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194150 pages. Articles: Why Hitler Declared War on Russia - how Rudolph Hess and his flight figured into it; Why I Publish the Fritz Thyssen Manuscript - the dramatic story behind a remarkable Liberty series; My Life in the Army - by Jimmy Stewart; Problem Horse - the surprising story of Whirlaway; Tournament Golf - It's Tough!; Short Stories: A Very Blind Date; Johnny Allenby and the Beautiful Rebel; Diagnosis; The Indian Sign. Serials: Murder with Southern Hospitality - Part 5; Footsteps Behind Her - Part 9. Ads: Great photo ad inside the front cover features's Toronto's Park Plaza Hotel; Fantastic colour centerfold by GM advocates "A Good Life Work for Any Man"; Castoria children's laxative; Post's Bran Flakes; Palmolive Soap; Sal Hepatica; Cameo Menthal Cigarettes; Dettol; The 1941 CNE; Kotex; Lux Soap - featuring Madeleine Carroll; Tampax; Great WWII ad on back cover photo-illustrates the marine lifeline to Britain and promotes lending to support the war effort. Crossword completed. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1947Pages 129-192 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: The Grey Car Mystery - a Winnipeg murder case is solved - with photos of Sheriff Delos Blanchard, Harry Heipel, J.A. Kaesar (the victim), Inspector M.F. Anthony, and Chief George Smith; Premonition - an odd recollection by ship's engineer R.A. Jordan, R.N.R.; Photo of mystery stone coffin in the village of Turville; The Foundling - the tale of a temporarily adopted baboon in Nigeria; The Gold-Seekers - reprint of a Honduran adventure published in 1915 involving Charles Row, Dr. John F. Howard, Bert Dare, Edward J. Hoyt and W.W. Palmer; White Man's Magic - a Scots tugboat skipper uses his intelligence to restore order to a colony of Negroes in Columbia who were whipped to a frenzy by a self-appointed medicine-man; Photos of aftermath of cyclone which struck Townsville, Queensland, Australia in March, 1946; On the Razmak Road - a curious happening on the northwest frontier of India; Two Cot Cases - a Royal Navy rescue story involving the H.M.S. Keppel; Patrolling the Gulf of Carpentaria; Indian Pole-Trick; Vast Pools of Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska - article with photos; Hide and Seek - a tale from the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic where motor-gunboats of the Royal Navy harried German supply schooners; Nice Mars chocolate bar ad inside back cover. Colour ad for Wavy Navy tobacco on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Modest sticker removal blemish to front cover. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
196840 pages. Features: Working mothers mean Canada has several hundred thousand child casualties of neglect - article with colour photos; Mark Ten Cigarette ad; Alex Hobson is featured in a GM ad; Joey Maher - Reigning World Handball Champion - photos and article; Nice ad for CCMN Mustant bike with banana seat - Bobby Hull endorsement; 2001-A Space Odyssey - article with photos, including one of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke; Springtime for Odette - with paintings by Bruce Johnson; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Arrow shirts; Claude Morin Wants a Better Deal for Quebec - article with photo of him striking an RCMP officer; Nice ad for BA/Gulf service stations; Maurice Genest and his SSS (Supermarket Scratch Saver); Singer Mary Lou Collins - photo and article; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
190841 cm, solida rilegatura coeva in piena tela, titolo in oro al dorso, p. 1000 ca. numerosissime ill. e foto anche a piena e doppia pagina in b/n una doppia pagina a colori (Wool Winder). Illustrazioni relative a: equitazione, caccia, sport, canottaggio, militaria, moda, cinofilia, giochi, spettacolo ecc. Ex libris nobiliare al verso della copertina
8vo. 4 vols. 36 pp. (Jordan). 192 pp. (Iraq). 88 pp. (Iran). 52 pp. (Afghanistan). Original illustrated stiff wrappers, each volume with a map on the inside front cover. Collection of four curious foreign trade monographs issued by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, directed at Austrian concerns aiming to do business with the Near and Middle East. With the exception of Iraq, where the revolution of 1958 had just heralded a republic, all countries here discussed were still monarchies. Contains general geographical data and statistics, details on units of measurements, economic structure, and customs of trade.
Small folio (218 x 283 mm). (48) pp. Original wrappers, colourfully illustrated with Islamic geometrical designs. A portrait of Bahrain, illustrated and printed in English and Arabian throughout, showing the country at a critical moment in it development, transitioning from traditional to modern ways of life with the growing importance of the oil industry. Issued on behalf of BAPCO and Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain, ruler of Bahrain from 1942 until his death in 1961. - A perfect copy.
1794Best.-Nr. 46191794 London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794 Carte gravée sur cuivre (50,5 x 57 cm hors marges, 54 x 73 cm toutes marges comprises). Tirage de l'époque. Quelques traces d'une autre carte en surimpression. Map on copperplate (50,5 x 57 cm without the margins, 54 x 73 cm with the margins). Contemporary printing. Several light printed marks of another map.
(Oblong) 8vo. 2 folding billets. With 2 autograph envelopes. To Mrs. Honeycutt in Tulsa, Oklahoma, signed by Velma, Tommy and Pam. A birthday card with good wishes: "Sorry you are not well. Hope you will feel better soon. I sent a check [...]". - With illustrations featuring a camel caravan and a flower bouquet. Margins slightly creased.
Albumen prints on cardboard, dated on the reverse. Measurements 279:219 and 285:225 mm. The photographs show "Pilgrims entering Bethlehem on Christmas day" and an apparently English party of three tweed-clad gentlemen, one lady, a photographer-manservant, and two Arab guides posing before the Dead Sea. - The view of Bethlehem shows some fading and bears a caption the French and English, as well as the publisher's name, "Bonfils".
150 x 205 mm. AP press photo showing Sayid Idris al-Senussi in London shaking hands with Eric de Candole, British Administrator of Cyrenaica, and his wife. Captioned on the reverse: "Senussi leader arrives in London. The Emir Sayid Idris el Senussi, head of the state of Cyrenaica, photographed on arrival in London last night July 15. He is shaking hands with Mr. E. A. V. Candole, British Chief Administrator of Cyrenaica. At centre is Mrs. Candole. The Emir travelled from Derna to Marseilles in the battleship 'Vanguard' and thence across France. It is the Emir's first visit to England. While here he will have talks with Mr. Bevin on the future of Cyrenaica". Well preserved.
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.
Chromo-lithographed map, c. 60 x 48 cm, folded in original printed wrapper (with portrait of Sultan Abdulaziz). With text and 9 engr. illustrations printed on the reverse. Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin's map of Morocco, drawn by Chesneau and Weinreb. With topographical notes by Franz Schrader. - Edges slightly frayed; some tears to folds; wrapper dusty and waterstained. OCLC 163347954.
Oblong 8vo. Captioned in English, French and Arabic. Rare, early black and white photographic views of two important petroleum refineries in Africa: Suez and Fedala. The latter is featured in a photograph by the French military photographer Marcel Flandrin (1889-1957), a pioneer of aerial photography in Morocco. Taken from an aeroplane and published by the Syndicat d'Inititative, the image shows the bonding warehouses at Fedala refinery amidst a rough Atlantic. - The second postcard, published by Vitta & Cie., shows a general view of the Suez refinery against the backdrop of the Ataka Mountains. - In addition to the printed captions, the postcard of Suez bears handwritten captions in German and English on recto and verso in ink and pencil. - The postcard of Suez pierced in two places. A very well preserved set.
Colour-printed map. Ca. 84 x 63 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale: 1:2,000,000. Relief shown as gradient tints and spot heights. - With: Lembke, Herbert. Jährliche Niederschlagsmenge im westlichen Vorderasien. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1940 (Petermanns Georg. Mitteilungen, 86. Jg., Tafel 26). Colour-printed map, scale 1:3,700,000. Ca. 66 x 42 cm. French-produced map of the western portion of Turkey, showing the eastern tip of Bulgaria, the Aegean, Crete, Cyprus, the northern coast of Africa, and Asia Minor to Ankara. Issued by the French military just prior to the Second World War. - Folded, some tears to margins. Formerly in the collections of the Geographical Institute of the University of Berlin, accessioned during wartime as part of the German military' spoils, with requisite stamp and shelfmarks. - Includes a German wartime map of Turkey, also removed from the University of Berlin, showing the average annual rainfall. OCLC 497879161, 495083198.
4to. (4), 74 pp. With 28 plates with 55 black-and-white photographic prints, as well as 1 plan of Burchhardt's itinerary on page 9. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Rare travelogue of Yemen, enriched with striking photographs. In Arabic and German parallel text. Prepared by Ahmed ibn Muhammad al-Garadi, the secretary, Arabic teacher and companion of the German explorer Hermann Burchardt (1857-1909), the book describes Burchardt's travels in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, where he was ambushed and killed by gunmen in December 1909. Containing "important ethnographical information on crafts and the Jewish population", the account also boasts a wealth of photographs "of great documentary value" (Speake), including city views and landmarks of Sanaa, Taizz, and Mocha, such as tower houses in Sanaa's old town, the Ashrafiya Mosque, the Grand Mosque in Mocha, and the ruined palace of Sultan Hasan, as well as pictures of local children, a group of Jews studying scripture in the synagogue, several men sitting around a water pipe, bedouins, farmers, and workers. The images impressively portray the destitution of the Yemenite population in the early 20th century. - In addition, the work includes annotations to the text of the travelogue, a list of examples of the Sanaa idiom, and an index prepared by the German orientalist Eugen Mittwoch, who also translated the Arabic text. Published as a festschrift for the Vierter Deutscher Orientalistentag in Hamburg. - A few edge flaws to wrappers professionally repaired. Lower right corner of first two leaves chipped, but interior very well preserved in general. Never seen at auction. Speake, Literature of Travel and Exploration III, 1305. OCLC 907363736.
Small folio (218 x 330 mm) and oblong 8vo. (3) pp. With typescript envelope. Freight manifest for a box of personal effects of Paul Stiehl, an employee of Aramco, shipped from Dhahran to New York. Signed by W. J. Kiefer. - The document includes a customs clearance authorization as well as a specification of the contents of the box signed by Stiehl. The shipment contained 4 prayer rugs, 12 towels, and 5 bed sheets. - Some rust spots. A unique survival.
1757Best.-Nr. 20773Paris, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1757. 8vo. Mit 38 (statt 42) teils gef. Kupfertaf. XXXXI, 84 S. Pgt. d. Zeit m. hs. Rückentitel.
8vo. (2), VII, (1), 750, (2) pp. Publisher's blue boards. Reprint of this important "Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Together with the Technical and Theological Terms, of the Muhammadan Religion" (subtitle). - Largely well-preserved.
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.
1860Large 8vo. 3 vols. (instead of 5). I: (4), 328 pp. II: (4), 245, (1) pp., last blank f. IV.1: (8), 218 pp. 58 pp. 78 pp. Contemporary half calf. Islamic history of the world from creation to the Ottoman Empire. - Wants vols. III and IV.2. Babinger, p. 124.
301 pp. Original wrappers. Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (1872-1963) was a leading spokesman for Egyptian modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Throughout his career he held a number of political and nonpolitical positions, including several academic posts. Owing to his career in education and his influence upon young Egyptians, he came to be known as Ustadh al-Jil (“Educator of the Generation”). - With ms. notes. Covers a little worn, otherwise in excellent condition. OCLC 18299627.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. XII, 303, (1) pp. VIII, 262 pp., final blank. Contemporary hald cloth with handwritten spine label. First edition of this history of the Ottoman Empire between 1826 and 1856, by the Prussian orientalist and diplomat Rosen (1821-91). - From the library of the German diplomat Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (1875-1944), one of the conspirators against Hitler. From 1922 to 1931 Schulenburg served as German envoy to Iran. His handwritten ownership is dated "Tehran, 1928"; his bookplate is on the front pastedown. For his involvement in the tragically failed plot of 20 July 1944, Schulenburg was executed on November 10. - Well preserved copy.
Folio (229 x 297 mm).108 pp. Original printed wrappers. Monthly magazine of the Saudi Arabian Airlines. The present issue covers King Fahd's expansion project for the two Holy Mosques, a development to increase the capacity of the mosques of Mecca and Medina to more than 730,000 and 650,000 worshippers respectively - numbers that could be increased to 2 million on peak days. Other topics of the issue include reports on Saudi Airlines catering, northern Spain, hovercrafts, and the benefit of glass houses to cultivate exotic plants in the northern hemisphere. In addition, the magazine provides two maps of domestic and international routes served by Saudi Airlines.
8vo. (33)-47 pp. Original wrappers. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1951. Part 1 only, recounting the "Land Dispute". Part 2 (pp. 156-169, "Dispute over the Runaway Wife") would appear in the October issue. - An excellent copy. OCLC 77797713.
Folio (231 x 308 mm). 24 pp. With numerous illustrations in colour and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated corporate magazine of Standard Oil, celebrating the company's international activities. It includes reports on trade with European countries, the recently established Antwerp refinery, the kerosene-powered Seguin lighthouse in Maine, advancing infrastructure in North Africa, and the recycling of oil barrels as musical instruments in the Caribbean. The final three pages display sketched impressions of the Jersey Standard headquarters in New York by the artist Bettina Steinke. OCLC 1755500.
