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1910J68AIMO7W1D1Palestine 1910. Rolled up and kept in a cardboard tube. An enormous panoramic view drawn in coloured gouaches on a single continuous roll of unwatermarked wove paper 70 x 583 cm the drawing running to the edges of the paper. A panoramic view of what appears to be a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape with spectacular mountains in the background a body of water near each end and a wide variety of buildings and ruins some clearly classical Roman and others Middle Eastern. The combination of classical Roman architecture with dromedaries and other Middle Eastern features places it very likely in Palestine but we have not been able to identify specific buildings. The most distinctive ruin a round Roman temple with five columns on the viewer's side an entablature above them and a vertical base below them looks more like the Temple of the Vesta at Tivoli than like any known in the Middle East the columns are not rendered in sufficient detail to determine their order but they are almost certainly not Ionic and are probably Corinthian. There are also classical Roman aqueducts. The six shepherds with their flocks all wear broad-brimmed hats and have staffs and two are blowing long slightly curved horns. Several more figures with broad-brimmed hats and staffs might be pilgrims one together with what is presumably his wife. With a 33 cm tear into the left end a few insignificant and much smaller tears and with pin holes about 1 cm from the edges from mounting on a wall but otherwise in very good condition and with the colours fresh and bright. A spectacular panoramic view of the Middle East including many classical Roman ruins. unknown
1918156559India Mesopotamia and Persia: December 1914 - July 1918. I have come to the conclusion that the war out here is much more pukka campaigning than in France An unpublished and otherwise untraced First World War album recording the experiences of an officer serving in India Mesopotamia and with Dunsterforce in Persia. It preserves his lively letters home and over 150 photographs taken on duty the final letter written only days before he was killed in action at Resht. Most letters are addressed to his mother Ada Eliza Wilkinson née Machin and the album opens with his formal portrait signed by her on the verso. Beginning with his voyage to India in December 1914 he records life in Port Said the Suez transit and his posting to Quetta where he lived comfortably but grew frustrated at being far from the fighting. Throughout 1915 he describes training frontier camps and the slow grind of the war his early enthusiasm giving way to weariness and disillusion. In late 1916 he finally volunteered for active service in the Middle East reaching Basra in October and soon taking part in mobile desert operations railway protection and frequent skirmishes with Turkish forces. His letters convey both the hardships and the relative freedom of campaigning compared with the Western Front. Wounded by a sniper in early 1917 he recuperated briefly in India before returning to the field. In December 1917 he joined Dunsterforce in Persia reporting on the weakening Ottoman position. He was killed in action at Resht on 20 July 1918 and buried with military honours at the Russian consulate. The album concludes with numerous letters of condolence from senior officers and comrades. The photographs document Bombay Quetta Delhi and daily military life in India as well as Basra Amara Beit Nama and operations in Mesopotamia and Persia including irrigation works armoured cars and troop movements. Loosely inserted are three autograph letters a postcard and a 1949 British Legion Service of Remembrance. No other manuscript or typescript copies of the letters are known. The family also compiled a memorial volume for Wilkinson's brother Geoffrey Miles Wilkinson killed later in the war. Quarto 255 x 205 mm. Occasional contemporary manuscript annotations. Together 258 typescript sheets each with text one side only 153 mounted photographs with typescript captions mostly gelatin silver snapshots photographic portrait mounted on card. Bound in contemporary black leatherette front cover monogrammed "J.G.W." Binding with some wear typescript sheets toned some photos oxidized as expected foxing and adhesive marks to opening portrait: a very good example. hardcover
ABC_47243Jerusalem 1973. 121 x 92 cm. Carta Colour-printed map folded. Scale 1:20000000. A large wall map of the Middle East shortly before the Yom Kippur War showing the Arabian Peninsula north-eastern Africa with Libya Egypt and Sudan as well as Turkey and Iraq pictured in their entirety. A separate inset shows Israel others show statistics such as population and trade oil production etc.A few large tears to folds some adhesive tape reinforcements to reverse but well preserved. unknown
179352Washington DC & Arlington Virginia: Specialized Skill Training Department Marine Corps Institute 1998 & 1991. Preparing the USMC for desert warfare A scarce set of training and examination manuals with exercise questions completed by an unknown marine. They are a basic introduction designed to familiarize the corps with desert warfare terrain and the cultures and histories of the Middle East. We have traced no records of a two-volume set. The US army had little experience of desert warfare prior to the Gulf War 1990-91. "For many years US doctrine failed to address desert warfare. During World War II US forces suffered heavy losses in the opening phase of the North Africa Campaign 1942-43. Stung by these defeats American forces learned quickly and fared somewhat better later. After the war American military doctrine focused on the defence of Europe and desert warfare was again ignored" Chambers p. 212. Brief is a 10-lesson course "designed to familiarize the student with the terrain weather climate physical environment armed forces and the geopolitical and sociopolitical influences which apply to military operations in the area" p. i. It covers four units: "Introduction" "Military and Paramilitary Forces" "Terrorism" and "Culture Economics and History". Each unit is illustrated and includes a set of exercise questions which in this copy have been filled in. Readings was to be consulted alongside the Culture Economics and History unit of Brief. The 27 articles are mostly by Westerners such as John Bulloch Bruce Kuniholm Edward Mortimer William Polk and Maxime Rodinson. The Lebanese academic Fouad Ajami is an exception as is Palestine-US historian Rosemarie Said Zanian Edward Said's sister. The articles explain Saddam's actions in Iraq the history of Islam the Iranian Revolution Saudi Arabia's oil industry US policy in Palestine and many other crucial areas. Readings is the 1991 first edition of which only six copies are listed on WorldCat in American military institutions. Brief is the 1998 reissue listed with no known locations. 2 vols octavo. Illustrations maps and tables throughout. Original red paper wrappers. Brief: front wrapper lettered in black stapled without rear wrapper; Readings: spine and front wrapper lettered in black. Exercise questions in Brief sometime completed in pen answer key to Unit II exercises excised and loosely inserted answer key to Unit IV exercises missing. Wrappers creased and a little scratched light abrasions to wrapper edges of Readings old adhesive remains to p. 1 of Readings contents bright: a very good set. John Whiteclay Chambers The Oxford Companion to American Military History 2000. unknown
1829005638London: Henry Colburn 1829. 478pp/maps. Engraved folding map frontis of Arabia. BM- notes two editions of this work in 1829; single volume quarto and a two volume octavo. This is the rare single volume edition. John Lewis Burckhardt 1784 - 1817 the son of a Swiss Colonel undertook the journey to Mekkah in 1814 disguised as an Arab; he had long since used the name Sheikh Ibrahim in his travels which he began in 1809 under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks and the African Association. Burckhardt's description of the Hedjaz was the first accurate one to reach Europe. Burckhardt transmitted to the Association the most accurate and complete account of the Hedjaz including the cities of Mekka and Medina which has ever been received in Europe." The folding plans include Mekkah Medina Wady Muna and Arafat. Some light foxing to maps. Minimal library markings. Beautiful tight complete scarce book with great maps. First Edition. Library Binding. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Henry Colburn
1717ST20754Lyon: Chez Anisson et Posuel 1717. Second Edition. 197 x 125 mm. 7 3/4 x 5". Three volumes. <br/> Pleasing contemporary half calf over paper boards painted to resemble tree calf smooth spines with gilt rules and two citron morocco labels. Attractive woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout WITH 153 ENGRAVED PLATES depicting the scenery flora fauna dress and architecture of locations described. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of De St. George on title page. Brunet V 903; Graesse VII 180. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed joints with just a hint of flaking but the period bindings solid and still extremely attractive survivals. Internally with a handful of quires faintly browned other trivial defects BUT AN UNUSUALLY WELL-PRESERVED SET inside and out.<br/> <br/> This lively narrative of travel at the turn of the 18th century includes a wealth of illustrations and a pleasing period bindings. A professor at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1656-1708 developed a system of botanical classification that became the standard method until it was superseded by Linnaeus in 1753. He made numerous collecting trips throughout his career; the present work is the record of his most significant voyage through Greece Turkey and along the Black Sea to Armenia and Georgia. The expedition which took place between 1700-02 had been proposed by the Comte du Pontchartrain then Secretary of State in 1699 as both a botanical and commercial endeavor. Tournefort's observations include a wealth of botanical detail but are also a rich source of information about the landscapes and peoples he encountered. He was accompanied on this voyage by German botanist Andreas Gundelsheimer and by the painter Claude Aubriet ca. 1665-1742 who had collaborated with Tournefort on his previous work "Eléments de Botanique." The work of Aubriet a botanical illustrator at the Jardin des Plantes was long appreciated by botanists and laypeople alike for its beauty and accuracy. The detailed depictions of plants here are accompanied by illustrated maps and engravings depicting zoological specimens archaeological sites and the costumes and cultures of the areas visited. The account was published posthumously in 1717 first in Paris and then shortly afterward in the present Lyon edition. The bindings here were never meant to be showy but they have come down to us in a remarkable state of preservation given their pedestrian construction and expected use. Chez Anisson et Posuel unknown
1941174371Palestine Egypt and Sudan: 1941-43. With camels and camera in the desert theatre A visual record of the Second World War in the Middle East with superb snapshots of Indian Army personnel members of the camel corps in Egypt and Sudan and the Sudanese household cavalry. Also included is a range of scenic views and images of everyday life. Warner's squadron served in the Middle East 1941-2 and was posted to North Africa in 1943. His most important photographs concern his service and those with whom he served. Alongside photographing military personnel he records their training and excursions and in one image a group of RAF men Warner perhaps among them pose on top of a car belonging to the Palestine Police Force. Eight photographs show the funeral of a British sergeant while one commercial image pictures Winston Churchill visiting soldiers at Tel El Kebir on 9 August 1942. Scenic and tourist views of Palestine show Warner's seaside billet in Haifa a coffee house and street in Acre and Mt Carmel as well as the Sea of Galilee Lake Tiberias and the atmospheric River Nile. The squadron's transfer to Africa is made via troop train. Aerial photographs of Khartoum are positioned alongside snaps of a sandstorm and by the White Nile Bridge he snaps an RAF hydroplane. In North Africa he mingles with soldiers of the Sudan Defence Force and members of the Khartoum police band. The album closes with a trip along the road to the Congo and time spent on duty at Juba. Landscape quarto commercial album. Original blue roan boards black cloth backstrip 17 black card leaves fixed with metal posts 160 mounted gelatin silver photographs snapshot- to postcard-sized and nearly all amateur manuscript captions on laid-down slips; 4 gelatin silver photographs loosely inserted including 3 snapshots and 163 x 215 mm formal portrait of compiler's class at RAF NCO Training School Hereford. Light toning and silver mirroring some images still with strong tones: very good. hardcover
1920ABC_48727Iraq 1920. Kept in a clear plastic sleeve. With 11 snapshots all ca. 6 x 9 cm. Collection of 11 snapshots from the early 1920s likely taken by a British soldier stationed in the Middle East. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly where these photographs were taken but presumably in Mesopotamia present day Iraq. Great Britain was actively involved in Mesopotamia from 1914-1932. Prior to the First World War a large portion of the Middle East was in the hands of the Ottoman Empire. However when the Ottomans sided with Germany in 1914 Great Britain sent forces to Mesopotamia to protect the Anglo-Persian oil fields. The British army initially suffered a major defeat but eventually gained the upper hand and captured Baghdad in 1917. In 1920 after the Ottoman Empire was partitioned the United Kingdom formally established control in the region under a mandate of the League of Nations. However the Iraqi people resented this idea and revolted. In 1922 Great Britain and Iraq then signed the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty in which Iraq was given the right for self-government while Great Britain stayed in control of the country's foreign policy. This would last until Iraq's independence in 1932.The present snapshots were taken in the early days of British control in the region and depict the atmosphere at the time. They show the daily life of locals including women collecting water from the river men standing guard and the hustle and bustle in the streets. Also included are various group photos of British soldiers and locals.The photographs show some traces of wear around the corners and edges but are overall in good condition. unknown
1948L2EG76GNBQ6GLondon: Brettenhem house 1948. Later cardboard binder. 30 x 23.5 cm. With many reproductions of photographs ground plans maps and cross-sections. Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions accompanied by a map showing their oil fields followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran Iraq Bahrein Saudi Arabia Haifa Israel and Kuwait describing the area's geology oil fields reservoirs and more illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries probably advertisements but the article itself complete some leaves slightly creased otherwise in very good condition. Brettenhem house, unknown
1936L6CG5IA5ETO8Chicago: Geographical publishing company 1936. Colour printed map 54 x 40 cm. Map of the Arabian Peninsula and parts of the USSR Turkey Iran and the British French and Italian colonies in Africa possibly coming from an edition of the Commercial atlas of the world. Printed in yellow are oil fields and pipelines including the legendary Kirkuk-Haifa/Tripoli oil pipeline. Detailed maps of Iran and of British controlled Palestine are printed on the other side.With a few small holes near the inner margin. Geographical publishing company, unknown
1957L94EK3173IPOTel Aviv: Tazpioth 1957. Original wrappers. 8vo. 18 instalments plus 1 duplicate. A selection of instalments of the magazine: New outlook an Tel Aviv-based monthly devoted to Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs and the promotion of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and peace. It includes articles on politics poetry agriculture meteorology the Cold War education music education economy etc. covering all countries in the Middle East and from both Jewish and Arab perspectives.A very good set. Tazpioth, unknown
152556635Strasbourg. 1525. Originalt tresnitt. Arkets størrelse : 535 cm X 395 cm. Latin. <br/><br/><em>Latinsk tekst. Bretten noe gulnet et par brunpletter.Med Kypros.Map of Palestine Mesopotamia and Babylonia in present day Middle East.Relief shown pictorially.Includes names of places and natural features.Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.Appears in the author's Geographia translated by Willibald Pirckheimer with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi i.e. Strasbourg : Iohannes Grieningerus communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kalendas Apriles. Boston Public Library. </em> unknown
3689Warsaw H. Bomberg Zvi Tsevi Ya'akov; Warszawie Drukarni J. Lebensona 1841-59. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Three volumes bound in one. Octavo. Pp. 359; 96; 40. Three title-pages present. Handsome vignette illustration at end of approbations and introduction. Contemporary ownership inscriptions stamps; browned occasionally stained in places. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary quarter calf and brown cloth gilt lettering-piece to spine cloth inner hinges. A moderately worn copy overall good. ~ FIRST EDITION. The complete work comprising of all 3 volumes: Zoology Botany Mineralogy. Written in Hebrew mostly in Rashi script. The second volume on botany includes many Latin names. Joseph Schönhak was born at Tiktin 1812; died at Suwalki 1870. He led a retired life devoting his time to writing and study. He was the author of "Ha-Mashbir" or "Aruk he-Hadash" Warsaw 1858. His "Toldath Haaretz" Toledot ha-Arez is a natural history in three volumes. The subjects are arranged and classified and a full description of each is given as to color form and habitat. Those that are mentioned in the Bible are given book chapter and verse; and so with those mentioned in the Talmud. The "Ha-Masbir" is an Aramaic-German rabbinical dictionary based on Nathan ben Jehiel's "Aruk" "Hamiluim oder Masbir Hachadasch. Aramäisch-rabinisch-deutsches Wörterbuch Ergenzung zu dem Hamasbir oder Aruch" Warsaw 1869. His "Sefer ha-Milluim" was published in Warsaw in 1869 "Sefer Ha-Miluim Le-Aruch: A dictionary to the Talmud and Midrashim based on the order of the Aruch with clarification of readings and sources from the Babylonian and Palestian Talmuds the Tannaitic Midrahsim ." was reprinted 1978 Jerusalem Makor. Bibliography: Ha-Maggid 1870 No. 49; Fuenn Keneset Yisrael 1866. See also Isidore Singer and Julius Gottlieb: The Jewish Encyclopedia. Rare. I-5 OUT <br/> <br/> Warsaw, H. Bomberg (Zvi [Tsevi] Ya'akov); Warszawie, Drukarni J. Lebensona, 1841-59. hardcover
19251208C019Baghdad: Hasso Bros. 1925 Circa. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 50. Very Good Plus/Good. 10 x 12.25 inches 26 x 32 cm. Slipcase: Rare original slipcase constructed from stapled card. Addressed to the English recipient on one side panel with Iraqi stamp and label with a few postal franks dated 1927. Also included is the original plain jacket with heavy foxing wear and slight loss to edges a few archival tape repairs to reverse. Overall case condition is Good. Book: First printing. Oblong album bound in imitation crocodile skin with gilt lettering to front board. Cord ties one tassle lacking. 73 sepia photogravures on 50 leaves recto only printed by Rotophot AG of Berlin. Speckled foxing to pages as usual for this title a few light marks. Excellent overall condition by far the best example we have seen. Includes street scenes of Basrah Basra Baghdad and Mosul. Three images have 'R.A.F. Official Photograph' noted below. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 10 x 12.25 inches 26 x 32 cm. Hasso Bros. hardcover
186421186Alfred Gadsby 1864. 8vo. First Edition with 4 engraved illustrations 2 full-page and a full-page engraved map in the text; neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original brown cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind upper board lettered in gilt yellow endpapers upper joint very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Vividly-written personal account of the author's journey from Marseilles through Palestine and Egypt in 1864. A MOST DESIRABLE COPY IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL AND FRAGILE BINDING OF A WORK FAR SCARCER THAN ITS PREDECESSOR 'MY WANDERINGS'. RARE. Alfred Gadsby, hardcover
1973MS-4Beirut Lebanon: Al-Risalah 1973. Classic scholarly historical text contains early geographical writings from 800 to 1150 including descriptions of some localities in the Northern Hijaz by the Arab geographers of that period; descriptions of the pilgrim routes in that area; a general survey of information and characteristics; rise and decline of towns and villages in the Northern Hijaz; dependencies of Medina and Mecca; geographical poetry; etc. Includes a detailed fold-out map of the region. 486 pp. Dustjacket in mylar. Virtually no shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Al-Risalah Hardcover
1984MS-22Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1984. Comprehensive scholarly text presents an unabridged translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's "A Clarification of Questions" which provides a unique picture of the belief structure of Shi'ism. A compendium of 3000 "problems" Khomeini's treatise is intended to guide laymen in their religious duties as well as to cover all of life's questions and needs from personal hygiene and ritual purity to organ transplants and modern banking. The Resaleh Towzih al-Masael reveals how the external world is viewed by the Shi'ite faithful. 432 pp. No spine cracks or creases. Scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Paperback
1987MS-8Abdullah N. Al-Subaiy 1987. Scholarly text presents 789 bibliographic entries of doctoral dissertaions on all subjects related to Saudi Arabia which have been accepted by universities in the U.S. and Canada from 1935-1987. Entries are arrange alphabetically by subject year and author. Text in English and Arabic. Includes a presentation letter from the author on his stationary signed and dated. Approx. 350 pp. Gilt spine front cover in English rear cover in Arabic. Lower corners slightly bumped. Scarce. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Privately Printed. Abdullah N. Al-Subaiy Hardcover
1976MS-13Essex U.K.: Bowker Publishing 1976. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed study of the development of the Iranian city of Kashran including aspects of settlement patterns; population trends; housing; health facilities; education; occupational and social structures; urban morphology; industry; trade; commerce; urban ecology; land use; etc. 166 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bowker Publishing Hardcover
190919628John Murray 1909. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard present 34 plates on 27 full-page map full-page diagram full-page map in the text and large folding map; handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco back with raised bands gilt top uncut gilt from original board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small neat blind stamp on title. The author served with the Geological Survey of Egypt. EXTREMELY SCARCE. John Murray, hardcover
2206Utrecht Paddenburg 1757-67. 1st Edition . Print. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Lot of 5 original single-sheet maps in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Fine strong impressions on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First original state unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free pH-balanced buffered archival paper. In fine condition. - - Full individual descriptions are available on request. - - FIRST EDITION. Willem Albert Bachiene 1712-1783 Dutch clergyman later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume "Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende" is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768 and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called "Jehovah Bible" i.e. "De Gansche H. Schrift Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments . Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden" published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance the works from "Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land" are very scarce seldom found in any state practically unavailable in their original uncoloured state. - - Note regarding this lot: Each of the 5 maps in this lot is offered also separately. Descriptive text Copyright Librarium The Hague FOLIO <br/> <br/> Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1757-67. unknown
18790009094London: John Murray 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo; cxxvii 444 12 pages blue cloth <br/><br/>Burton's contributions occupy the first 190 pages. Also Prof. George Rolleston's lecture to the RGS an early ecology talk "The Modifications of the External Aspects of Organic Nature produced by Man's Interference". " I propose . to notice a few of the many alterations produced by disforesting in our own and other countries". John Murray hardcover
2011SBS-9781409405238ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2011SBS-9781409405238ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
1985MS-36Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1985. Scholarly text examines the complex processes by which the traditional relationships between religion society and polity are being radically altered in the modern Saudi state. This study focuses on the differentiation between religion and state in a patrimonial society; changing patterns in the composition and orientation of the political elite; the process of nation building. 171 pgs. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
