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8vo. 7, (1) pp. Original wrapperless covers. Trade agreement regulating the trade of goods destined for or exported from ports in Saudi Arabia, and carried in ships calling at Bahrain. In English and Arabic. - Some rust-staining in gutter.
4to. 4 pp. Speech of Herbert H. Lehman in the Senate of the United States, March 1, 1956, on "The Saudi Arabian Policy of Discrimination Against Americans of Jewish Faith", including subsequent correspondence. - Folded.
Engraved map (plate size: 53 x 44.5 cm), with coloured borders. Engraved map showing the Near East, especially the areas of today’s Syria and Iraq. From Schalbacher’s and Schrämbl’s “Großer Allgemeiner Atlas”. A good, clean impression. Dörflinger/Hühnel I, 136, 97.
8vo. 175, (1) pp. With a portrait frontispiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Second edition, revised by Shawki Sukkary. Abbas al-Aqqad (1889-1964) remains well known in Egypt as a versatile journalist, poet and literary critic. Translated from the Arabic original ("Athar al-`Arab fi al-hadarah al-Awrubbiyah") by Ismail Cashmiry and Muhammad al-Hadi and published under the auspices of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. Chapters include Arabic beliefs, life, writing, trade, science, arts, music, philosophy, state's organisation, religious movements, nationalism, the press, etc. "To sum up the situation of the Arab world today", al-Aqqad writes: "It is a situation in which the future looks as good as the past, and pride in our fathers is not divorced from hope for our sons". - Binding slightly duststained and chipped in places, but still a good copy. OCLC 16771175.
8vo. X, 273, (1 blank) pp. With two black and white maps on the endpapers. Brown cloth with publisher's illustrated dust jacket. First and only edition of a thorough description of the history of the nine Arab states of the Lower Gulf, that gained independence in 1971, just four years before the publication of this book. The author has managed to discuss the individual politics of each state and that of the bigger picture, making this a handbook for all who wish to learn more about Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain). The several infographics that are used to explain the political structures are very helpful in this respect. Oil plays a key role in the relationship between the individual states and this is intricately laid out by the American author. Because this book was written in such a key moment in the history of the region, it has gained much importance. The author Dr. John Duke Anthony is a leading figure in United States-Arab relations and has held many influential government positions in this field. Amongst others, he is the founder and president of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and he is part of the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy's Subcommittee on Sanctions. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies. In the years leading up to this publication the author has conducted first-hand research on the Lower Gulf region's political and socio-economic structures, obviously with oil playing a major role. The fruits of this research are presented in this book, offering the reader a comprehensive overview of a complex subject. This book was published in The James Terry Duce Memorial Series, which started in 1966. The first and second volumes were on North Africa and Jerusalem respectively, this is the final volume of the series. - Ink annotations in the margins throughout. A good copy with the original dustjacket well preserved. OCLC 1700964.
560 x 430 mm. Folding poster with several black-and-white photographic illustrations. Aramco poster celebrating technological advances in Saudi Arabia triggered by their cooperation with America. Featuring pictures taken by Aramco employees, it presents the Saudi Arabians' industrial achievements and their growing infrastructure, including railways, loading cranes, accurate scales, gas stations, and machines manufacturing blocks of concrete. The text accompanying the images bursts with praise for the Saudi spirit: "For over two decades now the Saudi Arabs have been building their ancient land into a modern nation [...] The drilling bit that bored down into the desert did more than strike oil - it quickened the life blood of a whole nation".
66 pages. Articles: Designs for Touring - Salt Water, Salubrity and Sin - Attractions of Mississippi's Gulf Coast - The Poor Man's Riviera; Strife Among the Roses - Rose Bowl Preview - with financial details; For Landings' Sake - a study of the causes of airline accidents; The Truth in Russian Eyes - an interview with the editor of Pravda; The People's Life Preservers - the FDA; Veni, Vidi Valli - Little lady Valli is Italy's gift to Hollywood; Facts and Figures - the last word in foundation garments (corsets, bras and girdles); Old Ties for Old - men can now swap unwanted gift neckwear; Here a City Died - a visit to Machu-Picchu - article with great color photos. Fiction: Cocktails at Blindman's Lake; This is the Night; Four Alarm; Oh, Lovely Land; Previous Date; The First Foot. Includes these nostalgic ads: Boris Karloff in a Tums ad; Pontiac cars; Talon Dresses (featuring wedding gown); "Night Song" movie (full-page); Spam; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring ballerina Kathryn Lee. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo. XI, (1), 323, (1) pp. With coloured frontispiece and 5 photo plates; title within colored ornamental border. Original boards with illustrated spine. An account of travel through the "Land of the Lion and Sun" in an age redolent of the Tales from the Arabian Nights and the Rubaiyat. First published in 1909 (by Smith Elder & Co., London), under the title "Through Persia, from the Gulf to the Caspian". The frontispiece shows a group of Persian shepherds. - Spine tanned, otherwise well preserved. OCLC 2226672. Cf. Wilson 29.
4to. 409, (1 blank), (16), 427-442, (3), (1 blank) pp. With numerous illustrations. Paperback. First edition. - Meticulous work by the French historian Brégeon, whose research focuses mostly on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, especially on the campaign in Egypt. The 1911 article "Les Graffiti de l'Expédition" by the Egyptologist Georges Legrain, who contributed to the first volume of Jacques de Morgan's "Catalogue des Monuments et Inscriptions de l’Egypte" (1894) by discussing graffiti in the area of Aswan, comprises the 16 unnumbered pages; pagination continues at 427. - Signs of use, but a very good, firm copy.
78 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
4to. 36 pp., illustrated throughout. Publisher's giltstamped and illustrated red boards. Rare, bibliographically unrecorded collection of horse stories, including one about the Arab and his horse. - Removed from the library of the "Société Protectrice des Animaux", Gand, with their stamps on cover and title.
112 pages. Features: Cover photo of LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) in adoring crowd; Lovely color fashion ads; Bankers Trust features Ian Mackay; What Good Can Be Said of Political Conventions?; Barry Goldwater Seeks a New Coalition; The Day Paris Was Liberated - Twenty Years Ago - article with photos; Plea for 'Realism' in Southeast Asia after the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Analysis of the 'White Backlash' - New Haven's reaction to the demands of Negroes for full citizenship takes some unexpected forms; Moscow Debates Its Manners; Two Peoples Under One Flag - a restive Quebec fires up old Anglo-French rivalries and shakes Canadian unity; Portrait of Channel No. 1- 'Coco' Channel has created a half-century of chic - photo-illustrated article; The Race to build the first Mach 2-plus passenger planes; It's Easier to Adopt a Baby, but the number of babies available does not meet demand; Campus fashion photos; Speaking frankly on homosexuality - something which was taboo until recently; Photos of hair styles and jewels; Photos of a Ranch House designed by Aspen Architect Eleanor Brickham; Chesterfield cigarette ad features horse breeder Guy Stillman, fashion consultant Virginia Van Brunt and architect Larry Craig Dean; Eight photos of prominent TV shows; and more. Light wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Articles: The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest states acquire the New Look of prosperity; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 4) - Stalin spoke of morals - the record of his visit to Stalin to discuss plans for defeating Hitler; Hunting of the Swede - screen writer Eddie Blum discovers Marta Toren for Hollywood; Designs for Touring (part 8) - Northern Michigan travel. Fiction: Along Came Mary; Marabou for Mama; The Bramble Bush; Even Up; The Makings; Hannigan. Ads include: True Temper golf club shafts; Zenith radios; Hickok belts; Monarch canned produce; American Optical; RCA Victor portable radios; 1949 Studebaker trucks; Pabst beer - with colour image of Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Peck; Good Year; Plymouth; American Airlines; Freeman Shoes; Mercury cars; Ballantine's Ale; Hiram Walker nice two-page color-photo ad; Skol; Esterbrook pens; Holeproof socks; Tawn toiletries; National Guard; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring rodeo champion Ken Roberts. Front cover nearly detached. Piece missing from top of back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
4to. (4), VI, 7-100 pp. With lithographed frontispiece and 3 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Third edition. Rare treatise on equine appearance by a prominent figure of the French cavalry. Unlike the first edition, which included only two illustrations, the present third edition features 4 lithographed plates, including an Arabian horse and the horse's skeleton. Frequently cited by later works on hippology, Morris's essay discusses all aspects of the horse's physique, including proportions and the angular structure of the skeleton, which "can rather be applied to the Arabian horse than to European breeds" (de la Lance). - Wrappers slightly browned near margins. A fine, uncut copy of an equestrian classic. Mennessier de La Lance II, 227. Not in Boyd/P.
8vo. VII, (1), 266 pp., final blank leaf. Grey wrappers. First part only of the Jesuit Nakhla's grammar of the Lebanese dialect of Syrian Arabic. A second part ("Mots à apprendre versions et thàmes; morceaux de lecture en prose et en vers") appeared in 1938. - Title-page professionally repaired. Old ownership in red pencil to foreword. Removed from the "Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients an der Universität München" with their stamp on the title-page and throughout. OCLC 163048910.
4to. 36 pp. With several photographic prints and tables. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Bulletin of the National Iranian Oil Company featuring several images of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, during three inauguration ceremonies. He is depicted opening the 1,200 kilometre Iranian Gas Trunkline, the offshore installations of the Iranian Marine International Oil Company (IMINOCO), and the newly erected Shahpur Chemical Complex in Bandar Shapur. Apart from commemorating these inaugurations in text and image, the present issue includes an English translation of article 11 of the 1957 Petroleum Act as well as tables and statistics of Iranian oil production and "world oil news". - Extremities minimally worn.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page, (4), 434 pp. With 1 engr. medaillon (averse and reverse) in the text. Contemporary red half calf with label to gilt spine. Edges in gilt. Fourth edition; the second one in 24 languages. Prayers "for all the hours of the day" by the Armenian Patriarch Nerses IV. (1102-1173). - Clean copy with stamped exlibris on t. p. Brunet IV, 859. Nersessian 510. OCLC 799387339.
8vo. (2), VI, (4), 427, (6) pp. With engr. title portrait and 4 engr. plans (wants the map). Original illustrated green cloth with giltstamped spine. Seventh edition, abridged from the two-volume original edition. - This travelogue, recounting a journey across the Arabian Peninsula from Riadh to the Arabian Gulf, was highly esteemed at the time of its publication, though is now known to contain fictional passages. Palgrave disguised himself as a Syrian Christian doctor named Selim Abu Mahmoud al'Eis and spent 13 months travelling. - Some foxing. Cf. Macro 1731 (1865 first ed.). Henze III, 693. Howgego III, P5 (other eds.).
Engraving (230 x 160 mm), matted (360 x 280 mm). Portrait of Sultan Mehmet IV (1642-93), the second longest reigning sultan in Ottoman history, pictured on horseback. From Peeters's series "Korte Beschryvinghe, Ende Aen-Wysinghe der Plaetsen in dessn Boeck, met hunnen teghenwoordigen Standt, pertinentelijck uytghebeldt, in Oostenryck" (1686).
4to. XVII, (1), 224, (2) pp. With 5 photographic full-page illustrations and 4 maps. Hardbound. Dustjacket. First edition. - Providing the first comprehensive history of manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and its Turkish successor state through case studies of manufacturing activities in their social and political contexts, by integrating first-hand research with surveys of the literature. Quaetaert was a Middle East/Ottoman historian teaching at Binghamton University in New York. He resigned as board chairman of the Institute of Turkish Studies in 2006, following his statement that scholars should not avoid researching the Armenian Genocide, which displeased the Turkish government, thus endangering the Institute's funding. - In excellent condition.
8vo. (117)-127, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. About the Mahmal, the closed rectangular pyramidal canopy taken along on camelback on Egyptian and Syrian pilgrimages to Mecca before Ibn Saud's conquest of the Hejaz in 1925 - a "very curious custom in Islam", the origin and purport of which the present essay undertakes to investigate. "It is very improbable that the Mahmal [...] will be seen in the Hejaz again [...] The Mahmal is heretical to Islam, and the Wahhabis [...] have declined to admit the Mahmal into the Hejaz" (p. 117). - Wrapper shows insignificant ruststains from staples, otherwise in perfect condition. OCLC 47931240. Not in Macro.
4to. (4), 22, (2), V pp. With 3 plates of drawings. Original printed wrappers, stapled. First edition, rare. - Practical beginner's guide to falconry by a member of the British Falconers' Club, reissued in the 1950s and 1960s. It recommends the kestrel as a suitable hawk for beginners due to the "ease with which young kestrels may be obtained, their amenability to training and their relative hardiness" (p. 3), and describes the preparations required before taking up an eyass, including the acquisition of suitable perches, blocks, jesses, swivels, leashes and gloves. Includes notes on the kestrel's feeding an training, as well as on the bird's health and common diseases, including damaged feathers, and gives instructions on how to hood a falcon. Originally hand-drawn, then printed, the illustrations show the main tools used by a falconer, including a block, perch, and jess, as well as a step-by-step guide to tying the falconer's knot. - A sheet of advertisements by the Bate and Slice Society for their 1976 reprint of Joseph Wolf's famous portrait of a hooded white gyrfalcon from Schlegel and Wulverhorst's 1844 "Traité de Fauconnerie", as well as a handwritten note ("Is this your permanent address?") signed "G. A.", are loosely enclosed. - Covers slightly creased. Interior with light brownstaining; traces of a fold to top right corner of first page. Two small annotations with ballpoint pen on pp. 19 and 22. Only three institutions holding copies of this treatise are traceable internationally (the British Library, the University of Oxford, and the US Air Force Academy). Never seen at auction. Oelgart 27A. OCLC 19755003.
Engraved map (260 x 243 mm). The Dutch edition of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s map, from Prévost's "Histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1746). "This map is perhaps the original of the maps appearing in Prévost" (Tibbetts). Map of Arabia and the Red Sea emphasizes the coastlines and the interior is primarily left blank. The shoals and navigational hazards in the Red Sea and the pearl banks off the coast of Bahrain are also noted. Decorated with a title cartouche. - Well preserved. Tibbetts 267. Al Ankary 173. Not in Al-Qasimi.
372, (8) pp. Original wrappers. 4to. Decades of the history of the Iraqi Communist Party. - A good copy. OCLC 775696684.
8vo. XII, (2), 346 pp. With a double-page map on blue/green paper, 22 double-sided plates, a green ornament on the title-page, a small woodcut of Asolo on p. 336, and some small decorations in the text. Green cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. With a dust jacket designed by F. Quilter. First part of Freya Stark's autobiography, spanning the years until her early thirties (1893-1927), immediately before embarking on her travels. The author was one of the first non-Arabs to journey through the southern Arabian Desert, in the 1930s. - The present copy is a reprint of the first edition; it was published in 1951, merely months after its first appearance in September 1950. Even though Stark's uniquely personal writing style was considered unusual at the time, her books proved very popular. Stark was of Italian and British descent; she was born in Paris and grew up in several places throughout Europe. - Freya Stark's autobiography includes three additional works: Beyond Euphrates (1951), The Coast of incense (1953), and Dust in the Lion's Paw (1961). - Dust jacket is somewhat damaged and partially repaired with tape, edges are untrimmed, small repair to the inner front hinge with tape. Overall in very good condition. Howgego IV, S 61. Cf. article "Freya Stark" in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Shapero, The Islamic World (2003), 470 (other ed.).
