Middle East

  • Memorandum on the "Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929."

    # 29264

    STEIN, Leonard

    Memorandum on the “Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929.”

    London : The Jewish Agency for Palestine, May 1930. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (sunned along spine and with a couple of insignificant marks), pp 111; internally clean and bright, a near fine copy. A rare Zionist publication issued as a response to the Shaw Commission Report of March 1930 on the riots that erupted …

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  • [SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

    # 21871

    NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)

    [SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

    Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …

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  • A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.

    # 22195

    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS (USA)

    A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.

    Cover title: A Christmas missionary exercise and album. New York : The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1894. Oblong octavo, original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp [24], illustrated with numerous half-tone photographic plates of various missions in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Laos, India, Chile, …

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  • The King

    # 19569

    CRAWFORD, Marian (1955 - ); SELENTISCH, Alex

    The King

    [Melbourne : the artist, 2018]. Artist’s book (280 x 185 mm). Quarto, pp. [24], printed letterpress with photopolymer prints and photocopy, wraparound band. Published by the artist in an edition of 7 signed and numbered copies. “We drifted through a private museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Our host, its curator and collector, shadowed us as we …

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  • Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    # 18751

    HITTI, Deanna

    Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    An extraordinary collection of works by contemporary Melbourne artist Deanna Hitti, comprising her artist’s book Towla and two monumental wall pieces titled Cultural Transaction. Towla [Melbourne] : the artist, 2017. Folio, screenprinted buckram, screenprinted endpapers, pp. 40; [8]; 40; screenprinted on Somerset 115gsm Bookwove paper, housed in a screenprinted clamshell box. Limited to 10 copies plus three …

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  • Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    # 18053

    WAHLEN, Auguste

    Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

    em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …

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  • [CENTRAL ASIA] Notes on the recent geography of Central Asia; from Russian sources.

    # 12211

    MORGAN, E. Delmar; ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. GREAT BRITAIN.

    [CENTRAL ASIA] Notes on the recent geography of Central Asia; from Russian sources.

    At the head of title: Royal Geographical Society. London : John Murray, 1886. From supplementary papers of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 1 part 2. Octavo, original front wrapper (lower wrapper replaced), pp [201]-263, folding colour map; apart from the lower wrapper, a fine copy.

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  • [AFGHANISTAN] Reports on parts of the Ghilzi country, and on some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Ghazni;

    # 12210

    BROADFOOT, James Sutherland, Lieut.; BROADFOOT, William, Major (editor); ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. GREAT BRITAIN.

    [AFGHANISTAN] Reports on parts of the Ghilzi country, and on some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Ghazni;

    and on the route from Ghazni to Dera Ismail Khan by the Ghwalari Pass. At the head of title: Royal Geographical Society. London : John Murray, 1886. From supplementary papers of the Royal Geographical Society. Octavo, original wrappers, pp [339]-400, folding colour map; a fine copy. Reports on Broadfoot’s journeys among the Pashtun in southeastern …

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  • [PERSIA] Journey from Shiraz to Jashk, via Darab, Forg, and Minab

    # 12209

    PREECE, J.R.; ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. GREAT BRITAIN.

    [PERSIA] Journey from Shiraz to Jashk, via Darab, Forg, and Minab

    At the head of title: Royal Geographical Society. London : John Murray, 1886. “Read at the Evening Meeting, January 5th, 1885”. From supplementary papers of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. I, part III, 1885. Octavo, original wrappers, pp 403-437, folding colour map; a fine copy.

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