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1926144221926. Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustration of a Bird's-Eye View of Mecca Saudi Arabia. This is is an original 1926 photogravure. Photogravure was made after a photograph by Karl Gröber. It was included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Sheet size is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 8.5" x 6.25". Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. unknown
1968015663Paris Georges Fall 1968 In-8 Broché, couverture illustrée
1928PHO-1377London, Constable & Co ltd ,1928 , 8°, xiv-422pp. , original editor cover , one folding map and several illustrations .
1992239900San Francisco: Coming Up! 1992. Newspaper. Fourteen issue partial run various pagination tabloid newspaper news events reports opinion services & resources photos ads very good on newsprint. Issue numbers include: 13:14-27. The tabloid began life as San Francisco Bay Times. That paper folded quickly and was reformed as Coming Up! and went through another change adding the original name and eventually dropping the Coming Up!. This run includes the two special issues #17 & 18 dealing with Sheriff Hongisto and the confiscation by police of the issue with the unflattering depiction of the Sheriff. That cover led directly to Hongisto's firing as police chief: he ordered his men to pull copies of the Bay Times from its street boxes and destroy them. Also Gay Pride issue The Silence of Hollywood on Queer image and characters in film AIDS funding and NEA funding for queer film denied Bill Clinton and the LGBTQ community and much more. Coming Up! unknown books
1993239901San Francisco: Coming Up! 1993. Newspaper. Eighteen issue broken run various pagination tabloid newspaper news events reports opinion services & resources photos ads very good on newsprint. Issues include: 14:1-12 20-23 & 25 & 26. Number one has a cover story accusing President George Bush of being a serial killer: 1 AIDS death every 6 minutes. DC March AIDS Stamp. Clinton/Gore campaign. Gay Soldiers. The tabloid began life as San Francisco Bay Times. That paper folded quickly and was reformed as Coming Up! and went through another change adding the original name and eventually dropping the Coming Up! Coming Up! unknown books
1926144231926. Two Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustrations depicting a Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia. Both are original 1926 photogravures. Photogravure were made after photographs by Karl Gröber and were included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. The first photogravure presents a ground-level view of the Mosque. The second photogravure shows a birds-eye view of the Mosque. Sheet size for each is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 6.25" x 8.25". Exellent condition. unknown
1934PHO-1749Paris : Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1934-1938, 3 volumes in-8, brochage éditeur, XXXIV-486 pp.; 493 pp.;571 pp., petits défauts au brochage.
1921148161921. Unpublished sepia-toned photograph of pilgrims journeying to Mecca circa 1921 documents the material and spatial realities of the Hajj in the early twentieth century during a period of geopolitical transition in the Arabian Peninsula following the First World War. The image captures a vast encampment of white tents set against a rugged and mountainous landscape outside Mecca visually conveying the scale of pilgrimage infrastructure prior to modern urban expansion. Created during the years immediately preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 the photograph supports research in Islamic religious practice the history of pilgrimage logistics and British imperial observation of the Hejaz during the inter war period.<br /> <br /> Photograph. Circa 1921. Approximately 3.5 x 5 inches. Sepia-toned silver gelatin print. The composition presents thousands of white tents clustered across uneven terrain forming a temporary city of pilgrims undertaking the religious journey to Mecca. The mountainous backdrop situates the encampment geographically within the arid environment surrounding the holy city. The photograph originates from the album of a British naval officer who traveled in the region between 1920 and 1923 providing contemporaneous visual documentation from a foreign observer during a time of shifting political authority in the Hejaz following the collapse of Ottoman control. The image appears unpublished and retains the intimate scale characteristic of personal travel albums.<br /> <br /> As a visual record predating large-scale modernization of pilgrimage facilities the photograph preserves evidence of early twentieth-century Hajj organization material culture and environmental conditions. The presence of an extensive tent city underscores both the enduring continuity of Islamic ritual practice and the logistical complexity of pilgrimage prior to the oil-era transformation of the region. Light age-related curling; minor chipping at lower edge not affecting the image area; surface otherwise clean with strong tonal range. Overall good condition. A historically significant early twentieth-century photograph documenting the lived landscape of pilgrimage to Mecca during a pivotal moment in Arabian political history. unknown
1922PHO-1362A l'Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, Ernest Leroux et Paul Geuthner Éditeur, 1922-1949. . Édition bilingue: Texte arabe avec traduction française en regard. 5 volumes In-8° de: Tome I (4e tirage,1927) 2ff-XLVI & 443pp. Tome II (4e tirage,1914), XIV & 465 pp. Tome III (4e tirage, 1914), XXVI & 476 pp. Tome IV (4e tirage, 1922), 479 pp. Le Tome V, constitue l'index ,(3e tirage , 1927) 91 pp.. Broché avec couverture éditeur ,tome 1,4 et annexe non coupé , étiquettes au dos et cachets (tome 2 et 3) , manque au dos tome 3.
1922PHO-1091A l'Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, Ernest Leroux et Paul Geuthner Éditeur, 1922-1949. . Édition bilingue: Texte arabe avec traduction française en regard. 5 volumes In-8° de: Tome I (4e tirage,1927) 2ff-XLVI & 443pp. Tome II (5e tirage,1949), XIV & 465 pp. Tome III (5e tirage, 1949), XXVI & 476 pp. Tome IV (4e tirage, 1922), 479 pp. Le Tome V, constitue l'index ,(3e tirage , 1927) 91 pp.. Broché avec couverture éditeur .
1917F14GSQ01U79OLondon: Hayman Christy and Lilly Ltd. 1917. Original stapled wrappers with red lettering on front wrapper. 8vo. With a photographic portrait of Hussein bin Ali for frontispiece and a folding facsimile proclamation 38 x 28 cm. British pamphlet advertising the independence of Hedjaz from Ottoman rule. The pamphlet includes a facsimile of the proclamation in Arabic pronouncing the Arab peoples free from Turkish domination an introduction about allied involvement the Monroe Doctrine and its role in the region and more basic history behind the eventual writing of the proclamation.Some minor traces of use. In very good condition. Hayman, Christy and Lilly Ltd., unknown
1914000555<p>Bagdad: Dar us Salam press 1914 Book. Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Printed on weak paper. The first and only part printed in Bagdad of 3 parts by the author later printed together in Cairo. Very rare printed book in Bagdad during the world war about the political and military history of Bahrain and al-Khalifa. 144 p. Arabic text with one photographic plate of the author. Scarce.</p> Dar us Salam press
