Middle East

  • History in brief of "Leopard" and "Linden", General Grant's Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.

    # 50258

    HUNTINGTON, Randolph

    History in brief of “Leopard” and “Linden”, General Grant’s Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.

    Also their Sons “General Beale”, “Hegira” and “Islam”, bred by Randolph Huntington. Also reference to the Celebrated Stallion “Henry Clay”. [Philadelphia] : printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth over bevelled boards (stained, edges rubbed), decorated endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, crease to …

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  • Een kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungariket Japan:

    # 49431

    KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]

    Een kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungariket Japan:

    I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken sampt Öijar; med flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping, fördetta Skepz-Lieutnat. II. Beskrifwes een Resa till Ost Indien, China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd, sampt thetz Inwånares Handel och Wandel: förrättat och beskrefwen …

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  • Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.

    # 13310

    GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)

    Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.

    Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …

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  • Küçük lügat : Türçeden Fransızcaya = Petit dictionnaire turc-français

    # 49948

    WIESENTHAL, W.

    Küçük lügat : Türçeden Fransızcaya = Petit dictionnaire turc-français

    … Editeur: Ohannes Kayssérian. Istanbul : Mahmud bey matbaası, 1304 / Constantinople : Imprimerie Mahmoud Bey, 1887. 32mo (123 x 95 mm), original quarter morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting title label lettered in gilt in Ottoman script; marbled pastedowns and endpapers (front pastedown with old label of Japanese bookseller …

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  • Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    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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  • [OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.

    # 49083

    Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)

    [OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.

    [Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …

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  • The Anwár-i-Suhailí, or, Lights of Canopus commonly known as Kalilah and Damnah

    # 49236

    Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ; WOLLASTON, Arthur N.

    The Anwár-i-Suhailí, or, Lights of Canopus commonly known as Kalilah and Damnah

    commonly known as Kalílah and Damnah : being an adaptation by Mullá Husain bin ʼAlí al Wáiʼz-al-Káshifí of the fables of Bídpáí.  Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston, M.R.A.S. London : Wm. H. Allen & Co., publishers to the India Office, 1877. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine sunned, flecked), recased, hinges …

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  • Map of the countries lying between Turkey & Birmah, comprising Asia Minor, Persia, India, Egypt & Arabia, and including the Black, Caspian & Red Seas

    # 49554

    WYLD, James

    Map of the countries lying between Turkey & Birmah, comprising Asia Minor, Persia, India, Egypt & Arabia, and including the Black, Caspian & Red Seas

    [Cover title : Map of the countries between Turkey & Burmah, comprising Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, Bokhara and India, and particularly contract dot show the Overland Route to India]. London : James Wyld, 1839. Engraved map with original outline hand colouring, dissected and laid on linen, 78.5 x 108 cms, a few light stains, printed …

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  • Saudi Medical Journal. Volume 1, Number 1 - 6 (finely bound by Asprey of London)

    # 49173

    LEDWARD, Rodney S. (editor)

    Saudi Medical Journal. Volume 1, Number 1 – 6 (finely bound by Asprey of London)

    Published quarterly by the Riyadh Al-Kharj Hospital Programme. Patron : HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. Riyadh : Riyadh Al-Kharj Hospital Programme, 1979 – 1980. Six issues, Volume 1, Number 1 (July 1979) – Volume 1, Number 6 (October 1980) bound together. Large octavo (245 mm tall), pp. 340 plus preliminaries, illustrated. In a magnificent and …

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  • Persian Gulf Command.

    # 49080

    [Compiler unknown].

    Persian Gulf Command.

    [Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering ‘Persian Gulf Command / Iran’ and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most …

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  • Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan

    # 49439

    GEORGE PHILIP & SON

    Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan

    Philips’ Authentic Imperial Maps for tourists & travellers series. London : George Philip and Son, circa 1920. Map printed in colour, 540 x 660 mm, laid on linen and folded into publisher’s lettered cloth case, advertisements to panels, colour pencil circles around some major cities in Persia and the route of a journey taken from …

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  • Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia:

    # 49217

    SIONITA, Gabriel

    Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia:

    accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Amsterdam : Johann Jansson, 1633. Duodecimo, contemporary vellum, early ownership name to pastedown, notes to final leaf, engraved title page, pp. 297 (actually 287, with the pagination skipping pages 270 – 279), internally clean. “This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, …

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  • Mecca and Medinah today

    # 49197

    KAÏDI, Hamza, in collaboration with Nadjm Oud-Dine Bammate and El Hachemi Tidjani.

    Mecca and Medinah today

    Paris : Les Editions J. A., 1980. Narrow folio, illustrated laminated boards, a little bumped at head and foot of spine, pp. 224, maps, illustrations, a very good copy. Includes practical instruction for the pilgrimage to the holy cities as well as Ad’iya or invocations suggested for each of the holy places. Sponsored by the …

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  • Report to the Government of Iraq on the production, storage and handling of grain in Iraq

    # 49072

    RHODES, W. (for HENRY SIMON LTD.)

    Report to the Government of Iraq on the production, storage and handling of grain in Iraq

    Stockport [U.K.] : Henry Simon Ltd., 1937. Folio, lettered papered boards (edges rubbed), spine in binder’s cloth, three folios printed recto only, colour printed map of Iraq and neighbours showing the routes of transportation, ff. 37; a further 12 folios (appendices, including graphs printed in colour); three large folding diagrams printed in colour being engineering …

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  • فزان / Fezzan

    # 49023

    Anon.

    فزان / Fezzan

    S.l. : s.n., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, single sheet, folded, pp. [12], illustrated in colour, lightly marked, text in Arabic, French and German. Tourist brochure for the south-west region of Libya.

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  • The road to Mecca

    # 49003

    ASAD, Muhammad

    The road to Mecca

    New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, slight edge wear), maps to endpapers, pp. xi; [blank]; 400, photographic plates, a fine copy. The author, a well educated Austrian jew who converted to Islam, was a journalist, diplomat and polymath who served as the plenipotentiary of Pakistan to the United …

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