CURZON, George.MareMagnum
WEIGEL (Christoph).Livre Rare Book
Mesopotamiæ, Assyriæ et Babyloniæ tabula.
1720LBW-8790Nuremberg, [circa 1720]. 312 x 398 mm ; montée sur toile.
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10 pages. Plus a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 19.75 x 24.5 inches (50 x 62cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is an exceptional report on the new updated Persia map created by the RGS and Lord Curzon. One of the major contributions to the study of Persian history. Curzon a most prolific writer and explorer is renowned for his committment to detail and exploration. Ghani writes that, "his powers of observation and analysis were extraordinary; no detail ever escaped him." (Ghani 87.) This was the first time this new Persia map was published, which also shows Afghanistan and Beluchistan. The information was pulled from all the important sources, both from British and Russian explorers. This makes this report a highly valuable important Primary Resource.
13 pages. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating paper which pre-dates his book "The Merv Oasis. Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian during the Years 1879-80-81 including Five Months’ Residence among the Tekkés of Merv." Also published in 1882. O’Donovan, an Irish newspaper correspondent who had covered the Franc-Prussian war and the Russo-Turkish war, undertook his journey to Merv as a representative of the ‘Daily News’. In 1879 he travelled with two native servants from the Caspian Sea through Khorassan and at great risk reached Merv. Whilst en-route for Merv O’Donovan witnessed through binoculars from a hilltop the Destruction of Geok-Tepe and the massacre of the panic-stricken Turcomans ordered by Skobelev. Suspected by the Turcomans of being a Russian emissary, or perhaps believing he could gain them the protection of the British, he was kept captive for several months, eventually managing to extricate himself and returning to London. The Merv Oasis is a unique record of the Tekkes inhabiting the oasis of Merv and its ancient ruins while themselves awaiting the Russian onslaught. "A most daring, difficult, and hazardous feat, with which his name will always be associated." - DNB.
1720LBW-8790Nuremberg, [circa 1720]. 312 x 398 mm ; montée sur toile.
41p. Disbound Good condition Advocating Arabic self-rule without European influence.
198256847Saudi Arabia: Ministry/Defense & Aviation 1982. good. Quarto approx. 150 3-ring plastic binder with customized front and spine text 3-hole punched color illus. color figures. Slight wear and soiling to binder. In early 1981 the Saudi government requested American assistance in providing meteorological support to the Kingdom's military forces. This request was accepted. This document constitutes a visionary organizational arrangement for the Kingdom. Weather morale and logistics are three imponderables of warfare with morale and logistics significantly affected by weather. This plan considers the unique position of the Kingdom the sophisticated armaments in the region command and control requirements economy of force and responsiveness to external contingencies among other factors. The plan represents the then state of the art technology and equipment and required a military-civil mix of personnel to execute and to understand and respond to military needs. This plan was prepared by a joint Saudi and U.S. team comprised of highly-skilled professionals including a number from the U.S. Department of Defense and the military services. This plan was deemed to meet military requirements standardize the service emphasize safety and operations response and to aid in decisions affecting the rules of engagement. Ministry/Defense & Aviation unknown
202001856Paris, Editions de La Martinière, 2009 ; 4 in-4 OBLONG, 207 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état avec sa jaquette.
20152Paris, Adrien Maisonneuve 1969, 250x160mm, 288pages, reliure d'éditeur. Bel exemplaire.
1906ys3303L'Edition d'art H. Piazza Sélection Abraxas-libris Broché sous emboitage 1906 In-8 (17 x 23,4 cm), broché sous emboîtage, couverture rempliée, 222 pages, 1 de 348 exemplaires sur vélin, superbes compositions en couleurs de E. Dinet commentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer ; légères pliures au dos, par ailleurs intérieur très frais, bel exemplaire. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
in-8°, 189 pages, broche. Bel exemplaire. [PAY]
c2903Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1950 ; fort volume in-8°, broché, couverture blanche imprimée en noir et rouge; XVIpp., 300pp.,2ff.nch.; frontispice, 4 illustrations hors texte d'après des tableaux du temps et une carte à double page.Trace de pli au 2ème plat de la couverture sinon très bon exemplaire.
18335Paris, Hachette, 1896. In-12 de 236 pages, 1 panorama dépliant de la Mecque hors texte et 34 illustrations d'après les photographies de l'auteur. Bon état intérieur. Demi-basane rouge, forte épidermure au dos. Nombreux tampons de Radio France et ORTF.
1882WOC-81Pelerinage au Nedjed, Berceau de la Race Arabe.Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par L. Derome. Contenant 1 carte et 60 gravures sur bois, dessinées par G. Vuillier d'après les aquarelles de Lady Anne Blunt, de 2 tableaux généalogiques.1:Généalogie des IBN Saoud- Émirs du Nedjed.2:Généalogie des IBN Rashid-Émirs du Djebel, Shammar.Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie,1882. In-8-16x24cm,relié demi chagrin vert,dos à faux-nerfs et orné de caissons dorés, tranches dorées, plat vert avec mention:Prix du 14 juillet 1883,offert par la Ville de Saint Claude.LXVIII,447pp.
217090Paris, Hachette, 1896 petit in-8, [2] ff. n. ch. (frontispice et titre), 236 pp., avec des illustrations dans le texte et un panorama dépliant hors-texte, demi-percaline Bradel bordeaux, couv. cons. (reliure de l'époque). Rousseurs. Bon exemplaire.
217156Paris, Hachette, 1896 petit in-8, [2] ff. n. ch. (frontispice et titre), 236 pp., avec des illustrations dans le texte et un panorama dépliant hors-texte, demi-percaline Bradel verte (reliure de l'époque).
2002vg226IFRI, IET Princeton Broché 2002 In-8 (16 x 24 cm), broché, 286 pages ; très bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
in-8, 250 p., broché, jaq. ill. [109B-19] La folle témérité de cette aristocrate anglaise, nièce de l’illustre Pitt, la fera surnommer « Reine de Palmyre » par les Arabes…
Desclée de Brouwer 1990, In-8 broché, 262 pages. 34 illustrations d'après les photographies de l'auteur, certaines dépliantes. Postface de Guy Courtellemont. Bon état.
Very Good German Paperback. Some markings and highlights. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In German and Arabic. [16], 45 p. Morgenlandische Geheimsekten in abendlandischer Forschung und die handschrift Kiel Arab. 19. Oriental secret sects in occidental research and manuscript Kiel Arabic 19.
340 pages. Translated from the Hebrew. "Carries us into the strange and exciting world of the Yemenite Jews from Southern Arabia who have settled in contemporary Israel." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Slight wear, one small tear, and sticker residue to DJ; Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
8vo; 240 pages
19230088591923. Letter. This 4 December 1923 autograph letter signed by T. E. Lawrence is noteworthy in multiple respects including: for referencing an important meeting about what would become the Subscribers issue of Seven Pillars of Wisdom; for being written to Lawrences great friend and patron Hugh Trenchard the head and father of the Royal Air Force; for highlighting the contradictions inherent to Lawrences supposedly anonymous enlistment in the R.A.F.; for being signed with Lawrences true name which he had already effectively abandoned. The letter is also replete with Lawrences characteristic liberties with punctuation and grammar which so amusingly belied his remarkable erudition. <br /> <br />Curtis & the rest have been pressing me about my reluctant book: and I feel that the thing must come to a head and be finished with. <br /> <br />The letter is written entirely in Lawrences hand on the first and third panels of a single folded sheet of 9 x 7 inches 22.86 x 17.78 cm watermarked Waverley Pen Vellum stationery folded once to make four 4.5 x 7 inches 11.43 x 17.78 cm panels. The letter is dated 4 . XII . 23 with the salutation Dear Sir Hugh. The body of the letter reads in full: Curtis & the rest have been pressing me about my reluctant book: and I feel that the thing must come to a head and be finished with. It worries me too much as it is: and Im not in the mood or the position to afford more worries. So I want to meet them in Oxford over the coming week-end . And am putting in an application for a pass for Saturday Sunday & Monday next. Dec. 8.9.10. You see my clothes are in London & Ill have to draw them there before & return them after the Oxford visit. My poor bike is gone & trains are slow. So I estimate the three days as necessary to do all the business properly. I was on defaulters last week which would normally prevent my getting leave for a month. Wherefore I write to you to ask you to do what you promised. Its a pity because Ive tried here not to presume in any way and this means breaking the standard I had set up. However perhaps it is justifiable. Lawrence signed TELawrence below his valediction yours sincerely. A two-line post script underlined follows: Please ask the A. G. to be careful. If Im kicked out of this Im done. <br /> <br />Condition <br /> <br />Condition is good plus Lawrences ink clear and distinct. The stationery is complete though spotted and with a horizontal and vertical fold bisecting each panel ostensibly from original mailing. Initials at the head of the first panel just below the date are plausibly those of Trenchard. The letter is protected in a clear removable archival sleeve housed within a rigid full blue Morocco goatskin folder with a gilt-printed front cover gilt-ruled turn-ins framing gray paper pastedowns within and an integral printed cardstock insert. <br /> <br />Lawrence of Arabia <br /> <br />During the First World War Thomas Edward T. E. Lawrence 1888-1935 experienced a transformative odyssey as instigator organizer hero and tragic figure of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia. He spent the rest of his famously short life struggling to variously reconcile reject share and repress this indelible experience which was eventually recounted in his magnum opus Seven Pillars of Wisdom. <br /> <br />The Father of the Royal Air Force <br /> <br />Father of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard First Viscount Trenchard 1873-1956 began his military career as a dashing cavalry officer full of high Victorian bravado who attracted the notice of his superiors for blunt words boundless energy and stern discipline of men under his command. At forty Trenchard asked for leave to learn to fly at his own expense and then joined the Royal Flying Corps which had been formed only months before. There his age and military experience saw him appointed to the staff and he recognized more quickly than most officers of his age the aeroplane's unlimited military potential. He would be indelibly associated with Britains air service for the rest of his life. Before the end of the First World War Trenchard was both appointed the first head of the new Royal Air Force and knighted. By 1919 Trenchard was created a baronet and was working to secure the foundations of an enduring independent RAF. <br /> <br />Trenchard and T. E . Shaw <br /> <br />Trenchard and T. E. Lawrence both worked with and for Winston S. Churchill who was respectively Secretary of State for War and Air appointed January 1919 and Colonial Secretary appointed February 1921. Perhaps Trenchards own impetuous inclinations and the experience of being both of and other in British society and institutions facilitated Trenchards friendship with T. E. Lawrence. That friendship proved critical for Lawrence and emblematic of the inherent contradictions between his inescapable fame and his fitful attempts to evade and ignore it. <br /> <br />At the beginning of January 1922 Lawrence wrote to Trenchard expressing a wish to join the R.A.F.: Its an odd request this hardly proper perhaps asking you to use your influence to get me past the Recruiting Officer! By July Churchill had released Lawrence from service and in August Lawrence enlisted first under the name John Hume Ross and later Thomas Edward Shaw a name he used until his death. Hence from that time forward he seldom signed with his original surname. <br /> <br /> Ive tried here not to presume in any way and this means breaking the standard I had set up. However perhaps it is justifiable. <br /> <br />As evident in this letter despite his pretensions to anonymity and protestations of humility as an enlisted Aircraftman Lawrence was not above calling in favors from the exalted Trenchard. Lawrences friendship with Trenchard was known to his superiors and often resented. <br /> <br />In the case of this letter Lawrence was going over the head of his local superiors to secure a pass in order to attend a meeting about publishing Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In this effort Lawrence was successful; Lawrence did meet in Oxford with Lionel Curtis referenced in this letter D. G. Hogarth and Alan Dawnay on 9 December 1923 where in Lawrences words the four decided to produce 100 copies of the Seven Pillars at thirty guineas a copy if so many subscribers can be found. Curtis was one of Lawrences most trusted friends and it was mainly Curtis and D. G. Hogarth who had persuaded Lawrence to rewrite Seven Pillars after the original manuscript was lost in 1919. <br /> <br />Specially bound in R.A.F. blue <br /> <br />When Lawrence finally published the famous Subscribers Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1926 Trenchard was among the select few gifted a presentation copy Trenchards specially bound in R.A.F. blue. The edition would also be known as the Cranwell Edition because Lawrence was stationed at the Cranwell Cadet College founded by Trenchard when he completed it. <br /> <br />References: Wilson Lawrence of Arabia; ODNB; T. E. Lawrence: Correspondence with the Political Elite <br/><br/> unknown
198079371Le Chêne 1980 In-4 relié oblong
viii + 234pp., 24cm., hardcover (black cloth), dustwrapper, very good condition, X79401
