Middle East

  • # 44758

    RELAND, Adriaan [Hadrianus RELANDUS]

    [JEWISH COINAGE] Adriani Relandi Dissertatio de inscriptione nummorum quorundam Samaritanorum,

    ad spectatissimum virum, Jacobum de Wilde. Amstelodami, apud Franciscum Halma, Sub signo, Constantini Magni. [Amsterdam : Franciscus Halma], 1702. Octavo (160 x 100 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, spine with early manuscript title; title leaf with engraved vignette; pp. 60, illustrated with 2 engraved plates; [BOUND WITH] Adriani Relandi Dissertatio altera de inscriptione nummorum quorundam …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 30606

    SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.

    Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

    / By F. B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty’s ship Le Tigre; surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. London : Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty and the Royal Family, 59, New Bond-street. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, 1803. First edition. Large folio (470 x 335 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half scarlet …

  • # 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. …

  • # 45102

    FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

    Iosippus De Bello Iudaico.

    / deinde decem Iudaeorum captivitates et decalogus cum eleganti commentariolo Rabbi Aben Esra ; hisce accesserunt collectanea aliquot, quae Sebastianus Lepusculus Basiliensis colligebat, de quibus videre poteris verso folio ; omnia Hebraicolatina. Basel : [Heinrich Petri, 1559]. Small octavo (155 x 110 mm), contemporary limp vellum (traces of original ties, spine darkened and with remnants of …

  • # 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 …

  • # 44565

    BADGER, H. W.

    The Great Pyramid in, but not of, Egypt:

    Its claims to be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt, as announced in the scriptures of His Holy Prophet Isaiah B.C. 714. Introduced by Mrs. Piazzi Smith. London : Robert Banks, 1881. Octavo, gilt lettered flush cut limp cloth, a few light marks, pp. …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 43863

    SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE EAST

    The Female Missionary Intelligencer. (Specially bound volume for the year 1864).

    London : Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East, [1865]. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), original blind-blocked blue cloth over boards (rubbed, corners bumped), upper board with pictorial device and title ‘Female Education in the East’ in gilt; spine lettered in gilt ‘Female Missionary Intelligencer 1864’ (sunned, softened at ends); verso of frontispiece …

  • # 43902

    Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan (1850-1918)

    [PERSIA] Prince Mass’oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, as Governor of Isfahan : autograph letter signed, to a British military officer. Isfahan, 18 January 1902.

    Manuscript in violet ink, 2 pp., on bifolium of pink silk-stock notepaper with embossed letterhead in gold in the form of the Lion and Sun emblem of the Kingdom of Persia; the letter is written in English, headed ‘Esfahan, January 18th 1902’, and addressed simply ‘Excellence!’; it is signed at the foot ‘Your sincere friend, …

  • # 43913

    DWORZAK, Thomas; ANDERSON, Jon Lee; REES, Thomas

    Taliban

    London : Trolley, [2003]. Octavo (210 x 155 mm), publisher’s illustrated boards (no dust jacket, as issued); approx. [119] pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout; a fine copy. In 2002, while on assignment in Afghanistan for the New Yorker, Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak collected an astonishing array of glamourised portrait photos of Taliban fighters in Kandahar, …

  • # 43376

    BARON, David

    The history of Israel : its spiritual significance. A series of connected expositions

    London : Morgan & Scott, c. 1910. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. viii; 310; [2], a very good copy.

  • # 42532

    RAHIMOV, I. M. (editor)

    Nizami State Museum of Azerbaijan Literature. Guide-book.

    Baku : Elm, 1975. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated. Guide to the Literature Museum of the Azerbaijan SSR during the Soviet era.