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196229330HBDJ 1962 Stated 1st Edition VG/VG- EDGE WEAR TINY TEARS CHIPS EXTREMITIES OF DJSNALL TEAR FRONT EDGE DJDust jacket has a few rips and some wear at the corners. Inside blanks have toning from a page from Saturday Evening Post winter 1973 that was inserted inside. Dust jacket as well as sub-title illustrations were created by her husband Paul De Vine. 88 PGS Charming b/w drawings printed on ricepaper. Printed in Japan Bound In Red Cloth With Black Stamped Lettering On The Spine. Author had contacts with Arabian Peoples & Ruins of By-Gone civilizations along shores of Eastern Mediterranean she resided every Continent Except South America <br /><br /><br /> D’ERAMO PUBLISHERS Printed by Dai Nipponf Printing Co Ltd hardcover
1918M2BH82CWPN7GDamascus: Field Survey Company. R.E. E.E.F. 1918. Map of Damascus 73.5 x 51 cm printed in black and tan on a scale of 1:10000. Extremely rare British map of Damascus with a more detailed inset map of the area around Kadem Station to the west of the city centre the northern terminus of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and Medina especially rare in its present first state published by the British forces only a week after the fall of Damascus. Drafted by the Royal Engineers from a captured enemy map dated June 1918 with additional detail of Kadem Station from aeroplane photographs taken by the R.A.F. and printed under the surveyors supervision in the field probably in Damascus on a portable press carried by the Field Survey Company.The ancient city of Damascus one of the final prizes taken by the British and allied forces in World War I was long a great cultural centre the head of the Syrian Hajj Road and more recently the northern terminus of the Hejaz Railway and the headquarters of the Ottoman-German forces in the Middle East. In the last months of the war British forces met stiff resistance in Palestine and it was only weeks before the end of the conflict that they managed to break into Syria. British forces and their allies captured the Damascus on 1 October 1918. Lawrence of Arabia who was part of the conquering force was disappointed not to have been amongst the first allied troops to enter the city especially as he envisaged Damascus as the future capital of an independent and unified Arab state and Prince Feisals army supported the British and allied forces with that understanding unaware that the British and French in 1916 had made a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman territories outside the Arabian peninsula among themselves. Although Feisals troops did raise their flag in Damascus on 1 October and declare an independent Syrian state it was in fact to be ruled as a French protectorate until 1945.All maps printed by British and allied forces in the field in the Middle East during WWI are extreme rarities. The present map would have been issued in only a very small print run for the use of senior British officers and printed on fragile paper in a large format its survival rate would have been very low. We can trace only a single other example of the map in its present first state held by the British Library. The British forces printed the map in a second state with some revisions for the Survey of Egypt in 1919 but it is also extremely rare in that second state.In very good condition clean and bright with just some minor creasing from having been rolled for many years.l British Library Cartographic Items: Maps 48855.11; WorldCat 557017180 same copy; cf. 557017192: 1 copy of 1919 revision. Field Survey Co[mpan]y. R.E., E.E.F., unknown
2000N3914Mainz: Philipp Von Zabern 2000. Original Decorative Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 535pp. Richly illustrated. A fine copy. <br/> <br/> Philipp Von Zabern hardcover
1910PALESTIN024601Macmillan London. 1910. Fifth edition revised throughout. Issued in the Macmillan Guides series. Small octavo. pp xxxii 164 8 adverts. 13 colour maps six of them folding 6 plans. Fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good darkened at the spine nicked and chipped. Macmillan, London. unknown
1922N3136Paris: Emile Larose 1922. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 376pp. Head and tail of spine with some wear. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> Emile Larose unknown
1930151871Beirut: Imp. Jeanne D'Arc 1930. A scarce handbook of French colonial rule in the Middle East First edition first impression of this scarce aide-mémoire compiled by the French High Commission for colonial administrators in its Syrian and Lebanese mandates. Copies appear in just eight institutions five French on WorldCat and in the Qatar National Library. The work opens with information on the costume character finances and nomadic patterns of different peoples followed by sections offering detailed discussion of tribes grouped into regions such as Damascus and its environs Alleppo Deir ez Zor and the Djebel Druze. To assist French colonial officials the work outlines the leadership and intertribal relations of each group while the map depicts where tribes are expected to be in winter and summer according to their nomadic patterns. With the size of each tribe's name on the map corresponding to their importance colonial officials could see at a glance how seasonal changes would impact French governance. The fluidity of nomadic movements across the boundaries of the mandate highlights the arbitrary and theoretical nature of colonial territory and borders and the extent to which French imperial authority was "illegitimate and thus unstable" Khoury p. 4. This copy is intriguingly inscribed on the front free endpaper in French "De la part de votre tout dévoué Dictionnaire géographique Beyrouth 23-12-31 Clerris " "On behalf of your totally devoted Geographical Dictionary Beirut 23-12-31 Clerris " with another ownership inscription below. Octavo 225 x 150 mm. Folding map 500 x 578 mm unfolded in rear pocket. Contemporary black cloth-backed snakeskin boards. Rubbing and wear to extremities small split at foot of front inner hinge professionally strengthened with adhesive moderate foxing to top edge and contents folding map toned with crease to bottom right corner slightly affecting printed area map pocket well-preserved. A very good copy. Philip Shukry Khoury "Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism 1920-1945" 2014 1987. hardcover
19023158HARDBACK NO DJ 1902 on Title Pg 1st edition some water stains pgs SMALL HARDBACK GREEN CLOTH Cover Rub & Soil STAINS & TINY CHIP AT SPINE CVR Good cond SOLD AS-IS NO JACKET 215 pgs appendix LETTERS ETC LIGHT OF DHARMA DR. JANES WROTE Study in Religious Evolution of Chinese EGYPTIAN DOCTRINE OF FUTURE LIFE Cuneiform Legends of Chaldea What New England Owes to U.S. NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOODS How to teach civil government to children<br /> James H. West , Boston hardcover
1948053602Beirut : Tiba'ât Alî al-Vefeyyât fî Al-Matbaat al-Katolikiyya i.e. The Catholicos Printing House 1948. Soft cover. Very Good. Original chromo-lithograph map in brown tones. On a special paper with an ongoing blindstamped "Regestre Robur" during the borders. Folded. 70x100 cm. In Arabic. Scale: 1 /1.000.000. Chipped on margins split on folded traces. Slight discoloration and one stain on lower margin. Otherwise a good copy. An attractive and detailed map of Syria shows the capital as Aleppo n that map other cities like Damascus Raqqa Homs Latakia Ayn al-Arab Idlib Hama Deir Ez-Zor Jarabulus et alli. And it shows Turkey on the north as Turkey containing Hatay and Alexandrette The Mediterranean shores of the land as well as Lebanon and Palestine and Jerusalem on the west Sharq al-Urdun Jordan and Iraq on the south and east. It's very detailed on showing the roads spread throughout the land like railways and ancient roads from the Roman period. Additionally this roads can be followed to the other Arabic countries and regions on the map. This map was calligraphed by Kamel Al-Baba 1905-1991 who was a Lebanese contemporary / modern calligrapher. He is the son of famous calligrapher Mokhtar Al-Baba. Cannot be found in WorldCat.; Not in Library of Congress Map Collection. Very scarce. <br/> <br/> Tiba'ât Alî al-Vefeyyât fî Al-Matbaat al-Katolikiyya [i.e. The Catholicos Printing House] paperback
1918ABC_45213Beirut 1918. 8vo. Impimerie des Lettres J. G. Original printed wrappers. 188 pp. 2 final blank leaves. First edition of ac ollection of laws and regulations for Lebanon Zone Ouest passed by the French under their mandate for Syria and the Lebanon from October 1918 until the end of August 1920 two days prior to the declaration of independence of Greater Lebanon. A compact primary source on French administration in the Middle East this rare manual contains decrees for administrative issues such as the division of Lebanon into three zones sanitary measures against the plague but also detailed regulations concerning everything from travel permits and the organisation and surveillance of prisons to the application of the metric system the trade in carrier pigeons the prices for ice 2 piastres for 400 grams wholesale 3 piastres retail alcoholic drinks 16 piastres for a litre of table wine and tramway fares and the circulation of vehicles. A few marginal flaws to the wrappers occasional minor edge flaws. A good clean copy with provenance stamp "Le Chef de Cabinet" on the upper cover. ABE CAT Agriculture unknown
192254883Paris: Paul Geuthner 1922-1992. Together 93 volumes. Many illustrations; Height ca. 28 cm. Text in French / Français. - volume 2 and 1st fasc. vol. 3 are missing some fascicules damaged/ covers loose throughout the set a few pages loose signs of use Although still very good see pictures - rare Paul Geuthner unknown
1965ABC_47061Syria: Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party 1965. Original publisher's printed wrappers stapled. 24 x 17 cm. With 28 photos on 16 plates and some tables in the text. With: MAP - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM. Syria.Damascus Tourist Office ca. 1965. Folded. 70 x 49.5 cm.A brightly coloured folding map of Syria with some information about the country and its principal cities with a table of distances on the back all text in the map and on the back is in English and Arabic. Propaganda from the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria presenting the successes of the new socialist government two years after the 8 March Revolution or 1963 Syrian coup d'état. The propagandistic nature of the text already takes shape in the introduction. For example in the part of the text informing the reader of the contents of the present work: "The following chapters ignore plots and intrigues and limit themselves to the task of giving an accout ! =account of the Revolution's achievements in the fields of socialism democracy industrialisation agriculture and agrarian reform trade unionism and other organisation of the people's activity social cultural and health welfare and related fields of public service".The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party was founded in 1947. This political party follows the Arab nationalist ideology called Ba'atism which promotes the creation and development of a unified Arab state the enlightenment of the Arab people and a general renaissance of their culture values and society.The wrappers are slightly stained mainly to the back wrapper and the spine shows slight signs of wear and has been restored at the foot. The title page has some small tears around the staples otherwise internally fine and clean. The edges of the map are very slightly frayed otherwise in very good condition. Overall the work and additional map are in good condition.l WorldCat 7653999 11 copies. Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party], unknown
19195488Barlatier. 1919. Softcover. Good. Wraps are browned. Former owner's name on titlepage. Chipping to wraps. Tear along top of spine 3".; Congrès Français De La Syrie 3 4 et 5 Janvier 1919.; Chambre De Commerce De Marseille; 252 pages . Barlatier paperback
196233802San Salvador: Dirección General De Publicaciones Del Ministerio De Educación. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Third Edition. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 6 1 pages; Publisher's original wraps printed in red and black. This is a facsimile of the 1716 edition. First published 1687. Admirable Virtues of a servant of God. Spanish Language . Dirección General De Publicaciones Del Ministerio De Educación, paperback
