Middle East

  • Egypt through the stereoscope. A journey through the land of the pharaohs

    # 46853

    BREASTED, James Henry

    Egypt through the stereoscope. A journey through the land of the pharaohs

    New York L Underwood & Underwood, 1908. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), contemporary ownership inscription of an owner in Bulawayo dated 1913, pp. 360; [4], inserted in a pocket on the lower board are the Maps and Plans, being twenty folded maps and plans of Egypt, pyramids and temples, in paper wrappers (one corner with loss). …

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  • [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    # 46814

    CASINO FONTANA (Cairo)

    [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    At head ad foot of title: Fontana … with the compliments of the management. [Cairo : Casino Fontana, Manial al-Roda, c.1960]. Single sheet, 490 x 350 mm, folding to 170 x 125 mm; recto with several b/w photographic illustrations, including a panoramic shot of the Casino Fontana, verso with large colour map of Cairo (indicating the …

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  • A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

    # 46815

    [Maker unknown].

    A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

    [United Kingdom? : s.n., c.1915]. Cotton handkerchief, 450 x 600 mm, recto lithograph printed in colour, with patriotic illustrations featuring a large central cartouche captioned ‘The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula’, smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depicting ships of the Royal Australian Navy (including HMAS Sydney), and at …

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  • [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    # 46347

    MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)

    [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …

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  • [HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

    # 46287

    BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

    [HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

    [=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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  • Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)

    # 46323

    THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

    Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)

    New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …

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  • Egypt and the Sudan. Handbook for travellers.

    # 45945

    BAEDEKER, Karl

    Egypt and the Sudan. Handbook for travellers.

    Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1914. Seventh remodelled edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (expert repair to spine) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; half-title page with owner’s inscription, pp cxc, 458; with 22 maps, 85 plans, and 55 vignettes; scattered light foxing; a very good copy. Guide to Egypt and …

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  • InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)

    # 45949

    BREIRA (New York)

    InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)

    New York : Breira, 1975-1977. Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 1975) – no. 10 (June 1976); Vol. 2, no. 1 (September 1976) – no. 10 (June 1977); Vol. 3, no. 1 (September 1977); twenty-one issues (all issued). Uniform quarto newsprint (280 x 215 mm), pagination varies, illustrated; extremely good condition throughout; [WITH] Breira Report – …

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  • The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    # 29393

    HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)

    The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …

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  • Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

    # 45536

    THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

    Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

    [New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …

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  • [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    # 37099

    RAY, John (1627-1705)

    [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • Land Reborn

    # 44827

    American Christian Palestine Committee

    Land Reborn

    New York : American Christian Palestine Committee, 1951 – 1954. Quarto, eleven issues, quarto, illustrated self wrappers, each approx. 16 pp., illustrated. An early American Christian Zionist publication active in the years following the creation of the state of Israel. Includes articles on Arab refugees, kibbutzes, the United Nations, etc. Contributors include B. Burgoyne Chapman …

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  • [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    # 44287

    SAVAGE, Albert William

    [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …

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  • Letts's map of The Soudan, including the Nile, Red Sea, West Coast of Arabia, and Abyssinia, and a Plan of Khartum.

    # 43895

    LETTS, SON & CO. LTD.

    Letts’s map of The Soudan, including the Nile, Red Sea, West Coast of Arabia, and Abyssinia, and a Plan of Khartum.

    One Shilling. [Drop title]. London : Letts, Son & Co. Ltd., Map Publishers, 33 King William Street, London Bridge, [c.1885]. Third edition. Cased colour map titled ‘Letts’s Map of The Nile, embracing The Soudan, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, and Western Arabia’, 740 x 560 mm (sheet), folding to 200 x 100 mm, housed within in the …

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  • [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …

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