The Arab and Islamic World

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1 (ABU’L-FIDA’.) SCHIER, Karl. Géographie d’Ismaël Abou’l Fédâ en arabe. Publiée d’après deux manuscrits de Musée britannique de Londres et de la Bibliothèque royale de Dresde. Dresden: I. H. G. Rau & Fils, Institut lithographique, 1846 Folio (356 × 250 mm). Contemporary purple pebble-grained cloth over flexible boards, gilt to spine, original wrappers bound in front and back. Lithographed throughout including decorative chromolithograph- ic title page and divisional printed in red. From the of British colonial agent and Arabist Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838– 1914), with a printed bookplate to front pastedown noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, associated man- uscript shelf-marks to spine and front pastedown, and blind-stamps to the text as usual. Spine slightly sunned, tips bumped, a few pale mark- ings to covers, original wrappers and title slightly marked, variable light browning to contents, a few trivial spots. A very good copy. first and only edition thus, an attractive lithographed edi- tion of the Kitab Taqwim al-buldan (Survey of the Lands), an import- ant Arabic compendium of geographical knowledge completed in 1321 and containing important first-hand information on Syria and Palestine. It was widely used by European orientalists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The Arabic title page is dated 1846 and the French title is undated; isolated references to 1

2 1 2 editions 1840 or 1841 appear erroneous. The author Abu’l-Fida’ sive Agreement. One of 500 copies printed, a printed issue-slip (1273–1331) was an Ayyubid prince who governed Hama, Syria, tipped to the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that a as a client of Mamluk al-Nasir Muhammad. His other maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first instance, major work was his Mukhtasar ta’rikh al-bashar (Compendium on the with just six copies now traced in worldwide. History of Man), a work of similar character. Schier was a Dres- The first agreement is the General Treaty with the Friendly Ar- den-based private scholar who was noted by Arabists for his abs, signed at Ra’s al-Khaymah in 1820 (p. 144). Arab signatories ability to write in an attractive Arabic script, and supported him- include “Sheik Shakbool”, that is Tahnun b. Shakhbut, shaykh self and his publication by teaching German to wealthy English of the Bani Yas and ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1818 to 1833, “Sul- businessmen. Rare: no copies listed in auction records, three tan bin Sugger”, or Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, copies in UK libraries (British Library and two in Cambridge), and the “Sheik of Dubey”, who in later agreements is named twelve traced world-wide. explicitly as Maktum b. Bati, who announced the independence of Dubai from Abu Dhabi in 1833 and founded the Maktum dy- Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature Vol. 1 p. 32. nasty. The treaty binds the Arab shaykhdoms to aid the British £3,500 [117578] against piracy in the Gulf, illustrating that the British, despite their naval supremacy, found their interests genuinely threat- The emergence of the modern Gulf states ened by the activities of Arab sailors in the region. A further set of agreements, signed in 1838, with the chief of Abu Dhabi now 2 known as “Khaleefa ben Shakbool”, gives the British the right to (ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her detain and search any ships entering their ports which are sus- Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of pected of carrying slaves. The final set of treaties, agreed with the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by the various Gulf shaykhs over the course of 1847, including the chief of , Muhammad b. Khalifah b. Subman, gives li- Harrison and Sons, 1892 cence to British to seize any ships suspected of involve- 2 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark ment in the slave trade. Rare, and a highly important document blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain and vol. II watered), spines gilt of the formation of the modern Gulf States. in compartments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled red. Occasional blind-stamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly rubbed £7,500 [104970] overall, extremities bumped, vol. II sunned along head of front board, spotting to endleaves of vol. I, a few pages finger-marked in the margins not affecting text. A very good copy. first edition of this rare handbook for British sailors, re- printing in full the texts of each treaty signed between the Gulf shaykhdoms and the British from 1820 to 1847. These Instructions were published in light of the Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90; the year of publication was also that of the Exclu- 2

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The first appearance in print of the earliest reference in history to the Arabic language 3 (AGATHARCHIDES.) [Title in Greek letters.] Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone exerptae historiae, Appiani Iberica. Item de gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1557 Octavo (161 × 94 mm). Attractive late 18th-century green goatskin, title gilt to spine, rolled bands, dog and willow tool to compartments, single 3 fillet panel to boards, rope-twist gilt edge-roll, all edges gilt, floral roll gilt to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers, pale yellow silk page-marker intact. Greek types. Ineffectually obliterated ownership inscription of that Photius had a text very close to Agatharchides’ original be- the 17th-century lexicographer Robert Sherwood to the title page. A lit- fore him” (Retso, p. 300). tle rubbed, five small surface wormholes to the front board, small paper “On the Erythrean Sea”, an account of an expedition to the label at the head of the spine, light browning, some pale dampstaining west coast of Arabia ordered by Ptolemy II in 280 bc in reaction towards the lower margin, but overall a very good copy. to Seleucid expansion in the region, has been identified as “the of these five Greek histories, including most important source for an almost forgotten chapter in the Photius’s version of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agathar- history of discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea . . . by the chides, containing the earliest reference in history to the Arabic agents of the Ptolemaic government in . . . It also contains language. “Agatharchides’ original text is lost, but extracts and the earliest extensive account of the geography and ethnography digests of it are found in three later authors: Diodorus Siculus, of the coats of northeast and Western Arabia” (Burstein). Strabo and the collection of extracts made by the Byzantine Several peoples are identified as arabes, including the Nabataoi theologian Photius in the ninth century ad . . . Of these three (Nabateans), Thamoudenoi (Thamud) and Gasandoi (Ghassan- witnesses . . . the Photius text is considered closest to the orig- ids). This edition of Agatharchides precedes its appearance in inal” (Retso, The in Antiquity, p. 295): Diodorus extensively Hoeschel’s editio princeps of Photius’s Bibliotheca, itself based on altered the text to fit his “distinctive literary ”, whereas Stra- a manuscript owned by Estienne, by nearly half a century. An bo’s immediate source was not Agatharchides at all but the lost attractive copy of a highly significant early source for the region, geography by Artemidorus of Ephesus (Burstein, Agatharchides of which also includes the first separate work on by Ctesias Cnidus, p. 38). Photius’s version is unique in referring to an aro- of Cnidos, and two books by Appian which were not included in matic plant “which in Arabic (arabistii) is called larimna”, a pas- Estienne’s 1551 edition. sage found at p. 71 of the present text: if part of Agatharchides’s original account, this would be “the earliest reference in history Adams C3020. to a language named after the Arabs” and Retso has “no doubt £2,500 [92349]

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among the first Muslim accounts of the Prophet to be published first in English (that is, excepting editions of classical Arabic texts, see Dimmock, Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Ear- ly Modern English Culture, p. 214). Uncommon, with six copies traced in British libraries (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of , Oxford, Royal Asiatic Society, St Andrews) and four world-wide. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan was “the principal motivating force behind the revival of Indian Islam in the late 19th century” (Ency. Brit.) His attempts to reconcile Islam with the progressive and scientific ideals current in the mid-19th cen- tury have been shown to have influenced other reformers such as Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida. He wrote the present essays in Urdu during a visit to England in 1869, and they were then translated into English by his son. £1,250 [117579]

4 5 AHMED, Ibrahim Fouad. Qatar and the Sea. Doha: 4 Ministry of Information, Department of Tourism and Antiquities, AHMAD KHAN, Sir Sayyid. A Series of Essays on the Life 1987 of Mohammed, and Subjects Subsidiary thereto. Vol. I [all Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, blue published]. London: Trübner & Co., [1869]–70 and white endbands. With the photographic dust jacket. Text in English Octavo. Original green cloth, recased and relined, spine lettered in gilt, and Arabic. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs and maps decorate blind frame to covers enclosing gilt block of a camel above Arabic throughout the text. Extremities very lightly bumped, negligible pale text to front. Separate title page for each essay, 2 folding genealogical marking to rear board, hinges split. A very good copy in the bright dust tables, double-page two-tint lithographic view of the Ka’bah. From the jacket with a small chip to head of spine. library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), first and only edition, the first half concerning the maritime with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to geography and history of Qatar and its surrounding islands, with Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and a discussion of the history of pearl-diving in the region; the sec- blind-stamps as usual. Extremities rubbed and bumped, a few nicks to foot of spine, tips worn, a few short nicks to folding tables, closed tear to ond is a detailed account of marine life around Qatar (the author pp. 29/30, which remain partly unopened, in the sixth essay. A good copy. being a marine biologist by training). Scarce, only four copies in libraries worldwide and none in the UK or Gulf. first edition of these 12 influential essays on Muhammad, Is- lam and Arabia, written in response to William Muir’s criticism £500 [100952] of the Prophet in his Life of Mahomet (1858–61) and considered

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6 Taurus Mountains, discovered several deposits of commercially AINSWORTH, William Francis. Researches in Assyria, important minerals in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and explored a substantial part of south-east Persia”. Babylonia, and Chaldea; forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition. London: John W. Parker, 1838 Atabey 10; Howgego II, C26; not in Blackmer, Weber or Wilson. Octavo. Original blue-green fine diaper cloth, title gilt to spine, panels £1,250 [95148] and elaborate strapwork centre-tool to boards, cream surface-paper endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, steel-engraved title-page vi- gnette and 4 further similar vignettes, 3 extensive folding hand-coloured 7 geological sections at the rear. A little rubbed, spine sunned, corners ALDAMER, Shafi; Richard Mortel; Humberto da bumped and slight string-notches to fore-edges of boards, small patch Silveira. The Visit of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of at fore-edge of front board rubbed through, some foxing to frontispiece, largely on verso, light browning, but overall a very good copy, hinges Athlone and the Earl of Athlone to the Kingdom of Saudi tight and text and plates clean. Arabia 25 February – 18 March 1938, With a Summary first edition. “Ainsworth was one of the founding members of Saudi-British Relations. Riyadh: King Abdulaziz Public of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835 he was appointed Library, printed Anis Commercial Printing Press, Beirut, 2007 surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition. This account Quarto. Original grey cloth, title in toned grey to front board, publisher’s of the geological work [of the expedition] is dedicated to Francis device similarly to tail of spine. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated Chesney head of the expedition. Ainsworth produced this work from the Countess’s photographs, 2 of them in colour. Text in English very quickly, long before Chesney’s own account had appeared” throughout. Very good in jacket with minor crumpling along the edges. (Atabey). The expedition was intended to “examine the feasibil- first and only edition, extremely uncommon, Copac locates ity of opening up the Mesopotamian rivers to steam navigation copies in BM, Durham, Exeter, National Art Library at the V&A as a new route to India, as well as asserting British political only, OCLC adds Singapore National Library, and a copy in the presence in the area, promoting British commercial ties, and Jefferson City School District Library, Colorado. A beautifully gathering scientific and archaeological data” (ODNB). Ainsworth presented first publication of the photographs taken by HRH contributed “geological sections across northern Syria and the Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, on her 1938 historic state vis- it to the Kingdom of , undertaken with her husband the Earl of Athlone, and her son, Lord Frederick Cambridge. The countess, Queen ’s longest surviving grandchild, was the first British royal to visit the country, and the only British royal to meet King Abdulaziz. The tour took in Riyadh, Hofuf and Dam- mam, and Princess Alice met Noura bint Abdul Rahman, sister of the king and other members of the Saudi royal family. The images show the kingdom right on the cusp of its major transformation. Oil was struck in significant commercial quantities for the first time at Dammam No. 7 in the same year. The original photo- graphs are in the collection of the King Abdulaziz Public Library, and had never previously been published. Most were shot in black and white, but the few taken in colour are believed to be the first colour photos to be taken of the Kingdom, certainly predating the advent of Aramco’s well-resourced photographic department by 6 several years.

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Laid into this copy are two original press photographs depict- effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sandhurst, ing the party’s outward journey from London via Cairo. The first Alexander was commissioned in the 1st Madras light cavalry in (203 × 154 mm) has a caption slip mounted on verso reading: “Kin 1821. “He was made adjutant of the bodyguard by Sir Thomas of British Royalty visit Saudi-Arabia . . . Princess Alice, Countess Munro, and served in the First Anglo–Burmese War. On leaving the of Athlone, waving good-bye at St. Pancreas [sic] Station as she . . . ’s service he joined the 13th light dragoons as set out on the first leg of [her] trip to Saudi-Arabia. Mussolini is cornet on 20 January 1825 . . . As aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, said to have objected to the trip on the grounds it was British pro- British envoy to Persia, he was present with the Persian army during paganda in the Near East”, marked up for publication in vermilion the war of 1826 with , and received the Persian of the grease pencil on recto. The second (179 × 232 mm) is captioned: Lion and Sun” (ODNB). The present work gives a full account of his “English in Cairo – Earl of Athlone, Uncle of King George services to this point and includes a “Chronological Epitome of the VI, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone are pictured on their late Military Operations in Ava” and a “Summary of the Causes and arrival here en route to Saudi Arabia, a trip disapproved by Italy’s Events of the existing War between Russia and Persia”. Mussolini . . . At right with the couple is Ahmed Hassanin Pasha, Subsequently Alexander’s career took him to the Balkans during who represented King Farouk of Egypt. Beside the Countess is Sir the Russo–Turkish War of 1829; to during the Miguelite Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Cairo. The Earl is walk- War of 1832–4; South Africa in the Frontier War of 1835; from ing behind with Gen. Sir George Weir, Chief of British Troops in 1847–55 he was in Canada as aide de camp to the commander of Egypt”. The party is pictured walking along the platform at Ram- the troops there; in 1856 he joined his regiment in the Crimea. In ses Station. The great Libyan Desert explorer Hassanein Bey had retirement he was responsible for saving “Cleopatra’s Needle from accompanied Rosita Forbes to the Oasis of Kufra in 1920–1. With destruction, and had much to do with its transfer to England in Acme Agency and Newspaper Association stamps to 1877. At its base he buried, among other artefacts, photographs of both photographs on verso. Both a little cockled but remaining the twelve best-looking English women of the day.” very good. Unusual and attractive. Abbey, Travel 520; Bruce 4420; Tooley 17. £1,250 [102589] £2,000 [50006] 8 ALEXANDER, James Edward. Travels from India to England; comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, &c. In the years 1825–26. London: Parbury, Allen and Co., 1827 Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Recent calf to style, green morocco label, flat bands with gilt foliate roll, lozenge devices gilt to compartments, double gilt fillet panels to boards, edges and endpapers marbled. Lithographic portrait frontispiece printed on India paper and mounted, 5 hand co- loured aquatints, 9 lithographic plates and 2 lithographic maps, 7 pages of vignettes at the rear. Stabholes visible in fore edges of some plates, light toning, but overall a very nice copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank “with the Author’s respectful compliments”, the recipient’s 8

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7 ries a leading polemicist of Islam. His message was both for his co-religionists and for the British. In his publications, notably his Spirit of Islam (1891), developed from his A Critical Examination of the Life and Teaching of Mohammed (1873) . . . he restated the history of Islam for the West, and he influenced both British readers and Western-educated Muslims in India and Egypt. Like other mod- ernists, he claimed that some Koranic injunctions were relevant only to the prophet’s period, though his angelology was cautious- ly traditional. He argued that Christianity was an ‘incomplete religion’ and Islam the final stage in the evolution of religion. He claimed that it was superior to Christianity and Hinduism, dismissing the latter as idolatry and fetishism. He idealized the orthodox caliphate of the first four caliphs, and claimed the Mus- lim failure to conquer was a tragedy, limiting its civilizing mission. He claimed ‘the real history of India commences with the entry of the Mussulmans’, and that they brought culture to an idolatrous and backward land” (ODNB). £1,250 [117580]

10 ALLEN, Isaac Nicholson. Diary of a March through Sinde 9 and Afghanistan, with the Troops under the Command of General Sir William Nott and Sermons delivered on 9 Various Occasions during the Campaign of 1842. London: ALI, Syed Ameer. The Life and Teachings of Mohammed. J. Hatchard and Son, 1843 Or the Spirit of Islam. London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd, 1891 Octavo (198 × 112 mm). Original red cloth, gilt device of three Afghans to Octavo (217 × 130 mm). Contemporary maroon half morocco, raised front board, and in blind to rear, neatly rebacked in morocco, title gilt to bands between blind rules to spine, compartments lettered or decorated spine, endpapers renewed. Folding single-tint lithographic frontispiece and in gilt, marbled sides, sprinkled edges, orange endpapers. From the 7 other similar lithographic plates. Boards a little rubbed and bumped, pale library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), browning, the plates lightly foxed, but overall a very good copy. with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to first edition. Allen was assistant chaplain to the Bombay Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and establishment, and accompanied Nott’s forces through the blind-stamps as usual. Spine rolled and lightly sunned, prelims slightly campaign from April 1841 to February 1843. “Allen’s diary offers foxed. A very good copy. a perceptive vision of the landscapes bringing to mind Biblical first edition, fairly common institutionally, but rare in com- scenes of the Old Testament . . . Youthful and exuberant at the merce, no copy listed at auction since 1914. “A Muslim modernist campaign’s advent, the diary reflects an older and more mature and orthodox Shi‘i, Ali was in the late 19th and early 20th centu-

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cleric by its end” (Riddick). An uncommon account, just six loca- tions on Copac. Bruce 4457: Riddick 67. £575 [109458]

11 ALLEN, Mark. Falconry in Arabia. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. Illustrated by Mary-Clare Critchley-Salmonson. London: Orbis Publishing, 1980 Quarto. Original dark brown cloth, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece from paintings by Critchley-Salmonson and 9 other similar plates, 10 plates from photographs, 2 of them colour, 2 full-page maps, line-drawn vignettes as chapter headers. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket with toned flaps and very light rumpling at the head of the spine panel. first edition, signed by thesiger in the foreword, with an intriguing Christmas card signed by Allen laid in, reading: “Have at length returned from Jordan etc & am now working at the Foreign Office. In January I’ll be moving back to the flat on the corner of Abingdon Villas/Earls Ct. Road. May I give you a ring and perhaps you would come to dinner? Lots to tell you. Best wishes from Mark Allen”. Sir Mark Allen, former MI6 agent, diplomat, and noted Arabist, took up hawking at the age of 12 and has become one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject. The illustrator Mary-Clare Critchley-Salmonson is widely rec- ognised as one of the most skilled portraitists of sporting birds.

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12 1878; he was based in Shiraz from June to October 1875; then ANDERSON, T. S. My Wanderings in Persia, with repairing lines from Shiraz to Kazeroon (based in Dashtarjin) until March the following year; Shiraz–Abadeh (Sevund, with Illustrations, and Map showing the Scientific Frontier in leave at Dehbeed and Yazd) March–December 1876; Shiraz from Afghanistan and the Russian Advance in ; January to March 1877; and finally in Tehran, repairing and es- with Author’s Routes, etc. London: James Blackwood & Co., tablishing telegraph lines with iron poles, as the wooden ones 1880 were constantly stolen” (Simpson, “Making their Mark: Foreign Octavo. Original green decorative cloth, titles gilt and elaborate em- Travellers at Persepolis” in Arta, 2009, p. 18). bossed panelling in black to spine and front cover, pale cream endpa- pers. Frontispiece and 5 other plates, folding map with routes in colour. £1,500 [92907] Somewhat rubbed and soiled, some light soiling, mild toning, title page and one other leaf a little ragged at the edge, short split on a fold to the 13 map, but overall very good. (ANGLO–EGYPTIAN WAR 1882.) MALET, Sir first edition, uncommon, decidedly so in the cloth. Eight Edward. An Episode of the Egyptian Rebellion of 1882: copies only on Copac, OCLC adds just 11 more in libraries worldwide; one copy at auction in the last 40 years. An infor- correspondence between the Right Honourable Sir mative, if slightly gossipy, account of a lengthy sojourn in the Edward Malet, G.C.B. and Mr. . region. “Anderson worked for the Indo-European [later In- Together with a leading article on the subject in The do-Persian] Telegraph Company in from June 1875 to March Times. Guildford: Reprinted [by Billing and Sons, Ltd] for private use from of October 12, 16 and 18, 1907 Small octavo, pp. 28. Original drab grey-green printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Touch of foxing to title. An excellent copy. first and only edition, privately printed by Sir Edward Malet in what must have been a very small print run. With an autograph letter signed by Malet to “Dear Margaret” (on his letterhead and dated 6 December 1907): “You were kind enough to take an inter- est in the attack upon me by Mr. Blunt in his amazing book [Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt, 1907]. May I ask your kind acceptance of the released which gathers the letters & The Times leading article into a sheaf ”. The very public Malet–Blunt spat in the pages of The Times during October 1907 arose from their opposing views on the An- glo–Egyptian War of 1882, when Malet served as consul-general in Cairo and supported the khedive and Blunt took the side of the nationalist uprising under Ahmed ‘Urabi, known as Arabi Pasha. 12 12

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“endured a series of ordeal not at all unlike the extraordinary plots concocted by adventure story writers” (McKorkle, “John Antes; American Dilettante”, Musical Quarterly 1956). The most horrifying incident was his imprisonment and beating by the Bey in an at- tempt to extract a ransom. On leaving Egypt Antes spent two years in Germany, before joining the Moravian congregation at Fulneck, Yorkshire as warden. He remained in England until his death in Bristol in 1808. Antes was a talented musician and maker of watches and 14 instruments; a violin that he made in 1759 is held by the Moravi- an Historical Society Museum at Nazareth, PA. He developed a Rare: Copac locates no copies in British and Irish institutional number of innovations, improved piano hammers, violin bows, libraries, OCLC cites only the one at Brigham Young University. and tuning pegs for violins and cello. A door-lock he invented was further refined by his nephew, the American architect, Benjamin £300 [113491] Henry Latrobe. In musical circles he probably best remembered as a putative friend of Haydn and the composer of a considerable 14 number of religious vocal works. ANTES, John. Observations of the Manners and Customs Atabey 25; Blackmer 36; Goldsmiths’–Kress 17825.1 of the Egyptians, the Overflowing of the Nile and its Effects; with Remarks on the Plague, and other Subjects. £600 [49172] Written during a Residence of Twelve Years in Cairo and its Vicinity. London: John Stockdale, 1800 15 Quarto (260 × 204 mm). Contemporary half calf, rebacked with original (ARABIAN GULF.) REZVAN, Efim. Russian Ships in the spine laid down, marbled boards. Large folding map frontispiece of Gulf 1899–1903. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1993 the Nile from d’Anville’s 1765 map. A little rubbed, light browning, but Octavo. Original black boards, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket. overall very good. Illustrations from photographs throughout and a map. Jacket spine with first edition. An interesting and uncommon account of Egypt short closed-tear and creasing at foot (slight bump to binding), spine before the French expedition. An account of Napoleon’s invasion, slightly rolled. A very good copy. and of the Battle of the Nile was added to a subsequent edition in first edition, first impression. “Using previously unpublished order to cash in on popular interest. Antes was born in Freder- material from the Russian Navy Central Archives in St Petersburg, ick, Pennsylvania, his father Heinrich, a member of the German this book is the first publication of its kind, shedding new light on Reformed Church, being largely responsible for the establish- the period from 1899 to 1903 when Russia succeeded in penetrat- ment of the Moravian Brotherhood in that state. In 1769 he was ing the Arabian Gulf for a short time” (jacket blurb). ordained in the Moravian ministry and travelled out to Egypt as a missionary. From his arrival in 1770 to his departure in 1781 Antes £250 [114443]

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16 of that publication. Beyond the specifically maritime aspects, (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Richard F., trans. including coastal geography, these handbooks provided basic background on local conditions, climate, items of trade, and The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With so forth. Of particular interest is their account of settlements introduction explanatory notes on the manners and unrecognisable today: Jeddah “is mile square, and inclosed [sic] customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon The by a wall, with small towers at intervals, the angles toward the History of The Nights. London: Privately printed by the Burton sea being commanded by two forts” (p. 311), whereas Aqaba “is Club, [c.1900] a small Arab village, in an extensive date grove . . . Close to the 17 volumes, octavo (243 × 162 mm). Contemporary brown half morocco village is a small square fort, garrisoned by Turkish soldiers” (p. by Bayntun, rose cloth sides, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised 278). Uncommon: only one copy in British libraries (Oxford); bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt oth- more prevalent in American institutions but seldom encoun- ers untrimmed. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Bookplates to tered in commerce. front pastedowns, mild bumping and wear to corners, light wear along spine edges, a few volumes with light fading to spines and cloth sides, a Macro 314 for eighth edition of the British title. very good set. £1,250 [100003] Limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets. A complete set of Bur- ton’s translation of the Arabian nights, containing ten volumes of the Arabian Nights plus the seven supplementary volumes. A particularly handsome set. £4,500 [90741]

17 (.) Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot. Comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Akaba, the Red Sea and Strait of Bab el Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden with Sokotra and adjacent Islands, and the Southeast Coast of Arabia to Ras al Hadd. Washington: Published by the Hydrographic Office under the Authority of the Secretary of the Navy, Government Printing Office, 1916 Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, title gilt to spine and front board. Folding colour map frontispiece. Bookplate to front free endpaper. A little rubbed and spotted, spine marked and with minor damage at the head, corners slightly bumped, light toning, but a very good copy. first edition of this US naval pilot, to be distinguished from the British title of the same name first published in 1863, though deriving most of its information from the sixth edition (1909) 17

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19 ASHE, Waller. Personal Records of the Kandahar 18 Campaign by Officers engaged therein. Edited and Annotated, with an Introduction . . . London: David Bogue, 18 1881 (ARABIAN PENINSULA.) Arabia in Pictures – a Portfolio Octavo. Original brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, geomet- of 8 Photographs. Series 1. Washington, DC: Shoreham House, ric panelling in black to front board, in blind to rear, grey-green floral publishers for Arabian American Oil Company, 1955 sprigged endpapers. Small inked library mark “Orotava Library” and paper label to front pastedown. A little rubbed, lower corners through, Folio. 8 high quality collotype plates loose in printed card portfolio as front hinge just started, quite heavy foxing to the verso of the free end- issued. With the original mailing card case. Portfolio a little rubbed and papers and by contact to the half-title and last leaf of the catalogue, oth- soiled, some chipping and splitting at the edges and on the folds, con- erwise isolated to the edges with minor encroachment to the margins, tents clean and sound, mailing case a touch grubby, overall very good. overall a very good copy. first edition, all published, of this superbly printed selection first edition of an important and uncommon source for the of images contrasting Arabia old and new, including fraction- Second Afghan War, comprising 23 letters written by several ating columns at Abqaiq and a donkey-powered irrigation well; unnamed officers of the British Army during the Second Afghan Badanah pumping station and a family dwelling at Jiddah; the War. They “focus mainly on General Burrow’s disastrous defeat newly developed port of Dammam and an oasis in Al Kharj: at Maiwand, and the consequent relief force led by General Rob- “Bedouin Tranquility” at Jabrin, and an Aramco rig at Abqaiq. erts . . . While unquestioning of the British presence in Afghan- This copy was sent out as a promotional item for Edward Stern istan, the variable quality of British generalship does not pass & Company Inc.’s Optak printing process, a hybrid variant on unnoticed. Although written by various individuals, they form collotype printing “utilizing among other exclusive elements, a coherent whole in theme and prose quality” (Riddick). Ashe special plates and inks, ultra-fine screens . . . starting at 200 was also author of The Story of the Zulu Campaign (1880) and trans- lines and going to as fine as 400 lines” (from the explanatory fly- lator of The Military Institutions of (1869). The Barrow-built er, tipped onto the verso of the front wrapper). With a business steamship Orotava was launched in 1889 for the Liverpool–Val- reply card loosely inserted. Uncommon, with a single copy on paraiso service of Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She made OCLC, at the University of Delaware. two voyages in that service in 1889 and was then placed under £695 [100046] Orient Line management for service from Liverpool to via Suez. She was transferred to the Royal Mail’s West Indies service in 1909, served as an armed merchant during the First World War, and was broken up in 1919. Bruce 4495; Riddick 271. £850 [91924]

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20 appointment of assistant assay master at the mint, which he ATIL, Esin. Süleymanname. The Illustrated History of retained until 1828. In 1818 he also filled the deputy chair of Per- sian in Fort William College . . . In addition to his appointment Süleyman the Magnificent. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., at the mint, he held the post of superintendent of the Govern- 1986 ment Gazette from 1817 to 1828. When the official connection Folio. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and tughra to front board gilt, of the government with that journal was discontinued in 1823, light grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from the proprietors, in view of his previous success, invited Atkinson photographs, colour and black and white. An excellent copy in the bright to take sole charge of both the Gazette and the Press” (ODNB). dust jacket. Atkinson was chief surgeon to the Army of the Indus during the first edition of this monograph on the Süleymanname, a lav- First Afghan War, but he returned to Bengal in 1841 “and thus ishly illuminated manuscript account of the great Ottoman ruler escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation.” His now preserved in the museum of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. Persian translations in both prose and verse are his chief claim £125 [110848] to fame, “accomplished in literature and art, both a scholar and a popular writer, James Atkinson was a pioneer of oriental re- search” (ibid..) 21 ATKINSON, James. Customs and Manners of the Women £850 [71977] of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions. Translated from the Original Persian Manuscript. London: Printed for 22 the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1832 ATKINSON, James Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Modern half calf, tan morocco longitudinal label Henry Graves & Company; J. W. Allen & Co.; and Day & Haghe, to spine, brown linen sides. Charming lithographic frontispiece from a 1842 sketch by the author, printed on India paper and laid down, title-page Large folio (540 × 367 mm). Original green morocco-backed green moiré vignette. Frontispiece browned around the laid-down sheet but not onto boards, title gilt to spine and front board, French fillet in blind and dou- it, browning offset onto the title page, slight marginal damp stain in the ble gilt rule, thick and thin at spine edges, cream endpapers. Single-tint head-margin for a few leaves front and back, but a very good copy. lithographic title page and 25 similar plates, lithographic dedication first and only edition. “An amusing translation of a Persian leaf, and letterpress leaf of descriptions, printed in blue in double col- essay on harem life” (ODNB), a translation of the Kitabi Kulsum umn. All original guard-sheets in place. Elaborate armorial bookplate of Naneh, which was well reviewed by the Asiatic Journal, whose Hugh, 2nd Duke of Westminster to front pastedown. Just a little rubbed, reviewer considered that it showed “the actual state of Persian almost imperceptibly recased where shaken loose from the gutta-per- cha, some foxing as usual, but a very good copy indeed. life behind the curtain . . . drawn by the sportive pencil of a caricaturist; a circumstance, which indeed, imparts a feature of first edition. Without doubt one of the finest illustrated additional interest to the work” (NS, vol. X, no. 37, 1833). books on Afghanistan, the plates depicting a selection of superb A surgeon in the Bengal service, Atkinson attracted Lord views on the march – Bolan Pass, Quetta, Khojak Pass, Kanda- ’s attention for his linguistic skills and was “given the har, and Kabul. In 1833, after a furlough in England, Atkinson returned to his original profession as surgeon to the 55th NI,

14 Peter Harrington 133 22 and in 1838 was chosen as Superintending Surgeon to the Army coloured, originals for these plates, 16 of which are now in the of the Indus during the First Afghan War. He was “relieved in , show clearly that the lithographer, probably the ordinary course of routine shortly after the surrender of Dost Louis Haghe, had little “working up” or “improving” to do, to Mohammad” and returned to Bengal in 1841 “and thus escaped create highly attractive and effective images. This work is often the fate which awaited the army of occupation”. encountered loose, ragged and heavily foxed. This is a really su- Atkinson is perhaps best remembered for his translations perior copy, largely clean and bright, carefully restored. from Persian, of these his selections from the Shâh Nâmeh of Abbey Travel 508; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493; Tooley 73. Firdausi being the most notable (see also the previous item), but he evidently possessed considerable, if amateur, artistic abili- £6,000 [102546] ties. The highly detailed, yet skilfully composed and sensitively

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23 ATTAR, Maher. Souk Waqif – Once upon a Time. Beirut: Art & Privilege, Diwan Amiri, 2006 24 Landscape quarto. Original black cloth, title in silver to spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Largely black and white photographic sional pencilled underlining and marginalia. Spine rolled, extremities plates, section dividers of heavy white paper, with 8 translucent calque lightly rubbed, a few small markings to front cover, a couple of pale pages with the title and colour concept drawings by the photographer. spots to title. A very good, clean copy. Jacket just a little rubbed, else very good. first and only edition, “printed for private circulation first edition of this uncommon photobook by the Leba- only” (front board and title page), uncommon: OCLC traces ten nese-born photojournalist and portraitist Maher Attar, re- copies world-wide; Copac adds copies at Glasgow University cording the renovation of the old Souk in Doha. The text is by and the Royal College of Physicians. Attfield (1866–1908) went Mohamed Ali Abdullah, the architect on the project which won to Egypt as sanitary and quarantine medical officer at Suez, and the Aga Khan Architectural for 2010. “The revitalisation also worked as a director of the pilgrims’ quarantine encamp- project, a unique architectural revival of one of the most import- ment at El Tor, situated across the Red Sea in Sinai. The advent ant heritage sites in Doha, was based on a thorough study of the of steam travel in the mid-19th century greatly exacerbated the history of the market and its buildings, and aimed to reverse the spread of disease, especially cholera, among Muslim pilgrims dilapidation of the historic structures and remove inappropriate travelling to Mecca, and epidemics often spread to Europe and alterations and additions. The architect attempted to rejuvenate as well as the pilgrims’ countries of origin across the memory of the place: modern buildings were demolished; Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The appendices are both sci- metal sheeting on roofs was replaced with traditionally built entific papers, “An investigation of the natural solidified sodium roofs of dangeal wood and bamboo with a binding layer of clay sulphate lakes of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, originally read to the Soci- and straw, and traditional strategies to insulate the buildings ety of Chemical Industry in 1895, and “The probable destruction against extreme heat were re-introduced” (AKAA website). Just of bacteria in polluted river water by infusoria”, first printed in two copies located of the edition on OCLC the British Medical Journal on 17 June 1893. (BnF and the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar) £250 [115304] alongside two copies of the simultaneously issued French edi- tion (BnF and Rhode Island College). 25 £650 [98886] ATTWOOD-MATHEWS, Florence Blakiston. Watercolours and memorabilia related to British Egypt 24 and the Sudan: “The Book of Egyptian Fame”. 1898–1916. ATTFIELD, Donald Harvey. A Private Journal in Egypt 2 sketchbooks, 1 oblong octavo (120 × 203 mm) and 1 oblong quarto from May 1894 to May 1895. Appendices. I – Wyoming in (228 × 277 mm). Contemporary beige cloth, beige closure strap, brush 1891. II – Munich in 1892. London: printed by Spottiswoode & holder to top edge of rear boards. Volume I with 4 hieroglyphs and a Co., 1895 central design of a scarab with spread wings hand-painted to front board. Housed in a dark blue flat back cloth box. Volume I with 38 full- Octavo. Original maroon diagonal-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, page watercolours, numerous autographs, mounted cartes-de-visite, covers ruled in blind, front gilt-lettered “For private circulation only”, letters, newspaper clippings, 3 photographs; also with 5 loosely inserted black coated endpapers, bottom edge untrimmed. Photographic portrait items: 2 sketches, 1 letter, 1 envelope, and 1 autographed paper slip. frontispiece with tissue guard, folding colour map, folding plan. Occa- Volume II with 16 full-page watercolours, 2 portraits, and 1 sketch.

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All watercolours with pencilled captions on the adjacent leaves. With Egyptian crowd. Interspersed with the watercolours, clippings, ticket of London-based artist’s equipment shop L. Cornelissen & Son and photographs are numerous , cartes-de-visite, and to rear pastedowns. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed, ghosts of stamps occasional inscriptions of British military and administrative to front boards, corners of boards a little bumped and rubbed, edges figures based in the Nile region, including Sir Archibald Hunter, of leaves slightly nicked. Volume I: spine ends lightly worn with splits along bottom of front and rear joint, top of rear joint, binding weak but British Army General and Governor of Omdurman; Colonel E. still holding, several loose leaves, occasional browning from newspaper S. Stanton, the Governor of Khartoum; the Governor-General clippings. Volume II: spine ends lightly worn, endpapers slightly toned. of Sudan Sir Reginald Wingate; G. E. Matthews, Governor of the Overall very good, with bright watercolours. Upper Nile Province; Colonel Colin Scott-Moncrieff; and James Two unique watercolour sketchbooks by Florence Blakiston Att- Henry Butler Pasha, soldier and Governor of the White Nile wood-Mathews, the second daughter of British Swedenborgian Province. Clearly, Attwood-Mathews had both interest in and writer and homeopathic doctor James John Garth Wilkinson. access to many of the key British colonial figures established in The contents in these two sketchbooks stretch over the period Egypt and Sudan in the early 20th century. 1898–1916, with particular emphasis on January–March 1898 and However, she was undoubtedly also intrigued by the history November 1913–July 1914. and culture of the region in general, as evident in the collection Volume I largely tracks Attwood-Mathews’s Nile cruise in ear- of signatures by Egyptologists, including Howard Carter, ly 1898, when she travelled on the post steamer Amenartas from Cairo to Khartoum. She was clearly interested in the ongoing Mahdist War and the British involvement in it: one watercolour portrays six British military officers from various regiments trav- elling on board the Amenartas while another shows a boat towed behind the post steamer with troops on board. Similarly, in Vol- ume II, Attwood-Mathews seemingly chose to paint a couple of landscapes as much for their role in the conflict as any aesthetic appeal. A vista of two hilltops viewed from the Nile is described as follows: “Where the battle of Toski was fought, under these hills”. Meanwhile, the view from her hotel balcony in Khartoum is accompanied by the following caption: “Sand dunes where our troops lay the night before the battle of Omdurrman [sic]”. Attwood-Mathews’ interest in the Mahdist War continued after the end of the conflict in 1899, as evident from the many news- paper clippings pasted into Volume I, the latest dated 1916. Most of these are concerned with the events of the war and the people involved in it and include general reports (“The Soudan Crisis”, “Sirdar’s speech to the troops”), political coverage such as Sir Reginald Wingate’s succession as Governor-General of Sudan, as well as several “Romance of the Sudan” stories concerning Joseph Ohrwalder, a Roman Catholic priest held captive by Mah- dists for ten years. Two of the three photographs pasted into the sketchbook show Mahdist leaders captured by British-Egyptian forces; Attwood-Mathews identifies them as Emir Abu Zeid, Emir Mahmoud, Emir Yunis al-Dikaym, and Osman, Khalifa Abdallahi’s son. The third photograph depicts a ‘plane above an 25

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 17 E. A. Wallis Budge, Ernest A. T. Wallis, and A. H. Sayce. While many watercolours in Volume I depict landscapes painted from the deck of the Amenartas there are also views of the pyramids of Giza, streets in Cairo, Nag Hammadi, and Khartoum, the Sidi Arif mosque in Sohag, windmills and spotted along the river, as well as several studies of the everyday life of local Egyptians and Sudanese. The watercolours in Volume II, predominantly dated between late 1913 and early 1914, show a similar range in subject matter. Sunrise and sunset panoramas of the landscape near Abu Girgeh, Nag Hammadi, Denderch, and Khartoum dominate. However, there are street views of Cai- ro, Aswan, and Khartoum, two studies of the ancient Egyptian temples of Wadi es-Sebua and Amada in their original location prior to the relocation in 1964 due to the Aswan Dam project, as well as two pleasant portraits of local boys in Khartoum. Also included in Volume II is a loosely inserted watercolour (253 × 177 mm), dated December 1905, depicting locals at the waterfront in Beni Hasan. Taken as a whole, the contents of the sketchbooks outline At- twood-Matthews’s wide interest in the region, concerned as she seems to be with a range of topics: the British presence and the Mahdist War, the history and culture of the area she was visit- ing, as well as the people living there. A singular combination of 26 charming watercolours, still vigorously bright, and memorabilia relating to the British presence in Egypt and Sudan. of botanical expeditions in the Levant which were made under £12,500 [91569] the most difficult conditions. Jaubert has edited in detail six of Aucher-Éloy’s journeys. From Nov. 1830 to Oct. 1831 he travelled through Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem, and Kos. In 1832 he 26 visited Rhodes, Smyrna and the coast of Asia Minor. In 1833 AUCHER-ÉLOY, Pierre Martin Remi. Relations de he examined the area around , Brussa, and the voyages en Orient de 1830 a 1838. Revues et annotées par Asian Olympus. In February 1834 he travelled through Anatolia M. le Comte Jaubert. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, and met [the French archaeologist, Charles Félix Marie] Texier 1843 at Trebizond. From February to November 1835 he journeyed 2 volumes, octavo (205 × 122 mm). Near-contemporary English green through Asia Minor and Syria to Persia. In 1836 he visited Greece half calf, richly gilt spines, red and olive green twin labels, green peb- and from 1837 to 1838 he again travelled in Persia, where he died ble-grain cloth sides, red speckled edges, drab green coated endpapers. in 1839” (Blackmer). Large engraved folding map (at end of volume II) and the folding table A little more detail of Aucher-Éloy’s travels is given in New (at p. 760, volume II). From the library of British Arabist and colonial Arabian Studies: “In March–April 1838 he spent more than a agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his discreet ownership stamp month in , partly at , and partly travelling through on preliminary blank in both volumes and ownership inscription on the Jabal Akhdar . . . [then] to the coastal town of al-Sib before half-title of volume I; printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of journeying inland to Nakhl and across the Ghubrah Bowl to as- his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Bound without the half-title to cend ‘Aqabat al-Hajar before arriving at Sayq and Tanuf . . . Miz- volume II; bindings a little rubbed, abrasion to front cover of volume I, , Birkat al-Mawz, and Izki, thence along Wadi Sama’il back to scattered foxing, occasional pale dampstaining, patchy unsightly brown- Muscat” (vol. 2, 1994, p. 25). ing to volume II title page , map with old tape repair on verso, errata leaf Copac cites just four copies in British and Irish institutional heavily toned. A handsomely bound copy. libraries (British Library, Oxford, Natural History Museum, first and only edition. Aucher-Éloy (1793–1838) played an Kew); well represented on OCLC but in commerce decidedly important part in the botanical history of the Middle East: he scarce, with four copies traced at auction, including the Black- “was the first to make a comprehensive collection of plants from mer and Atabey copies. northern Oman. He collected mainly in the northern mountains Atabey 40; Blackmer 55; Macro 439; Troelstra, Natural History Travel Narra- and foothills during March and April 1838” (Shahina A. Ghazan- tives, p. 45; not in Hilmy, Tobler or Weber. far, “Aucher-Eloy’s Plant Specimens from the Immamat of Mus- cat”, Taxon Vol. 45, No. 4, Nov. 1996, pp. 609–26). £3,750 [117581] “This interesting work consists of letters and extracts from the journals of the botanist Aucher-Éloy. He was also interested 27 in typography, and in c.1830 he was engaged by Halil Pacha, (AVIATION.) [RAF propaganda leaflet in Arabic.] Izki, Turkish ambassador to Russia, to accompany him to Constan- Oman: [Royal Air Force,] 1957 tinople where they would found a French-Turkish journal. This Single sheet (191 × 163 mm) typed in Arabic, recto only. Verso docketed did not work out, but Aucher-Éloy decided to undertake a series in pencil “22/7/57, Izki Muscat, Oman” in the hand of Francis J. Field (au-

18 Peter Harrington 133 27 28 thor of Aerial Propaganda Leaflets: A Collector’s Handbook, published strong and effective weapon. This experiment will last for only 1954). Three faint transverse creases from folding. Very good condition. a few minutes, but such an operation can in theory last much Rare propaganda document air-dropped by the RAF during the longer”. first few days of direct British involvement in the A ground operation followed, culminating with the SAS War, 1954–9. In 1954 the Sultan of Oman granted exploration securing the formidable Jebel Akhdar plateau, a success often licenses to the British-owned , prompt- credited with staving off their disbandment and which has often ing a violent tribal uprising led by the Imam of Oman, Ghalib overshadowed the decisive role of air power in the conflict out of ibn ‘Ali al-Hina’i, in whose putative territory the largest oil fields which emerged the modern state of Oman. lay. The initial rebellion was suppressed with little resistance, but Ghalib’s brother Talib retreated to Saudi territory to form £675 [109729] the Omani Liberation Army. He landed at Muscat on 14 June 1957 with a small force and had taken by 17 July, at which 28 point the Sultan appealed to the British for help. AZZI, Robert. Saudi Arabian Portfolio. Introduction by “The plan was to use air power to weaken the rebel resolve His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al Faisal. Design by Will sufficient to re-occupy the area. Under Operation black mag- Hopkins. Zurich: First Azimuth Ltd, 1978 ic, the region to the south of Jebel Akhdar (centred on Nizwa) Folio (340 × 233 mm). Original dark green calf, spine lettered in gilt, was formally proscribed. Proscription was, in effect, an inwards front board with palm silhouette on gilt ground, above gilt title of King blockade that denied the inhabitants of the proscribed towns Khalid ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Saudi Arabia, grey endpapers. Colour photo- or villages the opportunity to travel or to work in their fields graphs throughout, full-page and inset. The slightest of rubbing to tips, during daylight hours – on pain of attack. It aimed to disrupt spine-ends and foot of rear board. An excellent copy. agriculture and trade to such an extent that the tribes would ca- first edition, king khalid of saudi arabia’s copy of this pitulate. To achieve effect, it required a permanent air presence splendid photoessay, inscribed by the photographer “To His and the willingness to employ force when the prescription was Majesty King Khalid ibn Abdulaziz, with many thanks for the broken . . . Commencing 24 July, the fortified towers at Izki, encouragement and cooperation of the Government of Saudi Nizwa, Tanuf, Birkat al Mawz, Bahla and Firq were attacked on Arabia, enabling me to complete this work, Robert Azzi” on the successive days. Each operation was preceded by warning leaf- front free endpaper. This is one of ten copies only in the presen- lets (dropped 48 hours in advance) . . . The fort at Izki was badly tation binding of full calf gilt (the trade issue was cloth-bound). damaged by Venoms, although the main tower at Nizwa proved The photographs include city and desert views, historical and more resilient against rockets” (Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dye, religious sites, scenes of daily life, and various images of the “The Jebel Akhdar War”, in Air Power Review, vol. 11, no. 3, winter Saudi royal family. Azzi, a Lebanese-American photographer, 2008, pp. 20–3). The text of the present leaflet, translated, reads: achieved recognition for his work for Newsweek and National Geo- “Warning from Sa’id ibn Taymur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman. graphic, as well as photobooks on Saudi Arabia. Khalid ascended Your forts will be attacked by aeroplanes the day after tomorrow the Saudi throne in 1975; after his death in 1982, this copy was between sunrise and sunset. The aim of this is not immediate gifted back to Azzi. destruction but rather to make you see that at our disposal is a £1,250 [114374]

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29 BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore degli Arabi e fondatore dell’Impero musulmano. Poema. Casalmaggiore: Fratelli Bizzarri, 1791 2 volumes in one, quarto (235 × 172 mm). Contemporary half sheep vellum, marbled sides, twin morocco labels lettered in gilt and manu- 29 script shelf-mark label to spine, edges speckled blue. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces and 12 similar numbered plates by Paolo Araldi, vignettes succeeded in creating a unified Arabian caliphate that laid the to title pages. Complete with the half-titles and imprimatur leaf. Boards slightly rubbed with light wear along fore edges, labels a touch chipped foundation for the rise of the : a contrast to to minimal loss of lettering, very sporadic faint soiling chiefly to mar- other European works portraying him as “an odious impostor gins as usual, isolated portions of minor dampstaining to head of gut- and a man of most dissolute morals”. ter. An excellent copy, preserved here in remarkably fresh condition in a “Scholars of the Enlightenment particularly struggled with pleasing contemporary binding. dual impulses towards Muhammad’s depiction, aspiring both first and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recount- to a more historically-based, objective image of the Prophet, yet ing the life of Muhammad in 12 cantos of ottava rima, each canto also perpetuating the public appetite for romantic, exotic de- illustrated with a full-page engraved plate, in addition to two tails” (Shalem, ed., Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe, frontispiece portraits of the author and of Muhammad astride a p. 3); Baccanti’s work perpetrates the common anachronisms rampant horse, all after original paintings by Paolo Araldi. Orig- of presenting Muhammad in contemporary Turkish dress, inally from Casalmaggiore, Araldi (d. 1811) studied at the Acad- preaching in interiors more redolent of orientalist fantasy than emy of Parma, where he taught Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1816), seventh-century Arabia, and leading his troops against a con- before returning to his native city. Alberto Baccanti (1718–1805), spicuously European-style fortress. An unusual and extremely also from Casalmaggiore, studied theology at Cremona before uncommon work, with only seven copies held by libraries world- travelling to in 1741, under the auspices of the Gonzagas wide (none in the United Kingdom). to work in the Vatican as a papal secretary. He returned to Casa- Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell or the Arcadian Library. lmaggiore in 1755. Tipaldo lists an additional 10 printed and 11 manuscript works written by Baccanti, chiefly poems, orations, £8,750 [102633] and exequies in verse. The 12 plates depict Muhammad in the stages of his proph- 30 ecy: ascending with the archangel Gabriel to heaven (laylat (BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY.) Collection of al-mi’raj), preaching to his first followers in Mecca, leading his armies to battle and uniting the disparate tribes under his original photographs commissioned for the Bapco in- leadership. Baccanti explains in his foreword that he sought house magazine, The Bahrain Islander. Awali, Bahrain: The to characterise the Prophet as a statesman and general of “rare Bahrain Petroleum Company, 1954–6 talents” who, regardless of the truth of the religion he founded, 18 original silver-print 10×8 press photographs (257 × 204 mm, or the reverse), one a duplicate, carbon-copy, typescript caption texts mounted

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averaged 60 per cent of government income and helped to fi- nance major development, education, and health programs. In 1975 the government of Bahrain acquired a 60 per cent interest in Bapco, and assumed control of the remaining 40 per cent in 30 1980. An attractive, unusual and allusive group, giving insight into the transformation of Bahrain from a “pearl state” to an “oil versos; together with 4 issues of the bi-monthly company magazine state”. The Bahrain Islander (September and November 1955, January and April 1956); a copy of the Annual Company Report for 1954; and two 4–page £4,750 [68214] offprints, “Who are we,” on the history of Bapco, and “Schooling in skills,”about the training and education of the company’s Bahraini 31 employees; all preserved within a Bapco card folder. The folder a little sunned and rubbed, but overall very good. BAKER, Sir Samuel W. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: An unusual collection of original photographs illustrating the oil industry in Bahrain, together with a group of internal com- Macmillan & Co., 1867 pany documents, providing news, history and an overview of Octavo (215 × 189 mm). Recent half calf, old marbled boards, red moroc- the financial development of the company. Bapco had been co label. Double portrait engraved frontispiece, 2 coloured maps, one full-page the other folding, and 23 plates. Some foxing front and back, founded by Standard Oil Co. of California in 1928 to exploit the light toning throughout, occasional spotting, folding map a little weak- exploration rights that they had been granted in the country. ened on the folds, but overall a very good copy. Bapco #1 struck oil on 1 June 1932, which presented them with first edition; the important adjunct to Baker’s book on the problem of marketing its production. This was solved by a the Albert N’yanza. “His prowess in the field won for him the collaboration with the Texas Oil Company in the founding of friendship and admiration of the Hamran Arabs, themselves Caltex. While Socal provided the product, Texaco offered their mighty hunters. He explored other tributaries of the Atbara, in- marketing subsidiaries throughout the eastern hemisphere, in cluding the Bahr-er-Salam and the Angareb, and followed up the Africa, Australasia and Asia. By 1935, when 16 oil wells were in course of the Rehad to its confluence with the Blue Nile. Thence production and construction of the Bahrain refinery had com- he marched to Khartoum, where he arrived on 11 June 1862. The menced, the royalties paid by Socal to the Bahraini government value of the work of exploration during this fourteen months’ constituted more than 40 per cent of the state budget. In the journey and of the observations proving the Nile sediment to years up to independence in 1971, Bapco oil revenues annually be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by Sir , president of the Royal Geographical Society. Baker had also during the period gained for himself ex- perience as an explorer, mastered Arabic, and acquired the use of astronomical instruments” (DNB). Czech remarks on Baker’s preference for a “four-barrelled muzzle loading 10-bore” as his “regular battery”, while describing the present work as “A classic of exploration and big game hunting”. Czech p. 11; Gay 2578; Hilmy I, p. 50. £350 [90759]

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32 33 BAKER, Sir Samuel W. Ismailïa. A Narrative of an BARCLAY, Edgar. Mountain Life in Algeria. With Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Illustrations by the Author. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Slave Trade, organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. Co., 1882 London: Macmillan and Co., 1874 Quarto (244 × 178 mm). Original blue-green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered and decorated black geometric border extending over spine and boards, titles and in gilt, gilt panels enclosing large gilt block of a camel caravan to front decoration to front in red and silver, publisher’s device in black to rear, boards, rear boards panelled in blind, fore edges untrimmed, brown all edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Photo-engraved frontispiece, 7 coated endpapers, binder’s ticket of Burn & Co. to rear pastedowns, similar and 7 wood-engraved plates, vignette chapter headings, all by Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 52 plates, 2 lithographic maps, Barclay. Recent owner’s label to front pastedown. Spine sunned and one folding. Tips and covers very lightly rubbed, vol. 2 spine gently lightly marked, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, scattered pale rolled and faintly marked, folding map with closed tear at stub and short markings and small portions of cockling to sides, faint -mark to top nicks at folds, still an excellent copy, the cloth bright and fresh, the con- edge of frontispiece, title page and plates, the images never affected. A tents clean. very good copy. first edition. In 1869 “the Khedive Isma’il appointed Baker first edition, scarce. Barclay (1842–1913), painter and etch- to a four-year term as governor-general of the equatorial Nile er, was a member of the British circle of artists known as the basin, with the rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman “Etruscans” owing to their preference for Italian landscapes. He army. It was the most senior post a European ever received under studied at Dresden with Carolsfeld, and then in Rome, where he an Egyptian administration. According to the khedive’s , became acquainted with Giovanni Costa. Between 1873 and 1880 Baker’s duties included annexing the equatorial Nile basin, estab- he made several visits to Algeria, recording his observations on lishing Egyptian authority over the region south of Gondokoro village life, local customs and dress, and antiquities. The Athe- [modern-day South Sudan], suppressing the slave trade, intro- naeum considered Mountain Life in Algeria “a most interesting ducing cotton cultivation, organizing a network of trading sta- and charming work”. tions throughout the annexed territories, and opening the great £600 [117145] lakes near the equator to navigation” (ODNB). “While most of the narrative involves travel and military adventure, there are several episodes of sport as well. Baker’s troops bagged crocodile and 34 hippopotamus, depicted in several fascinating engravings. South BEHR, Johann von der. Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über of Regiaf, the author bagged a pair of elephants, and attempted to dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-järigen Reise zu Wasser collect a few more by using both Hale’s rockets and the company’s und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst der Vereinigten fieldpiece . . . Later, in Unyoro, he hunted antelope and lion while Geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen natives drove the game toward a series of nets” (Czech). Compagnie, besonders in denselbigen Ländern täglich Blackmer 66; Czech (Africa) p. 11; Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 49. begeben und zugetragern. Jena: Urban Spaltholtz, 1668 £1,500 [117582] Quarto (187 × 153 mm). Later pinkish-yellow glazed boards, pale green morocco label, compartments formed by a single gilt rule, gilt flower

22 Peter Harrington 133 34 34 tool to compartments. Engraved portrait frontispiece and elaborate A view of the attack on Qeshm is included in the somewhat emblematic additional title page, 15 engraved plates, the view of Batavia naïve, but nonetheless splendid, plates which also show Bata- folding. A little rubbed at the extremities, some browning, but overall a via, , St Helena, and Kamron in Persia, and images of some very good, clean copy. of the unusual flora and fauna encountered by Behr – coconut first and only edition of this fascinating account of the trees, the cinnamon tree, an elephant hunt, and flying fish. East Indies and Persia by a German soldier in the service of the Uncommon and highly attractive, the book is well-represented VOC. “Behr enlisted in 1641 and sailed to Batavia about two institutionally, but extremely uncommon in commerce with just years later . . . he went on to serve in , as well as with the one copy at auction in the last 50 years. fleet of Johann Maetsuycker on the Malabar Coast. Apart from a Landwehr, VOC, 309. voyage to Persia, Behr spent four of his six years with the VOC in Ceylon” (Howgego). £12,500 [96772] The originality of parts of Behr’s account have been questioned, with comparisons being drawn with the published journals of Johann Jacob Merklein, and in particular with Johann Jacob Saar’s record of his service in Ceylon. Behr had returned to Europe in 1650, but his narrative was not published for another 18 years; the most likely explanation for any plagiarism is editorial light fingers rather any lack of authenticity in Behr’s account. He certainly provides an entirely authentic account of the VOC’s attack in 1645 on the strategically important island of Kischmisch (Qeshm), which dominated the and had been contested between the Persians, Portuguese and English for some time. The Dutch were struggling to improve the terms of their silk trading agreement with the Safavids, and attacked the island in the hope of forcing the ’s hand in negotiations but were unable to take the fort. The show of force did however achieve some ameliora- tion of their situation, and the incident is illuminating of power relationships in the Gulf in the Early Modern period, challenging “conventional wisdom that the Safavid economy was subservient to the exploitative practices of European Companies” (see Floor & Faghfoory, The First Dutch–Persian Commercial Conflict: The Attack on , 1645). 34

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Archeologique, Publiée sous la direction de Mm. G. Perrot et S. Reinach. Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1906–7 Six offprints bound together as one, octavo. Contemporary purple cloth 35 backed marbled boards, titles gilt to spine. Offprints respectively Revue 1906, I, p. 1–29; p. 385–414; II, p. 7–36; p. 225–252; p. 390–401; Revue 1907, I, p. 18–30. Plans and photographic illustrations (after photographs by 35 Bell) in the text throughout. Spine sunned, some minor marks and nicks BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The Late Dr. Charles Beke’s to boards, internally sound and clean but for a very few sprays of spot- Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by his ting, very good condition. widow. London: Trübner & Co., 1878 rare presentation set of offprint first editions com- prising the complete “Notes on a Journey Through Cilicia and Large octavo (240 × 155 mm). Original red cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, two-line frame enclosing pictorial vi- Lycaonia”, with an autograph letter signed from Bell presenting gnette gilt to front board, similar frame in blind to rear board, all edges the whole to Professor Ludwig Richard Enno Littman (1875–1958) gilt, brown coated endpapers. Photographic portrait frontispiece with laid in. The apparently unpublished letter, on Rounton Grange, facsimile and tissue-guard, 13 engraved plates, 2 plates of ta- Northallerton, stationery, is dated October 1[90]7, and contains bles and graphs, folding lithographic map in partial colour to rear. With four pages of lively archaeological discussion (”Your suggestion the errata slip tipped in to the contents leaf. Rubbed and marked over- that all this series of castles is Islamic comes to me I confess as a all, cockling to spine, headcaps refurbished with a little fraying to foot, new idea. It needs some consideration. Kal’at al Badya at any rate contemporary label of Mudie’s Select Library pasted to front board not belongs to two periods, the Syrian tower in the fort being rebuilt affecting image, label of Worcester Public Library to front pastedown (inscribed “sold by order June ’95”), very mild occasional foxing short of its materials. Your idea could not materially alter the kunst closed tear to map fold just touching image. A good copy. wissenschaftlicke importance of the buildings, nor could it alter, I think, one’s conception of the artistic influences under which first edition. “In December 1873 Beke left England on his they were built”), after which Bell declares “I send you all the last trip, designed to vindicate an argument first made in his papers from the Revue archiologique [sic]. The Cilician churches, Origines [biblica, 1834] concerning the geography of Mount Sinai Guyer says, were mostly rebuilt by the Armenians. Concerning the and the Red Sea. He returned to England the following March Karaiagh churches Sir W. Ramsay & I will have much to add & to and died suddenly on 31 July 1874 . . . The results of the Red Sea correct. We have, we think, got back with certainty to earlier dates expedition were posthumously edited and published in 1878 than we could be sure of before.” by his widow, Emily, . . . The 1878 volume, considered by some Littmann was a German scholar of Oriental languages who contemporaries to be his most important, aroused consider- had studied at Princeton. In 1905 he lived among the Tigre people able controversy at the time, but left no lasting mark on biblical in Eritrea, and in 1906 directed the German Aksum Expedition research” (ODNB). Much of Beke’s scholarship sought to harmo- in Ethiopia. In the same year he succeeded Theodor Noldeke as nise recent scientific discoveries, especially in the field of geolo- chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. He gy, with a belief in the Bible as divine revelation. went on to serve as professor of Oriental languages at Gottingen, £250 [112329] Bonn and Tubingen. He is notable for having deciphered Palmy- rene, Nabataean and Syriac inscriptions as well as historical texts 36 of ancient Ethiopian monuments. He later published a translation of One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into German. BELL, Gertrude. “Notes on a Journey Through Cilicia This early work by Bell relates her travels through what is now and Lycaonia” [Complete as six offprints from] Revue South-Eastern Turkey and Northern Syria, and represents her primary fascination with the archaeology for the Middle East

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(before, like Lawrence, she made the uneasy transition to foreign agent). It is rare – no other copies are traced at auction – and only six are listed by OCLC in institutions worldwide, one in France, two in the US, and three in the UK (and none listed at Oxford, 37 where Bell studied history). £4,500 [115580] insula extensively between 1893 and his death in 1897, adding “much to European knowledge of the Hadhramaut country, the 37 mountainous area backing the Gulf of Aden . . . In November 1896 he traversed and explored the little-known country within (BELL, Gertrude, contrib.) The Arab of Mesopotamia. 50 miles of Aden. His last journey was through parts of southern Basra: Published by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1918 Arabia in 1897” (ODNB). This account of those last explorations Small octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to front board. Housed in green – divided into sections on Southern Arabia, Muscat, the Hadh- cloth slipcase and chemise, maroon morocco label to spine. Frontispiece ramaut, Dhorat and the Gara Mountains, the Eastern Soudan, map of Mesopotamia. Cloth bubbled on the boards, usual light browning the Mahri Island of Sokotra, Beled Fadhli and Beled Yafei. – was throughout, but the hinges entirely sound, text-block unshaken, in far bet- ter condition than usually encountered, genuinely very good. edited by his wife, “herself an intrepid traveller”, and is much en- hanced by “her important and early photographs” (ibid.) first edition of this fragile official publication, uncommon, particularly so in such – relatively – sharp condition. A “series of Macro 524 brief essays on subjects relating to Mesopotamia, written during £2,000 [95175] 1916, by persons with special knowledge of the subjects dealt with” (Preface). However, one section (pp. 100–202) has a sepa- rate title page entitled “Asiatic Turkey” and is by Gertrude Bell. She says in her Preface (dated October 1917) that “these articles were written at the request of the War Office during June and July, 1917. It has been suggested that they might be of some interest to members of the Force serving in Mesopotamia who may not have had opportunity to make acquaintance with the of the Sultan beyond the battlefields of Gallipoli and the ‘Iraq”. £850 [116968]

38 BENT, Theodore & Mabel. Southern Arabia. Soudan and Socotra. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900 Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, device in blind to the front board. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 25 half-tone plates, 6 coloured maps, 5 of them folding. Spine a little sunned, pale toning, a scatter of foxing to the fore-edge, else an unusually well-preserved copy. first edition, later issue. Uncommon, particularly so in such sharp condition. Bent and his wife surveyed in the Arabian pen- 38

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39 Octavo (262 × 166 mm). Contemporary “native” green half morocco by the Education Society’s Press, Bycullah, raised bands and gilt rules to spine, BEVERIDGE, William. De linguarum orientalium, titles gilt to second compartment, pebble-grained cloth sides, red sprinkled praesertim Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, & edges. 2 decorative title pages and one dedication leaf lithographed in or- Samaritanae praestantia, necessitate, & utilitate quam ange, green and purple; Arabic text. From the library of British Arabist and & theologis praestant & philosophis . . . [and:] — [First colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and as- five words in Syriac] id est, Grammatica linguae Domini sociated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Stripping and nostri Jesu Christi, sive Grammatica Syriaca tribus libris rubbing to corners, a few trivial nicks to final leaves. A very good copy. tradita, quorum primus vocum singularum proprietatem, Extremely uncommon Arabic gospel produced by the Dominican secundus syntaxin, tertius figuras grammaticas & praxin Mission to Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, one copy only traced in continet . . . Londini: excudebat Thomas Roycroft, 1658 libraries, at Tilburg in the Netherlands, and none listed at auc- 2 works in one volume, octavo (178 × 109 mm). Contemporary blind- tion. The text largely follows the influential Arabic Bible printed at ruled sprinkled calf, later morocco spine label, sprinkled edges. Book- Rome in 1703, with corrections and notes made through compari- plate of the Islamic scholar R. M. Burrell to front pastedown. Slightly son to the original Greek, the Vulgate and the “Syro-Chaldaic ver- rubbed, fore edges of boards restored, occasional red ink-marks to sion”. The dedicatee was Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte (1828–1895), margins from edge-sprinkling, otherwise a few trivial marks, front free godson to Napoleon III, who was cousin to both his parents. The endpaper chipped, first title page slightly soiled, marginal tan-burn to editor was Yusuf Dawud (1829–1890), a figure of great importance second title, contemporary inked annotations to title, p. 3 of first work, in the revival of Arabic letters in the 19th century. Dawud “was and p. 83 of the second. A very good copy. born in a village near Mosul. After receiving his elementary ed- first editions of both works, usually found together and ucation in his home town, he went to Rome where he received a probably always intended to be issued thus, with the text of the degree in philosophy and theology and learned several European second work reading from back to front; there was a second and Semitic languages. After he was ordained a priest in 1855 edition in 1664. Bishop William Beveridge (1637–1708) would he returned home and became the Syriac-Catholic Bishop of become one of the leading Anglican patristic scholars of the late Damascus 1879. Bishop Dawud then devoted his life to teaching, 17th century. This “ambitious Latin treatise” (ODNB) was his preaching, and writing” (Chejne, The Arabic Language: Its Role in His- first published book and intended for those who wished to study tory, p. 138). His other works include an edition of the Peshitta and Walton’s Polyglot Bible (1654–7). grammars of Arabic and Syriac. Wing B2092 & B2093. £3,500 [117622] £1,750 [104443] 41 40 BIRD, Isabella. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. (BIBLE; Arabic.) Novum testamentum domini nostri Jesu Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Christi versio arabica. Mosul: Typis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs. By Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L. 1876 Bird). London: John Murray, 1891

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2 volumes, octavo (204 × 130 mm). Original light blue cloth, spines let- (1831–1904) became the first woman elected to the Royal Geograph- tered in gilt, front boards decoratively stamped in blue with titles and ical Society. concentric frames gilt, patterned endpapers, fore and bottom edges un- trimmed. Photographic frontispiece to vol. 1, 12 engraved plates including Burrell 100; Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 82–3; Wilson p. 23. the frontispiece to vol. 2, engravings to the text. Bookplate of Francis Gray Smart (1844–1912, physician and pioneer of homeopathy) to front paste- £1,500 [117136] downs. Tips bumped, trivial mark to vol. 1 spine, superficial splits to vol. 1 inner hinge and to head of vol. 2 front joint. An excellent copy. 42 first edition of one of the most important English accounts of BLACK, Archibald Pollok. A Hundred Days in the East. A Persia in the 19th century (Wright, The English Amongst the Persians, Diary of a Journey to Egypt, Palestine, Turkey in Europe, p. 149), by “the most notable woman traveller of her time” (ODNB). Greece, the Isles of the Archipelago, and Italy. London: “The archetypal Victorian Lady Traveller . . . Isabella Bird did not John F. Shaw & Co., 1865 begin her travelling career until quite late in life . . . for until she was forty she was occupied as spinster in caring for her Octavo (175 × 117 mm). Original green cloth over bevelled boards, gilt-lettered spine, blind frame to boards, dome and vignette parents” (Robinson). For health reasons she sailed for Australia, gilt to front, brown coated endpapers. Map frontispiece, folding map New Zealand the Sandwich Islands, then visiting in and to rear, 6 plates, all wood-engraved. Contemporary gift inscription, “To Japan. Following a trip to India in 1879, Bird landed at Basra on 1 Stephen Jay, from his friend, [?]R E Daintree” on the front free endpa- January 1880 intending “to ride across little known parts of Turkey per. Lightly rubbed, very short superficial split to cloth at foot of spine, and Persia, to visit Christian outposts and the ancient communities tips slightly bumped and worn, small marking to rear board, contents of the Armenians and Nestorians in Kurdistan. She fell in with Ma- toned, sporadic mild spotting. A very good, bright copy. jor Herbert Sawyer of the Indian army. Her reputation as a traveller first and only edition, quite scarce: four copies only in must have preceded her, for the tough officer of thirty-eight agreed UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of to set off with the widow of sixty (said to be in poor health). On 21 Scotland, and Oxford); OCLC adds eight world-wide. Black, a January 1890 they left Baghdad for Tehran on the roughest journey Church of Scotland clergyman, travelled east in March 1864, in her experience. It took them forty-five days, through driving and from France to Alexandria and visiting Cairo and Suez drifting , sheltering at night in overcrowded and filthy caravan- before undertaking an extensive tour of the holy sites of Pales- serai. So impressed was Sawyer with his companion’s courage and tine and the ancient monuments of Syria, Anatolia, Greece and efficiency that he took her with him on his official journey among Italy. He writes in his introduction that “the author, from cir- the Bakhtiari tribespeople of south-west Persia” (ODNB). After Bird cumstances and choice, having travelled without tent or escort, finished helping Sawyer with his survey work, she rode north for found himself in localities and amidst scenery seldom visited the Black Sea. Bird’s obituary in considered her account by ordinary tourists . . . The book will not only be useful to Sab- “in some respects . . . the best of her works, for both country and bath-schools, church libraries, travellers to Palestine, but also to people and people are full of interest and variety, and her journey all who take an interest in the Holy Land”. included a visit to some of the little-known Christian settlements Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 76; not in Weber. in Syria, whose archaic ceremonies and and curious way of living she sympathetically describes”. The year after publication Bird £500 [117038]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 27 43 at Scutari . . . Lady Alicia quickly demonstrated her energy and BLACKWOOD, Lady Alicia. Scutari, the Bosphorus and the resourcefulness. Initially she took responsibility for 280 women and infants, many of them the wives, widows, and children of Crimea. Twenty Four Sketches in Aid of the Irish Church soldiers who had arrived from Varna in wretched condition. Missions, the Moravian Church Missions, the Vaudois While sympathetic to the women’s plight, Florence Nightingale Schools, the Turkish Missions. Ventnor: John Lavars, 1857 regarded them as hindrances to the major task of caring for mil- 2 volumes, large folio (54.5 × 37 cm). Original cloth-backed drab paper itary casualties. With supplies brought from England, charitable wrappers printed in black. Housed in a flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea gifts, supplemented with goods bought locally, Lady Alicia set Bindery. Tinted lithographic title to each volume, 19 similar plates of up a women’s hospital in a rented house” (ODNB). She also took which 5 are folding panoramas, folds of panoramas linen-backed verso charge of a lying-in ward, an invalid hospital, and set up a small as issued. Corners bumped, wrappers slightly marked in places, with a few nicks and short closed tears, two small perforations to each wrapper infants’ school, and estimated that by she eventually had some of the second volume, touching lithographic title and final plate, now re- 500 women working for her. When peace was proclaimed in paired, browning along edges of plates 1 and 9, plates 9–11 with pale tide March 1856 Blackwood and her husband travelled visited Balak- mark at top edge, similar markings to top and fore edges of 20–21, stron- lava, Inkerman, Chernaya valley, and Cathcart’s Hill. Her sketch- ger in the latter, though the images never affected. A very good copy. es, which later appeared in octavo format in her memoir (1880), first and only edition of this rare collection of Crimean include impressive folding panoramas of the Bay and Monastery War views, dedicated to Florence Nightingale, under whom the of St George, the Valley of Inkerman, the barrack hospital at artist worked in Scutari. Just a handful of copies traced in com- Scutari, and Constantinople from the cliffs of Scutari, together merce, and five only in libraries worldwide (Oxford, National with views of Sevastopol from the Redan, Bahçesaray, and more. Library of Ireland, Newberry Library, New York Public Library, Abbey Travel 242; Atabey 113; Blackmer 148. and Brigham Young); the Wellcome Institute has a fragmentary collection of six individual lithographs. £7,500 [116740] Blackwood (1818–1913) and her husband were active members of the Evangelical Alliance; they travelled to Turkey after learn- 44 ing of the fall of Sevastopol and the terrible situation following BLEECK, Arthur Henry. Avesta: the religious books of the the Battle of Inkerman. “When Florence Nightingale was con- Parsees; from Professor Spiegel’s German translation of vinced that Lady Alicia was in earnest and willing to work she was asked to take charge of 200 women sheltering in appalling the original manuscripts. In three volumes. Hertford, Herts: conditions in the foul basements of the great barrack hospital for Muncherjee Hormusjee Cama, by Stephen Austin, 1864

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3 volumes in one, octavo (215 × 133 mm). Original cloth over bev- very light spotting and bleeding from edge-dye to margins. A very good, elled boards, covers elaborately panel-stamped with ropework border attractively bound copy. enclosing similar central panel, floral cornerpieces, spine lettered and second edition, revised, of Bonomi’s “major publication decorated in gilt, edges sprinked red, cream surface-paper endpapers. . . . a popular and scholarly work which regarded the city from Spine sunned with a few nicks at extremities, tips rubbed, rear hinge repaired, a very good copy. the artistic and scriptural points of view and illustrated and discussed in depth the chief sculptures, reliefs, and inscriptions first edition. “Bleeck was for some time in the British Muse- then known of that city”(ODNB). Nineveh and its Palaces was origi- um, where his remarkable linguistic capacity rendered him very nally published the previous year. useful. He had a wide knowledge of both oriental and European languages. He afterwards went out to the East during the Crime- Arcadian Library 11034 (later edition). an War, and until the conclusion of peace held a post in connec- £250 [117585] tion with the Land Transport Corps at Sinope on the Black Sea, where his co-author, William Burckhardt Barker, was also sta- tioned. Refused readmission to the British Museum on his re- 46 turn to England, Bleeck worked for several years for a prominent BOROVKOV, A. Dorvoz. Brodizchiy tsirk v Srednei Azii Parsi merchant, Muncherjee Hormusjee Cana, who employed (Dorvoz, The Wandering Circus of Central Asia). Tashkent: him to prepare an English version of the Avesta, the religious Sredazkniga, 1928 books of the Parsis, who were Zoroastrians, from an existing Octavo. Wire-stitched in original light card pictorial wrappers. Three German translation. He performed the task well, publishing the colour lithographic illustration to the front panel of the wrappers, 3 work in 1864 in three volumes. Bleeck’s other works included A plates from photographs, 30 pages of text. Overall just a little browned, Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language (with W. Burckhardt Bark- very good. er, 1854) [and] A Concise Grammar of the (1857)” first and only edition, print-run of just 800 copies, ex- (ODNB). Scarce in the original cloth. tremely uncommon with no copy traced institutionally. An £650 [108196] attractive early study of the Uzbeki traditional circus. Evidence found in ancient Samarkand (Afrasiab) from the fifth and fourth 45 centuries bce, shows the presence at that early date of pro- fessional animal trainers, bareback riders, jugglers, acrobats, BONOMI, Joseph. Nineveh and its Palaces. The clowns, and ropewalkers. These last are the main feature of Uz- Discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the beki circus performance, with the art of “ustoz” or ropewalking Elucidation of Holy Writ. London: Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853 being passed down as a family tradition. The word “Dorvoz” Octavo. Later (c.1900) half vellum, red morocco spine label, marbled translates as “playing with the gallows”. sides and endpapers, yellow edges. Profuse wood-engraved illustrations, as plates and to the text. From the library of British Arabist and colonial £1,750 [117104] agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and as- sociated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Occasional

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 29 charts back to England. He then proceeded to Muscat to obtain permission to survey the coastline of Omani possessions in east Africa, and on New Year’s Day 1824 commenced a survey of the Arabian coastline. Owen had planned to trace the coast from Muscat to Dhofar, but unfavourable winds prevented this. He therefore commenced at Ra’s al-Hadd, continuing to the island of Masira, where he carted its outer coast to its southern point at Ra’s Abu Rasas . . . Leven continued along the coast past Ra’s Markhaz and the Kuria Muria islands, discontinuing the survey at Ra’s Mirbat after Owen had contracted rheumatic fever. From Ra’s Mirbat the Leven sailed to Socotra, and thence to the African 47 coast to meet up with the Barracouta . . . Both Owen and Thomas Boteler published lengthy books about their journeys. Boteler “This great surveying undertaking” (Burton) was initially second lieutenant on Leven, but after the death of Captain Cutfield of the Barracouta during the survey of Delagoa 47 Bay, , was transferred to the Barracouta as first lieu- BOTELER, Thomas. Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery tenant. Owen’s book, badly edited by Heaton Bowstead Robin- to Africa and Arabia, performed by His Majesty’s Ships son, is at times confusing, and it is difficult to know whether the Leven and Barracouta from 1821 to 1826. Under the words are those of Owen or Boteler . . . Boteler’s book, edited command of Capt. F. W. Owen, R.N. London: Richard by Richard Bentley (Boteler having died in 1828 from the effects Bentley, 1835 of fever), is less spoiled by editorial meddling and more faithful to the original manuscript. Chapter 6 of volume II includes an 2 volumes, octavo (219 × 136 mm). Late 19th-century red half calf, dec- orative gilt spines, pinkish linen cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled account of the Leven and her operations in Arabian waters, but is endpapers. Lithograph frontispieces and 2 plates by C. Hamberger or T. based on Owen’s journal, as neither Boteler nor Barracouta visited M. Baynes after Boteler. From the library of British Arabist and colonial Oman” (New Arabian Studies, Vol. 2, 1994, pp. 10–11). agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his Gay 39; Hilmy I 84; Mendelssohn I p. 252. widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Spines £2,500 [117586] sunned and with a few dark blemishes, touch of soiling to front cover of volume II, embossed library stamps to plates, scattered light foxing. A very good, tall copy. 48 first edition, commercially rather uncommon. Sir Richard BOULGER, Demetrius Charles. The Life of Yakoob Beg; Burton, in a footnote in his Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cat- Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet, Ameer of Kashgar. London: aracts of the Congo (1876) described the journeys of the Leven and W. H. Allen & Co., 1878 Barracouta as “this great surveying undertaking”. Octavo. Original red cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down, “Following the re-establishment of British sovereignty in title gilt to spine, blind panelling to boards, grey-brown surface-paper South Africa at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, and with endpapers. Folding coloured map frontispiece. A little rubbed at the trade possibilities emerging along the east coast of Africa, the extremities, perhaps a quarter of an inch lacking at spine ends, hinges British Admiralty decided to undertake a major survey of the slightly cracked, light toning, overall a very good copy. African coastline. An expedition was fitted out at Woolwich in first edition of this uncommon life of this “remarkable Muslim 1821, led by William Fitzwilliam Owen on board Leven, a ship- adventurer” (Hopkirk, , p. 322) from Piskent, Kokand of 26 guns, assisted by Commander William Cutfield on – now Uzbekistan – who became ruler of Kashgaria. He signed the 10 gun Barracouta. The expedition progressed to south- treaties of amity and commerce with both Russia and Britain, but ern Africa and in late 1823, while the Barracouta was surveying crucially failed to get them to support him against the Chinese. He part of the African coast north of Mozambique, Owen sailed to died in 1877, after his army had been routed by the Emperor’s in- Bombay in Leven to obtain provisions and to send completed vasion force – “whose leisurely progress included the planting and

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30 Peter Harrington 133 49 49 harvesting of its own crops”, taking three years to reach Kashgar free endpaper somewhat creased, the text a little browned, but other- – most likely the victim of a poison plot: “Four of Yakoob’s sons and wise clean, a well-finished and handsomely-presented example. two of his grandsons fell into the hands of the Chinese. One son This French manuscript is a painstakingly completed school was beheaded, one grandson died, and the rest were sentenced to exercise, which has resulted in the creation of a highly attractive be castrated and sent as slaves to the soldiers on the Amoor” (Giles, atlas to accompany a course in ancient history, covering the A Chinese Biographical Dictionary). The author was one of the founders, period from the Assyrian Empire to the demise of Alexander’s and first editor, of the Asiatic Quarterly Review and a leading publicist Empire in eight maps, each of them accompanied by a brief of Empire and Asian affairs. explanatory text. Individual maps include Egypt and Arabia; the Assyrian and Persian Empires; Asia Minor; Greece, the Greek £575 [109139] Colonies; and the Expeditions of Alexander. There are also full page watercolours of the Parthenon and the Hephaestion, or 49 Temple of Theseus, in . The setting of such tasks was a BRACHET, H. “Atlas pour le cours de Géographie et relatively common practice in the early 19th century, but it was d’Histoire ancienne pendant l’année Scolaire 1840. Avec very rare indeed for the result to be such a highly finished and le Sommaire de chaque leçon.” 1840 assured piece, here bound with commensurate care. Landscape quarto (222 × 290 mm). Contemporary burgundy peb- £2,250 [91993] ble-grained morocco, title direct to spine which is decorated in rocaille style with repeated foliate , floral and bird tools, both boards with thick-and-thin fillet gilt panel enclosing an elaborate decorative 50 panel similarly composed to spine decoration with numerous flamboy- (BRAHE, Tycho.) SAYILI, Aydin. Tycho Brahe Sistemi ant large foliate arabesques, all edges gilt, broad swagged roll gilt to Hakkinda XVII. Asir Baslarina Ait Far[s]ça Bir Yazma. An turn-ins, hand-finished floral-sprigged black surface-paper endpapers 36–leaf manuscript with title-page vignette of an oak and laurel wreath Early Seventeenth Century Persian Manuscript on the in black and sepia, and 6 other vignettes, 8 detailed full-page maps fin- Tychonic System. Ankara: Dil ve Tarih-Çografya Fakültesi, 1958 ished in colours, and 4 full-page watercolour illustrations en grisaille, Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly sunned at the edg- accompanying text in a neat calligraphic hand. A little light shelf-wear, es. A very good copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nicholas some discolouration at the gutter of the front and rear blanks, one front Heer, with his ownership inscription to the front panel. Offprint from the Annual Review of the Institute of Archaelogy at the University of Ankara, describing a manuscript in the Vatican Li- brary (MS Vat. Pers. 9), namely a 1631 copy of renowned explorer Pietro della Valle’s Persian translation of a short pamphlet by one Christophoros Borrus, a Milanese Jesuit and astronomer, defending the planetary system of Tycho Brahe yet making no explicit mention of the Copernican system that was to supersede it: an interesting insight into the defining contest in 17th-cen- tury astronomy. Della Valle originally wrote his translation in Goa in 1624 and addressed it one Mawlana Zayn al-Din al-Lari, known as “al-munajjim” (Arabic for “the astronomer”), appar- ently a local potentate of some kind. 49 £50 [104031]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31 51 dian administration” (ODNB) and concurrently serving as assis- (BRITISH RESIDENCY, .) Manuscript tant to the political resident in the , Sir , who finally established the outpost on surer foundations, despite daybook. Bandar Abbas: 1905–29 the upheaval of the Constitutional Revolution. In 1902 a Times of Folio ledger book (390 × 240 mm). Contemporary sheep dyed red, marbled India report had lamented the “half-finished” consulate building; endpapers, cloth hinges, pp. [4], 286, numerous blank leaves at rear; pp. Shakespear oversaw the construction of a new complex of build- 161–4 typescript; typescript memorandum pasted to pp. 273–6. Most agree- ments ratified with consular ink-stamps or pasted Consular Service postage ings which he proclaimed to have had “an excellent effect on the stamps. Binding rubbed and worn, inner hinge split between pp. [2–3], very public mind … the political predominance of the British flag at occasional ink-smudging, nevertheless in excellent condition. this port being well typified by their superiority and extent” (Brit- Manuscript daybook covering the formative period of the British ish Library, “The Lonely Death of a British Vice-Consul in Persia”, consulate at the key Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, from early in the online). tenure of the influential yet ill-fated Captain William Shakespear Twelve documents in this daybook are signed by Shakespear, (1904–9) to the flourishing of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in including several wills and, notably, two property leases by ex- the late 1920s. The documents, which are mainly in Persian or En- porters Gray Paul & Co., who had established their office at Ban- glish, with a number in Arabic and a few in Sindhi (Khudawadi dar Abbas in 1865, and pioneered the expansion of British com- script), include fair copies of bills of sale, promissory notes, prop- merce in the Persian Gulf (see Jones, Two Centuries of Overseas Trad- erty leases, inheritance agreements, and other contracts (general- ing, p. 23). In 1906 Shakespear was sent to Muscat, probably to re- ly involving the appointment of agents). The parties include local lieve tensions between him and the Russian consul, leaving Indi- merchants, of Arab (Bahraini and Omani) and Indian origin in ad- an Army officer Cecil Hamilton Gabriel as acting consul until his dition to Persians, and various British companies which played an return in 1909, shortly after which he transferred to Kuwait, where important role in the expansion of imperial influence in the re- he was the first British officer to make contact with Ibn Sa’ud, and gion. The contracts themselves mainly concern property or oper- made important explorations into the Arabian interior. It has ations in Bandar Abbas and nearby , as well as Qeshm Is- been speculated that had he not been killed in a skirmish between land, inland Persia, the hometowns of Indian signatories, and the the House of Sa’ud and the Shammar in 1915, he might have “suc- oil field at . Together they form a highly detailed ceeded in harnessing Ibn Sa‘ud’s energies more thoroughly to the primary source for the commercial and social life and “the major imperial war effort, [and] a very different post-war Arab world entrepôt for the whole of southern Persia” (Busch, Britain and the might well have emerged” (ODNB). Persian Gulf, 1894–1914, p. 44), for the functioning of an important In 1904 Russia established a consular agency at Bandar Abbas, British outpost during an era marked by such convulsions as the with a full consul appointed in 1906. Gabriel’s tenure witnessed Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11, the First World War, the Anglo–Russian Agreement of 1907, which divided Iran into and the Persian coup d’etat of 1921, and for the rapid growth of spheres of British, Russian, and so-called “neutral” influence, APOC and the ongoing strategic contest between the British and though consular activities during this time appear to have contin- Russian empires. ued as usual, mainly involving deals between local Persian and In- The documents are neatly presented throughout; those in Per- dian merchants. In 1910 and 1911 Britain and Russia issued Iran sian are composed in an especially attractive flowing nasta’liq with ultimatums concerning their interests in the south and north script. All are briefly described in English, then ratified, signed of the country respectively. In 1910 a new consul, Captain Hugh and stamped by the acting consul (only occasionally a munshi, who Biscoe, was appointed, by which time the British consulate is is named as Abdus Samad). The whole is very well preserved in- shown to be ratifying mortgages and other commercial agree- deed, and forms a highly attractive historical record. ments originally executed by the Sadid al-Saltanah – the local dig- After the collapse of the Safavid in 1722, Bandar Abbas nitary appointed Russian consular agent – on behalf of British In- came under Omani control and underwent a long period of de- dian subjects (see the entries for 5 June and 16 October 1911). cline until the Qajar reconquest in 1868 led to a revival in trade. By The Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Resi- 1889 George Curzon noted a variety of products passing through dency for the years 1911–1914 (Qatar Digital Library, online), the port – “exports included opium, cotton, dates, salt, wool, pis- gives a useful overview of how British interests developed under tachios, almonds; imported were cotton fabric, thread, copper, Biscoe, the year 1914 being the first of many in which the Bandar iron, tin, spices, indigo, sugar, tea, glassware, and porcelain” Abbas district “enjoyed complete immunity from pillage and (Ency. Iran.) – though growing Russian dominance of central Asian disorder … The incursions en masse by Baharlus and other trade led to a decline in British imports in the 1890s. The British tribesmen … appear to have ceased” (p. 17). The Russian consul- consulate was established in 1900, the same year in which the ar- ar agent, Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan, moreover, is said to “take rival of a Russian vessel, Giliak, “supported the view among British but little part in local activities” while the Persian deputy-gover- authorities that the Russians were seeking a naval base in the nor, in post since 1911 “continued to work most satisfactorily for Gulf ” (Martin, ed., Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, p. 155). In 1902 British interests and to maintain most friendly relations with the British held a secret conference at which it was decided that Captain Biscoe” (ibid.) Biscoe’s report does, however, also allude seizing Bandar Abbas would be a priority in the event of war with to the success of German propaganda among the Indian com- Russia or France. munity and to the inevitable sympathy of the local Muslim pop- Conditions were notoriously inhospitable: the first three British ulation towards the Ottomans. consuls were either invalided out or died of fever; a fourth (Major W. R. Howson, previously vice-consul at Lingeh, replaced Bis- W. G. Grey, 1902–4) lasted slightly longer, but it was Shakespear, coe in March 1915, serving until 1919. His entry in the Administra- “at the time of his appointment . . . the youngest consul in the In- tion Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915–1919 describes the ongoing cooperation of the Persian depu-

32 Peter Harrington 133 51 ty-governor, but also renewed aggression by Baharlu tribesmen, ladari), who is recorded signing extensive memoranda of agree- and an attack on the Anglo-Persian Oil Company camp on Qeshm ment with APOC (9 November 1921) and the Royal Indian Marine Island by a party of Khuzistanis, which he attributes to “German (13 June 1924) respectively agreeing to supply salt obtained at intrigue” (p. 16). Qeshm Island and to perform coaling services at Hengam. In response to the German threat, Sir Percy Sykes landed at The overall impression of Bandar Abbas is one of a cosmopoli- Bandar Abbas in 1916 to establish the South Persia Rifles, a native tan Gulf hub. There are mortgage deeds executed by Bahraini no- force under his command, with some initial success. One con- taries ( Ahmed bin Sheikh Hassan Bahreini and Seyid tract recorded here (18 October 1916) engages an “S. Dorabjee” to Moosa bin Seyd Alawi Bahreini) on behalf of various Hindu mer- provide 1,000 camels to Captain R. C. Ruck, British commanding chants in Minab and Bandar Abbas itself; a trader on Qeshm Is- officer at Bandar Abbas. This is Bombay merchant Sir Dorabji land giving power of attorney to a partner in Bombay; such docu- Tata (1859–1932), who developed the business founded by his fa- ments as “Bond of compromise executed between Seyid Abdul ther Jamsetji that is now the global conglomerate Tata Group. The Kader, the agent of Haji Muhamed bin Abdullah Ghulam of Mus- Tatas reappear in May 1922, when they are appointed sole agents cat and the heirs of the late … Gelladari of Bunder Abbas”; an ex- for selling candles produced by the Burmah Oil Co (a similar con- tensive deed of sale, in Arabic, involving one Haji Nasib of Mus- tract agreed on 18 September 1924). By 1929 they are recorded se- cat; and an intriguing agreement involving the sale of Persian car- curing a similar contract with APOC. pets through an agent in New York named Amin Izmirhan. In ad- Although the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919 never came into dition there is a fascinating description by S. G. Knox, political effect owing to the Persian coup d’état of 1921, APOC rapidly ex- agent at Muscat, concerning a building in the city known as panded throughout the 1920s, during which time the consul at “al-Hatim”, which was used by the city’s Persian population “for Bandar Abbas was Indian Army officer Arthur William Fagan. The recital of odes on the anniversary of the death of Hussain”, Knox’s daybook shows how APOC and other British companies success- description apparently being intended to secure permission to re- fully cultivated networks of local agents, mainly of Indian origin. furbish the structure. The final 50 pages are entirely taken up by contracts concerning oil and its by-products. A successful Indian merchant aside from £16,500 [117495] Tata was Khan Sahib Ibrahim Giladari (also Gelladari or Gal-

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52 contents lightly browned throughout, the prelims more heavily so, and some foxing to the maps, one map with neat, old paper repair verso, BROCKBANK, Oliver. Diary of a Journey through the Sinai remains very good in an appealing contemporary binding. Peninsula and Arabia in 1914. London: [ for the author,] 1916 second edition, enlarged, first published in 1799. “This Octavo. Original red buckram, title gilt to the front board. 16 plates, important work contains the earliest information in English folding map. Just a little rubbed, spine mildly sunned, endpapers lightly about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by Bruce’s travels, went browned, pale toning to the text, couple of short tears – no loss – to the to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in the eastern Sa- map, a very good copy. hara and to journey to the source of the White Nile. He reached first and only edition, uncommon, just eight copies on El Fashur in Darfur and was the first Englishman to explore the OCLC. Brockbank was born into a wealthy Mancunian Quaker temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of Siwa. Browne was the steel family in 1870, and was educated at Cambridge. He made first European to describe Darfur, which he reached with a Suda- several trips to the Middle East in search of the “Holy Land” of nese caravan in 1793. He was imprisoned there by the Sultan of the scriptures, on this occasion spending “exactly five weeks Darfur. In 1796 he reached Egypt again by caravan and eventually and a day under canvas in the Desert of the Exodus and Arabia, returned to England via Syria and Constantinople” (Blackmer). and during the time covered 400 miles on camel and 700 miles Browne’s description of Egypt is widely considered to be “one of on horseback”, from Port Said to Jerusalem. Despite Brock- the best of the period, despite its dry, affected style” (Howgego); bank’s evangelicalism – he founded a working-class chapel, the book caused “some controversy because of its considerable Ivy Cottage, at Didsbury in 1893 which still thrives today – his sympathy towards, and admiration of, the East” (ODNB). diary-form narrative is more chattily descriptive than preachy, and is much enhanced by the plates from the author’s own pho- Arcadian Library 11091 for the first edition; not in Atabey, Browne’s tographs. An interesting and well-produced privately-published work represented solely by a French juvenile based on the Travels 156; Blackmer 219 listing the first edition; Gay 43; Howgego I, B170; Ibra- travel journal. him-Hilmy I, p. 91 £450 [95146] £2,000 [97302]

53 54 BROWNE, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and BUCKINGHAM, James Silk. Travels in Mesopotamia. Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. London: T. Cadell and W. Including a Journey from Aleppo, Across the Euphrates Davies; and Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, 1806 to Orfah (the Ur of the Chaldees,) through the Plains of Quarto (268 × 209 mm). Contemporary half calf on drab boards, black the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in Asia Minor; from thence morocco label, flat bands, elaborate gilt tooling to compartments, foliate roll gilt to spine and corner edges, edges marbled. Engraved to Mardin, on the Borders of the Great Desert, and by frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and full-page plan, with errata, corrigenda the Tigris to Mosul and Bagdad: with Researches on and directions to the binder leaf, half-title bound in. Contemporary en- the Ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and graved bookplate with Baron’s coronet and the EVB to front Seleucia. London: Henry Colburn, 1827 pastedown. Slightly rubbed and spotted, skilfully restored on the joints,

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Quarto (273 × 211 mm). Contemporary half calf, gilt-tooled raised bands Arcadian Library 11106; Atabey 163 for the first octavo edition (1827); to spine, compartments ruled in gilt and blind, blue label, marbled sides, Blackmer 233; Burrell 128; Howgego II B69; Weber 146. red-sprinkled edges. Engraved folding map, mounted on linen stub as issued, 2 further maps, 27 wood-engraved chapter headings. Spine lightly £1,500 [117067] rubbed at head and foot, short (25 mm) crack to head of each joint, pale spotting to endleaves and maps, very occasionally to text, occasional pen- 55 cilled paragraph summaries in a contemporary hand to margins of first 50 pages or so, scattered marginalia elsewhere. A very good, tall copy. BUNBURY, Sir Edward Herbert. A History of Ancient first edition, large-paper issue. Buckingham (1786–1855) Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the spent much of his early life as a merchant sailor. Between 1813 and Earliest Ages to the Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: 1814 he travelled in Egypt, meeting Muhammad Ali Pasha, who Dover Publications Inc., 1959 despatched him to Bombay to develop trade with India. There he 2 volumes, octavo. Original light brown cloth, spines lettered in blue, top accepted a further commission from the Imam of Muscat, but was edges purple. With the dust jackets. 20 maps of which 2 folding. Extremities forced to return to Egypt by the East India Company. From Cairo very lightly bumped. An excellent set in the slightly sunned dust jackets. he travelled overland India through Syria, Iraq and Iran. Travels in Facsimile of the 1883 second edition of Bunbury’s “major piece of Mesopotamia recounts the Aleppo to Baghdad leg of the voyage, scholarship and principal claim to fame” (ODNB), this copy from undertaken in mid-1816. the collection of noted American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with In 1818 he established the Calcutta Journal, an antigovernment his ownership inscription dated “Stanford 1961” to the front free periodical, and was expelled from India five years later, subse- endpaper of both volumes. Bunbury’s History of Ancient Geography quently becoming a vocal supporter of the temperance and other was first published in 1879. Considered to “epitomise the achieve- Liberal movements. He “spent far longer in the Arab world than ments and limitations of High Victorian classical scholarship” (P. most other occasional visitors” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library, G. Hall, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 12, No. p. 96) and his travel writings, which he wrote partly to fund 48, p. 342), Bunbury’s landmark work included a number of im- legal battles in defence of his character, are “especially notable pressive maps purporting to reconstruct the world as perceived by for the information they provide about social conditions in the ancient scholars such as Strabo, Homer and Ptolemy. many countries he visited” (ODNB). Travels in Mespotamia is con- sidered “full of lively descriptions and sympathetic characters” £125 [104017] (Blackmer).

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56 57 BURGOYNE, Michael Hamilton. Mamluk Jerusalem. An BURKE, John. Album of photographs from the Hazara Architectural Study. With additional historical research Expedition, 1891. 1878–93 by D. S. Richards. [London:] on behalf of the British School of Landscape folio (380 × 300 mm). Contemporary black half roan, dark Archaeology in Jerusalem by the World of Islam Festival Trust, 1987 green morocco-grained boards ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, white moiré- silk effect endpapers. 39 albumen photographs each c.215 × 280 mm Folio. Original crushed-morocco-effect blue cloth, spine lettered in mounted to stiff card leaves, detailed inked captions on mounts iden- gilt, calligraphic Arabic titles to front and rear covers, blue and grey tifying location and personnel, discreet captions and Burke catalogue decorative endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in the original blue numbers in the plate where applicable (26 photographs labelled Burke, cloth slipcase with calligraphic Arabic lettering gilt to sides. 10 colour Burke and Baker or “B”; 2 with numbers only; 5 captioned “J. Winter”; photographic plates; profuse half-tone photographs and architectural remainder uncaptioned), contemporary tissue-guards laid in. Binding line-drawings to the text; laid-in blue card portfolio with two large fold- slightly rubbed, some light staining to boards, neat restoration of the ing plans loose as issued. Number ink-stamped to front free endpaper, a joints, head and tail of the spine and to the corners, a few very minor few neat inked annotations to list of architects and surveyors. An excel- spots of foxing to mounts, first photograph slightly oxidised and a few lent copy in the dust jacket with a few small creases at extremities. slightly faded along margins but prints in the main in excellent condi- first and only edition, 3,000 copies printed, this copy tion, retaining their rich tonal contrasts. from the collection of historian Greville Freeman-Grenville A collection of fine photographs largely originating from the (1919–2005), with his ownership inscription dated 1987 to the Black Mountain, or Hazara, Expedition of 1891, with the owner- front free endpaper verso and a publisher’s compliments slip, ship inscription of Captain C. J. H. H. Noble to the front free end- inscribed “To Dr Greville Freeman-Grenville, Here is a copy of paper. The North West Frontier Province was highly unstable; res- Mamluk Jerusalem for your kind attention and favours of review tive local tribes, in particular the Yusufzai, were a major problem in the J.R.A.S., Alistair Duncan”, tipped-in between the con- for the British, who converged on the region from three directions tents and acknowledgements leaves. Greville Freeman served with a total force of some 7,000 troops. From the photographs it in Egypt in the Second World War and subsequently worked as is clear that Burke was attached to the Indus River column: there a lecturer in Baghdad; he then married Mary, Lady Kinloss, and are views of Attock, Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, the Indus Valley assumed the Freeman-Grenville, joining the Colonial and several of Murree, regimental photographs, camp views, Service and holding posts in Aden, and various images including Sikh soldiers and a striking scene of before returning to England. He wrote more than 20 books, “No. 1 Mountain Battery shelling Diliasi from Palosi” (Burke 81). including architectural studies of the Church of the Nativity in The final two photographs – each of the 1st Bedfordshire Regi- Bethlehem and the Basilica of the Annunciation in Jerusalem, ment – are puzzling: Charles John Herbert Hay Noble (b. 1870), and served as vice-president of the Royal Asiatic Society from son of Col. C. S. Noble of Murrayfield, Edinburgh, received his 1997 to 2000. commission in the Yorkshire Regiment in September 1894 having £350 [111996] after five years in the ranks. He was promoted lieutenant January 1897 and captain in the Manchester Regiment in June 1900. He served with the Jsazai Expedition (1892) and as transport officer to the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in the Tirah Expeditionary Force campaign on the North West Frontier Province, led by Sir William Lockhart (1897–98). In 1900 he travelled from India to South Africa on special service, where he distinguished himself in reconnaissance, led a successful night raid on a Boer farm 56 and was mentioned in despatches (7 May 1901) before dying of

36 Peter Harrington 133 57 wounds received in action at Schalkie Farm, near Bethlehem, in they won many of the top photography in competitions November the same year. throughout British India”. Burke’s work was also far more widely At around 17 years old John Burke travelled out to India as an published in Graphic and the ILN than that of any of his competi- assistant apothecary to the Royal Artillery, but he spent very little tors. This excellence has not been lost on genuine connoisseurs time in the service before forming a partnership with William of Indian photography, one of the first modern publications of Baker, a retired sergeant of the 87th Regiment, in a photographic Raj photography Worswick and Embree’s The Last Empire – based studio: “the first commercial photographers in Peshawar and in on Worswick’s pioneering collection, now at the Getty Research the North-West Frontier . . . [ranking] among the earliest war, Institute – included more photographs by Burke and Baker than news and landscape photographers in the Indian subcontinent by any of their contemporaries. . . . [becoming] over the next decades the first photographers to “Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of work in large areas of northern British India and the independent three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second feudal realms of Kashmir and Afghanistan” (Khan, From Kashmir to Afghan War (1878–80), despite being rejected for the role of of- Kabul, p. 11). ficial photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his Outside of the extensive archive of the photographs themselves, photographs ‘illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad’ they left little record of their lives, taking a prominent place . . . Burke’s two-year Afghan expedition produced an important “among the finest forgotten photographers of the ”. visual document of the region where the strategies of the Great Whatever the reason for the work of their studio so often being Game were played out” (British Library online cataloguing). passed over in favour of better-known photographers (Bourne and Shepherd for example), it is not due to any technical or aesthetic £8,000 [107517] shortcomings: “The chemicals and procedures they used have aged better than those of many others . . . [and] the rich com- position of their images is immediately apparent. In their time,

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combined with adventurousness, boundless self-confidence, and a certain diplomatic guile earmarked him for delicate po- litical duties” (ODNB). In 1831, following his successful mission to Ranjit Singh he was commissioned by Lord Bentinck, the governor-general, to undertake “a much grander expedition across central Asia to Bokhara and beyond”, with the intention of assessing the extent of Russian incursions into Central Asia. 58 When Burnes returned to England with his report in 1833 he was greeted as a hero, he “received the gold of the Royal “Bokhara Burnes” provides intelligence for the Russian expansion Geographical Society, was elected a of the Royal Society into Central Asia and honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and enjoyed a flattering audience with William IV”. Anticipating a sensa- 58 tion, the publisher John Murray “was quick to acquire Burnes’s BURNES, Alexander. Putesestvie v Buharu: razskaz account of his journey . . . [It] brought to the reader for the first time the romance, mystery and excitement of Central Asia. It o plavanii po Indu ot morâ do Lagora s podarkami was to prove an immediate best-seller, 900 copies being sold on velikobritanskago korolâ i otcet o putesestvii iz Indii v the first day” (Hopkirk, The Great Game, p. 151). Kabul, Tatariû i Persiû predprinâtom po predpisaniû This timely edition was prepared by the Russian Geographical vyssago pravitel’stva Indii v 1831, 1832 i 1833 godah Society, which was founded in 1845. The failure of the 1839–40 (Travels into Bokhara, in Russian). : Universitetskoa Khivan Expedition, which had attempted to exploit Britain’s tipografia, 1848–9 preoccupation with the First Afghan War, had not dimmed 3 volumes, octavo (199 126 mm). Recent green grained half calf to style, Russia’s ambitions in Central Asia; accurate intelligence on marbled boards, red morocco lettering and numbering pieces, gilt the region was actively pursued from all available sources. The devices in compartments, single gilt rules to spine and corner edges, present work was an expensive production, and publication was edges sprinkled blue. 10 lithographic plates, 2 of them single-tint, and underwritten by Platon Golubkov, a merchant with significant 2 engraved plates, folding engraved map. Typical foxing and browning interests in Central Asia and one of the founding members of throughout, together with occasional pale marginal hygroscopic damp- the Geographical Society. Golubkov was the only member with ing, the third volume on slightly superior paper less affected, overall a solely commercial background, and in the 1840s and 50s was very good. responsible for financing the publication of eight books on first edition in russian of Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara, his Asia, all of them translations, mostly concerned with India and account of his renowned reconnaissance into the region. Decid- Afghanistan. A handsomely presented copy of this historically edly uncommon, just a single set found on OCLC in the Nation- influential and genuinely scarce work. al Library of Poland. Burnes was the Great Game exponent par excellence: he “excelled at political work. His linguistic ability £10,000 [116567]

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59 60 BURNES, James. A Narrative of a Visit to the Court of BURTON, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Sinde; A Sketch of the History of Cutch, from its First Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Connexion with the British Government in India till the Longmans, 1856 Conclusion of the Treaty in 1819; and some Remarks on the Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Recent dark red half morocco by Trevor Lloyd, Medical Topography of Bhooj. Edinburgh: John Stark, 1831 spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red, marbled endpapers. Chromolithographic frontispiece and 3 similar Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Recent half calf to style, raised bands and gilt plates, 7 illustrations to the text and 2 full-page maps. Contents toned, a fillets to spine, red label, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red. 2 folding few trivial spots. An excellent copy with bright plates. partial-colour lithographic maps (one as frontispiece), lithographed folding genealogy. With the terminal errata leaf. Short closed tear to first edition, second issue, without Appendix IV on infibu- map facing p. 145 affecting frame only. A very good, clean copy in an lation as usual. Following his “pilgrimage” to Mecca, instead of attractive period-style binding. returning to Britain where he was guaranteed a hero’s welcome first uk edition, published two years after the unprocurable at the Royal Geographical Society, Burton “lingered in Cairo until Bombay edition of 1829, which was privately printed “for the pe- November 1853 . . . Even as he completed the manuscript of his rusal of the author’s friends”. Uncommon, with three copies only Personal Narrative after returning to Bombay, he was planning traced at auction, and nine in UK libraries (including copies with the penetration of another forbidden city. This time his objective Robert Cadell, the publisher, substituted in the imprint for Stark, was Harar, an important religious centre and notorious base for the printer). the slave trade in Somalia” (ODNB). The expedition was enthu- Burnes (1801–1862) arrived in Bombay with his brother, Alexan- siastically supported by the Bombay Council, and the party of der, in 1821. “He filled various minor posts in the Indian Medical four, Stroyan, Burton’s companion from Sind; Herne, a skilled Service (IMS), and was successful in the open competition for the photographer and surveyor; and John Hanning Speke, a young office of surgeon to the residency of Cutch. He volunteered to ac- officer who was taken on at the last minute following the death company the force which, in 1825, expelled the Sindians who had of Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Stocks, assembled at Aden in October devastated Cutch and forced the British brigade to retire to Bhuj. 1854. Burton revised his plans in response to the misgivings of The amirs of Sind then invited him to visit them as ‘the most the political resident James Outram, reserving the inland trip to skilful of physicians and their best friend, and the cementer of the Harar for himself. Speke was forced to return early to Aden from bonds of amity between the two governments’, and on his return his trip to Wadi Nugal by the treachery of his guide; Burton spent he was complimented by the government on the zeal and ability ten days in Harar, where he was “spied upon constantly, but . . . he had displayed at Cutch and Hyderabad. His account of his visit learnt much from local scholars” (Howgego), meeting up with the to Sind, written as an official report to the resident at Cutch, is an other two party-members at Berbera. Once back in Aden, Burton excellent account of the country, and was a valuable contribution planned a further trip, a trek up the Nile from the Somali coast. to the geography of India” (ODNB), offering “a number of obser- But on their return to Berbera in April their camp was attacked by vations of court life in Hyderabad of which the most interesting Somali tribesmen, Stroyan being killed by a spear thrust, Burton describes the high level of mutual suspicion displayed among receiving his famous facial wound, the party barely escaping. An members of the ruling family” (Riddick). account of the skirmish is included in the Postscript. Riddick, Glimpses of India 77. Abbey 276; Casada 35; Gay 2714; Howgego, II, B95; Penzer pp. 60–3 £1,500 [117154] £1,750 [117253]

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61 Chatwin confessed to considering it “a work of genius” which BURTON, Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London, he had elevated to the status of “sacred text”. He stressed that it remained an important book, as in between the “bravura pas- Chatto and Windus, 1884 sages” Byron expounds a serious thesis about the significance of Large octavo. Bound in recent full black morocco, titles and decoration Afghan influence on Persian civilization. to spine gilt, rasied bands, original cloth used on pastedowns. With numerous illustrations throughout the text. A beautifully bound copy in £7,500 [79781] fine condition. first edition. Burton intended this to be the first part of a 63 comprehensive three-volume work on the sword, but parts II CAPPER, James. Observations on the Passage to India and III, which are referenced throughout the book, remained incomplete at the time of the author’s death in 1890 and were through Egypt, and across the Great Desert; with never published. Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes. London: for W. Faden, J. Penzer, pp. 108–9. Robson, and R. Sewell, 1783 £1,500 [32011] Quarto (250 × 197 mm). Attractive recent half calf to style by Trevor Lloyd, red morocco label, urn device gilt to compartments, marbled 62 sides. 2 engraved folding maps. List of errata verso of dedication leaf struck through and the listed errors corrected in ink in a contemporary BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London: Macmillan hand, lightly browned, some spotting, but overall a very good copy. & Co. Ltd, 1937 first edition. Capper was educated at Harrow and joined the Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, first issue binding. With army of the East India Company “in His Majesty’s Train of Artil- the supplied dust jacket. Housed in a black morocco backed bookform lery in the East Indies, first as a soldier cadet and later as an offi- folding case. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Spine slightly faded, some light cer. He was then for a while a free merchant in Bengal before be- rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy in the rubbed, creased, and coming in 1768 a captain in the Madras army and in 1769 senior slightly marked dust jacket. writer for the presidency of Bengal . . . [later] appointed the East first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author India Company’s commissary-general upon the coast of Coro- on the front free endpaper, “Anthony Jeffreys from Robert Byron mandel” (ODNB). In early 1777 he was sent home with despatch- 1937” and with the recipient’s bookplate to front pastedown. es, remaining in England until the autumn of 1778 when, “to Jeffreys was a contemporary of Byron’s who entered the civil ser- explore the feasibility of opening a new channel for transmitting vice and rose to become Clerk Assistant in the House of Lords. intelligence between Europe and India, he returned to Madras Presentation copies of Byron’s works are uncommon and signed by way of Aleppo, the Arabian desert, and Basrah.” The present examples of his masterpiece The Road To Oxiana are rare. work contains details of his journey from India to England in “An enquiry into the origins of presented in the early 1777, via Ceylon and Suez, and his return journey in 1778–9. form of one of the most entertaining travel books of modern Given more or less in journal form, it is full of fascinating de- times” (ODNB). In his introduction to the 1981 re-issue, Bruce tails of local life, offering numerous hints for the traveller in the

40 Peter Harrington 133 64 region. As was so often the case, Capper felt himself badly treat- replaced by steam boats in the 1870s. Decidedly uncommon ed by John Company, issuing a lengthy memorial detailing the commercially, Copac cites copies at six British and Irish institu- abuses of the company’s lax and corrupt civilian management in tional libraries (British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, India. “Despite this he resumed his career in India in 1785, when Scotland, University College London), OCLC records around he became comptroller-general of the army and fortification two dozen institutions worldwide. accompts on the coast of Coromandel, charged with reducing Blackmer 287; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 119. expenditure in Madras. He resigned in 1791 and returned to Britain. The East India Company twice thereafter refused him a £500 [117588] pension.” He later made a name for himself as a meteorologist and as a local philanthropist in south Wales where he settled. 65 Blackmer 282; Gay 206; Wilson p. 37; not in Atabey. CARLISLE, Earl of. Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters. £2,500 [88377] London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 Octavo, original grey-brown cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to boards. Publisher’s ads to the pastedowns. Armorial bookplate of a 64 branch of the Browne family, motto “Suivez Raison” to front pastedown. CAREY, M. L. M. Four Months in a Dahabëéh; or, A little rubbed and dusty, slightly cocked, light browning, else very Narrative of a Winter’s Cruise on the Nile. London: L. good. Booth, 1863 first edition. George William Frederick Howard, 7th earl of Octavo (214 × 131 mm). Late 19th-century red half morocco, decorative Carlisle, Liberal politician of a mildly reforming bent, resigned gilt spine, marbled sides & edges. Chromolithograph frontispiece and in 1852 when he failed to obtain a Cabinet position in the in- 5 similar plates. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent coming Peelite-Liberal coalition. “In consequence of this he Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s believed that he had failed in politics . . . and spent most of the bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated next twelve months travelling on the continent” (ODNB). The di- manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Binding a little ary is written in quite informal and loquacious form – Blackmer rubbed, plates with embossed stamp of Bath Public Library. A clean notes his gossipy entries on life in Athens – but contains useful copy handsomely bound. material: “Nothing can exceed the neglected and squalid condi- first edition of this attractively illustrated account by a wom- tion of these interesting buildings; the temple of the Winds was an traveller in Egypt: “Ms. Carey recorded her travails in one of undergoing a systematic pelting from the ingenuous boyhood the more readable and entertaining Nile travelogues” (Andrew of Athens. It can hardly have been worse in Turkish times, and Humphreys, On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel, 2015, p. 34). it certainly continues to afford the best justification to Lord Humphreys also notes that “one of her fellow passengers was Elgin.” Ferdinand de Lesseps, who the previous year had broken new ground on his Suez Canal project”. The dahabëéh or dahabiyah – a Blackmer Collection, 835. shallow-bottomed barge-like vessel with two or more sails – was £200 [44344] the standard mode of transport for tourists on the Nile, until

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66 CARLYLE, Joseph Dacre. Specimens of Arabian Poetry, from the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khalifat, with Some Account of the Authors. Cambridge: Printed by John Burges Printer to the University, 1796 Large octavo (226 × 182 mm) Early 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked to style with the original red morocco label laid 67 down, gilt rolls forming compartments, edges sprinkled blue. Sheet of musical notation, text in Arabic types, engraved head- and tailpieces. first edition of Carter’s own account of the most spectacular Lightly rubbed on the boards, corners professionally restored, internally archaeological discovery of the 20th century. “In the summer a lightly browned and with occasional spotting, but overall a clean and of 1922 Carter persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct carefully refurbished copy, presenting well. one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than first edition, second issue with a cancel title page; copies usual Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb of noted dated 1795. Carlyle was educated at Carlisle Grammar Tutankhamen on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon hurried to Lux- School and Cambridge, and while at Queens “profited from the or and the tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery instructions of a native of Baghdad, who passed in Britain under astounded the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of the name David Zamio. As a result, Carlyle became so proficient spectacular objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants in oriental languages that he was appointed professor of Arabic to help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation on the resignation of Dr Craven in 1795” (Stanley Lane-Poole in and recording of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 ODNB). In 1799 Carlyle was appointed chaplain to Lord Elgin’s the blocking to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the mission to Constantinople and made an extensive tour through unplundered body and funerary equipment of the dead king. Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece, and Italy, collecting Greek and Unhappily, the death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously Syriac manuscripts for a proposed new version of the New Testa- affected the subsequent progress of Carter’s work. In spite ment, which he did not live to accomplish. On his return to En- of considerable and repeated bureaucratic interference, not gland in 1801 he was presented to the living of Newcastle upon easily managed by the short-tempered excavator, work on the Tyne, but his health had been undermined by the exertions of clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly, but was not completed his expedition, and he died in 1804. Lane-Poole describes the until 1932. Carter handled the technical processes of clearance, present translation as “well-respected”. conservation, and recording with exemplary skill and care. A Hamilton, The Arcadian Library 8444; Gay 3436 popular account of the work was published in three volumes, The Tomb of Tutankhamen (1923–33), the first of which was substantial- £1,500 [95218] ly written by his principal assistant, Arthur C. Mace” (ODNB).

67 £3,250 [113870] CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of 68 Tutankhamen. Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923–33 CAUDILL, William Wayne. Probes. Reconnaissance for the American Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Houston, 3 volumes, large octavo. Original brown diagonally-ribbed cloth, titles gilt to spines and enclosing gilt scarab device on black ground to front TX: Caudill Rowlett Scott, 1980] covers, pictorial endpapers. Photographic frontispiece to each volume, Quarto (210 × 214 mm). Comb-bound between card covers, printed title 186 similar plates (many double-sided, and numbered accordingly). to front, 63 leaves of manuscript facsimile including a small number of Spines gently rolled, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, blank leaves for notes. Frequent sketches to the text. A few light mark- mild spotting to edges, endleaves and very occasionally margins of vols. ings to the front cover, else very good. 2 and 3. A very good copy.

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An unusual booklet intended for circulation among the staff of American architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott to encourage ideas for the design of the new American embassy building in Riyadh. The resulting design was approved in 1981; building was completed in 1986. It was described in Aramco World (May 1988) as a “fortress-like structure, with huge triangles framing a courtyard set with palm trees and a fountain” and was by a distance the 69 largest site in Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter. Caudill’s notes and sketches provide an idiosyncratic account of Arab history, culture, architecture, and geography, and combine interesting abstract approximately p. 150 to end, short closed tears to stubs of folding tables, reflections on the principles of Islamic design with specific exam- similar tide-mark in vol. 2, a good set, with the half-titles. ples from Saudi architecture. Caudill (1914–1983) was professor first edition of this “fundamental study of the history of of architecture at the University of Texas A&M when he founded the Arab tribes before the advent of Islam” (Arcadian Library p. Caudill and Rowlett in 1946. They became one of the first Ameri- 241), from the library of Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), Brit- can architectural companies to venture overseas when they began ish colonial officer and Arabist, with his black letter ink-stamp work on the King Fahd University for University of Petroleum to each initial blank, his ownership inscription to the front and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1965. In 1978 Saudi free endpapers of the second and third volumes, and printed millionaire Ghaith Pharaon purchased a 20 percent stake in the bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath company, and their involvement in the kingdom continued with Public Library in 1920, with blind-stamps and manuscript shelf- their provision of engineering services in the construction of King marks as usual. Miles spent a significant part of his consular Saud University, Riyadh, completed in 1984. Uncommon, the career in the Arabian Peninsula, stationed mainly in Muscat, only other copy traced being that in the personal papers of John whence he conducted numerous expeditions into the Arabian C. West, US ambassador from to Saudi Arabia from 1977 to 1981, interior. A selection of his reports were published after his death now held at the University of South Carolina; this copy is signed as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919). The depth and on an introductory leaf by William Caudill. variety of his writings, clearly informed by a deep knowledge of Islamic history and literature and published in various period- £750 [113437] icals including the Geographical Journal, reveal him to have been “not a mere political agent or an observant traveller but a classi- “A monument of erudition” – from the collection of an authority cal scholar and Arabist” (Al-Hajri, British Travel-Writing on Oman, on the Arab tribes of the Persian Gulf p. 162). This is a highly apposite association for this key text. Caussin 69 de Perceval’s “masterpiece took him between ten and fifteen CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand-Pierre. Essai sur years to write. He intended to set down a complete history of l’histoire des Arabes avant l’Islamisme, pendant l’époque the pre-Islamic period, a task never previously attempted. Tak- de Mahomet, et jusqu’à la rédution de toutes les tribus ing as source material a number of unpublished manuscripts soul la loi musulmane. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1847–8 in the Bibliothèque royale, notably of Ibn Khaldun and the Kitab al-Aghani, he painted a detailed tableau of Arab tribes and 3 volumes, octavo. Contemporary purple quarter morocco, flat bands larger political entities . . . The resulting work, a monument of gilt to spine forming compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides, and endpapers. 15 folding genealogical tables to rear erudition, is therefore a sort of ‘voyage among the Arab tribes of vol. 1. Laid-in compliments slip from the librarian at the University and their poets’” (Pouillon, Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue of Leicester. Extremities rubbed, tips worn, vol. 1 rear board partially française, p. 201, our translation). cockled, section of backstrip lifting, mild cockling to both boards of Arcadian Library 16923; Gay 3459; Macro 700. vol. 2, and small abraded section to front; vol. 1 front free endpaper and initial blank of tipped in, pale tide-mark extending from top edge from £1,500 [117589]

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70 (CENTRAL ASIA.) Russian Missions into the Interior of Asia. I. Nazaroff ’s Expedition to Kokand. II. Eversmann and Jakovlew’s Account of Bucharia. III. Capt. Mouraviev’s Embassy to Turkomania and Chiva. Translated from the German. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1823 Octavo (210 × 125 mm). Later tan glazed boards, unlettered spine. Litho- graphic frontispiece. A little rubbed, light browning and a scatter of foxing. first edition of these English versions of three important early Central Asian narratives, published as part of Sir Richard Phillips’s New Voyages and Travels series. Uncommon, just five 71 locations on Copac, Oxford, Glasgow, Queen’s Belfast, Senate House, and Natural History Museum. “The Russian government able paper figures). With a dedication to Don Pietro Borgia, Prince of has, of late years, taken various measures to give more solidity (d. c.1624), dated 1587, and an accompanying sonnet. Contem- to its commercial relations with the countries in the interior of porary limp vellum sewn on three cords. Some waterstaining through- out, possibly indicating practical use. Housed in a quarter morocco Asia . . . efforts have been made to conciliate the independent solander box. tribes . . . [Contents include] a short extract from an account of an expedition to Kokand, in the years 1813–14, by Philip Nazaroff unpublished illustrated handwritten manual of nav- interpreter to the Siberian Corps . . . the account of an embassy igation in the Levant as well as in the South Seas, representing to Bucharia in 1820–21 head of which was Mr. Negri, Counsellor the state of Italian navigational art in the second half of the of State . . . by Dr. Eversmann, physician to the Embassy, in 16th century. This is one of the best known Italian navigational which we have inserted several interesting extracts from the let- manuals of the period. It is probable that Cesareo composed his ters Mr. P. l. Jakolew, secretary to the embassy . . . [and] the nar- navigational treatise before 1567 and that several manuscript rative of a Journey to Turcomania and Chiva by Captain Moura- copies were subsequently produced, of which this is one. Al- view” (Introduction). Nazarov’s was the first Russian embassy to though it was approved for publication by the papal authorities, Kokand, first published in Russian in 1821; Eduard Eversmann, no printed edition is known. This is precisely the kind of manu- a German-Russian naturalist, joined Aleksandr Negri’s embassy al that would have been in the hands of the merchant navigators as a merchant, but carried out important scientific work, as well on whose ships the Venetian jeweller Gasparo Balbi famously as leaving this account published as Reise Orenburg nach Buchara travelled to India and Arabia during the years 1579–88, when he in 1823: “intrepid Murav’ev”, described by Hopkirk as the first made the first European record of Bani Yas, as well as of Abu Russian player of the Great Game, published his report on what Dhabi and Dubai by their modern . is now Uzbekistan in 1822. The present copy carries a dedication to Don Pietro Borgia, Prince of Squillace, dated 1587. Squillace is on the east coast £575 [106587] of Calabria, southern Italy. The modern town was founded as a Byzantine fortress during the Byzantine reconquest of Italy 71 (sixth–eighth century ce). During the tenth century it was subject to frequent raids by the Muslims of neighbouring Sicily, CESAREO, Agostino. L’arte del navigare, con il regimento who made it for a short time a strong military base. After Arab della Tramontana e del sole; e la vera regola et osservanza rule, the city fell under Norman hegemony. In 1445, it reverted del flusso e reflusso delle acque sotto breve compendio to the Aragonese Kings of Naples but passed by marriage to ridotta. [No place:] 1587 the infamous House of Borgia, who ruled the city as Princes of Manuscript, quarto; 66 leaves followed by 13 leaves with additions in a Squillace from 1494 to 1735. Don Pietro was lineal descendant of different, looser hand. 8 full-page illustrations, 4 with volvelles (mov- Gioffre Borgia (1482–1516), son of Alexander VI and young-

44 Peter Harrington 133 71 er brother of and . The author’s with cosmography and navigation in general, navigation by the surname, Cesareo, is of Sicilian origin. North Star (with a particularly evocative volvelle including a tiny A few other copies of the text are known: a copy formerly in ocean-going ship that circles the globe from pole to pole); and the National Maritime Museum and now MS 562 at the Beinecke navigation in the southern hemisphere, by the Southern Cross Library (72 ff.) is dedicated to Giulio Colonna and dated 1567, and the south celestial pole. Part two describes navigation by while the British Museum holds a copy (74 ff., MS Add. 25882) the altitude of the sun (with extensive examples and tables, with a preface and sonnet to Paolo Sforza, dated 1570. Yet anoth- including the meridians throughout the Mediterranean), fol- er copy is kept at the Vatican (De Ricci, Census, p. 1899: with the lowed by “la regola della navigatione di Levante in ponente per ecclesiastical censors’ imprimatur, though no printed edition is longitudine”. Part three is occupied with the action of the , known) and an anonymous manuscript is in the Library of Con- including details on the various hazards of the English Channel gress (Ms. Ac. 4325). It is noteworthy that the majority of surviv- and the Strait of Messina, and contains a sketch of the man in ing copies are dedicated to powerful Italian noblemen. the moon, controller of tides. The text here is divided into three parts (other manuscripts have the same material divided into six), the first of which deals £47,500 [92124]

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72 Dakhlah oasis, which he proposes as an alternative to the route CHAUVIN, Léon. Études de chiffres arabes, avec des established by the great Egyptian explorer Hasanayn Pasha. examples et un grand tableau autographiés par l’auteur. Cheesman: Macro 709, Howgego IV C32. Paris: Librairie Dezobry, E. Madeleine et Cie., 1845 £150 [97812] Quarto. Original blue paper wrappers, typographic title label to the front panel. 19 lithographed plates, 10 of them with hand-colour. A little rubbed, some splitting at the spine, light browning, a very good copy. 74 first and only edition, uncommon, OCLC locates copies CHICK, Herbert. A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia, at BnF, Oxford, Tel Aviv, University of California, Swiss National and the Papal Mission of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Library, and Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. An London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939 interesting study of the morphology of Arab numerals with ref- 2 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panels erence to , illustrated with a series of elegant propor- to boards, Portrait frontispiece and 39 other plates, folding map. Slightly tional studies lithographed by Villain, and hand-coloured. rubbed, spines relined, hinges repaired, endpapers browned, pale ton- ing to the text, some inked marginalia in volume I, slight tide-marks at £350 [90010] the fore-edge of both volumes. first edition of this important contribution to the history of 73 the region based on extensive documentation from Archivio di CHEESMAN, Robert Ernest. “The Deserts of Jafura and Propaganda Fide and Casa Generalizia dei Carmelitani in Rome. Jabrin”; [with] KING, William Joseph Harding. “The “In 1604 Pope Clement VIII, with the support of Sigismund III Dakhla-Owenat Road”; In The Geographical Journal, Vol. Vasa of Poland, dispatched a mission of Discalced Carmelite fathers to Persia; the embassy represented the culmination of LXV, No. 2. London: The Royal Geographical Society, Feb. 1925 a policy of seeking alliances against the Ottoman empire that Octavo. Original blue printed wrappers. Cheesman: 2 plates from the author’s photographs; folding colour map of routes between ‘Oqayr and Jabrin oasis in eastern Nejd [sic] to rear of volume (1:750,000) opening to 510 × 610 mm with similar map of Arabia inset (1:14,000,000). King: plate from the author’s own photographs. Spine lightly creased, small closed tear to fold-out map with no loss to; very good overall. first editions. “Cheesman’s geographical work began in 1921 when he was placed in charge of charting the western shore of the Gulf of Salwah which divides the peninsula of Qatar from the mainland. In 1923–24 he spent eleven weeks at Al Hufuf, after which he proceeded south to become the first European to reach the remote oasis of Jabrin, fixing its precise position, mapping large areas of surrounding desert and identifying the site of ancient Gerra. For his work, described in his book In Unknown Arabia, he received in 1925 the Gill memorial medal of the Royal Geographical Society” (Howgego). Harding King relates his attempt to reach Jabal al-‘Uwaynat, “a most useful base for the further exploration . . . of the Libyan desert”, from 73

46 Peter Harrington 133 74 75 had been initiated by Pius V when he had attempted to formal- first edition, uncommon. Churi claimed to have been ize relations with Shah Tahmasb . . . they received a very warm trained at the “Congregation of Propaganda in Rome from 1842 welcome from Shah ‘Abbas I (1588–1629) and were permitted to 1849. He was subsequently in London where he taught Ara- to settle at Isfahan in 1608. As ambassadors, they were given a bic, Latin, Italian and Hebrew”. Among his pupils was Captain royal residence near the Meydan-e Mir, where they established William Peel, third son of Sir Robert Peel, who had been plan- a handsome monastery. For many years it sheltered a varying ning an expedition into the interior of Africa, and “proposed to number of fathers from a wide range of national backgrounds. Churi that they should make a short tour to Egypt, Mount Sinai, In 1752 the last Carmelite departed, only a short interval after Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Syria. They left England on 20 Octo- the death of Philippe-Marie de St-Augustin, bishop of Isfahan, ber, and were back by 20 February 1851. On 20 August following in 1749 . . . The primary importance of the Carmelites in Persia they left on the longer and more serious journey. They went up was as witnesses to history; they were observers of political and the Nile, across the desert to Khartoum, and on to al-‘Ubayd, social events through the reigns of ‘Abbas I and Safi I (1629–42), where they suffered a severe attack of fever and ague. Peel re- the fall of the Safavids, and the subsequent period of troubles. In turned to England early in January” (ODNB). Both men wrote addition, as great travelers, the Carmelite missionaries were of- accounts of their experiences during this second trip, Peel as A ten reassigned to new posts and covered hundreds of kilometers Ride through the Nubian Desert (1852) and Churi the present work. in order to join their provincial chapters” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Not in Gay; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 135, misspelled as “Chusi”. The Chronicle was described on its recent reissue as “an unparal- leled source of detailed information on the politics, diplomatic £1,500 [97449] rituals, foreign policy concerns and matters of court ceremony of the time”. Not in Wilson. £3,000 [95110]

75 CHURI, Joseph H. Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia: Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851–1852 . . . With Thirteen Arabic Songs, as Sung by the Egyptian Sailors on the Nile. London: published by the Author, 1853 Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate panels with large palmette corner-pieces in blind to boards, cream surface-paper endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece of the homra tree. A little rubbed on the boards, spine sunned and professionally repaired, joints skilfully restored, contents lightly toned. A very good copy. 75

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76 CLARK, Christopher (illus.) In the Land of the Shah – Being a Series of Announcements Issued by the British

Petroleum Co. Ltd. from Britannic House, Moorgate, 77 London E.C. 2. London: British Petroleum Co. Ltd, Distributing Organisation of the Anglo Persian Oil Co. Ltd, [1925] “Transporting Pipe Line in Persia”, on mule back, “150 Miles of Folio (440 × 298 mm). Original buff light card wrappers, printed in Pipe Lines” – via picturesque travelogue – “Ferry-Boats of the black, yapp edges. 12 finely-printed monochrome lithographic plates Tigris”, pitch waterproofed gufas, “A Persian Wedding”, as de- (c.155 × 200 mm), imposed within a “plate-mark” above descriptive text. scribed by Sir Percy Sykes, “A Land of Leisurely Travel”, a heavily Staples a touch rusted, a few minor splits to the edges of the wrappers, a scatter of foxing throughout, but overall very good indeed. laden camel caravan. The evocative artwork is by Christopher Clark, a British commercial artist-illustrator best remembered first and only edition, extremely uncommon, no other for his work for British Railways, which often featured scenes of copies traced either institutionally or commercially. Evidently British pageantry. This is a fascinating early piece of promotion- these “announcements” were in fact rather grand advertise- al literature for the burgeoning oil industry, with a sheet of Brit- ments for BP, which were gathered together and presented even ish Petroleum Company stationery with roneoed compliments more grandly still. Publication was noted at the time in the message loosely inserted. “Wheels of Industry” column of The Commercial Motor, the jour- nal of the commercial vehicle industry: “An extremely beautiful £1,750 [103822] production entitled ‘In the Land of the Shah’ has been issued by the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. which is the distributing or- The foundation of all our knowledge of Islamic ganisation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. The publication forms a portfolio of some of the company’s announcements 77 which have appeared in the Press, but that Statement by no CONDÉ, J. A. History of the of the Arabs in means does justice to it, for the ‘announcements’ take the form Spain. Translated from the Spanish by Mrs Jonathan of delightful drawings of Eastern life, commerce, and customs Foster. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854–5 by Christopher Clark, R.I., and they are reproduced on special paper, so that the impression given is almost that of steel en- 3 volumes, octavo (174 × 109 mm). Contemporary half calf, red and green labels, low gilt milled bands, floral centre-tools, stylized foliate gravings. Each drawing is accompanied by some interesting corner-pieces, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Steel-engraved text. The portfolio is one of those productions that most men frontispiece to volume I. A little rubbed, small gold inked pressmarks to will take home. We believe that a copy will be sent to any reader the tails of the spines, light browning, but overall a very good set. who mentions The Commercial Motor” (The Commercial Motor, 17 first edition in english, first published Madrid 1820–1; Nov. 1925). far from common in the market. Condé was the director of the The images range from the ancient historical – “A Temple of library of the Escorial. His work is “characterized by a strong the Fire Worshippers”, “The Glories of Ancient Persia”, “The sympathy for Arab culture. For the first time a complete survey, Tomb of Khusru Pharviz” – to the contemporary industrial –

48 Peter Harrington 133 78 78 based on Arab sources, was provided of the history of Islamic a) BRUCKS, G. B. “Draft Chapters for an unpublished Account Spain from 711 to 1492, and a framework was established which of the Survey of the Persian Gulf ”, c.1835 (British Library: has been followed ever since” (Hamilton, p. 271). Add MS 14382); With the bookplates of Catholic scholar Joseph M. Gleason b) MAUGHAN, Philip. “Plan for conducting the Survey of to the front pastedowns, and his pencilled critique at the begin- the South Coast of the Persian Gulf ”, 16 August 1821 (IOR: ning of the text of volume I: “It has become the fashion to decry F/4/676, collection 18677); this work in our times, but most of the criticism is parrot-like. Yet Gayangos [Spanish Arabist Pascual de Gayangos y Arce, au- c) HOUGHTON, M. “Account of Part of the Southern Coast or thor of The History of the Mohammedan in Spain] calls it the Arabian Side of the Persian Gulf between Ras Musandam foundation of all our knowledge of Moslem Spain”. and Dubai”, 1822 (IOR: X/10309). Facsimile of the original Hamilton, Arcadian Library 9214 manuscript followed by a transcript. £1,750 [95147] d) BRUCKS, G. B. “Memoir descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia”, c.1830; from Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, NS, vol. XXIV, Bombay 1856, pp. 531–634; 78 e) “Sailing Directions for the Gulf ”, 1836; from James Hors- COOK, Andrew S (ed.) Survey of the Shores and Islands burgh, India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from East of the Persian Gulf 1820–1829. Prepared for publication Indies (London 1836), Vol. 1, pp. 305–77; and with an introduction. [London:] Archive Editions, 1990 5 volumes, octavo, comprising one volume of text and 55 folding charts, f ) WHITELOCK, H. H. “Descriptive Sketch of the Islands maps and tables in four book-form boxes. Publisher’s boards, spines and Coast situated at the Entrance of the Persian Gulf ”; ruled and lettered gilt. Folding map in volume I, with 55 folding maps from Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 8, 1838, pp. and charts. In excellent condition. 170–188; first edition of this important assemblage of texts and g) WHITELOCK, H. H. “An Account of the Arabs who inhabit charts, reproduced from original material in the India Office the Coast between Ras-el Kheimah and Abothubee [Abu Library and Records, London and in the Department of Manu- Dhabi] in the Gulf of Persia, generally called the Pirate scripts, the British Library. “This is a publication of sea charts, Coast”; from Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, harbour plans, coastal views and topographical descriptions vol. 1, 1836–8, pp. 32–54. produced during the survey of the shores and islands of the Persian Gulf carried out between 1820 and 1829 by officers of £2,250 [92989] the Bombay Marine on the orders of the Bombay Government. Despite the long time that Europeans had sailed in the Gulf, the 1820s survey was the first systematic examination of its coastal topography” (Introduction). Cook here reproduces seven arti- cles, drawn from manuscripts and printed sources held in Brit- ish institutions. The articles are:

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79 CORYATE, Thomas. Coryat’s Crudities: Reprinted from the Edition of 1611. To which are now added, His Letters from India, &c. and extracts relating to him, From Various Authors: being A more particular Account of his Travels (mostly on Foot) in different Parts of the Globe, than any hitherto published. Together with his Orations, Character, Death, &c. With Copper-Plates. London: W. Cater; Samuel Hayes; J. Wilkie; and E. Easton at Salisbury, 1776 3 volumes, octavo (200 × 120 mm). Nineteenth-century polished calf, contrast labels, spine gilt in compartments, double-ruled panel with floral corner-pieces to boards, plain single line edge-roll, marbled edges and endpapers, milled roll to the turn-ins. 8 engraved plates copied from 17th-century blocks, engraved illustrations within text. Contemporary armorial bookplate and early ownership inscription of H. C. Morewood to first volume; later plates of Hardress Llewellyn Lloyd in all three. Joints, headcaps and one tear to side very skilfully repaired, an excellent set. first collected edition of the writings of Thomas Coryate (1577?–1617). The Crudities, describing his tour from London to Venice and back, is his best known work, with many points of historical interest, including his admirable rendering of the sto- ry of William Tell (cited as the earliest in English); it is also re- 79

50 Peter Harrington 133 81 membered for the prefatory mock-panegyric verses by the most ken” (Elizabeth Cotton, General Sir Arthur Cotton, His Life and Work, illustrious authors of the day, including Jonson, Chapman, Don- p. 522). Uncommon: ten locations on OCLC and only two in the ne, Campion, Harington, and Drayton. The whole apparatus UK – British Library and Oxford. of the book, including these verses, the plates and the original spelling, is reproduced here. Coryate then set out on a second £300 [99992] tour to Constantinople, visited Aleppo whence he walked to the Holy Land and back (sending notes home which were first The history of Constantinople, in fine blue morocco for the Duke published in Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625), and then achieved the re- of Abercorn markable feat of walking from Jerusalem to India. After further 81 wanderings within India, including a period living at the court of the Great Moghul, he died at or near in Gujarat. COUSIN, Louis. Histoire de Constantinople depuis Howgego, I, C198. le regne de l’ancien Justin, jusqu’à la fin de l’Empire. Traduite sur les Originaux Grecs . . . Dediée a £1,850 [75476] Monseigneur de Pompone Secretaire d’Estat. Paris: in the shop of Pierre Rocolet, for Damien Foucault, 1672–4 80 8 volumes, quarto (238 180 mm). Near-contemporary dark blue moroc- COTTON, Sir Arthur. Arabic Primer: Consisting of 180 co, covers with triple fillet border in blind, spines in six compartments Short Sentences containing 30 Primary Words, prepared with raised bands, lettered in gilt in second and third compartments, gilt turn-ins and board-edges, marbled endpapers, edges gilt over old according to the Vocal System of Studying Languages. marbling. Shelf-marks and ownership inscriptions of the Duke of Aber- London: Trübner and Co., 1876 corn to front free endpapers. Spines lightly sunned, a fine set. Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to front board, blind panels to both first edition, a fine set of this abridged French translation of boards, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Very lightly rubbed, pale ton- the Greek Corpus Byzantinae Historiae, by the French scholar Louis ing, occasional annotations in pencil. A very good copy. Cousin (1627–1707). The work was a significant influence on first and only edition. Cotton (1803–99) was a soldier and Thomas Jefferson (his copy of the 1685 edition is in the Library of engineer best remembered for his work on irrigation in south- Congress), who excerpted material from Cousin’s translation for ern India. Retiring to Dorking with the rank of general, “he in- his own Notes on Religion, as part of his campaign for religious free- vited an Arabic student, who could speak some English, to stay dom for the State of Virginia and the as a whole. with him for several weeks . . . he spent hours every day in going Cf. Atabey 295 (incomplete later edition); Brunet II 340. through sentences of the languages, word by word . . . working out the new Primer, which was to meet the needs of missionaries £4,500 [29307] in Persia and , and other countries where Arabic is spo-

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82 83 CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin. Discours sur les CURZON, George Nathaniel. Persia and the Persian causes du débordement du Nil. Paris: Jacques Dallin, 1665 Question. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892 Quarto (252 × 183 mm). Contemporary full calf, raised bands to spine, 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, blind frame compartments gilt with floral lozenges within double ruled panels, to covers, Persian Lion and Sun gilt to front, black surface-paper end- presentation gilt stamp to the front board, “Aux Capuchins de St. papers. 43 plates, numerous illustrations to the text, large folding Honoré”. Engraved map of the topography of the Nile to the text, title linen-backed map at rear of volume I, 9 full-page maps in all. From the page vignette, historiated initials, engraved head- and tailpieces. Light library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), browning, a little rubbed on the boards and chafed on the joints, but a with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to very good copy. Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and first edition, for the first time published separately, previous- blind-stamps as usual; bookseller’s inkstamp of Combridge & Co., Bom- bay, to the verso of front free endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and ly included in his Pensées of 1634 and 1662; uncommon, just six bumped, a few superficial scuffs to covers, vol. 2 with a few pale mark- copies on OCLC, three of them in the US. Cureau was Louis XIV’s ings to rear, and the rear inner hinge superficially cracked as a result of doctor, the monarch apparently having been impressed by his the folding map, but firm, contents toned. A very good copy. ability to judge character from outward appearance. A precursor first edition of Curzon’s “magnum opus . . . By any standard of Lavater, Cureau’s was indeed best known for his work in the these two volumes, totaling some 1,300 pages, are a remarkable area of physiognomy, but he also published on physics – the na- achievement, the more so as Curzon knew no Persian and spent ture of light, on rainbows – the occult, and philosophy, the final paper here being a study of the divine in Platonic philosophy. The critic Jean Chapelain, his contemporary, said of him: “C’est un excellent philosophe, et dont les écrits sont purs dans le langage, justes dans le dessein, soutenus dans les ornements, et subtils dans les raisonnements.” This could perhaps be a presentation copy, as in addition to the gilt supralibros there is an inked inscripton, “Pour les Ca- pucins de St. Honoré” to the title page. The Capuchin convent adjoined the Tuileries gardens. The Blackmer copy with book- plate to front pastedown. Blackmer Catalogue 171; Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 351. £4,000 [41178]

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52 Peter Harrington 133 84 only a short time in the country, of which he saw only a small 84 section. To prepare himself, he first read, either in the original CURZON, Robert. Visits to the Monasteries in the or in translation, virtually everything that had been written about Persia in the West . . . The two profusely illustrated vol- Levant. London: John Murray, 1849 umes embrace almost the whole of Persia, describing in fasci- Octavo. Later 19th-century green half calf, raised bands, compartments nating and profound detail its history, antiquities, institutions, lettered or decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece, 15 similar plates including administration, finances, natural resources, commerce, and one folding plan. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent topography with a thoroughness no single writer has achieved Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s before or since. As a critical account of Qajar Persia, the work is bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated unsurpassed” (Ency. Iran.) manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; bookseller’s ticket “The period of Curzon’s great travels began in August 1887 of H. Cleaver, Bath, to front pastedown. Spine faded, free endpapers and with a journey round the world followed by a visit to Russia and binder’s blanks browned, small ink-spot to fore edge, contents toned. A central Asia in 1888–9, a long tour of Persia in 1889–90, an ex- very good copy. pedition to the Far East in 1892, and a daring foray through the first edition, publisher’s presentation copy, “With the Pamir to Afghanistan in 1894. A bold and compulsive traveller, publisher’s compliments” inscribed on the title page. “In 1833 fascinated by oriental life and geography, he was awarded the [Curzon] began those travels which have made his name re- of the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration nowned. Setting out with his close friend Walter Sneyd, Curzon of the source of the Oxus. Yet the main purpose of his journeys travelled through Europe before visiting, with George Joseph was political: they formed part of a vast and comprehensive Palmer, Egypt and the Holy Land in 1833–4, on a tour of research project to study the problems of Asia and their implications for among the monastery libraries, gathering many valuable manu- British India. At the same time they reinforced his pride in his scripts. He returned to England in 1834, before setting out on a nation and her imperial mission” (ODNB). His account of Persia, second tour in 1837–8, when he visited Mount Athos and bought which he began shortly after his return to London and was ready five manuscripts from several monasteries there, before making for the press two years later, helped establish his reputation as further purchases in Egypt. His experiences are recorded in his “his country’s most knowledgeable politician on Asiatic affairs” Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant (1849). It immediately gained (ibid.) popularity, running to six editions by 1881” (ODNB). “A valuable and entertaining account . . . The plates . . . are after drawings Ghani 87. by Preziosi in the so-called Curzon Album commissioned by £2,000 [117591] Curzon while he was resident in Turkey” (Atabey). Atabey 301; Blackmer 436; Weber 415. £750 [117592]

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85 Dalrymple (1737–1808) first travelled east as a writer to the East DALRYMPLE, [Alexander.] Oriental Repertory. London: India Company, undertaking a number of reconnaissance voyages across the region and, aged just 22, concluding a treaty with the printed by George Bigg: sold by P. Elmsly, and Mr. Chapman, Sultan of Sulu for a grant of land at Balambangan, an island off 1791–[7] Borneo. In 1763 he returned to London and worked to promote 2 volumes, folio (315 × 233 mm), in 8 parts. Recent mottled calf to style, eastern trade and Pacific exploration, notably refusing to serve smooth spines richly gilt in compartments, twin red and green morocco under a sea officer on the Transit of Venus expedition, and was labels, decorative rolled borders gilt to covers, marbled endpapers. 22 consequently passed over in favour of James Cook. engraved maps and plans, 13 of them folding, 7 engraved plates, 3 of them folding, 3 double-sided folding letterpress tables. Blind-stamp of In 1775 he rejoined the HEIC, for whom he “began to produce the James B. Ford Library, Explorers’ Club, to title pages, vol. 1 sig. 6G2 a series of charts, navigational memoirs and coastal views for and vol. 2 sig. 4H2. Lacking section titles, vol. 2 general title and index the East Indies navigation, from the Mozambique Channel to leaves as usual (possibly never issued, see below); title leaf of the Plan China” (ODNB) based on an examination of the logs and journals of Publication (the one-leaf prospectus found after the volume 1 title) in the Company’s archive, issuing almost 550 plans and 45 views bound to front of volume 2 as often: “Introduction to the first number between 1779 and 1794. He was appointed hydrographer to the of the Oriental Repertory Vol. II” bound after “Introduction to the third Admiralty in 1795, tasked with consolidating their collection of number . . . ”. Vol. 1: small hole to lower outer corner of vol. 1 sig. 3N, charts and plans, and died shortly after his acrimonious dismissal the text unaffected; p. 375 slightly marked in fore margin, sig. 5Y2 very lightly spotted, tape-repair to lower outer corner verso of the second in 1808. Though largely remembered today for his disputes with map of Colonel Upton’s Route from Poona to Bengal, facing p. 498, just the HEIC and Admiralty, he “led a life exemplifying service to his touching border, small hole to fore margin of the Plan of Cannanore country during the age of Enlightenment. His influential role in facing p. 578, not affecting image. Vol. 2: pp. 61, 449 and 561 lightly Britain’s maritime history makes him an outstanding historical marked, a few gatherings slightly browned. Otherwise a few trivial figure” (NMS cataloguing of his portrait). marks only. An excellent copy, internally very crisp and fresh indeed. Even with the founding of the Asiatick Miscellany by Francis first edition, first issue, large-paper copy, from the Gladwin in 1785, and the publication of Asiatick Researches by the stated print-run of 250 copies only, of this valuable compilation of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Dalrymple was clearly confident, on the researches into the history, culture, topography, commerce and basis of his considerable experience and connections in the area, natural history of the East Indies, consisting mostly of reports, that there was still a niche in the market. Botanist William Rox- charts and translation produced by agents of the East India Compa- burgh offered papers on the cultivation of pepper in Travancore ny, including Dalrymple himself, nearly all previously unpublished, and a description of the indigo tree for the first number; James and which together reflect the rapid expansion of British influence Rennell submitted a map of the Ava River; and Charles Wilkins in India, Burma, Cochinchina and China during the second half permitted the first publication of a portion of his translation of of the 18th century. Copies of this bibliographically complex part- the to appear in the second volume. Other important work are to be found at the expected institutions in various states of material, much of which Dalrymple appears to have obtained completeness, but in commerce we trace only two first-issue copies through his own researches, include one Captain George Baker’s containing all text and plates (both lacking the volume II general account of his embassy to Persaim (now Pathein, Burma) in 1755, title as here) and one such copy of the 1808 re-issue (see below). “Ensign Lester’s Embassy to the King of Ava, 1757” and the text

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86 of the ensuing treaty, a 1753 report on tea-growing in Canton by Frederick Pigot (probably a relative of George, twice president of the Company), and all manner of further reports, either unat- tributed or by various lesser-known HEIC agents, on the Hindu caste system, Tipu Sultan, the Nair princes of the Malabar coast, “Some account of Cohin-China, by Mr. Robert Kirsop”, cities such Jaipur and Agra, imports and exports to and from Macao, Canton, and Japan, and similar subjects. Despite the evident importance of its contents, publication of the journal was patchy. The first volume comprised four numbers published at irregular intervals between 1791 and 1793; the sec- ond of a further four, two issued in 1794, another in 1795 and the 86 fourth in 1797, when Dalrymple’s stamina seems to have failed in the face increasing pressure of work from the Admiralty, to which Fine views in Jerusalem and the Middle East he had been appointed chief hydrographer in 1795. A ninth part was mooted, to include the index for the second volume, but it 86 was not issued until 1808, when the remaining sheets were bound DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch up with new title pages. The British Library sets are both made Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant. Amsterdam: Jacob van up with volumes from the later issue. Dalrymple explains in his Meurs, 1677 introduction to the first number that 100 of the 250 copies printed were to be held by the East India Company against a contribution Folio, in two parts. Contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked, two-line gilt border to edges, all edges speckled red. First title page printed in of £200, 50 were for presentation to contributors, and 100 for sale, red and black, with engraved allegorical title, 8 maps, 30 plates (mainly before adding that “of the early number I shall print 500 copies, double-page) and 34 plates in the text. Text printed in double-columns. 250 being at my own charge” should demand exceed 100 copies, A very good copy: clean, sound, with excellent impressions of the plates, though his general introduction for the first volume as a whole, and complete with the Directions to the Binder. issued on completion of the constituent four numbers, explains first edition. Dr Olfert Dapper (1636–1688), physician, geo- that the HEIC only took 64 copies, leaving him short of funds. He graphical and historical scholar, was the author of a series of appears never to have issued the promised index leaves for the works dealing with Africa, America and Asia; these were all pub- second volume. In his general introduction to the first volume, lished in handsome folio format and are best known for their Dalrymple qualifies his frustration with the “retrospective satis- fine double-page or folding views and panoramas. The extensive faction of having . . . preserved many papers, which would other- panorama of Jerusalem in the present work had also been used wise, probably for ever, have been lost to the world”. in Dapper’s book on Asia (Amsterdam 1672). There are fine Goldsmiths’–Kress 15633.1. views of Damascus, , Aleppo, Jaffa, Rama, the Temple of Solomon, and a birds-eye view of Jerusalem (trimmed at sides). £19,500 [115902] £3,500 [13125]

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the engravings, which ranged beyond the geographical interest served by maps and views. Clothing, eating habits, religious be- liefs, court ceremonies, and judicial practices were all subjects discussed by travellers and missionaries in letters and travel books and were reproduced by Dapper. The plates (which are excellent strong impressions) include superb views of Baghdad, Abydos, Ephesus, Smyrna, Magnesia, Muscat, and Mecca. Among the half-plates are attractive botanical subjects, including the cof- fee tree (p. 62 in the second part). The Atabey Library copy counts 16 plates but one of these is an additional botanical plate not called-for in the collation. 87 Arcadian Library 8342; Atabey 322; this edition not in Blackmer; Macro 805. 87 DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: £6,000 [100075] behelsende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome 88 Beschrijving van gansch Gellukigh, Woest, en Petreesch DAUMAS, Eugène. The Horses of the , and the of Steenigh Arabie. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1680 Manners of the Desert. With commentaries by the Emir 2 parts bound in 1, folio (317 × 194 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked Abd-El-Kader. Translated from the French by James on spine, three-line blind tooled border on sides enclosing a large ara- Hutton. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863 besque blind stamp, red speckled edges. Letterpress title printed in red and Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered spine, large pic- black; engraved pictorial title, 12 double-page engraved view (2 also fold- torial gilt block on front cover, brown endpapers. Internal hinges neatly ing), 3 double-page maps, 22 half-page plates. Bookplate of Heyse-Tak; front strengthened, spine a little rolled. A very good copy. board has “sprung”, 19th-century repair to fore edge of engraved title. An attractive copy in a contemporary binding. first edition in english of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, first published Paris, 1851; it is particularly uncom- first edition of Dapper’s Asia Minor and Mesopotamia; a German mon in the original cloth. Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) served edition followed in 1681. In common with many of his contem- for some 15 years in Algeria, he was made head of the North Af- poraries such as John Ogilby, the Dutch physician Olfert Dapper rica, Bureaux Arabes; became a personal friend of Abd-el-Kader, (1639–1689) never travelled to visit the lands he wrote about, the emir of Mascara, and was widely recognised as the French instead compiling extant translations and other eye-witness ac- Army’s leading expert on Arab culture. When he returned to counts to produce lavish and encyclopaedic books for the north- France in 1850 he was made director of Algerian affairs in the ern European readership. His and others work thus both reflected Ministry of War. and directed growing public interest in distant places and foreign peoples. Dapper was meticulous in using hundreds of published Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, 202. sources and several unpublished ones for each of his books; he did not lift whole passages from one book, but often based a sin- £1,250 [99886] gle paragraph on two or three different sources. In this sense his work is indispensible to modern scholarship, as it reflects manu- script sources that have since been lost. Central to the contemporary appeal of Dapper’s works were

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89 Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed book- plate of Bath Municipal Reference Library to the front free endpaper and DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Golden Carpet; The Silver associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Small hole Crescent. Published by Permission of the War Office. to series title, the text unaffected, light toning, a very good copy. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943 second edition, revised and greatly expanded, of de Goeje’s 2 volumes, quarto. Full green and full blue morocco by Sangorski & important study of the Qaramitah (Carmathians), a syncretic Sutcliffe, titles gilt to spines, gilt edge-roll, single fillet gilt to the turn- Shi’ite sect which revolted against the ‘ from ins, top edges gilt, the others uncut. Each in the white linen slipcase as their Bahraini stronghold in the ninth century ce. It was origi- issued. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each and numerous similar nally published in 1862 as the first volume of his four-part essay illustrations to the text of the second, the majority full-page, maps to series, Mémoires d’histoire et de géographie orientales; this iteration, the endpapers. Spine sunned as usual, narrow strip of tan-burn from the turn-ins to the free endpapers, slightly later gift inscriptions to both, but at some 232 pages, is almost twice the length of that edition. De overall very good. Goeje’s Mémoires was his principal work resulting from original research, as he is mainly remembered for preparing editions of first editions, each in a signed edition limited of Arabic texts. Here he prints the Arabic texts of important sourc- 300 copies of which just 30 were in the full binding es including Ibn al-Jawzi and Ibn Durayd, which he read in man- as here, copies 16 and 25 respectively. De Chair was Intelligence uscript. Well-held in libraries, but rare in commerce, with no Officer with “Kingcol”, a Flying Column of less than 1,500 men copies listed in auction records (and none of the first edition). under the Command of Brig.-Gen. Kingstone. This tiny force was sent from Palestine to Baghdad to deal with the effects £750 [117603] of the “Golden Square” coup amongst pro-Nazi Iraqi military officers. Despite the air support extended to the Iraqis by the German and Italian air forces, the operation was a complete success, Baghdad falling on 30 May 1941; the books cover this and subsequent operations in Syria. The books were reviewed in on the issue of the composite trade edition in 1944 as “a fascinating and well-told story . . . in the tradition of T. E. Lawrence, and one worthy to take its place in the history of Brit- ish soldiers’ heroic campaigns in the Near East”. £1,500 [105498]

90 DE GOEJE, Michael Jan. Mémoire sur les Carmathes du Bahraïn et les Fatimides. Leiden: E. J. Brill 1886 Octavo. Modern blue-green library buckram, gilt-lettered spine, red-sprinkled edges, linen inner hinges. From the collection of British 90

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91 92 DENHAM, Dixon, & Hugh Clapperton. Narrative of DE WINDT, Harry. A Ride to India. Across Persia and Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, Baluchistan. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891 in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 . . . extending across the Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, fire-dancer Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, vignette to front board in black and copper, fore and bottom edges and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of untrimmed. Frontispiece, 11 plates and 10 illustrations to the text, all by Herbert Walker after the author, and a folding area map to the rear. the Fellatah Empire. With an Appendix . . . London: John Ownership inscription dated 1924 to front free endpaper, later book- Murray, 1826 plate completed in manuscript to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, Quarto (266 × 213 mm). Contemporary calf, black morocco label to tips and spine-ends very lightly rubbed, front board faintly sunned spine, flat bands with foliate decoration, gilt, triple fillet gilt panels to along top edge, short (25 mm) closed tear to map at fold costing one let- compartments, and to boards with small floral corner-pieces, marbled ter, internally clean. An excellent copy with bright plates. edges and endpapers, turn-ins milled in blind. Engraved frontispiece first edition. In 1889 De Windt rode on horseback from Tbili- and 36 other plates and plans, one of them a hand-coloured aquatint, 6 si to Bombay, travelling through Baku, Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, vignettes to the text, folding map at the rear. A little rubbed, and with Bushire, Baluchistan and Quetta. He served as aide-de-camp to some stripping from the front board, some light browning throughout his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, from 1876 and offsetting from the plates, a very good copy. to 1878, and also travelled widely across Russia, including a jour- first edition of this account of the rather contentious expe- ney to Western in 1890 to inspect the region’s prisons. dition to trace the source of the . Relations between Dixon Scarce in this condition. and Clapperton were not of the best. They “quarrelled bitterly”, with “Denham secretly sending home malicious reports accus- Wilson, Bibliography of Persia, p. 246 ing him of having homosexual relations with an Arab servant £475 [110077] – reports he had later to admit he had never believed” (ODNB). However, despite failure in their primary aim, the expedition 93 did open up much of north central Africa to European knowl- edge. Shortly after their return Clapperton resumed the his DIBA, Layla S., & Maryam Ekhtiar (eds.) Royal Persian Niger quest, dying of dysentery at in 1827, leaving Den- Paintings. The Qajar Epoch, 1785–1925. New York: I. B. Tauris ham to be “fêted in London as the hero of the expedition” and Publishers in association with Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999 to publish the present account in which he suppressed as much Folio. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. as possible all mention of his companions. “Written in a lively With the dust jacket. Photographs throughout, black and white and in style, and embellished with engravings of his own sketches, it colour. Spine very gently rolled. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. became one of the classics of its genre”. first edition of this illustrated collection of essays produced Howgego, C33; Lowndes I, p. 629. to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999. £1,250 [87084] £150 [110836]

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94 by another Bengal Artillery officer, Lieutenant D. C. Vanrenen. DIXON, Charles George. Sketch of Mairwara; giving A fascinating and remarkably detailed account of British public works in India. a brief account of the origin and habits of the Mairs; their subjugation by a British force; their civilisation, Abbey, Travel, 475. and conversion into an industrious peasantry; with £2,500 [110460] descriptions of various works of irrigation in Mairwara and Ajmeer, constructed to facilitate the operations of 95 agriculture, and guard the districts against drought and DOMBAY, Franz Lorenz von. Grammatica linguae famine. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850 mauro-arabicae juxta vernaculi idiomatic usum. Accessit Quarto. Original green cloth neatly rebacked with green morocco, orna- vocabularium latino-mauro-arabicum. Vienna: at the shop mental blind stamping on sides, gilt lettered on the front cover, yellow coated endpapers. 9 tinted lithograph plates (of which 8 are views), 19 of Camesina, 1800 detailed maps and plans of irrigation systems, large folding coloured Quarto. Later cloth-backed marbled boards, title gilt to spine, marbled map of the region printed on linen, 3 wood engravings in the text. Con- endpapers. Engraved headpiece to the preface, engraved folding table temporary ownership on front pastedown (dated 1851). Covers patchily at the rear. A little rubbed, small paper press-mark labels to spine and faded, some wear to corners, light marginal dampstaining to plates front board, light browning and some mild spotting, a few neat pen- (more noticeable on plate 13), nevertheless a clean, tall copy. cilled annotations in German and Arabic to the vocabularies, else very first edition of this important record of the extensive ir- good. rigation system established in the Ajmer-Merwara region of first edition of the first study of the dialect of the Maghreb, south western Rajasthan; scarce, “according to the English considered by Johann Fück to be the “first scientific contribu- Catalogue, the work was privately printed, and Smith, Elder may tion to the scientific study of Arab dialects”. Dombay (1756– therefore only have published it on Dixon’s behalf ” (Abbey). 1810), an Austrian born at Vienna, studied oriental languages Dixon (d. 1857) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Bengal Artillery at the Maria-Theresa College before being sent to Morocco as and superintendent of Ajmer-Merwara (part of North-Western an interpreter, subsequently serving in Madrid and Zagreb. He Provinces) and oversaw the creation of the irrigation system finished his career as a councillor of the secret chancellery and outlined in this book. Marwar lies partly in the Thar Desert. As interpreter to the Emperor’s court. mentioned on the title page, the British had intervened in 1839 Brunet II, 800; Chauvin, I, p. LXIV; Gay 3386; Schnurrer 139. to quell an insurrection. The attractive tinted lithograph views are largely the work of William Gauci, after Lieutenants Burgess £1,250 [96768] and Herbert; Gauci, of Maltese extraction, came from a family of distinguished lithographers working in London. The map is

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96 origins of the Arabic script, a hypothesis for which “Doughty’s DOMBAY, Franz Lorenz von. Grammatica linguae persicae. book remains an invaluable mine of source material. [He] had the advantages of a slow pace, almost unlimited time, an amazingly Accedunt dialogi, historiae, sententiae, et narrationes observant eye, and, perhaps most of all, the compulsion to record persicae. Vienna: at the shop of Albert Camesina, 1804 without omissions every fact observed” (Tabachnick, ed., Explora- Quarto (258 × 205 mm). Contemporary dark red half morocco, tions in Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, p. 17). comb-marbled sides, spine separated into compartments by single A preliminary report of Doughty’s observations appeared in the rules gilt, paper label with manuscript title over third and fourth, black periodical Globus, in German translation, in 1881. He first met the morocco label to centre of front board with titles enclosed by foliate roll and triple rules gilt. Later bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Slight- great French orientalist and writer Ernest Renan early in 1883, and ly rubbed, surface splitting to tail of front joint, head and tail of rear it was in Paris, after the failure of an attempt to sell his copies of the joint cracked, two small sections of wear to morocco label with no loss inscriptions to the Royal Museum in Berlin, that Doughty’s copies of text, pencil markings to front endleaves, front free endpaper creased, of the inscriptions at Mada’in Salih finally saw the light of day. occasional foxing as usual. A very good copy. Macro 855. first and only edition. For Dombay, see previous item. £1,750 [117565] Not in Blackmer, Burrell or Atabey. £450 [100510] Lawrence’s guidebook – from the library of a colonial agent with an “unrivalled knowledge of the Arab” Doughty’s “first fruits of Arabia” 98 97 DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. DOUGHTY, Charles. Documents épigraphiques recueillis Cambridge: at the University Press, 1888 dans le nord de l’Arabie. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1884 2 volumes. Original dark green cloth, titles to spines gilt, gilt blocks to Quarto (269 × 213). Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, marbled front boards, edges untrimmed, black surface-paper endpapers, Por- boards, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers to front. 57 plates includ- trait frontispiece, 8 plates, 5 of them folding, numerous line drawings ing 37 heliographs of inscriptions of which 9 folding, 20 wood-engraved to the text, several full-page, large colour lithographic map folded in including maps and elevations. Bound with the half-title. Spine sunned end-pocket. Spines very gently rolled, sides a trifle rubbed, lower outer and rolled, tips rubbed, binder’s blanks browned, initial blank and corners rubbed, vol. 1 with a scattering of pale marks to spine and rear half-title lightly oxidized, text-leaves very faintly creased, occasional board, and a closed marginal tear to pp. 239/40, the text unaffected, light spotting to plates. A very good copy. Bath Reference Library issue slips to rear free endpapers (see below). An excellent copy. first edition, first issue, of the first publication in English of any account of Doughty’s travels in Arabia, predating Travels in Ara- first edition, an unusually well-preserved copy of this “unri- bia Deserta by four years, with a preface in French by Ernest Renan. valled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of 19th-cen- In 1865 the German orientalist Theodor Nöldeke proposed that tury and earlier Arabia” much valued by T. E. Lawrence (ODNB), the Nabataean rock-carvings in what is now Jordan contained the with an exceptional provenance, coming from the collection of

60 Peter Harrington 133 British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), with bookplates noting his widow’s bequest to Bath Public Library, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind- stamps as usual. Miles was appointed political agent and consul at Muscat in 1872, a position he held on and off until 1887, with intervening postings as political agent in Turkish Arabia, con- sul-general in Baghdad, political agent and consul in , and political resident in the Gulf, his time in Arabia coinciding with Doughty’s own sojourn, which lasted from 1875 to 1878, during which time Miles was occupied with intelligence-gath- ering in the Omani interior, as a result of which he became “the most extensively travelled European” in the region since James Wellsted in 1834–5 (Marshall, “European Travellers in Oman and Southeast Arabia”, in New Arabian Studies 2, p. 31). His only book, The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf, published posthumously in 1919, was praised by Sir Thomas Holdich, the leading military surveyor of his day, for demonstrating an “unrivalled knowledge of the Arab” (Geographical Journal, LV, 4, April, 1920, p. 316). Doughty’s activities in western Arabia and their significance bear a remarkable similarity to Miles’s simultaneous achievements in the east. Doughty (1843–1926) arrived at Ma’an and Petra, modern-day Jordan, in May 1875, and spent a year in Damascus learning Arabic in preparation for what was intended to be a short journey south 99 to study the Nabataean rock inscriptions at Mada’in Salih, mod- ern-day Saudi Arabia. He set out in November 1876 with the pilgrim man Douglas, in hope of a piece of soap in due course (not new caravan and ended up wandering for two years, his adventures mown hay) and of her not borrowing too many of my matches, including a sojourn with nearby Bedouin, a visit to Mohammed ibn although it points to a good house-wifely spirit. 26 August 1926”, Rashid, ruler of northern Arabia, a period of imprisonment by a and with the bookplate of the receipient, Myrtle A. Crummer; one Turkish commandant at Khaybar, a series of dangerous episodes at of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author. Buraydah, ‘Unayzah, and Mecca, a stay with the sharif of Mecca at Douglas was almost certainly introduced to the bibliophiles Ta’if, and his final emergence at Jiddah on 2 August 1878. Leroy and Myrtle Crummer (who were busy forming an import- His famous account, which comprises almost 1,000 pages of ant medical library) by the publisher Pino Orioli, who ran an an- painstaking detail, much of which has been confirmed by later tiquarian bookshop by the Ponte Vecchio and later published a travellers, was much favoured by T. E. Lawrence, who used it as number of Douglas’s books (see Barbara C. Morden’s biography his main guidebook to the region nearly 30 years later. Lawrence of the painter Dame Laura Knight). “Douglas says in Late Harvest was instrumental in convincing Cape to publish a second edition (p. 51) that publishing Experiments ‘was in itself an experiment, a in 1921, to which he contributed an introduction. “In a notable trying one’. It was his first serious attempt at publishing his own contemporary review in Academy, Sir Richard Francis Burton work. In a letter (dated May 30, 1925) to Charles Scott-Moncrieff, praised [Arabia Deserta’s] scientific knowledge and its style . . . So he writes: ‘The printers let me down dreadfully over that book; reliable was the book’s anthropology of the Bedouin peoples and so that over 60 copies were not fit to send away’” (Woolf ). This its topography, that British intelligence mined it for information collection of pieces includes Douglas’s review of Doughty’s during the First and Second World wars. Doughty’s contributions Arabia Deserta, an essay on Edgar Allan Poe and a short story en- to all areas of Arabian knowledge continue to be praised by schol- titled “Queer!” a reworking of a story originally composed over ars” (ODNB). This is an excellent association copy, bringing into 20 years earlier but which had appeared in different guises: as relief the achievements of author and owner. “Something from the Beyond” (1921) and “A Mystery” (1901). Arcadian Library 11438; Macro 859. Woolf A24a. £6,250 [117594] £475 [97972]

“The printers let me down dreadfully” 99 DOUGLAS, Norman. Experiments. [Florence:] Privately printed, 1925 Quarto. Original cream paper boards, white paper spine label, unopened and untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Spine of jacket toned, some nicks and chips, a few scuffs to boards, some offsetting to endpapers. first edition. presentation copy, playfully inscribed by the author on the title page, “To his friend Miss Crummer from Nor- 99

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100 DOZY, Reinhart. Essai sur l’histoire de l’Islamisme. Traduit du hollandais par Victor Chauvin. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1879 Octavo (220 × 132 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, raised bands between blind rules to spine, title to second compartment and date to foot gilt, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers, original printed wrappers bound in to rear. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Lightly sunned along top edge of front board, faint spotting to end- leaves. An excellent copy. first edition in french of one of the most influential, and controversial, books on Islam published in the 19th century, considered “one of the first academic portrayals of Islamic history” (Schäfer, A Muslim who became a Christian, p. 218) and 101 equally “a fervent attack on Islam and its Prophet” (Hanioglu, DRUMMOND, Augusta. Three original watercolour Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks 1902–1908, p. 308). A views of the coast of Arabian Peninsula near Aden and Turkish translation by Ottoman reformer Abdullah Cevdet was Suez. At sea on SS Sindh: 1878 published in 1908 and almost immediately banned, with all existing copies confiscated. Mustafa Kemal, later Atatürk, is Three watercolours on paper, between 150 × 220 mm and 100 × 175 mm, mounted on album leaves 255 × 330 mm, all initialled “A.D.” in the lower known to have read Chauvin’s French translation “with fascina- corner, and captioned and dated in ink in the lower margin of the mount tion” (Hanioglu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, p. 54), underlin- – “Approaching Aden from on board S.S. Sindh, Oct. 20th 1878”: “Aden ing sections concerning the claim that Muhammad’s prophecy from S.S. Sindh, Oct. 21st 1878”: “Suez from S.S. Sindh, Oct. 26th 1878”. resulted from muscular hysteria, an idea first suggested by Aloys Minor mild foxing of the mounts, remains of linen hinge to each leaf, Sprenger. Dozy’s account was first published in Dutch as Het otherwise very good. Islamisme in 1863. Three attractive watercolour views of Aden and Suez, with £500 [117595] mountainous shorelines and sailing in the foreground. Dated October 1878, the views were taken from the deck of SS Sindh, one of the elite steamers of the French “Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes” during the height of French colonial ex- pansion in the Middle and Far East. The artist was Irish waterco- lourist Augusta Drummond (1848–1908), an acquaintance of re- nowned poet and artist Edward Lear (1812–1888). She was born

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in Kilberry, Kildare, Ireland daughter of Robert and Catherine Verschoyle. On 5 July 1878 she married Captain Alfred Manners Drummond, nephew of the sixth duke of Rutland, captain of the Rifle Brigade, discriminating art collector, acquaintance and cli- ent of Edward Lear. The couple made a honeymoon trip to India in 1878, and subsequently travelled to continental Europe and Australia; Augusta recording her impressions in these excellent watercolours. One of her images of Tasmania, entitled “Browns River near Hobart Town”, is now in the collection of the Nation- al Library of Australia. £1,500 [91557]

102 101 DUGUET, Marie-Louise-Firmin. Le pèlerinage de la Mecque. Au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire. Avec une préface de Justin Godart. Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1932 101 Octavo. Original printed card wrappers. 8 plates, maps and tables to the text. Lightly rubbed and soiled on the wrappers, pale toning, else very good. first edition, one of 12 copies hors commerce (“sur papier Alfa mousse des papeteries , non mis dans le com- merce”), of this detailed study of the hajj with particular empha- sis on medical aspects. In 1928 the author had been appointed inspector general of the Conseil sanitaire, maritime et quarante- naire d’Egypte, or International Quarantine Board. Duguet had already spent several years in the Levant as inspector general of health services of the states under French Mandate, responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. Macro 871. £1,650 [105496]

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All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 63 103 [EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse.] Dry Leaves from Young Egypt. By an Ex-Political. Second Edition. London: James Madden, 1851 Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt, title gilt to spine on decorative bande- rolle with palm and palmetto leaves, portrait of the Khan of Khypore within decorative borders gilt to front board and in blind to lower. Coloured lithographic frontispiece and 12 tinted lithographic plates, 2 folding genealogies, tables to text. Bookplate of C. E. Rusbridge to front pastedown. A little rubbed, light browning, but overall a very good copy. second edition, with a new preface; first published in 1849, a further edition was published in 1851. Eastwick had been a moderating influence on Company conduct in Sindh, but af- ter he was invalided home, control of policy had fallen to Sir Charles Napier who was opposed by Outram, the dedicatee of the present work. “Open antagonism was growing between the two men, partly perhaps because Outram had lost his indepen- dent status and been brought under Napier’s control, but within it there was also a fairly clear policy dispute over the nature of British rule in India and the place of former rulers, such as the amirs of Sind. Napier believed that the amirs were feudal relics, oppressors of the poor, and were opposed to all change that would bring prosperity at the loss of their power. While he may not have deliberately goaded the amirs into making war against the British, he certainly did not regret that their actions gave him an excuse for abolishing their power” (ODNB). Eastwick states the case of the amirs with some force: “When we say that Mir Rustam Khan was wronged, we do not, like Sir W. Napier, assert a thing at second-hand, on hearsay. We know it. We saw this wrong committed with our eyes – we heard it with our ears – and what is more, we can prove it.” £450 [46516]

103 104 EDDY, William A. F.D.R. meets Ibn Saud. New York: American Friends of the Middle East, Inc., 1954 Octavo. Original green combed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front board. Very lightly rubbed, pale toning, a very good copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the title page: “For Toni and Don Fullerton with grateful memories of Jiddah from their devoted friend Bill Eddy”. William Alfred “Bill” Eddy (1896–1962) was the son of Presbyterian missionar- ies, born in Sidon, Syria, and after graduation from Princeton served in the US Marine Corps during the First World War. He then entered academia, teaching literature at Dartmouth College and the American College in Cairo, president of both Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42). Re-en- tering the services in the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant-colonel he was naval attaché and naval attaché for air in Cairo, with significant intelligence roles. From 1943 his work as “Special Assistant to the American Minister” based at the American legation in Jeddah was crucial in forging bonds between Saudi Arabia and the Allies. Post-war Eddy was crucial in the creation of the CIA, and retained his special relationship at the Saudi court. This privately-published volume contains his account of the circumstances surrounding the meeting held on the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal in Egypt on board USS 103 Quincy in February 1945 between King Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Ibn

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Saud) and Franklin Roosevelt, which Eddy organized and at 106 which he acted as interpreter. It was the first time that the king (EGYPT, PALESTINE, & ARABIA.) Kriegskarte von had left Saudi Arabia. Ägypten, Palästina und Arabien. Vienna: G. Freytag & £575 [110614] Berndt, [c.1914] Octavo. Original sand-coloured printed wrappers. Folding coloured map 105 (800 × 550 mm, folding down to 145 × 240 mm). A few discreet pinholes but in very good condition. EDEN, Frederic. The Nile without a Dragoman. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1871 Rare: only two copies located in OCLC ( and Hannover). The map is centred on the Arabian peninsula Small octavo (180 × 117 mm). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt-tooled and the coverage includes: Gulf of Aden (E), Bab el Mandeb (S), on the raised bands, green label, pinkish pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Gilt stamp of New South Wales Library Libyan Sahara Desert (W), and Damascus and Baghdad (N); of Parliament on front cover. Spine darkened and a little worn, some inset map of the Nile Delta and Sinai. Details include railways, scrapes to binding, light browning, some foxing front and back, bound caravan routes, telegraph lines, roadblocks, ruins and a few Ara- with the half-title. bic topography terms given in German. The wrappers advertise first edition; a second edition followed the same year. Un- a range of Freytag & Berndt’s Kriegskarten; our copy carries the common: Copac registers just four copies in British and Irish contemporary bookseller’s label of Max Bretschneider, a well- institutional libraries (British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, Na- known German bookseller based in Rome. tional Library of Scotland), and although OCLC adds a gaggle of £650 [102336] copies it is a difficult book to find. Adragoman was an interpret- er, guide, and general factotum between Turkish, Arabic, and Persian-speaking countries. Frederic Eden (1828–1916) was the nephew of the distinguished geologist and political economist George Poulett Scrope, to whom the book is dedicated. It was favourably reviewed in its day, The Times commenting “should any of our readers care to imitate Mr Eden’s example . . . and shift for themselves next winter in Upper Egypt, they will find this book a very agreeable guide”. Speake I p. 390. £250 [94790]

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107 rect descendants of Genghis Khan, and possessed of distinct ELIOT, William Gordon Cornwallis, The Hon., later geopolitical ambitions. “A clever, affable man with a weakness for practical jokes involving severed heads”, he aspired to an 4th earl of St Germans (trans.) Krim-Girai, Khan of the alliance with Frederick the Great against the Russians, and con- Crimea. Translated from the German of Theodore Mundt. spired to similar ends with the baron de Tott, becoming a “close London: John Murray, 1856 personal friend”, who, under Tott’s influence, developed “an en- Octavo. Original red linen-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate thusiasm for French cuisine (especially its wine-based sauces), panelling in blind to boards, light green surface-paper endpapers. A and requested that Tartuffe be translated into Turkish for perfor- little rubbed overall, bumped at the corners, head and tail of the spine mance by the court buffoons . . . The two spent long evenings crumpled and with minor chipping, pale toning, some light foxing, but talking politics inside the crimson-lined tent, Qirim delivering overall a very good copy. his ‘opinions on the abuses and advantages of liberty, on the first edition, a very pleasing association copy, in- principles of honour, or the laws and maxims of government, scribed “With the Translator’s love” on the first blank and with in a manner which would have done honour to Montesquieu the bookplate of Lord Raglan to the front pastedown. Richard himself ’” (Reid, Borderland: A Journey through the History of , Henry FitzRoy Somerset, second baron Raglan, was married to internal quotations from the Memoirs of the Baron de Tott). The Eliot’s cousin, Susan Caroline. His father, recently deceased at author of this work, Theodor Mundt, was a German philologist the time of presentation, had famously commanded the British and librarian, best known for his writings on aesthetics, and for forces in the Crimea, being responsible for the victories at the his advocacy of the emancipation of women, who compiled the Alma and at Inkerman, and considered by some to be culpable memoir “on account of its intrinsic interest as well as the rela- for the disaster at Balaklava. The first baron had died at Sebas- tion it bears to the present war” (Preface). topol of a “broken heart” (ODNB) just ten days after the bloody An attractively-provenanced and well-preserved copy of this failure of the assault of 18 June 1855, and in 1858 his successor seldom seen and interesting biography. Uncommon, just eight was gifted Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire by “1623 of the copies on Copac. ‘friends, admirers, and comrades’ of his father . . . as a mark of gratitude and to enable the family to maintain the port of £950 [109183] the ennobled” (Newman, Gwent/Monmouthshire; Buildings of Wales series, p. 272). The modern Cefntilla bookplate is mount- 108 ed beneath Raglan’s on the front pastedown. ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. An Account of the The translator joined the diplomatic service from Eton, and Kingdom of Caubul and its Dependencies in Persia, from 1849 to 1859 served as attaché at Hanover, Lisbon, Berlin, Constantinople, and St Petersburg. Subsequent postings took Tartary, and India. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and him to Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Lisbon, and finally Washington. Brown, & J. Murray, 1815 He resigned in 1865 and was elected MP for Devonport in 1866, Quarto (285 × 208 mm). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with origi- holding the seat until 1868. He entered the House of Lords nal spine laid down, flat spine, title gilt direct. Hand-coloured aquatint in 1870, dying in 1881. The association gains poignancy from frontispiece and 12 other similar plates, one uncoloured aquatint, large the fact that Eliot’s elder brother, the Hon. Granville Charles folding engraved map (opening 637 × 789 mm) coloured in outline, and one similar full-page map. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Abra- Cornwallis Eliot, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, had been ham Caldecott, former Accountant General to the , to killed, shot through the head, at Inkerman. front pastedown, together with the slightly later plate of William Wood- Qirim Giray (d. 1769), was one of the most influential rulers ville Rockhill, American adventurer and diplomat. A little rubbed, with of the Crimean Khanate, a scion of the ruling Giray clan, di- some judicious restoration and refurbishment at the extremities and

66 Peter Harrington 133 established an embassy in the Persian capital, and to persuade Shah Shuja into a defensive alliance. “Elphinstone’s mission to Kabul was formally a failure. Sus- picious of the British, the Afghan court refused to allow the embassy to proceed beyond the border town of Peshawar. Shah Shuja was only prepared to make an alliance in return for sub- stantial British aid which the envoy was unable to offer. Mean- while, a revolt in Kashmir had made the shah’s tenure of power increasingly precarious. Elphinstone did, however, return to India with a mass of new information about the Punjab and the north-west . . . Elphinstone’s subsequent Account of the Kingdom of Caubul continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s” (ODNB). Elphinstone remained in India for the next 20 years, “first as resi- dent at Poona, then as lieutenant-governor of Bombay. As a civil ad- ministrator he served with distinction, and is often regarded as the founder of the system of state education in India. He twice refused the offer of the governor-generalship of India” (Howgego). Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Howgego, II, E10; Lipperheide 1483; Tooley 209 £5,750 [105235]

109 EMERSON, L. H. S., & Seiyid Muh[ammad] Abdoh Ghanem. Aden Arabic Grammar; [and] ­— Aden Arabic Exercises. [Aden:] Al-Maaref Press, 1943 2 works, octavo. Original brown light card wrappers printed in black. Grammar: wrappers marked overall, surface splitting to front hinge sometimes reinforced with adhesive, pale finger-marking to title-page 108 and last few leaves. Exercises: faint crease to lower outer corner of rear panel, contents browned, f. [17] torn to no loss. Overall a good set of on the joints, light browning throughout, the occasional spot of foxing, two fragile publications. some offsetting from the plates, the large map with professional repairs first and only editions of these extremely uncommon in- at the folds and to an old tear, formerly stub-mounted, but now laid in troductions to the colloquial Arabic of Aden, , intended for ease of opening, overall a very good copy. as textbooks for students at the city’s British Institute, with just first edition of this superbly detailed regional study, well one copy of the Exercises in libraries worldwide (Edinburgh) and illustrated by the series of costume plates – “of excellent quality” four copies of the Grammar (National Library of , Exeter and (Abbey) – which are closer to individuated portraits than the two in Edinburgh). “types” usually encountered in such works. Elphinstone stands out as one of the most remarkable figures £250 [107951] in establishment of British hegemony in India in the early 19th century. The son of the 11th Baron Elphinstone, he went out to India in 1795 at the age of 16 as a writer in the service of the East India Company. In 1801 he was appointed assistant to Sir Barry Close, resident at the court of Baji Rao the Peshwa at Poona. The Peshwa was virtual head of the Mahratta confederacy and is described in the first DNB as “an avowed poltroon”. He was overthrown by Holkar at the Battle of Poona. Holkar refused British requests to reinstate the Peshwa which led to the Second Mahratta War. Elphinstone was attached to Wellington’s staff in the Deccan and saw action at the Battles of Assaye and Argaum and the Siege of Gawilarh. The general remarked of Elphinstone then that he had “mistaken his profession and ought to have been a soldier.” Advanced to the important post of resident at the court in Nagpur in 1804, in 1808 he was favoured further with the position of ambassador to the Afghan court at Kabul where he was to assess the extent of French penetration, who had already 109

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110 book illustration. This copy is from the collection of noted Ira- EMPSON, Robert Horatio Woolnough. The Cult of the nian bibliophile Cyrus Ghani, with his ownership inscription dated March 1983 to the front free endpaper. Peacock Angel. A Short Account of the Yezidi Tribes of Kurdistan. With a Commentary by Sir Richard Carnac £75 [110793] Temple. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928 Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to front 112 board, bottom edge untrimmed. Frontispiece and 5 plates from pho- EUTING, Julius. Tagebuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. tographs. Publisher’s ticket to front pastedown. Upper outer corners lightly bumped, small mildly abraded patch at foot of front board, edges Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1896 & 1914 lightly dust soiled. A very good copy. 2 volumes, octavo (233 × 155 mm). Later white quarter cloth, sand cloth first edition of this uncommon anthropological study, “the boards, tan morocco labels to spines, orange top-stain. Portrait frontis- piece to volume II, profusely illustrated throughout line-drawings and outcome of curiosity aroused in myself as to the ancient faith plans to the text, some full-page. Dampstain to the top edge of volume II, of the little known Yezidi tribes, based on a visit to their strong- no encroachment into the margin light browning else, a very good set. holds and amplified by a little research amongst the existing lit- first editions, surprisingly uncommon institutionally with erature on the subject” (Preface). Empson’s “visit” would seem OCLC showing perhaps nine locations. An orientalist based at to have taken place while he was serving with No. 1 Squadron Strasbourg University, Euting had previously travelled exten- in Iraq. Empson remarks that in his commentary the respected sively in the Mediterranean and Levant, and had spent time in orientalist Sir Richard Temple “has not always adopted my own Constantinople. “In 1883 Euting left Strasbourg to embark on a or my authorities’ explanations, but I do not look on this as a two-year expedition to the Middle East and the Arabian Penin- misfortune, as the object before us is to get at the truth, which is sula, his intention being to trace the pre-Islamic history of Ara- often accomplished by noting and eventually reconciling differ- bia through the study of its inscriptions and stone monuments” ence of views on matters still but imperfectly known”. (Howgego). Having made some inroads in Egypt, Palestine and £500 [114460] the Lebanon, he met up with the Alsatian travelled Charles Hu- ber, and together they “struck out across the desert to the south- 111 east”. After considerable adventures the two “who had never really liked each other” separated, Euting “crossed the Hijaz ETTINGHAUSEN, Richard. Treasures of Asia. Arab mountains to arrive on the Red Sea coast . . . en route suffering Painting. [Lausanne:] Albert Skira, 1962 an attack by Bedouin and only managing to escape by by killing Large quarto. Original tan buckram, spine and covers lettered in brown. two of them”. He returned to Europe having completed a jour- With the dust jacket. 89 tipped-in plates mostly in colour, many height- ney of 2,300 kilometres, mainly by horse and camel, with copies ened with gilt. Publisher’s review slip laid in. An excellent copy in the of 900 Sabaean, Aramaic, and Nabataean inscriptions. For his price-clipped jacket with a small chip to the head of the spine. part Huber returned to Ha’il then set off on a pioneering trip first edition of this handsomely illustrated history of Islamic to Mecca by a “route never before followed by a European” and art up to the 15th century, covering mosaics, wall painting and was murdered by his guides on the way back to Ha’il. Euting’s

68 Peter Harrington 133 112 114 account of their year-long Arabian journey – the second volume 114 of which was published posthumously edited by Enno Littmann FARLEY, J. Lewis. Modern Turkey. London: Hurst and – provides the best early descriptions of the petroglyphs at Jabal umm Sanaman. A well-presented set of of an important and un- Blackett, Publishers, 1872 common account. Octavo (220 × 132 mm). Original red-brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, sides decoratively panel-stamped in blind, yellow surface-paper endpa- Henze II, 186; Howgego IV, E20; Macro 907. pers. Spine darkened and a little marked, a few pale spots to fore edge, half-title lightly foxed, and discreetly tape-repaired at foot, shallow chip £950 [92408] to top edge of front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean, a very good copy. 113 second edition, the same year as the first, of this valuable FARIS, Nabih Amin. The Antiquities of South Arabia, survey of Turkey in the mid-19th century, including a wide-rang- being a Translation from the Arabic with Linguistic, ing economic overview, and accounts of Empress Eugénie’s visit Geographic, and Historic Notes of the Eighth Book of to Constantinople and the health benefits of living in Syria. Both editions are uncommon, especially in good condition, and there Al-Hamdani’s Al-Iklil. Reconstructed from Al-Karmanli’s appear to have been no further printings after 1872. Edition and a MS in the Garrett Collection, Princeton Farley (1823–1855) helped establish the Beirut branch of the University Library. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938 British-run Ottoman Bank, established after the conclusion of Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine. Plate, full-page map, the Crimean War. “In 1860 [he] was appointed accountant-gen- illustration in the text. A little rubbed, ink-stamps of the British Institute eral of the state bank of Turkey at Constantinople, which subse- at Amman for Archaeology and History to the endpapers, light toning, quently became merged in the Imperial Ottoman Bank, which touch of foxing to the fore-edge, else very good. was set up in 1863 with British, French, and Ottoman sharehold- first edition; institutionally inevitably well-represented, but ers and directors, under the protection of the sultan and his gov- uncommon on the market. An important publication. Al-Ham- ernment. It was the government bank with sole rights of note dani (893?–945?) was an Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, issue. British and French government involvement was also con- historian and astronomer “whose chief fame derives from his siderable, and the bank was a political as much as a financial in- authoritative writings on South Arabian history and geography stitution” (ODNB). He was notably on intimate terms with Fuad . . . His encyclopaedia Al-Ikul (The Crown; Eng. trans. of vol. 8 by and Ali pashas. From 1870 to 1884 he served as Ottoman consul N. A. Faris as The Antiquities of South Arabia [the present volume]) at Bristol, in which capacity he is credited on the title page, and and his other writings are a major source of information on Ara- made substantial (though not overly successful) attempts at in- bia, providing a valuable anthology of South Arabian poetry as creasing Bristol’s trade with the Levant. well as much genealogical, topographical, and historical infor- mation” (Ency. Brit.) £450 [117089] Macro 917. £650 [94791]

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115 wrapper; “Music, the Priceless Jewel” with wrappers slightly separating at foot, faint soiling to front, and mild crease to upper outer corners, FARMER, Henry George. A History of Arabian Music still both very good copies. to the XIIIth Century. London: Luzac & Co., 1929; with two first edition of this pioneering study of Arab music from the offprints of articles by Farmer in the Journal of the Royal pre-Islamic period to the extinction of the ‘Abbasid caliphate Asiatic Society: “Music, the Priceless Jewel” (1941) and “The in 1258, uncommon in the dust jacket, this copy accompanied Music of the Arabian Nights” (1945). by two interesting offprints, and with a nice association, con- Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With the dust jacket. taining the ownership inscription of American Arabist Robert Frontispiece from a manuscript of Farabi’s Kitab al-Musiqi, 2 similar Brenton Betts, author of The Druze (1991) and other works, to the plates. With the errata slip. Corners very lightly bumped, light toning, front pastedown (dated Cairo 1987) and also to the inside wrap- but an excellent copy in the dust jacket with a sunned, chipped and per of one of the offprints, “Music, the Priceless Jewel” (dated 31 dampstained spine panel and a few other shallow nicks or chips. Off- January 1994). prints: octavo, wire-stitched in original printed wrappers, both with Farmer (1882–1965) played in the Royal Artillery orchestra the recent bookseller’s ticket of May and May, Shaftesbury, to the inside until 1911 and became an authority on military music before enrolling at the University of Glasgow in 1918, completing a PhD which formed the basis for the present work. For each era Farm- er describes the “general musical life of the period, together with details of the theory and practice of music” (Preface), and provides biographies of contemporary musicians and writers on music; the chapter on the pre-Islamic era notably discusses the music of Himyar and of the Nabataean and Palmyrene Arabs. Farmer was the only British representative at the inaugural Con- gress of Arabian Music in Egypt in 1932, and “for almost half a century defined and dominated this field of research and took full advantage of the known sources” (Shiloah, Music in the World of Islam, p. xiv). 115 £250 [115062]

70 Peter Harrington 133 116 FERRARIO, Giulio. Descrizione della Palestina. O Storia del Vangelo. Illustrata coi Monumenti. Milan: Società Tipographia de’ Classici Italiani, 1831 Royal octavo (265 × 175 mm). Contemporary Italian tan morocco, covers elaborately blind-stamped with floral corner- and centrepieces, diced central panels, gilt-tooled vine-leaf borders, flat spine richly gilt in com- partments, marbled endpapers. Engraved folding area map and 32 aqua- tints by Bramati, Angeli and others of which 31 hand-coloured. Slightly rubbed overall with a couple of small superficial holes to front joint, folding map foxed and with tear skilfully repaired on verso, pencilled captions in Italian to fore edges of plates, rear free endpaper recto anno- tated in pencil, the very occasional marginal spot, but an excellent copy, internally crisp and fresh, with wide margins and notably bright plates. first separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; originally published as part of Ferrario’s immense Il costume antico e moderno, issued simultaneously in French and Italian in 143 parts from 1816 to 1834, forming a total of 17 volumes. In the preface Ferrario claims to have corrected the errors of the first edition from various accounts, including those of Mayer and Chateaubri- and. Remarkably uncommon in this form, with just ten copies in institutional libraries worldwide and just three seen at auction in over 50 years; this is a particularly handsome copy. 117 Hamilton, Arcadian Library 8859; Blackmer 588 for Il costume antico e moder- no, vol. I only & Atabey 427 for the first edition in French; not in Abbey, awarded with the Order of the Lion and Sun. His military mis- Burrell or Howgego. sion soon revealed itself purposeless”. Ferrier returned disappointed to France to only discover that £1,500 [107964] Franco-Persian diplomatic relations had been reopened offering the chance of further service, and he immediately took himself 117 to Baghdad. Receiving a meagre subsidy from the French gov- FERRIER, J. P. History of the Afghans. Translated from ernment, he decided to undertake the perilous overland journey the Original Unpublished Manuscript by Captain William through Persia and Afghanistan to join the group of French of- Jesse. London: John Murray, 1858 ficers at Lahore in the service of Ranjit Singh’s burgeoning Sikh empire. Octavo (217 × 133 mm). Recently bound in half calf, to style, marbled “After the Anglo-Afghan war of 1838–42, conditions in Af- boards and edges, red morocco label, low bands with milled gilt roll, floral lozenges to compartments, double rule in blind to spine and ghanistan were much disturbed. Having reached Herat with corner edges, grey-brown endpapers. Folding engraved map at the rear, many difficulties, Ferrier was suspected by Yar Mohammed to full-page map. Armorial book plate of Cyril Flower, Baron Battersea, be an English spy. After a long and perilous itinerary in Afghani- reimposed to front pastedown, that of Monier Williams, noted oriental- stan, where he fell prey between rival local rulers [sic], he would ist, Boden Professor of Sanskrit facing on the front free endpaper, and return to Herat and reach Tehran. During his voyage, and partic- the attractive collector’s plate of Gerald Sattin to the first blank. Light ularly at the end, he sent reports on the British in Central Asia to browning, else very good. Henry Rawlinson at Baghdad and to Justin Sheil at Tehran. He first edition. “This book concentrates attention on the pe- brought to Sheil a manuscript from Alexander Burnes. He also riod from about 1700 until 1850 and includes critical comments reported to Sartiges on the political situation in Afghanistan”. on British policy. Travelling extensively from Iran across Afghan- An account of his trip was published in an English translation istan and Central Asia into India Ferrier developed a masterly in 1857, only being issued in French in 1870. He subsequently knowledge of the history, geography, and languages of the area” served similarly ill-fated results in Persia, France and finally (Yakushi). India, having in between times bankrupted himself with an agri- Joseph Philippe [or Pierre, but not Pierce pace Yakushi] Ferrier, cultural project on Rhodes. He died in Marseilles in 1886. author, “diplomat”, explorer, and soldier of fortune (1811–1886), In his preface Jesse makes the point that Ferrier’s writings served with the chasseurs d’Afrique in the late 1830s, being invalid- “can be more thoroughly appreciated here [in England] than ed back to France around 1837. “In 1839, while being prosecuted in France; and that they must prove of real value in England is by his creditors, he developed a feeling for adventure” (Encyclo- evident when we consider how great are the interests involved paedia Iranica) and signed up to serve as an instructor with the in the development – commercial, social, and religious – of that Persian army. A rather ramshackle, unofficial mission to Persia vast continent which Providence has permitted to fall under our was formed, which in the way of such freelance adventures rule”. Uncommon, and a well-presented copy. imploded. “Only Ferrier had learnt Persian, and he imposed Yakushi F32. himself on the remaining officers . . . Ferrier was appointed adjutant-general and ‘chef d’état major’ with an eight-year con- £850 [102592] tract. He was sent to Zanjan to train cavalry battalions and was

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118 FINATI, Giovanni. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati. Native of Farrara; who, under the Name of Mahomet, made the Campaigns against the Wahabees for the Recovery of Mecca and Medina; and since acted as Interpreter to European Travelers in some of the Parts Tarabah and subsequent victory at Bissel. Returning to Cairo, he least visited of Asia and Africa. Translated from the met English traveller and antiquary William Bankes (1786–1855), Italian as dictated by himself, and edited by William John with whom he travelled to Upper Egypt. He also visited Senna Bankes. London: John Murray, 1830 and Dongola in the Sudan, and later Syria and Kurdistan, before 2 volumes, small octavo (165 × 98 mm). Later 19th-century half calf, making his way to England in 1828. spines lettered and ruled in gilt and blind, gilt titles, marbled sides, top His narrative was described at length by Burton in his Pilgrim- edges sprinkled red, orange endpapers. Folding map. From the library age (1855–6). “Of all the Western Travellers to Mecca, Giovanni of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with Finati is the only out-and-out scoundrel – as the two-volume printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath account of his travels, published in 1830, makes perfectly clear. Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and Even Burton, by no means a prude, disapproved of Signor Finati blind-stamps as usual. Extremities rubbed in places, folding map lightly . . . But even scoundrels, apparently, are not immune to the im- foxed, a few trivial spots. A very good copy. pact of the Hajj” (Lunde). first edition of this sought-after Arabian travel account. Finati enlisted in the French army in 1805 but deserted to the Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 232; Howgego II F6; Macro 954; see further Peter Albanians in Dalmatia, converting to Islam and taking the name Lunde, “The Lure Of Mecca”, in Saudi Aramco World 1974/6, pp. 14–21; not in Atabey, Blackmer, Cobham-Jeffery, Röhricht or Weber. Muhammad. Having seduced the wife of his Turkish officer, he fled to Cairo and enlisted in the army of Egyptian wali Muham- £4,500 [117599] mad ‘Ali Pasha, witnessing the massacre of the Mamluks in Cai- ro’s citadel and the ensuing campaign against Mamluk remnants 119 in Upper Egypt. He then served in some of the major engage- ments of the Ottoman–Wahhabi War (1811–1818), including the FONTANIER, Victor. Voyage dans l’Inde et dans le golfe capture of Yanbu’ and Al Qunfudhah, after which he temporarily Persique, par l’Egypte et la mer Rouge. Paris: Paulin, deserted and visited Mecca, which he describes at length. He 1844–6 then rejoined the army and witnessed Tusun Pasha’s defeat at

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(1819–20), which led to the formation of the . Early in 1838 Fontanier was appointed consul to Bombay. On his way to India he stopped at and Muscat, and describes at length Muscat’s commerce and relations with Europe. Most of the second volume is devoted to Bombay; the third describes further travels in China, Indochina, and Afghanistan. Fontanier had previously served as naturalist to the French embassy at Constantinople, during which time he travelled extensively in the Ottoman Empire in both Europe and Asia, and writing a similar account entitled Voyages en Orient (1829–34). 119 Not in Atabey or Blackmer; Gay 3322; Howgego G2 refers; Ibra- him-Hilmy I p. 236; Macro 461; Wilson p. 73. 2 volumes in 3, octavo (210 × 129 mm). Near-contemporary tan half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers. Engraved £7,500 [117600] folding map, 2 folding tables. From the library of British Arabist and co- lonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting 120 his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. With the FORSTER, E. M. The Government of Egypt. original front wrapper bound in to the rear of vol. 3. Front board of vol. Recommendations by a Committee of the International 1 very lightly bowed, light abrasion to backstrip on vol. 3 front board, a Section of the Labour Research Department, with few leaves to rear of vol. 2 roughly opened, the text unaffected, other- wise contents clean throughout. An excellent copy. Notes on Egypt. London: Published by the Labour Research Department, [1920] first edition of one of the most detailed treatments of the Persian Gulf in the 19th century; scarce, with just a handful of Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers, white paper label printed in black to front wrapper. Housed in a custom-made card binder. Edges of wrap- copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. Fontanier (1796– pers a little browned and with a few small chips Top edge browned, with 1857) was appointed French envoy to the Persian Gulf in 1834. some creasing, edges with some chipping, else fine. From France he sailed to Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, before first edition of this pamphlet which outlines the historical, travelling overland through modern-day Saudi Arabia (visiting social, and political background of the relationship between Jeddah) and then sailing from Mocha, in what is now Yemen, to Egypt and Great Britain. Forster served as a volunteer with the Bombay. In November 1835 he left Bombay for Basrah, stopping Red Cross between November 1915 and January 1919: while at Bandar Abbas, Hormuz, , and Bushire. Chapters some of the material is “the result of personal experience . . . 7 to 18 of the first volume (excluding chapter 15, which concerns [his time in Egypt was generally] not under conditions that were Baghdad) are entirely devoted to the Persian Gulf, and are con- favourable for observation” (p. 3). cerned mainly with trade, notably in pearls from Bahrain and horses from the Nejd, and the strategic manoeuvrings of Brit- Kirkpatrick A7. ain and France, including the British siege of Ra’s al-Khaymah £320 [21613]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 73 2 volumes bound as 1, quarto (270 211 mm). Contemporary calf, tan 121 double labels, low broad bands with a gilt palmette roll, single fillet gilt panel to boards, gilt edge-roll, all edges gilt, brown silk page-marker 121 still intact. Double folding strip map of “the Route of Mr. Forster from Loldong to Petersburg”. Bound with both half-titles. A little rubbed at FORSTER, E. M. Alexandria: A History and A Guide. the extremities, some minor scuffing on the boards, spine slightly dry Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1922 and darkened, front joint just started at the head, endpapers lightly foxed, the folding map a little more heavily so, light browning of the Octavo. Original buff paper boards, titles to spine and front board in text-block with the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good copy. black. Engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved maps and plans to the text, double-page genealogical table, 2 folding maps, coloured folding map in first edition thus; the first volume was published in Cal- pocket on rear pastedown. Spine rolled and sunned, front joint and rear cutta in 1790, the year before Forster’s death, the whole being inner hinge skilfully repaired, front board slightly marked, with small published for the first time as here. Forster, (c.1752–1791), was bump to top edge, commensurate section of rubbing to rear board, front an officer of the HEIC on the Madras establishment, and be- free endpaper browned, half-title slightly marked. A very good copy. tween 1782 and 1784 undertook “a remarkable overland journey first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Forster from Calcutta to Europe, travelling through Jammu to Kashmir, “AJB, from the author” on the front free endpaper, and with the Kabul, Herat, Persia, across the Caspian Sea, and thence to ownership inscription of the recipient, A. J. Butler, on the front Russia. This journey traced back, to a large extent, the route of board. This is Oxford historian Alfred Joshua Butler (1850–1936), Alexander in his pursuit of Bessus. It also took Forster through whose work The Arab Conquest of Egypt (1902) Forster cites as his districts of considerable commercial and political interest to the main source for the period, and describes it as “a monograph British. Adopting various disguises on his route . . . he travelled of the highest merit, brilliantly written, and practically recon- in the company of local merchants. This clandestine mode of structing the episode” (p. iii). He also acknowledges Butler’s travel, through regions completely unfamiliar to contemporary Ancient Coptic Churches (1884) as his source for the passage on the Europeans, made it impossible for him to use any instruments monasteries of Natrun, and reproduces two of his plans at pages to survey his route, although he was later described as an acute 202 and 203. Butler appears to have then used the guide for his observer with a good knowledge of the languages of central own purposes, the section on the Greco-Roman Museum (pp. Asia” (ODNB). 107–21), bearing his inked underlinings and marginal summa- In Russia he had “sailed up the Volga to Russia, and then ries of the exhibits described by Forster. Copies of the first edi- proceeded to St Petersburg” (Cross), his travels there occupying tion are rare, as most of the print run was destroyed by fire. just under 100 pages of volume II. On his return to England he Kirkpatrick A8a. was encouraged by Henry Dundas to to write a general study of the political state of India, and “in 1785 he published Sketches of £2,250 [112539] the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos, a work which attracted considerable attention” (ODNB). On his return to India he was 122 employed by Cornwallis to negotiate the conclusion of defensive alliance against Tipu Sultan with Mudhoji Bhonsla and the Ni- FORSTER, George. A Journey from Bengal to England zam Shah, reaching Nagpur in July 1788. He died there in 1790 as through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, resident to the court of Raja Raghoji Bhonsla. Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian- The completion of the present work was attained “from Sea. London: R. Faulder, 1798 papers found in his possession” and on publication quickly ob-

74 Peter Harrington 133 compilation of the memoirs of George Thomas, the military adventurer in India; translations from Persian; archaeological remarks on the plain of Troy, seeking to corroborate the exis- tence of an ancient city there; historical, political, geographic, economic, and religious essays on parts of India. His religious writings include a discussion of the worship of the serpent in various parts of the world. He also maintained a learned cor- respondence with William Vincent . . . and was one of the few people to whom Dean Vincent acknowledged obligations in the preface to the Periplus” (ODNB). Francklin was a member, librar- ian, and member of the council of the Royal Asiatic Society, and was also a member of of Bengal. Ghani notes that “Francklin’s book was read by Byron . . . [and that it is] also important because of the retelling of comments the author had heard about Karim Khan Zand [who ruled Iran 1751–1779] . . . [he also] saw a full cycle of Ta’zie during his stay in Shiraz”. Ghani, Iran and the West, p. 138; Howgego, Exploration to 1800, p. 339; Lowndes III p. 833 (“much valuable and interesting information”); Wil- son, Bibliography of Persia, p. 74. 122 £1,250 [117707] tained a high reputation, being “valued by contemporaries for its contribution to the geographical knowledge of central Asia”. 124 It was swiftly translated into French by the prominent orientalist FRASER, David. Persia and Turkey in Revolt. London: Louis-Mathieu Langlès, being published in 1802 as Voyage du William Blackwood and Sons, 1910 Bengale à Pétersbourg. A very pretty copy of an important text. Octavo. Original dark red linen, pictorial black-stamped cover, spine Cross D41; Ghani p. 136; Henze, II, pp. 262–3; Riddick 39; Wilson p. 73; lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. 120 black and white illustrations Yakushi F95. and maps. Jacket nicked, chipped along extremities. A fine copy in the rare jacket. £3,000 [113335] first edition. Fraser spent 1909 as special correspondent for The Times. He devotes several chapters to experiences and An important book in the growing interest of Orientalism thoughts about Mesopotamia and Syria. “The author’s trip takes place after the shelling of Parliament by Colonel Liakhoff 123 as ordered by Mohammed Ali Shah. There was considerable FRANCKLIN, William. Observations made on a Tour from encouragement from M. de Hardwig, the Russian minister who Bengal to Persia, in the Years 1786–7. With a short account soon left Iran, but later, from his post as minister to Hungary, of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis; and encouraged Mohammed Ali Shah to invade the country in 1911 other interesting events. London: T. Cadell, 1790 when the latter had been deposed and was living in Europe” Octavo (256 × 125 mm). Early 19th-century diced calf by J. Painter of (Ghani, pp. 139–40). Wrexham (with his ticket), decorative gilt spine, burgundy-coloured £625 [91085] twin labels, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Early 19th-century armorial bookplate of J. W. Dod (of Cloverley Hall, Shropshire). Spine rubbed and a little worn at extremities of spine, boards darkened at in- ner edge, paper flaw at Z6 (not affecting letterpress), scattered foxing. A very good copy. first london edition; originally published Calcutta 1788, Lowndes notes that a French edition followed in 1797. “An im- portant book in the growing interest of Orientalism” (Ghani). Francklin (1763–1839) was the son of the classical scholar and dramatist Thomas Francklin. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, before being commissioned ensign in the Bengal Army and posted to the 19th Bengal Native Infantry in 1783, rising by 1814 to lieutenant-colonel both in his regiment and in the Army. “A distinguished officer, Francklin also enjoyed considerable reputation as an oriental scholar. In 1786 he made a tour of Persia, in the course of which he lived at Shiraz for eight months as the close friend of a Persian family, and was thus able to write a fuller account of Persian customs than had before appeared . . . His publications also include a 124

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125 36 larger albumen prints. Some typical spotting throughout, guards re- newed, hinges repaired, binding rubbed. Some marks to the margins of FRITH, Francis. Sinai and Palestine. London: William several plates not affecting the photographs. A very good copy however MacKenzie & Co., [1863] the photographs excellent. Folio. Original half tan morocco, red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, Volume I of the second, enlarged edition of the work originally marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mount albumen print to half title and published in two volumes in 1859. “The prints in this edition

76 Peter Harrington 133 126 127 are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition Stuart-Glennie tended to preface and gloss her work. She was having been gold-toned” (Gernsheim). The complete set of this particularly interested in the lives and status of women, and publication comprises four volumes each with 37 mounted pho- took advantage of her access to the women’s quarters of remote tographs. However the parts were available separately and each Christian and Muslim communities to supplement the accounts is compete in itself. of earlier travellers for whom, as she noted, ‘the female sex may be said not to have existed . . . at all’ (The Women of Turkey, 1, Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839–1875, pp. 216–20. 1890, lxxvii)” (ODNB). £5,000 [59138] £1,250 [109714]

126 The Graeco-Arabic translation movement GARNETT, Lucy M. J. The Women of Turkey. And Their 127 Folklore. With an ethnographical map and introductory GÄTJE, Helmut. Die arabische Übersetzung der Schrift chapters on the ethnography of Turkey; and folk- des Alexander von Aphrodisias über die Farbe. Göttingen: conceptions of nature, by John S. Stuart-Glennie. [Vol. 1] Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1968 Christian Women. [Vol. 2] Jewish and Moslem Women. Octavo. Stapled in the original printed card wrappers. Unopened. 2 London: David Nutt, 1890–1 plates from photographs of Arabic manuscript in the Maghribi style. 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, single (vol. Slight irregular tanning to wrappers, corners lightly bumped. A very 1) and double (vol. 2) frame to boards in blind, front boards with winged good copy. swastika and sun vignettes gilt, black (vol. 1) and brown (vol. 2) coated Offprint from Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenshaften in Göt- endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding ethnographic tingen, examining Abu ‘Uthman al-Dimashqi’s transation of colour map. Vol. 1 with publisher’s presentation ink-stamp to half-title, Alexander of Aphrodisias’s treatise on colour theory; this copy vol. 2 with bookplate of Edward and Ruby Thalmann to front pastedown from the library of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer though and rear pastedown with later bookseller’s ticket and library label. Ex- tremities bumped and worn, a few nicks to spine-ends, covers lightly not marked as such. Alexander was a noted commentator on Ar- rubbed and marked; vol. 1 spine sunned with a few faint dents to rear istotle who flourished in Athens around 200 ad: “Abu Uthman board, vol. 2 half-title tanned. A very good copy. Sa’id b. Ya’qub al-Dimashqi (d. after 302/914–15) was a physician first edition, uncommon in the original cloth. “Lucy Garnett and a translator of Greek scientific and philosophical works into travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, recording Arabic. As one of the leading physicians of his time, he enjoyed the customs of the people among whom she lived. In Smyr- the favour of the wazir ‘Ali b. ‘Isa b. al-Jarrah (d. 334/946–47). na, and later in Salonica, she learned Greek and Turkish; her When the latter endowed a hospital in the Harbiyah quarter of familiarity with demotic Greek led to a collaboration with the Baghdad in 302/914–15, he appointed Abu ‘Uthman as chief phy- folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie . . . Her most important sician, with the added responsibility of supervising the hospitals achievement was the documentation and comparative study of Baghdad, Mecca, and Medina” (Encyclopaedia of Islam). of Balkan folk literature, which is still valuable when detached £65 [104040] from the dubious theories of ‘scientific’ folklore with which

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128 portrait of Abdelkader, leader of the Algerian resistance, taken in GIRARDOT, Alexandre Antoine. Two albums compiled 1852, and of Léon Roche, son of the mayor of Oran, interpreter to General Bugeaud, and “renegade” confidante to the emir, from an artist’s sketchbooks recording nearly 40 years of perhaps suggests a military or diplomatic context for Girardot’s life in Algeria. Algeria: 1830–67 presence in Algeria, a suggestion that is reinforced by his interior Two oblong folio albums (360 × 280 mm). Dark green shagreen, con- views of the English and Spanish consulates. It is a possibility that centric panelling in blind, AG monogram gilt to the centre of the front he originally travelled out à la suite of either his father or another boards. Accompanied by a photographic portrait of the artist c.1860. A patron. He certainly was to spend a large part of the next three de- total of 420 pages with more than 1,000 mounted drawings of various sizes, most of which are captioned, monogrammed and dated between cades travelling the country, accumulating this remarkable visual 1840 and 1867. The albums just a little rubbed, some light restoration record. His death is a mystery, the putative date inferred from the to head and tail of spines, to joints and board edges, the contents clean last recorded work by his hand. The albums are accompanied by a and sound, overall very good indeed. photographic portrait of the artist, depicting a well-dressed, sol- An exceptional visual document, two albums painstakingly and idly-built bourgeois gentleman with a beard, who addresses the thoughtfully assembled from the observational sketch-books of a camera with an open, frank and perhaps slightly amused expres- little-known, but highly-talented first generation French Oriental- sion. He is apparently missing his right arm. Examples of his oils ist painter. are held in the collections of the Musée de l’Armée in Paris and Alexandre Antoine Girardot (1815–c.1877) has left but few traces the Musée Marey et des Beaux-Arts in Beaune. of what must have been an unusual and adventurous life. Born Largely comprised of highly-finished pencil drawings – some in Paris in February 1815, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts with expressive dashes of body-colour, and a good number com- on 6 October 1836. A student of Blondel, he exhibited regularly at pleted in watercolour – these two albums, which remained in the the Salon between 1841 and 1848, submitting views of Algeria and painter’s personal collection, clearly represent the result of autho- other “oriental” subjects. It is very possible that Girardot may have rial selection and organisation. Retrospectively, Girardot gathered made his initial trip to Algeria at the time of the French invasion together the most accomplished of his sketch-work and arranged in 1830; the first album opens with a group of panoramic views it by theme and by region, sometimes combining on the same of Algiers, including one “as it appeared in 1831”. Girardot would page drawings produced decades apart. have been just 16 years old at the time, so it is unlikely that he re- A fuller description of the artwork in this albums is available via our tained any youthful sketches, but here he confidently reconstructs website or on request. an early vision of the city to offer in contrast to its appearance in 1842, when the sketches were made. The inclusion of a rare £95,000 [110595]

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129 first edition. “Gladwin was a man of wide intellectual inter- GLADWIN, Francis. A Dictionary Persian, Hindoostanee ests – he accumulated a remarkable library – and with a passion for learning languages and for making translations, above all and English; including Synonyma. Calcutta: Printed at the from Persian. He published a large number of his translations. Hindoostanee Press, by T. Hubbard, 1809 In 1775 he produced a specimen of a ‘vocabulary’ of words in 2 volumes, quarto (234 151 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, new red various Asian languages, a project that he was later to realize in morocco labels to style, compartments formed by single gilt rules. A several different formats . . . [this] stream of publications mak- little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, now with some judicious ing him the most frequently published author in late 18th-cen- restoration at the joints, corners and headcaps, light tan-burn to the endpapers, pale browning else, a very good set. tury Calcutta. Gladwin was responsible for dictionaries and vocabularies, translations of Persian histories, collections of sto- ries and revenue accounts, treatises on medicine and rhetoric, and a Persian version of an abridgement of the biblical history . . . None of this activity is likely to have been lucrative. Gladwin confessed to spending heavily in acquiring manuscripts. Publi- cation costs in India were notoriously high and the market was very restricted. Success depended largely on the willingness of the East India Company to purchase multiple copies” (ODNB). With the armorial bookplates of physicist and university ad- ministrator Coutts Trotter (1837–1887) to the front pastedowns. Trotter had studied experimental physics under Helmholtz and Kirchoff in Germany, but is best known for “the indubitable improvements effected the administration of Cambridge during his short academic career. ‘In fact, what was sometimes called in jest “the Trotterization of the University” was so complete that he had come to be regarded as indispensable’. Besides 129

80 Peter Harrington 133 130 131 pamphlets on university topics, he published little, though his confessed to spending heavily in acquiring manuscripts. Publi- researches were extensive” (ODNB). cation costs in India were notoriously high and the market was Decidedly uncommon, Copac recording just five copies (Brit- very restricted. Success depended largely on the willingness of ish Library, Royal Asiatic society, Oxford, Cambridge and TCD), the East India Company to purchase multiple copies” (ODNB). OCLC adding eight more world-wide; just two sets recorded at auction. £650 [106228] £5,000 [108205] 131 GLUBB, Sir John Bagot. The Story of the Arab Legion. 130 London: [ for ex-officers of the Legion,] 1980 GLADWIN, Francis. The Persian Moonshee. Abridged by Octavo. Publisher’s full tan calf, title gilt direct to spine, raised bands, William Carmichael Smyth. London: sold by J. M. Richardson single ruled panels to compartments with quatrefoil devices to the first, and J. Sams, 1822 third, fifth and sixth, single fillet panel to both boards, badge of the Arab Legion gilt to the front board, all edges gilt, in the original poly- Octavo in half-sheets (215 × 130 mm). Late 19th-century green half thene jacket. Frontispiece and 50 other plates, maps to the endpapers, calf, raised bands to spine with ropework fillets gilt, tan morocco label and 5 full-page maps to the text. Short split in the jacket, else very good lettered in gilt to second compartment, marbled sides, edges speckled indeed. red, pink endpapers. Folding verb table. Two contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-page and one later to front pastedown. Extremities First published in 1948, this commemorative edition limited to slightly rubbed, spine sunned, contents lightly toned with occasional 100 signed and numbered copies (this number 28) “was pro- faint spotting as usual, tan-burn to endpapers from turn-ins, infrequent duced by some retired British officers who once served in the interlinear annotations in pencil. A very good copy. Arab Legion to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Glubb Pasha’s second london edition of Gladwin’s Persian grammar, and entrance into the service of the Jordan Government in 1930” the first edited by Hindustani scholar Carmichael Smyth; scarce, (author’s foreword). Glubb’s personal account of “the most in- with just three copies in British and Irish institutional libraries fluential years” (Perkins) of this regiment formed help to protect (Oxford, Cambridge and Aberdeen). Part II comprises a series the British mandate in the Trans-Jordan: “In the circumstances of illustrative “Hikayati Luteef ” (“sweet stories”), with Part III, then prevailing in the region, it was vital to have a force capable “Phrases and dialogues in Persian and English”, excised for this of operating in desert areas inhabited by quarrelling Bedouin edition. The Moonshee (from the Persian munshi, an giv- tribes . . . in later years [the Legion] gained a fine reputation for en to skilled linguists and clerks) was first published in Calcutta dash, smartness, and fierce loyalty”. in 1795. “The most frequently published author in late 18th-cen- Enser p. 425; Perkins p. 225, this edition not noted. tury Calcutta, Gladwin was responsible for dictionaries and vocabularies, translations of Persian histories, collections of sto- £125 [104509] ries and revenue accounts, treatises on medicine and rhetoric, and a Persian version of an abridgement of the biblical history . . . None of this activity is likely to have been lucrative. Gladwin

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132 Crimea, “and during the [Indian] mutiny he distinguished him- GOLDSMID, Sir Frederic John. Eastern Persia An self in various dangerous missions.” In 1861 “he was assigned to the Indo-European Telegraph proj- Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary ect, the purpose of which was to construct a telegraph line from Commission 1870–71–72. Vol. I. The Geography with British India, along the coast of Persia and what is now , Narratives by Majors St. John, Lovett and Euan Smith then through central Persia and Asia Minor to connect with the and an Introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic John European network at Constantinople” (Howgego), in 1865 suc- Goldsmid. Published by Authority of the Government of ceeding Colonel Patrick Stewart, on his death, as director general. India. Vol. II. The Zoology and Geology by W. T. Blanford. Having successfully negotiated the intricacies of the required London: Macmillan & Co., 1876 treaties, he “personally superintended the construction of the 2 volumes, octavo (220 × 148 mm). Recent half calf by Trevor Lloyd, red and telegraph line across the whole extent of Persia” leaving “a charac- green contrasting labels, flat bands with single rule, double fillet panels teristically modest account of his adventures” (ODNB). to compartments, corner-pieces, central lozenge tool, marbled When the government of India’s attention was drawn to the sides, top edge gilt. Volume I with steel-engraved frontispiece and chromo- “political revolutions in the lands of the immediate neighbours lithographic plate, 3 folding coloured maps, illustration and genealogical on the West” (Goldsmid’s Introduction), his experience of the tables to the text; volume II, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, territory and superior negotiating skills made him the the obvious heightened with gum arabic, printed by Mintern Bros. after drawings by Keulemans and 17 other similar plates, birds and mammals, together with 10 other uncoloured plates of reptiles after G. H. Ford, illustrations to the text, folding coloured map. A narrow tidemark of hygroscopic damping at the head of the frontispiece of volume II, image unaffected, light browning to the text and plates in general, but overall a clean set, handsomely bound. first edition of this highly important account of the region compiled from the records kept by the members of the Com- mission sent to establish the delimitation of the disputed border between Persia and Baluchistan. Goldsmid, the commissioner, had established a reputation for himself as an officer of considerable intelligence and resource. While serving in the First Opium War (1840–1) as a soldier of the army of the East India Company, Goldsmid had begun study- ing oriental languages “for which he showed a marked faculty” (ODNB). He was subsequently involved in the settlement of the annexation of Sind; attached to the Turkish contingent in the 128

82 Peter Harrington 133 choice as boundary commissioner for the delimitation of this dis- turbed borderland. “His award was eventually accepted by the shah’s government. In the same year Goldsmid was entrusted with the even more del- icate task of investigating the claims of Persia and Afghanistan to the province of Sistan. The arbitral award was published at Tehran on 19 August 1872; Persia was confirmed in the possession of Sis- tan, while a section of the Helmand was left in Afghan territory. The impartiality of the award satisfied neither party, but it had the desired effect of keeping the peace. Goldsmid was created a KCSI in 1871, and received the thanks of the government of India.” A significant contributor to the geographical section was Major Oliver B. St John, whose “maps of Persia and Persian Baluchistan . . . remained for decades the standard authority” and who also assisted W. T. Blanford in the zoological and geological portion of the work, a survey commended by the Encyclopaedia Britannica for its “great care and minuteness.” An excellent set of this model regional survey. Anker, Bird Books and Bird Art, 45; Ghani, p. 153; Howgego, IV, G31; Nis- sen ZBI 405 for Blanford’s Zoology and Geology comprising volume II; Wood, p. 362.

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133 would form the subject of a chapter on the development of the Is- GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Beiträge zur Geschichte der lamic sects in his Vorlesungen über den Islam (see following item). Sprachgelehrsamkeit bei den Arabern. Vienna: in £150 [100558] Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1871–3 3 offprints bound in 1 volume, octavo (221 × 142 mm). Recent brown pat- 135 terned boards, patterned endpapers. Text in German with frequent Arabic types. Two neat ink inscriptions to title. Spine rolled, surface splitting to GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Vorlesungen über den Islam. inner hinge, edges tanned, text lightly toned and creased with occasional Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1910 faint dampstaining to top and fore edges. A very good copy. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, white and tan endbands, Rare offprints from the periodical Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akade- frame to boards in blind, purple endpapers. Negligible rubbing to ex- mie der Wissenschaften (Proceedings from the Vienna Academy of Sciences), tremities, minor abrasion to rear board, very occasional underlining in together collecting Goldziher’s important essays on the history pencil. An excellent copy. of Arabic philology, which he begun shortly after submitting first edition of Goldziher’s influential writings on Islam, his doctoral dissertation on Judaeo-Arabic biblical exegesis at which were originally intended to be read over the course of a Leipzig in 1870 at the age of 20. His findings proved influential lecture tour to the United States in 1907. However, Goldziher in the 20th-century revisionist studies of the Qur’an and Muslim was suffering from ill-health and never made the journey, de- origins, which examined in particular the works of the early Arab ciding instead to publish his lectures in book-form, with a few philologists. Goldziher is considered the father of modern Islamic alterations. The subjects covered include Muhammad and his studies and is best remembered for his path-breaking Muhammed- relationship to Islam, Sufism, the emergence of Islamic law, anische Studien (Muslim Studies, Halle: 1889–90), a radically sceptical kalam (dogmatic theology) and the sects. It was reprinted several approach to the hadith literature, the corpus of sayings and deeds times, translated into English as The Development of Islamic Theol- attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. ogy and Law, and remains a highly influential work: along with his Muhammedanische Studien (Halle, 1889–90), it helped establish £150 [100556] Goldziher’s reputation as the father of modern Islamic studies. 134 £200 [100453] GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte der Sî‘â und der Sunnitischen Polemik. Vienna: in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1874 Offprint, octavo (222 × 143 mm). Recent marbled boards, patterned end- papers. Text in German with frequent Arabic types. Spine gently rolled, text-block a touch creased and very faintly toned with occasional faint dampstaining to top and fore edges. A very good copy. Rare offprint from the periodical Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften, no. LXXVIII. Goldziher’s findings in this article

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136 Syria, Lebanon, Alexandria, Suez and Petra, a series of his views GOOD, Frank Mason. Views in Upper Egypt. London: W. being published by Frith who had essentially underwritten the trip. The second trip was to Egypt during 1868–9, “from Alexan- Mansell, 1871–2 dria to Abu Simbel on the second cataract . . . between these two Landscape quarto (260 × 50 mm). Brown contemporary morocco over places, Good photographed about everything of interest” (p. 48); bevelled boards, title in gilt to front board within a broad panel in blind, and the third in the winter of 1871–2 included Egypt, Constantino- the same panel to rear board, paired bands to spine, broad gilt roll to each, panels in blind to compartments with quatrefoil centre-tool, all ple and Malta – “the Egyptian part being a repetition of the 1868 edges gilt, zig-zag roll gilt to the turn-ins, white moiré effect endpapers. tour” – from which expedition this selection dates; evidenced by 58 original albumen prints (157 × 205 mm), photographer’s number- the presence here of an image of the great temple at Abu Simbel ing in the negative, images mounted rectos only on linen-hinged card showing the facade following Mariette’s clearance operations of leaves. The album a little rubbed, some judicious restoration at the 1869 (Lazard p. 49). During his fourth and final tour of 1875 he extremities; variable, but mainly light, foxing of the mounting leaves, visited Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. some marginal fading of the prints, one or two a little spotted, overall Good joined the Photographic Society in 1864, in 1880 serving very good, the majority with excellent contrast and tonal range. as a judge of its annual exhibition. He is probably best known Attractive album of archaeological images from Egypt taken by one for his Near Eastern stereograph series, but it is very likely that of Francis Frith’s closest associates. The album contains a won- many notable images of the region from the 1860s and 1870s derful selection of Good’s archaeological views including Heliop- previously credited to Frith, should in fact be attributed to olis, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Luxor, Philae, with the party’s dahabieh Good (see Phoenix, “Preparing an Acquisition Report for the moored at the island, and the Memnomium at Thebes. Albums Portfolio, F. Frith’s Photo-Pictures of the Lands of the Bible concentrating solely on Good’s work are decidedly uncommon. Illustrated by Scripture Words”, Ryerson University, theses and Frank Mason Good (1839–1928) was born in Deal, Kent, the son dissertations, paper 1181, 2008). Lazard is certainly correct in of a chemist and druggist, which “probably explains his skill in his “conviction . . . that Good was an outstanding ‘landscapist’, the manipulation of chemicals” (Lazard p. 47). He first travelled acclaimed by his contemporaries” but sadly “afterwards, for to Egypt as Francis Frith’s assistant in late 1857. Subsequently he reasons I do not understand, completely forgotten by the photo- made four photographic tours of the Middle East on his own be- historians of today” (p. 46). half. His first trip was made in 1866–7, taking in Greece Palestine, With the gift inscription to the front free endpaper verso,

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“Wm. Irving Page from his friend A. M. Sandbach, 1873”. The 138 recipient Walter Page (1840–1904), sometime house surgeon at G[REEN], J[ohn.] Journey from Aleppo to Damascus: St George’s, was a respected astronomer, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the RGS, who was “fond of travel- With a Description of Those Two Capital Cities, and ling and had visited nearly all parts of the globe”. the Neighbouring Parts of Syria. To which is added, an Account of the Maronites inhabiting Mount Libanus, etc. See Gernsheim, Incunabula 584; Lazard, “Frank Mason Good and his Middle East Photographs”, in The Photohistorian, no. 93, summer 1991. Collected from their own Historians. Also the Surprising Adventures and Tragical End of Mostafa, a Turk, who, £12,500 [108084] after professing Christianity for for many Years in Spain and Flanders, returned to Syria, carrying with him his 137 Christian Wife. London: for W. Mears [and 3 others], 1736 GRANT, Johnson. Arabia: a Poem. Leeds: Printed at the Octavo (194 × 120 mm). Nineteenth-century half sheep, marbled sides, Intelligence-Office by Griffith Wright, and sold by J. Hatchard, raised bands gilt to spine, black morocco label, edges sprinkled red. London; Robinson, Leeds; and other Booksellers, 1811 Folding map frontispiece, woodcut head- and tailpieces and figurative initials. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Octavo. Sewn in original marbled wrappers with letterpress label with Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of price to front panel. Wrappers a little rubbed, light toning of the text, the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript else very good. shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; 20th-century bookseller’s ticket first edition; extremely uncommon, Copac with just three of William George, Bristol, to rear pastedown. Joints and tips very lightly locations – British Library, Oxford and Cambridge – OCLC adds rubbed, front inner hinge superficially split at foot, browning to endpa- University of Victoria, BC, and Library of Congress. A graduate pers, very short tear to folding map stub, the image unaffected, contents crisp and clean. An excellent copy, bound with the terminal advertisement of St John’s, Oxford, Grant (1773–1844), was an evangelical, and leaf. “a hard-working clergyman” with several livings in Leicester- shire and London: “his considerable literary output included first and only edition. “Part I, the journey Aleppo to Da- A Summary of the History of the English Church, a memoir of a girl mascus, was communicated to [the author] by a friend, and the parishioner, and occasional poetry, notably Arabia inspired by map illustrates this route. The descriptions of Aleppo and Da- travels to the Holy Land” (ODNB). mascus are taken from the Nouveau mémoires de missions de la Com- The author’s footnotes include descriptions of Mecca, Medi- pagnie de Jésus. Part II is a translation from De La Roque’s Voyage na, and Socotra, and a summary of the life of Muhammad; in to Mt. Lebanon . . . Green is much concerned with the effect on his final note Grant directs readers to Waring’s Tour of Sheeraz for the Levant trade of the Russian-German attempt to dismember an account of the Wahhabis, and stresses that “in the descrip- Turkey” (Blackmer). Green (c.1688–1757) also published maps tions of the trade of Moorish Spain, the productions of Arabia under the name of Braddock Mead: his “erratic personal life Felix – the Caravanseras [sic] of the Desert, and in other parts ended in a leap from a third-storey window while attempting to of the Poem, I have adhered to approved authorities”, noting in elope with a 12-year-old heiress” (University of Michigan, The particular Shaw, Pococke and Niebuhr. A second edition was President’s Report for 1767–77, p. 6). published in 1815. Blackmer 745; Weber 494. £350 [104667] £2,000 [117604]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85 “The zenith of Persian lyric poetry” 140 HAFIZ, Shams al-Din Muhammad. Specimen Poeseos Persicae, Sive Muhammedis Schems-Eddini notioris agnomine Haphyzi Ghazelae, sive odae sexdecim ex initio Divani depromptae, nunc primum latinitate donatae, cum metaphrasi ligata & soluta, paraphrasi item ac notis. Vienna: Typographeo Kaliwodiano, 1771 Octavo (187 × 106 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, gilt fillets to spine forming compartments, title to second and date to foot gilt, single-fillet border gilt to covers, board-edges ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, hatched roll gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Persian types, 5 woodcut head- and tailpieces. Armorial bookplates of Mathew Wilson to the front free endpaper and Frances Mary Richardson Currer to front pastedown. Near-contemporary inked manuscript note to the second blank, prais- ing “this admirable work” and mentioning Hindley’s edition of Hafez (published 1800). Spine lightly rubbed and faded, mild rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, a few light markings to covers, the front unevenly sunned, small stain to sig. A2r, these flaws minor: an excellent, crisp copy, complete with the errata leaf.

139 first edition of any substantial part of the Hafiz corpus in the original Persian, compiled by Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Persianist Count Karl Emmerich Reviczky (1737–1793). With the 139 bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785–1861), “En- GRIERSON, James Moncrieff. The Armed Strength of gland’s earliest female bibliophile” (ODNB), whose famous library Russia. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War at Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, Dibdin judged to place her “at the head Office. London: HMSO, 1886 of all female collectors in Europe” (ibid.) and to be surpassed only Octavo (234 × 137 mm). Modern red half calf, matching cloth boards, by the collection of Earl Spencer, who acquired Reviczky’s libary title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. 2 folding lithographed maps, co- en bloc in 1768. Currer was a neighbour of the Brontës and her loured in outline, 5 lithographed plates. Light toning, else very good. surname provided with her , Currer Bell. first edition, with a print run of 300 copies only and conse- Mathew Wilson, he of the second bookplate, was the name of quently uncommon, with four copies only on Copac. This highly both Currer’s maternal grandfather and her mother’s cousin (who detailed analysis of every aspect of the organization of the Russian in 1800 also became her father-in-law). army, which superseded far slighter issues of 1873 and 1882, was In this “pioneering work” (Ginter-Frolow), Revickzy provides compiled by the British Army’s foremost expert on the subject and the Persian text of 16 ghazals by Hafiz, with parallel Latin trans- published at a time when tension between the two empires was lations, a lengthy introduction with a life of the author, and a reaching crisis point in Asia. detailed commentary. English orientalist John Richardson pub- Grierson was one of the period’s most intellectually brilliant lished an English translation of Revickzy’s work entitled A Speci- soldiers. He had passed out fourth in his class from the RMA and men of Persian Poetry in 1774. joined the Royal Artillery in 1878. “In 1879 he accompanied the Aus- European readers had their first glimpse of Hafiz in a brief trian armies in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in reference found in the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle (1650). Franz 1880 went to the Russian manoeuvres at Warsaw as correspondent Meninski included one ghazal by Hafiz in his Thesaurus linguarum for the Daily News. In 1881 Grierson joined his battery in India, but orientalum (4 vols, 1680–7), as did Thomas Hyde in his Synatgma soon after his arrival became attaché in the quartermaster-general’s dissertationum (1767). “The next steps in discovering Hafiz’s poetry department at Simla. He was employed on intelligence work, and were made by an amateur orientalist, the young Austrian diplo- his pen was busy; besides contributions to The Pioneer, he produced mat count Rewiczski [sic], and a British scholar, the learned and a volume of notes on the Turkish army, an Arabic vocabulary, and a versatile William Jones . . . they enthusiastically exchanged their gazetteer of Egypt” (ODNB). views about oriental poetry in general and Hafiz in particular in a He served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, and on his return correspondence that lasted from 1768 to 1770” (Dynes, Asian Ho- to India passed first into the Staff College. “At the Staff College mosexuality, pp. 264–5). he finished his translation of Grodekoff ’s work, which he entitled In 1770 Jones published his Histoire de Nader Chah, to which he Campaign in Turcomania and passed out with honours in French and appended French version of ten Hafiz odes and two of Reviczky’s Russian. On leaving he served for a time in the Russian section of Latin translations. The following year, in his Grammar of the Persian the intelligence division under General Henry Brackenbury. He was Language, Jones included a translation of the Shirazi Turk ghazal, promoted captain in 1886, and in the following year joined a battery which he entitled “A Persian Song”. The book’s huge success “ef- in India . . . In 1889, at Brackenbury’s request, Grierson returned to fectively marked the birth of Romantic Orientalism” (Encyclopaedia the intelligence division and became head of the Russian section.” Iranica), precipitating a flood of European translations and edi- tions of Persian literature, and original works by the likes of By- £850 [59456] ron, Thomas Moore, and Goethe, whose West–östlicher Divan was

86 Peter Harrington 133 140 inspired directly by Hammer-Purgstall’s German translation of Hafiz. But it was only after Reviczky had explained the meaning of the first couplet of the Shirazi Turk ode that Jones was able to pro- duce a satisfactory English rendering of the emblematic poem. The first Persian edition of the collected poems of Hafiz was published in Calcutta in 1791: that edition is now unobtainably rare. There was no complete edition in English until Clarke’s translation in 1891. Reviczky’s edition is uncommon, with five copies only traced in British and Irish libraries, some 25 scattered across North America and Europe, and only three appearances 141 in auction records since at least 1975. “Hafiz is the most popular of Persian poets. If a book of poetry is to be found in a Persian home, it is likely to be the Divan (collected poems) of Hafiz . . . “Although the majority of the book is about her travels in Rus- No other Persian poet has been the subject of so much analysis, sia, it is packaged as harem literature, using the words ‘harem’ commentary, and interpretation. Nor has any poet influenced the and ‘Circassian’ in the title to attract readers. Offering a mix of course of post-14th-century Persian lyrics as much as he has . . . harem and travel account, the descriptions of harems and Ot- by common consent he represents the zenith of Persian lyric poet- toman women are combined with Harvey’s careful observation ry” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). of landscape, towns, street scenes, and aspects of domestic life such as food traditions and cooking . . . Like Lady Brassey’s Magdelana Ginter-Frolow, “From Armchair Literates to Art Historians: books that had their origins in letters written home, Harvey’s The Polish Collections of Persian Manuscripts” in The Shaping of Persian work was apparently based on diaries entries made during her Arts, ed. Kadoi and Szanto, p. 54. travels. Unlike Brassey’s limited interest in the lives of women £2,750 [114406] abroad, Harvey positioned herself to write extensively about the Turkish women that she met” (Lewis & Micklewright, Gen- 141 der, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women’s Writ- ings, p. 101). Harvey had previously published a similar account HARVEY, Annie Jane. Turkish Harems and Circassian of a cruise to the Levant, and subsequently wrote a travelogue Homes. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1871 on Spain. She published fiction under the pseudonym of An- Octavo (210 × 134 mm). Recent red half morocco on old marbled boards drée Hope. by Trevor Lloyd, black morocco label, wavy gilt roll to the bands, floral device to compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Chromolitho- Blackmer 791. graphic frontispiece and title page, after drawings by the author, lithog- raphy by Hanhart. A little rubbed on the boards, slight foxing front and £1,500 [86936] back, light browning, else very good. first edition of this uncommon and illuminating account of a cruise to Constantinople, the Crimea, and Circassia.

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142 twin labels, concentric gilt rule and roll tool border on sides, large central onlaid red morocco panel titled and decorated in gilt, all edges HASSAN, Hafiz Ahmed. Pilgrimage to the Caaba and gilt, richly gilt turns-ins, marbled endpapers. Decorative photochromo- Charing Cross. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1871 lithograph title page, photochromolithograph portrait of Mangal Singh Octavo. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, title to spine, and to within ornamental gold border, plates numbered I–LXXIX: 59 photo- the front board within decorative panel, edges stained red, brown sur- chromolithograph plates (2 double-page), 19 other plates (including face-paper endpapers. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. A photogravures from photographs, 3 plans & maps), one plate with one little rubbed, lower fore-corner showing mild signs of damp, hinges photochromolithograph and one photogravure; nine of the ten chapters starting, half-title browned, else very good. with coloured pictorial initial letter and either colour pictorial or pho- togravure head-piece. A few old wormholes with small area of worming first edition. The author held a position equivalent to chan- near foot of front cover and affecting inner morocco joints but binding cellor of the exchequer at the court of the young Nawab of Tonk, sound, internally clean and the plates bright. a small Muslim kingdom in Rajasthan, hedged on all sides by first edition of this lavish volume, a pioneering study of Mu- Hindu-ruled states. After the death of the Thakoor of Lawa, the ghal art treasures in the collection of the Maharajah of Ulwar largest tributary of Tonk, and a number of his retainers at the (present day Alwar) in Rajasthan produced, as Hendley explains home of the prime minister of Tonk, the local political agent in his preface, “at the sole cost” of the Maharajah. He goes on to Lieutenant-Colonel Eden supported Lawa’s claims in the inci- say: “the photographs are, unless otherwise noted, the work of dent and deposed the Nawab. Mr. G. Wyatt of Ulwar, and the coloured illustrations are, almost Hassan was a key member in a deputation that set out for without exception, reproduced from copies made from the orig- London to appeal against the local agent’s findings. He gives a inals by Budha, a talented artist in the employ of H.H. the Ma- highly-detailed account of the voyage from Bombay to Jedda via harajah”. The subjects covered are wide-ranging, from miniature Aden and Hodyda, and of the journey on camel-back to Mecca, painting to arms and armour, clothing, bookbinding, textiles and where they complete the hajj, and on to Medina to see the Proph- jewellery. The Spectator’s review was glowing: “here is a superb vol- et’s tomb. The party then returned to Jedda, from where Hassan ume” (27 April 1889). set out for London via Suez and Marseilles. Hassan’s appeal was The publisher was the printing pioneer William Griggs (1832– unsuccessful, and the Nawab’s son continued in his stead. 1911). In the late 1860s Griggs developed the technique of photo- Not in Macro. chromolithography, whereby multiple negatives with the colours separated by varnishes were carefully registered and printed to £600 [93964] produce full colour images of quite startling realism. He was hired by the South Kensington Museum, now the V&A, in the 1880s to “Here is a superb volume” photograph and produce plates of items in their collection, which 143 were published in sections under the general title Portfolios of Industrial Arts. He had a special association with Indian art that be- HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein. Ulwar and its Art gan when, at the age of 18, his interest was piqued by working at Treasures. London: W. Griggs, 1888 the Indian court of the Great Exhibition of 1851. “As well as being Quarto (370 × 275 mm). Publisher’s deluxe binding of dark green mo- a British pioneer of colour photolithography, Griggs was a leading rocco over bevelled boards, decorative gilt spine, red and olive green

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Best edition of “the first encyclopaedia of Islam” (Stroumsa) 144 HERBELOT, Barthelémy d’. Bibliothèque orientale. Ou Dictionnaire universel, contenant tout ce qui fait connoître les peuples de l’Orient . . . The Hague: J. Neaulme & N. van Daalen, 1777–9. 4 volumes, quarto (257 × 200 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style, old labels laid down, edges dyed yellow and sprinkled red, grey-brown endpapers. Portrait frontispiece by Houbraken, title pages printed in red and black, 4 folding tables in volume 4. Shelf-marks inked and stamped to spines (see below), front pastedowns with ink stamps of Thacker & Co., Bombay. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few triv- 143 ial spots to contents. An excellent set. First published in 1697, this revised and expanded edition of exponent of the art for the last quarter of the 19th century. He was d’Herbelot’s monumental work is “generally considered the one of the first to practise halftone block making and collotype best” (Arcadian Library, p. 238), containing supplements by J. J. and helped to bring about rapid printing using cylinder presses. Reiske, “undoubtedly the best Arabist in Germany” (ibid.), Leiden He was also a more than competent photographer” (ODNB). professor H. A. Schultens, and other pre-eminent 18th-century Colonel Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847–1917), was a surgeon orientalists. Much of the Bibliothèque orientale is in fact translated or in the Bengal Medical Service. “He had no war service, but was adapted from the Kashf al-Zunun, a 17th-century Arabic work by Ot- well known as an authority on Indian art. In 1883 he organized toman scholar Katip Çelebi considered “the first comprehensive the Jaipur Exhibition, and afterwards the Jaipur Museum; he was dictionary of bibliography of the Islamic world”, describing some one of the founders of the Quarterly Journal of Indian Art and was the 15,000 books in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (The Oxford Encyclo- author of several works on that subject . . . Colonel Hendley led a paedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, p. 440). The Kashf very strenuous life, and will rank among those who have really un- al-Zunun did not appear in print until a multivolume Arabic and derstood India and the true signification of mid-Eastern ideas and Latin edition was published in the mid-19th century (1835–58). As art” (obituary in the British Medical Journal, 10 Feb. 1917). such d’Herbelot’s work has been recognised not only as “one of This copy is interesting in that Griggs’s imprint has been neatly the landmarks in Arabic studies” (Atabey) but also “the first ency- excised from the title page and final leaf of letterpress, perhaps clopaedia of Islam” (Stroumsa, A New Science, p. 131). implying that this copy may have been intended for presentation This copy comes from the library of British Arabist and colonial under the guise of a non-commercial publication. There are some agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his ownership inscription light indecipherable pencillings on these two leaves. There is also to the front pastedowns, and printed bookplates noting his wid- a printed slip pasted below the caption of the portrait of Mangal ow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1922, with Singh noting his accession as Maharajah on 1 January 1889. associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; Decidedly uncommon: Copac locates copies at six British and loosely inserted is sheet of copy typescript with Miles’s pencilled Irish institutional libraries (British Library, V&A, Cambridge, translation of the entry on Oman. A superb association for this Oxford, Guildhall, National Trust) and we have traced another cornerstone text. at the Royal Collection (a presentation copy from the Maharajah of Ulwar to , held at Osborne House); OCLC cites Arcadian Library 8345; Atabey 574 refers; not in Blackmer some 28 locations worldwide; only five copies have appeared at £3,500 [117606] public auction since 1976 and only one of those in the “original morocco gilt”. £4,500 [117685]

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Uncommon and attractive account of the Gulf 145 HERBERT, Aubrey. Ben Kendim. A Record of Eastern Travel. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panel to the front board. 6 full-page maps. Cloth a little spotted, free endpapers slightly browned, foxing to edges and prelims, but remains a bright, tight copy. first edition, surprisingly uncommon in commerce, of this posthumously published account of travels through Yemen, 146 Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Albania, and Turkey. “Travel was to him not only the adventure of youth; it was the determining in- fluence in his political life” (editorial note). Herbert, an eminent 146 Balkanist and advocate of Albanian independence, spent his war HERBERT, Thomas. A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, in intelligence, with the intelligence bureau at Cairo (later the Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, Arab Bureau), at Gallipoli, where “eyebrows were sometimes especially the territories of the Persian Monarchie: and raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance” (ODNB), Meso- some parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles adiacent. Of potamia, Salonika, and Italy. their Religion, language, habit, Discent, Ceremonies, Herbert’s Arabian adventures began with a trip to with fellow MP Leland Buxton in 1905: “at that date hardly any En- and other matters concerning them. Together with the glishman had been to Sanaa, and it still had the mystery, if not proceedings and death of the three late Ambassadors: Sir the glory, that belonged to it when the Queen of Sheba held her D.C. Sir R.S. and the Persian Nogdi-beg. As also the two court upon its mountains”. They continued to the Persian Gulf great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogul. while Herbert was recovering from typhoid, having become con- London: Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634 vinced that it “offered admirable qualifications for recuperation” Quarto (275 × 183 mm). Late 18th-century polished tree calf, decorative – Bahrein; Ojair; Al-Hasa. An unusually nice copy. gilt spine, black label, yellow edges. Engraved title page by William Mar- shall and 35 engravings in the text. A few scrapes to binding, joints split Not in Macro; see Bidwell, Travellers in Arabia p. 174. at head and tail, prelims and a couple of gatherings dampstained, closed £225 [92342] tear across M3 and N1, a few neat corrections and marginal notes in a con- temporary hand. An appealing copy complete with the attractive engraved title page and Stansby’s colophon printed on a separate leaf at the end. first edition of this well-known travel book, the purpose of which was “to establish formal trade and diplomatic relations with Persia, but unofficially it was also undertaken to exonerate the adventurer Sir Robert Sherley, who would be accompanying the mission, from charges that had been made against him by Naqd-‘Ali Beg, Abbas’s ambassador to England. The Persian envoy had claimed that Sir Robert was not an official representative of the Shah or of England” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Herbert sailed for Persia with the diplomatic mission headed by Sir Dodmore Cot- ton on 23 March 1627. The embassy was a failure. Both leaders of 145

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ments that “greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment.” Howgego, Exploration, I H67; Mendelssohn I, 705; Sabin 31471; STC 13190. 146 £2,250 [98422] the expedition, Cotton and Sherley, sickened and died during July 147 1628, leaving Herbert and the other survivors to make the slow return to England, arriving at Gravesend on 12 January 1630. HEYD, Wilhelm. Geschichte des Levantehandels im “In the course of his travels he [Herbert] visited the notable Mittelalter. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1879 Persian cities of Gombroon, Shiraz, Esfahan, Ashraf, Qazvin, 2 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary black half morocco; and Qom as well as other Asian and African locales such as Surat, spine in compartments separated by gilt double rules enclosing blind- , the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena . . . In 1634 he stamped single rules, titles to second and fourth gilt, floral roll to head published the first edition of his book of travels . . . The book ap- and foot gilt; white and purple endbands, marbled sides, red speckled peared in an expanded second edition in 1638 under the title Some edges. Library stamps to versos of title pages. Spines slightly faded, light wear to corners, top corner of vol. I front board bumped with minor Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. Beginning with the abrasion, small patches of foxing to pastedowns, leaves toned. A very first edition Herbert inserted materials into his narrative about good copy. places he had not visited although he sometimes implied that first edition. In 1082, the Byzantine emperor granted Venice he had, and in each succeeding edition the amount of this sec- trading rights throughout imperial territory, a decree issued ond-hand material increased significantly . . . Some Yeares Travels largely in recognition of the city state’s growing influence; Ve- proved sufficiently popular to encourage a Dutch translation in netian merchants became the dominant European force in the 1658, and a French in 1663. During his years of retirement after the Levant throughout the Middle Ages, conducting a thriving trade Restoration, Herbert produced expanded third, fourth, and fifth with the Mamluk dynasty, who ruled from Cairo with Alexandria editions in 1665, 1675, and 1677 respectively, and the book con- as their commercial centre, and increasingly the Ottomans, tinued to be reprinted after his death” (ODNB). Almost a century who would eventually conquer the Mamluks in 1517. Together later, Jonathan Swift, in his Gulliver’s Travels, was both exasperated with Karl Hopf ’s Geschichte Griechenlands vom Beginn des Mittelalters, and inspired by Herbert’s travel narrative. Heyd’s monograph “firmly established the ascendancy of Ger- Herbert includes a general account of Arabia – with an engrav- man scholarship in medieval Greek history” (Lock, The Franks in ing of the Persian and Arabian coasts – and an important early ac- the Aegean 1204–1500, p. 30). A French version entitled Histoire du count of the Cape of Good Hope, with perhaps the first published commerce du Levant au moyen-âge, with numerous additions by the view of Cape Town (p. 17); a description of the Hottentots; and author, was published in Leipzig in 1885. Scarce in commerce. a brief glossary with examples from their language “which must have been the first published in an English work” (Mendelssohn, Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell, Macro or Hamilton Arcadian Library. p. 706). The illustrations include a map of , a flying fish, “a sharke fish”, and the dodo, about which Herbert com- £750 [100580]

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148 p. 22). Complete copies are genuinely scarce in commerce, with 148 just three seen at auction in the last 30 years. HILL, Aaron. A Full and Just Account of the Present State Atabey 580; Arcadian Library 16882; Blackmer 817 for the second edition (1710); not in Burrell of The Ottoman Empire. In all its Branches: With The Government, and Policy, Religion, Customs, and Way of £2,500 [107982] Living of the Turks, in General. Faithfully related From a Serious Observation, taken in many Years Travels thro’ 149 those Countries. London: for the author by John Mayo, 1709 HOBHOUSE, J. C. A Journey Through Albania and Folio in fours (345 × 220 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf pan- Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to el-stamped in blind, rebacked in the 19th century with brown morocco Constantinople, During the Years 1809 and 1810. London: spine in compartments double-ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered red- brown morocco label to second, page-edges sprinkled red, floral roll to Printed for James Cawthorn, 1813 board-edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 plates each with Quarto (265 × 204 mm). Near contemporary dark brown sheep, raised facing explanatory leaf. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Bridger (squire bands to spine, titles gilt to dark brown-green morocco label, decorations of Coombe Place, Lewes; appointed Sheriff of Sussex, 1780) to front to bands gilt, to compartments in blind, double ruling to boards in gilt pastedown. Ownership inscription of John Lilley (“his book, 1714, 915”) and blind, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 17 hand-coloured to final blank. Extremities slightly rubbed, corners bumped, a few light aquatint plates, 7 of which are folding, all with tissue guards, engraved ar- scuffs and splashes to covers, old restoration to craquelure on front, in- chitectural plan, 2 plates of Albanian script, 2 plates of music, 2 engraved ner hinges sometime reinforced with red cloth, ticket or plate removed folding maps. Bookplate of Kinturk to front pastedown. Small white stain from front pastedown, light browning to front flyleaves and sigs. 2O–2X, to the slightly darkened spine, extremities lightly rubbed, corners gently plates and explanatory leaves foxed as often, pale staining to 2Ir, short bumped, boards a touch scuffed and soiled, minor worm damage to front chip to bottom edge of 2L not affecting text, otherwise the very occa- joint, inner hinges cracked but holding firm, light offsetting from plates sional faint marginal spot. A good copy. lacking tissue guard, a few short splits to the lightly foxed folding maps, first edition. Hill was only 15 when he was sent by his grand- occasional pale spotting to margins. A very good copy. mother to visit his distant relative Lord Paget, English ambas- first edition of this account of a tour of Albania, Greece, and sador to Constantinople. From Turkey he travelled to Greece, Turkey the author made together with Lord Byron. “Hobhouse’s Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Arabia before returning to England account of this journey, Byron’s first visit to Greece, is of great three years later in April 1703 with Paget. “Hill’s Ottoman Empire interest not only for the light it sheds on an important period in was a luxury publication designed to establish its author’s social the poet’s life, but also for Hobhouse’s detailed accounts of eth- and literary credentials . . . at nearly 350 pages it was an impres- nographical and topographical materials and his descriptions of sive achievement for a 24–year-old. Hill’s primary model was Ali Pasha’s court” (Blackmer). the diplomat Sir Paul Rycaut’s Present State of the Ottoman Empire Initially travelling to Portugal and Spain, they “were encour- of 1668. He borrows many of Rycaut’s observations on the polit- aged by English naval and diplomatic intelligence to travel into ical, institutional, and religious history of the Turks . . . yet he Albania, where they stayed with Ali Pasha . . . An English naval is undoubtedly more interested in projecting himself into the force meanwhile took over most of the Ionian Islands, a fact picture as an adventure hero . . . Hill dramatizes himself strug- on which Ali congratulated them. They then went into Greece, gling with knife-wielding Arabs, finally stabbing one to death, where they were surprised to discover considerable anti-Turkish going underwater pearl-diving, braving storms and dangerous feeling among the inhabitants. They based themselves in Ath- tempests on his sea journey to Samon and, finally, enduring ‘A ens, visiting Marathon on 24 January, and then went via Smyrna Strange Accident which befel the Author in a Vault among the to Constantinople, where they attended an audience with Sultan Mummys’” (Gerrard, Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector, 1685–1750, Mahmoud II” (ODNB). Elements of this expedition were incor- porated by Byron into Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the narrative

92 Peter Harrington 133 150 poem that would make its author famous and establish the im- second voyage to the Pacific between 1772 and 1775. Hodges had age of the Byronic hero. served his apprenticeship with Richard Wilson and had learnt to paint landscapes in the classical tradition, producing calm Abbey Travel 202; Atabey 584; Blackmer 821; Brunet III 241. wooded scenes lit by a soft glow, the foreground peopled with £3,000 [94114] classical figures. With Captain Cook Hodges was suddenly jerk- ed into observing nature in a completely different way . . . The first professional landscape artist to visit India “[His] first year in India was disappointing. Hodges’s health was poor and the Second Mysore War (1780–84) against Haidar 150 Ali was in progress. This made it impossible for him to explore HODGES, William. Travels in India, during the Years the countryside of South India freely and he was confined to Ma- 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783. London: printed for the author, and dras and its immediate environs. On moving to Calcutta in Feb- sold by J. Edwards, 1793 ruary 1781, however, he was to travel far more widely through the generosity and of the Governor-General, Warren Quarto (286 × 230 mm). Contemporary marbled calf, raised bands to Hastings, a man of broad culture. spine, foliate vignettes gilt to compartments between gilt rules, black morocco label, fillet and oak-leaf borders gilt to sides, sprinkled edges, “During 1781 Hodges made two tours up-country with him green endpapers, bound purple silk page-marker. 14 engraved plates (9 during which he saw the ruins of many Muslim palaces, tombs of them views) by Medland, Byrne, Angus and others after Hodges, large and mosques. The next year he found a patron in Augustus folding engraved map of part of Bengal and Bihar. With the directions Cleveland, a liberal administrator stationed at Bhagalpur in to the binder bound in. Joints and extremities rubbed, a few light scuffs Bihar. Touring with him Hodges saw a very different India – the and scattered faint craquelure to sides, tide-mark to top edge of pp. forested tracts inhabited by an aboriginal people, the Paharias. 92–3, the text unaffected, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks, Pass During 1783 he made a long expedition up-country to join Major at Sicri Gully and Zananah plates transposed, very short closed tear to Brown who was heading a diplomatic embassy to the Mughal folding map stub. An excellent copy, the contents crisp and fresh and with no trace of the usual offsetting or browning. Emperor. Hodges was now able to see the great Mughal monu- ments at Agra and Sikandra. He returned through Central India first edition, in a superior Regency binding; a second edi- to Calcutta via Lucknow and left India in November 1783” (Ar- tion was published the following year. “The first professional cher & Lightbown, India Observed: India as viewed by British Artists landscape artist to visit India and please such tastes [for the pic- 1760–1860, Victoria and Albert Museum 1982, pp. 8–9). turesque and the sublime] was William Hodges (1744–1797). He went with a highly individual vision and style of painting which Riddick, History of British India, pp. 170–2. had been formed while he was official artist on Captain Cook’s £2,250 [117400]

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be entering the army-surplus market around this time. We have been unable to find much background on Holdstock, beyond that he was a Bapco employee in the Awali in the 1940s and was a pret- ty good golfer, winner of the company’s Kingsbury Cup in both 151 1940 and 1941 and the Russell Cup for 1941. An uncommon and highly attractive visual record of the Gulf 151 before the acceleration of its oil-fired modernisation in the latter HOLDSTOCK, Peter. Local Color. Awali, Bahrain: [ for the part of the 20th century. photographer, c.1954] £3,000 [103621] Landscape quarto (195 × 245 mm). Original comb-bound black-coated heavy card boards, map design in white on black to the front board. 23 leaves of silk-finish photographic stock with black and white photo- 152 graphs printed both sides, another similar image mounted inside the HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Thirty-Five Years in rear board, and a contents listing, including technical details for each the East. Adventures, Discoveries, Experiments, and image, camera, exposure &c., inside the front. A little rubbed at the edg- es, contents remain excellent, overall very good. Historical Sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in Connection with Medicine, Botany, Pharmacy, &c. first and only edition, just one other copy traced in SOAS (miscatalogued under the unlikely name of “Holebtock”), which Calcutta: The “Bangabasi” Office, 1905 on examination has fewer plates, but some different images, and Octavo (211 × 125 mm). Modern “native” black half sheep, green cloth is without the technical contents listing. The SOAS copy also boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rolls to spine and corner edges, orig- inal front wrapper (stained, old repairs) bound in. Portrait frontispiece lacks its rear board. and 15 other plates, 6 of them folding, and a folding map. Externally This is a wonderful selection of well-composed and printed bright, contents browned and with a series of worm-tracks through the images of mid-20th century Bahrain, comprising attractive views, block, but not in any way fragile, about very good. various trades and “types”, including a portrait of the Sheikh of first calcutta reprint; first published in German in Vienna Bahrain with Ibn Saud, and aerial views of Awali, the town found- under the title Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse, ed in the 1930s by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) to nebst naturhistorisch-medizinischen Erfahrungen in 1851; translated house their HQ and foreign technical staff, and of Dhahran, Saudi into English the following year. HQ of Aramco. Honigberger (1795–1869), a doctor trained in both conven- The approximate dating can be deduced from the fact that the tional and his preferred homeopathic medicine, was born in sheikh in the initial double portrait is Salman bin Hamad al Khal- Krostadt in Romania, left Transylvania in 1815 and travelled ifa (1894–1961), who ruled 1942–61, and King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, though the Middle East, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and on to India. with whom he is pictured, who died in 1953. Also, the aerial imag- He arrived in Lahore in 1829 and, having treated Ranjit Singh’s es show the respective administrative capitals at a state of devel- favourite horse for an ulcerated leg, gained the confidence of opment consonant with a date in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and the Maharaja, becoming court physician, as well as being put the Fairchild K-20 used to take them was a high-quality, wartime in charge of the gunstock manufactory and gunpowder mills. military handheld model produced 1941–5, and therefore likely to A facsimile plate of the document of his appointment to these varied positions is included. Honigberger gives “his observations about Ranjit Singh, Ma- haraja Kharak Signh, Naunihal Singh, Sher Singh, Dhian Singh, Chand Kaur, Dalip Singh, Hira Singh, political changes, blood- shed, role of Akalis, faaticism of Jallah, Baba Var Singh, battle of Sobraon, rile of Teja Singh, Lehna Singh and Sikh battles. He also told many interesting day-to-day happenings of the Sikh State” (Chopra). Honigberger also provides much on medical practices in West, South and Central Asia. The plates include a hakim or

151 Mohammedan doctor, an attar or druggist, a still, a “B’hangee,

94 Peter Harrington 133 153 154 155 or Hemp-Plant Drinker”, and a “Faqueer Postee, or Poppy-Head the Transjordan, but now lies within the borders of Saudi Arabia. Drinker”, together with portraits of the members of the durbar They were accompanied by Nelson Glueck (1939), who described or ruler’s household, and an interesting map of the railway route their discovery on a hillside just northeast of Kilwa. The surfac- from Bokhara to Orenburg. This account by an unconventional es of the hill were thoroughly packed with rock art, which they but painstaking observer is a highly appealing curiosity amongst recorded photographically. Their collection of photos currently the more established account of the Punjabi court at the time. resides in the Institute of Archaeology. One of the images in the Kilwa rock art that particularly caught their £975 [102937] attention, the one they coined the “best ibex,” was a “wounded ibex with blood streaming from his mouth”. They were the first 153 Westerners to report seeing the petroglyphs, although Gertrude (HORSEMANSHIP.) UAE Endurance. Traversing Bell had been to Kilwa in 1914. It was left to Hans Rhotert (1938) Frontiers. Abu Dhabi: UAE Equestrian and Racing Federation, and Leo Frobenius to follow up with a professional study in 1934– 1999 35” (Arabian Rock Art Heritage website). Quarto. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown and white £150 [92391] endbands, orange endpapers. With the dust jacket. Text in English and Arabic. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs throughout the text. A couple of mild abrasions to endpapers. An excellent copy in the 155 bright dust jacket with minor ink-staining to rear panel. HOSKINS, George Alexander. A Winter in Upper and first and only edition, produced to celebrate the success of Lower Egypt. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863 endurance riding in the since the first such Octavo. Contemporary red half sheep, spine gilt in compartments, race was held there in 1993. By 1998, the country had hosted the green and black labels, marbled sides and edges. Coloured frontispiece World Endurance Championship, then the largest equestrian event lithography by Vincent Brooks, steel engraved title page vignette. Pre- on record. Rare: only one other copy traced (the Iraqi National lims quite heavily foxed, the rest of the text sporadically and lightly, top Library). edge dusty, slight damp bloom on the brown surface-paper endpapers, but overall a very nice copy in a pleasingly unpretentious contemporary £500 [100948] provincial binding for Thomas, bookseller of Newtown (ticket to front pastedown), a little rubbed, but remaining attractive. 154 first edition. Hoskins originally travelled through Egypt and Nubia in 1832–3 sketching the archaeological sites. When he HORSFIELD, George & Agnes, & Nelson Glueck. returned in 1860–1, “health was my object, trusting that the fine “Prehistoric Rock-drawings in Transjordan”, in: American climate of the Nile might be more efficacious than that of Italy Journal of Archaeology. Volume XXXVII, Number 3. July– or Spain.” His faith in the recuperative powers of the Egyptian September.] The Archaeological Institute of America, 1933 climate was insufficient to prevent his death a year after the pub- Octavo. Original printed buff wrappers. Six-page article with full-page lication of this work. map and 4 illustrations to the text along with 7 plates, two of them with overlays on calque paper. Just a little rubbed, overall very good. £375 [37178] first edition. Inevitably the journal is well-represented by full runs in institutional collections, but it is always difficult to track down odd numbers. “In the 1920s and 30s, George Horsfield (Horsfieldet al. 1933) and his wife Agnes Conway Horsfield (1943) worked in what is today Jordan, excavating at Petra, the citadel in Amman, Jerash, and Wadi Rum. They focused mostly on Naba- taean sites, but in 1932, while visiting the Christian monastery of Kilwa (1000 ce), they encountered petroglyphs. Kilwa was then in

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156 first and only edition, very scarce: Copac lists on two HOWARTH, Herbert, & Ibrahim Shakrullah. Images copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, Senate House Libraries), OCLC adds around another two dozen from the Arab World. Fragments of Arab literature copies (largely in Australian libraries) but the work is distinctly translated and paraphrased with variations and scarce in commerce. Sir Wilfred Selwyn “Billy” Kent Hughes comments. London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1944 (1895–1970) was a major in the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Austra- Octavo. Original grey cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Very lian Imperial Force, when Modern Crusaders was published. “On good in slightly rubbed jacket, chipped head and tail of the spine. 17 August 1914 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Howarth was posted to the 7th Battalion. In Egypt, Sergeant Kent Hughes on the front free endpaper: “To Richard Bell. With good wishes learned that he had won a Rhodes scholarship. Commissioned Christmas 1954, Herbert Howarth”. Images from the Arab World in April 1915, he transferred to the headquarters of the 3rd Light is a collection that has been described as “quite novel in its ap- Horse Brigade, commanded by his uncle Frederic Godfrey proach to translation, certainly where Arabic was concerned, Hughes. Billy was to serve at Gallipoli, and in the Sinai, Pales- where strictly academic readings were all that was available . . . tine and Syria. In 1917 he won the Military Cross for his work as [containing] translations from the very earliest pre-Islamic po- staff captain. He was promoted major and appointed deputy ad- ets, right up to examples of zagal [vernacular poetry] . . . It also jutant and quartermaster general, Australian Mounted Division. included extracts from some of the most interesting but least Mentioned in dispatches four times, he wrote his first book, known works of prose” (Johnson-Davies, Memories in Translation, Modern Crusaders (Melbourne, 1918), describing the exploits of p. 53). There is here the distant possibility of an excellent asso- the Light Horse” (ADB). ciation: Richard Bell was the name of an influential Qur’anic Bibliography of Australian Literature III p. 52; not in Lengel, World War I scholar at the University of Edinburgh, though he died in 1952 Memories. and the author’s having written the wrong year seems unlikely. £225 [102981] £75 [95193] 158 157 HURGRONJE, Christiaan Snouck. The Achehnese. HUGHES, W. S. Kent. Modern Crusaders. An Account of Translated by the late A. W. S. O’Sullivan. With an index the Campaign in Sinai and Palestine up to the Capture of by R. J. Wilkinson. Leyden: Late E. J. Brill, 1906 Jerusalem. Melbourne: Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd, [1918?] 2 volumes, large octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered spines Octavo. Original yellow-orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered and and front covers, ornamental panels on covers, drab grey endpapers. decorated in dull red. Folding map of the area of campaign, 12 plates Half-tone frontispieces, half-tone and line illustrations throughout (two from photographs. Book label on front pastedown of Mr. Justice Grif- coloured folding maps of Acheh and plan of a dwelling house at the end fith, Melbourne; spine rolled and torn at foot, back cover with small loss on volume I). Booklabels of Dr A. O. Kouwenhoven. One or two very small of fabric at foot, a few stains to binding, internally clean. white marks to back cover of volume II otherwise in exemplary condition.

96 Peter Harrington 133 158 first edition in english of this important work on Aceh, “in the period of its greatest power [16th and 17th centuries] . . . the most important Muhammadan state in Sumatra” (Brill, En- cyclopaedia of Islam, VII p. 552). The author, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936), was 158 “a pioneer in the scientific study of Islam. While serving as a lecturer at the University of Leiden (1880–89), [he] visited Ara- bia (1884–85), stopping at Mecca. His classic work Mekka, 2 vol. at the University of Leyden (Leiden), was invited to undertake a (1888–89), reconstructs the history of the holy city and sheds thorough study of Aceh and published a book in 1893–94 on the light on the origins of Islam, early traditions and practices, and Acehnese” (ibid.) the first Islamic communities. The second volume, translated Howgego, Exploration 1850–1940, p. 1169 (”a standard reference work on into English as Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century (1931), the peoples of northern Sumatra”). contains many details of daily life in Islamic culture and deals with the Indonesian Muslim colony at Mecca. From 1890 to 1906 £1,850 [116420] Snouck Hurgronje was professor of Arabic at Batavia, Java, and, as a government adviser, he originated and developed a Dutch colonial policy toward Islam that prevailed until the termination of Dutch rule in Indonesia in 1942. Though he was tolerant of Is- lamic religious life, his policy as a colonial official was to repress Islamic political agitation. His De Atjèhers, 2 vol. (1893–94; The Achehnese), an ethnographic account of the people of northern Sumatra, became a standard reference work. Though Snouck Hurgronje remained a colonial adviser until 1933, he returned in 1906 to the Netherlands, where he was professor of Arabic and Islamic institutions at the University of Leiden until his death. He wrote extensively on a number of Islamic topics” (Ency. Brit.) Hurgronje’s study was produced against the backdrop of the long-running Aceh War (1873–1904) between the Netherlands and the forces of the Sultanate of Aceh, in which “Dutch forces became involved in a prolonged guerrilla war in the countryside. This war, however, drained the colonial treasury, and public opinion in the Netherlands became increasingly critical of the colonial administration. The administration later realised that their ignorance of the region had led them to commit serious er- rors. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, professor of Islamic studies 158

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A timely survey of the khanates 159 HUTTON, James. Central Asia: from the Aryan to the Cossack. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875 Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to boards, grey-brown endpapers. A little rubbed and soiled, the spine sunned, front hinge cracked and repaired, light browning throughout, but over- 160 all a very good copy. first edition of this excellent and uncommon survey of the 160 history of the region down to the Russian expedition of 1872–3, IBN AL‘AWWAM. [Arabic title:] Kitab al-Filahah. Libro de written with a wary eye on accelerating Russianization in the Agricultura. Traducido al castellano y anotado por Don khanates. The author James Hutton (1818–93) was born in Cal- Josef Antonio Banqueri. Madrid: en la imprenta real, 1802 cutta, the son of a merchant. After a brief period as an ensign in the army of the East India Company he “tumbled into a fine 2 volumes, folio (307 × 200 mm) gathered and signed in fours. Con- temporary tree sheep, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels fortune, tumbled out of it, then applied himself to newspaper- (slightly amended with small onlays to read “Agricultura del moro”), ing” (Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India, p. 186). Fall- marbled endpapers, red edges. Half-title to vol. II only, lacking in vol. I, ing out with the Madras establishment, he headed to England text printed in two columns, in Spanish and Arabic. Joints rubbed, occa- becoming involved with Thornton Hunt and G. H. Lewes’s The sional spotting or light foxing, a few small stains, but generally crisp, a Leader. “Mr Hutton was destined, however, like so many Liberals very good copy. of those days, to become eventually a Conservative. He started first edition. Ibn al-‘Awwam (in full, Abu Zakariya Yahya some twenty-five years ago a morning paper called The Day, ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Al-Awwam Al-Ishbili) was an which represents the views of a particular section of the Conser- Arab agriculturist who flourished at Seville in southern Spain in vative party, but failed, though conducted with great ability, to the later 12th century. His lengthy handbook entitled in Arabic obtain their active support. After the non-success of The Day Mr Kitab al-Filahah (Book on Agriculture) is the most comprehensive Hutton went back to India for a time. He was, indeed, connect- treatment of the subject in medieval Arabic, and one of the most ed throughout his life with Indian journalism, now as editor, important medieval works on the subject in any language. He is now as London correspondent” (obituary in the St James’s Ga- the most renowned of all the Andalusi agronomists because his zette). Hutton was the author of some half-dozen books and and book was the first to be published and translated into a modern the translator of several others, including an account of thuggee language in this edition, then into French by Clément-Mullet published in 1857, and a translation of Daumas’s Les Chevaux du in 1864–67, and subsequently into Urdu in 1927. It was thus for Sahara et les mœurs du désert (1863). a long time the only source of reference on medieval Andalusi £1,750 [98981] agronomy. Moreover it is one of the few works of this genre that has come down to us more or less complete. Ibn al-‘Awwam appears to have been an aristocratic landown-

98 Peter Harrington 133 160 er, with personal practical experience of cultivation and land in today’s Spanish cuisine and include most spices, as well as management. He was well-read in the agricultural writings of produce such as saffron, apricots, artichokes, carob, sugar, au- his predecessors and cites information from as many as 112 bergines, grapefruits, carrots, coriander and rice. These ingre- authors, especially the Geoponica of Cassianus Bassus, the Book of dients remain a firm point of reference for Spanish and Andalu- Nabataean Agriculture attributed to Ibn Wahshiyya, and many An- sian recipes, featuring in for example pinchito moruno andaluz, a dalusian Arabic authors (the great majority to Ibn Bassal, Abu dish normally made with chicken, saffron, cumin and coriander. al-Khayr al-Ishbili or Ibn Hajjaj, all three of whom wrote books Another notable example is what is widely regarded as the Span- about agriculture in the later 11th century in southern Spain, ish national dish, paella, whose main ingredients are rice and copies of which have survived only partly and incompletely). saffron. Thanks to the success of such crops, Spain today is one The work is divided into 34 chapters, the first 30 dealing with of the main producers of saffron. In fact, along with Iran, Spain crops and the remaining 4 with livestock. A 35th chapter, on produces 80 per cent of the crop worldwide. dogs, was apparently planned but no trace of it survives. The provenance: Sir John Sinclair (1754–1835), Scottish politician book describes the cultivation of 585 different plants, and gives and writer on agriculture (Statistical Account of Scotland) and cures for diseases of trees and vines, as well as diseases and in- finance (vol. 1 with his initialled note concerning the present juries to horses and cattle. work to front free endpaper and a note presenting the volume to The translator worked at the Royal Library in Madrid. In 1781 him in Cadiz to verso of title). Later bookplate of the Royal Agri- he sent a letter to his patron discussing this work, in which he cultural Society of England to front pastedown of vol. 2. stresses the importance of Ibn al-’Awwam as a source for learn- ing about agricultural methods which could be applied in Spain. See Arcadian Library p. 204 The introduction of Islamic methods of agriculture had a pro- found influence on Spanish cuisine. One of the first innovations £10,000 [94111] achieved by the Moors was the installation of irrigation systems which allowed the harvesting of arid areas, thereby expanding and improving vegetable plantations. The Arab agronomists also introduced natural produce from Asia previously unknown to the Spanish. Many of these continue to be basic ingredients

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abridgement purchased by Burckhardt in Egypt and deposited by him at Cambridge in 1829. But following the French conquest of Algeria five manuscripts emerged. “These documents were sub- 161 sequently transferred to the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. Two of them represent the most complete versions of the narrative that have ever come to light. The others are partial translations, one of 161 which carries the autograph of Ibn Juzayy, Ibn Battuta[h]’s editor. IBN BATTUTAH. Voyages. Texte arabe, accompagné Working with these five documents, two French scholars, C. De- d’une traduction par C. Defrémery et B. R. Sanguinetti. frémery and B.R. Sanguinetti published a printed edition of the Paris: l’Imprimerie nationale, 1859–79 Arabic text, together with a translation in French and an appara- 5 volumes in 4, octavo (216 × 133 mm). Near-contemporary burgundy tus of notes and variant textual readings. Since then, translations half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to spine, of the work, in every case prepared from [this] text, have been top edges gilt, others uncut. Bound with half-titles, wrappers to the published in many languages” (ibid.) first, last and index volumes bound in. From the library of British Encyclopaedia of Islam III pp. 735–736; Gay 34; Henze II 682; Howgego I Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed B47; Macro 1249; Playfair 752. bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind- £4,500 [94276] stamps as usual. Light toning, scattered pale foxing. a very good set, handsomely bound. The earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography first edition of the index volume, second editions of the four text volumes. Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s edition of Ibn Battut- 162 ah’s Rihlah, originally published 1853–8, was the first complete IBN KHURRADADHBIH, Abu’l-Qasim ‘Ubayd Allah ibn publication of the renowned Arabic narrative by “the greatest ‘Abd Allah. Le Livre des Routes et des Provinces. Publié, traveller of pre-modern times” (Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century, p. 1). traduit et annoté par C. Barbier de Maynard. [Paris:] Ibn Battutah (1304–1368/9) was a legal scholar from Tangiers Journal asiatique, Jan.–Jun. 1865 who, upon completing the hajj, decided to take advantage of the 3 journal extracts in one volume, octavo (211 × 126 mm). Near-contem- extensive trade routes then linking the western Eurasian land- porary “native” hard-grain half morocco by the Education Society’s mass to the Far East. Travelling over land and sea, he “is estimat- Press, Bycullah, raised bands to spine within gilt rules, titles to second compartment gilt, comb-marbled sides, green endpapers. From the ed to have covered 75,000 miles in forty years” (Howgego), his library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), wanderings encompassing North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Africa and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, , Central Bath Public Library in 1920 and blind-stamps as usual. Rubbed, first text Asia, and China. His Rihlah (“Journey”) was with- leaf with small tear costing a few letters either side, repaired verso, the out doubt the most important, “longest and in terms of its subject sense still easily guessed, variable foxing, browning and damping. matter, the most complex” (Dunn, p. 4) example of a popular first edition of the Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-mamalik, “the earliest Arabic genre, which usually just told of a pilgrim’s progress from surviving Arabic book of administrative geography” (Encyclopaedia the Maghreb to Mecca. Iranica), the Arabic text accompanied by a French translation and The work was unknown outside Muslim countries until the be- commentary. ginning of the 19th century, when some partial translations were Ibn Khurradadhbih (also Khordadbeh, 820/5–912 ce) was born offered, Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten’s in German in 1819 in Khurasan and grew up in Baghdad. He served as chief of the bar- followed by Samuel Lee’s English edition, this last based on an id, the system of post-horses and governmental information which

100 Peter Harrington 133 sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. Spanish and Arabic text. Pale fox- ing to title, occasional contemporary or later 19th-century marginalia. A very good copy. first edition in spanish of Idrisi’s Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi-ikhti- raq al-afaq, the most important work of medieval Arabic geography, and the first separate edition of the portion relating to Spain; Idri- si’s original Arabic text is also printed, with spacious types. Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099–1154) was born in Almoravid Spain and studied in Córdoba, a centre of European learning, where he was a near-contemporary of Ibn Rushd. He traced his descent to the Prophet Muhammad through his immediate ancestors, the Hammudids of the short-lived caliphate (1016–58) in Spain and North Africa, and their forebears the Idrisids of Morocco (789–985), who claimed descent from Muhammad’s grandson Hasan. He started his travels when he was just 16 years old with a visit to Asia Minor. He later travelled along the southern coast of France, visited England, and journeyed widely throughout Spain 163 and Morocco meticulously gathering information as he went. In 1138 he was invited to visit Palermo by Roger II, the Norman underpinned the early Islamic empire, and began his account king of Sicily, who had made his kingdom one of the intellectual during the reign of caliph al-Wathiq (r. 842–7), revising it continu- centres of Europe. Roger “was interested in fostering learning of ously until the reign of al-Mu’tamid (r. 870–82 ce). any kind, and he was generous with his patronage. Perhaps for “Aside from the pioneering nature of Ibn Khurradadhbih’s proj- pragmatic reasons of expansionism and trade, Roger was devoted ect, the book is of unique importance for a number of reasons. to geography” (Dictionary of World Biography). First, the work contains exhaustive itineraries of the caliphal road Idrisi remained at Palermo, which was an important meet- system, as well as descriptions of the routes, both overland and ing ground of Arab and European culture, for the next 16 years, maritime, to foreign lands . . . Second, the author includes detailed returning to only after Roger’s death in 1154. “It was in information on the revenue yielded by the various tax regions of this atmosphere that Idrisi, under the patronage of Roger II, the caliphate, information that has been invaluable to historians of collaborated with Christian scholars and made important contri- the social and economic conditions of the period. Third, the work butions to geography and cartography. Roger himself displayed treats non-Muslim lands in great detail, providing descriptions of great interest in these subjects and wished to have a world map China, Byzantium, and the Indian Ocean region, atypical of compa- constructed and a comprehensive world geography produced rable Arabic works that were often limited to the lands of Islam or that would present detailed information on various regions of those aspects of non-Muslim countries that were of direct relevance the world . . . Only the geographical compendium with sectional . . . Finally, Ibn Khurradadhbih provides miscellaneous data for maps, entitled Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi-ikhtiraq al-afaq, is extant which he is the only – or at least the original – source, including, today . . . The extremely rich and varied information presented in most famously, passages to the fable wall of Gog and Magog, and the text pertains to various countries of Europe, Asia, and North the activities of the Rus merchants and the Radhanite Jews” (Meri, Africa and not only includes topographical details, demographic ed., Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopaedia, p. 360). information, and reports of descriptive and physical geography Many scholars have noted the influence of Ptolemy on his work, but also describes socio-economic and political conditions. It is but the use of Persian administrative terms and the attention given thus a rich encyclopaedia of the medieval period . . . Idrisi’s work to Iranian history and cosmology suggest various Iranian sources represents the best example of Arab-Norman scientific collabora- at the core of the work, reflecting the centrality of Persian culture tion in geography and cartography of the Middle Ages. For several under the ‘Abbasid caliphate. Another edition, prepared by Dutch centuries the work was popular in Europe as a textbook; a number orientalist Michael De Goeje, was published in 1889. of abridgements were also produced, the first being published in Not in Gay; Macro 466; Wilson p. 104, Rome [in Arabic] in 1592” (S. Maqbul Ahmad in DSB VII). There was also a Latin edition in 1619. £875 [117583] This Spanish translation is the work of the great Arabist José Antonio Conde, keeper of the Escorial library. “Under the impact The best example of Arab-Norman scientific collaboration in the of the Enlightenment certain scholars had the courage to detect middle ages traces of Arab influence in Spanish poetry and music, and to ap- preciate the monuments of Arab architecture as part of a common 163 cultural heritage. The initiative was taken by Conde [whose work] IDRISI, Muhammad al-Sharif. [Title in Arabic:] Dhikr was characterised by a strong sympathy for Arab culture” (Ham- al-Andalus. Descripción de España de Xerif Aledris, ilton, The Arcadian Library, p. 271). It is unsurprisingly well-held in conocido por el Nubiense, con traducción y notas de Josef libraries, but rare in commerce, with six copies traced at auction Antonio Conde. Madrid: Imprenta Real, por Pedro Pereyra, 1799 since 1951. Octavo (175 × 110 mm). Recent maroon crushed morocco in the Jan- Palau 1107; Schnurrer 188; not in Atabey, Blackmer, or Burrell. senist manner, raised bands to spine, compartments lettered in gilt, £2,000 [117487]

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Camels at war in the desert 2 volumes, octavo. Original green diagonal-grain cloth, gilt lettered spine with gilt stamp of sheath for a kris, front covers with large gilt and black 164 stamp of a hand holding a kris, pale grey floral endpapers. Wood-en- graved portrait frontispieces. Spines toned and a little rolled, a few old INCHBALD, Geoffrey. Imperial Camel Corps. [No place:] stains to covers, inner joints neatly refurbished yet still a good set, com- privately printed for the author, 1973 plete with the errata slip in volume I. Bookplates of John William Darwood Original green buckram, title gilt to spine. Duplicated typescript, 215 (the Darwood family were prominent in Burma during the 19th century, leaves, rectos only. Just a little rubbed on the spine edges, a very good primarily involved in the teak and shipping industries and the develop- copy. ment of the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company). second edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the first edition of this important work on the Malay states; rather author on the title page, “For Tony, With all best wishes from uncommon. Emily Innes (née Robertson, 1843–1927) married the Geoff, August 1974.” First published in 1970, this thorough colonial officer James Innes in 1875 and shortly after they travelled revised second edition is genuinely uncommon. OCLC lists out to Sarawak, where he was government treasurer. “He was a slack, incompetent administrator who drank too much. But until his death in 1901 Emily was a dutiful and loyal wife and a ferocious champion of her husband . . . “In 1876 Innes lost his job in Sarawak but secured a district officer’s post at Kuala Langat [Malaya], the royal capital of Selan- gor, which had recently come under British control. For six years the couple lived in Selangor with a brief interval in neighbouring Perak. For Emily it was a period of uncomfortable living in remote 164 places, a time of loneliness and tedium, interrupted occasionally by a crisis. She studied the Malay language in books and practised University of Leeds and National Library of Australia only, it with her visitors. She dispensed what medicines she had, noting Copac adds IWM. “Effectively an unofficial history of 2nd Bn. that few of her patients died, and she helped to tackle a local out- ICC, from formation in early 1916 to disbandment in 1919 . . . break of cholera. To recover her health she visited the district offi- Many officers are mentioned in the narrative, the descriptions of cer and his family on Pangkor island. Chinese robbers broke into camel behaviour are informative, and the various battles (Egypt, the house, killed the husband, and left his wife and Emily Innes Palestine and Trans-Jordan, including the support given to Law- unconscious. The arrival of the two women at Penang, bearing the rence in 1918) are well covered” (Perkins). marks of the attack, caused ‘a considerable sensation’ . . . “In the course of her brief visit to the Malay states in 1879 Isa- O’Brien F0548 and Perkins p. 44 for the first edition only. bella Bird, the celebrated traveller, did not come to the station at £475 [75937] which James and Emily Innes then lived. When Bird’s book The Golden Chersonese appeared in 1883 Emily, back in London, con- 165 ceded that everything in it was ‘perfectly and literally true’. But her The Chersonese with the Gilding Off (1885) recorded what Bird had INNES, Emily. The Chersonese with the Gilding Off. hardly seen and so not mentioned. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885 “The book is the basis of her fame. Much of it is a detailed ac-

102 Peter Harrington 133 165 167 count of her experiences and hardships, written with a bitterness . . . obtained from a few officials . . . or from Commercial Firms”. that, according to an American historian, bore ‘the marks of para- Eight maps are called for; here an additional map of the Ar- noia’. When published it attracted little attention. Bird, preoccu- bil–Rowanduz–Rayat Road (1930) has been tipped to the rear free pied with personal problems, did not respond. However, modern endpaper. Helpfully the “binding of this book has been specially historians, in search of contemporary evidence of early colonial prepared in order to render the work impervious to the ravages of rule, have recognized its value as a vivid and perceptive picture of insects” the Selangor Malay élite then coming to terms with , and the book was republished in 1974 with an introduction by a £300 [88306] leading Malayan historian. “Although she writes unsympathetically Emily Innes gives a 167 good description of the Malay lifestyle and of the individuals she IRVING, Washington. A Chronicle of the Conquest knew. There are lighter touches, as when she tells of her unlikely of Granada. From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. friendship with an elderly Malay aristocrat, formerly a pirate. London: John Murray, 1829 Invited to tea and tennis, he scampered about hitting the ball 2 volumes, octavo (224 × 135 mm). Later 19th-century half sheep by W. high in the air with much satisfaction. He declined tea but was Brown of Bath, smooth spines ruled in gilt and blind, red morocco labels refreshed with Bass’s pale ale in homeopathic doses . . . [Emily renewed, marbled sides, edges untrimmed. From the library of British Innes] was an intolerant and quarrelsome snob, but her gifts of Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed book- observation and description made a valuable contribution to Ma- plates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library layan historiography. Her courage and determination in face of in 1920, and manuscript shelf-marks associated blind-stamps as usual. Ex- adversity also deserve respect” (ODNB). tremities lightly rubbed, light spotting front and back. A very good copy. Speake, The Literature of Travel and Exploration, II p. 756. first uk edition, a few weeks after the first American edition. Washington Irving visited Granada in his diplomatic capacity £750 [112158] in 1826, and “was ravished by the Alhambra. He consequently acquired a strong sympathy for the Arabs and an equally strong 166 antipathy to the Christians” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library, p. (IRAQ.) Maps of ‘Iraq with Notes for Visitors. Revised 275). His account is “part history, part fiction, and with humor- ous touches; [it was] based on the alleged records of a mythical and Enlarged Edition. Baghdad: The Government of ‘Iraq, 1929 Fray Antonio Agapida” (Cahoon et al., eds, American Literary Auto- Quarto. Original red cloth, title gilt to the front board. Half-tone frontis- graphs from Washington Irving to Henry James, 4). piece of the arch of Ctesiphon, and 9 folding maps. Upper board a little damp-spotted, slightly rubbed at the extremities, but overall very good. Arcadian Library 9298. first edition thus. These maps – which offer detailed coverage £750 [117607] of the road system, trans-desert routes, and of Baghdad and its en- virons – were originally produced to illustrate the 1924–7 report of the Public Works Department. Here they are accompanied by notes “collected or written after unofficial contributions and suggestions

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168 tween 1799 and 1800. JACKSON, James Grey. An Account of the Empire of In the preface he contrasts his own lengthy sojourn, in which he appears to have more or less “gone native” in terms Marocco, and the District of Suse; Compiled from of language and dress, with those of contemporaries including miscellaneous observations made during a long residence Hornemann, Parkes and Lemprière: “However faithfully he may in, and various journies through, these countries. To relate what passes under his own eye, [such an observer] is, which is added, an accurate and interesting account of nevertheless from his situation, and usual short stay, unable to Timbuctoo, the great emporium of central Africa. London: collect any satisfactory information respecting the country in for the author by W. Bulmer and Co., 1809 general, and what he does collect, is too often from some illiter- Quarto (265 × 207). Contemporary half roan, spine in compartments ate interpreter” (Preface). with triple gilt rules, titles to second and date at foot, remaining com- Chapters cover local geography, natural resources, towns, partments stamped in blind, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. customs, as well as local Arabic and Berber dialects. Particularly Housed in a custom brown sheep slipcase. 11 aquatint plates after Jack- valuable are his accounts of North African commerce and Jewish son by Stadler, of which 2 are hand-coloured as issued and 5 folding; communities. The atmospheric plates include natural history 2 engraved folding maps, of Morocco and of caravan routes across the subjects and attractive views of Mogador (Essaouira), the Atlas Sahara. Sides lightly rubbed, spine and corners skilfully refurbished and Mountains, and the plains of Akkurmute and Jibbel Heddid. front inner hinge expertly repaired, mild marginal foxing to prelims and earlier leaves, light offsetting from a few plates, engraved maps slightly Abbey, Travel 296; Gay 1248 for the third edition. spotted, map frontispiece bound facing p. 137. A very good copy. £1,500 [112552] first edition of “one of the best pieces of travel literature about the country” (Chtatou, “Morocco in English Travel Liter- ature: A Look at J. G. Jackson’s Account” in North African Studies, 169 vol. 1, 1996, issue 1, p. 59). Jackson, a British merchant, spent 16 JAMES, Silas. A Narrative of a Voyage to Arabia, India, years in Morocco, originally at Agadir, where he was appointed etc. Containing, Amidst a Variety of Information, a Dutch agent, and then Mogador (Essaouira), before returning to Description of Saldanha Bay; with Remarks on the England on the death of his business partner, one A. Layton. He Genious and Disposition of the Natives of Arabia Felix; witnessed the end of the reign of Muhammad III (r. 1757–1790) the Manners and Customs of the People of Hindoston; and the ensuing civil war between his sons Mawlay Yazid (r. 1790–1792) and Mawlay Sulayman (also Slimane, r. 1792–1822), of the Island of Madagascar and other parts beyond the as well the plague that decimated the region’s population be- Cape of Good Hope. Interspersed with some Particulars Relative to the Author’s Remarkable Interview with his Father, on the Coast of Malabar. Performed in the Years 1781, 82, 83, and 84. London: printed for the author and sold by W. Baynes, 1797 Octavo in half-sheets (211 × 120 mm). Later 19th-century tan calf by Riv- iere, spine richly gilt in compartments, twin morocco labels, rolled floral border gilt to covers, yellow edges, marbled endpapers, bound red silk page-marker. Lithographic portrait frontispiece. From the library of Brit- ish Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps 168

104 Peter Harrington 133 170 171 as usual. Joints and tips lightly rubbed, contents tanned, occasional pale to the text mostly from views, of which 21 full-page and including 4 spotting, title page slightly marked, and with an effaced ownership in- plans. From the library of the Ursuline convent at Rimouski, Quebec, scription to upper outer corner, repaired tear to pp. v/vi, and a small hole with their calligraphic ink-stamp to the title-page and p. 51, shelf-mark just costing half a letter recto, similar repair to lower outer sig. S2, the text label to spine and pocket to rear pastedown. Spine a little sunned and unaffected, still a very good copy, bound with the half-title. bumped, rear inner hinge starting, joint cracking at pp. 272–3, contents first edition, scarce. James was a cabin-boy on Commander tanned, still a very good copy in the attractive original cloth. Johnstone’s abortive expedition to seize the Cape of Good Hope second edition, rare: Copac traces only one copy of this from the Dutch in 1781. After being ambushed by the French edition in the British Isles (SOAS) and no copies of the first, in the Islands, and subsequently failing to take published in 1889. A handsome account of Egypt focusing on the Cape, Johnstone gained a consolation victory at Saldanha. its Christian monuments and heritage, written by a Jesuit priest Johnstone himself then returned to England, but sent a detach- from Lyon who lived in Egypt from 1883 until his death in 1911, ment to the East Indies station under Captain James Alms. The serving as rector at the Collège de la Sainte-famille in Cairo, and detachment sailed along the Arabian coast from Bab al-Mandab also in Alexandria. to a bay near Mocha, where a landing-party acquired provisions £125 [110079] from local Arabs. The ships then anchored off Ra’s Marbat near Mukalla to carry out repairs before sailing for India, encounter- ing heavy winds at the mouth of Persian Gulf which drove them 171 towards the Persian coast. James also briefly describes the Red JUVAYNI, ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata’ Malik bin Muhammad. The Sea and its marine life – “some of the most curious prodigies History of the World-Conqueror. Translated from the of nature” (p. 56), including what appears to have been a type of text of Mirza Muhammad Qazvini by John Andrew Boyle. catfish. There was a variant imprint the same year, undated and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1958 with a list of subscribers. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With the Arcadian Library 10515; Brunet 20015, 20645; Gay 3579; Macro 1304; SABIB, dust jackets. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpapers. Ex- II, 668. tremities lightly bumped. A very good set in the dust jackets with slight- ly spotted spines, and a short closed tear to that of vol. 1. £3,000 [117608] first edition in english of the Ta’rikh-i Jahan-Gushay, Ju- vayni’s canonical account of the career of Genghis Khan and his 170 successors Ögedei, Möngke, and Hülegü. Written between 1252 JULLIEN, M[ichel]. L’Egypte. Souvenirs bibliques et and 1260, it was “the first major historical work to be written in chrétiens. Lille: Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie, for the Société de Persian in the Mongol period, and an invaluable source on the Saint Augustin, 1891 formation of the Mongol Empire and its early administration Large octavo (260 × 175 mm). Original red cloth, spine and front board in Persia by someone who observed or participated in some of elaborately lettered and decorated with floral panels in various colours, these momentous developments” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The rear board panel-stamped in black, all edges gilt, grey endpapers. En- foreword is by Steven Runciman. graved with 4 maps of which one double-page, one plate, 38 illustrations £150 [113715]

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172 KAPLUN, Adrian Vladimirovic. Bukhara. Avtolitografii (autolithographs). [Moscow?:] N.I.I. [Research Institute] V.A.Kh. Kabinet Graphiki [Drawing Office], 1936 Original grey-brown card wrappers (320 240 mm), lithographed vignette, and author “signature” signature to the front panel, imprint details to the lower panel. Housed in black morocco-backed, box, title in silver to spine, pale golden moiré silk boards with a composite of the title and one of Kaplun’s images to the front panel, Uzbek-style woven ribbon-lift with bright metal aiglet. Lithographically printed title page with vignette, and 7 plates, each signed and titled by Kaplun in pencil. Wrappers slightly browned at the edges, small splash mark to the front panel, light resto- ration to spine, contents also lightly browned, small inked stamp inside and out of the lower panel of the wrappers, overall very good. first and only edition, this numbered 26 of 100 copies on the title. No other copy of this extremely uncommon collection of appealing images of Uzbekistan in the early 20th century has been traced. 172 Kaplun Adrian Vladimirovich (1887–1974) was born in Perm, studying first at the Perm State Technical College (1904–5) and subsequently at the Central Stroganov School of Technical Draw- ing in Moscow (1905–6) and Baron Alexander Stieglitz’s Central School of Technical Drawing of in St Petersburg (1906–12). He spent some time in Paris around the time of the outbreak of the Great War, returning to Leningrad in 1920 and becoming a mem- ber of the Leningrad Regional Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSHa) and the influential Mir iskusstva (World of Art) group. A master of a wide range of printmaking processes, he worked as an illustrator and issued a number of regional albums similar to this one, cover- ing Georgia and the Crimea. Kaplun exhibited widely, contributing to exhibitions both within the – Moscow, Leningrad, Perm, Bukhara, Samarkand – and beyond, including the first exhibition of Russian art at the Van Diemen Gallery in Berlin (1922), a travelling exhibition of Rus- sian art that toured North America (1924–5), exhibitions of Soviet 172

106 Peter Harrington 133 173 174 art in Winterthur (1929) and Konigsberg (1932), and an exhibition 174 of Soviet graphic arts in Chicago (1932–3). Between 1927 and 1937 KENNEDY, E[dward] S. A Survey of Islamic Astronomical he worked as an editor at Izogiz, the agitprop visual arts publishers in Moscow. His works are represented in the State Russian Muse- Tables. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1956 um, the Pushkin State Museum, and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Quarto. Original brown card wrappers printed in black. Frequent di- agrams and tables to the text. Rear panel a touch sunned, top corner £6,500 [115202] lightly bumped. A very good copy. first edition of this valuable monograph surveying “the 173 number, distribution, contents and relations between zij [astro- KEANE, John Fryer. My Journey to Medinah: Describing nomical tables] written in Arabic or Persian . . . from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries of the Christian era” (p. 123), this a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the Author copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, disguised as a Mohammedan. London: Tinsley Bros., 1881 with his ownership inscription dated “Stanford 1960” to the Octavo. Original mid-blue sand-grained cloth with title gilt to spine, front panel. and gilt device to the front board, decorative frieze in black running across top and tail of boards and spine, floral-patterned endpapers in £50 [104057] sanguine. Just a little rubbed, mild string notch to the top edges of the boards. An excellent copy. 175 first edition. The son of a Yorkshire clergyman, Keane ran away to sea at 12, spending some time on a collier brig. “By the KENYON, Kathleen M., & T. A. Holland. Excavation at age of 18 he had acquired a second mate’s certificate. He claimed Jericho. Jerusalem: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, to have become a certified officer in the P&O line and between 1960–83 1873 and 1877 to have taken voyages to the Black Sea, the Arctic 6 volumes, quarto. Original red buckram, title gilt to spines. Profusely and China, and to have worked on a sugar plantation in British illustrated with plates, maps and plans, some folding, and illustrations Guiana” (Howgego). In 1877 he presented himself to the Brit- to the text, volume III with a separate plate volume, Spine of volume II a ish Consul at Jiddah, and informed him of his intention to visit little sunned, otherwise very good. Mecca. This he did under the name of Haj Mohammed Khan, complete set in first editions of the excavation report on “wandering the streets quite freely in a bright white tunic and a the oldest continuously occupied city in the world. Kenyon’s huge turban”. However, after a number of close calls he proceeded painstaking work with the ceramic assemblages at the site led to to Medina, spending “ten days in the city itself ”, subsequently a revolution in stratigraphical techniques. returning Britain “to write up his journey, told in such an enter- £650 [73578] taining style that it amply compensates for the author’s lack of conventional scholarly attainments”. Howgego IV, K4; Macro 1346. £1,500 [98733]

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176 KEPPEL, George. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England. By Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh. In the Year 177 1824. London: Henry Colburn, 1827 Quarto (275 × 213 mm). Twentieth-century orange half calf by Bayntun, map loose. A good copy, with the publisher’s 40-page catalogue at the matching cloth sides, raised bands to spine, compartments lettered end, dated February 1874. or decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Hand-coloured first edition, scarce. “The Daily Telegraph’s special corre- lithographic frontispiece and two similar plates, engraved folding map, illustrations to the text. From the library of British Arabist and colonial spondent in Khiva and later noted as a prolific author of stories agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his for boys . . . Ker (1842–1914) left England in early March 1873 widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and and travelled via St Petersburg to the Black Sea and on to Tiflis, associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Tips whence ‘my real journey commences’. It is this eventful journey rubbed, small ink-spot to title, a few trivial marks. A very good copy. from Orenburg via the border forts of Kazalinsk and Perovskii first edition, “an interesting book” (ODNB). Keppel (1799– to Turkestan, Tashkent, and Samarkand that forms the sub- 1891), who had fought at Waterloo before serving in Mauritius stance of his book” (Cross). Sent to report on von Kaufman’s and the Cape, was ordered to India in 1821. “There he served as operations against Khiva, Ker travelled “with a passport as a aide-de-camp to the governor-general, the marquess of Hast- ings, but on Hastings’s resignation in 1823 he obtained leave to return home overland” (ibid.) He sailed from Bombay in January 1824 and landed at Muscat, where he he obtained an audience with the Imam (“we took our leave, as much struck with the Imaum’s handsome person, as we were pleased at his polite and unaffected address”). After a brief visit to Muttrah he sailed for Basrah, noting a “beautiful view of Cape Musendom” and a brief landfall at Kharg Island. He subsequently visited the ruins of Babylon and the court of Tehran, from there continuing to England by way of Baku, Astrakhan, Moscow, and St Petersburg, then a rare achievement. Not in Abbey; Arcadian Library 12053; Blackmer 908 for the third edition; Burrell 434; Ghani p. 206. £1,750 [117610]

177 KER, David. On the Road to Khiva. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874 Octavo. Original brown pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, dark green surface paper endpapers. 7 mounted photographic plates, folding co- loured map. Spine evenly toned, rear inner joint split but sound, folding 177

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United States citizen, so as to evade the regulation framed by inspection of Arabia which defines that other world by carefully the Russian government prohibiting Englishmen from entering recording the minutiae of Mecca and the hajj, the text providing the newly-conquered territories of Central Asia” (Marvin, Recon- the British reader with a spyglass scrutiny of Arab religious life noitring in Central Asia, p. 97). and customs . . . a curious concoction of personal experiences of a Muslim on the hajj . . . distilled by an English co-author” Cross I108; Ghani p. 207; Yakushi K125. (Canton, From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia, p. 28). £1,250 [109901] Macro 1354.

178 £750 [79281] KHAN, Gazanfar Ali, & Wilfrid Sparroy. With the 179 Pilgrims to Mecca. The Great Pilgrimage of a.h. 1319; a.d. 1902. With an Introduction by Professor A. Vambery. KHAN, Sultan Mahomed (ed.) The Life of Abdur London: John Lane, 1905 Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan. London: John Murray, 1900 Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine with turban and crossed 2 volumes, octavo. Original tan cloth, titles and leaf-form motifs to scimitar devices to compartments and to front board within a panel spines and front boards in red and two shades of blue, top edges gilt, formed of a Qu’ranic amulet and cord in red, gilt, and green, top edge others untrimmed. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, large gilt, the others uncut. Frontispiece and 19 other plates, errata slip tipped folding map (72 × 87.5 cm) in pocket to rear of vol. 1, smaller folding in before the dedication leaf. A little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, map bound in to rear of vol. 2. Book label of A. C. Wombwell of The Firs, head of spine chipped, tail with minor splitting, some spotting on the Newbury to the front pastedowns, and contemporary bookseller’s ticket boards, endpapers lightly browned, text toned and with occasional of William George’s Son, Bristol, to that of vol. 1. Spines darkened and foxing, as usual, frontispiece coming loose, contemporary ownership at extremities very slightly frayed, rear boards lightly marked, mild spot- inscription to verso of the frontispiece and to title page, bookplate to ting to edges, prelims, and very occasionally to the text, inner hinges of front pastedown, remains a very good copy. vol. 1 split but holding. A very good copy. first edition. An uncommon and attractive account of the first edition. Abdur Rahman (b. 1840) became emir of Af- hajj. “The early 20th century saw a growth of British travel texts ghanistan in 1880 following Ayub Khan’s defeat in the Second and religious commentaries concerned with the religion of Afghan War, holding the throne until his death in 1901. Ac- Arabia. It was in this vein that in 1902 the Morning Post sent its cording to the publisher’s note, Sultan Mahomed Khan, state ‘Special Correspondent’ Hadji Khan, a Persian Sufi, on the hajj secretary (mir munshi) to Abdur Rahman, translated the first few to Mecca. His experiences were written up . . . under the guid- chapters directly from Abdur Rahman’s Persian manuscript. ance of Wilfrid Sparroy. The result was a travelogue that detailed These recount his early life, imprisonment in Russian Turkes- the various components of the hajj and Meccan life for a British tan, and accession to the emirate. The retaining chapters, cover- readership . . . The narrative is precise and exact as though for ing the consolidation of his rule, were dictated directly to Sultan an audience who may wish to use the information to find their Mahomed Khan. way amongst the markets of Mecca the next time they visit. Of £325 [116134] course few, if any, of the readership will ever visit Mecca . . . An

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180 181 KIRKE, Robert. A Sketch of the Case and Sufferings of KNOLLES, Richard. The Turkish History, Mr. Robert Kirke, His Majesty’s Late Consul at Algiers. comprehending The Origin of that Nation, and the [together with;] Copies of Several Affidavits, taken as Part Growth of the Othoman Empire, with the Lives and of Consul Kirke’s Justification, in pursuance of his Grace Conquests of thir Several Kings and Emperors. Written the Duke of Richmond’s Letter dated Whitehall, 28th July, by Mr. Knolls, continued by Sir Paul Rycaut to the Peace 1766, Appendix, pa. 51. London: [ for the author,] 1781 of Carlowitz in the Year 1699 and abridg’d by Mr. Savage. 2 volumes, octavo (219 × 129 mm). Matching near-contemporary tree calf, Revised and Approved by the late Sir Paul Rycaut, and label renewed, gilt edelweiss tools in the compartments, helical twist pan- adorn’d with Nine and Twenty Copper Plates of the el to boards, marbled endpapers. The first somewhat rubbed, restoration Effigies of the Several Princes, &c. The Second Edition to extremities, the second front joint cracked towards the tail, but hold- ing, text lightly toned, very good. carefully Corrected, Improv’d and brought down to first and only edition of the first-named (extremely uncom- the Present Year 1704. With and Addition of the Life of mon: Copac lists only three copies, OCLC adds just Harvard); the Mahomet, by the same Author. London: Isaac Cleave, Abel second entirely unrecorded. This is a meticulously documented Roper, A. Bosvile, and Ric. Basset, 1704 appeal for restitution for expenses incurred during Kirke’s brief, 2 volumes, octavo (193 × 120 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, tan ill-starred incumbency (1764–5) as consul at Algiers, the supple- morocco labels, low bands framed by double fillets in gilt, similar pan- ment adding further to the evidence. els to boards, edges sprinkled red. Portrait frontispiece of Paul Rycaut Each volume has the Stratton Street library bookplate with du- to volume I, that of John Savage to volume II, 24 other portraits. Slightly rubbed, front joints cracked but holding, slight chipping at the heads of cal coronet of Harriot, Duchess of St Albans to front pastedown the spines, tan-burn to the front pastedowns, light browning through- – formerly the “darling of the frivolous London stage”; mistress, out and occasional marginal soiling, but overall a very good set. then wife of Thomas Coutts, one of the wealthiest men in Britain; First published in the present form in 1687. A pretty copy of this Harriot became a successful businesswoman in her own right be- attractive and uncommon abridgement of this classic, Knolles’s fore her subsequent marriage to the ninth Duke of St Albans. “the greatest of English works of the dealing with £2,000 [89640] Turkey” (Chew, p. 111) and Rycaut’s work a “fitting adjunct to Knolles’s great work in a publication that brings together the two men most associated in the English literary world with Tur- key” (Blackmer). £1,500 [112669]

182 KOTZEBUE, Moritz von. Narrative of a Journey into Persia, in the Suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the Year 1817. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819 180

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Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Recent half calf on marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Uncoloured aquatint frontispiece “with a basis in line and stipple” (Abbey) and 4 uncoloured aquatint plates. Embossed library stamp to the title page only, mild browning, else a very good, clean copy. first edition in english. Kotzebue, son of the playwright August von Kotzebue and a captain on the staff of the Russian army, travelled to Persia in 1817 as part of a Russian embassy to the encampment of Fatih Ali Shah. On its publication by his father this journal was extremely well received, being read with “keen interest” by Goethe who had recently published his Orien- talist West-östlicher Divan. Abbey Travel 390. £950 [39053]

183 [LA ROQUE, Jean de.] A Voyage to Arabia Foelix, by way of the Eastern Ocean, and the Streights of the Red Sea, 183 being the First made by the French in the Years 1708, 1709, and 1710. Together with a Particular Account of curiosity until 1699 when emissaries of Sultan Mohammed IV a Journey from Mocha to . . . the Court of the King of came to Paris bringing with them sacks of the curious bean. By Yaman . . . Also a Narrative concerning the Tree and Fruit the time the ambassadors departed in May 1670 coffee-drinking of Coffee. Collected from the Observations of those who had become widespread” (Howgego). La Roque had made an made the last Voyage; and an Historical Treatise of the extensive study of Oriental languages, but had never travelled Original and Progress of Coffee . . . To which is added, further than the Levant. However he saw an article in “the new Mercury printed at Trevoux” which gave an account of a voyage An Account of the Captivity of Sir Henry Middleton at of 1708–10 to Arabia, and made contact with the commander Mokha, by the Turks, in the Year 1612, and his Journey of the voyage, Godefroy de la Merveille, working up an account from thence to Zenan, or Sanaa, the Capital of the from de Merveille’s letters and papers and those of Major de la Kingdom of Yaman . . . London: E. Symon, 1732 Grelaudière and M. Barbier, the ship’s surgeon, relating to the Octavo (195 × 119 mm) Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked subsequent voyage. The intention of these missions had been to style with red morocco label. 2 folding engraved plates of the coffee “to intercept the trade in coffee before the beans reached the plant at the rear, woodcut initials and headpieces. Somewhat rubbed, markets of Egypt and Turkey”. To this La Roque appended an professional restoration at the board edges, light browning, a very good extensively-researched essay on the botany and cultivation of copy. coffee and his historical overview of the spread of the beverage. second and preferred edition in english (the first was This is widely seen as the first scholarly treatise on the subject, in 1726, some ten years after the first French). La Roque’s fa- and from La Roque’s standpoint was an excellent promotional ther, a Marseilles merchant, had travelled with Jean de la Haye’s ploy. The present edition also includes an account of Sir Henry Turkish embassy of 1639–41, then on to the Levant bringing Middleton’s period of captivity as a hostage in Yemen. back coffee and coffee-making equipment, “which he kept for his own use in Turkey [and which] passed then for a real cu- Atabey 673 for the French first; Gay 3680; Howgego I, L30; Macro 1426 riosity in France . . . The drink remained something of a local £2,750 [95184]

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The first illustrated account of Petra the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds (1799–1883), then in the service of Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha. The two Frenchmen decided 184 to set up an expedition to the site of Petra with a view to making LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l’Arabie pétrée. Paris: drawings of the monuments there, and travelled by way of Suez Giard, 1830 and Mount Sinai in local dress. Burckhardt (1812) and the team Folio (575 × 400 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides of Irby and Mangles (1817–17) had already visited the ancient ruled in gilt, gilt-tooled flat bands to spine forming compartments, Nabataean capital, but Laborde was the first traveller to spend titles direct to second gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved enough time in the area in order to record his observations in calligraphic title-page with lithographic vignette mounted on india the form of plans, views and maps, which remained the only vi- paper, 45 engravings to the text, and 69 plates comprising 101 discrete sual representations of Petra available to Western scholars until images: 44 single lithographs, mounted, of which the El Oueber plate Roberts’s Holy Land (1842–5). hand-coloured; 10 plates with 2 lithographs to single mounted sheet, 3 plates of 2 lithographs, one mounted and other direct to the plate; 3 Blackmer 929; not in Abbey, Atabey or Burrell. plates with multiple lithographs, 3 double-page lithographic plates, 4 engraved plates containing multiple images including map with Labor- £19,500 [107973] de’s route in colour, and large folding engraved map to rear. Armorial bookplate of Scottish collector John Waldie of Hendersyde (1781–1862) with his hand-numbered shelfmark label to front pastedown. Joints and board-edges skilfully restored, morocco sunned to tan in places, front free endpaper creased, pale tide-mark to gutter of a few early leaves, light spotting to half-title and folding map and to margins of a small number of plates, only encroaching on a few of the unmounted images, hinges of double-page plates sometime reinforced. An excellent copy, internally bright and fresh, with rich impressions of the plates. first edition of “an important work” (Blackmer), extensively illustrated with lithographs, with a lengthy introductory essay on different aspects of the region, including travel, pilgrim routes, and trade. In 1826 the 17-year-old de Laborde (1809–1869) travelled with his father across Asia Minor and Syria to Cairo, where he met 184

112 Peter Harrington 133 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 113 focus of rising discontent, but the Englishman foolishly believed that he would be able to talk his way out of the situation. Lal es- caped the ensuing bloodbath, continuing to supply information from the Afghan capital. In 1844 he visited Scotland to return some papers to the Burnes family, the Montrose Review describing him then in glow- ing, if condescending, terms: “He is a very handsome man, of 28 years; and, when arrayed in the costly and gorgeous costume of his country, affords a favourable specimen of the Asiatic. But this is the least of his merits: his countenance beams with intel- ligence, and his intercourse with Europeans has enabled him to adapt himself, with perfect tact, to all their habits and modes of thinking, so that he can sustain with ease and propriety his part in any general conversation. We understand he has been urgent- ly recalled to London.” He remained in London for some time, the present work being written there and dedicated with per- mission to Queen Victoria, but he never received the recognition from the British government that he felt he deserved. As a result of his service in Muslim countries, he had been excommunicat- ed by the Kashmiri Pandit community, eventually converting to Islam. He died an isolated and embittered man in Delhi in 1877.

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186 Key source for the First Afghan War LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. A Pilgrimage to the 185 Holy Land; comprising recollections, sketches, and LAL, Mohan. Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of reflections, made during a tour in the East, in 1832–33. Kabul: With his Political Proceedings towards the English, Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Richard Russian, and Persian Governments, including the Victory Bentley; Charles Gosselin, Paris, 1836 and Disasters of the British Army in Afghanistan. London: 3 volumes, octavo (200 × 119 mm). Uncut in the original boards, paper ti- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 tle labels to spines. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of Lamartine . Rub- bing to corners and joints and some chipping to spine ends, two splits 2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s green fine-combed cloth, title gilt to to spine of volume one, but an unsophisticated copy, largely unopened, spines, blind panelling and central lozenge to boards, mid-cream sur- with the publisher’s advertisements at the beginning of volume I (12 pp, face-paper endpapers. 19 lithographic portraits, printed on India paper dated September 1836) and the end of volume III (2 pp). and mounted. Very slightly rubbed, some offsetting from the plates, but overall a superb set in the original cloth. second edition in english of Lamartine’s Voyage en Orient, first published in English in 1835, the same year as the French first edition of perhaps the key source for political and dip- original. The translation has been ascribed to a “Miss Hill” (see lomatic background to the First Afghan War. Mohan Lal was Hilal al-Hajiri, British Travel Writing on Oman: Orientalism Reap- “Bokhara” Burnes’s most important intelligence operative, trav- praised, 2006, p. 30). elling extensively in Persia and Afghanistan and running a string of agents for the British. In 1841, as the situation in Kabul be- Blackmer 943. came critical, Lal tried to warn Burnes of the fact that he was the £350 [83339]

187 LAWRENCE, T. E., & C. Leonard Woolley. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1914–1915. The Wilderness of Zin. (Archaeological Report.) With a Chapter on the Greek Inscriptions by M. N. Tod. London: by order of the Committee, 1915 Quarto. Original dark blue quarter cloth, grey boards, titles to spine gilt and to front board in black. 37 plates to rear with tissue-guards laid in, several plans and illustrations to the text of which 7 full-page and one folding. Slightly sunned overall, corners bumped and rubbed, a few faint scuff- marks to boards, light spotting to edges and endpapers. A very good copy. first edition, first issue binding with the full stop after

185 the date on the spine. During January and February 1914 Law-

114 Peter Harrington 133 187 188 rence and Leonard Woolley (the archaeologist who would later assistant director of transportation to the EEF and has signed his excavate Ur), together with a British Army surveying detach- name to this effect on the front free endpaper; he has also taped ment, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula. The in and annotated a brief obituary of Sir George Barrow. Negev was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and the survey was a A Brief Record is a thorough account of the advance of the EEF military venture in the guise of an archaeological expedition, from July 1917 and the end of October 1918, containing many preparation for the war the British believed was imminent. articles, two of which (the explanatory sections on the verso of Publication in the respected academic journal of the Palestine the plates facing 49–50, “Sherifian Co-operation in September”, Exploration Fund was a whitewash to disguise the military na- and 51–53, “Story of the Arab Movement”) are by T. E. Lawrence, ture of the undertaking. The Wilderness of Zin was Lawrence’s first though unattributed. These were compiled from his notes writ- work to appear in book form. ten originally for the Arab Bureau, which, along with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times, are Lawrence’s first published O’Brien A004 C. accounts of the Arab campaign. The Preface states that this re- £750 [108832] cord was created so that “members of that Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance 188 in which they played a part”. (LAWRENCE, T. E.) A Brief Record of The Advance of the O’Brien A011. Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of £4,000 [114471] General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and Published by The Palestine News. Cairo: produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919 Quarto. Original sand-coloured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black, front cover lettered in black, drab grey-green endpapers. Linen-mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of Allenby (with facsimile signature), 56 coloured plates (complete: plate 1 explanation of symbols used and 55 campaign and operational maps). A little rubbed and bumped, some foxing front and back, text pages a touch toned, internal binding as touch open between the text section and maps, but overall a very good copy. first edition, cloth-bound issue, more commonly found in buff paper wrappers, O’Brien commenting that only “a few copies” were bound in cloth. A “collaborator’s copy” bearing the name of Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Badcock on the official compli- ments slip pasted to the front free endpaper, which is signed by the editor Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Pirie-Gordon. Badcock was 188

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The Cranwell edition, one of 170 complete copies, with tions called for on pages 92 and 208, nor the Blair Hughes-Stan- association correspondence between TEL and his subscriber ton wood engraving illustrating the dedicatory poem, which is found in only five copies. However, it does include the “Prickly 189 Pear” plate, not called for in the list of illustrations. LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. This handsome and beautifully preserved copy is accom- [London: privately printed by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson,] panied by a clutch of related correspondence concerning 1926 Lawrence’s “big book” from the original subscriber, Mrs Colin Campbell. Nancy Leiter, daughter of the Chicago financier and Quarto (250 × 188 mm). Original tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and philanthropist Levi Z. Leiter, had married Major Colin Powys ruled, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Housed in a custom quarter green morocco box. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Campbell, formerly Central Indian Horse, in 1904. Nancy’s elder Augustus John, many in colour or tinted, 4 of them double-page, by Eric sister Mary was married to Lord Curzon and her younger sister Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Daisy became Countess of Suffolk, making them three of the Nash and others; 4 folding linen-backed coloured maps (that is, 2 maps most prominent “Dollar Princesses” of the period. duplicated, rather than the 3 maps mistakenly called for by O’Brien); 58 illustrations in text, one coloured, by Roberts, Nash, Kenning, Blair a) LAWRENCE, T. E. Autograph letter signed (“Yours very Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others; historiated initials truly, T. E. Shaw, used to be Lawrence”), dated Cranwell, by Edward Wadsworth printed in red and black. Provenance: Nancy Lincolnshire, England, 16 September 1926. Two pages, recto Campbell, the original subscriber, her bookplate on flyleaf, together and verso of a single octavo leaf, with the original mailing with correspondence from T. E. Lawrence, Manning Pike, and Pierce C. envelope addressed in Lawrence’s hand. Lawrence is plainly Joyce; Barbara Hutton (1912–1979) heiress to Frank Winfield Woolworth, trying to win a subscriber, but his tone is almost hostile and ownership inscription on flyleaf: “Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow 1941”. disparaging of his own book: “owing to a misunderstanding, one of the cranwell or subscriber’s edition of 211 cop- I had to offer to accept two clients of Messrs Sotheran as ies, this one of 170 “complete copies”, inscribed by Lawrence on subscribers for the limited edition of my reprinted war-book p. XIX “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES”, with his manuscript correc- . . . Sotherans in reply gave me your name and another. I tion to the illustration list, a “K” identifying Kennington rather have delayed to write until the date of publication was rea- than Roberts as the artist responsible for “The gad-fly”; page XV sonably certain. . . . It will not inconvenience me in the least mispaginated as VIII; and with neither the two Paul Nash illustra-

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(quite the contrary!) if you decide not to take your copy. The Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Shaw (O’Brien A039, 200 copies), book costs thirty guineas: is very long, and rather dull”. present here, and discussing the customs declaration for Seven Pillars at 30 guineas. b) JOYCE, Pierce C. Two substantial autograph letters signed from Colonel Pierce C. Joyce, a friend of Mrs Campbell and d) CAMPBELL, Nancy. Two manuscript drafts: the first a two- her late husband, and a key player in the Arab Revolt. Joyce page letter, signed (“N. Campbell, Mrs. Colin Campbell”) to was a Boer War veteran, and was on staff at Cairo from 1907. T. E. Lawrence (“Sir”), Campbell Ranch, Goleta, California, “Joyce took command of the British base at Rabegh in De- 30 October [1926], writing of her excitement at being a sub- cember 1916 and would later command at Aqaba. From here scriber – “Thank you very much for allowing me to have the he became the main logistical organiser of logistical arrange- privilege of subscribing”; the second a three-page autograph ments for Lawrence’s expeditions into Syria and Palestine. letter signed (“N.C.”) to Messrs Manning Pike, on letterhead Joyce was later appointed as head of the British Military of the Drake Hotel, Chicago, undated, arranging shipping of Mission to the Northern Arab Army” (Murphy, The Arab Revolt her copy of Seven Pillars. 1916–18, p. 17). The first letter was written from Baghdad, 28 Clements p. 49 (stating that “only about 100 copies were produced at 30 December 1925, 8 pages with original envelope: “A man just guineas each”); O’Brien A040. from England came in to see us yesterday & tells me he hears Lawrence is about to destroy all existing copies of his book & £80,000 [92941] rewrite it again this year or next – worse than ever!” Joyce also tells Mrs Campbell about the forthcoming book, and how he wrote to Lawrence “and demanded a copy of his book as be- ing his chief supporter in the Arabian gamble”. Joyce figures prominently in Seven Pillars and there is a portrait of him by Dobson, which Joyce disliked, as he notes in the second letter dated Galway, 12 October 1927, 3 pag- es: “I should like to kill Frank Dobson for his Hogarthian drawing of myself & yet when I met him the other day the homicidal initiative was lacking! . . . I love your enthusiasm over ‘The Seven Pillars,’ if you could only have seen nature’s setting to the pictures he paints in his beautiful English it would have been the ideal”. c) PIKE, Roy Manning, printer of the 1926 Seven Pillars. Two letters, signed (“Manning Pike”), from London, the first a typed letter, 8 [August] 1927, one page, about shipping; the second, an autograph letter, 15 August 1927, one page, en- closing a second copy of Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven 189

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190 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Quarto. Publisher’s tan quarter pigskin on sand buckram boards, title gilt to spine, crossed swords device gilt to front board, Cockerell mar- 191 bled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With a portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, many of them in colour, and 4 folding maps. Armorial Large octavo (250 × 190 mm). Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bookplate to front pastedown. An extremely well-preserved copy, the vignette to front board gilt, top edge brown, others untrimmed. With the spine showing none of the flaking often encountered, cloth unspotted, dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, 47 plates and 8 line-drawings to the text the joints and hinges entirely sound, just a touch of foxing to the fore- by Kennington et al.; 4 folding maps. Errata leaf laid in. Extremities very edge with minor encroachment to the margin, contemporary gift in- lightly bumped. An excellent copy in the chipped dust jacket. scription verso of the front free endpaper, a very good copy. first trade edition, presentation copy from the prin- first trade edition, limited issue, number 691 of of 750 cipal illustrator and art-editor of Seven Pillars, inscribed numbered copies. on the half-title “To R. Hood from Eric H. Kennington. Aug. 3 O’Brien A041. 1935”; Kennington was also a “close friend and defender of Law- rence” (ODNB). This first regularly-published edition is charac- £2,000 [89795] terized by O’Brien as the “Third English Edition” followed the Oxford Times proof of 1922 (of which there were only eight copies printed) and the 1926 Cranwell edition (see item !!! above). O’Brien A042. £1,500 [106232]

192 LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927

190 Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, title gilt to spine, tan buckram sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured plates, 8 black and white plates, folding map at rear. A little Inscribed by Kennington rubbing to spine ends; an excellent, bright copy. first edition, large paper issue, number 140 of 315 num- 191 bered copies, of which 300 were for sale. The costs for production LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom (see item !!! above) had bal- London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 looned to such an extent that Lawrence was contemplating selling

118 Peter Harrington 133 192 193 either his library or some of his property to clear the debt. Eventu- was officially published in March 1927, though Kennington’s ally he settled on the publication of an abridgement, undertaken inscription in this copy indicates that the book had already in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of some of his fellow reached its third impression before this date. All three of these servicemen, an earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set apparently pre-publication impressions were soon sold out, and aside. Published in March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in two more were quickly added. both limited and general issues, three impressions were soon sold O’Brien A102. out and two more quickly added. The profits from this publica- tion made the fortunes of the Cape publishing house. £1,250 [116543] O’Brien A101. £2,000 [115343]

193 LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927 Quarto. Original tan buckram, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind, top edge red-brown, fore and bottom edges un- trimmed. With the dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black, por- trait frontispiece, 15 further plates by Augustus John, Eric Kennington and others, laid-in tissue guards, folding map printed in red and black to rear. Spine gently rolled, tips lightly bumped, a few trivial marks to covers, small portion of cockling to rear. A very good, clean copy in the slightly chipped and soiled dust jacket. first edition, third impression. presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator “To Brendy, Feb. 22. 1927, from Eric H. Kennington” on the front free endpaper, with an original sketch by Kennington of a baby’s face with a halo and angel wings. With a laid-in slip of Kennington’s letterhead inscribed by his wife Celandine “To dear Brendy with ever-growing love & gratitude from Eric & Celandine Ap[ril] 1927”, and Celandine’s transcription of Lawrence’s dedicatory poem to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, “To S.A.”, on the title verso. Kennington was the art editor for the Cranwell edition of the Seven Pillars (1926) and contributed seven of the portraits repro- duced in Revolt in the Desert (see previous item). The abridgement 193

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194 lished in the UK in the previous year, this is a limited edition of LAWRENCE, T. E. Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce 56 copies printed to protect copyright in the US. Rogers; [with] — More Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce O’Brien A191. Rogers. Mount Vernon, NY: Bruce Rogers, 1933–6 £1,250 [69359] 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spines. Spines per- haps a touch sunned, front endpapers of both a little discoloured from clippings no longer present, small marks to front pastedowns where 196 labels removed, but overall very good indeed. LAWRENCE, T. E. An Essay on Flecker. [London:] Corvinus first and only editions, presentation copies, each in- Press 1937 scribed by Rogers to his friend and confidante Henry L. Bullen, Folio (290 × 200 mm). Original white buckram, title gilt to front board, the librarian of the Typographic Library and Museum of the top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the plain paper dust jacket. American Type Founders Company. The first volume, limited to Pastonschi types on J. B. Green unsized parchment paper, rectos only. 200 copies only, was printed by William Edwin Rudge from type Head of spine very lightly bumped, faint toning to free endpapers. An set by Bertha M. Goudy; the second set and printed by Rogers excellent copy in the dust jacket chipped at the spine ends and with closed tears along joints. himself in an edition of 300 copies only. “This short collection of . . . letters [was] issued privately . . . Many of the copies are first edition, number 28 of 30 copies only, of which nine are signed by Rogers who apparently gave them as gifts. The letters now held in institutions. An Essay on Flecker, written in 1925 and are for the most part those written by Lawrence during the peri- intended for publication in a literary journal, is “significant as od he was translating The Odyssey and are of major importance in the first edition of one of Lawrence’s important minor works”’ relation to that work . . . Most of the letters are not contained in (Nash and Flavell). Viscount Carlow, founder of the Corvinus The Letters of T. E. Lawrence” (O’Brien). Press, noted on the slipcase of one of his own copies that “this book was printed to cover the copyright of certain documents O’Brien A160 & A165. that were stolen. No copies are in general circulation” (ibid.) £2,500 [74490] Flecker (1884–1915), a playwright, poet and diplomatist, met Lawrence while working as British vice-consul in Beirut before 195 the war. “In Lawrence he found not only a friend but an admirer. Lawrence was deeply impressed by Flecker’s poetry, the best of LAWRENCE, T. E. Crusader Castles. The Letters. With a which was written after Flecker was exposed to the color and Preface by Mrs Lawrence. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran drama of eastern life, and felt as much at home in the Fleckers’ & Company, Inc., 1937 apartment in Beirut as he would a few years later in that of Ron- Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Wrappers and con- tents very lightly toned. An excellent copy. first u.s. edition, containing the letters Lawrence wrote to his mother while travelling in England, Wales, France, Syria, and Palestine researching Crusader architecture. Originally pub-

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120 Peter Harrington 133 196 197 ald Storrs, in Cairo” (Korda, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence limited edition, number 663 of 1,000 numbered copies, of Arabia, online). It has also been speculated that the pair also printed in Eric Gill’s Perpetua type on handmade paper. “The shared an interest in sadomasochism. Flecker’s eastern sojourn majority of Lawrence’s contributions to the Arab Bulletin are pub- resulted in his “best-known book of poetry” (ODNB), The Golden lished in this volume. In addition to these items, ‘Syrian Cross Journey to Samarkand, published in 1913, two years before his Currents’, previously unpublished, is included; this was taken death from tuberculosis. There was an American edition of 56 from a manuscript on Arab Bureau paper” (O’Brien). The Arab copies printed later the same year to secure copyright – a utili- Bureau’s secret bulletin was first issued in June 1916 with a circu- tarian production bound in paper wrappers. lation of 26 copies only. Nash and Flavell 15; O’Brien A198. O’Brien A226. £5,750 [117161] £600 [113841]

197 LAWRENCE, T. E. Eight Letters from T.E.L. Privately printed [ for H Granville Barker], 1939 Small octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. From the estate of Sir Michael Newton with his bookplates to the inside of the front wrap- per. Some minor spotting throughout but an excellent copy. first edition, one of 50 copies only. O’Brien A217. £1,250 [35283]

198 LAWRENCE, T. E. Secret Despatches from Arabia. Published by permission of the Foreign Office. Foreword by A. W. Lawrence. [Waltham St Lawrence:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1939 Octavo. Original black quarter niger by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (their ink-stamp to front pastedown), raised bands, second and third com- partments gilt-lettered direct, cream cloth sides, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Collotype frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. Sides slightly marked, mild spotting to deckle edges as usual, crisp and fresh internal- ly. A very good copy. 198

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199 201 (LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in (LAWRENCE, T. E.) WALPOLE, Hugh. Seven Pillars Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. of Wisdom. T. E. Lawrence in Life and Death. With an New and definitive edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 Introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Bertram Rota, 2 volumes, large octavo (247 × 184 mm). Contemporary blue crushed half 1985 morocco for Hatchards, raised bands, gilt-lettered compartments, blue Octavo. Stitched in original manila light card wrappers in French-fold cloth sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, light blue endpapers. Title wrapper with mounted illustration to the front panel. A very good copy. pages printed in red & black, half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates of which 2 folding, 2 large folding coloured maps showing Dough- first edition, number 58 of 100 copies only, “published to ty’s routes, illustrations to the text. Spines sunned, sides lightly rubbed commemorate the 50th anniversary of T. E. Lawrence’s death.” and marked, morocco on vol. 2 front board irregularly faded, contents The cover illustration is of an unpublished sketch of Lawrence toned, adhesive-marking to endpapers, closed tears to folding map stubs just encroaching on border of images. A very good copy. new and definitive edition, first impression. Doughty’s masterpiece was first published in 1888, “an unrivalled ency- clopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of 19th-century and earlier Arabia” (ODNB). Lawrence was instrumental in getting the second English edition published and his introduction first appeared in that edition (1921). It was then republished by Cape uniform with Seven Pillars of Wisdom. O’Brien A017. £1,000 [117144]

200 (LAWRENCE, T. E.) THOMAS, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. London: Hutchinson & Co, [1925] Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, top edge grey. Frontispiece and 64 plates. Spine slightly rolled, boards a little stained, edges lightly foxed, tips slightly rubbed. A very good copy. first uk edition, first impression; originally published in the US the previous year. O’Brien E012. 201 £450 [100471]

122 Peter Harrington 133 202 by Augustus John from the collection of Dr Lionel Dakers. With cuneiform library of Sennacherib’s grandson Ashurbanipal, on the original invoice from Rota loosely inserted. which most modern knowledge of Assyrian culture is founded” (ODNB). “Apart from the archaeological value of his work in £300 [67920] identifying Kouyunjik as the site of Nineveh, and in providing a great mass of materials for scholars to work upon . . . Layard’s 202 [accounts] are among the best written books of travel in the lan- LAYARD, Austen H. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh guage” (Ency. Brit.) and Babylon; With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and Abbey Travel 364; Atabey 687; Blackmer 969. the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition undertaken for the British Museum. London: John Murray, £750 [117149] 1853 Octavo. Original brown fine-ribbed polished cloth, title gilt to spine, intricate decoration of the Great Winged Bull across the spine and both boards in blind, red-brown surface-paper endpapers, binder’s ticket (Remnant and Edmonds) to rear board. Engraved folding frontispiece and 4 similar plates (all but one folding) depicting plans and elevations, one plate of inscriptions, 8 tinted lithographic plates, 2 engraved folding maps to rear, profuse wood-engraved illustrations to the text, several full-page. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket (J. Field, 65 Regents Quad- rant, London) and later ownership inscription (“Douglas Grant, bought at Southwold”) to front pastedown. Mild fraying to spine-ends, tips lightly bumped, very faint mark lengthwise on front board, inner hinges superficially cracked but firm, prelims lightly foxed, the occasional mi- nor spot or mark to text-block, marginal spotting to plates, folding plan facing p. 67 with short closed tear to stub and a little frayed on fore edge, the image unaffected. A very good copy. first edition. Uncommon in the highly apposite original cloth, surely one of the most attractive cloth bindings of the mid-19th century; with the bookplate of Frances Mary Richard- son Currer (1785–1861), “England’s earliest female bibliophile”, whose famous library at Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, Dibdin believed to place her “at the head of all female collectors in Europe” (ODNB). Layard’s important second British Museum expedition “yield- ed further important trophies and discoveries, including the 202

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203 LE BRUYN, Cornelius. Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Les Freres Wetstein, 1718 eller and painter, also known for his account of his journey through the Levant, was the first traveller to whom the tsar 2 volumes, folio (330 × 206 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully gave permission to make drawings of the towns and villages in rebacked with the original spines laid down, new red and green labels, spines gilt in compartments, edges sprinkled red. Allegorical frontispiece the Russian provinces, and the superb engravings are from on- by Picart, portrait of Le Bruyn by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 114 plates, 14 of the-spot drawings by the author. The book is arguably the best them folding, and 57 double-page, and 43 full-page showing 491 views, 3 authority for costumes of the era in the countries visited, for the folding maps, engraved headpiece and 44 illustrations, half-titles bound Assyrian antiquities of Persepolis at that time, and for the views in, titles printed in red and black. From the library of the Earl of Camden, of cities and their natural history. His account also “details the armorial bookplates and press-marks to the front pastedowns. Slightly route taken by Everard Ysbrants Ides, the Russian ambassador rubbed on the boards, light toning, but a very good set. to China, and contains an account of his encounter with William first edition in french of one of the principal accounts of Dampier at Batavia. In 1714 De Bruyn published a pamphlet Russia published during the 18th century, originally published discussing the differences between his engravings of Persepolis in Dutch, Amsterdam 1711. Cornelis de Bruyn, the Dutch trav-

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203 Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, publisher’s logo gilt to the front board. With the dust jacket. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 15 other similar plates, 3 folding maps, one of them large and co- and those of Chardin and Kaempfer. His remarks [are] append- loured. Mild spotting to the cloth, light toning, a very good copy in the ed to the second part of his travels” (Howgego). uncommon jacket, a little rubbed and chipped on the spine ends. Brunet III, 911; Schwab 345; Cox I, p. 251. first edition. Seen by some truly to have been what Lawrence £10,000 [61428] aspired to be, Leachman lived an extraordinary life as a soldier, explorer and Arabist, surviving the South African War and the Mesopotamia Campaign only to die by treachery in an ambush 204 in Iraq in 1920. Distinctly uncommon, decidedly so in the jacket. (LEACHMAN, Gerard Evelyn.) BRAY, Norman Napier O’Brien F0138. Evelyn. A Paladin of Arabia. The Biography of Brevet Lieut.- Colonel G. E. Leachman, of the Royal Sussex Regiment. £495 [66169] With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Hoare. London: John Heritage, The Unicorn Press Ltd, 1936

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205 plished in 21 years since April 1933, I am happy and proud”. LEBKICHER, Roy; George Rentz; Max Steineke. Lebkicher’s co-author George Rentz joined Aramco in 1946 having spent the war working in propaganda in Egypt with the Handbooks for American Employees. Volume I: Part Office of War Information, and remained with Aramco for 17 I, Aramco and World Oil; Part II, The Work and Life of years, becoming the company’s leading authority on matters Aramco Employees. Volume II: Part I, Background of pertaining to Arabic and Arabia. He received his doctorate from Arabia and the Middle East; Part II, Saudi Arabia, the the University of California, Berkeley in 1948, and his thesis on Government, the People and the Land; Part III, The the Wahhabism and the origins of the Saudi Arabian state was Culture and Customs of the Arabs. New York & [s. n.] finally published in 2006 as The Birth of the Islamic Reform Movement Russell F. Moore Company Inc. & Arabian American Oil Company, in Saudi Arabia. 1952 They were assisted in the compilation of the handbook by Max Steineke, chief geologist at California-Arabian Standard Oil 2 volumes, quarto. Vol. I in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front board; vol. II wire spiral-bound in the original printed Company (Casoc), which became Aramco, from 1936 until 1950. sand-grained card wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black Steineke is credited with the first discovery of oil in commercial and white, full-page coloured maps. Vol. I with bookplate to front past- quantities in Saudi Arabia. edown, very lightly rubbed along extremities and a touch sunned on An interesting document of American-Arab relations in the spine, an excellent copy; vol. II wrappers a little rubbed at the extremi- mid-20th century and an excellently preserved copy of a some- ties, some separation at the spine, but on the whole very good. what self-destructive production. revised edition, first published in 5 volumes in 1950. Uncom- mon, in the UK Copac records just one full set of the two vol- £950 [94788] umes, at Oxford, and two copies of volume I alone, at Durham and LSE; sets are reasonably prevalent in American institutions. 206 The handbooks were “designed to consolidate, in convenient LEBKICHER, Roy. The Training of Saudi Arab form, information of particular interest and usefulness to Amer- Employees: Arabian American Oil Company. Reprinted ican members of the Aramco organisation”; the first volume is from the Year Book of Education 1954. London & New York: concerned with Aramco itself, setting out the company history University of London, Columbia University and Evans Brothers, and locating Aramco in “its place in the oil industry and world 1954 economy”; the second, concentrating on the theatre of the com- pany’s operations, provides the “background of Arabia and the Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original pale blue printed wrappers. A Middle East . . . Saudi Arabia, the government, the people and little rubbed and some marginal staining to wrappers, contents a touch toned, else very good. the land . . . the culture and customs of the Arabs”. Lebkicher originally joined Standard Oil of California as a first edition, an offprint from The Year Book of Education (1954) geologist in the Rocky Mountains in 1924. In 1933 he transferred and decidedly uncommon: not listed in Copac and OCLC lo- to their San Francisco office training for overseas service, sub- cates only 16 copies in institutional libraries worldwide. The sequently being based in the Hague and London, before making contents are: The Training Problem of Aramco, The Training his first trip to Saudi Arabia in 1935. He spent most of the 1930s and Educational System, and The Development of the Saudi and 1940s in the States in charge of government, public, and Employee. The eminent petroleum geologist Roy Lebkicher employee relations, later becoming assistant to the executive (1895–1968) was described as “a brilliant and original education- vice president. Transferred to Saudi in 1952, he celebrated his al thinker as well as an able and experienced executive” whose 30 years with the company in the post of director of training, training policy at Aramco produced “outstanding success in explaining in the Aramco Dhahran house paper Sun & Flare that technological development”. He co-wrote a number of works in- he had always “regarded Aramco as an American-directed enter- cluding the Aramco and World Oil: Handbooks for American Employees prise having a very special importance in the world. The going series (1952). See also the previous item. has often been rough, and there is still plenty to do and many £375 [95273] problems to solve, but when I look at what Aramco has accom-

126 Peter Harrington 133 207 LEGEY, Françoise. The Folklore of Morocco. Preface by Marshal Lyautey. Translated from the French by Lucy Hotz. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935 Octavo. Original purple cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. 25 sanguine tinted halftone plates from photographs. Endpapers slightly browned, light toning and marginal browning throughout, but overall very good in price-clipped, lightly rubbed, and marginally chipped jack- et. first edition in english, first published in France in 1926 as Essai de folklore marocain. Dr. Legey spent around a quarter of a century in North Africa providing free healthcare to “destitute native women” (Ha, French Women and the Empire, p. 76). Raised in Constantine, Algeria, she returned there on completion of her medical training in Paris and started a clinic for Muslim women: “With minimal financial help from the French government . . . and a sparsely furnished premise, Legey provided free consul- tations three times a week to the local women. In 1909, she left Algeria for Morocco where she repeated the same experience with great success: ‘Living in Morocco, my true activity took place in the heart of the native family, I was called everywhere; I had access to all the homes, even those of people most fanatical and most hostile to French influence’”. This access presented Dr Legey with a unique opportunity to amass the data on local rites 208 and traditions presented here. Speake includes Legey among the “scholar-administrators” who arrived with establishment of the French in 1912, whose “exacting labours” blank of the first work, noting “[p.] 218 at night, Sidy Mahomet produced such “meticulous detailed work” (Literature of Travel and had constantly six blood hounds in his chamber” and other Exploration, “Morocco”). An uncommon book, particularly so in detail; subsequently in the library of British Arabist and colonial the jacket. agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with the usual bookplates and markings (see above). A highly appealing set, in a splen- £350 [117438] did contemporary binding by Kalthoeber (fl. 1780–1817), the pre-eminent bookbinder of Regency England. Sanchez’s sup- William Beckford’s copies, bound by Kalthoeber – with the rare plement is extremely rare, with a single copy traced in libraries supplement (Oxford) and none listed in auction records. Lemprière (d. 1834) entered the Army Medical Service when 208 young and by 1789 was attached to the garrison of . In LEMPRIÈRE, William. A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, September 1789 Muhammad III of Morocco asked the garrison Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence over to send an English doctor to attend his son, Mawlay Absolom, who was suffering from a cataract, promising him “every pro- Mount Atlas to Morocco: including a Particular Account tection and a guarantee of expenses and good rewards and the of the Royal Harem, etc. London: printed for the author and release of certain Christian captives” (Cox). Lemprière accepted sold by J. Walter, J. Johnson, and J. Sewell, 1791; [Together with] the commission, reaching Taroudant in late October “where SANCHEZ, Franco. A Corrective Supplement to Wm. he attended with great success. His only rewards, Lempriere’s Tour . . . [Amsterdam:] Gaspar Heintzen, 1794 however, were ‘a gold watch, an indifferent horse, and a few 2 works, octavo and octavo in half-sheets (212 × 127 mm). Contemporary hard dollars’. He was then summoned to attend some women marbled calf by Christian Kalthoeber (his ticket to vol. 1 front free end- of the sultan’s harem, and, having reached them on 4 December paper verso, now slightly oxidised as usual), smooth spines richly gilt 1789, was detained in Morocco a long time against his will and in compartments with central floral tools and leaf-form cornerpieces was not allowed to leave until 12 February 1790, again with mis- between Greek-key and double fillet rules, red morocco labels lettered in erable remuneration” (ODNB). On publication, first as here for gilt, rolled Greek-key border gilt to covers, beaded roll gilt to board-edg- Lemprière himself, and in 1793 for a wider public, his account es, all page-edges gilt, rope-twist roll gilt to turn-ins, rose-pink end- papers. Engraved folding map. Catalogue slips from the Beckford sale “aroused most interest for its description of the sultan’s harem” tipped in to initial blanks, a further slip laid in; printed bookplates to (ibid.) front pastedowns noting the bequest of S. B. Miles’s library to Bath Pub- The supplement by Sanchez, who is described on the title lic Library by his widow in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks page as a “Spanisch gardner in Morocco, and a friend to William and blind-stamps as usual. Lemprière’s Tour with bumped and slightly Lampriere [sic]”, addressed a number of its minor inaccuracies. worn tips, light spotting to folding map and sig. N. An excellent set. Cox I p. 391; Gay 1298; Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the Brit- first editions, William Beckford’s copies (Beckford sale cat- ish Army, Vol. I, 1147. alogue nos. 2880–1), with his pencilled annotation to the initial £6,500 [117613]

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209 211 LESSEPS, Ferdinand de. The Suez Canal. Letters and LEVY, Reuben. The Social Structure of Islam. Being the documents descriptive of its rise and progress in 1854– Second Edition of The Sociology of Islam. Cambridge: At 1856. Translated by N. D’Anvers. London: Henry S. King and the University Press, 1957 Co., 1876 Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jack- Octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine, et. Spine very gently bumped and rolled. A very good copy in the price- sides and spine decorated in gilt and black, gilt scarab motif on front clipped dust jacket with a tanned spine and the odd small mark. cover, brown coated endpapers. Ownership inscription on front free first one-volume edition, originally published in two endpaper of “J. Howard McLean, Aston Hall” (Shifnal, Shropshire). volumes as The Sociology of Islam (1931–33), this copy from the Spine slightly rolled, inner joints neatly refurbished, touch of foxing to collection of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with his own- prelims and end matter. A very good bright copy with the 48 pp. of pub- ership inscription dated “Dhahran 1957”. Having completed lisher’s advertisements at the end (dated March 1876). his doctorate in Islamic mysticism at Princeton in 1955, Heer first edition in english of de Lesseps’s Lettres, journal et worked as a translator for Aramco at their Dhahran headquar- documents pour servir à l’histoire du Canal de Suez (Paris: Didier, 1875), ters for two years before returning to the US to teach at Stan- published in the wake of British involvement when “in 1875 ford. Levy (1891–1966) was professor of Persian at the University Disraeli, in a dazzling secret coup assisted by the Rothschilds, of Cambridge. bought for Britain the shares originally subscribed for by the Khedive Ismail” (Printing and the Mind of Man 339). £125 [104046] £200 [114060] 212 210 LEWIS, Norman. Sand and Sea in Arabia. With 123 illustrations. London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1938 LESSEPS, Ferdinand de. Recollections of Forty Years. Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. Translated by C. B. Pitman in two volumes. London: With 123 black and white photographic illustrations in the text. Spine Chapman and Hall Limited, 1887 lightly toned, boards very faintly soiled, endpapers a little foxed. An 2 volumes, octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, spine and front cov- excellent copy. ers lettered in gilt, both covers blocked in black, floral endpapers, vol. 2 first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author unopened. Extremities lightly bumped, short area of wear at head of first on the front free endpaper, “To Trude & Adolf, N. Lewis, 1940”. joint, slight marking, minor foxing principally to edges. Overall, a very Sand and Sea is Lewis’s second book, a photo-essay which origi- good copy. nated from a partly failed spying mission when Lewis was asked first edition in english, translated from Souvenirs de quar- by the British Foreign Office to photograph Yemen. Although ante ans (1887). Ferdinand de Lesseps is best remembered as the Lewis and his two travelling companions were denied entry to engineer who designed the Suez Canal. the country at the port of Hodeida they somehow managed to £150 [96442] visit the region, taking in the cities of Lahej and Aden, and trav-

128 Peter Harrington 133 212 elling along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coastlines aboard a sambuk and cargo steamer. 213 £575 [94448]

213 American Bible Society in Beirut and editor of an Arabic Bible published in 1916. LEWIS, Wyndham. Filibusters in Barbary. New York: Not in Gay, Macro or Weber; Khatib, Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans National Travel Club, 1932 54 (volume II only). Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to front board and spine in gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Bottom £300 [117614] corners of boards a little bumped. An excellent copy in a lightly edge- chipped jacket with faint finger-marking to rear panel. first u.s. edition, one of 1,000 copies printed; originally pub- lished in the UK in the same month. An account of the author’s trip through Morocco. Morrow & Lafourcade A16b. £175 [95686]

214 LIBBEY, William, & Franklin E. Hoskins. The Jordan Valley and Petra. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905 2 volumes, octavo. Original green vertical-ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Profusely illustrated from photographs, as plates and to the text, folding route map. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated blind-stamps, tipped- in issue slip and manuscript shelf-marks as usual. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few trivial markings to covers. An excellent copy. first edition of this attractively produced account of a 600–mile journey on horseback through what is now Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. William Libbey (1855–1927) was professor of physical geography at Princeton; he was accompa- nied by Franklin E. Hoskins, a Presbyterian missionary with the 214

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215 Sicily, dated Messina, 19 September 1810. Contemporary manuscript correction to author’s address on title page, a touch rubbed and marked LOUGHLAND, Ronald A., & Khaled A. Al-Abdulkader. overall, corners and head of spine bumped, surface splitting to tail of Marine Atlas. Western Arabian Gulf. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: both joints and along rear hinge, old restoration to backstrip at tail, Saudi Aramco, 2011 occasional light foxing as usual. Complete with the errata leaf. An excel- lent, entirely unsophisticated copy. Folio (375 × 304 mm). Original photographic boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, blue endbands and endpapers, CD-ROM in open-faced first edition, rare in the original boards. An important ac- case to rear. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, drawings and count of the revolt of ‘Ali Bey, the shaykh al-balad of Egypt who charts. Some 30 farewell inscriptions to retiring Aramco executive “Kris[to- declared the country independent of the Ottoman Empire pher Horvath]” on front pastedown and free endpaper. Extremities lightly before proceeding to seize control of the Hijaz and invade Syr- bumped and rubbed, a few restored nicks to spine, hinges uniformly rein- ia. His rule ended following the insubordination of his most forced with blue buckram. Internally bright and fresh, a very good copy. trusted general, Abu al-Dhahab, which led to Ali Bey’s exile then first edition. An exhaustive scientific survey of the marine death outside the walls of Cairo. “Very little is known of Lusig- and coastal habitats found along the Saudi Arabian portion of nan, who claims to have known Ali Bey personally. He seems to the Gulf, an area covering some 1,200 miles of diverse coastline have been a Greek or more probably a Cypriot who took refuge (including islands) from Ra’s al-Khafji on the Kuwaiti border in in London; he advertises himself as a teacher of ancient and the north to Ra’s Abu Qamis on the border with the UAE in the modern Greek (on A5v), but there is no mention of him in Leg- south; also included is an in-depth chapter on the history of the rand. Perhaps he is connected with the Giacomo Lusignan who region. Scarce: Copac traces two copies in UK libraries, with later acted as a factotum for the Earl of Guildford” (Blackmer). OCLC adding just four in libraries worldwide. £2,750 [100899] £1,200 [102570] 217 216 LYNCH, Thomas Kerr. A Visit to the Suez Canal. London: LUSIGNAN, Sauveur. A history of the revolt of Ali Bey, Day and Son, Limited, 1 March 1866 against the Ottoman Porte, including an account of the Octavo. Original reddish-brown sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine form of government of Egypt; together with a description and front board, panelling in blind to both boards. Tinted lithographic of Grand Cairo, and of several places in Egypt, Palestine, half-title and 9 other plates, folding lithographic map, plans to the text. and Syria: to which are added, a short account of the Small ink stamp of the Clinton Hall Association to title page. Very mild shelf-wear, light browning mainly marginal, some slight chipping to the present state of the Christians who are subjects to the fore edges, but overall a very good copy. Turkish government, and the journal of a gentleman who first edition. Lynch travelled with his brother Henry Blosse travelled from Aleppo to Bassora. London: James Phillips, 1783 Lynch “on the second Euphrates expedition of 1837–42, with Octavo (225 × 135 mm). Uncut in the original grey boards, paper back- the aim of establishing steam communication with the areas strip, printed paper label to spine. With a laid-in typed translation into drained by the Euphrates and Tigris and the Persian Gulf. Iron- Italian of a British newspaper report of Joachim Murat’s invasion of ically, the difficulties which he encountered proved the unat-

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Periplus was written in the first century ce and describes the routes and commercial opportunities to be accessed from Rome’s Egyp- tian ports along the coast of the Red Sea and north-east Africa. It contains much on the Arabian Peninsula, including descriptions 217 of Himyarite and Sabaean kingdoms, and the Frankincense King- dom of king Eleazus, probably Iliazz Yalit I, in the Hadramawt. tractiveness of the river compared with the sea route to India: but Arrian’s account describes a voyage undertaken on the orders Lynch, with a brother, probably Henry, set up the Euphrates and of Alexander the Great in 325 bce, which resulted in the Greek Tigris Steam Navigation Company in 1862. Its steamers regularly discovery of the Persian Gulf (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 267). plied the rivers and, because it was the only formal representation Alexander’s admiral, Nearkhos (Nearchus), sailed from the In- of British interests in the area, it received protection from the dus estuary and eventually landed at a town named as Diridotis, Foreign Office. Lynch travelled extensively in Mesopotamia and evidently Teredon, a city founded by Nebuchadnezzar in what is Persia. After his return home he was for some years consul-gener- now Kuwait. William Vincent, who produced a commentary on al for Persia in London” (ODNB). His trip to view progress on the the text in 1797, called it “the first event of general importance to Suez Canal was clearly at least partially professionally-motivated. mankind in the history of navigation” (ODNB). Uncommon, only six copies on Copac, OCLC adding just four, Provenance: ex-Bath Public Library, from the bequest of Mrs only two of these, including the Library of Congress, in America. Miles, wife of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. Samuel Bar- Not in Ibrahim-Hilmy or Blackmer. rett Miles (1838–1914), with bookplate, manuscript shelf-mark and blind-stamps as usual. Miles spent most of his career as a po- £975 [46459] litical agent in Oman and what are now the United Arab Emirates. He noted the voyage of Nearkhos in his posthumously-published 218 Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919): “It was in the time of Alexander that the land of Oman was first seen by Europeans. His MCCRINDLE, John Watson. The Commerce and admiral, Nearchus, when passing up the Persian Gulf, sighted Navigation of the Erythraean Sea: being Translations Cape Maceta or Cape Mussendom, and heard from the pilot of a of the “Periplus maris Erythraei” by an Anonymous great Omani emporium . . . Alexander hearing his report, deter- Writer and partly from Arrian’s Account of the Voyage of mined on sending an expedition to circumnavigate the Arabian Nearkhos . . . Bombay: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1879 peninsula, but his early death in Babylon put an end to this and Octavo. Original black sand-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine, blind frames other schemes, and for nearly a hundred years no fresh light was to sides, green endpapers. Spine-ends and tips lightly bumped and thrown on the land” (p. 8). Miles has annotated the preface, prais- rubbed, endpapers browned. A very good copy. ing McCrindle’s “useful” translation but criticising his notes as first edition in book form, scarce, with one copy listed in “kucha”, Hindi for raw. The book is an expanded form of articles auction records in the last 50 years. McCrindle, of the Bengal Ed- which originally appeared in the Indian Antiquary. ucational Service, translated from the Greek two of the most im- £3,000 [94810] portant sources for Arabia and the Persian Gulf in antiquity. The

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 131 The end of the Khivan khanate 219 MACGAHAN, Januarius Aloysius. [Title in Ottoman Turkish] Hive siyahetnâmesi ve-tarih-i (A traveller’s account of Khiva and its history). Istanbul: Basiret Matbaasi, 1292 ah (ad 1875/6) Royal octavo (230 × 160 mm). Contemporary green sheep-backed peb- ble-grain boards, title gilt to spine, gilt lozenges to compartments, blind panelling to boards, pale green endpapers. 32 plates with tipped-in tissue guards, folding map to rear. A little rubbed, the spine slightly sunned, the contents variably browned through variations in the paper- stock, 2-inch closed tear to map-fold, but overall very good. first edition in turkish, the year following the English first edition: the first and only edition published in the Ottoman empire. Extremely uncommon, just four copies on OCLC, this timely Turkish translation of MacGahan’s account of the 1873 fall of the Khivan khanate to the Russians under General Kaufman was made in the same years as the Russian translation. Mac- Gahan (1844–1878), was a foreign correspondent for Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald and later the Daily News. He had previ- ously covered the Franco–Prussian War in 1870–1 and was sub- sequently appointed the Herald’s St Petersburg correspondent. 220 On hearing of the departure of a force to Central Asia under General Skobelev, MacGahan defied the ban on correspondents Secular Life and Opinions of the Eastern Syrian accompanying the expedition. He crossed the Kyzyl-Kum desert Christians of Kurdistan and Northern Persia (known on horseback and was present at the surrender of Khiva. His also as Nestorians). London: Society for Promoting Christian later investigations of the Bulgarian atrocities in 1876 were in- Knowledge, 1892 strumental in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered and deco- Russo–Turkish War of 1877–8, a key factor in Bulgaria gaining rated in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers. Folding map frontis- independence from the Ottoman Empire. piece, wood engravings to the text. Joints and extremities rubbed, spine Atabey 744; Ghani p. 233; Yakushi M12 – all for different English lan- darkened, very faint soiling overall, small bump to fore edge of both guage editions. boards, fore edge spotted, internally clean. A very good copy. first and only edition of this important account of the £850 [103689] Church of the East, uncommon in the original cloth. In 1886 Maclean (1858–1943) travelled to Urmia in Iranian Azerbaijan as 220 the first head of Archbishop Benson’s mission to the Assyrian MACLEAN, Arthur John, & William Henry Browne. The Christians, “which had as its purpose not conversion, which its Catholicos of the East and his People. Being Impression statutes forbade, but the strengthening of faith and religious of Five Years’ Work in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s practice” (ODNB). Despite opposition from Persian authori- ties, Maclean oversaw the establishment of a Syriac press and Assyrian Mission; an Account of the Religious and numerous schools for clergy and laypeople. He returned to his

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132 Peter Harrington 133 221 222 former parish at Portree, Skye, in 1891, co-authoring the present leading expert on Arab culture, and the head of the North Afri- account and also writing an important grammar of Syriac (1895), ca, Bureaux Arabes. followed by a dictionary (1901). In an address to the Lambeth Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria 211. Conference in 1908 he suggested that the Church of England was concerned not only “to restore these ancient Churches for £1,250 [92663] their own sakes, but also one may confidently hope that in the future they will be able to do what we Westerns cannot do – 222 they will be able to appeal to the Moslem mind” (cited after Tay- lor, Narratives of Identity: The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of MALCOLM, Sir John. The History of Persia, from the England, p. 125). Most Early Period to the Present Time: containing an Account of the Religion, Government, Usages, and Wilson p. 133. Character of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom. London: for £750 [117047] John Murray and Longman and Co., by James Moyes, 1815 2 volumes, quarto (294 × 228 mm). Contemporary half russia, marbled 221 sides, decorative gilt spines, red speckled edges. Large folding map, 22 engraved plates (8 from archaeological sites, 8 topographical, 6 stipple MAGAUD D’AUBUSSON, Louis. La Fauconnerie au portraits). Contemporary bookplates of John Garratt (1786–1859, Lord moyen age. Paris: Auguste Ghio, 1879 Mayor of London 1824–5). Joints rubbed (inner hinges neatly strength- Octavo (220 × 140mm). Later blue half morocco, marbled boards, title ened), closed-tear to map, plates lightly foxed. A handsome set in a direct to spine, top edge gilt, the others lightly sprinkled brown, original period binding. wrappers bound in front and back. Spine mildly sunned, light toning, a first edition of this interesting and important work by the very good copy. Armorial bookplate of Thorvald Lindquist to front past- diplomatist and administrator in India Sir John Malcolm (1769– edown, the great majority of Lindquist’s falconry collection is now in 1833). Sent on a diplomatic mission to Tehran in early 1810 the library of the Royal Armoury, Stockholm, having been acquired from Malcolm was received “with pomp and cordiality”, developed a him in 1944; subsequent plate of Tony Huston, son of film director John Huston, and one of America’s leading falconers. trusting relationship with the shah, and found time to introduce the potato to the country (known locally as “Malcolm’s plum”). first edition. “A work which no student of the history of Fal- “His classic History of Persia, which appeared in 1815, brought conry should neglect. Amongst the ‘Pièces Justificatives’ at the him an honorary doctorate of laws from Oxford. Translated into end of the volume will be found a chronological list of the Grand French (1821), German (1830), and Persian (n.d.), the history Falconers of France; extracts showing the expenses attending was particularly valuable for contextualizing events surrounding the maintenance of hawking in France, from the Household his own time in Persia, and served as the standard western work Accounts of François I, Henri I, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XVI; for about a century” (ODNB). the state of Falconry at the court of France in 1785” (Harting). The work has a dedicated section on ‘La Fauconnerie chez les Arcadian Library 12281, and p. 91 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani p. 236; Schwab Arabes’, by Général Daumas, recognized as the French Army’s 360; Wilson p. 134 £3,750 [100702]

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223 ing a telegraph line connecting India to Great Britain through MALCOLM, Sir John. [Title in Persian] Ta’rikh-i Iran (The Iran. While en route to India, the head of the mission, Major General Frederic Jon Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of History of Persia). Bombay: 1287 ah (1870/1 ce) Kirman, Muhammam Isma’il Khan Vakil al-Mulk” who in return 2 volumes in one, tall quarto (332 × 230 mm); lithographed through- requested a Persian translation of the History, Malcolm having out. Native binding of contemporary straight-grain black half roan, been a good friend of his father. Malcolm’s account was critical green pebble-grain cloth sides, double fillet rolls forming compart- ments to spine gilt, titles direct to second and fourth gilt, remaining of the Qajar dynasty, however, and Goldsmid was only able to compartments with central fleuron devices gilt, edges speckled red. commission one Mirza Isma’il Hayrat to produce a Persian ver- Portrait frontispiece, 29 plates with albumen prints mounted within sion once back in India, “where translators were unconstrained lithographed foliate borders with captions as issued, large folding by Qajar imperial sensibilities and where the ruling British had lithographic map opening to 650 510 mm. Blindstamp of Bath Public inherited a Persian literary and bureaucratic tradition from their Library to a number of leaves and most plates. A few pale markings to Mughal predecessors” (Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, pp. sides, corners a touch bumped, light toning, sporadic faint spotting as 24–5). usual, frontispiece tanned, map slightly foxed with a short closed tear at gutter, minute spill-burn to f. 5, plate facing vol. I p. 111 torn at corner Arcadian Library 12281 for the first edition overall and p. 85 refers; Diba p. to no loss of albumen print, vol. II pp. 112–3 finger-marked, most plates 85; Ghani p. 236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134. with a gentle ripple to edge of mount with images spared. Overall a very good copy. £5,000 [102966] first edition in persian, rare, with perhaps six complete copies in libraries, this copy from the collection of noted British 224 diplomat and orientalist Col. Samuel B. Miles (1838–1914), with MANN, Michael. The Trucial Oman Scouts. The Story of his wife’s presentation plate to Bath Public Library to the rear a Bedouin Force. With a Foreword by Bernard Burrows. pastedown, and blind-stamps as usual. Wilby, Norwich: Michael Russell, 1994 “The translation of Malcolm’s history was the outcome of a British mission to Iran in the 1860s for the purpose of establish-

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Octavo. Publisher’s red boards, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. . With a Continuation to the Death of King Philip 16 plates, maps to the text, coloured pictorial endpapers after a painting III. Written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana. of Jahili Fort, Buraimi by David Shepherd. Very good, the jacket price- clipped. To which are added, Two Supplements, the First by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Alan Niekirk after many years of de Soto, bringing it down to the Present Reign. The friendship, Michael Mann”, and additionally signed by Lt.-Col. Whole translated from the Spanish. By John Stevens. W. J. Martin, TOS commander 1953–5 until forced by ill health London: Richard Sare, Francis Saunders and Thomas Bennet, 1699 to hand over command. His tenure was recognised by the award Folio (348 × 215 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked of the OBE. C. P. Pirie-Gordon, the political agent to Oman, with the original spine laid down, red morocco label, raised bands, recorded that “Colonel Martin’s particular duty was to expand compartments gilt with attractive scrolled corner-tools enclosing a large a force which at the time he assumed command had consisted floral lozenge. From the collection of British Arabist and colonial officer of under 100 men with a single officer into one of 500 men with Col. S. B. Miles (1838-1914), with his widow’s bequest plate to Bath Pub- lic Library to the front pastedown, and associated inked shelf-mark and 10 British officers and numerous British other ranks as well as blind-stamps as usual, together with an early 20th-century bookseller’s local troops. All the administrative and technical details of this ticket (Meehan of Bath) and the pencilled inscription “This book be- considerable short-term expansion fell to Colonel Martin, who longed to Professor Mitford”. A little rubbed, some neat restoration to achieved the establishment of a highly creditable regiment in extremities, contents browned, a good copy. the face of considerable difficulties and frustrations in a remark- first edition in english, and still the only complete edition, ably short time” (p. 45). of “the standard work on Spanish history up to the 18th century The book is a well-written account of the development of the . . . [which] does not merely report events in lucid chronological unit originally formed as the Trucial Oman Levies, an armed order and with admirable objectivity, but includes analyses of the gendarmerie, in 1951. The Buraimi Incident, followed by the Jeb- mechanisms of princely power” (Braun, Juan de Mariana and Early el Akhdar Campaigns in Oman, led to its expansion into a fully Modern Spanish Political Thought, p. 2). First published in Latin at equipped Bedouin brigade which was eventually absorbed into Toledo in 1592 as Historiae de rebus hispaniae, the text was updated the Union Defence Force with the establishment of the United by Mariana down to the death of Philip III in 1621. In 1601 Mar- Arab Emirates in 1971. The book is relatively recently published, iana first published his own Spanish translation of the work, but almost unfindable. from which this English translation was taken. The English work £350 [112584] includes two supplements further extending the chronology of the narrative: one by H. Camargo y Salgado covering 1621–1649, and one by B. Varen de Soto covering 1650–1669. Juan de Mariana A Jesuit covers Muslim Spain with “admirable objectivity” (1535?–1624), a native of Talavera de la Reina, became a Jesuit at 225 Simancas, studied at the University of Alcalá and taught in Rome, Loreto, Sicily, Paris, and the Low Countries. MARIANA, Juan de. The General History of Spain. From the Peopling of it by Tubal, till the Death of King £1,250 [93999] Ferdinand, who united the Crowns of Castile and

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226 with a gilt accession date of 1860, a rather pretty binding, and no other signs of library use. MARKHAM, Sir Clements R. A General Sketch of the History of Persia. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874 first edition. George Perkins Marsh (1801–82) was an Amer- ican lawyer, philologist and diplomat, whose book Man and Octavo (212 × 135 mm). Near-contemporary red half calf, richly gilt Nature (1864) is recognised as an early work of conservationism spine, grey morocco label, red cloth sides, top edge gilt, marbled end- or ecology, and was key in the establishment of the Adirondack papers. Folding map frontispiece. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate Park. From 1849 to 1852 he was United States minister resident noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in to the Ottoman Empire, doing much sound work there in the 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. cause of religious tolerance. It was also during this time that he Spine lightly sunned, extremities and joints rubbed, a few small por- began his researches into the “practicability and expediency of tions of stripping to calf, map faintly offset to title, a few minor spots. A introducing the camel into the United States . . . several months very good copy. of travel in Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea and Syria, presented first edition of this detailed account, notably containing an opportunities for a good deal of personal observation” (Pref- entire chapter on “The Persian Gulf and the Seyyids of Oman” ace). He also thoroughly researched the subject reading “Ritter’s and surprisingly uncommon on the market, with a handful of valuable and learned essay . . . Carbuccia’s work on the Drome- copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. Cambridge Persian- dary of Algeria, Hammer-Purgstall’s erudite paper Das Kamel and ist E. G. Browne considered it “the chief work of reference in En- other instructive treatises on the subject”. In 1861 Marsh’s next glish” alongside Sir John Malcolm’s (A Literary History of Persia, p. diplomatic posting was as first United States minister to the vii). Markham’s “extraordinary influence . . . on geography and Kingdom of Italy. Serving until his death in 1882, Marsh became its institutions in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries” the longest-serving chief of mission in US history. He is buried was perhaps second only to Sir Roderick Murchison’s (ODNB). in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Ghani p. 240; Diba p. 72; Wilson p. 137, erroneously giving a date of 1870 Sabin 44735. as well as 1874. £150 [97464] £1,250 [117616] 228 227 MASON, Michael. The Paradise of Fools. Being an MARSH, George P. The Camel. His Organization, Habits Account by a Member of the Party, of the Expedition and Uses, considered with Reference to his Introduction which covered 6,300 miles of the Libyan Desert by Motor- into the United States. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856 car in 1935. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936 Octavo (117 × 109 mm). Contemporary brown quarter sheep, match- Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, scorpion device gilt to the ing combed cloth boards, title gilt direct to spine, marbled edges and front board. With the striking pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 22 endpapers A couple of illustrations to the text. A little rubbed at the ex- other plates, folding coloured map at the rear. A little chafed head and tremities and slightly stained on the boards, but overall a very nice copy. tail of the spine, corners a touch bumped, free endpapers differentially The binding is lettered in gilt on the spine for the “Ohio School Library” browned, minor production flaw at the head of the rear hinge, else very

136 Peter Harrington 133 228 229 good in slightly rubbed jacket, foxed on the flaps, with some slightly am- 229 ateurish restoration at the head of the spine, but pictorially and textually complete. Bookplate of Charles Edward Rusbridge, who served in Libya MASSON, Charles. Narrative of Various Journeys in with the RAOC during World War II, to front pastedown. , Afghanistan and the Panjab; [together with] first edition of this lively and uncommon account of an ex- ­— Narrative of a Journey to Kalat. London: Richard Bentley, pedition described in Fliegel Jezerniczky’s on-line Libyan Desert 1842 & 1843 bibliography as “an extraordinary journey”, during which a party Together 2 works in 4 volumes, octavo. Original matching purple led by Mason and W. B. Kennedy Shaw traversed “virtually all combed cloth, title gilt to spines, panelling in blind to boards, pale major parts of the Libyan desert. They started from Kharga, cream surface-paper endpapers. Single-tint lithographic frontispiece reaching the Gilf Kebir via Abu Ballas, making the first crossing and one other similar plate to each volume of the first-named, together of the dune belt in the ‘Gap’ to enter Wadi Hamra, discovering with numerous wood-cut illustrations to the text; large folding map to the pendant volume. All spines a little sunned, and crumpled head two major wadis transversing the southern Gilf (and locating a and tail with some minor splits and chips, overall a little rubbed, and cave with rock paintings on the col between them), then con- bumped at the extremities, light browning to the text-blocks, and some tinuing via Selima and Erdi to El Fasher (where they met Almásy foxing particularly to the plates; the pendant volume neatly rebacked and party). On the northbound leg they traversed the southern with the original spine laid down, end papers renewed, folding map Libyan Desert, continuing to Uweinat, passing the western side with two closed tears, no loss; a very good set. of the Gilf, then traversing the Great Sand Sea to reach Siwa”. first editions. Considered “to be the most enigmatic among The cave at Mogharet el Kantara containing the paintings of the European explorers” of the north-west frontier, Masson cattle and a homestead scene, the only known site containing (1800–53), was born John Lewis in London. In 1821 he enlisted rock art in the south-eastern portion of the Gilf Kebir, is now as a private in the East India Company’s infantry, later trans- known as Shaw’s Cave. Shaw published his findings in the Geo- ferring to the Bengal European Artillery. He was present at the graphical Journal (“An Expedition in the Southern Lybian Desert”, siege of Bharatpur in 1826 but deserted in early July 1827 in Agra vol. 87, 1936) and Antiquity (“Rock Paintings in the Lybian Des- and changed his name. He travelled to Afghanistan and em- ert”, vol. 10, 1936). barked on over a decade of “pioneering travel and antiquarian During the Second World War Shaw went on to become investigation. During this period he collected well over 80,000 a founder member of the Long Range Desert Group, whose ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronol- scorpion badge was very similar to that used here on the front ogy of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries board. Mason, who had previously spent time fur-trapping in after the death of Alexander the Great. From 1834 Masson pub- Canada, and sparring with Jack Sharkey, was recruited to naval lished news of his discoveries in the Journal of the Asiatic Society intelligence by Ian Fleming, lending a number of characteristics of Bengal. The following year he was recruited by the East India – physical and temperamental – and terrific tales to the compos- Company as news writer in Afghanistan, in return for a free ite who became James Bond. pardon for his desertion and a small allowance” (ODNB). He also £750 [98893] offered “the first hint of the historical importance of Harappa” (Robinson, The Indus, p. 28), one of the major sites of the ancient Indus Valley culture.

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In the years immediately before the First Afghan War, Masson Although Masson lacked any formal training, “as an accurate was strongly critical of the Forward Policy, using his narrative to observer of, and extensive traveller in, a virtually unknown land comment adversely on the conduct of Alexander Burnes and Sir he was unrivalled”, and the present narrative “has been judged William Macnaughten. He left Afghanistan in 1838 and during to be a record which is unsurpassed . . . for the width of its the ensuing British invasion remained in Sind, compiling the scope of inquiry into political, social, economic and scientific first work here. “In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840, matters and the general accuracy of its conclusion” (Chopra). he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and provenance: with the ownership initials of Lieut.-Col. John was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge Archibald Ballard, dated 1857, to the front free endpaper of vol- or good reason” – events which he describes in the pendant ume I. Ballard was educated at Addiscombe, and commissioned volume. in the Bengal Engineers in 1850. He earned a considerable He returned to Britain in 1842, a typically embittered and reputation for his “cool bravery in action” (Buckland) during disputatious ex-HEIC employee, failing “in his efforts to obtain his services attached to the Turkish forces in the Crimea, com- financial compensation, to publish an illustrated magnum opus manding a brigade in Omar Pasha’s campaign in Mingrelia. about his Afghan years, to return to Afghanistan, and to com- “Ballard returned to India in 1856 [and] served as assistant plete a half-finished novel”. quartermaster-general in the Persian campaign, and afterwards

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138 Peter Harrington 133 231 232 in the Indian mutiny with the Rajputana field force, taking part page. The jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few minor edge-splits in the pursuit and rout of Tantia Topi’s forces. His promotion and chips, but overall a very good copy of this handsome production. was singularly rapid, advancing in 1858 from lieutenant to lieu- first and only edition of an important study, never super- tenant-colonel. He was subsequently mint-master at Bombay. seded, which in fact “remains the only authoritative work on the Having attained the rank of lieutenant-general, he retired in subject” (obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). 1879” (ODNB). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Times, pp. 43–4; Riddick 148 & 149; and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where Yakushi M108a, for the first-named. he was employed in Department of Antiquities. He rose to be- come Director of Archives, before leaving to become the first Sir £5,750 [107519] David Sassoon Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1932. From 1943–5 Mayer 230 served as rector of the university, and from 1940 to 1950, he was MAUGHAN, William Charles. The Alps of Arabia. Travels president of the Israel Exploration Society and was honorary president of the Israel Oriental Society. Mayer died in 1959. A in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land. A New Edition. print-out of the AO obituary, which includes an exhaustive of London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875 Mayer’s works, is laid in. Octavo (212 × 131 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco, decora- tive gilt spine, dark purple pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled edges and £875 [110826] endpapers. Engraved map frontispiece of the author’s route. Binding a little rubbed. 232 First published in 1873, followed by a second edition in 1874. MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Mamluk Costume. A Survey. Geneva: The author was born in 1836, the son of Captain Philip Maughan of the East India Company and Elizabeth Arnott. He attended Albert Kundig, 1952 Edinburgh Academy before entering into banking in Edinburgh, Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With London, and Rome. Maughan wrote numerous works including the plain dust jacket. 20 plates. A superb copy in the clean dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears to the front panel. travel, history, and one work of fiction, Julian Ormonde (1882). He unsuccessfully stood for parliament twice. He died in 1914. first edition of the first monograph on medieval Islamic costume since Reinhard Dozy’s Dictionnaire détaillé (1845). May- £250 [97468] er’s findings, based on literary and documentary evidence and focusing on the development of court ceremonial under al-Nasir 231 Muhammad, are still authoritative today. The Mamluks were a MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey. Oxford: Turkic slave dynasty who ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz from the overthrow of the in 1250 to the Ottoman At the Clarendon Press, 1933 conquest of Egypt in 1517, with Cairo as their capital. Quarto. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine. With price-clipped dust jacket. 71 plates from photographs, illustrations to the text, some full- £450 [111594]

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233 ly, and all of it without accident” (p. 87). Maynard had previously MAYNARD, Frederick Pinsent. Letters on the Baluch– served on the Black Mountain Expedition, as the superintendent of Patna Opium Factory, 1895–1901, and as Civil Surgeon Ranchi, Afghan Boundary Commission of 1896 under Captain Hazaribagh, Patna and Darjeeling. He died in 1921 at the age of 57. A. H. McMahon, C.I.E. Written to the Englishman (Calcutta) and Times of India (Bombay) by their Special £1,500 [111533] Correspondent with the Mission. Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1909 234 Small octavo. Original dark blue sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt. black surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, and very slightly mot- London: Hugh Rees Ltd, 1930 tled, pale toning, single worm-track through the last few leaves, but 2 volumes, large quarto (320 × 254 mm). Original green cloth, spines overall very good indeed. and front covers lettered and ruled in gilt, fore and bottom edges first and only edition. Extremely uncommon: OCLC has Brit- untrimmed. 7 half-tone photographic plates including portrait fron- ish Library and University of Nebraska only. The Afghan–Baluch tispiece, 31 colour plates, 3 folding coloured maps. British diplomatic boundary from Domandi to the Persian frontier was one of the last provenance, with the ink-stamp of an unidentified “Residency Library” sections of the borders of India to be officially demarcated (see to the front free endpaper, spines with inked shelf-marks (repeated at Davies, The Problem of the North-West Frontier, 1890–1908, p. 162). May- upper inner corners of front boards) and partially effaced labels. Lightly nard – who was to become one of India’s leading ophthalmologists, rubbed, spine bumped, tips worn, vol. 2 with faint circular mark to front cover and a few small abrasions to rear, edges toned, inner hinges rein- performing over 14,000 operations for cataracts, and publishing forced (heavy text-block). A very good copy with bright colour plates. important papers on glaucoma – accompanied McMahon’s com- mission as medical officer, publishing a couple of scientific papers first edition. Michael Nicoll was assistant director of the Zo- relating to observations made on the expedition, along with these ological Gardens at Giza from 1906 until his retirement in 1924. unofficial “despatches” contributed to the Indian press. When posted to Cairo as chief intelligence officer to the Egyp- Maynard’s letters are picturesque but highly informative, always tian expeditionary force, Meinertzhagen sought Nicoll out and retaining a sense of the importance of the task in hand, and the the pair became friends. Nicoll died in 1925 and Meinertzhagen, vital role that the commanding officer played in the success of who had resigned from the army the same year, was approached their operations: “All of this has not been accomplished without by his widow to turn his copious notes into a book. He returned great forethought, great tact, and the constant exercise of those to Egypt to carry out the necessary field work and toured the qualities of mind and heart in dealing with more or less civilised country extensively by motorcar; following his resignation such races, and which are possessed by Captain McMahon in an em- birding trips were a useful cover for observing international inent degree. The proof of this is that the demarcation of 800 politics. “Until Michael Nicoll went to Egypt in 1906, no compe- miles of frontier . . . all of it lying among tribes more noted for tent ornithologist had resided in the country, made systematic their lawlessness and disregard for their manners, and in country collections and worked them out, or had made seasonal obser- which, when not actual desert, has been hitherto regarded as un- vations year in year out” (Preface). safe for British officers to visit, has been settled, much of it rapid- £225 [112553]

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235 The recipient of this copy, Rex Benson, had served with dis- MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: tinction in the First World War (MC, DSO, four times mentioned in despatches). After the armistice he became chief of the Brit- Oliver and Boyd, 1954 ish Mission and was attached to the staff of Sir Henry Wilson at Quarto. Original sand buckram, top edge brown, spine lettered in the peace conference. He was next military secretary to the gov- green. With the dust-jacket. 19 colour plates, 9 photographic plates ernor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd; then involved in a Meinertz- from the author’s photographs, 88 text figures and maps, large folding regional map in end-pocket. Endpapers slightly browned, light foxing to hagen-esque scheme dreamed up by Lloyd George to open trade the fore-edge, overall very good in jacket, with some neat professional with post-Revolutionary Russia; liaison officer to the French repairs to minor splitting and chipping along the top edge. First Army until the evacuation from Dunkirk; subsequently first edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the appointed chairman of the inter-allied timber commission in author to army officer and merchant banker, Sir Reginald Lind- 1940; in 1941 becoming military attaché at the British embassy say “Rex” Benson: “In gratitude for 36 years valued friendship”. in Washington under Lord Halifax. An excellent copy of Meinertzhagen’s ornithological magnum £1,850 [102744] opus, inscribed to another freewheeling soldier, one of Menin- ertzhagen’s closest banking and birding friends. 236 MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Army Diary, 1899–1926. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960 Octavo. Original dark red boards, spine lettered in gilt, titles and royal crest to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. 37 plates, 25 part-coloured maps. Spine-ends very lightly bumped, faint marking to upper outer corner of front board. A very good copy in the price-clipped and slightly chipped dust jacket with tape-repair to verso along joints. first edition, first impression. Meinertzhagen’s veracity has been questioned in the context of his account of his encounters with T. E. Lawrence in Paris; his claims to have attempted the rescue of the Russian Imperial family from Ekaterinburg; the swash-buckling interventions in the Spanish Civil War recount- ed in his diaries; and the claims of his ornithological record, but this, his account of his intelligence duel with Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa, remains unchallenged as one of the most fascinat- ing, genuine narratives of a most fascinating campaign. £150 [110722]

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237 el-Writing on Oman, p. 162) – as this eclectic volume confirms. (MILES, Samuel Barrett.) Sammelband of articles on The articles comprise, in bound order: classical Islamic history and Arabic literature. Paris: Société a) DE GOEJE, Michael Jan. Mémoire sur les Carmathes de Bahraïn. asiatique/Leiden: Brill, 1838–62 Leiden: Brill, 1862. De Goeje’s study of the Qaramitah, the 6 works in one volume, octavo (203 × 116 mm). Later 19th-century syncretic Shi’ite sect which revolted against the ‘Abbasid Ca- “native” green half morocco by the Bycullah Education Society’s Press, liphate from their Bahraini stronghold in the ninth century raised bands to spine with twin gilt fillets either side, gilt title to second ce, was the first volume of his four-part Mémoires d’histoire et compartments, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers. Sides lightly de géographie orientales, his principal work of original research rubbed, stripping to lower outer corners; de Goeje’s text clean, the other (he was mainly noted for preparing editions of Arabic texts). articles variably spotted, pale tide-mark to fore edge of first few leaves Untraced in auction records; three copies in UK libraries and to and lower outer corner of later leaves. Very good. (Cambridge, Manchester and Oxford), 12 world-wide, all first editions, comprising Michael de Goeje’s rare and im- held in Germany, the Netherlands or Switzerland. portant Mémoire sur les Carmathes de Bahraïn, together with five Journal Asiatique articles mainly on classical Arabic poetry, bound b) CHERBONNEAU, J. A. “Harith et Labna, episode du roman for British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett d’Antar, traduit de l’arabe en français” (January 1845, pp. Miles (1838–1914), with his occasional pencilled corrections to 5–38). A character in the celebrated romance of ‘Antarah ibn the text, a printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of his Shaddad, Harith “became proverbial for his arrogance” in collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manu- Arabic literature (Ency. Brit.) script shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; loosely inserted c) QUATREMÈRE, Etienne. “Mémoire sur la gout des livres is the laid-in carte-de-visite of the Rev. A. Clifford, Bishop of chez les orientaux” (July 1838, pp. 35–78). On books and Allahabad, attached to a handwritten note concerning an article book-collecting in the classical Islamic period, drawing on famous Arabian and Persian libraries. on Ibn Khaldun, al-Makrizi, and other recently unearthed Miles spent a significant part of his consular career in the sources. Arabian Peninsula, stationed mainly in Muscat, from where he conducted numerous expeditions into the Arabian interior. His d) — “Mémoire sur l’ouvrage intitule Kitab-alagani, c’est-a- reports, which appeared mainly in journals or confidential pub- dire, Recueil de Chansons” (November 1838, pp. 465–526). lications such as Lorimer’s Gazetteer and were partially collected Quatremère was the third European scholar to translate a after his death as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919), part of the great anthology of classical Arabic poetry and show that he was “not mere political agent or an observant trav- music, after de Sacy (1835) and Kosegarten (1819). eller but a classical scholar and Arabist” (Al-Hajri, British Trav- e) DUGAT, Gustave. “Poésies arabes. Essai de traduction en vers français de maouals et autres pieces inédites” (October

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1850, pp. 329–44). Prints the Arabic text of various poems; Miles has corrected several transcriptions. f ) HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. “Sur le socialisme en orient” (ibid., pp. 344–9). On the proto-socialist community established by Zoroastrian priest Mazdak in fifth century Khurasan. De Goeje’s piece not in Gay or Macro. £2,500 [117602]

238 239 MILSTEIN, Rachel. Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1990 first edition and distinctly rare: Copac records only three Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust copies (Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, not in the British Li- jacket. 26 plates of which 4 in colour. An excellent copy in the dust jacket brary) and OCLC adds just the copy at Columbia. There was a with a closed tear to the foot of front panel, a few mild nicks to the rear succinct contemporary review in the American Eclectic magazine and manuscript overprice sticker to the front flap. (January–May 1841): this “small publication is merely a com- first edition, with the ownership inscription of noted Iranian pilation of facts and documents that are of easy access, but yet bibliophile Cyrus Ghani, dated New York, November 1990, to such as, at this moment, briefly bring under the eye of the gen- the front free endpaper. eral reader such particulars as he must be desirous of finding £175 [110842] in a combined shape, in order to enable him to comprehend the character and history of a most extraordinary man, and the grounds of that misunderstanding which has been for some 239 months keeping, not only England and France, but the whole (MOHAMMED ALI.) The Life of Mohammed Ali, Viceroy of Europe, in an unusual ferment and state of anxiety”. Mehmet of Egypt. To which are appended, the Quadruple Treaty Ali (1769–1849) was an Ottoman viceroy and founder of the and the Official Memoranda of the English and French Egyptian royal family, who played the leading role during the Ministers. London: E. Churton, 1841 long-running Egyptian–Ottoman wars (1831–40). The war was concluded when the British fleet bombarded Egyptian forces Small octavo. Original grey-green limp cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover, marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette title incorporating a por- in Beirut in early September 1840 and an Anglo-Ottoman force trait of Mohammed Ali, engraved folding map of the Middle East. En- landed, forcing an Egyptian retreat. graved title and map lightly foxed. A very good copy, with the four pages of publisher’s terminal advertisements. £950 [99752]

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240 ten up by his travelling companion James Augustus St John – an MONRO, Vere. A Summer Ramble in Syria, with a Tartar odd fringe figure in the worlds of London radicalism and orien- talism – in his Egypt and Mohammed Ali (1834), which is dedicated Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul. London: Richard Bentley, 1835 to Monro. The plates show a pilgrim encampment on the banks 2 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm). Contemporary maroon morocco by of the Jordan, and Monro’s bivouac on Mount Lebanon, “previ- G. Cartland of Eton, title gilt directly to spine, flat bands with an attrac- ous to passing the snow”. A desirable 19th-century account of tive gilt lozenge roll, floral panels to compartments, elaborate gilt panel composed of floral, foliate and palmette tools within blind panels to the region, in a superb example of an Eton gift binding. boards, all edges gilt, pale cream surface-paper endpapers,brown silk Atabey 827; Blackmer 1148; Rohricht 1833; Weber I, 234. page-markers still intact. Lithographed frontispiece to each. Very minor shelfwear, pale browning, overall a clean and handsome set. This copy £2,250 [80231] inscribed in 1845 as an Eton leaving present to Arthur Benson Dickson from “his sincere friend” William Thomas Dickson. 241 first edition of an uncommon and entertaining narrative, MORIER, Sir James Justinian. [Oriental romances; a commended by the reviewer of The London & Westminster Review as of “more than ordinary merit”; Monro’s “descriptions are collection of his works in first edition.] London: Richard spirited and graphic; his style is lively and idiomatic, devoid of Bentley, 1824–47 stiffness or affectation” and “without making any pretensions 9 works in 24 volumes. Bound in handsome uniform mottled calf by to the higher qualities required of a traveller . . . [he] possesses Rivière & Son, boards with small Greek key border in gilt, spines gilt in qualifications of another kind, in a degree not possessed by the compartments with red morocco labels, the first title listed below top edge gilt, others uncut, the rest all edges gilt. Some titles with small majority of travellers; an adventurous and determined spirit, inkstamp of Robert Inglis on verso, engraved bookplate on front past- and great capability of enduring fatigue and privation” (Vol. edowns. Joints lightly rubbed, but a magnificent collection of most of XXV, June and July 1836). Morier’s fictional output. Monro graduated from University College, Oxford, took or- first editions of all nine works, including four presen- ders in 1825, and in 1826 was appointed curate of Stokesley, in tation copies from the author, most inscribed “From the Au- the diocese of York, his contemporary reviewer remarking that thor” at the head of title, but the sixth inscribed to Sir Robert Harry he was proof that “the race of hard-riding parsons” was not ex- Inglis Bart. “From his faithfl. & ever obliged friend, the author” on tinct in England. The Egyptian leg of Monro’s journey was writ-

144 Peter Harrington 133 241 the half-title (cropped, just shaving one letter). James Justinian Morier (1782–1849), diplomatist and novelist, was born in Smyrna of Huguenot descent, son of the British con- sul-general of the Levant Company at Constantinople; his mother was daughter of the Dutch equivalent. After education in England, James learnt the Levant trade in his father’s business. He visited 241 Persia as secretary successively to Harford Jones and Sir Gore Ouseley and acted as aide to Persian dignitaries in London. He pub- vol. 1 only with half-title, lacking in vol. 2 & 3; title in vol. 1 and a few lished two critically acclaimed travel books – A Journey through Persia, other leaves very lightly soiled); The Adventures of Hajii Baba, of Ispa- Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818) – before han, in England, 1828 (2 vols., without half-title in vol. 2, all called- beginning the sequel of novels which brought him popularity and for, but with final imprint leaf in vol. 1); Zohrab the Hostage, 1832 (3 critical acclaim: the first and best of which, the Adventures of Hajji vols., without initial advert leaf or half-titles in vol. 2 & 3); Ayesha, Baba of Isphahan (1824), displays his humorous and perceptive por- the Maid of Kars, 1834 (3 vols.); Abel Allnutt, A Novel, 1837 (3 vols., vol. trayal of Persian life and an easy style. “There is still considerable 1 without half-title); The Mirza, 1841 (3 vols., half-titles); Martin literary interest in Hajji Baba, and in Morier’s memorable evocation Toutrond: A Frenchman in London in 1831, 1849 (half-title, etched frontis of Persian life and character, in Europe, America, and the Middle & wood-engraved illustrations by Measom, frontis lightly browned East” (ODNB). at edges); The Banished: a Swabian Historical Tale, 1839 (3 vols., vol. 2 & The recipient of one and perhaps all of the presentation copies, 3 lacking half-titles, vol. 3 also 4pp. publisher’s catalogue at end); St. Sir Robert Harry Inglis (1786–1855), second baronet, was an evan- Roche. A Romance, from the German, 1847 (3 vols., half-titles, genealogi- gelical politician, loosely associated with the Clapham Sect, a large cal table at end of vol. 3). part of his parliamentary career dominated by his fierce opposition to Catholic emancipation, but nevertheless a man of wide literary, £9,750 [31940] historical, and scientific interests, fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, trustee of the British Museum and pro- fessor of antiquity at the Royal Academy, who also took a strong in- terest in Indian affairs. He had a wide and eclectic circle of friends. The titles are: The Adventures of Hajii Baba, of Ispahan, 1824 (3 vol.,

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242 242 MORRISON, John. The Advantages of an Alliance with MOSER, Heinrich. Durch Central-Asien. Die the Great Mogul: In which are principally considered Kirgisensteppe – Russisch-Turkestan – Bochara – Chiwa Three Points of the highest Importance to the British – Das Turkmenenland und Persien. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, Nation. I. The immediate Preservation and future 1888 Prosperity of the East India Company. II. The legal Tall quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt Acquisition of an immense Revenue to Great Britain. and elaborately decorated with floral sprays and arabesque panelling in III. The promoting of a vast Increase in the Exports of black, gilt and grey, French fillet to rear board in blind, marbled edges, floral endpapers. 19 heliotypic plates including portrait frontispiece British Manufactures. Second edition. With a Postscript, with facsimile signature and tissue guard, some 140 images to the text obviating Doubts. London: for T. Cadell; J. Millan; and of which several full-page, lithographed folding map to rear, coloured in Richardson and Urquhart, 1774 outline, opening to 60 40 cm. Spine sunned, small portion of mild dis- colouration to upper inner corner of rear board, light toning and plates Octavo (205 × 127 mm) in fours, except for the last gathering. Contem- tanned as usual. An excellent copy in a remarkably bright binding. porary tree calf, flat spine gilt with floral sprays and stars, red morocco label. Engraved bookplate of Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans first edition in german, originally published in Paris in (née Mellon; 1777–1837). Front joint cracked at head and tail, front inner 1885, of this attractively produced account of an expedition into hinge cracked but cords and leather holding, spine label just lifting in Russian Central Asia in 1882–3. In 1882 Swiss-born horologist one corner, binder’s blanks tanned from turn-ins, small hole in last leaf Moser was invited to join the suite of General Tchernaieff, who costing a few letters on recto only, the sense easily guessed, nevertheless was on his way to Tashkent as the tsar’s governor general. From a most attractive copy overall. Tashkent, Moser continued to Samarkand and Bukhara, sailed second edition, the same year as the first, with an additional down the Amu Darya River on a boat to Khiva, crossed the Kara- gathering at the end “obviating Doubts”; one of three printed kum Desert to Ashkabad, and then made his way via Bojnurd to attempts made by Morrison, a former major in the service of Tehran, and across the Caspian to the Caucasus, the Black Sea the East India Company, to attract attention to his proposal of and finally, in 1883, Istanbul. He accumulated a remarkable col- an alliance with his employer Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emper- lection of central Asian artefacts, now held, undisplayed, by the or. The provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa would be given Bern Historical Museum. over to the English in exchange for arms, military training, and payment of the tribute owed to the shah. One of the many ar- Henze III, 542; Yakushi M 262 b. guments that Morrison advanced in its favour was that it would £650 [109005] prevent the falling into the Russian sphere of influence. The pamphlet includes transcripts of letters Morrison 244 had written to the governor of Bengal, John Cartier, on the same subject. MUIR, Sir William. A History of the Christian Church to the Time of Constantine. Agra: Wm. H. Haycock, Secundra £500 [94258] Orphan Press, 1848

146 Peter Harrington 133 conviction that education would be conducive to social reform and hence to ‘civilisation’, and even to his personal goal of the reception of Christian values”. The present work certainly represents an adjunct of this Ma- caulayist project, Muir noting in his preface that “this treatise is mainly designed as a vernacular one for the natives of Hindustan, and has an especial reference to the Mahomedan population”. Ex- tremely uncommon, just a single copy traced at Yale, and in that the map not noted. £1,750 [89523]

245 MUIR, Sir William. Extracts from the Coran. In the original with English rendering. London: Trübner & Co., 1880 Octavo in half-sheets (189 × 127 mm). Original brown cloth, titles to front board gilt, geometric border blind-stamped to top and bottom edges of boards, brown coated endpapers. Slightly rubbed with strip of mild cockling to front board, corners and ends of spine lightly bumped, edges lightly foxed. A very good copy. first edition, inscribed twice by the author: “From the author” on the half-title and “WMuir” calligraphically to the 245 front board. Muir had originally intended to produce a trilingual work with renderings into Urdu as well, but was advised by his Octavo (197 × 113 mm). Original green combed cloth-backed marbled “Mahometan friends . . . that the very act of using extracts se- boards, paper label to spine. Folding lithographic map frontispiece with lected from it would be held a desecration”. Muir’s other works some colour. A little rubbed, label somewhat chipped, ink-stamp of the include his chef d’œuvre Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Free Church College to the front free endpaper, light toning to the text, Era of the Hegira (London, 1858–61) and The Coran: Its Composition otherwise very good. and Teaching; And the Testimony it Bears to the Holy Scriptures (Lon- first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by don, 1878). Institutionally uncommon, with Copac tracing eight the noted Orientalist and administrator to his elder brother John, copies in UK libraries and OCLC adding nine worldwide. Rare “Jn Muir from W.M., Agra, 22 Ja[nuar]y 1849”. John is widely con- in commerce. sidered to have been “one of the most significant British patrons and scholars of Sanskrit of the mid-19th century” (ODNB), but his £350 [90058] brother’s influence was certainly the greater. From Haileybury William Muir (1819–1905) travelled out in 1837 to take up a posting 246 on the North West Provinces, where he would see almost 40 years MUIR, Sir William. The Mohammedan Controversy; of continuous service. A series of minor positions in the revenue Biographies of Mohammed; Spenger on Tradition; The and judicial services were followed by “posts in the provincial capital of Agra, first as secretary to the board of revenue in 1848, Indian Liturgy; and the Psalter. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897 and then, from 1852, as secretary to Lieutenant-Governor James Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and twin rules gilt to spine, blind Thomason, with whose evangelicalism and administrative inno- frames to covers, edges untrimmed, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding comparative schedule for liturgies. From the library of British vations in the fields of land revenue and education he was very Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed sympathetic. His first twenty years of Indian service proved him bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public sound rather than exceptional”. Library in 1920, and associated blind-stamps as usual. Spine-ends and The Mutiny and subsequent civil uprising of 1857–9 provided tips very lightly rubbed, short nick to head of front joint, light toning to Muir with greater scope for initiative, and his intelligence work in contents. A very good copy. the province drew him to the attention of the Governor-General, first edition in book form of these five articles by the noted leading to his eventual rise in 1868 to the provincial governorship. orientalist and colonial administrator, first published between He retired to Britain in late 1876 but continued to play an active 1845 and 1887, mostly in the Calcutta Review; copies are inevitably role in Indian affairs until 1885, as a member of the Council of common institutionally, but rare in commerce. “William Muir India in London. He was then appointed principal of Edinburgh presents the paradox of a scholar drawn irresistibly to the Arabic University, his alma mater, retiring in 1903. literary heritage and to close friendships with individual Mus- He has been recognised for his contribution to the stabilisation lims, who nevertheless felt compelled by his religious convic- of land revenue problems in north-west India following the up- tions to denigrate Muslim beliefs and social institutions in both risings, but his Islamic scholarship and educational endeavours, their Arabian and Indian settings” (ODNB). His views of Islam both in India and Scotland, were probably of greater long-term were nevertheless highly influential and provoked rebuttals es- significance: “His preoccupation with higher education reflected pecially from Indian scholars, notably Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan. partly his perception of the élites, particularly the Muslims, as bulwarks of the raj in the north-west, and partly his evangelical £250 [117725]

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The most brilliant Semitic scholar of his time a) Himjarische Studien (Leipzig: G. Kreysing, 1876). Offprint from the Zeitschriften der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 247 vol. XXX; MÜLLER, David Heinrich. “Verschiedene Schriften” b) Himjarisches Bild mit Inschrift. Offprint, ibid.; [spine title]. Leipzig: G. Kreysing/Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1875–81 c) Die Harra-Inschriften und ihre Bedeutung für die Entwick- lungsgeschichte der südsemitischen Schrift. Offprint, ibid.; 6 works in one volume, octavo (212 × 131 mm). Modern library buckram, title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. 13 plates, mainly folding and in- d) Himjarische Inschriften. Nebst einem Anhang zur Textes- cluding inscriptions and plans. Plate of Bath Municipal Library to front kritik der himjarischen Kaside (Leipzig: G. Kreysing, 1875). free endpaper recto, accession notes verso and to first title verso, and Offprint from ZDMG vol. XXIX; blind-stamps to the text as usual. First title slightly marked, tape-repair to one leaf in the fragments to rear, and to Miles’s handwritten tran- e) Bericht über die Ergebnisse einer . . . Reise nach Constanti- scription of Himyaritic. Very good condition overall. nopel (Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1878); Sammelband of journal articles and offprints containing some of f ) Die Burgen und Schlösser Südarabiens nach dem Ilkil des Müller’s “very valuable works” (New International Encyclopaedia) Hamdani. (Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1879–81). on the pre-Islamic southern Arabian kingdom of Himyar, col- lected by British Arabist and colonial agent Samuel Barrett Miles Müller (1846–1938) was originally intended for the rabbinate; (1838–1914), noted for his exploration and study of Oman, and “only at the age of twenty-six did he go as a student to the uni- bequeathed by his widow to Bath Public Library. versity of Vienna. There he devoted himself to Semitic philology The first article is a presentation copy, inscribed by Müller to . . . [and] took his PhD in 1875”, becoming full professor in 1885. “Mr S. B. Miles, Resident . . . der Verfasser” on the title page, The sixth article is a partial edition of the Iklil of Hamdani (893– one of the plates depicting inscriptions being based on draw- 945) in the original Arabic, with commentary, and is a precursor ings by Miles; the fifth article is also inscribed, from “d[er] to his highly significant iteration of the complete text, published Verf[asser]”. To the rear there are seven related text fragments, in 1884–91; Hamdani’s encyclopaedic work is a key source for all in German with occasional interlinear English translation in southern Arabia before and after the rise of Islam. Müller sub- Miles’s hand, including Alfred von Kremer on “Die himjarische sequently accompanied the Imperial Academy of Sciences expe- Kasiden” and an article by Maltzan, “über den Dialect von Mah- dition to southern Arabia in 1898. His discoveries in Socotra re- ra (Méhri in Südarabien)”; these are followed by an intriguing deemed an expedition marred by an unfeasible attempt to pene- run of 35 printed plates, mainly folding and depicting Himyaritic trate the difficult Arabian interior. His colleagues and students, inscriptions, together with one folding manuscript leaf also who included Musil, Glaser, and Rhodokanakis, considered him depicting inscriptions, probably a specimen provided to Müller “the most brilliant Semitic scholar of his time” (Serjeant et al., by Miles. The main articles, providing an engrossing overview of eds, New Arabian Studies, Vol. 1, p. 57), a judgement reflected in Müller’s work, comprise: Miles’s gathering his works together in the present volume. Macro 1655 and 1653 for articles 1 and 2. £1,500 [117621]

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The third book printed in Turkey, from the first press established in the 1740s, serving as court translator, ambassador of French under Muslim auspices kings Louis XIV and XV, and intermediary between the Safavids and the Papacy (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The Afghan invasion saw the 248 Safavid ruler Shah Sultan Husayn executed and the capital Isfahan (MÜTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim, trans.) KRUSINSKI, Judas sacked, precipitating the eventual downfall of the once-great em- Thaddeus. [Title in Ottoman Turkish:] Tarih-i seyyah pire in 1736 following a brief period of Safavid reconquest. der beyan-i zuhur-i Agvaniyan ve sebeb-i inhidam-i Originally composed in Latin, Tarih-i seyyah was translated into Turkish by the Ottoman diplomat Ibrahim Müteferrika and be- bina-i devlet-i Sahan-i Safeviyan (A Traveller’s Chronicle came only the third text to be printed on his new printing press, Concerning the Emergence of the Afghans and the Cause the first press established under Muslim auspices. Following a of the Collapse of the Safavid Dynasty). Istanbul: Dar al- long struggle against conservative religious sentiment, Müteferri- Tiba’ah al-Ma’murah, 1142 ah (1729 ce) ka was finally granted permission for his project by Sultan Ahmet Octavo (215 × 152 mm). Contemporary dark red quarter morocco, III in 1729. The first book printed was Kitab-i Lügat-i Vankulu, an Ar- marbled sides, catch-title (Tarih-i Agvan) to bottom edge in black ink. abic–Persian–Turkish dictionary based on the Sihah of al-Jawhari, Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bind- with the second being Katib Çelebi’s Tühfet ül-kibar fi esfar il-bihar ery. Four Ottoman ownership stamps to ff. 1 and 21, later (1189 ah) (Concerning Naval Expeditions), followed by the present title in the ownership inscription to f. 1 by “Ahmad”, possibly the owner of the same year. The press was discontinued in 1742, with the conse- directly below; additional inscriptions to f. 66 and verso of final blank. Minor loss to head and foot of spine with short split to head of front quence that any such “Turkish incunabula” are uncommon. joint, earlier leaves with very faint dampstaining to bottom edge and Burrell 165 for the first edition and 448 for the first in English. Not in slight finger-marking to bottom corners, very occasional light spotting Blackmer or Atabey. to margins as usual, minute worm hole to gutter ff. [7]–10 and 72–97, old repair to f. 97v with no loss of text, neat double incision to fore edge £12,500 [100191] f. 66, ink-smudge to f. [5]r and margin of f. 39 to no loss, f. 95 misbound between ff. 93 and 94. Overall a nice, crisp copy. A scarce title in a pleas- ing contemporary binding, this copy bearing several distinct Ottoman ownership seals yet with little real sign of wear. first edition in turkish (printed with Arabic types) of this eyewitness account of the Afghan invasion of Persia in 1722 by Father Judasz Thaddeus Krusinksi (1675–1756), first published in French as Histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse in Paris, 1728. Krusinski, “the best known of the Polish Jesuits active in Iran” in the early 18th century, lived in Isfahan from 1707 to 1728 and again 248

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249 tions of his experiences, which included a meeting with Princess NAJAF-KULI MIRZA. Journal of a Residence in England, Victoria with introductions performed by Sir Gore Ouseley” (Harry Ransom Centre). The three princes travelled to England and of a Journey from and to Syria, of Their Royal by way of Damascus, where the British consul John Farren pro- Highnesses Reeza Koolee Meerza, Najaf Koolee Meerza, vided them with his interpreter Assaad Kayat, a Syrian Christian and Taymoor Meerza, of Persia. To which are prefixed who later became agent for the Church of England Society for some Particulars respecting Modern Persia, and the Promoting Christian Education in Syria. The account describes Death of the late Shah. Originally written in Persian by the recent history of Persia and the bloody accession of Moham- Najaf Koolee Meerza, and translated, with Explanatory med Shah, the princes’ outward voyage (which also took in Leb- Notes by Assaad Y. Kayat. [London:] printed for private anon and Egypt), their stay in London, and the return journey circulation only [by W. Tyler, 1839] through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Wallachia. 2 volumes (197 × 120 mm). Original blue-green cloth, rebacked with the Wilson p. 155. original blind-ruled and gilt-lettered spines laid down, sides decora- tively panel-stamped in blind with central bouquet vignettes gilt, fore £1,750 [117140] and bottom edges untrimmed, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Litho- graphic facsimile of letter from the author as frontispiece. Tips bumped Important account of Kokand and rubbed, a little faint marking to cloth, contents toned, a few leaves faintly dog-eared, vol. 1 slightly shaken between sigs. M and N but hold- 250 ing. A good copy. NALIVKINE, Vladimir Petrovic. Histoire de Khanat de first edition of this fascinating and commercially very scarce Khokand. Traduit de Russe par Auguste Dozon. Paris, account of the first visit to England by any member of a Persian Ernest Leroux, éditeur, 1889 ruling dynasty (Monthly Review, vol. 3, 1839). “As the British became more deeply invested in protecting interests in India, re- Quarto (273 172 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, marbled boards, by Joseph Bretault, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tric- lations with Persia became complex. In 1834, several sons of the olour silk page-marker. Original wrappers bound in front and back. late Fath Ali Shah claimed the right to rule Persia, creating the Double-page engraved map. A very lightly rubbed at the extremities, possibility of civil war. The British entered the fray, supporting pale toning, a very good copy in an attractive contemporary binding by one son and containing other claimants. [Firman Firman] who Bretault, a pupil of Victor Champs, recognised as one of the foremost was imprisoned [by the new ruler Mohammed Shah, r. 1834–48] binders practising in Paris at the turn of the 19th century (Devauchelle, begged his sons to travel to England to plead the case for his La Reliure en France, III, p. 127). release and protection of the family. This memoir of the success- first edition in french, originally published in Russian in ful visit captures the British fascination with their first visitors 1886 at , this edition issued for l’École des langues orien- of the Persian ruling class. While the government negotiated tales vivantes. Institutionally well-represented, but uncommon in the diplomatic situation, the princes were toured through the commerce with just two copies at auction in the last 50 years. country and fêted across fashionable London. The enthusiastic This is an important account of the Khanate of Kokand, a city diarist offers extensive (and sometimes exaggerated) descrip- now in the Ferganah region of Uzbekistan. Nalivkine (1852–1918)

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251 extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, a few pale marks to sides, spo- radic marginal foxing or soiling, several leaves with shallow chips or short began his career as an artillery officer and saw service in the con- closed tears at top or fore edges where roughly opened, the text never af- quest of Khiva in 1875, the following year becoming commander fected, 7 cm tear to folding map, skilfully repaired verso, vol. 2 sigs. p. 5–6 creased, still a very good copy, the gilt spines notably bright. of Namengan in Ferghana. He then left the service to become a “rural proprietor” (translator’s preface) and embarked on ethno- second edition of this important eyewitness account of the graphical and linguistic studies of the region, producing in time Second Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41), “a mixture of historical both the first Russo–Sart and Russo–Uzbek dictionaries. In 1884 information, anecdotes of travel, and a description of the cam- he was recalled to the service at the specific instructions of Gener- paign” (Blackmer). Uncommon, with one copy only in UK librar- al Cherniaev, the governor-general of Russian Turkestan, in order ies (Manchester), this an attractive example of the original cloth. to establish a school at Tashkent for the teaching of Russian and “When the British fleet was engaged on the coast of Syria in mathematics, while himself occupying the chair in Sart and Per- 1840, Napier . . . was dispatched to the Nablus Mountains to sian at the lycée there. Nalivkine was the author of the first course- keep the Druse and Maronite chiefs firm in their allegiance to the book for the elementary schools that the Russians were estab- [Ottoman] sultan. In the depth of winter, which was very severe lishing throughout the region. He was a member of the Tashkent in the mountains, he collected a force of 1500 irregular cavalry, State Duma, and subsequently head of the Turkestan Committee whom he declared to be ‘as ruffianly a lot of cut-throats as ever of the Provisional Government, and commander of the Turkestan a Christian gentleman had command of ’. With his irregulars he Military District. In November 1917, power in Tashkent was seized watched [Egyptian commander] Ibrahim Pasha . . . so closely that by the Bolsheviks and their Left Social Revolutionary allies, and Ibrahim retreated through the desert east and south of Palestine with the transfer of power to the soviets, Nalivkine went into hid- instead of occupying Jerusalem and ravaging the settled country ing. He committed suicide in January 1918. round about as he had intended. However, when Napier’s force came suddenly upon an outpost of Ibrahim’s cavalry, they fled, £1,750 [104677] leaving Napier and three other Europeans to themselves. Napier retired to the Turkish headquarters, where he acted as military “As ruffianly a lot of cut-throats as ever a Christian gentleman commissioner until the convention of Alexandria put an end to had command of” the war. In January 1841 Napier was dispatched to bring back the chiefs of Lebanon, whom Ibrahim Pasha had sent to work in 251 the goldmines of Sennar, a service he successfully completed” NAPIER, Edward. Reminiscences of Syria, and the Holy (ODNB). Shortly afterwards he was sent to Egypt to secure the Land. London: T. C. Newby; Parry, Blenkarn and Co., 1847 release of Syrian troops held by Muhammad Ali Pasha. For his 2 volumes, large duodecimo (200 × 120 mm). Original green diago- services he was made brevet lieutenant-colonel and received a nal-ribbed cloth, decorative blind rules to spines, titles and decorative gold medal from the sultan. He retired on half-pay in 1843, but camel and pyramid motifs gilt to compartments, covers decoratively pan- later served in the Cape Frontier War and in the Crimea, retiring el-stamped in blind, edges untrimmed, yellow surface-paper endpapers, in 1870 with the rank of lieutenant-general, and dying later the binder’s ink-stamp (Marrow) to front pastedowns. Tinted lithographic same year. frontispiece to each volume, folding lithographic area map, one plan. Contemporary school prize plate (Kilmarnock Academy) to front free Blackmer 1184 for the first edition; not in Bruce. endpaper vol. 1, associated inscription in vol. 2. Spines faintly sunned, £1,250 [117076]

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252 and Grenadier Guards and the Royal Artillery, and a simplified (NASER AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR.) Report in Relation to floor plan. The ticket to the reception, printed by Blades, East and Blades, features a portrait of the Shah, the arms of the city the Entertainment of His Imperial Majesty the Shah, in of London, and of the Persian royal house ornately printed in the Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday, the 20th of red, blue, green, sepia, and gold. The menu is similarly decora- June, 1873; [together with] Entertainment to His Majesty tive, featuring a wonderful Islamic-style border. The Shah of Persia. Description of the Guildhall with Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar was the first Shah of Persia to visit Programmes of Music [and a colour-printed ticket and Europe in modern times. His travels seem to have been an effort menu for the reception]. London: Presented to the Court of to obtain some influence in the power-struggle being played out Common Council, 2 October 1873 between Britain and Russia on his northern borders. He was Together 4 items. The Report, foolscap quarto (332 × 212 mm), original fascinated by the technological advances he saw, and introduced green card printed wrappers; 2 folding, hand-coloured lithographic a number of western innovations to Persia, including a modern floor-plans, full-page table plan, plates of ticket designs and menus. postal system, train transport, a banking system and newspaper The Entertainment, octavo (212 × 131 mm), original pink card printed publishing. He was also the first Iranian to be photographed. wrappers; folding hand-coloured lithographic plan. Accompanied by an The Shah was sumptuously entertained during his visit, and was unused example of the large (459 × 274 mm) colour-lithographed admis- appointed a Garter Knight by the Queen, the first Persian to be sion ticket to the reception with its “coupon” and a similar menu (285 × so honoured. His admiration for western ways and his perceived 184 mm). Some slight rubbing and soiling of the wrappers, but overall deference to the European powers were certainly factors that very good indeed. contributed to his assassination in 1896 by a follower of the Is- first and only editions. Of the Report, Copac records the lamicist Jamal-al-Din Afghani. Guildhall copy only, OCLC adding a copy in Leiden; a single copy of the Entertainment located at Chicago: both extremely £2,500 [61505] uncommon. The Report contains a full subscriber’s list, impres- sions of the various tickets, a table plan for the Royal Table, 253 menus, programmes of dances, and the text of the mayoral ad- NEAVE, Dorina L. Remembering Kut. London: Arthur dress, in both English and Farsi; the Entertainment – being more Barker Ltd, 1937 by way of a programme – has a history of the Guildhall, pro- grammes for the performances of the bands of the Coldstream Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, gilt device on front cover. With the dust jacket. Monochrome portrait frontispiece of Major-Gen- eral Melliss, map of Turkey and the Middle East. Jacket lightly soiled, spine toned, stain across foot of spine and panels, otherwise a very good copy. first edition, signed copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Dorina Lockhart Neave, 26 April 1937”. The terrible four-month siege of Kut in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, “was, arguably, Britain’s worse military defeat since the surrender of Cornwallis’s army in 1781 during the American Rev- olutionary War” (Patrick Crowley, Kut 1916: Courage and Failure in Iraq, 2009).

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254 plans, numerous wood-engraved illustrations to the text. A little rubbed, volume I rear board slightly bubbled and mottled, rear endpapers disc- NECHAYEV, Alexay Vasilievich. Po gornoi Bukharie. oloured, and both hinges repaired, some light browning, but overall a Putevye ocherki (In the Mountains of Bukhara. Travel very good set, presenting well. Stories). St Petersburg: M. Stasulevich, 1914 first edition. Following graduation from Oxford, where he Octavo (240 × 162 mm). Contemporary tan morocco-backed brown lin- was a friend of Ruskin, “Newton entered the British Museum in en boards, title gilt direct to spine, grey patterned endpapers. 2 plates, 1840 as assistant in the department of antiquities under Edward numerous illustrations to the text. A little rubbed at the extremities, Hawkins. Here he took advantage of the opportunity to study light browning, a couple of underlinings in the text, private library at first hand a wide range of antiquities, including coins, and stamp to verso of the rear free endpaper. acquired a thorough training in curatorship . . . In 1852 Newton first edition. In 1906 Alexksay Vasilievich Nechayev (1864– resigned from the British Museum on appointment as vice-con- 1915), a paleontologist and geologist from Kazan, made a trip sul at Mytilene. From April 1853 to January 1854 he served as act- into the Bukhara for the purposes of a scientific survey. How- ing consul at Rhodes . . . In addition to consular duties he was ever, the present work is his account of the everyday life and authorized to serve the interests of the museum by acquiring traditions of the local people in this isolated locale. The expedi- antiquities through excavation and purchase. His excavations on tion extended into the mountainous areas of Bukhara that had Kalymnos in 1854 and 1855, financed by Lord Stratford de Red- previously not been visited by Russians. Nechaev recounts local cliffe, the British ambassador at Constantinople, yielded many legends, the folk tales of the gold-miners, and regional customs inscriptions for the British Museum. Also in 1855 he unearthed and living conditions, at the same time offering descriptions of the bronze serpent from Delphi in the hippodrome at Constan- the stunning landscapes along the way. Nachayev is best known tinople and visited Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) for the first for his pioneering work on the stratigraphy and paleontology of time. After a second visit in the following spring he obtained Paleogene sediments of the Volga Region and Upper-Permian a government grant of £2000 together with naval and military rocks of the eastern and north-eastern European part of Russia. support for an expedition to retrieve some lions from the mau- Uncommon, OCLC lists just three locations. soleum immured in the castle of St Peter and to excavate the £2,500 [110611] site of the mausoleum itself ” (ODNB). Newton became the first keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities in 1861. He was closely involved in the foundation of three highly influential archaeo- 255 logical institutions: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic NEWTON, Charles Thomas. Travels & Discoveries in the Studies, to which he gave an inaugural address in June 1879; the Levant. London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865 Egypt Exploration Fund, founded in 1882; and the British School 2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to at Athens, opened in November 1886. Newton died in 1894. spines, elaborate blind panelling to boards, cream endpapers. Folding Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic map frontispiece to each, 12 lithographic plates from photographs by Literature, 284 Francis Bedford after drawings by Newton and his wife, 20 plates, one of them folding, the majority etched after photographs by Colnaghi and £1,250 [99196] Spackman, 2 double- and 2 full-page maps, one double- and 2 full-page

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Illustrated survey of the Ottoman world including the Arabian outer corner of title leaf not affecting text or border, a few minor marks, Peninsula a very good copy. first edition in english; first published in French by 256 Guillaume Roville in Lyon in 1568 with copper-engraved illus- NICOLAY, Nicolas de. The Navigations, Peregrinations trations. Nicolay was the Geographer Ordinary and Valet to and Voyages, made into Turkie, conteining sundry the Chamber to Henri II, who sent him to accompany Gabriel singularities which the Author hath there seene and d’Aramon’s embassy to in 1551, his observed: Devided into foure Bookes, with threescore unofficial mission being to survey the places visited, including Istanbul. Also included is a “Description of the three Arabies”, figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, together with a report “Of the Pilgrims of Mecqua”. The 60 according to the diversitie of nations, their port, intreatie, woodcuts in the present English edition were copied from apparrell, lawes, religion and manner of living, aswel in the Antwerp versions, possibly by a Dutchman called Charles time of warre as peace: with divers faire and memorable Tressell (the monogram CT appears in at least two cuts). The ex- histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the plicit woodcut of “a Religius Turke” facing p. 102, is often found French by T. Washington the younger. London: imprinted by mutilated, but remains intact in this copy. Other woodcuts Thomas Dawson, 1585 include the earliest depictions of inhabitants of Algiers, Tripoli, Octavo (187 × 141 mm). Mid 17th-century speckled calf, red morocco Turkey, Greece, Persia and Armenia, also a number of Jewish label, raised bands, triple blind rules to spine and boards, red speckled occupational costumes, a physician, a Jewess and a merchant. edges. 57 full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, headpieces The section on Arabia features a plate of “A Merchant of Arabia”, and borders to title page and illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Ed- while the description of the hajj includes two images, “Pilgrim ward Vernon Harcourt (1825–1891), author of Sporting in Algeria (1859), on Moores returning from Mecqua” and “Sasquas, of nation a the front pastedown, contemporary inscriptions to initial blanks and Moore, a bearer of water, and a Pilgrim of Macqua”. Colas con- upper margin of title page, the latter dated 1593 and at end of dedica- sidered it the first serious attempt to describe the costume and tion. Expertly rebacked to style, endleaves renewed; small loss to lower

154 Peter Harrington 133 257 customs of the Near East: “C’est la première série de documents the only one to return. sérieux sur les habillements du proche Orient”. The text was From Constantinople they proceeded to Egypt and spent a edited by John (i.e. Hans) Stell. The work is frequently cited by year there, ascending the Nile and visiting Suez and Mount Si- Shakespeare scholars as a source for The Merchant of Venice. nai. “Disguised as pilgrims . . . they left Suez in October 1762 for Jiddah, from where they advanced down the coast in a tarrad (an Arcadian Library for German, [9167], French [8748], and Italian [14172] editions, p. 152 refers; Atabey 871; Blackmer 1197; Colas 2203; not in open boat), making frequent landings as far as Al Luhayyah in Macro; STC 18574. Northern Yemen” (Howgego). On their way to Mocha, Niebuhr and Forrskål contracted malaria, and on arrival von Haven died, £25,000 [92271] swiftly followed by Forrskål, and by late 1763 the whole party were so ill that they were carried onto a vessel bound for Bom- 257 bay. On the voyage Berggren and Baurenfeind died, followed NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien. by Kramer in early 1764, leaving Niebuhr as the only survivor, Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst seemingly protected by his adoption of native dress and diet. Continuing alone he visited Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz, Persepo- gesammelten Nachrichten abgefasset. Copenhagen: printed lis, Babylon, Baghdad, Mosul, Aleppo, Cyprus, and Jerusalem. at the Hofbuchdruckerey by Nicolaus Möller, 1772 “Niebuhr described the town and its inhabitants in minute Quarto (249 × 186 mm). Modern pale tan half morocco on marbled detail and made a map of the surrounding area. Continuing boards, darker tan label to spine, floral devices gilt in compartments, northward along the coast, he crossed the Taurus mountains of edges red. Title page vignette of geography and astronomy, arms of the Turkey to Brusa and Constantinople, then made his way home- as headpiece to the dedication, 18 plates, 4 of them ward through Poland and Germany.” folding, 2 of these coloured, 7 maps, all but one of them folding, the large map of Yemen at the rear being coloured in outline. Small library Niebuhr published in Denmark, under the patronage of the stamps of “Bibliothek Prof. Engels” to title and verso of the dedication schizophrenic king, Christian VII, to whom the book is dedi- leaf, light browning, occasional foxing, but overall a very good copy. cated, the cost of the plates being defrayed by the government. first edition. Niebuhr trained as a surveyor in order to Niebuhr was a remarkably conscientious and accurate observer, support himself into his majority, then receiving a small inheri- and this official account of his travels has long been considered tance. He next studied mathematics at Göttingen before joining one of the classic accounts of the geography, people, antiquities the Hanoverian corps of engineers. In 1760 he was invited to join and archaeology of the region, his maps remaining in use for the scientific expedition being sent out by Frederick V of Den- over 100 years. mark. Originally intended for the purpose of illustrating certain Brunet IV 74; Cox I, pp. 237–8; Graesse IV, p. 674; Howgego N24. passages from the Old Testament, it developed truly encyclo- paedic ambitions, the party consisting of Niebuhr as surveyor, £3,750 [46821] Friedrich Christian von Haven, a Danish linguist and orientalist, Peter Forrskål, a Linnaean naturalist, Christian Carl Kramer, a doctor and zoologist, Georg Baurenfeind, the expeditions artist, and Berggren, a Swedish ex-soldier. In the event Niebuhr was

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258 gently rolled, upper outer corners lightly bumped and rubbed, mild foxing to prelims, very occasional mild spotting to the text. An excellent (NIMATULLAH.) DORN, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard. copy in the dust jacket with rubbed and slightly chipped extremities and History of the Afghans: Translated from the Persian of joints, and a bookseller’s overprice sticker to spine. Neamet Ullah . . . London: Printed for the Oriental Translation first edition of this detailed account of Persia under Reza Committee, 1829–36 Shah, seldom encountered in this condition with the dust jack- 2 parts quarto bound as one. Original green sand-grain cloth, paper et; this is a particularly bright example of the original cloth. A label to spine. A little rubbed, spine label chipping and slightly scuffed, German edition followed a year later, under the title Persien wie es but largely legible, front hinge just started and the first quire slightly ist und war. loose as a consequence, endpapers browned, light toning throughout, a Norden sailed to Damascus, travelled across the Syrian desert very good copy. to Baghdad, before continuing through Najaf, Basra, across the first edition. Dorn (1805–1881) was a pioneer in many areas Persian Gulf to Shiraz, then Isfahan and Tehran before returning of Iranian studies in Russia. “He was particularly interested in via Baku and Trabzon. Norden was born in Emden, Germany the Pashtuns and published annotated editions and translations in 1870 and migrated to America at the age of 16 to work for his of texts on tribal history. Dorn never visited Afghanistan, but he uncle’s cotton business. By 1911, he had amassed such a fortune nevertheless established the scientific basis for Afghan studies, that he was able to give up work to travel. Several books, all pub- particularly the first systematic description of Pashto” (Ency- lished between 1923 and his death in London eight years later, clopaedia Iranica). Ni’mat Allah al-Harawi (fl. 1613–1630), called attest to intrepid career in which Norden always sailed out alone Nimatullah, was a chronicler and waqia-navis, or court reporter, and relied solely on local guides. In 1922 he was elected Fellow at the court of the Moghul Emperor Jahangir. He compiled the of the Royal Geographical Society. Makhzan-i-Afghani from materials accumulated by Haibat Khan Author not in Howgego. of Samana, and, while some of the content is somewhat fanci- ful, the book was a major source for the origins of the Pashtuns, £350 [114442] also including the genealogies of the Afghan rulers in Bengal and some events contemporary with its composition. For this 260 translation Dorn used a copy from the library of the Royal Asi- atic Society: “it is very carelessly written, by one Fut’h Khan, for (NOTT, Sir William.) STOCQUELER, Joachim Hayward, his own use, in the year 1131 of the Hejra (a.d. 1718)” (Preface). ed. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Commander of the Army of Candahar, £1,200 [96543] and Envoy at the Court of the King of Oude. Edited at the Request of Sir William Nott’s Daughters, Letitia Nott 259 and Charlotte Bower, from Documents in their Exclusive NORDEN, Hermann. Under Persian Skies: A Record Possession. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1854 of Travel by the Old Caravan Routes of Western Persia. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red linen-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928 blind panelling with large laurel wreath centre-tool to all boards, cream Octavo. Original blue diagonal-ribbed cloth, titles and dervish vignette surface-paper endpapers. Engraved frontispiece to each, portrait to gilt to spine, decorative panel with lobed cornerpieces in blind to front volume I, a view of the fortress at Ghuzni to volume II. Lightly rubbed board, bottom edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust jacket. and soiled, crumpled head and tail of the spines, frontispiece to volume Photographic frontispiece, 39 similar plates, folding colour map. Spine I browned as usual, that to volume II lightly foxed, light toning through- out, a very good set. Title pages with ownership inscriptions of Robert

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Archibald Trotter, late 43rd Native Infantry, who commanded a company 261 in the defence of Kalat-i-Ghilzai. Trotter was promoted captain in 1853, retired 1862. A bright clean copy, unusual in the original cloth, and with OCKLEY, Simon (ed.) An Account of South-West an attractive provenance. Barbary: Containing what is most Remarkable in the first edition of this uncommon memoir, an important Territories of the King of Fez and Morocco. Written by source for the First Afghan War. Nott was commissioned as a Person who had been a Slave there a Considerable ensign in the East India Company’s army in 1800, and posted to Time; and published from his Authentick Manuscript. To the 20th Bengal Native Infantry, serving with them in the expe- which are added, two Letters: one from the Present King dition to the west coast of Sumatra in 1805. From 1811 until 1825 of Morocco to Colonel Kirk; the other to Sir Cloudesly he served as “superintendent of native pensions and paymaster Shovell: with Sir Cloudesly’s Answer, etc. London: for J. of family pensions at Barrackpore”, but after leave in England re- Bowyer and H. Clements, 1713 turned to India to take command of the 20th NI. Despite having “been so long in a semi-military post, he brought his regiment Octavo (175 × 108 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Folding map frontispiece, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut facsimile into such a state of efficiency that his services were required to of Ismael’s seal to p. 130, occasional Arabic types. With the half-title. do the same for other regiments. He commanded a succession Handwritten biographical note (early 20th-century) on Ockley to front of native infantry regiments and on 1 December 1829 was pro- free endpaper. Board-edges lightly rubbed, corners worn, boards a little moted colonel” (ODNB). scuffed, section of superficial worming to rear, inner hinges cracked During the First Afghan War Nott commanded the troops at but firm, old paper repair to front pastedown, half-title and title a little Kandahar and Quetta, sending out “small successful expedi- soiled, the occasional marginal spot or mark, neat tear to fore-margin of tions from both locales against rebellious tribes” (Riddick, Who sig. E5 from folding, the text unaffected. A good copy. Was Who); and in 1842 was placed in command of “all the troops first and only edition (although a 16–page abridgement in Lower Afghanistan and Sindh, and of the political officers was published in 1721). Ockley (1679–1720) was Adams professor there”. His operations in defence of Kandahar, and in relief of of Arabic at Cambridge. His ethnographic account of Morocco Kabul were rewarded by his appointment to the residency and was allegedly based on the report of a Christian slave, though Lucknow with the title of envoy to the king of Oudh; and the there is no reference to any period of captivity. His translation of presentation of “a valuable sword in the name of the British gov- two letters from Mawlay Isma’il (1672–1727) secured him a brief ernment” by Lord Ellenborough, who told Wellington that he position in government “translating correspondence from the considered Nott to be superior to all the other generals. same ruler . . . with whom England had commercial relations” “Ellenborough was right. Despite his cantankerous nature (ODNB), though the fall from power of Robert Harley, his influ- Nott was by far the best general in the Anglo–Afghan War. He ential patron, meant that he had no such further employment. was also a protagonist of the sepoy, whom he compared fa- There is also a translation of Mongol conqueror Hulegu’s letter vourably with the British soldier.” In 1844 he was created GCB, to the Sultan of Aleppo. Ockley is best remembered for his Con- voted an annuity of £1,000 by the directors of the Company, and quest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt, by the Saracens (1708) and his Histo- granted the freedom of the City of London. He died aged 63 on ry of the Saracens (1718), together the first attempt at a continuous New Year’s Day 1845. in English. Bruce 4060. Lowndes p. 1716. £2,500 [105377] £500 [117040]

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262 Superb visual record of Khiva and Bokhara O’DONOVAN, Edmond. The Merv Oasis. Travels and 263 Adventures East of the Caspian during the Years 1879–80– OLUFSEN, Ole. The Second Danish Pamir-Expedition. 81 including Five Months’ Residence among the Tekkês of Old and New Architecture in Khiva, Bokhara and Merv. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882 Turkestan. Published at the Expense of the Church 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered spines. Engraved portrait frontispiece of O’Donovan, 15 plates of maps, plans and facsim- Ministry and Carlsberg Fund. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske iles (some folding), large coloured folding map of the Russo–Persian Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1904 frontier (in pocket at end of volume II). Very slight dishing of covers Folio. Original sand buckram, title in brown to front board spine. 26 half- otherwise an excellent set. tone plates from photographs. Just a little rubbed, front free endpaper first edition. “In 1879 O’Donovan, still in search of adventure, slightly browned, the text pages more lightly so, overall a very good copy. undertook, again as Daily News correspondent, his celebrated first edition of this important architectural study from the journey to Merv in Turkestan – a daring, difficult, and hazardous two Danish Pamir Expeditions. Olufsen commanded both of feat, with which his name became associated. From the Russian these trips into Central Asia, 1896–9, during which the team advanced posts on the south-eastern shores of the Caspian Sea visited Bokhara as a guest of the Emir; carried out exhaustive he travelled through Khorasan, and eventually, with great diffi- scientific surveys throughout the Pamirs; made the first anthro- culty and at considerable risk, accompanied only by two native pological study of the Siaposh and the mountain Tajiks; and servants, he reached Merv. He was at first suspected by the Tur- “scaled peaks as high as 8,000 metres and living with the Kyrgyz komans of being an agent of the Russians, who were then threat- nomads” (Howgego). Olufsen’s was to be the last non-Russian ening an advance on Merv. For several months he consequently scientific expedition in the region for 90 years. On the second remained in Merv in a sort of honourable captivity, in danger of trip the party was “provided with a camera and 2,000 glass death any day, and with no prospect of release. According to his plates” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie centrale: voyageurs et aven- own account, O’Donovan helped mount artillery, and was made turiers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, p. 224), making this remark- one of the ruling triumvirate. He managed to send into Persia a able visual record possible. message, which was thence telegraphed to John Robinson, the Howgego, IV, O7; Yakushi O32. manager of the Daily News. In this dispatch O’Donovan explained his position, and appealed to his friend: ‘For God’s sake get me £2,750 [103825] out of this’. Robinson applied to the Foreign Office and to the Russian ambassador in London, and immediate steps were taken Essential reference on Bokhara, uncommon inscribed to effect O’Donovan’s release. However, by his own efforts, com- bining courage with diplomacy, he extricated himself from his 264 perilous position. On returning to London ‘the man of Merv’ was OLUFSEN, Ole. The Emir of Bokhara and his Country. a celebrity, and he read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society. Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (With a Chapter on my In 1882 he published a book on his adventures” (ODNB). Voyage on the Amu Darya to Khiva.) Copenhagen: Gyldendalske £950 [94638] Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag; William Heinemann, London, 1911

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Large octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to front board and spine. Large folding coloured map in band inside rear board, numerous half- tone illustrations from the author’s own photographs to the text, many full-page. A little rubbed, the spine lettering a touch oxidised, judicious restoration at the head of the spine, light foxing to the prefatory matter and fore edge, else very good. 265 first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, of this highly detailed and well-illustrated study of the region by 265 the Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society, drawing OMAR KHAYYAM. The Calendar. Being excerpts from on the material accumulated during his command of the First the Quatrains of the Poet or Naishápúr, as translated and Second Danish Pamir Expeditions, 1896–97, 1898–99, from by Edward FitzGerald – Now set to Pictures by Blanche which he brought back more than 700 artefacts of ethnographic McManus. Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1903 and scientific significance now at the Danish National Museum Tall quarto (280 × 114 mm). Original green cloth, decorative label to in Copenhagen. Olufsen was fluent in Russian and Usbegic, so front board printed in red, green and black, decorative endpapers. Title he was able to conduct his own interviews with natives, employ- page recapitulating design to label, 12 sketches by McManus within ing only a Tajik interpreter with whom he conversed in Ottoman foliate border, all printed in red, green and black. Extremities slightly Turkish. In Bokhara the travellers “were welcomed as guests” by rubbed, label faintly soiled and toned with a very small chip to bottom the Emir, lengthening their stay, with the result that the present edge and a mild surface abrasion to partial loss of letter on imprint, in- study “can be used as a work of reference on the details of the ternally crisp and fresh. A very good copy. region’s architecture, archaeology, customs, religions, tradition- third edition of this attractive illustrated calendar incorpo- al costume, and for its profuse illustration from photographs rating verses from the Ruba’iyat, really rather scarce with just of ethnographic and handcrafted pieces, monuments and local three institutional copies recorded, all in the US, though an peoples” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie Centrale. Voyageurs et uncommon title in any state, with only two copies identified for aventuriers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, pp. 225). the first iteration (New York, 1899) and four for the second (Lon- The book is a relatively fragile production, with the thin cloth, don, 1901, with listings referring to a 1902 printing apparently heavy text-block, and large folding map all contributing to the substituting the year in the calendar for the year of publication). frail condition of copies usually encountered; this, lightly and The present version was followed by just one further edition, skilfully restored, is a very superior copy, and very uncommon published by L. C. Page and Company the next year. indeed inscribed. Blanche McManus was a prolific book-illustrator from Loui- Howgego, IV, O7; Yakushi O34. siana. She travelled widely in Europe and Africa with her author husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield, collaborating with him £2,500 [104298] on a number of travel books. Mansfield also established his own short-lived publishing company, M. F. Mansfield and Co. (later M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessels), who were responsible for the first edition of this calendar. £275 [104738]

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266 OSLER, Edward. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1835 Octavo (215 × 130 mm). Contemporary tan calf, flat bands gilt to spine forming compartments attractively gilt with floral tools, red morocco la- bel, gilt and blind triple-fillet frames to boards, marbled edges and end- papers. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 lithographic plates, engraved plate, folding plan of Algiers. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate not- ing his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920 and association manuscript shelf-mark, blind-stamps. Contemporary escence of the dey and, on his return to England, the enhanced booksellers ticket of Chapman and Hall to rear pastedown. Extremities title Viscount Exmouth of Canonteign. This still-authoritative and joints lightly rubbed, tips bumped, a few shallow scuffs to boards, biography is Osler’s most important work. front board partially sunned, plates a little foxed, remnant of pasted slip to rear pastedown. A very good copy with an excellent provenance. £250 [117597] first edition. On the back of distinguished service in the French Revolutionary War, Edward Pellew (1757–1833) was ap- The Phillipps copy of an important oriental manuscript catalogue pointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1805 and subsequently of the North Sea Fleet for a short period before 267 receiving a transfer to the Mediterranean Fleet, “a great compli- OUSELEY, Sir William. Catalogue of Several Hundred ment as, comprising some seventy to eighty warships, it was the Manuscript Works in Various Oriental Languages. London: largest naval force outside home waters and involved consider- Printed by A. J. Valpy, M.A., 1831 able responsibilities. These included the blockade of Toulon . . . Quarto. Stitched in original marbled wrappers. Housed in black cloth close co-operation with the various forces resisting Napoleon in drop-back box, title gilt to spine. Facsimile frontispiece with some eastern Spain; guarding the extensive British commerce in the hand-colour. A little rubbed on the wrappers, lightly browned, overall region; patrolling the coasts of Napoleon’s southern empire in very good. Italy and the Adriatic; ensuring no further French adventures first edition, presentation copy, of the catalogue of one in Egypt; and maintaining the delicate diplomatic relations of the finest collections of such works in private hands at that with the Ottoman empire and the Barbary powers” (ODNB). date, describing 724 manuscripts. Decidedly uncommon, just He retained command until Napoleon’s abdication in 1814 and ten copies on OCLC, no copies traced at auction. This copy was made Baron Exmouth, returning the next year during the inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Sir Thomas Phillipps, Hundred Days. After Napoleon’s second abdication Exmouth Bart, with Sir Wm. Ouseley’s compliments, London July 24th was directed to conclude treaties with the Barbary states for 1831”. Phillipps, the foremost bibliomaniac of his own or any the abolition of slavery. After learning of the massacre of some other era, managed to resist the temptation to add Ouseley’s 200 Christians by the dey of Algiers in 1816 he led the joint An- collection to his own assemblage of over 60,000 manuscripts. glo-Dutch bombardment of the city, which secured the acqui-

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268 OUTRAM, Sir James. Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9. Being Extracts from A Personal Journal Kept While on the Staff of the Army of the Indus. Illustrated with Plans of Ghizni and Khelat. Reprinted from the Bombay Edition. London: J. M. Richardson, 1840 267 Octavo. Contemporary maroon diced roan presentation binding, neatly rebacked with the original spine with gilt title and tooling laid down, Ouseley (1767–1842), became fascinated by Oriental studies attractive panelling in blind and gilt to boards, all edges gilt, mid-blue during his education in Paris. After a brief period of military printed moiré effect endpapers. 2 folding plans with dispositions in service with the 8th Dragoons, he sold out and went to Leiden to colour. Later armorial bookplate of Alexander-David Seton of Mounie to front pastedown. A little rubbed at the extremities, light browning, but continue his studies. “In 1795 Ouseley published Persian miscel- overall a very good copy. lanies . . . a treatise on the various styles of Persian handwriting, enriched with many illustrations of manuscripts, and numerous first london edition, family presentation copy from notes showing considerable research. On his return to England Outram’s mother, inscribed on the title page, “To Allan Hard- in 1796 Ouseley was gazetted major in Lord Ayr’s regiment of en Esq. with the best regards of the Author’s Mother”, with an dragoons stationed at Carlisle . . . In 1801 he wrote to the earl inked note from the recipient remarking that Outram’s mother of Chichester dwelling on his ambition to become an envoy to – “a woman of great self-reliance and independence” (ODNB) – some eastern court, and asking the earl to use his influence in was his “grandfather’s sister”. Originally published in India in procuring a government subsidy and approval for a proposed the same year, this first-hand account of the First Afghan War is journey to Persia [which did not] take place until 1810, when Sir uncommon in either edition, Copac listing seven copies of the William accompanied his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, as private London edition and three of the Bombay. secretary, on his mission to the shah of Persia . . . In July of 1810 Outram “was attached in 1838 to Sir John Keane’s staff, when they started from Portsmouth on HMS Lion for India and Persia, commanding the Bombay Army through Kandahar and Ghazni from where William Ouseley returned to Britain with the new to Kabul. Outram from Kabul led the pursuit of Amir Dost Mu- treaty in July 1812. He published his account as Travels in Various hammad across the Hindu Kush, in 1839, and took a prominent Countries of the East, More Particularly Persia whose title-page states part in the operations in South Afghanistan” (Buckland). that the author was an honorary fellow of the Royal Societies of Bruce 4487. Edinburgh, Göttingen, and Amsterdam, and a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal” (ODNB). His collection was offered for £500 [105380] sale but remained unsold at his death in 1842, being purchased the following year by the Bodleian. £3,000 [92321]

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269 survey at Ra’s Mirbat after Owen had contracted rheumatic fe- OWEN, William Fitzwilliam. Narrative of Voyages to ver. From Ra’s Mirbat Leven sailed to Socotra, and thence to the African coast to meet up with Barracouta” (Bidwell et al., eds, New Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar. Arabian Studies, vol. 2, p. 10). Performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. London: Owen’s account notably includes a brief description of Muscat Richard Bentley, 1833 and its commerce and inhabitants. In addition to his surveying 2 volumes, octavo (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary green half calf, mar- activities, Owen was much exercised by the Arab slave trade and bled boards, gilt fillet rules to spines, red morocco labels. 5 lithographic “determined to stamp it out. Finding the Mazrui rulers of Mom- plates, 4 folding maps. Rubbed overall, tips bumped and worn, exten- basa under siege by their suzerain, Sayyid Said, sultan of Oman, sive tear to folding map facing vol. 1 p. 413 touching the cartouche, the Owen in February 1824 on his own initiative raised the siege and others with short closed tears to stubs. A good copy. took the town under British protection in return for a promise first edition, from the collection Samuel Barrett Miles (1838– by the Mazrui to abolish slavery. Though disowned by the home 1914), British Arabist, colonial agent and explorer of inland government, the protectorate lasted over two years” (ODNB). Oman, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, and subsequently bequeathed by his wife to Gay 101; Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 86; Macro 1727; SABIB III 611. Bath Public Library, with bookplates, manuscript shelf-marks £1,750 [117623] and blind-stamps as usual. A pencilled note on vol. 1 p. 343, cor- recting Owen’s designation of an island named “Ul Heraun”, is 270 almost certainly Miles’s. A highly apposite association copy. Owen (1774–1857) was appointed in 1821 to survey the east PALMER, Edward Henry. The Desert of the Exodus: coast of Africa. In late 1823 he proceeded to Muscat to obtain Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years’ the Sayyid’s permission to survey the coastline of Omani pos- Wanderings, undertaken in Connexion with the sessions, “and on New Year’s Day 1824 commenced a survey of Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration the Arabian coastline. Owen had planned to trace the coast from Fund. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1871 Muscat to Dhofar, but unfavourable winds presented this. He 2 volumes, octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, therefore commenced at Ra’s al-Hadd, continuing to the island panels in blind to boards, cream endpapers. Coloured lithographic of Masirah, where he charted its outer coast to its southern frontispiece to vol. 1, tinted lithographic frontispiece to vol. 2, 12 other point at Ra’s Abu Rasas . . . Leven continued along the coast past tinted lithographic plates, 2 plain line plates, 5 folding maps, 3 of them Ra’s Markhaz and the Kuria Muria islands, discontinuing the coloured. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B.

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Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manu- script shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Skilfully recased, inner hinges repaired; spines rolled, tips rubbed and bumped, pale markings to front board of vol. 1 and fore edge of vol. 2. A very good, bright copy. first edition of “this important work” (Blackmer). In 1869 Palmer “was chosen to join the survey of Sinai, for the Palestine Ex- ploration Fund. His principal duty was to collect from the Bedouin 271 the correct names of places on the Sinai peninsula. He thus came for the first time into contact with Arabs, learned to speak their Quarto (268 × 204 mm). Contemporary half calf, raised band to spine dialects, and obtained an insight into their modes of thought and forming compartments ruled in gilt, red morocco label, marbled life. In the summer of 1869 he returned to England, but left again sides, sprinkled edges, 80 engraved plates with tissue guards including on 16 December for another expedition. This time he and Charles portrait frontispiece (after Henry Room) and map, engraved vignette Frederick Tyrwhitt-Drake walked alone the 600 miles from Sinai to title page. Spine sunned, rubbing to sides, corners slightly worn, pale Jerusalem, identifying sites and searching vainly for inscriptions. tide-marking to fore edge of frontispiece and engraved title, the former They explored for the first time the Desert of the Wanderings (Tih) faintly oxidised in margins, contents otherwise remarkably clean and fresh: an excellent copy with strong impressions of the plates. and many unknown parts of Edom and Moab, and accomplished much useful geographical work. En route Palmer made many first edition. “In 1835 Pardoe accompanied her father to Con- friends among the Arab , among whom he went by the stantinople, and at the time it was felt that no woman apart from name of ‘Abdallah Efendi. The travellers went on to Lebanon and to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had acquired so intimate a knowl- Damascus, where they met Captain Richard Burton, who was then edge of Turkey” (ODNB). The Beauties of the Bosphorus was published consul there, and with whom Palmer struck up a friendship. They to capitalise on the great success of the author’s City of the Sultan returned home in the autumn of 1870 by way of Constantinople and (1837) and to provide a text for Bartlett’s engravings, which were Vienna. A popular account of these two expeditions was written by among the earliest of his Eastern series to appear, and demon- Palmer in The Desert of the Exodus” (ODNB). strated “his skill in architectural drawing, and . . . an ability to handle more open landscape work” (Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Blackmer 1238; Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 88; cf. Rohricht 3125. Book Illustration in England, p. 114). William Bartlett spent most of £450 [94011] the 1830s travelling across Europe, the Middle East and North America providing illustrations for travel books, most of which were published by Virtue. Five of the plates are by John Cousen, 271 including “The Column of Theodosius”, which “well indicates the PARDOE, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. variations in tone he was able to achieve” (ibid., p. 96). Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and Atabey 922; Blackmer 1254. its environs, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett. London: George Virtue, 1838 £375 [113857]

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272 gilt gallery and disc roll. Frontispiece of Baghdad, plate of Antioch, both uncoloured aquatints. Frontispiece somewhat browned, a little creased PÂRIS, François Edmond. Souvenirs de Jérusalem. and with a small repair at the inner margin, overall a little browned, a Lithographié par Hubert Clerger, Jules Gaildrau et Fichot. minor paper repairs to corners of a few leaves, slight damp cockling in Ouvrage publié par l’escadre de la Méditerranée. Paris: the lower margin, particularly towards the rear, but remains a very copy. Arthus Bertrand, [1862] first edition. Little is known of Parson’s origins, he was Large folio (630 × 490 mm). 17 leaves, loose in contemporary green cloth probably born in Bristol, the son of a merchant captain. “In early portfolio with original printed wrapper mounted to front panel, green life he visited many countries in command of merchant vessels, cloth ties. Coloured lithographic plan mounted to title leaf as issued, 2 an occupation that suited a man ‘naturally fond of novelty, and text leaves, and 14 lithographic plates of which 12 in original hand-co- remarkably inquisitive’” (ODNB). He unsuccessfully tried to lour. Pencilled pagination to upper inner corners of plates. Subtle repair establish himself as a merchant in Bristol, but in 1767 was ap- to edges of title, text leaves, and a few plates (Halte des pèlerins, Vue proached by the Turkey Company to become their “consul and génerale de Jérusalem, Intérieur de la Porte d’or, and Mosquée el Aksa), marine factor” at Iskenderun, Aleppo’s port, where he worked light marginal foxing or soiling, the images affected only in the first two plates (Halte des pèlerins and the Vue génerale). A very good copy. for six years before ill-health forced him to resign. Subsequently he travelled extensively for “commercial speculation, making first and only edition of this uncommon pictorial account several journeys in Asia Minor in 1772–4, and travelling from of the visit of the Mediterranean squadron of the French navy to Iskenderun through the mountains to Aleppo. From there he Jerusalem in 1861. Most of the plates illustrate the interior of the crossed the desert to Baghdad, where he stayed between May Church of the Holy Sepulchre, though there are also depictions and October 1774. He travelled up the Euphrates to Hillah and of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Mosque of Omar. “Pâris was downriver to Basrah, where he was during the siege by a Persian named commander of the third division of the Mediterranean army in 1775. He next visited Bombay, and then – ever inquisi- Squadron in December, 1858. He was already well known as a tive – made a lengthy voyage along the west coast of India as far naval artist . . . and he produced works on the technology of as Goa, returning to Bombay early in 1776. In 1778 he travelled steam engines and other technical matters” (Blackmer). The co- via the Red Sea and Egypt, and visited Mocha, Suez, Cairo, and lour plates in this copy are exceptionally bright. Rosetta. Having returned to Europe in the same year he retired Blackmer 1255; not in Abbey, Arcadian Library, Atabey, Burrell, Gay or to Leghorn, where he died in 1785.” Weber. He left his manuscript account to his brother-in-law, the Revd John Berjew of Bristol, whose son, the Revd John Paine Berjew, £5,000 [107989] edited it for publication. Parsons was as curious and attentive traveller, his observations giving “insights into the various 273 places that he visited, including Bombay, Mocha, and Cairo. Ev- PARSONS, Abraham. Travels in Asia and Africa; erywhere he took much interest in commerce, government, and including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over ways of life”, of particular interest are his account of the prepa- the desert to Bagdad and Bussora; A Voyage from Bussora rations at Cairo for the inundation of the Nile, and of its effects; to Bombay, and along the Western Coast of India; A and his description of “the 216 groups making up the grand Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea; procession of pilgrims to Mecca”. Abbey notes an octavo edition of 1802, apparently in error. and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta in Egypt. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 Abbey, Travel 348; Atabey 927; not in Blackmer; Gay 104; Hamilton, Arca- dian Library 12649 Quarto (263 × 208 mm). Recent half calf to style, marbled boards, red morocco label, compartments enclosing elliptical roundels formed by £1,850 [99192]

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Program . . . reflect[ing] a commitment to establishing an Is- lamic university of world rank” (p. 23). The architectural firm Perkins and Will were founded in Chi- cago in 1935 and are responsible for a number of noted univer- sity buildings across North America. They were bought by Leb- 274 anese firm Dar al-Handasah in 1986 and awarded the contract for Umm al-Qura soon after. Umm al-Qura University grew out 274 of the College of Sharia, founded in Mecca in 1949; it assumed PERESS, Gilles. Telex Persan. Paris: Contrejour, 1984 its present name by royal decree in 1980. It continues to focus Folio. Original photographic card wrappers. Photographs throughout. on the Islamic sciences and is popular among the conservative Extremities very lightly rubbed. An excellent copy. population of the Hijaz, though it also offers courses in medi- cine and the applied sciences. “Like other Islamic universities, first edition of the work with which Peress announced his its aim is to supply the judges, imams and teachers required premiership in the world of conflict reportage photography. throughout the country; in the government its graduates occupy These photographs were taken in Iran December 1979 – January posts in the ministries concerned with education, justice and 1980, at the conclusion of the revolution that lead to Ruhol- ‘the preservation of virtue’” (Abir, Saudi Arabia: Society, Govern- lah Khomeini being announced Supreme Leader of the newly ment and the Gulf Crisis, p. 19). formed Islamic Republic of Iran. A laid-in letter from the chairman of the company, Robert £825 [105111] Cooke, dated March 1992, sheds light on publication. “Although we have been working on the Umm al Qura University project in 275 Makkah for approximately four years, we were not able to pub- lish the Master Plan Report until six months ago. It’s interesting (PERKINS AND WILL.) Master Plan for the New Campus that we published the Report after we had awarded the first of Umm Al-Qura University. Makkah al-Mukarramah, construction packages! This was due to the incredible length of Al-A’abidiya District, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [Chicago: time it took to get the University to agree on the Arabic transla- Perkins and Will, 1991] tions. Anyway, it’s done and represents, I feel, a very thorough Oblong folio (280 × 435 mm). Comb-bound in original green leatherette representation of the dedication and work of a lot of people that case, titles and concentric panelling gilt to front board. Text in English is resulting in a fine building complex”. and Arabic. Title page printed in gilt on heavy green card after design on front board, divisional titles printed in green on light card within £2,500 [113436] geometric designs, initial decorative “basmalah” leaf with glassine wrapper, full-page colour photograph of architectural model, 6 page of 276 colour photographs of Saudi royals, profuse maps, photographs, tables and plans throughout the text, in colour and black and white. A few (PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising the faint scuffs and marks to front board, occasional mild toning towards Persian Gulf and its Approaches from Ras al Hadd, in the extremities. A very good copy. South-west, to Cape Monze, in the East. London: published An attractively presented and exhaustively documented archi- by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1955 tectural master plan, an interesting record of modern Islamic Octavo (240 × 150 mm). Original blue cloth, titles in yellow to spine and architecture, untraced in libraries or commercial records. “The front board. 2 full-page maps, 4 pages of coloured buoyage systems, Master Plan is influenced by three considerations: The Islamic several diagrams and tables to the text, 30 plates of coastal profiles. Tradition, including the Saudi heritage status of Makkah Al-Mu- Ownership monogram and sticker to notations of supplements page; karramah . . . The Climate and Ecology of the Region . . . [and] notices from the publisher tipped in before title page and p. 1. Spine the specific operational needs as defined in the functional Space

166 Peter Harrington 133 276 slightly sunned, front board a touch bowed, a little rubbed overall. A 277 very good copy. (PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. N.P. No. 63. First published 1870, this tenth edition following the ninth of Comprising the Persian Gulf and its Approaches from 1942. All editions of these highly detailed navigational hand- books to the Gulf tend to be uncommon. Beyond the specifically Ra’s al Hadd, in the South-west to Ras Muari in the East; maritime aspects, they provided background on local condi- [Together with] Supplement No. 5 – 1974 to Persian tions, climate, items of trade and so forth; this edition in partic- Gulf Pilot (Eleventh Edition, 1967). Corrected to 7th ular stands as a valuable record of areas that were soon to devel- December, 1974. London: published by the Hydrographer of the op beyond recognition following the discovery of oil: “The coast Navy, 1967, & 1974 between Dibai [sic] and Abu Dhabi . . . is, except for a small Octavo. Original blue cloth, title in yellow to spine and to the front village, at which there are some date trees . . . quite barren, un- board; supplement wire-stitched in the original printed paper front inhabited, and . . . there is no tree larger than a bush. wrapper, and plain cardboard lower. Folding general map frontispiece Landing unarmed on the mainland between Dibai and Abu Dha- and 13 other full-page maps, 21 plates of coastal profiles. Folding fron- bi is not recommended, for it is often visited by Bedouin from tispiece to the supplement. Slightly sunned at the spine and board the interior” (p. 161). Abu Dhabi itself “consists for the most edges, lightly rubbed, endpapers a touch browned, front wrapper of the supplement just toned at the fore-edge. part of huts and extends along the coast for nearly 2 miles. In the two there is a small fort . . . with five towers close together, First published 1870, this eleventh edition following the tenth of on one of which is the flagstaff. A small tower stands on the 1955. beach, where there are several prominent stone buildings, one Macro 290 for the seventh edition, 1924. of which is erected on the low sandy point which projects slight- ly in a north-westerly direction from the town” (p. 163). Similar £1,250 [99504] descriptions illuminate the pre-oil histories of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, along with Muscat, by contrast long-familiar to Euro- pean travellers to India and the Far East. Macro 290 for the seventh edition, 1924. £1,250 [100002]

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278 rector of the scientific works at Friedenstein; he was also made PERTSCH, Wilhelm. Die Arabischen Handschriften an honorary member of the Berlin, Leipzig and Göttingen Acad- emies of Science. Pertsch’s reputation rests upon his exemplary der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Zu Gotha. Auf Befehl Sr. catalogues of the oriental manuscripts at Gotha and Berlin. This Hoheit des Herzogs Ernst II von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha important collection remains intact at the Forschungsbibliothek verzeichnet. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1878–92 Burg Friedenstein. 5 volumes, octavo (231 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary black half moroc- co, marbled boards, title gilt to spines, edges sprinkled, turquoise end- £4,500 [94282] papers, original wrappers bound in. German and Arabic text. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), 279 with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabia of the Wahhabis. blind-stamps as usual. Light shelf wear, pale browning, occasional small London: Constable and Co Ltd, 1928 blind stamps, a scatter of foxing fore-edge, front and back only, a very Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers good set. ruled in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 29 plates from the first editions. Uncommon in complete state, OCLC shows author’s own photographs (including frontispiece), plan, large folding perhaps fewer than 20 sets completing worldwide; Copac lists colour map to rear opening to approx. 600 × 800 mm, 14 line-drawings just two: SOAS and Glasgow, the Oxford set lacking the much to the text. Bookplate of Comte Raoul Chandon de Birailles (1850–1908), later fifth volume; no other copies traced at auction. champagne merchant and wine historian, to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, extremities lightly bumped, half-title browned, a very The five volumes comprise the catalogue of the extraordinary good copy. collection of Arabic manuscripts at the ducal library at Gotha, most of which were originally purchased on behalf of Augustus, first edition of the work completing Philby’s account of his duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg by the German Orientalist Urlich mission to Ibn Sa’ud, ruler of the Nejd, in 1917, begun with The Jaspar Seetzen (1767–1811) during his residence and travels in Heart of Arabia, published in 1922. The British were keen to woo Constantinople, Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem and Cairo. The Ibn Sa’ud into attacking the Rashids of Ha’il, allies of the Turks, compiler Wilhelm Pertsch (1832–1899) had studied oriental lan- and Philby travelled by camel from the Persian Gulf to Riyadh. guages in Berlin and Tübingen, with a nine-month Studienreise “There he spent ten days and was deeply impressed by the taking in Paris, London and Oxford. He began work at the ducal personality of Ibn Sa‘ud. It was the start of an admiration that library at Schloss Friedenstein in 1855, the start of nearly 25 years stayed with him for life. Persuading Ibn Sa‘ud to provide an es- spent working with the more than 3,000 Oriental manuscripts in cort, he continued his journey, again by camel, to Jiddah on the the library, which eventually resulted in the five volumes offered Red Sea . . . This crossing of Arabia from coast to coast brought here, as well as another three covering the Persian and Turkish him for the first time into the public eye. In Jiddah, Philby met collections. the Hashemite ruler of Hejaz, the Sharif Husain, leader of the Pertsch was also responsible for listing the Persian and Turk- Arab revolt, whose sons were in the field against the Turks, un- ish manuscripts in the Prussian State Library in Berlin. In 1879 der the guidance of T. E. Lawrence. He became convinced that he was appointed chief librarian at Gotha and in 1883 made di- the British authorities in Cairo and London were wrong to prefer Husain over Ibn Sa‘ud as the future leader of the Arabs. But his

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believed to date from “a period when the old astral religion of South Arabia was still an effective force”. He also became the first European to survey the Himyarite ruins of Shabwah, with its temple to Astarte. He considered his journey “the first re- corded crossing of Arabia from north to south (or vice versa) by any human”, while conceding that many may have made the journey during the spice trade. His report here would form the basis for Sheba’s Daughters, published in 1939. Stein, flown by an 280 RAF pilot, was able to elucidate the distribution of the defensive road system built by the Romans as a barrier against the Per- sians in Late Antiquity. arguments to this effect did not prevail, either then or later . . . Few would quarrel with the inscription on [Philby’s] tombstone: Philby’s piece: Macro 1788, Howgego IV p. 31. For Stein, vide ibid., S65 ‘Greatest of Arabian explorers’. And in the central judgements of his life – that Ibn Sa‘ud was the man to back in Arabia and that £250 [97475] the Arabs had to have their independence – he was right and almost everyone else was wrong” (ODNB). 281 Macro 1774. PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Sheba’s Daughters. being a record of travel in Southern Arabia. With an appendix £675 [112502] on the rock inscriptions by A. F. L. Beeston. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1939 The nucleus of Sheba’s Daughters Large octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with 280 Athena’s owl. Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear. Boards severely mottled as usual, spotting to endpapers and occasional- PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. “The Land of Sheba, ly to the text, about very good. A few marginal notes in Bates’s hand. parts I & II”; [and] STEIN, Aurel. “Note on Remains first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author of the Roman Limes in North-Western Iraq” In: The on the front free endpaper, “To G. L. Bates with the author’s Geographical Journal, vol. XCII, Nos. 1 & 2. London: The thanks and good wishes. H. St. J. B. Philby, 1/5/39.” George La- Royal Geographical Society, July & August 1938 timer Bates was an eminent ornithologist, naturalist, and author 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue printed wrappers. Philby: 7 plates from of the Handbook of Birds of West Africa. Bates had spent some 25 the author’s own photographs; folding map of south-west Arabia to rear years in West Africa supporting himself by supplying specimens of No. 1 (approx. 1 cm : 55 km) opening to 245 × 400 mm, large folding to the Natural History Museum. After the publication of his map of the same to rear of No. 2 (1:1,000,000), coloured in outline, book he began to assist the Museum in cataloguing the bird opening to 410 × 720 mm, with sketch map of Shabwah ruins (1:20,000) samples being sent back from Arabia by Philby. Following an inset. No. 1 lightly creased with a tear between rear wrapper and spine, invitation from Philby, Bates taught himself Arabic and went map to rear of no. 2 with closed tear along fold; overall, very good, high- out to join him in 1934, partly to assist in collecting specimens, ly uncommon in this condition. but also to carry out research for a book on the birds of Arabia. first editions. “Most of Philby’s later explorations were car- Although he contributed several papers on regional species to ried out by motor vehicle . . . An opportunity for real exploration Ibis, the book was never published, but after his death in 1940 in an unmapped quarter arose in May 1936 when Ibn Sa‘ud the manuscript was used by Meinertzhagen in the produc- asked Philby to map the boundary between Saudi Arabia and tion of Birds of Arabia. Philby presentation copies are decidedly Yemen. Philby started his journey south at Mecca, and worked uncommon. south to Khamis, Abaha and Najran in the Yemen border region. At Najran he made archaeological discoveries of great impor- £1,875 [59530] tance, including a script never before found in southern Arabia” (Howgego), evidenced in hundreds of inscriptions which Philby

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282 Philby, 21/8/51”, and with Candlish’s ownership inscription as a PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Background of Islam, member of the British Military Mission to Saudi Arabia. being a Sketch of Arabian History in pre-Islamic Times. £300 [87914] Alexandria: Whitehead, Morris, 1947 Octavo. Original green cloth-backed printed boards. A little rubbed and spotted on the boards, the corners softened, endpapers differentially browned, text-block a touch toned, but overall very good, the turn-ins of the original pale green tissue dust jacket, tipped onto the pastedowns, remains a very good copy. first and signed limited edition, number 316 of 500 283 copies signed by the author. Philby had originally approached John Murray to publish the present work with the intention of 284 establishing himself as an authority on pre-Islamic Arabia, but PHILLIPS, Wendell. Qataban and Sheba. Exploring Murray rejected the manuscript having established that much of Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia. Philby’s source material had been superseded. Philby, undaunt- London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955 ed in his self-belief, published at his own expense. Philby had Octavo. Original dark red cloth-textured boards, titles and vignette to converted to Islam in 1930 and was known among his Arabian spine gilt. 32 photographic plates, 5 diagrams to the text, double-page associates as Sheikh Abdullah. A moderately fragile and un- sketch map to centre of volume, map endpapers. An excellent copy in common book, this copy retains what certainly appear to be the the bright dust jacket; scarce in this condition. flaps from a tissue jacket. first u.k. edition, the same year as the first US edition. “In the Macro 1778; not in Arcadian Library. spring of 1950 Wendell Phillips, a young palaeontologist turned explorer and archaeologist, led the first American archaeological £1,250 [114457] team to excavate the major ancient cities along the spice routes of South Arabia. The project was sponsored by the American Foun- 283 dation for the Study of Man (AFSM), which was founded by Phil- PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian Days. An lips in 1949” (Potts, ed. Araby the Blest: Studies in Arabian Archaeology, Autobiography. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1948 p. 91). The team managed to excavate Timna, the ancient capital of the Qataban kingdom, Hajar bin Humeid, and Marib, the Sa- Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, three-quarter profile por- trait in gilt to the front board. Portrait frontispiece and 48 plates. Some- baean city believed by some to be the Sheba of the Old Testament, what rubbed, light browning, but overall very good. before tribal hostilities forced them to travel to Dhofar Province, Oman, where they surveyed the ancient spice port of Sumhuram. first edition, second impression, two months after the first. Phillips also had an audience with the ruler of Yemen and was This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed for granted the title of Mustashar by the Sultan of Oman. R. J. G. Candlish with the best wishes of the author H. St. J. B. £325 [106173]

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285 The painstaking work of a genuine scholar (PORTER, Sir James.) LARPENT, Sir George. Turkey; 286 its History and Progress: from the Journals and PRICE, David. Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs Correspondence of Sir James Porter, Fifteen Years of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History, from Ambassador at Constantinople; continued to the Present the Death of the Arabian Legislator, to the Accession Time, with a Memoir of Sir James Porter, by his Grandson of the Emperor Akbar, and the Establishment of the . . . London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854 Moghul Empire in Hindustaun. From the Original Persian 2 volumes, octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate blind panelling to both boards, Porter’s arms gilt to the Authorities. London: J. Booth; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and front boards, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Engraved portrait Brown; and Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1821 frontispiece to each. Lightly rubbed, the spines tanned, frontispieces 3 volumes in 4, quarto (272 × 208 mm). Recent brown half sheep and title pages foxed, light toning, otherwise a very good set. period-style, spines gilt tooled on raised bands, blind tooled in com- first edition. “Includes Porter’s unpublished journals and his partments, red and black twin labels, marbled sides and edges. Large very interesting papers and correspondence; volume II contains folding handcoloured map of Asia (from the eastern Meditarrenean to Korea, and from Siberia to Mysore). An attractive set: clean and Larpent’s work on the progress of reform in Turkey, much of it well-margined. based on Ubicini’s Lettres sur la Turquie (1851–4)” (Atabey). Porter (1710–1776) met Lord Carteret through a mutual friend, first edition sheets with title pages dated 1821 and issued and was “employed by him on several secret commercial mis- by the publishers on completion of the work, scarce. A signifi- sions to the continent . . . In 1741 he was sent to Vienna to assist cant work by the orientalist and army officer David Price (1762– Sir Thomas Robinson in the negotiations between Austria and 1835), who saw action in the Third Anglo-Mysore War against Prussia; he returned the following year to Vienna on a special Tipu Sultan, and, on retiring from the East India Company’s mission to Maria Theresa” (ODNB). He was appointed ambas- service, settled in Wales and “devoted himself to writing long, sador at Constantinople in 1746 and remained in the post until leisurely works on Arabian, Persian, and Indian history. Of these 1762, winning praise from Sir William Jones for protecting Brit- the best-known and the most important is Chronological Retrospect ain’s mercantile interests in the Ottoman empire. On his retire- . . . This covers the period from the death of Muhammad to the ment in he devoted himself to scientific and literary pursuits, accession of Akbar. The earlier volumes are based chiefly on the but was forced to decline the nomination for the presidency of Persian chronicles of Mirkhand and Khandamir, and are most the Royal Society in 1768, “not feeling himself of sufficient con- detailed and accurate with respect to Persian history; but in the sequence or rich enough to live in such a style as he conceived last volume Abu’l-Fazl is largely used. It is written in the over-or- that the president of such a society should maintain”. nate style of Price’s sources, but it is the painstaking work of a genuine scholar anxious to do full justice to his authorities. Atabey 975; not in Blackmer. Without pretending to any striking grasp or generalization, it £1,500 [105237] is nevertheless useful and was for many years almost the only English work of reference for some branches of Eastern history” (ODNB). £5,500 [107059]

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Guide-books to Qatar er introduction to the emirate: “Qatar: A Special Issue prepared for The Fifth Arab Petroleum Congress & The Seconed [sic] Arab 287 Petroleum Exhibition Cairo–March 16th 1965” (landscape octa- (QATAR.) Qatar Petroleum Company – Guide to Qatar. vo, colour printed wrappers, portrait frontispiece, and 9 pages Doha: Qatar Petroleum Company, [c.1958] & 1965 of illustrations from photographs, 2 full-page sketch maps, Landscape octavo (202 × 260 mm). Wire-stitched in colour pictorial card tables and graphs to the text, no copy traced institutionally). wrappers. Stylishly designed, richly illustrated from photographs, and Also included in the pack are maps of the Qatar and its capital: with line-drawings, colour-printed throughout. Very good. a folding 1:10,000 scale plan of Doha (397 480 mm), produced first edition, with a tipped-in slip giving updated oil produc- by Survey Section, Exploration Division, QPC in June 1960 (two tion statistics through to 1964. Extremely uncommon; OCLC copies on OCLC); and a folding QPC 1:500,000 geological map records just two copies of the first title (Library of Congress and of the Qatar peninsula (475 × 273 mm) “traced from Q/00.0336 Dallas Public Library). Qatar map 1:250,000 compiled by R. V. Browne”. A fascinating guide book to Qatar produced just before the Material relating to the mid-20th century development of the transition to independence began, presented here as a press oil-industry in the Arabian Peninsula is markedly uncommon. pack in a spiral-backed blue textured card folder lettered in gilt £2,250 [92674] “With the compliments of Q.P.C”, together with a copy of anoth-

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“The first systematic exposition of a complete cosmography in exposition of a complete cosmography in ” Islamic literature” (Ency. Iran.) (Ency. Iran.) and draws on sources from Aristotle and Ptolemy to the Torah and the Qur’an; the second is a valuable synthesis of 288 Arabic geographical treatises including Yaqut’s Mu’jam al-buldan, QAZWINI, Zakariya’ ibn Mu‘ammad ibn Mahmud al-. and is “organized according to the earth’s seven climes, with de- Kosmographie. [Erster Theil:] Kitab ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat scriptions of the cities, countries, mountains, and rivers of each. [Arabic]. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. [Zweiter Theil:] Included in the descriptions of the cities and countries are short biographies of the famous luminaries who came from them” Kitab Athar al-bilad [Arabic]. Die Denkmäler der Länder. (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, p. 652). Aus den Handschriften der Bibliotheken zu Berlin, Qazwini (c.1203–1283) was born in the Persian city of Qazwin Gotha, Dresden und Hamburg. Herausgegeben von and studied under the great Sufi Ibn al-’Arabi in Damascus Ferdinand Wüstenfeld. Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen before serving as a judge in Iraq under the last ‘Abbasid caliph Buchhandlung, 1848–9 al-Mu’tasim (r. 1241–58). After Hülegü’s sack of Baghdad he 4 parts in 2 volumes, octavo. Contemporary olive-green half calf, mar- entered the patronage of Mongol vizier al-Juwayni, to whom the bled boards, red morocco labels to spines, edges sprinkled red, blue present texts are dedicated. Qazwini “has been called the medi- endpapers, original printed wrappers bound in to rear. Arabic types. eval or Muslim Pliny, a comparison justified by the abundance From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles of his learning” (Sarton p. 868). The immense popularity of his (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the works is demonstrated by the number of manuscript copies still collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript extant, in Persian and Turkish as well as Arabic. shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Title pages foxed, mild sporadic spotting to text, blue pencil markings to printed wrappers, offset to Ara- Wüstenfeld’s “pioneer edition” (Ency. Iran.), printed entirely in bic half-titles. A very good, attractively bound copy Arabic except for a German introduction to each volume, is fair- ly common institutionally, but extremely rare in commerce, with first editions of Qazwini’s Cosmography and his Geography, just a single copy listed at auction in the last 50 years. known in Arabic respectively as the ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat (“Won- ders of Created Things”) and the Athar al-bilad (“Traces of the GAL I 633; Piper p. 36; Zenker II, 853 & 856. Lands”). The first of these is considered “the first systematic £4,500 [94271]

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289 (QUR’AN; Arabic & Latin.) Alcorani textus universus. Ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque 289 pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus, Eademque fide, ac pari diligentia ex Arabico idiomate in Latinum translatus; prefatory work, the Prodromus ad Refutationem Alcorani, which was Apposititis unicuique capiti notis, atque refutatione: first published in 1691 and includes a life of Muhammad. His omnibus praemissus est Prodromus Totum priorem The first Arabic edition of the Qur’an was printed in Venice c.1530 and survives in a single copy: it is thought the entire print- Tomum imples, In quo contenta indicantur pagina run was ordered to be destroyed. In 1694 the second Arabic sequenti. Padua: Typographia Seminarii, 1698 edition was published by Abraham Hinckelmann, a Lutheran 2 volumes in one, folio in sixes (346 × 225 mm). Contemporary vellum, pastor in Hamburg, though lacked a translation or any form of sometime rebacked and relined, raised bands, compartments lettered commentary beyond the introduction. Marracci’s efforts were in gilt, sides decoratively panel-stamped in blind, red sprinkled edges. intended to compete with such Lutheran interpretations and Woodcut head- and tailpieces, figurative initials. Complete with all sectional title pages and the 2 leaves of errata to the rear. Book label formed “part of a vast war effort . . . with the aim of restoring (“HB”) and detailed pencilled collation to front pastedown. Vellum the intellectual and theological glory of the Church of Rome and faintly soiled, short superficial splits to head of front joint and foot of the memory of the Vatican as Europe’s foremost centre of Orien- rear, old thumb-tags to fore edge of section-titles in the Prodromus and tal studies” (Elmarsafy, The Enlightenment Qur’an, online). to title of the Refutatio Alcorani, minute hole intermittently appearing “Marracci, an Italian priest of the order of the Chierici rego- in fore margins (probably from the papermaker’s mould), the text never lari della Madre di Dio who was also professor of Arabic at La affected, sporadic pale foxing to margins, the occasional minor spot or Sapienza as well as confessor to Pope Innocent XI, divided the mark. Prodromus: title and sig. A1 browned and marginally restored, text of the Qur’an into manageable sections which he presented contemporary inked marginalia to pp. 38–9, small hole to Pars tertia sig. A2 costing one word on the recto. Refutatio Alcorani: old pencilled mar- to his readers first in carefully vocalized Arabic, and then in his ginalia to pp. 7, 84 & 87, contemporary inked marginalia to pp. 22, 83 & new Latin translation, followed by a series of notae that address 352, sigs. A3–B1 dampstained, pale tide-mark occasionally appearing in lexical, grammatical and interpretive [sic] problems. Like most upper outer corners, spreading in final few leaves, closed tear to lower other Latin Qur’an translators, Marracci often includes material outer corner of sig. 2D3, the text spared. A very good copy, tall, crisp and drawn directly from Muslim commentators . . . but his careful imposing, with deep impressions of the Arabic types, and of the appeal- notes generally also supply far more explanatory material . . . ing woodcuts. By virtue of its extensive notes on the text throughout, Marrac- first edition of Marracci’s Qur’an, “the greatest pre-modern ci’s enormous edition provided his European readers with the European work of Qur’anic scholarship” (Burman). The second Qur’an accompanied . . . by much of its traditional Sunni inter- volume, entitled “Refutatio Alcorani”, comprises the second pretation” (Burman). obtainable edition of the original Arabic, a Latin translation A cache of manuscripts unearthed in the library of Marrac- considered “by far and away the best translation of the Qur’an to ci’s order in 2012 has since verified his claim to have translated date” (Hamilton), and an analysis and refutation of each surah, the Qur’an four times before committing it to print. The result and is preceded by the second edition of Marracci’s extensive was a landmark of Arabic scholarship which finally ended the

174 Peter Harrington 133 290 dominance of Robert of Ketton’s 12th-century Latin translation. It was translated into German in 1703 and formed the basis of George Sale’s influential English edition of 1734. Burrell 660; Hamilton, Arcadian Library pp. 236–7 refers; Schnurrer 377; see further, Burman, “European Qur’an Translations, 1500–1700”, in Christian Muslim Relations, A Bibliographical History, eds. Thomas and Chesworth, vol. 6, p. 30 et seq.) 291 £10,500 [115141] Octavo. Original pale tan cloth, lettered in black to the front board, 290 panels in blind to both boards, grey endpapers. Boards very slightly fin- ger-soiled, endpapers a little browned, but overall an excellent copy. (QUR’AN; German.) Der Koran. Oder, Das Gesetz der first edition in english, translated by E. T. Leeds, archae- Moslemen durch Muhammed, den Sohn Abdallahs. Auf ologist, Assistant to the Keeper of the Ashmolean, and friend of den Grund der vormaligen Verdeutschung F. E. Boysen’s T. E. Lawrence, “made for the Admiralty War Staff and privately von neuem aus dem Arabischen übersetzt, durchaus printed and issued by the Arab Bureau, Cairo, for official use mit erläuternden Anmerkungen, mit einer historischen only”, with a print-run of 100 copies only, hence unsurprisingly Einleitung, auch einen vollständigen Register versehen, rare, with two copies only on OCLC (British Library and Oxford von Samuel Friedrich Günther Wahl. Halle: Gebauer, 1828 University). Raunkiaer’s narrative of his 1912 expedition was first Octavo (215 × 125 mm). Original boards, brown paper backstrip, inked published in Copenhagen by the Royal Danish Geographical manuscript title to spine. Title-page printed in red and black, folding Society in 1913. genealogical table. Extremities and joints slightly rubbed, a few pale Raunkiaer’s journey through Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Ara- markings to spine, contents toned, small spill-burn to sig. G7 costing bia – “from Koweit by Bereida to the Wahabite town of Riadh, half a letter on each side. An excellent copy, largely unopened in the sec- returning to the coast by way of Hofuf . . . ground [that] had ond half, rare in original boards. not been touched by Europeans for a considerable time” (from first edition thus, based on Friedrich Boysen’s German Raunkiaer’s obituary in the Geographical Journal) – came at a time translation (1773), which alongside Sale’s English and Savary’s of religious fanaticism, and his account is a lively and highly French was one of three 18th-century translations to inspire evocative one: “Days spent lying in camp like this are by no almost all further editions in these languages throughout the means pleasant . . . As day follows day, I see myself observed 19th century (Leaman, ed. The Qur’an: An Encyclopaedia, p. 667). with ever more hostile eyes . . . As things are, the rumour of an Samuel Wahl (1760–1834), editor of the present iteration, was infidel’s approach will spread to Shakrah and other towns in professor of oriental languages at Halle. Uncommon: Copac South Nedjd long before I arrive there myself; and the more ma- traces two copies only in British and Irish institutional libraries lignant that rumour, the smaller the probability of escape from (British Library and Oxford); OCLC adds 12 worldwide. my adventure with a whole skin at the end.” Raunkiaer survived the expedition, but his health was broken, and two years later he £450 [110723] died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen, aged just 25. This copy was originally owned by Alfred Guillaume, Arabist 291 and scholar of Islam, who served in the Arab Bureau in Cairo RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Through Wahabiland on Camel- during the First World War, with a few pencilled marks to the back: an Account of a Journey of Exploration in Eastern margins and some page notes to the last page of the text. Guil- and Central Arabia. Undertaken at the Instance and the laume’s library sold through Thornton’s of Oxford in 1969–70. Cost of the Royal Danish Geographical Society in 1912. £16,000 [71009] Cairo: Government Press, 1916

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292 his lifetime” (ODNB). His brother, Sir Henry Rawlinson – de- RAWLINSON, George. The Five Great Monarchies of the scribed by Wallis Budge as “the father of Assyriology” – was the dedicatee of the present work. Ancient Eastern World; or, the history, geography, and antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and £850 [117628] Persia, collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources. Second Edition. London: John Murray, 1871 “The bright shining light of archaeological method and 3 volumes, octavo (216 × 135 mm). Late 19th-century dark green half calf conscience” by Bayntun, decorative gilt spines, marbled sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. 4 folding maps, numerous wood-en- 293 graved illustrations in the text. From the library of British Arabist and RHIND, A. Henry. Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his monogram owner- Ancient and Present including a Record of Excavations ship inscription to the initial blank, a printed bookplate noting his wid- ow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associ- in the Necropolis. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and ated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Spines sunned Roberts, 1862 and with a few dark blemishes, two maps with short closed-tears, titles Large octavo. Original purplish pebble-grain, title gilt to spine, panels in of volumes I and II with closed-tears neatly repaired, gutter of volume II blind to boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. Coloured frontispiece title page a little unsightly but a good, clean set, handsomely bound. and 7 other tinted or coloured plates, one with gold, numerous illustra- second edition, improved and updated, following the first of tions to the text. Irregularly sunned on the boards and spine, front hinge 1862–67; Rawlinson’s preface notes that the chapters on the his- just a little cracked, light browning and some foxing front and back, but tory and chronology of Chaldaea and Assyria have been expanded overall very good. as “so much fresh light has been thrown on these two subjects by first edition. Having begun his archaeological researches in additional discoveries made partly by Sir Henry Rawlinson, partly his native Scotland, Rhind’s health forced him to winter in Egypt by his assistant, Mr George Smith, through the laborious study of 1855–6 and 1856–7. While there he undertook the “important in- fragmentary inscriptions now in the British Museum”. vestigations of the tombs at Thebes” (ODNB) which are recorded George Rawlinson (1812–1902) “was a prolific author of schol- here. His methodical practice (he was the first archaeologist to arly summaries of the results of research and archaeological record the exact locations of finds and their relationships) has excavations in the Middle East, which remained standard during led to him being hailed as the “bright shining light of archaeo-

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294 RHOTERT, Hans (ed.) Transjordanien. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen. Mit Beiträgen von Franz M. Th. Böhl, Professor in Leiden, und Dr. K. Willmann, Wisebaden. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1938 Quarto. Original grey-cream linen, lettered in brown on spine and front cover with designs derived from the desert petroglyphs. With the dust jacket and original plain card slipcase. 30 plates, one of them a folding panorama, illustrations to the text, 75 of them full-page, 2 full-page maps and a folding map at the rear. Jacket just a little rubbed and with some very minor chipping at the edges, the slipcase browning and be- coming brittle, but overall a very good copy indeed. 293 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Rhotert on the front free endpaper to an unnamed recipient, thanking them logical method and conscience” (Wilson, Signs and Wonders upon for their support for the Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphol- Pharaoh). On his death at only 30 years old, he left funds for two ogie. The leader’s account of the work of the Nordgruppe der XII. scholarships at Edinburgh University; endowed an industrial Deutschen-Innerafrikanischen Forschungsexpedition in the Trans- institution for orphan girls in his home town; bequeathed his jordan and Libya includes the first scientific study of the rock art at library and £400 for excavations to the Society of Antiquaries of Kilwa, pioneering work in the field, never translated into English. Scotland; and the copyright of this book and some moneys from This is not an uncommon book institutionally, with some 70 his estate towards the establishment of a series of lectures, the copies showing on OCLC, and is fairly frequently encountered com- prestigious Rhind Lectures which continue to this day. mercially, but very rarely inscribed or in such excellent condition. £750 [95254] £850 [92497]

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296 ROCHE, Paul. With Duncan Grant in Southern Turkey. London: Honeyglen Publishing, 1982 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, green endpapers, Co- lour frontispiece and 8 other colour plates. Boards clean and virtually unrubbed, few small dampstains to text. An excellent copy in the lightly 298 rubbed jacket. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author 298 on the title page: “For Leila, who would have loved Duncan as ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich. Analecta Arabica. much as I did, from Paul R.” The recipient, Leila Hadley Luce Leipzig: Johan Ambrosius Barth, 1825–8 (1925–2009), was a New York socialite who wrote several travel books. She made a marginal correction on p. 70. With Duncan Octavo (222 × 150 mm). Rebound to style in half sheep, marbled boards, plain spine, 5 compartments formed by triple gilt fillet, red morocco Grant in Southern Turkey is a journal of the author’s three-week label in the second. Highly elaborate Arabic titles to parts II and III in stay in Turkey with the group artist in 1973. Their red and black, decoration built up of typographic elements, Arabic text friendship spanned three decades and Grant spent the last years within red panel, each part of the Latin text with separate series and of his life with Roche and his family. section titles. Narrow worm-track to the outer margin of the first four leaves, skilfully repaired, occasional light browning to text block, largely £150 [88720] marginal. A very good copy. first and only arabic and latin text edition of three 297 interesting and varied Arabic manuscripts. Each has prefatory ROGERS, J. M. Empire of the . Ottoman art from material in Latin and the first two parts also have an extensive the collection of Nasser D. Khalili. Musée Rath, Geneva, 7 Arabic–Latin glossary. The three parts are: “Institutiones juris July – 24 September 1995. [London:] Musée d’art et d’histoire, Mohammedani circa bellum contra eos qui ab islamo sunt alie- Geneva, & The Nour Foundation, in association with Azimuth ni. E duobus al-Codurii codicibus”, which presents a selection from the Mukhtasar of al-Quduri, a legal epitome of composed Editions, 1995 973–1037 by a leading Sunni fakih, jurist, of the Hanafi school, Folio. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. extracts discussing the legal ramifications of Islamic war against Colour photographs throughout. An excellent copy in the dust jacket infidels; “Zohairi Carmen al-moallakah appellatum. Cum with a short closed dear to the head of the spine. scholiis Zuzenii integris et Nachasi selectis e codicibus manu- first edition, case-bound issue, of this exhibition cata- scriptis” offers a translation with scholia of the Moallaka of Ka‘b logue, one of 1,000 copies thus; there were also 1,000 copies ibn Zuhair, pre-Islamic poet; and “Syria descripta a Scherifo issued in paperback. The Nasser D. Khalili collection is one of el-Edrisio et Khalil ben-Schahin Dhaheri. E codicibus Bodleian- the world’s largest private collections of Islamic art, compris- is” an extract from al-Idrisi’s universal geography of those parts ing more than 20,000 pieces including manuscripts, ceramics, discussing Syria. paintings, textiles, glass and weaponry. Rosenmüller (1768–1835), the son of an evangelical theolo- £65 [110804] gian, became a professor at the University of Leipzig, firstly in

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Arabic, 1796, and subsequently in oriental languages from 1813. widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, A pioneering effort to make the texts of important Arabic manu- and associated blind-stamps as usual. scripts available to scholars and to open them to a wider reader- Stanhope (1776–1839), a niece of William Pitt, was the most ex- ship with Latin translations and scholarly notes. traordinary woman traveller of the 19th century. She left England in 1810, and in Malta met Michael Bruce, the son of a wealthy £1,750 [92362] businessmen; the pair became lovers and visited Constantinople and Cairo and travelled in the Levant, where “no one really knew 299 quite who Lady Hester was (was she perhaps the daughter of the ROSSI, Giambernardo de. Dizionario Storico degli Autori king of England?) but everyone knew that she was a great person- Arabi piu Celebri e delle Principali Loro Opere. Parma: age and must be treated as such” (ODNB). della Stamperia Imperiale, 1807 In one of the great moments of her life, as she remembered it, she rode triumphantly into Palmyra at the head of a Bedouin cav- Octavo (213 × 138 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled alcade, and had herself crowned queen of the desert. In 1813 Stan- boards, title gilt direct to spine. Attractively printed in double column on thick paper with wide margins. A little light shelf-wear, else very good. hope sent Bruce home and moved into a former convent in the foothills of Sidon, Lebanon, and eventually Dar Jun, an even more first edition of this handsomely-presented bio-bibliographi- remote spot high in the Lebanese mountain. She became in- cal compilation on the great Arab authors of history. The author creasingly hermetic and developed an obsession with the occult, was one of the leading Italian Orientalists of the period, lecturer though for a time maintained interest in the world outside, giving in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, and theology at the University of sanctuary to refugees during the civil strife which convulsed Leb- Parma. Relatively common institutionally, but rarely encoun- anon in the 1820s and 1830s. As her health failed and she became tered on the market. increasingly unstable mentally, “her native servants and European £1,500 [91495] attendants left one by one . . . [and] when there was no one left to clean up her squalor and care for her, she walled herself up in Dar 300 Jun and died, alone” (Robinson). ROUNDELL, [Julia]. Lady Hester Stanhope. London: John Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 57–8. Murray, 1909 £200 [117637] Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board pan- elled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other plates. Contemporary ticket of the Times Book Club to rear pastedown. Extremities very lightly bumped, a few pale markings to spine and front board. An excellent copy. first edition of the first account of Stanhope’s travels since her own memoirs were published by her physician Charles Meryon in 1846. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col- onel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), with a printed bookplate and manuscript shelf-mark to front pastedown noting Samuel 300

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expedition to Zanzibar in 1827, and had persuaded his “kins- man through marriage, Senator Levi Woodbury . . . [Andrew] 301 Jackson’s secretary of the navy” to promote the embassy (DAB). Roberts was appointed as special agent of the United States to 301 negotiate treaties with Muscat, Siam, Cochin China and Japan if RUSCHENBERGER, William Samuel Waithman. A practicable; “his mission, however, was to be secret, and he was given as ‘ostensible employment’ the position of clerk” to Com- Voyage round the World; including an Embassy to Muscat mander Geisinger. and Siam, in 1835, 1836, and 1837. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea Roberts successfully concluded treaties with Siam, and with & Blanchard, 1838; [together with] ROBERTS, Edmund. Muscat, which treaty included a “most-favoured-nation” clause, Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and and remained the basis of US–Omani relations until 1958. He re- Muscat; in the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock, David Geisinger, turned to the East to continue his work in Cochin China, China, Commander, during the Years 1832–3–4. New York: Harper & and Japan, but died of fever at Macau in 1837. Brothers, 1837 Although not noted in the title, Roberts contains around 120 2 volumes, octavo (220 134 mm; 215 138 mm). Uniformly bound in black pages of close description of the culture and business practices half morocco, title gilt to spine, flat bands sparingly tooled, marbled of China; Ruschenberger has a 75–page section specifically on sides and endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Half-title bound in to the “The dominions of the Sultan of Muscat;” and is also an import- first-named. Contemporary booklabels of P. C. Brooks, perhaps Peter ant Hawaiian source, some of this material being omitted from Chardon Brooks, New England merchant and underwriter, who made the London edition of the same year, as also the “aspersions” of his fortune in the East India trade. Very slight shelf-wear, both volumes the British (noted by both Sabin and Howes). with some foxing, but overall a very handsome pair. Forbes 1123; Hill p. 533; Howgego R33; Howes 514a; Sabin 74197 for the first editions. Individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschen- first-named: the latter, Cordier 2113; Forbes 1123; not in Hill; Howgego berger the more so, and together here offering a very full record R19; not in Lust; Sabin 71884. of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle and Far East. £4,500 [71560] A naval surgeon, “Ruschenberger sailed . . . to the East for the purpose of obtaining information and negotiating and secur- The Arabs and Greek learning ing treaties of friendship and commerce with Eastern Powers. Rushenberger describes his journey to the dominions of the Sul- 302 tan of Muscat and Oman, to Ceylon, India, Java. Siam, Cochin RUSKA, Julius. Griechische Planetendarstellungen China, the Bonin Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, California, and in arabischen Steinbüchern. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s ” (Hill). Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1919 The principal in the negotiations with these foreign pow- Octavo. Plain pink light card wrappers. Frequent line-drawings to the ers was to be Edmund Roberts who had “formed an intimate text. Wrappers irregularly sunned, light toning, negligible foxing to- acquaintance” with the Sultan of Oman when on a trading wards front and rear. A very good copy.

184 Peter Harrington 133 303 first and only edition of this interesting treatise describing Greek planetary representations in Arabic stone-carvings, pub- lished in the Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. 304 Ruska (1867–1949) was a German Arabist and historian of sci- ence. This copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nich- Octavo (240 × 164 mm). Original printed wrappers. Very lightly sunned olas Heer, with his ownership inscription on the front panel. along spine and extremities, lower outer corner of front wrapper slightly curled, rear wrapper with a shallow chip to upper outer corner and few £50 [104035] very small marks. A very good copy. presentation copy of the second, greatly expanded 303 edition, inscribed by the editor “To my friend Mr William Wit- RUSSELL, Lindsay. The Gates of Kut. London: Cassell and man, with my best compliments, AJ Rustum” on the title page, Company, Ltd, 1917 next to the ink-stamp of the American Legation, Beirut, dated 2 April 1943. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles and frame to front William Witman II (1914–1978) was an American diplomat board in blind. Spine sunned and rolled, pale mottling to covers with a darker marking to the front. A good copy. who served as vice-consul in Beirut from 1939 to 1944. During the French mandate period Asad Rustum established himself as first edition, presentation copy, blind-stamped thus on one of two “leading national historians of Lebanon” alongside the title-page. This novelised account of the infamous siege of his compatriot Fouad Afram al-Boustani, with whom he collab- Kut, modern-day Iraq, “arguably, Britain’s worse military de- orated on a series of textbooks entitled Ta’rikh Lubnan (Kaufman, feat since the surrender of Cornwallis’s army in 1781 during the Reviving Phoenician: The Search for Identity in Lebanon, p. 117). His American Revolutionary War” (Patrick Crowley, Kut 1916: Courage co-editor Constanin Zurayk was a highly influential Lebanese and Failure in Iraq, 2009), carries a dedication to Captain James historian and theoretician of Arab nationalism who is credited Macallan, a medic in the 6th East Lancashire Regiment who was with first using the term nakbah for the Palestinian exodus of killed fighting in Mesopotamia in 1917. Surprisingly uncommon, 1948. with six copies only in British and Irish libraries, and OCLC add- The first edition, published in 1934 as Provisional Readings in ing twelve worldwide. the Medieval History of the Near East, was edited solely by Zurayk Not in Falls or Lengel. continued only as far as the Crusades. The present edition adds chapters on the Mamluks, the Arabs in Spain, and the modern £125 [110861] history of the Middle East. Contributions include essays by “the celebrated orientalists and historians such as Arnold, De Goeje, 304 Gibb, Hell, Hitti, Lammens, Nicholson, Noeldeke, Philips, Zay- RUSTUM, A. J., & C. K. Zurayk (eds.) Provisional Readings dan and others who have done so much to build Arabic history in the History of the Arabs and Arabic Culture. For the use on a firm basis of scholarship” (Foreword). Scarce: just one copy of freshmen at the American University of Beirut. Printed traced in British and Irish libraries (Durham). for private circulation. Beirut: American Press, 1940 £500 [113254]

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305 after a botched hospital operation, Vita in an obituary described SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Passenger To Teheran. London: her characteristically as a “sturdy little pony”. Passenger to Teheran relates the author’s travels with her diplo- The Hogarth Press, 1926 mat husband through Egypt and Iraq to Teh- Octavo. Original marbled brown and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ran, Persia (Iran), to witness the coronation of Reza Shah. This Frontispiece and 31 black and white plates. Ends and corners only a trifle is a superb presentation association in the rare dust jacket – we rubbed, faint spotting to edges, endpapers and very occasionally with- in, an excellent copy of the book with the dust jacket dust soiled, and have only ever handled one other copy in jacket, and can trace chipped at corners and along the edges but nevertheless in good condi- only one at auction, in 1974. tion considering its rarity. £2,500 [116527] first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her lover Hilda “Stoker” Matheson (1888–1940). The inscrip- 306 tion, to the front free endpaper, reads “From V. Dec 1928”. This book was one of several inscribed by Vita in December 1928 and SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Twelve Days. An account of a given to her then-lover Hilda Matheson (1888–1940), whom journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western she nicknamed “Stoker”. Matheson was Director of Talks at the Persia. The Hogarth Press: London, 1928 BBC, and on 11 December Vita had delivered a radio broadcast Octavo. Original marbled brown and black cloth, titles to spine gilt. there, appropriately on the subject of “The Modern Woman”. With the dust jacket. With 32 plates. Ends and corners nicked, occasion- They spent the night together, and Hilda was off work “sick” al light spotting within, but an excellent copy in the bright smart jacket on the 12th. On the 13th, in one of the more than 100 surviving with a few marks and closed tears. letters from Hilda to Vita, she wrote: “All day – ever since that first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author blessed and ever to be remembered indisposition, I have been on the front free endpaper to her lover Hilda “Stoker” Mathe- thinking of you – bursting with you – and wanting you – oh my son, “From V. Dec. 1928”. For the recipient and the likely cir- god wanting you.” It is possible that this book was gifted by Vita cumstances of this presentation, see the previous item. to “Stoker” during this “ever to be remembered indisposition”, Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A17. or at some other moment in this month at the height of their affair. The coupled also travelled in Savoy together in 1929, and £1,500 [116523] Vita dedicated her poem from that venture “Storm in the Moun- tains” (1929) to Hilda. When Matheson died in December 1940

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The classical treatment of the early history and doctrine of the ture, a sacred scripture [consisting] mainly of the writings and Druzes letters of the founders of the Druze religion, notably Hamza and al-Muqtana” (ibid.) De Sacy (1758–1838) is remembered as 307 “a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in SACY, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de. Exposé de la Religion France” (Atabey). Uncommon: six copies only listed at auction des Druzes. Tiré des livres religieux de cette secte, et in the last 50 years, including two at the Aboussouan sale in précédé d’une introduction et de la vie du Khalife Hakem- 1993, and the Atabey copy in 2002. Biamr-Allah. Paris: l’Imprimerie royale, 1838 Atabey 1134; not in Blackmer. 2 volumes, octavo (215 × 132 mm). Later 19th-century red-brown half £3,750 [117632] morocco, raised bands, gilt tiles and brown rules to spines, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. From the li- brary of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. With half-titles and the errata leaf; original printed wrappers bound in to rear of each volume. Spines sunned, pale spotting, a very good copy. first edition of “one of de Sacy’s principal works, the classi- cal treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druzes”, which took more than 40 years to complete (Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis, p. 132). “The Druze religion . . . was initially an Isma’ili schismatic movement, organised during the final years of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim’s reign (996–1021) . . . But in time, the Druzes came to represent a separate religious community, beyond the confines of Isma’ilism or perhaps even Shi’i Islam. De Sacy’s study of the Druzes dated back to the early 1790s . . . As in other areas of his scholarly endeavours, de Sacy began his study of the Druzes on the basis of their own litera- 307

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 187 first edition. Lady Sale’s diary account of the siege, fall, and retreat from Kabul was a great popular success, the author becoming “the heroine of the hour, renowned for her courage” (ODNB). She “graphically describes General Elphinstone’s weak and vacillating leadership in the face of the insurgent Afghan chiefs and his army’s subsequent retreat . . . Sale’s entries make clear the sense of confusion, poor discipline, non-existent organisation, and lack of planning which contributed to the ter- rible bloodshed of the retreat” (Riddick). This copy is in a very pretty contemporary binding, and is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a three-page letter from Lady Sale, together with a contemporary copy of Dr William Brydon’s account of his expe- riences as the whole survivor of the retreat. The letter, dated 18 August 1844, on a single bifolium of small octavo mourning stationery is addressed to Mrs Spink, wife of Colonel Spink, Assistant Quartermaster-General at Cork and a colleague who had seen service with Sale in the 12th Foot – the original envelope addressed in Sales’s hand mounted beneath the signature. It gives a sense of the reception that the Sales received in England: “I feel it quite delightful being able to sit down quietly in the country for the racketing of a London life is dreadfully fatiguing to an old woman. I feel greatly flattered 308 by & very grateful for all the kindness and attention shown to us. Sale dined with the Court of Directors on Wednesday & the 308 ladies went to the gallery to hear the speeches, it was most excit- ing. Sale was so affected by it that when he rose to speak, utter- SALE, Lady Florentia. A Journal Of The Disasters ance was almost denied him. I was completely taken aback at my In Affghanistan, 1841–2. London: John Murray, 1843 health being drunk & the universal cheering that accompanied it [together with a three-page letter from Lady Sale, and a . . . This evening we were asked to the Russian Ambassadors but contemporary copy of Dr Brydon’s famous account of his sent an excuse as being in the country. Tomorrow we dine at the experiences on the retreat from Kabul] Duke of Wellington’s to meet the Prince of Prussia. On Monday Octavo (187 × 114 mm). Contemporary reddish pink full diced calf, green Sale dines with the Junior United Service Club. So you see being morocco label, low, flat bands, compartments with gilt triple fillet panel in the country is nothing very quiet. I fear you will think us very enclosing lozenge centre-tool with spiral arabesque corner-pieces, triple ungrateful for all the attention shewn us here when I say how fillet panels gilt to boards, sun in splendour gilt edge-roll, marbled edg- happy I am in the prospect of returning to India in December, es and endpapers. Bookseller’s label of E. Blackwell of London Street, but which constitutes Home”. Reading to front pastedown. Folding frontispiece plan of Kabul, and The book is also accompanied by a six-page contemporary one other map. Attractive armorial bookplate of James Bonnell on front transcription of Brydon’s famous letter to his brother recount- pastedown; gift inscription from his relative Mary Anne Harvey Bonnell, ing his experiences as the sole survivor of the retreat from Ka- who later conveyed the Bonnell estates at Purleigh to him by deed of gift. Very light shelfwear, some foxing front and back, light toning oth- bul: “Here I am at this place, all safe but not all sound, having erwise, an excellent copy. received three wounds in the head, left hand & knee. I have lost everything I had in the world; but my life has been saved in a

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188 Peter Harrington 133 309 309 most wonderful manner, and I am the only European who has lights of the memorable visit: the full military honors accorded escaped from the Cabool Army of 13000”. The transcription is to King Sa’ud upon his arrival in New York, the unprecedented on three sheets of paper watermarked Renshaw & Kirkman, personal welcome by the President in Washington, the meetings 1840, and with the blind stamp of the Devizes stationers Henry at the White House, the conferences with Secretary Dulles and Bull, folded to form three bifolia. other officials, the discussions with diplomats and statesmen of the Arab countries, the expressions of hospitality – these and Bruce 4489; Riddick 163 other events . . . ” £2,000 [99194] The other officials and dignitaries referred to included Rich- ard Nixon as Vice President, Secretary of State, John Foster 309 Dulles, Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense, Dag Hammar- skjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Krishna Me- (SA’UD, King.) The Picture Story of a Memorable Visit. non, India’s permanent representative at the UN, Abdul Khalek [N.p. , Washington DC?]: 1957 Hassuma, Secretary General of the Arab League, Crown Prince Folio (510 × 358 mm). Spiral bound within original green cloth-backed Abd-al-llah of Iraq, and the UN General Assembly, and Dr. Ah- printed buff boards. Profusely illustrated from black and white photo- mad Husain, the Egyptian ambassador. Sa’ud’s trip included vis- graphs, text and captions in Arabic and English, title page and section its to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Arlington Military Cem- titles – printed on coloured washi paper – in Arabic alone A little rubbed etery, the Washington Islamic Center, and a banquet hosted by and soiled on the boards with some chipping, mild finger-soiling to a few leaves, but overall very good. Fred A. Davies, chairman of Aramco. The visit was a key element in America’s political manoeuvring following the , first and only edition of this commemorative pictorial designed in large part to prevent Soviet Russia from replacing souvenir of King Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Al Sa’ud’s official visit to French and British influence in the region. Sa’ud was persuaded America. Extremely uncommon, just ten locations on OCLC, all to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine, and $250,000,000 towards in the United States. his defence budget, and in so doing found himself at odds with “The following pages present a photographic portrayal of the the rise of Arab nationalism, and a target for Nasserist calls visit to the United States of America by His Majesty, King Sa’ud from Egypt for the removal of the Arab monarchies. Following ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Al Sa’ud at the invitation of President Dwight worsening conflict with his brother Faisal over his indebtedness, D. Eisenhower. The visit was prompted by the earnest desire of and his court’s refusal to keep pace with the modernisation of the two leaders, as men of peace and honor, to agree upon pro- other Arab nations, Sa’ud was forced to abdicate in 1964, going grams and policies which would foster harmony among nations, into exile in Geneva. and serve the well-being of peoples . . . His Majesty and his Publication is usually attributed to the US government, but party were in the United States only eleven days. But, these were the awkwardness of the English, and the care in the presentation busy, fruitful days, from the morning of January 29, 1957, when of the Arabic captioning and titles, suggest that it may have been a squadron of United States Air Force jet aircraft flew out to sea produced in Saudi Arabia with American backing, positive spin to meet the liner Constitution, until the morning of February 9, at home for a less than triumphant diplomatic foray. when the President’s personal airplane soared away from Wash- ington National Airport . . . The camera has recorded the high- £2,750 [100128]

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310 The first American account of a firsthand experience in Arabia (SAUDI MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND AVIATION.) 311 Presentation volume commemorating the opening of King SAUNDERS, Daniel. A Journal of the Travels and Abdulaziz International Airport. Riyadh: Tihama, [1981] Sufferings of Daniel Saunders Jun. A Mariner on Board Original button-fastened dark red leatherette folio presentation box (415 × 260 mm), gilded metal roundel with relief of the hajj terminal the Ship Commerce of Boston, Samuel Johnson, mounted to front panel, green velvet lining. Containing 3 pamphlets Commander, which was cast away near Cape Morebet, in pictorial wrappers (2 wire-stitched) and a large (80 mm diameter) on the Coast of Arabia, July 10, 1792. Leominster: printed by commemorative coin engraved with a relief portrait of King Abdulaziz, Charles Prentiss for Robert B. Thomas, Sterling, 1797 as issued. Pamphlets all with text in Arabic and English, and illustrated throughout from colour photographs. Leatherette very slightly lifting in Duodecimo in eights (132 × 105 mm). Contemporary quarter sheep, isolated sections along edges on rear panel with a few faint creases, one marbled paper boards. Early 19th-century inscriptions to free endpa- pamphlet (“Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defence and Aviation pers. Split to head of front joint but still holding firm, marbled paper International Airports Projects”) lightly rubbed at extremities, coin with rubbed, chipped and faded, peeling off on front board, short closed tear one very faint scratch to verso. Overall very good. to fore edge of front free endpaper, paper stock browned and with the occasional blemish. A very good copy in unrestored condition. King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, was opened in second edition, published three years after the first. Saun- 1981, and was the first airport in the world to contain a hajj termi- ders was second mate on board the Grand Sachem out of Salem nal specifically for Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca. It on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in 1791. He received a was designed by the noted Bangladeshi-American engineer Fazlur discharge from that vessel’s captain at Mauritius and trans- Rahman Khan, and was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Archi- ferred to the ship Commerce as an able seaman. “A combination tecture in 1983 chiefly for its innovative tent-like roofing system. of bad weather and poor navigation resulted in the Commerce One pamphlet, titled “King Abdulaziz International Airport”, being grounded of the Dhofar coast . . . Twenty-seven of the in wrappers printed with symbols for amenities, comprises crew . . . succeeded in getting ashore, and commenced a very sections titled “Asset to the Kingdom”, “A City Within a City”, strenuous journey overland to Muscat. The journey took 51 days, “Gateway to Mecca”, and “World’s Newest Airport”. Another, and when the group arrived in Muscat there were only eight “King Abdulaziz International Airport – Jeddah”, in wrappers survivors. Daniel Saunders wrote an account of the ordeal . . . illustrated with photographs of Saudi royals, provides a more his book contains information on the manners and customs of strictly factual overview of the airport and its facilities. The third the local Arabs . . . It is both the first published account of an pamphlet, “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defence and extended journey through part of Oman by Europeans, and the Aviation International Airports Projects”, shows the luxury inte- first American account of first-hand experience in Arabia. Saun- riors and art collections of the airport’s VIP areas. ders returned to the United States in 1793, and continued life £475 [113447] as a mariner. He died in Salem in 1825” (New Arabian Studies, 2, [1994], p. 20). There is a 21-page Appendix containing a general description of the Arabian Peninsula. See Arcadian Library 15719; Evans 22136; Macro, 2014; Sabin 77172. £500 [116281]

190 Peter Harrington 133 The discovery of Homeric Troy 312 SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Trojanische Alterthümer. Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Troja. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874 Octavo (217 × 140 mm). Contemporary patterned paper boards, gilt fillets to spine forming compartments, Gothic title gilt to second on red ground. Vignette title page, full-page line-drawing, occasional symbols and Greek types to the text. Extremities rubbed, old shelf-mark label to spine extending slightly over covers, various library ink-stamps to title page verso, pale foxing, variable faint tide-mark to fore and top edges, marginal ink-spot to p. XXXVI. A good copy. first edition. Schliemann’s identification of Hisarlik in 313 north-west Anatolia as the site of Homeric Troy is still consid- ered today “the greatest of all archaeological finds” (PMM). His logue makes no mention of the present title though it could well methods, which involved the destructive use of dynamite, were have been offered as part of a larger lot from a collection rich in widely criticised by later scholars, but at the time his account of Turcica. One of 300 copies printed, well-held institutionally but his discovery enjoyed a popularity unequalled by any previous complete copies scarce in commerce. work in the field. Schliemann, the son of a pastor from Meck- Seaman (1606/7–1680) graduated MA from Balliol College in lenburg, made his fortune in business before devoting himself 1626 before travelling to Constantinople in the service of English entirely to proving the reality of the Homeric epics. “In 1870 ambassador, Sir Peter Wyche. He returned sometime before 1631 [he] started work at Hisarlik and by 1873, at the lowest stratum, to resume his position as rector at Upton Scudamore, the rural he laid bare vast fortifications destroyed by fire and discovered a Wiltshire parish of his birth. His first publication in the field of treasure of gold jewellery . . . What Schliemann had in fact dis- Turkish studies was an English translation of Sadettin Hoca’s covered is now known to be a pre-Achaean city, long preceding Tac üt-tevarih (“The crown of histories”), printed in 1652 as The the Homeric city; but he had proved his initial thesis: here was Reign of Sultan Orchan, Second King of the Turks. As one of the very the real site of Troy” (ibid.) few Englishmen to know Turkish, he was later commissioned by Printing and the Mind of Man 362. Robert Boyle to translate the New Testament into Turkish (pub- lished in 1666) as part of the burgeoning project to evangelise £1,750 [112133] the Levant. Armenian Turkish-speaker Shahin Kandy suggested that Seaman’s Turkish was so artificial as to be incomprehen- The first Turkish grammar printed in England sible, though Boyle was sufficiently unperturbed to fund the 313 production of the present title by subscribing to purchase £20 worth of copies: a considerable sum (ODNB). Seaman’s effort SEAMAN, William. Grammatica linguae turcicae, in was not the first Turkish grammar to be printed in Europe, a quinque partes distributa. Oxford: Henry Hall, printer to the distinction which belongs to Hieronymus Megiser’s 1612 Institu- University, and sold by Edward Millington, 1670 tionum linguae turcicae, though it was unusual in employing Arabic Quarto (182 × 147 mm). Recent tan sheep to style, raised bands to spine types, the first such work printed in Oxford, an astronomical forming compartments, titles to second gilt, double-rules to sides in compendium incorporating Ulugh Beg’s star tables, having ap- blind, edges speckled blue. Printer’s device to the title page, 2 figurative peared in 1648, and a few minor adaptations were required for initials, floral head- and tailpieces. Occasional contemporary marginalia Turkish characters. and underlining in black ink, later (19th-century?) annotations in pencil, Madan notes two issues of this title, not distinguished in ownership inscription to verso of title repeated undated on sig. 2A4, ESTC. This copy is Madan 2863*, with a five-line Latin note on Greek inscription to head of title-page translating to a paraphrase of Socrates: “The life of the uneducated is not worth living”. Title page and p. 183 stating that Seaman’s grammar and his translation of the last two leaves browned and somewhat soiled, the former additionally New Testament can each be purchased from either Millington with old repair to fore edge, faint chipping to corners towards first and or the author; the Blackmer copy was Madan 2863, in which this last few leaves, light browning throughout, a few small worm-tracks, note is omitted. one from sig. O1 onwards lengthening from O4 to Q2, ink-splash to p. 13, spill-burn to sig. C4, faint dampstaining from 2A to 2A3. A good Blackmer 1518; Madan III, 2863*; Wing S2179. See further Alastair Ham- copy. ilton, “Oriental Languages”, in Ian Gadd, ed. The History of Oxford Univer- sity Press, vol. I pp. 405–6. first and only edition, sir william jones’s copy, of the first Turkish grammar printed in England; this copy inscribed £2,500 [105026] on the verso of the first blank,“the late Sir Wm. Jones’ copy”, with the ownership inscription of “William Simpson [. . .] June 15th 1835, Ironmonger, Bedford” to the title verso in a distinct hand. The library of Sir William Jones, the colonial administra- tor and leading English orientalist of the 18th century, was sold at auction in Pall Mall across two days in May 1831; the sale cata-

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314 “the anti-slavery movement gained public attention and sympa- SÉMACH, Yomtob. Alliance Israélite Universelle – Une thy and . . . transformed itself from a benign climate of opinion to a highly organized campaign” (ODNB); Thomas Clarkson Mission de l’Alliance au Yémen. Paris: Siège de la Société, identified him as the founder of the movement. He was also [1910] an esteemed amateur linguist and theologian, having taught Octavo. Crudely glued into later card wrappers but now detached, typed himself Hebrew and Greek while apprenticed to a London lin- title label to front wrapper, title page present. 4 plates. Quite heavily en-draper in order to debate with two of his fellow apprentices, browned, some staining, ink marks to the title page. one of whom was Jewish, the other a member of the Unitarian first edition thus. Scarce, one copy only on OCLC, at Har- Socinian sect, which denied the divinity of Christ. His Remarks vard. Extracted from the Bulletin de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle, on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament paginated pp. 48–162, this copy has the MS notation “Edition (1798; 3rd edn, 1803) “argued strongly for the divinity of Christ corrigée” to the front wrapper. Based in Paris, the Alliance, the and struck a blow against the Socinian position” (ibid.) “Dr first international Jewish organization, advocated the emancipa- Henry Lloyd, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, lauded tion of the Jewish population and the protection of Jewish rights Sharp for his insights into the pronunciation of Hebrew, as did around the world. The present piece is an account of a visit to Bishop Horsley on Sharp’s new insights on Hebrew syntax . . . A the Yemen to report on the condition of the Yemenite Jews, refrain seen in many reviews . . . was that Sharp’s treatment was perceived at the time in terms of one of the Lost Tribes. Sémach the finest in print, the ablest defence of a view, a great insight was the director of the Alliance’s school at Beirut, and as part of that would stand the test of time” (Wallace, Granville Sharp’s Canon his mission he was to lay the foundations for the education of and its Kin, p. 47). the Yemenites within the Francophone western cultural model favoured by the organization. £750 [111956]

£250 [43623] 316 SHEA, David, & Anthony Troyer (eds.) The Dabistan, or 315 School of Manners, translated from the Original Persian, SHARP, Granville. Three Tracts on the Syntax and with Notes and Illustrations. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; With an appendix Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 addressed to the Hebrew nation. London: by W. Calvert for 3 volumes, tall octavo. Original green cloth, paper-spine labels, edges Vernor and Hood, F. and C. Rivington, J. White, J. Hatchard, W. untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. Dwyer, and L. Pennington at Durham, 1804 S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s be- Octavo (187 × 110 mm). Uncut in original boards, white paper backstrip, quest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, manuscript shelf- manuscript title to spine. With the individual title pages and half-titles marks to spines and front-pastedowns, and blind-stamps to the text as for each tract, the register continuous except for the appendix. Spine usual. Spine-labels largely missing, vol. 1 spine chipped at foot, vols. 2 slightly rolled and chipped, a few small markings to covers. An excel- and 3 slightly nicked, skilful restoration to joints, sides lightly rubbed, lent, entirely unsophisticated copy. tips bumped, endpapers browned, occasional light spotting, vol. 2 sigs. 21–2 foxed more heavily, occasional pale-tide marks to margins of vols. 2 first and only edition. Sharp (1735–1813) is best remem- and 3, only touching the text in vol. 3 contents. A good copy. bered as one of the first abolitionists, through whose efforts

192 Peter Harrington 133 317 318 first complete edition in english of this “important 1927; Pearson’s mission there is referenced in this book, and a [Persian] text of the Azar Kayvani pseudo-Zorostrian sect. It photograph of him appears at p. 128. was written anonymously between the years 1645 and 1658 and contains important information particularly about the prevalent £475 [103595] religions of India in the 17th century” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The author, erroneously identified by Sir William Jones as one 318 Muhsin Fani, appears to to have composed most of the text SHELL COMPANY. Shell Motor Tours. A complete during the reign of Shah Jahan, travelling to various parts of guide to the best and most interesting provincial and India to study different religious creeds; his attempt to keep his desert routes in Egypt. Cairo: Shell Company and the Royal identity secret probably reflects the orthodox religious climate Automobile Club of Egypt, 1930 subsequently promulgated by Awrangzeb (r. 1658–1707). Each chapter is devoted to the beliefs of a different group, includ- Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in red and black. A little rubbed and soiled on the wrappers, light marginal toning, overall very good. ing Parsis, Hindus, Tibetans, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and (treated separately) Sufis, as well as smaller communities. The first edition of this extremely uncommon early moto-tourist Persian text was printed in Calcutta in 1809; a partial translation handbook for Egypt, with no copies traced in libraries. Tours by Francis Gladwin had previously appeared in the New Asiatic are listed with Cairo and Alexandria as starting points, begin- Miscellany (1789). This edition is scarce, with seven copies listed ning with 50-mile round trips, such as Cairo to the pyramids at at auction since 1933. Saqqara, and extending to considerably longer journeys, includ- ing Cairo to Luxor and Alexandria to the isolated Siwa Oasis, £1,250 [94074] testament to a time when Egypt was perhaps more easily navi- gable than it is today. Routes are meticulously described and the 317 notes pages are filled with detailed itineraries in manuscript, SHEEAN, Vincent. The New Persia. New York & London: not limited to Egypt but also including routes to Jerusalem and The Century Co., 1927 Petra. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board black. £575 [99983] With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates. Spine rolled, tips a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the jacket with toned spine and edg- es, and some minor loss to spine ends and chips to extremities. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Thomas Pearson Esquire, to whom it is dedicated and who therefore ought to have a copy, whatever he thinks of it. Vincent Sheean, Asheville. April 10, 1928.“ Pearson, who lived in Asheville, served as an economic advisor on Arthur Millspaugh’s staff, who were sent to Iran by the USA to reorganise the Finance Ministry between 1922 and

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fillet rules gilt to sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Hand-coloured stippled-engraved frontispiece to each volume, 24 similar plates, 2 hand-colour line engravings (plates 28 and 29), one aquatint plate (plate 30). Sides extensively rubbed, lower outer corner of front board worn, plates offset, otherwise the occasional trivial spot or mark, imprint just 319 shaved on Persian at Prayers plate (facing p. 72 vol. 2), rear inner hinge superficially split but firm. A good copy with fresh plates. 319 first edition of the fifth title in the World in Miniature series. Shoberl was textually indebted to Ouseley, Malcolm, J. M. Kin- SHELL COMPANY. King Fouad Way: Cairo to Alexandria neir, Waring, Morier and other contemporary authorities; the Desert Road. Cairo: Shell Company, 1939 engravings reproduce designs by Persian artists. “The aim of this Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original photographically illustrated card interesting series [was] to increase the store of knowledge con- wrappers. Profusely illustrated with photographs and cartoons through- cerning the various branches of the great family of Man” (Abbey). out the text. A little rubbed on the wrappers, separating towards the tail, With the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, heir to a suc- but overall very good. cessful chain of dispensing chemists, based in Nelson, Lan- first and only edition. This pamphlet celebrates Shell’s cashire: “A collector of books, in a delightful room at his home, completion of the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road in November white-painted bookshelves stacked high on all the available wall 1939, a project which had taken the company over three years space show to advantage the hand-tooled leather bindings of a and made them considerably less profit than expected under collection that has been acquired slowly and with discrimination stringent conditions imposed by an Egyptian government in- over the years” (The Chemist and Druggist, 7 September 1957). creasingly resentful of British hegemony. In equal parts a brief history of the project and a manual for correct road usage, the Abbey, Travel 6; Colas 2726; Tooley 515. foreword strikes an apologetic note: “The road across the desert £1,000 [115123] . . . has received undeserved criticism and publicity mainly in- stigated by interested parties . . . If you have patience to read to 321 the end, you will find that: The road is extremely cheap; it costs no more to maintain than stone roads; It can carry the heaviest SHUQAYR, Na‘um. [Title in Arabic] Ta’rikh Sina al- lorries and tanks; It is six metres wide like the Suez Road; All ac- qadim wa’l-hadith wa-jughrafiyatuha . . . (The History cidents so far have been due to unsafe cars and bad drivers” (p. and Geography of Sinai Ancient and Modern, with a 3). An uncommon record of the latter days of British influence in summary of the histories of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Egypt, with no other copy traced. Arabian Peninsula with regard to their commercial and £450 [99978] military relations by way of Sinai, from the beginning of history to the present day). Cairo: Matba’at al-Ma’arif, 1916 320 Octavo (244 × 160 mm). Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 27 similar plates, some SHOBERL, Frederic. The World in Miniature; Persia, 100 illustrations from photographs to the text; 3 sketch maps of Sinai Containing a brief description of the country; and an quarantine station for returning pilgrims, the Arabian Peninsula and account of its government, laws, and religion, and of the environs and the Ottoman military advance through Sinai in 1915; large character, manners and customs, arts, amusements, etc. folding map of Sinai to rear of volume (1:750,000) opening to approx. 70 × 50 mm with contour lines in red. Rather worn, some bleeding to edges of its inhabitants. London: for R. Ackermann, 1822 from cloth, light toning, rear hinge split. A good copy. 3 volumes in one, duodecimo in sixes (135 × 83 mm). Contemporary first edition. Three detailed chapters cover the geography, straight-grain roan, rebacked, spine richly gilt, red morocco label, twin Bedouin and history of the Sinai Peninsula; in the preface Shuqayr

194 Peter Harrington 133 321 322 writes that the book was about to go to press when war was de- Octavo. Original dark red cloth, gilt lettered spine, pictorial gilt block clared in 1914 and he decided to extend the scope of his study with on front cover, top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece, 21 plates, 2 folding a “conclusion” (khatimah), not so much a conclusion as “a history maps. A few marks to binding, touch of foxing to title. of the Arabs before and after the advent of Islam, in the Arabian third edition, same year as the first, presentation Peninsula and beyond” (p. 6). copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: “To General Na‘um Shuqayr (1863–1922) was born in Choueifat, Beirut and George W. Wingate, with best compliments from the author, studied at the Syrian Protestant College, now known as the Amer- R. Slatin. Merano 4/III [1]928”. This is almost certainly George ican University of Beirut. On graduating he moved to Egypt and Wood Wingate (1840–1928), an American lawyer who served in worked in military intelligence, initially for the Egyptian Army. a New York regiment during the Civil War and later as a general He was then transferred to the Sudan, where he served under in the National Guard; he may have been related to the book’s Lord Kitchener and Sir Reginald Wingate, the dedicatee of the translator, F. R. Wingate. Merano (or Meran) is a spa resort in present piece, and gathered intelligence on Mahdist forces – an South Tyrol, northern Italy. Perhaps both men were “taking the experience which culminated in his 1903 study of the Sudan. He waters” there at the time the book was presented. was later posted to Sinai with a brief to maintain peace between “Slatin’s career in the Sudan covered thirty-six eventful years. the Bedouin tribes, serving there during the Khedival–Ottoman He started in January 1879 in the finance department as an in- border dispute of 1906. The photographs are mainly derived from spector with the rank of a bimbashi (the Turkish equivalent of a other works in French, Arabic and English, including Sutton’s My major). Later that year he was appointed governor of Dara, in Camel Ride from Suez to Mount Sinai (1913), with some original imag- south-western Darfur, and after less than a year became gover- es, but Shuqayr does not make quite clear which ones these are nor-general of the whole province. In his major publication Fire (p. 7). The excellent folding map to the rear, however, is explicitly and Sword in the Sudan (1896) Slatin was vague about his duties in the author’s own revision of the most complete map of Sinai then Darfur. However, his life as governor-general was soon disrupt- available, originally produced by the British War Office. ed by Muhammad Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullahi, who in June 1881 de- Scarce: Copac locates just two copies in the British Isles (Ox- clared himself the Mahdi of the Sudan. Soon the Mahdi and his ford and Cambridge) with OCLC adding seven in the US and four followers (ansar) escaped from Aba Island, on the White Nile, to across Israel and Lebanon. the Nuba Mountains and Slatin became actively involved in the uprising . . . Fire and Sword in the Sudan was published in English Not in Gay or Macro. For Shuqayr see Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli, al-A‘lam. in 1896 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Its impact on pub- £3,500 [102606] lic opinion in Europe was greater than Wingate had expected. It appeared in numerous editions until 1935, and was translated 322 into German, Italian, French, and Arabic” (ODNB). SLATIN, Rudolf C. Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A £1,500 [99777] Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes. 1879–1895. Translated by Major F. R. Wingate. London: Edward Arnold, 1896

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West meet and transcend their spiritual division in a higher reli- gious principle: bogochelovechestvo, the humanity of God. As his- tory’s ‘third force’ Russia is destined to blaze the path not just to Constantinople but to the universal, divine-human cultural 323 synthesis of the future.” (Paul Valliere, Modern Russian Theology: Orthodox Theology In A New Key, p. 114). 323 “The great Russian religious philosopher V. Solov’ev, wrote about the influence of the religious philosophy of Islam on the SOLOVIEV, Vladimir. Tri sily. Publichnoe chtenie. (Three cultural history of Western countries. He said that in the devel- Forces; A Public Reading.) Moscow: M. Katkov, 1877 opment of the history of humanity there are three forces: the Octavo (222 × 150 mm), pp. 16. Original printed paper wrappers. Housed first would like to subdue humankind to God; the second would in a black cloth rounded-spine slipcase and chemise by the Chelsea skip ‘the unity of the world’ and give freedom to the individual Bindery. Small circular library label to front wrapper, oval library stamp form of life; the third would reconcile the unity of God with to blank portion of first and last leaves. Wrapper largely split along individual freedom. In the modern world, according to Solov’ev, spine, but still holding, front wrapper and first leaf a little crumpled at these forces exist in three historical cultures: the first is the head, with a short tear but no loss, trace of library label and shelfmark to Arabian East, the second is Western civilization, and the third is front wrapper; a very good copy. Slavonic.” (Abdusamedov Anvar, “The Place of Islamic Culture Scarce first edition of the Russian philosopher, theologian, in Social Progress”, Spiritual values and social progress, Uzbekistan poet, pamphleteer and literary critic Vladimir Soloviev’s rousing philosophical studies, 1, p. 70). lecture, “Three Forces”, read to the Society of Amateurs of Rus- sian Literature in April 1877. £7,500 [86058] “In the academic year 1876–7 Soloviev returned to teaching and worked on a second book, The Philosophical Principles of Integral The first work to collect the earliest photographs of Mecca and Knowledge. Before the year was over, however, he resigned his Medina academic post and moved to St Petersburg . . . In the light of his later career Soloviev’s move can be seen as a step towards the 324 lifestyle which suited him best, that of an independent scholar SOUBHY, Saleh. Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à la Médine. and publicist. Soloviev picked a good time to begin his publicis- Précédé d’un aperçu sur l’Islamisme et suivi de tic career. Early in 1877 Russia declared war on the Ottoman em- considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d’un pire in response to Turkish violence against Orthodox Christians in the Balkans. For the first time since the end of the Crimean appendice sur la circoncision. Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, War (1856), the Eastern Question returned to the center stage 1894 of European politics and and lent new urgency to the issue of Octavo (225 × 150 mm). Black crocodile-skin-textured paper sides, red- Russia’s historical mission . . . Hitching religious philosophy to brown cloth backstrip, black morocco label lettered in gilt to spine. Pho- Russian messianism . . . his thesis was as simple as it was bold. tographic frontispiece and finispiece, 17 plates after the photographs of Muhammad Sadiq Bey and al-Sayyid ‘Abd al-Ghaffar al-Baghdadi. Ex- The world is dominated by two opposed, but equally flawed, tremities lightly rubbed with small area of wear to corner of front board, religious principles: the Islamic or oriental principle of ‘the contents toned, half-title missing, old tape-repair to verso of contents inhuman God,’ a formula justifying universal servitude, and the page. Altogether a more than presentable copy of an uncommon publi- modern European principle of ‘the godless human individual,’ a cation. formula validating ‘universal egoism and anarchy.’ The conflict first and only edition. Saleh Soubhi was an Egyptian pub- between these principles can only end in a vicious circle. Fortu- lic health official commissioned by Khedive ‘Abbas II to write nately for humanity there is a country, Russia, where East and a report on the conditions experienced by pilgrims to Mecca.

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first edition. Dispatched by Burton from Tabora to verify reports of a large body of water to the north of Lake Tangan- yika, Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza on 3 August 1858 and immediately pronounced it to be the source of the Nile. Back 325 in London the strained relationship between the two explorers was finally sundered by the acclaim greeting Speke’s discovery, He performed the hajj twice, in 1888 and 1891, producing this which Burton felt to be premature. In 1860 Speke returned to detailed account, to which are affixed a response to European Africa to confirm his thesis, and in spite of complicated diplo- criticisms of Islam and an appendix making several suggestions macy involved in crossing the various kingdoms of the interior, with regard to improving hygiene practices en route. eventually located “the point where the Nile issues from Lake The Pèlerinage notably collects the work of the first two men to Victoria – which he reached on 28 July 1862 and which he named photograph the holy cities of Arabia. Muhammad Sadiq Bey was Ripon Falls. This was the crowning moment of the expedition a military engineer who had performed the hajj several times as and of Speke’s career” (ODNB). Unfortunately Speke’s compan- treasurer of the Egyptian mahmal, or official caravan. His pho- ion James Grant, suffering from an ulcerated leg, had returned tographs of Mecca and Medina, the first ever, appeared in his northward, so the discovery was unverified; nor did the party work Mash’al al-Mahmal (“The Torch of the Mahmal”), published follow the Nile stream closely as they travelled north to Bunyoro, in Cairo in 1881 and now with only two copies extant in libraries allowing critics to question whether Speke’s river really was the worldwide (NY Public Library and the National Library of Mo- Nile. rocco). ‘Abd al-Ghaffar was a medical doctor and the first Arab On his return to London Speke almost immediately came photographer of Mecca. He had been taught the craft by Dutch under fire, not least from Burton, who questioned whether he orientalist Snouck Hurgronje; his images were first published in had found the same lake from the north as he had seen from Hurgronje’s Bilder aus Mekka (1889). the south. The British Association arranged a public debate to be held in Bath on 16 September 1864, but Speke was found Burrell 725; Macro 2096. Not in Gay, Blackmer or Hamilton, The Arcadian dead the previous day, apparently killed in a hunting accident. Library. The circumstances of his death, his dispute with Burton, and £4,000 [99252] his somewhat slapdash record-keeping, have conspired to deny Speke the prominence of Stanley, Burton or Livingstone. But “the importance of Speke’s discoveries can hardly be overes- 325 timated. In discovering the ‘source reservoir’ of the Nile he SPEKE, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the succeeded in solving the ‘problem of all ages’ . . . He and Grant Source of the Nile. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa, and and Sons, 1863 thereby gained for the world a knowledge of rather more than Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary straight-grain blue morocco, eight degrees of latitude, or about five hundred geographical rebacked and relined some time in the early 20th century, smooth spine miles, in a portion of Eastern Africa previously totally unknown” decoratively gilt in compartments, two-line gilt border enclosing deco- (ibid.) rative blind frame to sides, floral cornerpieces in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, one other similar Czech p. 151; Howgego IV, S53, S54; Ibrahim–Hilmy 255. portrait, 24 further plates and 46 illustrations to the text, mostly after £875 [117318] Speke or Grant, and 2 maps, one full-page, the other folding. Ticket of Charles Lauriat, Boston bookseller and noted survivor of the sinking of Lusitania, to the front free endpaper. Extremities a little rubbed, front inner hinge cracked between frontispiece and title page. A very good copy, internally clean and fresh, in an attractive binding.

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326 Haifa–Medina railway. “My first authority is the late Mohammed SPIRO, Socrates. The Moslem Pilgrimage. An authentic Sadek Pasha, who was an officer on the staff of the Egyptian Army and visited the sacred towns more than once and embodied all the account of the journey from Egypt to the holy land of information he obtained at first hand in a book now out of print Islam, and a detailed description of Mecca and Medina [i.e. Mash’al al-Mahmal, 1881] . . . My second authority is Mohammed and all the religious ceremonies performed there by Labib Al-Batanuni Bey, who accompanied the ex-Khedive Abbas the pilgrims from all parts of the Mohammedan world. Pasha in 1909 to the Hedjaz, and subsequently published a record Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1932 of this journey [al-Rihlah al-Hijaziyah, 1911]. My third authority is Small octavo (180 × 122 mm). Original blue quarter cloth, light blue pa- a number of newspapers articles relative [sic] to the officials who per boards, half-tone reproduction of Ibrahim Rifat Pasha’s photograph accompany the caravan, much information about the sacred towns, of the Egyptian mahmal mounted to front board within printed titles as etc., and my fourth is that of men who made the journey . . . The il- issued. 37 half-tone plates from photographs by Ibrahim Rifat Pasha, lustrations . . . are principally drawn from the above two works, and Batanuni Bey, and Sadiq Bey (i. e. “Mohammed Sadek Pasha”). Contem- from that of Ibrahim Rifat Pasha [Mir’at al-haramayn, 1924], the most porary ownership inscription “A little Easter thought, Cairo – 1934” to complete on the subject” (Preface). front free endpaper. Spine rolled, wear to headcaps, tips lightly rubbed and bumped, boards sunned, front inner hinge split at head but holding, £1,375 [113279] text-leaves toned, plates bright and fresh, a very good copy. first and only edition of this uncommon account of the hajj, 327 collecting some of the earliest and most important photographs of Mecca and Medina. A decidedly scarce title on the market, with two SPRENGER, Aloys. A Catalogue of the Bibliotheca copies traced at auction; Copac traces three copies only in British Orientalis Sprengeriana. Giessen: Wilhelm Kelle 1857 and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, London Library and Octavo in half-sheets (209 × 125 mm). Contemporary sprinkled paper Glasgow), OCLC adds fourteen world-wide. boards, green paper spine label, sprinkled edges. Contemporary book- “Socrates Spiro (1868–?) was an Egyptian of Syrian and Greek seller’s ticket of Luzac and Co. to front pastedown. Spine rubbed, ex- descent. He was educated at the American Mission College in Cai- tremities lightly bumped and worn. A very good copy. ro. His first post was as a private secretary of the undersecretary of first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed state for finance, and later he became director of Egyptian ports by the author to fellow German orientalist Johann Gildemeis- and lighthouses . . . In 1907 Spiro went to work in Geneva as a lec- ter on the front free endpaper, dated March 1857. Laid in is a turer of Arabic at the university there. He returned to Egypt in 1912, copy of Sprenger’s 18-page pamphlet, Dr. Halm und die Bibliotheca where he first worked for the Egyptian Gazette and then was appoint- Sprengeriana (Heidelberg: Adlon, 1857), a response to the outrage ed Arabic editor of the Egyptian Mail . . . In 1932, he published a book expressed by the Bavarian state librarian at the sale of his collec- titled The Moslem Pilgrimage. After that, all traces of Socrates Spiro tion to the Prussian archives in Berlin – the pamphlet extremely seem to vanish, which is strange for a man who held such high pub- uncommon, with only the Yale copy traced in libraries. lic functions” (Bassioney, Al-Arabiyya, vol. 47, p. 3). Sprenger (1813–1893), an Austrian orientalist, travelled to India Chapters cover the Egyptian mahmal (official caravan), the Cai- in 1843, becoming principal of Delhi College and secretary to the ro–Mecca route, the Suez–Jeddah route, Mecca, Medina, and the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. He was a prolific editor of Arabic and

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Persian texts previously extant only in manuscript, as well as the author of numerous original works, most notably a life of Muham- mad. On his travels he collected hundreds of manuscripts which he brought back to Europe, making several texts, notably the had- ith, available to European scholars for the first time. Gildemeister 329 (1812–1890) was professor of oriental languages at Bonn and Marburg. He focused mainly on Sanskrit but in 1836 published an The first published dictionary of Yemeni Arabic edition of the section on India from al-Mas’udi’s Muruj al-dhahab, an important tenth-century chronicle in Arabic; Sprenger began 329 an edition soon after for the Oriental Translation Fund, though STACE, Edward Vincent. An English–Arabic Vocabulary. only managed one volume, published in 1841. Both items come from the library of British colonial agent For the use of students of the colloquial. London: Bernard and Arabist Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), with his Quaritch, 1893 ownership inscription to front pastedown, a printed bookplate Octavo in half-sheets (215 × 130 mm). Original blue diagonally-ribbed indicating his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public cloth, titles and double fillet rolls to spine gilt, frame to boards in Library in 1920, with association manuscript shelf-marks and blind, edges sprinkled red, yellow endpapers. Six pages of publisher’s advertisements to rear. Spine sunned with minor wear to head and foot, blind-stamps as usual: an excellent additional association. extremities lightly bumped, a few faint markings to boards, a couple of £1,500 [117636] small dents to rear board, top edge dust-darkened. A very good copy. first and only edition of the first bilingual dictionary of Ye- 328 meni Arabic (Vanhove, p. 750). European studies of colloquial Ar- abic in fact have a longer printed history than dictionaries of the SPRENGER, Aloys. Die Post- und Reiserouten des Orients. classical form, with Pedro de Alcala’s Arte para saber la lengua araviga Mit 16 Karten nach einheimischen Quellen. Erstes Heft [all (Granada, 1505), based on the Granadan dialect, identified as published]. Leipzig: in Commission bei F. A. Brockhaus, 1864 “the first attempt to propagate knowledge of the Arabic language Octavo (213 × 135 mm). Later 19th-century green quarter cloth, marbled in print” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library). The present vocabulary boards, title gilt to spine, grey marl endpapers. 16 folding maps. A little deals with Yemeni Arabic and records the language “of the streets, rubbed, some light browning, but overall very good. the bazaar, trading ports, and the caravans from Yemen”. first and only edition, published as volume III, part 3 of the As the First Assistant Political Resident, Aden, Lieu- Abhandlungen der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, of this study tenant-Colonel Stace was notably placed in charge of the 183 of itineraries and post-routes through India, Persia, the Middle Ethiopian Oromo children rescued by the British Navy from East and Arabia, entirely based on regional sources, by the great an Arab slave bound for Jiddah in 1888; the decision was Austrian-born Orientalist. The work was compiled when he was made to send them to South Africa to be looked after by mis- professor of Oriental Languages at Bern, a period when he pub- sionaries at the Lovedale Institution in the Eastern Cape. lished “his most valuable works, mainly on ancient geography See Martine Vanhove, “Yemen”, in Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Lin- and early Islamic history” (ODNB); it is referred to by Kremer in guistics, vol. IV, pp. 750–8. Not in Macro or Gay. his work on south Arabian lore as “excellent and highly useful . . . opening entirely new ways of instruction” (our translation). The £200 [98495] book includes a large folding map of routes in Arabia. Macro 2105. £650 [93927]

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330 STARK, Freya. The Southern Gates of Arabia. A Journey in the Hadhramaut. London: John Murray, 1936 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile of Stark’s signature to front board gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Title page printed in red and black, 96 plates, 2 folding maps. Spine gently 331 rolled, scattered pale markings to cloth, contents slightly toned, a few trivial spots to front free endpaper. A very good copy. 332 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author STEVENS, John. The History of Persia. Containing, “To Mr. Guest with affectionate and grateful thanks for much the Lives and Memorable Actions of it Kings from the help, from Freya May 1936” on the front free endpaper. Arthur Rhuvon Guest (1869–1946) was an accomplished Arabist who first Erecting of that Monarchy to this Time; an Exact helped Stark with her original researches into Hadhramaut his- Description of all its Dominions; a Curious Account of tory, and read the manuscript. In the acknowledgements Stark India, China, Tartary, Kermon, Arabia, Nixabur, and the thanks Guest “for his invaluable assistance during the writing Islands of Ceylon and Timor; as also of Cities occasionally of my book – an assistance to which such Islamic learning as mention’d, as Schiras, Samarkand, Bokhara, etc. . . . To appears within its pages is chiefly due”. which is added, an Abridgement of the Lives of the Kings After achieving recognition with her first book The Valley of of Harmuz, or Ormuz. London: for Jonas Brown, 1715 Assassins (1934), which described travels in Iraq and Iran, Stark Octavo (188 114 mm). Later 18th-century panelled calf, rebacked and went to Hadhramaut, southern Arabia, in search of ancient relined probably in the 19th century with the original flat gilt spine laid trade routes, landing at Mukallah and travelling inland to Tarim down, red morocco label, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece via Jol, Wadi Daw’an, Khuraybah, and such ancient cities as trimmed and laid down verso of second blank. Lascelles bookplate to Shibam and Sayun. She returned a celebrity, and her book, “of- second blank recto; faded contemporary ownership inscription to title. ten considered a classic of travel writing” (ODNB) was awarded Joints and extremities skilfully refurbished, contents variably browned, the Mungo Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical occasional spotting, small hole to title not affecting text, first gathering Society. dampstained. A good copy. first and only edition. “The book is a translation of a work Macro 2120; Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 28–30. in Spanish published in 1610 by Pedro Teixeira (erroneously £875 [116857] identified by Stevens as Antony), a Portuguese traveler and writer about whom little is known. Some time after 1586 Teixeira 331 traveled to Portuguese Goa in present-day India. From there he went to Persia, where he became proficient in Persian and STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut. London: John acquired books and manuscripts on the history of the country. Murray, 1938 Teixeira’s book consisted of a summary and translation of the Quarto. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and front board green, text Tarikh-i rawzat al-safa (“History of the kings of Persia”) by Mir Kh- printed on grey paper. With the photographic dust jacket. With 130 vand, Muhammad ibn Khavandshah (1433–98), a summarized monochrome plates after photographs by the author, map of the Hadh- translation of a Persian chronicle of the kings of H[o]rmuz, and ramaut on green paper. An excellent copy in the jacket with extremities an account of his own voyage from India to Italy in 1600–01. a little rubbed and creased, short closed tear to head of rear panel and some nicks to extremities. Stevens’s work contained numerous errors and inaccuracies, but it played an important part in making Persia better known to first trade edition, the presumed first issue binding. 18th-century European and especially British readers” (Library £475 [112511] of Congress, online.)

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This copy comes from from the library of British Arabist and three hundred pages of good and clear print, we have, besides colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his ownership the grammar, a century of proverbs from Maidani, and a series inscription to the initial blank, a printed bookplate to front of historical extracts from Abdulfadá; a list of the most useful pastedown noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath books for the study of the language, and a preface, containing Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks an account of the chief Arabic grammars etc. already in exis- and blind-stamps as usual: an excellent association. tence” (The Asiatic Journal, May–August 1842, p. 54). Scarce in commerce. Ghani p. 256; Goldsmiths’ 5195; Wilson p. 216. £1,500 [94080] £200 [98459]

333 STEWART, Duncan. A Practical Arabic Grammar. London: John W. Parker, 1841 Octavo (220 × 135 mm). Original dark blue fine-diaper cloth, spine blind-ruled in compartments with titles direct to second gilt, boards panel-stamped in blind, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Arabic and English types; 16 pp. of publisher’s advertisements to the rear, undated. Ownership inscription (Enriette A. Raymond, Clevedon, July 24th ‘94) to front free endpaper. Extremities lightly bumped and worn, pale marking to boards, some foxing to endleaves, very occasional faint spotting to text. A very good copy. first edition. “An Arabic grammar, which, taking a middle path between the obscure brevity of some of its predecessors, and the fulness of others, furnishes what has been so long want- ed, a good manual for commencing the study of this beautiful and extensively useful language . . . Within the compass of 333

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Beecher Stowe writes to Cincinnati bibliophile Louis (also re- corded as Lewis) Cist, quoting an ancient Persian fable from Sir John Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia (1827): “While in the bath the other day, a friend put into my hand a bit of scented clay. ‘What art thou’ said I, in admiration, ‘art though musk or ambergris? that thy perfume is so delightful.’ It replied ‘I am in myself but a lump of mirthless clay, but I have long lived with the rose & the sweet quality of my partner has been breathed into me’”. Harriet Beecher moved with her family to the Walnut Hills neighbourhood of Cincinnati in 1832, when she was 21. Cincin- nati was then at the forefront of the abolitionist movement. The 334 Beecher family home, now kept as a museum, was where she first began to write, and where she lived until shortly after her 334 marriage to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836; the couple later moved to Maine, where Stowe was a university lecturer. Louis Cist was the STEWART, Robert Walter. The Tent and the Khan: A author of the Cincinnati Miscellany (1845), a work of local history. Journey to Sinai and Palestine. Edinburgh: William Oliphant His collection of autographs was sold at auction in 1886–7. This and Sons, 1857 letter was more recently in the collection of noted Danish-Amer- Octavo (207 × 137 mm). Contemporary dark purple hard-grain moroc- ican bibliographer and libarian Jens Christian Bay (1871–1962), co, titles to spine fully gilt in compartments, elaborate frame gilt and with his pencilled ownership inscription to the inside cover of stamped in blind to covers, turn-ins and edges gilt, marbled endpapers, the book-form case, below a typescript mounted label reading green page marker. Frontispiece, illustrations to text, folded map “Kongeligt Dansk Hof-Bogbinderi [Royal Danish Bindery,] El- tipped-in at rear. Light wear to tips and spine ends, light foxing to pre- lims; an excellent copy. mhurst, Illinois, U.S.A”. Bay spent most of his library career in Illinois, first at the University of Chicago, then at the John Crerar first edition of this travel account by Stewart of his four- Library in that city. month trip through the Middle East taking him from Cairo to Damascus. Stewart was a Scottish pastor and one of the leading £750 [111447] figures in the Italian Protestant and Waldensian movement from the 1840s onwards. The journey documented in this book 336 inspired his commentary on the four gospels, written from 1862 STRUYS, Jan Janszoon. Les Voyages de Jean Struys, until his death in Livorno 1887, which is said by the Society of Waldensian Studies to have had “a significant impact among En Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes, et Italian evangelicals”. en Plusieurs autre pais étrangers; Accompagnés de remarques particuliéres fur la qualité, la religion, le £450 [117489] gouvernemont, les costumes & le néoce des lieux qu’il a vus; avec quantité de figures en taille douce definées par 335 lui-même; & deux lettres qui traitent à fond des malheurs STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Autograph letter signed, quoting d’Astracan. A quoi l’on a ajouté comme une Chose digne a Persian fable. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati: 15 December 1840 d’etre suë, la Relation d’un Naufrage, dont les suites Single bifolium (245 × 195 mm), folded four times for posting, 12 lines ont produit des effets extraordinaires. [Bound with] written in black ink to front panel with the date “Dec. 15 1840” lightly Relation du Naufrage d’un Vaisseau Hollandois, Nommé pencilled to upper outer corner; rear panel verso ink-stamped “Walnut Hills, Dec. 16” and addressed in black ink to Mr Louis Cist, Cincinnati, Ter Schelling, Vers la Côte de Bengala: où L’on voit des Ohio, in Stowe’s hand, semicircle neatly cut into fore edge, probably effects extraordinaire de la faim, & plusiurs autres choses where originally attached to red ?wax seal at gutter opposite. Housed in remarquables, arrivés à ceux qui montoient ce Batiment. a custom blue half cloth book-form case with marbled sides and back- Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1681 strip lettered in gilt on front panel. Slightly toned, a few pale marks, old restoration to extremities, some judicious repair along folds. Overall, 2 parts in one, quarto (238 × 187 mm) Contemporary vellum, manuscript very good. title to spine, First title printed in red and black, 2 additional engraved titles, and 19 folding plates, engraved illustrations. From the library

202 Peter Harrington 133 336 of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with redemption by the VOC in Batavia. Following the publication of his printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath book Struys went to sea again in the employ of the Danish court, Public Library in 1920 and manuscript shelf-mark and blind-stamps as and on his return retired to Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, usual. Somewhat rubbed and little stained, inner hinges restored, some where he died in 1694 “a man of relative wealth and celebrity” (Rob- marginal dust soiling, plates toned, two a little frayed along fore-mar- gins, one with old repairs verso, about very good. erts). Struys’s highly-coloured text is further dramatized by some very explicit plates, but there are also some excellent views includ- first edition in french, first published in Amsterdam in 1676, ing one of Muscat, where he was in 1672, from the sea. before becoming a Europe-wide best-seller. Purporting to be an account of the travels of a Dutch sail-maker and seaman, the truth Blackmer 1616; Boterbloem, The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys, 2010; cf. of these adventures has been challenged in the past. However, it is Ghani p. 357; Howgego, I, S185; Landwehr, VOC, 423–4 refer; Macro 2152; Roberts, Les voyages de Jean Struys, University of Reading Special now widely accepted that although “replete with plagiarised text Collections Services featured item, July 2011; Wing S6019. and improbable events . . . the ghost-written text . . . is nevertheless a useful source” (review of Boterbloem, The Fiction and Reality of Jan £3,750 [94082] Struys in English Historical Review, CXXV, 2010). Overwhelming evi- dence suggests that the text was compiled by Olfert Dapper, whose methods are well known from his other publications. Although Struys himself was almost certainly illiterate, and despite the pres- ence of material drawn from other sources, his central importance to the project is suggested by the fact that publication was delayed until Struys returned to Amsterdam from Muscovy in 1676. His three voyages took place over a period of 26 years, of which 10 were spent actually at sea. The first took him from Genoa to , Madagascar, Indonesia, Siam, Formosa and Japan, with the account of Siam predominating; the second contains Struys’s account of service in the Venetian navy in conflict with the Ottoman fleet; and the third recounts his travels across Russia and Persia, with descriptions of Moscow, the sack of Astrakhan by the Cossacks, and of Struys’s enslavement by the Tartars and eventual 336

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337 bound in at the rear. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his STUART, Brian. Adventure in Algeria. London: Herbert widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and Jenkins Limited, 1936 associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Small Octavo. Publisher’s oatmeal cloth lettered in blue, ?remainder binding. portion of stripping to morocco on backstrip, spotting to prelims and With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 7 other plates, sketch endleaves, very occasionally to text, one of the bound wrappers partially maps to the endpapers. Cloth just a little mottled, half-title and final torn. A very good copy. blank a little browned, otherwise very good indeed in slightly rubbed first edition in any language of Suyuti’s Ta’rikh al-khulafa’, fairly jacket, a few short splits and minor chips at the edges, adhesive tape common in libraries, but rare in commerce, with no copies traced repairs verso. in auction records; the first Arabic edition was printed in Cairo first edition of this account of service in North Africa with 1887. the French Foreign Legion, and wanderings thereafter. “It is A prolific polymath, Suyuti (1445–1505) was born in Cairo, to Sidi bel Abbes and Ain Safra that he takes us – the garrison where he lived through the final decades of the Mamluk Sultan- towns of the notorious French Foreign Legion. There as a troop- ate. His cohesive and authoritative chronicle of Muslim rulers, er he spent five years. Years of hardship and danger, of comrade- from the immediate successors of Muhamamad to the shadow ship and content. When, at last, he took leave of the Legion, he ‘Abbasid caliphs of his own time and also covering Muslim Spain, began his remarkable lone trek into the desert” (jacket blurb). is a work “right on the chronological edge of the historical period Basil Bunting, reviewing in the Spectator, evidently enjoyed the of classical Islam” (Calder and others, eds, Classical Islam: A Source- book: “Lieutenant Brian Stuart, who joined the French Foreign book of Religious Literature, p. 83). “Suyuti wanted to curb certain Legion, liked it, and was bitterly disappointed when the doctor excesses of the Mamluk regime. He drew a favourable contrast marked him ‘inapte service’, set off to cross the Sahara on foot between the piety of Saladin, the restorer of Sunnism in Egypt, with a volume of Pedro de Alcantara in his pocket and very few and the present rulers. His praise went to jurists, religious judges, francs . . . I don’t suppose the Royal Geographical Society will Sufis, and mystics; he highlighted the heroic resistance of a qadi offer him its medal, yet he saw men and cities in the spirit of to Baybars. Suyuti offers a glimpse of Sunni ‘pious opposition’, at Odysseus, and can convey their caviar. The narrative moves.” odds with the temper of the dawlah [regime] and scornful of its Genuinely uncommon in the jacket. power” (Black, History of Islamic Political Thought, p. 148). Jarrett was an Indian Army soldier and colonial officer. He also £350 [117449] produced translations of the 16th-century “Constitute of Akbar” (Ain-i Akbari) and the Ibn ‘Arabshah’s account of Timur. Suyuti’s 338 other notable works include his immense commentary on the SUYUTI, Jalal al-Din al-. History of the Caliphs. Qur’an. Translated from the Original Arabic by H. S. Jarrett. Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 5. Calcutta: the Asiatic Society, 1880–1 6 parts in one volume, octavo in half-sheets (250 × 152 mm). Contem- £2,000 [117609] porary half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, original purple printed paper wrappers

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339 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author SYKES, Christopher. Changed: Being an Account “To Sir Percy Cox, from Christopher Sykes, March 1936” on the first blank and with Cox’s oval armorial book label. of a Voyage in Modern Persia. With illustrations by Cox was British consul general at Bushehr from 1904 to 1909, Christopher and Angela Sykes. Southampton: privately when he was promoted to political resident of the Persian Gulf; printed at the Camelot Press, 1932 in the same year, Wilhelm Wassmuss arrived in Bushehr as Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges German vice-consul. In the years leading up to war Wassmuss untrimmed. Black and white frontispiece and 15 other plates. Spine gen- enjoyed great success in encouraging tribal revolts against the tly rolled, corners of boards a little bumped, light foxing to prelims and British in southern Persia. When war began Cox was appointed fore edge of text block. An excellent copy. chief political officer with the Indian Expeditionary Force, mas- first edition of the author’s first book. Sykes, whose father had terminding the army’s political relations with Mesopotamia, helped found the Arab Bureau with T. E. Lawrence and signed the and encouraging the resistance of Ibn Sau’d. Wassmuss contin- Sykes–Picot agreement of 1916, took a course in Persian studies ued in his activities and “so worrisome did he become that the at the School of Oriental Studies, London. He later became hon- British violated Persian neutrality in efforts to arrest him. When orary attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, 1930–31. This pri- they failed Sir Percy Cox even offered a reward for Wassmuss – vately printed book describes two journeys, from Yazd to Shiraz, alive or dead. The Foreign Office, however, was horrified at the and from Shiraz to Isfahan, undertaken in the latter half of 1931. prospect of political assassination and the idea was suppressed He later spent two years travelling in Persia and Afghanistan with . . . Cox, however, had a measure of revenge. Later, when India Robert Byron, an adventure captured in Byron’s The Road to Oxiana had occasion to ask him if there was not something to be done (1937). The book is handsomely produced and rare, with no copy to stop Wassmuss, he could only reply, ‘The risk which we incur in the British Library, Copac locating a National Trust copy only of exciting the abhorrence of His Majesty’s Government togeth- in Britain and OCLC locating only the copy at the Harry Ransom er with the inability of the Indian Government to authorize any collection, University of Texas, Austin. practical form of support to Haidar Khan after his . . . abortive endeavour to arrest Wassmuss, render it very difficult to do £3,500 [92305] anything which would have effect” (Olson, Anglo-Iranian Relations During World War I, p. 71 note). Inscribed to Percy Cox – Wassmuss’s rival in Mesopotamia and After 1916 Wassmuss’s influence waned as it became clear Persia to tribal leaders that a German victory over the British was not 340 guaranteed. He received almost no recognition back in Germany after the war, and returned to Bushehr in 1924 intending to set SYKES, Christopher. Wassmuss. “The German up a farm and repay local tribal leaders from the profits; the Lawrence”. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936 farm failed and he returned to Germany, dying in poverty in Octavo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in green, top edge green. 1931. Cox, on the other hand, was appointed high commissioner Map endpapers, 12 photographic plates including frontispiece, of which in Iraq in 1920, performing “the most important work of his ca- 7 by Robert Byron. Newspaper clipping tipped to front free endpaper, reer” (ODNB), arguing in favour of a continued British presence containing a letter from one MacLeod M. Ferguson correcting Sykes’s and setting up an Arab regime under Feisal. In 1922 he persuad- account of “The Prisoners of Ahram”; recent bookplate of of British ed Ibn Sa’ud to recognise the state of Iraq, and retired the fol- politician John “Jack” Donaldson (1907–1998) and his wife Frances (1907–1994), noted author and biographer, to the front free endpaper lowing year. He died in a hunting accident in 1937, the year after verso, below an obliterated ownership inscription. Boards very slightly this copy was inscribed. sprung, a few portions of faint soiling to cloth, mild spotting to prelims and endpapers, occasional pencilled markings, mainly question- and £2,000 [117755] exclamation marks, probably Cox’s, to the margins. A very good copy.

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341 SYKES, Sir Percy. A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915

2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers 342 ruled in blind, with large gilt blocks of Cyrus and Shah Abbas to front, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each and 178 other plates, 4 of them co- loured, one of these folding, 7 folding colour maps of which 2 wall-size a third edition by 1930, but this first edition is uncommon, far in end-pockets, title-page vignettes, headpieces, numerous illustrations more lavishly illustrated than subsequent editions, and is by far to the text. Hunting bookplate of Francis White to the front pastedowns. the most handsome. Spines sunned, some very light rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy. Ghani 363; Wilson p. 221. first edition of this highly influential history by one the great £650 [114855] scholar-administrators, whose considerable literary output and lengthy firsthand experience of the country established his rep- The foundation of classical Arabic historiography utation as “an authority on Persian history, geography, and cus- toms” (ODNB) and earned him the Royal Geographical Society 342 patron’s gold medal in 1902. Although it was intended in large TABARI, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-. Chronique d’Abou part as a manual for British officers, Sykes’s History contains Djafar Mohammed Tabari, fils de Djarir, fils d’Yezid; much that has since become historical currency. traduite sur la version persane d’Abou-Ali Mohammed Sykes first became interested in the Persia and the Great Game at a young age, and made his first visit to the country in Belami, fils de Mohammed, fils d’Abd-Allah, d’après les 1893, a six-month trip on horseback. He returned later that year manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, par Louis Dubeux. entrusted with building relations with local leaders, and spent Paris: for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and until June 1894 producing maps and surveys, as well as climbing Ireland, 1836 the extinct Kuh-e Taftan volcano. Later that year he became the Large quarto (320 × 250 mm). Original green cloth, printed paper label first British consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan. With to spine as issued, binder’s ticket of W. Runting, Chancery Lane to front Thomas Holdich he demarcated 300 miles of the Perso­–Baluch pastedown. Frequent Arabic types. Engraved presentation leaf printed in frontier in 1896, over the next year introduced polo to Tehran, purple with foliate border. Scattered light cockling to cloth, heavier on in 1898 founded the British consulate of Sistan and Kain, on the the spine, spine label a little chipped, corners bumped, a few pale mark- ings to sides, small portion of cloth worn away midway along front joint, Afghan border. After service in the South African War in moved small spot to fore edge, a little pale foxing towards front and rear, else to Mashhad in 1905 and was appointed consul-general for the internally crisp, fresh and almost entirely unopened. A very good copy. government of India in Khorasan. For the next eight years he produced annual trade reports, collected Russian intelligence first edition in any language of Tabari’s Ta’rikh al-rusul and dealt with Shi’ite pilgrims from India, and gathered materi- wa’l-muluk (“History of Prophets and Kings”), “the most import- al for his History, which was several times reprinted and reached ant of the classical Arabic historical texts still extant” (Encylopae- dica Iranica), volume I (all published); this copy with a presenta-

206 Peter Harrington 133 343 tion leaf addressed to noted translator and businesswoman Lady 343 Charlotte Guest (née Schreiber, 1812–1895), best remembered TATE, George Passman. The Frontiers of Baluchistan. for her edition of the Mabinogion, the medieval Welsh prose cycle and the earliest recorded prose literature of the British Isles. Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan. With “Introspective and uninterested in the usual accomplishments an Introduction by Col. Sir A. Henry McMahon. London: thought fit for a young lady”, Guest also taught herself Arabic, Witherby & Co., 1909 Hebrew, and Persian (ODNB). Octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spine, French fillet panels Dubeux’s text, based on the 963 ad Persian translation by Sa- in blind to boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. Coloured frontispiece manid vizier Bal’ami, covers the period from the creation of the from a watercolour by the author, 36 plates from photographs, folding world to the time of Biblical prophet Shu’ayb. One of the first route map, folding coloured area map at the rear. A little rubbed, neatly recased, endpapers renewed, light browning and scattered foxing, but works published by the Oriental Translation Fund, the trans- overall a very good copy. lation was not completed until the edition in four volumes by Hermann Zotenberg, published 1867–74. first edition, a fairly uncommon book, this copy accompa- Tabari (839–923) was one of the most eminent scholars of nied by an atmospheric original watercolour by Tate, which is the early ‘Abbasid era. Born in Amol, present-day Iran, he fol- reproduced as a plate in the book, captioned “Nad Ali. The delta lowed the custom of the time and visited the various intellectual of Seistan from the Tell of Surhdik”. centres of the Islamic east, including Basrah, Kufah, and Rayy, The book gives a fascinating account of the author’s travels on before eventually settling in Baghdad. Although learned in juris- the borders of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, and into Seistan, prudence and hadith, he is remembered chiefly for his immense as an Extra Assistant Superintendent, Survey of India, employed Qur’anic commentary and his Ta’rikh: “both are notable for on the Baluch–Afghan Boundary Mission, 1895–6, and Seistan their comprehensiveness and their meticulous citation of multi- Arbitration Mission, 1903–5; on the latter Tate was in charge of ple and often conflicting sources, presumably in order to bring the survey section. Both missions were undertaken under Sir out their differences in accounts and interpretations, though Henry McMahon, who was later Governor-General of Baluch- not always (especially in the history) attempting to resolve istan, and who here commends Tate in his introduction for for them” (ibid.) the “strength and picturesque colouring of his portraiture of the country and people he describes”. £1,250 [110201] Wilson p. 223. £2,250 [102999]

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344 of, among other things, the practices of Hinduism; the history TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste. Les Six Voyages . . . en of the Moghul empire; and the workings of the Ottoman court: “He has a straightforward style and makes no attempt to gen- Turque, en Perse, et aux Indes. Pendant l’espace de eralize or philosophize.” Tavernier’s was a direct and readable quarante ans . . . Premiere . . . [and] Deuxieme Partie record, and was understandably extremely popular. [together with] Recueil de plusieurs Relations Et Traitez The text is enhanced by the plates, which are crisply cut and singukliers & curieux de J. B. Tavernier . . . [Amsterdam?:] full of detail, covering all aspects of his narrative, including suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 1679 views of Baghdad and Kandahar; Tavernier’s passeport, or firman, 3 volumes, duodecimo (153 × 92 mm). Late 18th-century crimson from Shah ‘Abbas II; a royal funeral procession in Tonkin; pre- straight-grain morocco, title gilt direct to spine, flat bands, triple fillet cious stones acquired in India; a fakir; the currencies of India, gilt panels to compartments, French fillet panels with rosette corner- Persia and Japan; an Indian katara, or push dagger; and the pieces to boards, single rule edge-roll, all edges gilt, French blue and splendid map of Japan showing the Stations of the Tokaido. cream silk head- and tailbands, French blue silk page-markers, marbled endpapers, gilt palmette roll to turn-ins. Vol. I with engraved half-title Atabey 1201 (this copy, wrongly recorded as having 42 rather than 44 and 9 plates, all but one folding; vol. II with 25 plates, of which 19 are plates; binding illustrated); Brunet V, 681; Howgego, I, T14; Weber II, folding, illustration to the text; Receuil with portrait frontispiece and 8 277; this edition not in Blackmer. folding plates, double-folding map of Japan and folding map of Tonkin. (Copies have been recorded recently with 42, 44, and 45 plates, this £10,000 [70570] copy has all of those listed in the plate lists, and a considerable number in addition, where multiple images on the same subject are indicated.) 345 Book labels of Sefik E. Atabey to the front pastedowns. Some very slight rubbing to the joints, corners, head- and tailcaps, light toning, occa- THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. New York: E. P. Dutton sional spotting, a few small marginal tears, no loss of text, map of Japan and Company, Inc., 1959 slightly torn on a fold, but overall an extremely pretty set. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, title to spine, and abstracted first small format edition, following the quarto firsts of sand dune device to the front board in gilt and white. With the dust jack- Les Six Voyages (1676) and Recueil (1678); a beautifully presented et. Frontispiece and 46 plates, 8 maps to the text, some full-page, fold- ing map mounted on the rear pastedown. Endpapers typically toned, set of this highly desirable edition of the voyages of this “most pale toning to the margins, else very good in clipped, slightly rubbed, famous among the ‘business travellers’” (Speake). minor edge chips and splits, old tape repair at the head of the spine. Tavernier made six trips to Asia in search of fine jewels – the 112 carat diamond that he purchased at Golconda became Louis first u.s. edition, signed by the author on the title page; XIV’s famous French Blue, and was later re-cut to reappear as same year as the UK first. This was Thesiger’s first book and the notorious Hope Diamond – and his records of business “and, in his opinion, his finest” (ODNB). practices, commodities and currencies must have been carefully “During the years that I was in Arabia I never thought that I studied by all who were planning expeditions to the East. How- would write a book about my travels . . . Seven years after leaving ever, he was also a man of wide ranging interests and keen ob- Arabia I showed some photographs I had taken to Graham Wat- servation, studying the history, politics, religions and cultures son and he strongly urged me to write a book about the desert. of the countries that he visited, and giving excellent accounts This I refused to do . . . The following day Graham Watson came

208 Peter Harrington 133 345 346 to see me again, and this time he brought Mark Longman with first edition in english of the so-called Autobiographical him. After much argument the two of them persuaded me to try Memoirs of Timur, or Temür, historically known as Tamerlane, to write this book. Now that I have finished it I am grateful to the most powerful ruler in , and founder of the them, for the effort to remember every detail has brought back Timurid dynasty. Current scholarship rejects the autobiograph- vividly into my mind the Bedu amongst whom I travelled, and ical claims of the original manuscript, but it remains one of the the vast empty land across which I rode on camels for ten thou- most reliable sources for the social and military organisation sand miles” (Introduction). of the Timurids and was the text on which the Moguls of India based their administrative and military ideas. £1,350 [100851] “What emerges most strikingly from the accounts of Temür’s life is his extraordinary intelligence – an intelligence not only Tamerlane the great intuitive, but intellectual. He was first of all a master politician 346 and military strategist, able to win and keep the loyalty of his nomad followers, to work within and transform a highly fluid (TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) WHITE, political structure, and to lead a huge army to conquests of Joseph, trans. Institutes Political and Military, written unexampled scope . . . What is most impressive, because least originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, expected, is the scope of Temür’s intellectual interest and ability improperly called Tamerlane; First translated Into Persian . . . The histories of his reign extol his knowledge of astronomy, By Abu Taulib Alhusseini; and thence Into English with medicine, and particularly of the history of the Arabs, Persians Marginal Notes By Major Davy, Persian Secretary to and Turks. His delight in debating with scholars was inexhaust- the Commander in Chief of the Bengal Forces from the ible . . . ” (Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, pp. 16–17). The Arab historian Ibn Khaldun met Timur, and described him as Year mccclxx to mccclxxiii, and now Persian Secr. to “the sultan of the universe and the ruler of the world”, going on the Governor General of Bengal. The Original Persian to explain to the emperor “his favourite theory, that ‘asabiyah, transcribed from a ms. in the Possession of Dr. William group solidarity, was necessary for sovereignty, and the greater Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen . . . and the number sharing the ‘asabiyah , the greater the power of the the Whole Work published with a Preface, Indexes, sovereignty. ‘You know how the power of the Arabs was estab- Geographical Notes, &c. &c. Oxford: At Clarendon-Press, 1783 lished when they became united in their religion in following Quarto (279 × 216 mm). Modern half calf by Period Binders, marbled their Prophet’” (Gies, “The Man who met Tamerlane”, Saudi Ar- boards, red morocco label, floral lozenges gilt to compartments, red amco World, Sept.–Oct. 1978). edges. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plans. Text finely printed in English The son of a humble broadloom weaver, the translator Joseph and Persian. Ownership inscription of Horace P. Biddle, lawyer, judge, White was Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford. This transla- poet, musicologist, and famous hermit of Indiana, to title page. Light tion was published at the expense of the East India Company. browning throughout, offsetting from the portrait to the blank facing, Uncommon, with a just dozen locations on Copac. and from the plans to the blank verso of the text leaf facing, and verso of the plan bound before, else very good. £3,750 [103495]

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347 348 (TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) (TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR.) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven. OSTROUMOV, Nikolai Petrovich. Ulozhenie Tumura The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry. (The Code of Timur). Kazan: The University Press, 1894 Translated. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1908 Octavo (251 × 158 mm). contemporary black pebble-grain paper-covered Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a boards, blind single fillet panel to boards, spine unlettered, pale green Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the front board, top endpapers. A little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, spine creased, edge gilt. Frontispiece and 24 illustrations to the text, some full-page. corners bumped, small hole to the title page, no loss of text, some brown- Slightly rubbed at the corners, endpapers a touch browned, else very ing throughout, heavier to the front and rear, but overall very good. good. first edition of the first translation into russian of first edition, one of 500 copies. “A very important work by the legal code of timur, provided with a scholarly commen- a falconer who flourished in the middle of the 19th century . . . tary by Ostroumov. Extremely uncommon, just the British Library gives a detailed account of falcons as well as hunting-birds in copy on Copac, no copies recorded on OCLC. general, and the author quotes from a number of early authori- Nikolai Ostroumov (1836–1930) “arrived in Tashkent in 1877 to ties on falconry” (). take up the post of director of schools in the newly created prov- The translator, Phillott, joined the 40th foot from Sandhurst, ince of Turkestan. He had been recommended to the Governor and served later in the 28th Punjab infantry, and in the 3rd Pun- General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman by Nikolai Ivanovich jab cavalry. He was with the Zhob Valley field force in 1890; and Il’minskii, the famous Kazan’ missionary and Orientalist, whose was deputy assistant quartermaster general and interpreter with student Ostroumov had been. Ostroumov had trained in Islam the Hazara field force in 1891; and employed in the operations and Turkic languages, and this knowledge very quickly made on the north-west frontier in 1897–98. After serving as consul in him a confidant of Kaufman. Ostroumov retained this proximity Persia for two years, he was employed in the India Office. “Col- to power all through the tsarist period. Until 1917, Ostroumov onel Phillott was a distinguished Orientalist, the author of many served the state in various capacities. In 1883, he was appointed elementary and advanced works for students of Hindustani, the editor of the Turkiston viloyatining gazeti, the vernacular official Urdu, and Persian. He translated Cavalry Drill and Mountain gazette, through which he sought to shape the contours of local Warfare into the Indian vernaculars, and contributed many pa- cultural debates in the direction of Russian state interests. He pers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of which he had acted as a censor for local-language publications, and his opinion been general secretary, philological secretary, and twice gold on “native” affairs was routinely sought by local administrators. medallist. He was a Fellow of Calcutta University, where he had At the same time, he produced a vast corpus of scholarly writing been Persian lecturer” (The Times, obituary 12 Sept. 1930). on the ethnography and history of Central Asia, and on Islam. Hohenstaufen, The Art of Falconry, pp. 595 & 607. Ostroumov translated the Bible into Chaghatay and wrote anti-Is- lamic polemics in Russian. His private papers include correspon- £2,500 [67922] dence with fellow Orientalists in Russia and abroad, and his writ- ings give ample evidence of his involvement in the international enterprise of Orientalism” (Khalid, “Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism” in Kritika, I, 4, fall 2000, p. 691). £2,500 [109395]

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349 volume I badly opened with slight marginal loss, and a few others leaves with minor splits, but overall an exceptional set. TULLOCH, Alexander Bruce. Recollections of Forty Years’ Service. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and first and only edition of what Atabey describes as “this im- portant work” and Blackmer a “very interesting work.” Turner’s Sons, 1903 “chatty” account includes observations on local manners and Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, dark blue surface-paper customs; an account of a meeting and conversation with Ali Pa- endpapers. A little rubbed, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy. sha; and lengthy descriptions of two visits to Cyprus. Decidedly first edition, signed by the author on the first blank, uncommon, exceedingly so in boards. “Yours sincerely, Alex. B. Tulloch.” Sir Alexander Bruce Tull- Turner’s father was a friend of George Canning, to whom och (1838–1920) was a British soldier and military intelligence this book is dedicated, who obtained a clerkship in the Foreign officer. He joined the 1st Royal Scots in 1855 and served in the Office for William in 1809. In 1811 he was attached to the embas- Crimea, India, China and Egypt. He worked in the Intelligence sy of Robert Liston and accompanied him to Constantinople. Department of the War Office and was in charge of the Intelli- Turner “remained in the East for five years, and during that time gence Department in Egypt, being sent on missions to Belgium, visited most parts of the Ottoman empire, as well as the islands Crete and elsewhere. He commanded the Welsh Regiment in and mainland of Greece. While in Asia Minor he endeavoured to South Africa and Egypt. An important interlude in this book emulate Leander and Lord Byron by swimming the Hellespont, relates to his service in China, at Taku Forts, and the taking of and, failing in the attempt, palliated his ill success by pointing Peking. out that he had tried to swim from Asia to Europe, a far more Bruce 2331. difficult feat than Byron’s passage from Europe to Asia” (ODNB). Byron responded in a letter to John Murray, and Turner “in a £100 [66603] counter-rejoinder, overwhelmed his adversary with quotations from ancient and modern topographers.” 350 In 1824 he returned to Constantinople as secretary to the TURNER, William. Journal of a Tour in the Levant. British embassy, and for 18 months during Stratford Canning’s absence was minister-plenipotentiary. In 1829 he was appointed London: John Murray, 1820 envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to Colombia, 3 volumes, octavo. Original buff paper-covered boards, printed paper la- a post from which he retired from the service after nine years. bels to spines. Housed in a black cloth flat back solander box. 22 plates, He died in 1867. 6 of them hand-coloured, 5 of these being aquatints, of which 2 are folding panoramas – Zante and Smyrna – and one being a double-sided Abbey, Travel 375; Atabey 1251; Blackmer 1687; Hilmy II, p. 297. facsimile, 2 folding maps, illustrations to the text. All half-titles present. Slightly rubbed, some minor chips at the heads and tails of the spines, £7,500 [72785] spines mildly creased, upper joint of volume III starting, two leaves in

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351 from their lodgings in the city, loading their equipment onto ar- (UZBEKISTAN.) Group of original photographs relating bas, the typical large-wheeled carts of the region; and the nearby village of Siab [Siyab], where the excavations began, lodgings in to the extension of the Trans-Caspian Railway across the native settlement, the tomb of Danyar, the prophet Daniel, Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan: 1894–5 and fording the river. There are several views of the bridge over 37 original photographs, various small formats, all but one with pen- the Amu Darya, one striking image including a train approach- cilled captions in Russian verso, most of them dated. Housed in a dark ing in the distance, and a paddle-side-wheeler moored nearby. green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A few splits This was the wooden bridge, often lost in floods, that was not and chips at the edges, one with a significant tear, but no loss, variable tone, but all remain clearly readable, overall very good. replaced by a permanent structure until 1901. Another group focusses on Tamerlane’s Gates, the famous A revealing collection of images taken on a surveying expedi- defile at Zizzak/Dzhizak in the Jilanuti valley on the way to the tion into Central Asia, seemingly taken as research related to Zerafshan. One print (of several) is captioned on the back: “Ta- the construction of the Samarkand–Andijon extension of the merlane passed through here in the beginning of the C15th. He Trans-Caspian Railway, which was approved in 1895 and com- ordered the carving of Arabic two inscriptions into the rock. pleted in 1899. The area covered centres on Samarkand itself Now in a few fathoms from these inscriptions lies the railroad. and the city’s immediate environs, but a putative route across 1895”. parts of neighbouring Turkmenia can be roughly plotted. There are some wonderful scene-setting pictures of condi- The history of photography in Uzbekistan only really starts in tions on the trip, the small settlements, or kishlaks, in which they 1882 with the arrival of Volga German Wilhelm Penner in Khiva stayed, their guides sleeping on the flat roofs of the single-sto- as part of the Mennonite Migration. The first native photogra- rey dwellings; the setting up of the researcher’s yurt en route pher, Khudaibergen Divanov, a pupil of Penner and the first to – “operation undertaken by Kirghiz ladies”; the “quicksands of take moving pictures in Uzbekistan, did not start work into the Barkany in Kizilcum [Kyzylkum] Steppe”; and the walls of the turn of the century, making this group early indeed. fortress of Geok Tepe, seen in the distance, famously the scene As explained in a later feature in the popular illustrated news of Skobelev’s bloody victory in 1881, effectively securing the Rus- magazine Niva (1, 1900, pp. 216–220), this was a highly challeng- sian conquest of Central Asia. ing part of the project due to the terrain encountered on the pro- Pleasingly, several of the images include members of the jected route: the fast rivers, expanses of desert, and mountain Russian team, loading carts at Samarkand, fording the Siyab on ranges with precipitous valleys, all of which feature in the wider horseback, following Tamerlane’s Canyon on arbas, and posing landscapes collected here. on Tamerlane’s Arch on the Zeraphshan. The main group of images, around a third of the total, show A full listing of the captions and dimensions with contextual Samarkand itself, views of the Gur-i-Emir, Shah-i-Zind, Bibi notes is available on request. Khanum mosques, the streets of the native quarter, the market in the , and a wonderful image of the party setting out £6,250 [105438]

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The first British mission to Abyssinia, with illustrations by 353 Henry Salt VAN DYCK, Edward A. History of the Arabs and their 352 Literature before and after the rise of Islâm, within the limits of their peninsula and beyond it. An outline for the VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount. Voyages and use of the pupils of the Khediviah School, compiled from Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Arab and European sources. Ljubljana: Ig. v. Kleinmayr & Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. Fed. Bamberg, 1894 London: Printed for William Miller, 1809 Octavo (220 × 146 mm). Original brown morocco-grain half cloth, blue 3 volumes, quarto (300 238 mm) original boards with near contempo- paper boards printed in black. Glasgow University library-stamp to front rary sheep reback, red morocco labels to spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved pastedown, associated shelf-mark label to the same and to front board vignette headpieces, 69 plates, maps and plans, 11 of them folding, and ink-stamp to p. 222 . Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, irreg- including a 2 large maps of the Red Sea area, “from the Straits of Bab- ular toning to boards, contents tanned, surface splitting to front inner el-mandeb to Salaka,” & “From Salaka to Suez.” A little rubbed, hinges hinge and between pp. 208–9, label sometime removed from front free repaired, some plates with short splits at the fore-edge, 2 plates torn endpaper. A very good copy. without loss and repaired, but overall very good. first and only edition in english of this uncommon late first edition, one of 50 large paper copies. “This work Khedival-period course-book for Cairene students, originally contains much information of a novel and important kind . . . It published in Arabic the previous year as Ta’rikh al-’Arab wa-adabi- was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and him, scarce in commerce and just five copies in UK libraries, of Draughtsman to Lord Valentia” (Lowndes). Henry Salt supplied which two are in the British Library. all the drawings upon which the plates are based and in the same Van Dyck was an American diplomat who served as consul- year, 1809, published a series of hand-coloured aquatints under ar clerk and vice-consul in Beirut and Cairo, taught at Cairo’s his own name entitled Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, the Cape, India, Khediviah (Khedival) school and translated a number of early Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. Valentia’s was the first Brit- Arabic texts into English, including Avicenna’s Compendium on the ish mission to Abyssinia, sent to conclude an alliance to obtain Soul. He was the son of Cornelius van Dyck, a missionary best a port on the Red Sea in case Napoleonic France should seize remembered for his Arabic translation of the Bible. Egypt, and was important in opening Abyssinia to the West. For the author see Ruth Kark, American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914, p. 62 Abbey 515; Brunet V, 1034; Howgego I, E19; Lowndes IV pp. 2747–8. £650 [108183] £3,500 [46982]

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354 main structure as well as later accretions on its periphery. In VAN NICE, Robert L. Saint Sophia in Istanbul. An sum, the study provides a framework and indispensable point of departure for examining any of the numerous architectural, Architectural Survey. Washington, DC: The Dumbarton Oaks structural, or historical questions connected with more than Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, & fourteen hundred years of the building’s continuous use”. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1965 & 1986 This copy is from the library of William L. MacDonald (1921– Atlas folio (908 × 595 mm) Original blue-green portfolio, gilt lettering on 2010), noted architectural historian, author of Early Christian and spine, and front board. Colour view of Saint Sophia and 46 loose plates Byzantine Architecture, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, and The of architectural renderings, offset and collotype; the two sewn as issued Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, who participated in the 8–page introductory texts with contents lists laid-in. excavation of the mosaics at Haghia Sophia in the early 1950s first edition, complete in both instalments – published more when studying for his AM at Harvard. It has his ownership in- than 20 years apart – and uncommon thus; this apparently num- scriptions to the front pastedown of the portfolio and the front ber 96 of 750 copies. wrapper of the first instalment. “So seldom in the history of architecture has there appeared, seemingly without precedent, a monument of such remarkable £3,250 [104062] scale and structural form as Justinian’s Great Church of Saint Sophia that the origin of its conception and the means by which it was constructed within the limitations of experience and materials of its period pose problems of consuming interest” (Foreword). Nearly a half century in the completion, the project was initi- ated in 1936 by William Emerson, at the time Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT, who had travelled to Istanbul in order to see “the exquisite mosaics that were then being recovered from beneath Fossati’s plaster by Thomas Whittemore, founder of the Byzantine Institute”. He realised that the previous years’ secularisation of the mosque as the State Museum of the Turk- ish Republic “created a long-awaited opportunity to advance our knowledge of this monument unique in the history of architec- tural development”. The project began with “the limited aim of setting down de- tails of a single one of Saint Sophia’s four buttresses, the scope of the survey, as it became increasingly clear that by inspection and measurement alone unsuspected amounts of invaluable and hitherto unknown internal evidence could be assembled, was progressively expanded until finally it encompassed the entire 354

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355 views, titled “Italien”. Boxes slightly rubbed, with minor signs of wear; three with short splits on front hinges, and three others neatly rebacked VICTORIA, Queen of Sweden. Extensive photographic with original spines laid down; a couple of photographs with minor chips archive of her travels in Italy and Egypt. 1890–1 to corners, but overall in excellent condition and handsomely-presented. 374 large-format photographs housed in a total of 9 folio red peb- ble-grain cloth book-style boxes with gilt lettered spines, moiré interiors and marbled edges: eight of them (340 × 280 mm) relating to Egypt and carefully categorised “Egypten: Cairo”: “Egypten: Moskéer och Kop- tiska Kyrkor (Mosques and Coptic Churches)”: “Egypten: Pyramider, Tempel och Obelisker (Pyramids, Temples and Obelisks)”, 2 boxes; and “Egypten: Landskap och Folkstyper (Landscapes and People)”, 2 boxes; together with a larger box (460 × 370 mm) containing 25 of the queen’s own photographs; and two matching boxes containing the 102 Italian

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An important collection of 374 large-format photographs of Egypt and Italy made during the travels of Victoria, Queen of Sweden (1862–1930). The collection includes 25 photographs (250 × 300 mm) of Egypt taken personally by the queen in 1890–1, together with a large portrait photograph (365 × 220 mm) of a Turkish officer captioned on verso “Zeki Bey/ Uppvaktaude has de kunli- ga (Zeki Bey, introduced to the king)”, taken by the studio of O. Schoefft, “Photographer de la Cour, V. Giuntini & G. Khoskantz 355 Successeurs, Caire”. This is possibly the Zeki Bey who served at Gallipoli, was brother-in-law of the last sultan Mehmed VI and Accompanying the collection is a copy of Victoria’s highly accompanied him into exile. There are a further 348 large photo- attractive, and extremely uncommon, privately printed account graphs (200 × 260 mm or slightly smaller). Of these, 246 are Egyp- of her Egypt travels, Vom Nil (Karlsruhe, 1892), just six copies on tian views, landscapes and street scenes, taken in Cairo, Karnak, OCLC, all in Germany; together with first and second editions Medinet Habu, Luxor, Ibsamboul, Medamut, Aswan, Giza, Abu (Stockholm, 1923 and 1931) of her biography Drottning Victoria, Simbel, Alexandria, Heliopolis, Suez – offering high-quality pan- similarly uncommon with just a handful of copies of both. All oramic views of temples and pyramids, the Nile itself, streets and three feature images from the Egyptian expedition made by the squares of the major cities, mosques and Muslim tombs, Arab queen herself. houses, souqs, and various genre scenes and “types”, street-ven- The print of the picture of the renowned Cairo Mena House dors, barbers, soldiers, cameliers, women and children; scenes Hotel is inscribed by her on the mount “Till minne af Nyårsda- of Arab meals and pastimes – in short, a vividly touristic and gen 1891 på Mena House/ från/ Victoria (In memory of the New high-Orientalist view of Egypt. Of this group more than 100 pho- Year’s day 1891 at Mena House, from Victoria)” this image being tographs are from the studio of Antonio Beato; and more than 140 reproduced at p. 78 in the second edition of the queen’s biogra- from the studio of Pascal Sébah, many signed in the negative. All phy. Fifteen of the queen’s photographs are captioned in Swedish of the photographs are mounted on stiff cardboard leaves, loosely on verso, with four specifically noted as “Foto taget 1891 af Kro- inserted in the impressive custom-made boxes, with around a nprinzessin”. Six further photographs from the group were repro- third of with neatly inked captions in Swedish. duced in the queen’s Egyptian book; the reproduced photographs As Princess of Baden, Victoria had married Gustaf V of are “Bedouin girls” (p. 21), “Cameel mit Zuckerrohr” (p. 24), Sweden in order to strengthen ties between the German and “Chephren-Pyramide” (p. 52), “Cataracten-Landschaft” (p. 102), Swedish courts. Despite the birth of three children, it was not a “Bellal” (p. 103), and “Ammontempel von Karnak” (p. 141). happy marriage – Gustaf was rumoured to be bisexual – and the This superb photographic archive was clearly assembled by a couple’s summer trip in 1890–1 may have been arranged in an person close to the queen during her travels, possibly her per- attempt to rebuild the relationship. Victoria was a strong-willed sonal physician, and, as noted, includes 25 large photographs and independent woman, as well as being highly artistically taken by Victoria personally. Loosely inserted in the box con- accomplished in a range of media. She was an skilled amateur taining this group is an elaborate Arabic document, part-printed photographer and painter, and she also sculpted. During this in gold and completed calligraphically, together with the orig- trip she both photographed and painted extensively, experi- inal decorated envelope with the annotations “Dr. Lundberg”, menting with various developing techniques, and producing and “Ordensbref Osmaniéorden”, which would appear to the some genuinely impressive photographic work. The trip trig- official letter conferring the Order of Osmanieh, the second gered her interest in archaeology and collecting antiques; her highest order of the Ottoman Empire, on Victoria’s doctor. impressive collection of Egyptian antiquities was later donated to the University of Uppsala, where it is still housed today. £45,000 [91585]

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The Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf archus’s voyage: “It was in the time of Alexander that the land of Oman was first seen by Europeans. His admiral, Nearchus, 356 when passing up the Persian Gulf, sighted Cape Maceta or Cape VINCENT, William. The Voyage of Nearchus from the Mussendom [=Musandam], and heard from the pilot of a great Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the Original Omani emporium . . . Alexander hearing his report, determined Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities on sending an expedition to circumnavigate the Arabian pen- Ancient and Modern; containing an Account of the First insula, but his early death in Babylon put an end to this and other schemes, and for nearly a hundred years no fresh light was Navigation attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean thrown on the land” (p. 8). . . . London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1797 Nearchus eventually landed at a town named as Diridotis, Quarto (277 × 214 mm). Late 19th-century brown half morocco by W. evidently Teredon, a city founded by Nebuchadnezzar in what is Brown of Bath, marbled boards, red morocco label. With engraved fron- now Kuwait. Vincent himself believed that the voyage was “the tispiece and 6 engraved maps and charts, 4 of them large and folding, first event of general importance to mankind in the history of illustrations in the text A little rubbed and with some stripping from the corners, light browning, some offsetting from the plates and maps, a navigation . . . His commentary drew on a wide range of sources very good copy. and he was assisted by Samuel Horsley, dean of Westminster, who loaned two astronomical treatises, and by Alexander Dal- first edition of Vincent’s important commentary on Ne- rymple, hydrographer to the Admiralty, who prepared charts for archus’s voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 bc, him. More unusually for the period he made use of oral evidence as recorded by Arrian of Nicomedia. The expedition, ordered by from those who had recently visited the regions concerned” Alexander the Great, marked the Greek discovery of the Persian (ODNB). These last included Niebuhr, Sir Harford Jones-Brydges Gulf (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 267), and the entire fourth (“resident for the Company at Busheer and Basra”), in addition chapter is dedicated to the region. to Dalrymple. This copy has highly apposite provenance, being ex-Bath Pub- Vincent’s purpose “was not to translate Arrian, but to make lic Library with the legacy bookplate of Mrs Miles, wife of Col. S. him intelligible to an English reader, and to investigate a variety B. Miles (1838–1914), long-time agent of the British government of subjects, historical, geographical and commercial” (author’s in Oman and author of The Tribes and the Countries of the Persian preface). Vincent pursued the subject further in his two-part Gulf (posthumously published, 1919), in which he described Ne-

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1800–5). His reputation today rests 358 on these two works. WALPOLE, Frederick. The Ansayrii, and the Assassins, Howgego I N10; Macro 2253. with Travels in the Further East, in 1850–51. Including a £3,000 [93992] visit to Nineveh. London: Richard Bentley, 1851 3 volumes, octavo. Original brick red cloth, gilt lettered and blind stamped spines, ornamental blind stamped border on sides, yellow 357 coated endpapers. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of the author by G. VISCHER, Hanns. Across the Sahara from Tripoli to Remy in volume I, two other engraved frontispieces of scenes by J. W. Bornu. London: Edward Arnold, 1910 Cook. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper of each volume of Charles Bowles Hare (1841–1911), Bristol businessman. Spines toned, Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine and front cover. Mono- a little rolled and chipped at foot, sides slightly discoloured, a touch of chrome half-tone frontispiece, 22 plates, 21 illustrations in the text, wear to joints, internally clean, terminal advertisement leaf in each vol- folding coloured map of Vischer’s route from Tripoli to . Con- ume, and all frontispieces present (which is not usual). temporary presentation slip on front pastedown. Spine lightly sunned, front inner joint cracked, scattered light foxing and a few marginal first edition, uncommon. “An account of journeys in 1850–51 pencillings, closed-tear at map stub. A good copy with the publisher’s through Ottoman lands, with the primary intent of exploring 8–page catalogue at the end (dated January 1910). the mountains of an Ismaili sect known as the Ansayrii or Assas- first edition of this important account by the Swiss-born mis- sins, between Safyta and Nahr El Kebir (northern Lebanon-Syr- sionary, colonial administrator and explorer Sir Hanns Vischer ia). The book includes a detailed description of the Ansayrii, (1876–1945). “Disembarking at Tripoli he joined a caravan of forty their customs, and way of life, as observed by the author during men and women, many of them freed slaves who had attached his sojourn among them. Also descriptions of Asia Minor as far themselves to the caravan for protection, with forty camels and two north as Trebizond” (Ghani). Frederick Walpole (1822–1876), horses. Constantly harassed by marauding Tuareg and distressed third son of the earl of Orford, was a British naval officer who by the blistering heat and unending search for water, Vischer earlier had written an account of a Pacific voyage in Four Years in proceeded via Lake Murzuq and the Bilma coast and successfully the Pacific in Her Majesty’s Ship Collingwood from 1844 to 1848 (Lon- arrived at Lake Chad, thereby becoming the first Englishman of don, 1849). the modern era to cross the Sahara. En route he discovered desert Ghani, Iran and the West, p. 387 (calling for frontispieces in vols. I and II rock art and Roman inscriptions in the midst of waterless, lifeless only); Röhricht, Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae, p. 448; not in Atabey or tracts of desert, and found stone implements of the Miocene period Wilson. – evidence of an ancient and prosperous culture in the Fezzan . . . Vischer’s achievement was widely acclaimed in the press, the Illus- £1,250 [109140] trated London News in 1909 describing him as one of Britain’s greatest explorers, on a par with Shackleton” (Howgego). Howgego II V5. £250 [112165]

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359 librarian, becoming librarian in 1838. Weil’s Thousand and One WEIL, Gustav. Geschichte der Chalifen. Nach Nights (1837–41), the first complete translation into German, was intended to be a “philologically exact version”, however it was handschriftlichen, größtentheils noch unbenützten badly marred by the intervention of the publisher who changed Quellen Mannheim: Friedrich Bassermann, 1846–51 “many objectionable passages, and thus made of it a popular 3 volumes, octavo (218 × 136 mm). Near-contemporary green half calf, and saleable work. This perversion caused Weil much vexation”. marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to spine, top edges His life of the prophet (1843), was the first to go back to the ear- gilt others uncut, original wrappers bound in to rear of each volume. liest sources available in Europe, and was later acknowledged by From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the Washington Irving as a major source for his own Life of Mahomet collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript (1850). shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Light browning and some spot- After 1866 Weil limited his literary activity to reviewing, being ting, but overall very good indeed. pensioned off the year before his death. His collection of Arabic first edition of Weil’s path-breaking history of Islam, which manuscripts was presented to the University of Heidelberg by relied in large part on Muslim sources still in manuscript. Sets his children. Two pendant volumes to the present work were are fairly common in institutions, but rarely encountered on the published nearly a decade later, treating the Mamluk Sultanate market. and the shadow ‘Abbasid caliphate which they established in Weil (1808–1889) was born in Sulzburg in Baden, and was Cairo. originally destined for the rabbinate, but at a young age found Gay 3451 for a biographical summary. that he had little taste for the theological life and in “1828 he en- tered the University of Heidelberg, devoting himself to the study £4,500 [94297] of philology and history; at the same time he studied Arabic under Umbreit. Though without means, he nevertheless went 360 to study under De Sacy in Paris in 1830, and thence followed the WELLSTED, James Raymond. “Narrative of a Journey French military expedition to Algiers, acting as correspondent from the Tower of Bá-’l-haff, on the Southern Coast of at Algiers for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. This position Arabia, to the ruins of Nakab al Hajar, in April, 1835. he resigned in 1831, and journeyed to Cairo, where he was ap- pointed instructor of French at the Egyptian Medical School of Read January 23, 1837.” In: The Journal of the Royal Abu-Zabel. He utilised the opportunity to study with the Arabic Geographical Society of London. Vol. VII, Part I. London: philologists Mohammed Ayyad al-Tantawi and Ahmad al-Tunsi. John Murray, 1837 Here also he acquired Neo-Persian and Turkish, and, save for a Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 2 lithographed folding maps, short interruption occasioned by a visit to Europe, he remained “Sketch of a Route to the Ruins of Nakab al Hajar on the Southern Coast in Egypt till March, 1835” (The Jewish Encyclopaedia). of Arabia”, “Map of Oman in Arabia”. Slightly rubbed and soiled, spine On his return to Europe a dispute with Hammer-Purgstall creased, light browning of the text-block, short closed tear to one of the maps, but overall very good. Largely unopened. blocked his way to becoming privat-docent at Heidelberg until the intervention of de Sacy, after which Weil was made assistant

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361 WELLSTED, James Raymond. Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a Voyage to the Coast of Arabia, 360 and a Tour of the Island of Socotra. London: Henry Colburn, 1840 first edition of this important account of the pre-Islamic mountain fort of Naqab al-Hajar (modern-day Yemen), sub- 2 volumes, octavo (213 132 mm). Attractive recent dark green half moroc- co on 19th-century marbled boards to style, original red morocco labels, sequently incorporated into the author’s Travels in Arabia (pub- compartments formed by a zig-zag foliate roll, stylized tulip-head loz- lished the following year) and extremely uncommon in this enge gilt to compartments, light brown endpapers, edges sprinkled red. condition in the original wrappers. Lithographic frontispiece to each, folding map. Boards a little rubbed, Wellsted (1805–1842) a naval officer with the East India Com- hygroscopic tide-mark in the upper margin of the frontispiece to volume pany, was sent to survey the southern coast of Arabia on board I, no encroachment on the image, some archival tissue repairs to minor the Palinurus, under the command of Captain Haines, in 1833. splits to the folds of the map, light browning to the text-blocks, as usu- In April 1835, while stationed on the Yemeni coast between Al al, overall very good. Mukalla and Aden, he heard news from the local Bedouin of an first edition. “In November 1835 Wellsted had permission ancient fort some 50 miles inland. He procured camels and a lo- to travel in Oman, and went to Muscat with Lieutenant F. cal guide and travelled up the Wadi Meifah, “the most interest- Whitelock, also of the Indian navy. The imam gave them every ing geographical feature we have yet discovered on the southern assistance in his power, but their fever and the disturbed state of coast of Arabia” (p. 32), assiduously describing local topography the country curtailed their plans. None the less, the two reached and agriculture. His was the first recorded visit of a European to areas which no European had previously seen and which were Naqab al-Hajar, a site which he believed to date from the Sabae- not visited again by Europeans for another hundred years” an or Himyaritic period. (ODNB). Wellsted seems to have attempted another venture into “Wellsted’s papers read before the Royal Geographical Society Oman the next winter, but he arrived at Muscat “in an acute procured him immediate recognition in the scientific world, stage of fever. ‘In a fit of delirium he discharged both barrels and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 6 April 1837 of his gun into his mouth, but the balls, passing upwards, only . . . Wellsted was an acute observer and not blinded by prejudice inflicted two ghastly wounds in the upper jaw’. He was carried or ignorance in his description of the local people. His accounts to Bombay, and thence returned to Europe on leave. He retired of the geography of [southern Arabia], particularly the irrigation from the service in 1839, ‘and dragged on a few years in shat- systems and the way of life in remote mountain tracts, continue tered health and with impaired mental powers, chiefly residing to be important as a unique description of the country at an ear- in France’” (ibid.) He died in 1842. ly date” (ODNB). Howgego III, 635; Macro 2283. Macro 2278 for the 1906 (Bombay Selections) edition. £3,500 [81005] £3,250 [96112]

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362 363 WESTON, Stephen. Evraq-i Perishan [title in Persian]. WILD, Auguste. Mixed Grill in Cairo: Experiences of an Moral Aphorisms in Arabic, and a Persian Commentary International Hotelier. Bournemouth: Sydenham & Co., 1954 in Verse, translated from the originals. With specimens Octavo. Original pale grey cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. of Persian poetry. Likewise additions to the author’s 12 plates. Slight sunning at the extremities, free endpapers browned, conformity of the Arabic and Persian with the English some foxing to fore-edge, 2 leaves bound tight at the gutter leaving little margin, but still legible, one leaf torn without loss, about very good in language. London: by S. Rousseau, 1805 slightly rubbed, and mildly tattered jacket. Octavo (227 × 141 mm). Untrimmed in original pink paper boards with first edition of these reminiscences of life at Cairo’s Hotel title printed in black to covers, rebacked and recornered late c.19th in d’Angleterre, which was never “a particularly glamorous hotel. dark purple roan with new yellow surface-paper endpapers, rolled bands gilt to spine forming compartments, second and third gilt-lettered Located away from the hum of the Azbekiya it appealed to a direct. Bookplate of Harold Blundell to front pastedown. Front joint serious and sober clientele, and it provided them with spacious skilfully restored, superficial cracking to roan along spine, extremities apartments rather than just bedrooms” (“Hotel d’Angelterre: worn, staining to front cover, rear cover rubbed, foxing to title-page and Then & Now”, Andrew Humphreys’s Egypt in the Golden Age earlier leaves, scattered light spotting otherwise. A good copy only. of Travel website). Gertrude Bell stayed there in 1911. The hotel first and only edition, commercially very scarce work was owned by George Nungovich, a Greek-Cypriot from Limas- translated from a 16th-century manuscript and once identified sol, who began his career in Egypt as a porter at Cairo station. as a formative influence on the oriental yearnings of the young During the Sudan campaign he found employment as the stew- Lord Byron, a thesis which has since proved controversial as no ard in the mess of one of the Highland regiments stationed in explicit reference to the text has yet been identified in Byron’s the city and emerged with enough capital to enter the hotel writings (Cochran, ed., Byron and Orientalism, p. 71). Stephen business. “His managers were carefully chosen. He knew he had Weston was a noted antiquarian and classical scholar. The final found a gem when he met Auguste Wild in Zurich. Wild was section of the text is an addendum to his Specimen of the Conformi- the manager at Bar au Lac Hotel, and had already met such well ty of the European languages, particularly the English, with the Oriental known figures as Cesar Ritz and Arthur Towel. Nungovich’s sto- languages, especially the Persian, published in 1802. He also wrote a ries about Egypt tempted Wild to leave Switzerland, particularly partial translation of the Shah Nameh and compiled an anthology when he learned that Prince Djemil Toussoun had sold Nungov- of Persian distiches. ich the lease to his palace, finally he moved to Cairo and opened the New Savoy Hotel. Wild became well known in Egypt and was Bibliotheca Marsdeniana p. 254. unique in that he was the only manager in Nungovich’s company £675 [110194] to receive a title from a Khedive” (Historic Hotels of Egypt). Un- common, with just five copies on Copac: British Library, NLS, Oxford, Cambridge, and Guildhall. £250 [112854]

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364 365 WILLCOCKS, Sir William. The Irrigation of WILSON, Arnold Talbot. The Persian Gulf: an Historical Mesopotamia. London: E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, 1911 Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Octavo. Original sage green morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and Twentieth Century. With a Foreword by the Right Hon. L. to the front board together with the author’s monogram in gilt and a S. Amery. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 palm tree device in darker green. With the dust jacket. Numerous ta- Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. Coloured frontispiece, bles to the text. A little bumped at the corners and head and tail of the 18 monochrom eplates from photographs, folding coloured map in spine, light browning to the text, some foxing to the endpapers, but a end-pocket. Spine a little rumpled, small bump to fore edge of back cov- very good copy indeed in slightly browned jacket with a few short closed er. A very good copy. tears and minor chips, some archival tissue repairs verso, but largely complete. Lacking the accompanying large portfolio of plates, as almost first edition of this important contribution to the historiog- invariably. raphy of the region. Accompanied by an interesting one-page first edition. Trained at the Thomason Civil Engineering autograph letter signed (dated 24 March 1930), on the stationery College at Roorkee in 1874 Willcocks became personal assistant of HMS Ormonde, a 24–class minesweeping sloop employed in hy- to Colin Scott-Moncrieff, superintending engineer on the con- drographic surveying in the Persian Gulf. Commander Arthur Guy struction of the Ganges Canal. When Scott-Moncrieff became Norris Wyatt writes to his friend Fitzroy thanking him for the loan director of irrigation in Egypt in 1883, Willcocks accompanied of the book, and remarking “sorry to hear that you are not returning him. “In Egypt, Willcocks had to contend with a variety of to this delightful locality. Tho’ I don’t suppose that you are much nations and languages, and the ingrained practice of bribery, upset”, before going on to comment on recent events: “We have against which he resolutely turned his face. Eccentric, voluble, had a good deal of fuss here with the Sheikh of [Oman] and excitable by temperament, he found it difficult to agree to since you left but have at least managed to get the job done. I expect differ with his chiefs and colleagues, and in his thirteen years Master Khasab will receive a shell or two on his village before long”. in Egypt he was not promoted . . . During this period Willcocks The sheikh had imprisoned Sultan Taimur’s wali, or magistrate, surveyed and levelled from Cairo to Wadi Halfa, explored the there and was refusing to recognise Taimur’s authority, and was upper Nile for possible sites for reservoir dams, and lectured indeed shelled for his pains, fleeing, but returning shortly to accept on irrigation and applied mechanics at the Polytechnical School Muscati rule when he was unable to obtain tribal support (see Al- where he also presided over examinations” (ODNB). len, Oman: the Modernisation of the Sultanate, p. 62). He was manager of the Cairo Water Company from 1897 to Macro 2316. 1899, then until 1905 managing director of the Daira Sania Land Company, which acquired 250,000 acres of land which were sold £750 [109448] for agricultural purposes. “In 1901 he spent three months in south Africa, during the South African War, advising on irriga- tion schemes . . . In the winter of 1904–5 he went to Mesopota- mia, then under Turkish rule, where in 1908–10 he achieved the remarkable feat of surveying the water resources of the whole country and drew up plans to revitalize once more the lands of the ‘two rivers’”. £500 [97300]

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366 WILSON, Robert Thomas. History of the British Expedition to Egypt; to which is subjoined, a Sketch of the Present State of that Country and its Means of Defence. London: T. Egerton, 1802 Quarto (287 × 221 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt-banded spine, gilt roll tool border on sides enclosing single-line no satisfaction, ordered Colonel Sebastiani to issue a count- gilt panel with corner rosettes, gilt roll tool turn-ins, all edges gilt, er-report” (ODNB). marbled endpapers. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph An interesting association copy, with the contemporary own- Abercromby by Meyer after Hoppner, handcoloured folding map of the ership inscription on a preliminary blank of “G. Bosville”: appar- western branch of the Nile (Cairo to Rosetta), map of the battle of Al- ently Lieutenant-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron exandria (units handcoloured), handcoloured map of the skirmish near Rahmanie, 2 folding letterpress tables. Old dampstain to frontispiece Macdonald of Slate (1775–1832), who legally changed his name to and title page (causing discolouration), occasional thumbing, closed- Godfrey Bosville (1814) and then to Godfrey Bosville Macdonald tear in margin of Alexandria map, a very good wide-margined copy in a (1824). He served in the Low Countries, West Indies, Cape of lovely period binding. Good Hope and the Peninsular, where Wilson also served but, it first edition of this popular first-hand account of the British would appear, not at the same time. Bosville’s brother Thomas expedition to wrest Egypt from French control, written by Sir married Wilson’s sister Fanny in 1793. “My sister Fanny had in Robert Thomas Wilson (1777–1849), who served under the expe- the year 1793 married Colonel Bosville of the Coldstream Guards, dition’s leader, Sir Ralph Abercromby. Wilson “landed at Abu Qir brother of Mr. Bosville of Thorpe Hall and of Lady Macdonald . . . Bay on 7 March 1801, and took part in the action of the 13th and Obliged a week after he had married my sister to embark with his in the battle of Alexandria on the 21st. Upon Abercromby’s death regiment for Holland, he was soon afterwards killed in the action Major-General (later Lord) Hutchinson succeeded him and em- of Lincelles, where the Guards acquired great credit. No officer ployed Wilson on several missions. In July Wilson entered Cairo in the corps was more esteemed; and though 6 feet 4 inches in with Hutchinson, and was at the siege of Alexandria in August height, he was, from his corresponding symmetry of form, con- and its capitulation on the 25th. He left Egypt on 11 September sidered one of the handsomest men in Europe” (a footnote adds: and returned to England via Malta and Toulon, arriving at the end “his height occasioned his death, for a musket-ball struck him of December. For his services in Egypt he was made a knight of in the head”) (Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, from Autobiographical the order of the Crescent of Turkey. Memoirs, London 1862, p. 53). “In 1802 Wilson published The History of the British Expedition to Sandler 3481. Egypt, which went through several editions. The work derived especial popularity from its charges of cruelty against Napoleon, £1,500 [107066] towards both his prisoners at Jaffa and his own soldiers at Cairo. Napoleon complained to the British government and, receiving

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368 WINKLER, Hans A. Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt II. (including ‘Uwenat). Archaeological Survey of Egypt. Sir Robert Mond Desert Expedition, Season 1937– 367 1938 Preliminary Report. London: Humphrey Milford, for The Egyptian Exploration Society, 1939 367 Royal quarto (315 × 245 mm). Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine. WILSON, William Rae. Travels in Egypt and the Holy With the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 61 black and white plates, largely from photographs, folding map at the rear. Spine gently Land. With a Journey through Turkey, Greece, the Ionian rolled. A very good copy in the slightly rubbed jacket with a few minor Isles, Sicily, Spain, &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, edge-splits and chips. Brown, and Green, 1824 first edition of this handsomely produced survey of sites Octavo (229 × 138 mm). Modern cream paper-backed grey boards, orig- found on the west bank of the Nile from Qena to Aswan, Jebel inal printed label to spine, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece and 12 litho- Uweinat, and the road leading from the Nile Valley to Dakhla graphic plates. With occasional contemporary marginalia. Spine slightly through the Kharga Oasis; volume I relates to the previous sea- darkened, small chip to label affecting last letter of “land”, boards a touch soiled with some minor scuff marks, short split to bottom of son’s expedition, to the Eastern desert. front joint, light spotting and tanning throughout, mild offsetting from “The recognition of Egyptian rock art as something that could plates. A very good copy. be closely linked to the archaeologically known cultures of the Nile Valley served as a strong impetus for further research. second edition of the first travel book by Wilson (1772–1849). Several surveys and recording campaigns were organized in Originally published in 1823, the second edition was extensively Upper Egypt and Nubia during during the last decade of the enlarged to include descriptions of the journey to Greece and 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The most celebrated Turkey as well as six additional plates. A popular book, Travels in accomplishment in the study of rock art is undoubtedly the Egypt and the Holy Land inspired Wilson to continue writing. He work of German ethographer Hans Alexander Winkler in the published several travel books, including ones on the Mediter- Eastern and Western deserts of Egypt. Winkler’s magnum opus, ranean (1824), Scandinavia and northern Europe (1826), Russia Rock-Drawings of Southern Egypt, is still one of the most important (2 volumes, 1828), and France and Italy (1835). “His Christian collections of rock-art material from Egypt” (UCLA Encyclopae- beliefs were strong and had in part prompted his first journey dia of Egyptology). to the Holy Land. An upright man, a writer and a distributor of For the last month of the expedition, Winkler joined the team tracts, he was rather intolerant, and his strict sabbatarianism of O. H. Myers and Major R. A. Bagnold, who were exploring the provoked Thomas Hood’s discursive and pungent ‘Ode to Rae Gilf el-Kebir and the ‘Uweinat, and on returning to Germany Wilson, Esquire’, published in 1837” (ODNB). was conscripted to the Wehrmacht and killed in action in 1945. Atabey 1341; Blackmer 1822; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 338; Tobler 146; Weber I, 129 £850 [99988] £375 [94268]

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369 WINNETT, Frederick V., & William L. Reed. Ancient Records from North Arabia. With contributions by J. T. Milik and J. Starcky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970 Octavo. Original sand cloth, title gilt on red panel to spine, and in red to the front board together with gilt block of a petroglyph. 4 coloured plates, numerous illustrations to the text, many full-page, including a 34–page section at the rear. Just a little rubbed, corners bumped, else a very good copy. first edition. Inevitably common institutionally, very much less so commercially. In 1962 Winnett and Reed “spent a month travelling around northern Saudi Arabia conducting an ar- chaeological and epigraphic survey. At an outcrop known as Al 370 Qal’ah, four miles from Sakakah, they recorded seven images WITTMANN, William. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, of ostriches, along with Thamudic and Nabataean inscriptions. West of the qasr at Sakakah, a small sandstone hill called Burnus Syria, and across the Desert into Egypt during the Years bore shallow engravings of 13 or so female figures wearing flat- 1799, 1800, and 1801, in Company with the Turkish Army, topped hats with fringe along with some indeterminate animals. and the British Military Mission. To which are annexed, Perhaps because the arms of the women are bent at the elbow Observations on the Plague, and Meteorological Journal. and their hands are up in the air, Winnett and Reed referred to London: for Richard Phillips, 1803 them as the ‘dancing girls’. They noted, however, that the scene Quarto (264 × 204 mm). Later 19th-century tan half sheep by W. Brown equally could depict praying. A lion was identified along with of Bath, marbled sides, smooth spine blind-ruled in compartments, title Thamudic inscriptions just five km from the oasis of Al Jawf. At direct to second gilt, edges sprinkled blue. Folding lithographic frontis- Ghar al Hamam, 3 km northeast of Tayma, they found figures piece, folding facsimile firman, 2 maps, one large folding, one full-page of ibexes and domestic cattle alongside Thamudic inscriptions. coloured, 20 plates, 16 of them hand-coloured stipple-engravings of At the summit of Jabal Ghunaym, 14 km southeast of Tayma, costume, several heightened in gum arabic. From the library of British they flipped over a stone slab to reveal a petroglyph of a human Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Li- female, which they interpreted as a goddess. On their descent, brary in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps they located three triangular heads with pairs of horns that had as usual. Tips worn, variable light offsetting from plates, frontispiece been reported earlier by Philby (1957). These are associated with spotted, short tear to folding map stub, facsimile firman with short tear a crescent moon and stars and may represent aspects of the god repaired verso. A very good copy. Salm” (Arabian Rock Art Heritage website). first edition. Wittman was a surgeon in the Anglo-Turkish £150 [92591] expeditionary force which travelled overland from Constantino- ple through Syria to Egypt in response to the French invasion of 1799. Afterwards Wittman returned to England through Greece.

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first u.s. edition; first published in the UK in the same year. , “that most curious of missionaries” (Blackmer), was the son of a rabbi from Bavaria, he converted firstly to Ca- tholicism, and subsequently to Anglicanism. In 1821 he began “his extraordinary nomadic career as a missionary to the Jews of the Near East and central Asia. Between 1821 and 1826 he trav- elled as a missionary in Egypt, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Crimea” (ODNB). In 1827 he undertook another expedition that took him through “Corfu, Alexandria, Beirut, Cyprus, Cairo, Jerusalem, Anatolia, Constantinople, Armenia, Persia, and Khorasan, 370 where in November 1831 brigands robbed and enslaved him . . . He then traversed Bukhara and Balkh, and reached Kabul, In this work he is at pains to explain the decline of Ottoman emerging from central Asia in a state of nudity after having been military prowess, which he attributes to the degradation of the plundered and compelled to march 600 miles without clothing.” Janissary Corps. The costume plates mainly depict Ottoman sol- He crossed India from Ludhiana to Bombay and returned to En- diers and functionaries, and several were reproduced by McLean gland via Egypt and Malta. in his Military Costume of Turkey. There was a German edition in Trips to Abyssinia and America followed, and in 1843 he was 1804. commissioned to return to Bokhara to seek out information Not in Abbey; Atabey 1344; Blackmer 1832; Cobham-Jeffery p. 65; Gay concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain 148; Hilmy II p. 339; Weber II, 647. Arthur Conolly, two players of the Great Game held there as spies. Unbeknownst to Wolff or his sponsors both officers had £2,500 [117638] been executed in 1842 soon after their capture, which fact Wolff “eventually discovered after an amazing series of adventures in 371 which he barely escaped with his life. He was accompanied by WOLFF, Joseph. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Abdul Wahab, a painter and watchmaker who produced the il- Years 1843–1845. To ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart lustrations for the book” (Blackmer). and Captain Conolly. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845 Blackmer 1833, this edition; Wilson p. 246; Yakushi W108. Octavo. Original sage green diagonal combed cloth embossed, title gilt to spine, elaborate foliate panelling to boards. Tissue-guarded frontis- £450 [103499] piece and 8 other similar plates. A little rubbed, corners bumped, light browning, library bookplate of Maryville College, St Louis, to front past- edown, small ink-stamp to the tail of the title page, and neatly inked gift inscription verso of the front free endpaper.

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set out to prove that Wood’s account of the source of the Oxus was mistaken, the book has remained popular as a travel narra- tive” (ibid.) “Wood’s account differs from the majority of Indian travel 372 narratives for its scientific discipline in the quality of descrip- tion of the Indus, the Oxus, bird and plant life, mountains and 372 so forth. Its detail is precise and technical, as opposed to the more emotional soarings of others” (Riddick). WOOD, John. A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. New edition. With an essay on the geography of the valley Riddick, Glimpses of India, 186. of the Oxus. By Colonel Henry Yule. With maps. London: £250 [111897] John Murray, 1872 Octavo. Contemporary blue-green diagonally-ribbed cloth, spine let- 373 tered in gilt, triple blind rules to covers, gilt arms of the Dominican Order to front, top and fore edges untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece, 2 (WORLD WAR I: PERSIA.) From the Gulf to the Caspian: folding maps. From the library of St Dominic’s College, Dunedin, with Being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd Motor Ambulance associated stamps and manuscript accession numbers to spine and , which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia endleaves. Spine rolled, extremities rubbed, head of front joint split but 1916 to 1919. Written by various members of the unit holding, internally clean; with the initial errata leaf. A good copy. who remain anonymous. Cheltenham: Burrow [printer and second edition, revised. Following his success in leading publisher: E. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd.], [1920] an expedition up the Indus in 1835, Wood was appointed as assistant to Alexander Burnes’s mission to Afghanistan. “The Landscape octavo. Wire-stitched in the original rust-coloured light card pictorial wrappers. 8 plates, graph to text, unit symbol to the first page. mission had both commercial and military aims, and Wood Ex-Imperial War Museum copy, their ink-stamp to title, last page and p. was charged with gathering information about the Indus and 16, inked accession details to title page, “withdrawn” stamp on inside the topography and mineral deposits of the surrounding area” back cover. Just a little rubbed and lightly crumpled at the corners, pic- (ODNB). Having followed Burnes up the Indus and then to Ka- torial section loose from staples, light toning, but overall very good. bul, he struck out on a separate expedition, culminating in his supposed discovery source of the Oxus on 19 February 1838, high in the Hindu Kush. “Burnes forwarded Wood’s reports to the governor-general, commending him highly and noting the commercial benefits likely to flow from his work. It was understood that if open for trade, the river would also be an important military route. Wood, however, found himself out of sympathy with British policy towards Afghanistan and, feeling that he had in good faith given assurances to the Afghans which were subsequently broken, he resigned from the navy, with the rank of captain. His fame as a geographer, however, spread. His Journey to the Source of the Oxus (1841) was widely praised and he was awarded the pa- tron’s medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1841 . . . Wood is remembered as an early writer on a remote and strategically important region . . . although as early as 1896 George Curzon 373

228 Peter Harrington 133 374 first and only edition, extremely uncommon: Copac cites The first European in the Hadramaut for 250 years copies at only two British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library and Imperial War Museum); worldwide, OCLC adds 374 State Library of Victoria only. WREDE, Adolf von. Reise in Hadhramaut: Beled Beny‚ A very useful list of operations and an accompanying colour- Yssà und Beled el Hadschar. Herausgegeben, mit einer ful “historical sketch” show that the 33rd MAC left Devonport Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Erklärung der Inschrift in early September 1916, sailed down the Suez Canal to Perim, von Obne versehen von Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan. Aden, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf (”dolphins and flying fish play- Brunswick: Friedrich Wieweg, 1870 ing round the ship”), Shatt al-Arab and disembarked at Basra. In Iraq they negotiate the Twin Canals before moving forward to Octavo. Modern library buckram, title gilt to spine. Folding map and a facsimile plate of an inscription. From the library of British Arabist and Sinn, Atab, Shumran Bend (26 February 1916: ”on all sides were colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), bequeathed by his widow to Bath evidences of the recent fighting”), and Baghdad. Operations Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-mark to the title from Baghdad then proceed to Baqubah, Sharoban, Fallujah, page, and library plate to the front free endpaper. Light spotting, title page Ramadi (”a hot bed of disease”), to Hit and Anah, Hillah, browned and marked, sig. 19 repaired, small spot to map. A good copy. Kirkuk, Khanaqin. They then link up with Dunsterforce before first edition. Adolf von Wrede, a Bavarian nobleman, was “the moving on to “Kasvin” (present day Qazvin, Iran) and “Norper first scientific traveller who succeeded in penetrating into the force” (North Persia Force). Also included is a list of “personal region of Hadhramaut” (van der Meulen, cited after Trautz, “Adolf addresses of personnel”. von Wrede”, in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 20, no. White, Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army, p. 139. 4, 1933). He travelled to the region, now part of Yemen, in 1843, becoming the first European visitor in 250 years. He reached as £350 [117726] far inland as Daw’an, where his baggage was stolen and he was forced to turn back to the coast. Some of his claims, notably his account of an apparently bottomless pit of quicksand, met with ridicule and damaged his credibility. He later emigrated to Texas, where he committed suicide in 1870; he may have also spent some time in the Ottoman army. Scarce: three copies only in UK and Irish libraries (Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford). Not in Gay; Macro 2331. £450 [117615]

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375 the Mediterranean and Descriptions of the Plates. London: WRIGHT, George Newenham. The Shores and Islands of Fisher, Son, & Co., [c.1840] the Mediterranean. Drawn from Nature by Sir Grenville Quarto (272 × 209 mm). Contemporary dark red full morocco, spine Temple, W. L. Leitch, Irton, & Allen. With an Analysis of richly gilt in compartments with raised bands milled gilt, sides elabo- rately panel-stamped in gilt and blind, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, green endbands,red page-marker, yellow surface-paper endpapers. En- graved vignette half-title, folding map of the Mediterranean, 63 steel-en- graved plates with tissue-guards by Wallis, Sands, Challis and others after Temple, Leitch, Irton and Allen. Binding very faintly rubbed in the usual areas and with a few minor abrasions to the rear board, half-title foxed, occasional faint spotting to margins of plates, otherwise a very good copy indeed with rich impressions of the plates. first edition. Wright (1794/5–1877), a Church of England cler- gyman and author of numerous topographical works, provides the text for a variety of attractive steel-engravings, chiefly of views and architectural subjects. “The province of Algiers and the Beylik of Tunis have been visited by Sir Grenville Temple un- der more favourable auspices than any other European . . . Our views of old Trinacria [Sicily] constitute the most prominent portion of the work, and were originally sketched by Mr Leith . . . while the graceful pencil of Major Irton has been exercised in the delineation of several exquisite landscapes in Malta, Italy, and Greece. The Northern Coast and Islands of the Mediterra- nean . . . are illustrated from the spirited sketches of Lieutenant Allen” (Introduction). Fisher was one of the leading specialist topographical print-publishers in London in the first decades of the 19th century, catering to the great vogue for steel-engraved books. 375 £750 [105114]

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376 377 WRIGHTE, William. Architecture, or WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand. Geschichte der Arabischen Rural Amusement; consisting of Plans, Elevations, Aerzte und Naturforscher. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Ruprecht, 1840 Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Octavo. Original plain orange paper wrappers, all edges untrimmed. Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Pavillions, From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many (1838–1914), bequeathed to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Wrappers nicked of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, and soiled, old tape repair to front panel verso, occasional spotting, still Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing a very good copy. twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on first edition of the work which was long considered the first Copper Plates, with Scales to each. To which is added, a Western history of Arabic science and medicine, and though full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of in fact preceded by an obscure work in French by Pierre Joseph executing them. London: printed for Henry Webley, 1767 Amoreux, published in 1805, it remains the foundational work Octavo (229 × 143 mm). Contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked to style. on the subject (see Arcadian Library p. 216). The last 16 pages are Frontispiece engraved by Isaac Taylor after A. Thornthwaite, 28 engraved lithographed extracts from three Arabic biographical dictionar- plates. Pencilled ownership inscription of John Ingleby, 1774, at head of ies: al-Nawawi’s Kitab Tahdhib al-asma’, Ibn Abi Usayba’ah’s Kitab title. Some leaves evenly toned, but an excellent copy. ‘Uyun al-anba’ fi tabaqat al-atibba’, and Ibn Shubhah’s Kitab Tabaqat first edition. Wrighte’s striking designs for rustic architec- al-Shafi’iyah. Copies are fairly prevalent in institutional libraries, ture and gardens are innovative in English garden design by but extremely rare in commerce, with three listed at auction in introducing Islamic motifs to the existing modes of Chinese the last 50 years. and Gothick, with seven plates of designs for garden buildings Garrison & Morton, 5th edition, 6502; Macro 2345 inspired by mosques. The author refers the reader for more in- formation on the history of to “Dr. Shaw’s £2,000 [117640] Account of Barbary, Le Brun and Tournefort’s Voyages to the Levant, &c.” The first edition is scarce in commerce. £2,750 [100351]

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379 WYLD, James. Map of Afghaunistan, Caubul, the Punjab, 378 Rajpootana, and the River Indus; [together with] Notes to Map of Afghaunistan, the Punjab, &c &c. London: James 378 Wyld, 1842 WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand. Die Çufiten in Süd-Arabien Original brown diaper cloth, title in gilt to the front panel within elab- im XI. (XVII.) Jahrhundert. Aus dem dreissigten Bande orate panel. Text in original printed pink paper wrappers. Folding en- graved map, coloured in outline, bisected into 24 panels and mounted der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der on linen, opens 600 823 mm. Map-case a little rubbed, and sunned at Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Göttingen: Dieterische Verlags- the spine, map slightly browned verso, the wrappers of the text pam- Buchhandlung, 1883 phlet slightly rubbed and with some minor creasing, text toned, but overall both pieces very good. Quarto. Near-contemporary dark brown bead-grain cloth by W. Brown of Bath, front board lettered in gilt. 3 folding genealogical tables. From first edition of this map of Afghanistan. Uncommon, Copac the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838– shows two locations for the map, Oxford and Durham, four fur-

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232 Peter Harrington 133 380 381 ther on OCLC, Melbourne, Minnesota, Nebraska and BnF, but 381 just a single location for the accompanying explanatory pam- ZURAYK, Costi K. Provisional Readings in the Medieval phlet, British Library. History of the Near East. For the use of freshmen at £1,750 [94803] the American University of Beirut. Printed for private circulation only. Beirut: American Press, 1934 380 Octavo (233 × 163 mm). Original printed wrappers. Lightly sunned and WYLLY, Harold Carmichael. From the Black Mountain to marked overall with mild chipping to head of spine and upper outer corner of rear wrapper, occasional faint creasing to upper outer corners Waziristan. Being an account of the border countries and of text leaves, shallow chip to fore edge of pp. 107–10 not affecting text. the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the North- A very good copy. West Frontier Province, and of our military relations with first edition of this extremely uncommon survey of Arab them in the past. With an introduction by Sir Horace L. history from the pre-Islamic era to the Crusades, with essays Smith Dorrien. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912 by “the celebrated orientalists and historians such as Arnold, Octavo. Original orange cloth, black and red rules to spine and covers, De Goeje, Gibb, Hell, Hitti, Lammens, Nicholson, Noeldeke, spine lettered in black and front cover in red, all edges red. With the Philips, Zaydan and others who have done so much to build dust jacket. 8 folding maps to rear, one in colour. Spine gently rolled, Arabic history on a firm basis of scholarship” (Foreword). Inter- pale spotting to endpapers and half-title, very short closed tear to stub vening chapters cover Muhammad, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, of map I. A bright, excellent copy in chipped dust jacket with an over- the Umayyads, and the Abbasids. Constanin Zurayk (1909–2000) price sticker to spine and remnants of old tape repair verso. was a highly influential Lebanese historian and theoretician of first edition of this valuable survey of the North-West Fron- Arab nationalism who is credited with first using the term “nak- tier Province, in the rare dust jacket. There is chapter-by-chapter bah” for the Palestinian exodus of 1948. We trace only one other coverage of individual tribal regions and British operations copy in libraries or in commerce, at the University of Balamand, therein, with a series of detailed folding area maps to the rear. Lebanon. Wylly (1858–1932) served in the Tirah Campaign of 1897–98, and was struck by British ignorance of the tribes beyond the Indus. £1,250 [113274] He also fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the Sikkim Expedi- tion, and the Second Boer War, retiring with the rank of lieu- tenant-general. He also wrote a number of regimental histories, and served as editor of the journal of the Royal United Services Institute. Bruce 4404; not in Wilber. £1,250 [117564]

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Abdur Rahman 179 Egypt 13, 14, 24, 25, 42, 49, 53, 63, 64, 67, Abu Dhabi 2, 78, 153, 276 75, 84, 103, 104, 105, 106, 119, 120, 121, 136, 152, 155, 164, 170, 216, 227, 230, Abyssinia 31, 352 232, 234, 239, 251, 257, 273, 295, 305, Aceh 158 318, 319, 321, 326, 349, 352, 355, 363, Aden 17, 38, 60, 101, 106, 109, 142, 212, References are to item numbers. Only 366, 367, 368, 370 329, 373 proper names appearing outside the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 188, 234 Afghanistan 10, 12, 19, 22, 62, 108, 117, falconry 11, 221, 348 119, 122, 179, 185, 229, 233, 248, 258, alphabetical order of the catalogue are FitzGerald, Edward 265 260, 268, 308, 343, 379 listed here. Foster, Mrs Jonathan 77 Africa 3, 32, 47, 53, 60, 91, 118, 146, 161, 168, 218, 236, 269, 273, 325, 337 Genghis Khan 171 agriculture 94, 160 Gibraltar 208 Al-Andalus: see Spain Grant, Duncan 296 Beckford, William 208 Alexandria 42, 121, 136, 295, 318, 319, 355, Greece 42, 49, 148, 149, 256, 350, 367, 370, 375 366 birds 132, 234, 235, 281; see also falconry Hadhramaut 38, 330, 331, 374 Algeria 33, 88, 128, 180, 207, 256, 266, 337, Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen 13 Hebrew 39, 315 375 Bokhara 58, 152, 263, 264, 332, 371 heraldry 231 Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone 7 Bray, Norman Napier Evelyn 204 Hindustani 129 Arabian Peninsula 17, 18, 38, 52, 101, 106, Browne, William Henry 220 Holland, T. A. 175 112, 187, 218, 256, 311, 321, 353, 356 Brucks, G. B. 78a, 78d horses 88, 92, 152, 153, 160 Arabic language 3, 5, 27, 39, 40, 51, 66, 75, Burma 8, 85 Houghton, M. 78c 80, 90, 95, 97, 109, 113, 127, 133, 134, Burton, Richard F. 16, 60, 61, 118, 270, 325 144, 153, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 168, Ibn Saud 104, 151, 279 174, 237, 247, 248, 261, 275, 278, 288, camels 164, 227 India 3, 8, 9, 57, 59, 63, 79, 92, 94, 103, 289, 298, 299, 302, 309, 310, 313, 321, Central Asia 12, 46, 51, 58, 70, 117, 122, 108, 119, 122, 123, 129, 143, 150, 152, 327, 329, 333, 342, 353, 362 152, 159, 161, 219, 229, 242, 263, 351, 162, 169, 176, 229, 233, 246, 268, 273, Arabic numerals 72 371 286, 316, 328, 332, 343, 344, 349, 352, 356, 371, 372 Arabs 2, 3, 31, 77, 78, 115, 148, 167, 169, Chesney, Francis 6 205, 218, 270, 279, 302, 304, 311, 321, coffee 183 Iran 274 346, 353, 356 Constantinople 43, 79, 81, 114, 141, 148, Islam 4, 9, 100, 135, 144, 211, 246, 282, Aramco 18, 151, 205, 206, 215, 309 149, 247e, 255, 257, 270, 271, 285, 350, 289, 290, 298, 307, 323, 324, 326, 359 Armenia 80, 202, 256 370; see also Istanbul Islamic architecture 23, 68, 163, 263, 264, 275, 310, 354, 376 Asia Minor 8, 26, 49, 54, 66, 87, 241, 273, costume 232, 256 350, 358, 370 Crimea 43, 107, 141 Islamic art 93, 111, 238, 297 Assyria 6, 49, 202, 203, 220, 292 dictionaries & grammars 80, 95, 96, 109, Ismaili 307, 358 astronomy 50, 174 129, 130, 313, 329, 333 Istanbul 20, 242, 248, 256, 354 Babylon 6, 54, 87, 176, 202, 257, 292 Doha 5, 23, 287 Jericho 175 Bahrain 2, 30, 51, 90, 119, 151, 237, 276 Dozon, Auguste 250 Jerusalem 26, 52, 56, 79, 86, 157, 257, 270, 272, 318 Baluchistan 92, 132, 229, 233, 343 Druzes 307 Kalthoeber, Christian 208 Bates, George Latimer 281 East Indies 34, 85, 203

234 Kandahar 19, 22, 260, 268, 344 pearl-diving 5, 30, 119, 148 Sindh 10, 51, 103 Khiva 177, 219, 242, 263, 264, 351 Peel, William 75 slave trade 2, 32, 60, 266, 269 Kokand 48, 70, 250 Pellew, Edward 266 Spain 77, 137, 160, 163, 167, 225, 304, 338, Krusinski, Judas Thaddeus 248 Persepolis 12, 123, 203, 257 367 Kurdistan 40, 41, 110, 118, 202, 220 Persia 6, 8, 12, 21, 26, 34, 41, 49, 51, 62, 74, Sparroy, Wilfrid 178 Larpent, Sir George 285 76, 83, 92, 93, 108, 122, 123, 124, 132, Stanhope, Lady Hester 300 140, 144, 146, 152, 176, 182, 185, 220, Leeds, E. T. 291 Steineke, Max 205 222, 223, 226, 241, 248, 249, 252, 256, Stocqueler, Joachim Hayward 260 Libya 73, 106, 228, 294 259, 273, 292, 305, 306, 317, 320, 332, Littman, Ludwig Richard Enno 36 336, 339, 340, 341, 348, 371, 373 Sudan 25, 32, 53, 118, 322 Malay states 165 Persian Gulf 3, 15, 51, 69, 78, 119, 145, 169, Suez 17, 24, 42, 63, 64, 101, 104, 142, 184, 209, 210, 217, 257, 273, 309, 326, 352, Malet, Sir Edward 13 215, 217, 218, 226, 259, 276, 277, 279, 340, 356, 361, 365, 373 355, 373 Matheson, Hilda 305, 306 Persian language 50, 51, 129, 130, 140, Süleyman the Magnificent 20 Maughan, Philip 78b 144, 174, 223, 316, 335, 342, 346, 362 Syria 1, 6, 26, 36, 41, 42, 53, 54, 89, 114, McManus, Blanche 265 Petra 98, 154, 184, 214, 318 118, 124, 138, 195, 198, 216, 232, 240, 249, 251, 259, 298, 321, 370, 371 Mecca 24, 29, 87, 98, 102, 112, 118, 137, Phillott, Douglas Craven 348 142, 161, 173, 178, 273, 280, 310, 324, Syriac 39 326 Photius 3 Thebes 136, 293 Mesopotamia 6, 37, 54, 87, 124, 145, 204, Pre-Islamic period 3, 69, 112, 115, 156, Thesiger, Wilfred 11, 345 253, 303, 340, 364, 373 218, 247, 282, 298, 360, 381 Troy 312 Morocco 95, 168, 207, 208, 213, 261 Qatar 5, 276, 287 Turkestan 177, 179, 242, 250, 262, 263, 347 Mortel, Richard 7 Ra’s al-Khaymah 2, 119 Turkey 8, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 65, 84, 114, Muhammad (Mohammed, Mahomet), Red Sea 3, 17, 35, 169, 183, 212, 218, 273, 124, 126, 138, 141, 145, 148, 149, 181, the Prophet 4, 9, 29, 100, 135, 137, 163, 352, 373 216, 253, 256, 271, 285, 296, 354, 364, 181, 246, 286, 289, 381 Reed, William L. 369 367, 370 Muir, Sir William 4, 244, 245, 246 Rentz, George 205 Turkish language 219, 248, 313 Muscat 26, 27, 38, 47, 51, 54, 87, 119, 176, Rezvan, Efim 15 Turkmenia 351 237, 257, 269, 276, 301, 311, 336, 361 Roberts, Edmund 301 United States of America 17, 104, 301, 309 music 66, 115, 149, 252 rock art 154, 228, 294, 357, 368, 369 Uzbekistan 46, 351; see also Bokhara, Nabataeans 3, 36, 97, 98, 112, 115, 154, Russia 15, 51, 58, 70, 122, 139, 141, 159, Khiva, and Kokand 160, 184, 369 172, 179, 182, 185, 203, 219, 242, 262, Wassmuss, Wilhelm 340 naval pilots 17, 276, 277 323, 336, 347 White, Joseph 346 Nearchus 218, 356 Saudi Arabia 7, 28, 68, 98, 104, 119, 205, Whitelock, H. H. 78f, 78g Nineveh 45, 54, 202, 358 206, 215, 275, 280, 283, 291, 309, 310, 369 women 21, 40, 43, 126, 141, 165, 207, 208, Nott, Sir William 10, 260 Sayili, Aydin 50 256, 300, 305, 306, 330, 331, 355, 369 oil industry 7, 18, 27, 30, 51, 76, 151, 205, Yaqub Beg 48 206, 287 Schier, Karl 1 Zurayk, C. K. 304, 381 Ostroumov, Nikolai Petrovich 347 Silveira, Humberto da 7 Palestine 1, 42, 106, 125, 148, 157, 164, 187, Sinai 26, 35, 52, 75, 106, 125, 157, 184, 230, 195, 214, 216, 251, 270, 334 257, 270, 321, 334

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