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Large coloured map (136.5 x 90.5 cm). Scale 1:945,200. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Detailed nautical chart of the Gulf of Aden, showing the waters between the Horn of Africa and the South-western coast of Saudi Arabia. "From British, French, and Italian surveys to 1940 with additions and corrections to 1951", this 15th edition issued in 1955 and revised 21 May 1962. With inset maps of Bandar Risut and Qishn Bay (stamped "Cancelled"). Signs of contemporary use, with a 1964 stamp, several pencil markings, duststains and waterstains. Cf. OCLC 31674450 (17th ed., 1978). Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
Large 4to. A total of 2 pp. (one leaf and one bifolium), each with French translation (one on a separate leaf, the other on the verso of the bifolium). By a "Girgès" (Jirjis) to "Monsieur Le Baron de Hamm" who had invited him to Vienna during a visit to Upper Egypt. The recipient is likely Carl von Hammer, the eldest son of the important Austrian oriental scholar Joseph Baron Hammer-Purgstall: "Vous avez bien voulu à votre voyage à Lougsor [= Luxor] vous interessé a moi en m'offrant de me faire venir à Vienne. Je suis en ce moment au Caire à votre disposition. Voici l'été et le changement de climat me sera très favorable. Persuadé, Monsieur le Baron, que vous voudrez bien vous souvenir d'un pauvre orphelin et me faire l'honneur d'une réponse, je suis [...]" (Cairo, 26 March 1870, from the French translation). - "Monsieur le Baron Ham / Je viens vous dire que vous n'avez fait aucune reponse à mes lettres par lesquelles je vous priais de m'envoyer ses reponses. Ce procédé m'etonne d'autant plus qu'il n'est pas en rapport avec la promesse que vous m'avez fait a Loqsur, aussi je suis arrivé a Alexandrie depuis deux mois en attendant vos nouvelles. Pour tout cela je vous prie d'avoir la bonté de m'envoyer une lettre en y vous me fairais apprendre si vous voulez me faire apporter chez vous en Vienne ou non [...]" (Alexandria, 10 July 1870, from the French translation). - Slight edge tears and wrinkles, otherwise fine. - Carl von Hammer-Purgstall, born in Vienna on 20 January 1817, inherited Hainfeld Castle in Styria from his father. He retired from the Imperial army holding the rank of captain and served as member of the Styrian Landtag. He died in Trieste on 12 February 1879. - The great orientalist's youngest brother, the Graz-based lawyer Dr. Wilhelm von Hammer (1784-1872), was also still alive in 1870, but his advanced age at the time makes him appear an unlikely tourist of Egypt.
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.
Scale 1:4,000,000. Equal-area conic projection (ravnougol'naia konicheskaia proektsiia). Relief shown by gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings. 77 x 65.5 cm. Index printed on verso. Stored in original printed sleeve. Re-issued third edition of the Soviet 1:4,000,000 reference map of the Arabian Peninsula, edited by N. I. Arep'ev with O. L. Kuznechov and K. D. Volkov. Includes insets (in 1:15,000,000 scale): "Ekonomicheskaia karta", "Karta plotnosti naseleniia i razmeshcheniia arabskikh plemen". - Old reference label "2" pasted to sleeve's cover. In excellent condition. Rare.
Colour-printed map. Ca. 92 x 70 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:850,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. German map of Mesopotamia printed during the early years of the First World War, showing the travel route of Max Oppenheim during his 1893-94 journey from Cairo through the Syrian desert and Mesopotamia to Basra. Eastern sheet, reaching from Diyarbakir in south-eastern Anatolia to Kerbala and Babylon in Iraq. Includes populated places, roads, and trails, with the railways updated to 1915. - Folded; a few edge tears. Formerly in the collections of the Geographical Institute of the University of Berlin with their stamps and shelfmarks. Well preserved. OCLC 179717182.
19008vo. Pt. 1 (of 2) only. XXIV, 170 pp. With folding engraved map. Contemporary blue wrappers. Probably a pirated version of the first German edition (Hamburg, Villaume); translated from the English "Copies of original letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt". Also published in French ("Correspondence interceptée de Bonaparte et de son armée en Egypte"). The map shows the Nile delta from Giza to the Mediterranean estuary. - Untrimmed copy; some defects to spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy 245. Cf. Gay 1990. Not in Kainbacher.
4to (165 x 205 mm). (18), (11 blank) ff. Decorated with hand-drawn maps in ink and crayon, labelled in handwritten Hebrew. Original black wrappers. All edges red. Unique private copybook of folk art hand-coloured maps from an unknown Jewish girl named Sarah Klein. Klein was likely a schoolgirl; most of the maps she has drawn and labelled in neat Hebrew are of European countries, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Great Britain and Ireland, Iceland, France, Portugal, and Scandinavia, as well as one map of the entirety of Africa. The northern coast of France is shown twice and in greater detail than many others. Most of the maps are carefully hand-coloured in crayon or perhaps oil pastels, often indicating rivers and mountain ranges. - A unique preservation of a Jewish schoolgirl's vision of her world. - Light wear, one leaf detached but present, altogether well-preserved.
Image dimensions ca. 35 x 24 cm (sheet size cs. 43 x 29 cm). Matted. Rare lithograph of the ruins of the Domitian Gate in the Greco-Roman city of Hierapolis, situated immediately above the famous travertine terraces of Pamukkale. From Laborde's "Asia Minor". - Some wrinkling; small tear at upper edge (not touching image).
Hand-coloured engraved map, 440 x 315 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale, ca 1:8,122,000. Includes the entire Gulf coast of the Arabian Peninsula, showing Kuwait, El Katif, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Musandam Peninsula, including the territory of today's United Arab Emirates (here still labeled the "Pirate Coast"). "Debai", Sharja", "Ras-el-Khaimah", "Khorfakan" and "Fejerah" are identified. - Well preserved. Issued as plate XXXVIII in Sidney Hall's General Atlas of the World. OCLC 781690561.
Ca. 25 x 30 cm. Black-and-white gelatin silver print (vintage). A letterboard in a Karachi hotel lobby, announcing a "Lunch in Honour of Mr. Ali A. Ansari, Personal Representative of the Ruler of Qatar". Ali ibn Ahmed Al-Ansari served as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs unter HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Ruler of Qatar. - Provenance: collection of Azhar Abbas Hashmi (1940-2016), Pakistani financial manager and eminent literary patron with close ties to Karachi University. Long with United Bank Limited, Hashmi would serve as the bank's Vice President of Gulf Operations before founding several important cultural organisations and becoming known as a man of letters in his own right.
8vo. 7, (1) pp. Original wrapperless covers. Trade agreement regulating the trade of goods destined for or exported from ports in Saudi Arabia, and carried in ships calling at Bahrain. In English and Arabic. - Some rust-staining in gutter.
19564to. 4 pp. Speech of Herbert H. Lehman in the Senate of the United States, March 1, 1956, on "The Saudi Arabian Policy of Discrimination Against Americans of Jewish Faith", including subsequent correspondence. - Folded.
1786Engraved map (plate size: 53 x 44.5 cm), with coloured borders. Engraved map showing the Near East, especially the areas of today’s Syria and Iraq. From Schalbacher’s and Schrämbl’s “Großer Allgemeiner Atlas”. A good, clean impression. Dörflinger/Hühnel I, 136, 97.
8vo. 175, (1) pp. With a portrait frontispiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Second edition, revised by Shawki Sukkary. Abbas al-Aqqad (1889-1964) remains well known in Egypt as a versatile journalist, poet and literary critic. Translated from the Arabic original ("Athar al-`Arab fi al-hadarah al-Awrubbiyah") by Ismail Cashmiry and Muhammad al-Hadi and published under the auspices of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. Chapters include Arabic beliefs, life, writing, trade, science, arts, music, philosophy, state's organisation, religious movements, nationalism, the press, etc. "To sum up the situation of the Arab world today", al-Aqqad writes: "It is a situation in which the future looks as good as the past, and pride in our fathers is not divorced from hope for our sons". - Binding slightly duststained and chipped in places, but still a good copy. OCLC 16771175.
8vo. X, 273, (1 blank) pp. With two black and white maps on the endpapers. Brown cloth with publisher's illustrated dust jacket. First and only edition of a thorough description of the history of the nine Arab states of the Lower Gulf, that gained independence in 1971, just four years before the publication of this book. The author has managed to discuss the individual politics of each state and that of the bigger picture, making this a handbook for all who wish to learn more about Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain). The several infographics that are used to explain the political structures are very helpful in this respect. Oil plays a key role in the relationship between the individual states and this is intricately laid out by the American author. Because this book was written in such a key moment in the history of the region, it has gained much importance. The author Dr. John Duke Anthony is a leading figure in United States-Arab relations and has held many influential government positions in this field. Amongst others, he is the founder and president of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and he is part of the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy's Subcommittee on Sanctions. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies. In the years leading up to this publication the author has conducted first-hand research on the Lower Gulf region's political and socio-economic structures, obviously with oil playing a major role. The fruits of this research are presented in this book, offering the reader a comprehensive overview of a complex subject. This book was published in The James Terry Duce Memorial Series, which started in 1966. The first and second volumes were on North Africa and Jerusalem respectively, this is the final volume of the series. - Ink annotations in the margins throughout. A good copy with the original dustjacket well preserved. OCLC 1700964.
560 x 430 mm. Folding poster with several black-and-white photographic illustrations. Aramco poster celebrating technological advances in Saudi Arabia triggered by their cooperation with America. Featuring pictures taken by Aramco employees, it presents the Saudi Arabians' industrial achievements and their growing infrastructure, including railways, loading cranes, accurate scales, gas stations, and machines manufacturing blocks of concrete. The text accompanying the images bursts with praise for the Saudi spirit: "For over two decades now the Saudi Arabs have been building their ancient land into a modern nation [...] The drilling bit that bored down into the desert did more than strike oil - it quickened the life blood of a whole nation".
194866 pages. Articles: Designs for Touring - Salt Water, Salubrity and Sin - Attractions of Mississippi's Gulf Coast - The Poor Man's Riviera; Strife Among the Roses - Rose Bowl Preview - with financial details; For Landings' Sake - a study of the causes of airline accidents; The Truth in Russian Eyes - an interview with the editor of Pravda; The People's Life Preservers - the FDA; Veni, Vidi Valli - Little lady Valli is Italy's gift to Hollywood; Facts and Figures - the last word in foundation garments (corsets, bras and girdles); Old Ties for Old - men can now swap unwanted gift neckwear; Here a City Died - a visit to Machu-Picchu - article with great color photos. Fiction: Cocktails at Blindman's Lake; This is the Night; Four Alarm; Oh, Lovely Land; Previous Date; The First Foot. Includes these nostalgic ads: Boris Karloff in a Tums ad; Pontiac cars; Talon Dresses (featuring wedding gown); "Night Song" movie (full-page); Spam; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring ballerina Kathryn Lee. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo. XI, (1), 323, (1) pp. With coloured frontispiece and 5 photo plates; title within colored ornamental border. Original boards with illustrated spine. An account of travel through the "Land of the Lion and Sun" in an age redolent of the Tales from the Arabian Nights and the Rubaiyat. First published in 1909 (by Smith Elder & Co., London), under the title "Through Persia, from the Gulf to the Caspian". The frontispiece shows a group of Persian shepherds. - Spine tanned, otherwise well preserved. OCLC 2226672. Cf. Wilson 29.
4to. 409, (1 blank), (16), 427-442, (3), (1 blank) pp. With numerous illustrations. Paperback. First edition. - Meticulous work by the French historian Brégeon, whose research focuses mostly on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, especially on the campaign in Egypt. The 1911 article "Les Graffiti de l'Expédition" by the Egyptologist Georges Legrain, who contributed to the first volume of Jacques de Morgan's "Catalogue des Monuments et Inscriptions de l’Egypte" (1894) by discussing graffiti in the area of Aswan, comprises the 16 unnumbered pages; pagination continues at 427. - Signs of use, but a very good, firm copy.
1842réf. PHO-2031Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1842, 2 volumes in-8 (23x15cm), 1f.-XXII-595pp. & XVI-581pp., demi veau époque, dos lisse avec titre et tomaison, frottements et épidermures, débuts de fentes, accrocs aux coiffes, coins usés, quelques rousseurs.
194878 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
4to. 36 pp., illustrated throughout. Publisher's giltstamped and illustrated red boards. Rare, bibliographically unrecorded collection of horse stories, including one about the Arab and his horse. - Removed from the library of the "Société Protectrice des Animaux", Gand, with their stamps on cover and title.
réf. 1768In 8 broché 1 feuillet hommage titre,240 pages,complet de la grande carte dépliante format 103 x 74cm avec sa bande orange qui la maintient au deuxième plat de couverture. Librairie militaire Baudoin & Cie 1880.rare Important essai sur les langues Djedji et Mina parlées au Dahomey et dans le golfe de Bénin, avec un vocabulaire.Dos renforcé,bords extérieurs de la couverture légèrement cassants Sinon bon état.Envoi manuscrit autographe de l’auteur.
1964112 pages. Features: Cover photo of LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) in adoring crowd; Lovely color fashion ads; Bankers Trust features Ian Mackay; What Good Can Be Said of Political Conventions?; Barry Goldwater Seeks a New Coalition; The Day Paris Was Liberated - Twenty Years Ago - article with photos; Plea for 'Realism' in Southeast Asia after the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Analysis of the 'White Backlash' - New Haven's reaction to the demands of Negroes for full citizenship takes some unexpected forms; Moscow Debates Its Manners; Two Peoples Under One Flag - a restive Quebec fires up old Anglo-French rivalries and shakes Canadian unity; Portrait of Channel No. 1- 'Coco' Channel has created a half-century of chic - photo-illustrated article; The Race to build the first Mach 2-plus passenger planes; It's Easier to Adopt a Baby, but the number of babies available does not meet demand; Campus fashion photos; Speaking frankly on homosexuality - something which was taboo until recently; Photos of hair styles and jewels; Photos of a Ranch House designed by Aspen Architect Eleanor Brickham; Chesterfield cigarette ad features horse breeder Guy Stillman, fashion consultant Virginia Van Brunt and architect Larry Craig Dean; Eight photos of prominent TV shows; and more. Light wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
194886 pages. Articles: The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest states acquire the New Look of prosperity; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 4) - Stalin spoke of morals - the record of his visit to Stalin to discuss plans for defeating Hitler; Hunting of the Swede - screen writer Eddie Blum discovers Marta Toren for Hollywood; Designs for Touring (part 8) - Northern Michigan travel. Fiction: Along Came Mary; Marabou for Mama; The Bramble Bush; Even Up; The Makings; Hannigan. Ads include: True Temper golf club shafts; Zenith radios; Hickok belts; Monarch canned produce; American Optical; RCA Victor portable radios; 1949 Studebaker trucks; Pabst beer - with colour image of Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Peck; Good Year; Plymouth; American Airlines; Freeman Shoes; Mercury cars; Ballantine's Ale; Hiram Walker nice two-page color-photo ad; Skol; Esterbrook pens; Holeproof socks; Tawn toiletries; National Guard; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring rodeo champion Ken Roberts. Front cover nearly detached. Piece missing from top of back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book