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239pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Robert Laffont 2005, In-8 broché, 581 pages. Bon état.
<p>28 cm, rilegatura editoriale in piena tela, titolo al dorso e incorniciato al piatto; p. xi, 389; xi di statistica e vii di indice alfabetico. 304 figure e 5 carte geografiche a colori, anche tipiegate, fuori testo</p>
143 pages. Bibliography. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
XO EDITIONS. 2003.. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 63 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, dans le texte et hors texte.
XO EDITIONS. 2003. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 63 pages- nombreuses illustrations en couleurs dans et hors texte
Vromant & C°. 1921. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat passable. Couv. défraîchie. Manque en coiffe de pied. Fortes mouillures. 259 pages. Carte dépliable en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc hors texte. Ouvrage fortement défraîchi. Dans le Saïd. D'Abydos à Philae. Thèbes, Le Fayoum...
220pp. with 73 illustrations in text + 3 loose folding maps, in the series "Université de Varsovie. Faras" volume 3, 29cm., publisher's hardcover, dustwrapper (with few small tears), copy from the collection of the belgian byzantinist prof. Justin Mossay (with stamp and ex-libris), text and interior is cleana nd bright, good condition, weight: 1kg., C105984
320 pages including index and black and white illustrations. The life and work of Dr. Rowland V. Bingham. Map endpapers. Light to moderate wear to book. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. One inch chunk missing from top edge of front endpaper. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Book
"In 1982 the fierce,beautiful and drought-sticken Sahara was home for thousands of nomads. By 1985 it had become a waste land .' A Desert Dies' is Michael Asher's first hand account of living with the Kalabish tribe as they roamad across Sahara by camel, an area devastated by hunger, civil war and the blinkered indifference of politicians. Beginning as a brilliant piece of travel writing, recording the Kababish's everyday life and timeless traditions, it ends as a celebration of their generosity, hospitality and courage in the face of the tragedy of the Sahara, and the terrible prospect of extinction." 330p. plates glossary. index. Paper age toned. Book
Very Good English Original red cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. [xiv], 277 p., 5 military plans, (3 foldings), and 1 folding map of Sudan Campaign's military plan (57x39,5 cm). Fading on cloth, an ex-library stamp on colophon, light soiling to extremities. Otherwise a good copy. First edition of the first volume of this rare set on the Sudan Campaign, including an eyewitness account of Colvile, an English colonel (later major-general) during the campaign. The presented first volume includes that the forces of the Mahdist movement spreading across Sudan, and threatening General Charles Gordon in Khartoum, while Lord Garnet Wolseley moves slowly south down the Nile. The second and third volumes (including maps only) are missing. By 1882 the Mahdist Army had taken complete control over the area surrounding Khartoum. Then, in 1883, a joint British-Egyptian military expedition under the command of British Colonel William Hicks launched a counterattack against the Mahdists. Hicks was soon killed and the British decided to evacuate Sudan. Fighting continued however and the British-Egyptian forces which defended Khartoum in a long siege were finally overrun on January 28, 1885. Virtually the entire garrison was killed. General Charles Gordon, the commander of the British-Egyptian forces, was beheaded during the attack. In June 1885 Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi died. As a result the Mahdist movement quickly dissolved as infighting broke out among rival claimants to leadership. Hoping to capitalize on internal strife, the British returned to Sudan in 1896 with Horatio Kitchener as commander of another Anglo-Egyptian army. In the final battle of the war on September 2, 1898, at Karari, 11,000 Mahdists were killed and 16,000 were wounded. (Source: Black Past online). Henry Edward Colville was born at Kirkby Hall, Leicestershire, as the son of Charles Robert Colville and Hon. Katherine Sarah Georgina Russell. Trained at Eton, Colville entered the Grenadier Guards in 1870, followed by his assignment in 1880 as A.D.C. to General Sir Leicester Smyth commanding the forces in South Africa. Colville served in the Intelligence Department of the Suakin Expedition of 1884, distinguishing himself at the Battles of El Teb and Tamai. He was employed on special service in Sudan prior to the Nile Expedition of 1884-85 and after having served in that Expedition, he received the assignment of Chief of the Intelligence Department of the Frontier Force. Following the Battle of Ginnis in the Mahdist War, Colville was promoted to the rank of Colonel and was attached to the Intelligence Department at headquarters. In 1893 he was appointed Commissioner (Acting) for Uganda where he commanded the Unyoro Expedition receiving numerous awards and a promotion to Major General on April 12, 1898. Prior to his retirement in 1901, Colville served as Commander, Infantry Brigade, Gibraltar and Guards Brigade, and 9th Division, South Africa 1899-1900. (Source: Ladysmith & District Historical Society Online).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Very good and clean. Atlas folio. (73 x 59 cm). In Ottoman script. Map of Oceania. It shows Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia etc. Scale: 1/20.000.000. Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1925. Mehmed Neset Bey was born in Scutari, Istanbul. He served as colonel in World War 1 and Turkish National Struggle. He was a military origin map-maker. (Source: Savaslarda haritacilar, Harita Genel Komutanligi, Ank., 2017). Extremely rare.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Chipped on folded places. Folded. Slightly toning on paper. Oblong atlas folio. (63 x 94 cm). In Ottoman script. Map of New Oceania. It shows Australia, Bahr-i Muhit-i Kebir, Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Micronesia et alli. Scale: 1/20.000.000. Gregorian: 1927. It's printed from 'Sudi Bey' Map Corpus. This was a map serie printed in the early Republican period in Turkish with Arabic letters. Very decorative map with its color flags of various countries longitudinal on right and left sides of map. Sudi printing house was an Ottoman / Turkish publisher who was one of the longest-running of Turkish publishers.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Very good and clean. Atlas folio. (73 x 59 cm). In Ottoman script. Map of New United States, Canada, Alaska; and South America. Scale: 1/35000000. Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1925. Mehmed Neset Bey was born in Scutari, Istanbul. He served as colonel in World War 1 and Turkish National Struggle. He was a military origin map-maker. (Source: Savaslarda haritacilar, Harita Genel Komutanligi, Ank., 2017). Extremely rare.
Very Good Turkish Original grey cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xxviii], [4], [4], 1112 p., 2 full-page color maps. First map is the most famous one showing the Nile and the second one shows the Mediterranean shores and cities of Egypt. Rare first edition of the 10th, and the last volume of the Evliya's travel corpus including his descriptions of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia in the late 17th century. This legendary travel account was published between 1896-1938 respectively in ten volumes. "Book X lands him in Egypt and takes him up the Nile to the Sudan and Ethiopia. When Evliya reaches Ibrim on the Nile, the southernmost limit of the Ottoman Empire, he remarks on the intense heat of the place; contrasting it with the intense cold he experienced at the northernmost limit, Azov; and with the mild climates at the eastern and western frontiers, Baghdad on the one hand, and Istolnibelgrad on the other. Apparently, Egypt suited him best, and he found Cairo a worthy counterpart to Istanbul; for he settled there to work up his memoirs of forty-one years of travel. He died around 1683, and there is controversy over whether a certain cryptic passage refers to the Ottoman defeat at Vienna.". (Evliya Çelebi's book of travels. 2. Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis). Evliya Çelebi visited Suakin during one of his journeys across Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Tanzania. He describes this territory under the title "The characteristics of old throne center Suakin" as "we stayed in this city for 12 days, trading with all kinds of people with camel trains. I sold 40 dromedaries in return for 500 piasters and also disburdened, sold 50 tusks for 500 piasters. Then we started to wander around the city. The Suez Sea is to the north of the island, and it takes 12 hours to reach Mecca from the island. Therefore, the direction of Mecca from this city is to the north. Suakin is a little island stretching three miles from east to west. (Afyoncu, Daily Sabah). Further travels in the 1670s took him to western and southwestern Anatolia and Syria. He completed the Hajj again and appears to have settled in Egypt for several years. He traveled in Upper Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia searching for the sources of the River Nile, before settling down to compile his great travel book. OCLC 630428224 (with four copies).
Very Good Arabic Original pictorial wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Arabic. 169, [1] p., many ills. First Beirut Edition and early edition in Arabic literature of this classic novel by Salih, who is one of Sudan's greatest authors of the twentieth century. The story is set in the fictional village of Wad Hamid, the same setting as Salih's famous Season of Migration to the North. It is a comic novella, centering on the unlikely nuptials of the town's eccentric Zein. Tall and odd-looking, with just two teeth in his mouth, Zein has made a reputation for himself as the man who falls in love over and over with girls who promptly marry other men, to the point where mothers seek him out in hopes that he will draw the eye of available suitors to their eligible daughters. "The Wedding of Zein" was made into a drama in Libya and won Kuwaiti filmmaker Khalid Siddiq an award at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 1970s. Some critics identify this novella may be considered part of the tradition of magical realism, although Salih considered it as a socialist realist one. Minor stains on cover and edges. Overall a good copy. Only two paper copies in OCLC in Library University of Amsterdam and Leiden University Library: 71470668. It's also the earliest edition in the OCLC.
Dieppe, Témoignage Chrétien, 1959 - 1 Edition - In-8, 15x 21 cms - Broché - Couverture illustrée aux 1 & 4 plats - 104 photographie et dessins inédits de l'auteur - 334 pages - Très propre. Envoi : "A Monsieur louis YZIQUEL, en souvenir de notre soirée à Paris, samedi 6 avril 1963" Pour la première fois dans l'histoire du monde, des hommes tentent de descendre le fleuve légendaire de ses sources à la mer. Premier document sur l'ensemble du fleuve des sources a la mer, Nil blanc, Victoria et Somerset, Première navigation du Nil bleu.
