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378 p. + Plus Frontis and full page photographs and maps. Large folding tissue map of Sinai peninsula with the route of the Exodus in red. Title page printed in red and black. Robert C. Bair's copy, with his notations in pencil. Robert C. Bair, a lawyer and son of a local judge was involved in politics and served as the Director of Historical Society of York County. Quarto. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Extremities bumped and slightly worn. Hardbound. First Edition. HOLY LAND BOX 1
477 p. + Frontis. XLib. 8vo. Rebound in blue library buckram, gold lettered spine. Remains of library numbers on spine. Hardbound. First edition. HOLY LAND BOX 1
496 p. + Frontis. Publisher's device on title page. Early inscription, 1885, on fly leaf. A few signatures loose. Small stain on fore-edge. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered spine. Front board decorated with a ship in gold. Beveled edges. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Seventh edition. HOLY LAND BOX 1
1876281761876 John Murray, London, 1876,in8 broché,31p.
CZC-8144avec 33 cartes et graphiques volume in-8, 24x16, relié demi cuir à coins, frottements, bel état intérieur, 298pp Armand Colin, 1941 ref/213
CZC-8144avec 33 cartes et graphiques volume in-8, 24x16, relié demi cuir à coins, frottements, bel état intérieur, 298pp Armand Colin, 1941 ref/213
#[37955]London Edinburgh T. Nelson & Son ca. 1920. Coloured schoolplate mounted on board. Ca. 56 x 74 cm. The Royal Portfolio Geographical Series. - Waterstained. unknown
242p + Plus three full page maps and a large folding map of the Nile Valley. Inked presentation to I. S. Beecher from Weston Fuller, Feb. 22nd, 1901. Foxed. Damp stained. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Top and bottom of spine chipped. Front cover slightly marred with white paint. First American Edition? AFRICA/6.
a75319Washington 1903. Hardcover. 4to. 89pp. tan buckram. Slight depository library marks no spine numbers and no pocket and no fore-edge stamps. VG light wear on corners. . hardcover
326p. Illustrated with maps. Bookseller's label. Small 4to. Original full purple cloth binding, decorated and lettered in silver. Binding worn and spotted. Hardbound. First edition. Books such as this become increasingly significant with each passing day. Very scarce. ISLAM BOX 1
187034417Paris: Chez Erhard 1870. Minor foxing one fold repaired on verso two short tears along fold a few small chips and folds at the margins not affecting map. 1 folded leaf. 80 x 21 cm. Lithographic topographical map with route in color. Scale 1:200000. Scarce. OCLC locates single copy at BN France. [Chez Erhard] unknown
187034417Paris: Chez Erhard 1870. Minor foxing one fold repaired on verso two short tears along fold a few small chips and folds at the margins not affecting map. 1 folded leaf. 80 x 21 cm. Lithographic topographical map with route in color. Scale 1:200000. Engraved by Chez Erhard 17 R. Duguay-Trouin. [Chez Erhard] unknown books
26444Dated by Manby to London 28 October 1868. Letter head of 66 Warwick Square Pimlico. See the three men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged and worn paper with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf which is docketted by Manby. Signed ‘J Emerson Tennent’. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his ‘who is much interested about the Suez Canal is going to Egypt next week’ and that he has that day promised if he can ‘to obtain for him a copy of an Address which you once gave me but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now delivered by J. M. McClean to the Institution in which he stated the cost already incurred and the large balance still required to complete the canal’. This is he believes ‘an un-satisfactory inference as to the power of raising so great a sum or rending it re-production’. In addition to the address he would like ‘any later documents shewing the state & prospects of the enterprise’. The Suez Canal took from 1859 to 1869 to build. Dated by Manby to London, 28 October 1868. Letter head of 66 Warwick Square, Pimlico. unknown
24 pages. Map of Sollum, Western Egypt showing the various centres of defence along the Suez Canal; Photo of camels arriving by rail to support Major-General Peyton's force; photo of British and Australian officers consulting in the desert of Western Egypt; One-page illustration of Private G. Ingle, 4th Hussars, rescuing his troop leader, Lieut. Radclyffe, for which he received the D.C.M.; Photos round about the Allied base at Salonika - including General Mahon; Photos of personalities and pawns in the Verdun contest - German prisoners, an artillery horse, General Petain (in fur coat), and General Joffre; Two interesting photos above and below ground near the French Front; Two-page illustration of a busy scene along the Tigris on the way to Kut; Five photos of Portugal in arms; The Great Push against German East Africa - two photos; In the wake of General Smuts' offensive - four photos; Three photos of humane interludes amongst the strife; Six photos of British training in the art of bomb throwing; Will the German Navy Come Out?; Four photos of a large captive observation balloon arising from the H.M.S. Canning; Photos of 21 brave British sons decorated for Valour; One-page photo of a French '155' (6 inch) gun; Four photos of British submarine sailors in a Turkish prison. Lacking outer wraps. Centre and last pages loose but present. Appears to have been disbound from a hardcover volume. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the HMS Invincible; Large photo of the Shaw Savill passenger/cargo liner Gothic inside front cover; Full-page photo of the HMS Repulse; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; From Cargo Ship to Royal Yacht - the career of Shaw Savill's "Gothic"; Box Boat Voyage - description of a typical voyage in the Blue Star Line container ship "New Zealand Star" - between Australasian and Gulf Ports; Shipping of the Scottish N.E. Coast Ports - Part 1 - Perth, Dundee and Tayport; 'Operation Rheostat' - Suez Canal 1974 - Jack Worth recalls the minesweeping of the Suez Canal ten years ago; European Ferry Commentary; Nice photo of the tug Indefatigable inside back cover; and more. Spine rolled otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 313; 320. Fore-edges dampstained. Large 8vo. 225mm. Original full cloth binding. Head and tail of spine worn. First American Edition. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially sailing distances and times between the West and the East. He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level Panama Canal during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, and the projected de Lesseps canal was left uncompleted and eventually partially superseded by a non-sea-level canal with locks, built by the United States and completed in 1914. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BIO BX 2
4406Printed heading Ministere des Travaux Publics manuscript address Cairo 20 May 1869. Minister of Public Works with a key role in the building of the Suez Canal. The document numbered No.39 top left corner is three pages folio sl. damaged but text clear and complete. He reminds his correspondent that "Son Altesse le Khedive" has appointed him "ministere des travaux publics" four months previously. He discusses "le reglement" by which decisions were to be made and the situation he finds himself in "ne sachant au juste sur quoi appuyer mes actes officielle je ne puis plus longtemps rester dans la vague qui empeche toute administration. He describes a complex administrative situation and concludes by asking his correspondent to "faire terminer cette affaire . . ." The handwriting is the same as that in the "Khalil Linant" letter in my inventory #4684 indicating that his son acted as his secretary. Note: The term "Khedive" was first used in 1867. The Suez Canal opened in 1869 and was perhaps one of the issues in this letter. [Printed heading] Ministere des Travaux Publics, [manuscript address] Cairo, 20 May 1869 unknown
280pp, index, 19pp + 2 plates, 332pp + table VG/none First edition, in French. Contemporary binding green hardback with gilt decoration and lettering on spines, binder’s and owner’s labels on pastedown of vol. I, previous owner presentation on preliminary, slightly offset on title, occasional light foxing inside, nice volumes overall in G-to-VG conditions. First two volumes of a 5-volume series printed between 1855 and 1860, each independent. Included in the first volume two plates containing maps (folded in the photos) of the Isthmus of Suez and of the Navigation Routes between European and American ports and the Indies. Prima edizione, in francese. Rilegatura coeva copertina rigida verde con decorazioni e scritte dorate al dorso, etichetta rilegatore e ex-libris sul retro della copertina, scritta proprietario al foglio preliminare leggermente trasmessa al frontespizio, sporadiche fioriture all'interno, nel complesso in condizioni piu' che buone. Primi due volumi, a se' stanti, di una serie di cinque pubblicata tra il 1855 e il 1860. Nel vol. I incluse due mappe ripiegate (Istmo di Suez e Rotte di Navigazione tra i porti europei ed americani e le Indie).
28 pages. Features: Cover illustration of dauntless Italian women packing 50lb rolls of military barbed wire up a treacherous mountain slope; The Fall of Trebizond - Victorious Russians in the captured Black Sea port of Tragic Memories - four photos plus informative captions; The Fate of a German "U" Boat - Captured, Sunk and Refloated, with two photos and captions; Photo of the bows of the Dutch Mail-Steamer "Columbia", wrecked by a German mine; Photo of the Prince of Wales, with King Victor, at the Italian front, visiting the Baptistery of Aquileia Cathedral; Page of six photos of King Alfonso opening the Spanish Parliament in Madrid; Two pages of photos of scorched earth at the Bois de la Caillette, retaken by the French, and held; Twelve photos of oases in Western Egypt from which British forces are clearing the enemy; Photos of Zeppelin shot down at Salonika; "Anzac" Sports on the Suez Canal, attended by the Prince of Wales; Six center page illustrations depict the British Army in France seen through French eyes, from the sketch-book of J. Simont; Two-page illustration of British troops advancing under cover of smoke-bombs (a smoke-screen); Article and photos of technology and techniques used to test the physical abilities of soldiers to resist fatigue, hear, steady their hand, steady their pulse, etc.; Three photos from a Turkish paper of British and French POWs at Afion Kara Hissar; Brief article on the electric vehicles of George Heath; Nice vintage ads. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Centre page held by one staple. A worthy copy of this fascinating WWI isssue. Book
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original illustrated wrappers. Chipping on top edge and front cover. Occasional foxing on pages. Overall a good copy. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 103 p., b/w plates (19 unnumbered b/w plates and 1 map). First edition of this extremely rare first-hand and historically significant eyewitness account of the Syrian and the Suez Canal Operations during the Great War by an Ottoman soldier and statesman. Erden describes in this book his return to Istanbul after his military attaché duty in Paris and his departure to Damascus to join the 4th Army in Syria under the command of Cemal Pasha (1872-1922). He then discusses the Arab Revolt in Hejaz and its possible effects on the Ottoman Empire (The Arab Uprising was initiated by Sharif Hussein bin Ali in June 1916 during the Great War with the aim of creating an independent and united Arab state comprising of Aden in Yemen and Aleppo in Syria against the Imperial Ottoman). After disclosing his views and the actions of the army in the region, he goes on to describe Jerusalem, the Suez Canal, and the wars that took place there. Erden gave new information on the reasons and results of the Canal operation, the condition of the Turkish army along Palestine and Syria fronts, the relations among the Turkish staff, and the nature of the Arab revolt through his views and observations in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria fronts accumulated as he was Cemal Pasha's chief of staff. Erden was a Turkish soldier and war historian. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1903, he worked in the units and headquarters in Yemen, as the staff of the 3rd Corps in the Balkan War and as the Paris Military Attaché. During the Great War, he served as the Chief of Staff of the 4th Army within the entourage of Admiralty Minister Cemal Pasha in Syria. Özege 16174. Kursun p. 51.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
[20], 644 pages. Index. Twenty-six black and white photographic plates. Leather binding. "Comprising a history of Egypt, with a comprehensive and authentic account of the antiquity of masonry resulting from many years of personal investigation and exhaustive research in India, Persia, Syria and the Valley of the Nile." - title page. After first receiving the Light in India, the author was moved to "investigate, to the fullest extent, the meaning and purport of the numerous hieroglyphic inscriptions, symbols and characters found upon the ancient tombs and temples, so that the Masonic Fraternity might understand, appreciate and apply the teachings of the hierophants and sages of bygone days." - Preface. Chapters: Alexandria - the Antiquity of Masonry; Ruined Temples - Masonry and Masonic Symbols; Ancient Cities - Soirian Myth - Karma; the Nile - Origin of the Name Free Mason - Scottish Rite Philosophy; Ancient Mysteries - Scottish Rite philosophy; Suez Canal - The Druses, Their Manners and Customs; Agriculture - Irrigation - Lotus - Papyrus; The Supreme Architect of the Universe; Mosques - Tombs - Massacre of Mamelukes - Heliopolis; Esoteric Teaching of the Scottish Rite - Brain and Thought; Pyramids - Sphinx - Tombs; Solomon - Death of Hiram - Cross - Swastica; Mummification - Transmigration - Re-incarnation; Sixteen Saviours - Lost Knowledge; The Golden Fleece - Roman Eagle - Masonic Apron - What it Teaches; Pyramids of Sakkarah - Lisht - Medum - The Fayum - Labyrinth; Sun Worship - Zodiac - Masonic Allegories; A Voyage up the Nile - Description of Tombs and Temples - Pro Doric Columns; Ineffable degrees - Thoughts on Ecclesiastes - I.N.R.I. - Voyaging up the Nile - examining Tombs and Temples - Paintings - Sculptures; Masonic teachings - Hindu beggar - Roman Catholicism; Thebes - Colossi - Der-El-Bahari - Luxor - Karnak; Ceremonies - Initiation - Blue Lodge - Transmigration - Mystery Language; The Gawazee - exploring Temples and tombs - Philae and its ruins - Nubia; Jewish Traditions and customs - Cable tow - Ceremonies of ancient Initiation - book of the Law; Circumsision - upon what the Ancient Craftsmen were obligated - the lost word. All edges gilt. Protected frontis portrait of author. Ornately embossed boards. Raised bands to spine. Partially rubbed gilt lettering and decoration upon back strip. Marbled endpapers. Hinges intact internally, open or opening externally. Front board partially detached. Somewhat above-average wear to boards. Unmarked. A worthy original copy of this monumental work. 12" x 9.5" x 2.5". 11 pounds. Book
1618Biblio235THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. 13½ x 9½ inches. Albumen photograph mounted on paper annotated in pencil "Port Said 16 Nov 1869" in the lower left. Excellent condition. This photograph depicts the harbor and canal on the day of the opening of the Suez Canal the "greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century" Smith. "Clearly the canal's opening festivities placed Egypt in a new way on the European cultural map" Haddad "Digging to India: Modernity Imperialism and the Suez Canal". The opening of the Suez Canal immediately transformed world trade. Connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea allowed ships to sail between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa. Trade between East and West grew at a record rate. "The construction and completion of the great Suez Canal . . . was one of the most remarkable engineering enterprises of the age one that will be an infinitely . . . important boon to commerce" W. H. Davenport Adams. "Men of the nineteenth century have pierced the Isthmus from sea to sea and these at least may stand in the shadow of the Pyramids and not be ashamed" Hamley.
