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32 pages. Features: Amazing cover photos of young lady with massive 2,700lb tire for the Douglas B-19 super-bomber; Photo-portrait of recently deceased General John Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece; One-page photo of Marshal Petain being received on-board the battleship 'Strasbourg' by Admiral Darlan; Two-page contour map of Malta - Germany's target of attack by dive-bombers; Twelve photos of the beauties of Malta, the key to the Mediterranean - which has endured over 200 raids; Photos of personalities of the week include: Canadian Premiers in conference, B.P. Haugh, Sir W. Llewellyn, Wendell Willkie with the Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Cardinal Hinsley with Wendell Willkie, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, Walter Elliot, M.P., Baron Somers, and the King and Queen at a parade by the Polish squadron; Four excellent photos show how British warships conduct a convoy in the narrow waters of the Mediterranean; Three aerial photos of armoured divisions advancing for the final assault on Bardia; Seven photos of the deserted Libyan stronghold of Bardia; Twelve photos of British Army excercises; Photos in Eritrea and Murzuk; Five photos of Holland's Royal Marines in the Dutch East Indies; Photo of large crowd welcoming Wendell Willkie to Birmingham; Photo of Willkie in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral; Photos of A.T.C. recruits in training; Four photos of Caterpillar 'bulldozer' - a mechanical elephant - moving dirt and bomb wreckage; Four photos of A.T.S. women drivers of 30-cwt. lorries; Two pages of astonishing ultra high-speed X-ray photos show bullets in flight, golf club hitting ball, bullet passing through board, etc.; Two photos of fire damage at Dublin Castle; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
205 pages. Originally published by Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, Ltd., London. Multi-panel fold-out map. 9 Black and white illustrations. "A century ago, when every known route was beset with its own dangers, the risks in the "Country Trade" were especially numerous, and it is difficult now to even believe, much more to realise, the vicissitudes to which a ship was liable in the 17th and 18th centuries from the time she left her anchorage under the friendly protection of the guns of old Bombay Castle... Pirates, cosmopolitan, Indian, Arab, even English, cruised the Arabian seas. The Straits of Malacca teemed with fierce cut-throats; the Gulf was a standing menace. These dangers were real." - From Preface. Contents clean, bright and unmarked, possibly unread. Tight and square. Light wear to white and blue cloth-covered boards. Bright silver lettering upon spine. Book
12 pages approximately 8" x 8" folded in half to make effectively 24 pages measuring approx. 8" x 4". Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photos. Proposes fourteen days of activities/destinations for tourists to the Vancouver area. These include: Stanley Park and Marine Drive, English Bay Beach, Indian River Park, Grouse Mountain Resort, Grand Canyon Park and Capilano Canyon, B.C. Electric Observation Car and Crystal Pool, Bowen Island, Union Steamship Northern Trip, New Westminster and Cheakamus Canyon, Horseshoe Bay and the C.N.R. Triangle Tour, Vancouver Golf Courses, Hollyburn Ridge, West Vancouver, Squamish and Howe Sound, Lynn Canyon, Harrison Hot Springs, The Cariboo Road, and Vancouver Island Includes a great 3-panel aerial illustration of the lower mainland by H.E. White, looking inland from the southwest (there was no YVR in those days). Moderate wear. Unmarked. A high-quality example of this magnificent early Vancouver tourism booklet, undoubtedly highlighted by the colour illustration of a young lady in period swimwear on the beach at English Bay. Absolute magic! Book
Features: Royal New Zealand Air Force; No. 14 Squadron, RNZAF; NZ Operations in the West; Liverpool Airport; Portuguese A.F. Serials; Swedish Airforce; Olympic Airways; Scottish Fighter Base; PZL - P.37 Los; Fighter Pilots; Strong Aircraft Industry; Seaplanes in Sweden; A singular Swede; Slingsby Sailplanes; Germany might have won in 1918; Martinair; Beaufighter restoration; Exeter Airport; Britten-Norman Islander; RAF's first 50 years; Albatros in Australia; First to Australia - the RAF Far East Flight 1927-28; 'Nipping and Eager Air'; The Sopwith Rotaries; Royal Netherlands Air Force; Boeing 737; Southend Airport; Swissair History - I; The Beverley Retires; Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake; Finland's Air War - I; Hannover Highlights; Swissair History - II; SEPECAT Jaguar; Finland's Air War - II; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F.; Relics in Bulgaria; West Australian Airways; From Hind to Hunter; Aerobatic Teams; Italy's Aircraft Industry; Development of Commercial Aviation in Italy; Royal Review at Abingdon; Aircraft at Abingdon; The Piaggio Story - I; PZL-104 Wilga 32; Britain's Aircraft Industry - Over the Crossroads?; British Military Aircraft; The Piaggio Story - II; Beagle Pup Air - Test; Gatwick Airport; Advanced Engine Technology; Britten-Norman BN-1F; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Hawker Siddeley 748; Nationa Air Guard; R.N.A.S. Brawdy; The Nighthawk Family; Rollason D.62 Condor; Farnborough Report; Navy Days at Farnborough; Farnborough checklist; But for the Armistice; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Cessna F-150 and F-172; Polish Air Force; Skyvan on a Strip; Finnair History; Danish Catalinas; Air Forces Gulf; Swiss A.F. Championships; Bristol Fighter; and much more. Index laid in. Tight and clean with gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. A quality copy. Book
Features: Great colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad inside front cover; Editorial - how Gulf Oil vetoed Ottawa's pipeline plans; Gorgeous colour-photo two-page ad for General Motors four-door hard tops, Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight De Luxe Holiday Sedan and Buick Special 4-door Riviera; The Unknown Man who bought the Globe and Mail - who's R. Howard Webster? - sparked by Howard's financial wizardry, the five Webster brothers mushroomed the fur and fuel empire their father, Lorne Webster, left into a private trust that virtually blankets North America in the fields of Fuel, Stevedoring, Tankers, Hardware, The Imperial Trust, and more; Why I'm out of TV - Choir leader Dr. Leslie Bell bowed out when the singers became dancers and he was made to act; The Race to sell new cars - the market has been turned topsy-turvy by the hottest competition since the horseless carriage replaced the buggy - great black and white photos!; The blonde who leaps from the clouds - RCAF Para-nurse F/O Marion Macdonald; How they'll blow up Ripple Rock - for decades this underwater monster in the Strait of Georgia has been wrecking ships and drowning sailors; When a Canadian Ruled Oregon - Towering John McLoughlin from Riviere du Loup was king of Columbia - the Oregon and Washington of today; The doctors in overalls who've changed your life - the research done by Ontario Veterinary College; That Yellow Prairie Sky - Robert Kroetsch; Is there Really an Abominable Snowman?, by Willy Ley; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad for Toro (fortieth anniversary) mowers; Colour Visking Weiners ad; nice colour full-page ad for the all-new 1955 Plymouth; Nice colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile 88-98. Average wear. Binding sound. Address label on front. A quality copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of boy celebrating summer vacation; Sisman's Scampers shoe ad inside front cover; Editorials deal with these topics - Partial Relief, A Doctor, Not a Nurse, Maintaining the Tradition, The Cooperatives, Farewell Toscanini, and Not Conquest but Murder; Trollop (short story); This Peace (short story); A Modern Odyssey - photo-illustrated article by Edgar N. Brown describes sea travel; Rough 'Un (short story); The Black Ace (short story); The Smooth Silence (short story); The Dilemma of Debt; Scotland Yard Versus Crime - photo-illustrated article on the system employed by this world famous organization to track down criminals, law breakers and lesser offenders; Golf Duds & Meteors - photo-illustrated golf article with photos of Charles A. Whitcome, Albert "Scotty" Campbell, Lex Robson, Tony Manero, Willie Lamb, and Tommy Armour; It's In the Bag - interesting article on the history of purses; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features Banff; Palmolive ad features photo of Montreal stylist and designer Doris Preston; Nostalgic half-page ad for McClary Stoves; Vintage half-page photo ad for Eddy's Sterilized White Swan toilet paper shows fellow in bathing suit at the beach; Movie news with photos of Clark Gable, Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, William Powell, Jean Chadburn, Alison Skipworth, Warren William, Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, and more; Lux soap ad features photo of Joan Bennett; Photo of Dick Powell in Quaker Puffed Wheat ad; Pond's ad features photos of Miss Barbara Hebbard and Lady Daphne Straight; Unusual half-page ad for Blue-Jay Corn Plaster, by Bauer & Black Scientific; Nice half-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad features the Empress of Britain; Business News includes mention of the recent Alberta default; Cooking article; Lovely one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Nice one-page Heinz ad features their vinegar and Olive Oil; Vintage half-page Rice Krispies ad; Beauty article; Why Baby Cries; One-page Carnation Milk ad features five large photos of each of the individual Dionne Quints; World Sayings; Colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso; Rare colour back cover ad for Red Indian oil and Marathon Blue gasoline features illustration of native elders in feathered headgear, painted by Winold Reiss; and more. Covers loose but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8vo. XIII, (1), 558 pp. With 105 photo illustrations, 91 maps and text-figures (some folding), and 2 folded full-colour maps in back cover pocket. Original giltstamped green cloth. Geographical Handbooks Series (for official use only) B.R. 522 (Restricted). In-depth, profusely illustrated discussion of the Congo region. Produced during WWII for use of the Naval Intelligence Division, "to provide, for the use of Commanding Officers, information in a comprehensive and convenient form about contries which they may be called upon to visit, not only in war but in peace-time". The book's contents are, "however, by no means confined to matters of purely naval interest. For many purposes (e.g. history, administration, resources, communications, etc.) countries must necessarily be treated as a whole, and no attempt is made to limit their treatment exclusively to coastal zones" (1942 preface). - Spine and covers faded; edges and spine bronwstained. From the library of the English linguist Malcolm Guthrie (1903-72), arguably one of the most important Bantu scholars of his century, with his ms. ownership to flyleaf. His magnum opus, "Comparative Bantu", appeared in four volumes between 1967 and 1971.
Small folio (219 x 278 mm). 28 pp. With numerous black-and-white photographic prints. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated history of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. This informative magazine includes high-quality images of the construction of pipelines, views of the Abadan refinery and other oil compounds, the Braim residential area, and an aerial view of Lali county - an area "typical of the difficult terrain in which the Company's main oilfields are situated". - Punched holes. Margins slightly worn.
82 x 96 cm. Original colour-printed map. Scale 1:5,000,000. Rare political map of Southwest Asia from the Cold War era, centred on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf region but including Turkey and the Levant, Iraq and Iran. With Cyrillic titles and captions. - Small marginal flaws.
Tables only: 11 genealogical tables on 15 folding sheets. Contemporary red half morocco; marbled covers and endpapers. Slightly foxed throughout. From the library of Richard C. Hodges (his etched bookplate on front flyleaf); later in the library of Sidney Edward Bouverie-Pusey (1839-1911), only son of the agriculturist Philip Pusey (cf. DNB XLVII, 64), with his bookplate on front pastedown.
Standard issue, 700 x 1025 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:800,000. Nautical chart of the Gulf of Aden with the Arabian and African shoreline, prepared by the British Admiralty. With a small view of Ras-al-Kalb mountain. The chart details the Gulf from the Red Sea and the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in the west to the cities of Burum in Arabia and Bander Báad in Africa in the east. It shows Perim Island, the Gulf of Tajura, mountains like Jebel Arar and Jebel Fadthli, as well as tribal areas. Among the most prominent labelled cities are Mokka, Aden, Balhaf, Zeila, Berbera, and Las Khoreh. - The British Admiralty has produced nautical charts since 1795 under the auspices of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (HO). Its main task was to provide the Royal Navy with navigational products and service, but since 1821 it has also sold charts to the public. The present chart was composed after Admiralty surveys of 1836-48 and 1911; it was first published in 1888 and saw several corrections up to 1931. - With a single fold. A few manuscript notes. With a stamp "Increase 50%" near lower right margin. Captioned in print and in a former collector's hand on verso. Some small marginal tears in the centerfold; not touching image.
Standard issue, 700 x 1025 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:800,000. Nautical chart of the Gulf of Aden with the Arabian and African shoreline, prepared by the British Admiralty. With a small view of Ras-al-Kalb mountain. The chart details the Gulf from the Red Sea and the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in the west to the cities of Burum in Arabia and Bander Báad in Africa in the east. It shows Perim Island, the Gulf of Tajura, mountains like Jebel Arar and Jebel Fadthli, as well as tribal areas. Among the most prominent labelled cities are Mokka, Aden, Balhaf, Zeila, Berbera, and Las Khoreh. - The British Admiralty has produced nautical charts since 1795 under the auspices of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (HO). Its main task was to provide the Royal Navy with navigational products and service, but since 1821 it has also sold charts to the public. The present chart was composed after Admiralty surveys of 1836-48 and 1911; it was first published in 1888 and saw several corrections up to 1934. - With a single fold. A few manuscript notes. With a stamp "Increase 50%" near lower right corner. Captioned in print and in a former collector's hand on verso. Slightly brownstained.
2 original black-and-white photographs. 146 x 227 and 181 x 229 mm. Material related to the 1951 Iranian oil crisis. The photographs show a group of British oil workers being evacuated from Abadan on their way to the British cruiser "Mauritius", as well as several tankers docked at the Abadan Refinery. - The photo of the tankers with mounted caption in English on verso.
4to. 144 pp. With numerous coloured and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this rare illustrated guidebook to Kuwait. Aiming to encourage the tourist industry of Kuwait, it is packed with useful information on geography, history, education, infrastructure, museums, visa and residence regulations, currency, embassies and consulates, hotels, sports, banks, the climate, and other topics. It is particularly remarkable for the numerous photographs promoting life in Kuwait in the late 1960s, including portraits of Sheikh Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah, the Amir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and Sheikh Jabir al-Ali al-Salim al-Sabah, Minister of Guidance and Information. - Two tiny tears to lower margin of wrappers. Several pages a little soiled; slightly toned in places. OCLC 121622.
Colour-printed map. Ca. 52 x 66 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:100,000. Relief shown by form lines. French military map of the portion of Syria east of Homs to Talkalakh, based on mapping received by May 1924. - Pencil shelfmarks of the Geographical Institute of the University of Berlin. Two holes punched in lower margin. Well preserved.
8vo. 210 pp. With 26 chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gum arabic, tissue guards. Original cloth. Some foxing, rubbed. Anker 144. Nissen 316. Wood 342. OCLC 1171516.
4to. 292, (18) pp. With one folding map. Original giltstamped cloth. First edition, second impression. - Beautifully illustrated travelogue of Iraq's landscapes, peoples and antiquities, including numerous striking views from the air, including the Persian Gulf route via Muscat and Bahrain. The book emphasises Iraq's strategic importance following the recent completion of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipeline from Kirkuk to the Mediterranean, and the RAF's role in defending it. - With ms. ownership "Thomas Greenwood. June 1937" to front flyleaf.
4to. 193-199, (1) pp. With 7 photographic plates. Original printed wrappers bound within modern full cloth with giltstamped black spine-label. Marbled endpapers. Treatise on ancient Egyptian draw-loom weaving, picturing several textile specimens kept in London, Stockholm and Copenhagen. The personal copy of the author Carl Johan Lamm with his bookplate to front pastedown. - Lamm studied archaeology at the University of Stockholm. He wrote about the glass excavated at Samarra in 1928 and became a leading scholar on Islamic arts and crafts, notably in glass and carpets. He was on the staff of the Stockholm Museum and taught at Uppsala University. - Offprint from the archaeological journal "Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie copte". Very well preserved. OCLC 474423945.
Illustrated with 40 photographs and a map at rear. Original publisher's black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and cover. First edition of this popular account of Musil's experiences in Arabia Deserta. An excellent copy. Macro 1669.
8vo. XVI, 390, VI pp. Contemporary marbled half calf with label to gilt spine. First edition of Oberleitner's linguistic course. The orientalist and theologian at the Benedictine "Schottenstift" was Professor of Arabic, Syrian, and Chaldaic Languages and Exegesis at the University of Vienna. "Oberleitner's independent editing of the 'Fundamenta' constitutes an important achievement" (cf. ÖBL). The Viennese printer Schmid specialized in Arabic, Persian, and Syrian works, and his was the only printing shop in Austria that could handle such texts. Aboussouan 693. Mayer II, 145. ÖBL VII, 188. Script. Ord. S. Benedicti 324, II. Wurzbach XX, 455. Brunet IV, 143. Graesse V, 1.
8vo. 115-124 pp. Contemporary blue cloth with giltstamped title to upper cover: "Philby - Yaman". First edition. A brief investigation of Joseph Halévy's journey through the Jawf region of Yemen, comparing the account given by Hayyim Habshush, recently published, with Halévy's own. - St John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdullah", was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he studied oriental languages and was a friend and classmate of Jawaharlal Nehru, later prime Minister of India. Philby settled in Jeddah and became famous as an international writer and explorer. He personally mapped on camelback what is now the Saudi-Yemeni border on the Rub' al Khali; in 1932, while searching for the lost city of Ubar, he was the first Westerner to visit and describe the Wabar craters. At this time, Philby also became Ibn Saud's chief adviser in dealing with the British Empire and Western powers. He converted to Islam in 1930. The personal contacts between the United States and Saudi Arabia were largely channeled through the person of Philby. - Very slight browning, a few minor stains to the first page. Macro 1782. Smith, The Yemens, 84.
8vo. 21, (1), 107-132 pp. With 1 large folding, coloured map, 1 smaller, uncoloured folding map, and numerous photographs on 7 plates. Later half cloth over marbled paper boards with giltstamped title to spine. First edition. Important account of travels in southern Arabia performed in 1936, particularly in the Hadhramaut, by the Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer St. John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdullah". It describes the longest of Philby's journeys, ostensibly to map the new frontier with Yemen, containing excellent photographs taken for the first time in that area by a European. Until the 1930s the highlands of the south-western corner of Arabia were among the world's few remaining lands not fully explored or charted. - Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Philby studied oriental languages and was a friend and classmate of Jawaharlal Nehru, later prime Minister of India. Philby settled in Jeddah and became famous as an international writer and explorer. He personally mapped on camelback what is now the Saudi-Yemeni border on the Rub' al Khali; in 1932, while searching for the lost city of Ubar, he was the first Westerner to visit and describe the Wabar craters. At this time, Philby also became Ibn Saud's chief adviser in dealing with the British Empire and Western powers. He converted to Islam in 1930. The personal contacts between the United States and Saudi Arabia were largely channeled through the person of Philby. - Clear tape on the first page, covering part of the title of the journal without affecting the page or legibility of the text; very slight foxing on the large coloured map (mainly on the back). In very good condition. Macro 1788.
14 albumen prints, mainly ca. 27 x 27 cms, but including two smaller prints (ca 20 x 26 cms) on a single board. Boards gilt on 3 sides (535 x 355 mm). A set of large photographs by Béchard and Sébah, showing Egyptian monuments and landscapes, the Tombs of the Kings in Thebes, views of Philae, the Nile cataracts, etc. Captioned in English on the backing boards. - Pascal Sébah (1823-86), a leading photographer of the Middle East, was renowned for his well-judged compositions and for the excellent print quality achieved by his technician A. Laroche. His studio, founded in 1857, was continued under his brother Cosimi and his son Jean. - Béchard was active between 1869 and ca. 1890. "His work is distinguished by the superb quality of his prints and the generally spectacular presentation of even the most common sites, such as the pyramids" (Nissan N. Perez). - Dampstained, soiled and faded; some edge flaws to boards.
Large 8vo. 3 vols. in one. 244, 148, 736 pp. With folding map. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped Arabic title to spine. Extensive "history and geography of the Sudan": an invaluable study based upon information gathered by Anglo-Egyptian intelligence during the years of the Mahdist State. In Arabic throughout. - From the library of FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan (1885-1964); latterly removed from the Raglan family library at Cefntilla Court in Wales (bookplate). A good copy.
