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Road map of Saudi Arabia: accurate and most up to date road map.[Saudi Arabia, 1960s]. Colour-printed folding map (48 x 69.5 cm) of the Arabian peninsula (scale: ca. 1: 5,000,000), with on the back a city map of Jeddah, a plan of the main business quarter of Riyadh, a city plan of Dammam(?), a distance table and 8 photographic city views.
Road map of Saudi Arabia: accurate and most up to date road map.[Saudi Arabia, 1960s]. Colour-printed folding map (48 x 69.5 cm) of the Arabian peninsula (scale: ca. 1: 5,000,000), with on the back a city map of Jeddah, a plan of the main business quarter of Riyadh, a city plan of Dammam(?), a distance table and 8 photographic city views.
[SAUDI ARABIA – MAP].
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
Folding map of the main roads of Saudi Arabia, but depicting the whole Arabian peninsula. On the left of the map text giving information on the climate, Riyadh, Jeddah, Damman, Taif, the Akrama water dam, Alkhobar, the telephone system and the exchange rates. The reverse side ...
Road map of Saudi Arabia: accurate and most up to date road map.Karachi, Pakistan, printed at Golden block works, [1970s]. Colour-printed folding map (48 x 69.5 cm) of the Arabian peninsula (scale: ca. 1:5,000,000), with on the back a city map of Jeddah, a plan of the main business quarter of Riyadh, a city plan of Dammam(?), a distance table and 8 photographic city views.
Road map of Saudi Arabia: accurate and most up to date road map.Karachi, Pakistan, printed at Golden block works, [1970s]. Colour-printed folding map (48 x 69.5 cm) of the Arabian peninsula (scale: ca. 1:5,000,000), with on the back a city map of Jeddah, a plan of the main business quarter of Riyadh, a city plan of Dammam(?), a distance table and 8 photographic city views.
[SAUDI ARABIA – MAP]. · 1970
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
Folding map of the main roads of Saudi Arabia, but depicting the whole Arabian peninsula and including the Sultanate of Oman, meaning the present state must have been published in or after 1970. On the left of the map text giving information on the climate, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dam...
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1975. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1975. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
ARAMCO.
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
Bilingual road map of the Arabian Peninsula for Aramco employees. Focused on Saudi Arabia, the map shows the main roads, as well as surfaced roads, trails, roads under constructions and even proposed roads. A list titled "hints for survival" mentions extremely logical traffic ...
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1973. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1973. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
ARAMCO.
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
Bilingual road map of the Arabian Peninsula for Aramco employees. Focused on Saudi Arabia, the map shows the main roads, as well as surfaced roads, trails, roads under constructions and even proposed roads. A list titled "hints for survival" mentions extremely logical traffic ...
Persian Gulf | ONC-H-6/7. Operational navigation chart.St Louis, Aeronautical chart and information center, United States Air Force, 1969. Two copies of two folding maps colour printed on both sides of a sheet of silk (103 x 78.5 cm) on a scale of ca. 1:1,000,000. The two maps (ONC-H-6 & ONC-H-7) show one continuous area.
Persian Gulf | ONC-H-6/7. Operational navigation chart.St Louis, Aeronautical chart and information center, United States Air Force, 1969. Two copies of two folding maps colour printed on both sides of a sheet of silk (103 x 78.5 cm) on a scale of ca. 1:1,000,000. The two maps (ONC-H-6 & ONC-H-7) show one continuous area.
[MAP - ARABIAN GULF]. Aeronautical chart and information center.
€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)
Rayon pilot's map of the Arabian Gulf region focusing on the Trucial States (modern UAE), Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia, including main oil installations. Items of specific interest to aircraft, such as airfields and even seaplane bases, are particularly listed. ...
[A collection of ephemeralia regarding the Arab states].New York & London, 1951-1962. 3 booklets and a menu.
[A collection of ephemeralia regarding the Arab states].New York & London, 1951-1962. 3 booklets and a menu.
[ARABIA]. · 1958
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
(1) EL-KHATIB, M. Fatallah (foreword). Basic documents of the Arab unifications.New York, Arab Information Center, June 1958. 8vo. 43 pp. includes: the Proclamation of the United Arab republic, the Proclamation of the Arab Union, the Provisional constitution of the United Arab...
Oman news.With: Oman report.Washington, D.C., Embassy of Oman, 1976-1978. 4to. One issue of the Oman News and three issue of the Oman Report.
Oman news.With: Oman report.Washington, D.C., Embassy of Oman, 1976-1978. 4to. One issue of the Oman News and three issue of the Oman Report.
[OMAN].
€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)
Four issues of two different magazines issued by the Embassy of Oman in Washington: one issue of the Oman news, including articles on president Sadat's visit to Oman, minister al-Zawawi's visit to Saudi Arabia and King Khalid's visit to Oman; and three issues of the Oman repor...
New outlook: Middle East monthly.Tel Aviv, Tazpioth, 1957-1975. 18 instalments, plus 1 duplicate. 8vo. Original wrappers.
New outlook: Middle East monthly.Tel Aviv, Tazpioth, 1957-1975. 18 instalments, plus 1 duplicate. 8vo. Original wrappers.
[MIDDLE EAST].
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
A selection of instalments of the magazine: New outlook, an Tel Aviv-based monthly devoted to Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs and the promotion of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and peace. It includes articles on politics, poetry, agriculture, meteorology, the Cold War, educa...
The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights’ entertainments.London, Charles Knight and Co. (back of title-page volume 1 & 3: William Clowes and sons; volume 2: Whitehead & Co.), 1840 (vol. 2)-1841 (vols. 1 & 3). 3 volumes. 8vo in 4s. With a different lithographed title page for each volume and hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text. 19th-century red morocco (signed on flyleaf: “Jefferies & Sons, Bristol” - the sons joined the firm in 1863), richly gold-tooled spines, boards, board edges, and turn-ins, gilt edges.
The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights’ entertainments.London, Charles Knight and Co. (back of title-page volume 1 & 3: William Clowes and sons; volume 2: Whitehead & Co.), 1840 (vol. 2)-1841 (vols. 1 & 3). 3 volumes. 8vo in 4s. With a different lithographed title page for each volume and hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text. 19th-century red morocco (signed on flyleaf: “Jefferies & Sons, Bristol” - the sons joined the firm in 1863), richly gold-tooled spines, boards, board edges, and turn-ins, gilt edges.
[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. LANE, Edward William (translator). · 1801
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
XXXII, 618; XII, 643, [1]; XII, 763, [1] pp.Attractively bound set of the first accurate English translation of the Alf laylah wa-laylah, commonly known in English as the Arabian Nights. The British orientalist Edward William Lane (1801-1876) lived in Egypt for several years a...
Red Sea research 1970-1975. Mineral resources bulletin 22.Jeddah, Directorate General of Mineral Resources (colophon: printed by Dar Al Asfahani), 1977. 4to. With a portrait of His Majesty King Khaled Ibn 'Abd Al 'Aziz Al Sa'ud as frontispiece, 6 numbered maps on 5 loosely inserted folding leaves and numerous illustrations in text. Publisher's original green wrappers, decorated front.
Red Sea research 1970-1975. Mineral resources bulletin 22.Jeddah, Directorate General of Mineral Resources (colophon: printed by Dar Al Asfahani), 1977. 4to. With a portrait of His Majesty King Khaled Ibn 'Abd Al 'Aziz Al Sa'ud as frontispiece, 6 numbered maps on 5 loosely inserted folding leaves and numerous illustrations in text. Publisher's original green wrappers, decorated front.
ROSS, David A., and others.
€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)
Ca. 300 pp.A collection of 17 papers sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government. "For many years the Red Sea has been a subject of great interest to earth scientists because of its unique character and the information it could contribute to such controversial subjects as riftin...
The Arab kingdom and its fall.Calcutta, University of Calcutta (printed by Bhupendra Lal Banerji), 1927. 8vo. Modern cloth.
The Arab kingdom and its fall.Calcutta, University of Calcutta (printed by Bhupendra Lal Banerji), 1927. 8vo. Modern cloth.
WELLHAUSEN, Julius (Margaret Graham WEIR, translator). · 1902
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
XV, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 592, [1] pp.First edition of the English translation of a history of the Umayyad Caliphate. Originally published in 1902 as Das Arabische Reich und sein Sturz, the first chapter describes the earlier years of Islam under the rule of the Prophet M...
Description nautique de la côte occidentale d’Afrique depuis le Cap Roxo jusqu’aux Îles de Los, comprenant l’archipel des Bissagos.Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8vo. Later half black cloth, with the title and year of publication lettered in gold on the front, the logo of the Royal Danish Navy library gold-tooled on the front, black and pink marbled paper sides.
Description nautique de la côte occidentale d’Afrique depuis le Cap Roxo jusqu’aux Îles de Los, comprenant l’archipel des Bissagos.Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8vo. Later half black cloth, with the title and year of publication lettered in gold on the front, the logo of the Royal Danish Navy library gold-tooled on the front, black and pink marbled paper sides.
KERHALLET, Charles-Marie Philippe de. · 1809
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
102 pp.Rare first edition of a navigational pilot to the West African coast from Kabrousse on the border of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau to the Îles de Los off Conakry in Guinea. It was written by the French captain and navigator Charles-Marie Philippe de Kerhallet (1809-1863) fo...
[Egyptian ABC book].[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publisher’s printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red.
[Egyptian ABC book].[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publisher’s printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red.
MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. · 1925
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
46, [2 blank] pp.Only copy located of a charming Egyptian primer which includes the Arabic alphabet (accompanied by black and white illustrations, mostly of animals), the basics of calligraphy, and shorter texts. This educational pamphlet was printed for the education of child...
Ontdekkings-reis naar het groote Zuidland anders Nieuw Holland; bezigtiging van het zelve in 1801, 1802, en 1803; noodlottige schipbreuk, en gevangenschap van 6½ jaar bij de Franschen op Mauritius.Haarlem, Loosjes, 1815-1816. 4 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with an engraved title-page with a different oval view (King George Sound, Port Jackson, Wreck Reefs and Rempart River), and a large folding engraved map of New Holland loosely inserted. Contemporary mottled half calf, with gold fillets on spine.
Ontdekkings-reis naar het groote Zuidland anders Nieuw Holland; bezigtiging van het zelve in 1801, 1802, en 1803; noodlottige schipbreuk, en gevangenschap van 6½ jaar bij de Franschen op Mauritius.Haarlem, Loosjes, 1815-1816. 4 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with an engraved title-page with a different oval view (King George Sound, Port Jackson, Wreck Reefs and Rempart River), and a large folding engraved map of New Holland loosely inserted. Contemporary mottled half calf, with gold fillets on spine.
FLINDERS, Matthew. · 1801
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[4], XVI, 362; [4], 346; [4], 415, [1 blank]; [4], 416 pp.Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of an account of the first circumnavigation of Australia, by Captain Matthew Flinders, who was the first to give the continent its present name. "The greatest of all ...
Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.Jena, Johann Werther, [1670]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Modern half vellum.
Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.Jena, Johann Werther, [1670]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Modern half vellum.
BEIER, Gottfried and Johann Arnold FRIDERICI. · 1637
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[28] pp.Rare dissertation on the cultivation of the aloe plant by Gottfried Beier, with Johann Arnold Friderici (1637-1672), professor of medicine and botany at the University of Jena, as praeses. "The work provides an account of the origins in Arabia and Indian Ocean regions,...
Deux livres des simples de Galien.Lyon, Etienne Dolet, 1542. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and a larger version on the last page, both partly coloured by hand. Rubricated throughout. 19th-century vellum.
Deux livres des simples de Galien.Lyon, Etienne Dolet, 1542. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and a larger version on the last page, both partly coloured by hand. Rubricated throughout. 19th-century vellum.
GALENUS (GALEN), Claudius. · 1545
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
“162” [= 163], [1] pp.First edition of a French translation from the Greek by the French physician Jean Canappe, of two chapters (5 and 9) from Galen’s pharmaceutical work later translated into Latin as the De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. Canappe would publish a ful...
De usu pharmaceutices in consarcinandis medicame[n]tis, Isagoge. ....[Paris], Jean Ruel, 1543. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). Set in 3 sizes of roman type, the smallest including special pharmacological characters. Modern sheepskin parchment, gilt edges.
De usu pharmaceutices in consarcinandis medicame[n]tis, Isagoge. ....[Paris], Jean Ruel, 1543. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). Set in 3 sizes of roman type, the smallest including special pharmacological characters. Modern sheepskin parchment, gilt edges.
LESPLEIGNEY, Thibault. · 1496
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
229, [11] pp.Only known copy of the Jean Ruel issue of the very rare second(?) Paris edition of one of the most important early pharmacological books, with about 250 medicinal recipes arranged alphabetically, written by Thibault Lespleigney (1496-1550), apothecary and professo...
Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
[GESSNER, Conrad]. · 1516
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[44], [4 blank], 499, [8], [5 blank] pp.Third edition in the original Latin, of the first part of Conrad Gesner's very popular book of secrets. It primarily concerns distillation and its use in making medicines, with most of the woodcuts illustrating furnaces, glassware and ot...
De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...(Colophon:) Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528. Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois’ woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats, and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 44). Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment.
De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...(Colophon:) Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528. Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois’ woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats, and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 44). Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment.
LARGUS, Scribonius and Jean RUEL (editor). · 1474
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll.First edition, in the original Latin, of “the first actual dispensatory” (Schelenz), written in the Emperor Claudius’ Rome in 47 CE, prepared for publication by the French physician and botanist Jean Ruel (ca. 1474/79-1537). It describes the preparat...
De medicamentis Empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.Basel, Froben, 1536. With a woodcut caduceus device on title-page and several woodcut initials. Set in roman types.With: (2) [THORER, Alban]. [De re medica].(Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528). With the first leaf of the main text in a 4-piece woodcut border (3 initalled I.F.), Cratander's woodcut device on the last otherwise blank leaf, showing Occasio, the goddess of chance, and dozens of charming woodcut initials. Set in roman types. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (30 x 22 cm). 20th-century half parchment.
De medicamentis Empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.Basel, Froben, 1536. With a woodcut caduceus device on title-page and several woodcut initials. Set in roman types.With: (2) [THORER, Alban]. [De re medica].(Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528). With the first leaf of the main text in a 4-piece woodcut border (3 initalled I.F.), Cratander's woodcut device on the last otherwise blank leaf, showing Occasio, the goddess of chance, and dozens of charming woodcut initials. Set in roman types. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (30 x 22 cm). 20th-century half parchment.
MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS. · 1489
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
252, [12]; 125, [1] ll.Ad 1: First edition of an ancient compendium of pharmacological preparations by the Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus Empiricus, originally composed ca. 410 AD. "An extraordinary mixture of traditional knowledge, popular (Celtic) medicine, and rank superst...