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[A Dutch whaling scene].[ca. 1801?]. Illustration 29 x 39 cm; frame 44 x 53 cm. Pen, ink and watercolour whaling scene with a coloured border, on laid paper, mounted on paperboard. Framed.

[WHALING - WATERCOLOUR]. · 1720

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

A beautiful Dutch whaling scene in watercolour. It shows five large Dutch ships, five smaller rowboats, four whales on the surface being harpooned by the sailors in the rowboats, and two bears in the foreground in the lower right corner. The bears are no doubt supposed to be p...

USAF Pilotage Chart. Ash Sharigah (548 D). Trucial Oman. Washington, DC, Aeronautical Chart Service, U.S. Air Force, 1948-1950. Colour-printed map, 554 x 733 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:500,000., Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. Relief shown by contours, shading, gradient tints, and spot heights. Key printed on verso.

[UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]. · 1948

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

Rare, advanced first edition of this U.S. Air Force aeronautical chart of what would be, within less than a quarter of a century, the bulk of the United Arab Emirates: Sharjah, Dubai, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, and the city of Abu Dhabi to the south, based on aerial photography. "T...

Al Sharjah. Series K563 (GSGS 4851) NG-40-9 & 10, Edition 1. [London], D. Survey, War Office and Air Ministry, 1957. Colour-printed map, ca. 60 x 83.5 cm. Scale 1:250,000.

[UNITED ARAB EMIRATES].

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

An extremely detailed map of what are today the northernmost six Emirates of the UAE (at the time of issue, the Trucial States): Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Quwain, Ras al Khaimah, and Fujairah, also marking the names of all the tribes holding power in the various areas. Iss...

S.E. Arabia. Series GSGS 4802, Sheet 1 [Trucial Coast]. Edition 2-GSGS.[London], D Survey War Office and Air Ministry, 1956. Large colour-printed map, ca. 113 x 84 cm. Scale 1:500,000.

[UNITED ARAB EMIRATES].

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

A highly detailed large scale British military map, showing the coast from Doha (Qatar) to Ras Al Khaimah (modern-day UAE).With "Additions drawn by: - Sgt Newman 17:11:61. 1 Troop 19 Topo Sqn R.E.", marking additional camps, old oil camps, place names and airstrips (old, extan...

Sedimentary geology. Special Issue. New aspects of sedimentation in small ocean basins.Amsterdam, Oxford and New York, Elsevier scientific publishing company, 1979. 24 x 16.5 cm. With approximately 170 maps, graphs, tables, charts and other illustrations in the text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.

ROSS, D.A. and G. GVIRTZMAN (editors). · 1978

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], 299, [1 blank] pp.A special issue of the Sedimentary Geology journal concerning the new aspects of sedimentation in small ocean basins, which consists of 15 papers published following the Tenth International Congress on sedimentology, in Jerusal...

The India directory, or, directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the interjacent ports of Africa and South America ... Sixth edition.London, Wm. H. Allen & Co. (back of title-pages: printed by Cox and Wyman), 1852. 2 volumes. Large 4to (29.5 x 23 cm). Contemporary green cloth, title in gold on spine.

HORSBURGH, James. · 1762

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

XIV, XXXIV, [2], 650; VIII, "890" [=880] pp.Revised and expanded sixth edition of a massive navigational directory, with exhaustive information on sailing routes, winds and other weather conditions such as monsoons, coasts, cities and their ports across most of the Southern an...

Abbregé methodique des principes heraldiques ou du veritable art du blason.Lyon, Benoist Coral, 1665. 12mo. With an engraved title-page (still dated 1661, as in the first edition), a double-page engraving of the coronation of Charles I, King of Naples and Sicily, and 8 (of 10) engraved plates with a total of 209 (of 293) figures, nearly all coats of arms, with all plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Also with small woodcut coats of arms in the text. Polished gold-tooled tan calf (ca. 1840/49) by F. Koehler.

MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François. · 1631

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

[24], 111, [9] pp. plus frontispiece and plates.Rare second edition of a classic, richly illustrated manual of heraldry, one of the principal publications of one of the most important heralds of his time, Claude-François Ménestrier (1631-1705). It explains the principles of he...

Rapport van Jakob Spoors, als fiscaal van den Hoogen Zee-krygsraad, omtrend het gedrag van den capitein Engelbertus Lucas en verdere commandanten der schepen behoord hebbende tot het esquader in den jaare 1796. Naar de Oost-Indien gedestineerd; benevens de resolutie en sententie ten deze door den Hoogen Zee Krygsraad genomen en geslagen.The Hague, 's Lands-Drukkery, 1798. 8vo. With the woodcut great seal of the Batavian Republic - the French-dominated republican government of the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 - on the title-page (an allegorical female figure representing Freedom, with spear and freedom hat and with her hand on a book on a stand, next to the Dutch lion holding a Dutch flag). Modern blue cloth, title in gold on spine, new endpapers.

SPOORS, Jakob. · 1796

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[2], 151, [1] pp.Published report of the prosecutor Jacobus Spoors on the 1796 surrender to the British Royal Navy of a Dutch expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony. The affaire sent shockwaves through the Batavian Republic and the stately publication on o...

De herniis dissertatio academica. Accedunt de crocodilo ac vesicae, mendaci calculo, epistolae et responsiones.Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1681. 12mo. With a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary blue wrappers.

HAMMEN, Ludwig von. · 1644

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[6], 135, [1 blank] pp.Rare medical dissertation on hernias, including a highly important correspondence between the author and Johann Nicolaus Pechlin (ca. 1644-1706), with a description of one of the first post-surgical microscopic tissue examinations ever performed. The aut...

L'amico de' poveri che insegna il vero modo di fare il pan venale col quale possono arricchire i fornaj onesti, intelligenti, e pratici delle regole del loro mestiere, e possono dare un maggior peso di pane ottimo, ben lievitato, e ben cotto alla povera gente.Florence, Domenico Marzi and company for Luigi Carlieri, 1773. Small 4to in 8s. With an engraving in the text on p. 13 and a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary heavy paper or flexible paperboard wrappers (carta rustica).

[BREAD]. · 1874

€4,800.00 ($5,290.47 | £4,004.48 | ¥844,820)

42, [2 blank] pp.First edition of an extremely rare manual about bread, unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and in splendid condition, written to help bakers make an affordable and good quality bread for the poor. The anonymous author explains how to make different types...

Cargos y preceptos militares. Para salir con brevedad famoso, y valiente soldado, assi en la infanteria, cavalleria, como artilleria ...Mechelen, John Jaye, 1671 Small 4to. With woodcut device above colophon. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 5 supports.

BRANCACCIO, Lelio (Ildefonso SCAVINO, translator). · 1610

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[8], 262, [2] pp.Extremely rare second Spanish edition of the military treatise I carichi militari by the Neapolitan commander of the Habsburg armies in Italy, the Low Countries and Catalonia and aide-de-camp to Albert, Archduke of Austria, first published in Italian at Antwer...

Real ordenanza de cavalleria del Reyno, con las ilustraciones correspondientes a sus articulos, para le mejor instruccion de los tribunales, y professores ...Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. 8vo. With the full-page woodcut arms of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, before the half-title, a woodcut headpiece and several tailpieces, decorations built up from typographic ornaments, a decorated woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a crowned A, M and E to represent the three autonomous southern crown lands. Contemporary vellum.

ARCOS Y MORENO, Joseph de. · 1700

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

[26], 406 pp.Only edition of a scarce legal manual written by the lawyer and experienced cavalryman Arcos y Moreno, laying down the rules and standards of the Spanish cavalry in 27 articles to facilitate the work of the courts. It includes sections on the abundance of horses, ...

[Map and profile of the Hijaz Railway route].Constantinople, Matba a-i Bahriye, 1320 Rumi [= 1904 CE]. Colour-lithographed map (76.5 x 49.5 cm), trimmed to neat line.

[HEJAZ RAILWAY]. · 1908

€22,000.00 ($24,248.00 | £18,353.85 | ¥3,872,093)

A rare separately issued official railway map, with the entire text in Ottoman Turkish, depicting the route of the Hejaz Railway. Following a route proposed by the eminent Turkish engineer Mukhtar Bey and surveyed by the cavalry officers Umar Zaki and Hasan Mu'ayyin, the epic ...

Ha-mizrah ha-karov (The Near East).[Tel Aviv], Israel Defense Forces, General Staff, 1958. 960 x 820 mm. Colour-printed map (folded). Scale 1:4,700,000.

General Staff, Israel Defense Forces.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

A large map of the Middle East, produced by Israel's General Staff soon after the Suez Crisis, showing the Arabian Peninsula and adjoining countries with major roads, railroads, and petroleum pipelines.A few tears to folds, but well preserved.

First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas.Stockholm, 1981. Large 8vo. With approximately 150 figures, illustrations, photographs, maps, graphs, formulas and tables in the text, and 24 pages of Arabic text including a separate title-page at the end of the work. Original publisher's green cloth.

LINDBLOM, Ulf and Wissam S. AL-HASHIMI (editors). · 1979

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

XIX, [5], 261, [3], 22, [2] pp.Noteworthy collection of conference papers and proceedings of the First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas, held in Baghdad in October 1979. The present publication functions as a handbook on oil and gas storage for all companies ...

Diagnosis typografica dos caracteres gregos, hebraicos, e arabigos, addiccionada com algumas notas sobre a divisão orthografica da linguage latina, e outras da Europa, ... Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1804. 4to. Text set in roman, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic type. With a small Portuguese woodcut coat of arms on the title-page and 4 engraved plates on 2 leaves bound at the end of the book. Later blue paper wrappers.

OLIVEIRA, Custodio José de. · 1812

€4,850.00 ($5,345.58 | £4,046.19 | ¥853,620)

72, [14], VIII pp. plus [2] ll. with engravings.First and only edition of an instruction manual for the compositors of the Portuguese royal printing office on the proper setting of Greek, Hebrew and Arabic type. It was written during the reign of King Pedro III by Custodio Jos...

1955 Report of operations to the Saudi Arab government.[Dhahran], Saudi Arabia, Arabian American Oil Company, 1956. 28 x 21.5 cm. With a portfolio of photographs, 8 pages in the middle of the work, with captions in both English and Arabic. Thoroughly and colourfully decorated with photographs, maps and other decorations in the text. The 56 pages of text appear twice in the present work as published, once in English on the left side of the portfolio and once in Arabic on the right side of the portfolio. Original publisher's decorated wrappers, with the title in English on the front wrapper and the title in Arabic on the back wrapper.

ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. · 1955

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

VIII, 48, [8 - portfolio of photographs], 48, [8] pp.Abundantly illustrated report of operations of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) for the year 1955. The bilingual (English and Arabic) report was, in the form of the present copy, issued yearly during the 1950's. The...

Brazil. Stray notes from Bahia, being extracts from letters, &c., during a residence of fifteen years.Liverpool, Webb and Hunt (back of the title-page: Birkenhead, printed at the "Birkenhead Advertiser" Office), 1860. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece and a lithographed plate of music.Original blind-tooled blue publisher's cloth.

WETHERELL, James (William HADFIELD, ed.). · 1840

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

VIII, 153 pp.First edition of Wetherell's extensive description of life in Bahia during the Second Empire (1840-1889) under Dom Pedro II. James Wetherell (1822?-1858) was a British businessman who lived in Bahia for 15 years beginning in 1843, serving as British vice consul (1...

Syria after two years of the March Revolution.[Syria, Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party], 1965. 24 x 17 cm. With 28 photos on 16 plates and some tables in the text. With: [MAP - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM]. Syria.Damascus, Tourist Office, [ca. 1965]. Folded. 70 x 49.5 cm.A brightly coloured folding map of Syria with some information about the country and its principal cities with a table of distances on the back, all text in the map and on the back is in English and Arabic.Original publisher's printed wrappers, stapled.

[SYRIA - BA'ATH ARAB SOCIALIST PARTY]. · 1963

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

175, [1 blank] pp.Propaganda from the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria, presenting the successes of the new socialist government two years after the 8 March Revolution (or 1963 Syrian coup d'état). The propagandistic nature of the text already takes shape in the introducti...

Vermakelyk wapen-kundig, geographisch, en historisch spel, betreffende de voornaamste heerschende staten in Europa. En dienende om de jonge lieden, inzonderheid die van een meer als gemeene geboorte of educatie zyn, de wapen-kunde, geographie en historie gelyk als speelender wyze te leeren.Amsterdam, David Klippink, 1768. 8vo. With a full-page engraved armorial plate with the coat-of-arms of the British chivalric Order of the Garter with their motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and small woodcut hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds in a card game in the text. 19th-century brown cloth, yellow endpapers.

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. · 1700

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[24], 203, [5] pp.Second and last issue of the rare first and only edition of a heraldic game for young noblemen to learn the heraldry, genealogy, geography and history of the main European kingdoms, duchies, counties, electorates and other states. This was considered very imp...