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rif. ria9780192866455_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; With unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts from liberalism to postcolonialism. Reorganised to reflect the importance of global IR and newly authored chapters on classical realism liberalism Marxism and critical the paperback
1927rif. 2937NY: George H. Doran Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First American Edition stated "First Printing in America March 1927". "B" on copyright page. Publisher's full brick cloth black lettering and decoration on spine and cover fore-edge deckle illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with 16 B&W portraits and drawings as well as large fold-out map tipped-in at rear. Spine lightly darkened slightly spotted with one tiny puncture head and heel mildly worn with small tear at head covers lightly rubbed small closed tear on fold-out map front hinge starting else near fine. VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations map. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi ii 335 1 pp . George H. Doran Company hardcover
1975rif. 148221975. Press photograph 1975 depicting Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani Qatar's first Minister of Foreign Affairs three years after his appointment to the newly established post in 1972. Qatar had declared independence in September 1971 and joined the United Nations the same month; Suhaim's tenure therefore coincided with the country's early development of an independent diplomatic service and formal relations with foreign states. Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs identifies him as the state's first foreign minister appointed on February 23 1972. Original gelatin silver print black-and-white press photograph dated 1975 on the verso and measuring 5 x 6.5 inches. Sheikh Suhaim appears in formal portrait wearing a thobe and ghutra secured with an agal. The closely framed image concentrates on the minister's head and upper body presenting the official responsible for Qatar's foreign relations during the first years following independence. The 1975 date places the image during Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani's reorganization and expansion of the Qatari government a period in which diplomatic relations were being established with additional countries at ambassadorial level. The photograph preserves a contemporary press image of the official charged with directing Qatar's foreign ministry during the state's early independent diplomacy. The dated verso establishes its 1975 circulation or production context without requiring attribution to a specific press agency. Very good condition. unknown
1975rif. 148221975. Press photograph 1975 depicting Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani Qatar's first Minister of Foreign Affairs three years after his appointment to the newly established post in 1972. Qatar had declared independence in September 1971 and joined the United Nations the same month; Suhaim's tenure therefore coincided with the country's early development of an independent diplomatic service and formal relations with foreign states. Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs identifies him as the state's first foreign minister appointed on February 23 1972. Original gelatin silver print black-and-white press photograph dated 1975 on the verso and measuring 5 x 6.5 inches. Sheikh Suhaim appears in formal portrait wearing a thobe and ghutra secured with an agal. The closely framed image concentrates on the minister's head and upper body presenting the official responsible for Qatar's foreign relations during the first years following independence. The 1975 date places the image during Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani's reorganization and expansion of the Qatari government a period in which diplomatic relations were being established with additional countries at ambassadorial level. The photograph preserves a contemporary press image of the official charged with directing Qatar's foreign ministry during the state's early independent diplomacy. The dated verso establishes its 1975 circulation or production context without requiring attribution to a specific press agency. Very good condition. unknown books
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1990rif. 002051Walton-on-Thames: B. Johnston Printed by Hobbs the Printers Southampton 1990. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. One of 500 copies Standard unnumbered issue. Second English Edition Diary / Third English Edition Essay. Limited Edition. The scarce highly regarded 1990 two-volume facsimile set produced by collector B. Johnston replicating the ultra-rare 1937 first editions privately issued by the Corvinus Press. Two slim quarto volumes approx. 29.5cm x 20cm housed together in the original matching cream textured card slipcase. . Volume I: The Diary. Reproduces the original text along with 13 full-page photographic plates from Lawrence's 1911 walking tour. Printed a page-size smaller than the 1937 original to form a uniform set with the Essay volume. O'Brien A194a. . Volume II: An Essay on Flecker. Reproduces the original essay layout with its limitation page and printed red "tc" monogram. Includes added introductory material by Johnston outlining the history of the private press. O'Brien A198b. From a total limited printing of 500 copies. Both volumes bound in the original pale cream textured paper wrappers with crisp black titles to the front covers. The Flecker volume remains in Very Good condition with clean wraps. However the outer cream card slipcase and the front cover wrapper of the Diary volume are both heavily marked with surface staining and handling wear. Structurally both volumes and the slipcase remain entirely sound and firmly bound. Internally both volumes bypass the external cosmetic wear completely and are in excellent clean and bright condition throughout remaining entirely free of blemishes foxing or ownership marks. A very nice structurally solid set ideal for the serious Lawrence collector who wants pristine internal text and plates. Walton-on-Thames: B. Johnston (Printed by Hobbs the Printers, Southampton) paperback
1935rif. mon0000285695Jonathan Cape 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Jonathan Cape London. 1935 first public edition first impression 672pp 54 illustrations and 4 maps 1935. 1st trade edition hardback 4tornclean throughout Jonathan Cape hardcover
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2010rif. 114562Köln: Taschen Verlasg, 2010. 44 x 32,5 cm ; Pp.
19648vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 103 plates on 60 and 3 maps (one double-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Thesiger's second book. The Marsh Arabs occupy the region around the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates in southern Iraq. This classic account, recording eight years spent living among them, is a worthy sequel to his masterpiece 'Arabian Sands'.
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193420 pages, including 2 sketch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is an exceptional report detailing a journey to the The Somali Coasts - Somalilands and Eritrea. The journey was made crossing Africa, through Timbuktu, Lake Chad, the Ubangi,Congo, Uganda, and Kenya, and many other places. The author discusses their main objective as the collection and photography of animals. Illustrations include: Camp at Rama on the River Dawa, Portuguese sixteenth-century lighthouse at Mogadishu, Camel corps at Gardo, Italian Somaliland, Street in Mogadishu, Native market in Mogadushu, Mosque and Sultan's house at Tio, General view of assab, Street in Assab.
193933 pages, inluding sketch illustrations. Plus black and white photographic plates and a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 16 x 9 inches (40 x 23cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a detailed first-hand expedition report of discoveries made by accomplished Libyan Desert explorer Ralph A. Bagnold. Although retired from the military since 1935, Bagnold remained a desert explorer. With the aid of the Egypt Exploration Society, in 1938 Bagnold organized his most ambitious scientific expedition to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat. While on this venture, fellow explorers, Hans Winkler, recorded rock art at Karkur Talh, and Oliver Myers excavated two main neolithic sites in the Gilf Kebir, in Wadi Bakht and Ard al Akhdar. Bagnold and Shaw also discovered a new rock art site in Karkur Murr, and one also in Wadi Abd el Melik in the Gilf Kebir. With contributions by Bagnold's expedition members Myers, Peel and Winkler, this comprehensive dissertation is clearly outlined in sections dealing with the Sir Robert Mond expedition, archaeological work - specifically of Palaeolithic sites and later sites, on rock-drawings and paintings, Tibu (Guraan Remains), dramatic features and craters of the Gilf Kebir, rock pictures at Uweinat, Sand Movement and Dunes, and a section describing logistics such as transport, navigation and supplies. This is Bagnold's preliminary reveal of critical findings, which precedes the release of his book, 'The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes' which was not published until 1941. A marble plaque in memory of Bagnold's 1938 Egypt Exploration Society's Expedition was later placed along the Tropic of Cancer at Gilf Kebir by the Zarzora Expedition.
1931Narrative is 6 pages, accompanied by a large fold-out map measuring approximately 13 inches x 10 inches (32cm x 25cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author endeavors to clear up the mystery surrounding the long lost ancient oasis 'Zerzura' in the Libyan Desert. He provides a succinct lucid account accompanied by a spectacular fold-out map including routes traveled in his quest for knowledge and discovery. In hope of finding the lost oasis of Zerzura, in 1929 Major Bagnold and his expedition team had explored extensive regions west and south-west of Ain Dalla. The Zerzura was not found. Several others followed in pursuit of answering the age old mystery. The mythical city or oasis, Zerzura, 'the oasis of fluttering birds' described in old manuscripts dating as far back as the 13th century, is rumoured to have existed in the desert west of the Nile River in Egypt or Libya. This disputed oasis situated in the regions of the Libyan desert has long been a topic of hot controversy and debate.
189019 pages, including 3 in-text sketch illustrations, plus a fold-out color map measuring approximately 9 inches x 10 inches (23cm x 25,5cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Accompanying his narrative with a vivid map of the ancient district of Olba, placing several ruined villages, temples and fortresses, revered explorer and archaeological Theodore Bent examines the ancient region known as Cilicia Tracheia, meticulously inspecting even small sites. On the map he compares ancient routes to his own, and indicates 'Oura' in modern Anatolia, the temple of Hermes, and several ancient cities. Bent's first-hand account describes physical evidence from the Byzantine Empire, and the contemporary Yuruk or Yörük nomads with whom he interacted.
189113 pages, including a full-page sketch map. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Captain Vaughan and the author left Tehran on April 7th, intending to march to Ispahan via the Sia Kuh, with the object of ascertaining the routes crossing these mountains towards the south, and more particularly inquiring into the nature and defining the limits of the extent of ground marked on most maps as a swamp, into which several rivers crossed on the road between Tehran and Kum were supposed to empty themselves.
18806 pages of the account. Plus a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 13 x 14 inches (33 x 36cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. An interesting travel account of Campbell's visit to the remote district of Shoarawak Valley, previously unknown to the Europeans, situated in the southeastern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Inhabited by mixture of Barechi Pathans and Brahuis, who possessed large flocks of camels, goats and sheep, the valley is almost destitute of trees. On May 1879, Major Campbell and his party, also visited the Toba table for the purpose of surveying the plateau located at the north eastern extremity of the Khwaja Amran range of mountains. This table land is divided into two portions called Toba and Tabin, according to the Campbell, the western part of Toba and Tabin belonged to the Atchazai Pathans and the eastern portion of Toba was the property of the Kakar tribes. However, frequent quarrels between these tribes over the territory have always caused the death of several men each year. Also included is a beautiful fold-out color map of "The Country Between Sind and Candahar", by W. J. Turner, showing the constructed and proposed railway. Shorawak valley is a narrow strip of flat country lying between the desert on the west and north west and a range generally known as the Sarlat Hills to the east. Its total length is about 40 miles with a width of 10 miles at the northern end and it is 3,250 feet above the sea. The head of the valley to the north is closed in by the southern spurs of the Khwaja Amran range of mountains which nearly join tie north-western spurs of the Sarlat Hills, only leaving a gap of about a mile through which the Lora river runs into the valley. The desert which stretches away westward as far as the Persian frontier rolls up in the form of sand hills to the edge of the cultivated land of the valley. The Lora river which waters the valley runs nearly dry in summer and its water is always brackish. The name of the valley drives from the Persian words, Shor brackish and Abak, meaning the scarcity of water. Major Campbell suggested that Shorawak was once a lake which was gradually silted up by deposits from the Lora and this seems to account for most of the phenomena. The river after flowing through the valley is swallowed up in the sand of the desert.
1923Title: From Oqair to the Ruins of Salwa. Author: Captain R. E. Cheesman Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1923. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: On a uniquely motivated expedition, for ornithological and archaeological research, in 1921 Cheesman ventured to the coastline near Bahrain, south of Oqair, which forms the Gulf of Salwa. In addition to the investigation of birds' migratory habits, Cheesman visited the area's extensive ruins and there made some important discoveries. An engaging account of the journey commence with those of the camel party itself, and vivid descriptions the city of Bahrain with its fresh water springs, ancient mounds and volcanic hills, an audience with the local important Sheik Isa and local date groves. Further commentary describes local fauna discovered on the difficult road to Salwa: Agama, sedge warblers, grasshopper warblers, a grey wagtail and mole rats (Nesokia). Aboard the "Baghala", the seascape was invaded, Cheesman reports, by thousands of small black Socotra Cormorant and once ashore, a pale example of the Desert lark was seen feeding, together with the Common Bee Eater, Pallid Harrier, Crested Lark, Blue-headed Wagtail as well as the Red-throated Pitpit, Yellow Wagtail, Crag Martins, Chiff Chaff and Sand Martins. Cheesman was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London, and this expedition into an unexplored tract of Arabia was first and foremost a pursuit of zoological knowledge in the area. Cheesman was the first European to travel across some of the desert areas (Murra, Jabrin) and his travels preceded those of Philby. He was also the first to map the Arabian coast from Uqair to the head of the Gulf of Salwa. Here he recounts the journey, lands untrodden by his European counterparts, and fascinating Arabian customs. [Subsequently, in 1923-24 he spent three months at Hufuf. Having fixed its position, he then mapped 150 miles of desert, he identified the site of the ancient Gerra, and corrected some serious mistakes relating to the wadi system. For this he was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by The Royal Geographical Society]. Having finally arrived at Salwa, however, Cheesman was directed to the ruins where some pieces of pottery, alabaster and similar relics were uncovered. On his two visits to the Salwa Bight, he made archaeological discoveries which showed that the site of the Gerra emporium was to be found in the immediate vicinity of the port of Oqair, and not at the head of Salwa Bay as was formerly supposed. Estimates suggested that the settlement may have originated from the Kindi epoch, around the 6th century AD. 8vo. 15 pages, plus a full page sketch map and photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Major Robert Ernest Cheesman CBE (1878-1962) was a military officer, explorer and ornithologist. He was Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox during his tenure as High Commissioner in Iraq. In 1923, during a journey into the Arabian Peninsula, Cheesman collected over 300 specimens from the Hasa oasis, several of them previously unknown to science. These specimens are currently in the British Museum. He is credited with discovering Cheesman's Gerbil (Gerbillus cheesmani). Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwah to Uqair. In 1924 he fixed the position of Hofuf and identified the site of ancient Gerrha. He presented his findings to Ibn Sa'ud at his court in Hofuf. He was later given the Gill Memorial Award for this work by the Royal Geographical Society. In 1936 he was awarded the Patron's Gold Medal of the society for his explorations and surveys of the Blue Nile and Lake Tana.
192530 pages. Plus photographic plates and a large fold-out color map, measuring approximately 18.5 x 20 inches (47 x 51cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. An exciting first-hand record of Cheesman's travels across Arabia, illustrated with several plates and a spectacular colour map showing his routes in Eastern Nedj, between the 'Oqair and Jabrin oasis. Pre-dating his book, "In Unknown Arabia," published first in 1926. The author is revered for his travels and findings in northern parts of the Arabian desert, as he was the first European to travel across some parts, such as Murra and Jabrin; his travels preceded those of Philby. Inspired by the expedition undertaken by ornithologist Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, killed in a native dispute in Nyeri in 1909, Cheesman set off to bring back a collection of desert animals and birds from central Arabia. Features discussion of some bird encounters: the White-eared Bulbul (P leucotis mesiopotamiae) and a new species of Wren Warbler (Prinia gracilis hufufae), the Desert Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo desertorum), two species of Desert Larks (Ammomanes cinctura pallida and A deserti azizi) and more, as well as descriptions of ruins - those at Abu Zahmul, 'Oqair, meetings with various sheikhs, among them the well known Sheikh Abdullah ibn Jiluwi and the Amir of Jabrin as well as a catalogue of specimens obtained.
1933Two Reports on the Gilf Kebir in One Complete Issue of the Royal Geographical Society. 11 pages, including a full-page sketch map. Plus several photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Featuring the Clayton-Almàsy Expedition of 1932 drawn from the late Robert Clayton's notes and diaries (he died of poiomyelitis within two months of leaving the Gilf Kebir) and written by one of Clayton's companions on the expedition, P A Clayton, of the Egyptian Survey Department. Much of the area's reconnaissance was conducted from Robert Clayton's Gypsy Moth but the near disaster that befell Clayton and Penderel occurred when the two became lost whilst returning by car to pick up provisions from Dune Camp. Excerpt from the text: "That wait was the worst time I have ever had. I thought of Tankards of beer, England, and all the wet things one does think about on these occasions, wondered why I had spent a lot of money to go and die in a desert, and trying to think what to do about last letters, will, etc. I remebered all the lovely descriptions of people dying of thirst that I have read about and realized that they were mild in comparison. Finally, I thought of all the drinks I have refused, all the wickednesses I might have committed, and again of water..." End excerpt. "The Western Side of the Gilf Kebir" is P A Clayton's 1931 survey of the area traversed in the Clayton-Almàsy Expedition, followed by an account in his own words of the expedition's intentions to reconnoitre the top of the Gilf Kebir plateau and to examine the district between Gebel Arkenu and the southern tip of the Gilf.
182824 pages. Plus a photographic Portrait of David George Hogarth. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a comprehensive memoir of a distinguished British archaeologist and scholar, David George Hogarth, who explored and excavated (1887-1907) in Cyprus, Crete, Egypt, Syria, and Melos, accompanied by his portrait photograph and includes fascinating remarks on his published works including "Devia Cypria"; "Notes of an Archaeological Journey in Cyprus in 1888"; "Accidents of an Antiquary's life"; "A Wandering Scholar in the Levant"; "Philip and Alexander of Macedon"; "The Nearer East"; "The Penetration of Arabia"; "The Ancient East"; and "Arabia". Also contains numerous excerpts from his books as well as letters sent from Jidda, Palestine, Cairo and Paris.
189019 pages, plus a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 14.5 inches x 8.5 inches (37cm x 21,5cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A captivating expedition report detailing Lieutenant H. B. Vaughan's early travels in uncharted regions of eastern Persia, and a caravan journey through the Great Salt Desert, Dasht-i-Kavir, accompanied by a bright colour route map for illustration. Vaughan determined the true position of several places only roughly placed on previous maps, and discovered numerous additional towns, villages, or halting stations unknown to European geographers. Here he describes mining towns and desolate villages, conflict between Arabs and Persians, an encampment of 100 tents for an estimated 300 nomadic Persians, and other peculiarities of this foreign land, inlcuding customs of the Bhaloos and the Iliyats. Colonel Vaughan undertook two adventurous journeys of exploration and espionage in Persia for which he was awarded the MacGregor Medal in 1892, in those days very much the medal of the "Great Game" of rivalry between Britain and Russia in Central Asia.
