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Cairo: The government press, 1952 Book. As New. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SECOND EDITION, PREFACE BY LORD CHAMBERLAIN ABDULLATIF TAL'AAT IN 1946 (SAME OF THE FIRST EDITION), 233 PP WITH FINE 45 PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURES, WHICH MOST OF THEM ARE ON THICK PAPER, AND ONE FOLDING OF THE GOLDEN NICKLE OF THE KING FOUAD I. PRIVATELY BOUND IN DARK GREEN FULL LEATHER BINDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF KING FAROUK IN THE SAME YEAR OF THE COUP-D'ETAT. GILT LETTERS ON THE FRONT COVER AND SPINE WITH THE ROYAL CROWN OVER FAROUK'S NAME (FAROUK AL AWWAL). INNER LIMITED EDITION TO 500 COPIES..

Cairo: Government press, 1946 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES , OWNERSHIP OF HUSEYN GHALIB RUSHDI TOPUZ ZADE BEY , MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY DELEGATE OF THE KING OF EGYPT . FINELY PRINTED FOR CONSTABLES . 24 PP OF TEXT , 29 FINE ILLUSTRATIONS ON THICK PAPERS ABOUT MILITARY AND CIVIL BADGES OF HONOR OF THE KINGDOM OF EGYPT SINCE MUHAMMAD ALI TO KING FAROUK . ONE FOLDING ..

Istanbul: Imprimerie et Lithographie Centrales, 1873 Book. Illus. by SEBAH,MONTANI EFFENDI,BOGHOS EFFENDI,CHACHIAN AND MAILLARD. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. (VII) GERMAN AND FRENCH TEXT OF TITLE AND INTRODUCTION IN TOW COLUMNS. 3 SUBTITLE PAGES IN FRENCH AND GERMAN: L'ARCHITECTURE OTTOMANE, PREMIERE PARTIE. INCLUDES THREE PARTS: (PART II) PRECIS HISTORIQUE (OTTOMANISCHE BAUKUNST, ERSTER THEIL, HISTORISCHER UEBERBLICK). (PART III) DOCUMENTS HISTORIQUE (TECHNISCHE DOCUMENTE). DEUXIEM PARTIE, INCLUDES EIGHT PARTS: (1) MONOGRAPHIE DE YECHIL-DJAM DE BROUSSE (2) SULEYMANIE A CONSTANTINOPLE (3) SELIMIE D'ANDRINOPLE (4) YENI-DJAMI DE CONSTANTINOPLE A EMIN-EUNU (5) TURBE DE SULTAN SULIMAN LE LEGISLATEUR (6) TURBE DU CHEH-ZADE (7) LA FONTAINE DE SULTAN AHMED III A BAB I HUMAIOUN (8) FONTAINE D'AZAB KAPY. TROISIEME PARTIE, CONTAINS THREE PARTS: (1) FLORE ORNEMENTALE ET METAMORPHOSES (2) NOTICES SUR L'ORNEMENTATION OTTOMANE (3) NOMENCLATURE DES OEUVRES DU CELEBRE… Read More

Cairo: Privately printed, 1894 Book. Illus. by FABRICIUS BEY. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. EXTREMELY SCARCE, PRIVATELY BOUND BY THE ARMENIAN ARCHITECT GARO BALIAN. FULL LEATHER BINDING GILTED AND DECORATED IN ORIENTAL STYLE. DEEPLY PRESSED. BINDING EDGES SLIGHTLY FADED, PARTIAL LEATHER FLAYING. TITLE PAGE HEADED WITH THE KHEDIVAL CROWN. NO PRINTING PLACE OR NUMBER OF COPIES, BUT POSSIBLY 50 COPIES OF THIS ALBUM, AT MOST, WAS PRINTED. FRENCH INTRODUCTION (Le mausolee d'affifi a ete erige par la famille khediviale a la memoire de feu S. A. Le khedive Mohammed Tewfik Pacha, mort le 7 janvier 1892. IL a ete inaugure le 5 janvier 1894 par son august fils, le Khedive actuel Abbas Hilmi. L'elaboration du projet du dit Mausole, ainsi que sa construction, son dus a Fabricius Bey, architecte des palais khediviaux. S. A. la Khedivah Mere, ainsi que S. A. le Khedive ayant voulu que la construction eut un caractere grandoise, et et soit concue de facon a perpetuer la memoire de leur Auguste… Read More

Istanbul: Takvimhane-i Amire, 1274 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. OTTOMAN TURKISH TEXT WITH SOME IN ARABIC AND PERSIAN, SPECIALY THE CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN SULTANS AND THE REGIONAL GOVERNORS OF THE ARAB AND PRSIAN STATES, INCLUDING HIJAZ. (26), 626PP, (17), 600PP. THE AUTHOR WAS AN IMPERIAL WRITER IN THE OTTOMAN COURT (DIVAN I SULTANI). FIRST VOLUME EX-LIBRARY. BOTH VOLUMES IN MODERN FINE FULL LEATHER BINDING. SECOND LIMITED ED. UP TO 600 COPIES ONLY. SECOND VOL. WAS PRINTED IN 1275..

93 x 64 cm. Colored military map described in Ottoman Turkish. Province of Hejaz, Asir and Yemen by the fifth section in the general staff 1323 H., 1907 AD. Paper on cloth folded to 16 parts.

Cairo: The government press, 1924 Book. As New. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. AS PUBLISHED, 20 SHEETS, 50 STAMP FOR EACH, ORIGINAL STAMPS OF THE ARAB KINGDOM OF HIJAZ. MAYBE PRINTED IN THE GOVERNMENT PRESS IN CAIRO UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE BRITISH OFFICE FOR THE ARAB GOVERNMENT IN HIJAZ. 1,5 PIASTRES ( QIRSH ) VALUE ..

Cairo: Bulak, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 9 PARTS IN 2 VOLS. ARABIC TEXT. RED FULL LEATHER DECORATED AND GILDED BINDING WITH TUGRA AND NISHAN (ARMS OF STATE) OF THE SULTAN ABD UL HAMID II. PRIVATELY BOUND FOR THE YILDIZ PALACE LIBRARY. COMPLETE BINDINGS WITH FLAPS. PREPARED BY PRIVATE COMMISSION IN CAIRO. PRAISE OF SHEIKH AL ISLAM WITH HIS SEAL, REPORT OF THE COMMISSION, ENDOWMENT (CHARITABLE WAQF) WITH TUGHRAIC SEAL OF ABD UL HAMID II. (174, 182, 199, 208 PP) AND (179, 198, 168, 176, 163) PAGES. ALL EDGES OF THE TOW VOLUMES ARE GILDED. PRIVATELY BOUND BY THE YILDIZ PALACE AS PRESENTATION TO VERY LIMITED STATE MEN. A COPY FROM THE ATABEY COLLECTION WAS SOLD IN SOTHEBY'S 28 AND 29 MAY 2002

viii, list of illus. 394 p. signed by the author when she was in Istanbul to the Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1901 . with Arabic private library number (98) on the spine . In original hard covers binding.Anna Dodd was an American author from New York. She wrote short stories, essays and a series of articles on church music. After Dodd wrote a paper on the Concord School of Philosophy for Appleton's Magazine, English journals copied it, a French translation was reprinted in Émile Littré's Revue Philosophique, and the author found her services in growing demand. She was engaged by Harper's Magazine in 1881 to furnish an exhaustive article on the political leaders of France, which she prepared for by going to France, in order to study the subject more closely. The paper's editor, Henry Mills Alden, pronounced it as 'the most brilliant article of the kind we have had in ten years'. Before returning to the U.S., she visited Rome and prepared a description of the carnival for Harper's.

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Cairo: The government press, 1954 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. PRIVATELY BOUND AS PRESENTATION COPY IN 29-5-1954, TO "OUR SON MR. ABDUL HAMID IBRAHIM ABD UR RAHMAN", FROM GENERAL MUHAMMAD NAGUIB. FRONTIS OF M. NAGUIB SIGNING THE TREATY OF SUDAN 12 FEB. 1953. TITLE PAGE WITH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION, SIGNED BY M. NAGUIB, THE FIRST PRESEDENT OF EGYPT AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1952. FRONTIS OF M. NAGUIB WHEN HE WAS IN KHARTUM IN 1921, IN HIS MILITARY UNIFORM. ERRATA, PREFACE BY AHMAD ATIYYATULLAH, 96PP OF ARABIC TEXT, WITH 7 FINE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES, AND 1 PLAN. 1 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE OF GENERAL M. NAGUIB (PRESEDENT) IN 20-2-1954. THE BRITISH POLICY AND OCCUPATION IN SUDAN AND THE QUESTION OF SEPARATING DARFUR. ONE OF FOUR BOOKS BY PRESEDENT MUHAMMAD NAGUIB. SCARCE SIGNED COPY..

Tehran: Mirza Mahmud Tajir Khouansari, 1904 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. PERSIAN TEXT, FINELY LITHIOGRAPH ILUUSTRATED WITH A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD SHAH QAJAR, MUZAFFER UD DIN SHAH QAJAR, MINISTER HUSSEIN PACHA KHAN, AND FOURTY ONE (41) FULL PAGE LITHIOGRAPH ILLUSTRATIONS WITH SEVERAL PARTIAL WOODCUTTINGS. FINE LITHIOGRAPH PRINTED BOOK MAINLY SCRIBED IN FINE FARISI TA'LIQ SCRIPT BY MUHAMMAD HUSSEIN KNOWN AS 'IMAD UL KUTTAB IN 1322 AH (1904 AD). SOME PLATES CORNERS DECORATED INGOLD. SCRIBED IN 6 COLUMNS PER PAGE. 7 PP INTRODUCTION, 16 PP BIOGRAPHY OF FIRDAOUSI PRINTED BY SAYYID MURTAZA BEDESTYARI MIRZA HASSAN IN 1907 WITH FINE WOODCUTTING OF AL FIRDAOUSI'S SHRINE. FOUR PARTS IN ONE VOLUME: 171 PP, 123 PP, 153 PP, 133 PP. WITH SUPPLEMENTARY ON THE SHAHNAMA (DESTAN I DAHHAK VE JAMSHID) IN 55 PP, 17 PP VOCABULARY AND INDEX. FULL WOODCUTTING PAGE OF MINISTER HUISSEIN PACHA KHAN EMIR I JENG (MINISTER OF WAR). CONTEMPORARY FINE BINDING..

Cairo: al- Ma'arif press, 1920 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VERY RARE IN IT'S ORIGINAL COVERS, PRESENTED AND SIGNED IN FRENCH BY THE AUTHOR (Le 20 Oct. 1920). TOW PARTS IN ONE VOLUME, ARABIC TEXT 272, 142 P ON FINE HEAVY WITE PAPER, WITH MANY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE FIRST PART IS ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S TRAVEL IN THE BRITISH INDIA AND KASHMEER IN 1914, AND THE SECOND ABOUT HIS TRAVEL IN THE WESTERN TIBET AND KASHMEER IN 1915. YUSUF KAMAL WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY IN EGYPT AND A WELL KNOWN ART AND MAPS COLLECTOR, ALSO WAS AN AUTHOR WHO WROTE AND TRANSLATED SOME GEOGRAPHICAL WARKS. For other work by Yusuf Kemal see inventory no. 000493..

Istanbul: Ahmed Ihsan press, 1907 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by the author to the Khedivial prince Abbas Halim Pasha in 29 Ramazan 1328 (1910). Contemporary fine marbled binding with gilted spine. Ottoman Turkish text, 8vo. 387 p. and 7 p. of index. Many photographic plates..

Very rare report in English , Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. Binding tooled in gold with Ottoman Tughra of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II . Marbled inner paper and edges sprinkled in gold. Privately prepared for the high level officials in the Ottoman state.