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1962164052Rome: Centro arabo di informazioni 1962. First edition first printing scarce of this booklet published by the League of Arab States's communications body in Italy. The three maps show de facto and indefinite boundaries on the Arabian Peninsula in Aden and in Muscat and Oman. We have traced four institutional copies all of which are in Italy. The text surveys British activity in the region from the early 19th century through to the present day with sections on the Ottoman empire the First World War the 1934 peace treaty and the structure of the Aden Colony and Protectorates. Octavo. With 3 folding maps. Original card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in blue. Wrappers lightly toned and foxed contents clean with just couple of spots. A near-fine copy. unknown
1920X119387Leiden, E.J. Brill 1920-1923-1942 Complete work in 3 volumes, xi + 2976 + xxxiv pp. (continuous pagination), with a frontispiece in colour in volume I, uniform blind solid hardover bindings, text and interior are clean and bright, rare complete set, good condition, weight: 4.6 kg., [The 3rd volume was published by K.V. Zettersteen], X119387
1976168409San a: Yemen Arab Republic Government 5 January 1976. Second edition labelled here as "The Yemen". It is drawn by the elusive cartographer usayn Abd All h Dham r here appearing as H. Althamary who also produced a map of San a . We have identified only six institutional copies on WorldCat at Exeter Leiden NLS Cornell LoC US Geological Survey. The first edition was published in Egypt in 1972 while an Arabic edition appeared in 1976. The map is in idiosyncratic English and marks the strategically important governorates of Taiz al-Bayda and Ma rib. Several words are misspelled including "drawen" "boundries" and "vally." The eastern border is left blank excluding the independent People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. A brief border war took place in October 1972 ending with the Cairo Agreement which proposed unification of the two Yemeni states. Each was backed by opposing Cold War powers: Saudi Arabia supported the Yemen Arab Republic while the Soviet Union backed the other. The two states ultimately united in 1990 as the Republic of Yemen. Colour lithographed map 655 x 450 mm scale 1:1000000; later laid down on board; white wooden frame overall 690 x 490 mm; text in English. Slightly toned some creasing one small hole: a very good copy. Warren P. Aston "The Origins of the Nihm Tribe of Yemen: A Window into Arabia's Past" in Journal of Arabian Studies: Arabia the Gulf and the Red Sea 4:1 2014 pp. 134-148. unknown
1934164042London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1934. First English-Arabic edition first impression of the diplomatic agreement which acknowledged "the complete and absolute independence of His Majesty the King of the Yemen the Imam and his kingdom in all affairs of whatsoever kind" p. 2. In June 1934 shortly after this agreement was concluded Ibn Saud and Imam Yahya signed the Treaty of Taif which brought an end to armed hostilities between the two countries. In this development Britain had played a major part with its support for Yemen and comparatively lukewarm stance vis-à-vis Ibn Saud helping to both precipitate military conflict and ultimately bring it to an end. The English text of the treaty without the ratifications was first published earlier in the year as HMSO Yemen No. 1. Octavo 232 x 151 mm pp. 11. Royal coat of arms of the UK on first page. Sometime disbound with no subsequent stitching. Small faint Admiralty ink stamp dated 14 December 1934 on first page. Light creasing and skinning where previously bound a few nicks small chip at foot of first leaf text bright. A very good copy. unknown
1962171426Sana'a: c.1962. Mining the border between north and south Yemen First and sole edition of this map of North Yemen with unique additions marked "top secret" in Arabic and annotated Kharitah tanbih mawaqi' al-algham "mashru' rif'at" "A map of briefing of the locations of mines of the Rifaat Plan". Although the map itself is undated and information about the "Rifaat Plan" is not publicly available it is possible that the strategy was connected to the Egyptian military officer Kamal Rifaat who visited the Yemen Arab Republic along with Anwar Sadat just after its establishment in 1962. Subsequently the Egyptians provided the YAR with a great deal of military support and advice as Abd Allah al-Sallal the country's first president fought the Federation of South Arabia later South Yemen. The long period of confrontation between North and South Yemen extended throughout the 1970s from the First Yemenite War of 1972 to the Second Yemenite War of 1979. Mines were also laid on the border before the two countries were unified in 1990 and have continued to be planted in subsequent conflicts until the present day. The map shows schematic clusters of minefields beginning due east of Sana'a around Meghdal extending in a line northwards to Wa'ir and then northwest to Jabal Mara' on the border with Saudi Arabia. The consequence of laying these minefields would have been to entrench the border between North and South Yemen the course of which they mirror almost exactly. It is annotated in pencil and colour pencil. Colour map 1000 x 690 mm. Text in Arabic. Creased where folded short closed tears and holes along fold lines and extremities a little soiled in places: a very good copy. unknown
1935169367Aden: 1935-36. A superb window onto Yemen in the 1930s Two albums depicting the experiences of British servicemen stationed in Yemen around the time of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War 1935-7 mixing the documentary and the personal. The images include very rare contemporary aerial photographs of towns including Aden Ta'izz and Shibam graphic pictures of war in Addis Ababa urban military and agricultural scenes and records of free time on the RAF base at Khormaksar. Nearly all carry explanatory manuscript captions. Aden was of crucial strategic importance to the British Empire having been brought under the control of the East India Company in 1839. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 it became one of the world's busiest ports. The RAF maintained a base at Khormaksar now Aden International Airport which played host to numerous squadrons throughout the 1930s. Of these No. 8 Squadron was stationed at Khormaksar for the longest period of time maintaining a policing and day-bombing role. Photographs of military aircraft belonging to No. 8 Squadron can be seen in these albums alongside pictures of planes flown by Nos 203 41 and 55 Squadrons. The photographs give a vivid impression of the volume of air and maritime traffic - mostly British but also French and Dutch - which passed through Aden after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Aerial shots show Fairey MK IIIs and Vickers Vincent planes flying in formation as well as night and day bombers and flying boats. There are also detailed close-ups of ships including British aircraft carriers. It seems probable that the photographer who assembled these albums was involved in surveying: there are fine aerial shots of Aden and Crater the Sultan's palace at Lahij Shuqra Shibam Tarim Ibb al-Mukalla and Ta'izz giving an outstanding sense of how these towns looked in the early 20th century. The pictures of Ethiopia include one aerial photograph of Addis Ababa a number of ground shots of an execution the wounded and the dead and images of buildings on fire. There is only one photograph captioned as having been taken in Somaliland but this provides a further clue that the photographer was sent from Yemen to the Horn of Africa with the intention of documenting Italian military activities there. As a result of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War Ethiopia was incorporated into Italian East Africa consisting of Italian Somalia Ethiopia and Eritrea. Britain ruled British Somaliland and France controlled French Somaliland Djibouti. Many of the images may have been taken when the photographer was off duty. There are several almost touristic shots of everyday life in Crater showing children playing and Friday prayers images taken on the beach and in the salt pans around Aden pictures of Yemeni pastoralists with their cattle and photographs of Yemeni Indian and Somali women. A significant minority of the pictures show downtime at Khormaksar with a string of images depicting airmen in fancy dress playing football and drinking. There are even two photos of the squadron's dog in a cap and glasses and with a pipe in its mouth. 2 albums. Album I with 175 silver print photographs of various dimensions 100 x 65 mm - 240 x 180 mm mounted on card. Album II with 55 silver print photographs all c.100 x 150 mm or c.75 x 100 mm. Almost all photographs with period ink captions. Album I: quarto 290 x 230 mm. Original cloth covers spine and sides decorated with pictorial designs in relief marbled endpapers 36 card stock leaves. Album II: landscape octavo 130 x 187 mm. Contemporary black card wrappers "Aden" title sticker on front cover 22 card stock leaves. Album I: superficial rubbing to spine and rear cover short splits to inner hinges fore edges nicked. Album II: rear inner hinge split glue residue to gutters. Photographs all in very good condition. hardcover
1950141716Aden & Yemen: 1950s. Into the remote places" - policing tribal disturbances in the Arabian Peninsula from the air A compelling archive of rare documents and maps. RAF operations in Aden and Yemen represented a late phase of the imperial air-policing strategy advanced by Churchill in the 1920s in response to post-Great War demobilization and Britain's expanding responsibilities in the Middle East and Africa. Claimed as a naval base on the East India route in 1839 and strengthened after the opening of the Suez Canal Aden relied on tribal treaties but as the Protectorate expanded over-stretched ground forces prompted RAF deployment from 1928 as an economical means of control. Airstrips centred on RAF Khormaksar - motto "Into the Remote Places" - supported reconnaissance leaflet-dropping and punitive strikes that helped secure the Anglo-Yemen Treaty of Friendship 1934 and later frontier policing. Reversal followed in 1954-55 with the loss of Robat while the Suez Crisis intensified unrest and Yemeni pressure leading to air attacks covert tribal agitation intervention in Oman and escalation of the frontier war into Yemen during 1958-59. The present material belongs to this volatile final phase preceding federation in 1963. Central to these operations were maps produced by the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre a discreet intelligence organization rooted in pre-war MI6 work. It was formalized during the Second World War and renamed in 1953 following the adoption of radar-scope photography. Headquartered at RAF Brampton and having Middle East offices in Cyprus and a detachment at Aden JARIC processed high-altitude imagery from Canberra PR9 and Victor aircraft. The archive comprises secret air-liaison instructions annotated operational maps a frontier-war-marked sketch map of Ahwar a Middle East Air Force memorandum on oxygen-mask trials RAF pilot log cards and a Khormaksar wall shield - rare survivals of evident operational use and a tangible record of Britain's final armed presence in southern Arabia. Small archive of maps memos and other documentation as detailed above. General signs of handling commensurate with active service use but overall very good. Major Michael A. Longoria "A Historical View of Air Policing Doctrine: Lessons from the British Experience Between the Wars 1919-1939" School of Advanced Airpower Studies May 1992. unknown
