatar, and the President of Egypt Anwar as-Sadat (1918-1981) during a state visit in Egypt.
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[Khunsari, Agha Jamal] / Atkinson, James A. (transl.).
[Kitab-e Kulsum Nani]. Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions. Translated from the original Persian manuscript. London, John Murray et al. for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1832.
8vo. XVIII, (2), 93, (3), 8 pp. (ads). With lithographic frontispiece of "A Persian Girl" sketched on stone by the translator, printed by C. Hullmandel. With an inserted slip. Original boards, rebacked with new spine label. First English edition: a prose version by the British oriental scholar James A. Atkinson (1780-1852). "This is a specimen of Persian humour, a jeu d'esprit, founded upon female customs and superstitions. It pretends to be a grave work, and is in fact a circle of domestic observances, treated with the solemnity of a code of laws" (preface). With a fine lithographic frontispiece drawn by Atkinson, faithfully depicting a "Persian Girl" in traditional dress, with a lute and hookah by her side, her hair adorned. - Provenance: 1) Wilberforce Eames, (1855-1937), U.S. bibliographer and librarian, known as the "Dean of American bibliographers" (his ink ownership to flyleaf); 2) pencil ownership "Wm. Berrian" (?) to flyleaf; 3) bookplate of the Wisconsin Consistory Library to pastedown; 4) Quaritch notation to pastedown (sold by them). A fine copy; scarce. Wilson 10 & 123. Cat. of the Library of Wilberforce Eames (NY, Anderson Auction, 1905), no. 6247 (this copy).
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[Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Ministry of Information].
Address by H.M. King Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz to Pilgrimage Missions for 1393 A.H.-1974 A.D. [Mecca], printed by Dar Al-Asfahani & Co. Jiddah, 1974 CE = 1393 H.
8vo. 15, (1) pp. With 6 photographic illustrations and decorative borders. Original stapled green wrappers with a photographic portrait of King Faisal and gilt title. A scarce, appealing booklet commemorating King Faisal's speech at a banquet in honour of notable pilgrims and heads of official Hajj missions, given at the Bat-Haa Palace in Mecca on 30 December 1973. Includes the full speech as well as several illustrations showing the king kneeling in prayer, during his speech behind an array of microphones, and seated among the audience. - Spine slightly rubbed. Ballpoint initials to upper cover. Very rare, no copy traced in libraries worldwide.
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[Kinglake, Alexander William].
Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East. London, John Ollivier, 1844.
4to. XI, (1), 418 pp. With folding lithographed frontispiece and a lithographed plate, both in original hand colour. Ca. 1940s giltstamped full blue morocco with spine-title. Leading edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. First edition of this classic of Middle Eastern travel literature, published anonymously. The first literary venture by the English travel writer and historian Kingslake, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. According to the Irish traveller and novelist Elliot Warburton, the book evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality", and it was instantly successful. - Packed with intimate details of a traveller's life and emotions, the narrative includes vivid accounts of Kinglake's encounter with Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), one of the most famous travellers of her age, at her home near Sidon in Lebanon, as well as of a severe outbreak of the plague during his 15-day sojourn in Cairo: "When I first arrived, it was said that the daily number of 'accidents' by the plague, out of a population of about 200,000, did not exceed four or five hundred, but before I went away, the deaths were reckoned at twelve hundred a day [...] When first I arrived at Cairo, the funerals that daily passed under my windows were many, but still there were frequent, and long intervals without a single howl. Every day, however [...] these intervals became less frequent, and shorter, and at last, the passing of the howlers from morn to noon was almost incessant. I believe that about one half of the whole people was carried off by this visitation [...]" (p. 283ff.). - The frontispiece shows a group of travellers on horseback passing the skeletons of impaled robbers in the Balkans, captioned "Eastern Travel". The plate shows a baggage raft and some swimmers crossing the River Jordan. - Upper hinges slightly rubbed. Frontispiece worn in the folds; occasional very slight foxing. Provenance: pastedown has bookplate of Frank Goldsmith, possibly the Kentish-born photographer of that name (1902-82) who survived the sinking of the Titanic as a nine-year-old and relocated to the USA after WWII. A fine copy in an sumptuous blue morocco binding produced by the Bayntun-Riviere bindery in Bath, England. Blackmer 911. OCLC 1191005987. Cf. Weber 369 (1845 2nd edition). Atabey 635 (1847 French edition). Not in Aboussouan.
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[Kiswah].
Parade of the Holy Carpet. [Cairo, January 1938].
Black and white photograph. 232 x 178 mm. Ceremonial departure of the Holy Carpet pilgrimage from Cairo to Mecca.
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[Kitab Alf layla wa-layla].
Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. Vols. I and II. Bulaq, al-Matba’ah al-kubra, [1835 CE =] 1251 H.
Royal 8vo (262 x 194 mm). 2 vols. 710 pp. 620 pp. Printed in Arabic throughout, floral woodcut sarlawh to each volume, text within two-line frame throughout, titles in nasta'liq types. Bound in somewhat later half leather over marbled boards; spine on five raised bands with gilt title, volume number, and edition. Double endpapers. Housed in custom-made, half-cloth modern slipcase. First complete edition in Arabic of the Thousand and One Nights, and the first edition printed in the Arab world. Very rare, with seven copies only located in libraries worldwide (American University Beirut, British Library, Danish Royal Library, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale); none traced in auction records. The Bulaq edition was preceded by another two-volume edition printed at Calcutta between 1814 and 1818, which contained a selection of 200 "Nights" only; the German orientalist Max Habicht began his multi-volume, so-called Breslau edition in 1824, though it remained incomplete on his death in 1839, and at any rate used the Bulaq text as one of its many sources. The Bulaq edition was prepared by one ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sifti al-Sharqawi, probably from a single manuscript which is now lost. It proved "more correct than the garbled and semi-colloquial renderings given by the manuscripts used in the compilations of Calcutta I and Breslau", and was instrumental in stabilising the Thousand and One Nights corpus (Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, p. 44). It was the main source for Edward Lane’s pioneering English translation (1889-41) and for the last of the four historically important Arabic editions, published at Calcutta in 1839-42 (and known as "Calcutta II"). Bulaq and Calcutta II "superseded almost completely all other texts and formed the general notion of the Arabian Nights. For more than half a century it was neither questioned nor contested that the text of the Bulaq and Calcutta II editions was the true and authentic text" (Marzolph, The Arabian Nights Reader, p. 88). - The printing press at Bulaq, Cairo, founded in 1821 by Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, was the first indigenous press in Egypt and one of the first anywhere in the Arab world, its literary output catering to a keen export market and increased demand among the expanding professional classes of Muhammad ‘Ali’s Egypt. For the first few years the press used types cast in Italy, then France. "In 1826 Muhammad ‘Ali sent a delegation to Europe to study printing, and by the 1830s printing had reached a good technical level at Bulaq" (Kent et al., eds., Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 24, p. 63). The present edition exhibits the high standards of Bulaq printing, with the main text composed in authentic and legible naskh-style types, interspersed with attractive headings in nasta’liq. - Condition report: 19th-century bibliographical notes on a typed vignette mounted on the endpapers of each volume; bibliographical notes in pencil on endpaper of vol. 1. Handwritten tables of contents loosely inserted to both volumes, probably in Barbier de Meynard's hand in ink and pencil. A few marginal notes in Arabic and French written in pen and pencil throughout. Occasional spotting; pages very slightly yellowed due to age. A tiny hole throughout, at the upper inner corner of the framing rules. Vol. 1: Two small holes at the gutter of fol. [157]2 (pp. 627f.) and minute damage to the upper edge of the last 9 ff. Spine rubbed, upper compartment professionally restored. Vol. 2: A larger light stain to the margin of fol. [4]1 (pp. 13f.), moderately touching the text area but not affecting legibility. Insignificant worming to lower margin of the first 10 ff. Spine rubbed, front hinge professionally restored. Interior of both volumes is clean and firm, overall in very good condition. - Provenance: from the collection of the French oriental scholar Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826-1906) with his stamp and ownership inscription "Bibliothéque de Mr Barbier de Meynard" in both volumes. A member of the Société Asiatique and editor of "Dictionnaire Géographique de la Perse", Barbier de Meynard authored several books and articles and co-translated the 9-volume "Moruj al-dahab" ("Les prairies d'or") of Al-Masudi (Paris, 1861-77). His inscription "Donne par A. Dantan" in the first volume probably refers to Antoine Dantan, a member of the renowned French dragoman dynasty. Chauvin IV, 18, 20K. Brunet III, 1715. Graesse IV, 523. Fawzi M. Tadrus, Printing in the Arab World with emphasis on Bulaq Press (Doha: University of Qatar, 1982), p. 64. Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution. A Cross-Cultural Encounter, Westhofen 2002, p. 184. Heinz Grotzfeld. Neglected Conclusions of the "Arabian Nights": Gleanings in Forgotten and Overlooked Recensions. In: Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 16, (1985), pp. 73-87. Ulrich Marzolph (ed.). The Arabian nights in transnational perspective, Wayne State University Press 2007, p. 51.
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[Kitab alf laylah wa-laylah - German].
Tausend und Eine Nacht. Arabische Erzählungen. Zum erstenmal aus einer Tunesischen Handschrift ergänzt und vollständig übersetzt von Max. Habicht, F. H. van der Hagen und Karl Schall. Breslau, Josef Max, 1825.
Small 8vo. 15 vols., uniformly bound in near-contemporary half calf with gilt spine and red spine labels. First printing of this German edition, based on a complete translation prepared by Antoine Galland (1646-1715). The so-called "Galland ms." which he had bought in 1701 is the oldest Arabic text extant (dating from 1450 or later). Maximilian Habicht (1775-1839) lived in Paris for a decade as a member of the Prussian delegation. He knew vernacular Arabic well and separately published an edition of the Arabic text of the "Nights" (cf. Fück). - Slightly browned; bookplates of the Viennese collector Rudolf Jelinek on pastedowns; collector's stamps to titles. Chauvin IV, 248. Hayn/Gotendorf V, 276. Cf. Fück 157.
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[Knorr, Georg Wolfgang / Leinberger, Christian and Hoffer, Andreas].
Ein Trampelthier oder Dromedar [...]. Plate K. VI. [Nürnberg], 1767.
240 x 340 mm. Coloured print. Matted. Plate K VI from Knorr's "Deliciae naturae selectae oder auserlesenes Naturalien-Cabinet welches aus den drey Reichen der Natur zeiget, was von curiösen Liebhabern aufbehalten und gesammlet zu werden verdienet [...]". Begun by Knorr as early as 1751, it was continued by his heirs after his death in 1761. The book describes items from the great contemporary natural history collections. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 2227. Horn/Schenkling 12038. Hagen I, 426. Dean I, 696. Graesse IV, 35.
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[Kosovo].
Kosova Vilâyet haritasi. Manuscript map of Kosovo Vilayet. [Kosovo, late 19th century].
20,5 x 31,5 cm. Original hand-coloured map. In Ottoman script. Western paper with watermark (posthorn in crowned shield). Rare manuscript map of Kosovo Vilayet, an Ottoman first-level administrative division, showing the borders of the sanjaks in red and marking cities including Üsküp, as well as rivers and railway lines. It includes the Novi Pazar Sanjak, which was set up in 1865 as a result of the abolition of the Bosnian state and the establishment of the Ottoman Empire's Bosnia Province. With the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, the Novi Pazar Sanjak was separated from the Bosnian Province in 1879 and connected to the Province of Kosovo. The Taslica Sanjak was established in 1880 and consisted of Taslica and Prepol Kazas, with Austrian-Hungarian garrisons in the Priboy district. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War of 1912-13, this sanjak was shared between Serbia and Montenegro with the London Agreement in 1913. - With the personal seal of the cartographer Dervish Mustafa on verso. Somewhat brownstained and creased.
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[Krusinski, Tadeusz Judasz?] / Lisasueta, Jacinto de (transl.).
Historia de Thamas Kouli-Kan, Sophi de Persia. Traducida del Frances en Castellano. Madrid, en la Officina de los Herederos de Juan de Ariztia, 1740.
Small 8vo. 2 vols. (16), 286 pp. (8), 195, (1) pp. Contemporary limp vellum (modern endpapers). Very rare first Spanish translation of this sensational account, which spurred numerous re-printings, piracies, and abridgements. A perfect ideal of the 'Oriental despot', the recent exploits of Nadir Shah (Tahmasp Quli Khan, 1698-1747) fascinated his European contemporaries as much as the shocking overthrow of the Ming Dynasty by the barbarian Manchus a century earlier. From humble beginnings as a shepherd-boy, Nadir's rapid conquest of much of Western Asia and his prowess as a military leader earned him (later) comparisons to Napoleon. - The present work, translated by Jacinto de Lisasueta, was based on the "Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, Sophi De Perse" published at Amsterdam earlier that year. - Barbier mistakenly supposed the French original to have been authored by J. A. du Cerceau, but “this attribution is clearly incorrect, because the book deals with events up to 1739, while du Cerceau died on the 4th of July, 1730" (Lockhart, Nadir Shah, p. 315). Today, it is supposed that the Histoire was based instead on the accounts of the Jesuit missionary Kruzinski (1675-1756) who was active in the Safavid Empire between 1707 and 1728. - Light browning; occasional repaired edge flaws. Recently rebound in slightly differing vellum, with new endpapers. Vol. 2 bears the collection drystamp of Victor Arce Blanchard. Aguilar Piñal, 6, 684. OCLC 807763638. Not in Palau.
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[Kufi, `Ali Ibn-Hamid al-] / Kalichbeg Fredunbeg, Mirza (transl.).
The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind, Giving the Hindu Period down to the Arab Conquest [...]. Karachi, at the Commissioner's Press, 1900.
8vo. (4), XI, (1), 198 pp., 1 blank leaf, (199)-207, (1) pp. Original cloth-backed printed wrappers. First complete English edition. - One of the few written sources about the Arab conquest of Sindh (now in Pakistan) and the origins of Islam in India, translated from a 13th century Persian text by Ali, son of Muhammad Kufi, itself the translation of an undated Arabic manuscript. A chronicle of the Chacha dynasty, following the demise of the Rai dynasty and the ascent of Chach of Alor to the throne, down to the Arab conquest by Muhammad bin Qasim, it narrates the Arab inclusions into Sindh of the 7th to 8th centuries, concluding with an epilogue on the tragic end of the Arab commander Muhammad ibn al-Kasim and of the two daughters of Dahir, the defeated king of Sindh. Co-opted by various interest groups for centuries, the Chach Nama has significant implications for modern imaginings about the place of Islam in South Asia, that remain disputed to this day. - Handwritten ownership in ink to upper wrapper. Light foxing to covers and variously throughout. Altogether a good copy of a rare work; no copy in auction records. OCLC 315332365. Not in Ghani or Wilson. Cf. Asif, A Book of Conquest (2016); Friedmann, The origins and significance of the Chach Nama, in: Islam in Asia: South Asia (1984), pp. 23-37.
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[Kuwait - Ministry of Guidance and Information].
[Taqrir shamil 'an al-hafriyat al-athariyah fi Jazirat Faylaka, 'am 1958-1963]. Archaeological Investigations in the Island of Failaka 1958-1964. [Kuwait], Kuwait Government Press, ca. 1970.
4to. 161, (3) pp. With numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Report on the Danish archaeological expedition to Kuwait led by Peter Vilhelm Glob and Geoffrey Bibby. During five campaigns between 1958 and 1963 the tells on the south-western corner of Failaka Island became the focus of the expedition. The report describes and illustrates some of the major finds, including statues, pottery, lamps, coins, remnants of houses and temples, skeletons and weaponry. - Each campaign lasted 2½ to 3½ months, and the excavation teams consisted of between 5 and 14 Danes as well as 2 Kuwaitis from the Education Department, assisted by up to 185 labourers. At the end of each campaign the finds were packed down in large wooden crates and shipped to the museum in Aarhus for conservation and analysis. At that time there were no conservation and storing facilities in Kuwait, nor anywhere in the Arabian Gulf. - Wrappers have title in English and Arabic. The illustrations are captioned in English and Arabic as well; title-page and introductory text in Arabic only. - Occasional light foxing. OCLC 65798901.
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[Kuwait - Ministry of Guidance and Information].
Kuwait Tourist Guide. Kuwait, Ministry of Guidance and Information, (1968).
4to. 144 pp. With numerous coloured and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this rare illustrated guidebook to Kuwait. Aiming to encourage the tourist industry of Kuwait, it is packed with useful information on geography, history, education, infrastructure, museums, visa and residence regulations, currency, embassies and consulates, hotels, sports, banks, the climate, and other topics. It is particularly remarkable for the numerous photographs promoting life in Kuwait in the late 1960s, including portraits of Sheikh Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah, the Amir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and Sheikh Jabir al-Ali al-Salim al-Sabah, Minister of Guidance and Information. - Two tiny tears to lower margin of wrappers. Several pages a little soiled; slightly toned in places. OCLC 121622.
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[Kuwait - photo album].
[Photograph album of the Kuwait oil industry]. [Kuwait, 1950s-1970s].
180 x 305 mm. 48 chromogenic and 49 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 80 x 80 mm to 19 x 126 mm, and housed in photo sleeves. Contemporary spiral-bound illustrated boards. An album of 97 vintage photographs and photographic postcards showing the construction works for the Kuwait oil industry, likely at the famous Burgan and Al Bahrah oil fields and refineries. During the early decades of oil production, the Kuwait Oil Company worked to develop the flowering industry, sometimes partnered with British oil company BP. Several photographs were likely taken by European engineers who moved to Kuwait to work in the oil industry; some of the early silver gelatin photographs were printed in Germany, while several other silver gelatin prints have the stamp of the Armenian-Syrian photographer Vartan Derounian (1888-1954) and/or the stamp K.E.W., that is of the Kuwait Engineering Works Ltd. Since oil was discovered in Kuwait at Burgan oil field in 1938, the petroleum industry has become the largest in the country, responsible for roughly half of Kuwait's GDP. This series of photographs, beginning in roughly the 1950s and with the latest photograph dated 1978, illustrates three decades of infrastructure development and expansion in the industry, including numerous detailed scenes of tanks, wells, and pipelines. - A few light signs of wear, altogether very well preserved.
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[Kuwait - Saudi Arabia].
Final map of dividing line of the Kuwait - Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone. N. p., Pacific Aero Survey Co. Ltd., August 1968.
565 x 780 mm. Scale 1:250,000. Showing the future border, then the dividing line through the Saudi-Kuwaiti Neutral Zone, a 5,770 km² area between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that was left undefined when the border was established by in 1922. Partitioning negotiations finally commenced when the rulers of both countries met and decided, in October 1960, that the Neutral Zone should be divided. On 7 July 1965, the two governments signed an agreement, which took effect on 25 July 1966, to partition the Zone adjoining their respective territories. Ratification followed on 18 January 1970. "This map has been prepared from the results of the survey according to the agreement between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for the Neutral Zone Division on 7/4/1386 corresponding to 25/7/1966". The Gulf is labelled "Arabian Gulf". - An indistinct stamp on verso. A tear to one fold; lower edge irregular. Rare; not in OCLC.
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[Kuwait Oil Company Ltd.].
The Story of Kuwait. London, Walter Pearce & Co. for Kuwait Oil Company Limited, 1957.
4to (185 x 248 mm). 80 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams, and maps. Original light blue printed wrappers. Pamphlet covering the history of Kuwait, the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company, and the "New Kuwait" of the 1950s. The Kuwait Oil Company was founded in 1934 and was heavily involved in the modernization of Kuwait, whose large petroleum and natural gas reserves were first tapped at Burgan Field in 1938, with production beginning in 1946. The pamphlet focuses on the changes brought to Kuwait by the oil industry in the first ten years since its inception: graphs and photographic illustrations show the rise in oil production, numerous scenes of the refineries, pipelines, workers' houses, mosques, and recreational scenes at Ahmadi, and an early gas station and new housing in Kuwait City. Also explained is the family history of the al Sabah rulers of Kuwait, with a family tree and portraits of previous and contemporary rulers, including Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah (1837-1915), Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1885-1950), and Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (1895-1965), first Emir of Kuwait; one image depicts him ceremonially opening an oil well. - Wrappers slightly browned at extremities, quite well preserved. OCLC 21880314.
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[Kuwait] - Iraqi Arts and Popular Culture Directorate.
Al-Kuwayt al-qatha al-iraqi al-salib [Kuwait, The Stolen Iraqi Province]. Baghdad, Matba'ah Al-Rabita, no date [but ca. 1961].
8vo. 35, (1) pp. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Abd al-Karim Qasim, two other full-page half-tone illustrations and a double-page map of the Gulf. Original printed wrappers, stapled. First edition of a rare pamphlet outlining the Iraqi claim to Kuwait and opposing its independence. - Kuwait emerged as an independent state in June 1961, after 62 years as a British protectorate. With a new constitution, it held its first parliamentary elections in 1963, thereby becoming the first Arab state in the Gulf to establish a parliament. Such political developments, married with growing wealth and modernisations in health, culture and finance, helped to make Kuwait the most prosperous state in the Arabian Peninsula. - The Iraqi government argued that the move toward independence was a continuation of Kuwait's relationship with Britain, albeit under a new guise. Furthermore, they felt that the historical links between Iraq (specifically Basra Province) and Kuwait entitled the former to control over the latter and, one suspects, a share of its growing wealth. This position, argued in the pamphlet, led to a point of crisis, with Iraq threatening invasion. To the relief of Kuwait, the Iraqis were eventually deterred by the Arab League's promise of military opposition. - Extremities darkened, some scuffs and light stains to lower wrapper, otherwise very good. Seemingly unrecorded: no copies in Copac/Jisc or OCLC.
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[Kuwait].
[Kharitah jiyulujiyah shamilah li-Dawlat al-Kuwayt]. Synoptic Geologic Map of the State of Kuwait. [Kuwait], Wizarat al-Tijarah wa-al-Sina`ah (Ministry of Commerce and Industry), 1966.
Colour-printed map, 1210 x 850 mm. Scale 1:250,000. Lambert conic projection. Folded. (Includes:) Explanatory Text to the Synoptic Geologic Map of Kuwait. Vienna & Kuwait, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, 1968. 8vo. 87, (1) pp. With 2 folding plates in back pocket. Original printed wrappers. Geologic map of Kuwait in Arabic and English, compiled by the Geological Survey of Austria. Geological data prepared by H. F. Holzer, T. E. Gattinger, and W. Fuchs, based on fieldwork conducted in 1965/66. Includes accompanying text volume with bibliographical references and two sheets of tables in back pocket. - In perfect condition. OCLC 9684913, 69621. LoC G7601.C5 1966.
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[Kuwait].
Arab sail-makers at work, Koweit. Bombay, The Times Press, [ca. 1910].
Half-tone photographic postcard. A beautiful image of sail-makers labouring over a large sheet of sailcloth, stretched out before a picturesque backdrop of beach, dhows and ocean. The Times Press, alongside the main business of printing newspapers, issued a number of postcards of Western India and Mesopotamia in the first decades of the 20th century. The present postcard is one of the few illustrated with photographs of Kuwait. - Very light rounding to corners, otherwise very good.
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[La Haye, Jean de].
Peristromata Turcica, sive dissertatio emblematica, praesentem Europae statum ingeniosis coloribus repraesentans. [Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter] (ad 1 with a false colophon: Paris, Toussaint du Bray), 1641-1642.
(2) [Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp]. Germania deplorata, sive relatio, qua pragmatica momenta belli pacisque expenduntur. (3) [Milag, Martin]. Aulaea Romana, contra Peristromata Turcica expansa: sive dissertatio emblematica, concordiae Christianae omen repraesentans. (4) [Anonymous French critic of Cardinal Richelieu]. Gallia deplorata, sive relatio, de luctuoso bello, quod rex Christianissimus contra vicinos populos molitur. 4 editions published together in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved title-plates plus 12 full-page engraved emblematic illustrations, all on integral leaves, each with a small plate nested in a larger plate (7 in the Peristromata with a varying plate black and the same outer plate of a Persian carpet in orange). Gold-tooled light brown calf (ca. 1820?) by Charles Murton in London. Rare first and only Latin editions (probably the first and only early editions in any language) of four closely related polemical pamphlets on European policy toward the Ottoman Empire. The publication was instigated by the prominent Nuremberg poet and jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-58), who somehow found access to the French manuscripts of the pro-Richelieu "Peristromata Turcica" (Turkish carpets), and the anti-Richelieu "Gallia deplorata", translated them into Latin, edited them for publication and added what is believed to be his own anti-French Latin rebuttal of the former, "Germania deplorata". On 26 November 1641 he sent all three to the Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, founding president of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft in Weimar, who found the "Peristromata Turcica" shocking and dangerous, not only for its content but also because its remarkable and "seductive" graphic form. At a spring 1642 meeting of the society Ludwig initiated the writing and production of an emblematic rebuttal, the "Aulaea Romana" (Roman tapestries). Besides the political importance of these pamphlets as records of differing European attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire, they are remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing and important emblemata. In 1536 Francois I had formed an alliance with the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, and for a century Franco-Ottoman relations swung between extremes. Around 1626 Cardinal Richelieu began to encourage noblemen to strengthen France's economy by expanding its maritime trade in the Middle East, Near East and beyond. But with its great maritime power, the Ottoman Empire was not only a potentially valuable trading partner but also a fierce competitor and even a military threat to Europe's trade in those regions. Richelieu therefore attempted to form a Catholic union with the Holy Roman Empire and others to fight against the Ottomans. With owner's inscription of the lawyer and diplomat Georg Achatz Heher (1601-67) and bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), one of the greatest book collectors of all time. With the last quires (E-H) of the "Aulaea Romana" misbound following the last quire (G) of Gallia. A small marginal worm hole in the first work and the first leaves of the second, and an occasional small marginal chip or tear, but still in good condition. The binding with cracks in the hinges and some wear at the extremities, but otherwise good. Although these four editions were clearly designed to be published together, only about a dozen complete sets are known to survive, nearly all in Germany, Austria and Poland. Faber de Faur 497-500. Praz 448f. M. Reinhart, "Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and the Emblematic Pamphlets of 1641-42", in: Emblemata XX (2013), pp. 313-376 & XXI (2014), pp. 277-375. Stijnman & Savage, p. 46 (ad 1). Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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[Lawrence of Arabia (film)].
[Lawrence of Arabia: a production-used shooting script and collection of original film stills]. No place, Columbia Pictures, 1962 and 1971.
8vo mimeographed typescript. Approx. 122 pp. Original black wrappers. Together with: 3 colour stills on board (364 x 281 mm), 12 colour stills (241 x 185 mm) issued for the press, 10 silver gelatin print stills (278 x 210 mm), colour poster, and 14 behind the scenes and costume test silver gelatin prints (ranging from 158 x 105 mm to 290 x 290 mm), with further costume test photographs tucked into the script. Fascinating and significant collection of material relating to one of the most famous British films of all time, Sir David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). The collection includes a unique production-used script, the title-page annotated "2nd Unit, Abbey", with various test photographs inserted into the script at different points and annotations and added tabs towards the end of the script. Includes four large black and white behind-the-scenes photos of the film's then-unknown star, Peter O'Toole (1932-2013), on camelback taken by famous stills photographer Ken Danvers (1911-80). Various additional costume reference photographs are present, including three for 'Lawrence', one featuring Peter O'Toole, in costume, smoking next to a set trailer. Also present are a set of twelve front of house stills for the film, an American one-sheet poster from the 1971 re-release, and other photographic stills relating to the production including three large colour film stills on board, which round out an impressive collection. Also included are 11 photographic references of T. E. Lawrence used by the costume design team to style Peter O'Toole. - "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) was O'Toole's film debut, for which he received international acclaim. The film itself was selected in 1999 as the third best British film of the 20th century, and won seven of an impressive ten Oscar nominations. It is generally considered one of the most important films to come out of the 1960s, and has been selected for preservation in America's National Film Registry in acknowledgment of its cultural significance. - Occasional light wear to photographs, generally in the form of subtle pinpricks to corners. In general, exceptionally well preserved. - Provenance: Acquired by an employee of the film's producer, Sam Spiegel (1901-85). Spiegel was financially responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed motion pictures of the 20th century, and was the first independent Hollywood producer to work on films that won the Academy Award for "Best Picture" three times. One of those films was, of course, "Lawrence of Arabia".
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[Lawrence, Thomas Edward]. Pirie-Gordon, Harry (ed.).
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and Published by the Palestine News. Cairo, Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919.
Small folio (227 x 294 mm). (6), 113, (1) pp. With Allenby's portrait frontispiece on cloth and 56 coloured maps (facing explanatory texts printed on versos). Original printed wrappers with printed cloth spine. First edition, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon as a souvenir album: an account of the 1917-19 campaign in the Middle East. Contains two reports written by T. E. Lawrence, "Sherifian Co-Operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement", in which he details the Ashraf contribution to the War effort and narrates his own involvement in a third-person report. - Rubbed and stained, with occasional edge flaws. Endpapers have pencil ownership of O. A. Holstius, attached to Headquarters, 19th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Loosely inserted is a typed extract from "The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War, 1914-1919" by George Goold Walker (1930), detailing living conditions in the Jordan Valley during the Great War (torn and frayed at edges). O'Brien A011.
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[Libya].
Original press photo (vintage). London, 1949.
150 x 205 mm. AP press photo showing Sayid Idris al-Senussi in London shaking hands with Eric de Candole, British Administrator of Cyrenaica, and his wife. Captioned on the reverse: "Senussi leader arrives in London. The Emir Sayid Idris el Senussi, head of the state of Cyrenaica, photographed on arrival in London last night July 15. He is shaking hands with Mr. E. A. V. Candole, British Chief Administrator of Cyrenaica. At centre is Mrs. Candole. The Emir travelled from Derna to Marseilles in the battleship 'Vanguard' and thence across France. It is the Emir's first visit to England. While here he will have talks with Mr. Bevin on the future of Cyrenaica". Well preserved.
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