Syrie

51 résultats

Trier parTitre Z - A

Pertinence Auteur A - Z Auteur Z - A Titre A - Z Titre Z - A Prix croissant Prix décroissant Libraire A - Z Libraire Z - A

Par page25

25 50 100

Filtres

[SYRIA - MAP].Biblio.com

MAP OF SYRIA Harita al-Suriyah. Calligraphed by Kamel Al-Baba 1905-1991.

SYRIA AND LEBANONBiblio.com

Les Tribus Nomades et Semi-Nomades des Etats du Levant Placés Sous Mandat Français. The Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes of the Levant States Placed Under the French Mandate.

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

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 712,70 €

[SYRIA - EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE].Biblio.com

Damascus.

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

Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas8 500,00 €

Syrie

Filtres actifs

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Filtres actifs

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Filtres actifs

Siècle

Langage

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues