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4 picture postcards. A collection of vintage postcards showing the Ordnance Depot, Basra; the Mouth of the Ashar Creek, Basra; Qashla (Ashar Barracks) Basra; and View, Right Bank, Shatt-El-Arab. - All evenly browned a little; some foxing to view of the Ordnance Depot. The view of Ashar Creek is pre-printed with "Christmas Greetings and all Good Wishes for a Happy New Year".
4to. 161, (3) pp. With numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Report on the Danish archaeological expedition to Kuwait led by Peter Vilhelm Glob and Geoffrey Bibby. During five campaigns between 1958 and 1963 the tells on the south-western corner of Failaka Island became the focus of the expedition. The report describes and illustrates some of the major finds, including statues, pottery, lamps, coins, remnants of houses and temples, skeletons and weaponry. - Each campaign lasted 2½ to 3½ months, and the excavation teams consisted of between 5 and 14 Danes as well as 2 Kuwaitis from the Education Department, assisted by up to 185 labourers. At the end of each campaign the finds were packed down in large wooden crates and shipped to the museum in Aarhus for conservation and analysis. At that time there were no conservation and storing facilities in Kuwait, nor anywhere in the Arabian Gulf. - Wrappers have title in English and Arabic. The illustrations are captioned in English and Arabic as well; title-page and introductory text in Arabic only. - Occasional light foxing. OCLC 65798901.
8vo. 133, (1) pp. With frontispiece and 30 photo illustrations by Godfrey Argent on plates. Publisher's original giltstamped blue cloth with printed dustjacket. Lavishly illustrated account of the author's sojourn in Jordan, where she studied the royal horses and their training. - Well preserved. OCLC 2164501.
4to. 40 pp. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Arabic edition of the leading English newspaper on oil matters. Founded in 1934, the Petroleum Press Service was one of the first reliable sources of information on all aspects of the petroleum industry and trade. The Arabic version, first issued in 1953, was published up to the 1970s. - Front cover slightly dampstained.
Oblong folio. (48) pp. of printed photographic illustrations with tissue guards. Original green printed cardboard. Fine collection of printed views of Tunis and its environs, depicting mosques, street scenes, palace interiors, landscapes, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 60 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from Tunisia. Depicts the cities and ports, the inhabitants, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Albumen print, 279 x 218 mm.
4to. X, 188 pp. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. Traces Arab awareness of the West, which began in embryonic form when the French forces under Napoleon occupied Egypt in 1798. Examines the works of Arab writers who helped to formulate a new image of the West and to shape Arab response to the challenge raised by cultural contact between disparate worlds. Treats developments up to 1870. - Excellent copy in very good price-clipped dustjacket.
Oblong 12mo (60 x 102 mm). 2 pp. Insurance ID for the Aramco employee Orlin Orace Thomas, verifying his claim to have medical expenses covered under the Aramco medical payment plan. - Right corners slightly worn.
560 x 430 mm. Folding poster with several black-and-white photographic illustrations. Aramco poster celebrating technological advances in the Arab world. Featuring pictures taken by Aramco employees, it presents the various modes of transportation in Saudi Arabia, emphasizing the symbiosis of progress and tradition: "Present-day Arabia is a meeting place of ancient and modern ways. Arab Bedouins and camels, reminiscent of Biblical days, are often seen side by side with modern airplanes and oil rigs". The images show pack animals, sail boats, cars, buses, tankers, trains and airplanes.
8vo. Vol. 23 (of 24) only. 557, (1) pp. Contemporary blue boards with handwritten spine title and library label. Trassler's reprint of Büsching's great geography: volume 23 only, dedicated to the Near and Middle East, i.e., the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia, Syria, and the Levant. - Occasional light browning due to paper; light staining to boards.
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 32 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from French Algeria (mosques, the ports of Oran and Algiers, Arabic villages, etc.). - Slight edge defects to wrapper covers, otherwise well preserved.
8vo. (6), 350 pp. With woodcut device to title-page. Contemporary full calf with gilt spine and spine-label. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Charming edition of the "Hezaryek-Rouz" or "Thousand and One Days", so called to "give the work an air of originality" (Chauvin IV, 124). The last tome of an original five-volume set of these oriental tales unfolding around the Kashmiri princess Farrukhnaz. - These tales are the translation of a manuscript that the oriental scholar François Pétis de la Croix is said to have received in Isfahan in 1675 from the dervish Moclès, the latter having translated and adapted into Persian the Indian tales known in Turkish as "al-Farage Bada Al-schidda". - Although the work enjoyed far fewer editions and translations than the "Alf layla wa-layla" and is commonly said to be an imitation of the same, it cannot, as Chauvin notes, be determined whether the "Thousand and One Days" or the "Thousand and One Nights" was composed first. Chauvin quotes one commentator who prefers the "Days" to the "Nights", declaring the former "much more ingenious and more realistic, as it sometimes includes marvels, following the taste of the Oriental" (Chauvin IV, 125). Nevertheless, to this day the "Hezaryek-Rouz" is much less known in the West. - Corners slightly rubbed; small portion at head of spine chipped away; binding minimally wormed; faint traces of glue to covers. Lower edges of a few pages torn without loss to text; pp. 126f. with a grayish mark, presumably left by a bookmark. Occasional light spotting; a few pages slightly creased. Chauvin IV, 312 B. Cf. Graesse IV, 525 (later eds.).
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 18 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from the Red Sea. Depicts the wells of Aden, street scenes from Jeddah, the Arabic bazaar at Suakim, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Large 8vo. X, 342 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 62 illustrations on 23 plates. Original red cloth. First edition. - "The travels (c. 1934) of an Arab girl in the Near and Middle East, including a journey with her brother through Lebanon, Iran and the Persian Gulf. The author, a feminist of sorts, visits Tehran, the Caspian region, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz and Bushehr. She views Reza Shah favorably, 'the roads are safe', modernization, industrial plants, etc." (Ghani). Also contains chapters on her sojourn in the "romantic pearl islands of Bahrein" (with an illustration of the author in local Bahraini costume, a gift of the ruler and his wife). - Occasional slight foxing, but well preserved. Ghani 208. OCLC 18175528. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
8vo. XXXII, 410 pp. Original half cloth with giltstamped spine title. All edges marbled. First edition of this collection of Ottoman fairy tales, translated and with an introduction by the Hungarian linguist, turkologist, and folklorist Ignác Kúnos (1860-1945).- Binding somewhat bumped at extremeties, inner hinges and first flyleaf cracked.
8vo. 66 SS. Halbleinenband der Zeit (Bibliotheksbindung). Ausführlicher Bericht über den mehrtägigen Orientalisten-Kongress an der Universität Wien. Lincke gibt die wissenschaftlichen Verhandlungen der einzelnen Sektionen wieder und beschreibt auch das gesellige Beisammensein im Anschluss. - Rundstempel des Orientalischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig (Arabisch-Islamische Abteilung) am Titel; alte Bibliothekssignaturen.
(2), 11, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Marmorbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Aufsätze: "Das Auslaut- und Betonungsgesetz des Neupersischen"; "Über das Lautgesetz: altbaktr. sh = alteran. rt."; "dahân". "Aus dem Decemberhefte des Jahrganges 1870 der Sitzungsberichte der phil.-histor. Cl. der kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften [LXVI. Bd., S. 361] besonders abgedruckt." Im Rand etwas angestaubt. Mit Bibliotheksstempel des Indogermanischen Instituts der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig am Titelblatt sowie Ausscheidestempel.
XI, (1), 143, (1) SS. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Der erste von insgesamt acht Bänden des Katalogs der orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Gotha und der einzige Band, der die persischen Werke verzeichnet. Den Katalog, der zwischen 1859 und 1893 erschien, verfasste der Bibliothekar und Orientalist Pertsch (1832-99), Beamter und ab 1879 Oberbibliothekar zu Gotha. Auf den Katalog der persischen Handschriften folgte jener der türkischen in einem Band, der arabischen in fünf Bänden und abschließend ein Band der übrigen orientalischen Handschriften. - Gering stockfleckig. Unbeschnittenes, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. Nicht bei Besterman.
Large 4to. VI, 147, (1) pp. With 10 folding maps and plates stored loosely in envelope. Original printed wrappers. Front cover with owner's stamp "W. R. Farrand". - Binding slightly rubbed, larger tears to spine.
686 pp. Publisher's original wrappers. 4to. Third edition of this history of the Arabian Gulf, first published 1965. Includes a few maps as well as extensive bibliographical references (pp. 675-681). - Well preserved. OCLC 71425250.
8vo. 4 parts in one volume. (4), 32, 347, (1), 128, 228, II, (2) pp. With 2 (instead of 1!) folding engraved maps and 16 (instead of 20) engraved plates; several wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine. Marbled endpapers. Published as vol. 58 of the series "L'univers". Discusses Algiers (by Rozet), Algeria (by Carette), Libya (by Hoefer), and Tunisia (by Frank). - Some foxing. With a folding map of Algeria not listed in the table of plates, but does not contain four plates on Tunisia there listed. The fine engravings show costumes, views (Constantine, Algiers, Belida, Oran), etc. OCLC 6985583.
8vo. VI, (2), 164 pp. Original printed wrappers. Scholarly work on Abu 'Ubaid's collection of proverbs (matal) known as "Kitab al-Amtal", assembled in the 8th/9th century A.D., and other, similar anthologies of Arabic adages. - A very good copy.
Features/Photos: Royal visit to Pakistan; Warsak Dam; the Khyber Pass; Swiss disasters - fire and avalanche; New York paralysed by two severe blizzards in 2 weeks - 5 photos; Exclusive photos from on board the Santa Maria, one of the most exciting episodes ever to take place on the high seas; Submarine Oberon commissioned at Chatham; colour portrait depicting golf in the 18th century; Soviet colonialism; Back cover is an excellent colour advert. for Senior Service cigarettes showing the H.M.S. Tiger. Moderate wear. Clean and unmrked. Quality copy. Magazine
Pages 1025-1124 (99 pages in total). Includes index and prices. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Intended to be read by shop owners. Presents a wonderful cross-section of "the most complete stocks in Western Canada" - from page 1024. Extensive listings of firearms and related products. Also included are products for dogs, traps, thermos and related products, flashlights and batteries, lighters, harmonicas, cards, baseball, tennis, badminton, golf, football, hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, boxing, lawn bowling, croquet, roller skating, snow shoes, bicycles and ski equipment. Above-average but not excessive wear. Front cover taped in place. Back cover missing. A very enjoyable and nostalgic item. Young readers will be amazed to see how far today's gear has advanced in the past 50+ years, particularly ski equipment. Book
