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front cover: no. 47 Exploration of southwest Iran

1. ABBOTT, Keith E. Notes taken on a journey eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, thence westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850. [London, Wiley, 1857]. 4°. Modern blue wrappers. € 400

Abstract from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 27. Transcript of a presentation held at the Royal Geographical Society, February 23, 1857, by British diplomat Keith Edward Abbott (1814–1873). He was active throughout his career as a diplomat in the Middle East, mostly Persia. In the present work he describes the journey that he undertook in 1850 in southwestern Iran. He takes notes at length of everything that he encountered. In very good condition.

The Interpretation of Dreams

2. Ahmet Ibn Sirin (et al.). [Kitab al-Jawami (and other works) – Greek & Latin]. Artemidori Daldiani & Achmetis Sereimi f. Oneirocritica. Astrampsychi & Nicephori versus etiam oneirocritici. Nicolai Rigaltij ad Artemidorum notae. Paris, Marc Orry, 1603. 4°. 4 parts in one volume. Title-page printed in red and black. Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. Contemporary full calf on 5 raised bands with giltstamped spine; gilt fillets and ornaments to covers. € 3500

The rare first collected edition of these important works on the interpretation of dreams, containing Latin translations of Artemidorus (by Janus Cornarius), Achmet (by Johannes Leunclavius), Astrampsychus (by Johannes Opsopaeus), and of Nicephorus (by Nicolas Rigault). “Quite a rare edition, by Claude Morel in Paris. Some copies give M. Orry as the publisher” (cf. Schweiger). Of particular importance for Arabic mysticism is the second work, the “Kitab al-Jawami”: the author “Achmet, son of Seirim”, is almost certainly identical with the 8th century Muslim mystic Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Sirin. The Arabic work survived only in the present Greek translation (“Biblion oneirokritikon”) prepared in the 12th century. “The author Ahmed served as interpreter of dreams to Caliph Al-Mamun around 820 [...] The mediaeval conflation of medicine with astrology originated with the Arabs. Through the Salernitanian school, which had many Arabic works translated, the notion reached Europe in the 11th century, where it remained predominant as late as the 17th and 18th century [...] In 1577 J. Loewenklau published a Latin translation of the Oneirokritiká of Ahmed, whom he calls Apomasar” (cf. Schöll). Spine-ends repaired. Some browning throughout; an old stamp removed from the title page. An appealing copy. Ebert 1262. Caillet 470. Graesse, Bibl. mag. et pneum. 97. Hoffmann I, 382. Schweiger I, 69. OCLC 14308832. Cf. Schöll, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur III, 487.

3 Air services between UK and UAE

3. [Air Services – United Arab Emirates]. Treaty Series No. 94 (1972). Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United Arab Emirates for Air Services between and beyond their respective Territories. London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1972. 8°. Original wrapperless covers. € 850

Agreement between the UK and the Government of the United Arab Emirates regarding the operation of airlines between the two countries. Such an agreement had become necessary following the Emirates’ independence in 1971, when the British-Trucial Sheikhdoms treaty expired.

“An Innocent Arab Proposing the Destiny of the Universe”

4. Allaeus, Franciscus. Astrologiae Nova Methodus. Francisci Allaei, Arabis Christiani. [Rennes, Julian Herbert], 1654[–1655]. Folio (235 × 360 mm). With 1 engraved disc in the text of the first count (a repeat of disc 2 of the first volvelle), 3 volvelles in the first section, composed of 11 parts; and 2 volvelles in the second section, composed of 6 parts. Contemporary full vellum. € 15 000

Rare second, expurged edition of this remarka- ble treatise offering predictions for the destiny of European nations, issued without place or printer in the year of the almost unobtainable first edition, most copies of which were burned by the hangman at Nantes and Rennes shortly after publication. The first edition was deemed offensive due to the predictions of five volvelles in the second section which offered horoscopes for Islam, Christianity, France, Spain, and England. A “Figura Sectae Mahometanae” dared to give a horoscope of the Prophet Mohammed and a list of significant events in the history of Islam; this was followed by predic- tions which included the suggestion that a quarter of the world would be Islamic by 1703. The horoscope of Christianity also included dire predictions: indeed, those for the fate of England (ending with the wiping out of the English nation in 1884) caused a serious diplomatic rift, resulting in the English ambassador demanding the book be suppressed. The present edition of the “Astrologiae Nova Methodus” (and subsequent ones) omits the incriminated 7 pages and 5 volvelles; instead, it prefixes a new, two-page introduction entitled “Principiorum Astrologiae Brevis Expositio” (“The Principles of Astrology, Set Out in Brief”), which explains one of the movable discs in detail. The book’s authorship remains a mystery. It is attributed on the title-page to a certain Francisco Allaeio, “Christian Arab”, but this is probably a pseudonym for Yves de Paris, a Capuchin monk known for his anti-establishment views. The third section of the work offers a religious justification for the relevance of astrological prediction, in which the author defends himself as an “innocent Arab proposing the destiny of the universe” (p. 5). Endpapers not pasted to covers; some browning, fingerstaining and edge defects, but still a good, wide-margined copy. A 13-page typewritten German translation of the preliminary matter (“The Fate of the Author” and “The Principles of Astrology”), apparently the work of a German scholar of the 1930s with an attractive hand-drawn title page in red, yellow and black ink, is inserted at the end. Provenance: 1) Heinrich Xaver Baron Wiser, minister of Palatinate-Neuburg at the court of Madrid in the 1690s and at Naples from 1709 to 1713 (his handwritten ownership on the title-page); 2) Johann Oeler, legal advisor to the Barons Sturmfeder (his handwritten shelfmark and ownership, dated Mannheim, 24 Nov. 1806, on front endpaper); 3) Moritz (Carl August) Axt (1801–62), German classicist and educator (his handwritten ownership on flyleaf). Cf. Houzeau/Lancaster 5217. Caillet III, 11557. Thorndike VIII, 310ff. Peignot, Dictionnaire des livres condamnés au feu II, 204f. Dorbon-Ainé, Bibliotheca Esoterica, 61f.

4 The first European illustration of the coffee plant

5. Alpini, Prosper. De plantis Aegypti liber. [...] Accessit etiam liber de Balsamo alias editus. Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1592. 4°. 2 consecutively paginated parts. With woodcut printer’s device to title- page and 50 large woodcut plant illustrations (many page-sized). 18th century marbled wooden boards. All edges sprinkled in red. € 8500

First edition of the earliest treatise on the native Egyptian flora, the author’s most important scientific work. The Italian physician and botanist Alpini (1553–1617) spent three years in Egypt studying botany and hygiene as a companion to the Venetian Consul Giorgio Emi. He was “among the first of the Italian physician-botanists of the 16th century to examine plants outside the context of their therapeutic uses. Today this work is best known for containing the first European illustration of the coffee plant” (Hünersdorff). Alpini writes: “I saw in the garden of Halybey the Turk a tree [...] which is the source of those seeds, very common there, which are called Ban or Bon; from them everyone, Egyptians and Arabs alike, prepare a decoction which they drink instead of wine and which is sold in public bars just as is wine here and they call it ‘Caova’. These seeds are imported from the Arabian peninsula [...]” (f. 26r, transl.). The coffee plant is pictured on f. 26v, captioned “Bon”. Binding rather rubbed and bumped (especially the spine); trimmed somewhat closely at upper edge; occasional brownstaining throughout with the odd waterstain; slight defect to title page repaired by a former owner. A good copy from the library of Karl Martin and Siri Hilda Karolina Norrman (1900–95) with their joint bookplate on front pastedown. Edit 16, CNCE 1244. BM-STC Italian 20. Adams A 803. IA 103.853. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 32. Gay 1678. Wellcome I, 233. Durling 179. Nissen 20. Pritzel 111. Mueller 5 (& plate I). Hünersdorff I, 29–32.

Exotic plants

6. Alpini, Prosper. De plantis exoticis libri duo. Venice, Giovanni Guerilio, 1656. 4°. Engraved architectural title with portraits of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, 145 finely etched and engraved botanical plates in the text, ornamental initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with gilt spine. Edges sprinkled in red. € 3500

Third edition (in fact, a re-issue with changed title page date only) of Alpini’s further observations on exotic plants. The specimens here presented were collected primarily in Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean, including many xerophilous plants from Egypt and scores of plants not mentioned in earlier works. The first edition was published posthumously in 1627 and was edited by the author’s son, Alpini Alpini. The work (in all its editions) is much rarer than the author’s bet- ter-known “De plantis Aegyptii”. “Date altered by hand [from 1629] to MDCLVI” (Krivatsy). Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), an Italian physician and botanist, travelled through Greece, Crete, and Egypt from 1580 to 1583 with the Venetian Consul Giorgio Eno. He worked as a medical advisor and took the opportunity to carry out botanical investigations. His work includes the first European recognition of the medicinal value of coffee and introduced banana and baobab. “Alpini became professor of botany at Padua after having spent three years in Egypt” (Garrison/M., p. 992). Binding rebacked, showing some light wear to extremeties, but a good, clean copy. Provenance: removed from the Large Library at Goodwood House (Chichester, West Sussex) with bookplate on front pastedown; latterly in the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck (his tree bookplate dated 15 March 1944). Nissen BBI 21. Krivatsy 241 (copy 2). Cf. Pritzel 112. Not in Wellcome, Waller, or Osler.

5 The first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine

7. Alpini, Prosper & Bontius, Jacob. De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor. Et Iacobi Bontii In Indiis archiatri, De medicina Indorum. Editio ultima. Paris, Nicolaus Redelichuysen, 1645. Small 4° (225 × 175 mm). 2 parts in one vol. Title-page printed in red and black; woodcut chapter initial and head-tail pieces, 2 text illustrations and 3 full-page woodcuts. Full vellum, title gilt on spine red label. € 3000

Somewhat later edition of the first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine. Alpini (1553–1617) was an Italian physician and botanist who spent three years in Egypt studying botany and hygiene as a companion to the Venetian Consul Giorgio Emo. This work is considered “one of the earliest European studies of non-western medicine. Alpini’s work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Arabic) practices observed during his sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion – the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin – which Alpini introduced into European medicine [...] Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work” (Norman). Jacobus Bontius (Jacques de Bondt, 1592–1631), whose work on Indian medicine is included, was a Dutch physician and botanist. He travelled to Persia and Indonesia to study the botany of the area. He was the first to study cholera on the island of Batavia in 1689, before it was known in Europe, and died on Java. His botanic and medical works were published after his death by Pisonius. He “was probably the first to regard tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he gained there. It is the first Dutch work on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera” (Garrison/M. 2263, citing the 1642 first edition). Binding slightly brownstained in places. Small tear to 3rd leaf, not affecting text; occasional browning. Caillet 230. Krivatsy 236. Wellcome II, 36. Hirsch/Hübotter I, 101 & 627. Hunt 161 (note). Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 32. Osler 1796. Waller 12509. Cf. Garrison/Morton 6468. Norman 39 (1591 first edition); Heirs 384 (1646 edition) and 463 (1642 edition).

An authoritative handbook on the Arab states of the Lower Gulf

8. Anthony, John Duke. Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum. Washington D.C., The Middle East Institute, 1975. 8°. With two black and white maps on the endpapers. Brown cloth with publisher’s illustrated dust jacket. € 250

First and only edition of a thorough description of the history of the nine Arab states of the Lower Gulf, that gained independence in 1971, just four years before the publication of this book. The author has managed to discuss the individual politics of each state and that of the bigger picture, making this a handbook for all who wish to learn more about Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain). The several infographics that are used to explain the political structures are very helpful in this respect. Oil plays a key role in the relationship between the individual states and this is intricately laid out by the American author. Because this book was written in such a key moment in the history of the region, it has gained much importance. The author Dr. John Duke Anthony is a leading figure in United States-Arab relations and has held many influential government positions in this field. Amongst others, he is the founder and president of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and he is part of the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy’s Subcommittee on Sanctions. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies. In the years leading up to this publication the author has conducted

6 first-hand research on the Lower Gulf region’s political and socio-economic structures, obviously with oil playing a major role. The fruits of this research are presented in this book, offering the reader a comprehensive overview of a complex subject. This book was published in The James Terry Duce Memorial Series, which started in 1966. The first and second volumes were on North Africa and Jerusalem respectively, this is the final volume of the series. Ink annotations in the margins throughout. A good copy with the original dustjacket well preserved.

Developments in crude oil production

9. [Arabian American Oil Company]. Summary of Middle East Oil Developments. No place, ARAMCO, 1948. 4°. With 12 coloured maps and diagrams, one of which folding. Original spiral-bound printed wrappers. € 3500

Second edition (previously released in 1947, revised 6 Jan. 1948). An illustrated overview of the developments in crude oil production in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, comparing pre-war figures with the then-cur- rent situation immediately following the Second World War. The plates include diagrams of the world’s petrol reserves, of daily average crude oil production in the Middle East, and the global pre-war petrol consumption. The maps display oil fields and facilities for each country discussed; the folding map marks the headquarters of major petrol companies in the area. Insignificant marginal flaws to covers and extremities; otherwise in excellent condition. OCLC 1259734.

Presentation copy of the year report of the Arabian American Oil Company for 1953

10. [ARAMCO], Fred A. DAVIES. Report of operations to the Saudi Arab government by the Arabian American Oil Company 1953. Dhahran, 1954. 4°. Party printed in English and partly in Arabic. With tables, maps (of oil fields) and reproductions of photographs in text, including a portrait of King ‘Abd al-’Aziz ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Al Faisal Al Sa’ud. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers, with Arabic title on back wrapper. Sold

Yearly report of the Arabian American Oil Company (now Aramco), covering the year 1953, the year of mourning the death of King ‘Abd al-’Aziz ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Al Faisal Al Sa’ud. With an introductory letter by Fred Davies (1894– 1975), chairman of the board. The work contains a list of the year’s highlights, tables showing the company’s produce, maps depicting the oil fields and drilling stations, sections on transportation, personnel, marketing, safety, the local economy, etc., and images of drillings rigs, tankers and employees. The text is included in both English and Arabic. Stapled card to title-page: “With the compliments of Aramco Overseas Company” and an owner’s inscription in ink. Spine ends slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition. B. Shwadran, The Middle East, oil and the great powers, p. 553.

7 Inscribed by the author

11. [Arabian Gulf]. Stürken, Alfred. Reisebriefe aus dem Persischen Golf und Persien. Sonderabzug aus den Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg, Bd. XXII. Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1907. 8°. With 28 illustrations on 20 plates. Bound in a modern facsimile of the original printed wrappers. € 4000

Diary of a return journey from India, amply illustrated by photographs, undertaken in 1906 by the Hamburg merchant Alfred Stürken (1868–1925) through the Arabian Gulf to Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait. First separate edition, offprinted (with independent pagination) from the Proceedings of the Hamburg Geographical Society. Inscribed by the author at the head of the title-page: “Mit besten Grüßen vom Verfasser”. Somewhat browned throughout due to paper stock; lower corner of the first few leaves chipped without loss, otherwise very good. Excessively rare: OCLC locates only three copies of the offprint, issued in a small press run for private circulation (National Library of Israel; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Leiden). OCLC 67794222.

“Prepared by the U.S. Ministry of the Interior, under the auspices of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”

12. [Arabian Peninsula]. Jazirat al-’Arab wa-al-manatiq al-mutakhimah la-ha: kharitah tamhidiyah [The Arabian Peninsula and neighboring regions: an introductory map]. G-1-AA-1. Dharan, Arabian-American Oil Company, 1950–52 CE = 1369–71 H. Colour-printed map, 80 × 118 cm. Scale 1:4,000,000. Includes location map in the form of 2 hemispheres. € 4500

Rare ARAMCO-issued wall map of the Arabian Peninsula, “prepared by the U.S. Ministry of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey, under the auspices of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and the US Department of State”. Printed entirely in Arabic; the anno- tations read: “The locations included in the basis of this map are dependent upon the best information available to us at their compo- sition in 1942. The exact location of many of these locations goes back to the what the analyses and journies of foreigners showed and is therefore subject to modification. This map does not denote the borders in obscure regions”. Other notes on the map indicate that the borders in the southeast, southwest, the Empty Quarter, and the northwest have not been delineated. Curiously, the map retains the designation “Al-khalij al-farsi” for the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, reflecting Arab-world naming conventions of the early 1950s. Paper brittle; edges chipped; some repairs. Very rare: in spite of having been co-produced by the U.S. Government, today the only copies listed in research collections are those at Princeton, at the University of Manchester, and at the Beirut Library of Human Sciences. A greatly reduced new edition, measuring only 46 × 62 cms, was issued by Archive Editions in 1992. OCLC 642632543.

8 First edition of Audubon’s extraordinary coloured plates of quadrupeds

13. Audubon, John James. The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. New York, John James Audubon, 1845–1848. 3 vols. Large folio (70 × 55 cm). With 150 striking coloured plates, all lithographed on stone, printed and coloured by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia, after drawings by John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, and the backgrounds after Victor Audubon. Each volume also with a title-page and a list of contents. Late 19th century black morocco, with gold-tooled spine, red cloth sides and marbled endpapers. € 600 000

First edition of the extraordinary coloured plates of quadrupeds by the world-famous French-American naturalist and painter John James Audubon (1785–1851), whose “Birds of America” was purchased at a Christie’s auction for $11.5 million in March 2000, setting a world record for the most expensive book ever sold (surpassed only by the 1640 “Psalm Bay Book”, sold for $14.2 million in November 2013). The plates in the present work are considered the finest animal prints ever published in America. Unlike the “Birds”, it was produced entirely in the United States, making it the “largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America” (Reese). After the publication of his highly acclaimed “Birds of America”, Audubon settled on the Hudson River and began working on the present series to document the animal life of North America. The plates were first published in 30 parts of 5 plates each, and three separately published accompanying text volumes, written by John Bachman, appeared between 1846 and 1854. A second edition was published in 1856, but “the first edition is by far the best” (Sabin). Title-pages show some small scuff marks, a few plates with minor, unobtrusively repaired tears along the edges. Binding skillfully restored. A complete set, with most plates in fine condition. Nissen, ZBI 162. Buchanan, pp. 147–154. Reese 36. Sabin 2367. Cf. Howgego II, A19 (p. 15, 1846–54).

9 Confidential field reports from the Palestine campaign

14. [Australian Second Light Horse Brigade]. Duplicate typescript copies of confidential reports from HQ. [Palestine], November/December 1917. Foolscap folio (ca. 205 × 330 mm). (30) and (31) ff. (rectos only) of duplicate typescript with occasional manuscript corrigenda and addenda. Split-pin fastener in the top left-hand corner of each month. € 4500

Unpublished confidential daily field reports from the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, fought by the Arab Revolt and the British Empire against the Ottoman Empire and its Imperial German allies. The reports include the critical period between the Battle of Beersheba in late October and the fall of Jerusalem at the end of 1917. Usually comprising one leaf for each day of the month, the individual reports commence with an overview of the brigade’s activities, followed by further details for each regiment. The account of 9 November, e.g., records the strategically highly important advance on Burayr, one of the first places to be captured by the Allied Forces from the Ottoman Empire, consolidating the British hold on positions controlling the approaches to Jaffa and Jerusalem: “A great day for the Brigade 5th and 7th Regts. moving parallel on left and right respec- tively and 6th in support were heavily shelled from right flank; but made Bureir and Huleikat without opposition from those places, but had number of casualties from this shell fire. Great quantities of stores waggons and material of all sorts taken 7th Regt took a convoy of about 150 waggons 350 prisoners and many animals most of latter in a wretched condition at Kaukabah. Very many abandoned waggons on the road and stores being looted by Arabs. In afternoon moved on again and 5th Regt supported by one Sqdn of 7th most dashingly rushed another convoy of over 100 wagons and took over 350 prisoners. This convoy subjected to heavy shell fire from enemy on friend and foe alike. Squadron of 7th attached to 5th cleverly took 231 more prisoners in the dark [...]”. The 2nd Light Horse Brigade, a mounted infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force consisting of the 5th, 6th and 7th Light Horse Regiments, formed a very distinctive national force within the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, the British and allied army that drove the Ottoman Turks and their German allies back across the Sinai desert in 1916, into Palestine in 1917, and went on to capture Damascus on the first day of October 1918, shortly before the armistice. Lacks the sheet for the first day of each month; reports of 9 November and 14 December comprising two leaves. Both first leaves (2 November and 2 December) detached, with some marginal loss, as well as slight loss of text to 2 November. Occasional marginal chips and creases throughout, early leaves tanned. From the Paul Lucas Collection of Australian military history. A unique survival.

From Baghdad with love: photographs of the city in 1917–1918 by an Australian serving in Dunsterforce

15. [BAGHDAD – WORLD WAR I]. [Album with photographs of Baghdad after its capture by the British in 1917]. Baghdad and Samarra, [1917–]1918. 17 × 24 cm. With 163 sepia tone photographs (ca. 6.5 × 4 cm) mounted on cloth-backed paper, a few captioned in ink on the page. Side-stitched. € 4500

Photo album showing Baghdad in 1917–1918, taken and/or compiled by an Australian soldier named “Chris”. The 163 snapshots are ordered thematically and mostly show local life and the inhabitants of the city, including many portraits. A few of special interest are a photograph of “Zubadie’s Tomb”, the

10 supposed author of the Arabian nights, several images of a performance of the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment’s concert troupe, a local fair, several church interiors, Al-Kadhimiya Mosque and several photos of Samarra including a proud camel titled as “a son of the desert”. Soldiers appear only occasionally, though one photograph shows several of them posed in front of a train. According to an inscription on the front cover, Chris sent the album to Miss Gladys “Iris” Elvy in Daceyville, Sydney, “with love”, in January 1918. As an Australian in Baghdad, Chris must have belonged to the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, which formed part of the army that captured Baghdad in March 1917. The date inscribed on the front of the album, “Jan. 27th. 18.”, was the day that the advance party of Dunsterforce left Baghdad for Baku, suggesting that Chris formed part of this prototype special forces unit, whose mission it was to organize and train local anti-Bolshevik and anti-Turkish groups as a safeguard against Turkish movements in the area now that Russia had left the war. Slightly smudged and with a few spots, but otherwise in excellent condition. For the signallers and Dunsterforce: Bean, “Appendix 5 – Australians in Mesopotamia”, in: The Australian imperial force in France during the main German offensive, 1918 (8th edition, 1941), pp. 703–764.

The courageous pilots of the 28 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion: an extensive and detailed photo archive by one of the pilots

16. [COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS – PAKISTAN & INDIA – BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE]. EADY, Thomas William George. [Collection of photographs made and compiled by Thomas William George Eady, flying officer of the No. 28 Squadron of the RAF, containing silver-gelatin prints of aircraft, the squadron, aerial reconnaissance etc. of the North-West Frontier of India, 1929–1930]. [India and Pakistan, especially the North West Frontier Region], 1929–1930. The collection includes a larger album covering 1929 in oblong 2° (30 × 39.5 cm), bound in contemporary blue cloth and tied together with a brown cord, with 1832 photographs in varying sizes, all with china ink captions by Eady in English, mounted on 16 brown paper leaves. Another album in oblong 4° (33.5 × 24 cm), bound in contemporary green cloth and also tied together with a brown cord, contains 72 silver-gelatins made during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion, in varying sizes and mounted on 20 brown paper leaves with neat china ink captions in English by Eady. Also with a small album consisting of 4 smaller brown paper leaves (19 × 27 cm) with 33 sil- ver-gelatins in varying sizes mounted on them (some of them are the same as in the blue album), tied together with a black cord, and with larger captions in black ink, probably by someone else then Eady. The collection also includes 53 loose silver-gelatins (20 × 15 cm, a few with some hand-written commentary on the back), 5 related documents (dated 1928–1932) and a separate photograph of Eady. € 12 500

A collection of photographs, compiled by the flying officer Thomas William George Eady, who was member of the 28Squadron of the British Royal Air Force. The 28 Squadron was at that moment based at Risalpur, an aerodrome near Peshawar in Northern Pakistan. The collection contains several silver-gelatin prints, photographical snapshots and aerial reconnaissance photographs made in 1929–1930 during his stay in the North West Frontier region in India and Pakistan. The albums and loose sheets contain many images of the aircraft, both on the ground and in flight and including the wreckages, and aerial reconnaissance photographs, even as images of bombing raids, (pilot) boats and other military equipment of ground troops. Eady pays in the compilation of his album also attention to his crash with the F4498 in 1929 in Hoshangabad, showing pictures of him and his compagnon standing next to the wreckage. Besides this, the collection also contains a lot of images of the residences of the 28 Squadron, of his members in the squadron (mentioned by name in the captions below, including pictures of himself, sometimes with his squadron) and of the things they did and the places they visited in their leisure, such as a music saloon in Narkunda and the family (?) of Eady by “Uncle Joey” in Madras. Also many views of the area are added, especially of Attock and Risalpur, but also of Bombay, Madras, The Malakand Pass, Bara Valley, snow at Drosh, etc. We also get a glimpse of the Indian culture. The collection therefore is an insightful compilation of the life of a British Royal Air Force officer during his stay at the Indian North West Frontier.

11 Also interesting are the five related photographs which are also part of this col- lection, among others a letter from the Air Ministry in London to Eady dated 25 May 1928 and adressed to Eady, informing him about practical matters, such as his luggage, the amount of money he should take with him and if he needs a passport. This extensive photographical archive of Eady, who served as flying officer for the British Royal Air Force, is not only highly interesting because it provides us an insight in the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion by the green album. It also offers a detailed record, by both the images and captions, of the courageous pilots of the 28 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, their aircrafts, activities and time at the Indian North West Frontier. Cloth of the blue album worn around the edges, head and bottom of the spine of the green album slightly injured, some paper edges of the documents a little frayed and some documents slightly foxed and stained, but otherwise a highly interesting collection of photographs in good condition.

Oil operations between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

17. Brown, Edward Hoagland. The Saudi Arabia Kuwait Neutral Zone. Beirut, The Middle East Research and Publishing Center, 1963. 8°. Black full calf with giltstamped spine title. € 1500

A history of the creation of the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, discussing the historical and legal background of both countries, a comparison with the Trucial Sheikhdoms, the establishment of the Neutral Zone, and the ongoing oil operations in the Zone, with an appendix of legal documents. Based on an unfinished manuscript left by the author upon his death in 1959, the volume was completed posthumously by staff of the Middle East Research and Publishing Center. Dedicated to John Paul Getty. The Neutral Zone, a 5,770 km² area between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, had been left undefined when the border was established by in 1922. Partitioning negotiations finally commenced when the rulers of both countries met and decided, in October 1960, that the Neutral Zone should be divided. On 7 July 1965, the two governments signed an agreement, which took effect on 25 July 1966, to partition the Zone adjoining their respective territories. Ratification followed on 18 January 1970. Quite rare; traced to 19 institutions including 6 on COPAC. OCLC 32070547.

Different types of Greek and Turkish head-dresses

18. Bruyn, Cornelis de. Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn, door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio, &c. mitsgaders de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina [...]. Delft, Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698. Folio (235 × 337 mm). With engraved half-title, engraved portrait of the author (after Godfrey Kneller), and 210 as well as several lettered or unnumbered engravings (many by Jan and Caspar Luyken after the author’s drawings) printed on 57 plates, 24 double-page plates and 20 folding plates (most of which are panoramic views). Wants the folding map of the Eastern Mediterranean. Contemporary Dutch blindstamped vellum. € 6500

12 First edition, the only one to appear in the original language. The Dutch painter and traveller Cornelius de Bruyn travelled to Constantinople and throughout the Levant and the Ottoman empire between 1677 and 1685. “De Bruyn was primarily a landscape artist and this manifests itself in the several fine panoramas which include Smyrna, Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Rhodes, Tyre, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Palmyra and others. De Bruyn’s costume plates are mostly of the different types of Greek and Turkish head-dresses” (Atabey). Some browning, fingerstaining and edge flaws through- out. Complete save for the map. Atabey 159. Tiele 207. Gay 2101. Henze I, 378. Howgego I, p. 157, B177. Weber II, 402 (note). Röhricht 1184. Tobler 114. Cobham/Jeffery 7. Laor 967. Schwab 74. Cohen/de Ricci 610. Lipperheide Ci 48 (= 546). Graesse I, 552. OCLC 4619950. Cf. Blackmer 225 (2nd French ed.). Aboussouan 164 (1725 French 4° ed.).

On the Arab Peninsula on the eve of the Arab Revolt by a Muslim Algerian who served in the French army

19. CADI, Hadj Cherif. Terre d’Islam. Paris, Chares-Lavauzelle & Cie (printed by Imprimerie Heintz frères at Oran), [1926]. 8°. With 6 plates containing reproduced photographs, 2 plans of Mecca and the Oasis of Rabeg, coloured in outlines, and a folding map of the area Mecca, Rabegh, Medina with the route of the Hadj, coloured in outlines. Original purple publisher’s paper wrapper, protected by a cellophane wrapper. Sold

Original edition of this very rare French study of Islamic culture, society, religion, and the Islamic countries of the Middle East with chapters on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, the Holy city of Mecca, Rabigh, Bir Derouich, the Bedouins, polygamy, the Arabic language, astronomy, legis- lative reforms, and geography by Chérif Cadi (naturalized as Yves Cadi; 1867–1939), a Algerian born near Constantine who was an outstanding student and who was the first Muslim to enter the École Polytechnique at Paris in 1889. He became a French citizen and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. During World War I he fought at Verdun and was stationed at the Arab Bureau, intelligence unit in Egypt in 1916. In the same year he travelled to Mesopotamia and to Arabia on intelligence missions and quickly became involved with the Arab Revolt as a liaison to the Arab forces, along with other British officers, supporting the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz’s independence war against its former overlord, the Ottoman Empire. He worked closely with Emir Faisal, a leader of the revolt, and he participated, sometimes as leader, in military actions against the Ottoman armed forces, culminating in the capture of Damascus in October 1918. He served also as a military adviser to Emir Ali, a son of Sharif Husayn of the Hijaz. He received the honorific title ‘Hadj’ for his pilgrimage to Mecca. Cadi remained Muslim ánd a fervent Frenchman The introduction to his book on the Islamic Middle East Cadi wrote in Mecca 27 September 1916 a crucial point in time. Not only was the Arab Revolt, launched in October 1916 in the Hedjaz by Sharif Husayn, decisive to the outcome of World War I from a military standpoint, it also marked the unexpected return of civilian circulation on the Red Sea. Indeed, after two years interruption due to the war, Muslim pilgrims from India and Africa were back on the road to Mecca. Contrary to their more restrictive policies before the war, the French were the first to organize an official pilgrimage to the Muslim holy sites. For the Allied empires, this was about declaring their support to the Arab Revolt. Untrimmed, partly unopened. Otherwise in very good condition. One thousand books … relating to Arabia and the Middle East, no. 60 (“Extremely rare”).

13 Early exploration and exploitation of oil

20. CADMAN, John. The geographical journal. Vol. LXXXIV. No. 3. Beccles, William Clowes & sons, 1934. 4°. With several full-page black and white photographs and maps. Original publisher’s blue printed paper wrappers. € 850

First edition of volume 84, no. 3 of The geographic journal. This volumes includes an interesting article on the exploration and exploitation of oil in the Middle East: Middle East geography in relation to petroleum by Sir John Cadman. In this piece the author describes his pionering search for crude oil in south-western and western Persia and in the eastern regions of Iraq. The exploitation of oil in these area was still in a very early stage by the time of writing. The work is illustrated with a map of the Middle East with oil fields and pipe lines indicated and with photographs of several oil fields. In very good condition.

On Bedouin tribes, with a map and pictures

21. CARRUTHERS, Alexander Douglas Mitchell. A journey in North-Western Arabia. [London, W. Clowes], March 1910. 4°. With 12 black and white photographs made during the journey and a folding chromolithographed map of North-West Arabia (27 × 30.5 cm). Modern blue wrappers. € 750

Abstract from The geographical journal, no. 3, vol. XXXV. Transcript of a presentation held at the Royal Geographical Society, January 24, 1910, by Middle-East-explorer Douglas Carruthers (1882–1962). He traveled the region that is now Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia in an attempt to survey the land survey for latitudes and waterways. He also shows an anthropological interest by describing and depicting several Bedouin tribes, which he includes in his map. The tribal names are placed on the map in the regions where they were at the time of the journey. Numbered in pencil on top right corner of title-page. Minor spotting on the map. Otherwise in good condition.

The Siege of Izmail

22. [Conquest of Izmail]. Relaçao do sanguinozo combate, que derao os Russianos contra os Turcos na tomada da praça de Ismail. Lisbon, Antonio Gomes, [1791]. 4°. Unsewn pamphlet. € 950

Rare Portuguese report of the 1790 Siege of Izmail during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92, which resulted in the sacking of the fortress of Izmail (in the region of Budjak, now Ukraine). The capture of this stronghold, considered impregnable, was seen as a catastrophe in the Ottoman Empire, while in Russia it was glorified in the country’s first national anthem “Let the thunder of victory sound!”. The Russians began besieging the city in March 1790 and started attacking in December, leading to a bloody battle of 22 December. Ottoman forces suffered more than 26,000 killed, and many others were wounded or captured. The

14 account mentions prominent historical figures, including the Russian general Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) and the Spanish admiral José de Ribas (1749–1800). With small marginal flaws not affecting text. Rare; only two copies traced in library catalogues internationally (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal; New York University). Dupuy & Dupuy, Encyclopedia of Military History (2nd ed.), 698. BGUC Misc., 514.

Muslim attempts to recapture Oran

23. [Conquest of Oran]. Relaçao da batalha alcançada pelos hespanhoes contra os mouros. Diario do avance, que derao os turcos á praça de Orao [...]. Lisbon, Ignacio Nogueira Xisto, 1759. 4°. With woodcut title vignette. Printed sheet folded into a pamphlet, unsewn and unbound. € 850

Rare Portuguese account of one of several unsuccessful 18th century attempts by Muslim forces to recapture Oran. This operation took place in March and April of 1759, nearly three decades after the Spanish conquest of the city in 1732. Oran was repeatedly attacked by Algerian and Ottoman forces, but remained under Spanish rule until 1792. The report concludes with a table showing the numbers of cannonballs, shells and bullets fired in the battle. Light browning; folds weakeend; uncut and untrimmed. Only seven copies traced in library catalogues internationally. A rare historical source on an otherwise poorly documented military campaign. BGUC Misc., 7835. OCLC 504039661.

Author’s Dedication Copy for Sultan Abdul Hamid II

24. [Eggermont, Isidore Jacques]. Le Japon. Histoire et religion. Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1885. 8°. With one folding map of Japan. Contemporary gilt full red morocco with the giltstamped inscription “A Sa Majesté Impériale Le Sultan. Hommage de l’Auteur” to upper cover, Ottoman crest to lower cover, and giltstamped spine. Leading edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. € 12 500

First edition of this synopsis of the political and religious history of Japan, by the Belgian diplomat, photographer and writer Eggermont (1844–1923), who was appointed councillor to the legation of Belgium in Japan from 1876 to 1877. Author’s presentation copy for the Sultan with the dedication giltstamped to the upper cover. The book’s first part discusses Shintoism and Buddhism; the second part presents an overview of Japanese history from the origins of the Japanese people until the 1868 Meji Restoration. Lacks upper half of the title-page; lower half is transposed before the half-title and glued on top of it, thus omitting the author’s name. From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842–1918), the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to exert effective contol over the fracturing state and also remembered as a poet, translator and one of the dynasty’s greatest bibliophiles. While his passion for books is memorialized by the many precious donations he gave to libraries all over the world and which mostly have remained intact to this day (including the 400-volume “Abdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials” gifted to the Library of Congress), his own library was dispersed in the years following his deposition in 1909: books were removed to other palaces and even sold to Western collectors; the greatest part of his collection is today preserved in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Extremities insignificantly rubbed; paper somewhat foxed throughout. An appealing copy in a finely gilt presentation binding. OCLC 249076616.

15 Rare Arabic edition of the Euchologion: an exceptionally unusual example of missionary colour printing by the Franciscan press in Jerusalem

25. [EUCHOLOGION – ARAB]. Kitāb al-Ifhūlūǧiyūn al-kabīr. [Jerusalem], Dair al-Aba al-Fransiskaniyin, 1865. 4°. With an elaborately decorated title-page printed in black and 3 colours (red, green and blue) with a woodcut circled Jerusalem cross and a woodcut Arabic inscription opening the main text. Set in nashk Arabic type. Contemporary half black morocco, black cloth sides, marbled endpapers. € 8500

Rare Arabic edition of the Euchologion, one of the most important books of the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches, containing the prayers, rituals, sacraments and other service elements for priests, deacons and bishops. It was intended primarily for Melchite Uniats (Christians of the Byzantine rite). It was printed by Franciscans in 1865, only thir- ty-five years after the establishment of the first printing press in Jerusalem, probably in the Monastery of St. Saviour in Jerusalem, where the Franciscan order opened one of the first printing offices in Jerusalem in 1847. This Franciscan printing office printed mainly in Arabic. The multi-coloured printed title-page was very exceptional for its time: colour-printing was then very unusual in Arabic. In fact the title-page decoration built up from typographic ornaments, with many single red ornaments between green ornaments, would be a challenge to any typesetter and pressman at any date. The present Kitāb al-Ifhūlūǧiyūn al-kabīr is very scarce. We traced only five copies in WorldCat. It is set entirely in Arabic type, including the page numbers. It is not clear where the printing office acquired its Arabic type. The Franciscan printing office is said to have acquired Arabic type from Austria (the Armenian Catholic printing office in Vienna?) when it first set up in 1846 but later replaced it with Istanbul Arabic type from the Imprimerie Catholique in Beirut. But the present type appears to come closer to the American Arabic type (from the American mission in Malta?) in the Imprimerie Catholique’s 1890 specimen than its Istanbul type. It seems to resemble (but is certainly not identical to) the type used by the Propaganda Fide in Thomas Obicini, Grammatica Arabica (1631). With two (faded) library stamps. With some expert restorations to the binding, some occasional stains, some repairs in the margins of some leaves, but otherwise in good condition. WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Mohammed Basil Suleiman, “Early printing presses in Palestine: a historical note”, in: Jerusalem quarterly, 36 (2009), pp. 79–91.

The chief of Abothubbee considered “very friendly”

26. Findlay, Alexander George. A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean [...]. Second Edition. With Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sunda and Western Australia, including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; the Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, and the Passages from Europe to its various Ports. London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1870. Large 8° (170 × 255 mm). With 15 (mostly folding) maps (many in colour) and numerous text ilustrations. Contemporary gilt- stamped cloth. € 3000

Second, enlarged edition of this standard work, first published in 1866. An encyclopedic volume of over 1000 pages with a detailed index. The chapters include descriptions of the coasts and islands of the Cape Colony; coast of Kaffraria and Natal; Eastern Africa; Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel; the coast of Africa, between Cape Delgado and the Red Sea; the Red Sea, etc. In particular, Findlay devotes much attention to the coasts of Arabia and onwards to the Arabian Gulf, providing rich detail about the port of Aden, navigating and anchoring around Ras Arah and Ghubbet Seylan, the population of Masirah Island, the climate of the Gulf and its threats to Western health, topography of the coastal settlements, information on the reefs and pearl banks, etc. The discussion of the Gulf (“Our acquaintance with the hydrography of the Persian Gulf is

16 nearly perfect”) includes intelligence on Sharjah (“Shargeh”), “the most important town on the coast”, numbering 8,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, and on Dubai (“Debay”), “a large town of 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants” standing “a little back from the shore” and “recognizable as being the last town on the coast, there being not a single date-tree or house from this all the way to Abu Thabi”. The coast is described as “quite barren and uninhabited, throughout very low, with tufts of mangrove bush”, and “so uniform in appearance that the smallest peculiarities are noted by the Arabs, and names given to them”. Abu Dhabi (“Abothubbee”) is noted as “the most populous town on the coast”, containing “about 20,0000 inhabitants” and sending “600 boats to the pearl fishery. The chief is very friendly to the English. Cattle might be obtained here”. Binding rubbed; hinges split. Some foxing throughout as common; repeatedly annotated quite ungraciously by a 20th century hand in coloured ballpoint and broad felt-tip pen. A later edition (from Humphrey Winterton’s library) commanded £720 at Sotheby’s in 2003. Mill (Cat. of the RGS Library) 160. OCLC 217065553.

British interpretership examination for Arabic

27. [GREAT BRITAIN – ARABIC]. Civil service commission pamphlet containing the question papers of the preliminary and interpretership tests in Arabic used at an examination held in June 1936 of the officers of the Royal Air Force. Crown copyright reserved. London, printed and published at Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1936. Folio. Printed in English and Arabic. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers, in later blue paper wrappers. € 1250

British government publication of an interpretership examination for Arabic translation. It provides the examination questions that officers in the Royal Air Force had to answer correctly to pass as an interpreter of Arabic. The work contains several questions that include translating Arabic texts printed in Arabic type. Library stamp on foot of front cover, title-page and pp. 8 and 9: “Liverpool Public Libraries”. In good condition. Consolidated List of Government Publications, 1936, p.147; not in WorldCat.

British interpretership examination for Arabic

28. [GREAT BRITAIN – ARABIC]. Civil service commission pamphlet containing the question papers of the preliminary and interpretership tests in Arabic used at an examination held in June 1938 of officers of the Army and Air Force. Crown copyright reserved. London, printed and published at Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1938. Folio. Printed in English and Arabic. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers, in later blue paper wrappers. € 475

British government publication of an interpretership examination for Arabic translation. It provides the examination questions that officers in the Army and Air Force had to answer correctly to pass as an interpreter of Arabic. The work contains several questions that include translating Arabic texts printed in Arabic type. Library stamp on foot of front cover, title-page and pp. 8 and 9: “Liverpool Public Libraries”. In good condition. Consolidated List of Government Publications, 1936, p.147; WorldCat (1 copy: British Library).

17 Rare album with magnificent lithographed views of an untouched Northeast Algeria (Constantine), shortly after the French occupation

29. GUYON, Jean Louis Geneviève. Voyage d’Alger aux Ziban l’Ancienne Zebe en 1847. Avec vues des principales Oasis et de quelques Monuments du Tell, en deça des Aurès, et un portrait du dernier Bey de Constantine. Atlas. Algeria, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1850. Oblong 4°. With full-page portrait of Hadj Hamed (or Ahmet Bey ben Mohammed sherif, the last Bey of Constantine; 1784–ca. 1850), leader of the local population in a fierce resist- ance to the French occupation forces, by Etienne Bocourt, lithographed by Bouijer; 34 full-page views of various parts, cities and Roman remains in Algeria (Constantine), by Aristide Verdalle (33) and Etienne Bocourt (2) and lithographed by Mme. Philippe (23), Bouijer (10), and Bastide (1), all three working in Algiers. The plates, each with its original protective tissue, are numbered 1–20, 20bis, 21–26, 1–2, 2bis, 3–4, 4bis, 5. Half black morocco, brown cloth sides, gold-tooled spine. € 2250

Original and only edition of this apparently rare atlas with a portrait and 34 views of the most important oasis and their houses, mosques and other buildings, such as El Kantara, El Outaia, Biskara (5), Zaouia, Toouda, Sidi-Okba (6), Saâda, M’Lili, Ourlad, Tolga, Marabout, El Bordj, Farfar, Lichana, Bou-Chagroun, Touda, and Caïd de Khanga, and Roman antiquities at Lambasa (Lambaesis) and Diana veteranorum (7: Temples of Victoria and Aesculapius, Arc de Triomphe, etc.) in the region Constantine, northeast Algeria: the Zebe- region as it was called in Roman times. The text belonging to the Atlas, a vol. in 8°., was issued sep- arately, two years after the atlas, in 1852. Most of the scares copies of the atlas we could trace are without this text volume. The magnificent plates provide an good impression of original Algeria shortly after the French occupation. Jean Louis Geneviève Guyon (1794–1870) was a military surgeon who started his career in the ‘Armée Impériale’. In 1838 he became head-surgeon of the French ‘Armée d’Afrique’. He was known for his studies on tropical diseases (yellow fever and cholera). In 1847, in the wake off the French occupation, he made this journey visiting the principal oases and towns in northeast Algeria, still untouched by Western civilization. Binding worn, plates a little foxed, otherwise in good condition. Bibl. Des ouvr. Impr. À Alger, 238; Gay 1065; Taillard 777; not in Blackmer.

The railway to Baghdad that never was

30. [Haifa-Baghdad railway]. Collection of twelve maps of the Middle East relating to the proposed construction of a railway between Haifa and Baghdad. Various places, ca. 1930. 12 maps, various sizes and scales. € 8000

Rare collection of maps relating to the proposed construction of a railway between Haifa and Baghdad. In the 1920s the British contemplated building such a railway that would have connected the Mediterranean with the capital of Iraq, ostensibly to shore up their imperial rule, support the British-backed Arab government of Iraq, and secure the oil pipeline already running from the Mosul oilfields to Haifa. They were also aware that developments of aerial warfare made the Suez Canal susceptible to aerial attacks in wartime, and alternative military routes across the Middle East to

18 India were sought. However, a series of economic difficulties trumped political and military expediency, and with the outbreak of the Second World War, the dream of a trans-Middle Eastern rail service evaporated. The present collection includes: 1) Baghdad (Valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris from Kirkuk (N-S) and Ramadi to Kermanshah (E-W), Baghdad at the centre. Scale 1:1,000,000. 2) Untitled French map, showing Baghdad to Deir-ez-Zor (E-W) and Mosul to Baghdad (N-S). Bureau Topographique des Troupes françaises du Levant, May 1933. Colour-printed. 850 × 630 mm. 3) Untitled map showing the area between Abu Kemal on the Euphrates and Tikrit on the Tigris. 4) Jaffa-Nablous. Jaffa-Amman (E-W). Reproduction of a “carte de reconnaissance” by E. L. Ottoman. Scale 1:200,000. Paris, Service Geographique de l’Armee, 1930. Colour-printed. 690 × 540 mm. 5) Four air photo maps showing Holt’s Zerka Valley Alignment (thus titled by hand, referring to Major A. L. Holt, R.E.). Haifa-Baghdad rly. survey. Trans-Jordan. Surveyed at War Office from photographs by the R.A.F. ground control under the direction of Major R. L. Brown, R. E. Showing a section of the Jordan river and the country east to Jerash. Colour-printed, with the proposed rail route marked in crayon with annotations. Scale 1:24,000. Each map 940 × 730 mm. 6) Four manuscript maps maps, coloured: a) Haifa-Baghdad Railway. Geological Map of Zerka Route, by G. S. Blake, B.Sc., F.G.S. 1934. 1350 × 530 mm. b) Haifa-Baghdad Railway, Geological Plan and Section, by G. S. Blake. 1380 × 880 mm. c) Map of Zerka Route. Haifa-Baghdad Railway. 1500 × 750 mm. d) Geological Section from Damascus to Rutba to show westerly inclination of strata. 1200 × 340 mm. Geological section along proposed route of Haifa Baghdad railway from the Jordan to the Euphrates. Some edge tears with occasional loss to paper but not to the map. A rare survival.

British exploration of the South Arabian coast

31. HAINES, Stafford-Bettesworth. Description des cotes meridionales d’Arabie, depuis l’entre de la Mer Rouge jusqu’a celle du Golfe Persique. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8°. Later library cloth with original publisher’s printed paper front wrapper bound in. € 3850

Offprint from an article in the French Annales hydrographiques, describing the coasts of Yemen and Oman from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. The work first appeared in English in the London geographical journal .... The present French translation was done by J. Passama and J. de la Vaissiere de Laverge. The Persian Gulf was growing in importance for the British during the 19th century because of the “strategic nature of the coast of South Arabia and the necessity for checking the advance of the Turks in that direction. In addition, because the company needed to establish coaling stations for its increasing fleet of steamships, a number of vessels were dispatched to locate suitable sites” (Howgego). Among the most important expeditions was the voyage of the Palinurus under command of Haines. The present French edition is very rare, we only traced one copy, at the French Bibliotheque Nationale. Ex-library copy from the Danish “Marinens Bibliotek”, with its labels and stamps. Otherwise in very good condition. Howgego W20; WorldCat (1 copy).

First modern survey of Palestinian ornithology, privately printed

32. HARDY, Eric (John Conyers D’ARCY, foreword). A handlist of the birds of Palestine. [Jerusalem], Education Officer-in-Chief, G.H.Q., Middle East Forces, [1 January 1946]. Folio. Text in stencil-du- plicated typescript, illustrated with a map of Palestine (35 cm x 22 cm). Sewn, stiff paper covers with the title written by hand on the front cover. Sold

19 First, privately printed, edition of the first modern survey of Palestinian ornithology. Written by British army officer Eric Hardy, and with a foreword by Lieutenant-General John Conyers D’Arcy. The work consists of a comprehensive list of the 364 bird species, and 64 sub-species, native to Palestine. Work was also carried out on problems of migration. Previous to this publi- cation there was no modern and authoritative account of Palestinian birds. Hardy compiled the information recorded as secretary to the Jerusalem Naturalists Club, an organisation founded for the troops of Middle East Command to encourage inquiries into natural history. One of the most notable activities of the Club was the listing of the birds of Palestine. The present “privately printed list” was hoped to be the forerunner of an authoritative and comprehensive handbook of Palestinian ornithology. Part of the text was published in Nature on 12 October 1946 under the title “Birds of Palestine”. A full publication never appeared. Covers slightly worn, paper slightly frayed. Otherwise in good condition. Anton Khalilieh, “Avifauna of Palestine”, in: This week in Palestine, no. 220 (August 2018); Nature 158 (1946); WorldCat (4 copies).

First Istanbul publication on Darwinism, reflecting the early 20th-century Islamic opinion and translated into Ottoman Turkish

Turkish] داروينيزم .(HARTMANN, Karl Robert Eduard von (Memduh SULIEMAN, translator .33 translation of Wahrheit und Irrthum im Darwinismus]. Istanbul, 1329 AH [= 1911 CE]. 8°. With a portrait of Darwin. In Ottoman Turkish, set in Arabic type, with a few words in roman type. Later brown cloth with “DARVINIZM” in gold on the spine and “Kılıçoğlu” gold-stamped on the back board, pink endpapers. € 4500

Rare first and only edition of Hartmann’s analysis of Darwinism, the first book on the subject printed or published at Istanbul and the second in Turkish. It is a translation of Wahrheit and Irrthum im Darwinismus (The truths and mistakes of Darwinism) by Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906), a philosophical examination of Darwinism first published in Berlin in 1875. Here it is translated into Ottoman Turkish (set in Arabic type) by the scholar and translator Memduh Sulieman, about whom less is known, from Georges Guerolt’s (unpublished?) French translation. Sulieman also added a commentary and an apparatus criticus to Hartmann’s work. The present Istanbul Turkish edition was published at the height of the Ottoman debate on Darwin’s evolutionary theories. In the last two decades of the 19th century there was a rising interest in evolution among some Ottoman Turkish intellectuals. Münif Pasha, who also served as minister of education, first discussed Darwin’s theory of evolution in Turkish in his Turkish scientific journal Mecmua-i Fünūn, in 1963. He indicated that science (and therefore the idea of evolution proposed by Darwin) and Islam are not in conflict with each other and would not or should not affect each other. Sulieman objects to this idea in his commentary, reflecting the larger early 20th-century Islamic opinion on Darwinism. He particularly disagrees with the notion of survival of the fittest by means of natural selection, “the biggest mistake of Darwinism”, which he considers incompatible with the theological ideas of Islam. It would take five more years before part of the Darwin’s On the origin of species would be translated into Arabic: the first six chapters published in Cairo in 1918. Sulieman’s Ottoman commentary on Darwinism, moreover, formed an important agent of change, commenting on the Darwinian idea of evolution in a time when Ottoman Turkish debate about it was flourishing. Cloth on the front (left) board beginning to come loose in places, leaves a little browned (especially the last few), title-page and last page slightly damaged in the gutter margin (affecting only one letter, on the title-page). Otherwise in good condition. WorldCat (3 copies, but one mistakenly(?) listed as an “other” edition); cf. Varisco, Daniel. “Darwin and Dunya: Muslim responses to Darwinian evolution”, in: Journal of international and global studies 9 (2018), 2, pp. 15–39.

20 One of 250 copies, signed by the author

34. Hasan, Hadi. A History of Persian Navigation. London , Methuen (printed in Cambridge by W. Lewis, at the University Press), (1928). 4° (210 × 268 mm). With 2 colour-printed plates (one bound as a frontispiece) and 9 plates in monotone. Publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt title to spine, upper cover stamped in gilt and blind. Top edge gilt. Original dust-jacket. € 4500

A history of Persian navigation and trade from the earliest times to the sixteenth century. First edition, on hand made paper, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author (this is number 246). With a preface by Muhammad Iqbal. The Indian scholar Hadi Hasan (1894–1963), a native of Hyderabad, was educated at Cambridge in geology, botany, and chemistry. “On his return to India he played an active role in the freedom movement against British rule and was praised for his work for independence by Mahatma Gandhi” (Encyclopedia Iranica). He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in Persian at the University of London before being “appointed professor and head of the Department of Persian at Aligarh Muslim University, a position he held until 1958” (ibid.). Title-page with collection drystamp; withdrawn from the Mariners’ Museum Library in Newport News, Virginia, with their stamp to the dedication leaf. Dustjacket worn and a little chipped; in all an excellent copy. Wilson 88. Encyclopedia Iranica XI, 436f. OCLC 4517880.

Boundary issues, inscribed by the author

35. Hay, Rupert. The Persian Gulf States and Their Boundary Problems. Reprinted from the Geographical Journal, Vol. CXX, Part 4, December 1954. London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1954. 8°. Includes a map. Original printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Includes an autograph letter signed by the author (Weymouth, 20 Feb. 1955, 2 pp. 8°). € 3500

Rare presentation offprint of this geographical description of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the seven Trucial Sheikhdoms which today form the United Arab Emirates, and their boundary issues in the early 1950s. Signed and inscribed “To Edward + Irene Skinner with compliments” (20 Feb. 1955). Includes an autograph letter signed by Sir Rupert to “Dear Edward” accompa- nying the presentation offprint: “I enclose a copy of a recent paper of mine which you may be interested to see. I have finished the first draft of my book on the Persian Gulf but still have a good deal of revising to do [...].”

21 Numerical systems compared

36. Hervás, Lorenzo, SJ. Aritmetica delle nazioni e divisione del tempo fra l’orientali. Cesena, Gregorio Biasini, 1786. Large 4°. With a folding engraved plate and a folding letterpress table. Contemporary carta rustica binding. € 7500

First edition thus. A highly interesting work comparing the different numerical systems used by various languages and cultures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, North and South American Indian cultures, Chinese, Japanese, Tamil, Coptic, Maori, etc. Separate chapters investigate the European adoption of the Arabic system of numerals. The engraved plate shows the shape of numerals throughout the world, while the folding table compares the pronunciation of the word for the number “6” in a wealth of languages. The Spanish-born Jesuit Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809) counts as one of the most important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century, an enlightened, global, comparative approach to historic and scientific theory. This work also appeared as volume 19 of the author’s monumental 21-volume cosmographical treatise “Idea dell’ Universo” (1778–87), being one of five volumes of the series to be issued separately. Front inner hinge loosened. Untrimmed in the original carta rustica. An early and little-received work of comparative linguistics, pre-dating by many decades the works of Bopp and Schleicher. De Backer/S. IV, 319f., 2.XIX. Not in Riccardi.

A key for the Western knowledge of Arabia at the beginning of the 20th century, by the man who inspired Lawrence of Arabia

37. HOGARTH, David George. The penetration of Arabia. London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1904. Large 8°. With 50 photographs of Medina, Mecca (incl. the Ka’bah, pilgrims camping outside the city praying in the Great Mosque-Precinct and at the Tomb, mostly after the photographs of Snouck Hurgronje), Maskat, Sana, Jidda; portraits of explorers such as Carsten Niebuhr, J.L. Burckhardt, G.A. Wallin, Richard Burton, J. Snouck Hurgronje, Jos. Halévy, W.G. Palgrave, W.S. and Lady Anne Blunt and others, maps of their routes through Arabia and several maps and plans of Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Mecca, Medina, Sana, Riad, etc.; the Teima stone, the first published Himyaritic inscriptions, etc. At the end are bound two folding coloured maps on one large leaf (345 × 675 mm) containing (1) the orthographical, and (2) the land surface features of Arabia. Original green publisher’s cloth, title in gold on the front board with a gold-tooled section of a compass with the signs of the zodiac, title in gold on the spine. € 450

The first edition of this highly interesting and important book on the Arabic peninsula by the archaeologist David George Hogarth (1862 1927) who was from 1909 on keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and president of the Royal Geographical Society. During the First World War, he was acting director of the Arab Bureau in Cairo, where he was instrumental in launching the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks, in which T. E. Lawrence, a protege of his, played so prominent a part. As an archeologist he worked on excavations Cyprus, Greece, Egypt and several countries of the Middle East (1887–1907). This book, published in 1904 as the Hejaz railway was being built, is a summary of earlier explorations in the Arabian peninsula, by both Muslim and European travelers and an attempt to chronicle the growth of Western knowledge about the Arabian Peninsula, rather than a first-hand account based on travel to the region. Hogarth’s first visit to Arabia was not made until 1916, when he travelled to Jeddah with 10,000 in gold to finance the Arab revolt. ‘The

22 purpose of this volume is to describe the exploration of inland Arabia’ is the first sentence of the book, which is instead based on his extensive reading of travel literature, included in a bibliography for each chapter. The book has two sections. In ‘The Pioneers’ he analyzes the historical geography of the region from the time of Claudius Ptolemy (second century AD), and includes discussions of explorations by 18th – and early-to-mid-19th-century travelers such as Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815) and Domingo Badia y Leblich (1766–1818). The second section, entitled ‘The Successors’, covers the travels of mid-19th-century to early 20th-century explorers, including Richard Francis Burton, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, William Gifford Palgrave, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Lady Anne Blunt, and Charles Montague Doughty. Each chapter ends with a bibliography, and all of the chapters contain illustrations, maps, or photographs. With blind stamps on the title-page and the leaf after the title-page and a label mounted on the front pastedown of the Ballarat Public Library (Victoria, Australia). Untrimmed. Small tear in the map, otherwise in good condition. M. J. L., ‘Dr. D. G. Hogarth, C.M.G.’, in: Nature, 120 (1927), pp. 735–737; D.G. Hogarth in: Who’s Who, 59 (1907), p. 855; Bull. NY Publ. Library, 15 (1911), p. 167.

The first book printed with Roman letters in Turkey

38. [HOLDERMANN, Jean-Baptiste Daniel]. Grammaire turque ou méthode courte et facile pour apprendre la langue turque ... Istanbul, [Ibrahim Müteferrika & Zaïd Aga Effendi], 1730. 4°. With a double-page engraved table of Arabic characters. Contemporary full blindstamped calf. € 25 000

First edition of the first book printed with Roman letters in Turkey. Holdermann’s “Grammaire turque” is the first French-Turkish grammar, printed on behalf of the French embassy to the Porte, at the first printing press established in 1726 by Zaid Aga Effendi, son of the Turkish ambassador to France, and Ibrahim Müteferrika. The type apparently was sent out from France especially for this work. Words and phrases are given both in Arabic-script Osmanli and in Roman transliteration. The engraved alphabetic table displays the names and shapes of letter forms for French and Turkish alphabets, including the letter forms used in various styles of Turkish writing for different uses: Nesghi for the Qur’an, Divani for business, Tealik for law and poetry, Kyrma for public registers; Sulus, like capitals, is used for book titles and imperial patents, Jakuti, and Rejani. Since 1719 the French embassy had been calling for improved instruction and grammatical texts, and the present work was compiled by Holdermann “aprés avoir consulté, & conferé avec les plus habils maîtres, sur tout avec le sçavant Ibrahim [Müteferrika] Effendi, sur cet langue” (preface) for the use of the school of the “Enfants des Langues” (the school of the dragomans, or official interpreters) at Constantinople. Holdermann’s book was also adopted as a teaching text by the Jesuit College at Paris, which had received a number of copies from the librarian at the Bibliothèque du Roi, abbé Bignon, in 1731 and 1732. Holdermann, a Jesuit from Strasbourg, spent some four years as a missionary in Constantinople, dying there in 1730. He had projected also a French-Armenian grammar, which was unfinished at the time of his death. Provenance: contemporary ownership of a Vlach nobleman in French service on the lower flyleaf (“Mr Pierre Rhetorides Grand Vornike de Valachie et Michmandare de Sa Hautesse le Grand Marechale de Frence”). The principality of Wallachia was then vassal state of the Ottoman Empire supported by France between 1730 and 1769. Binding a little rubbed; corners bumped. Insignificant traces of worming to lower gutter near the beginning; dampstain to margin of first quire and diffuse dampstains to pp. 131–138. The first leaf of the index is bound after the title-page, the remaining two at the end. Complete with the final errata leaf. Blackmer 824. Atabey 586. Zenker 304. De Backer/Sommervogel IV, 431, 1. Toderini, Letteratura turchesca (1787) III, 89–97. Watson, “Ibrahim Müteferrika and Turkish incunabula”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 88.3 (1968), 435–441 at p. 437, no. 8. Brunet II, 1693 (“volume peu commun et assez recherché”).

23 Jewish immigration displacing the Arab population

39. Hope Simpson, Sir John. Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. [Cmd. 3686.] – Appendix Containing Maps [Cmd. 3687.] London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1930. Large 8° (245 × 155 mm). 2 vols., comprising text volume and appendix of maps: 5 folding maps, all but one col- our-printed, folding graph at end of text volume. Original blue-green wrappers. € 15 000

Complete with the very rare appendix of maps. In reaction to the 1929 violent unrest in Palestine, the British government in 1930 sent the Shaw Commission (“Palestine. Statement with regard to British policy”, Cmd. 3582) to report on the situation in the Mandate. This concluded that Jewish immigration pressurized and displaced the Arab population, and rejected the view that the Jewish National Home was the principal feature of the Mandate. The Shaw Commission recommended an investigation into Palestine’s economic absorp- tive capacity of Jewish immigration, and the present publication, Sir John Hope Simpson’s report, concluded that the increasing number of Jewish land purchases was leading to a growing population of landless Arabs. Hope Simpson’s recommendations of reduced Jewish immigration and restrictions on land transfers were adopted by the Passfield White Paper (“Palestine. Statement of policy by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom”, Cmd. 3692) that same year. Maps 1 and 6 with very small holes at some creasefolds and a few very short marginal tears and nicks, maps and accompanying text in appendix with light dog-earing. Map 3 apparently never issued. Wrappers to text volume faintly creased, appendix unevenly faded and extrem- ities lightly rubbed. Extremely rare. Khalidi & Khadduri 1658. Cf. Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014), p. 79.

Massive navigational directory, with sections on the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Gulf

40. HORSBURGH, James, Gerrit KUIJPER and D. BOES LUTJENS. Zeemans-gids, naar, in en uit Oost-Indiën, China, Japan, Australiën, de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Braziliën en tusschenliggende havens, volgens de vierde Engelsche uitgave van James Horsburgh, ... Amsterdam, C.F. Stemler, (back of half-title: printed in Haarlem by H. Bakels), 1841. 4°. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gold, marbled sides. € 3750

First edition of the Dutch translation, based on the fourth English edition, of a massive navigational directory, with exhaustive information on the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, including detailed entries on Sharjah, Dubai (“Debay”), Abu Dhabi (“Abozhubbie”) and Bahrain, not only covering nav- igational details, but also the inhabitants, pearl fishery, geography, commerce etc. It was compiled by James Horsburgh (1762–1836), hydrographer and chart maker to the British East India Company, chiefly from recent journals of ships employed by the Company. The present edition was not only translated but also expanded by the engineer Gerrit Kuijper and merchant D. Boes Lutjens. The rest of the text contains sailing routes to different parts of the world, mostly India, Southeast Asia and the East Indies, but also covering the African coasts, China, Japan, Australia and Brazil. This copy has an extra leaf after the index, containing a list of subscribers. Large bookplate on the front paste-down and the Antwerp Maritime museum’s blind stamp on the half-title. Owner’s inscription at head of half-title. Binding worn along the extremities, small label on front board. Otherwise in very good condition. Cat. NHSM, pp. 76–77; cf. Cook, “Horsburgh, James (1762–1836)”, in: ODNB (online ed.).

24 On the sediments of the Arabian Gulf

41. HOUBOLT, Jacob Jozef Herman Christiaan. Surface sediments of the Persian Gulf near the Qatar Peninsula. The Hague, Mouton & co., 1957 8°. With 8 leaves with reproductions of (microscopic) photographs, 8 loosely inserted folding tables and maps, a loose leaf with theses in Dutch and Houbolt’s business card. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers. € 650

First edition of a thesis on sediment samples of the Arabian Gulf, by the Dutch Jacob Jozef Herman Christiaan Houbolt. He mentions in his preface that the samples were “collected as a sideline of operational activities in the marine concession of Shell Company of Qatar”. Houbolt describes the climate and topography of the Arabian Gulf, the relief sea bottom in the Arabian Gulf, his methods of investigation, the composition of the sediment, and his results. One corner creased, spine slightly discoloured. Otherwise in good condition. Clarke, Change and development in the Middle East, p. 186.

British military terrain map of the Arabian Gulf, published in Calcutta

42. Hunter, Frederic Fraser (ed.) / Burrard, Sir Sidney Gerald (director). Southern Asia series – Southern Persia sheet – Persia, Arabia and Turkey in Asia. [Dehra Dun, Survey of India Office], sold at the Map Record and Issue Office, Calcutta, 1912. 615 × 880 mm, on a scale of 1:2,000,000. Large heliozincographed folding map in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints. Folded. € 4500

Large detailed terrain map of the Arabian Gulf and the surrounding area with a legend of geographic denominations in English, Arabic, and Farsi, such as “Fort: Qasr (Arabic), Kaleh, Kalat (Persian)”. The map shows terrain levels in particular detail and the major roads, railways and telegraph lines. The sheet latitude limits are: 24°–32° north and 44°–60° south, including Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. The map was published in 1912 by the India Survey Office under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard (1860–1953), who was Colonel and Surveyor General of India in that year. He was majorly invested in the geographical and cartographic survey of India, especially the Himalayas, and retired one year after the publication of the present map. The map is based on Frederic Fraser Hunter’s (1876–1959) first large scale general map of Arabia for the India Survey Office in 1906–08. Hunter was also involved as editor in the creation of the present Southern Persia map. As the Southern Persia sheet the present map is part of a very large nine-sheet combined map covering the area from the Red Sea to India, called the “Survey of India Southern Asia Series” (1912–45). The present map and a separately published index could be obtained only on application through an officer at theM ap Record and Issue Office in Calcutta. Some slight foxing, a tiny tear on the crossing of two folds, bottom edge frayed. Otherwise in good condition. D. Foliard, Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula. In: Geographies of Contact (2019), pp. 71–76. F. F. Hunter, Reminiscences of the Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, in: GJ 54 (1919), pp. 355–363.

25 The greatest work of Islamic medicine, illustrated

43. Ibn Sina (Avicenna). (Canon medicinae). Ex Gerardi Cremonensis versione, & Andreae Alpagi Belunensis castigatione. Venice, Bernardo Giunta & Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1608. Folio (240 × 350 mm). Vol. 1 (of 3). Title-page and half-title printed in red and black; half-title with an engraved border showing great medical practitioners. Further with woodcut device on title, a nearly full-page woodcut diagram of the ocular anatomy, and 2 full-page woodcuts with a total of 6 illustrations showing the practice of osteopathy. Near-contemporary full calf with giltstamped label to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled red. € 9500

Rare, early illustrated edition of “the most famous medical text ever written” (Garrison/M. 43). Giunta’s was the first edition ever to contain illustrations (six meticulous woodcuts of a physician performing chiropractic treatments, as well as a diagram of the human eye anatomy). The present volume, the first and by far most copious of a set of three commonly bound in two volumes, comprises books 1 through 3 (out of 5). Ibn Sina’s “Keta-b al-qanun fi’l-tebb” (“Canon of Medicine”), written in Arabic but widely translated throughout the Middle Ages and the basis of medical training in the West as late as the mid-17th century. Finished in 1025, the Qanun is divided into 5 books, devoted to the basic principles of medicine, the Materia Medica (listing about 800 drugs), pathology, diseases affecting the body as a whole and finally the formulary. Ibn Sina (c. 980–1037), in the West known by his Latinized name Avicenna, was physician to the ruling caliphs. The influence of his Qanun can hardly be overes- timated. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, it became a standard textbook of Galenic medicine, influencing many generations of physicians. “From the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century Avicenna held a high place in Western European medical studies, ranking together with Hippocrates and Galen as an acknowledged authority” (Weisser). “[T]he final codification of all Greco-Arabic medicine. It dominated the medical schools of Europe and Asia for five centuries” (Garrison/M. 43). Some light brownstaining, mainly confined to upper margin. Early 20th century bookplate to front pastedown. Binding uncom- monly well preserved; a very appealing copy. Krivatsy 496. OCLC 4457623. Cf. M. H. Fikri, Heritage Library, Scientific Treasures, p. 57, no. 23. Norman 1590. N. G. Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy (2014), pp. 140, 165. Garrison/M. 43f. Hayes, Genius of Arab Civilisation, Source of Renaissance, pp. 168–169. PMM 11.

Inside an Ottoman printing office

44. IHSAN, Ahmed. [Title on back wrapper:] Ahmed Ihsan & Co ... Etablissement typographique, lithographique et de reliure ... Journal illustré Servet-i-Funoun XXIe année. Istanbul, Nouri-Osmanié, 1912 [= AH] 1328. Oblong 4°. With a title-page in Turkish on the front (left!) wrapper and a title-page in French on the back (right!) wrapper, 11 black & white photographic illustrations, text in Ottoman Turkish set in Arabic type. Original publisher’s red printed paper wrappers. € 1850

Illustrated advertising booklet presenting the Istanbul-based letterpress and lithographic printing office Ahmet Ihsan & Co., one of the leading names of the late Ottoman Empire printing, founded in 1890. The 11 illustrations depict the printing workshop, offices, staff and building. It is written in Ottoman Turkish with a title-page in French on the back wrapper. Oddly, the pages (numbered in the Arabic script) progress from left to right like a Western book, so that the left wrapper is the front and the right

26 the back. It is not clear whether this booklet is the complete annual issue (vol. 21) of the Journal illustré Servet-i-Funoun or (more likely) an insert published with it. Ahmet İhsan Tokgöz (1868–1942) was editor and publisher of the influential modernist magazine Servet-i-Funoun [Servetifunun: haftalık resimli turk gazetesi, (1891–1944)], which brought together influences from the West and from the Ottoman tradition. He lead the magazine from its foundation in 1888 to his death. He was responsible for the translation of great French novelists such as Jules Verne, Alphonse Daudet, Bourget, Octave Feuillet and others, making the most refined works of fiction from West- European literature accessible to Ottoman circles, which had been hitherto scarcely accustomed either to any kind of reading or to the Western conception of life. Spotted throughout. Wrappers detached, quires loose. Otherwise in good condition. https://archives.saltresearch.org/handle/123456789/197004; for the author: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st ed. (1913–1936).

“Abu Thabi” the major settlement on the Trucial Coast

45. Imray, James F[rederick]. Indian Ocean. London, James Imray and Son, 1885. Engraved map, ca. 103 × 192 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale, approx. 1:10,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depth shown by isolines and soundings. € 3000

Large blue-backed hydrographic chart of the Indian Ocean, showing an area between the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand. Extends north to include the Arabian and Indian peninsulas, Philippines, and much of China. Shows the Gulf coast as far north as Al-Latif, identify- ing “Abu Thabi” as the major settlement on the Trucial Coast. Includes courses of currents and standard tracks for shipping through the ocean, with nine inset maps of islands and coastal features (Cargados Carajos; Coetivy; Rodrigues; Des Roches; Farquhar Passage; Tromelin; Réunion; Saint Paul; Saint Denis). Stamped “Imray & Son, London, 1886”. Noticeable browning and staining; several edge and corner defects as well as paper flaws in the map professionally repaired (some corner loss and slight loss near Capetown). Signs of contemporary use with several pencil markings. Cf. OCLC 884378574 (1879 edition). Tooley II, 407.

Rare account

46. Jacob, Harold [Fenton]. Perfumes of Araby. Silhouettes of Al Yemen. London, Martin Secker, [1915]. Large 8°. With photo-engraved frontispiece. Uncut. Publisher’s beige cloth; top edge stained blue. € 1500

First edition. – Rare account of Yemen by Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob, Political Agent in Aden. From the library of M(urray) A(lexander) M(ungo) Graham (1924–2008) with his ownership stamp (dated 3 Nov. 1965) on front pastedown. Graham, a Rhodesian-born chemical engineer for BP in Yemen, enjoyed great respect as an amateur historian of the military, naval and postal history of British Aden. Covers very slightly soiled; corners insignificantly bumped. Minor foxing and brownstaining to first and final pages, endpapers and tissue guard toned. A good copy. The Peter Hopkirk copy, in comparable condition, fetched £805 at Sotheby’s 1998 sale. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1301. OCLC 5142318.

27 The most spectacular sea-atlas ever published: a magnificent copy with noble provenance

47. Jaillot, Hubert / Mortier, Pierre. Neptunus, De Fransche, of Nieuwe Atlas van de Zeekarten, opgenommen en gegraveerd door uitsrukkelyke order des Konings, tot het gebruik van zyne zeemachten … Overgezien … door de Heeren Pene, Cassini, en anderen. Zee Atlas tot het gebruik van de vlooten des Konings van Groot Britanje … – Vervolg van de Neptunus, of Zee Atlas van de Nieuwe Zee-Karten; Opgenomen door Uitdrukkelyke Order der Koningen van Portugaal … En in’t light gebraght door de sorge van wylen d’Heer d’Ablancourt … Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1693–1700. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Elephant folio (527 × 650 cm). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, large engraving of a sailing ship on title, full-page engraved plate of scales, full-page engraved view of an admiral’s ship and series of 18 numbered full-page views of ships, 12 full-page plates of flags, double-page engraved chart of the world, and 29 double-page engraved charts of the coasts of Europe; beautiful engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, large engraving of a sailing ship on title and 9 full-page and double-page charts of the coasts of the English Channel, including a splendid large folding chart of the coasts of the Mediterranean with a large number of views and plans of the Mediterranean towns in the borders by Romeyn de Hooghe in the second part; and engraved coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on title, full-page engraved plate of the winds, and 34 mostly double-page engraved charts of the coasts outside Europe, of Africa, Asia, and America in the third part, all engravings, including the vignettes on titles, the plates of scales and the winds, all magnificently coloured and heightened in gold throughout by a strictly contemporary hand. Contemporary richly gilt marbled calf. € 450 000

First edition of the undoubtedly most beautiful and most spectacular sea-atlas of the 17th century, a complete and unusually well-preserved copy with noble provenance: the engravings in publisher’s colour and heightened in gold, bound in decorative publisher’s gilt marbled-leather bindings. “The ‘Neptune François’ and its second part ‘Cartes Marines à l’usage du Roy de la Grande Bretagne’ was the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of this kind. For the engraving and etching Mortier had recruited the most qualified artists … In 1700, Mortier brought out a third volume with charts of the outer-European waters, of French origin edited by N. P. d’Ablancourt: ‘Suite de Neptune François’. Apart from the first volume which had a second edition in 1703, none of the atlases was republished. This magnificent work was intended more as a show-piece than something to be used by the pilots at sea” (Koeman). The second part was engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe, the prolific late

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Dutch Baroque painter: “This volume is usually bound together with the first part, the ‘Neptune François’. It only contains nine large charts, but this small number represents the most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam” (Koeman). In addition to the charts called for by the table of contents, part one has a fine world map (Shirley 559). The 3 plates of ships listed at the beginning of the table will be found in part 3, which thus has 19 plates of ships instead of the 18 called for by the table and the 12 (!) mentioned by Koeman. Hardly any browning or foxing; a few light creases to gutters. As usual the copper green colouring in volume one has

32 turned into a brownish hue and caused acidic damage to a few small sections of six maps. From a southern German castle library with small 18th century bookplate pasted to verso of both engraved titles; old shelfmark pencilled to inside of covers. Bindings only slightly worn. Extremely rare: the last comparable copy on the market was the Wardington copy, sold at Sotheby’s in 2006 (lot 318), where it commanded £209,600 (also boasting a noble German provenance, with the colouring and binding like ours). Koeman M. Mor 3, 6 & 8. Cf. Pastoureau, Neptune Ba. One of the author’s most sought-after works

48. Klaproth, Heinrich Julius von. Mémoires relatifs a l’Asie, contenant des recherches historiques, géographiques et philologiques sur les peuples de l’Orient. Paris, Dondey-Dupré père & fils, 1824–1828. 8°. 3 vols. With a total of 9 engraved plates (3 folding), 5 (instead of 6) folding engraved maps (1 repeated), and a 2-part table. Contemporary full French mottled calf with gilt cover borders and leading edges; spines prettily gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, remaining edges red. € 3500

First edition of this important collection of treatises and essays, one of the author’s most sought-after works. The first volume appeared separately in 1824; the three-volume set to which the collection was subsequently expanded usually contains the first volume in the 1826 re-issue only. Several of the treatises make use of Middle Eastern sources or discuss the languages of the region. Very early in life, Klaproth (1783–1835) devoted his energies to the study of Asiatic languages, publishing his “Asiatisches Magazin” in 1802. He was appointed to the academy in St. Petersburg, and in 1805 he was a member of Count Golovkin’s embassy to China. On his return he was despatched by the academy to the Caucasus on an ethnographical and linguistic explora- tion (1807–08) and was afterwards employed for several years in connection with the academy’s Oriental publications. In 1815 he settled in Paris, where in 1816 Humboldt helped procure him the title and salary of professor of Asiatic languages and literature from the king of Prussia, with permission to remain in Paris as long as was requisite for the publication of his works. Apparently lacking a map in volume 2. The folding map of the Potocki Archipelago is found in both the first and the second volumes. A good, clean set in contemporary bindings, the spines bearing the crowned monogram MED. Provenance: from the collection of Roberto Gulbenkian (1923–2009). A rare work; only three other copies in auction records of the last three decades. Cordier Sinica I, 68. Lust 91. Morrison II, 139. Howgego II, p. 326, K15. Henze III, 41.

Thirteenth century history of Sindh

49. [al-Kufi, `Ali Ibn-Hamid] / Kalichbeg Fredunbeg, Mirza (transl.). The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind, Giving the Hindu Period down to the Arab Conquest [...]. Karachi, at the Commissioner’s Press, 1900. 8°. Original cloth-backed printed wrappers. € 2800

First complete English edition. – One of the few written sources about the Arab conquest of Sindh (now in Pakistan) and the origins of Islam in India, translated from a 13th century Persian text by Ali, son of Muhammad Kufi, itself the translation of an undated Arabic manuscript. A chronicle of the Chacha dynasty, following the demise of the Rai dynasty and the ascent of Chach of Alor to the throne, down to the Arab conquest by Muhammad bin Qasim, it narrates the Arab inclusions into Sindh of the 7th to 8th centuries, concluding with an epilogue on the tragic end of the Arab commander Muhammad ibn al-Kasim and of the two daughters of Dahir, the defeated king of Sindh. Co-opted by various interest groups for centuries, the Chach Nama has significant implications for modern imaginings about the place of Islam in South Asia, that remain disputed to this day. Handwritten ownership in ink to upper wrapper. Light foxing to covers and variously through- out. Altogether a good copy of a rare work; no copy in auction records. OCLC 315332365. Not in Ghani or Wilson. Cf. Asif, A Book of Conquest (2016); Friedmann, The origins and significance of the Chach Nama, in: Islam in Asia: South Asia (1984), pp. 23–37.

34 Unrecorded information guide for British employees of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in Al Ahmadi, just before the commencement of drilling in 1952, with highly-detailed information of Ahmadi as headquarters of the KOC

50. KUWAIT OIL COMPANY. Information for new engagements on joining the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited, Kuwait. Al Ahmadi, Kuwait Oil Company, 18 June 1952. Small 2° (33 × 20.5 cm). Printed on the rectos only in purple ink, probably by a spirit duplicator. Loose sheets, stapled together at the left top corner and hole-punched in the left margin. € 2500

Unrecorded information guide for (new) employees of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) which would be residenced in Al Ahmadi, being headquarters of the Kuwait Oil Company. The Kuwait Oil Company was founded in 1934, being a joint venture between the British Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the American company Gulf Oil. In the same year, for 75 years the oil concession rights were granted to the KOC by the sheik of Kuwait, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (ruling from 1921–1950). The first oil was discovered in 1938 in Burgan field, followed by discoveries in Magwa in 1951, Al Ahmadi in 1952, and many more. In 1946 the first commercial shipment took place. Because the initial development of the KOC coincided with the end of the British Raj in India, many British and Indian people were transferred to Kuwait, in particular to Al Ahmadi. Al Ahmadi was set up to house these workers. The small booklet is, as the foreword says, “intended as a guide for new staff arriving in Kuwait”. It provided the most important information to the new British employees in Ahmadi, being published there in 1952, right after they discovered the oil and started drilling it. We know that it was intended for the new British staff, because it contains some information of airmail posting times to the United Kingdom. Besides this, the work is highly detailed, including information on for example procedures at arrival, accommodation (bachelor camps, arrangements for women, floating staff), the Kuwaiti, sea baggage, shopping facilities, illnesses, church services, cash offices, political agencies, the ordering of newspapers and periodicals, transport, meal times, alcohol, on “His Highness the Ruler”, insurances, on dogs and the veterinary surgeon, fire precautions, furniture rental and many more. Also the clubs and societies for the employees’ spare time are extensively discussed, for example Hubara Club, the Cumberland Yacht Club, the Ahmadi Riding Club, the Johnie Patrick Club, but also sports clubs and the cinemas. On page [2] is an extensive index, so one could find easily the information they needed. On the last page, page 22, there is a “list of essential telephone numbers”, for example the phone number of the dentist, fire station and police. This unrecorded guide is quite rare, especially because it seems to be a quite cheaply produced and ephemeral document which was issued only in small numbers for in-house circulation. At some places only very slightly frayed and creases along the edges and corners, staple a little rusted, leaves slightly toned, some leaves a little cut short (only with loss of some of the phrases mentioning the next page), but overall an unrecorded and rare guide for employees of the Kuwait Oil Company in Ahmadi which is in remarkably good condition.

British admiral’s eye witness report of Arab slavers activity in Zanzibar

51. LLOYD, Rodney Maclaine. Reporting proceedings on detached boat service. Zanzibar, 9 July 1886. Folio (ca. 20 × 32 cm), with the Britannia watermark. Signed manuscript letter. Loose single sheet. € 3500

Handwritten eye witness account of British chasing Arab slavers at sea near Kwale and Pungume Islands at Zanzibar (Tanzania), for the purpose of suppressing the African slave trade. Written onboard the HMS Briton by Royal Navy Admiral Rodney Maclaine Lloyd (1841–1911) of Thornbury, Gloucestershire. From 21 March 1884 to 14 July 1887 he

35 commanded HMS Briton and worked at suppressing the African slave trade, spending much time patrolling around Zanzibar. In the present manuscript he reports on specific events in attempting to suppress the ongoing slave trade at Zanzibar, revealing also the skill and agility of Arab navigators to ply the waters even in winds and turbulent waters. He further mentions Arab dhows being disguised by flying British flags. He gives details on the amount of slaves: “On the 28th a Dhow flying Arab colours was boarded off Ras Buyu & brought in to port having 7 slaves on board.” and “On the 30th a Dhow flying Arab colours the Emineh from Dar-es-Salaam was boarded at Zanzibar & having 1 slave on board was brought to the ship.” The text ends abruptly without naming the Arab vessels as the final sentence suggests would do. The Zanzibar slave market was closed on 5 June 1873, but slave trading continued in East Africa until well into the 1880s, as is described in the present document. In 1907 slavery was finally abolished entirely in Zanzibar and Pemba. Some creasing and age-toning primarily at extremities, otherwise in very good condition.

The Conquest of Oran

52. Lobo Huerta, Eugénio Gerardo. Rasgo epico, de la conquista de Oran, que à la diversion de los oficiales de los regimientos de guardias espanolas, y walonas, dedica el afecto de Don Eugenio Gerardo Lobo [...]. Lisbon, Imprenta de Musica, [1738]. 4°. Disbound from a larger volume with near-contemporary handwritten foliation. € 750

Rare Lisbon edition of the epic poem about the 1732 capture of Oran by the Spanish army, written by the soldier and poet Eugenio Gerardo Lobo Huerta (1679–1750), first published in Spain in 1732. After having held the city since 1509 but losing it to Moorish forces in 1708, the Spanish recaptured it from the Deylik of Algiers in 1732 and managed to control the town for the next six decades. Lobo, who himself participated in the battle and was severely wounded, dedicated this work in 170 numbered octavas to his comrades; his practice of poetry earned him the nickname “Capitán Coplero” (“captain of couplets”). Only eight copies traced in libraries internationally. Aguilar Piñal V, 967. BGUC Misc., 78. OCLC 858632525.

The Seventh Arab Petroleum Congress

53. Loutfi, Galal / Jaber, Ali S[alama]. Geology of the Upper Albian- Campanian Succession in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia, Neutral Zone, Offshore Area. Paper No. 62 (B-3). [Kuwait], Arabian Oil Company, Ltd. (Japan), 1970. Large 4° (206 × 285 mm). With one map in the text, 3 folding diagrams and 4 numbered plates (plate II and IV compris- ing 3 pages each), as well as 4 corresponding pages of captions. Original printed wrappers. Stapled and perforated. € 1500

36 Rare conference paper for the Seventh Arab Petroleum Congress organized by the Secretariat General of the League of Arab States, held in Kuwait from March 16 to 22, 1970. Authored by the geologist Galal Loutfi and the paleontologist AliS alama Jaber, it discusses the stratigraphiy of three oil fields in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabian Neutral Zone offshore area, namely Khafji, Hout, and Dorra. The illustrations show the geologic profile of the area with its various rock formations, as well as microfacies of four different kinds of limestone in a total of 33 figures. Front cover slightly brownstained along edges; a larger trace of glue on inside of lower cover; interior otherwise crisp and clean. A single copy located in libraries worldwide (Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Genève). OCLC 716527649.

Exploration of Iran’s major river

54. LYNCH, Henry Blosse. Notes on the present state of the Karun river, between Shushter and the Shat-el-Arab. [London, Wiley, October 1891]. 4°. With a lithograph illustration in the text. Modern blue wrappers. € 395

Abstract from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, vol. 13, no. 10. The work describes the survey of the Karun river by Henry Blosse Lynch in the years 1888–1889. It is illustrated with a lithographed birds-eye view of the Karun river near Shushter, where an ancient ruined dam is present. The Karun river flows in Iran and is the country’s longest and most prominent waterway. It ends in Basra, Iraq. In very good condition.

Illustrated description of the famous Al-Ahsa oasis

55. MACKIE, J.B. Hasa: an Arabian oasis. [London, W. Clowes, March 1924]. 4°. With 9 black and white photograph illustrations. Modern blue wrappers. € 850

Abstract from The geographical journal, vol LXIII, no 3. Description of the famous Al-Ahsa oasis in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula, in modern day Saudi Arabia. The 9 photograph illustrations depict daily life and architecture of the people that live at the oasis. Historically, Al-Ahsa was the main city in Al-Bahrain province, making up most of its population and providing most of its agricultural output. In very good condition.

37 The first Arabic dictionary printed in the Arab world: documenting a turning point in the history of Arabic thought

56. [MARCEL, Jean Joseph]. Vocabulaire Français-Arabe, contenant les mots principaux et d’un usage plus journalier. Cairo, L’Imprimerie Nationale, an VII de la République [1798]. 8°. Marbled paper wrappers. € 1500

First and only edition, incomplete copy (lacks pp. 25–80). Unquestionably the rarest and most important of the early books printed in the Middle East, published in Cairo in the very year modern European printing was introduced into the Arab world: only in October 1798 did Jean-Joseph Marcel (1776–1854) arrive in Cairo with his employees and types to organize the Imprimerie Orientale. “For, leaving aside the Hebrew printing presses in Egypt of the 16th to the 18th centuries, until this date announcements and news adressed to Arabs there, as well as in other parts of the Arab-Islamic world, had been spread only in hand-writing or orally, by criers, preachers or storytellers” (Glass & Roper). Marcel’s dictionary, supplemented by a French- Arabic phrasebook (p. 71 onwards), is a pocket-size guide to aid communication with the local popu- lation. Words and phrases are organized by subject (numbers, sizes and weights, heaven and earth, time, clothing, professions, military terms, animals, plants, antiques and monuments, etc.). Marcel’s preface gives useful instructions for the correct pronunciation of certain Arabic letters (shown) and of the Arabic words and phrases, which are given in Latin transliteration throughout the volume. Of the utmost rarity: no copies recorded in the trade or in auction records since the early 20th century; a single copy in Worldcat (BM Lyon), to which KVK adds two more in the UK (Bodleian and Cambridge University Library). The copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France is incomplete, lacking the title-page and the final leaf. Lacking pp. 25–80, as noted, and last leaf damaged, otherwise in good condition. Ebert 458; D. Glass & G. Roper, “The printing of Arabic books in the Arab world”, in: Middle Eastern languages and the print revolution (2002), pp. 177–225, at p. 182; Schnurrer 141; not in Vater & Jülg; Zaunmüller; for the importance of the first modern printing press in the Arab world see also Albert Hourani, Arabic thought in the liberal age 1798–1939 (1983).

USAF pilot’s map of the Arabian Gulf

57. [Map – Arabian Gulf]. Persian Gulf. ONC-H-6/7. Operational navigation chart. St. Louis, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, U.S. Air Force, 1969. Two copies of two folding maps colour printed on both sides of a sheet of silk (103 × 78.5 cm) on a scale of ca. 1:1,000,000. The two maps (ONC-H-6 & ONC-H-7) show one continuous area. € 4500

38 Rayon pilot’s map of the Arabian Gulf region focusing on the Trucial States (modern United Arab Emirates), Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia, including the main oil installations. Items of specific interest to aircraft, such as airfields and even seaplane bases, are particularly listed. Warnings to stay within the specific flying routes while in Iran are placed on multiple locations. While the map depicts a continuous area on both sides of one sheet, it actually consists of two maps, originally published separately. We here include two copies so the whole area can be displayed at once. The maps are reproduced after the third and fourth edition. In very good condition.

Mediaeval poem on corals and gemstones, attributed to an Arab king

58. [Marbod of Rennes]. Evax, King of Arabia / Heinrich von Rantzau (ed.). De gemmis, scriptum Evacis regis Arabum. Leipzig, Georg Deffner, 1585. 4°. With woodcut title vignette and 7 woodcuts in the text (one full-page). Modern calf using the remains of a 16th century binding with blindstamped rules and roll-tools. Edges red. € 4500

Rare 16th century edition of this poem on gemstones, ascribed to the legendary Evax, king of Arabia, and sometimes entered in bibliographies accordingly (cf. BM-STC or ThorndikeI, 776), though in fact written by Marbod, the bishop of Rennes, in the late 11th century. The book, which survives in more than sixty manuscripts, was first printed in Vienna in 1511 as “Libellus de lapidibus pretiosis”; the present Leipzig edition is only the third to attribute authorship to King Evax on the title-page. Sources include Pliny, Isidore of Seville, Origines, Orpheus, and Solinus. “In short, Marbod’s work briefly describes 60 gemstones, which number includes several that are not now considered to be in that category, and gives for each their magical and medicinal virtues” (Sinkankas, p. 665). They include mythical stones, mineral species such as emeralds, onyx, magnets, carbuncles, hematite, asbestos, etc., with numerous varieties of quartz, stones coming from the body of an animal, and several other hard substances that are not really minerals at all, among which is coral, described as “a stone that lives in the ocean, forming branches like wicker” (E3v). “One of the questions connected with this work is whether it is by Marbodus or by an Arab called Evax. It has arisen because the poem opens with an allusion to a person of that name. Lessing does not see why Evax should not have written a work on precious stones, or why Marbod should have said that his poem was extracted from Evax’s work, if it were not so. Reinesius thinks Marbodus made himself the interpreter of Evax” (Ferguson). Today, all scholars “agree that Marbod was the true author and Evax an invention” (Sinkankas). The present editor, the German humanist Henrik Rantzau (1526–98), was an associate of Tycho Brahe. At the end of the book he includes an illustrated genealogy of his own family. He “states that the poems of Marbod are here issued completely for the first time ‘as far as he knows’, although this is not the case” (ibid.). Rather severely browned throughout; several 17th century underlinings and marginal annotations. Gutter repaired and completely rebound in the 20th century with modern endpapers but using old material for the covers. VD 16, M 935 (R 878). BM-STC German 291. Sinkankas 4179. Ferguson II, 74. Not in Adams.

For use of the Naval Intelligence Division

59. (Mason, Kenneth; A. N. Sherwin-White et al.). Iraq and the Persian Gulf. (Oxford, University Press for the) Naval Intelligence Division, 1944. 8°. With 236 photo illustrations, 97 maps and text-figures (some folding), and folded full-colour map of the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran; map of “Communicationd of Iraq” in lower cover pouch. Original giltstamped green cloth. € 950

39 Geographical Handbooks Series (for official use only) B.R. 524 (Restricted). In-depth, profusely illustrated discussion of Iraq and the Arabian Gulf region, with a close description of what was then referred to as the “Trucial Coast” between Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Produced during WWII for use of the Naval Intelligence Division, “to provide, for the use of Commanding Officers, information in a comprehensive and convenient form about contries which they may be called upon to visit, not only in war but in peace-time”. The book’s contents are, “however, by no means confined to matters of purely naval interest. For many purposes (e.g. history, administration, resources, communications, etc.) countries must necessarily be treated as a whole, and no attempt is made to limit their treatment exclusively to coastal zones” (1942 preface). Spine faded to yellow, interior sound. Ink ownership of M. H. Parry-Williams to front pastedown. OCLC 220468550.

The Conquest of Oran

60. [Monterroyo Mascarenhas, José Freire de]. Noticia da destruiçam da armada argelina, que soya turquia buscar soccorro para sitiar Oran por mar, e terra [...]. Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1733. 4°. With woodcut title-vignette and armorial headpiece. Pamphlet. € 850

Very rare report about one of several unsuccessful attempts by Muslim forces to recapture Oran, causing the loss of five Algerian and two Ottoman battle ships. Published anonymously by José Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas (1670–1760), the polyglot editor of numerous travel accounts and topical pamphlets. In Spanish hands since 1509, Oran had been captured by the Turks in 1708 while Spain was occupied with the War of the Spanish Succession. Spanish rule was re-established in Oran in July 1732, after which the fleet and the soldiers sent by Philip V returned to Spain, leaving a garrison of six thousand men in the city. In August of the same year, Hassan Bey intended to retake Oran, having asked for help from the Bey of Algiers. Hassan Bey repeatedly attacked the city for several months, allying himself with the Turks and the Algerians, but the city would remain under Spanish rule until 1792, when it suffered a massively destructive earthquake and King Charles IV handed the city back to the Ottoman Empire. Rare; only five copies traceable in libraries worldwide. Barbosa Machado II, 856. Inocêncio V, 348. BGUC Misc., 81. Fonseca, Pseudonymos, 236. OCLC 27862273.

An Arabic work on alchemy, quoted by Goethe

61. Morienus (Romanus). De transfiguratione metallorum, et occulta, summaque antiquorum philosophorum medicina, libellus. [Chrysorrhemon]: sive de arte chymica. Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius, 1593. Bound after: (2): Mock, Jakob. De causis concretionis et dissolutionis rerum quarundam, tam extra quam intra corpus humanum. Tractatio historica, philosophica et medica, secundum veterum ac recentiorum placita descripta, & in tres partes distributa. Freiburg im Breisgau, Martin Böckler, 1596. 8°. Contemporary full vellum; lacks ties. € 6500

40 Final and best 16th century edition of this alchemical work originally written in Arabic, the first edition having appeared at Paris in 1559. The legendary Byzantine monk Morienus is said to have gone to Alexandria to study with the Arabian scholar Adfar, whose favourite student he became. Subsequently settling in Jerusalem as a hermit, he devoted his life to the hermetic arts before he learned that Khalid, the Sultan of Egypt, “was desirous to find some one who could interpret for him the writings of Hermes and of Adfar” (Ferguson II, 109). Morienus supposedly went to Egypt and instructed Khalid in the art of creating the elixir for the philosopher’s stone. “The ultimate fate of Morienus is unknown, but his conversations with Kalid must have been committed to writing, and they may have come to the West about the time of the Crusades. They were in Arabic, but to make them available they were translated into Latin in February, 1182, by Robertus Castrensis, with a short preface” (Ferguson). No Arabic sources have been discovered, for which reason the attribution has been considered apocryphal, but the author does use chemical terminology with Arabic roots, such as “al-natron”. The book marks the beginning of western preoccupation with alchemy, previously almost entirely unknown in mediaeval central Europe, and even Goethe quotes from it in his “Theory of Colours”. (2): Bound first is a rare medical work by Jakob Mock, professor at Freiburg and a good friend of Fabricius Hildanus. This would seem to be part 1 only (caption title: “De aquarum quarundam affectionibus ratione coagulationis vel indurationis & dissolutinis, & alias”); no more published. Unidentified 19th century library stamp to front pastedown. Covers slightly warped; long yapp edge of the vellum binding trimmed away along lower half of the book. Interior lightly browned, some light, mainly marginal spotting and brownstaining, a few darker spots occasionally affecting letters. Old handwritten ownership of “Claudius Cuppinius” on title-page of Mock’s work, with an additional note in the same hand, dated 1691, on the flyleaf. (1): VD 16, M 6354. Wellcome 4458. Neu 2849. Duveen 413f. Schmieder, Geschichte der Alchemie, p. 123. Brüning 646. Mellon Collection 50 (illustrated p. 160). Cf. Ferguson II, 108f. Not in Adams or BM-STC German. (2): VD 16, M 5707. BM-STC German 623. Adams M 1528. Durling 3199. Wellcome 4372. Jöcher III, 563.

Loans by the UK for major infrastructure development in Jordan

62. MU’AMMAR, Sayid Ya’coub; B.L. STRACHAN. Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970. 4°. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled. € 450

First edition of an official UK Government publication providing a transcription of the the diplomatic exchange that took place in Amman, Jordan on 1–13 October 1969 between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the UK Governemt. The notes of this diplomatic exchange were presented to the Parliament of Great Britain on January 1970. Discussed topic were an interest-free development loan for Jordan of 667,500 pounds, for the construction of a.o. an airport and dams. Part of the Treaty series, no. 5. Stamp on title-page, otherwise in very good condition.

41 Gargantuan double-sided oil map

63. National Iranian Oil Company [Shirkat-e Millî Naft-e Irân]. Iran: Petroleum Information & General Information. Presented by the National Iranian Oil Company to the Literacy Corps. France, NIOC: The National Iranian Oil Company to the Literacy Corps [Medeniyya Shirkat-e Millî Naft-e Irân ba Sepah-e Danish], [1965 CE =] 1344 Jalali calendar. Original colour lithograph map on cloth. 92 × 125.5 cm, laminated. Scale: 1:2,000,000. In English and Farsi. € 4500

A gargantuan double-sided thematic map of Iran providing detailed oil information, prepared by the National Iranian Oil Company and issued during the time of discovery of several new oilfields in the Mand Mountains and Tang-e- Bijar, near the Iraqi border. An early example of the map series prepared by Shirkât-i Millî Naft-i Irân, showing oil distribution, oil districts and concessions, geology, and detailed petroleum information besides general information on Iran (average annual rainfall, population density, mines, airlines, etc). Iran is shown surrounded by the USSR, Caspian Sea, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Muscat and Oman, and Afghanistan. Established in 1948 and restructured in 1954, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) ranks as the world’s second-largest oil concern, after Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco. Some light edge damage, with lamination peeling in places, but on the whole very well preserved. Rare; no copy traced in library catalogues internationally. Not in OCLC.

Early Western printing in Aden: Arab dictionary

64. NORBURY, Paul Fitzgerald. An abridged Arabic grammar with one hundred and fifty simple conversational scentences and a vocabulary of two thousand five hundred words. Aden, printed at the Aden Special Prison Press, [1917]. Square 8°. Printed in English and Arabic type. With a tipped-in paper slip on the title-page: “Since the issue of the first edition it has been possible to test this grammar in regard to its utility in Mesopotamia. The result has been to confirm the correctness of the claim made in para four of the preface”. Original publisher’s printed hard board covers with red cloth spine. € 850

Second edition of an extremely rare war time English-Arabic dictionary, only the British Library owns a copy. The present second edition was published in the same year as the first and was enlarged with a vocabulary, while the first edition had the grammar only. The first edition is also only present in the BL. Both first and second edition were very limited. The author, Major Paul Fitzgerald Norbury (1879 – 1943), was Arabic interpreter first class and provided his fellow army men at the Arabic frontiers with the present much wanted dictionary.

42 The Aden Special Prison Press was one of the first Western printing offices in Aden. At that time (the 1920’s) “there was no large printing press in Aden. Work on a very limited scale is done by the Aden Special Printing Press” (Ingrams). Other works by the press include Aden port rules [ca. 1922]. Owner’s inscription on first free endpaper and bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Spine gone, covers rubbed, otherwise in good condition. Doreen Ingrams, Records of Yemen, 1798–1960 (1993), p. 658; WorldCat (1 copy: British Library).

Rare photographs of Muscat

65. [Oman]. Nine original photographs of Muscat. [Muscat, ca. 1905]. 9 original gelatin silver photographs laid down on thick cream card (likely removed from an album), each measuring approx. 92 × 138 mm. Three captioned and/or numbered in the negative. € 6500

Rare photographs of Muscat depicting variously, “The Rock of Muscat”, the Al-Jalali Fort, and the Al-Mirani Fort. A number of the images are of a military nature, from which it is possible to surmise that the photographer was an officer: a torpedo being fired, a significant cache of weapons and troops (bluejackets) disembarking on the shore to be greeted by a crowd of civilians. Such scenes reflect the British presence in the Gulf of Oman at the time, where they were engaged in combatting the East African slave trade, suppressing the smuggling of arms and generally attempting to exert influence whenever possible. Some marginal fading, otherwise very good. Original photographs of Muscat from this era are exceedingly rare, especially in this condition. The best-known examples were taken by the professional photographer A. R. Fernandez, but the present set certainly represents an amateur effort, and these are likely to be the only surviving prints of the images.

20 rare albumen photographs showing Jerusalem

66. [PALESTINE - JERUSALEM]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite nozioni storiche in lingua italiana e francese. Torino, Tip. V. Bona, [1870s, at least before 1878]. Oblong 4° (22.5 × 29 cm; photographs 12.5 × 17 cm). Album with 20 albumen prints mounted on the recto with letterpress descriptions for each photo in Italian and French mounted on the verso facing the plate. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled spine with 5 flower petals and the title in gold on the front board within a gold-tooled ornamental frame, gilt edges, silk endpapers. € 8500

43 Album with 20 albumen photographs of sites in Palestine, made by an unidentified photographer, all accompanied by an description on the pages facing the photographs and a two-page introduction on the album, both in Italian and French. The album contains not only photographs of Jerusalem, such as a view on the city, and of buildings in the city (such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mosque of Omar and the Tower of David). It also contains pictures of towns, villages, valleys and convents in the surround- ings of Jerusalem. In the descriptions accompanying each picture, one can read some information on Jerusalem and its buildings, on the towns and villages surrounding Jerusalem (also mentioning the distance of these places to Jerusalem) and on their history, culture and the several places of interest and buildings there. We can find pictures of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Betlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Nazareth and Beirut, and the Greek orthodox monastery called the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, also known as Mar Saba. With an owner’s inscription dated 1878, indicating the album is possessed by at least one woman (“A Maria, l’anno 1878 / Emilia “). Binding slightly worn, some minor foxing and browning (especially the preliminary text leaves), some leaves of the plates are half-loose from the strips on which these leaves are mounted. Otherwise a fine album in good condition, being a beautiful example of early photography in the Middle East. WorldCat (1 copy).

A major historical novel set in medieval Granada, capturing its multiculturalism

67. [PÉREZ DE HITA, Ginés (ABENHAMIN)]. Historie van Granada, van de Borgherlijcke Oorlogen, ende andere, die in het Granadijnsche coninckrijcke geschiet sijn, van de Mooren tegens de Christenen, tot dat de stadt ghewonnen wert van den koninck Don Fernando de vijfde. Met een discours van de incomste der Mooren in Spaengien (ende hare geschiedenissen) met haren uytgang. Getraduceert uyt de Spaensche in Nederduytsche tale, door Isaac Jansz. Bijl. Haarlem, Vincent Casteleyn, for Jan Evertsz.Cloppenburch, Amsterdam, 1615. 8°. Woodcut vignette on the title- page. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine, with 2 leather ties attached to the front board and with the remnants of 2 ties on the back board. € 4500

First and only edition of a highly interesting “History of Granada” from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula (ca. 725–770) to the Reconquista, and Granada’s capit- ulation in 1492 to the forces of Ferdinand V and Isabella, King and Queen of Aragón and Castile, signalling the end of an independent Muslim power in Spain. The author is the Spanish novelist and poet Ginés Peréz de Hita (ca. 1544–1619) who attrib- utes his novel to an imaginary Moor Abenhamin. This historical novel is perhaps the earliest example of its kind and certainly the first that attained popularity. It is followed here by a history of the invasion of Spain by the Moors, in Dutch rhetorical verse (pp. 449–504). Peréz de Hita himself probably took part in the campaigns against the Moors beginning in 1560 and his Las Guerras Civiles, or the Civil wars of Granada and the history of the factions of the Zegries and Abencerrages made him famous. It is a major historical novel, a remarkable work of fiction on the basis of history, interspersed with frontier and Moorish ballads, partly already circulating. The work combines historic realty with fictional episodes of romantic love inspired by some 40 ballads (“romances moriscos”), whose texts are included. This brilliant and enchanting tableau of courtly life in Granada with its many colorful festivals and tournaments inspired in its turn many writers, including Cervantes who was fascinated by the chivalrous aspects, and Washington Irving’s Chronicle of the conquest of Granada (1829). The novel was translated into Dutch by Isaac Jansz. Bijl, a publicist and translator from Rotterdam, and published by Jan Cloppenburch in 1615. With an 18th century(?) bookplate of “Coker Court”, a manor house, in South Somerset, constructed in the fifteenth century: a rooster with cross on its back. From the library of William Helyar, Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1715 who owned Coker Court. The Helyar family owned sugar plantations in Jamaica; with the initials “C.P.” on the title-page. With a tear in the spine and a stain in the right lower corner on the front board. In good condition. E.K. Grootes & J. Jansen, “De produktie van narratief proza omstreeks 1610/1640 …”, in: Tijdschr. voor Neerlandistiek, 19 (1990), p. 115; Biblioteca de autores Españoles, III (1848), i.v.; the Spanish ed. by P. Blanchard-Demouge (Madrid 1913); G. Bleiberg et al, eds., Dictionary of the lit. of the Iberian Peninsula, II (1993), pp. 1259–1260.

44 Wall map of the petrol producing countries of the world

68. [Petroleum World Map]. Le Pétrole dans le Monde. Paris, Imp. Lafayette / Union des Chambres Syndicales du Pétrole, 1958. Colour printed wall map. Ca. 98 × 121 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale approx. 1:40,000,000. Folded. € 2800

An unusual vintage wall map, issued by the French League of Petrol Producing Associations, showing the state of petrol producing countries of the world in the late 1950s: the locations of oil fields and production and refining regions, exportation routes and terrains of possible reserves. Yellow circles of varying sizes represent the key regions that produce oil, with the size of the oil rig towers representing the amount of crude oil produced. The red areas represent operating oil fields, while green regions are sedimentary lands that are likely to contain petroleum. Grey arrows show the primary exportation routes throughout the world for petroleum products. A number of inset maps contain further interesting detail, such as a map showing the change in petroleum dis- tribution as a result of the Suez Crisis in 1956, and maps of Venezuela, the United States, and the Middle East locating current pipelines, pipeline projects, and refineries. The two graphs show the change in crude oil production between 1900 and 1956 in the key regions, as well as the evolution of the primary sources of energy (coal, oil, natural gas, and hydraulic power) worldwide during the same time period. A well preserved specimen of a rare map: only five copies in libraries worldwide (Oxford; Lyon; INPL Nancy; Univ. Illinois; Univ. Pittsburgh). OCLC 12625662.

First issue “for public use”

69. (Prothero, G. W. [ed.]). Arabia. (Peace Handbook No. 61). London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1920. 8°. Publisher’s original printed green wrappers. € 2500

A manual of “geographical, economic, historical, social, religious and political” information compiled for the British delegates to the Peace Conference that took place in Versailles in 1919, here issued “for public use” for the first time. Includes facts on the trade of the “Gulf States” (“Bahrein, El-Katr, and the Trucial Chiefdoms alike depend on the pearl industry”) and a political history of the region (“the five ruling sheikhs of the Trucial coast, long under British influence, have been recognised as autonomous since 1853; and theS heikhdom of El-Katr has been free from dependence on Bahrein since 1870 [...]; although seldom interfered with in the internal administration of their principalities, they are controlled in all matters of external relations, and to a great extent maintain their dynasties and authority only by grace of their alliance with us”); also, an account of the political conditions of Kuwait, Bahrain, “The Katr Peninsula” (“It is regarded officially as subject to the chief Sheikh of the house of Thani”), and the “Pirate Coast” (“The personalities of the Five Chiefs of the ‘Pirate Coast’ (or ‘Trucial Oman’) change very rapidly, expectation of life being short in their communities [...] Sharga, where the British Political Agent resides, is the only one of the Five Chiefdoms which extends across the peninsula or has any provincial dependencies [...]”). Issued as no. 61, the first issue of vol. XI of the “Peace Handbooks” prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. Spine chipped; binding slightly faded, showing signs of use. Insignificant rust marks from original staple-binding. Rare. OCLC 7333479.

45 The British Consul of Zanzibar and his strenuous attempts to put a stop to the business of slavery in the Sultanate

70. RIGBY, Colonel Christopher Palmer; Lilian M. RUSSELL-RIGBY (ed.). General Rigby, Zanzibar and the slave trade with journals, dispatches, etc. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. 8°. With a folding “Rough sketch-map to illustrate General Rigby’s career in H.M. Service’” (ca. 25 × 29 cm) and the half-page coat-of-arms of Rigby on p. [5]. Original publisher’s blue cloth with a blind-stamped centrepiece on the front board and the title in gold on the spine, covered with the original blue publisher’s paper wrappers, protected by a plastic wrapper. € 475

Original edition of this highly interesting edition of the diary of Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820–1885), British Consul on Zanzibar, recording his strenuous attempts to put a stop to the business of slavery in the Sultanate, and his success in securing freedom for thousands of individual slaves. The original diary was sold recently, in February 2021, for € 78.000. It was his daughter Lilian M. Russell-Rigby (1875–1949) who was the editor, interspersed with lines pf poetry and extracts of historical commentary in several languages, including Arabic, various newspaper cuttings and personal letters. His beneficence went so far as rescuing two slave boys and bringing them back to London to be educated. Rigby found himself in the center of the complicated power struggle between the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Said, his brother the Sultan of Oman, Thuwaini, and their brother Barghash, trying to maintain peace and enforce the anti-slavery treatises already in place. Zanzibar’s position made it ideal as a stopping off point for those attempting to explore the African interior and in his journal Rigby records visits of the great explorers of the time: Richard Burton, Speke, Grant, the German explorers Dr. Roscher and Baron von der Decken as well as Mr. Thornton of the Livingstone expedition. Letters of all these explorer are included. Some minor marginal foxing, otherwise in good condition.

Unique miniature Harry Potter manuscript

71. Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript. N. p., [2004]. Miniature manuscript (400 × 600 mm). 31 pp. Original green leather, gilt decoration to front cover. Housed in a custom quarter red morocco solander box. € 150 000

A unique miniature Harry Potter manuscript handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling, signed by her on the title-page, and inscribed on the final page by her: “From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, by me”. The manuscript relates to pp. 52–53 in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” where Harry and Hagrid go to London to purchase his school supplies for Hogwarts: it features passages on the equipment, uniform, and books required for a Hogwarts first year student (including a reminder to

46 parents that “first years are not allowed their own broomsticks”), and each page is accompanied by an original drawing by Rowling, such as a broomstick, a cauldron, a wand, and a witch’s hat. Rowling created this tiny volume for a charity auction in November 2004, alongside 24 other miniature books, all just over one inch tall, which contained manuscripts by artists, politicians, writers and sport stars, including Madonna, Muhammad Ali, David Beckham, Tracey Emin, Lady Margaret Thatcher, and Sir Paul McCartney. The proceeds went to 999 Club, a homeless charity in Deptford, south London. This is the only example of this book ever created. Just one other manuscript by Rowling relating to Harry Potter books has appeared on the market: a handwritten copy of “The Tales of Beedle and Bard”. Rowling wrote and illustrated six manuscript copies that were finely bound and given to people who had been important in the publication of the Harry Potter books, while the seventh was auctioned to raise funds for her charity, The Children’s High Level Group, and sold for £1.9 ($2.4m) in 2007.

An “oil man” writes for the Studies of American Interests, Armaments Series

72. Sheets, Harold F. The Oil Situation in the Middle East. New York, Council on Foreign Relations, 1944. 4°. Published as a typescript and printed on rectos only. With a folding sketch map of the Middle East. Original printed wrappers, staple-bound. € 650

Only edition. – Issued in the “Armaments Series” in Studies of American Interests in the War and the Peace. According to the introduction, “The author of this memorandum was requested by the Armaments Group to state his views on this subject as an oil man [...] the term ‘Middle East’ includes Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Trucial Oman, Oman, and Dhofar”. Wrappers split at ends of spine. Removed from the Carleton College Library with their inkstamp to upper cover and accession stamp inside upper cover.

Runaway slaves in the Arabian Gulf region

73. [Slave Tr ade]. Slave Trade. No. 1 (1876). Correspondence Respecting the Reception of Fugitive Slaves on Board Her Majesty’s Ships. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London, Harrison & Sons, 1876. Folio (320 × 205 mm). Sewn. € 1500

Fascinating documentary material on the ramifications of international law concerning British treatment of runaway slaves in the Arabian Gulf region: in an official letter to the local Political Resident, the commanding officer of a British vessel crusing between Bahrein, Bubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah inquires “what [he is] to do with the slave” who swam on board from one of the pearl boats on anchor under the Island of Zukool (6 Sept. 1873) – then a common problem, discussed extensively by the Admiralty, governors, consuls and commanders. Paginated “257–309” by a contemporary hand. Final two leaves show some fraying to edge, otherwise well preserved. OCLC 235891870.

47 British-Arabian Treaties

74. [Slave Tr ade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London, Harrison and Sons, 1892. 8°. Volume 1 (of 2) only. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine. € 4500

Contains, inter alia, the full text of the treaties signed by the British between 1820 and 1847 with the Sheikh of Bahrein, Chiefs Hassan Bin Rama and Hassan Bin Ali, Sultan Bin Sugger, Sheikh of Ras al-Khaimah and Sharjah, Sheikh Makhtum bin Bultys (Buttye) of Dubai, as well as Abdul Aziz bin Rashid, Sheikh of Ajman; Shaikh Abdullah bin Rahid of Amalgavine, Sheikh Khalifa bin Shakbool of Ras al-Khaimah and Sheikh Saeed bin Tahnoon of Abu Dhabi. Spine damaged. OCLC 17932251.

Debates on the French Revolution and Slavery

75. [Slavery]. The Parliamentary Register; or History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [...] During the Fourth Session of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain. Vol. XXXVII. London, J. Debrett, 1794. Large 8°. Heavily worn contemporary quarter calf over original boards. € 3500

Register of proceedings containing the records of numerous important debates in the Commons on the French Revolution and Slavery, with the abolitionist William Wilberforce tirelessly campaigning and arguing for abolition through the promotion of a number of bills. In February 1793 he had narrowly lost a vote in the Commons where he had been hoping to put pressure on the Lords, and during the sessions of 1793 and 1794 he promoted his Foreign Slave Bill, which would have prohibited the use of British ships to carry slaves to the territories of other countries. The debates in this year also centre on the ongoing situation in France after the Revolution, with concerns that radical agitation would spread to Britain, and Wilberforce believing that insuffi- cient efforts were being made to avoid war with France. Partially unopened. Spine chipped and worn, boards slightly stained, worn and creased; minor dampstaining.

Tavernier’s voyage through the Arabian Gulf: first collected edition in English

76. Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries. London, Moses Pitt, 1684. Folio (200 × 305 mm). 6 parts in one vol. Modern half calf over marbled boards using remains of 18th-c. calf spine with modern gilt red morocco label. € 8500

48 The first collected edition in English, translated by John Phillips and Henry Oldenburg: an account of Tavernier’s travels to Turkey, Persia, India, and Japan (with large map of Japan), containing reports about the Japanese persecution of the Christians and the Dutch settlements in the Far East. Book Two, chapter Nine of the Persian Travels is of particular interest, as it contains an account of Tavernier’s voyage through the Arabian Gulf, mentioning Bahrain, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, and Hormuz and making observations on the people and navigation of the Gulf. There is also a bird’s-eye map of the Strait of Hormuz showing the Musandam Peninsula (peppered with palm trees and captioned “A promontorie of Arabia the happey”), Hormuz, Larak, and Qeshm island, as well as Bandar Abbas and Bandar Kong on the Persian side. Intriguingly, this engraved map also includes depth soundings throughout the Gulf, making it useful as an early “Persian Gulf Pilot”. A separate, illustrated chapter discusses extensively the invaluable pearl in the collection of the Imam of Muscat. Another illustrated chapter discusses “The Money of Arabia”. In general, the plates depict festivals, processions, costumes, views, and images of the Eastern flora and fauna as well as coins and gems. Occasional browning, but well-preserved on the whole. Blackmer 1632. Wing T251A, T252, T253. Campbell (Japan) 28. OCLC 6071990. Not in Atabey or Weber.

On General Sir Edmund Allenby’s time in Arabia

77. THOMAS, Lowell & Kenneth Brown COLLINGS. With Allenby in the Holy Land. London, Cassell and Company, [1938]. 8°. With a photographed frontis- piece portrait of Alleby. Original publisher’s black cloth. € 400

First edition of a biography of General Sir Edmund Allenby (later, Field Marshal and Viscount, 1861–1936). The work treats his Arabian period as commander of the cavalry division in Palestine during the Firs World War. Allenby made his name in Palestine. He rebuilt the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, established up-to-date Western Front standards of operations, and restored the force’s confidence and morale. Allenby’s forces defeated the Turks at the final Battle of Megiddo (September-October 1918) to occupy Transjordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Afterwards he became high commissioner in Egypt. The present biography is largely based on accounts of figures in touch with Allenby, such as T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia”. Minor foxing. Covers slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition. O’Brien F1045.

49 Important anthropological study on the original inhabitants of the southern Arabic Peninsula

78. THOMAS, Bertram. Anthropological observations in South Arabia. [offprint from:] Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 42 (1932). Large 8°. With 2 plates (XI–XII) from photographs: (1) two views on the landscapes of the Sands of Dakara and the Qara Mountains, Arabia; (2) 12 portraits of members of the various tribes of Southern Arabia/Jemen. Blue wrappers with printed title label on the front cover. € 750

One of the important scholarly anthropological studies on the original inhabitants of the southern Arabic Peninsula/Jemen by the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub’ al Khali (the sand desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula), Bertram Sidney Thomas (1892–1950). Thomas was an English diplomat and explorer who was also a scientist who practiced craniofacial anthropometry as also in this article. After working for the Civil Service in the General Post Office, he served in Belgium during World War I before being posted to the Somerset Light Infantry in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) between 1916 and 1918. He worked from 1918 to 1924 as Assistant British Representative in Iraq and Transjordan (now Jordan). He was appointed as Finance Minister and Wazir to Taimur bin Feisal, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, a post he held from 1925 to 1932. In this capacity, he undertook a number of expeditions into the desert, crossing the Rub’ al Khali, from 1930 and 1931, a journey he recounted in his book Arabia Felix (1932), in which he described this desert’s animals, inhabitants, and culture. Thomas wrote several other books, including The Arabs: The Epic Life Story of a People who have left their deep impress on the World (1930). During World War II, Thomas headed theM iddle East Centre for Arab Studies in Jerusalem, where British Army officers were taught Arabic language and culture. In very good condition.

Uncommon Guide to the Gulf

50 79. Tweedy, Maureen. Bahrain and the Persian Gulf. Ipswich, East Anglian Magazine, [1952]. 8°. With 3 maps (one double-page) and 53 black-and-white photographic illustrations on 16 plates. Original light blue cloth with black lettering to spine. € 1800

First edition. – An uncommon short guide to the Gulf, with chapters on the Trucial Coast (now the United Arab Emirates) and Qatar as well as on Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait. While travelling through coastal Eastern Arabia, Tweedy noticed the demand for “some kind of handbook” on the Arab States of the Gulf and the lack of such publications on offer. “Bahrain and the Persian Gulf” was written in response to that need and gives short descriptions of each state and brief accounts of their histories. Each chapter is illustrated with her own photographs, many of which are dignified and sensitive images of the local people. A few light stains to back cover; head of spine frayed. Small closed tear to p. 31f., but overall near very good. With a loosely inserted greetings card from Bahrain. OCLC 3121283. Not in Macro.

A scarce description of a gruesome journey to the Holy Land and a stay as slaves in the galleys and the quarries in Constantinople (1556–1559)

80. SEYDLITZ, Melchior von; P. van ANGELEN (transl.). Ongeluckige Jerusalemsche Reyse. Waer in beschreven wordt de wonderlijcke gevanckenis, slavernye, ellendige en wreede tyrannye, soo op de Galeyen als in de steenbergen, ende eyndelijck de geluckige verlossinge van vier Hooghduytsche Edelluyden, die in ysere ketenen gesloten, meer als 300 mijlen na Constantinopel geviert zijn. Amsterdam, for Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1662. Small 4°. With an engraving on the title-page of a group of chained enslaved prisoners on their way to Constantinople, after the illustration on the German editions (repeated on p. 59) and some woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum. € 1950

First and only edition of this Dutch translation by P. van Angelen from Alkmaar of the account of the journey of Melchior von Seydlitz, nobleman from Niklasdorff in Silesia to the Holy Land undertaken in 1556–1559, together with three of his friends: Wolf van Oppersdorf, Nicolaes van Reydeburgh and Mautits von Altmanshuysen. The account was first published in 1580 in Görlitz by Ambrosius Fritsch (VD16, S-6166) with the title Gründliche Beschreibung der Wallfart nach dem Heiligen Lande, neben Vermeldung der jammerlichen und lang- wirigen Gefengnuss derselben Gesellschaft … After the preface by the translator, dated Alkmaar, 20 June 1662, the work starts with short descriptions of the cities they visited: Milan, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza and Padua to be in Venice on 12 May 1556, which is also shortly described. They continued their journey by ship via the Peloponnesus, Crete, Rhodos and Cyprus, where the pilgrims stayed from 4 through 14 July 1556. An entire chapter is devoted to the description of the island, its geography, agriculture, salt works, etc. Substantive chapters are dedicated to Jerusalem where they arrived on 25 July and where they visited the Holy sites. On their way back, however, they were taken captive in Palestine by ‘Moren’ and after many dangerous adven- tures they were made a present for the Sultan Suleiman at Constantinople. A difficult journey followed with descriptions of Aleppo, Damascus, Anatolia and Constantinople. Seydlitz and his friends were slaves in Constantinople for more than two years, in the galleys as well as the quarries, until they were ‘presented’ to the French King through the famous Resident of the Habsburg Emperor Ogier Ghislain van Busbecq (1522–1592) from the Southern Netherlands (the diplomat who brought the tulip bulbs to the Netherlands) and the French Ambassador. After a journey via Adrianopolis, Venice, Innsbruck and Prague they returned safely in Silesia in September 1559. Two of the binding straps broken, so the front hinge is a partly loose. Somewhat browned, but overall this rare account is in good condition. Röhricht, 711; Tiele, no. 1000; Tobler, 76; cf. Heinrich Wuttke, ‘Zwei Wallfahrten von Schlesiern nach dem Gelobten Lande im 16. Jrh.’ (online), pp. 9–12.

51 The first three decades of the UAE in photographs

81. [United Arab Emirates – HRH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan]. A trove of photographs. Mostly Abu Dhabi and Dubai, 1970s to early 2000s. 229 original photographs, 1 portrait reproduced from a painting, and 2 portraits printed on thin cardboard (one round-shaped). Various sizes (ca. 74 × 110 to 201 × 282 mm), printed both in colour and black-and-white. Some photographs with handwritten Arabic captions in pen on verso; a few with pasted mimeograph typescript captions in English. Stored in 5 display books. € 18 500

A large private photo archive, apparently assembled by a professional Middle Eastern journalist or press pho- tographer, illustrating the reign of HRH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918–2004), Father of the Nation and the ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. Some pictures show HRH Sheikh Zayed welcoming foreign dignitaries such as the Syrian president Hafez Al Assad, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing; others display indus- trial and cultural aspects of the Emirates, ranging from oil production in the desert to camel races and falconry. Another part of the set shows off prominent landmarks, including the Al Badiyah mosque, the oldest mosque of the Emirates, the forts of Al Hayl, Al Bithnah, and Al Jahili, the Blue Souq market hall in Sharjah, as well as Earth Park and the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi. In addition, several images record National Day celebrations at the foot of Volcano Fountain in Abu Dhabi, demolished in 2004, but also show the Dubai skyline, military parades, and sailing vessels. A picture of an Iranian Phantom fighter-bomber flying over the Tunb islands shortly before Iranian forces occupied them in 1971 is a rare asset to this archive. Mostly stamped and/or annotated in Arabic (and some in English) on versos for possibly use by the press, but not traced in the UAE history, Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives. A few images have marginal tears or creases; one with a portion whited out for reproduction. Impressive in its extent and its wide variety of motifs, this uncommon set of not widely circulated photographs documents Abu Dhabi’s transformation into a modern metropolis since the early 1970s.

Surveying the Gulf for the U.S. Navy

82. [US Navy Survey Mission to the Gulf]. Persian Gulf Cruise. Task Unit 48.4.7. 1959–1960. (Hannibal, Missouri, American Yearbook Company), [1960]. 4°. With various black and white photographic prints in the text. Full cloth with decorative printed title. € 3000

Extremely rare, privately produced commemorative publication abourt the extensive survey operation carried out in the Gulf region by the USS Tanner (AGS-15) and the USS Requisite (AGS-18) in 1959–60, to “provide hydrographic data for the construction of modern up-to-date navigational charts which enable mariners to navigate safely as the ply the sea lanes of the world” (p. 5). Stations in the Gulf included Bandar Abbas, Bahain, Kharg Island, Bushehr, and Abadan”. The work is profusely illustrated with photographs depicting all aspects of everyday life onboard, including mainte- nance and engineering, laundry, hairdressing, and cooking, as well as religious service, medical and dental procedures, festivities such as the “Sailor of the Month contest”,

52 and beach parties. With portraits of the officers and crew, including commanding officers Onofrio F.Salvia and George E. Dawson (USS Tanner) as well as John O. Bachert and Wiliam L. Strong (USS Requisite). One page of photographs is dedicated to visiting dignitaries: among them are the US Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock and Prince Hamid Reza Pahlavi, a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Additional pictures show the ports visited, namely Lisbon, Naples, Beirut, Karachi, Palma and Gibraltar, and portraits of the 1960 Miss and Mrs. Tanner and the Maids and Matrons of Honor. Covers a little stained; extremities very slightly bumped. No other copy traceable in libraries or auction records internationally.

Epic sea journey from Zanzibar to the Persian Gulf and back, in a Kuwaiti dhow

83. VILLIERS, Alan. Sons of Sindbad: an account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, round the coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; pearling in the Persian Gulf; and the life of the shipmasters and the mariners of Kuwait. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1940]. 8°. With a map of the Indian Ocean on the front endpaper and a map of the Arabian Peninsula on the back endpaper. And with 50 photographic plates, on 36 leaves printed in photo- gravure. Original publisher’s cloth, gold-tooled spine, in illustrated publisher’s dustjacket. Sold

First edition of Australian explorer Alan Villers’ (1903–1982) account of his journey from Zanzibar into the Persian Gulf in the late 1930s, in a Persian dhow. The voyage took him from Aden along the Southern Arabian coast with a stop at Mukalla in the Hadhramaut. It continued along the coast into the Persian Gulf with visits to Bahrain and Kuwait, and finally along the coast of Africa as far as Zanzibar. The work is illustrated with Villiers’s own photographs, providing a rare insight into Arab sailing culture, in particular that of the Gulf States. Villiers dedicated it to the Al-Hamad family of Kuwait. Most of the copies of the present first edition were destroyed during a wartime bombing raid, making it the scarcest of Villiers’s works. Dustjacket slightly damaged and toned. Label removed from front map. Edges spotted. Otherwise in good condition.

“Arabia Petra” explored: account of an expedition (1865) through the Sinai, Petra in Jordan, and surrounding regions, with 48 plates and albumen prints

84. VISCONTI, Giammartino Arconati. Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea (1865). Including: Atlante per servire al Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea. Torino, Vincenzo Bona, 1872. 2 volumes. Royal 4° (31 × 27 cm). With 2 title-pages printed in red and black, each with the author’s wood-en- graved decorated GAV-monogram and motto; vol. 1 with 2 folding lithographed maps (1 printed in black, brown and blue, with the route coloured by hand in red of the Sinai Peninsula; the other in black and

53 white of the city of Petra); 40 mounted albumen prints after paintings by Emile Pierre Metzmacher (mainly 11.5 × 16 cm), individually mounted with letterpress captions on the mount; and 2 engraved plates; vol. 2 with 6 numbered engraved plates of molluscs and insects. Set in roman and italic types, with incidental arabic, and sans-serif Greek and Latin capitals to render ancient inscriptions. The Diario is bound in the original publisher’s maroon cloth with the author’s crowned monogram gold--blocked on the front board and spine and blind-blocked on the back board, with the title in gold on the spine. The Atlante is bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, with the author’s crowned monogram and the title gold-blocked on the front board and the monogram in a larger size blind-blocked on back board. Both volumes with gilt edges, orange endpapers and with tissue guard leaves tipped in over the albumen prints and engraved plates. € 25 000

Rare first and only edition of an Italian account of an 1865 expedition through “Arabia Petra”, meaning the Sinai Peninsula and adjoining parts of what are now Israel and Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra, now in Jordan, where parts of “Raiders of the lost arc” were filmed. The photographically reproduced paintings show the author on camelback, numerous Bedouins, Arabs, Egyptians and Ethiopians as well as archaeolog- ical sites, monuments and topographic views. The plates in the second volume depict molluscs and insects, reflecting the author’s own research interests in the field of natural history, in addition to archaeology. The typography has been designed to suit the antiquarian subject, with Louis Perrin’s Augustaux roman capitals on the title-pages, the main text set in what would then have been con- sidered an “antique” style (types influenced by pre-1800 models) and sans-serif capitals used to represent the ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. The author quite literally put his stamp on the work, with his crowned monogram not only on the title-page and binding, but also embossed in the paper, where it serves as a sort of watermark. The book does not indicate the size of the edition but since most of the illustrations are original albumen prints, there cannot have been many copies produced. The present copy may be a more delux binding than the Blackmer copy, also inscribed by the author to a woman, for it was in green cloth with only Visconti’s single initial “V” on the front board. The volume with the Diario is a presentation copy and has an owner’s inscription on the title-page by the author for a woman named Josephine. Bindings slightly worn, the blue cloth a little stained. First and last leaves of both volumes browned, some foxing, some fly-leaves with a tear (not affecting the plates), the map of Petra stained due to oxidizing, with some browning caused by the albumen prints on the facing leaves, but overall in good condition. Blackmer 1742; Gay, Bibl. de l’Afrique et l’Arabe 3650 bis; Macro, Arabian peninsula 2254 (not mentioning plates); not in Howgego; Ibrahim-Hilmy; Weber.

Islamic architecture, illustrated

85. Vogüé, Melchior, de. Syrie centrale. Architecture civile et religieuse du Ier au VIIe siècle. Paris, J. Baudry, 1865–1877. Folio (285 × 358 mm). 2 volumes. With a total of 3 maps (2 in colour) & 152 mostly full-page plates, several with tinted lithographed backgrounds. Later red half morocco with giltstamped spine titles. € 25 000

54 First edition of this detailed study of Syrian decorative architectural art. “De Vogüé travelled with William Waddington in 1853 and 1854, exploring the area from Aleppo to Damascus, Palmyra and Basra. It was an important expedition and much new material was uncovered. The author became ambassador to the Porte in 1871” (Blackmer). Occasional foxing to plates, but a fine set. Blackmer 174. Not in Weber.

All the Near East and Middle East maps from Weiland’s “Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas”

86. Weiland, C[arl] F[erdinand]. [Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas der ganzen Erde]. The Near and Middle Eastern Maps. Weimar, Verlag des geographischen Instituts, 1827–1834. Six engraved maps, all in four segments on orange cloth with title labels. All ca. 68 × 54 cm. Stored in a contemporary marbled slipcase. € 1500

A fine set of six maps, comprising all the Near East and Middle East maps from Weiland’s great “Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas” (general hand atlas) published by the Geographical Institute in Weimar. Includes: Turkey and Levant (“Das osmanische Asien”, 1829); the Arabian Peninsula (“Arabien”, 1834); Persia (“Iran, Afghanistan und Beludschistan”, 1828); Africa (1831); Northern Africa (“Das nordwestliche Africa oder die Staaten Fez und Marokko, Algier, Tunis und Tripoli, nebst der Wüste Sahara”, 1827); and the Nile Valley with the south-western coast of Arabia (“Das nordöstliche Africa oder Aegypten, Nubien, Habesch, Kordofan und Darfur”, 1829). All with engraved labels of the Paris map dealer and publisher Charles Simonneau with titles inscribed in French. Some mild foxing throughout, but altogether fine. Slipcase worn but professionally repaired. Cf. Espenhorst p. 24; Le Gear 6107 (1848 ed.); Al-Qasimi (2nd ed.), p. 281 (Weiland’s map of Arabia, 1839 edition).

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