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1940réf. L7VDM2ALRS81UK Government: Geographical Section General Staff War Office 1940. 2 topographic maps colour-printed. Scale 1:500000. 820 x 640 mm and 770 x 648 mm. Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved. Compiled from 1930s surveys and produced by the British 512 Army Field Survey Company Royal Engineers for use in the Persian war theatre. These consecutive maps cover the south-western area of Iraq including Rutba and Fallujah with parts of Saudi Arabia Jordan and Syria approximately the area between 31° and 33°30 N and 39° and 44° E.Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved. Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, unknown
Very Good Arabic Original cloth bdg. Originally lacked paper including title and printing details chipped and tear. Interior very good. Otherwise a good copy. [14], 378 p. Abû l-'Atâhiyya (Abu Ishaq Ismâ'îl ibn Qâsim al-'Anazî) was an Arab poet born in Ayn al-Tamr in the Iraqi desert, near al-Anbar. His ancestors were of the tribe of 'Anaza. His youth was spent in Kufa, where he was engaged for some time in selling pottery. During the time when he took the occupation of selling pottery, he saw the assembly of poets in a competition and he participated in it. Thus he became famous for his poetry. For uplifting his poetry he reached to Baghdad. Moving to Baghdad, he continued his business there, but became famous for his verses, especially for those addressed to 'Utba, a concubine of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mahdi. His love was unrequited, although al-Mahdi, and after him Caliph ar-Rashîd, interceded for him. Having offended the caliph, he was imprisoned for a short time. He died in 828 in the reign of Caliph al-Ma'mûn. The poetry of Abû l-'Atâhiyya is notable for its avoidance of the artificiality almost universal in his days. The older poetry of the desert had been constantly imitated up to this time, although it was not natural to town life. Abû l-'Atâhiyya was one of the first to drop the old qasîda (elegy) form. He was very fluent and used many metres. He is also regarded as one of the earliest philosophical poets of the Arabs. Much of his poetry is concerned with the observation of common life and morality, and at times is pessimistic. Thus he was strongly suspected of heresy. Compiled and prepared by Louis Cheikho. Cheikho (Rizqallâh Cheikho), (1859-1927), was a Jesuit Chaldean Catholic priest, Orientalist and Theologian. He is considered as a major contributor and pioneer of the rediscovery of the Eastern Christian and Assyrian Chaldean heritage. Louis Cheikho was born in Mardin, Turkey on February 5, 1859. His father was an ethnic Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, whose Assyrian family had been based at Mardin for at least three centuries. His mother was an Armenian named Elizabeth Schamsé, who took him on pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he was 9 years old. In 1868, Cheikhô joined his brother at the Maronite Jesuit Seminary in Ghazîr, Lebanon. At this date, the seminary was not merely preparing young men for the priesthood, but also acted as a secondary college for young Christian and especially Assyrian Chaldean men. Both groups followed a similar syllabus. There, he learned both ancient and modern European and Semitic languages. In 1874 he entered the Jesuit Order and started his novitiate training at Lons-le-Saunier, France. He adopted at that time the name of 'Louis' out of devotion for the young Jesuit saint Louis Gonzaga. In 1878, he returned to Lebanon and taught Arabic Literature at the Jesuit Saint Joseph College in Beirut for 10 years. During this period, Cheikho continued his studies of philosophy at Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut. In 1888, Cheikho travelled to Great Britain for theological studies in preparation for the priesthood. He was ordained priest by the Chaldean Church of the East on 8 September 1891. He then spent one year in Austria and another year in Paris. Those extended European stays allowed him to acquire the academic methodologies that helped him in his later works. Finally in 1894, he settled in Beirut, Lebanon, where he continued his academic career at Université Saint-Joseph. Cheikho died in Beirut in 1927. Cheikho is perhaps the founder of modern publications of unpublished Eastern Christian texts, especially Christian Arabic texts. He also founded, in 1898, the journal Al-Machriq, and contributed many articles and publications to its pages. His work was an inspiration for CEDRAC. (Wikipedia). First Edition. Extremely rare. This edition not in OCLC; for late editions see OCLC 404750229.
1946réf. 313857Baghdad 1946. Six pages in ink on three leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Letter: small loss from old staple at top of first leaf affecting two letters. Near fine. Book: Black cloth title in green illustration of measuring utensils on pastedowns. Pictorial dust jacket. Binding a bit rubbed spine faded with small loss at head Very good minus. Six pages in ink on three leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Letter from Baghdad 1946. Fascinating letter from editor May H. Beattie 1908-1997 editor of Recipes from Baghad published for the benefit of the Red Cross and later a widely published author on Persian and oriental carpets. Beattie describes its contemporary reception in cosmopolitan Baghdadi circles noting specific criticisms of contents and illustrations how the barbs affected some of the editors with report of discussions with an editor in the U.K and mention of a possible Arabic edition for local "middle class people". Beattie writes "At the moment rather between ourselves I have a most consuming passion to make a record of Baghdad women - I am finding out all sorts of things about their cosmetics tatooing hair dying & customs in general. I should think it will be almost impossible to extract any information from Baghdad "Society" but I am finding other sources in plenty and a card index is filling rapidly." Beattie who trained as a microbiologist had come to Baghdad with her husband in 1937; in 1946 they returned to England and so the book on Baghdad women was never completed. Beattie's career as a scholar of carpets began in the 1950s when she saw the shortcomings of earlier research. "Dr. Beattie transferred her scholarly training in one discipline to another" Mackie and assembled facts and "recorded manufacturing methods equipment patterns and functions of carpets." With: Recipes from Baghdad with an Introduction by Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Iraq. Edited by May H. Beattie B.A. Ph.D. with the assistance of Bedia Afnan Renée Elkab Helen Gaudin and Ann Walter. Caricatures by Suad Salim. Folding table; illustrations in text. 163 2 blank xi pp. 8vo Baghdad: Published by the Indian Red Cross Printed at the Government Press 1946. OCLC: 29816802 7 copies. Inscribed by the Queen Mother of Iraq on flyleaf in Arabic: ila Miz Gaudin 'Aliya 16/4/46; and signed below by May H. Beattie Renée Elkab Ann Walter and Helen Gaudin. 'Aliya bint 'Ali 1911-1950 Queen Mother of Iraq was granddaughter of King Faisal of the Hejaz and widow of King Ghazi. Her son Faisal II was the last king of Iraq and was killed in the 1958 revolution. For May Beattie see biographical notice by Louise W. Mackie in Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies 3:1 1987 pp. 6-10 unknown books
1948réf. 276712Hamburg: Eckardt & Messtorff 1948. II, 290 S. 55 Textbildern und 33 Tafeln, 5 Luftbildaufnahmen und 5 Karten lt. Titelbl. <richtig 1> 4° HLN.
réf. 26975'Published by Survey Directorate G.H.Q. Paiforce 1944. All one page 20 x 33cms some stained but texts clear and complate. 1. Index map of Iraq and Iran for a 1:100000 scale survey series produced by the British military command PAIFORCE during World War II. All 20 x 32.5cm a couple sl. stained mainly good condition.1.Four Index maps of Iraq and Iran ¼ series I.D.R./X.D.R./G.S.G.S. 9002 3919 nos. 1-42.Index map of Iraq and Iran for a 1:100000 scale survey series produced by the British military command PAIFORCE during World War II. Index Map of 'Irq rn 1:100000 Series I.D.R. 9003'.3.Four Index Maps of places/areas of IRAN:a. Ahwaz 1:10000 series 1D MISC/563 to 573 stamped 11 June 1944b. Askaran and Sanandaj N.W. 1:25000 series …9005 stamped 25 June 1944c. Gach-I-Sar 1:50000 series stamped 11 June 1944d. Khurramshahr Abandan 1:12500 series4.Six Index Maps of places/areas of IRAQ all 1:25000 series ID 9005:a. Ba'qubab. Faidahc. Haffad. Hindiyae. Falluja f. MoselNo reference to other copies yet found. 'Published by Survey Directorate, G.H.Q. Paiforce [1944] unknown
1934réf. 194745London: Iraq Petroleum Company Limited 1934. Supplying Europe with Middle East oil First edition celebrating the construction of this critical oil artery. It discusses the history of the project its engineering and logistics challenges and the local diplomacy required to receive the necessary permissions. The many photographic illustrations show the pipeline at various stages of completion and profile the company employees that planned and organised this feat. In 1927 the Iraq Petroleum Company discovered a rich oilfield at Kirkuk and began to extract and transport crude at a never-before-seen scale. First the British proposed to connect Kirkuk with Haifa in Mandatory Palestine. However the French government demanded that the oil instead be sent to Tripoli so a twin pipeline was conceived that could service both ports. The pipes were 30.5 centimetres in diameter could carry a million tons of oil a year each and were supported periodically by 12 pumping stations. The two lines were constructed in parallel from Kirkuk to the city of Haditha the location of Pumping Station K-3 where they split into the northern "T Line" and the southern "H Line". Construction began in 1932 and was completed by 1934 on a budget of approximately £10000000. "Materials from overseas exceeded 200000 tons and building materials obtained locally at least equalled that" p. 2 The oil flowed until 1948 when the formation of the state of Israel led the Iraqi government to cut off the Haifa branch. This work details not just the construction of the pipeline but the communications infrastructure water supply transport routes and medical services that supported the workers. Chapter 13 discusses the company's land purchases employment of local labourers and artisans coverage in the press and work in the desert where they both employed and often had to guard against members of local tribes. Quarto. Folding map folding plan half-tone photographic illustrations maps and tables in text. With publisher's compliments card loosely inserted. Original blue half leatherette spine gilt-lettered direct blue paper boards front board gilt-stamped with title and company logo blue endpapers. Spine sunned and a little soiled boards rubbed especially at extremities of front board small chip on front board top edge contents bright: a very good copy. hardcover
1871réf. PHO-1755Paris, Imprimerie Impériale & Nationale, 1871-1930, 7 vol. (sur 9, manque tome 2 & 3) In-8°, brochage éditeur. Édition bilingue : Texte arabe avec traduction française en regard, Tome I, (1871), 2ff.-XII-408pp.,Tome IV, (1914), 2ff,VII_XI ,480pp., Tome V(1928); 3ffnch.-VI-515 pp; Tome VI (1928) ;3ffnch.-IX-518 ;Tome VII (1929); 3ffnch.-X-438 pp; Tome VIII (1930); 3ffnch-X-446 pp.; Tome IX (1930) ,3ffnch.-VI-299 pp. , en fin d’ouvrage , notes et variantes, correction ainsi que la table des matières .Manque les tomes 2/3 , petits défauts de reliure.
1930réf. 276713Berlin: Reimer / Vohsen 1930. VII, 110 S.240 Textbildern und 47 Tafeln. 4° Ln.mS.
1922réf. 173026London: HMSO Press Harrow & Harrison & Sons Ltd 1922 1923 & 1923 1924. Background intelligence on Faisal's Iraq First editions of two regional sitreps issued after the 1920 Iraqi Revolt and Faisal's installation in 1921 prepared for British officials administering the new monarchy. Both are rare - print runs of 1375 likely with fewer distributed - with only five and four institutional copies traced. Each is marked Provisional and Confidential; Area 1 is additionally stamped "secret" in a contemporary hand. The projected 10-volume series was never completed and surviving instalments sometimes titled Military Report on Iraq are scarce. Compiled at short notice on the model of Naval Intelligence Division geographical handbooks the reports provide concise local intelligence: historical and geographical survey then climate resources ethnography tribal structure leading figures communications transport and routes with technical appendices. Area 1 Northern Jazirah covers northern Iraq and adjacent Turkey and Syria stressing weak British influence and the prestige lost through unchecked tribal raiding after 1919. Its core is a detailed tribal analysis supplemented by contemporary intelligence annotations on succession disputes and political loyalties. Area 7 Tigris surveys the settled agricultural belt from Kut to Qurnah and the Shatt al-Arab reflecting greater stability and asserting that firm but protective rule could secure order. Detailed appendices describe estates shaikhs armed retainers and agricultural practice. Together the volumes offer granular evidence of British intelligence gathering during the improvised creation of the Iraqi state in the early 1920s. 2 vols octavo. Area 1 pp. viii 240 with a folding table and numerous tables to the text; Area 7 pp. ii 184 3 folding many to the text. Both in original greyish yellow printed boards cloth backstrips first with reddish orange spine the second greyish green. Both volumes in field service condition and lacking the maps called for spines sunned and chipped some repairs "Mespots" added in white ink boards rubbed and lightly stained hinges occasionally cracked with some repairs and a little play but the internal binding sound; contents toned but generally clean; for such fragile productions both remain surprisingly well preserved very good. hardcover
1961réf. 192662Baghdad: Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1961. The consequences of Kuwait's independence First and only editions of these pamphlets on Iraq-Kuwait foreign relations produced in the wake of Kuwait's independence of 1961 and foreshadowing the 1990-91 Gulf War events. On 19 June two memoranda were exchanged between Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Al Sabah and William Luce British Political Resident in the Gulf which included the cancellation of the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899 and of Britain's direct management of Kuwait's policies. The first pamphlet suggests that Kuwait's independence infringed Iraq's historic control and influence over Kuwait as Kuwait had been part of the Basrah district since the eighth century. It also discusses Al Sheikh Sabah's right of self-governance in relation to the 1899 agreement and the Anglo-Ottoman agreement 1913 as well as the dangers of Kuwait's new status for Iraq. The second comprises the minutes of a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo 1960 concerning Kuwait's request to join as an independent state. The main speakers were representatives of the Republic of Iraq the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia with Iraq questioning the plan of stationing Arab troops in Kuwait for defence purposes fearing they might threaten the Iraqi army. The appendix reproduces the text of the League's final decision. The third opens with a section on the attempts of colonial powers to bring Kuwait into the United Nations referring to a UN assembly where this issue was discussed in 1961. The pamphlet reports speeches by numerous UN representatives of world countries including China and the US giving their own opinion on the appropriateness of Kuwait's membership. Three works bound in one octavo 220 x 160 mm. With 1 colour map of the Arabian Peninsula. Contemporary red cloth title in white ink along spine original wrappers bound in. Original wrappers a little soiled on margins small light stain along fore-edge of initial leaves of first work contents toned: very good copies. hardcover
1969réf. 191001Baghdad: Wiz rat al-thaq fah wa-l-'eal m 1969. Ba'athism and Gulf politics First edition of this extensively illustrated pamphlet on the Iraqi ministerial delegation's tour of Qatar Bahrain Kuwait Abu Dhabi and Ajman. This diplomatic mission took place in the aftermath of the Six-Day War with Israel a year after Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr and the Ba'ath Party had taken control in Iraq and only a couple of months after the notorious "Baghdad hangings". We have traced no other copies. It details the delegation's itinerary and the politicians present at each event including the sheikhs Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi III. It also quotes from newspaper reports on these events. The principal concern was the forthcoming withdrawal of Britain from the Gulf by 1971 and plans for renewed cooperation among the Arab states of the region building a unified economic and defence front. Octavo. Half-tone photographic illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Ink stamp "Salama Establishment" on title page. Wrappers a bit soiled clean tear on upper margin of second leaf contents toned: a very good copy. unknown
209 issues bound in 202. Quarto. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. Includes many folded posters, loosely inserted. In excellent condition, exceptionally well preserved. ~ First edition. Extremely rare, complete collection of great political and historical interest. Contains: "L'Opinion de Bagdad. Revue politique bimensuelle", issues 1-86 (1972-1976). [AND:] "L'Irak aujourd'hui. Revue politique bimensuelle", issues 1-123 in 116 parts (1976-1981).
1920réf. 276768Berlin: Reimer / Vohsen 1920. XII, 164 Seiten, mit 44 Abbildungen im Text und 65 Tafeln, davon 4 in Kupfer-, Licht- und Farbendruck. 4° HLdr. *2 Taf gebräunt, unteres Kapital minimal berieben, schönes Expl.* eins von insgeamt 315 Expl.*.
1917réf. 178262Basrah: The Basrah Times 1917. Empire and Pan-Arabism Two leaves from the first and only issue of the Basrah Times 20 March 1917 printing Sir Frederick Stanley Maude's appeal to the people of Baghdad province issued nine days after the British capture of the city. The proclamation marks a turning point in the First World War exemplifies imperial rhetoric and foreshadows the tensions between colonial authority and national aspiration that shaped the following decade in Iraq. Although Basrah fell in November 1914 Baghdad was secured only after a further two and a half years of campaigning. Maude drove the advance restoring supply lines and winning successive engagements at Hayy Dahra and Kut before the final assault. The proclamation presents the British not as conquerors but as liberators promising renewal after centuries of foreign rule and invoking the recent success of the Arab Revolt under Sharif Hussein as a model of independence and unity. Yet this balance between nationalist promise and imperial control proved unstable: the post-war Mandate endured only until the revolt of 1920 forced political transition culminating in Faisal's election as king in 1921. Two sheets each approximately 440 x 285 mm laid down on thick card framed and glazed. Text in English and Arabic. Sheets toned and with creases from old folds minor foxing a few short tears one small hole to centre of one sheet affecting one letter: a very good set. unknown
1943réf. 44248Baghdad: S.i. ca.1943-44. Original illustrated poster offset printed in five colors on beige stock measuring 56.75cm x 72.75cm 22.25" x 28.5". Signed "FAIK H" in plate at lower left corner. Two old folds smoothed out trivial wear to intersection of folds at center with a handful of short marginal tears and attendant creases; unbacked; Very Good. Superb example of this agricultural-themed wartime propaganda poster designed by Iraqi painter Faeq Hassan 1914-1992 widely heralded as "the father of Iraqi modern art." Born poor in Baghdad Hassan showed an early aptitude for art. When he was 12 he visited his uncle a gardener in the royal palace for King Faisal I; when the King saw his drawing of a horse drinking from a river he recognized his talent instantly and offered him a scholarship. Faisal died in 1933 while Hassan was still in high school though his successor King Ghazi carried out his father's will and send him to the École des Beaux-Arts Paris in 1935. After returning from Paris Hassan founded Al-Ruwad The Pioneers Group a group of Iraqi artists who eschewed the traditional studio atmosphere; while engaging with nature and choosing the chronicle the daily realities of Iraqi life through their art the group played a critical role in bridging the gap between heritage and modernity. Little scholarship exists regarding Hassan's activities or artistic output during World War II though the present example suggests he put his talents to some use creating home front propaganda after the Anglo-Iraqi War. The poster depicts a male laborer in traditional garb digging in a field with a bag of seeds tied at his waist beneath the slogan "If You Plant You Will Win" flanked by twin V's. Despite the traditional Iraqi setting the message is similar in tone to the American propaganda campaign encouraging the populace to plant victory gardens to help the war effort. A notably early work by Hassan and a rare survival with no examples found in the auction record and none found in the holdings of any OCLC member institution. cf."Profile: Faik Hassan." Al Jazeera 30 October 2005. S.i. unknown books
1917réf. ABC_48426Iran and Iraq 1917. Contemporary cloth one album in in red and one in grey with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. Oblong 8vo ca. 15.5 x 20 cm. With 191 resp. 95 and 96 gelatin silver prints all ca. 4 x 6 cm. 2 volumes. Remarkable set of Kodak photo albums with nearly 200 photographs of military life and the oil industry in Iran and Iraq in the early 20th century. The photographs were most likely taken by the compiler of the albums and show scenes from his daily life. Most of them are captioned. Included are images of Persian oil fields Abu Zenema Sinai coast Port Sudan Bushehr Basra various locations along the Tigris Euphrate and Shatt al-Arab rivers Ashwaz and Shush. The photographs also show locals involved in various activities including races shark hunting and selling wares. The compiler of the album was likely a British soldier who was stationed in Basra and other locations in Iran and Iraq after the First World War.The edges and corners of both albums are slightly scuffed with a few light stains on the back board of the red album. The paper on which the photographs are mounted is slightly browned ten of the photos have either creased corners or a damaged surface some photographs a little loose within their windows missing a photo on the final page of the red album. Otherwise in good condition. hardcover
