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1967réf. L2SFGIMNES3FPakistan 1967. Original black half morocco album green cloth sides with title and emblem of the United Bank Limited Pakistan on the front board. An archive of 183 photographs: 133 loose black and white photographic prints ca. 30 x 25 cm 30 smaller ones ca. 5 x 6 cm numbered and mounted together on a single sheet of paper and 20 additional prints in the album. Further with numerous rolls of original medium format negatives. A trove of unpublished photographs depicting two official visits to Pakistan by HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The earlier visit in 1967 is documented by a separate photo album containing images of the visit to Lahore the second largest city of Pakistan from 16 to 28 November 1967. The album opens with a picture of HH Sheikh Zayed arriving in his car; later pictures show him being honoured and presented with an album very similar to the present one and in the company of officials representing Pakistans United Bank Limited UBL. Almost 20 years later in 1986 Sheikh Zayed would donate a hospital to the city now the "Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex" one of the leading medical institutions in Pakistan.The 30 small photographs show an audience with Sheikh Zayed as well as a banquet in his honour attended by various Pakistani dignitaries including Agha Hasan Abedi 1922-1995 the illustrious founder of UBL. These photos apparently clipped from a set of medium format contact prints are mounted on a sheet of coated black photographic paper.The largest set in size and number shows the state visit that took place on 20-22 January 1970 at the invitation of President Yahya Khan 1917-1980. It provides extensive documentation of the large Abu Dhabi delegation being formally received by Yahya Khan who served as president of Pakistan from March 1969 to December 1971. Many show HH Sheikh Zayed shaking hands with and speaking to President Yahya; others show the airport reception formal dinners speeches but also informal conversations members of the delegation handling falcons and numerous high-ranking Abu Dhabi retainers. Among the persons depicted is again Agha Hasan Abedi but there are also several pictures of Butti bin Bishr secretary to Sheikh Zayed and Ahmed bin Khalifa Al Suwaidi the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE and personal representative of Sheikh Zayed. President Yahya Khan had been "one of the very first international leaders to reach out to Sheikh Zayed after the UAE had been founded and had prior to this in July 1970 been instrumental in creating an agreement to provide technical assistance to the then Trucial States. With the December 1971 union agreement approaching Pakistan was quick to forge even closer ties and Khan had been one of the first foreign leaders to offer his congratulations and reiterate his countrys support when the UAE was born. Full diplomatic ties were then quickly established and Pakistan became one of the first to extend recognition to the new country . All his life Sheikh Zayed had held a personal affinity for Pakistan. He had hunted there extensively came to know the people its culture and lands and enjoyed close ties with leaders" Wilson.From the estate of Azhar Abbas Hashmi 1940-2016 Pakistani financial manager and eminent literary patron with close ties to Karachi University. Hashmi served the UBL for many years becoming its vice-president before founding several important cultural organisations and becoming known as a man of letters in his own right. Thanks to his close connections with the Gulf states Abu Dhabi provided funds to build Karachi Universitys faculty of Islamic studies as well as its Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre and it mosque Jamiya Masjid Ibrahim.The majority of the photographs are entirely unmarked but they occasionally show an Arabic inscription or stamp on the reverse. Some of the loose photographs slightly scuffed along the edges with an occasional nick or small tear but otherwise in fine condition. Binding of the album slightly rubbed. An important collection of at least largely unpublished photographs concerning the Sheikh of Abu Dhabis visits to Pakistan in the last years before the formation of the UAE entirely unknown and without counterparts in the UAEhistory Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives.l Cf. G.H. Wilson Zayed: man who built a nation pp. 111-112. hardcover

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Ottoman Atlas Comprising thirty-nine hand-colored maps prepared and printed at the Mühendishane-i Berr-i Hümâyun Imperial / Royal School of Military Engineering Istanbul Üsküdar.

réf. 000444Üsküdar: Mühendishane-i Berr-i Hümâyun Imperial / Royal School of Military Engineering c. 1840s Rare Ottoman administrative atlas produced at the Mühendishane-i Berr-i Hümâyun in Üsküdar the principal Ottoman military and cartographic institution of the 19th century. Folio 40 × 28 cm later hard cover binding. Illustrated by Yümnî with thirty-nine 39 hand-colored double-page maps most signed in the stone by Yümnî. The maps are titled dated and carry printing details with the majority accompanied by Ottoman Turkish descriptive text. Printed in the 1840s shortly after the establishment of the Ottoman telegraph network this atlas is possibly the earliest comprehensive administrative atlas printed in Üsküdar reflecting the modern vilayet system of the Tanzimat era. Condition: Very good. All maps complete and well preserved. Scarce. List of Maps 39 Arabistan Arabian Peninsula – 56 × 47 cm Trablusgarb ve Tunus Libya and Tunisia – 56 × 39 cm Trablusgarb Libya – 56 × 40 cm Mısır Eyalet-i Mumtazası Territory of Egypt – 56 × 46 cm Yemen – 69 × 33 cm Hicaz Hejaz – 56 × 39 cm Ankara Sivas Ma'mûretülaziz Diyarbakır Bitlis Erzurum Van Musul Mosul – 56 × 39 cm Bağdad Baghdad – 56 × 39 cm Basra – 55 × 39 cm Zor Mutasarrıflığı part of Mesopotamia Halep Aleppo Adana Konya Kıbrıs Cyprus Cezâ'ir-i Bahr-i Sefîd Aegean Islands Vilayet Aydın Biga Mutasarrıflığı İzmit Mutasarrıflığı ve Hüdavendigâr Vilayeti Trabzon Kastamonu Bulgaristan Eyalet-i Mumtazası Territory of Bulgaria Rumeli-i Şarkî Eastern Rumelia – 56 × 39 cm Bosna Bosnia Kosova Kosovo Manastır Monastir / Bitola İşkodra Vilayet of Shkodër Yanya Janina / Ioannina Selanik Thessaloniki Edirne İstanbul Bahr-i Siyâh Boğazı Black Sea Strait Kal'a-i Sultâniyye Boğazı Dardanelles Significance A highly important and scarce example of Ottoman state-sponsored military and administrative cartography documenting the Empire's territorial organization across Anatolia the Arab provinces North Africa the Balkans and the Straits during a key phase of modernization and infrastructural reform. This atlas stands alongside the earliest telegraph-era Ottoman mapping projects and represents the mature output of the Mühendishane cartographic tradition. MuhendisHane-i Berr-i Humatun (The Royal school of military engneering) hardcover

Archive · Arabie saoudite50 000,00 €

Congo / Kongo - Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909) - King of the Belgians and Owner / Absolute Ruler of the Congo Free State froBiblio.com

Collection of four very important and meaningful manuscript letters by Leopold II to his administrator and Foreign Minister of the Congo - Free-State Baron Adolphe de Cuvelier 1860-1931 with a total of 16 pages filled with Leopold's instructions on pressing issues regarding a warning about an imminent visit by the Rector of the Mill-Hill Missionaries probably Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan 1832 - 1903 and Leopold's qualification of the visit of being detrimental to the Congo Free State "ne travaillent pas pour l'État". Leopold continues in another letter to talk about the hostile positions of english officials consuls and missionaries "que les consuls anglais et les missionnaires anglais se conduisent bien mal envers l'État". Interestingly Leopold also touches on the nuisance of the german press criticizing Belgian Railway Lines and he is of the opinion that this is all happening in order to force the german parliament "Reichstag" to finance the building of the Tanganyika Railway between Dar

1901réf. 100107AG1901. Laeken / Brussels Château de Laeken Palace of Laeken 1901 - 1906. 16 pages of MLS Manuscript Letters signed on 10 leaves of Leopold's official stationery "Château de Laeken" and "Palais de Bruxelles". The leaves with different sizes 135 cm x 9 cm and 18 cm x 115 cm. Excellent condition. Unsigned. Tremendously rare to find original letters by Leopold II on the open market in which the Colonial Free State and the protection against inquisitive visitors is discussed in such clear and instructive fashion. Leopold's correspondence with Adolphe de Cuvelier shows how he is very much trying to still protect and influence the narrative of his Colonial Slavery Outpost even in the final years of his life. Adolphe de Cuvelier 1860-1931 Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Congo Free State President of the Syndicate for Studies and Enterprises in Congo. He was given the title of knight in 1893 and baron in 1908 each transferable at first birth. Wikipedia _______________________________ Leopold II French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; 9 April 1835 17 December 1909 was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and through his own efforts the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest surviving son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for exactly 44 years until his deaththe longest reign of any Belgian monarch. He died without surviving legitimate sons. The current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor Albert I. Leopold was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State a private project undertaken on his own behalf as a personal union with Belgium. He used Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the Berlin Conference of 18841885 the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim and committed the Congo Free State to him. Leopold ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal gain. He extracted a fortune from the territory initially by the collection of ivory and after a rise in the price of natural rubber in the 1890s by forced labour from the native population to harvest and process rubber. Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State was characterised by atrocities and systematic brutality including torture murder and the amputation of the hands of men women and children when the quota of rubber was not met. In 1890 George Washington Williams used the term "crimes against humanity" to describe the practices of Leopold II of Belgium's administration of the Congo Free State. Colonial accounts typically emphasized Leopold's modernizing changes in the Congo and not the mass death he facilitated. These and other facts were established at the time by eyewitness testimony on-site inspection by an international commission of inquiry and the 1904 Casement Report. Modern estimates range from 1 million to 15 million Congolese deaths with a consensus growing around 10 million. Some historians argue against these figures citing the lack of reliable censuses the enormous mortality caused by smallpox and African trypanosomiasis and the fact that there were only 175 administrative agents in charge of rubber exploitation. In 1908 the reports of deaths and abuse and pressure from the Congo Reform Association and other international groups induced the Belgian government to take over the administration of the Congo from Leopold as a new territory Belgian Congo. Wikipedia unknown

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlande7 800,00 €

AHMAD I OF TUNISIA, (The tenth Husainid Bey of Tunis, westernizer of Tunis, his reign: 1837-1855), (1805-1855).MareMagnum

[A MAGNIFICENT AUTOGRAPH / ROYALTY / EULOGY FROM TUNISIAN BEG TO THE RULER OF NAPLES] Autograph letter / document sealed 'Ahmad Basha Beg', sent to the ruler of Naples, Ferdinand II?.

1841Very Good Arabic Original autograph document/letter sealed by Ahmad I of Tunisia. 54x42 cm. 1 p. 6 long lines. The letter includes full of poetic praise. It must be sent after successful diplomatic intercourse with Naples. Ferdinand II (Ferdinando Carlo) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his early death in 1859. It starts with 'Thank God alone', and goes on 'From poor Ahmad Pasha to Lord Almighty Field Marshal Amîr [ruler]. Sealed by the seal of Ahmad Basha Beg including an impressive qasidah in Arabic. Ahmed I (ibn Mustafa), born 2 December 1805 in Tunis died May 1855 at La Goulette, was the tenth Husainid Bey of Tunis, ruling from 1837 until his death. He was responsible for the abolition of slavery in Tunisia in 1846. He succeeded his father Mustafa Bey on 10 October 1837. He had grand ambitions - to expand his army and create a modern navy; to build a new royal residence, a mint and modern institutions of education but neither he nor his brother-in-law the young Mustapha Khaznadar who served as his finance minister, had a clear idea of what such initiatives would cost. As a result, many of his projects became expensive failures which damaged the financial health of the country. Soon after his accession, Ahmad Bey received the traditional Firman from the Sublime Porte which formally invested him with authority to rule from the Ottoman Empire and furnished him with the insignia of office. The Ottoman envoy, Osman Bey, arrived in la Goulette on 15 May 1838 onboard a frigate. The following day, Osman Bey made his official entry into Tunis on horseback, preceded by all the ministers of the beylical cabinet who went before him until he was two leagues from the city. Before he were carried the sword of honor and the caftan to be presented to the Bey. He was escorted by spahis and followed by a large contingent of regular troops an Arab cavalry. Three days after his official entry into the city, the envoy presented himself at the Bardo Palace to formally invest Ahmad Bey with his insignia of office and present gifts. Named as a Divisional General in the Ottoman army in May 1838, he was later promoted by the Sultan to the rank of Marshal on 14 August 1840. This was the first time that a Bey of Tunis had held a rank higher than Divisional General. The purpose of these honors was to emphasize the supremacy of the Ottoman Empire over the Regency of Tunis. Under a treaty with France signed in 1830 by Hussein Bey, a piece of land in Carthage had been ceded to allow the erection of a monument to Louis IX of France who had died there during the Eighth Crusade. On 25 August 1840, the first stone was laid in the cathedral of Carthage. Ahmad Bey also permitted the Christian community of Tunis, consisting mainly of European merchants, to enlarge their small church near the Bab el Bhar. In June and July 1846 the Duke of Montpensier, son of King Louis Philippe of France visited Tunis and Carthage. He was received with great solemnity by Ahmad Bey. According to the Tunisian historian Mohamed Bayram V, Bey's reforms were focused on state structures, the army, and education. He established a modern structure of government and gave his high officials the title of 'minister'. His senior ministers were his Grand Vizier Mustafa Sahib at-Taba'a, Mustapha Khaznadar, Minister of Finance and of the Interior, Mustafa Agha as Minister of War, Mahmoud Khodja as Minister of the Navy and Giuseppe Raffo as Foreign Minister. At certain times Mahmoud Ben Ayed also served as Trade Minister, Kuchuk Muhammad in the honorific post of Minister in charge of the security home of Ahmad Bey's reforms wasted money, such as the large frigate built at La Goulette that could not make it through the channel to the sea. of Tunis and Mohamed Lasram IV as Minister of the Pen. The historian Ibn Abi Dhiaf was the Bey's private secretary. Among Ahmad Bey's successes may be counted as the abolition of slavery in January 1846. To this may be added the formation of the military academy at...

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Mailing cards 1908-1920 cover title in manuscript

1930réf. 58880Saint Paul: Brown & Bigelow 1930. Large heavy 50 lbs. oblong folio approx. 18" x 24" containing approx. 718 samples of color lithographs on approx. 115 linen-coated leaves including trade cards advertising cards calendar specimens etc. each primarily measuring 10" x 4.5" some slightly varied; a few instances of items being removed some miscreased some loose but an extraordinary array of commercial color lithography featuring a number of themes including camping fishing baseball golf polo architecture the American west scenic landscapes Indian maidens movie stars Aesop's Fables Boy Scouts anthropomorphic animals stained glass cars fashion cowboys and Indians beautiful women etc. While there is much to be said about the stereotyping of men children and women especially Native American women there remains a remarkable beauty to the artwork much of it done by known artists and illustrators of the day. Among the artists represented are: Henry Hintermeister 1897-1970 a painter and illustrator who painted in the Golden Age of Illustration under the signature Hy Hintermeister. He painted as team with his father John Henry Hintermeister and together they created more than 1000 works. He is best known today for his "American themed paintings." Henry's earliest published works featured family images of women and children dogs horses and recreation. He also painted fantastic scenes with Indian maidens and scantily clad Romans and Egyptians. In later years he created ionic and semi-comical works with subjects including the multiple dangers of crossing the street children and grandparents fishermen policemen boy scouts and hunters. Hal Runyon 1907-1993 was active in Hollywood during the early 1930s as a portraitist for the movie colony. His forte was nudes of beautiful young women. He lived in San Francisco for many years before his death in Sonoma CA on July 11 1993. William Herman Schmedtgen 1862-1936 an American illustrator and painter known as a pioneer in Chicago newspaper illustrating. Born in Chicago he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. His first work was with the Chicago Mail in 1883 he then spent two years in St. Louis and New York doing commercial art. He was chief of the art department at the Chicago Record from 1886 to 1901; and later on staff of the Chicago Record-Herald. He was a field artist for the Record during the Spanish-American War stationed with U.S. troops in Cuba. He died at his home in Wilmette aged 74. Milo Winter 1888-1956 was an American book illustrator who trained at Chicago's School of the Art Institute. He lived in Chicago until the early 1950s when he moved to New York City. From 1947 to 1949 he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949 was the art editor in the film strip division of Silver Burdett Company. John G. Scott 1887-1975 who designed over 2500 juvenile valentines during his 30 year career with the Gibson Company from 1924 to 1953. These efforts are meticulously recorded in his work journal which covers his entire commercial artwork career from 1910 to 1953. Robert Bernard Robinson 1886-1952 American illustrator and originator of the Saturday Evening Post's "Slice of Life" style of cover art later popularized by Norman Rockwell shared his talents with the Hearst Corporation and their Motor Magazine monthly publication from 1926 to 1952. Clara Miller Burd 1873-1933 was an American stained glass designer and children's book and magazine cover illustrator. Robert Atkinson Fox 1860-1935 an American-Canadian illustrator and naturalist painter best known for his paintings of rural subjects especially cattle in pastures. As a commercial artist Fox was commissioned by calendar companies and print publishers to make work for posters postcards and advertisements. Florence Mary Anderson 1874-1930 was an English artist book illustrator wood engraver and children's author who flourished between 1914 and 1930. She also illustrated under her maiden name of Molly MacArthur or Florence Mary MacArthur. Her work was influenced by the British school of Fairy Art. Philip R. Goodwin 1881-1935 was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of wildlife the outdoors fishing hunting and the Old American West. He provided illustrations for numerous books and magazines as well as for commercial items such as posters advertisements and calendars. He is perhaps best known for illustrating Jack London's The Call of the Wild and for providing the cover art for many issues of Outdoor Recreation / Outdoor Life Magazine during the 1920s and early 1930s. Charles Marion Russell 1864-1926 also known as C. M. Russell Charlie Russell and "Kid" Russell was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2000 paintings of cowboys Native Americans and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta Canada in addition to bronze sculptures. He is known as "the cowboy artist" and was also a storyteller and author. Also Alfred Davenport Cookson 1888-1963; John D. Waters; William Steeple Davis American 1884-1961 Tod Hart 20th century was active/lived in Minnesota and many others. While many of the examples are pro-forma printed art work and design but without company names or details added others represent a broad swath of American business from Los Angeles to Boston Gulfport Mississippi to Saskatchewan. Among the Twin Cities' businesses represented are Holm & Olsen Florists; Brantjen Motor Car Co.; Day's Prest-o-Service Co.; Security Mercantile Agency; A. E. Dale Auto Painting Co.; St. Paul Milling Co.; Pearson-Wilcox Electric Co.; S. Hoffman Tailors; St. Paul Cadillac Co.; Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co.; St. Paul Battery Co.; Minnesota Phonograph Co.; Chaix Co.; Field Schleck Co.; Wood & Gille Co.; Rice Street Motor Car Co.; and the Wells-Dickey Trust Co. Many other representative businesses from Iowa Wisconsin and the Dakotas as well. Brown & Bigelow unknown

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis7 475,00 $US≈ 6 678,28 €

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Mailing cards 1908-1920 cover title in manuscript

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(NEW YORK STATE, HISTORY). (BINDING - CLUB BINDERY). SMITH, WILLIAMBiblio.com

THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK FROM THE FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE YEAR M.DCC.XXXII. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE INHABITANTS THEIR TRADE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL STATE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COURTS OF JUSTICE OF THAT COLONY

1757réf. ST17682London: Printed for Thomas Wilcox 1757. FIRST EDITION. 257 x 197 mm. 10 1/8 x 7 3/4". xii 255 pp. HANDSOME DARK BLUE MOROCCO GILT BY THE CLUB BINDERY stamp-signed and dated 1898 on front turn-in covers with French fillet border central panel framed with plain and dotted rules enclosing an intricate floral roll oblique floral spray cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments with floral spray centerpieces floral sprigs at corners gilt lettering turn-ins repeating the floral frame from covers marbled endpapers top edge gilt. With a folding frontispiece engraving "The South View of Oswego on Lake Ontario." Verso of front free endpaper with engraved bookplate of Edwin B. Holden see below. Church 1023; Howes S-703; Sabin 84566; Streeter Sale 871. Text lightly washed and pressed in keeping with bibliophilic fashion at the time of binding plate with insignificant short closed tear to head edge of one fold A2 with expertly repaired and barely discernible curving tear into text minor foxing and browning on the majority of leaves a handful with more overall toning other trivial defects but a nevertheless pleasing copy the text extremely smooth and clean and the beautifully decorated luxury binding lustrous and unworn. This classic first history of New York was bound for an eminent Americana collector and founding member of New York's Grolier Club by the bindery he helped organize. According to Larnard this history "ranks with Smith’s Virginia and Hutchinson’s Massachusetts as one of the worthiest examples of historical literature produced in later colonial times." Sabin notes that Smith based this work "chiefly on the Provincial Laws the Minutes of the Council the Journals of the General Assembly and other government records" and drew heavily on the works of Charlevoix and on Colden's "History of the Five Indian Nations. About three-quarters of the text is devoted to the colony's history up to the year 1732 while the rest describes the territory and provides geographical demographic and political information. The son of one of New York's most prominent lawyers judges and legal educators Smith 1728-93 showed an early talent for writing. At age 24 he compiled the first collection of the "Laws of New-York from the year 1691 to 1751 inclusive" 1752 with his friend William Livingston and the following year he co-produced New York's first magazine "Independent Reflector." According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the present history "served him well over the years giving him a wide reputation as an authority on the colony and he was often referred to as 'the historian of New York'; 20 years later he began a second volume published posthumously." A Loyalist during the American Revolution Smith emigrated to Canada after the war. Former owner Edwin Holden 1861-1906 was a prominent American bibliophile who collected Americana English literature 16th and 17th century printed books and French illustrated books. After the Grolier Club was established in 1884 it soon became apparent that the country's few established hand binders were overtaxed in providing repairs and rebinding for the club members' rapidly accumulating acquisitions. As a consequence in 1895 Grolier members led by Robert Hoe and Holden along with other wealthy collectors instituted the Club Bindery in order to attract European craftsmen to provide close to home fine quality binding work rivalling what was available abroad. The Club Bindery was in operation until 1909 with Hoe being its most influential manager and client. It provided bindings that tended to be traditional in style--though frequently with elaborate decoration--and that lived up to its patrons' expectations in terms of excellence. The first members of the staff of the Club Bindery were the Englishmen R. W. Smith and Frank Mansell. They were subsequently joined by a number of French binders chief among them being Leon Maillard who had worked previously for Cuzin Gruel and Marius-Michel. Holden served as president of Grolier Club in 1906 and was the first president of the Club Bindery. Printed for Thomas Wilcox unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis7 280,00 $US≈ 6 504,07 €

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