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Very Good English Original red cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. [xiv], 277 p., 5 military plans, (3 foldings), and 1 folding map of Sudan Campaign's military plan (57x39,5 cm). Fading on cloth, an ex-library stamp on colophon, light soiling to extremities. Otherwise a good copy. First edition of the first volume of this rare set on the Sudan Campaign, including an eyewitness account of Colvile, an English colonel (later major-general) during the campaign. The presented first volume includes that the forces of the Mahdist movement spreading across Sudan, and threatening General Charles Gordon in Khartoum, while Lord Garnet Wolseley moves slowly south down the Nile. The second and third volumes (including maps only) are missing. By 1882 the Mahdist Army had taken complete control over the area surrounding Khartoum. Then, in 1883, a joint British-Egyptian military expedition under the command of British Colonel William Hicks launched a counterattack against the Mahdists. Hicks was soon killed and the British decided to evacuate Sudan. Fighting continued however and the British-Egyptian forces which defended Khartoum in a long siege were finally overrun on January 28, 1885. Virtually the entire garrison was killed. General Charles Gordon, the commander of the British-Egyptian forces, was beheaded during the attack. In June 1885 Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi died. As a result the Mahdist movement quickly dissolved as infighting broke out among rival claimants to leadership. Hoping to capitalize on internal strife, the British returned to Sudan in 1896 with Horatio Kitchener as commander of another Anglo-Egyptian army. In the final battle of the war on September 2, 1898, at Karari, 11,000 Mahdists were killed and 16,000 were wounded. (Source: Black Past online). Henry Edward Colville was born at Kirkby Hall, Leicestershire, as the son of Charles Robert Colville and Hon. Katherine Sarah Georgina Russell. Trained at Eton, Colville entered the Grenadier Guards in 1870, followed by his assignment in 1880 as A.D.C. to General Sir Leicester Smyth commanding the forces in South Africa. Colville served in the Intelligence Department of the Suakin Expedition of 1884, distinguishing himself at the Battles of El Teb and Tamai. He was employed on special service in Sudan prior to the Nile Expedition of 1884-85 and after having served in that Expedition, he received the assignment of Chief of the Intelligence Department of the Frontier Force. Following the Battle of Ginnis in the Mahdist War, Colville was promoted to the rank of Colonel and was attached to the Intelligence Department at headquarters. In 1893 he was appointed Commissioner (Acting) for Uganda where he commanded the Unyoro Expedition receiving numerous awards and a promotion to Major General on April 12, 1898. Prior to his retirement in 1901, Colville served as Commander, Infantry Brigade, Gibraltar and Guards Brigade, and 9th Division, South Africa 1899-1900. (Source: Ladysmith & District Historical Society Online).
Very Good Arabic Half leather bound in Egyptian style raised six bands to spine, Arabic lettered gilt in second and fourth. 'Abdelzehar Binding' stamp on back endpaper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 179, [1] p. First Arabic edition of Kartun's 'Africa! Africa! A continent rises to its feet' which describes the struggle for freedom in British colonial Africa in the face of horrible pressures. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kartun was the improbable combination of a leftist activist, a captain of industry, a Daily Worker journalist and an author of spy thrillers. Kartun was the son of a Russian-French father and a Polish-English mother. He was born into the world of the cultured bourgeoisie, his uncle being the pianist and conductor Léon Kartun. His father had left Paris Conservatoire when he realized that he would not be one of the great violinists of his generation, and went on to become a successful designer and trader of jewelry. He was sent to England for his schooling, first to a prep school in Redhill, where the combination of being bookish, Jewish, and French proved a hindrance to popularity, and then to St Paul's, where he instead flourished and claimed to be the school's first Jewish boy. As what should have been his sixth form years coincided with a temporary reversal of his father's fortunes, and he was set to work in an advertising agency, later on finding himself working a job on writing scripts for B movies for MGM, where he met Claude Cockburn (see separate entry). Becoming a contributor to Cockburn's scurrilous newssheet The Week merely led him into the Communist Party for the next two decades of his life. Bad eyesight confined him to civilian duties during the war but he wrote several books while in the Communist Party, including Tito's plot against Europe: The story of the Raik Conspiracy (1949), This is America (1947), and Africa, Africa! (1954). He became foreign editor of The Daily Worker, writing for the Party on a wide range of allied themes. He contributed a piece on the French political scene in April 1946 for Raji Dutt's Labour Monthly, when he replaced his brother, Clemens Dutt in March 1945 and joined the staff of the Daily Worker for the first time as its European correspondent, based in Paris. He was initially expelled from France by the Ministry of the Interior only a few hours after arriving! Kartun later covered the birth of the state of Israel, being present during the Siege of Jerusalem in April 1948. (Source: Independent - Obituary: Derek Kartun). [FIRST ARABIC EDITION OF 'AFRICA! AFRICA!' BY EDITOR OF THE DAILY WORKER] Ifriqiyah! Ifriqiyah! Qarat taqif ali qidmihâ. [i.e. Africa! Africa! A continent rises to its feet]. Translated by Ahmed Fouad Balbaa; Review by Hassan Lotfi Al-Manfalouti. ???????-??????? ???? ??? ??? ?????? One copy located in OCLC: 949535161 (Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud pour les Etudes Islamiques et les Sciences Humaines / King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences - Casablanca).
Very Good French Original albumen print photograph of Aswan in Egypt. 21x26 cm. Description in French. Original gelatin silver print. Boats and native Egyptian types on the Nile river coast. Abdullah Brothers [Abdullah Biraderler) were a group of three Ottoman brothers of Armenian descent, Viçen Abdullahyan (1820-1902), Hovsep Abdullahyan (1830-1908), and Kevork Abdullahyan (1839-1918), who were photographers of international fame during the late Ottoman Empire. In 1886, at the request of the Khedive in Egypt, they opened a branch in Cairo, Egypt.
Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Oblong 4to. (21,5 x 28 cm). In English. [48] p., fully ills. First and only edition of this scarce and attractive souvenir album including 24 photogravures of general views, streets, architectural buildings, natives, and social life of Cairo, photographed, edited and published by German photograph studio of Cairo "Lehnert & Landrock". Lehnert & Landrock was a photographic studio run by Rudolf Franz Lehnert (1878-1948) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (1878-1966) active in Tunisia and Egypt in the early 20th century, noted for producing Orientalist images. Rudolf Franz Lehnert and Ernst Heinrich Landrock produced images of North African people, landscapes, and architecture for a primarily European audience. These images were mainly distributed in monographs, though also as original prints, photogravures, and lithographic postcards. (Source: Wikipedia).
Very Good English Fine and attractive original panoramic photograph of Constantinople, Istanbul, printing-out paper, 4-part, buildings captioned and credits in negatives in French. 70x9 cm. A dark print. This panoramic photograph was taken by Gülmez Freres inside Robert College. Robert College was founded in Bebek by Christopher Robert, a wealthy American philanthropist, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary devoted to education in 1863. The Gülmez Frères were three brothers, of Armenian origin, who established a photography studio in Istanbul, Turkey in 1870. A short time later, they took photos for the Ottoman court and Sultan Abdulhamid II.
Very Good French Original wrappers. Oblong: 9x15 cm. In French. Very rare souvenir album of Cairo in French, consisting of 12 attractive lithograph postcards showing Cairo's streets, social life in the city, architectural buildings, the Caliph tombs, The Nile river, etc., edited by Middle Eastern photographer and postcard editors "Behar & Fils". No copy in OCLC.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) In modern aesthetic full leather bdg. in Ottoman style. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 184 p., numerous b/w plates. First and only edition of this scarce travelogue which was planned for fifteen days on January 19, 1909, but took about forty days, containing a first-hand travel account of Egypt in 1909, an Islamic country that began to modernize at the beginning of the 20th century, written by an Ottoman intellectual, one year after the Second Constitutional Regime. This rare book contains early descriptions of the Egyptian municipality, the Red Crescent, gardens and parks, urbanism, zoo, and botanic gardens, tramps, bridges, social life, folkloric customs, Mahmil Alays, cemeteries, music and history of art, hotels, Nile and many historical heritages, architecture, etc. Agop [or Agob] Matyosyan was one of the first Armenian printers to apply during the inspections of printing houses that were done in accordance with the Nizam-name-i Cedid (Jareeda-i Mahakim, No. 429 (13 Jamazia al-awwal 1305) in the late Imperial Ottoman period. Hegira: 1327 = Gregorian: 1910. Özege: 14459. OCLC: 476243661 / 16347814.
The story of Howard Carters dig to find Tutankhamun, and the bitter intrigues, power struggles, scandals and mysterious deaths surrounding the discovery and its aftermath. 384 pages. Dust jacket has tear at top of spine and down front panel edge, general creasing and rubbing.
Text by Sipke van der Land - in German. Dedication to Yehudi Menuhin on half-title page. Tears at upper edge of dust jacket with a few nicks on lower edge. Slight fading to edges of covers.
Photographs of Egypt by French politician and photographer, Olivier Dassault. Silver coloured covers. A little wear to top/tail of spine and on back cover surface. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
An examination of the problems of the Middle East. 484 pages. Index. Dust jacket lightly soiled, marks on page edges
A brief history of Egypt141 pages. With numerous black and white photographs, two loose. Written by five scholars: Dr. Sulyman Huzayyin; Dr Ahmed Fakhry; Dr Aziz Suryal Atia; Hussain Mones; and Dr Abdel Hamid El-Batrik. Binding a little fragile. Cover corners creased.
Text in French. With Index. 415 pages. Small tear to top of front cover joint of spine. Heavy book, may incur extra postage for countries other than UK.
Ancient Egypt from a different aspect. With Index. Four pages of illustrations. 199 pages.
With Index. 49 illustrations. Signed by author on title page. Some numbers written on top corner of inside front cover. Slight wear to extremities. Small marks on back cover.
57 Illustrations. Index. Several numbers written at top corner of inside front cover.
Catalogue Twenty-Three for the exhibition on view September 28 - December 2, 2016. 38 plates with detailed notes on each. 91 pages.
No.7 in the Art of the World series. In slipcase. 259 pages. With 60 plates and 73 figures, Includes Chronological Table, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Brown cloth covers with black title panel on spine, small gilt vignette on front cover. Slipcase has some wear to extremities and slight rubbing to surface.
Reliure toile de l'éditeur. 185 pages. 22x31cm.
Reliure toile de l'éditeur. 276 pages. 18x23cm.
Broché. 144 pages + planches hors-texte.18x24cm.
Cartonnage de l'éditeur. 243 pages.
Broché. 210 pages. Jaquette. 20x26cm.
Reliure demi-toile. 320 pages. Rousseurs.