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Spilsbury, F[rancis] B.
Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. Second edition. London, B. R. Howlett for Thomas McLean, 1819.
Folio (500 x 350 mm). IV, 42 pp. With 19 aquatints by Edward Orme after sketches by Spilsbury in original hand colour. Contemporary half cloth with red boards and printed label to upper cover. Second edition of English naval surgeon Francis Spilsbury’s account of his travels in Palestine and Syria during the Napoleonic campaigns there, with 19 finely hand-coloured folio aquatint views. Spilsbury was surgeon on board HMS Tigre during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. The Tigre brought Sir William Sidney Smith to defend Acre against Napoleon’s siege, and led a naval force in support of Turkish armies which finally relieved Acre, and his text gives some account of the military campaigns and the Turkish dignitaries. In his reminiscences Napoleon accused Smith of making him miss his destiny, as Smith’s timely appearance thwarted Napoleon’s drive to invade Syria and forced him to retreat to Egypt. The views are mostly connected with the coastal towns of modern Lebanon and Israel, though several are from Spilsbury’s travels inland to meet the Grand Vizier in charge of the Turkish army, Jezzar Pacha, and other dignitaries. First published in folio in 1803, with a mezzotint portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith that was not included in this second edition; a third followed in 1823. - Some staining to covers; aquatints are perfectly preserved. Tooley 464. Cf. Atabey 1168f. Blackmer 1585. Abbey, Travel 381. Colas 2788. Weber II, 835. Aboussouan 852.
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Stosch, Philipp von.
Pierres antiques gravées, sur lesquelles les graveurs ont mis leurs noms [...]. Gemmae antiquae caelatae, scalptorum nominibus insignitae [...]. Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1724.
Folio (ca. 240 x 368 mm). (6), XXI, (1), 97, (1) pp. Latin and French parallel title-pages printed in red and black (with half-title on recto of Latin title). With 2 engraved title vignettes, 3 engraved headpieces and 70 numbered engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine and spine label. All edges red. Pastedowns marbled. First edition. - A prominent work on engraved gems by the German numismatist and collector of antiques, Stosch (1691-1757), giving detailed descriptions of 70 pieces in European collections, followed by splendid reproductions by the French engraver Bernard Picart (1673-1733). In Latin and French parallel text with wide margins. - Late 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of the naturalist and Swedish civil servant Mathias Benzelstierna (1713-91), who studied with Carl Linné and became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1786. - Binding slightly rubbed. A clean, well preserved copy. Lewine 516. Cicognara 3016. Brunet V, 552 ("rather sought-after"). Graesse VI, 504. Ebert 21801. Blackmer 1613. Cohen/de Ricci 959. Hoefer XLIV, 510. Vinet 1616. Sander 1553. Querard, La France litteraire IX, 273.
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Abidin, Ihsan.
Pferdezucht und Pferderassen im osmanischen Reiche. Berlin, Verlag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Züchtungskunde, 1918.
8vo. 31, (1) pp., with 47 pp. of black-and-white photo plates. Modern half cloth. Rare treatise on the various breeds of Arabian horses in the Ottoman Empire, a translation of the author's "Osmanli atlari", published in Istanbul the previous year. "I have decided to reissue my book in German because, as far as I know, the German language does not possess of an extensive and detailed account of the several horse breeds of Turkey, in especial of the Arabian horse and its various sub-breeds and strains. I was also encouraged by the great interest that Turkey evinces quite generally throughout Germany, and the close economic connexions between these two allied countries which we are to expect after the end of the war may also bring about closer relations in the field of horse breeding [...]" (preface). The copious plate section shows numerous breeds of Arabian horses. - Occasional brownstaining with the odd contemporary German annotation in copying pencil, but well preserved altogether. A single copy outside Germany (Catholic University of Paris); none in America (only a microfilm of the Tübingen copy at Harvard). Flugschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Züchtungskunde 42. OCLC 72415601. Not in Boyd/Paul.
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Ahmet Resmî Efendi / Diez, Heinrich Friedrich von (ed. & transl.).
Wesentliche Betrachtungen oder Geschichte des Krieges zwischen den Osmanen und Russen in den Jahren 1768 bis 1774 von Resmi Achmed Efendi, aus dem Türkischen übersetzt und durch Anmerkungen erläutert [...]. Halle & Berlin, in Commission der Buchhandlungen des Hallischen Waisenhauses, 1813.
8vo. (2), 307, (1) pp. Contemporary marbled half calf with giltstamped red label to prettily gilt spine. All edges red. First German translation of the "Layiha" of Ahmet Resmî bin Ibrahim Giridî (1700-83), a Greek-Ottoman statesman and diplomat and Turkey's first ambassador to Berlin. A political memoir on the Ottoman-Russian war of 1768-74, one of the few existing accounts from the Turkish perspective. Between 1772 and 1773 the Ottomans undertook ultimately abortive negotiations with the Russians during which Ahmed Resmi pressed for peace, arguing that the Russians were badly overextended and that both sides should recognize their military and territorial limitations. Such thinking was still novel in Ottoman administration and represents the good understanding of the balance of power diplomacy which the author had gained at the courts of Vienna and Berlin. - The oriental scholar H. F. Diez (1751-1817) had trained as a jurist but, bored by his administrative occupation, soon left the Prussian civil service and in 1784 went to Constantinople as Frederick the Great's chargé d'affaires at the Sublime Porte. He was ennobled after only two years of successful diplomatic service. Recalled in 1790 on the eve of the Russo-Turkish War, the self-confessed Turkophile soon retired to the life of an independent scholar and book collector in Berlin. His orientalist publications captured the attention of the learned world, and he moved in the circles of Goethe, Gleim, and Alexander von Humboldt, though largely outside the contemporary tradition of academic oriental studies. "Even if many aspects of his scholarly life are almost forgotten, his merits, especially for the development of Turkish studies, are noteworthy [...] His works, almost completely printed at his own expense, reflect his interest in the origins of Asian cultures, literatures, and politics, as well as everyday issues and ethics" (J. Gonnella et al. [ed.], The Diez Albums [Leiden, 2017], p. 58, 76). - Corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Bookplate of the "Brigade-Schule zu Potsdam"; several 19th century stamps of Prussian military academies on title-page; old shelfmark label to spine. Katalog der k. k. Kriegs-Bibliothek (1853), p. 266.
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Biot, J[ean]-B[aptiste].
Recherches sur plusieurs points de l'astronomie Égyptienne, appliquées aux monumens astronomiques trouvés en Égypte. Paris, Firmin Didot, père et fils, 1823.
8vo. XL, 318 pp. With 2 folding tables and 2 (instead of 4) folding lithographed plates. Contemporary marbled half calf. Edges sprinkled blue. First edition of this rare work on Egyptian astronomy and the so-called "Dendera zodiac". The zodiac was removed from the temple of Dendera by French soldiers during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and is today kept at the Louvre. Conceived around 50 BC, it shows astrological symbols and gives evidence of the remarkable astronomical knowledge of ancient Egyptian priests. The mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) is best known as the author of the "Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique" (1805). Although some copies contain two additional plates showing the zodiac, these appear to be missing from most copies. - Corners somewhat bumped. Removed from the Imperial Russian Military Academy with their bookplate to front pastedown. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 70. Gay 1646. Brunet VI, 8193. OCLC 4895344.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Histoire de l'ordre des Assassins. Paris, (Auffray for) Paulin, March 1833.
8vo. (4), 367, (1) pp. Contemporary marbled half calf. Edges sprinkled blue. First French edition of the first extensive history of the medieval Muslim sect of the Assassins, a radical group from whose name the English term for a political or religious killer is derived. A fanatical branch of the Ismaili Muslims who viewed themselves as martyrs, the Assassins specialised in political murder (usually carried out with a dagger), often conducted in broad daylight and in full view of the public, so as to instill terror in their foes. Contemporaries found it incomprehensible that they entirely accepted the fact of their own death as a consequence, as they made no attempt to escape and exposed themselves to the revenge of the victim's followers. Acting from a strong ideological conviction, the Assassins aimed to re-establish a theocracy, the basic Islamic order bequeathed by the Prophet, as they felt their contemporary world order to be usurped by tyrants. Most of their victims were Sunni Muslims, especially the Seljuk rulers of the 12th and 13 centuries. - For this history, which first appeared in German in 1818, Hammer-Purgstall draws from a wide variety of mainly oriental sources (Ibn Khaldun, Jihannuma, Abulfeda, Persian and Turkish chronicles, with a small number of western studies included), all of which he lists at the beginning, and ultimately compares the mediaeval sect to the modern fanatics of his own day, particularly the Jacobin party of the French Revolution. Among the goals which he wishes to have achieved with his book, he writes, is to have "given an account of the pernicious influence of secret societies under weak governments". - Binding slightly rubbed; corners bumped. Removed from the Imperial Russian Military Academy with their bookplate to front pastedown. Brunet III, 33. Graesse III, 205. Goedeke VII, 762, 47. Cf. Atabey 556; Blackmer 787 (1835 English edition only). Cf. Wurzbach VII, 274, I B 1 (German first edition). Not in Wilson.
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Vidal, F[ederico] S.
The Oasis of Al-Hasa. [Dhahran, Saudi Arabia], Aramco, 1955.
8vo. (16), 216 pp. With a folding map in the lower cover. Original printed cloth. First edition of this study of the traditional historical region of Al-Hasa near Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, created a World Heritage site in 2018. The anthropologist and surveyor Federico S. Vidal, an Aramco employee, would develop his work into a 3-volume Harvard Ph.D. thesis in 1964. - Handwritten ownership of Hazel D. Blair to front free endpaper. An excellent copy of this scarce work.
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[Ibn Sina (Avicenna)] / Oddis, Oddus de.
In primam totam Fen primi libri canonis Avicenn[a]e dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa aßiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi Medici eiusdem filij. Venice, Paolo and Antonio Meietti, 1575.
4to. With woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum. Rare first and only edition of a commentary on book I, fen I of Avicenna's Canon, including the Latin version of the text by Andrea Alpago and Jacob Mantino. Like most of Oddi's work it was published posthumously by his son Marco degli Oddi. "Although in the body of his work much of the time he treated Avicenna with nominal respect, this was apt to be achieved through a procedure of deducing Avicenna's 'real' opinion by consulting Galen. In addition, Oddo Oddi had a long-standing interest in the problem of securing a better Latin text of the Canon (he was on the academic committee that approved Alpago's work and he encouraged Graziolo many years later); he based his exposition on Alpago's text, which he claimed to be in general use, and rather frequently compared the latter's renderings with those of Gerard of Cremona and Jakob Mantino." (Siraisi). Before practicing Medicine in Venice, Oddo degli Oddi (1478-1558) taught classics (Greek and Latin) at the University of Padua. Eventually he went back to Padua, where he taught Medicine. He was a committed supporter of Galen's doctrines. - With owner's inscription on fly-leaf dated 1586, two owner's names on title-page (one struck trough) and some manuscript notes in the margins. Binding slightly wrinkled, but internally in very good condition. Arcadian library 15358. Durling 3388. Edit 16, 30889. USTC 845237 (4 copies outside Italy). Cf. N. G. Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500 (1987), p. 193.
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Croce, Giulio Cesare / Nikola Palikuca (transl.).
Himbenost pritankogh Veleznanstva Nasradinova. Ancona, Pietro Paolo Ferri, 1771.
12mo. With a woodcut of the main character on the title-page. Contemporary plain wrappers. Very rare first edition of a Croatian translation of the popular comic novel "Le sottilissime astuzie di Bertoldo" by Giulio Cesare Croce, first published in 1606. Based on oral traditions, this highly popular novel told the story of the farmer Bertoldo, who is sometimes cunning and at other times stupid. In this Croatian version the translator "localized" the name of the main character to Nasreddin, thereby establishing a link with the famous 13th-century Turkish satirist Nasreddin Hodja, whose stories were well known in the Balkan region. The translator, Nikola Palikuca from Prokljan (near Šibenik) was probably the pseudonym of a friar or nun. A second edition of the book was published in 1799 in Venice. - With owner's inscriptions on the final blank and interior of the wrapper and some pencil crossing on the back of the title-page. Browned and with waterstains throughout, nevertheless a structurally good edition of a very rare book. Deželjin, "Bertoldi di Giulio Cesare Croce e il riflesso di quest'opera nell'altra sponda dell'Adriatico" in: Capasso, L'Italia altrove, atti del III convegno internazionale di studi dell'AIBA, pp. 135-144. Not in WorldCat; ICCU.
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Heine, Maurice.
L'Islam sous la cendre. Paris, (colophon: Frazier-Soye), (19 February) 1918.
Square 4to (250 × 260 mm). With the frontispiece in three states: a lithographed plate, a hand-coloured miniature painting on vellum, highlighted with gold, and an engraved plate; and with the half-title printed in blue and several words in the text printed in green and blue. Original green cloth. One of six copies (numbered 4) of a sumptuous publication of poems on Islam by the French poet, writer and publisher Maurice Heine (1884-1940). The entire edition consists of 77 copies, of which only the first six (numbered 1-6) were printed on dyed Japanese paper and included the frontispiece in three states, of which one painted and highlighted with gold on parchment. The frontispiece, an Arabic text surrounded by flowers, was designed and drawn by the Algerian miniature painter Mohammed Racim (1896-1975), founder of the Algerian school of miniature painting that still exists. The included poems are: La demeure harmonieuse; Dans la maison moresque; Palais d'Islam; Le voyage en faience; Le cyprès; Alger-aux-barbares; and La mort d'Alger. The work opens with a half-title printed in blue, followed by a blank leaf, a leaf with the privilege, another half-title, three frontispieces, the title-page, and a dedication, followed by the prologue and the seven poems. It closes with a colophon, mentioning the different copies of the book. Below the colophon is the print number: "Exemplaire no. 4. Imprimé pour le docteur Pierre Astruc". - With a presentation inscription to Pierre Astruc: "à Pierre Astruc, avec toute l'affection de ton ami dévoué, Maurice Heine". In very good condition. C. Tailliart, L'Algérie dans la littérature française 123. WorldCat (3 copies).
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Hietzinger, Carl Bernhard Edler von.
Statistik der Militärgränze des österreichischen Kaiserthums. Ein Versuch [...]. Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1817-1823.
Large 8vo. 2 parts in 3 vols. XX, 299, (135) pp. XII, 467, (1) pp. XII, 668, (8) pp. With 4 folding tables and 1 folding lithographed map of the Military Frontier. Contemporary giltstamped full calf with charmingly giltstamped spine; leading edges gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns. First edition. - Elaborate study of the "Militärgrenze" (Military Frontier), a borderland of Imperial Austria set up for national defence against the Ottoman Empire, by Hietzinger (1786-1864), a civil servant in the Court Council of War. "Of lasting historical value" (cf. Wurzbach). The map shows the area of the Military Frontier as well as the positions of the infantry and cavalry regiments stationed there. The folding tables provide details on the size and population density of the area, various 18th century organisational reforms, as well as temperature and minerals of the Baths of Mehadia (Baths of Hercules) in modern Romania. The first part was published with a dedication to Archduke Ludwig Joseph of Austria, a younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The index of subscribers in volume I, sometimes bound after the XX pp. of preliminaries, is bound at the end of the present copy. Author's initials and shelfmarks to the flyleaves of all three volumes. - A few paper flaws to the index of volume I, not touching text. A very well preserved, appealingly bound copy. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his stamped and signed ownership to flyleaves, dated 1977. Kayser III, 142. Wurzbach IX, 8f. (misquoting the title).
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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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[Oil - Middle East].
The Petroleum Times. [Drop-title]: Review of Middle East Oil. A comprehensive illustrated review of all aspects of current developments based on a recent extended tour by Dr. C.T. Barber [...]. London, Brettenham house, June 1948.
Small folio (30 × 23.5 cm). With many reproductions of photographs, ground plans, maps, and cross-sections. Later cardboard binder. Extract from the periodical "The Petroleum Times", containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions, accompanied by a map showing their oil fields, followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran, Iraq, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Haifa (Israel) and Kuwait, describing the area's geology, oil fields, reservoirs, and more, illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. - Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries (probably advertisements), but the article itself complete, some leaves slightly creased, otherwise in very good condition.
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Villotte, Jacques, SJ.
Voyages d'un missionaire de la Compagnie de Jesus, en Turquie, en Perse, en Armenie, en Arabie & en Barbarie. Paris, Vincent, 1730.
8vo. (6), 647 pp. Modern half calf with giltstamped spine. First edition. - The Jesuit Jacques Villotte (1656-1743) was sent to China. Leaving Marseilles in 1688, he arrived in Isfahan in October 1689. His various attempts to penetrate China were unsuccessful, and he settled in Isfahan, where he remained for twelve years. He was not recalled to France until 1712. At Isfahan, he taught plainchant to the Persians and translated several works in Armenian. - Some staining. OCLC locates no copy in the U.S.; however, one copy in Princeton (the Atabey copy). Atabey 1294. De Backer/Sommervogel VIII, 789 (quoting a slightly different title, possibly in error).
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Wallin, Georg.
[Qissat Yusuf an-Naggar] sive historia Josephi Fabri lignarii. Liber apocryphus ex codice manuscripto regiae bibliothecae Parisiensis. Leipzig, Andreas Zeidler, 1722.
4to. (16), 110, (2) pp. Contemporary full calf. First edition of the Arabic text of the "History of Joseph the Carpenter", one of the oldest New Testament Apocrypha. A compilation of traditions concerning Mary, Joseph, and the "holy family", it probably was composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th or early 7th century but is preserved only in Coptic and Arabic versions. The Arabic text was edited by Georg Wallin (1686-1760), the learned Lutheran archbishop of Göteborg. - Some browning, more pronounced in margins of title-page. Binding lightly rubbed at extremeties. Old Swedish deaccessioning note ("Duplett") on pastedown. Wants first free endpaper. Rare. Schnurrer 413. OCLC 165689104.
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Metellus, Johannes.
Asia tabulis aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineata. Oberursel, Sutor, 1600.
4to. 12 double-page maps with accompanying Latin text, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary decorated calf gilt. Johannes Matalius Metellus (ca. 1517-97) was a French jurist who spent his early life travelling in Italy. Later Metellus moved to Louvain. Around 1579, he became involved in Cologne's cartographic publishing industry, when he is thought to have contributed to the "Itinerarium Orbis Christiani". He also contributed a description of Lyon to Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". There is a very attractive map of Arabia. "His map of Japan is the earliest known copy of Teixeira's map, which had appeared in Ortelius" (Walter 20). Metellus was a friend of Matthias Quad, whose name is sometimes associated with the posthumous completion of the Metellus atlas of the Americas (it was published in 1598; Metellus is thought to have died in 1597). The cartographer was also in correspondence with Abraham Ortelius. At one point he gave Ortelius assistance collating Ptolemy's Cosmography with manuscripts in the Vatican. This was evidently needed for the completion of Ortelius's "Parergon Theatri". - Minor foxing generally not affecting maps, minor worming. Al-Qasimi 36. Tibbetts 59. H. P. Kraus, Monumenta Cartographica, items 45 & 52.
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Tarenghi, Enrico, Italian painter (1848-1938).
Carpet sellers and a camel beside the Nile. [Rome?, late 19th century?].
Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 × 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 × 66 cm), behind plastic. Attractive watercolour painting by the Italian orientalist painter Enrico Tarenghi (1848-1938), it shows three bearded men with carpets and two poufs. One of them is clearly the seller, another is inspecting the wares and the third is sitting on the ground rolling up one of the carpets. In the background a wide river (generally assumed to be the Nile), a dromedary and dozens of palm trees. Tarenghi made extensive use of photography in his work and often used photographs as a template for the background. The present setting is found more often in his work, not only showing carpet sellers, but also merchants selling fruit. The carpet trade, however, seems to be one of his favourite subjects regardless of the background. The carpets allowed Tarenghi to show off his skills, with their intricate motives, textures, creases and folds. - Small waterstain and minor defects at the foot and a few other negligible blemishes, but otherwise in very good condition. For the artist: Thieme & Becker XXXII, p. 445.
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Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim (attrib.) / Schlechta von Wssehrd, Ottokar (transl.).
[Yusof o Zolayka]. Jussuf und Suleicha. Romantisches Heldengedicht. Vienna, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1889.
Small 4to. (2), XIII, (3), 267, (1) pp. Printed original wrappers, bound within contemporary green half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title to spine. First edition, inscribed by the translator and several pencil corrections to the text. Rabenlechner praises this sumptuous edition of the 11th century narrative poem long attributed to the Persian epic poet Firdawsi: "the initial - gilt on blue background - shows Cufic character; each of the book's 17 gatherings is in a different colour" (cf. p. 125). Schlechta's autograph inscription is on the inside upper cover: "Zur freundlichen Erinnerung. Baden, 3.7.1889. Der Übersetzer". Rabenlechner I,125. ÖBL X,175. Rypka 782.
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Galland, [Julien Claude].
Recueil des rits et cérémonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, auquel on a joint divers ecrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs. Amsterdam & Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1754.
8vo. IV, 215, (1) pp. (Bound with:) Fénelon, [Gabriel Jacques] de Salignac de la Mothe. Directions pour la conscience d'un Roi, composées pour l'instruction de Louis de France. La Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1748. XII, 107, (1) pp. T. p. in red and black. Contemp. French full calf, spine gilt with floral designs in 5 compartments and giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Only edition. "Galland's account of the rituals surrounding the pilgrimage to Mekkah includes enlightening description of many of the important shrines and sites within the city. Extensive footnotes describe the history and physical appearance of such features as the Kaaba, the Black Stone, and Mount Ararat, as well as explaining relevant Arabic terms and the importance of certain religious figures in the Islamic tradition" (Atabey cat.). "Galland, 'dragoman' or interpreter in the Levant, nephew of the celebrated orientalist Antoine Galland, translated many works into French, the present work being a collected edition of five Arabic and Turkish pieces" (Blackmer). Also contains a discussion of Ottoman science (the "Traduction d'une dissertation sur les sciences des Turcs, et sur l'ordre qu'ils gardent dans le cours de leurs études" by Zaini Efendi, pp. 85-98) and an extensive essay on the Greek island of Chios, ruled by Genoa from 1436 to 1566, when the Ottomans conquered the island (pp. 99-172), as well as an account of the Sultana Esma with Yakub Pasha, governor of Silistria. - Bound at the end is a later edition of Fénelon's well-known Mirror for Magistrates, written for the Dauphin, whose instructor Fénelon was (with contemporary note indexing this second work written on reverse of front flyleaf). - Slight browning throughout; lower half of title page remargined with a lithographed facsimile, extremeties repaired. Altogether an attractive copy; the Atabey copy (in a contemporary morocco binding for the provost of Paris) fetched £10,158 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 996. Atabey 470. Aboussouan 369. Blackmer 643. Gay 3639. Van Hulthem I, 2509. Grenoble 5218. Nyon 21020. OCLC 13232933.
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Ibn Yemini / Schlechta von Wssehrd, Ottokar (Übers.).
Ibn' Jemin's Bruchstücke aus dem Persischen übertragen [...]. Zweite Auflage. Wien, Manz'sche k. k. Hof-Verlags- u. Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1879.
VII, (3), 180 SS. Rotes Leinen über den originalen rot-schwarz gemusterten Deckeln mit dem Namen des Verfassers auf goldenem Feld mit Rankenverzierung in Rot. 12mo. Schöne zweite Auflage der "Bruchstücke", erstmals 1852 erschienen, und "in Format und Einband ganz der Diamant-Ausgabe von Bodenstedts 'Mirza Schaffy' ähnlich" (Rabenlechner). Ibn Yemini lebte im 14. Jahrhundert und war der Sohn eines aus Turkestan stammenden, in Khorassan ansässigen Emirs, dessen Güter er nach dessen Tode verwaltete. Die "Bruchstücke" sind Dichtungen vorwiegend philosophisch-didaktischen Inhalts. - Mit Besitzvermerk "D. Rasellina", dat. 11. X. 1943, am Vorsatz. Nachgebunden unter Verwendung des Originaleinbandes. Vorsatzblatt eingerissen. Rabenlechner I, 124. Vgl. Wurzbach XXX, 65. Graesse III, 407 (1852). Nicht bei Zenker.
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Jami, Nuru'din 'Abdu'r-Rahman / Wickerhauser, Moriz.
Blütenkranz aus Dschamis zweitem Diwan. Bei der XVIII. General-Versammlung der D.M.G. den hochverehrten deutschen Gästen zur Begrüssung in der Kaiserstadt dargebracht [...]. Wien, 25. September 1858. Wien, k. k. Hof- u. Staatsdruckerei, 1858.
43, (1) SS. Halblederband der Zeit über geblümten Deckeln mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. Seitenweise alternierend deutsch und persisch. 4to. Sammlung persischer Gedichte mit deutscher Übersetzung durch den Wiener Orientalisten Wickerhauser (1820-69), von 1848 bis 1861 Professor der orientalischen Sprachen an der Orientalischen Akademie in Wien. Innendeckel mit handschr. Bibliothekssignatur; Stempel der Bibliothek des Jesuitenkollegs Innsbruck am Titel verso. - Durchgehend leicht stockfleckig.
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Kalemkiar, Gregoris.
Eine Skizze der literarisch-typographischen Thätigkeit der Mechitharisten-Congregation in Wien aus Anlass des 50jährigen Regierungs-Jubiläums Sr. kais. u. kön. Apostolischen Majestät Kaiser Franz Josef I. Wien, Mechitharisten-Congregations-Buchdruckerei, 1898.
(2), (4), 74, 99, (3) SS. Mit zwei Lichtdrucktafeln und neun Zinkdruckabbildungen; Titel in rot und schwarz. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Unbeschnitten, teils unaufgeschnitten. Der zweite Teil enthält eine nach Sachgebieten gruppierte Bibliographie von ca. 1250 Titeln. Im Anhang das "Verzeichnis der in der Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei geschnittenen orientalischen Schriften": neben zahlreichen armenischen auch russisch-serbische, kyrillische, hebräische, syrische und chinesische Typen. Besterman 515.
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Labid / Al-Chalidi, Yusuf Dija-ad-din (Hrsg.).
Der Divan des Lebid. Nach einer Handschrift zum ersten Male herausgegeben [...]. Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1880.
(2), 152 SS. Bedr. blaue Originalbroschur. 8vo. Sehr seltene persische Textausgabe des Diwans des Dichters Labid. Yusuf Diya (1829-1906), der acht Monate lang an der Wiener Orientalischen Akademie Arabisch gelehrt hatte, war Abgeordneter des türkischen Parlaments in Konstantinopel und 1870-76 sowie 1878-79 Bürgermeister von Jerusalem. - Minimal stockfleckig. Unbeschnittenes, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. Nur zwei Exemplare nachweisbar: Dänische Königliche Bibliothek sowie Nationalbibliothek Strasbourg. OCLC 475092069.
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Lincke, Arthur.
Vom Wiener Orientalisten-Congress 27. September bis 2. October 1886. Ein Gedenkblatt. Dresden, Zahn & Jaensch, 1887.
8vo. 66 SS. Halbleinenband der Zeit (Bibliotheksbindung). Ausführlicher Bericht über den mehrtägigen Orientalisten-Kongress an der Universität Wien. Lincke gibt die wissenschaftlichen Verhandlungen der einzelnen Sektionen wieder und beschreibt auch das gesellige Beisammensein im Anschluss. - Rundstempel des Orientalischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig (Arabisch-Islamische Abteilung) am Titel; alte Bibliothekssignaturen.
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Mecca.
Manuscript map of the city and surroundings, captioned in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. Mecca, ca. 1885.
210 x 170 mm. Pencil and ink on paper, the map ruled in red. Small plan of the city and the adjacent terrain, obviously drawn around the time of Snouck Hurgronje's visit, during the last decades of Ottoman rule.
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Müller, Friedrich.
Erânica. Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1871.
(2), 11, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Marmorbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Aufsätze: "Das Auslaut- und Betonungsgesetz des Neupersischen"; "Über das Lautgesetz: altbaktr. sh = alteran. rt."; "dahân". "Aus dem Decemberhefte des Jahrganges 1870 der Sitzungsberichte der phil.-histor. Cl. der kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften [LXVI. Bd., S. 361] besonders abgedruckt." Im Rand etwas angestaubt. Mit Bibliotheksstempel des Indogermanischen Instituts der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig am Titelblatt sowie Ausscheidestempel.
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Pertsch, Wilhelm.
Die persischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha. Wien, k. k. Hof- u. Staatsdruckerei, 1859.
XI, (1), 143, (1) SS. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Der erste von insgesamt acht Bänden des Katalogs der orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Gotha und der einzige Band, der die persischen Werke verzeichnet. Den Katalog, der zwischen 1859 und 1893 erschien, verfasste der Bibliothekar und Orientalist Pertsch (1832-99), Beamter und ab 1879 Oberbibliothekar zu Gotha. Auf den Katalog der persischen Handschriften folgte jener der türkischen in einem Band, der arabischen in fünf Bänden und abschließend ein Band der übrigen orientalischen Handschriften. - Gering stockfleckig. Unbeschnittenes, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. Nicht bei Besterman.
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Qaragadagî, Muhaemmaed Gae`faer / Wahrmund, Adolf (Hrsg.).
[Musa Zurdan-i hakim-i nabatat wa Musta`ali-i Sah mashur bi Gadugar]. Monsieur Jourdan, der Pariser Botaniker, im Qarabag. Neupersisches Lustspiel [...]. Persischer Text mit wörtlicher deutscher Übersetzung, Anmerkungen und vollständigem Wörterverzeichnis [...]. Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1889.
VIII, 36, 33, (1), 30 SS. In arabischer und lateinischer Schrift. Grüner Leinenband mit Goldprägung. 8vo. Persisches Schauspiel nebst deutscher Übersetzung, herausgegeben durch den Wiener Orientalisten Wahrmund (1827-1913), seit 1885 Direktor der Orientalischen Akademie, wo die Ausgabe auch als Lehrmittel diente. - Einige Bleistiftanmerkungen, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. Zu Wahrmund vgl. Fück 187.
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Rosenzweig-Schwannau, Vincenz Edler von.
Perlen persischer Dichtkunst auf den Faden deutscher Redekunst [...]. Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1876.
16 SS. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe. Gedenkgabe für die Besucher der Vorträge des orientalischen Museums. "Aus dem literarischen Nachlasse [Rosenzweig-Schwannaus] gesammelt und von der k. u. k. orientalischen Academie zum ehrenden Andenken an ihren ehemaligen Lehrer herausgegeben" (Untertitel). Umfasst 29 persische Gedichte von Dschelaleddin Rumi, Saadi, Hilali, Mirza Kassim, Scheich Atthar, Chakani, Dschami, Farjabiin u. a. in deutscher Fassung aus dem Nachlass des Orientalisten und Übersetzers Rosenzweig von Schwannau (1791-1865). - Einband leicht angestaubt; kleiner durchgehender Nadelstich. Zu Rosenzweig vgl. Wurzbach XXVII, 34ff.
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Schlechta von Wssehrd, Ottokar.
Neue Bruchstücke orientalischer Poesie. Wien, Manz'sche k. k. Hof- Verlags- und Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1881.
(4), 207, (1) SS. Mit lithogr., goldgehöhtem Frontispiz. Originalleinenband mit goldgepr. Vorderdeckel und Rückentitel. 8vo. Erstausgabe, vom Verfasser gewidmet. - Schöner, "überaus prunkvoll" (Rabenlechner) gestalteter Band türkischer, persischer und arabischer Poesie. "Der Rand jeder Seite [...] ist goldgespritzt - es finden sich weiter schöne orientalisch-ornamentierte Kopfleisten in Gold - meist auch farbige - nur steht leider die Einfassung des Textes durch Verwendung des griechischen Mäanders mit dem orientalischen Stil etwas in Widerspruch" (ders.) Mit eigenhändiger Widmung und Unterschrift am Vorsatz: "Zeichen herzlicher Ergebenheit und Anhänglichkeit. Wien, 30. Mai 1881. OSchlechta". Besitzstempel "A. v. Kendler" am Titelblatt. Rabenlechner I, 124f.
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White, George Ransom.
Polish vs. Egyptian Arabian Horses / Polski Arabski kon a Egipski. My Visit to Polish State Stud / Moja Wizyta w Polskim Stadzie Panstwowym. Nashville, George Random White, [1938].
4to. 24 pp., including two black-and-white plates. Text in English and Polish. Bound in printed card covers as issued. Sole edition of this extremely rare publication, printed for private circulation, describing with great excitement the Polish programme of Arabian horse-breeding in the 1930s. On the eve of WWII, Dr George White visited the Polish State Stud and provides an invaluable record of the horses kept there, listing the stallions and mares he saw by name, as well as the names of those recently deceased. In 1939-40, many of Poland's prized Arabians were confiscated by the Russian and German armies, virtually demolishing the breeding programme in that country. - White had travelled the world comparing Arabian horses, having visited Egypt already in 1929 for that purpose, but was awestruck by what he discovered in Poland: "I had seen Arabian horses on four of the five continents of the world, but never before had such an Arabian horse display been exhibited before me ... The Polish Arab is superior in all material respects to the Egyptian". The plate at the end depicts "the author's conception of the world's two greatest living Arabian stallions - Kaszimir and Ofir", belonging to Prince Witold Czartoryski and to the Polish State Stud respectively, and White offers the prediction that "the day is not far distant when the countries of the world will be looking toward Poland for suitable foundation stock in the form of mares and stallions to either start or improve their Arabian horse breeding projects". - George Ransom White (b. 1874) was a friend and advisor to General Jacob M. Dickinson (1890-1963), the owner of Travellers Rest Stud in Nashville, TN. Dickinson began to import Polish Arabians in 1938 following Dr White's advice. - Rare: OCLC shows two copies worldwide, at the National Library of Poland and the British Library.
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Zamakhshari, Abu al-Quasim Mahmud ibn Umar / Hammer[-Purgstall], Joseph von (transl.).
[Atwaq al-dhahab]. Samachschari's Goldene Halsbänder. Als Neujahrsgeschenk arabisch und deutsch [...]. Vienna, A. Strauß' Wwe., 1835.
8vo. X, (11-)54 pp. 27 ff. Original lithographed wrappers bound in splendid blue morocco with giltstamped cover borders, green inlays, title to gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Stored in marbled slipcase. First editon, with the first German translation of this collection of moralizing addresses by the Arabic-Persian scholar Zamakhshari (1075-1144). Another translation, by H. L. Fleischer, appeared that same year in Leipzig. The present copy, untrimmed and partly uncut in the original lithographic wrappers, boasts a fine full morocco binding of the early 20th century with green morocco inlays and elaborate gilt ornamentation. - Some foxing throughout; spine sunned. A beautiful copy from an Austrian private collection. GAL I, 292, no. XVI (p. 349). Zenker I, 164, 1347. Fück 165, 175. WG² 47. Goedeke VII, 766, 90. Wurzbach VII, 277, 49. Brieger 965. Hirschberg 195. Kosch VII, 242. OCLC 978579284.
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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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Al-Tunisi (Muhammad Ibn Umar).
Travels of an Arab Merchant in Sudan (the Black Kingdoms of Central Africa). London, Chapman & Hall, 1854.
8vo. XVI, 336 pp. Original blind-stamped cloth. Highly uncommon: the first English edition, translated and abridged by St. John Bayle from Perron's French translation of the author's "Tashhidh al-adhhan bi-sirat al-`Arab wa-al-Sudan". The book is divided into two sections - Dafur and the Wadai - and is an informative anecdotal account of the regions, including detailed accounts of the lineage and customs of the respective royal families and inhabitants. Also mentions the pilgrimage to Mekka undertaken by the author's grandfather and his subsequent life in Jeddah. - Slightly rubbed. Only two copies in institutional possession: OCLC lists records for Oxford and Cambridge only. OCLC 265431715.
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Bellarmin, Robert, SJ.
[Tafsir wasi` `alá al-ta`lim al-Masihi (...)]. Dichiarazione piú copiosa della dottrina cristiana. Rome, [Propaganda Fide], 1770.
8vo. 411, (1) pp. (With:) Borgia, Stefano. Irsad li-ajl al-i'tiraf wa-tanawul al-qurban (...) [Instructions for confession and communion]. 109, (3) pp. Contemporary grey wrappers. Third Arabic edition of the complete text of Bellarmino's immensely popular catechism, translated into Arabic for the use of Catholic missionaries. Includes the rare first and only edition of Stefano Borgia's Arabic instructions for confession and communion. Borgia (1731-1804) was appointed secretary of the Propaganda Fide in 1770, the year they published the present third Arabic edition of the catechism. He added the instructions, apparently intending them to be bound with the catechism. - Text entirely in Arabic except for title-page and colophon. Old Bourges library stamp "Ex bibliotheca Majoris Seminarii Bituricensis". Wrappers slightly stained; interior very well preserved. A major product of the Propaganda Fide's efforts to convert Arabic-speaking people in the 18th century, including the rare instructions for confession and communion. De Backer/Sommervogel I, 1190 (& note). Schnurrer 303 (& note).
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[Constantinople - Plague].
Della peste di Costantinopoli del MDCCLXXVIII. Osservazioni sulla medesima e riflessioni dell’autore. Yverdun, no publisher, 1779.
8vo. V, (1), 117, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Very rare study of Constantinople's plague epidemic of the year 1778, by an anonymous eyewitness. Though not himself a medical man (as he confesses in the preface), he feels that most of Europe's learned physicians lack a practical understanding of the illness, for which reason he here sets out his own experiences in writing. - Only six copies in libraries worldwide, mostly in specialized medical research institutions (Wellcome, Institut Pasteur, New York Academy of Medicine, National Library of Medicine etc.). - Binding rubbed and chipped in places, but a very good copy. Wellcome II, 446. Blake 114.
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[Müteferrika] Effendi, Ibrahim.
Traité de tactique, ou methode artificielle pour l’ordonnance des troupes. Ouvrage publié et imprimé a Costantinople [...] traduit du Turc. Vienna, Trattner, 1769.
8vo. XLIV, 224 pp, 2 blank leaves. Modern half calf with giltstamped red spine label. First translation (by Károly Comte de Reviczky) of Müteferrika's discussion of the reform of the Ottoman military, which the author himself had published at his own press in 1732. This is the second issue, without the Arabic words "Usul al-hikam fi nizam al-umam" or the word "la" on the title-page and a new page-count (agreeing with the copy in the BSB). - Ownership and bookplate of an Italian collector Antuzzi on flyleaf. Untrimmed; a good copy. Rare, no copy can be traced in auction or trade records. Seemann (Trattner) 1958. Giese 1005. Petrik II, 200. Kriegsarchiv-Bibliothek Dg. 13. Oravetz, 119. Oravetz S., 25.
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Abidin, Ihsan (Akinci).
Osmanli atlari. [Istanbul], Matbaa-i Amire, 1917.
Large 8vo. Various pagings: (2), 12, (18) pp., 1 blank f., 5-20, (2), 45-58, 37,38, 61-80, 79-80, 21-40, 79-228, 5 pp. With 48 numbered leaves of photographic plates. Original printed cloth. Only edition of this Ottoman Turkish book on horse breeding by Ihsan Abidin (1882-1945), published as volume 3 in the "Teksir ve islah-i hayvanat koleksiyonu" series of books on animal breeding. - Some brownstains; binding rubbed and bumped. Very rare; OCLC lists copies only in Harvard and the University of Chicago. OCLC 40204344. Not in Boyd/P.
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[Arabian Peninsula]. Thomson, John.
Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Red Sea &c. [Edinburgh, John Thomson & Co., ca. 1823].
Engraved map in hand-drawn outline colour. 720 x 533 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:7,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Greenwich meridian. A fine engraved map of the Arabian Peninsula, also showing the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Horn of Africa. Shows boundaries, rivers, deserts, caravan routes and principal settlements. With early outline hand-colouring on wove paper with watermark date of "1823". Also issued as plate 46 in Thomson's "A New General Atlas" (1821-29). - Well preserved. Cf. Al-Qasimi (2nd ed.) pp. 255 & 258. Tooley's IV, 271. OCLC 43216571.
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[Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy].
Bushire (Abu Shahr). No. 3656. Washington D.C., published at the Hydrographic Office, 1914.
Engraved chart. 760 x 1065 mm. Scale 1:23,594. Nautical chart including tidal information, compass roses, soundings, seabed notations, currents, sandbanks, shoals and inland elevations. Folded.
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[Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy].
Southeast Coast of Arabia. Ras Sajar to Ras Al Hadd. No. 1587. Washington, D.C., published at the Hydrographic Office, 1920.
1147 x 850 mm. Scale 1:921,207. Engraved chart, including tidal information, compass roses, soundings, seabed notations. First published in 1898 from British Surveys to 1863. - Folded.
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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 Desert].
2 lithographic WWII maps: Rutba and Wadi Al Ubaiyidh. [UK Government], Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1940-1942.
2 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:500,000. 820 x 640 mm and 770 x 648 mm. Compiled from 1930s surveys and produced by the British 512 (Army Field Survey) Company, Royal Engineers, for use in the Persian war theatre, these consecutive maps cover the south-western area of Iraq, including Rutba and Fallujah, with parts of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria (approximately the area between 31° and 33°30' N and 39° and 44° E). - Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved.
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[Map - Arabian Gulf].
Aeronautical chart and information center. Persian Gulf | ONC-H-6/7. St. Louis, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, United States Air Force, 1967.
Map (1030 x 785 mm), colour-printed on two sides. Scale 1:1,000,000. Rayon pilot's map of the Arabian Gulf region focusing on the Trucial States (modern UAE), Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia, including main oil installations. Items of specific interest to aircraft, such as airfields and even seaplane bases, are particularly listed. Warnings to stay within the specific flying routes while in Iran are placed on multiple locations. - Slightly frayed at the edges. In very good condition.
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[Map - Asia - Middle East]. National Geographic Society.
Southwest Asia, India, Pakistan, and Northeast Africa. Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1952.
Colour printed map, 685 x 905 mm. Scale 1:7,500,000. With an inset map of "the Moslem World; percentage of Moslems in total population". Large map of Asia and the Middle East in 1952, published for the National Geographic Magazine. The map clearly shows the unresolved nature of several borders due to the waning colonial power of France and Great Britain. Notations mention that the "boundaries between India and Pakistan are not finally fixed", the borders between Saudi Arabia and Jordan are "undefined". Almost the complete Arabian Peninsula is without any border markings with only the single mention near Saudi Arabia and Trucial Oman (the future UAE) of "coastal sovereignty undefined". Showing the world before the oil boom in the Middle East, it is noteworthy that the only significant airport in Trucial Oman is that of Sharjah. - With two stamps of the University of Chicago library (including one withdrawal stamp) on the back. A few small repaired tears and some discolouring at the edges; in very good condition.
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[Map - Iran - Iraq]. Philip & Son.
Iran (Persia) and Iraq. London, George Philip & sons, [1930s].
Colour printed map, 540 x 680 mm, with yellow covers (195 x 110 mm). Map of Iran, Iraq and parts of the surrounding countries, including modern Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE, in the 1930s, published in the series "Philips' authentic imperial maps for tourists & travellers". Published in the early years of the discovery of oil in the Middle East, the map shows roads and railways, but also caravan routes, submarine cables and oil pipelines. - Slightly soiled, in very good condition.
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[Map - Middle East]. Geographical Publishing Company.
Arabia and near bordering countries. Includes: Palestine, Iran (Persia) and surrounding territories. Chicago, Geographical publishing company, ca. 1936-1941.
Colour printed map, 540 x 400 mm. Map of the Arabian Peninsula and parts of the USSR, Turkey, Iran and the British, French and Italian colonies in Africa, possibly coming form an edition of the "Commercial atlas of the world". Printed in yellow are oil fields and pipelines, including the legendary Kirkuk-Haifa/Tripoli oil pipeline. Detailed maps of Iran and of British controlled Palestine are printed on the other side. - With a few small holes near the inner margin.
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[Map - Middle East]. Musil, Alois.
Northern Arabia according to the original investigations of Alois Musil [...]. New York, American Geographical Society, 1926.
Four maps (600 x 620 mm) printed in black and brown, kept folded in a grey cloth pocket. Map of modern Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in four parts, illustrating the travels of Alois Musil in 1908-1915 and published as part of a series of books and maps by Musil. Musil "mapped the topography, collected a large number of plants and in 1911 helped make observations that led to the first general sequence of the Phanerozoic geological succession of north-west Arabia". An inset in the map shows terrain elevations for several parts of the region. - Alois Musil (1868-1944) was a Czech orientalist and explorer and professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Prague. The collection of works which includes this map was published by the American Geographical Society with funding by the American industrialist and Arabist Charles R. Crane (1858-1939). - In very good condition. Vincent, Saudi Arabia: an environmental overview, p. 9. Cf. Wright, "Northern Arabia: the explorations of Alois Musil", in: Geographical review XVII, 2 (April 1927), pp. 177-206.
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[Map of Iran].
Iran. Spravochnaia karta. B-2005. Moskva, glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii pri sovete ministrov SSSR, 1976.
Scale 1:2,500,000. Equal-area conic projection (ravnougol'naia konicheskaia proektsiia). Relief shown by gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. 89 x 77.5 cm. In original printed sleeve. Third edition of the Soviet 1:2,500,000 reference map of Iran (Persia), edited by Z. P. Pekhova. Includes insets: "Karta narodov" and "Ekonomicheskaia karta" (1:7,500,000). Index printed on reverse. - Title repeated with ballpoint in Latvian on sleeve's spine. In excellent condition. OCLC 255529903.
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[Map of Iraq].
Irak. Spravochnaia karta. B-1795. Moskva, glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii pri sovete ministrov SSSR, 1974.
Scale 1:1,500,000. Equal-area conic projection (ravnougol'naia konicheskaia proektsiia). Relief shown by gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. 68.5 x 87.5 cm. Accompanied by text and index by E. A. Shukin (13 pp.). Stored in original printed sleeve. Third edition of the Soviet 1:1,500,000 reference map of Iraq, edited by Z. P. Pekhova. Includes insets: "Ekonomicheskaia karta" (1:5,000,000), "Karta plotnosti naseleniia" and "Karta narodov" (1:10,000,000). The accompanying text contains a capsule geographical account of the country. - Title repeated with ballpoint in Latvian on sleeve's spine. In excellent condition. OCLC 5448870.
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