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Autograph document in Arabic. 8vo. 1 p. Accompanied by the first published account of Slatin's escape: 3 consecutive issues of the Pall Mall Gazette, 23-25 April 1895 (42 x 37 cm each). Wrapped as a parcel within a bifolium of the Times, inscribed "Slatin Bey's Escape" by Sir Reginald Wingate. An archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha (Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, 1857-1932), who was held prisoner for eleven long years by the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad and his successor. The material was assembled by General Sir Reginald Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department, who facilitated the escape and assisted on the perilous three-week, thousand-kilometre journey across the Nubian desert to Aswan, Egypt. "Probably the most famous European in the history of the Sudan, this Austrian survived as a captive of the Mahdi from 1883 until his escape to Egypt in 1895. His knowledge of the Sudan and its people was unrivalled and after the re-conquest he was appointed Inspector-General, second in authority only to the Governor-General, Reginald Wingate, of whom he was a great personal friend" (H. Keown-Boyd, Soldiers of the Nile [1996], p. 174). - The archive includes an Arabic document presumed to be written by Slatin Pasha (1 p. on thick handmade paper, 16 x 25 cm). Any writing by Slatin Pasha in Arabic is exceedingly scarce. Also, Slatin Pasha's first published account of his captivity and escape in Sudan, in three consecutive "Special Edition" issues of London's Pall Mall Gazette newspapers, preceding his book "Fire and Sword in the Sudan" by an entire year. Dated 23, 24, 25 April 1895 respectively, each contains 1 of 3 parts of Slatin's account entitled "The Story of My Flight". Each issue measures 42 x 37 cm. Wear to extremities and folds, otherwise very good. A scarce contemporary report, complete and in original condition. - Wrapped together within contemporary leaves of the Times, forming a parcel and inscribed by Sir Reginald Wingate "Slatin Bey's Escape", addressed in his secretary's hand to "Miss Campbell, Cawley Priory" - evidently a close friend or relative of Slatin's who Wingate thought would appreciate knowledge of his safety as soon as possible.
1993ref. 26003Washington: Brassey's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 002881021X . Second printing. Fine in a very near fine tiny closed edge tear at the top of the front panel dust jacket. . Brassey's hardcover books
1947610 pages. Text in Swedish. Black and white photos in text. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
2008xvii + 280 pages, illustrated. eng
1993Fine hbk in glazed pictorial boards. ISBN 1858330580. (Play winning golf). 20748. eng
2004ref. 1-0385511906Doubleday 2004. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 11.50x9.50x1.75 inches. Doubleday hardcover
18858vo. XIV, 322, (2) pp. Original brown cloth with giltstamped title to spine. First edition of the standard work by W. Robertson Smith, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. - Removed from the Harvard College Library (with duplicate stamp). A single ink marking in the margin, otherwise fine. Remains of shelfmark labels. Another copy sold for £1,500 at Sotheby's in 1998 (Oct 14, lot 1125: some underlining of text & marks in margins). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1921. Fück 210. OCLC 2156214.
1893715 p. + Maps. Original cloth binding. The articles include studies of : Celestial Spectroscopy; Circulation of the Atmosphere; The Gulf Stream; Divergent Evolution through Segregation; Struggle for L ife in the Forest; Geographic Distribution of Life in North America; Mounds of the Mississippi Valley; Economic Botany; Evolution of Commerce; Etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1954Folio (256 x 318 mm). VIII, (2), 96 pp. With 15 leaves of plates and several illustrations in the text. Original cloth with giltstamped spine title. Only edition. - Systematic account of fossilized foraminifera discovered in the desert of the Qatar Peninsula. OCLC 8202535. Not in Macro.
Folio (243 x 367 mm). (12), 237, (1), 45, (7) pp. With engr. portrait of the author by R. White and 48 (of 49) engraved plates (lacking plate I). Contemporary calf with modern morocco label to gilt spine. First edition. Andrew Snape served as serjeant farrier to King Charles II. In his dedication to the king, he speaks of "being a Son of that Family that hath had the honour to serve the Crown of this Kingdom in the Quality of Farriers for these two Hundred Years." It is this classic work on which François Garsault was to base his 1734 "Anatomie Générale du Cheval". - Some brownstaining; some leaves with repaired tears, binding repaired. With armorial bookplate with cipher of George Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (1736-1809) on front pastedown. Huth 26. Mellon 31. Wing S4382. ESTC R-14873. Nissen ZBI, 3887. OCLC 29155938. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance I, 526.
1966ref. 220882Publications Périodiques Parisiennes, 1 volume broché de format 24 x 16,5 cm, 314 pages, nombreuses figures et photographies, bon état.
ref. rja651916UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. Owner's neat ink namedate to ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj. Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedaction shot colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/djwith yellow and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A few snicks to head of spine/backstrip and rear top cornerlower edges much less affected.Top edges lightly dust-soiledfore-edges clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's brightcrispclean sharp-corneredoriginal speckled sage green cloth boards with brightcrispwhite ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated 1st edn1-146pp paginated includesa Preface by Oscar Fraley11 chapterscontemporary b/w action sequence photographs by Charles Yerkowand an Index; plus unpaginated 2pp blankshalf-title with author's b/w portrait photograph to it's versotitle pagea Contents list/tableanother title separator pageand 4p blanks at the rear. Sam Snead is known as the golfer with the greatest swing in the history of the game.Here his famous swing is captured in a series of action photographs that give you a close-up look at each important stage of the motion. "If you are having trouble breaking 100it is mostly in your headnot in your aim" is Snead's introduction to psychological side of golf.The "week-end golfer's" difficulties - erratic puttingpoor chip shots topped shotsslicing and all the rest - are analysed by Snead and the main points of his analysis are then set down in chart form.He shows the importance of blue-printing and planning your round and how to gain complete confidence in yourself and your ability to play a bettermore leisurely game.You get expert guidance on the three most vital phases of the game - the gripthe stance and the swing - as well as a description of each type of clubits purposeadvantages and disadvantages swing weightsshaft lengths and gripsalways written with the average golfer well in mind.All through this friendly and helpful book the emphasis is upon developing a natural easy-going style. Sam Snead is perhaps the greatest winner in the annals of golf competitionfor he has scored over 100 tournament victories since he began his career in 1937and has taken the Vardon Trophywhich goes annually to the golfer with the lowest scoring average over the entire yearno less than four times.He has been in many Ryder Cup teams.Yetfor all thisthere is never a hint of strain in the way he plays golf and his object in writing this book is to show you how to play the game in the same relaxed way. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the orderespecially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.NICHOLAS KAYE LIMITED,1962. hardcover
1997ref. 16573Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Ballantine Books 1997. Splendid copy. As new. Boldly inscribed across the front endpaper in black marker by Sam Snead .Whether or not Sam Snead sits atop the leader board as golf's greatest is no gimme but there's no question about his ability to communicate. His storytelling was always as much a part of his game as his smooth melodic swing and he tells wonderful stories in The Game I Love. In the tradition of Harvey Penick's bestselling series Snead's book is a slim volume that affably blends advice with anecdote swing thought with strategy: on that level alone the book is nothing if not useful and engaging. What makes it uniquely fun though is its clever bottom-of-the-page photo feature; flip quickly through the book and you can see the Snead swing--as graceful as the game has ever produced--in all its glory and that fills The Game I Love with poetry as well. Signed by Author. Third Printing. Fine as New/Fine as New. Ballantine Books unknown
1980ref. 263749Starnberg, Von-der-Tann-Str. 11 : F. O. Kless-Böker [Selbstverlag], 1980. 176 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen. Originalleinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 24 cm.
1953159p. Numerous illustrations. 16mo. Dell paperback. Very nice copy. GAMES BOX 1
1953159p. Illus. Original paperback. Pages browned, but still in very good condition. Valuable information. Great gift for the golfer on your list.
1965ref. 16573Wiesbaden: Golf- und Sport-Verlag H.E. Gaertner. (1965). 292 S. Gr.8°. Mit zahlr. Abbildungen. Deutsche EA. OLeinen, OU.
194175p. + Frontis. Cartoon illustrations by Bob Crosby. Endpapers foxed. 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Boards partially stained. Hardbound. Very good. This humorous golf book is quite scarce. GAMES BOX 4
1931Large 8vo. VI, 309, (3) pp. With 20 half-tone plates, folding plan of Mecca, and plan of the Haram. Original blue cloth. First edition of the English translation of a book on the holy city of Mecca by the Dutch orientalist and professor Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936). The book is divided into four large chapters, dealing respectively with daily life, family life, learning and the Jâwah in Mecca. Each chapter is illustrated with several photographs, mostly portraits, depicting among others a physician, a merchant with his slave, a bride and groom, pilgrims and the doorkeeper of the Kaabah, and also including a view of the Masjid al-Haram mosque. The book closes with an index and two maps, one showing Mecca. During his travels Snouck Hurgronje took many pictures of the holy city and its inhabitants, which made him the first western photographer in the city. In 1888 he published two volumes in German entitled "Mekka" describing his travels, to which a "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka" was added in 1888. The present translation is based on the second of the two German volumes from 1888, "which seems likely to appeal to a wider public" (p. V), thus representing a Mecca from nearly fifty years earlier. The two maps included in the first German volume are included here as well, and the 21 reproductions of photographs are a selection from the photographs in the "Bilder-Atlas". - Binding only slighty worn at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior slightly browned, but otherwise a very good copy, clean and well-preserved, with both the text and plates in very good condition. Macro 1238. D. van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgonje: the First Western Photographer in Mecca, 1884-1885 (2011). OCLC 1088989. Cf. Fück 231.
Folio (282 x 372 mm). 20 collotype prints mounted on 18 sheets loose in red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with half-title, list of plates, title and preface. One of the earliest photographic documents of Mecca and the Hajj, preceded only by the photographs of Muhammed Sadiq Bey published in 1881 (Sotheby's, 4 June 1998: £1,250,000). Much rarer than the author's similarly titled "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka", a portfolio of lithographs to accompany the "Mekka" books which Snouck had published after his return from the Arabian Peninsula. - "Following the publication of 'Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka', Hurgronje received a letter from his doctor in Makkah, whom he had taught the art of photography. The letter contained new photographs of the hajj which were of such great interest that he decided in 1889 to publish his 'Bilder aus Mekka' [...] The photographs provide an insight into the world of Makkah's inhabitants, pilgrims from all over the Islamic world, in addition to the sharif of Makkah, the Turkish governor, and various religious and secular figures" (Badr el-Hage, p. 46f.). - "In 1981 F. H. S. Allen and C. Gavin first identified the earliest Arabian photographer by deciphering his elaborately calligraphed signatures, which without exception had been erased from the plates reproduced by Snouck Hurgronje: 'Futugrafiyat al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka' (The Photography of the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physican of Mecca). This princely eye surgeon had been host to the young Snouck in Mecca immediately after the Dutchman's conversion to Islam. Snouck claimed to have taught his host how to use a camera and attributes to him (without ever mentioning his name) the pictures reproduced in 'Bilder aus Mekka'". - Light spotting, title and text leaves frayed at inner edge (not affecting text), occasional minor stains or wear to edges of mounts, covers rather marked and stained. Very rare: only two copies at auctions internationally during the past decades (the last, at Sotheby's in 2006, was incomplete, lacking all the text leaves). Macro 1233. Badr el-Hage. Saudi Arabia Caught in Time. Reading, 1997. F. E. Peters. The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Place. Princeton University Press 1996.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Half calf with gilt-stamped morocco label to spine. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates (conjoined as 2), 6 (1 double-sized) toned lithogr. plates, and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 40 plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Cloth portfolio with gilt cover title. Remarkable set, rarely encountered complete with the plates volume. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Very nicely rebound, in matching period style portfolio and half calf. An unusually crisp and clean copy throughout: text volumes spotless; the plates with the vintage photographs, much sought after as the earliest photographic documents of the city, its dignitaries and its pilgrims, are backed on thin linen and preserved in perfect condition. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates, 5 (of 6) toned lithogr. plates (one folding), and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 39 (of 40) plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Includes original printed upper board cover, loosely inserted. Modern black library cloth with gilt title to spine; atlas portfolio uniform with books. Contemporary black half roan, spines in five compartments with raised bands gilt, original atlas-portfolio of black cloth-backed printed cream boards. First edition, a complete set with both text volumes and the portfolio with all the photographic plates, but lacking one of the lithographs. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Spines of both text volumes and portfolio professionally restored. Atlas lacks plate XVII (detail of Kiswah fabric), some light scattered spotting, minor creasing to mounts. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
1886ref. 2785ème livraison .Septembre à décembre 1886. Contient : EXPLORATIONS ET TRAVAUX GEOGRAPHIQUES DES MISSIONNAIRES EN 1884 ET 1885 par Valérien GROFFIER. LES POSSESSIONS FRANÇAISES DE LA CÔTE DES ESCLAVES. CORRESPONDANCE. RECONNAISSANCE DU FLEUVE OGUN ET LETTRES par P. ZAPPA. LETTRES D’AUSTRALIE. NOUVELLES HEBRIDES par CH. HAURET. Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, Lyon, 1886. In-8 ( 16 X 25 cm) broché, 107 p. ( 257-364 pp) Bien complet des 2 cartes dépliantes dont celle des Possessions européennes de la Côte des Esclaves.
1909ref. ROD0042766à la société. 1909. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 37 p.. . . . Classification Dewey : 908.447-Régionalisme : Aquitaine
Folio (ca. 305 x 393 mm). 1 page. Share certificate for a bearer stock security of 500 francs with 24 coupons, signed by two administrators of the "Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique". The company operated from the small port town of Obock, on the Gulf of Tadjoura opposite Aden. It was the site of the first French colony in the region, which was established in 1862, initiating the colonisation of Djibouti. The French were especially interested in having a coaling station for steamships, which proved valuable upon the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
