Middle East

# 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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# 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, …

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# 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, …

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# 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.

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# 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.

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# 43172

CHENEY, Michael Sheldon.

Big Oilman from Arabia

London :Heinemann, 1958. First edition, first impression. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little dulled, slightly canted, lightly rubbed), maps to endpapers, pp. 320, black and white photographic plates, pale foxing to edges, a very good copy. The author recollects seven years spent with oil and construction firms in Saudi Arabia during a period of rapid …

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# 42553

FERRIS, A. J.

When Russia invades Palestine

Or “Zechariah’s End-of-the-age Message to the Anglo-Saxon-Israel Peoples as in Zech. 12 to 14”. London : the author, 1939. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by J. J. Hall, previous owner’s name in ink on upper wrapper and title page, pp. 100, illustrated with maps and photographs, small edge tears to pp. 91 – 94, a …

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# 42897

GROSS, Alexander

The Jewish Chronicle Map of Israel

Cover title : Map of Israel, including plans of Jaffa – Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Middle East. London : Geographers’ Map Co. for The Jewish Chronicle, November 1949. Map, printed in colour, 101 x 76 cms, folded and housed in lettered card wrappers (small tears to the corners, and at the point where the …

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# 41512

MOORE-JONES, Horace (1868 - 1922)

Sketches made at Anzac

during the occupation of that portion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces. By Sapper H. Moore-Jones N.Z.E.F. 1915. First Series [all published]. London : Hugh Rees Ltd., 1916. Original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth gatefold portfolio, 360 x 810 mm, edges rubbed and worn, splits along folds, housing ten large format reproductions of panoramic paintings …

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# 41707

KEANE, John F.

My journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the author disguised as a Mohammedan.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller’s label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a …

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# 41237

ELLIS, J., Trooper

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

[Cover title]. [s.l. : s.n., s.d.]. Photograph album. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, …

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# 40263

HOGARTH, D. H.

Arabia

Spine title: A history of Arabia. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (very lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [vi], 139, with large folding map at rear; clean throughout; front pastedown with ticket of Jerusalem bookseller Ludwig Mayer, and front endpaper with …

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# 40028

MEDICI, Paolo

[JUDAICA; JESUITICA] Ritus ac mores Hebraeorum italico idiomate refutati.

… Nunc additis quibusdam Latine redditi, notisque Hebraicis illustrati a R.P. Nicolao Rosty. Tyrnaviae [Trnava] : Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu, 1758. Octavo (215 x 150 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers, front pastedown with …

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# 39588

KING, Geoffrey

The traditional architecture of Saudi Arabia

London : I. B. Tauris, 1998. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 242, extensively illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Saudi Arabia encompasses a greater variety of architectural styles than any other country in the Arabian peninsula. The buildings of the coastal, mountain and plains regions are entirely distinctive and local in their character. By contrast, several …

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# 36664

[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.

Section of cardboard cut from a Turkish soap packet, approx. 90 x 140 mm (slightly irregular), the verso with handwritten message in violet pencil headed ‘Post Card / On Active Service / June 5th’, addressed to the sender’s aunt, Mrs S. S. Clarke in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, with ‘INFANTRY BRIGADE/FIELD/10JU15/POST OFFICE/NZ DIVISION’ circular date …

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# 37109

SAURIN, Jacques (1677-1730)

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux sur les evenemens les plus mémorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament.

Amsterdam : Sauzet ; La Haye : Pierre de Hondt, 1720-1739. Ten volumes (complete), octavo (200 x 130 mm), uniform contemporary bindings of vellum over boards, spines with titles and volume numbers in early manuscript; VI-[1]-LXX-592 pp., 4 pl. + [5]-554-[86] pp., 15 pl. + [12]-XIV-[6]-494 pp., 1 pl. + [4]-563 pp., 5 pl. + …

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