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196928322Ay Imprimerie E. Plantet 1969 une Affiche Non-Entoilée, lithographiée en couleurs représentant LES AMOUREUX DE PEYNET JOUANT AU GOLF - CLUBS TREMPANT DANS LA BOUTEILLE DE CHAMPAGNE PERRIER-JOUËT, format : 76,5 x 56 cm, sans date (1969)Ay Imprimerie E. Plantet Editeur,
Folio. (2), 9, (1) pp. Loosely sewn as issued. Includes references to slavery on Pemba and dhows trading from the Arabian Gulf and Oman. - Some edge chipping, but a good copy. Bennett 2240.
Folio. (2), 6 pp. Loosely sewn as issued. On legal and social problems of the progress of the abolition of slavery and the new "free" status of former Zanzibar and Pemba slaves after their emancipation. - Hull University Library stamp on title-page. A very good copy. Bennett 2244.
Folio. (2), 22, (2) pp. Loosely sewn as issued. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade mainly in Zanzibar and on the liberation of several slaves, as well as reports of fugitive slaves having claimed protection from British vessels in the Arabian Gulf (Bandar Abbas, Bandar Lengeh) and off Muscat. - A good copy. Bennett 2243.
Folio. (2), 11, (1) pp. Loosely sewn as issued. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade in the Arabian Gulf, with special mention of slaves received at Bandar Lengeh from the Agent at Sharjah as well as first-hand observations on child slaves and the so-called "domestic servants" in demand in Basrah and Bushire. - Chipped edges reinforced; sewing renewed; paper a little browned throughout but a good copy.
Folio. (2), 8, (2) pp. Top edge gilt. Loosely sewn as issued. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade in Zanzibar, also describing the country's depletion of labour through the recruitment of soldiers and porters for service throughout the African continent by Arab and European traders. - Sewing renewed, a good copy. Bennett 2231.
Folio. 5, (1) pp. Top edge gilt. Disbound. A paper respecting the traffic of slaves in Zanzibar, with a report on slaves there kidnapped, with reference to "the Arabs who come down from the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf with a view to procuring slaves". - A good copy.
Folio. (2), 28 pp. Loosely sewn as issued. Largely concerning the ramifications, both legal and social, of the progress of the abolition of slavery and the new "free" status of former Zanzibar slaves after their emancipation. - Stamp on title-page, a very good copy. Bennett 2243.
Folio. IV, 87, (1) pp. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including reports of naval battles with dhows (often flying false French colours) between the east coast of Africa and Jeddah, as well as a report on British activity in the Arabian Gulf which halted the slave trade on the northern shore of the Peninsula: "the strict blockade which has been established on the Arabian coast during the past two seasons has to a great extent stopped the transport of cargoes of slaves in large numbers from Africa to the Arabian coast and the Persian Gulf" (p. 3). - A good copy. Not in Bennett, but cf. his no. 519, noting Parliamentary Paper C.-5575, possibly in error.
Folio. 9, (1) pp. Loosely sewn as issued. A memorandum on slavery and labour in today's Kenya and Uganda. - Oxford library stamp on title-page. A very good copy.
Folio. (2), 191, (1) pp. Sewn, with remains of former spine. English-language Protocols and General Act of the 1889/1890 Brussels Conference, at which the European colonial powers, Russia, Turkey, and Persia came together to counteract the slave trade in Africa. Note on the title-page: "The Annexes to the Protocols have not been translated: but the Originals will be found in 'Africa No. 8 (1890).'" - A good copy. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Vol. I. Historical, Part II, Appendix R. Books of Reference. IV. Anonymous Official Works, 606 [p. 2733; under Slave Trade].
Hand-coloured engraved map. Interesting map of Northeast Africa, extending from Tripoli and Egypt to Mt. Kenya, Somalia, etc. and including all of Saudi Arabia. Nice detail in the interior, including Nubia, Sennar, Abyssinia, etc. Shows the Sahara and some details in the interior. Inset map showing the Nile region. Unusually detailed for the period. Decorative border. A terrific regional map, from Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the mid-19th Century. Not in Tibbets, Al Ankary or Al-Qasimi.
Hardcover Very good condition
Folio (229 x 297 mm).108 pp. Original printed wrappers. Monthly magazine of the Saudi Arabian Airlines. The present issue covers King Fahd's expansion project for the two Holy Mosques, a development to increase the capacity of the mosques of Mecca and Medina to more than 730,000 and 650,000 worshippers respectively - numbers that could be increased to 2 million on peak days. Other topics of the issue include reports on Saudi Airlines catering, northern Spain, hovercrafts, and the benefit of glass houses to cultivate exotic plants in the northern hemisphere. In addition, the magazine provides two maps of domestic and international routes served by Saudi Airlines.
301 pp. Original wrappers. Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (1872-1963) was a leading spokesman for Egyptian modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Throughout his career he held a number of political and nonpolitical positions, including several academic posts. Owing to his career in education and his influence upon young Egyptians, he came to be known as Ustadh al-Jil (“Educator of the Generation”). - With ms. notes. Covers a little worn, otherwise in excellent condition. OCLC 18299627.
Folio (239 x 320 mm). 2 parts in one volume. 394 pp. 383, (1) pp. Contemporary giltstamped brown full calf with fore-edge flap. Early Arabic-Turkish dictionary completed in 1545 in Kütahya, Turkey, and first published in Constantinople in 1826. - Binding rubbed, giltstamping largely oxydized; interior a little browned due to paper. A good copy. OCLC 22445320. Not in Zaunmüller or Vater/Jülg.