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[Wellsted, James Raymond].
Reiseskizzen aus Arabien. Oman und die Küste des persischen Golfs (Nach Wellstedt). In: Meyer's Volksbibliothek für Länder-, Völker- und Naturkunde. 76. Band. Hildburghausen & New York, Bibliographisches Institut / Hermann J. Meyer, [1855].
12mo. 161-197 pp.; entire work: 221, (3) pp. With 3 folding engr. plates. Original printed wrappers. Rare German translation of Wellsted's account of Oman. J. R. Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to the surveying of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman, undertaken on a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. On board the surveying ship Palinurus he was the first European to set foot in the interior of Oman. Starting late in 1835 from the easternmost point of Oman, Wellsted made his way westward through the Ja`alan region to the Wahibah Sands and then struck north up the Wadi Batha to Samad. There he was joined by Lieutenant F. Whitelock, also of the Indian Navy, who had set out from Muscat later. Together they reached Nazwa, the ancient capital of Oman, and climbed the lower slopes of the Jabal al-Akhdhar, in central Oman. In January 1836 they arrived on the Al-Batinah coast and then turned west, recrossing the Hajar mountains and emerging on the edge of the Dhaharah, the rocky steppe that stretches west toward the Rub` al-Khali. - Somewhat foxed throughout. Uncut, untrimmed copy. OCLC 162829268.
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[Wilson, Arnold Talbot].
A Sketch of the Political History of Persia, Iraq and Arabia, With Special Reference to the Present Campaign. Calcutta, Government Press, 1917.
Small 8vo. (6), 43, (1) pp. Stiff green cloth wrappers titled in black. Extremely rare manual, marked "For Official use only" and prepared for the troops of the Indian Expeditionary Force "D", giving an account of the political and historical context of the British Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. - Expeditionary Force "D" was made up of Indian and British troops and is infamous for its doomed defense of the siege of Kut, where disease and starvation forced a surrender in April 1916. However, the pamphlet does not limit itself to Iraq, but crucially provides an entire chapter on the history of, and British interest in, the Arabian Peninsula, titled "Arabia - Our Left Flank", including an entire section on Abdulaziz Ibn Saud (1875-1953). The author summarizes the history of British presence in the Gulf, noting the sack of Ras-al-Khaimah in retribution for alleged pirate activity, after which "the climate forced [the British] to evacuate that position". The book further refers to the "maritime truce" imposed by Britain upon the Arabian Coast from "Masandam to Kuwait" in 1836 and notes that the suppression of the arms trade in Muscat was successful thanks to the regulations put in place by Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864-1913), the direct ancestor of Sultan Haitham. In more general terms the author describes "The rich oases of the Qasim, with their population of enterprizing merchants" and "the Hasa, coveted for its date groves and its ports on the Persian Gulf" which "was finally wrested from the Ottoman Government by Ibn Sa'ud in 1913". The author lists British treaties along the Gulf Coast, including with "the Shaikh of Bahrain" (Abdullah bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, 1769-1849) in 1820 "and in 1798 with the chiefs of the Trucial Coast". - Cloth gently rubbed. Interior shows a hint of foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A single copy is listed in auction records, and that volume included a pencil note attributing authorship to Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940), a captain in the British Indian Army. As then-acting civil commissioner for Mesopotamia who later became known for his strong opinions on the postwar fate of Iraq, he is not an unlikely candidate.
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[World Map - Islamic Manuscript].
Map of the world centred on the Arabian Gulf, showing seven mosques or minarets. Northern India or Kashmir?, ca. 1790 / late 18th century copy of a 16th century (?) original.
500 x 420 mm. Oval manuscript map in ink and watercolour (blue, brown, green and red; map image including water 295 x 380 mm, the land alone 220 x 305 mm) on a half sheet of extremely large Dutch laid paper (watermark: D&C Blauw IV), with dozens of features labelled in Persian (written in black ink in the nastaliq script) and with animals (including elephants and a dragon), people and 4 European ships. Framed and matted. An 18th century manuscript copy, in colour, of a lost map in the Islamic tradition, with dozens of inscriptions in Persian and extensive pictorial imagery showing numerous mosques, elephants in southern Africa, eastern India and what may be northern Bengal or part of Southeast Asia, snakes and a dragon (with four feet and two pair of wings) in East Asia, birds north of the Caucasus and people in Europe north of the Alps. The regions with people and animals (excluding the dragon and snakes) are also the only regions shown wooded. The oval land is surrounded by oceans with a European ship at each of the four cardinal compass directions: three 3-masted ships flying flags with St George's cross (used by the crusaders, Knights Templar and English and French troops from the 12th century and by the Genoese and others from the 13th century: while it is not St George come to slay the dragon, these European ships in an Islamic map remain a puzzle), and at the south a 2-masted ship with no rectangular flag, all four ships accompanied by rowboats. Inlets can be identified as the Arabian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea (?) and another in the Far East. A wide straight band of mountains runs west to east from coast to coast, apparently representing the Alps, the Caucasus and the Himalayas, with a few additional mountains in southern India and elsewhere. One can clearly see the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as well as the rivers of the Indus and Ganges valleys. After one passes beyond Bengal it becomes more difficult to identify the topographic features that ought to represent Southeast and East Asia: there is no island to represent Japan, and the peninsula that faintly resembles Korea seems more likely to be China. While some pictorial elements and lettering are designed to be viewed from various sides as one turns the map, there is a distinct bias in the lettering and some of the pictures for west at the head, which is quite unusual (most Islamic maps have south at the head). - We have found no record of any closely similar map, but the topography certainly owes something to the traditional Islamic world maps, perhaps by the 10th-century Abu al-Hasan al-Harrani or his followers such as the 15th-century Ibn al-Wardi. Like most maps in the Islamic tradition (including those of al-Bakri and al-Istakhri), these follow the Greek tradition of Anaximander (6th century BC) in depicting the world as an almost perfectly geometric circle surrounded by the great river or sea Oceanus, and also representing other features with abstract forms. They show the Nile running into the Mediterranean and (almost as its continuation north of the Mediterranean) a channel leading to the Black Sea, which continues via the river Phasis to the northern coast, forming a boundary between Europe and Asia. The present map is much more naturalistic, with an oval form and irregular coastlines. The inlets and rivers also have more naturalistic forms, and the map shows much more detail than do the traditional Greek and Islamic maps (one can recognize Qatar and Ceylon/Sri Lanka, and one of the two islands in the Mediterranean probably represents Crete (is the other Ceylon, Sicily, an oversized Malta, or something else?). Yet in spite of its greater detail and naturalism, its geography is in some ways less accurate than that of its more abstract ancestors. Like the al-Harrani and al-Wardi maps, the Nile has an L shape (though not rigidly geometric like theirs), but the southern end connects to the Red Sea and the northern end passes east of the Mediterranean, continuing directly into the channel leading to the northern coast (with no graphic distinction between the Black Sea and the channel to Oceanus). The Nile also appears to contain an enormous island, but the tower at its northern end might possibly represent the 13th-century minaret at Luxor. The Mediterranean appears as a triangular inlet without even a bulge to suggest Greece or Italy, which many Islamic and Greek maps show clearly. Africa and India extend no farther south than the Arabian Peninsula, with only the Red Sea and the Gulfs separating them. Some Mughal maps, such as that of Sadiq Isfahani (ca. 1647), share the more naturalistic depiction, and Isfahani also depicts Ceylon similarly, but his map shows few geographic or topographic similarities. - Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the present map is the depiction of mosques and minarets, which are so detailed that many can be identified even without recourse to the Persian inscriptions. The rectangular wall of the Great Mosque at Mecca appears clearly with the Ka'bah in the centre and four minarets, one at each corner. This also suggests a latest possible date for the lost original, for three more minarets were added in quick succession, apparently between 1603 and 1629. A recent study suggests that the Ka'bah began to appear in Islamic maps only ca. 1450 (Karen Pinto, "Medieval Islamic maps", 2016, not seen, but cf. Arnoud Vrolijk in Mols & Buitelaar, eds., "Hajj: global interactions through pilgrimage", 2015, p. 216), suggesting that the lost model for the present map with many mosques, some shown in detail, was at least several decades later. This evidence for a date, combined with the naturalistic depiction, suggests the lost model for the present map might have originated in the Islamic realms of 16th-century India. The Great Mosque at Medina is also clearly depicted. Pending more information about the Persian inscriptions (which apparently name regions, cities, mosques, topographic features and curiosities), we can only guess at the other mosques or minarets. We noted one perhaps at Luxor. Two on the eastern side of the Euphrates might be at Basra and Aleppo (with some pyramids in between), while one in North Africa looks like the Great Mosque at Taza and the other might be at Fez. There may some buildings in East Asia, by the mountains near the dragon, but they may merely be smoke or flames from what appear to be burning rocks. A couple of other sites show fortress-like walls (in red in the northern parts of the Arabian Peninsula and India) without a mosque or minaret. - The map is stunning as a work of art, a fusion of age-old tradition with modern techniques of illustration and figural representation, executed in pastel colours with the mountains and ships in several shades of brown, Oceanus and the inlets light blue, the rivers grey, the forests and dragon green and occasional small details in red or pink. In spite of its large size, the map is drawn on a half sheet, so that the whole sheet would measure at least 84 x 50 cm, considerably larger than Imperial and one of the largest sheet sizes produced in the 18th century. The chainlines are about 28.5 mm apart. The watermark or countermark would fall in the middle of the map image, so that it is not identifiable in the framed map. One can make out only some diagonal lines that might belong to a letter W. The map is numbered "No 95" in an 18th-century hand at the upper left, so it may have once been part of a manuscript atlas. - Formerly folded once horizontally and vertically. In very good condition. An 18th century copy of a lost 16th century (?) Islamic map of the world, showing seven mosques or minarets, unlike any other map known to us.
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[World map].
Ottoman map of the world. N. p., ca. 1868.
Colour lithograph and stencil hand-colour. 335 x 420 mm. This uncommon Ottoman map, printed in black and blue, with original hand colour, shows the world in Mercator projection. The Ottoman Turkish alphabet was used until 1928. - Small tears in margins, with a soft fold, but in very good condition.
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[World War I - Baghdad and Mesopotamia].
Archive relating to the British transport corps ("Remount Depot", and "Mule Column") based at Baghdad. Baghdad, ca. 1917-1922].
Comprising Lt. Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for "No. 3 Mule Column" (1917-20); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919 - June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), ca. 1918-19; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-19), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May - 4 June 1919. Diary disbound, others in original bindings. Ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes. Archive relating to the British transport corps ("Remount Depot", and "Mule Column") centred at Baghdad. An evocative diary kept by Lt. Smith captures both the horror and beauty of his daily life: "Never shall I forget the pain & terror in that poor little thing's face. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation [...] without food and medicine" (13 May, near Qara Tappah). The diary was written whilst he was serving with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. It includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting "the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here" and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, "I killed 1000 flies in my tent"; April 5, "Changed into my light underwear"; April 17, "Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road [...] on the trek with camels"; April 23, "held a court martial [...] of Hazzat Shah [...] for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes"), Table Mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, "Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners"; 2 May, "Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners [...] one prisoner of the first lot died on the way [...] they are evidently hungry and tired"). - The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, "For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar"). Smith's record of the No. 3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ("Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column", "Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts") and Expenditure ("Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement", "Sweets for the the Peace celebrations"). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ("Red Riding Hood", "A Gipsy Romance" by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad. - A unique ensemble, well preserved.
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[WWI - Gulf Operations].
Despatches Regarding Operations in the Persian Gulf and in Mesopotamia. London, Darling & Son, 1915.
Folio. 54 pp. Sewn. Military reports from the Mesopotamian theatre, issued by Generals W. S. Delamain, A. A. Barrett, and J. E. Nixon between 1914 and 1915, in the early months of the British Empire's Mesopotamian campaign against the Ottoman Empire. Includes the despatches regarding the Battle of Shaiba (12-14 April 1915), in which the British infantry successfully defended Basra from the Ottoman forces. Significantly, this was the last time the Ottomans would threaten Basra, and after the battle it would be the British who generally held the initiative in Mesopotamia. It also changed attitudes among the Arabs, who subsequently began to distance themselves from the Ottomans. - Perfectly preserved. OCLC 44868586.
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[Yemen & Egypt].
Two glass paintings for a laterna magica, showing Aden and Alexandria. No place, mid-19th century.
Ca. 8 cms diamater each, encased in wooden frame (ca. 18 x 10 cms).
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[Yemen and Egypt].
Photograph album. Yemen, Egypt and other places, c. 1889.
An album of 25 albumen prints (vintage), measurements usually c. 200 x 270 mm, one a double-page spread, many captioned in English. Bound in contemporary giltstamped auburn full calf (378 x 280 mm; spine rebacked). All edges gilt. Photographic record of a journey begun in Australia and taken, via Aden, through the Suez canal and to the Mediterranean (and then on to England). While the first image shows the steamship R.M.S. Ormuz in the port of Sydney, three images (including a double-page spread) show the port of Aden in Yemen, the famous water tanks, and a native of the Southern Arabian region in a studio portrait. The majority of the album is dedicated to Egypt, showing Arabs on their camels, the Khedive's Ismailia Palace, the Suez Canal, Port Said, and members the local population, as well as the famous pyramids. The last few photographs show the final leg of the journey: Naples, and ultimately Gibraltar. Among the studios identified in the photographs are those of Hippolyte Arnoux and the Zangaki brothers, based at Port Said. A slightly later inscription on the flyleaf identifies this album as that of Edith Elkington: "Aunt Edith's voyage home to England about 1889". - Some foxing and waterstaining, but prints largely clean.
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[Yemen] - Jacob, Harold Fenton, British army officer and Political Agent (1866-1936).
A collection of papers from the Yemen Residency. Mostly Aden, mainly 1911-1917, with additional material to 1925.
Correspondence, memoranda, and notes in English and Arabic. 2 typescript pp. in-folio, 15 handwritten pp. in-4to, 32 handwritten pp. in-8vo. A collection of prewar and wartime notes and correspondence, some labelled "secret", from the desk of the longtime First Assistant Resident in Aden, Lt. Col. Harold F. Jacob, who served in this capacity from 1910 to 1917 (and, once the War started, was also Chief Political Officer to the Aden Field Force). - In a classified report to a superior concerning tribal allegiances in Yemen and the threat of an Ottoman incursion, dated 30 June 1915, he writes: "Interviewed the Abdali Sultan at Lahej yesterday and the following is what I have been able to elicit. 1. The Sheikh Ibn Nasir Mukbil appears to be particularly anxious to secure our armed presence on the Haushabi border and Sheikh Husen Saleh the Azraki (our stipendiary) and Ali Ba Saleh the Haushabi Sultan's Minister seem to be willing tools in his hand to effect that purpose. It must be remembered that Ibn Nasir Mukbil is still friendly to us or rather his unfriendliness is not proved. [...] It is hard to prophesy correctly in Arabia, and from a distance, since Arab politics change in so kaleidoscopic a fashion, but I am inclined to believe, even if there be certain hostile Turks and Arabs at Al Dareja, that the situation is not so critical as our friend the Abdali Sultan would have us believe. [...] [A]s the Sultan of Lahej is able to procure at this stage 600 camels in 2 days I am strongly in favour of our engaging them since, if hostilities open, he will find it extremely difficult to raise these numbers [...]". - A telegram draft of 10 January 1917 to the General Officer Commanding Aden, likewise "secret", Jacob writes: "Idrisi quite ready conclude supplementary agreement as outlined by Secretary of State (stop) [...] Says Farasan is part & parcel his sea-board and expects British protection from all outside interference (stop) Says British flag, however, as repugnant on Farasan as would be at Jizan and likely draw Turkish vengeance as implying cession of Islands to us; further will preclude future favours qua arms from France and Italy (stop) I fully sympathize with both agreements and believe presence of flag will place Farasan in category of annexation subject to 'post-bellum' adjudication (stop) [...]". - Also, several items of Arabic correspondence, often with Jacob's handwritten translation into English underneath. Also, a quantity of 8vo pencil notes in English and Arabic, some in the hand of another officer (possibly the Aden Resident) and as early as 1911, often not easily legible, apparently referring among other subjects to "Philby", "How Turks lost the Yemen", etc. - Jacob spoke Arabic fluently and knew the Qur'an intimately. As Political Agent in Aden and in the Hinterland he served on Lord Allenby's staff as an advisor on South West Arabia, where he became acquainted with Lawrence of Arabia. In 1915 he published a book on Southern Arabia, "Perfumes of Araby. Silhouettes of Al Yemen". - Edges brittle; some browning and folds, but altogether a well-preserved survival.
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[Yemen] - Reimer, Dietrich.
Jemen. Hadramaut. Versuch einer Darstellung vom glücklichen oder südöstlichen Arabien zu C. Ritter's Erdkunde (Drittes Buch West Asien Band VI) von Carl Zimmermann, Second-Lieutenant im 21ten Infanterie Regiment. (Zum Atlas von Vorder Asien gehörig). Berlin, G. Reimer, 1846.
Engraved map. 1245 x 690 mm (if joined). Fine large-format map of the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. Includes a large inset plan of Aden and smaller inset maps of the island of Socotra and a smaller map of the routes to Mecca. Illustrates the indigenous peoples, towns, topography and trade routes in the region. - 2 sheets, unjoined.
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[Yemen].
Bahr as Safi. Asia North E-39. [London], War Office, 1949.
890 x 620 mm. Scale: 1:1,000,000. First edition. Map of the western part of Yemen, including parts of Oman. - Stamped "Sales copy".
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[Yusuf and Zulaikha].
Yusuf ve-Zulaikha. Mughal Empire, [ca. 1780 / 18th century].
4to (170 x 266 mm). Persian and Chagatay Turkish manuscript on polished laid paper. 158 ff. 14 lines of black Naskhi script, set in two columns within gilt borders and black, blue, and red rules; chapter headings in red ink. Prettily illustrated throughout with 28 coloured gouaches (of which 11 are half- to full-page-sized). Margins decorated with gilt scrollwork. Near-contemporary full brown binding with blind-tooled borders and medallion stamps to both covers. Highly rare, charmingly illustrated 18th century manuscript of the story of Yusuf and Zulaikha, which forms the medieval Islamic version of the narrative of the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. In the Muslim world for centuries, it is found in many languages such as Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Turkish and Urdu, but was given its best-known expression in Persian, by Jami, in the 15th century. - Edges brittle with some tears and chipping, quite extensive remarginings (no loss to text, but obscuring some of the gilt scrollwork borders), occasional light waterstaining. Ownership seals and stamps of Ya Cabbar and Habib Allah.
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[Zangaki Brothers].
Deux femmes d'Abissinie. [Ethiopian Empire, ca. 1880].
Albumen print, 279 x 218 mm.
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[Zanzibar].
[Five photographs of sultans of Zanzibar]. [London, Cape Town, and other places, ca. 1875-1937].
5 photographs, comprising 2 albumen photograph cartes-de-visite (90 x 62 mm) and 3 silver gelatin and albumen photographs (137 x 184 mm). Two with press release captions on the reverse. A rare set of photographs from the Sultanate of Zanzibar, including two cartes-de-visite of Sultan Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836-88) and three photographs of Sultan Khalifa II bin Harub Al-Said (1879-1960). - The Sultanate of Zanzibar was created in 1856 following the death of Saïd bin Sultan al-Busaidi (1791-1856), who had ruled both Oman and Zanzibar as the sultan of Oman since 1804. The Sultans of Zanzibar were of a cadet branch of the Al Said Dynasty of Oman and retained close ties. Sultan Barghash was the son of Saïd bin Sultan and was the second sultan of Zanzibar, ruling from 1870 until his death in 1888. Sultan Barghash is shown both in photo portrait (by A. Liebert of Paris) and seated together with five members of his retinue (by Maull & Co. of London). The other three photographs comprise a photo portrait of Sultan Khalifa taken in about 1911, and two press photographs of Khalifa on diplomatic visits. The first shows a visit to the Government House in Cape Town in 1929, where the Sultan Khalifa is accompanied by his son and future successor, Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Said (1911-63). The second was taken in 1937 when Sultan Khalifa travelled to London for the coronation of Britain's George VI. - A hint of fading on the albumen photographs, otherwise well preserved.
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[Zanzibar].
Panoramic view of Zanzibar. Zanzibar, c. 1900.
In 5 parts, ca. 39 x 13.5 cms each. Silver gelatin prints, mounted on cardboard. Rare set of original vintage photographs, taken from an elevation, showing the coastline of Zanzibar with various steamers as well as dock facilities. - Occasional slight fading, but very well preserved on the whole.
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[ZEB (Aureng)] - BOUVIER (René) et MAYNIAL (Edouard).-
Le dernier des grands Mogols. Vie d'Aureng Zeb.
1947 Paris, Albin Michel, 1947, in 8° broché, 317 pages ; 16 illustrations hors-texte ; couverture illustrée.
Bookseller reference : 34256
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[Zionism]. Tenu'at ha-no'ar ha-lomed be-Erets Yisra'el, ha-Mahanot ha-'olim.
Bi-veritekha. Le-sikum mahaneh ha-shikhvah ha-mitbageret bi-Gevat, Kayits 697. Tel Aviv, Akhdot Press, 1937/1938.
8vo. 66, (2) pp. Original printed wrappers. Scarce Zionist youth movement booklet describing the experience of a summer camp in British Mandate era Palestine, likely to a kibbutz. The kibbutz movement had a long connection with European Jewish youth groups, and such visits would have been encouraged. Such kibbutzim - largely in the form of communal agricultural settlements, though they would later include other industries such as factories - would go on to play a large role in the Zionist movement and the partition of Palestine a decade later. - The booklet is illustrated with four maps, titled "Map of our trip to the sources of the Jordan and the Naftali Mountains", "the Land of Israel in the days of the First Temple", "the Land of Israel in the days of the Second Temple", and one which labels the "mandate area" and "the territory of the proposed Jewish state". - Wrappers somewhat worn, otherwise in good condition. OCLC 53243596.
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[Zrecin, J.].
Beschreibung der Kaiserstadt Constantinopel, ihrer Umgebungen, Sitten und Gebräuche. Nebst einem Anhang, die türkische Festungsstadt Schumla darstellend. Koblenz, Wilhelm Mainzer, 1829.
8vo. VI, 41, (1), 8 pp. With 4 folding lithographed maps and 3 plates (2 folding). 19th century half cloth. Second edition of this German description of Constantinople, its environs and local customs, expanded by two plates. "The author, Zrecin, is mentioned in the Mainz edition [...], but the wirk seems to have been edited by C. V. Sommerlatt whose name occurs at the end of the preface in this edition. An enlarged edition appeared at Coblenz in 1829" (Atabey). Contains a map and a view of Constantinople, a map of European Turkey, a view of the fortress of Shumen, one portrait of Sultan Mahmud II, a "copy of a Turkish firman", and a letterpress plate enumerating the "Muslim articles of faith". - Occasional slight foxing; with faint marginal waterstains to final leaves. Ownership stamp of Walter Seydel (1946) on verso of title page. Blackmer 1872; Atabey 1356 (note).
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`Ali Zay`ur
al-Tahlil al-Nafsi li-l-Dhat al-`Arabiyya
Beirut: Dar al-Tali`ah 1987. In Arabic. Fourth printing. 236 pages. 23.9 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Beirut: Dar al-Tali`ah, (1987) paperback
Bookseller reference : 8126
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`Alwaji, Abd al-Hamid.
[Al-Shaykh Dari qatil al-Kulunil Lichman fi Khan al-Nuqtah]. Sheik Dhari, Assassin of Lieut-Col. G. E. Leachman at Khan El-Nuqta. Baghdad, Maktab al-`Alwaji wa-al-Hijjiyah, 1968.
8vo. 158, (2) pp., with bibliographical references on pp. 141-143. With 16 black and white photographic illustrations on 5 leaves. Original lime green printed wrappers. First edition. A fascinating apology of Sheikh Dhari, who killed the British intelligence officer Gerard Leachman on 12 August 1920. It includes brief but detailed biographies of both men (that of Leachman includes his travels to Arabia and Iraq), an exposition of the acts leading up to the event, and an account of the day itself. Though the book links Sheikh Dhari's act to the Iraqi revolt of 1920, records of his trial signal that the killing was not politically motivated in the wider sense, but was instead committed in response to abuse suffered at the hands of Leachman (see Abbas Kadhim, Reclaiming Iraq, University of Texas Press [2012], p. 80). Leachman's legacy, like those of so many British Officials operating in the Middle East at the time, is complicated: multiple descriptions tend toward painting "a courageous and devoted servant of empire" (ODNB), whereas recent assessments rightly factor in the evidence of his abuses. - Arabic text throughout save for English title to recto of final leaf and lower wrapper. Occasional tiny edge chips; wrappers a little dusty and fingerstained showing minor wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise very good. Rare: Copac/Jisc locates a single copy in the UK (Oxford); WorldCat adds two further holdings at the Bavarian State Library and the University of Haifa. No copies in North American institutions (Harvard and Princeton have microfilm copies in their Arabic collections). OCLC 24963037.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Beyond Illusion I Doubt -
The Bhaktivedanta Publishing - 1999. Hardcover/pub.199/Gd.condition/269 pages - A Vedic perspective on Western Philosophy is discussed in this text. HA237589. Hardcover. Good. The Bhaktivedanta Publishing - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37589
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A. Goodrich Freer
Arabs in Tent and Town
<p>Inscribed by the publisher In memory of Ada Seeley from F.P Seeley 9 March 1929. 325 pp. 22 x 14.5 cmz. 780 grams. 1.5 cm tear in middle of top spine. photo loose opposite page 48.</p><p>The title reads in full: "An intimate account of the family life of the Arabs of Syria their manner of living in desert & town their hospitality customs & mental attitude with a description of the animals birds flowers & plants of their country."</p><p>Adela Monica Goodrich-Freer Spoer 1870-1931 was an author who initially wrote under her maiden name of A. Goodrich-Freer and then under her married name of A. M. Spoer.</p> Seeley Service & Co. Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio61
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A. J. Barker
Arab-Israeli Wars -
Hippocrene Publishing - 1981. Hardcover/pub.1981/Gd.condition/176 pages - Arab-Israeli wars are discussed in this text. HA237566. Hardcover -. Good. Hippocrene Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37566
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A. Khoury
The Modern Middle East
Paperback 691 pages fine condition. I.B. Tauris paperback
Bookseller reference : 487 ISBN : 1850435200 9781850435204
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A. YILMAZ SOYYER.
Bir ideolojinin izdüsümü Taliban.
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 20 x 14 cm., 214, [4] p., "Bir ideolojinin izdüsümü Taliban.", A. Yilmaz Soyyer, Fakülte Kitabevi, Isparta, 2002.
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A. ZE'V
Israel Reborn.
Lewin-Epstein Tel-Aviv 1965. 4to. First Edition with very numerous photographs many full-page in the text and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth backstrip lettered in brown a very good bright clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front free endpaper verso and presentation bookplate on half-title. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO. Collects over 140 photographs many not previously published recording the events between 1947 and 1949. Captions include extended text and poetry. Very scarce. Lewin-Epstein, Tel-Aviv, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21099
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Aa, Pieter van der (ed.) / Gottfried, Johann Ludwig (falsely attributed to).
De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en Westindiën, midsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks. The Hague and Leiden, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727.
8 vols. 1mo and folio. With 7 (of 8) engraved frontispieces (lacking that of volume 4), 4 engraved dedications, 117 engraved maps on 61 leaves, 7 engraved plates and 502 engravings in text. Further with 127 (of 128) title-pages (including a general title-page, a title-page to 7 (of 8) volumes, lacking that of volume 4, and 118 for the separate works). Volume 1-3 & 5-8: contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges; volume 4: modern calf. Large paper copy of the so-called "folio-edition" (although here mostly printed as 1mo) of Van der Aa's voluminous collection of important voyages to the East and West Indies and other countries, undertaken by all European countries, other than the Dutch. Including voyages by Acosta, Balbi, Cabot, Cavendish, Chester, Columbus, Cortes, Coutinho, Da Cunha, Drake, Evesko, Frobisher, Gallonye, Da Gama, Garay, Garcia, Gilbert, Jenkinson, Harcourt, Herberer, Magallanes, Mildenhal and Cartwright, Mouette, Petelin and Andrasko, Raleigh, Saris, De Soto, etc. - The work is falsely attributed on the title-page to Johan Lodewijk Gottfried, by Van der Aa, most likely because he made good money publishing Gottfried's "Chronicle" in 1702. In reality Gottfried had nothing to do with the present work. The work was edited and co-published by Pieter van der Aa, known for his ambitious projects. Where other publishers were primarily concerned about the profits, Van der Aa wanted to publish outstanding books. For the present series of travels he either reused and revised older Dutch translations or had the original accounts translated for the first time into Dutch. In 1706 he already started publishing the translated voyages both in small (8vo) and large instalments (folio or 1mo), and a year later he published a 28-volume set of the 8vo editions. The folio editions were afterwards issued and divided in four large collections of two volumes each. The present issue, is a reissue of these four collections with their own independent title-pages and frontispieces, and ads a new general title-page and list of subscribers. - While all sets seem to be described as "folio" the present set is printed mainly as 1mo, with some occasional quires in folio. And as the large editions of the two volume sets were available on normal paper (80 guilders) and on large paper (100 guilders; Hoftijzer, p. 43), it seems very likely the present set is one printed on large paper. All leaves are unwatermarked and the 1mo leaves are only slightly trimmed (measuring 396 x 238 mm with the tranchefiles often still visible) the folio leaves are trimmed more and don't have visible tranchefiles. The fourth volume is from a different set which is trimmed down much more, but also combines both 1mo and folio leaves. - Some occasional spots, a couple minor restorations and a few wormholes; a very good set, but with the fourth volume from a different and heavily trimmed set (though printed on the same large paper), in a modern binding and lacking the frontispiece and the title-page to the volume. The seven volumes with contemporary bindings slightly worn along the extremities and with some minor wear on the sides, but otherwise very good. Cordier (Sinica) 1942f. Muller, America 1889. Sabin 3 (note). Tiele, Bibl. 10. For Van der Aa: P.G. Hoftijzer, Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), Leids drukker en boekverkoper (1999).
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AA.VV.
La crisi del Medio Oriente. Israele '67
In 8, cm. 13,5 x 21, pp. 105 + (3), brossura editoriale. Quaderno del Centro studi Azione Comune. Libri e documenti per il movimento di emancipazione democratica 2. Cronistoria dei fatti legati al conflitto israelo-palestinese nel 1967 e ripercussioni sul mondo politico italiano.
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AA.VV.
Le conflit israelo arabe. Dossier
In 8, cm. 13,5 x 21,5, pp. 991, in appendice carta geografica di Israele e Stati Arabi. Brossura editoriale lievemente brunita. Collana Les Temps Modernes, direttore Jean Paul Sartre, 22o annee 1967, n. 253 bis. Pagine uniformemente brunite.
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AA.VV.
Palestina -Mensile n° 1 -
In 8° br. pp. 127 ill.
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AA.VV.
Stati del Mediterraneo Orientale e del Mar Rosso 1941.
Carta fisico-politica molto interessante. Cartina a sette colori - Scala 1:4000000 (cm. 96x156). Milano-Ist. Studi politica intern., 1941. Sono segnalate: ferrovie, strade principali e secondarie, oleodotti, paludi, pozzi petroliferi, sorgenti, castelli, ponti, fiumi, mercati. Sono presenti riquadri in varie scale: il Bosforo, i Dardanelli, il Canale di Suez, il Delta del Nilo, Alessandria, Cairo, Istanbul. Piccole riparazioni sul retro. Ottime condizioni.
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AA.VV.
Storia della Turchia dal regno di Acmet I sino ai nostri giorni
1 22x15 cm., legatura in mezza pelle con fregi e titolo in oro al dorso, pagg. 478, 18 bellissime incisioni a colori fuori testo, in italiano, buone condizioni. L'opera completa consta di due volumi, disponiamo solo del secondo, comunque sempre interessante
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AA.VV.
VERITE' SUR L'AFGHANISTAN - DUCUMENTS FAITS TEMOIGNAGES
Pagine: 174 . Illustrazioni: Foto in bianco e nero fuori testo . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Brossura originale . Caratteristiche: In francese .
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AA.VV..
Il grande Medio Oriente. Il nuovo arco dell'instabilità.
In 8°, br. edit., pp. 277,(1); prima ed., monografia a cura dell'Istituto per gli studi di Politica Internazione - ISPI copia molto buona. (LU013) (La spedizione standard è SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata - piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
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Aaron J. Klein
Striking Back -
Random House Publishing - 2005. PB/Gd. condition/256 pages - The 1972 Munich olympics massacre and Israel's deadly response. K1562HR7. Soft Cover. Good. Random House Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : K1562
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Aaronsohn, Aaron / Oppenheimer, Hillel.
Tsemah 'Ever Ha-Yarden: mifkad bikoret li-tsemahim asher ne'esfu u-miktsatam hugderu 'al yede Aharon Aharonson be-meshekh mas'otav (1904-1908) be-'Ever ha-Yarden uva-'Aravah. Zichron Yaakov, Ma'sav (privately published), 1934.
8vo. (8), 384 pp. Cloth-backed red boards with title inked on spine, likely privately bound. Very rare privately published botanical text on the famous expedition of the Jewish agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-1919) through the Anti-Lebanon mountain range and his subsequent discovery of what was claimed to be the oldest wild wheat, ancestor of all farmed wheat today. - While the exact line of descent of modern wheat is contested and complex, Aaronsohn's wheat - wild emmer - was indeed ancient, and its discovery remains a landmark moment in historical botany and the study of the history of human civilization. Like much of Aaronsohn's work, his detailed notes on the wild wheat distribution and other botanical notes on the landscapes he surveyed were published posthumously by Aaronsohn's family. The text includes numerous scientific names and an index, plus 13 botanical designs and 38 photoplates documenting the expedition. A folding map at the rear is titled "Aaronsohn's travels in Jordan and the distribution of wild wheat in the land of Israel". Largely in Hebrew, supplemented with scientific Latin, this Hebrew version is very uncommon, as Aaronsohn's work was originally published in French as "Florula transiordanica: révision critique des plantes récoltées et partiellement determinées", also by his family, in 1931. - Binding bumped at extremeties; a few library stamps to title-page, along with some minor paper repairs. Altogether in good condition. OCLC 42945306.
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ABBOTT (Nabia)
Studies in arabic literary papyri. Vol. 2 : Qur'anic commentary and tradition.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1967. In-4, rel. de l'éd. demi-toile gommée marron, titrée en doré au dos, 293 pp., 27 planches en noir, certaines dépl., index,
Bookseller reference : 595569
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Abbate, Washington.
[Al-Asura]. Al-Achoura. Par Washington Abbate. (Croquis de l’auteur). Cairo, Imprimerie Franco-Égyptienne, 1888.
Folio (254 x 355 mm). 14 leaves (letterpress within lithographed illustrated borders). Loose in original wrapper covers with title printed in French and (in gilt letters) Arabic. Stored in custom-made green half morocco case. Beautifully illustrated publication on the Muslim festivity of Al-Ashura. For Shia Muslims, Ashura, the tenth day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram and commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala. Illustrated by the author throughout; a fine, late production of the French press in Egypt. - Contemporary ownership stamp "A.T." to upper cover. Covers slightly stained, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. OCLC 456737731.
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Abbondanza, Vincenzo.
Dizionario storico delle vite di tutti i monarchi ottomani [...]. Rome, Luigi Vescovi & Filippo Neri, 1786.
Large 4to (ca. 210 x 273 mm). XXXII, 392 pp. Unsophisticated modern full calf. Only edition of this rare work on the history of the Ottoman Empire. Includes biographical entries for sultans and other leading figures, topographical references, as well as architectural and religious entries. - Occasionally, illustrated copies containing a frontispiece, plates, plans and maps have been known to appear, but these do not seem to form part of the regular issue but rather were inserted in specially prepared copies, and "neither the British Library nor the Gennadius copies have them" (Atabey). - An untrimmed, wide-margined copy, occasionally a little stained but altogether well preserved, with a 19th century armorial stamp to the title-page. Atabey 2 (extra-illustrated copy). OCLC 35682561. Not in Blackmer.
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Abbott John
The Iranians: How They Live and Work
England: David & Charles 1977. Photos. Map. Index. Stained dust jacket. 168 pp. 8vo. Hardcover . Catalogs: IRAN. England: David & Charles, (1977) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4632
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Abboushi W. F.
THE ANGRY ARABS
Philadelphia PA: The Westminster Press 1974. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W maps. ISBN 0664209912 This study of Arab-Western relations--from the time of Mohammed to the present--gives the historical background and the immediate consequences and implications of centuries of misunderstanding between the Middle East and the West. 285pp. The Westminster Press unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS042306I ISBN : 0664209912 9780664209919
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Abd al-Wahhab, Ata. ; 'Abd al-Wahhab, `Ata.
Sirat amal siyasi : Baghdad - `Amman (2003-2006)
Large octavo in pictorial pale blue wraps; 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Arabic. Fikr siyasi =; Politics. Diplomats -- Iraq -- Biography. `Abd al-Wahhab, `Ata. Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- Political biography, Baghdad - Amman (2003-2006)
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Abd-al-Halim al Qaysari (Suwaylim-Zadah).
Bahghat al-albab fi 'l-asturlab (and other works). No place, [1733/34 CE =] 1146 H.
4to (170 x 225 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished paper. 77 ff. Black and occasional red ink, 21 lines, per extensum, extensive marginalia throughout, a few smaller interleaved sheets of commentary. Contemporary brown papered boards with rebacked leather spine. An extensive Arabic astronomical manuscript in seven parts, comprising: - 1. (fols. 1-18) a rare treatise on the astrolabe, providing the names of its various parts and segments and instructions as to its use, by Abd al-Hakim al-Qaysari (Sweilam Zadeh, Abdalhalim al-Qaysari Söylemzade). - 2. (fols. 19-33) Muhammad Abi Bakr (Sajjili Zadeh), Taeliqat ealaa risalat al-adab 'l-i-Tash Kabry Zadeh (a commentary on Tashkoprizadeh). - 3. (fols. 34-42) Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Arabshah al-Isfara'ini (d. 944 H/1537 CE), Sawf ealaa risalat alayjy. - 4. (fols. 43-62) Ahmed bin Omar bin Ali, Hashiat ealaa Tash Kabry Zadeh (brief remarks on Tashkoprizadeh). - 5. (fols. 63-66) Ejalat kfayyt liwasayil alssayilin liwazayif alkalam (Sufficient urgency for the questioners' means for speech functions). - 6. (fols. 67-71) Sharah alshamsya (Explanation of the sun). - 7. (fols. 71-77) Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qaz Abadi, Sharah risalat al-adab li-'l-Barkawi (Explanation of the commentary on manners by al-Barkawi). - Binding a little stained; paper slightly brittle along the edges, but clean. Cf. GAL S II, 1017.
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Abdel Bari Atwan
The Secret History of al Qaeda -
University of California Press - 2006. Hardcover/pub.2006/Gd. condition/256 pages - A history of the terrorist group Al Qaeda . AR66624z. Hardcover. Good. University of California Press - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6624z ISBN : 0520249747 9780520249745
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Abdel Fadil Mahmoud
Papers on the Economics of Oil: A Producer's View
U.K.: Oxford University Press 1979. Detailed text provides a systematic account of the views of the Arab oil-producing countries on the basic issues underlying debates in the most crucial areas of international oil affairs. Contains nine papers contributed by some of the leading figures in policy-making in international oil affairs and oil-developmental economists in the Arab world. 110 pgs. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Oxford University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : EC-43 ISBN : 0198771517 9780198771517
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Abdel – Kader Razak
Israele e il mondo arabo
Cm. 15.5x21, pp. 516 (8), brossura editoriale. Ottimo pari al nuovo. Le radici storiche del problema mediorientale indagate e descritte con rigore storico e sapienza divulgativa.
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Abdel-Kader A. Razak.
Israele e il mondo arabo. Ebrei e arabi di fronte all'avvenire.
Prima ediz.; R. D5.
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ABDEL-MALEK - BELAL - DJAIT
La rinascita del mondo arabo. Prefazione di Miriam Mafai
232 p.; 18,5 cm. Brossura editoriale. Molto buono
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Abdelkader al-Jazairi, Emir of Mascara, Algerian freedom fighter (1808-1883).
Autograph letter with tughra stamp. N. p. [probably Damascus], [24 Aug. 1865 =] 1 Rabi' al-Thani 1282.
Small folio (310 x 210 mm). 8 lines in Arabic on bifolium. With a French translation in a different hand on the same page. Letter of recommendation for one of Adelkader's sons to Stéphane Poignant, the prefect of Algiers: "A sa seigneurie le grand, l'élevé, Monsieur le Préfet d'Alger, que Dieu vous bénisse [...] Nous espérons de votre bonté et de votre excellente initiative, un bon accueil en faveur du porteur Es-Séid Kaddour ben Mahi Ed-din qui est au nombre de mes enfants et qui compte parmi les personnes que nous chérissons le plus. Nous espérons que vous l'aiderez de tout votre pouvoir dans ses affaires [...]". - Stéphane Poignant served as prefect of the Department of Algiers from 1864 to 1869. Emir Abd el-Kader is an important figure in the Algerian resistance to French colonisation. Captured in 1847, he was held in France and released in 1852. After spending some time in Paris, he travelled the Middle East and settled in Syria in 1860. During the anti-Christian riots in the same year, he saved numerous Christians threatened by the Druze from massacre, which brought him international recognition. - Traces of folds and some browning.
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ABDLLAH RIZA ERGVEN.
Dinlerin kökeni ve Islam'da reform.
Fine English Dinlerin kökeni ve Islam'da reform., Abdullah Riza Ergüven, Berfin yayinlari, Ist., 1996. Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. 557 p. B/w ills. fine. Origins of the religions and reform in Islam.
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