Middle East

# 35151

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)

Missionary lotto.

London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …

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# 35361

HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)

Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs

London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …

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# 34601

[BIRDWOOD, William Riddell, Field Marshal, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951]; BIRDWOOD, Christopher Bromhead, 2nd Baron Birdwood, 1899-1962 (compiler)

Birdwood family scrapbook relating to the military service of Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood (Commander of ANZAC) and his son, Major Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (Aide-de-Camp, Australian Corps). Gallipoli, Western Front and India, 1915-1930.

An important archive containing approximately 50 items of manuscript and printed ephemera (letters, maps, documents and photographs) pertaining to the military service of Field Marshal William Birdwood (1865-1951), commander of ANZAC at Gallipoli in the Great War, and of his son Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (1899-1962), who acted as the Field Marshal’s Aide-de-Camp in France while …

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# 35032

MAGDY, Basim

Every subtle gesture

Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, [2016]. Octavo, lettered gatefold wrappers with tipped-on photograph (different in each copy), printed verse inside by Omar Kholeif, approx 200 pages, each with a tipped-in photograph and accompanying text. Fine copy. Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the artist. ‘This beautifully designed and crafted artist’s book is …

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# 34188

WHEATCROFT, Andrew

Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961

London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a hint of pale foxing to preliminaries, else internally fine. The front free endpaper with a lengthy gift inscription to a visitor celebrating their birthday in Bahrain, dated 1989, loosely enclosed is a note …

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# 33310

O'DWYER, Michael Francis (1864-1940)

A visit to Russian Central Asia.

/ By Michael Francis O’Dwyer, I.C.S., Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab. pp. 479-512 in: Journal of the Society of Arts, April 16, 1897. London : The Society, 1897. Octavo (250 x 165 mm), stitchbound, pp. i-ii, 479-514, iii-iv; one double-page with 4 photomechanical process illustrations of mosques and tombs in Samarkand and the …

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# 30839

DIXON, W. (William) Hepworth

British Cyprus

London : Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth over boards (some light marks and staining to both), Crescent and Cross device in black at centre of both boards, spine with the same device and lettering in gilt (a little sunned); ownership signature of original owner in …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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