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Folio. (4) pp. Disbound. The text of an engagement of Sultan Abdallah of Johanna (Anjouan, Comoros) to "protect any persons who may be rescued from slavery by the vessels of Her Britannic Majesty's navy". - Old stamp at the head of the title. Disbound from volume of parliamentary papers, otherwise as issued, title serving as the upper cover.
Folio. XIII, (1) pp. 1 blank f., 382 pp. With 3 folding lithogr. maps of Mozambique, coast from Xanga to Ibo, and the Kingani River in East Africa. Sewn, with traces of spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade. Includes communications relevant to slavery in Persia and the trade passing through the Arabian Peninsula: "On his way through Resht, returning from Mekka, Prince Ferhad Miza [...] brought with him in his suite, three black slaves that he had bought in the holy city of Mohamed. Two of these had been mutilated, and they all came originally from the Zanzibar dominions, but they had remained long enough in Arabia to acquire a knowledge of the Arabic language [...] I make no doubt that vast numbers continue to be imported through the Persian Gulf by the Muscat Arabs; but the fact that Zanzibar slaves are to be found in the slave markets of Mekka, proved that the five or six Jeddah dhows that annually frequent the port of Zanzibar are not sufficiently watched [...]" (p. 35). More relevant material is to be found in the sections "Egypt" (pp. 7-12; includes correspondence relating to the traffic at Jeddah and in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea); "Persia" (pp. 34f.; "Abolition of Persian Slave Trade Commissioner at Bushire"; "On Slave Trade and status of slaves"; "Commissioner in Gulf need no longer be maintained"); "Turkey. (Consular) - Jeddah" (pp. 164-167); "Zanzibar" (pp. 172-323); and "Reports from Naval Officers" (pp. 324-382). - Disbound from a volume of parliamentary papers. A good copy. Bennett 504.
(2), 8 pp. Folio. Sewn. Including a Circular on the receipt of fugitive slaves in the Arabian Gulf: "If, while your ship is in the territorial waters of any Chief or State in Arabia, or on the shores of the [...] Gulf, or on the East Coast of Africa, or in any island lying off Arabia, or off such coast or shores, including Zanzibar, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands, any person should claim admission to your ship and protection on the ground that he has been kept in the state of slavery contrary to the Treaties existing between Great Britain and the territory, you may receive him until the truth of his statement is examined into [...]". - Well-preserved.
(2), 8, (2) pp. Folio. Sewn. Including a Circular on the receipt of fugitive slaves in the Arabian Gulf: "If, while your ship is in the territorial waters of any Chief or State in Arabia, or on the shores of the [...] Gulf, or on the East Coast of Africa, or in any island lying off Arabia, or off such coast or shores, including Zanzibar, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands, any person should claim admission to your ship and protection on the ground that he has been kept in the state of slavery contrary to the Treaties existing between Great Britain and the territory, you may receive him until the truth of his statement is examined into [...]". - Well-preserved.
Folio. IV, 103, (1) pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including British Navy operations off the coast of Zanzibar and the eastern coast of the Red Sea. With an account of the horrors of the slave transports and the slavers' brutality, and reference to the Persian Gulf Division, operating from Bandar-e-Jask, their ships "proceeding to Bushire, calling along the Pirate Coast and Bahrein" (p. 38). The relevant sections are "Africa (East Coast) and Arabia" (pp. 4-55); "Egypt" (pp. 63-77), "Italy" (pp. 78-81), and "Turkey" (pp. 82-103), which include information on the slave trade in the Red Sea area. - A good copy.
Folio. X, 233, (1) pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including British Navy operations off the coast of Oman and concerning the Hejaz, Jeddah, and the Red Sea, frequently in connection with returning Hajj pilgrims. Relevant correspondence is to be found under the headings "Africa (East Coast) and Arabia" (pp. 16-98); "Egypt" (pp. 107-139; includes much on the trade in the Red Sea region); & "Turkey" (pp. 178-231).
Folio. VI, 193, (1) pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including material on operations conducted off the north-east coast of Oman, correspondence with the Political Resident in the Arabian Gulf, an account of the reception of fugitive slaves at Bushire, etc. Relevant correspondence is to be found under the headings: "Africa (East Coast) and Arabia" (pp. 1-33); "Egypt" (pp. 57-88; includes some information on the trade in the Red Sea); & "Zanzibar" (pp. 134-193). A good copy. Bennett 513.
Folio. VII, (1), 185, (1) pp. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including material on the seizure at Chabahar of a British Indian sailor, a runaway slave en route to Bushire, as reported by the British Resident in the Gulf; the prevention of the slave trade at Jeddah and in the Hejaz ("The garrisons of the Hedjaz are limited to the few towns in it, beyond which the Bedouin reigns supreme. The hundreds of miles of desert sea-coast, hemmed in on the sea-side by dangerous coral reefs, are inhabited, at very large intervals, by small communities of Bedouins, who, to the legitimate occupation of mother-of-pearl divers, unite those of petty pirates, smugglers, and slave-runners", p. 77); operations of the Gulf division in the Arabian Sea, etc. The relevant correspondence is to be found under the headings "Egypt" and "Egypt. (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 12-48 & 49-57; includes reports relating to the trade in the Red Sea Division); "Muscat" (p. 58); "Turkey" (pp. 66-75), "Turkey. (Consular) - Jeddah" (pp. 77-82); "Turkey. (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 87f.); & "Zanzibar" (pp. 89-154) and "Zanzibar. (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 154-181). - Stamp to wrapper cover. A very good copy. Bennett 516.
Folio. VIII, 144 pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade: "The supply [in 1881] has equalled the demand, which has, however, decreased, and [...] the slave-brokers in Jeddah and Mecca are in debt, and visibly dejected [...] Whatever Treaties may be made, I do not believe that the sincere co-operation of Mussulman officials can be expected [...] Arabia is slowly but surely progressing towards a cessation of slavery" (p. 54f.). The relevant correspondence is to be found chiefly under the headings "Turkey" (in particular pp. 34f.); "Turkey. (Consular)-Jeddah" (pp. 51-59); "Turkey. (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 63-65; e.g. Captain Garforth to the Secretary of the Admiralty: "Visit to Hodeidah. A considerable Slave Trade carried on there"); "Zanzibar" (pp. 66-134), and "Zanzibar (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 134-139). - First few pages loosened, otherwise a good copy. Bennett 511.
Folio. VIII, 218 pp. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade. Includes the official admiralty report on the murder of Captain Charles J. Brownrigg, who had tried to board a slaving dhow off Zanzibar, in 1881, but had encountered unexpected resistance from the Arab crew and was killed in the ensuing battle (p. 188f.). The relevant sections are headed: "Persia" (p. 23); "Turkey. (Consular)-Jeddah" (p. 77); "Zanzibar" (pp. 85-186; much of the correspondence is from/to Lieut.-Colonel S. B. Miles, then Her Majesty's Acting Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar); and "Zanzibar. (Admiralty Reports)" (pp. 186-197). Slight edge chipping to first 2 or 3 leaves; a good copy. Bennett 510.
Sm. Folio. xi, 355 pp. Sewn, with traces of spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade. Includes communications relevant to the slave trade on the Arabian Peninsula (e.g., "Movements of Her Majesty's ships in the Red Sea"; "Active slave trade in the Hedjaz. To call upon the Porte to put it down"; "Increase of slave trade at Jeddah. To represent it to the Porte"; "Slave trade in the Hedjaz and Yemen. Note to the Porte" and off Oman ("Detention of a dhow, and her subsequent acquittal at Muscat"; "Dhow detained off Muscat. Released in Court"), as well as much material on the murder of Captain Charles J. Brownrigg, who had tried to board a slaving dhow off Zanzibar, in 1881, but had encountered unexpected resistance from the Arab crew and was killed in the ensuing battle. - Disbound from a volume of parliamentary papers, a good copy.
Folio. XIII, (1), 438 pp. With 6 folding coloured maps. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including material on slaves being imported into the Hejaz via Jeddah and Hodeidah as well as into Turkey by returning Hajj pilgrims. The relevant correspondence is to be found chiefly under the headings "Belgium" (pp. 1-19; includes correspondence relating to Zanzibar); "Turkey. (Consular) - Jeddah" (pp. 266-276); "Zanzibar" (pp. 278-378); & "Reports from Naval Officers [East Coast of Africa]" (pp. 379-438). - Slight edge chipping; text block variously split down the spine, otherwise a good copy. Bennett 508: "On Sultan Barghash's Mamboya expedition".
Folio. XVII, (1), 322 pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn, with remains of former cloth spine. Rare British papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade of Egypt, Turkey, Zanzibar, and Arabia. Includes a report on the release of a slave, a Dutch subject, from an Arab Sheikh (p. 263) and the report by Cdr. Powlett from Jeddah concerning the Red Sea slave route: "Within the last month 160 slaves have been landed near Jeddah, from near Cid. It would appear that the authorities, though not exerting themselves to suppress the traffic in slaves, do not permit the law to be too openly infringed: this has raised the price in slaves [...] The Farisian Islands are used to land cargoes of slaves upon, where also they are employed in diving for mother-o'-pearl [...] [Baggalah sailboats] come into Jeddah without there being any trace of what they have done. They have no special fittings, and do not fasten the slaves (who are mostly children) in any way [...] I submit that laws framed to meet the case of slaving vessels making long voyages will be found wanting when applied to the Red Sea traffic" (ibid.). - Other relevant sections are: "Egypt" (pp. 4-50; includes further correspondence relating to the slave traffic in the Red Sea and on the Arabian Peninsula, e.g. "Slave Trade in Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Notes by Assistant Resident at Aden. To communicate to Egyptian Government such information as may be advisable"); "Turkey" (pp. 112-123; includes correspondence relating to the Slave Trade in the Red Sea); "Turkey. (Consular)-Baghdad" (pp. 124-129); "Turkey. (Consular)-Jeddah" (pp. 131-155); "Zanzibar" (pp. 157-253), etc. - Slight edge chipping to first 2 or 3 leaves; removed from the Public Record Office with their stamp to t. p. A good copy. Bennett 506.
Folio. (2), 2 pp. Top edge gilt. Disbound. On the case of the slave Morrjan, apparently about 20 years old, who swam to a British steamer in Jeddah harbour to seek his freedom, but was returned to his master through the local Governor, being the slave of an Ottoman subject. - Extracted from a volume of parliamentary papers. First leaf loose; slight gutter defects, but well-preserved.
Folio. 14 pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn. Rare British parliamentary papers containing extracts from government correspondence regarding the Zanzibar slave trade of the later 1850s under Sultan Sayyid Majid bin Said Al-Busaid. - Extracted from bound volume of parliamentary papers but otherwise as issued, very lightly browned but a good copy.
Small folio (222 x 334 mm). VIII, 615, (1) pp. Later 19th c. buckram-backed marbled boards, labels lettered in gilt. Rare but frequently-cited British parliamentary papers with "Correspondence on the Slave Trade, and Measures Taken for its Abolition". Includes a printed sketch of the southern coast of Yemen, illustrating the area in possession of the "Boo-Mehree-Buddooee (Bedouin) Arabs" and identifiying the tribal chiefs as the Sultans of Qishn, Sayhut, and Dhofar (p. 156); also, correspondence between the Imaum of Muscat and the British Resident in the Gulf, in which the latter congratulates the Imaum on the recent peace made between "Tahnoon and Sultan Bin Suggur [the al-Qasimi ruler of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah], and that there was a prospect of the poor people of this Gulf enjoying a quiet pearl fishing season, free from the scourge of war, that affliction of mankind" (p. 86). Also, detailed reports on the slave trade at Muscat, Bahrein, Ras al-Khaimah and Sharjah ("Last year Shaik Sultan Bin Sugger's own buggalow brought from the coast of Africa 30 slaves to Rasul Khyma, but this is a rare occurrence, vessels seldom going there from the Joasmee states", p. 90). In all, the volume contains a significant number of references to the Arabian Gulf, Muscat, "Arabs", etc. - Labels and lettering worn; a good clean copy. Formerly in the library of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; ultimately withdrawn from the British Library of Political and Economic Science (cancellation stamp).
Folio. (2), 5, (1) pp. Disbound. With reference to the "treaties for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade [...] made [...] with chiefs or states in Arabia, and on the shores of the Persian Gulf". - Slight fading to margins.
Oblong folio (430 x 280 mm). Illustrated t. p. and 32 plates, lithographed throughout. With a supersized letterpress table of contents. Stored loosely in original printed half cloth portfolio. First edition, dedicated to Baron Ludwig von der Tann. The fine outline lithographs show the Bavarian military's riding exercises and were probably intended for the instruction of the Bavarian cavalry's recruits. Ludwig von Nagel (1836-99) served as a lieutenant in the second Royal Bavarian Cuirassier Regiment. - Slight browning; occasional duststaining to edges. A fine set. Anderhub collection 211. OCLC 907714135. Not in Huth.
Oblong 1mo (48 x 63.5 cm). With 6 tinted lithographed plates by Frisch, with captions in German and French below. The first three in the deluxe issue printed by B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main, the last three in the regular issue printed by G. Küstner. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper. Extremely rare set of six beautifully lithographed plates showing scenes made on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms, by Friedrich Frisch (1813-86), court painter in Darmstadt. In 1840/41 he accompanied the Wuerttemberg chamberlain Wilhelm von Taubenheim (1805-94), the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-77) and the physician Karl Bopp (1817-47) on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms Weil and Marbach. They first went to Constantinople, where they were welcomed by Sultan Abdülmecid I, continuing to Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem. In Jaffa they met the Ottoman general Ibrahim Pasha. - The set was originally published in two instalments and available in two issues: a deluxe issue printed with a larger tinted background with white highlights (plates 1-3) and a regular issue (plates 4-6). They show: (1) a rider on a dromedary with a letter to Ibrahim Pasha; (2) the camp of Ibrahim Pasha; (3) three Bedouin horse riders; (4) another scene with Bedouins; (5) the group's passage through the Balkans; and (6) a Turkish courier. All views, except the first, include horses. - Hackländer wrote a short text to accompany the set, but it is not included. Two plates slightly soiled in the margins and some tiny tears along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Engelmann, Bibliotheca geographica, p. 123. Thieme/Becker XII, p. 491. Not in Dejager; Huth; Mennessier de la Lance; Podeschi. WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 with text only).
Large folio (545 x 375 mm). (16) pp. With 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates and a lithographed title. Contemporary half calf with cloth sides, gold tooled title on front cover. First and only edition of an ethnographic study of native Indian people by William Tayler (1808-92), who was at the time Acting Salt Agent of the Central Division of Cuttack for the East India Company. He dedicated his work to "Lady William Bentinck" (born Lady Mary Acheson, 1809-50), who was the wife of the Governor-General of India. The illustrations were drawn by Tayler himself, who was an amateur artist and drew much of the Indian daily life that he encountered. He selected the present 6 drawings to be published and had them lithographed by J. Bouvier. The first 3 plates not only show the ways of Indian people, but even more so the luxurious life of the English in India. The first plate, "The Young Civilian's Toilet" shows a young man relaxing while being treated by several servants, who are named "Anglo-Indians". The room is strewn with objects of leisure. The next 2 plates, "The Young Ladies Toilet" & "The Breakfast" show equal scenes. The other 3 plates are more ethnographic in nature, showing native Indians in their everyday life: "Women grinding at the mill"; "the Sunyasees" (Sannyasis) & "The village barber". Tayler later became a controversial figure for his excessively harsh oppression of Indian people when he was the commissioner of Patna. - Spine and covers slightly worn, pages a little frayed, some foxing on the text pages. Dedication page browned. Plate 2 detached and inserted loosely. Plates in good condition. Abbey, Travel 465. Bobins I 272. H. K. Kaul, Early Writings on India 454. Prasannajit De Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845 (2018), pp. 116-119.
Small 8vo (143 x 110 mm). 32 ff. of sketches in coloured chalk pastels and charcoal on bluish-grey laid paper. Contemp. half cloth. Contains 19 pp. of sketches showing the Keferloh horse market (some dated September 14), the others mostly showing landscape views from the environs of Munich (captioned Herrsching, Großhesselohe, Grünwald, Solln, Karlsfeld, Allach etc.). Inside front cover has Röhm's autograph name and address in pencil. - The painter, etcher, and lithographer Röhm studied at Nuremberg and the Munich Academy (1898-1902) with Wilhelm von Diez war. In 1927 he became professor in Munich (cf. Thieme/Becker and Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon). - The Keferloh horse market (known as "Keferloher Montag") was the largest of its kind in the German Reich until the Second World War. - Binding somewhat stained and rubbed; interior very well preserved.
Folio (54.5 x 38 cm). Six tinted lithographs by Day & Haghe after "R.F.R.". Original drab wrappers. First edition in original wrappers. The large tinted lithographs show "walking", "ambling", "trotting", "cantering", "galloping", and "leaping". - Light spotting in the margins, one plate with a short tear in the margin. Spine worn, some soiling to wrappers.
1927ref. 2222070Octavo. Illustrations with six b/w photographs. 5 page foreword by Darwin with his facsimile signature. Small illustration on title page. Original gilt stamped wrappers gilt dull soft crease down the center. Does not have 2 pages of "Sportex" samples present in some copies. Very good. 35 pages. Printed by Henry Stone & Son. Ltd. London. Dormeuil Freres paperback books
1927ref. 2222070Octavo. Illustrations with six b/w photographs. 5 page foreword by Darwin with his facsimile signature. Small illustration on title page. Original gilt stamped wrappers gilt dull soft crease down the center. Does not have 2 pages of "Sportex" samples present in some copies. Very good. 35 pages. Printed by Henry Stone & Son. Ltd. London. Dormeuil Freres paperback
116 pp. Original wrappers. 8vo. Treatise on the history of the Egyptian Communist party (Al-Hizb as-Suyu i al-Misri) and other communist organizations in Egypt from 1920 to 1979. As early as October 1920, merely three years after the Bolshevist October Revolution, the Egyptian Socialist Party constituted itself as the true representative of the Egyptian working class. The following year, the Party sent Hosni al-Arabi to Moscow to negotiate a possible reception into the Communist International, and in 1922, the name of the party was officially changed to "Egyptian Communist Party". After several splits, re-formations, and dissolvements, the Party was newly founded in 1975 after Anwar as-Sadat lifted the ban on the movement. - Well-preserved. OCLC 246522674.