The Arab and Islamic World - Peter Harrington

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The Arab and Islamic

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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, 1846Folio (356 × 250 mm). Contemporary purple pebble-grained cloth over flexible boards, title gilt to spine, original wrappers bound in front and back. Lithographed throughout including decorative chromolithograph-ic Arabic title page and divisional titles printed in red. From the library 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

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editions 1840 or 1841 appear erroneous. The author Abu’l-Fida’ (1273–1331) was an Ayyubid prince who governed Hama, Syria, as a client of Mamluk Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. His other major work was his Mukhtasar ta’rikh al-bashar (Compendium on the History of Man), a work of similar character. Schier was a Dres-den-based private scholar who was noted by Arabists for his ability to write in an attractive Arabic script, and supported him-self and his publication by teaching German to wealthy English businessmen. Rare: no copies listed in auction records, three copies in UK libraries (British Library and two in Cambridge), twelve traced world-wide.

Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature Vol. 1 p. 32.

£3,500 [117578]

The emergence of the modern Gulf states

2(ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 18922 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain and vol. II watered), spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled red. Occasional blind-stamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly rubbed 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 Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90; the year of publication was also that of the Exclu-

sive Agreement. One of 500 copies printed, a printed issue-slip tipped to the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that a maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first instance, with just six copies now traced in libraries worldwide. The first agreement is the General Treaty with the Friendly Ar-abs, signed at Ra’s al-Khaymah in 1820 (p. 144). Arab signatories include “Sheik Shakbool”, that is Tahnun b. Shakhbut, shaykh of the Bani Yas and ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1818 to 1833, “Sul-tan bin Sugger”, or Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, and the “Sheik of Dubey”, who in later agreements is named explicitly as Maktum b. Bati, who announced the independence of Dubai from Abu Dhabi in 1833 and founded the Maktum dy-nasty. The treaty binds the Arab shaykhdoms to aid the British against piracy in the Gulf, illustrating that the British, despite their naval supremacy, found their interests genuinely threat-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 known as “Khaleefa ben Shakbool”, gives the British the right to detain and search any ships entering their ports which are sus-pected of carrying slaves. The final set of treaties, agreed with the various Gulf shaykhs over the course of 1847, including the chief of Bahrain, Muhammad b. Khalifah b. Subman, gives li-cence to British cruisers to seize any ships suspected of involve-ment in the slave trade. Rare, and a highly important document of the formation of the modern Gulf States.

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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, 1557Octavo (161 × 94 mm). Attractive late 18th-century green goatskin, title gilt to spine, rolled bands, dog and willow tool to compartments, single 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 the 17th-century lexicographer Robert Sherwood to the title page. A lit-tle rubbed, five small surface wormholes to the front board, small paper label at the head of the spine, light browning, some pale dampstaining towards the lower margin, but overall a very good copy.

editio princeps of these five Greek histories, including Photius’s version of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agathar-chides, containing the earliest reference in history to the Arabic language. “Agatharchides’ original text is lost, but extracts and digests of it are found in three later authors: Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and the collection of extracts made by the Byzantine theologian Photius in the ninth century ad . . . Of these three witnesses . . . the Photius text is considered closest to the orig-inal” (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 295): Diodorus extensively altered the text to fit his “distinctive literary style”, whereas Stra-bo’s immediate source was not Agatharchides at all but the lost geography by Artemidorus of Ephesus (Burstein, Agatharchides of Cnidus, p. 38). Photius’s version is unique in referring to an aro-matic plant “which in Arabic (arabistii) is called larimna”, a pas-sage found at p. 71 of the present text: if part of Agatharchides’s original account, this would be “the earliest reference in history to a language named after the Arabs” and Retso has “no doubt

that Photius had a text very close to Agatharchides’ original be-fore him” (Retso, p. 300). “On the Erythrean Sea”, an account of an expedition to the west coast of Arabia ordered by Ptolemy II in 280 bc in reaction to Seleucid expansion in the region, has been identified as “the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter in the history of discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea . . . by the agents of the Ptolemaic government in Egypt . . . It also contains the earliest extensive account of the geography and ethnography of the coats of northeast Africa and Western Arabia” (Burstein). Several peoples are identified as arabes, including the Nabataoi (Nabateans), Thamoudenoi (Thamud) and Gasandoi (Ghassan-ids). This edition of Agatharchides precedes its appearance in Hoeschel’s editio princeps of Photius’s Bibliotheca, itself based on a manuscript owned by Estienne, by nearly half a century. An attractive copy of a highly significant early source for the region, which also includes the first separate work on India by Ctesias of Cnidos, and two books by Appian which were not included in Estienne’s 1551 edition.

Adams C3020.

£2,500 [92349]

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4AHMAD KHAN, Sir Sayyid. A Series of Essays on the Life of Mohammed, and Subjects Subsidiary thereto. Vol. I [all published]. London: Trübner & Co., [1869]–70Octavo. Original green cloth, recased and relined, spine lettered in gilt, decorate blind frame to covers enclosing gilt block of a camel above Arabic text to front. Separate title page for each essay, 2 folding genealogical tables, double-page two-tint lithographic view of the Ka’bah. 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. Extremities rubbed and bumped, a few nicks to foot of spine, tips worn, a few short nicks to folding tables, closed tear to pp. 29/30, which remain partly unopened, in the sixth essay. A good copy.

first edition of these 12 influential essays on Muhammad, Is-lam and Arabia, written in response to William Muir’s criticism of the Prophet in his Life of Mahomet (1858–61) and considered

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 Scotland, 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]

5AHMED, Ibrahim Fouad. Qatar and the Sea. Doha: Ministry of Information, Department of Tourism and Antiquities, 1987Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, blue and white endbands. With the photographic dust jacket. Text in English and Arabic. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs and maps throughout the text. Extremities very lightly bumped, negligible pale marking to rear board, hinges split. A very good copy in the bright dust jacket with a small chip to head of spine.

first and only edition, the first half concerning the maritime geography and history of Qatar and its surrounding islands, with a discussion of the history of pearl-diving in the region; the sec-ond is a detailed account of marine life around Qatar (the author being a marine biologist by training). Scarce, only four copies in libraries worldwide and none in the UK or Gulf.

£500 [100952]

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6AINSWORTH, William Francis. Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea; forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition. London: John W. Parker, 1838Octavo. Original blue-green fine diaper cloth, title gilt to spine, panels 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 geological sections at the rear. A little rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped and slight string-notches to fore-edges of boards, small patch at fore-edge of front board rubbed through, some foxing to frontispiece, largely on verso, light browning, but overall a very good copy, hinges tight and text and plates clean.

first edition. “Ainsworth was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835 he was appointed surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition. This account of the geological work [of the expedition] is dedicated to Francis Chesney head of the expedition. Ainsworth produced this work very quickly, long before Chesney’s own account had appeared” (Atabey). The expedition was intended to “examine the feasibil-ity of opening up the Mesopotamian rivers to steam navigation as a new route to India, as well as asserting British political presence in the area, promoting British commercial ties, and gathering scientific and archaeological data” (ODNB). Ainsworth contributed “geological sections across northern Syria and the

Taurus Mountains, discovered several deposits of commercially important minerals in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and explored a substantial part of south-east Persia”.

Atabey 10; Howgego II, C26; not in Blackmer, Weber or Wilson.

£1,250 [95148]

7ALDAMER, Shafi; Richard Mortel; Humberto da Silveira. The Visit of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and the Earl of Athlone to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 25 February – 18 March 1938, With a Summary of Saudi-British Relations. Riyadh: King Abdulaziz Public Library, printed Anis Commercial Printing Press, Beirut, 2007Quarto. Original grey cloth, title in toned grey to front board, publisher’s device similarly to tail of spine. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from the Countess’s photographs, 2 of them in colour. Text in English throughout. Very good in jacket with minor crumpling along the edges.

first and only edition, extremely uncommon, Copac locates copies in BM, Durham, Exeter, National Art Library at the V&A only, OCLC adds Singapore National Library, and a copy in the Jefferson City School District Library, Colorado. A beautifully presented first publication of the photographs taken by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, on her 1938 historic state vis-it to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, undertaken with her husband the Earl of Athlone, and her son, Lord Frederick Cambridge. The countess, Queen Victoria’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 several years.

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Laid into this copy are two original press photographs depict-ing the party’s outward journey from London via Cairo. The first (203 × 154 mm) has a caption slip mounted on verso reading: “Kin of British Royalty visit Saudi-Arabia . . . Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, waving good-bye at St. Pancreas [sic] Station as she . . . set out on the first leg of [her] trip to Saudi-Arabia. Mussolini is said to have objected to the trip on the grounds it was British pro-paganda in the Near East”, marked up for publication in vermilion grease pencil on recto. The second (179 × 232 mm) is captioned: “English nobility in Cairo – Earl of Athlone, Uncle of King George VI, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone are pictured on their arrival here en route to Saudi Arabia, a trip disapproved by Italy’s Mussolini . . . At right with the couple is Ahmed Hassanin Pasha, who represented King Farouk of Egypt. Beside the Countess is Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Cairo. The Earl is walk-ing behind with Gen. Sir George Weir, Chief of British Troops in Egypt”. The party is pictured walking along the platform at Ram-ses Station. The great Libyan Desert explorer Hassanein Bey had accompanied Rosita Forbes to the Oasis of Kufra in 1920–1. With Acme Agency and Newspaper Enterprise Association stamps to both photographs on verso. Both a little cockled but remaining very good. Unusual and attractive.

£1,250 [102589]

8ALEXANDER, 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., 1827Quarto (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 name

effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sandhurst, Alexander was commissioned in the 1st Madras light cavalry in 1821. “He was made adjutant of the bodyguard by Sir Thomas Munro, and served in the First Anglo–Burmese War. On leaving the East India Company’s service he joined the 13th light dragoons as cornet on 20 January 1825 . . . As aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, he was present with the Persian army during the war of 1826 with Russia, and received the Persian order of the Lion and Sun” (ODNB). The present work gives a full account of his services to this point and includes a “Chronological Epitome of the late Military Operations in Ava” and a “Summary of the Causes and Events of the existing War between Russia and Persia”. Subsequently Alexander’s career took him to the Balkans during the Russo–Turkish War of 1829; to Portugal during the Miguelite War of 1832–4; South Africa in the Frontier War of 1835; from 1847–55 he was in Canada as aide de camp to the commander of the troops there; in 1856 he joined his regiment in the Crimea. In retirement he was responsible for saving “Cleopatra’s Needle from destruction, and had much to do with its transfer to England in 1877. At its base he buried, among other artefacts, photographs of the twelve best-looking English women of the day.”

Abbey, Travel 520; Bruce 4420; Tooley 17.

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9ALI, Syed Ameer. The Life and Teachings of Mohammed. Or the Spirit of Islam. London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd, 1891Octavo (217 × 130 mm). Contemporary maroon half morocco, raised bands between blind rules to spine, compartments lettered or decorated in gilt, marbled sides, sprinkled edges, orange endpapers. 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. Spine rolled and lightly sunned, prelims slightly foxed. A very good copy.

first edition, fairly common institutionally, but rare in com-merce, no copy listed at auction since 1914. “A Muslim modernist and orthodox Shi‘i, Ali was in the late 19th and early 20th centu-

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 Europe 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]

10ALLEN, Isaac Nicholson. Diary of a March through Sinde and Afghanistan, with the Troops under the Command of General Sir William Nott and Sermons delivered on Various Occasions during the Campaign of 1842. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1843Octavo (198 × 112 mm). Original red cloth, gilt device of three Afghans to front board, and in blind to rear, neatly rebacked in morocco, title gilt to spine, endpapers renewed. Folding single-tint lithographic frontispiece and 7 other similar lithographic plates. Boards a little rubbed and bumped, pale browning, the plates lightly foxed, but overall a very good copy.

first edition. Allen was assistant chaplain to the Bombay establishment, and accompanied Nott’s forces through the campaign from April 1841 to February 1843. “Allen’s diary offers a perceptive vision of the landscapes bringing to mind Biblical scenes of the Old Testament . . . Youthful and exuberant at the campaign’s advent, the diary reflects an older and more mature

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cleric by its end” (Riddick). An uncommon account, just six loca-tions on Copac.

Bruce 4457: Riddick 67.

£575 [109458]

11ALLEN, Mark. Falconry in Arabia. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. Illustrated by Mary-Clare Critchley-Salmonson. London: Orbis Publishing, 1980Quarto. 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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12ANDERSON, T. S. My Wanderings in Persia, with Illustrations, and Map showing the Scientific Frontier in Afghanistan and the Russian Advance in Central Asia ; with Author’s Routes, etc. London: James Blackwood & Co., 1880Octavo. Original green decorative cloth, titles gilt and elaborate em-bossed panelling in black to spine and front cover, pale cream endpa-pers. Frontispiece and 5 other plates, folding map with routes in colour. 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 map, but overall very good.

first edition, uncommon, decidedly so in the cloth. Eight copies only on Copac, OCLC adds just 11 more in libraries worldwide; one copy at auction in the last 40 years. An infor-mative, if slightly gossipy, account of a lengthy sojourn in the region. “Anderson worked for the Indo-European [later In-do-Persian] Telegraph Company in Iran from June 1875 to March

1878; he was based in Shiraz from June to October 1875; then repairing lines from Shiraz to Kazeroon (based in Dashtarjin) until March the following year; Shiraz–Abadeh (Sevund, with leave at Dehbeed and Yazd) March–December 1876; Shiraz from January to March 1877; and finally in Tehran, repairing and es-tablishing telegraph lines with iron poles, as the wooden ones were constantly stolen” (Simpson, “Making their Mark: Foreign Travellers at Persepolis” in Arta, 2009, p. 18).

£1,500 [92907]

13(ANGLO–EGYPTIAN WAR 1882.) MALET, Sir Edward. An Episode of the Egyptian Rebellion of 1882: correspondence between the Right Honourable Sir Edward Malet, G.C.B. and Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Together with a leading article on the subject in The Times. Guildford: Reprinted [by Billing and Sons, Ltd] for private use from the Times of October 12, 16 and 18, 1907Small 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.

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£300 [113491]

14ANTES, John. Observations of the Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, the Overflowing of the Nile and its Effects; with Remarks on the Plague, and other Subjects. Written during a Residence of Twelve Years in Cairo and its Vicinity. London: John Stockdale, 1800Quarto (260 × 204 mm). Contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, marbled boards. Large folding map frontispiece of the Nile from d’Anville’s 1765 map. A little rubbed, light browning, but overall very good.

first edition. An interesting and uncommon account of Egypt before the French expedition. An account of Napoleon’s invasion, and of the Battle of the Nile was added to a subsequent edition in order to cash in on popular interest. Antes was born in Freder-ick, Pennsylvania, his father Heinrich, a member of the German Reformed Church, being largely responsible for the establish-ment of the Moravian Brotherhood in that state. In 1769 he was ordained in the Moravian ministry and travelled out to Egypt as a missionary. From his arrival in 1770 to his departure in 1781 Antes

“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 instruments; a violin that he made in 1759 is held by the Moravi-an Historical Society Museum at Nazareth, PA. He developed a number of innovations, improved piano hammers, violin bows, and tuning pegs for violins and cello. A door-lock he invented was further refined by his nephew, the American architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe. In musical circles he probably best remembered as a putative friend of Haydn and the composer of a considerable number of religious vocal works.

Atabey 25; Blackmer 36; Goldsmiths’–Kress 17825.1

£600 [49172]

15(ARABIAN GULF.) REZVAN, Efim. Russian Ships in the Gulf 1899–1903. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1993Octavo. Original black boards, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrations from photographs throughout and a map. Jacket spine with short closed-tear and creasing at foot (slight bump to binding), spine slightly rolled. A very good copy.

first edition, first impression. “Using previously unpublished material from the Russian Navy Central Archives in St Petersburg, this book is the first publication of its kind, shedding new light on the period from 1899 to 1903 when Russia succeeded in penetrat-ing the Arabian Gulf for a short time” (jacket blurb).

£250 [114443]

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16(ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With introduction explanatory notes on the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon The History of The Nights. London: Privately printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]17 volumes, octavo (243 × 162 mm). Contemporary brown half morocco by Bayntun, rose cloth sides, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt oth-ers untrimmed. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Bookplates to 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 very good set.

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(ARABIAN PENINSULA.) 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, 1916Octavo. 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)

of that publication. Beyond the specifically maritime aspects, including coastal geography, these handbooks provided basic background on local conditions, climate, items of trade, and so forth. Of particular interest is their account of settlements unrecognisable today: Jeddah “is mile square, and inclosed [sic] by a wall, with small towers at intervals, the angles toward the sea being commanded by two forts” (p. 311), whereas Aqaba “is a small Arab village, in an extensive date grove . . . Close to the village is a small square fort, garrisoned by Turkish soldiers” (p. 278). Uncommon: only one copy in British libraries (Oxford); more prevalent in American institutions but seldom encoun-tered in commerce.

Macro 314 for eighth edition of the British title.

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18(ARABIAN PENINSULA.) Arabia in Pictures – a Portfolio of 8 Photographs. Series 1. Washington, DC: Shoreham House, publishers for Arabian American Oil Company, 1955Folio. 8 high quality collotype plates loose in printed card portfolio as issued. With the original mailing card case. Portfolio a little rubbed and soiled, some chipping and splitting at the edges and on the folds, con-tents clean and sound, mailing case a touch grubby, overall very good.

first edition, all published, of this superbly printed selection of images contrasting Arabia old and new, including fraction-ating columns at Abqaiq and a donkey-powered irrigation well; Badanah pumping station and a family dwelling at Jiddah; the newly developed port of Dammam and an oasis in Al Kharj: “Bedouin Tranquility” at Jabrin, and an Aramco rig at Abqaiq. This copy was sent out as a promotional item for Edward Stern & Company Inc.’s Optak printing process, a hybrid variant on collotype printing “utilizing among other exclusive elements, special plates and inks, ultra-fine screens . . . starting at 200 lines and going to as fine as 400 lines” (from the explanatory fly-er, tipped onto the verso of the front wrapper). With a business reply card loosely inserted. Uncommon, with a single copy on OCLC, at the University of Delaware.

£695 [100046]

19ASHE, Waller. Personal Records of the Kandahar Campaign by Officers engaged therein. Edited and Annotated, with an Introduction . . . London: David Bogue, 1881Octavo. Original brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, geomet-ric panelling in black to front board, in blind to rear, grey-green floral sprigged endpapers. Small inked library mark “Orotava Library” and paper label to front pastedown. A little rubbed, lower corners through, front hinge just started, quite heavy foxing to the verso of the free end-papers and by contact to the half-title and last leaf of the catalogue, oth-erwise isolated to the edges with minor encroachment to the margins, overall a very good copy.

first edition of an important and uncommon source for the Second Afghan War, comprising 23 letters written by several unnamed officers of the British Army during the Second Afghan War. They “focus mainly on General Burrow’s disastrous defeat at Maiwand, and the consequent relief force led by General Rob-erts . . . While unquestioning of the British presence in Afghan-istan, the variable quality of British generalship does not pass unnoticed. Although written by various individuals, they form a coherent whole in theme and prose quality” (Riddick). Ashe was also author of The Story of the Zulu Campaign (1880) and trans-lator of The Military Institutions of France (1869). The Barrow-built steamship Orotava was launched in 1889 for the Liverpool–Val-paraiso service of Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She made two voyages in that service in 1889 and was then placed under Orient Line management for service from Liverpool to Australia via Suez. She was transferred to the Royal Mail’s West Indies service in 1909, served as an armed merchant cruiser during the First World War, and was broken up in 1919.

Bruce 4495; Riddick 271.

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20ATIL, Esin. Süleymanname. The Illustrated History of Süleyman the Magnificent. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986Folio. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and tughra to front board gilt, light grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from photographs, colour and black and white. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket.

first edition of this monograph on the Süleymanname, a lav-ishly illuminated manuscript account of the great Ottoman ruler now preserved in the museum of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.

£125 [110848]

21ATKINSON, James. Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions. Translated from the Original Persian Manuscript. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1832Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Modern half calf, tan morocco longitudinal label to spine, brown linen sides. Charming lithographic frontispiece from a sketch by the author, printed on India paper and laid down, title-page vignette. Frontispiece browned around the laid-down sheet but not onto it, browning offset onto the title page, slight marginal damp stain in the head-margin for a few leaves front and back, but a very good copy.

first and only edition. “An amusing translation of a Persian essay on harem life” (ODNB), a translation of the Kitabi Kulsum Naneh, which was well reviewed by the Asiatic Journal, whose reviewer considered that it showed “the actual state of Persian life behind the curtain . . . drawn by the sportive pencil of a caricaturist; a circumstance, which indeed, imparts a feature of additional interest to the work” (NS, vol. X, no. 37, 1833). A surgeon in the Bengal service, Atkinson attracted Lord Minto’s attention for his linguistic skills and was “given the

appointment of assistant assay master at the mint, which he retained until 1828. In 1818 he also filled the deputy chair of Per-sian in Fort William College . . . In addition to his appointment at the mint, he held the post of superintendent of the Govern-ment Gazette from 1817 to 1828. When the official connection of the government with that journal was discontinued in 1823, the proprietors, in view of his previous success, invited Atkinson to take sole charge of both the Gazette and the Press” (ODNB). Atkinson was chief surgeon to the Army of the Indus during the First Afghan War, but he returned to Bengal in 1841 “and thus escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation.” His Persian translations in both prose and verse are his chief claim to fame, “accomplished in literature and art, both a scholar and a popular writer, James Atkinson was a pioneer of oriental re-search” (ibid..)

£850 [71977]

22ATKINSON, James Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves & Company; J. W. Allen & Co.; and Day & Haghe, 1842Large folio (540 × 367 mm). Original green morocco-backed green moiré boards, title gilt to spine and front board, French fillet in blind and dou-ble gilt rule, thick and thin at spine edges, cream endpapers. Single-tint lithographic title page and 25 similar plates, lithographic dedication leaf, and letterpress leaf of descriptions, printed in blue in double col-umn. All original guard-sheets in place. Elaborate armorial bookplate of Hugh, 2nd Duke of Westminster to front pastedown. Just a little rubbed, almost imperceptibly recased where shaken loose from the gutta-per-cha, some foxing as usual, but a very good copy indeed.

first edition. Without doubt one of the finest illustrated books on Afghanistan, the plates depicting a selection of superb views on the march – Bolan Pass, Quetta, Khojak Pass, Kanda-har, and Kabul. In 1833, after a furlough in England, Atkinson returned to his original profession as surgeon to the 55th NI,

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and in 1838 was chosen as Superintending Surgeon to the Army of the Indus during the First Afghan War. He was “relieved in the ordinary course of routine shortly after the surrender of Dost Mohammad” and returned to Bengal in 1841 “and thus escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation”. Atkinson is perhaps best remembered for his translations from Persian, of these his selections from the Shâh Nâmeh of Firdausi being the most notable (see also the previous item), but he evidently possessed considerable, if amateur, artistic abili-ties. The highly detailed, yet skilfully composed and sensitively

coloured, originals for these plates, 16 of which are now in the British Museum, show clearly that the lithographer, probably Louis Haghe, had little “working up” or “improving” to do, to create highly attractive and effective images. This work is often encountered loose, ragged and heavily foxed. This is a really su-perior copy, largely clean and bright, carefully restored.

Abbey Travel 508; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493; Tooley 73.

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23ATTAR, Maher. Souk Waqif – Once upon a Time. Beirut: Art & Privilege, Diwan Amiri, 2006Landscape quarto. Original black cloth, title in silver to spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Largely black and white photographic plates, section dividers of heavy white paper, with 8 translucent calque pages with the title and colour concept drawings by the photographer. Jacket just a little rubbed, else very good.

first edition of this uncommon photobook by the Leba-nese-born photojournalist and portraitist Maher Attar, re-cording the renovation of the old Souk in Doha. The text is by Mohamed Ali Abdullah, the architect on the project which won the Aga Khan Architectural Award for 2010. “The revitalisation project, a unique architectural revival of one of the most import-ant heritage sites in Doha, was based on a thorough study of the history of the market and its buildings, and aimed to reverse the dilapidation of the historic structures and remove inappropriate alterations and additions. The architect attempted to rejuvenate the memory of the place: modern buildings were demolished; metal sheeting on roofs was replaced with traditionally built roofs of dangeal wood and bamboo with a binding layer of clay and straw, and traditional strategies to insulate the buildings against extreme heat were re-introduced” (AKAA website). Just two copies located of the English language edition on OCLC (BnF and the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar) alongside two copies of the simultaneously issued French edi-tion (BnF and Rhode Island College).

£650 [98886]

24ATTFIELD, Donald Harvey. A Private Journal in Egypt from May 1894 to May 1895. Appendices. I – Wyoming in 1891. II – Munich in 1892. London: printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 1895Octavo. Original maroon diagonal-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind, front gilt-lettered “For private circulation only”, black coated endpapers, bottom edge untrimmed. Photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding colour map, folding plan. Occa-

sional pencilled underlining and marginalia. Spine rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, a few small markings to front cover, a couple of pale spots to title. A very good, clean copy.

first and only edition, “printed for private circulation only” (front board and title page), uncommon: OCLC traces ten copies world-wide; Copac adds copies at Glasgow University and the Royal College of Physicians. Attfield (1866–1908) went to Egypt as sanitary and quarantine medical officer at Suez, and also worked as a director of the pilgrims’ quarantine encamp-ment at El Tor, situated across the Red Sea in Sinai. The advent of steam travel in the mid-19th century greatly exacerbated the spread of disease, especially cholera, among Muslim pilgrims travelling to Mecca, and epidemics often spread to Europe and North America as well as the pilgrims’ countries of origin across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The appendices are both sci-entific papers, “An investigation of the natural solidified sodium sulphate lakes of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, originally read to the Soci-ety of Chemical Industry in 1895, and “The probable destruction of bacteria in polluted river water by infusoria”, first printed in the British Medical Journal on 17 June 1893.

£250 [115304]

25ATTWOOD-MATHEWS, Florence Blakiston. Watercolours and memorabilia related to British Egypt and the Sudan: “The Book of Egyptian Fame”. 1898–1916.2 sketchbooks, 1 oblong octavo (120 × 203 mm) and 1 oblong quarto (228 × 277 mm). Contemporary beige cloth, beige closure strap, brush holder to top edge of rear boards. Volume I with 4 hieroglyphs and a 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-page watercolours, numerous autographs, mounted cartes-de-visite, letters, newspaper clippings, 3 photographs; also with 5 loosely inserted items: 2 sketches, 1 letter, 1 envelope, and 1 autographed paper slip. 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 ticket of London-based artist’s equipment shop L. Cornelissen & Son to rear pastedowns. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed, ghosts of stamps to front boards, corners of boards a little bumped and rubbed, edges 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 still holding, several loose leaves, occasional browning from newspaper clippings. Volume II: spine ends lightly worn, endpapers slightly toned. Overall very good, with bright watercolours.

Two unique watercolour sketchbooks by Florence Blakiston Att-wood-Mathews, the second daughter of British Swedenborgian writer and homeopathic doctor James John Garth Wilkinson. The contents in these two sketchbooks stretch over the period 1898–1916, with particular emphasis on January–March 1898 and November 1913–July 1914. Volume I largely tracks Attwood-Mathews’s Nile cruise in ear-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

Egyptian crowd. Interspersed with the watercolours, clippings, and photographs are numerous signatures, cartes-de-visite, and occasional inscriptions of British military and administrative figures based in the Nile region, including Sir Archibald Hunter, British Army General and Governor of Omdurman; Colonel E. S. Stanton, the Governor of Khartoum; the Governor-General of Sudan Sir Reginald Wingate; G. E. Matthews, Governor of the Upper Nile Province; Colonel Colin Scott-Moncrieff; and James Henry Butler Pasha, soldier and Governor of the White Nile Province. Clearly, Attwood-Mathews had both interest in and access to many of the key British colonial figures established in Egypt and Sudan in the early 20th century. However, she was undoubtedly also intrigued by the history and culture of the region in general, as evident in the collection of signatures by Egyptologists, including Howard Carter,

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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 feluccas 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 charming watercolours, still vigorously bright, and memorabilia relating to the British presence in Egypt and Sudan.

£12,500 [91569]

26AUCHER-ÉLOY, Pierre Martin Remi. Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 a 1838. Revues et annotées par M. le Comte Jaubert. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 18432 volumes, octavo (205 × 122 mm). Near-contemporary English green half calf, richly gilt spines, red and olive green twin labels, green peb-ble-grain cloth sides, red speckled edges, drab green coated endpapers. Large engraved folding map (at end of volume II) and the folding table (at p. 760, volume II). From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his discreet ownership stamp on preliminary blank in both volumes and ownership inscription on half-title of volume I; printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Bound without the half-title to volume II; bindings a little rubbed, abrasion to front cover of volume I, scattered foxing, occasional pale dampstaining, patchy unsightly brown-ing to volume II title page , map with old tape repair on verso, errata leaf heavily toned. A handsomely bound copy.

first and only edition. Aucher-Éloy (1793–1838) played an important part in the botanical history of the Middle East: he “was the first to make a comprehensive collection of plants from northern Oman. He collected mainly in the northern mountains and foothills during March and April 1838” (Shahina A. Ghazan-far, “Aucher-Eloy’s Plant Specimens from the Immamat of Mus-cat”, Taxon Vol. 45, No. 4, Nov. 1996, pp. 609–26). “This interesting work consists of letters and extracts from the journals of the botanist Aucher-Éloy. He was also interested in typography, and in c.1830 he was engaged by Halil Pacha, Turkish ambassador to Russia, to accompany him to Constan-tinople where they would found a French-Turkish journal. This did not work out, but Aucher-Éloy decided to undertake a series

of botanical expeditions in the Levant which were made under 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, Cyprus and Kos. In 1832 he visited Rhodes, Smyrna and the coast of Asia Minor. In 1833 he examined the area around Constantinople, Brussa, and the Asian Olympus. In February 1834 he travelled through Anatolia and met [the French archaeologist, Charles Félix Marie] Texier at Trebizond. From February to November 1835 he journeyed through Asia Minor and Syria to Persia. In 1836 he visited Greece and from 1837 to 1838 he again travelled in Persia, where he died in 1839” (Blackmer). A little more detail of Aucher-Éloy’s travels is given in New Arabian Studies: “In March–April 1838 he spent more than a month in Oman, partly at Muscat, and partly travelling through the Jabal Akhdar . . . [then] to the coastal town of al-Sib before journeying inland to Nakhl and across the Ghubrah Bowl to as-cend ‘Aqabat al-Hajar before arriving at Sayq and Tanuf . . . Miz-wa, Birkat al-Mawz, and Izki, thence along Wadi Sama’il back to Muscat” (vol. 2, 1994, p. 25). Copac cites just four copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, Oxford, Natural History Museum, Kew); well represented on OCLC but in commerce decidedly scarce, with four copies traced at auction, including the Black-mer and Atabey copies.

Atabey 40; Blackmer 55; Macro 439; Troelstra, Natural History Travel Narra-tives, p. 45; not in Hilmy, Tobler or Weber.

£3,750 [117581]

27(AVIATION.) [RAF propaganda leaflet in Arabic.] Izki, Oman: [Royal Air Force,] 1957Single sheet (191 × 163 mm) typed in Arabic, recto only. Verso docketed in pencil “22/7/57, Izki Muscat, Oman” in the hand of Francis J. Field (au-

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thor of Aerial Propaganda Leaflets: A Collector’s Handbook, published 1954). Three faint transverse creases from folding. Very good condition.

Rare propaganda document air-dropped by the RAF during the first few days of direct British involvement in the Jebel Akhdar War, 1954–9. In 1954 the Sultan of Oman granted exploration licenses to the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company, prompt-ing a violent tribal uprising led by the Imam of Oman, Ghalib ibn ‘Ali al-Hina’i, in whose putative territory the largest oil fields lay. The initial rebellion was suppressed with little resistance, but Ghalib’s brother Talib retreated to Saudi territory to form the Omani Liberation Army. He landed at Muscat on 14 June 1957 with a small force and had taken Nizwa by 17 July, at which point the Sultan appealed to the British for help. “The plan was to use air power to weaken the rebel resolve sufficient to re-occupy the area. Under Operation black mag-ic, the region to the south of Jebel Akhdar (centred on Nizwa) was formally proscribed. Proscription was, in effect, an inwards blockade that denied the inhabitants of the proscribed towns or villages the opportunity to travel or to work in their fields during daylight hours – on pain of attack. It aimed to disrupt agriculture and trade to such an extent that the tribes would ca-pitulate. To achieve effect, it required a permanent air presence and the willingness to employ force when the prescription was broken . . . Commencing 24 July, the fortified towers at Izki, Nizwa, Tanuf, Birkat al Mawz, Bahla and Firq were attacked on successive days. Each operation was preceded by warning leaf-lets (dropped 48 hours in advance) . . . The fort at Izki was badly damaged by Venoms, although the main tower at Nizwa proved more resilient against rockets” (Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dye, “The Jebel Akhdar War”, in Air Power Review, vol. 11, no. 3, winter 2008, pp. 20–3). The text of the present leaflet, translated, reads: “Warning from Sa’id ibn Taymur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Your forts will be attacked by aeroplanes the day after tomorrow between sunrise and sunset. The aim of this is not immediate destruction but rather to make you see that at our disposal is a

strong and effective weapon. This experiment will last for only a few minutes, but such an operation can in theory last much longer”. A ground operation followed, culminating with the SAS securing the formidable Jebel Akhdar plateau, a success often credited with staving off their disbandment and which has often overshadowed the decisive role of air power in the conflict out of which emerged the modern state of Oman.

£675 [109729]

28AZZI, Robert. Saudi Arabian Portfolio. Introduction by His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al Faisal. Design by Will Hopkins. Zurich: First Azimuth Ltd, 1978Folio (340 × 233 mm). Original dark green calf, spine lettered in gilt, front board with palm silhouette on gilt ground, above gilt title of King Khalid ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Saudi Arabia, grey endpapers. Colour photo-graphs throughout, full-page and inset. The slightest of rubbing to tips, spine-ends and foot of rear board. An excellent copy.

first edition, king khalid of saudi arabia’s copy of this splendid photoessay, inscribed by the photographer “To His Majesty King Khalid ibn Abdulaziz, with many thanks for the encouragement and cooperation of the Government of Saudi Arabia, enabling me to complete this work, Robert Azzi” on the front free endpaper. This is one of ten copies only in the presen-tation binding of full calf gilt (the trade issue was cloth-bound). The photographs include city and desert views, historical and religious sites, scenes of daily life, and various images of the Saudi royal family. Azzi, a Lebanese-American photographer, achieved recognition for his work for Newsweek and National Geo-graphic, as well as photobooks on Saudi Arabia. Khalid ascended the Saudi throne in 1975; after his death in 1982, this copy was gifted back to Azzi.

£1,250 [114374]

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29BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore degli Arabi e fondatore dell’Impero musulmano. Poema. Casalmaggiore: Fratelli Bizzarri, 17912 volumes in one, quarto (235 × 172 mm). Contemporary half sheep vellum, marbled sides, twin morocco labels lettered in gilt and manu-script shelf-mark label to spine, edges speckled blue. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces and 12 similar numbered plates by Paolo Araldi, vignettes to title pages. Complete with the half-titles and imprimatur leaf. Boards slightly rubbed with light wear along fore edges, labels a touch chipped to minimal loss of lettering, very sporadic faint soiling chiefly to mar-gins as usual, isolated portions of minor dampstaining to head of gut-ter. An excellent copy, preserved here in remarkably fresh condition in a pleasing contemporary binding.

first and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recount-ing the life of Muhammad in 12 cantos of ottava rima, each canto illustrated with a full-page engraved plate, in addition to two frontispiece portraits of the author and of Muhammad astride a rampant horse, all after original paintings by Paolo Araldi. Orig-inally from Casalmaggiore, Araldi (d. 1811) studied at the Acad-emy of Parma, where he taught Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1816), before returning to his native city. Alberto Baccanti (1718–1805), also from Casalmaggiore, studied theology at Cremona before travelling to Rome in 1741, under the auspices of the Gonzagas to work in the Vatican as a papal secretary. He returned to Casa-lmaggiore in 1755. Tipaldo lists an additional 10 printed and 11 manuscript works written by Baccanti, chiefly poems, orations, and exequies in verse. The 12 plates depict Muhammad in the stages of his proph-ecy: ascending with the archangel Gabriel to heaven (laylat al-mi’raj), preaching to his first followers in Mecca, leading his armies to battle and uniting the disparate tribes under his leadership. Baccanti explains in his foreword that he sought to characterise the Prophet as a statesman and general of “rare talents” who, regardless of the truth of the religion he founded,

succeeded in creating a unified Arabian caliphate that laid the foundation for the rise of the Ottoman Empire: a contrast to other European works portraying him as “an odious impostor and a man of most dissolute morals”. “Scholars of the Enlightenment particularly struggled with dual impulses towards Muhammad’s depiction, aspiring both to a more historically-based, objective image of the Prophet, yet also perpetuating the public appetite for romantic, exotic de-tails” (Shalem, ed., Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe, p. 3); Baccanti’s work perpetrates the common anachronisms of presenting Muhammad in contemporary Turkish dress, preaching in interiors more redolent of orientalist fantasy than seventh-century Arabia, and leading his troops against a con-spicuously European-style fortress. An unusual and extremely uncommon work, with only seven copies held by libraries world-wide (none in the United Kingdom).

Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell or the Arcadian Library.

£8,750 [102633]

30(BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY.) Collection of original photographs commissioned for the Bapco in-house magazine, The Bahrain Islander. Awali, Bahrain: The Bahrain Petroleum Company, 1954–618 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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versos; together with 4 issues of the bi-monthly company magazine The Bahrain Islander (September and November 1955, January and April 1956); a copy of the Annual Company Report for 1954; and two 4–page offprints, “Who are we,” on the history of Bapco, and “Schooling in skills,”about the training and education of the company’s Bahraini employees; all preserved within a Bapco card folder. The folder a little sunned and rubbed, but overall very good.

An unusual collection of original photographs illustrating the oil industry in Bahrain, together with a group of internal com-pany documents, providing news, history and an overview of the financial development of the company. Bapco had been founded by Standard Oil Co. of California in 1928 to exploit the exploration rights that they had been granted in the country. Bapco #1 struck oil on 1 June 1932, which presented them with the problem of marketing its production. This was solved by a collaboration with the Texas Oil Company in the founding of Caltex. While Socal provided the product, Texaco offered their marketing subsidiaries throughout the eastern hemisphere, in Africa, Australasia and Asia. By 1935, when 16 oil wells were in production and construction of the Bahrain refinery had com-menced, the royalties paid by Socal to the Bahraini government constituted more than 40 per cent of the state budget. In the years up to independence in 1971, Bapco oil revenues annually

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 1980. An attractive, unusual and allusive group, giving insight into the transformation of Bahrain from a “pearl state” to an “oil state”.

£4,750 [68214]

31BAKER, Sir Samuel W. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: Macmillan & Co., 1867Octavo (215 × 189 mm). Recent half calf, old marbled boards, red moroc-co label. Double portrait engraved frontispiece, 2 coloured maps, one full-page the other folding, and 23 plates. Some foxing front and back, light toning throughout, occasional spotting, folding map a little weak-ened on the folds, but overall a very good copy.

first edition; the important adjunct to Baker’s book on the Albert N’yanza. “His prowess in the field won for him the friendship and admiration of the Hamran Arabs, themselves mighty hunters. He explored other tributaries of the Atbara, in-cluding the Bahr-er-Salam and the Angareb, and followed up the course of the Rehad to its confluence with the Blue Nile. Thence he marched to Khartoum, where he arrived on 11 June 1862. The value of the work of exploration during this fourteen months’ journey and of the observations proving the Nile sediment to be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by Sir Roderick Murchison, 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.

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32BAKER, Sir Samuel W. Ismailïa. A Narrative of an Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. London: Macmillan and Co., 18742 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt panels enclosing large gilt block of a camel caravan to front boards, rear boards panelled in blind, fore edges untrimmed, brown coated endpapers, binder’s ticket of Burn & Co. to rear pastedowns, Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 52 plates, 2 lithographic maps, one folding. Tips and covers very lightly rubbed, vol. 2 spine gently rolled and faintly marked, folding map with closed tear at stub and short nicks at folds, still an excellent copy, the cloth bright and fresh, the con-tents clean.

first edition. In 1869 “the Khedive Isma’il appointed Baker to a four-year term as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin, with the rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman army. It was the most senior post a European ever received under an Egyptian administration. According to the khedive’s firman, Baker’s duties included annexing the equatorial Nile basin, estab-lishing Egyptian authority over the region south of Gondokoro [modern-day South Sudan], suppressing the slave trade, intro-ducing cotton cultivation, organizing a network of trading sta-tions throughout the annexed territories, and opening the great 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 hippopotamus, depicted in several fascinating engravings. South of Regiaf, the author bagged a pair of elephants, and attempted to collect a few more by using both Hale’s rockets and the company’s fieldpiece . . . Later, in Unyoro, he hunted antelope and lion while natives drove the game toward a series of nets” (Czech).

Blackmer 66; Czech (Africa) p. 11; Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 49.

£1,500 [117582]

33BARCLAY, Edgar. Mountain Life in Algeria. With Illustrations by the Author. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882Quarto (244 × 178 mm). Original blue-green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black geometric border extending over spine and boards, titles and decoration to front in red and silver, publisher’s device in black to rear, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Photo-engraved frontispiece, 7 similar and 7 wood-engraved plates, vignette chapter headings, all by Barclay. Recent owner’s label to front pastedown. Spine sunned and lightly marked, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, scattered pale markings and small portions of cockling to sides, faint tide-mark to top edge of frontispiece, title page and plates, the images never affected. A very good copy.

first edition, scarce. Barclay (1842–1913), painter and etch-er, was a member of the British circle of artists known as the “Etruscans” owing to their preference for Italian landscapes. He studied at Dresden with Carolsfeld, and then in Rome, where he became acquainted with Giovanni Costa. Between 1873 and 1880 he made several visits to Algeria, recording his observations on village life, local customs and dress, and antiquities. The Athe-naeum considered Mountain Life in Algeria “a most interesting and charming work”.

£600 [117145]

34BEHR, Johann von der. Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-järigen Reise zu Wasser und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst der Vereinigten Geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen Compagnie, besonders in denselbigen Ländern täglich begeben und zugetragern. Jena: Urban Spaltholtz, 1668Quarto (187 × 153 mm). Later pinkish-yellow glazed boards, pale green morocco label, compartments formed by a single gilt rule, gilt flower

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first and only edition of this fascinating account of the East Indies and Persia by a German soldier in the service of the VOC. “Behr enlisted in 1641 and sailed to Batavia about two years later . . . he went on to serve in Java, as well as with the fleet of Johann Maetsuycker on the Malabar Coast. Apart from a voyage to Persia, Behr spent four of his six years with the VOC in Ceylon” (Howgego). 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 Strait of Hormuz 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 Shah’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 Qeshm Island, 1645).

A view of the attack on Qeshm is included in the somewhat naïve, but nonetheless splendid, plates which also show Bata-via, Goa, St Helena, and Kamron in Persia, and images of some of the unusual flora and fauna encountered by Behr – coconut trees, the cinnamon tree, an elephant hunt, and flying fish. Uncommon and highly attractive, the book is well-represented institutionally, but extremely uncommon in commerce with just one copy at auction in the last 50 years.

Landwehr, VOC, 309.

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35BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The Late Dr. Charles Beke’s Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by his widow. London: Trübner & Co., 1878Large octavo (240 × 155 mm). Original red cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, two-line frame enclosing pictorial vi-gnette gilt to front board, similar frame in blind to rear board, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. Photographic portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue-guard, 13 engraved plates, 2 plates of ta-bles and graphs, folding lithographic map in partial colour to rear. With the errata slip tipped in to the contents leaf. Rubbed and marked over-all, cockling to spine, headcaps refurbished with a little fraying to foot, contemporary label of Mudie’s Select Library pasted to front board not affecting image, label of Worcester Public Library to front pastedown (inscribed “sold by order June ’95”), very mild occasional foxing short closed tear to map fold just touching image. A good copy.

first edition. “In December 1873 Beke left England on his last trip, designed to vindicate an argument first made in his Origines [biblica, 1834] concerning the geography of Mount Sinai and the Red Sea. He returned to England the following March and died suddenly on 31 July 1874 . . . The results of the Red Sea expedition were posthumously edited and published in 1878 by his widow, Emily, . . . The 1878 volume, considered by some contemporaries to be his most important, aroused consider-able controversy at the time, but left no lasting mark on biblical research” (ODNB). Much of Beke’s scholarship sought to harmo-nise recent scientific discoveries, especially in the field of geolo-gy, with a belief in the Bible as divine revelation.

£250 [112329]

36BELL, Gertrude. “Notes on a Journey Through Cilicia and Lycaonia” [Complete as six offprints from] Revue

Archeologique, Publiée sous la direction de Mm. G. Perrot et S. Reinach. Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1906–7Six offprints bound together as one, octavo. Contemporary purple cloth 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 Bell) in the text throughout. Spine sunned, some minor marks and nicks to boards, internally sound and clean but for a very few sprays of spot-ting, very good condition.

rare presentation set of offprint first editions com-prising the complete “Notes on a Journey Through Cilicia and Lycaonia”, with an autograph letter signed from Bell presenting the whole to Professor Ludwig Richard Enno Littman (1875–1958) laid in. The apparently unpublished letter, on Rounton Grange, Northallerton, stationery, is dated October 1[90]7, and contains four pages of lively archaeological discussion (”Your suggestion that all this series of castles is Islamic comes to me I confess as a new idea. It needs some consideration. Kal’at al Badya at any rate belongs to two periods, the Syrian tower in the fort being rebuilt of its materials. Your idea could not materially alter the kunst wissenschaftlicke importance of the buildings, nor could it alter, I think, one’s conception of the artistic influences under which they were built”), after which Bell declares “I send you all the papers from the Revue archiologique [sic]. The Cilician churches, Guyer says, were mostly rebuilt by the Armenians. Concerning the Karaiagh churches Sir W. Ramsay & I will have much to add & to correct. We have, we think, got back with certainty to earlier dates than we could be sure of before.” Littmann was a German scholar of Oriental languages who had studied at Princeton. In 1905 he lived among the Tigre people in Eritrea, and in 1906 directed the German Aksum Expedition in Ethiopia. In the same year he succeeded Theodor Noldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. He went on to serve as professor of Oriental languages at Gottingen, Bonn and Tubingen. He is notable for having deciphered Palmy-rene, Nabataean and Syriac inscriptions as well as historical texts of ancient Ethiopian monuments. He later published a translation of One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into German. This early work by Bell relates her travels through what is now 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, where Bell studied history).

£4,500 [115580]

37(BELL, Gertrude, contrib.) The Arab of Mesopotamia. Basra: Published by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1918Small octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to front board. Housed in green cloth slipcase and chemise, maroon morocco label to spine. Frontispiece map of Mesopotamia. Cloth bubbled on the boards, usual light browning throughout, but the hinges entirely sound, text-block unshaken, in far bet-ter condition than usually encountered, genuinely very good.

first edition of this fragile official publication, uncommon, particularly so in such – relatively – sharp condition. A “series of brief essays on subjects relating to Mesopotamia, written during 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 Dominions of the Sultan beyond the battlefields of Gallipoli and the ‘Iraq”.

£850 [116968]

38BENT, Theodore & Mabel. Southern Arabia. Soudan and Socotra. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900Octavo. 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-

insula extensively between 1893 and his death in 1897, adding “much to European knowledge of the Hadhramaut country, the mountainous area backing the Gulf of Aden . . . In November 1896 he traversed Socotra and explored the little-known country within 50 miles of Aden. His last journey was through parts of southern Arabia in 1897” (ODNB). This account of those last explorations – divided into sections on Southern Arabia, Muscat, the Hadh-ramaut, Dhorat and the Gara Mountains, the Eastern Soudan, the Mahri Island of Sokotra, Beled Fadhli and Beled Yafei. – was edited by his wife, “herself an intrepid traveller”, and is much en-hanced by “her important and early photographs” (ibid.)

Macro 524

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39BEVERIDGE, William. De linguarum orientalium, praesertim Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, & Samaritanae praestantia, necessitate, & utilitate quam & theologis praestant & philosophis . . . [and:] — [First five words in Syriac] id est, Grammatica linguae Domini nostri Jesu Christi, sive Grammatica Syriaca tribus libris tradita, quorum primus vocum singularum proprietatem, secundus syntaxin, tertius figuras grammaticas & praxin continet . . . Londini: excudebat Thomas Roycroft, 16582 works in one volume, octavo (178 × 109 mm). Contemporary blind-ruled sprinkled calf, later morocco spine label, sprinkled edges. Book-plate of the Islamic scholar R. M. Burrell to front pastedown. Slightly rubbed, fore edges of boards restored, occasional red ink-marks to margins from edge-sprinkling, otherwise a few trivial marks, front free endpaper chipped, first title page slightly soiled, marginal tan-burn to second title, contemporary inked annotations to title, p. 3 of first work, and p. 83 of the second. A very good copy.

first editions of both works, usually found together and probably always intended to be issued thus, with the text of the second work reading from back to front; there was a second edition in 1664. Bishop William Beveridge (1637–1708) would become one of the leading Anglican patristic scholars of the late 17th century. This “ambitious Latin treatise” (ODNB) was his first published book and intended for those who wished to study Walton’s Polyglot Bible (1654–7).

Wing B2092 & B2093.

£1,750 [104443]

40(BIBLE; Arabic.) Novum testamentum domini nostri Jesu Christi versio arabica. Mosul: Typis Fratrum Praedicatorum, 1876

Octavo (262 × 166 mm). Contemporary “native” green half morocco by the Education Society’s Press, Bycullah, raised bands and gilt rules to spine, titles gilt to second compartment, pebble-grained cloth sides, red sprinkled edges. 2 decorative title pages and one dedication leaf lithographed in or-ange, green and purple; Arabic text. 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 as-sociated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Stripping and rubbing to corners, a few trivial nicks to final leaves. A very good copy.

Extremely uncommon Arabic gospel produced by the Dominican Mission to Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, one copy only traced in libraries, at Tilburg in the Netherlands, and none listed at auc-tion. The text largely follows the influential Arabic Bible printed at Rome in 1703, with corrections and notes made through compari-son to the original Greek, the Vulgate and the “Syro-Chaldaic ver-sion”. The dedicatee was Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte (1828–1895), godson to Napoleon III, who was cousin to both his parents. The editor was Yusuf Dawud (1829–1890), a figure of great importance in the revival of Arabic letters in the 19th century. Dawud “was born in a village near Mosul. After receiving his elementary ed-ucation in his home town, he went to Rome where he received a degree in philosophy and theology and learned several European and Semitic languages. After he was ordained a priest in 1855 he returned home and became the Syriac-Catholic Bishop of Damascus 1879. Bishop Dawud then devoted his life to teaching, preaching, and writing” (Chejne, The Arabic Language: Its Role in His-tory, p. 138). His other works include an edition of the Peshitta and grammars of Arabic and Syriac.

£3,500 [117622]

41BIRD, Isabella. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs. By Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird). London: John Murray, 1891

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2 volumes, octavo (204 × 130 mm). Original light blue cloth, spines let-tered in gilt, front boards decoratively stamped in blue with titles and concentric frames gilt, patterned endpapers, fore and bottom edges un-trimmed. Photographic frontispiece to vol. 1, 12 engraved plates including the frontispiece to vol. 2, engravings to the text. Bookplate of Francis Gray Smart (1844–1912, physician and pioneer of homeopathy) to front paste-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.

first edition of one of the most important English accounts of Persia in the 19th century (Wright, The English Amongst the Persians, p. 149), by “the most notable woman traveller of her time” (ODNB). “The archetypal Victorian Lady Traveller . . . Isabella Bird did not begin her travelling career until quite late in life . . . for until she was forty she was occupied as the family spinster in caring for her parents” (Robinson). For health reasons she sailed for Australia, New Zealand the Sandwich Islands, then visiting in China and Japan. Following a trip to India in 1879, Bird landed at Basra on 1 January 1880 intending “to ride across little known parts of Turkey and Persia, to visit Christian outposts and the ancient communities of the Armenians and Nestorians in Kurdistan. She fell in with Ma-jor Herbert Sawyer of the Indian army. Her reputation as a traveller must have preceded her, for the tough officer of thirty-eight agreed to set off with the widow of sixty (said to be in poor health). On 21 January 1890 they left Baghdad for Tehran on the roughest journey in her experience. It took them forty-five days, through driving and drifting snow, sheltering at night in overcrowded and filthy caravan-serai. So impressed was Sawyer with his companion’s courage and efficiency that he took her with him on his official journey among the Bakhtiari tribespeople of south-west Persia” (ODNB). After Bird finished helping Sawyer with his survey work, she rode north for the Black Sea. Bird’s obituary in The Guardian considered her account “in some respects . . . the best of her works, for both country and people and people are full of interest and variety, and her journey included a visit to some of the little-known Christian settlements in Syria, whose archaic ceremonies and and curious way of living she sympathetically describes”. The year after publication Bird

(1831–1904) became the first woman elected to the Royal Geograph-ical Society.

Burrell 100; Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 82–3; Wilson p. 23.

£1,500 [117136]

42BLACK, Archibald Pollok. A Hundred Days in the East. A Diary of a Journey to Egypt, Palestine, Turkey in Europe, Greece, the Isles of the Archipelago, and Italy. London: John F. Shaw & Co., 1865Octavo (175 × 117 mm). Original green cloth over bevelled boards, gilt-lettered spine, blind frame to boards, dome and minaret vignette gilt to front, brown coated endpapers. Map frontispiece, folding map to rear, 6 plates, all wood-engraved. Contemporary gift inscription, “To Stephen Jay, from his friend, [?]R E Daintree” on the front free endpa-per. Lightly rubbed, very short superficial split to cloth at foot of spine, tips slightly bumped and worn, small marking to rear board, contents toned, sporadic mild spotting. A very good, bright copy.

first and only edition, quite scarce: four copies only in UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford); OCLC adds eight world-wide. Black, a Church of Scotland clergyman, travelled east in March 1864, sailing from France to Alexandria and visiting Cairo and Suez before undertaking an extensive tour of the holy sites of Pales-tine and the ancient monuments of Syria, Anatolia, Greece and Italy. He writes in his introduction that “the author, from cir-cumstances and choice, having travelled without tent or escort, found himself in localities and amidst scenery seldom visited by ordinary tourists . . . The book will not only be useful to Sab-bath-schools, church libraries, travellers to Palestine, but also to all who take an interest in the Holy Land”.

Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 76; not in Weber.

£500 [117038]

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43BLACKWOOD, Lady Alicia. Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea. Twenty Four Sketches in Aid of the Irish Church Missions, the Moravian Church Missions, the Vaudois Schools, the Turkish Missions. Ventnor: John Lavars, 18572 volumes, large folio (54.5 × 37 cm). Original cloth-backed drab paper wrappers printed in black. Housed in a flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Tinted lithographic title to each volume, 19 similar plates of which 5 are folding panoramas, folds of panoramas linen-backed verso as issued. Corners bumped, wrappers slightly marked in places, with a few nicks and short closed tears, two small perforations to each wrapper of the second volume, touching lithographic title and final plate, now re-paired, browning along edges of plates 1 and 9, plates 9–11 with pale tide mark at top edge, similar markings to top and fore edges of 20–21, stron-ger in the latter, though the images never affected. A very good copy.

first and only edition of this rare collection of Crimean War views, dedicated to Florence Nightingale, under whom the artist worked in Scutari. Just a handful of copies traced in com-merce, and five only in libraries worldwide (Oxford, National Library of Ireland, Newberry Library, New York Public Library, and Brigham Young); the Wellcome Institute has a fragmentary collection of six individual lithographs. Blackwood (1818–1913) and her husband were active members of the Evangelical Alliance; they travelled to Turkey after learn-ing of the fall of Sevastopol and the terrible situation following the Battle of Inkerman. “When Florence Nightingale was con-vinced that Lady Alicia was in earnest and willing to work she was asked to take charge of 200 women sheltering in appalling conditions in the foul basements of the great barrack hospital

at Scutari . . . Lady Alicia quickly demonstrated her energy and resourcefulness. Initially she took responsibility for 280 women and infants, many of them the wives, widows, and children of soldiers who had arrived from Varna in wretched condition. While sympathetic to the women’s plight, Florence Nightingale regarded them as hindrances to the major task of caring for mil-itary casualties. With supplies brought from England, charitable gifts, supplemented with goods bought locally, Lady Alicia set up a women’s hospital in a rented house” (ODNB). She also took charge of a lying-in ward, an invalid hospital, and set up a small infants’ school, and estimated that by she eventually had some 500 women working for her. When peace was proclaimed in March 1856 Blackwood and her husband travelled visited Balak-lava, Inkerman, Chernaya valley, and Cathcart’s Hill. Her sketch-es, which later appeared in octavo format in her memoir (1880), include impressive folding panoramas of the Bay and Monastery of St George, the Valley of Inkerman, the barrack hospital at Scutari, and Constantinople from the cliffs of Scutari, together with views of Sevastopol from the Redan, Bahçesaray, and more.

Abbey Travel 242; Atabey 113; Blackmer 148.

£7,500 [116740]

44BLEECK, Arthur Henry. Avesta: the religious books of the Parsees; from Professor Spiegel’s German translation of the original manuscripts. In three volumes. Hertford, Herts: for Muncherjee Hormusjee Cama, by Stephen Austin, 1864

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first edition. “Bleeck was for some time in the British Muse-um, where his remarkable linguistic capacity rendered him very useful. He had a wide knowledge of both oriental and European languages. He afterwards went out to the East during the Crime-an War, and until the conclusion of peace held a post in connec-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-turn to England, Bleeck worked for several years for a prominent Parsi merchant, Muncherjee Hormusjee Cana, who employed him to prepare an English version of the Avesta, the religious books of the Parsis, who were Zoroastrians, from an existing German translation. He performed the task well, publishing the work in 1864 in three volumes. Bleeck’s other works included A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language (with W. Burckhardt Bark-er, 1854) [and] A Concise Grammar of the Persian Language (1857)” (ODNB). Scarce in the original cloth.

£650 [108196]

45BONOMI, Joseph. Nineveh and its Palaces. The Discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ. London: Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853Octavo. Later (c.1900) half vellum, red morocco spine label, marbled sides and endpapers, yellow edges. Profuse wood-engraved illustrations, as plates and to the text. 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 as-sociated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Occasional

very light spotting and bleeding from edge-dye to margins. A very good, attractively bound copy.

second edition, revised, of Bonomi’s “major publication . . . a popular and scholarly work which regarded the city from the artistic and scriptural points of view and illustrated and discussed in depth the chief sculptures, reliefs, and inscriptions then known of that city”(ODNB). Nineveh and its Palaces was origi-nally published the previous year.

Arcadian Library 11034 (later edition).

£250 [117585]

46BOROVKOV, A. Dorvoz. Brodizchiy tsirk v Srednei Azii (Dorvoz, The Wandering Circus of Central Asia). Tashkent: Sredazkniga, 1928Octavo. Wire-stitched in original light card pictorial wrappers. Three colour lithographic illustration to the front panel of the wrappers, 3 plates from photographs, 30 pages of text. Overall just a little browned, very good.

first and only edition, print-run of just 800 copies, ex-tremely uncommon with no copy traced institutionally. An attractive early study of the Uzbeki traditional circus. Evidence found in ancient Samarkand (Afrasiab) from the fifth and fourth centuries bce, shows the presence at that early date of pro-fessional animal trainers, bareback riders, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, and ropewalkers. These last are the main feature of Uz-beki circus performance, with the art of “ustoz” or ropewalking being passed down as a family tradition. The word “Dorvoz” translates as “playing with the gallows”.

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47BOTELER, Thomas. Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed by His Majesty’s Ships Leven and Barracouta from 1821 to 1826. Under the command of Capt. F. W. Owen, R.N. London: Richard Bentley, 18352 volumes, octavo (219 × 136 mm). Late 19th-century red half calf, dec-orative gilt spines, pinkish linen cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Lithograph frontispieces and 2 plates by C. Hamberger or T. M. Baynes after Boteler. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Spines 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.

first edition, commercially rather uncommon. Sir Richard Burton, in a footnote in his Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cat-aracts of the Congo (1876) described the journeys of the Leven and Barracouta as “this great surveying undertaking”. “Following the re-establishment of British sovereignty in South Africa at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, and with trade possibilities emerging along the east coast of Africa, the British Admiralty decided to undertake a major survey of the African coastline. An expedition was fitted out at Woolwich in 1821, led by William Fitzwilliam Owen on board Leven, a ship-sloop of 26 guns, assisted by Commander William Cutfield on the 10 gun brig Barracouta. The expedition progressed to south-ern Africa and in late 1823, while the Barracouta was surveying part of the African coast north of Mozambique, Owen sailed to Bombay in Leven to obtain provisions and to send completed

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 coast to meet up with the Barracouta . . . Both Owen and Thomas Boteler published lengthy books about their journeys. Boteler was initially second lieutenant on Leven, but after the death of Captain Cutfield of the Barracouta during the survey of Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, was transferred to the Barracouta as first lieu-tenant. Owen’s book, badly edited by Heaton Bowstead Robin-son, is at times confusing, and it is difficult to know whether the words are those of Owen or Boteler . . . Boteler’s book, edited by Richard Bentley (Boteler having died in 1828 from the effects of fever), is less spoiled by editorial meddling and more faithful to the original manuscript. Chapter 6 of volume II includes an account of the Leven and her operations in Arabian waters, but is based on Owen’s journal, as neither Boteler nor Barracouta visited Oman” (New Arabian Studies, Vol. 2, 1994, pp. 10–11).

Gay 39; Hilmy I 84; Mendelssohn I p. 252.

£2,500 [117586]

48BOULGER, Demetrius Charles. The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet, Ameer of Kashgar. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1878Octavo. Original red cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to boards, grey-brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding coloured map frontispiece. A little rubbed at the extremities, perhaps a quarter of an inch lacking at spine ends, hinges slightly cracked, light toning, overall a very good copy.

first edition of this uncommon life of this “remarkable Muslim adventurer” (Hopkirk, The Great Game, p. 322) from Piskent, Kokand – now Uzbekistan – who became ruler of Kashgaria. He signed treaties of amity and commerce with both Russia and Britain, but crucially failed to get them to support him against the Chinese. He died in 1877, after his army had been routed by the Emperor’s in-vasion force – “whose leisurely progress included the planting and

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harvesting of its own crops”, taking three years to reach Kashgar – most likely the victim of a poison plot: “Four of Yakoob’s sons and two of his grandsons fell into the hands of the Chinese. One son was beheaded, one grandson died, and the rest were sentenced to be castrated and sent as slaves to the soldiers on the Amoor” (Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary). The author was one of the founders, and first editor, of the Asiatic Quarterly Review and a leading publicist of Empire and Asian affairs.

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49BRACHET, H. “Atlas pour le cours de Géographie et d’Histoire ancienne pendant l’année Scolaire 1840. Avec le Sommaire de chaque leçon.” 1840Landscape quarto (222 × 290 mm). Contemporary burgundy peb-ble-grained morocco, title direct to spine which is decorated in rocaille style with repeated foliate arabesques, floral and bird tools, both boards with thick-and-thin fillet gilt panel enclosing an elaborate decorative panel similarly composed to spine decoration with numerous flamboy-ant large foliate arabesques, all edges gilt, broad swagged roll gilt to turn-ins, hand-finished floral-sprigged black surface-paper endpapers 36–leaf manuscript with title-page vignette of an oak and laurel wreath in black and sepia, and 6 other vignettes, 8 detailed full-page maps fin-ished in colours, and 4 full-page watercolour illustrations en grisaille, accompanying text in a neat calligraphic hand. A little light shelf-wear, some discolouration at the gutter of the front and rear blanks, one front

free endpaper somewhat creased, the text a little browned, but other-wise clean, a well-finished and handsomely-presented example.

This French manuscript is a painstakingly completed school exercise, which has resulted in the creation of a highly attractive atlas to accompany a course in ancient history, covering the period from the Assyrian Empire to the demise of Alexander’s Empire in eight maps, each of them accompanied by a brief explanatory text. Individual maps include Egypt and Arabia; the Assyrian and Persian Empires; Asia Minor; Greece, the Greek Colonies; and the Expeditions of Alexander. There are also full page watercolours of the Parthenon and the Hephaestion, or Temple of Theseus, in Athens. The setting of such tasks was a relatively common practice in the early 19th century, but it was very rare indeed for the result to be such a highly finished and assured piece, here bound with commensurate care.

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50(BRAHE, Tycho.) SAYILI, Aydin. Tycho Brahe Sistemi Hakkinda XVII. Asir Baslarina Ait Far[s]ça Bir Yazma. An Early Seventeenth Century Persian Manuscript on the Tychonic System. Ankara: Dil ve Tarih-Çografya Fakültesi, 1958Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly sunned at the edg-es. A very good copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nicholas 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.

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51(BRITISH RESIDENCY, BANDAR ABBAS.) Manuscript daybook. Bandar Abbas: 1905–29Folio ledger book (390 × 240 mm). Contemporary sheep dyed red, marbled endpapers, cloth hinges, pp. [4], 286, numerous blank leaves at rear; pp. 161–4 typescript; typescript memorandum pasted to pp. 273–6. Most agree-ments ratified with consular ink-stamps or pasted Consular Service postage stamps. Binding rubbed and worn, inner hinge split between pp. [2–3], very occasional ink-smudging, nevertheless in excellent condition.

Manuscript daybook covering the formative period of the British consulate at the key Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, from early in the tenure of the influential yet ill-fated Captain William Shakespear (1904–9) to the flourishing of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the late 1920s. The documents, which are mainly in Persian or En-glish, with a number in Arabic and a few in Sindhi (Khudawadi script), include fair copies of bills of sale, promissory notes, prop-erty leases, inheritance agreements, and other contracts (general-ly involving the appointment of agents). The parties include local merchants, of Arab (Bahraini and Omani) and Indian origin in ad-dition to Persians, and various British companies which played an important role in the expansion of imperial influence in the re-gion. The contracts themselves mainly concern property or oper-ations in Bandar Abbas and nearby Minab, as well as Qeshm Is-land, inland Persia, the hometowns of Indian signatories, and the oil field at Hengam Island. Together they form a highly detailed primary source for the commercial and social life and “the major entrepôt for the whole of southern Persia” (Busch, Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914, p. 44), for the functioning of an important British outpost during an era marked by such convulsions as the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11, the First World War, and the Persian coup d’etat of 1921, and for the rapid growth of APOC and the ongoing strategic contest between the British and Russian empires. The documents are neatly presented throughout; those in Per-sian are composed in an especially attractive flowing nasta’liq script. All are briefly described in English, then ratified, signed and stamped by the acting consul (only occasionally a munshi, who is named as Abdus Samad). The whole is very well preserved in-deed, and forms a highly attractive historical record. After the collapse of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, Bandar Abbas came under Omani control and underwent a long period of de-cline until the Qajar reconquest in 1868 led to a revival in trade. By 1889 George Curzon noted a variety of products passing through the port – “exports included opium, cotton, dates, salt, wool, pis-tachios, almonds; imported were cotton fabric, thread, copper, iron, tin, spices, indigo, sugar, tea, glassware, and porcelain” (Ency. Iran.) – though growing Russian dominance of central Asian trade led to a decline in British imports in the 1890s. The British consulate was established in 1900, the same year in which the ar-rival of a Russian vessel, Giliak, “supported the view among British authorities that the Russians were seeking a naval base in the Gulf ” (Martin, ed., Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, p. 155). In 1902 the British held a secret conference at which it was decided that seizing Bandar Abbas would be a priority in the event of war with Russia or France. Conditions were notoriously inhospitable: the first three British consuls were either invalided out or died of fever; a fourth (Major W. G. Grey, 1902–4) lasted slightly longer, but it was Shakespear, “at the time of his appointment . . . the youngest consul in the In-

dian administration” (ODNB) and concurrently serving as assis-tant to the political resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Percy Cox, who finally established the outpost on surer foundations, despite the upheaval of the Constitutional Revolution. In 1902 a Times of India report had lamented the “half-finished” consulate building; Shakespear oversaw the construction of a new complex of build-ings which he proclaimed to have had “an excellent effect on the public mind … the political predominance of the British flag at this port being well typified by their superiority and extent” (Brit-ish Library, “The Lonely Death of a British Vice-Consul in Persia”, online). Twelve documents in this daybook are signed by Shakespear, including several wills and, notably, two property leases by ex-porters Gray Paul & Co., who had established their office at Ban-dar Abbas in 1865, and pioneered the expansion of British com-merce in the Persian Gulf (see Jones, Two Centuries of Overseas Trad-ing, p. 23). In 1906 Shakespear was sent to Muscat, probably to re-lieve tensions between him and the Russian consul, leaving Indi-an Army officer Cecil Hamilton Gabriel as acting consul until his return in 1909, shortly after which he transferred to Kuwait, where he was the first British officer to make contact with Ibn Sa’ud, and made important explorations into the Arabian interior. It has been speculated that had he not been killed in a skirmish between the House of Sa’ud and the Shammar in 1915, he might have “suc-ceeded in harnessing Ibn Sa‘ud’s energies more thoroughly to the imperial war effort, [and] a very different post-war Arab world might well have emerged” (ODNB). In 1904 Russia established a consular agency at Bandar Abbas, with a full consul appointed in 1906. Gabriel’s tenure witnessed the Anglo–Russian Agreement of 1907, which divided Iran into spheres of British, Russian, and so-called “neutral” influence, though consular activities during this time appear to have contin-ued as usual, mainly involving deals between local Persian and In-dian merchants. In 1910 and 1911 Britain and Russia issued Iran with ultimatums concerning their interests in the south and north of the country respectively. In 1910 a new consul, Captain Hugh Biscoe, was appointed, by which time the British consulate is shown to be ratifying mortgages and other commercial agree-ments originally executed by the Sadid al-Saltanah – the local dig-nitary appointed Russian consular agent – on behalf of British In-dian subjects (see the entries for 5 June and 16 October 1911). The Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Resi-dency for the years 1911–1914 (Qatar Digital Library, online), gives a useful overview of how British interests developed under Biscoe, the year 1914 being the first of many in which the Bandar Abbas district “enjoyed complete immunity from pillage and disorder … The incursions en masse by Baharlus and other tribesmen … appear to have ceased” (p. 17). The Russian consul-ar agent, Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan, moreover, is said to “take but little part in local activities” while the Persian deputy-gover-nor, in post since 1911 “continued to work most satisfactorily for British interests and to maintain most friendly relations with Captain Biscoe” (ibid.) Biscoe’s report does, however, also allude to the success of German propaganda among the Indian com-munity and to the inevitable sympathy of the local Muslim pop-ulation towards the Ottomans. W. R. Howson, previously vice-consul at Lingeh, replaced Bis-coe in March 1915, serving until 1919. His entry in the Administra-tion Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915–1919 describes the ongoing cooperation of the Persian depu-


ty-governor, but also renewed aggression by Baharlu tribesmen, and an attack on the Anglo-Persian Oil Company camp on Qeshm Island by a party of Khuzistanis, which he attributes to “German intrigue” (p. 16). In response to the German threat, Sir Percy Sykes landed at Bandar Abbas in 1916 to establish the South Persia Rifles, a native force under his command, with some initial success. One con-tract recorded here (18 October 1916) engages an “S. Dorabjee” to provide 1,000 camels to Captain R. C. Ruck, British commanding officer at Bandar Abbas. This is Bombay merchant Sir Dorabji Tata (1859–1932), who developed the business founded by his fa-ther Jamsetji that is now the global conglomerate Tata Group. The Tatas reappear in May 1922, when they are appointed sole agents for selling candles produced by the Burmah Oil Co (a similar con-tract agreed on 18 September 1924). By 1929 they are recorded se-curing a similar contract with APOC. Although the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919 never came into effect owing to the Persian coup d’état of 1921, APOC rapidly ex-panded throughout the 1920s, during which time the consul at Bandar Abbas was Indian Army officer Arthur William Fagan. The daybook shows how APOC and other British companies success-fully cultivated networks of local agents, mainly of Indian origin. The final 50 pages are entirely taken up by contracts concerning oil and its by-products. A successful Indian merchant aside from Tata was Khan Sahib Ibrahim Giladari (also Gelladari or Gal-

ladari), who is recorded signing extensive memoranda of agree-ment with APOC (9 November 1921) and the Royal Indian Marine (13 June 1924) respectively agreeing to supply salt obtained at Qeshm Island and to perform coaling services at Hengam. The overall impression of Bandar Abbas is one of a cosmopoli-tan Gulf hub. There are mortgage deeds executed by Bahraini no-taries (Sheikh Ahmed bin Sheikh Hassan Bahreini and Seyid Moosa bin Seyd Alawi Bahreini) on behalf of various Hindu mer-chants in Minab and Bandar Abbas itself; a trader on Qeshm Is-land giving power of attorney to a partner in Bombay; such docu-ments as “Bond of compromise executed between Seyid Abdul Kader, the agent of Haji Muhamed bin Abdullah Ghulam of Mus-cat and the heirs of the late … Gelladari of Bunder Abbas”; an ex-tensive deed of sale, in Arabic, involving one Haji Nasib of Mus-cat; and an intriguing agreement involving the sale of Persian car-pets through an agent in New York named Amin Izmirhan. In ad-dition there is a fascinating description by S. G. Knox, political agent at Muscat, concerning a building in the city known as “al-Hatim”, which was used by the city’s Persian population “for recital of odes on the anniversary of the death of Hussain”, Knox’s description apparently being intended to secure permission to re-furbish the structure.

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52BROCKBANK, Oliver. Diary of a Journey through the Sinai Peninsula and Arabia in 1914. London: [ for the author,] 1916Octavo. Original red buckram, title gilt to the front board. 16 plates, folding map. Just a little rubbed, spine mildly sunned, endpapers lightly browned, pale toning to the text, couple of short tears – no loss – to the map, a very good copy.

first and only edition, uncommon, just eight copies on OCLC. Brockbank was born into a wealthy Mancunian Quaker steel family in 1870, and was educated at Cambridge. He made several trips to the Middle East in search of the “Holy Land” of the scriptures, on this occasion spending “exactly five weeks and a day under canvas in the Desert of the Exodus and Arabia, and during the time covered 400 miles on camel and 700 miles on horseback”, from Port Said to Jerusalem. Despite Brock-bank’s evangelicalism – he founded a working-class chapel, Ivy Cottage, at Didsbury in 1893 which still thrives today – his diary-form narrative is more chattily descriptive than preachy, and is much enhanced by the plates from the author’s own pho-tographs. An interesting and well-produced privately-published travel journal.

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53BROWNE, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; and Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, 1806Quarto (268 × 209 mm). Contemporary half calf on drab boards, black morocco label, flat bands, elaborate gilt tooling to compartments, foliate roll gilt to spine and corner edges, edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and full-page plan, with errata, corrigenda and directions to the binder leaf, half-title bound in. Contemporary en-graved bookplate with Baron’s coronet and the monogram EVB to front pastedown. Slightly rubbed and spotted, skilfully restored on the joints,

contents lightly browned throughout, the prelims more heavily so, and some foxing to the maps, one map with neat, old paper repair verso, remains very good in an appealing contemporary binding.

second edition, enlarged, first published in 1799. “This important work contains the earliest information in English about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by Bruce’s travels, went to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in the eastern Sa-hara and to journey to the source of the White Nile. He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first Englishman to explore the temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of Siwa. Browne was the first European to describe Darfur, which he reached with a Suda-nese caravan in 1793. He was imprisoned there by the Sultan of Darfur. In 1796 he reached Egypt again by caravan and eventually returned to England via Syria and Constantinople” (Blackmer). Browne’s description of Egypt is widely considered to be “one of the best of the period, despite its dry, affected style” (Howgego); the book caused “some controversy because of its considerable sympathy towards, and admiration of, the East” (ODNB).

Arcadian Library 11091 for the first edition; not in Atabey, Browne’s work represented solely by a French juvenile based on the Travels 156; Blackmer 219 listing the first edition; Gay 43; Howgego I, B170; Ibra-him-Hilmy I, p. 91

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54BUCKINGHAM, James Silk. Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a Journey from Aleppo, Across the Euphrates to Orfah (the Ur of the Chaldees,) through the Plains of the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in Asia Minor; from thence to Mardin, on the Borders of the Great Desert, and by the Tigris to Mosul and Bagdad: with Researches on the Ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia. London: Henry Colburn, 1827

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Quarto (273 × 211 mm). Contemporary half calf, gilt-tooled raised bands to spine, compartments ruled in gilt and blind, blue label, marbled sides, red-sprinkled edges. Engraved folding map, mounted on linen stub as issued, 2 further maps, 27 wood-engraved chapter headings. Spine lightly 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-cilled paragraph summaries in a contemporary hand to margins of first 50 pages or so, scattered marginalia elsewhere. A very good, tall copy.

first edition, large-paper issue. Buckingham (1786–1855) spent much of his early life as a merchant sailor. Between 1813 and 1814 he travelled in Egypt, meeting Muhammad Ali Pasha, who despatched him to Bombay to develop trade with India. There he accepted a further commission from the Imam of Muscat, but was forced to return to Egypt by the East India Company. From Cairo he travelled overland India through Syria, Iraq and Iran. Travels in Mesopotamia recounts the Aleppo to Baghdad leg of the voyage, undertaken in mid-1816. In 1818 he established the Calcutta Journal, an antigovernment periodical, and was expelled from India five years later, subse-quently becoming a vocal supporter of the temperance and other Liberal movements. He “spent far longer in the Arab world than most other occasional visitors” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library, p. 96) and his travel writings, which he wrote partly to fund legal battles in defence of his character, are “especially notable for the information they provide about social conditions in the many countries he visited” (ODNB). Travels in Mespotamia is con-sidered “full of lively descriptions and sympathetic characters” (Blackmer).

Arcadian Library 11106; Atabey 163 for the first octavo edition (1827); Blackmer 233; Burrell 128; Howgego II B69; Weber 146.

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55BUNBURY, Sir Edward Herbert. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages to the Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 19592 volumes, octavo. Original light brown cloth, spines lettered in blue, top edges purple. With the dust jackets. 20 maps of which 2 folding. Extremities very lightly bumped. An excellent set in the slightly sunned dust jackets.

Facsimile of the 1883 second edition of Bunbury’s “major piece of scholarship and principal claim to fame” (ODNB), this copy from the collection of noted American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with his ownership inscription dated “Stanford 1961” to the front free endpaper of both volumes. Bunbury’s History of Ancient Geography was first published in 1879. Considered to “epitomise the achieve-ments and limitations of High Victorian classical scholarship” (P. G. Hall, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 12, No. 48, p. 342), Bunbury’s landmark work included a number of im-pressive maps purporting to reconstruct the world as perceived by ancient scholars such as Strabo, Homer and Ptolemy.

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56BURGOYNE, Michael Hamilton. Mamluk Jerusalem. An Architectural Study. With additional historical research by D. S. Richards. [London:] on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem by the World of Islam Festival Trust, 1987Folio. Original crushed-morocco-effect blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, calligraphic Arabic titles to front and rear covers, blue and grey decorative endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase with calligraphic Arabic lettering gilt to sides. 10 colour photographic plates; profuse half-tone photographs and architectural line-drawings to the text; laid-in blue card portfolio with two large fold-ing plans loose as issued. Number ink-stamped to front free endpaper, a few neat inked annotations to list of architects and surveyors. An excel-lent copy in the dust jacket with a few small creases at extremities.

first and only edition, 3,000 copies printed, this copy from the collection of historian Greville Freeman-Grenville (1919–2005), with his ownership inscription dated 1987 to the front free endpaper verso and a publisher’s compliments slip, inscribed “To Dr Greville Freeman-Grenville, Here is a copy of Mamluk Jerusalem for your kind attention and favours of review in the J.R.A.S., Alistair Duncan”, tipped-in between the con-tents and acknowledgements leaves. Greville Freeman served in Egypt in the Second World War and subsequently worked as a lecturer in Baghdad; he then married Mary, Lady Kinloss, and assumed the surname Freeman-Grenville, joining the Colonial Service and holding posts in Aden, Tanganyika and Ghana before returning to England. He wrote more than 20 books, including architectural studies of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Basilica of the Annunciation in Jerusalem, and served as vice-president of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1997 to 2000.

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57BURKE, John. Album of photographs from the Hazara Expedition, 1891. 1878–93Landscape folio (380 × 300 mm). Contemporary black half roan, dark green morocco-grained boards ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, white moiré-silk effect endpapers. 39 albumen photographs each c.215 × 280 mm mounted to stiff card leaves, detailed inked captions on mounts iden-tifying location and personnel, discreet captions and Burke catalogue numbers in the plate where applicable (26 photographs labelled Burke, Burke and Baker or “B”; 2 with numbers only; 5 captioned “J. Winter”; remainder uncaptioned), contemporary tissue-guards laid in. Binding slightly rubbed, some light staining to boards, neat restoration of the joints, head and tail of the spine and to the corners, a few very minor spots of foxing to mounts, first photograph slightly oxidised and a few slightly faded along margins but prints in the main in excellent condi-tion, retaining their rich tonal contrasts.

A collection of fine photographs largely originating from the Black Mountain, or Hazara, Expedition of 1891, with the owner-ship inscription of Captain C. J. H. H. Noble to the front free end-paper. The North West Frontier Province was highly unstable; res-tive local tribes, in particular the Yusufzai, were a major problem for the British, who converged on the region from three directions with a total force of some 7,000 troops. From the photographs it is clear that Burke was attached to the Indus River column: there are views of Attock, Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, the Indus Valley and several of Murree, regimental photographs, camp views, various images including Sikh soldiers and a striking scene of “No. 1 Mountain Battery shelling Diliasi from Palosi” (Burke 81). The final two photographs – each of the 1st Bedfordshire Regi-ment – are puzzling: Charles John Herbert Hay Noble (b. 1870), son of Col. C. S. Noble of Murrayfield, Edinburgh, received his commission in the Yorkshire Regiment in September 1894 having 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 and was mentioned in despatches (7 May 1901) before dying of

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wounds received in action at Schalkie Farm, near Bethlehem, in November the same year. At around 17 years old John Burke travelled out to India as an assistant apothecary to the Royal Artillery, but he spent very little time in the service before forming a partnership with William Baker, a retired sergeant of the 87th Regiment, in a photographic studio: “the first commercial photographers in Peshawar and in the North-West Frontier . . . [ranking] among the earliest war, news and landscape photographers in the Indian subcontinent . . . [becoming] over the next decades the first photographers to work in large areas of northern British India and the independent feudal realms of Kashmir and Afghanistan” (Khan, From Kashmir to Kabul, p. 11). Outside of the extensive archive of the photographs themselves, they left little record of their lives, taking a prominent place “among the finest forgotten photographers of the British Raj”. Whatever the reason for the work of their studio so often being passed over in favour of better-known photographers (Bourne and Shepherd for example), it is not due to any technical or aesthetic 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,

they won many of the top photography awards in competitions throughout British India”. Burke’s work was also far more widely published in Graphic and the ILN than that of any of his competi-tors. This excellence has not been lost on genuine connoisseurs of Indian photography, one of the first modern publications of Raj photography Worswick and Embree’s The Last Empire – based on Worswick’s pioneering collection, now at the Getty Research Institute – included more photographs by Burke and Baker than by any of their contemporaries. “Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878–80), despite being rejected for the role of of-ficial photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs ‘illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad’ . . . Burke’s two-year Afghan expedition produced an important visual document of the region where the strategies of the Great Game were played out” (British Library online cataloguing).

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“Bokhara Burnes” provides intelligence for the Russian expansion into Central Asia

58BURNES, Alexander. Putesestvie v Buharu: razskaz o plavanii po Indu ot morâ do Lagora s podarkami velikobritanskago korolâ i otcet o putesestvii iz Indii v Kabul, Tatariû i Persiû predprinâtom po predpisaniû vyssago pravitel’stva Indii v 1831, 1832 i 1833 godah (Travels into Bokhara, in Russian). Moscow: Universitetskoa tipografia, 1848–93 volumes, octavo (199 126 mm). Recent green grained half calf to style, marbled boards, red morocco lettering and numbering pieces, gilt devices in compartments, single gilt rules to spine and corner edges, edges sprinkled blue. 10 lithographic plates, 2 of them single-tint, and 2 engraved plates, folding engraved map. Typical foxing and browning throughout, together with occasional pale marginal hygroscopic damp-ing, the third volume on slightly superior paper less affected, overall very good.

first edition in russian of Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara, his account of his renowned reconnaissance into the region. Decid-edly uncommon, just a single set found on OCLC in the Nation-al Library of Poland. Burnes was the Great Game exponent par excellence: he “excelled at political work. His linguistic ability

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. When Burnes returned to England with his report in 1833 he was greeted as a hero, he “received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and enjoyed a flattering audience with William IV”. Anticipating a sensa-tion, the publisher John Murray “was quick to acquire Burnes’s account of his journey . . . [It] brought to the reader for the first time the romance, mystery and excitement of Central Asia. It was to prove an immediate best-seller, 900 copies being sold on the first day” (Hopkirk, The Great Game, p. 151). This timely edition was prepared by the Russian Geographical Society, which was founded in 1845. The failure of the 1839–40 Khivan Expedition, which had attempted to exploit Britain’s preoccupation with the First Afghan War, had not dimmed Russia’s ambitions in Central Asia; accurate intelligence on the region was actively pursued from all available sources. The present work was an expensive production, and publication was underwritten by Platon Golubkov, a merchant with significant interests in Central Asia and one of the founding members of the Geographical Society. Golubkov was the only member with a solely commercial background, and in the 1840s and 50s was responsible for financing the publication of eight books on Asia, all of them translations, mostly concerned with India and Afghanistan. A handsomely presented copy of this historically influential and genuinely scarce work.

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59BURNES, James. A Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde; A Sketch of the History of Cutch, from its First Connexion with the British Government in India till the Conclusion of the Treaty in 1819; and some Remarks on the Medical Topography of Bhooj. Edinburgh: John Stark, 1831Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Recent half calf to style, raised bands and gilt fillets to spine, red label, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red. 2 folding partial-colour lithographic maps (one as frontispiece), lithographed folding genealogy. With the terminal errata leaf. Short closed tear to map facing p. 145 affecting frame only. A very good, clean copy in an attractive period-style binding.

first uk edition, published two years after the unprocurable Bombay edition of 1829, which was privately printed “for the pe-rusal of the author’s friends”. Uncommon, with three copies only traced at auction, and nine in UK libraries (including copies with Robert Cadell, the publisher, substituted in the imprint for Stark, the printer). Burnes (1801–1862) arrived in Bombay with his brother, Alexan-der, in 1821. “He filled various minor posts in the Indian Medical Service (IMS), and was successful in the open competition for the office of surgeon to the residency of Cutch. He volunteered to ac-company the force which, in 1825, expelled the Sindians who had devastated Cutch and forced the British brigade to retire to Bhuj. The amirs of Sind then invited him to visit them as ‘the most skilful of physicians and their best friend, and the cementer of the bonds of amity between the two governments’, and on his return he was complimented by the government on the zeal and ability he had displayed at Cutch and Hyderabad. His account of his visit to Sind, written as an official report to the resident at Cutch, is an excellent account of the country, and was a valuable contribution to the geography of India” (ODNB), offering “a number of obser-vations of court life in Hyderabad of which the most interesting describes the high level of mutual suspicion displayed among members of the ruling family” (Riddick).

Riddick, Glimpses of India 77.

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60BURTON, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Recent dark red half morocco by Trevor Lloyd, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red, marbled endpapers. Chromolithographic frontispiece and 3 similar plates, 7 illustrations to the text and 2 full-page maps. Contents toned, a few trivial spots. An excellent copy with bright plates.

first edition, second issue, without Appendix IV on infibu-lation as usual. Following his “pilgrimage” to Mecca, instead of returning to Britain where he was guaranteed a hero’s welcome at the Royal Geographical Society, Burton “lingered in Cairo until November 1853 . . . Even as he completed the manuscript of his Personal Narrative after returning to Bombay, he was planning the penetration of another forbidden city. This time his objective was Harar, an important religious centre and notorious base for the slave trade in Somalia” (ODNB). The expedition was enthu-siastically supported by the Bombay Council, and the party of four, Stroyan, Burton’s companion from Sind; Herne, a skilled photographer and surveyor; and John Hanning Speke, a young officer who was taken on at the last minute following the death of Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Stocks, assembled at Aden in October 1854. Burton revised his plans in response to the misgivings of the political resident James Outram, reserving the inland trip to Harar for himself. Speke was forced to return early to Aden from his trip to Wadi Nugal by the treachery of his guide; Burton spent ten days in Harar, where he was “spied upon constantly, but . . . learnt much from local scholars” (Howgego), meeting up with the other two party-members at Berbera. Once back in Aden, Burton planned a further trip, a trek up the Nile from the Somali coast. But on their return to Berbera in April their camp was attacked by Somali tribesmen, Stroyan being killed by a spear thrust, Burton receiving his famous facial wound, the party barely escaping. An account of the skirmish is included in the Postscript.

Abbey 276; Casada 35; Gay 2714; Howgego, II, B95; Penzer pp. 60–3

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61BURTON, Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London, Chatto and Windus, 1884Large octavo. Bound in recent full black morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rasied bands, original cloth used on pastedowns. With numerous illustrations throughout the text. A beautifully bound copy in fine condition.

first edition. Burton intended this to be the first part of a comprehensive three-volume work on the sword, but parts II and III, which are referenced throughout the book, remained incomplete at the time of the author’s death in 1890 and were never published.

Penzer, pp. 108–9.

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62BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1937Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, first issue binding. With the supplied dust jacket. Housed in a black morocco backed bookform folding case. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Spine slightly faded, some light rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy in the rubbed, creased, and slightly marked dust jacket.

first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Anthony Jeffreys from Robert Byron 1937” and with the recipient’s bookplate to front pastedown. Jeffreys was a contemporary of Byron’s who entered the civil ser-vice and rose to become Clerk Assistant in the House of Lords. Presentation copies of Byron’s works are uncommon and signed examples of his masterpiece The Road To Oxiana are rare. “An enquiry into the origins of Islamic art presented in the form of one of the most entertaining travel books of modern times” (ODNB). In his introduction to the 1981 re-issue, Bruce

Chatwin confessed to considering it “a work of genius” which he had elevated to the status of “sacred text”. He stressed that it remained an important book, as in between the “bravura pas-sages” Byron expounds a serious thesis about the significance of Afghan influence on Persian civilization.

£7,500 [79781]

63CAPPER, James. Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt, and across the Great Desert; with Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes. London: for W. Faden, J. Robson, and R. Sewell, 1783Quarto (250 × 197 mm). Attractive recent half calf to style by Trevor Lloyd, red morocco label, urn device gilt to compartments, marbled sides. 2 engraved folding maps. List of errata verso of dedication leaf struck through and the listed errors corrected in ink in a contemporary hand, lightly browned, some spotting, but overall a very good copy.

first edition. Capper was educated at Harrow and joined the army of the East India Company “in His Majesty’s Train of Artil-lery in the East Indies, first as a soldier cadet and later as an offi-cer. He was then for a while a free merchant in Bengal before be-coming in 1768 a captain in the Madras army and in 1769 senior writer for the presidency of Bengal . . . [later] appointed the East India Company’s commissary-general upon the coast of Coro-mandel” (ODNB). In early 1777 he was sent home with despatch-es, remaining in England until the autumn of 1778 when, “to explore the feasibility of opening a new channel for transmitting intelligence between Europe and India, he returned to Madras by way of Aleppo, the Arabian desert, and Basrah.” The present work contains details of his journey from India to England in early 1777, via Ceylon and Suez, and his return journey in 1778–9. Given more or less in journal form, it is full of fascinating de-tails of local life, offering numerous hints for the traveller in the

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region. As was so often the case, Capper felt himself badly treat-ed by John Company, issuing a lengthy memorial detailing the abuses of the company’s lax and corrupt civilian management in India. “Despite this he resumed his career in India in 1785, when he became comptroller-general of the army and fortification accompts on the coast of Coromandel, charged with reducing expenditure in Madras. He resigned in 1791 and returned to Britain. The East India Company twice thereafter refused him a pension.” He later made a name for himself as a meteorologist and as a local philanthropist in south Wales where he settled.

Blackmer 282; Gay 206; Wilson p. 37; not in Atabey.

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64CAREY, M. L. M. Four Months in a Dahabëéh; or, Narrative of a Winter’s Cruise on the Nile. London: L. Booth, 1863Octavo (214 × 131 mm). Late 19th-century red half morocco, decorative gilt spine, marbled sides & edges. Chromolithograph frontispiece and 5 similar plates. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Binding a little rubbed, plates with embossed stamp of Bath Public Library. A clean copy handsomely bound.

first edition of this attractively illustrated account by a wom-an traveller in Egypt: “Ms. Carey recorded her travails in one of the more readable and entertaining Nile travelogues” (Andrew Humphreys, On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel, 2015, p. 34). Humphreys also notes that “one of her fellow passengers was Ferdinand de Lesseps, who the previous year had broken new ground on his Suez Canal project”. The dahabëéh or dahabiyah – a shallow-bottomed barge-like vessel with two or more sails – was the standard mode of transport for tourists on the Nile, until

replaced by steam boats in the 1870s. Decidedly uncommon commercially, Copac cites copies at six British and Irish institu-tional libraries (British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, University College London), OCLC records around two dozen institutions worldwide.

Blackmer 287; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 119.

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65CARLISLE, Earl of. Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854Octavo, original grey-brown cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to boards. Publisher’s ads to the pastedowns. Armorial bookplate of a branch of the Browne family, motto “Suivez Raison” to front pastedown. A little rubbed and dusty, slightly cocked, light browning, else very good.

first edition. George William Frederick Howard, 7th earl of Carlisle, Liberal politician of a mildly reforming bent, resigned in 1852 when he failed to obtain a Cabinet position in the in-coming Peelite-Liberal coalition. “In consequence of this he believed that he had failed in politics . . . and spent most of the next twelve months travelling on the continent” (ODNB). The di-ary is written in quite informal and loquacious form – Blackmer notes his gossipy entries on life in Athens – but contains useful material: “Nothing can exceed the neglected and squalid condi-tion of these interesting buildings; the temple of the Winds was undergoing a systematic pelting from the ingenuous boyhood of Athens. It can hardly have been worse in Turkish times, and it certainly continues to afford the best justification to Lord Elgin.”

Blackmer Collection, 835.

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66CARLYLE, 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, 1796Large octavo (226 × 182 mm) Early 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked to style with the original red morocco label laid down, gilt rolls forming compartments, edges sprinkled blue. Sheet of musical notation, text in Arabic types, engraved head- and tailpieces. Lightly rubbed on the boards, corners professionally restored, internally a lightly browned and with occasional spotting, but overall a clean and carefully refurbished copy, presenting well.

first edition, second issue with a cancel title page; copies noted dated 1795. Carlyle was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Cambridge, and while at Queens “profited from the instructions of a native of Baghdad, who passed in Britain under the name David Zamio. As a result, Carlyle became so proficient in oriental languages that he was appointed professor of Arabic on the resignation of Dr Craven in 1795” (Stanley Lane-Poole in ODNB). In 1799 Carlyle was appointed chaplain to Lord Elgin’s mission to Constantinople and made an extensive tour through Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece, and Italy, collecting Greek and Syriac manuscripts for a proposed new version of the New Testa-ment, which he did not live to accomplish. On his return to En-gland in 1801 he was presented to the living of Newcastle upon Tyne, but his health had been undermined by the exertions of his expedition, and he died in 1804. Lane-Poole describes the present translation as “well-respected”.

Hamilton, The Arcadian Library 8444; Gay 3436

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67CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923–333 volumes, large octavo. Original brown diagonally-ribbed cloth, titles gilt to spines and enclosing gilt scarab device on black ground to front covers, pictorial endpapers. Photographic frontispiece to each volume, 186 similar plates (many double-sided, and numbered accordingly). Spines gently rolled, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, mild spotting to edges, endleaves and very occasionally margins of vols. 2 and 3. A very good copy.

first edition of Carter’s own account of the most spectacular archaeological discovery of the 20th century. “In the summer of 1922 Carter persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than usual Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb of Tutankhamen on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon hurried to Lux-or and the tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery astounded the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of spectacular objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants to help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and recording of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 the blocking to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered body and funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected the subsequent progress of Carter’s work. In spite of considerable and repeated bureaucratic interference, not easily managed by the short-tempered excavator, work on the clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly, but was not completed until 1932. Carter handled the technical processes of clearance, conservation, and recording with exemplary skill and care. A popular account of the work was published in three volumes, The Tomb of Tutankhamen (1923–33), the first of which was substantial-ly written by his principal assistant, Arthur C. Mace” (ODNB).

£3,250 [113870]

68CAUDILL, William Wayne. Probes. Reconnaissance for the American Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Houston, TX: Caudill Rowlett Scott, 1980]Quarto (210 × 214 mm). Comb-bound between card covers, printed title to front, 63 leaves of manuscript facsimile including a small number of blank leaves for notes. Frequent sketches to the text. A few light mark-ings to the front cover, else very good.

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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 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 reflections on the principles of Islamic design with specific exam-ples from Saudi architecture. Caudill (1914–1983) was professor of architecture at the University of Texas A&M when he founded Caudill and Rowlett in 1946. They became one of the first Ameri-can architectural companies to venture overseas when they began work on the King Fahd University for University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1965. In 1978 Saudi millionaire Ghaith Pharaon purchased a 20 percent stake in the company, and their involvement in the kingdom continued with their provision of engineering services in the construction of King Saud University, Riyadh, completed in 1984. Uncommon, the only other copy traced being that in the personal papers of John C. West, US ambassador from to Saudi Arabia from 1977 to 1981, now held at the University of South Carolina; this copy is signed on an introductory leaf by William Caudill.

£750 [113437]

“A monument of erudition” – from the collection of an authority on the Arab tribes of the Persian Gulf

69CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand-Pierre. Essai sur l’histoire des Arabes avant l’Islamisme, pendant l’époque de Mahomet, et jusqu’à la rédution de toutes les tribus soul la loi musulmane. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1847–83 volumes, octavo. Contemporary purple quarter morocco, flat bands gilt to spine forming compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides, and endpapers. 15 folding genealogical tables to rear of vol. 1. Laid-in compliments slip from the librarian at the University of Leicester. Extremities rubbed, tips worn, vol. 1 rear board partially cockled, section of backstrip lifting, mild cockling to both boards of 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

approximately p. 150 to end, short closed tears to stubs of folding tables, similar tide-mark in vol. 2, a good set, with the half-titles.

first edition of this “fundamental study of the history of the Arab tribes before the advent of Islam” (Arcadian Library p. 241), from the library of Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), Brit-ish colonial officer and Arabist, with his black letter ink-stamp to each initial blank, his ownership inscription to the front free endpapers of the second and third volumes, and printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with blind-stamps and manuscript shelf-marks as usual. Miles spent a significant part of his consular career in the Arabian Peninsula, stationed mainly in Muscat, whence he conducted numerous expeditions into the Arabian interior. A selection of his reports were published after his death as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919). The depth and variety of his writings, clearly informed by a deep knowledge of Islamic history and literature and published in various period-icals including the Geographical Journal, reveal him to have been “not a mere political agent or an observant traveller but a classi-cal scholar and Arabist” (Al-Hajri, British Travel-Writing on Oman, p. 162). This is a highly apposite association for this key text. Caussin de Perceval’s “masterpiece took him between ten and fifteen years to write. He intended to set down a complete history of the pre-Islamic period, a task never previously attempted. Tak-ing as source material a number of unpublished manuscripts in the Bibliothèque royale, notably of Ibn Khaldun and the Kitab al-Aghani, he painted a detailed tableau of Arab tribes and larger political entities . . . The resulting work, a monument of erudition, is therefore a sort of ‘voyage among the Arab tribes and their poets’” (Pouillon, Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, p. 201, our translation).

Arcadian Library 16923; Gay 3459; Macro 700.

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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., 1823Octavo (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 locations on Copac, Oxford, Glasgow, Queen’s Belfast, Senate House, and Natural History Museum. “The Russian government has, of late years, taken various measures to give more solidity to its commercial relations with the countries in the interior of Asia . . . efforts have been made to conciliate the independent tribes . . . [Contents include] a short extract from an account of an expedition to Kokand, in the years 1813–14, by Philip Nazaroff interpreter to the Siberian Corps . . . the account of an embassy to Bucharia in 1820–21 head of which was Mr. Negri, Counsellor of State . . . by Dr. Eversmann, physician to the Embassy, in which we have inserted several interesting extracts from the let-ters Mr. P. l. Jakolew, secretary to the embassy . . . [and] the nar-rative of a Journey to Turcomania and Chiva by Captain Moura-view” (Introduction). Nazarov’s was the first Russian embassy to Kokand, first published in Russian in 1821; Eduard Eversmann, a German-Russian naturalist, joined Aleksandr Negri’s embassy as a merchant, but carried out important scientific work, as well as leaving this account published as Reise Orenburg nach Buchara in 1823: “intrepid Murav’ev”, described by Hopkirk as the first Russian player of the Great Game, published his report on what is now Uzbekistan in 1822.

£575 [106587]

71CESAREO, Agostino. L’arte del navigare, con il regimento della Tramontana e del sole; e la vera regola et osservanza del flusso e reflusso delle acque sotto breve compendio ridotta. [No place:] 1587Manuscript, quarto; 66 leaves followed by 13 leaves with additions in a different, looser hand. 8 full-page illustrations, 4 with volvelles (mov-

able paper figures). With a dedication to Don Pietro Borgia, Prince of Squillace (d. c.1624), dated 1587, and an accompanying sonnet. Contem-porary limp vellum sewn on three cords. Some waterstaining through-out, possibly indicating practical use. Housed in a quarter morocco solander box.

unpublished illustrated handwritten manual of nav-igation in the Levant as well as in the South Seas, representing the state of Italian navigational art in the second half of the 16th century. This is one of the best known Italian navigational manuals of the period. It is probable that Cesareo composed his navigational treatise before 1567 and that several manuscript copies were subsequently produced, of which this is one. Al-though it was approved for publication by the papal authorities, no printed edition is known. This is precisely the kind of manu-al that would have been in the hands of the merchant navigators on whose ships the Venetian jeweller Gasparo Balbi famously travelled to India and Arabia during the years 1579–88, when he made the first European record of Bani Yas, as well as of Abu Dhabi and Dubai by their modern names. The present copy carries a dedication to Don Pietro Borgia, Prince of Squillace, dated 1587. Squillace is on the east coast of Calabria, southern Italy. The modern town was founded as a Byzantine fortress during the Byzantine reconquest of Italy (sixth–eighth century ce). During the tenth century it was subject to frequent raids by the Muslims of neighbouring Sicily, who made it for a short time a strong military base. After Arab rule, the city fell under Norman hegemony. In 1445, it reverted to the Aragonese Kings of Naples but passed by marriage to the infamous House of Borgia, who ruled the city as Princes of Squillace from 1494 to 1735. Don Pietro was lineal descendant of Gioffre Borgia (1482–1516), son of Pope Alexander VI and young-

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er brother of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia. The author’s surname, Cesareo, is of Sicilian origin. A few other copies of the text are known: a copy formerly in the National Maritime Museum and now MS 562 at the Beinecke Library (72 ff.) is dedicated to Giulio Colonna and dated 1567, while the British Museum holds a copy (74 ff., MS Add. 25882) with a preface and sonnet to Paolo Sforza, dated 1570. Yet anoth-er copy is kept at the Vatican (De Ricci, Census, p. 1899: with the ecclesiastical censors’ imprimatur, though no printed edition is known) and an anonymous manuscript is in the Library of Con-gress (Ms. Ac. 4325). It is noteworthy that the majority of surviv-ing copies are dedicated to powerful Italian noblemen. The text here is divided into three parts (other manuscripts have the same material divided into six), the first of which deals

with cosmography and navigation in general, navigation by the North Star (with a particularly evocative volvelle including a tiny ocean-going ship that circles the globe from pole to pole); and navigation in the southern hemisphere, by the Southern Cross and the south celestial pole. Part two describes navigation by the altitude of the sun (with extensive examples and tables, including the meridians throughout the Mediterranean), fol-lowed by “la regola della navigatione di Levante in ponente per longitudine”. Part three is occupied with the action of the tides, including details on the various hazards of the English Channel and the Strait of Messina, and contains a sketch of the man in the moon, controller of tides.

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72CHAUVIN, Léon. Études de chiffres arabes, avec des examples et un grand tableau autographiés par l’auteur. Paris: Librairie Dezobry, E. Madeleine et Cie., 1845Quarto. 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.

first and only edition, uncommon, OCLC locates copies at BnF, Oxford, Tel Aviv, University of California, Swiss National Library, and Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. An interesting study of the morphology of Arab numerals with ref-erence to calligraphy, illustrated with a series of elegant propor-tional studies lithographed by Villain, and hand-coloured.

£350 [90010]

73CHEESMAN, Robert Ernest. “The Deserts of Jafura and Jabrin”; [with] KING, William Joseph Harding. “The Dakhla-Owenat Road”; In The Geographical Journal, Vol. LXV, No. 2. London: The Royal Geographical Society, Feb. 1925Octavo. 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

Dakhlah oasis, which he proposes as an alternative to the route established by the great Egyptian explorer Hasanayn Pasha.

Cheesman: Macro 709, Howgego IV C32.

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74CHICK, Herbert. A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia, and the Papal Mission of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 19392 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panels to boards, Portrait frontispiece and 39 other plates, folding map. Slightly rubbed, spines relined, hinges repaired, endpapers browned, pale ton-ing to the text, some inked marginalia in volume I, slight tide-marks at the fore-edge of both volumes.

first edition of this important contribution to the history of the region based on extensive documentation from Archivio di Propaganda Fide and Casa Generalizia dei Carmelitani in Rome. “In 1604 Pope Clement VIII, with the support of Sigismund III Vasa of Poland, dispatched a mission of Discalced Carmelite fathers to Persia; the embassy represented the culmination of a policy of seeking alliances against the Ottoman empire that

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had been initiated by Pius V when he had attempted to formal-ize relations with Shah Tahmasb . . . they received a very warm welcome from Shah ‘Abbas I (1588–1629) and were permitted to settle at Isfahan in 1608. As ambassadors, they were given a royal residence near the Meydan-e Mir, where they established a handsome monastery. For many years it sheltered a varying number of fathers from a wide range of national backgrounds. In 1752 the last Carmelite departed, only a short interval after the death of Philippe-Marie de St-Augustin, bishop of Isfahan, in 1749 . . . The primary importance of the Carmelites in Persia was as witnesses to history; they were observers of political and social events through the reigns of ‘Abbas I and Safi I (1629–42), the fall of the Safavids, and the subsequent period of troubles. In addition, as great travelers, the Carmelite missionaries were of-ten reassigned to new posts and covered hundreds of kilometers in order to join their provincial chapters” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The Chronicle was described on its recent reissue as “an unparal-leled source of detailed information on the politics, diplomatic rituals, foreign policy concerns and matters of court ceremony of the time”.

Not in Wilson.

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75CHURI, 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, 1853Octavo. 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.

first edition, uncommon. Churi claimed to have been trained at the “Congregation of Propaganda in Rome from 1842 to 1849. He was subsequently in London where he taught Ara-bic, Latin, Italian and Hebrew”. Among his pupils was Captain William Peel, third son of Sir Robert Peel, who had been plan-ning an expedition into the interior of Africa, and “proposed to Churi that they should make a short tour to Egypt, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Syria. They left England on 20 Octo-ber, and were back by 20 February 1851. On 20 August following they left on the longer and more serious journey. They went up the Nile, across the desert to Khartoum, and on to al-‘Ubayd, where they suffered a severe attack of fever and ague. Peel re-turned to England early in January” (ODNB). Both men wrote accounts of their experiences during this second trip, Peel as A Ride through the Nubian Desert (1852) and Churi the present work.

Not in Gay; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 135, misspelled as “Chusi”.

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76CLARK, Christopher (illus.) In the Land of the Shah – Being a Series of Announcements Issued by the British Petroleum Co. Ltd. from Britannic House, Moorgate, London E.C. 2. London: British Petroleum Co. Ltd, Distributing Organisation of the Anglo Persian Oil Co. Ltd, [1925]Folio (440 × 298 mm). Original buff light card wrappers, printed in black, yapp edges. 12 finely-printed monochrome lithographic plates (c.155 × 200 mm), imposed within a “plate-mark” above descriptive text. Staples a touch rusted, a few minor splits to the edges of the wrappers, a scatter of foxing throughout, but overall very good indeed.

first and only edition, extremely uncommon, no other copies traced either institutionally or commercially. Evidently these “announcements” were in fact rather grand advertise-ments for BP, which were gathered together and presented even more grandly still. Publication was noted at the time in the “Wheels of Industry” column of The Commercial Motor, the jour-nal of the commercial vehicle industry: “An extremely beautiful production entitled ‘In the Land of the Shah’ has been issued by the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. which is the distributing or-ganisation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. The publication forms a portfolio of some of the company’s announcements which have appeared in the Press, but that Statement by no means does justice to it, for the ‘announcements’ take the form of delightful drawings of Eastern life, commerce, and customs by Christopher Clark, R.I., and they are reproduced on special paper, so that the impression given is almost that of steel en-gravings. Each drawing is accompanied by some interesting text. The portfolio is one of those productions that most men will take home. We believe that a copy will be sent to any reader who mentions The Commercial Motor” (The Commercial Motor, 17 Nov. 1925). The images range from the ancient historical – “A Temple of the Fire Worshippers”, “The Glories of Ancient Persia”, “The Tomb of Khusru Pharviz” – to the contemporary industrial –

“Transporting Pipe Line in Persia”, on mule back, “150 Miles of Pipe Lines” – via picturesque travelogue – “Ferry-Boats of the Tigris”, pitch waterproofed gufas, “A Persian Wedding”, as de-scribed by Sir Percy Sykes, “A Land of Leisurely Travel”, a heavily laden camel caravan. The evocative artwork is by Christopher Clark, a British commercial artist-illustrator best remembered for his work for British Railways, which often featured scenes of British pageantry. This is a fascinating early piece of promotion-al literature for the burgeoning oil industry, with a sheet of Brit-ish Petroleum Company stationery with roneoed compliments message loosely inserted.

£1,750 [103822]

The foundation of all our knowledge of Islamic Spain

77CONDÉ, J. A. History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain. Translated from the Spanish by Mrs Jonathan Foster. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854–53 volumes, octavo (174 × 109 mm). Contemporary half calf, red and green labels, low gilt milled bands, floral centre-tools, stylized foliate corner-pieces, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Steel-engraved frontispiece to volume I. A little rubbed, small gold inked pressmarks to the tails of the spines, light browning, but overall a very good set.

first edition in english, first published Madrid 1820–1; far from common in the market. Condé was the director of the library of the Escorial. His work is “characterized by a strong sympathy for Arab culture. For the first time a complete survey,

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based on Arab sources, was provided of the history of Islamic Spain from 711 to 1492, and a framework was established which has been followed ever since” (Hamilton, p. 271). With the bookplates of Catholic scholar Joseph M. Gleason to the front pastedowns, and his pencilled critique at the begin-ning of the text of volume I: “It has become the fashion to decry this work in our times, but most of the criticism is parrot-like. Yet Gayangos [Spanish Arabist Pascual de Gayangos y Arce, au-thor of The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain] calls it the foundation of all our knowledge of Moslem Spain”.

Hamilton, Arcadian Library 9214

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78COOK, Andrew S (ed.) Survey of the Shores and Islands of the Persian Gulf 1820–1829. Prepared for publication and with an introduction. [London:] Archive Editions, 19905 volumes, octavo, comprising one volume of text and 55 folding charts, maps and tables in four book-form boxes. Publisher’s boards, spines ruled and lettered gilt. Folding map in volume I, with 55 folding maps and charts. In excellent condition.

first edition of this important assemblage of texts and charts, reproduced from original material in the India Office Library and Records, London and in the Department of Manu-scripts, the British Library. “This is a publication of sea charts, harbour plans, coastal views and topographical descriptions produced during the survey of the shores and islands of the Persian Gulf carried out between 1820 and 1829 by officers of 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:

a) BRUCKS, G. B. “Draft Chapters for an unpublished Account of the Survey of the Persian Gulf ”, c.1835 (British Library: Add MS 14382);

b) MAUGHAN, Philip. “Plan for conducting the Survey of the South Coast of the Persian Gulf ”, 16 August 1821 (IOR: F/4/676, collection 18677);

c) HOUGHTON, M. “Account of Part of the Southern Coast or Arabian Side of the Persian Gulf between Ras Musandam and Dubai”, 1822 (IOR: X/10309). Facsimile of the original manuscript followed by a transcript.

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;

e) “Sailing Directions for the Gulf ”, 1836; from James Hors-burgh, India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from East Indies (London 1836), Vol. 1, pp. 305–77;

f ) WHITELOCK, H. H. “Descriptive Sketch of the Islands and Coast situated at the Entrance of the Persian Gulf ”; from Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 8, 1838, pp. 170–188;

g) WHITELOCK, H. H. “An Account of the Arabs who inhabit the Coast between Ras-el Kheimah and Abothubee [Abu Dhabi] in the Gulf of Persia, generally called the Pirate Coast”; from Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, vol. 1, 1836–8, pp. 32–54.

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79CORYATE, 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, 17763 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-

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membered for the prefatory mock-panegyric verses by the most illustrious authors of the day, including Jonson, Chapman, Don-ne, Campion, Harington, and Drayton. The whole apparatus of the book, including these verses, the plates and the original spelling, is reproduced here. Coryate then set out on a second tour to Constantinople, visited Aleppo whence he walked to the Holy Land and back (sending notes home which were first published in Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625), and then achieved the re-markable feat of walking from Jerusalem to India. After further wanderings within India, including a period living at the court of the Great Moghul, he died at or near Surat in Gujarat.

Howgego, I, C198.

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80COTTON, Sir Arthur. Arabic Primer: Consisting of 180 Short Sentences containing 30 Primary Words, prepared according to the Vocal System of Studying Languages. London: Trübner and Co., 1876Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to front board, blind panels to both boards, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Very lightly rubbed, pale ton-ing, occasional annotations in pencil. A very good copy.

first and only edition. Cotton (1803–99) was a soldier and engineer best remembered for his work on irrigation in south-ern India. Retiring to Dorking with the rank of general, “he in-vited an Arabic student, who could speak some English, to stay with him for several weeks . . . he spent hours every day in going through sentences of the languages, word by word . . . working out the new Primer, which was to meet the needs of missionaries in Persia and Armenia, and other countries where Arabic is spo-

ken” (Elizabeth Cotton, General Sir Arthur Cotton, His Life and Work, p. 522). Uncommon: ten locations on OCLC and only two in the UK – British Library and Oxford.

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The history of Constantinople, in fine blue morocco for the Duke of Abercorn

81COUSIN, Louis. Histoire de Constantinople depuis le regne de l’ancien Justin, jusqu’à la fin de l’Empire. Traduite sur les Originaux Grecs . . . Dediée a Monseigneur de Pompone Secretaire d’Estat. Paris: in the shop of Pierre Rocolet, for Damien Foucault, 1672–48 volumes, quarto (238 180 mm). Near-contemporary dark blue moroc-co, covers with triple fillet border in blind, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in second and third compartments, gilt turn-ins and board-edges, marbled endpapers, edges gilt over old marbling. Shelf-marks and ownership inscriptions of the Duke of Aber-corn to front free endpapers. Spines lightly sunned, a fine set.

first edition, a fine set of this abridged French translation of the Greek Corpus Byzantinae Historiae, by the French scholar Louis Cousin (1627–1707). The work was a significant influence on Thomas Jefferson (his copy of the 1685 edition is in the Library of Congress), who excerpted material from Cousin’s translation for his own Notes on Religion, as part of his campaign for religious free-dom for the State of Virginia and the United States as a whole.

Cf. Atabey 295 (incomplete later edition); Brunet II 340.

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82CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin. Discours sur les causes du débordement du Nil. Paris: Jacques Dallin, 1665Quarto (252 × 183 mm). Contemporary full calf, raised bands to spine, compartments gilt with floral lozenges within double ruled panels, presentation gilt stamp to the front board, “Aux Capuchins de St. Honoré”. Engraved map of the topography of the Nile to the text, title page vignette, historiated initials, engraved head- and tailpieces. Light browning, a little rubbed on the boards and chafed on the joints, but a very good copy.

first edition, for the first time published separately, previous-ly included in his Pensées of 1634 and 1662; uncommon, just six copies on OCLC, three of them in the US. Cureau was Louis XIV’s doctor, the monarch apparently having been impressed by his ability to judge character from outward appearance. A precursor of Lavater, Cureau’s was indeed best known for his work in the area of physiognomy, but he also published on physics – the na-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.

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83CURZON, George Nathaniel. Persia and the Persian Question. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 18922 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, blind frame to covers, Persian Lion and Sun gilt to front, black surface-paper end-papers. 43 plates, numerous illustrations to the text, large folding linen-backed map at rear of volume I, 9 full-page maps in all. 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; bookseller’s inkstamp of Combridge & Co., Bom-bay, to the verso of front free endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, a few superficial scuffs to covers, vol. 2 with a few pale mark-ings to rear, and the rear inner hinge superficially cracked as a result of the folding map, but firm, contents toned. A very good copy.

first edition of Curzon’s “magnum opus . . . By any standard these two volumes, totaling some 1,300 pages, are a remarkable achievement, the more so as Curzon knew no Persian and spent

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only a short time in the country, of which he saw only a small section. To prepare himself, he first read, either in the original or in translation, virtually everything that had been written about Persia in the West . . . The two profusely illustrated vol-umes embrace almost the whole of Persia, describing in fasci-nating and profound detail its history, antiquities, institutions, administration, finances, natural resources, commerce, and topography with a thoroughness no single writer has achieved before or since. As a critical account of Qajar Persia, the work is unsurpassed” (Ency. Iran.) “The period of Curzon’s great travels began in August 1887 with a journey round the world followed by a visit to Russia and central Asia in 1888–9, a long tour of Persia in 1889–90, an ex-pedition to the Far East in 1892, and a daring foray through the Pamir to Afghanistan in 1894. A bold and compulsive traveller, fascinated by oriental life and geography, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration of the source of the Oxus. Yet the main purpose of his journeys was political: they formed part of a vast and comprehensive project to study the problems of Asia and their implications for British India. At the same time they reinforced his pride in his nation and her imperial mission” (ODNB). His account of Persia, which he began shortly after his return to London and was ready for the press two years later, helped establish his reputation as “his country’s most knowledgeable politician on Asiatic affairs” (ibid.)

Ghani 87.

£2,000 [117591]

84CURZON, Robert. Visits to the Monasteries in the Levant. London: John Murray, 1849Octavo. Later 19th-century green half calf, raised bands, compartments lettered or decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece, 15 similar plates including one folding plan. 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; bookseller’s ticket of H. Cleaver, Bath, to front pastedown. Spine faded, free endpapers and binder’s blanks browned, small ink-spot to fore edge, contents toned. A very good copy.

first edition, publisher’s presentation copy, “With the publisher’s compliments” inscribed on the title page. “In 1833 [Curzon] began those travels which have made his name re-nowned. Setting out with his close friend Walter Sneyd, Curzon travelled through Europe before visiting, with George Joseph Palmer, Egypt and the Holy Land in 1833–4, on a tour of research among the monastery libraries, gathering many valuable manu-scripts. He returned to England in 1834, before setting out on a second tour in 1837–8, when he visited Mount Athos and bought five manuscripts from several monasteries there, before making further purchases in Egypt. His experiences are recorded in his Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant (1849). It immediately gained popularity, running to six editions by 1881” (ODNB). “A valuable and entertaining account . . . The plates . . . are after drawings by Preziosi in the so-called Curzon Album commissioned by Curzon while he was resident in Turkey” (Atabey).

Atabey 301; Blackmer 436; Weber 415.

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85DALRYMPLE, [Alexander.] Oriental Repertory. London: printed by George Bigg: sold by P. Elmsly, and Mr. Chapman, 1791–[7]2 volumes, folio (315 × 233 mm), in 8 parts. Recent mottled calf to style, smooth spines richly gilt in compartments, twin red and green morocco labels, decorative rolled borders gilt to covers, marbled endpapers. 22 engraved maps and plans, 13 of them folding, 7 engraved plates, 3 of them folding, 3 double-sided folding letterpress tables. Blind-stamp of the James B. Ford Library, Explorers’ Club, to title pages, vol. 1 sig. 6G2 and vol. 2 sig. 4H2. Lacking section titles, vol. 2 general title and index leaves as usual (possibly never issued, see below); title leaf of the Plan of Publication (the one-leaf prospectus found after the volume 1 title) bound to front of volume 2 as often: “Introduction to the first number of the Oriental Repertory Vol. II” bound after “Introduction to the third number . . . ”. Vol. 1: small hole to lower outer corner of vol. 1 sig. 3N, 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 map of Colonel Upton’s Route from Poona to Bengal, facing p. 498, just touching border, small hole to fore margin of the Plan of Cannanore facing p. 578, not affecting image. Vol. 2: pp. 61, 449 and 561 lightly marked, a few gatherings slightly browned. Otherwise a few trivial marks only. An excellent copy, internally very crisp and fresh indeed.

first edition, first issue, large-paper copy, from the stated print-run of 250 copies only, of this valuable compilation of researches into the history, culture, topography, commerce and natural history of the East Indies, consisting mostly of reports, charts and translation produced by agents of the East India Compa-ny, including Dalrymple himself, nearly all previously unpublished, and which together reflect the rapid expansion of British influence in India, Burma, Cochinchina and China during the second half of the 18th century. Copies of this bibliographically complex part-work are to be found at the expected institutions in various states of completeness, but in commerce we trace only two first-issue copies containing all text and plates (both lacking the volume II general title as here) and one such copy of the 1808 re-issue (see below).

Dalrymple (1737–1808) first travelled east as a writer to the East India Company, undertaking a number of reconnaissance voyages across the region and, aged just 22, concluding a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu for a grant of land at Balambangan, an island off Borneo. In 1763 he returned to London and worked to promote eastern trade and Pacific exploration, notably refusing to serve under a sea officer on the Transit of Venus expedition, and was consequently passed over in favour of James Cook. In 1775 he rejoined the HEIC, for whom he “began to produce a series of charts, navigational memoirs and coastal views for the East Indies navigation, from the Mozambique Channel to China” (ODNB) based on an examination of the logs and journals in the Company’s archive, issuing almost 550 plans and 45 views between 1779 and 1794. He was appointed hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1795, tasked with consolidating their collection of charts and plans, and died shortly after his acrimonious dismissal in 1808. Though largely remembered today for his disputes with the HEIC and Admiralty, he “led a life exemplifying service to his country during the age of Enlightenment. His influential role in Britain’s maritime history makes him an outstanding historical figure” (NMS cataloguing of his portrait). Even with the founding of the Asiatick Miscellany by Francis Gladwin in 1785, and the publication of Asiatick Researches by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Dalrymple was clearly confident, on the basis of his considerable experience and connections in the area, that there was still a niche in the market. Botanist William Rox-burgh offered papers on the cultivation of pepper in Travancore and a description of the indigo tree for the first number; James Rennell submitted a map of the Ava River; and Charles Wilkins permitted the first publication of a portion of his translation of the Mahabharata to appear in the second volume. Other important material, much of which Dalrymple appears to have obtained through his own researches, include one Captain George Baker’s account of his embassy to Persaim (now Pathein, Burma) in 1755, “Ensign Lester’s Embassy to the King of Ava, 1757” and the text

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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 fourth in 1797, when Dalrymple’s stamina seems to have failed in the face increasing pressure of work from the Admiralty, to which he had been appointed chief hydrographer in 1795. A ninth part was mooted, to include the index for the second volume, but it was not issued until 1808, when the remaining sheets were bound up with new title pages. The British Library sets are both made up with volumes from the later issue. Dalrymple explains in his introduction to the first number that 100 of the 250 copies printed were to be held by the East India Company against a contribution of £200, 50 were for presentation to contributors, and 100 for sale, before adding that “of the early number I shall print 500 copies, 250 being at my own charge” should demand exceed 100 copies, though his general introduction for the first volume as a whole, issued on completion of the constituent four numbers, explains that the HEIC only took 64 copies, leaving him short of funds. He appears never to have issued the promised index leaves for the second volume. In his general introduction to the first volume, Dalrymple qualifies his frustration with the “retrospective satis-faction of having . . . preserved many papers, which would other-wise, probably for ever, have been lost to the world”.

Goldsmiths’–Kress 15633.1.

£19,500 [115902]

Fine views in Jerusalem and the Middle East

86DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1677Folio, in two parts. Contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked, two-line gilt border to edges, all edges speckled red. First title page printed in red and black, with engraved allegorical title, 8 maps, 30 plates (mainly double-page) and 34 plates in the text. Text printed in double-columns. A very good copy: clean, sound, with excellent impressions of the plates, and complete with the Directions to the Binder.

first edition. Dr Olfert Dapper (1636–1688), physician, geo-graphical and historical scholar, was the author of a series of works dealing with Africa, America and Asia; these were all pub-lished in handsome folio format and are best known for their fine double-page or folding views and panoramas. The extensive panorama of Jerusalem in the present work had also been used in Dapper’s book on Asia (Amsterdam 1672). There are fine views of Damascus, Tripoli, Aleppo, Jaffa, Rama, the Temple of Solomon, and a birds-eye view of Jerusalem (trimmed at sides).

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87DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: behelsende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome Beschrijving van gansch Gellukigh, Woest, en Petreesch of Steenigh Arabie. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 16802 parts bound in 1, folio (317 × 194 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked on spine, three-line blind tooled border on sides enclosing a large ara-besque blind stamp, red speckled edges. Letterpress title printed in red and black; engraved pictorial title, 12 double-page engraved view (2 also fold-ing), 3 double-page maps, 22 half-page plates. Bookplate of Heyse-Tak; front board has “sprung”, 19th-century repair to fore edge of engraved title. An attractive copy in a contemporary binding.

first edition of Dapper’s Asia Minor and Mesopotamia; a German edition followed in 1681. In common with many of his contem-poraries such as John Ogilby, the Dutch physician Olfert Dapper (1639–1689) never travelled to visit the lands he wrote about, instead compiling extant translations and other eye-witness ac-counts to produce lavish and encyclopaedic books for the north-ern European readership. His and others work thus both reflected and directed growing public interest in distant places and foreign peoples. Dapper was meticulous in using hundreds of published sources and several unpublished ones for each of his books; he did not lift whole passages from one book, but often based a sin-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

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.

Arcadian Library 8342; Atabey 322; this edition not in Blackmer; Macro 805.

£6,000 [100075]

88DAUMAS, Eugène. The Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners of the Desert. With commentaries by the Emir Abd-El-Kader. Translated from the French by James Hutton. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered spine, large pic-torial gilt block on front cover, brown endpapers. Internal hinges neatly strengthened, spine a little rolled. A very good copy.

first edition in english of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, first published Paris, 1851; it is particularly uncom-mon in the original cloth. Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) served for some 15 years in Algeria, he was made head of the North Af-rica, Bureaux Arabes; became a personal friend of Abd-el-Kader, the emir of Mascara, and was widely recognised as the French Army’s leading expert on Arab culture. When he returned to France in 1850 he was made director of Algerian affairs in the Ministry of War.

Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, 202.

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89DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Golden Carpet; The Silver Crescent. Published by Permission of the War Office. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 19432 volumes, quarto. Full green and full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles gilt to spines, gilt edge-roll, single fillet gilt to the turn-ins, top edges gilt, the others uncut. Each in the white linen slipcase as issued. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each and numerous similar illustrations to the text of the second, the majority full-page, maps to 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 overall very good.

first editions, each in a signed edition limited of 300 copies of which just 30 were in the full binding as here, copies 16 and 25 respectively. De Chair was Intelligence Officer with “Kingcol”, a Flying Column of less than 1,500 men under the Command of Brig.-Gen. Kingstone. This tiny force was sent from Palestine to Baghdad to deal with the effects 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 the Spectator 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]

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

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 associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Small hole to series title, the text unaffected, light toning, a very good copy.

second edition, revised and greatly expanded, of de Goeje’s important study of the Qaramitah (Carmathians), a syncretic Shi’ite sect which revolted against the ‘Abbasid Caliphate from their Bahraini stronghold in the ninth century ce. It was origi-nally published in 1862 as the first volume of his four-part essay series, Mémoires d’histoire et de géographie orientales; this iteration, at some 232 pages, is almost twice the length of that edition. De Goeje’s Mémoires was his principal work resulting from original research, as he is mainly remembered for preparing editions of Arabic texts. Here he prints the Arabic texts of important sourc-es including Ibn al-Jawzi and Ibn Durayd, which he read in man-uscript. Well-held in libraries, but rare in commerce, with no copies listed in auction records (and none of the first edition).

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91DENHAM, Dixon, & Hugh Clapperton. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 . . . extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. With an Appendix . . . London: John Murray, 1826Quarto (266 × 213 mm). Contemporary calf, black morocco label to spine, flat bands with foliate decoration, gilt, triple fillet gilt panels to compartments, and to boards with small floral corner-pieces, marbled edges and endpapers, turn-ins milled in blind. Engraved frontispiece and 36 other plates and plans, one of them a hand-coloured aquatint, 6 vignettes to the text, folding map at the rear. A little rubbed, and with some stripping from the front board, some light browning throughout and offsetting from the plates, a very good copy.

first edition of this account of the rather contentious expe-dition to trace the source of the Niger. Relations between Dixon and Clapperton were not of the best. They “quarrelled bitterly”, with “Denham secretly sending home malicious reports accus-ing him of having homosexual relations with an Arab servant – reports he had later to admit he had never believed” (ODNB). However, despite failure in their primary aim, the expedition did open up much of north central Africa to European knowl-edge. Shortly after their return Clapperton resumed the his Niger quest, dying of dysentery at Sokoto in 1827, leaving Den-ham to be “fêted in London as the hero of the expedition” and to publish the present account in which he suppressed as much as possible all mention of his companions. “Written in a lively style, and embellished with engravings of his own sketches, it became one of the classics of its genre”.

Howgego, C33; Lowndes I, p. 629.

£1,250 [87084]

92DE WINDT, Harry. A Ride to India. Across Persia and Baluchistan. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, fire-dancer vignette to front board in black and copper, fore and bottom edges 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. Ownership inscription dated 1924 to front free endpaper, later book-plate completed in manuscript to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, tips and spine-ends very lightly rubbed, front board faintly sunned along top edge, short (25 mm) closed tear to map at fold costing one let-ter, internally clean. An excellent copy with bright plates.

first edition. In 1889 De Windt rode on horseback from Tbili-si to Bombay, travelling through Baku, Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Bushire, Baluchistan and Quetta. He served as aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, from 1876 to 1878, and also travelled widely across Russia, including a jour-ney to Western Siberia in 1890 to inspect the region’s prisons. Scarce in this condition.

Wilson, Bibliography of Persia, p. 246

£475 [110077]

93DIBA, Layla S., & Maryam Ekhtiar (eds.) Royal Persian Paintings. The Qajar Epoch, 1785–1925. New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers in association with Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999Folio. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With the dust jacket. Photographs throughout, black and white and in colour. Spine very gently rolled. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.

first edition of this illustrated collection of essays produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999.

£150 [110836]

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94DIXON, Charles George. Sketch of Mairwara; giving a brief account of the origin and habits of the Mairs; their subjugation by a British force; their civilisation, and conversion into an industrious peasantry; with descriptions of various works of irrigation in Mairwara and Ajmeer, constructed to facilitate the operations of agriculture, and guard the districts against drought and famine. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850Quarto. Original green cloth neatly rebacked with green morocco, orna-mental blind stamping on sides, gilt lettered on the front cover, yellow coated endpapers. 9 tinted lithograph plates (of which 8 are views), 19 detailed maps and plans of irrigation systems, large folding coloured map of the region printed on linen, 3 wood engravings in the text. Con-temporary ownership on front pastedown (dated 1851). Covers patchily faded, some wear to corners, light marginal dampstaining to plates (more noticeable on plate 13), nevertheless a clean, tall copy.

first edition of this important record of the extensive ir-rigation system established in the Ajmer-Merwara region of south western Rajasthan; scarce, “according to the English Catalogue, the work was privately printed, and Smith, Elder may therefore only have published it on Dixon’s behalf ” (Abbey). Dixon (d. 1857) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Bengal Artillery and superintendent of Ajmer-Merwara (part of North-Western Provinces) and oversaw the creation of the irrigation system outlined in this book. Marwar lies partly in the Thar Desert. As mentioned on the title page, the British had intervened in 1839 to quell an insurrection. The attractive tinted lithograph views are largely the work of William Gauci, after Lieutenants Burgess and Herbert; Gauci, of Maltese extraction, came from a family of distinguished lithographers working in London. The map is

by another Bengal Artillery officer, Lieutenant D. C. Vanrenen. A fascinating and remarkably detailed account of British public works in India.

Abbey, Travel, 475.

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95DOMBAY, Franz Lorenz von. Grammatica linguae mauro-arabicae juxta vernaculi idiomatic usum. Accessit vocabularium latino-mauro-arabicum. Vienna: at the shop of Camesina, 1800Quarto. Later cloth-backed marbled boards, title gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. Engraved headpiece to the preface, engraved folding table at the rear. A little rubbed, small paper press-mark labels to spine and front board, light browning and some mild spotting, a few neat pen-cilled annotations in German and Arabic to the vocabularies, else very good.

first edition of the first study of the dialect of the Maghreb, considered by Johann Fück to be the “first scientific contribu-tion to the scientific study of Arab dialects”. Dombay (1756–1810), an Austrian born at Vienna, studied oriental languages at the Maria-Theresa College before being sent to Morocco as an interpreter, subsequently serving in Madrid and Zagreb. He finished his career as a councillor of the secret chancellery and interpreter to the Emperor’s court.

Brunet II, 800; Chauvin, I, p. LXIV; Gay 3386; Schnurrer 139.

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96DOMBAY, Franz Lorenz von. Grammatica linguae persicae. Accedunt dialogi, historiae, sententiae, et narrationes persicae. Vienna: at the shop of Albert Camesina, 1804Quarto (258 × 205 mm). Contemporary dark red half morocco, comb-marbled sides, spine separated into compartments by single rules gilt, paper label with manuscript title over third and fourth, black 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-ly rubbed, surface splitting to tail of front joint, head and tail of rear joint cracked, two small sections of wear to morocco label with no loss of text, pencil markings to front endleaves, front free endpaper creased, occasional foxing as usual. A very good copy.

first and only edition. For Dombay, see previous item.

Not in Blackmer, Burrell or Atabey.

£450 [100510]

Doughty’s “first fruits of Arabia”

97DOUGHTY, Charles. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le nord de l’Arabie. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1884Quarto (269 × 213). Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, marbled boards, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers to front. 57 plates includ-ing 37 heliographs of inscriptions of which 9 folding, 20 wood-engraved including maps and elevations. Bound with the half-title. Spine sunned and rolled, tips rubbed, binder’s blanks browned, initial blank and half-title lightly oxidized, text-leaves very faintly creased, occasional light spotting to plates. A very good copy.

first edition, first issue, of the first publication in English of any account of Doughty’s travels in Arabia, predating Travels in Ara-bia Deserta by four years, with a preface in French by Ernest Renan. In 1865 the German orientalist Theodor Nöldeke proposed that the Nabataean rock-carvings in what is now Jordan contained the

origins of the Arabic script, a hypothesis for which “Doughty’s book remains an invaluable mine of source material. [He] had the advantages of a slow pace, almost unlimited time, an amazingly observant eye, and, perhaps most of all, the compulsion to record without omissions every fact observed” (Tabachnick, ed., Explora-tions in Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, p. 17). A preliminary report of Doughty’s observations appeared in the periodical Globus, in German translation, in 1881. He first met the great French orientalist and writer Ernest Renan early in 1883, and it was in Paris, after the failure of an attempt to sell his copies of the inscriptions to the Royal Museum in Berlin, that Doughty’s copies of the inscriptions at Mada’in Salih finally saw the light of day.

Macro 855.

£1,750 [117565]

Lawrence’s guidebook – from the library of a colonial agent with an “unrivalled knowledge of the Arab”

98DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Cambridge: at the University Press, 18882 volumes. Original dark green cloth, titles to spines gilt, gilt blocks to front boards, edges untrimmed, black surface-paper endpapers, Por-trait frontispiece, 8 plates, 5 of them folding, numerous line drawings to the text, several full-page, large colour lithographic map folded in end-pocket. Spines very gently rolled, sides a trifle rubbed, lower outer corners rubbed, vol. 1 with a scattering of pale marks to spine and rear board, and a closed marginal tear to pp. 239/40, the text unaffected, Bath Reference Library issue slips to rear free endpapers (see below). An excellent copy.

first edition, an unusually well-preserved copy of this “unri-valled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of 19th-cen-tury and earlier Arabia” much valued by T. E. Lawrence (ODNB), with an exceptional provenance, coming from the collection of

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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 Zanzibar, 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 to study the Nabataean rock inscriptions at Mada’in Salih, mod-ern-day Saudi Arabia. He set out in November 1876 with the pilgrim caravan and ended up wandering for two years, his adventures including a sojourn with nearby Bedouin, a visit to Mohammed ibn Rashid, ruler of northern Arabia, a period of imprisonment by a Turkish commandant at Khaybar, a series of dangerous episodes at Buraydah, ‘Unayzah, and Mecca, a stay with the sharif of Mecca at Ta’if, and his final emergence at Jiddah on 2 August 1878. His famous account, which comprises almost 1,000 pages of painstaking detail, much of which has been confirmed by later travellers, was much favoured by T. E. Lawrence, who used it as his main guidebook to the region nearly 30 years later. Lawrence was instrumental in convincing Cape to publish a second edition in 1921, to which he contributed an introduction. “In a notable contemporary review in Academy, Sir Richard Francis Burton praised [Arabia Deserta’s] scientific knowledge and its style . . . So reliable was the book’s anthropology of the Bedouin peoples and its topography, that British intelligence mined it for information during the First and Second World wars. Doughty’s contributions to all areas of Arabian knowledge continue to be praised by schol-ars” (ODNB). This is an excellent association copy, bringing into relief the achievements of author and owner.

Arcadian Library 11438; Macro 859.

£6,250 [117594]

“The printers let me down dreadfully”

99DOUGLAS, Norman. Experiments. [Florence:] Privately printed, 1925Quarto. 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-

man Douglas, in hope of a piece of soap in due course (not new mown hay) and of her not borrowing too many of my matches, although it points to a good house-wifely spirit. 26 August 1926”, and with the bookplate of the receipient, Myrtle A. Crummer; one of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author. Douglas was almost certainly introduced to the bibliophiles Leroy and Myrtle Crummer (who were busy forming an import-ant medical library) by the publisher Pino Orioli, who ran an an-tiquarian bookshop by the Ponte Vecchio and later published a number of Douglas’s books (see Barbara C. Morden’s biography of the painter Dame Laura Knight). “Douglas says in Late Harvest (p. 51) that publishing Experiments ‘was in itself an experiment, a trying one’. It was his first serious attempt at publishing his own work. In a letter (dated May 30, 1925) to Charles Scott-Moncrieff, he writes: ‘The printers let me down dreadfully over that book; so that over 60 copies were not fit to send away’” (Woolf ). This collection of pieces includes Douglas’s review of Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, an essay on Edgar Allan Poe and a short story en-titled “Queer!” a reworking of a story originally composed over 20 years earlier but which had appeared in different guises: as “Something from the Beyond” (1921) and “A Mystery” (1901).

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100DOZY, Reinhart. Essai sur l’histoire de l’Islamisme. Traduit du hollandais par Victor Chauvin. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1879Octavo (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 equally “a fervent attack on Islam and its Prophet” (Hanioglu, Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks 1902–1908, p. 308). A Turkish translation by Ottoman reformer Abdullah Cevdet was published in 1908 and almost immediately banned, with all existing copies confiscated. Mustafa Kemal, later Atatürk, is known to have read Chauvin’s French translation “with fascina-tion” (Hanioglu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, p. 54), underlin-ing sections concerning the claim that Muhammad’s prophecy resulted from muscular hysteria, an idea first suggested by Aloys Sprenger. Dozy’s account was first published in Dutch as Het Islamisme in 1863.

£500 [117595]

101DRUMMOND, Augusta. Three original watercolour views of the coast of Arabian Peninsula near Aden and Suez. At sea on SS Sindh: 1878Three 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 corner, and captioned and dated in ink in the lower margin of the mount – “Approaching Aden from on board S.S. Sindh, Oct. 20th 1878”: “Aden from S.S. Sindh, Oct. 21st 1878”: “Suez from S.S. Sindh, Oct. 26th 1878”. Minor mild foxing of the mounts, remains of linen hinge to each leaf, otherwise very good.

Three attractive watercolour views of Aden and Suez, with mountainous shorelines and dhows 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.

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102DUGUET, 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, 1932Octavo. 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 Navarre, 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.

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103[EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse.] Dry Leaves from Young Egypt. By an Ex-Political. Second Edition. London: James Madden, 1851Octavo, 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]

104EDDY, William A. F.D.R. meets Ibn Saud. New York: American Friends of the Middle East, Inc., 1954Octavo. 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 Quincy in February 1945 between King Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Ibn

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Saud) and Franklin Roosevelt, which Eddy organized and at which he acted as interpreter. It was the first time that the king had left Saudi Arabia.

£575 [110614]

105EDEN, Frederic. The Nile without a Dragoman. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1871Small octavo (180 × 117 mm). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt-tooled on the raised bands, green label, pinkish pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Gilt stamp of New South Wales Library of Parliament on front cover. Spine darkened and a little worn, some scrapes to binding, light browning, some foxing front and back, bound with the half-title.

first edition; a second edition followed the same year. Un-common: Copac registers just four copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, Na-tional Library of Scotland), and although OCLC adds a gaggle of copies it is a difficult book to find. A dragoman 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]

106(EGYPT, PALESTINE, & ARABIA.) Kriegskarte von Ägypten, Palästina und Arabien. Vienna: G. Freytag & Berndt, [c.1914]Octavo. Original sand-coloured printed wrappers. Folding coloured map (800 × 550 mm, folding down to 145 × 240 mm). A few discreet pinholes but in very good condition.

Rare: only two copies located in OCLC (Library of Congress and Hannover). The map is centred on the Arabian peninsula and the coverage includes: Gulf of Aden (E), Bab el Mandeb (S), Libyan Sahara Desert (W), and Damascus and Baghdad (N); inset map of the Nile Delta and Sinai. Details include railways, caravan routes, telegraph lines, roadblocks, ruins and a few Ara-bic topography terms given in German. The wrappers advertise a range of Freytag & Berndt’s Kriegskarten; our copy carries the contemporary bookseller’s label of Max Bretschneider, a well-known German bookseller based in Rome.

£650 [102336]

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107ELIOT, William Gordon Cornwallis, The Hon., later 4th earl of St Germans (trans.) Krim-Girai, Khan of the Crimea. Translated from the German of Theodore Mundt. London: John Murray, 1856Octavo. Original red linen-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate panelling in blind to boards, light green surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed overall, bumped at the corners, head and tail of the spine crumpled and with minor chipping, pale toning, some light foxing, but overall a very good copy.

first edition, a very pleasing association copy, in-scribed “With the Translator’s love” on the first blank and with the bookplate of Lord Raglan to the front pastedown. Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, second baron Raglan, was married to Eliot’s cousin, Susan Caroline. His father, recently deceased at the time of presentation, had famously commanded the British forces in the Crimea, being responsible for the victories at the Alma and at Inkerman, and considered by some to be culpable for the disaster at Balaklava. The first baron had died at Sebas-topol of a “broken heart” (ODNB) just ten days after the bloody failure of the assault of 18 June 1855, and in 1858 his successor was gifted Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire by “1623 of the ‘friends, admirers, and comrades’ of his father . . . as a mark of gratitude and to enable the family to maintain the port of the ennobled” (Newman, Gwent/Monmouthshire; Buildings of Wales series, p. 272). The modern Cefntilla bookplate is mount-ed beneath Raglan’s on the front pastedown. The translator joined the diplomatic service from Eton, and from 1849 to 1859 served as attaché at Hanover, Lisbon, Berlin, Constantinople, and St Petersburg. Subsequent postings took him to Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Lisbon, and finally Washington. He resigned in 1865 and was elected MP for Devonport in 1866, holding the seat until 1868. He entered the House of Lords in 1870, dying in 1881. The association gains poignancy from the fact that Eliot’s elder brother, the Hon. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, had been killed, shot through the head, at Inkerman. Qirim Giray (d. 1769), was one of the most influential rulers of the Crimean Khanate, a scion of the ruling Giray clan, di-

rect descendants of Genghis Khan, and possessed of distinct geopolitical ambitions. “A clever, affable man with a weakness for practical jokes involving severed heads”, he aspired to an alliance with Frederick the Great against the Russians, and con-spired to similar ends with the baron de Tott, becoming a “close personal friend”, who, under Tott’s influence, developed “an en-thusiasm for French cuisine (especially its wine-based sauces), and requested that Tartuffe be translated into Turkish for perfor-mance by the court buffoons . . . The two spent long evenings talking politics inside the crimson-lined tent, Qirim delivering his ‘opinions on the abuses and advantages of liberty, on the principles of honour, or the laws and maxims of government, in a manner which would have done honour to Montesquieu himself ’” (Reid, Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine, internal quotations from the Memoirs of the Baron de Tott). The author of this work, Theodor Mundt, was a German philologist and librarian, best known for his writings on aesthetics, and for his advocacy of the emancipation of women, who compiled the memoir “on account of its intrinsic interest as well as the rela-tion it bears to the present war” (Preface). An attractively-provenanced and well-preserved copy of this seldom seen and interesting biography. Uncommon, just eight copies on Copac.

£950 [109183]

108ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, & J. Murray, 1815Quarto (285 × 208 mm). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with origi-nal spine laid down, flat spine, title gilt direct. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 12 other similar plates, one uncoloured aquatint, large folding engraved map (opening 637 × 789 mm) coloured in outline, and one similar full-page map. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Abra-ham Caldecott, former Accountant General to the Bengal Presidency, to front pastedown, together with the slightly later plate of William Wood-ville Rockhill, American adventurer and diplomat. A little rubbed, with some judicious restoration and refurbishment at the extremities and

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on the joints, light browning throughout, the occasional spot of foxing, some offsetting from the plates, the large map with professional repairs at the folds and to an old tear, formerly stub-mounted, but now laid in for ease of opening, overall a very good copy.

first edition of this superbly detailed regional study, well illustrated by the series of costume plates – “of excellent quality” (Abbey) – which are closer to individuated portraits than the “types” usually encountered in such works. Elphinstone stands out as one of the most remarkable figures 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

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]

109EMERSON, L. H. S., & Seiyid Muh[ammad] Abdoh Ghanem. Aden Arabic Grammar; [and] — Aden Arabic Exercises. [Aden:] Al-Maaref Press, 19432 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 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 two fragile publications.

first and only editions of these extremely uncommon in-troductions to the colloquial Arabic of Aden, Yemen, intended as textbooks for students at the city’s British Institute, with just one copy of the Exercises in libraries worldwide (Edinburgh) and four copies of the Grammar (National Library of Israel, Exeter and two in Edinburgh).

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110EMPSON, Robert Horatio Woolnough. The Cult of the Peacock Angel. A Short Account of the Yezidi Tribes of Kurdistan. With a Commentary by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to front board, bottom edge untrimmed. Frontispiece and 5 plates from pho-tographs. Publisher’s ticket to front pastedown. Upper outer corners lightly bumped, small mildly abraded patch at foot of front board, edges lightly dust soiled. A very good copy.

first edition of this uncommon anthropological study, “the outcome of curiosity aroused in myself as to the ancient faith of the little known Yezidi tribes, based on a visit to their strong-holds and amplified by a little research amongst the existing lit-erature on the subject” (Preface). Empson’s “visit” would seem to have taken place while he was serving with No. 1 Squadron in Iraq. Empson remarks that in his commentary the respected orientalist Sir Richard Temple “has not always adopted my own or my authorities’ explanations, but I do not look on this as a misfortune, as the object before us is to get at the truth, which is often accomplished by noting and eventually reconciling differ-ence of views on matters still but imperfectly known”.

£500 [114460]

111ETTINGHAUSEN, Richard. Treasures of Asia. Arab Painting. [Lausanne:] Albert Skira, 1962Large quarto. Original tan buckram, spine and covers lettered in brown. With the dust jacket. 89 tipped-in plates mostly in colour, many height-ened with gilt. Publisher’s review slip laid in. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with a small chip to the head of the spine.

first edition of this handsomely illustrated history of Islamic art up to the 15th century, covering mosaics, wall painting and

book illustration. This copy is from the collection of noted Ira-nian bibliophile Cyrus Ghani, with his ownership inscription dated March 1983 to the front free endpaper.

£75 [110793]

112EUTING, Julius. Tagebuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1896 & 19142 volumes, octavo (233 × 155 mm). Later white quarter cloth, sand cloth boards, tan morocco labels to spines, orange top-stain. Portrait frontis-piece to volume II, profusely illustrated throughout line-drawings and plans to the text, some full-page. Dampstain to the top edge of volume II, no encroachment into the margin light browning else, a very good set.

first editions, surprisingly uncommon institutionally with OCLC showing perhaps nine locations. An orientalist based at Strasbourg University, Euting had previously travelled exten-sively in the Mediterranean and Levant, and had spent time in Constantinople. “In 1883 Euting left Strasbourg to embark on a two-year expedition to the Middle East and the Arabian Penin-sula, his intention being to trace the pre-Islamic history of Ara-bia through the study of its inscriptions and stone monuments” (Howgego). Having made some inroads in Egypt, Palestine and the Lebanon, he met up with the Alsatian travelled Charles Hu-ber, and together they “struck out across the desert to the south-east”. After considerable adventures the two “who had never really liked each other” separated, Euting “crossed the Hijaz mountains to arrive on the Red Sea coast . . . en route suffering an attack by Bedouin and only managing to escape by by killing two of them”. He returned to Europe having completed a jour-ney of 2,300 kilometres, mainly by horse and camel, with copies of 900 Sabaean, Aramaic, and Nabataean inscriptions. For his part Huber returned to Ha’il then set off on a pioneering trip to Mecca by a “route never before followed by a European” and was murdered by his guides on the way back to Ha’il. Euting’s

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account of their year-long Arabian journey – the second volume of which was published posthumously edited by Enno Littmann – provides the best early descriptions of the petroglyphs at Jabal umm Sanaman. A well-presented set of of an important and un-common account.

Henze II, 186; Howgego IV, E20; Macro 907.

£950 [92408]

113FARIS, Nabih Amin. The Antiquities of South Arabia, being a Translation from the Arabic with Linguistic, Geographic, and Historic Notes of the Eighth Book of Al-Hamdani’s Al-Iklil. Reconstructed from Al-Karmanli’s Edition and a MS in the Garrett Collection, Princeton University Library. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine. Plate, full-page map, illustration in the text. A little rubbed, ink-stamps of the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History to the endpapers, light toning, touch of foxing to the fore-edge, else very good.

first edition; institutionally inevitably well-represented, but uncommon on the market. An important publication. Al-Ham-dani (893?–945?) was an Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian and astronomer “whose chief fame derives from his authoritative writings on South Arabian history and geography . . . His encyclopaedia Al-Ikul (The Crown; Eng. trans. of vol. 8 by N. A. Faris as The Antiquities of South Arabia [the present volume]) and his other writings are a major source of information on Ara-bia, providing a valuable anthology of South Arabian poetry as well as much genealogical, topographical, and historical infor-mation” (Ency. Brit.)

Macro 917.

£650 [94791]

114FARLEY, J. Lewis. Modern Turkey. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1872Octavo (220 × 132 mm). Original red-brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, sides decoratively panel-stamped in blind, yellow surface-paper endpa-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 to top edge of front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean, a very good copy.

second edition, the same year as the first, of this valuable survey of Turkey in the mid-19th century, including a wide-rang-ing economic overview, and accounts of Empress Eugénie’s visit to Constantinople and the health benefits of living in Syria. Both editions are uncommon, especially in good condition, and there appear to have been no further printings after 1872. Farley (1823–1855) helped establish the Beirut branch of the British-run Ottoman Bank, established after the conclusion of the Crimean War. “In 1860 [he] was appointed accountant-gen-eral of the state bank of Turkey at Constantinople, which subse-quently became merged in the Imperial Ottoman Bank, which was set up in 1863 with British, French, and Ottoman sharehold-ers and directors, under the protection of the sultan and his gov-ernment. It was the government bank with sole rights of note issue. British and French government involvement was also con-siderable, and the bank was a political as much as a financial in-stitution” (ODNB). He was notably on intimate terms with Fuad and Ali pashas. From 1870 to 1884 he served as Ottoman consul at Bristol, in which capacity he is credited on the title page, and made substantial (though not overly successful) attempts at in-creasing Bristol’s trade with the Levant.

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115FARMER, Henry George. A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century. London: Luzac & Co., 1929; with two offprints of articles by Farmer in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: “Music, the Priceless Jewel” (1941) and “The Music of the Arabian Nights” (1945). Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece from a manuscript of Farabi’s Kitab al-Musiqi, 2 similar plates. With the errata slip. Corners very lightly bumped, light toning, but an excellent copy in the dust jacket with a sunned, chipped and dampstained spine panel and a few other shallow nicks or chips. Off-prints: octavo, wire-stitched in original printed wrappers, both with the recent bookseller’s ticket of May and May, Shaftesbury, to the inside

wrapper; “Music, the Priceless Jewel” with wrappers slightly separating at foot, faint soiling to front, and mild crease to upper outer corners, still both very good copies.

first edition of this pioneering study of Arab music from the pre-Islamic period to the extinction of the ‘Abbasid caliphate in 1258, uncommon in the dust jacket, this copy accompanied by two interesting offprints, and with a nice association, con-taining the ownership inscription of American Arabist Robert Brenton Betts, author of The Druze (1991) and other works, to the front pastedown (dated Cairo 1987) and also to the inside wrap-per of one of the offprints, “Music, the Priceless Jewel” (dated 31 January 1994). Farmer (1882–1965) played in the Royal Artillery orchestra 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).

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116FERRARIO, Giulio. Descrizione della Palestina. O Storia del Vangelo. Illustrata coi Monumenti. Milan: Società Tipographia de’ Classici Italiani, 1831Royal 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.

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, Burrell or Howgego.

£1,500 [107964]

117FERRIER, J. P. History of the Afghans. Translated from the Original Unpublished Manuscript by Captain William Jesse. London: John Murray, 1858Octavo (217 × 133 mm). Recently bound in half calf, to style, marbled boards and edges, red morocco label, low bands with milled gilt roll, floral lozenges to compartments, double rule in blind to spine and corner edges, grey-brown endpapers. Folding engraved map at the rear, full-page map. Armorial book plate of Cyril Flower, Baron Battersea, reimposed to front pastedown, that of Monier Williams, noted oriental-ist, Boden Professor of Sanskrit facing on the front free endpaper, and the attractive collector’s plate of Gerald Sattin to the first blank. Light browning, else very good.

first edition. “This book concentrates attention on the pe-riod from about 1700 until 1850 and includes critical comments on British policy. Travelling extensively from Iran across Afghan-istan and Central Asia into India Ferrier developed a masterly knowledge of the history, geography, and languages of the area” (Yakushi). Joseph Philippe [or Pierre, but not Pierce pace Yakushi] Ferrier, author, “diplomat”, explorer, and soldier of fortune (1811–1886), served with the chasseurs d’Afrique in the late 1830s, being invalid-ed back to France around 1837. “In 1839, while being prosecuted by his creditors, he developed a feeling for adventure” (Encyclo-paedia Iranica) and signed up to serve as an instructor with the Persian army. A rather ramshackle, unofficial mission to Persia was formed, which in the way of such freelance adventures imploded. “Only Ferrier had learnt Persian, and he imposed himself on the remaining officers . . . Ferrier was appointed adjutant-general and ‘chef d’état major’ with an eight-year con-tract. He was sent to Zanjan to train cavalry battalions and was

awarded with the Order of the Lion and Sun. His military mis-sion soon revealed itself purposeless”. Ferrier returned disappointed to France to only discover that Franco-Persian diplomatic relations had been reopened offering the chance of further service, and he immediately took himself to Baghdad. Receiving a meagre subsidy from the French gov-ernment, he decided to undertake the perilous overland journey through Persia and Afghanistan to join the group of French of-ficers at Lahore in the service of Ranjit Singh’s burgeoning Sikh empire. “After the Anglo-Afghan war of 1838–42, conditions in Af-ghanistan were much disturbed. Having reached Herat with many difficulties, Ferrier was suspected by Yar Mohammed to be an English spy. After a long and perilous itinerary in Afghani-stan, where he fell prey between rival local rulers [sic], he would return to Herat and reach Tehran. During his voyage, and partic-ularly at the end, he sent reports on the British in Central Asia to Henry Rawlinson at Baghdad and to Justin Sheil at Tehran. He brought to Sheil a manuscript from Alexander Burnes. He also reported to Sartiges on the political situation in Afghanistan”. An account of his trip was published in an English translation in 1857, only being issued in French in 1870. He subsequently served similarly ill-fated results in Persia, France and finally India, having in between times bankrupted himself with an agri-cultural project on Rhodes. He died in Marseilles in 1886. In his preface Jesse makes the point that Ferrier’s writings “can be more thoroughly appreciated here [in England] than in France; and that they must prove of real value in England is evident when we consider how great are the interests involved in the development – commercial, social, and religious – of that vast continent which Providence has permitted to fall under our rule”. Uncommon, and a well-presented copy.

Yakushi F32.

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118FINATI, 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 least visited of Asia and Africa. Translated from the Italian as dictated by himself, and edited by William John Bankes. London: John Murray, 18302 volumes, small octavo (165 × 98 mm). Later 19th-century half calf, spines lettered and ruled in gilt and blind, gilt titles, marbled sides, top edges sprinkled red, orange endpapers. Folding 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Extremities rubbed in places, folding map lightly foxed, a few trivial spots. A very good copy.

first edition of this sought-after Arabian travel account. Finati enlisted in the French army in 1805 but deserted to the Albanians in Dalmatia, converting to Islam and taking the name Muhammad. Having seduced the wife of his Turkish officer, he fled to Cairo and enlisted in the army of Egyptian wali Muham-mad ‘Ali Pasha, witnessing the massacre of the Mamluks in Cai-ro’s citadel and the ensuing campaign against Mamluk remnants in Upper Egypt. He then served in some of the major engage-ments of the Ottoman–Wahhabi War (1811–1818), including the capture of Yanbu’ and Al Qunfudhah, after which he temporarily deserted and visited Mecca, which he describes at length. He then rejoined the army and witnessed Tusun Pasha’s defeat at

Tarabah and subsequent victory at Bissel. Returning to Cairo, he met English traveller and antiquary William Bankes (1786–1855), with whom he travelled to Upper Egypt. He also visited Senna and Dongola in the Sudan, and later Syria and Kurdistan, before making his way to England in 1828. His narrative was described at length by Burton in his Pilgrim-age (1855–6). “Of all the Western Travellers to Mecca, Giovanni Finati is the only out-and-out scoundrel – as the two-volume account of his travels, published in 1830, makes perfectly clear. Even Burton, by no means a prude, disapproved of Signor Finati . . . But even scoundrels, apparently, are not immune to the im-pact of the Hajj” (Lunde).

Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 232; Howgego II F6; Macro 954; see further Peter Lunde, “The Lure Of Mecca”, in Saudi Aramco World 1974/6, pp. 14–21; not in Atabey, Blackmer, Cobham-Jeffery, Röhricht or Weber.

£4,500 [117599]

119FONTANIER, Victor. Voyage dans l’Inde et dans le golfe Persique, par l’Egypte et la mer Rouge. Paris: Paulin, 1844–6

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2 volumes in 3, octavo (210 × 129 mm). Near-contemporary tan half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers. Engraved 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 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 original front wrapper bound in to the rear of vol. 3. Front board of vol. 1 very lightly bowed, light abrasion to backstrip on vol. 3 front board, a few leaves to rear of vol. 2 roughly opened, the text unaffected, other-wise contents clean throughout. An excellent copy.

first edition of one of the most detailed treatments of the Persian Gulf in the 19th century; scarce, with just a handful of copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. Fontanier (1796–1857) was appointed French envoy to the Persian Gulf in 1834. From France he sailed to Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, before travelling overland through modern-day Saudi Arabia (visiting Jeddah) and then sailing from Mocha, in what is now Yemen, to Bombay. In November 1835 he left Bombay for Basrah, stopping at Bandar Abbas, Hormuz, Kharg Island, and Bushire. Chapters 7 to 18 of the first volume (excluding chapter 15, which concerns Baghdad) are entirely devoted to the Persian Gulf, and are con-cerned mainly with trade, notably in pearls from Bahrain and horses from the Nejd, and the strategic manoeuvrings of Brit-ain and France, including the British siege of Ra’s al-Khaymah

(1819–20), which led to the formation of the Trucial States. Early in 1838 Fontanier was appointed consul to Bombay. On his way to India he stopped at Muttrah 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).

Not in Atabey or Blackmer; Gay 3322; Howgego G2 refers; Ibra-him-Hilmy I p. 236; Macro 461; Wilson p. 73.

£7,500 [117600]

120FORSTER, E. M. The Government of Egypt. Recommendations by a Committee of the International Section of the Labour Research Department, with Notes on Egypt. London: Published by the Labour Research Department, [1920]Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers, white paper label printed in black to front wrapper. Housed in a custom-made card binder. Edges of wrap-pers a little browned and with a few small chips Top edge browned, with some creasing, edges with some chipping, else fine.

first edition of this pamphlet which outlines the historical, social, and political background of the relationship between Egypt and Great Britain. Forster served as a volunteer with the Red Cross between November 1915 and January 1919: while some of the material is “the result of personal experience . . . [his time in Egypt was generally] not under conditions that were favourable for observation” (p. 3).

Kirkpatrick A7.

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121FORSTER, E. M. Alexandria: A History and A Guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1922Octavo. Original buff paper boards, titles to spine and front board in black. Engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved maps and plans to the text, double-page genealogical table, 2 folding maps, coloured folding map in pocket on rear pastedown. Spine rolled and sunned, front joint and rear inner hinge skilfully repaired, front board slightly marked, with small bump to top edge, commensurate section of rubbing to rear board, front free endpaper browned, half-title slightly marked. A very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Forster “AJB, from the author” on the front free endpaper, and with the ownership inscription of the recipient, A. J. Butler, on the front board. This is Oxford historian Alfred Joshua Butler (1850–1936), whose work The Arab Conquest of Egypt (1902) Forster cites as his main source for the period, and describes it as “a monograph of the highest merit, brilliantly written, and practically recon-structing the episode” (p. iii). He also acknowledges Butler’s Ancient Coptic Churches (1884) as his source for the passage on the monasteries of Natrun, and reproduces two of his plans at pages 202 and 203. Butler appears to have then used the guide for his own purposes, the section on the Greco-Roman Museum (pp. 107–21), bearing his inked underlinings and marginal summa-ries of the exhibits described by Forster. Copies of the first edi-tion are rare, as most of the print run was destroyed by fire.

Kirkpatrick A8a.

£2,250 [112539]

122FORSTER, George. A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. London: R. Faulder, 1798

2 volumes bound as 1, quarto (270 211 mm). Contemporary calf, tan 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 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 the extremities, some minor scuffing on the boards, spine slightly dry and darkened, front joint just started at the head, endpapers lightly foxed, the folding map a little more heavily so, light browning of the text-block with the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good copy.

first edition thus; the first volume was published in Cal-cutta in 1790, the year before Forster’s death, the whole being published for the first time as here. Forster, (c.1752–1791), was an officer of the HEIC on the Madras establishment, and be-tween 1782 and 1784 undertook “a remarkable overland journey from Calcutta to Europe, travelling through Jammu to Kashmir, Kabul, Herat, Persia, across the Caspian Sea, and thence to Russia. This journey traced back, to a large extent, the route of Alexander in his pursuit of Bessus. It also took Forster through districts of considerable commercial and political interest to the British. Adopting various disguises on his route . . . he travelled in the company of local merchants. This clandestine mode of travel, through regions completely unfamiliar to contemporary Europeans, made it impossible for him to use any instruments to survey his route, although he was later described as an acute observer with a good knowledge of the languages of central Asia” (ODNB). In Russia he had “sailed up the Volga to Russia, and then proceeded to St Petersburg” (Cross), his travels there occupying just under 100 pages of volume II. On his return to England he was encouraged by Henry Dundas to to write a general study of the political state of India, and “in 1785 he published Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos, a work which attracted considerable attention” (ODNB). On his return to India he was employed by Cornwallis to negotiate the conclusion of defensive alliance against Tipu Sultan with Mudhoji Bhonsla and the Ni-zam Shah, reaching Nagpur in July 1788. He died there in 1790 as resident to the court of Raja Raghoji Bhonsla. The completion of the present work was attained “from papers found in his possession” and on publication quickly ob-

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tained a high reputation, being “valued by contemporaries for its contribution to the geographical knowledge of central Asia”. It was swiftly translated into French by the prominent orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès, being published in 1802 as Voyage du Bengale à Pétersbourg. A very pretty copy of an important text.

Cross D41; Ghani p. 136; Henze, II, pp. 262–3; Riddick 39; Wilson p. 73; Yakushi F95.

£3,000 [113335]

An important book in the growing interest of Orientalism

123FRANCKLIN, William. Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia, in the Years 1786–7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis; and other interesting events. London: T. Cadell, 1790Octavo (256 × 125 mm). Early 19th-century diced calf by J. Painter of Wrexham (with his ticket), decorative gilt spine, burgundy-coloured 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

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 the Asiatic Society 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.

£1,250 [117707]

124FRASER, David. Persia and Turkey in Revolt. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1910Octavo. Original dark red linen, pictorial black-stamped cover, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. 120 black and white illustrations and maps. Jacket nicked, chipped along extremities. A fine copy in the rare jacket.

first edition. Fraser spent 1909 as special correspondent for The Times. He devotes several chapters to experiences and thoughts about Mesopotamia and Syria. “The author’s trip takes place after the shelling of Parliament by Colonel Liakhoff as ordered by Mohammed Ali Shah. There was considerable encouragement from M. de Hardwig, the Russian minister who soon left Iran, but later, from his post as minister to Hungary, encouraged Mohammed Ali Shah to invade the country in 1911 when the latter had been deposed and was living in Europe” (Ghani, pp. 139–40).

£625 [91085]

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125FRITH, Francis. Sinai and Palestine. London: William MacKenzie & Co., [1863]Folio. Original half tan morocco, red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mount albumen print to half title and

36 larger albumen prints. Some typical spotting throughout, guards re-newed, hinges repaired, binding rubbed. Some marks to the margins of several plates not affecting the photographs. A very good copy however the photographs excellent.

Volume I of the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1859. “The prints in this edition

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are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition having been gold-toned” (Gernsheim). The complete set of this publication comprises four volumes each with 37 mounted pho-tographs. However the parts were available separately and each is compete in itself.

Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839–1875, pp. 216–20.

£5,000 [59138]

126GARNETT, Lucy M. J. The Women of Turkey. And Their Folklore. With an ethnographical map and introductory chapters on the ethnography of Turkey; and folk-conceptions of nature, by John S. Stuart-Glennie. [Vol. 1] Christian Women. [Vol. 2] Jewish and Moslem Women. London: David Nutt, 1890–12 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, single (vol. 1) and double (vol. 2) frame to boards in blind, front boards with winged swastika and sun vignettes gilt, black (vol. 1) and brown (vol. 2) coated endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding ethnographic colour map. Vol. 1 with publisher’s presentation ink-stamp to half-title, vol. 2 with bookplate of Edward and Ruby Thalmann to front pastedown and rear pastedown with later bookseller’s ticket and library label. Ex-tremities bumped and worn, a few nicks to spine-ends, covers lightly rubbed and marked; vol. 1 spine sunned with a few faint dents to rear board, vol. 2 half-title tanned. A very good copy.

first edition, uncommon in the original cloth. “Lucy Garnett travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, recording the customs of the people among whom she lived. In Smyr-na, and later in Salonica, she learned Greek and Turkish; her familiarity with demotic Greek led to a collaboration with the folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie . . . Her most important achievement was the documentation and comparative study of Balkan folk literature, which is still valuable when detached from the dubious theories of ‘scientific’ folklore with which

Stuart-Glennie tended to preface and gloss her work. She was particularly interested in the lives and status of women, and took advantage of her access to the women’s quarters of remote Christian and Muslim communities to supplement the accounts 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, 1890, lxxvii)” (ODNB).

£1,250 [109714]

The Graeco-Arabic translation movement

127GÄTJE, Helmut. Die arabische Übersetzung der Schrift des Alexander von Aphrodisias über die Farbe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1968Octavo. Stapled in the original printed card wrappers. Unopened. 2 plates from photographs of Arabic manuscript in the Maghribi style. Slight irregular tanning to wrappers, corners lightly bumped. A very good copy.

Offprint from Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenshaften in Göt-tingen, examining Abu ‘Uthman al-Dimashqi’s transation of Alexander of Aphrodisias’s treatise on colour theory; this copy from the library of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer though not marked as such. Alexander was a noted commentator on Ar-istotle who flourished in Athens around 200 ad: “Abu Uthman Sa’id b. Ya’qub al-Dimashqi (d. after 302/914–15) was a physician and a translator of Greek scientific and philosophical works into Arabic. As one of the leading physicians of his time, he enjoyed the favour of the wazir ‘Ali b. ‘Isa b. al-Jarrah (d. 334/946–47). When the latter endowed a hospital in the Harbiyah quarter of Baghdad in 302/914–15, he appointed Abu ‘Uthman as chief phy-sician, with the added responsibility of supervising the hospitals of Baghdad, Mecca, and Medina” (Encyclopaedia of Islam).

£65 [104040]

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128GIRARDOT, Alexandre Antoine. Two albums compiled from an artist’s sketchbooks recording nearly 40 years of life in Algeria. Algeria: 1830–67Two oblong folio albums (360 × 280 mm). Dark green shagreen, con-centric panelling in blind, AG monogram gilt to the centre of the front boards. Accompanied by a photographic portrait of the artist c.1860. A total of 420 pages with more than 1,000 mounted drawings of various sizes, most of which are captioned, monogrammed and dated between 1840 and 1867. The albums just a little rubbed, some light restoration to head and tail of spines, to joints and board edges, the contents clean and sound, overall very good indeed.

An exceptional visual document, two albums painstakingly and thoughtfully assembled from the observational sketch-books of a little-known, but highly-talented first generation French Oriental-ist painter. Alexandre Antoine Girardot (1815–c.1877) has left but few traces of what must have been an unusual and adventurous life. Born in Paris in February 1815, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts on 6 October 1836. A student of Blondel, he exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1841 and 1848, submitting views of Algeria and other “oriental” subjects. It is very possible that Girardot may have made his initial trip to Algeria at the time of the French invasion in 1830; the first album opens with a group of panoramic views of Algiers, including one “as it appeared in 1831”. Girardot would have been just 16 years old at the time, so it is unlikely that he re-tained any youthful sketches, but here he confidently reconstructs 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

portrait of Abdelkader, leader of the Algerian resistance, taken in 1852, and of Léon Roche, son of the mayor of Oran, interpreter to General Bugeaud, and “renegade” confidante to the emir, perhaps suggests a military or diplomatic context for Girardot’s presence in Algeria, a suggestion that is reinforced by his interior views of the English and Spanish consulates. It is a possibility that he originally travelled out à la suite of either his father or another patron. He certainly was to spend a large part of the next three de-cades travelling the country, accumulating this remarkable visual record. His death is a mystery, the putative date inferred from the last recorded work by his hand. The albums are accompanied by a photographic portrait of the artist, depicting a well-dressed, sol-idly-built bourgeois gentleman with a beard, who addresses the camera with an open, frank and perhaps slightly amused expres-sion. He is apparently missing his right arm. Examples of his oils are held in the collections of the Musée de l’Armée in Paris and the Musée Marey et des Beaux-Arts in Beaune. Largely comprised of highly-finished pencil drawings – some with expressive dashes of body-colour, and a good number com-pleted in watercolour – these two albums, which remained in the painter’s personal collection, clearly represent the result of autho-rial selection and organisation. Retrospectively, Girardot gathered together the most accomplished of his sketch-work and arranged it by theme and by region, sometimes combining on the same page drawings produced decades apart.

A fuller description of the artwork in this albums is available via our website or on request.

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129GLADWIN, Francis. A Dictionary Persian, Hindoostanee and English; including Synonyma. Calcutta: Printed at the Hindoostanee Press, by T. Hubbard, 18092 volumes, quarto (234 151 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, new red morocco labels to style, compartments formed by single gilt rules. A little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, now with some judicious restoration at the joints, corners and headcaps, light tan-burn to the endpapers, pale browning else, a very good set.

first edition. “Gladwin was a man of wide intellectual inter-ests – he accumulated a remarkable library – and with a passion for learning languages and for making translations, above all from Persian. He published a large number of his translations. In 1775 he produced a specimen of a ‘vocabulary’ of words in various Asian languages, a project that he was later to realize in several different formats . . . [this] stream of publications mak-ing him the most frequently published author in late 18th-cen-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

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pamphlets on university topics, he published little, though his researches were extensive” (ODNB). Decidedly uncommon, Copac recording just five copies (Brit-ish Library, Royal Asiatic society, Oxford, Cambridge and TCD), OCLC adding eight more world-wide; just two sets recorded at auction.

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130GLADWIN, Francis. The Persian Moonshee. Abridged by William Carmichael Smyth. London: sold by J. M. Richardson and J. Sams, 1822Octavo in half-sheets (215 × 130 mm). Late 19th-century green half calf, raised bands to spine with ropework fillets gilt, tan morocco label lettered in gilt to second compartment, marbled sides, edges speckled red, pink endpapers. Folding verb table. Two contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-page and one later to front pastedown. Extremities slightly rubbed, spine sunned, contents lightly toned with occasional faint spotting as usual, tan-burn to endpapers from turn-ins, infrequent interlinear annotations in pencil. A very good copy.

second london edition of Gladwin’s Persian grammar, and the first edited by Hindustani scholar Carmichael Smyth; scarce, with just three copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (Oxford, Cambridge and Aberdeen). Part II comprises a series of illustrative “Hikayati Luteef ” (“sweet stories”), with Part III, “Phrases and dialogues in Persian and English”, excised for this edition. The Moonshee (from the Persian munshi, an honorific giv-en to skilled linguists and clerks) was first published in Calcutta in 1795. “The most frequently published author in late 18th-cen-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).

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131GLUBB, Sir John Bagot. The Story of the Arab Legion. London: [ for ex-officers of the Legion,] 1980Octavo. Publisher’s full tan calf, title gilt direct to spine, raised bands, single ruled panels to compartments with quatrefoil devices to the first, 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-thene jacket. Frontispiece and 50 other plates, maps to the endpapers, and 5 full-page maps to the text. Short split in the jacket, else very good indeed.

First published in 1948, this commemorative edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies (this number 28) “was pro-duced by some retired British officers who once served in the Arab Legion to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Glubb Pasha’s entrance into the service of the Jordan Government in 1930” (author’s foreword). Glubb’s personal account of “the most in-fluential years” (Perkins) of this regiment formed help to protect the British mandate in the Trans-Jordan: “In the circumstances then prevailing in the region, it was vital to have a force capable of operating in desert areas inhabited by quarrelling Bedouin tribes . . . in later years [the Legion] gained a fine reputation for dash, smartness, and fierce loyalty”.

Enser p. 425; Perkins p. 225, this edition not noted.

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132GOLDSMID, Sir Frederic John. Eastern Persia An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870–71–72. Vol. I. The Geography with Narratives by Majors St. John, Lovett and Euan Smith and an Introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid. Published by Authority of the Government of India. Vol. II. The Zoology and Geology by W. T. Blanford. London: Macmillan & Co., 18762 volumes, octavo (220 × 148 mm). Recent half calf by Trevor Lloyd, red and green contrasting labels, flat bands with single rule, double fillet panels to compartments, arabesque corner-pieces, central lozenge tool, marbled sides, top edge gilt. Volume I with steel-engraved frontispiece and chromo-lithographic plate, 3 folding coloured maps, illustration and genealogical tables to the text; volume II, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 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

Crimea, “and during the [Indian] mutiny he distinguished him-self in various dangerous missions.” In 1861 “he was assigned to the Indo-European Telegraph proj-ect, the purpose of which was to construct a telegraph line from British India, along the coast of Persia and what is now Pakistan, then through central Persia and Asia Minor to connect with the European network at Constantinople” (Howgego), in 1865 suc-ceeding Colonel Patrick Stewart, on his death, as director general. Having successfully negotiated the intricacies of the required treaties, he “personally superintended the construction of the telegraph line across the whole extent of Persia” leaving “a charac-teristically modest account of his adventures” (ODNB). When the government of India’s attention was drawn to the “political revolutions in the lands of the immediate neighbours on the West” (Goldsmid’s Introduction), his experience of the territory and superior negotiating skills made him the the obvious

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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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133GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachgelehrsamkeit bei den Arabern. Vienna: in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1871–33 offprints bound in 1 volume, octavo (221 × 142 mm). Recent brown pat-terned boards, patterned endpapers. Text in German with frequent Arabic types. Two neat ink inscriptions to title. Spine rolled, surface splitting to inner hinge, edges tanned, text lightly toned and creased with occasional faint dampstaining to top and fore edges. A very good copy.

Rare offprints from the periodical Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akade-mie der Wissenschaften (Proceedings from the Vienna Academy of Sciences), together collecting Goldziher’s important essays on the history of Arabic philology, which he begun shortly after submitting his doctoral dissertation on Judaeo-Arabic biblical exegesis at Leipzig in 1870 at the age of 20. His findings proved influential in the 20th-century revisionist studies of the Qur’an and Muslim origins, which examined in particular the works of the early Arab philologists. Goldziher is considered the father of modern Islamic studies and is best remembered for his path-breaking Muhammed-anische Studien (Muslim Studies, Halle: 1889–90), a radically sceptical approach to the hadith literature, the corpus of sayings and deeds attributed to the Prophet Muhammad.

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134GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte der Sî‘â und der Sunnitischen Polemik. Vienna: in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1874Offprint, 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

would form the subject of a chapter on the development of the Is-lamic sects in his Vorlesungen über den Islam (see following item).

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135GOLDZIHER, Ignaz. Vorlesungen über den Islam. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1910Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, white and tan endbands, frame to boards in blind, purple endpapers. Negligible rubbing to ex-tremities, minor abrasion to rear board, very occasional underlining in pencil. An excellent copy.

first edition of Goldziher’s influential writings on Islam, which were originally intended to be read over the course of a lecture tour to the United States in 1907. However, Goldziher was suffering from ill-health and never made the journey, de-ciding instead to publish his lectures in book-form, with a few alterations. The subjects covered include Muhammad and his relationship to Islam, Sufism, the emergence of Islamic law, kalam (dogmatic theology) and the sects. It was reprinted several times, translated into English as The Development of Islamic Theol-ogy and Law, and remains a highly influential work: along with his Muhammedanische Studien (Halle, 1889–90), it helped establish Goldziher’s reputation as the father of modern Islamic studies.

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136GOOD, Frank Mason. Views in Upper Egypt. London: W. Mansell, 1871–2Landscape quarto (260 × 50 mm). Brown contemporary morocco over bevelled boards, title in gilt to front board within a broad panel in blind, 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 edges gilt, zig-zag roll gilt to the turn-ins, white moiré effect endpapers. 58 original albumen prints (157 × 205 mm), photographer’s number-ing in the negative, images mounted rectos only on linen-hinged card leaves. The album a little rubbed, some judicious restoration at the extremities; variable, but mainly light, foxing of the mounting leaves, some marginal fading of the prints, one or two a little spotted, overall very good, the majority with excellent contrast and tonal range.

Attractive album of archaeological images from Egypt taken by one of Francis Frith’s closest associates. The album contains a won-derful selection of Good’s archaeological views including Heliop-olis, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Luxor, Philae, with the party’s dahabieh moored at the island, and the Memnomium at Thebes. Albums concentrating solely on Good’s work are decidedly uncommon. Frank Mason Good (1839–1928) was born in Deal, Kent, the son of a chemist and druggist, which “probably explains his skill in the manipulation of chemicals” (Lazard p. 47). He first travelled to Egypt as Francis Frith’s assistant in late 1857. Subsequently he made four photographic tours of the Middle East on his own be-half. His first trip was made in 1866–7, taking in Greece Palestine,

Syria, Lebanon, Alexandria, Suez and Petra, a series of his views being published by Frith who had essentially underwritten the trip. The second trip was to Egypt during 1868–9, “from Alexan-dria to Abu Simbel on the second cataract . . . between these two places, Good photographed about everything of interest” (p. 48); and the third in the winter of 1871–2 included Egypt, Constantino-ple and Malta – “the Egyptian part being a repetition of the 1868 tour” – from which expedition this selection dates; evidenced by the presence here of an image of the great temple at Abu Simbel showing the facade following Mariette’s clearance operations of 1869 (Lazard p. 49). During his fourth and final tour of 1875 he visited Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Good joined the Photographic Society in 1864, in 1880 serving as a judge of its annual exhibition. He is probably best known for his Near Eastern stereograph series, but it is very likely that many notable images of the region from the 1860s and 1870s previously credited to Frith, should in fact be attributed to Good (see Phoenix, “Preparing an Acquisition Report for the Portfolio, F. Frith’s Photo-Pictures of the Lands of the Bible Illustrated by Scripture Words”, Ryerson University, theses and dissertations, paper 1181, 2008). Lazard is certainly correct in his “conviction . . . that Good was an outstanding ‘landscapist’, acclaimed by his contemporaries” but sadly “afterwards, for reasons I do not understand, completely forgotten by the photo-historians of today” (p. 46). 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 recipient Walter Page (1840–1904), sometime house surgeon at St George’s, was a respected astronomer, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the RGS, who was “fond of travel-ling and had visited nearly all parts of the globe”.

See Gernsheim, Incunabula 584; Lazard, “Frank Mason Good and his Middle East Photographs”, in The Photohistorian, no. 93, summer 1991.

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137GRANT, Johnson. Arabia: a Poem. Leeds: Printed at the Intelligence-Office by Griffith Wright, and sold by J. Hatchard, London; Robinson, Leeds; and other Booksellers, 1811Octavo. Sewn in original marbled wrappers with letterpress label with price to front panel. Wrappers a little rubbed, light toning of the text, else very good.

first edition; extremely uncommon, Copac with just three locations – British Library, Oxford and Cambridge – OCLC adds University of Victoria, BC, and Library of Congress. A graduate of St John’s, Oxford, Grant (1773–1844), was an evangelical, and “a hard-working clergyman” with several livings in Leicester-shire and London: “his considerable literary output included A Summary of the History of the English Church, a memoir of a girl parishioner, and occasional poetry, notably Arabia inspired by travels to the Holy Land” (ODNB). The author’s footnotes include descriptions of Mecca, Medi-na, and Socotra, and a summary of the life of Muhammad; in his final note Grant directs readers to Waring’s Tour of Sheeraz for an account of the Wahhabis, and stresses that “in the descrip-tions of the trade of Moorish Spain, the productions of Arabia Felix – the Caravanseras [sic] of the Desert, and in other parts of the Poem, I have adhered to approved authorities”, noting in particular Shaw, Pococke and Niebuhr. A second edition was published in 1815.

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138G[REEN], J[ohn.] Journey from Aleppo to Damascus: With a Description of Those Two Capital Cities, and the Neighbouring Parts of Syria. To which is added, an Account of the Maronites inhabiting Mount Libanus, etc. Collected from their own Historians. Also the Surprising Adventures and Tragical End of Mostafa, a Turk, who, after professing Christianity for for many Years in Spain and Flanders, returned to Syria, carrying with him his Christian Wife. London: for W. Mears [and 3 others], 1736Octavo (194 × 120 mm). Nineteenth-century half sheep, marbled sides, raised bands gilt to spine, black morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Folding map frontispiece, woodcut head- and tailpieces and figurative initials. 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; 20th-century bookseller’s ticket of William George, Bristol, to rear pastedown. Joints and tips very lightly rubbed, front inner hinge superficially split at foot, browning to endpa-pers, very short tear to folding map stub, the image unaffected, contents crisp and clean. An excellent copy, bound with the terminal advertisement leaf.

first and only edition. “Part I, the journey Aleppo to Da-mascus, was communicated to [the author] by a friend, and the map illustrates this route. The descriptions of Aleppo and Da-mascus are taken from the Nouveau mémoires de missions de la Com-pagnie de Jésus. Part II is a translation from De La Roque’s Voyage to Mt. Lebanon . . . Green is much concerned with the effect on the Levant trade of the Russian-German attempt to dismember Turkey” (Blackmer). Green (c.1688–1757) also published maps under the name of Braddock Mead: his “erratic personal life ended in a leap from a third-storey window while attempting to elope with a 12-year-old heiress” (University of Michigan, The President’s Report for 1767–77, p. 6).

Blackmer 745; Weber 494.

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139GRIERSON, James Moncrieff. The Armed Strength of Russia. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Office. London: HMSO, 1886Octavo (234 × 137 mm). Modern red half calf, matching cloth boards, title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. 2 folding lithographed maps, co-loured in outline, 5 lithographed plates. Light toning, else very good.

first edition, with a print run of 300 copies only and conse-quently uncommon, with four copies only on Copac. This highly detailed analysis of every aspect of the organization of the Russian army, which superseded far slighter issues of 1873 and 1882, was compiled by the British Army’s foremost expert on the subject and published at a time when tension between the two empires was reaching crisis point in Asia. Grierson was one of the period’s most intellectually brilliant soldiers. He had passed out fourth in his class from the RMA and joined the Royal Artillery in 1878. “In 1879 he accompanied the Aus-trian armies in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 1880 went to the Russian manoeuvres at Warsaw as correspondent for the Daily News. In 1881 Grierson joined his battery in India, but soon after his arrival became attaché in the quartermaster-general’s department at Simla. He was employed on intelligence work, and his pen was busy; besides contributions to The Pioneer, he produced a volume of notes on the Turkish army, an Arabic vocabulary, and a gazetteer of Egypt” (ODNB). He served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, and on his return to India passed first into the Staff College. “At the Staff College he finished his translation of Grodekoff ’s work, which he entitled Campaign in Turcomania and passed out with honours in French and Russian. On leaving he served for a time in the Russian section of the intelligence division under General Henry Brackenbury. He was promoted captain in 1886, and in the following year joined a battery in India . . . In 1889, at Brackenbury’s request, Grierson returned to the intelligence division and became head of the Russian section.”

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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, 1771Octavo (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.

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 bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785–1861), “En-gland’s earliest female bibliophile” (ODNB), whose famous library at Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, Dibdin judged to place her “at the head of all female collectors in Europe” (ibid.) and to be surpassed only by the collection of Earl Spencer, who acquired Reviczky’s libary en bloc in 1768. Currer was a neighbour of the Brontës and her surname provided Charlotte with her pseudonym, Currer Bell. Mathew Wilson, he of the second bookplate, was the name of both Currer’s maternal grandfather and her mother’s cousin (who in 1800 also became her father-in-law). In this “pioneering work” (Ginter-Frolow), Revickzy provides the Persian text of 16 ghazals by Hafiz, with parallel Latin trans-lations, a lengthy introduction with a life of the author, and a detailed commentary. English orientalist John Richardson pub-lished an English translation of Revickzy’s work entitled A Speci-men of Persian Poetry in 1774. European readers had their first glimpse of Hafiz in a brief reference found in the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle (1650). Franz Meninski included one ghazal by Hafiz in his Thesaurus linguarum orientalum (4 vols, 1680–7), as did Thomas Hyde in his Synatgma dissertationum (1767). “The next steps in discovering Hafiz’s poetry were made by an amateur orientalist, the young Austrian diplo-mat count Rewiczski [sic], and a British scholar, the learned and versatile William Jones . . . they enthusiastically exchanged their views about oriental poetry in general and Hafiz in particular in a correspondence that lasted from 1768 to 1770” (Dynes, Asian Ho-mosexuality, pp. 264–5). In 1770 Jones published his Histoire de Nader Chah, to which he appended French version of ten Hafiz odes and two of Reviczky’s Latin translations. The following year, in his Grammar of the Persian Language, Jones included a translation of the Shirazi Turk ghazal, which he entitled “A Persian Song”. The book’s huge success “ef-fectively marked the birth of Romantic Orientalism” (Encyclopaedia Iranica), precipitating a flood of European translations and edi-tions of Persian literature, and original works by the likes of By-ron, Thomas Moore, and Goethe, whose West–östlicher Divan was

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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 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 . . . No other Persian poet has been the subject of so much analysis, commentary, and interpretation. Nor has any poet influenced the course of post-14th-century Persian lyrics as much as he has . . . by common consent he represents the zenith of Persian lyric poet-ry” (Encyclopaedia Iranica).

Magdelana Ginter-Frolow, “From Armchair Literates to Art Historians: The Polish Collections of Persian Manuscripts” in The Shaping of Persian Arts, ed. Kadoi and Szanto, p. 54.

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141HARVEY, Annie Jane. Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1871Octavo (210 × 134 mm). Recent red half morocco on old marbled boards by Trevor Lloyd, black morocco label, wavy gilt roll to the bands, floral device to compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Chromolitho-graphic frontispiece and title page, after drawings by the author, lithog-raphy by Hanhart. A little rubbed on the boards, slight foxing front and back, light browning, else very good.

first edition of this uncommon and illuminating account of a yacht cruise to Constantinople, the Crimea, and Circassia.

“Although the majority of the book is about her travels in Rus-sia, it is packaged as harem literature, using the words ‘harem’ and ‘Circassian’ in the title to attract readers. Offering a mix of harem and travel account, the descriptions of harems and Ot-toman women are combined with Harvey’s careful observation of landscape, towns, street scenes, and aspects of domestic life such as food traditions and cooking . . . Like Lady Brassey’s books that had their origins in letters written home, Harvey’s work was apparently based on diaries entries made during her travels. Unlike Brassey’s limited interest in the lives of women abroad, Harvey positioned herself to write extensively about the Turkish women that she met” (Lewis & Micklewright, Gen-der, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women’s Writ-ings, p. 101). Harvey had previously published a similar account of a cruise to the Levant, and subsequently wrote a travelogue on Spain. She published fiction under the pseudonym of An-drée Hope.

Blackmer 791.

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142HASSAN, Hafiz Ahmed. Pilgrimage to the Caaba and Charing Cross. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1871Octavo. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, title to spine, and to the front board within decorative panel, edges stained red, brown sur-face-paper endpapers. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. A little rubbed, lower fore-corner showing mild signs of damp, hinges starting, half-title browned, else very good.

first edition. The author held a position equivalent to chan-cellor of the exchequer at the court of the young Nawab of Tonk, a small Muslim kingdom in Rajasthan, hedged on all sides by Hindu-ruled states. After the death of the Thakoor of Lawa, the largest tributary of Tonk, and a number of his retainers at the home of the prime minister of Tonk, the local political agent Lieutenant-Colonel Eden supported Lawa’s claims in the inci-dent and deposed the Nawab. Hassan was a key member in a deputation that set out for London to appeal against the local agent’s findings. He gives a highly-detailed account of the voyage from Bombay to Jedda via Aden and Hodyda, and of the journey on camel-back to Mecca, where they complete the hajj, and on to Medina to see the Proph-et’s tomb. The party then returned to Jedda, from where Hassan set out for London via Suez and Marseilles. Hassan’s appeal was unsuccessful, and the Nawab’s son continued in his stead.

Not in Macro.

£600 [93964]

“Here is a superb volume”

143HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein. Ulwar and its Art Treasures. London: W. Griggs, 1888Quarto (370 × 275 mm). Publisher’s deluxe binding of dark green mo-rocco over bevelled boards, decorative gilt spine, red and olive green

twin labels, concentric gilt rule and roll tool border on sides, large central onlaid red morocco panel titled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, richly gilt turns-ins, marbled endpapers. Decorative photochromo-lithograph title page, photochromolithograph portrait of Mangal Singh within ornamental gold border, plates numbered I–LXXIX: 59 photo-chromolithograph plates (2 double-page), 19 other plates (including photogravures from photographs, 3 plans & maps), one plate with one photochromolithograph and one photogravure; nine of the ten chapters with coloured pictorial initial letter and either colour pictorial or pho-togravure head-piece. A few old wormholes with small area of worming near foot of front cover and affecting inner morocco joints but binding sound, internally clean and the plates bright.

first edition of this lavish volume, a pioneering study of Mu-ghal art treasures in the collection of the Maharajah of Ulwar (present day Alwar) in Rajasthan produced, as Hendley explains in his preface, “at the sole cost” of the Maharajah. He goes on to say: “the photographs are, unless otherwise noted, the work of Mr. G. Wyatt of Ulwar, and the coloured illustrations are, almost without exception, reproduced from copies made from the orig-inals by Budha, a talented artist in the employ of H.H. the Ma-harajah”. The subjects covered are wide-ranging, from miniature painting to arms and armour, clothing, bookbinding, textiles and jewellery. The Spectator’s review was glowing: “here is a superb vol-ume” (27 April 1889). The publisher was the printing pioneer William Griggs (1832–1911). In the late 1860s Griggs developed the technique of photo-chromolithography, whereby multiple negatives with the colours separated by varnishes were carefully registered and printed to produce full colour images of quite startling realism. He was hired by the South Kensington Museum, now the V&A, in the 1880s to photograph and produce plates of items in their collection, which were published in sections under the general title Portfolios of Industrial Arts. He had a special association with Indian art that be-gan when, at the age of 18, his interest was piqued by working at the Indian court of the Great Exhibition of 1851. “As well as being a British pioneer of colour photolithography, Griggs was a leading

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exponent of the art for the last quarter of the 19th century. He was one of the first to practise halftone block making and collotype and helped to bring about rapid printing using cylinder presses. He was also a more than competent photographer” (ODNB). Colonel Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847–1917), was a surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. “He had no war service, but was well known as an authority on Indian art. In 1883 he organized the Jaipur Exhibition, and afterwards the Jaipur Museum; he was one of the founders of the Quarterly Journal of Indian Art and was the author of several works on that subject . . . Colonel Hendley led a very strenuous life, and will rank among those who have really un-derstood India and the true signification of mid-Eastern ideas and art” (obituary in the British Medical Journal, 10 Feb. 1917). This copy is interesting in that Griggs’s imprint has been neatly excised from the title page and final leaf of letterpress, perhaps implying that this copy may have been intended for presentation under the guise of a non-commercial publication. There are some light indecipherable pencillings on these two leaves. There is also a printed slip pasted below the caption of the portrait of Mangal Singh noting his accession as Maharajah on 1 January 1889. Decidedly uncommon: Copac locates copies at six British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, V&A, Cambridge, Oxford, Guildhall, National Trust) and we have traced another at the Royal Collection (a presentation copy from the Maharajah of Ulwar to Queen Victoria, held at Osborne House); OCLC cites some 28 locations worldwide; only five copies have appeared at public auction since 1976 and only one of those in the “original morocco gilt”.

£4,500 [117685]

Best edition of “the first encyclopaedia of Islam” (Stroumsa)

144HERBELOT, 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-ial spots to contents. An excellent set.

First published in 1697, this revised and expanded edition of d’Herbelot’s monumental work is “generally considered the best” (Arcadian Library, p. 238), containing supplements by J. J. Reiske, “undoubtedly the best Arabist in Germany” (ibid.), Leiden professor H. A. Schultens, and other pre-eminent 18th-century orientalists. Much of the Bibliothèque orientale is in fact translated or adapted from the Kashf al-Zunun, a 17th-century Arabic work by Ot-toman scholar Katip Çelebi considered “the first comprehensive dictionary of bibliography of the Islamic world”, describing some 15,000 books in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (The Oxford Encyclo-paedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, p. 440). The Kashf al-Zunun did not appear in print until a multivolume Arabic and Latin edition was published in the mid-19th century (1835–58). As such d’Herbelot’s work has been recognised not only as “one of the landmarks in Arabic studies” (Atabey) but also “the first ency-clopaedia of Islam” (Stroumsa, A New Science, p. 131). This copy comes from the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his ownership inscription to the front pastedowns, and printed bookplates noting his wid-ow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1922, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; loosely inserted is sheet of copy typescript with Miles’s pencilled translation of the entry on Oman. A superb association for this cornerstone text.

Arcadian Library 8345; Atabey 574 refers; not in Blackmer

£3,500 [117606]

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Uncommon and attractive account of the Gulf

145HERBERT, Aubrey. Ben Kendim. A Record of Eastern Travel. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924Octavo. 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, 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 Balkanist and advocate of Albanian independence, spent his war in intelligence, with the intelligence bureau at Cairo (later the Arab Bureau), at Gallipoli, where “eyebrows were sometimes raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance” (ODNB), Meso-potamia, Salonika, and Italy. Herbert’s Arabian adventures began with a trip to Sanaa with fellow MP Leland Buxton in 1905: “at that date hardly any En-glishman had been to Sanaa, and it still had the mystery, if not the glory, that belonged to it when the Queen of Sheba held her court upon its mountains”. They continued to the Persian Gulf while Herbert was recovering from typhoid, having become con-vinced that it “offered admirable qualifications for recuperation” – Bahrein; Ojair; Al-Hasa. An unusually nice copy.

Not in Macro; see Bidwell, Travellers in Arabia p. 174.

£225 [92342]

146HERBERT, Thomas. A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchie: and some parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles adiacent. Of their Religion, language, habit, Discent, Ceremonies, and other matters concerning them. Together with the proceedings and death of the three late Ambassadors: Sir D.C. Sir R.S. and the Persian Nogdi-beg. As also the two great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogul. London: Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634Quarto (275 × 183 mm). Late 18th-century polished tree calf, decorative 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 at head and tail, prelims and a couple of gatherings dampstained, closed 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

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the expedition, Cotton and Sherley, sickened and died during July 1628, leaving Herbert and the other survivors to make the slow return to England, arriving at Gravesend on 12 January 1630. “In the course of his travels he [Herbert] visited the notable Persian cities of Gombroon, Shiraz, Esfahan, Ashraf, Qazvin, and Qom as well as other Asian and African locales such as Surat, Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena . . . In 1634 he published the first edition of his book of travels . . . The book ap-peared in an expanded second edition in 1638 under the title Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. Beginning with the first edition Herbert inserted materials into his narrative about places he had not visited although he sometimes implied that he had, and in each succeeding edition the amount of this sec-ond-hand material increased significantly . . . Some Yeares Travels proved sufficiently popular to encourage a Dutch translation in 1658, and a French in 1663. During his years of retirement after the Restoration, Herbert produced expanded third, fourth, and fifth editions in 1665, 1675, and 1677 respectively, and the book con-tinued to be reprinted after his death” (ODNB). Almost a century later, Jonathan Swift, in his Gulliver’s Travels, was both exasperated and inspired by Herbert’s travel narrative. Herbert includes a general account of Arabia – with an engrav-ing of the Persian and Arabian coasts – and an important early ac-count of the Cape of Good Hope, with perhaps the first published view of Cape Town (p. 17); a description of the Hottentots; and a brief glossary with examples from their language “which must have been the first published in an English work” (Mendelssohn, p. 706). The illustrations include a map of Madagascar, a flying fish, “a sharke fish”, and the dodo, about which Herbert com-

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.

£2,250 [98422]

147HEYD, Wilhelm. Geschichte des Levantehandels im Mittelalter. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 18792 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary black half morocco; spine in compartments separated by gilt double rules enclosing blind-stamped single rules, titles to second and fourth gilt, floral roll to head and foot gilt; white and purple endbands, marbled sides, red speckled 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 abrasion, small patches of foxing to pastedowns, leaves toned. A very good copy.

first edition. In 1082, the Byzantine emperor granted Venice trading rights throughout imperial territory, a decree issued largely in recognition of the city state’s growing influence; Ve-netian merchants became the dominant European force in the Levant throughout the Middle Ages, conducting a thriving trade with the Mamluk dynasty, who ruled from Cairo with Alexandria as their commercial centre, and increasingly the Ottomans, who would eventually conquer the Mamluks in 1517. Together with Karl Hopf ’s Geschichte Griechenlands vom Beginn des Mittelalters, Heyd’s monograph “firmly established the ascendancy of Ger-man scholarship in medieval Greek history” (Lock, The Franks in the Aegean 1204–1500, p. 30). A French version entitled Histoire du commerce du Levant au moyen-âge, with numerous additions by the author, was published in Leipzig in 1885. Scarce in commerce.

Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell, Macro or Hamilton Arcadian Library.

£750 [100580]

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148HILL, Aaron. A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire. In all its Branches: With The Government, and Policy, Religion, Customs, and Way of Living of the Turks, in General. Faithfully related From a Serious Observation, taken in many Years Travels thro’ those Countries. London: for the author by John Mayo, 1709Folio in fours (345 × 220 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf pan-el-stamped in blind, rebacked in the 19th century with brown morocco spine in compartments double-ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered red-brown morocco label to second, page-edges sprinkled red, floral roll to board-edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 plates each with facing explanatory leaf. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Bridger (squire of Coombe Place, Lewes; appointed Sheriff of Sussex, 1780) to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of John Lilley (“his book, 1714, 915”) to final blank. Extremities slightly rubbed, corners bumped, a few light scuffs and splashes to covers, old restoration to craquelure on front, in-ner hinges sometime reinforced with red cloth, ticket or plate removed from front pastedown, light browning to front flyleaves and sigs. 2O–2X, plates and explanatory leaves foxed as often, pale staining to 2Ir, short chip to bottom edge of 2L not affecting text, otherwise the very occa-sional faint marginal spot. A good copy.

first edition. Hill was only 15 when he was sent by his grand-mother to visit his distant relative Lord Paget, English ambas-sador to Constantinople. From Turkey he travelled to Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Arabia before returning to England three years later in April 1703 with Paget. “Hill’s Ottoman Empire was a luxury publication designed to establish its author’s social and literary credentials . . . at nearly 350 pages it was an impres-sive achievement for a 24–year-old. Hill’s primary model was the diplomat Sir Paul Rycaut’s Present State of the Ottoman Empire of 1668. He borrows many of Rycaut’s observations on the polit-ical, institutional, and religious history of the Turks . . . yet he is undoubtedly more interested in projecting himself into the picture as an adventure hero . . . Hill dramatizes himself strug-gling with knife-wielding Arabs, finally stabbing one to death, going underwater pearl-diving, braving storms and dangerous tempests on his sea journey to Samon and, finally, enduring ‘A Strange Accident which befel the Author in a Vault among the Mummys’” (Gerrard, Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector, 1685–1750,

p. 22). Complete copies are genuinely scarce in commerce, with just three seen at auction in the last 30 years.

Atabey 580; Arcadian Library 16882; Blackmer 817 for the second edition (1710); not in Burrell

£2,500 [107982]

149HOBHOUSE, J. C. A Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, During the Years 1809 and 1810. London: Printed for James Cawthorn, 1813Quarto (265 × 204 mm). Near contemporary dark brown sheep, raised bands to spine, titles gilt to dark brown-green morocco label, decorations to bands gilt, to compartments in blind, double ruling to boards in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 7 of which are folding, all with tissue guards, engraved ar-chitectural plan, 2 plates of Albanian script, 2 plates of music, 2 engraved folding maps. Bookplate of Kinturk to front pastedown. Small white stain to the slightly darkened spine, extremities lightly rubbed, corners gently bumped, boards a touch scuffed and soiled, minor worm damage to front joint, inner hinges cracked but holding firm, light offsetting from plates lacking tissue guard, a few short splits to the lightly foxed folding maps, occasional pale spotting to margins. A very good copy.

first edition of this account of a tour of Albania, Greece, and Turkey the author made together with Lord Byron. “Hobhouse’s account of this journey, Byron’s first visit to Greece, is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on an important period in the poet’s life, but also for Hobhouse’s detailed accounts of eth-nographical and topographical materials and his descriptions of Ali Pasha’s court” (Blackmer). Initially travelling to Portugal and Spain, they “were encour-aged by English naval and diplomatic intelligence to travel into Albania, where they stayed with Ali Pasha . . . An English naval force meanwhile took over most of the Ionian Islands, a fact on which Ali congratulated them. They then went into Greece, where they were surprised to discover considerable anti-Turkish feeling among the inhabitants. They based themselves in Ath-ens, visiting Marathon on 24 January, and then went via Smyrna to Constantinople, where they attended an audience with Sultan Mahmoud II” (ODNB). Elements of this expedition were incor-porated by Byron into Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the narrative

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poem that would make its author famous and establish the im-age of the Byronic hero.

Abbey Travel 202; Atabey 584; Blackmer 821; Brunet III 241.

£3,000 [94114]

The first professional landscape artist to visit India

150HODGES, William. Travels in India, during the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783. London: printed for the author, and sold by J. Edwards, 1793Quarto (286 × 230 mm). Contemporary marbled calf, raised bands to spine, foliate vignettes gilt to compartments between gilt rules, black morocco label, fillet and oak-leaf borders gilt to sides, sprinkled edges, green endpapers, bound purple silk page-marker. 14 engraved plates (9 of them views) by Medland, Byrne, Angus and others after Hodges, large folding engraved map of part of Bengal and Bihar. With the directions to the binder bound in. Joints and extremities rubbed, a few light scuffs and scattered faint craquelure to sides, tide-mark to top edge of pp. 92–3, the text unaffected, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks, Pass at Sicri Gully and Zananah plates transposed, very short closed tear to folding map stub. An excellent copy, the contents crisp and fresh and with no trace of the usual offsetting or browning.

first edition, in a superior Regency binding; a second edi-tion was published the following year. “The first professional landscape artist to visit India and please such tastes [for the pic-turesque and the sublime] was William Hodges (1744–1797). He went with a highly individual vision and style of painting which had been formed while he was official artist on Captain Cook’s

second voyage to the Pacific between 1772 and 1775. Hodges had served his apprenticeship with Richard Wilson and had learnt to paint landscapes in the classical tradition, producing calm wooded scenes lit by a soft glow, the foreground peopled with classical figures. With Captain Cook Hodges was suddenly jerk-ed into observing nature in a completely different way . . . “[His] first year in India was disappointing. Hodges’s health was poor and the Second Mysore War (1780–84) against Haidar Ali was in progress. This made it impossible for him to explore the countryside of South India freely and he was confined to Ma-dras and its immediate environs. On moving to Calcutta in Feb-ruary 1781, however, he was to travel far more widely through the generosity and patronage of the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, a man of broad culture. “During 1781 Hodges made two tours up-country with him during which he saw the ruins of many Muslim palaces, tombs and mosques. The next year he found a patron in Augustus Cleveland, a liberal administrator stationed at Bhagalpur in Bihar. Touring with him Hodges saw a very different India – the forested tracts inhabited by an aboriginal people, the Paharias. During 1783 he made a long expedition up-country to join Major Brown who was heading a diplomatic embassy to the Mughal Emperor. Hodges was now able to see the great Mughal monu-ments at Agra and Sikandra. He returned through Central India to Calcutta via Lucknow and left India in November 1783” (Ar-cher & Lightbown, India Observed: India as viewed by British Artists 1760–1860, Victoria and Albert Museum 1982, pp. 8–9).

Riddick, History of British India, pp. 170–2.

£2,250 [117400]

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151HOLDSTOCK, Peter. Local Color. Awali, Bahrain: [ for the photographer, c.1954]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-graphs printed both sides, another similar image mounted inside the rear board, and a contents listing, including technical details for each image, camera, exposure &c., inside the front. A little rubbed at the edg-es, contents remain excellent, overall very good.

first and only edition, just one other copy traced in SOAS (miscatalogued under the unlikely name of “Holebtock”), which on examination has fewer plates, but some different images, and is without the technical contents listing. The SOAS copy also lacks its rear board. This is a wonderful selection of well-composed and printed images of mid-20th century Bahrain, comprising attractive views, various trades and “types”, including a portrait of the Sheikh of Bahrain with Ibn Saud, and aerial views of Awali, the town found-ed in the 1930s by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) to house their HQ and foreign technical staff, and of Dhahran, Saudi HQ of Aramco. The approximate dating can be deduced from the fact that the sheikh in the initial double portrait is Salman bin Hamad al Khal-ifa (1894–1961), who ruled 1942–61, and King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, with whom he is pictured, who died in 1953. Also, the aerial imag-es show the respective administrative capitals at a state of devel-opment consonant with a date in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and the Fairchild K-20 used to take them was a high-quality, wartime military handheld model produced 1941–5, and therefore likely to

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 1940 and 1941 and the Russell Cup for 1941. An uncommon and highly attractive visual record of the Gulf before the acceleration of its oil-fired modernisation in the latter part of the 20th century.

£3,000 [103621]

152HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Thirty-Five Years in the East. Adventures, Discoveries, Experiments, and Historical Sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in Connection with Medicine, Botany, Pharmacy, &c. Calcutta: The “Bangabasi” Office, 1905Octavo (211 × 125 mm). Modern “native” black half sheep, green cloth boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rolls to spine and corner edges, orig-inal front wrapper (stained, old repairs) bound in. Portrait frontispiece and 15 other plates, 6 of them folding, and a folding map. Externally bright, contents browned and with a series of worm-tracks through the block, but not in any way fragile, about very good.

first calcutta reprint; first published in German in Vienna under the title Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse, nebst naturhistorisch-medizinischen Erfahrungen in 1851; translated into English the following year. Honigberger (1795–1869), a doctor trained in both conven-tional and his preferred homeopathic medicine, was born in Krostadt in Romania, left Transylvania in 1815 and travelled though the Middle East, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and on to India. He arrived in Lahore in 1829 and, having treated Ranjit Singh’s favourite horse for an ulcerated leg, gained the confidence of the Maharaja, becoming court physician, as well as being put in charge of the gunstock manufactory and gunpowder mills. 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 Mohammedan doctor, an attar or druggist, a still, a “B’hangee,

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or Hemp-Plant Drinker”, and a “Faqueer Postee, or Poppy-Head Drinker”, together with portraits of the members of the durbar or ruler’s household, and an interesting map of the railway route from Bokhara to Orenburg. This account by an unconventional but painstaking observer is a highly appealing curiosity amongst the more established account of the Punjabi court at the time.

£975 [102937]

153(HORSEMANSHIP.) UAE Endurance. Traversing Frontiers. Abu Dhabi: UAE Equestrian and Racing Federation, 1999Quarto. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown and white 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 bright dust jacket with minor ink-staining to rear panel.

first and only edition, produced to celebrate the success of endurance riding in the United Arab Emirates since the first such race was held there in 1993. By 1998, the country had hosted the World Endurance Championship, then the largest equestrian event on record. Rare: only one other copy traced (the Iraqi National Library).

£500 [100948]

154HORSFIELD, George & Agnes, & Nelson Glueck. “Prehistoric Rock-drawings in Transjordan”, in: American Journal of Archaeology. Volume XXXVII, Number 3. July–September.] The Archaeological Institute of America, 1933Octavo. Original printed buff wrappers. Six-page article with full-page 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.

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 (Horsfield et 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

the Transjordan, but now lies within the borders of Saudi Arabia. They were accompanied by Nelson Glueck (1939), who described their discovery on a hillside just northeast of Kilwa. The surfac-es of the hill were thoroughly packed with rock art, which they recorded photographically. Their collection of photos currently resides in the University of London Institute of Archaeology. One of the images in the Kilwa rock art that particularly caught their attention, the one they coined the “best ibex,” was a “wounded ibex with blood streaming from his mouth”. They were the first Westerners to report seeing the petroglyphs, although Gertrude Bell had been to Kilwa in 1914. It was left to Hans Rhotert (1938) and Leo Frobenius to follow up with a professional study in 1934–35” (Arabian Rock Art Heritage website).

£150 [92391]

155HOSKINS, George Alexander. A Winter in Upper and Lower Egypt. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863Octavo. Contemporary red half sheep, spine gilt in compartments, green and black labels, marbled sides and edges. Coloured frontispiece lithography by Vincent Brooks, steel engraved title page vignette. Pre-lims quite heavily foxed, the rest of the text sporadically and lightly, top edge dusty, slight damp bloom on the brown surface-paper endpapers, but overall a very nice copy in a pleasingly unpretentious contemporary provincial binding for Thomas, bookseller of Newtown (ticket to front pastedown), a little rubbed, but remaining attractive.

first edition. Hoskins originally travelled through Egypt and Nubia in 1832–3 sketching the archaeological sites. When he returned in 1860–1, “health was my object, trusting that the fine climate of the Nile might be more efficacious than that of Italy or Spain.” His faith in the recuperative powers of the Egyptian climate was insufficient to prevent his death a year after the pub-lication of this work.

£375 [37178]

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156HOWARTH, Herbert, & Ibrahim Shakrullah. Images from the Arab World. Fragments of Arab literature translated and paraphrased with variations and comments. London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1944Octavo. Original grey cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Very good in slightly rubbed jacket, chipped head and tail of the spine.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Howarth on the front free endpaper: “To Richard Bell. With good wishes Christmas 1954, Herbert Howarth”. Images from the Arab World is a collection that has been described as “quite novel in its ap-proach to translation, certainly where Arabic was concerned, where strictly academic readings were all that was available . . . [containing] translations from the very earliest pre-Islamic po-ets, right up to examples of zagal [vernacular poetry] . . . It also included extracts from some of the most interesting but least known works of prose” (Johnson-Davies, Memories in Translation, p. 53). There is here the distant possibility of an excellent asso-ciation: Richard Bell was the name of an influential Qur’anic scholar at the University of Edinburgh, though he died in 1952 and the author’s having written the wrong year seems unlikely.

£75 [95193]

157HUGHES, W. S. Kent. Modern Crusaders. An Account of the Campaign in Sinai and Palestine up to the Capture of Jerusalem. Melbourne: Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd, [1918?]Octavo. Original yellow-orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in dull red. Folding map of the area of campaign, 12 plates from photographs. Book label on front pastedown of Mr. Justice Grif-fith, Melbourne; spine rolled and torn at foot, back cover with small loss of fabric at foot, a few stains to binding, internally clean.

first and only edition, very scarce: Copac lists on two copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, Senate House Libraries), OCLC adds around another two dozen copies (largely in Australian libraries) but the work is distinctly scarce in commerce. Sir Wilfred Selwyn “Billy” Kent Hughes (1895–1970) was a major in the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Austra-lian Imperial Force, when Modern Crusaders was published. “On 17 August 1914 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and was posted to the 7th Battalion. In Egypt, Sergeant Kent Hughes learned that he had won a Rhodes scholarship. Commissioned in April 1915, he transferred to the headquarters of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, commanded by his uncle Frederic Godfrey Hughes. Billy was to serve at Gallipoli, and in the Sinai, Pales-tine and Syria. In 1917 he won the Military Cross for his work as staff captain. He was promoted major and appointed deputy ad-jutant and quartermaster general, Australian Mounted Division. Mentioned in dispatches four times, he wrote his first book, Modern Crusaders (Melbourne, 1918), describing the exploits of the Light Horse” (ADB).

Bibliography of Australian Literature III p. 52; not in Lengel, World War I Memories.

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158HURGRONJE, Christiaan Snouck. The Achehnese. Translated by the late A. W. S. O’Sullivan. With an index by R. J. Wilkinson. Leyden: Late E. J. Brill, 19062 volumes, large octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered spines and front covers, ornamental panels on covers, drab grey endpapers. Half-tone frontispieces, half-tone and line illustrations throughout (two coloured folding maps of Acheh and plan of a dwelling house at the end on volume I). Booklabels of Dr A. O. Kouwenhoven. One or two very small white marks to back cover of volume II otherwise in exemplary condition.

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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 “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. (1888–89), reconstructs the history of the holy city and sheds light on the origins of Islam, early traditions and practices, and the first Islamic communities. The second volume, translated into English as Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century (1931), contains many details of daily life in Islamic culture and deals with the Indonesian Muslim colony at Mecca. From 1890 to 1906 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

at the University of Leyden (Leiden), was invited to undertake a thorough study of Aceh and published a book in 1893–94 on the Acehnese” (ibid.)

Howgego, Exploration 1850–1940, p. 1169 (”a standard reference work on the peoples of northern Sumatra”).

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159HUTTON, James. Central Asia: from the Aryan to the Cossack. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875Octavo, 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-all a very good copy.

first edition of this excellent and uncommon survey of the history of the region down to the Russian expedition of 1872–3, written with a wary eye on accelerating Russianization in the khanates. The author James Hutton (1818–93) was born in Cal-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 fortune, tumbled out of it, then applied himself to newspaper-ing” (Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India, p. 186). Fall-ing out with the Madras establishment, he headed to England becoming involved with Thornton Hunt and G. H. Lewes’s The Leader. “Mr Hutton was destined, however, like so many Liberals of those days, to become eventually a Conservative. He started some twenty-five years ago a morning paper called The Day, which represents the views of a particular section of the Conser-vative party, but failed, though conducted with great ability, to obtain their active support. After the non-success of The Day Mr Hutton went back to India for a time. He was, indeed, connect-ed throughout his life with Indian journalism, now as editor, now as London correspondent” (obituary in the St James’s Ga-zette). Hutton was the author of some half-dozen books and and the translator of several others, including an account of thuggee published in 1857, and a translation of Daumas’s Les Chevaux du Sahara et les mœurs du désert (1863).

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160IBN AL‘AWWAM. [Arabic title:] Kitab al-Filahah. Libro de Agricultura. Traducido al castellano y anotado por Don Josef Antonio Banqueri. Madrid: en la imprenta real, 18022 volumes, folio (307 × 200 mm) gathered and signed in fours. Con-temporary tree sheep, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels (slightly amended with small onlays to read “Agricultura del moro”), marbled endpapers, red edges. Half-title to vol. II only, lacking in vol. I, text printed in two columns, in Spanish and Arabic. Joints rubbed, occa-sional spotting or light foxing, a few small stains, but generally crisp, a very good copy.

first edition. Ibn al-‘Awwam (in full, Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Al-Awwam Al-Ishbili) was an Arab agriculturist who flourished at Seville in southern Spain in the later 12th century. His lengthy handbook entitled in Arabic Kitab al-Filahah (Book on Agriculture) is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in medieval Arabic, and one of the most important medieval works on the subject in any language. He is the most renowned of all the Andalusi agronomists because his book was the first to be published and translated into a modern language in this edition, then into French by Clément-Mullet in 1864–67, and subsequently into Urdu in 1927. It was thus for a long time the only source of reference on medieval Andalusi 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-

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er, with personal practical experience of cultivation and land management. He was well-read in the agricultural writings of his predecessors and cites information from as many as 112 authors, especially the Geoponica of Cassianus Bassus, the Book of Nabataean Agriculture attributed to Ibn Wahshiyya, and many An-dalusian Arabic authors (the great majority to Ibn Bassal, Abu al-Khayr al-Ishbili or Ibn Hajjaj, all three of whom wrote books about agriculture in the later 11th century in southern Spain, copies of which have survived only partly and incompletely). The work is divided into 34 chapters, the first 30 dealing with crops and the remaining 4 with livestock. A 35th chapter, on dogs, was apparently planned but no trace of it survives. The book describes the cultivation of 585 different plants, and gives cures for diseases of trees and vines, as well as diseases and in-juries to horses and cattle. The translator worked at the Royal Library in Madrid. In 1781 he sent a letter to his patron discussing this work, in which he stresses the importance of Ibn al-’Awwam as a source for learn-ing about agricultural methods which could be applied in Spain. The introduction of Islamic methods of agriculture had a pro-found influence on Spanish cuisine. One of the first innovations 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

in today’s Spanish cuisine and include most spices, as well as produce such as saffron, apricots, artichokes, carob, sugar, au-bergines, grapefruits, carrots, coriander and rice. These ingre-dients remain a firm point of reference for Spanish and Andalu-sian recipes, featuring in for example pinchito moruno andaluz, a dish normally made with chicken, saffron, cumin and coriander. Another notable example is what is widely regarded as the Span-ish national dish, paella, whose main ingredients are rice and saffron. Thanks to the success of such crops, Spain today is one of the main producers of saffron. In fact, along with Iran, Spain produces 80 per cent of the crop worldwide.

provenance: Sir John Sinclair (1754–1835), Scottish politician and writer on agriculture (Statistical Account of Scotland) and finance (vol. 1 with his initialled note concerning the present work to front free endpaper and a note presenting the volume to him in Cadiz to verso of title). Later bookplate of the Royal Agri-cultural Society of England to front pastedown of vol. 2.

See Arcadian Library p. 204

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161IBN BATTUTAH. Voyages. Texte arabe, accompagné d’une traduction par C. Defrémery et B. R. Sanguinetti. Paris: l’Imprimerie nationale, 1859–795 volumes in 4, octavo (216 × 133 mm). Near-contemporary burgundy half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. Bound with half-titles, wrappers to the first, last and index volumes bound in. 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Light toning, scattered pale foxing. a very good set, handsomely bound.

first edition of the index volume, second editions of the four text volumes. Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s edition of Ibn Battut-ah’s Rihlah, originally published 1853–8, was the first complete publication of the renowned Arabic narrative by “the greatest traveller of pre-modern times” (Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century, p. 1). Ibn Battutah (1304–1368/9) was a legal scholar from Tangiers who, upon completing the hajj, decided to take advantage of the extensive trade routes then linking the western Eurasian land-mass to the Far East. Travelling over land and sea, he “is estimat-ed to have covered 75,000 miles in forty years” (Howgego), his wanderings encompassing North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. His Rihlah (“Journey”) was with-out doubt the most important, “longest and in terms of its subject matter, the most complex” (Dunn, p. 4) example of a popular Arabic genre, which usually just told of a pilgrim’s progress from the Maghreb to Mecca. The work was unknown outside Muslim countries until the be-ginning of the 19th century, when some partial translations were offered, Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten’s in German in 1819 followed by Samuel Lee’s English edition, this last based on an

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-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 which carries the autograph of Ibn Juzayy, Ibn Battuta[h]’s editor. Working with these five documents, two French scholars, C. De-frémery and B.R. Sanguinetti published a printed edition of the Arabic text, together with a translation in French and an appara-tus of notes and variant textual readings. Since then, translations of the work, in every case prepared from [this] text, have been published in many languages” (ibid.)

Encyclopaedia of Islam III pp. 735–736; Gay 34; Henze II 682; Howgego I B47; Macro 1249; Playfair 752.

£4,500 [94276]

The earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography

162IBN KHURRADADHBIH, Abu’l-Qasim ‘Ubayd Allah ibn ‘Abd Allah. Le Livre des Routes et des Provinces. Publié, traduit et annoté par C. Barbier de Maynard. [Paris:] Journal asiatique, Jan.–Jun. 18653 journal extracts in one volume, octavo (211 × 126 mm). Near-contem-porary “native” hard-grain half morocco by the Education Society’s Press, Bycullah, raised bands to spine within gilt rules, titles to second compartment gilt, comb-marbled sides, green endpapers. 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 blind-stamps as usual. Rubbed, first text leaf with small tear costing a few letters either side, repaired verso, the sense still easily guessed, variable foxing, browning and damping.

first edition of the Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-mamalik, “the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography” (Encyclopaedia Iranica), the Arabic text accompanied by a French translation and commentary. Ibn Khurradadhbih (also Khordadbeh, 820/5–912 ce) was born in Khurasan and grew up in Baghdad. He served as chief of the bar-id, the system of post-horses and governmental information which

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underpinned the early Islamic empire, and began his account during the reign of caliph al-Wathiq (r. 842–7), revising it continu-ously until the reign of al-Mu’tamid (r. 870–82 ce). “Aside from the pioneering nature of Ibn Khurradadhbih’s proj-ect, the book is of unique importance for a number of reasons. First, the work contains exhaustive itineraries of the caliphal road system, as well as descriptions of the routes, both overland and maritime, to foreign lands . . . Second, the author includes detailed information on the revenue yielded by the various tax regions of the caliphate, information that has been invaluable to historians of the social and economic conditions of the period. Third, the work treats non-Muslim lands in great detail, providing descriptions of China, Byzantium, and the Indian Ocean region, atypical of compa-rable Arabic works that were often limited to the lands of Islam or those aspects of non-Muslim countries that were of direct relevance . . . Finally, Ibn Khurradadhbih provides miscellaneous data for which he is the only – or at least the original – source, including, most famously, passages to the fable wall of Gog and Magog, and the activities of the Rus merchants and the Radhanite Jews” (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopaedia, p. 360). Many scholars have noted the influence of Ptolemy on his work, but the use of Persian administrative terms and the attention given to Iranian history and cosmology suggest various Iranian sources at the core of the work, reflecting the centrality of Persian culture under the ‘Abbasid caliphate. Another edition, prepared by Dutch orientalist Michael De Goeje, was published in 1889.

Not in Gay; Macro 466; Wilson p. 104,

£875 [117583]

The best example of Arab-Norman scientific collaboration in the middle ages

163IDRISI, Muhammad al-Sharif. [Title in Arabic:] Dhikr al-Andalus. Descripción de España de Xerif Aledris, conocido por el Nubiense, con traducción y notas de Josef Antonio Conde. Madrid: Imprenta Real, por Pedro Pereyra, 1799Octavo (175 × 110 mm). Recent maroon crushed morocco in the Jan-senist manner, raised bands to spine, compartments lettered in gilt,

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 and Morocco meticulously gathering information as he went. In 1138 he was invited to visit Palermo by Roger II, the Norman king of Sicily, who had made his kingdom one of the intellectual centres of Europe. Roger “was interested in fostering learning of any kind, and he was generous with his patronage. Perhaps for pragmatic reasons of expansionism and trade, Roger was devoted to geography” (Dictionary of World Biography). Idrisi remained at Palermo, which was an important meet-ing ground of Arab and European culture, for the next 16 years, returning to Ceuta only after Roger’s death in 1154. “It was in this atmosphere that Idrisi, under the patronage of Roger II, collaborated with Christian scholars and made important contri-butions to geography and cartography. Roger himself displayed great interest in these subjects and wished to have a world map constructed and a comprehensive world geography produced that would present detailed information on various regions of the world . . . Only the geographical compendium with sectional maps, entitled Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi-ikhtiraq al-afaq, is extant today . . . The extremely rich and varied information presented in the text pertains to various countries of Europe, Asia, and North Africa and not only includes topographical details, demographic information, and reports of descriptive and physical geography but also describes socio-economic and political conditions. It is thus a rich encyclopaedia of the medieval period . . . Idrisi’s work represents the best example of Arab-Norman scientific collabora-tion in geography and cartography of the Middle Ages. For several centuries the work was popular in Europe as a textbook; a number of abridgements were also produced, the first being published in Rome [in Arabic] in 1592” (S. Maqbul Ahmad in DSB VII). There was also a Latin edition in 1619. This Spanish translation is the work of the great Arabist José Antonio Conde, keeper of the Escorial library. “Under the impact of the Enlightenment certain scholars had the courage to detect traces of Arab influence in Spanish poetry and music, and to ap-preciate the monuments of Arab architecture as part of a common cultural heritage. The initiative was taken by Conde [whose work] was characterised by a strong sympathy for Arab culture” (Ham-ilton, The Arcadian Library, p. 271). It is unsurprisingly well-held in libraries, but rare in commerce, with six copies traced at auction since 1951.

Palau 1107; Schnurrer 188; not in Atabey, Blackmer, or Burrell.

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Camels at war in the desert

164INCHBALD, Geoffrey. Imperial Camel Corps. [No place:] privately printed for the author, 1973Original green buckram, title gilt to spine. Duplicated typescript, 215 leaves, rectos only. Just a little rubbed on the spine edges, a very good copy.

second edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Tony, With all best wishes from Geoff, August 1974.” First published in 1970, this thorough revised second edition is genuinely uncommon. OCLC lists

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 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 stains to covers, inner joints neatly refurbished yet still a good set, com-plete with the errata slip in volume I. Bookplates of John William Darwood (the Darwood family were prominent in Burma during the 19th century, primarily involved in the teak and shipping industries and the develop-ment of the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company).

first edition of this important work on the Malay states; rather uncommon. Emily Innes (née Robertson, 1843–1927) married the colonial officer James Innes in 1875 and shortly after they travelled 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 places, a time of loneliness and tedium, interrupted occasionally by a crisis. She studied the Malay language in books and practised it with her visitors. She dispensed what medicines she had, noting that few of her patients died, and she helped to tackle a local out-break of cholera. To recover her health she visited the district offi-cer and his family on Pangkor island. Chinese robbers broke into the house, killed the husband, and left his wife and Emily Innes unconscious. The arrival of the two women at Penang, bearing the marks of the attack, caused ‘a considerable sensation’ . . . “In the course of her brief visit to the Malay states in 1879 Isa-bella Bird, the celebrated traveller, did not come to the station at which James and Emily Innes then lived. When Bird’s book The Golden Chersonese appeared in 1883 Emily, back in London, con-ceded that everything in it was ‘perfectly and literally true’. But her The Chersonese with the Gilding Off (1885) recorded what Bird had hardly seen and so not mentioned. “The book is the basis of her fame. Much of it is a detailed ac-

University of Leeds and National Library of Australia only, Copac adds IWM. “Effectively an unofficial history of 2nd Bn. ICC, from formation in early 1916 to disbandment in 1919 . . . Many officers are mentioned in the narrative, the descriptions of camel behaviour are informative, and the various battles (Egypt, Palestine and Trans-Jordan, including the support given to Law-rence in 1918) are well covered” (Perkins).

O’Brien F0548 and Perkins p. 44 for the first edition only.

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165INNES, Emily. The Chersonese with the Gilding Off. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885

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count of her experiences and hardships, written with a bitterness that, according to an American historian, bore ‘the marks of para-noia’. When published it attracted little attention. Bird, preoccu-pied with personal problems, did not respond. However, modern historians, in search of contemporary evidence of early colonial rule, have recognized its value as a vivid and perceptive picture of the Selangor Malay élite then coming to terms with colonialism, and the book was republished in 1974 with an introduction by a leading Malayan historian. “Although she writes unsympathetically Emily Innes gives a good description of the Malay lifestyle and of the individuals she knew. There are lighter touches, as when she tells of her unlikely friendship with an elderly Malay aristocrat, formerly a pirate. Invited to tea and tennis, he scampered about hitting the ball high in the air with much satisfaction. He declined tea but was refreshed with Bass’s pale ale in homeopathic doses . . . [Emily Innes] was an intolerant and quarrelsome snob, but her gifts of observation and description made a valuable contribution to Ma-layan historiography. Her courage and determination in face of adversity also deserve respect” (ODNB).

Speake, The Literature of Travel and Exploration, II p. 756.

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166(IRAQ.) Maps of ‘Iraq with Notes for Visitors. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Baghdad: The Government of ‘Iraq, 1929Quarto. Original red cloth, title gilt to the front board. Half-tone frontis-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.

first edition thus. These maps – which offer detailed coverage 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

. . . obtained from a few officials . . . or from Commercial Firms”. Eight maps are called for; here an additional map of the Ar-bil–Rowanduz–Rayat Road (1930) has been tipped to the rear free endpaper. Helpfully the “binding of this book has been specially prepared in order to render the work impervious to the ravages of insects”

£300 [88306]

167IRVING, Washington. A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. London: John Murray, 18292 volumes, octavo (224 × 135 mm). Later 19th-century half sheep by W. Brown of Bath, smooth spines ruled in gilt and blind, red morocco labels renewed, marbled sides, edges untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed book-plates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and manuscript shelf-marks associated blind-stamps as usual. Ex-tremities lightly rubbed, light spotting front and back. A very good copy.

first uk edition, a few weeks after the first American edition. Washington Irving visited Granada in his diplomatic capacity in 1826, and “was ravished by the Alhambra. He consequently acquired a strong sympathy for the Arabs and an equally strong antipathy to the Christians” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library, p. 275). His account is “part history, part fiction, and with humor-ous touches; [it was] based on the alleged records of a mythical Fray Antonio Agapida” (Cahoon et al., eds, American Literary Auto-graphs from Washington Irving to Henry James, 4).

Arcadian Library 9298.

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168JACKSON, James Grey. An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the District of Suse; Compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries. To which is added, an accurate and interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of central Africa. London: for the author by W. Bulmer and Co., 1809Quarto (265 × 207). Contemporary half roan, spine in compartments with triple gilt rules, titles to second and date at foot, remaining com-partments stamped in blind, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Housed in a custom brown sheep slipcase. 11 aquatint plates after Jack-son by Stadler, of which 2 are hand-coloured as issued and 5 folding; 2 engraved folding maps, of Morocco and of caravan routes across the Sahara. Sides lightly rubbed, spine and corners skilfully refurbished and front inner hinge expertly repaired, mild marginal foxing to prelims and earlier leaves, light offsetting from a few plates, engraved maps slightly spotted, map frontispiece bound facing p. 137. A very good copy.

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, vol. 1, 1996, issue 1, p. 59). Jackson, a British merchant, spent 16 years in Morocco, originally at Agadir, where he was appointed Dutch agent, and then Mogador (Essaouira), before returning to England on the death of his business partner, one A. Layton. He witnessed the end of the reign of Muhammad III (r. 1757–1790) and the ensuing civil war between his sons Mawlay Yazid (r. 1790–1792) and Mawlay Sulayman (also Slimane, r. 1792–1822), as well the plague that decimated the region’s population be-

tween 1799 and 1800. In the preface he contrasts his own lengthy sojourn, in which he appears to have more or less “gone native” in terms of language and dress, with those of contemporaries including Hornemann, Parkes and Lemprière: “However faithfully he may relate what passes under his own eye, [such an observer] is, nevertheless from his situation, and usual short stay, unable to collect any satisfactory information respecting the country in general, and what he does collect, is too often from some illiter-ate interpreter” (Preface). Chapters cover local geography, natural resources, towns, customs, as well as local Arabic and Berber dialects. Particularly valuable are his accounts of North African commerce and Jewish communities. The atmospheric plates include natural history subjects and attractive views of Mogador (Essaouira), the Atlas Mountains, and the plains of Akkurmute and Jibbel Heddid.

Abbey, Travel 296; Gay 1248 for the third edition.

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169JAMES, Silas. A Narrative of a Voyage to Arabia, India, etc. Containing, Amidst a Variety of Information, a Description of Saldanha Bay; with Remarks on the Genious and Disposition of the Natives of Arabia Felix; the Manners and Customs of the People of Hindoston; of the Island of Madagascar and other parts beyond the 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, 1797Octavo 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

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as usual. Joints and tips lightly rubbed, contents tanned, occasional pale spotting, title page slightly marked, and with an effaced ownership in-scription to upper outer corner, repaired tear to pp. v/vi, and a small hole just costing half a letter recto, similar repair to lower outer sig. S2, the text unaffected, still a very good copy, bound with the half-title.

first edition, scarce. James was a cabin-boy on Commander Johnstone’s abortive expedition to seize the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch in 1781. After being ambushed by the French in the Cape Verde Islands, and subsequently failing to take the Cape, Johnstone gained a consolation victory at Saldanha. Johnstone himself then returned to England, but sent a detach-ment to the East Indies station under Captain James Alms. The detachment sailed along the Arabian coast from Bab al-Mandab to a bay near Mocha, where a landing-party acquired provisions 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 towards the Persian coast. James also briefly describes the Red Sea and its marine life – “some of the most curious prodigies of nature” (p. 56), including what appears to have been a type of catfish. There was a variant imprint the same year, undated and with a list of subscribers.

Arcadian Library 10515; Brunet 20015, 20645; Gay 3579; Macro 1304; SABIB, II, 668.

£3,000 [117608]

170JULLIEN, M[ichel]. L’Egypte. Souvenirs bibliques et chrétiens. Lille: Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie, for the Société de Saint Augustin, 1891Large octavo (260 × 175 mm). Original red cloth, spine and front board elaborately lettered and decorated with floral panels in various colours, rear board panel-stamped in black, all edges gilt, grey endpapers. En-graved with 4 maps of which one double-page, one plate, 38 illustrations

to the text mostly from views, of which 21 full-page and including 4 plans. From the library of the Ursuline convent at Rimouski, Quebec, with their calligraphic ink-stamp to the title-page and p. 51, shelf-mark label to spine and pocket to rear pastedown. Spine a little sunned and bumped, rear inner hinge starting, joint cracking at pp. 272–3, contents tanned, still a very good copy in the attractive original cloth.

second edition, rare: Copac traces only one copy of this edition in the British Isles (SOAS) and no copies of the first, published in 1889. A handsome account of Egypt focusing on its Christian monuments and heritage, written by a Jesuit priest from Lyon who lived in Egypt from 1883 until his death in 1911, serving as rector at the Collège de la Sainte-famille in Cairo, and also in Alexandria.

£125 [110079]

171JUVAYNI, ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata’ Malik bin Muhammad. The History of the World-Conqueror. Translated from the text of Mirza Muhammad Qazvini by John Andrew Boyle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 19582 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpapers. Ex-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.

first edition in english of the Ta’rikh-i Jahan-Gushay, Ju-vayni’s canonical account of the career of Genghis Khan and his successors Ögedei, Möngke, and Hülegü. Written between 1252 and 1260, it was “the first major historical work to be written in Persian in the Mongol period, and an invaluable source on the formation of the Mongol Empire and its early administration in Persia by someone who observed or participated in some of these momentous developments” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The foreword is by Steven Runciman.

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172KAPLUN, Adrian Vladimirovic. Bukhara. Avtolitografii (autolithographs). [Moscow?:] N.I.I. [Research Institute] V.A.Kh. Kabinet Graphiki [Drawing Office], 1936Original 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. 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 Soviet Union – 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

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art in Winterthur (1929) and Konigsberg (1932), and an exhibition of Soviet graphic arts in Chicago (1932–3). Between 1927 and 1937 he worked as an editor at Izogiz, the agitprop visual arts publishers in Moscow. His works are represented in the State Russian Muse-um, the Pushkin State Museum, and the State Tretyakov Gallery.

£6,500 [115202]

173KEANE, John Fryer. My Journey to Medinah: Describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the Author disguised as a Mohammedan. London: Tinsley Bros., 1881Octavo. Original mid-blue sand-grained cloth with title gilt to spine, and gilt device to the front board, decorative frieze in black running across top and tail of boards and spine, floral-patterned endpapers in sanguine. Just a little rubbed, mild string notch to the top edges of the boards. An excellent copy.

first edition. The son of a Yorkshire clergyman, Keane ran away to sea at 12, spending some time on a collier brig. “By the age of 18 he had acquired a second mate’s certificate. He claimed to have become a certified officer in the P&O line and between 1873 and 1877 to have taken voyages to the Black Sea, the Arctic and China, and to have worked on a sugar plantation in British Guiana” (Howgego). In 1877 he presented himself to the Brit-ish Consul at Jiddah, and informed him of his intention to visit Mecca. This he did under the name of Haj Mohammed Khan, “wandering the streets quite freely in a bright white tunic and a huge turban”. However, after a number of close calls he proceeded to Medina, spending “ten days in the city itself ”, subsequently returning Britain “to write up his journey, told in such an enter-taining style that it amply compensates for the author’s lack of conventional scholarly attainments”.

Howgego IV, K4; Macro 1346.

£1,500 [98733]

174KENNEDY, E[dward] S. A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1956Quarto. Original brown card wrappers printed in black. Frequent di-agrams and tables to the text. Rear panel a touch sunned, top corner lightly bumped. A very good copy.

first edition of this valuable monograph surveying “the number, distribution, contents and relations between zij [astro-nomical tables] written in Arabic or Persian . . . from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries of the Christian era” (p. 123), this copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with his ownership inscription dated “Stanford 1960” to the front panel.

£50 [104057]

175KENYON, Kathleen M., & T. A. Holland. Excavation at Jericho. Jerusalem: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1960–836 volumes, quarto. Original red buckram, title gilt to spines. Profusely illustrated with plates, maps and plans, some folding, and illustrations to the text, volume III with a separate plate volume, Spine of volume II a little sunned, otherwise very good.

complete set in first editions of the excavation report on the oldest continuously occupied city in the world. Kenyon’s painstaking work with the ceramic assemblages at the site led to a revolution in stratigraphical techniques.

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176KEPPEL, 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 1824. London: Henry Colburn, 1827Quarto (275 × 213 mm). Twentieth-century orange half calf by Bayntun, matching cloth sides, raised bands to spine, compartments lettered or decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and two similar plates, engraved folding map, illustrations to the text. 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. Tips rubbed, small ink-spot to title, a few trivial marks. A very good copy.

first edition, “an interesting book” (ODNB). Keppel (1799–1891), who had fought at Waterloo before serving in Mauritius and the Cape, was ordered to India in 1821. “There he served as 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]

177KER, David. On the Road to Khiva. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874Octavo. 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

map loose. A good copy, with the publisher’s 40-page catalogue at the end, dated February 1874.

first edition, scarce. “The Daily Telegraph’s special corre-spondent in Khiva and later noted as a prolific author of stories for boys . . . Ker (1842–1914) left England in early March 1873 and travelled via St Petersburg to the Black Sea and on to Tiflis, whence ‘my real journey commences’. It is this eventful journey from Orenburg via the border forts of Kazalinsk and Perovskii to Turkestan, Tashkent, and Samarkand that forms the sub-stance of his book” (Cross). Sent to report on von Kaufman’s operations against Khiva, Ker travelled “with a passport as a

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United States citizen, so as to evade the regulation framed by the Russian government prohibiting Englishmen from entering the newly-conquered territories of Central Asia” (Marvin, Recon-noitring in Central Asia, p. 97).

Cross I108; Ghani p. 207; Yakushi K125.

£1,250 [109901]

178KHAN, Gazanfar Ali, & Wilfrid Sparroy. With the Pilgrims to Mecca. The Great Pilgrimage of a.h. 1319; a.d. 1902. With an Introduction by Professor A. Vambery. London: John Lane, 1905Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine with turban and crossed scimitar devices to compartments and to front board within a panel formed of a Qu’ranic amulet and cord in red, gilt, and green, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Frontispiece and 19 other plates, errata slip tipped in before the dedication leaf. A little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, head of spine chipped, tail with minor splitting, some spotting on the boards, endpapers lightly browned, text toned and with occasional foxing, as usual, frontispiece coming loose, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of the frontispiece and to title page, bookplate to front pastedown, remains a very good copy.

first edition. An uncommon and attractive account of the hajj. “The early 20th century saw a growth of British travel texts and religious commentaries concerned with the religion of Arabia. It was in this vein that in 1902 the Morning Post sent its ‘Special Correspondent’ Hadji Khan, a Persian Sufi, on the hajj to Mecca. His experiences were written up . . . under the guid-ance of Wilfrid Sparroy. The result was a travelogue that detailed the various components of the hajj and Meccan life for a British readership . . . The narrative is precise and exact as though for an audience who may wish to use the information to find their way amongst the markets of Mecca the next time they visit. Of course few, if any, of the readership will ever visit Mecca . . . An

inspection of Arabia which defines that other world by carefully recording the minutiae of Mecca and the hajj, the text providing the British reader with a spyglass scrutiny of Arab religious life and customs . . . a curious concoction of personal experiences of a Muslim on the hajj . . . distilled by an English co-author” (Canton, From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia, p. 28).

Macro 1354.

£750 [79281]

179KHAN, Sultan Mahomed (ed.) The Life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan. London: John Murray, 19002 volumes, octavo. Original tan cloth, titles and leaf-form motifs to spines and front boards in red and two shades of blue, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, large folding map (72 × 87.5 cm) in pocket to rear of vol. 1, smaller folding map bound in to rear of vol. 2. Book label of A. C. Wombwell of The Firs, Newbury to the front pastedowns, and contemporary bookseller’s ticket of William George’s Son, Bristol, to that of vol. 1. Spines darkened and at extremities very slightly frayed, rear boards lightly marked, mild spot-ting to edges, prelims, and very occasionally to the text, inner hinges of vol. 1 split but holding. A very good copy.

first edition. Abdur Rahman (b. 1840) became emir of Af-ghanistan in 1880 following Ayub Khan’s defeat in the Second Afghan War, holding the throne until his death in 1901. Ac-cording to the publisher’s note, Sultan Mahomed Khan, state secretary (mir munshi) to Abdur Rahman, translated the first few chapters directly from Abdur Rahman’s Persian manuscript. These recount his early life, imprisonment in Russian Turkes-tan, and accession to the emirate. The retaining chapters, cover-ing the consolidation of his rule, were dictated directly to Sultan Mahomed Khan.

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180KIRKE, Robert. A Sketch of the Case and Sufferings of Mr. Robert Kirke, His Majesty’s Late Consul at Algiers. [together with;] Copies of Several Affidavits, taken as Part of Consul Kirke’s Justification, in pursuance of his Grace the Duke of Richmond’s Letter dated Whitehall, 28th July, 1766, Appendix, pa. 51. London: [ for the author,] 17812 volumes, octavo (219 × 129 mm). Matching near-contemporary tree calf, label renewed, gilt edelweiss tools in the compartments, helical twist pan-el to boards, marbled endpapers. The first somewhat rubbed, restoration to extremities, the second front joint cracked towards the tail, but hold-ing, text lightly toned, very good.

first and only edition of the first-named (extremely uncom-mon: Copac lists only three copies, OCLC adds just Harvard); the second entirely unrecorded. This is a meticulously documented appeal for restitution for expenses incurred during Kirke’s brief, ill-starred incumbency (1764–5) as consul at Algiers, the supple-ment adding further to the evidence. Each volume has the Stratton Street library bookplate with du-cal coronet of Harriot, Duchess of St Albans to front pastedown – formerly the “darling of the frivolous London stage”; mistress, then wife of Thomas Coutts, one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Harriot became a successful businesswoman in her own right be-fore her subsequent marriage to the ninth Duke of St Albans.

£2,000 [89640]

181KNOLLES, Richard. The Turkish History, comprehending The Origin of that Nation, and the Growth of the Othoman Empire, with the Lives and Conquests of thir Several Kings and Emperors. Written by Mr. Knolls, continued by Sir Paul Rycaut to the Peace of Carlowitz in the Year 1699 and abridg’d by Mr. Savage. Revised and Approved by the late Sir Paul Rycaut, and adorn’d with Nine and Twenty Copper Plates of the Effigies of the Several Princes, &c. The Second Edition carefully Corrected, Improv’d and brought down to the Present Year 1704. With and Addition of the Life of Mahomet, by the same Author. London: Isaac Cleave, Abel Roper, A. Bosvile, and Ric. Basset, 17042 volumes, octavo (193 × 120 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, tan morocco labels, low bands framed by double fillets in gilt, similar pan-els to boards, edges sprinkled red. Portrait frontispiece of Paul Rycaut 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 the spines, tan-burn to the front pastedowns, light browning through-out and occasional marginal soiling, but overall a very good set.

First published in the present form in 1687. A pretty copy of this attractive and uncommon abridgement of this classic, Knolles’s “the greatest of English works of the Renaissance dealing with 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]

182KOTZEBUE, 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

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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, being the First made by the French in the Years 1708, 1709, and 1710. Together with a Particular Account of a Journey from Mocha to . . . the Court of the King of Yaman . . . Also a Narrative concerning the Tree and Fruit of Coffee. Collected from the Observations of those who made the last Voyage; and an Historical Treatise of the Original and Progress of Coffee . . . To which is added, An Account of the Captivity of Sir Henry Middleton at Mokha, by the Turks, in the Year 1612, and his Journey from thence to Zenan, or Sanaa, the Capital of the Kingdom of Yaman . . . London: E. Symon, 1732Octavo (195 × 119 mm) Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked to style with red morocco label. 2 folding engraved plates of the coffee plant at the rear, woodcut initials and headpieces. Somewhat rubbed, professional restoration at the board edges, light browning, a very good copy.

second and preferred edition in english (the first was in 1726, some ten years after the first French). La Roque’s fa-ther, a Marseilles merchant, had travelled with Jean de la Haye’s Turkish embassy of 1639–41, then on to the Levant bringing back coffee and coffee-making equipment, “which he kept for his own use in Turkey [and which] passed then for a real cu-riosity in France . . . The drink remained something of a local

curiosity until 1699 when emissaries of Sultan Mohammed IV came to Paris bringing with them sacks of the curious bean. By the time the ambassadors departed in May 1670 coffee-drinking had become widespread” (Howgego). La Roque had made an extensive study of Oriental languages, but had never travelled further than the Levant. However he saw an article in “the new Mercury printed at Trevoux” which gave an account of a voyage of 1708–10 to Arabia, and made contact with the commander of the voyage, Godefroy de la Merveille, working up an account from de Merveille’s letters and papers and those of Major de la Grelaudière and M. Barbier, the ship’s surgeon, relating to the subsequent voyage. The intention of these missions had been “to intercept the trade in coffee before the beans reached the markets of Egypt and Turkey”. To this La Roque appended an extensively-researched essay on the botany and cultivation of coffee and his historical overview of the spread of the beverage. This is widely seen as the first scholarly treatise on the subject, and from La Roque’s standpoint was an excellent promotional ploy. The present edition also includes an account of Sir Henry Middleton’s period of captivity as a hostage in Yemen.

Atabey 673 for the French first; Gay 3680; Howgego I, L30; Macro 1426

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184LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l’Arabie pétrée. Paris: Giard, 1830Folio (575 × 400 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides ruled in gilt, gilt-tooled flat bands to spine forming compartments, titles direct to second gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved calligraphic title-page with lithographic vignette mounted on india paper, 45 engravings to the text, and 69 plates comprising 101 discrete images: 44 single lithographs, mounted, of which the El Oueber plate 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 plates with multiple lithographs, 3 double-page lithographic plates, 4 engraved plates containing multiple images including map with Labor-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

the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds (1799–1883), then in the service of Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha. The two Frenchmen decided to set up an expedition to the site of Petra with a view to making drawings of the monuments there, and travelled by way of Suez and Mount Sinai in local dress. Burckhardt (1812) and the team of Irby and Mangles (1817–17) had already visited the ancient Nabataean capital, but Laborde was the first traveller to spend enough time in the area in order to record his observations in the form of plans, views and maps, which remained the only vi-sual representations of Petra available to Western scholars until Roberts’s Holy Land (1842–5).

Blackmer 929; not in Abbey, Atabey or Burrell.

£19,500 [107973]

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LAL, Mohan. Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul: With his Political Proceedings towards the English, Russian, and Persian Governments, including the Victory and Disasters of the British Army in Afghanistan. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 18462 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s green fine-combed cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling and central lozenge to boards, mid-cream sur-face-paper endpapers. 19 lithographic portraits, printed on India paper and mounted. Very slightly rubbed, some offsetting from the plates, but overall a superb set in the original cloth.

first edition of perhaps the key source for political and dip-lomatic background to the First Afghan War. Mohan Lal was “Bokhara” Burnes’s most important intelligence operative, trav-elling extensively in Persia and Afghanistan and running a string of agents for the British. In 1841, as the situation in Kabul be-came critical, Lal tried to warn Burnes of the fact that he was the

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.

£3,750 [71629]

186LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; comprising recollections, sketches, and reflections, made during a tour in the East, in 1832–33. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Richard Bentley; Charles Gosselin, Paris, 18363 volumes, octavo (200 × 119 mm). Uncut in the original boards, paper ti-tle labels to spines. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of Lamartine . Rub-bing to corners and joints and some chipping to spine ends, two splits to spine of volume one, but an unsophisticated copy, largely unopened, with the publisher’s advertisements at the beginning of volume I (12 pp, dated September 1836) and the end of volume III (2 pp).

second edition in english of Lamartine’s Voyage en Orient, first published in English in 1835, the same year as the French original. The translation has been ascribed to a “Miss Hill” (see Hilal al-Hajiri, British Travel Writing on Oman: Orientalism Reap-praised, 2006, p. 30).

Blackmer 943.

£350 [83339]

187LAWRENCE, 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, 1915Quarto. 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 the date on the spine. During January and February 1914 Law-

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rence and Leonard Woolley (the archaeologist who would later excavate Ur), together with a British Army surveying detach-ment, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula. The Negev was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and the survey was a military venture in the guise of an archaeological expedition, preparation for the war the British believed was imminent. Publication in the respected academic journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund was a whitewash to disguise the military na-ture of the undertaking. The Wilderness of Zin was Lawrence’s first work to appear in book form.

O’Brien A004 C.

£750 [108832]

188(LAWRENCE, T. E.) A Brief Record of The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of 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, 1919Quarto. 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

assistant director of transportation to the EEF and has signed his name to this effect on the front free endpaper; he has also taped in and annotated a brief obituary of Sir George Barrow. A Brief Record is a thorough account of the advance of the EEF from July 1917 and the end of October 1918, containing many articles, two of which (the explanatory sections on the verso of the plates facing 49–50, “Sherifian Co-operation in September”, and 51–53, “Story of the Arab Movement”) are by T. E. Lawrence, though unattributed. These were compiled from his notes writ-ten originally for the Arab Bureau, which, along with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times, are Lawrence’s first published accounts of the Arab campaign. The Preface states that this re-cord was created so that “members of that Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part”.

O’Brien A011.

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189LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [London: privately printed by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson,] 1926Quarto (250 × 188 mm). Original tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Housed in a custom quarter green morocco box. 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many in colour or tinted, 4 of them double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others; 4 folding linen-backed coloured maps (that is, 2 maps duplicated, rather than the 3 maps mistakenly called for by O’Brien); 58 illustrations in text, one coloured, by Roberts, Nash, Kenning, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others; historiated initials by Edward Wadsworth printed in red and black. Provenance: Nancy Campbell, the original subscriber, her bookplate on flyleaf, together with correspondence from T. E. Lawrence, Manning Pike, and Pierce C. Joyce; Barbara Hutton (1912–1979) heiress to Frank Winfield Woolworth, ownership inscription on flyleaf: “Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow 1941”.

one of the cranwell or subscriber’s edition of 211 cop-ies, this one of 170 “complete copies”, inscribed by Lawrence on p. XIX “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES”, with his manuscript correc-tion to the illustration list, a “K” identifying Kennington rather than Roberts as the artist responsible for “The gad-fly”; page XV mispaginated as VIII; and with neither the two Paul Nash illustra-

tions called for on pages 92 and 208, nor the Blair Hughes-Stan-ton wood engraving illustrating the dedicatory poem, which is found in only five copies. However, it does include the “Prickly Pear” plate, not called for in the list of illustrations. This handsome and beautifully preserved copy is accom-panied by a clutch of related correspondence concerning Lawrence’s “big book” from the original subscriber, Mrs Colin Campbell. Nancy Leiter, daughter of the Chicago financier and philanthropist Levi Z. Leiter, had married Major Colin Powys Campbell, formerly Central Indian Horse, in 1904. Nancy’s elder sister Mary was married to Lord Curzon and her younger sister Daisy became Countess of Suffolk, making them three of the most prominent “Dollar Princesses” of the period.

a) LAWRENCE, T. E. Autograph letter signed (“Yours very truly, T. E. Shaw, used to be Lawrence”), dated Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, 16 September 1926. Two pages, recto and verso of a single octavo leaf, with the original mailing envelope addressed in Lawrence’s hand. Lawrence is plainly trying to win a subscriber, but his tone is almost hostile and disparaging of his own book: “owing to a misunderstanding, I had to offer to accept two clients of Messrs Sotheran as subscribers for the limited edition of my reprinted war-book . . . Sotherans in reply gave me your name and another. I have delayed to write until the date of publication was rea-sonably certain. . . . It will not inconvenience me in the least

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(quite the contrary!) if you decide not to take your copy. The book costs thirty guineas: is very long, and rather dull”.

b) JOYCE, Pierce C. Two substantial autograph letters signed from Colonel Pierce C. Joyce, a friend of Mrs Campbell and her late husband, and a key player in the Arab Revolt. Joyce was a Boer War veteran, and was on staff at Cairo from 1907. “Joyce took command of the British base at Rabegh in De-cember 1916 and would later command at Aqaba. From here he became the main logistical organiser of logistical arrange-ments for Lawrence’s expeditions into Syria and Palestine. Joyce was later appointed as head of the British Military Mission to the Northern Arab Army” (Murphy, The Arab Revolt 1916–18, p. 17). The first letter was written from Baghdad, 28 December 1925, 8 pages with original envelope: “A man just from England came in to see us yesterday & tells me he hears Lawrence is about to destroy all existing copies of his book & 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

Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Shaw (O’Brien A039, 200 copies), present here, and discussing the customs declaration for Seven Pillars at 30 guineas.

d) CAMPBELL, Nancy. Two manuscript drafts: the first a two-page letter, signed (“N. Campbell, Mrs. Colin Campbell”) to T. E. Lawrence (“Sir”), Campbell Ranch, Goleta, California, 30 October [1926], writing of her excitement at being a sub-scriber – “Thank you very much for allowing me to have the privilege of subscribing”; the second a three-page autograph letter signed (“N.C.”) to Messrs Manning Pike, on letterhead of the Drake Hotel, Chicago, undated, arranging shipping of her copy of Seven Pillars.

Clements p. 49 (stating that “only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each”); O’Brien A040.

£80,000 [92941]

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190LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935Quarto. Publisher’s tan quarter pigskin on sand buckram boards, title gilt to spine, crossed swords device gilt to front board, Cockerell mar-bled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With a portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, many of them in colour, and 4 folding maps. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. An extremely well-preserved copy, the spine showing none of the flaking often encountered, cloth unspotted, the joints and hinges entirely sound, just a touch of foxing to the fore-edge with minor encroachment to the margin, contemporary gift in-scription verso of the front free endpaper, a very good copy.

first trade edition, limited issue, number 691 of of 750 numbered copies.

O’Brien A041.

£2,000 [89795]

Large octavo (250 × 190 mm). Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, vignette to front board gilt, top edge brown, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, 47 plates and 8 line-drawings to the text by Kennington et al.; 4 folding maps. Errata leaf laid in. Extremities very lightly bumped. An excellent copy in the chipped dust jacket.

first trade edition, presentation copy from the prin-cipal illustrator and art-editor of Seven Pillars, inscribed on the half-title “To R. Hood from Eric H. Kennington. Aug. 3 1935”; Kennington was also a “close friend and defender of Law-rence” (ODNB). This first regularly-published edition is charac-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]

192LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927Quarto. 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 rubbing to spine ends; an excellent, bright copy.

first edition, large paper issue, number 140 of 315 num-bered copies, of which 300 were for sale. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom (see item !!! above) had bal-looned to such an extent that Lawrence was contemplating selling

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either his library or some of his property to clear the debt. Eventu-ally he settled on the publication of an abridgement, undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of some of his fellow servicemen, an earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set aside. Published in March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in both limited and general issues, three impressions were soon sold out and two more quickly added. The profits from this publica-tion made the fortunes of the Cape publishing house.

O’Brien A101.

£2,000 [115343]

193LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927Quarto. 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

was officially published in March 1927, though Kennington’s inscription in this copy indicates that the book had already reached its third impression before this date. All three of these apparently pre-publication impressions were soon sold out, and two more were quickly added.

O’Brien A102.

£1,250 [116543]

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194LAWRENCE, T. E. Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers; [with] — More Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers. Mount Vernon, NY: Bruce Rogers, 1933–62 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 labels removed, but overall very good indeed.

first and only editions, presentation copies, each in-scribed by Rogers to his friend and confidante Henry L. Bullen, the librarian of the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company. The first volume, limited to 200 copies only, was printed by William Edwin Rudge from type set by Bertha M. Goudy; the second set and printed by Rogers himself in an edition of 300 copies only. “This short collection of . . . letters [was] issued privately . . . Many of the copies are signed by Rogers who apparently gave them as gifts. The letters are for the most part those written by Lawrence during the peri-od he was translating The Odyssey and are of major importance in relation to that work . . . Most of the letters are not contained in The Letters of T. E. Lawrence” (O’Brien).

O’Brien A160 & A165.

£2,500 [74490]

195LAWRENCE, T. E. Crusader Castles. The Letters. With a Preface by Mrs Lawrence. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937Octavo. 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-

lished in the UK in the previous year, this is a limited edition of 56 copies printed to protect copyright in the US.

O’Brien A191.

£1,250 [69359]

196LAWRENCE, T. E. An Essay on Flecker. [London:] Corvinus Press 1937Folio (290 × 200 mm). Original white buckram, title gilt to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the plain paper dust jacket. Pastonschi types on J. B. Green unsized parchment paper, rectos only. Head of spine very lightly bumped, faint toning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the dust jacket chipped at the spine ends and with closed tears along joints.

first edition, number 28 of 30 copies only, of which nine are now held in institutions. An Essay on Flecker, written in 1925 and intended for publication in a literary journal, is “significant as the first edition of one of Lawrence’s important minor works”’ (Nash and Flavell). Viscount Carlow, founder of the Corvinus Press, noted on the slipcase of one of his own copies that “this book was printed to cover the copyright of certain documents that were stolen. No copies are in general circulation” (ibid.) Flecker (1884–1915), a playwright, poet and diplomatist, met Lawrence while working as British vice-consul in Beirut before the war. “In Lawrence he found not only a friend but an admirer. Lawrence was deeply impressed by Flecker’s poetry, the best of which was written after Flecker was exposed to the color and drama of eastern life, and felt as much at home in the Fleckers’ apartment in Beirut as he would a few years later in that of Ron-

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ald Storrs, in Cairo” (Korda, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, online). It has also been speculated that the pair also shared an interest in sadomasochism. Flecker’s eastern sojourn resulted in his “best-known book of poetry” (ODNB), The Golden Journey to Samarkand, published in 1913, two years before his death from tuberculosis. There was an American edition of 56 copies printed later the same year to secure copyright – a utili-tarian production bound in paper wrappers.

Nash and Flavell 15; O’Brien A198.

£5,750 [117161]

197LAWRENCE, T. E. Eight Letters from T.E.L. Privately printed [ for H Granville Barker], 1939Small 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]

198LAWRENCE, T. E. Secret Despatches from Arabia. Published by permission of the Foreign Office. Foreword by A. W. Lawrence. [Waltham St Lawrence:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1939Octavo. 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.

limited edition, number 663 of 1,000 numbered copies, printed in Eric Gill’s Perpetua type on handmade paper. “The majority of Lawrence’s contributions to the Arab Bulletin are pub-lished in this volume. In addition to these items, ‘Syrian Cross Currents’, previously unpublished, is included; this was taken from a manuscript on Arab Bureau paper” (O’Brien). The Arab Bureau’s secret bulletin was first issued in June 1916 with a circu-lation of 26 copies only.

O’Brien A226.

£600 [113841]

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199(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. New and definitive edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 19362 volumes, large octavo (247 × 184 mm). Contemporary blue crushed half morocco for Hatchards, raised bands, gilt-lettered compartments, blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, light blue endpapers. Title pages printed in red & black, half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates of which 2 folding, 2 large folding coloured maps showing Dough-ty’s routes, illustrations to the text. Spines sunned, sides lightly rubbed and marked, morocco on vol. 2 front board irregularly faded, contents 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.

£450 [100471]

201(LAWRENCE, T. E.) WALPOLE, Hugh. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T. E. Lawrence in Life and Death. With an Introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Bertram Rota, 1985Octavo. Stitched in original manila light card wrappers in French-fold wrapper with mounted illustration to the front panel. A very good copy.

first edition, number 58 of 100 copies only, “published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of T. E. Lawrence’s death.” The cover illustration is of an unpublished sketch of Lawrence

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by Augustus John from the collection of Dr Lionel Dakers. With the original invoice from Rota loosely inserted.

£300 [67920]

202LAYARD, Austen H. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition undertaken for the British Museum. London: John Murray, 1853Octavo. 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

cuneiform library of Sennacherib’s grandson Ashurbanipal, on which most modern knowledge of Assyrian culture is founded” (ODNB). “Apart from the archaeological value of his work in identifying Kouyunjik as the site of Nineveh, and in providing a great mass of materials for scholars to work upon . . . Layard’s [accounts] are among the best written books of travel in the lan-guage” (Ency. Brit.)

Abbey Travel 364; Atabey 687; Blackmer 969.

£750 [117149]

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203LE BRUYN, Cornelius. Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Les Freres Wetstein, 17182 volumes, folio (330 × 206 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully rebacked with the original spines laid down, new red and green labels, spines gilt in compartments, edges sprinkled red. Allegorical frontispiece by Picart, portrait of Le Bruyn by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 114 plates, 14 of them folding, and 57 double-page, and 43 full-page showing 491 views, 3 folding maps, engraved headpiece and 44 illustrations, half-titles bound in, titles printed in red and black. From the library of the Earl of Camden, armorial bookplates and press-marks to the front pastedowns. Slightly rubbed on the boards, light toning, but a very good set.

first edition in french of one of the principal accounts of Russia published during the 18th century, originally published in Dutch, Amsterdam 1711. Cornelis de Bruyn, the Dutch trav-

eller and painter, also known for his account of his journey through the Levant, was the first traveller to whom the tsar gave permission to make drawings of the towns and villages in the Russian provinces, and the superb engravings are from on-the-spot drawings by the author. The book is arguably the best authority for costumes of the era in the countries visited, for the Assyrian antiquities of Persepolis at that time, and for the views of cities and their natural history. His account also “details the route taken by Everard Ysbrants Ides, the Russian ambassador to China, and contains an account of his encounter with William Dampier at Batavia. In 1714 De Bruyn published a pamphlet discussing the differences between his engravings of Persepolis

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and those of Chardin and Kaempfer. His remarks [are] append-ed to the second part of his travels” (Howgego).

Brunet III, 911; Schwab 345; Cox I, p. 251.

£10,000 [61428]

204(LEACHMAN, Gerard Evelyn.) BRAY, Norman Napier Evelyn. A Paladin of Arabia. The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. E. Leachman, of the Royal Sussex Regiment. With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Hoare. London: John Heritage, The Unicorn Press Ltd, 1936

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-loured. Mild spotting to the cloth, light toning, a very good copy in the uncommon jacket, a little rubbed and chipped on the spine ends.

first edition. Seen by some truly to have been what Lawrence 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 in Iraq in 1920. Distinctly uncommon, decidedly so in the jacket.

O’Brien F0138.

£495 [66169]

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205LEBKICHER, Roy; George Rentz; Max Steineke. Handbooks for American Employees. Volume I: Part I, Aramco and World Oil; Part II, The Work and Life of Aramco Employees. Volume II: Part I, Background of Arabia and the Middle East; Part II, Saudi Arabia, the Government, the People and the Land; Part III, The Culture and Customs of the Arabs. New York & [s. n.] Russell F. Moore Company Inc. & Arabian American Oil Company, 19522 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 sand-grained card wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, full-page coloured maps. Vol. I with bookplate to front past-edown, very lightly rubbed along extremities and a touch sunned on spine, an excellent copy; vol. II wrappers a little rubbed at the extremi-ties, some separation at the spine, but on the whole very good.

revised edition, first published in 5 volumes in 1950. Uncom-mon, in the UK Copac records just one full set of the two vol-umes, at Oxford, and two copies of volume I alone, at Durham and LSE; sets are reasonably prevalent in American institutions. The handbooks were “designed to consolidate, in convenient form, information of particular interest and usefulness to Amer-ican members of the Aramco organisation”; the first volume is concerned with Aramco itself, setting out the company history and locating Aramco in “its place in the oil industry and world economy”; the second, concentrating on the theatre of the com-pany’s operations, provides the “background of Arabia and the Middle East . . . Saudi Arabia, the government, the people and the land . . . the culture and customs of the Arabs”. Lebkicher originally joined Standard Oil of California as a geologist in the Rocky Mountains in 1924. In 1933 he transferred to their San Francisco office training for overseas service, sub-sequently being based in the Hague and London, before making his first trip to Saudi Arabia in 1935. He spent most of the 1930s and 1940s in the States in charge of government, public, and employee relations, later becoming assistant to the executive vice president. Transferred to Saudi in 1952, he celebrated his 30 years with the company in the post of director of training, explaining in the Aramco Dhahran house paper Sun & Flare that he had always “regarded Aramco as an American-directed enter-prise having a very special importance in the world. The going has often been rough, and there is still plenty to do and many problems to solve, but when I look at what Aramco has accom-

plished in 21 years since April 1933, I am happy and proud”. Lebkicher’s co-author George Rentz joined Aramco in 1946 having spent the war working in propaganda in Egypt with the Office of War Information, and remained with Aramco for 17 years, becoming the company’s leading authority on matters pertaining to Arabic and Arabia. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1948, and his thesis on the Wahhabism and the origins of the Saudi Arabian state was finally published in 2006 as The Birth of the Islamic Reform Movement in Saudi Arabia. They were assisted in the compilation of the handbook by Max Steineke, chief geologist at California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (Casoc), which became Aramco, from 1936 until 1950. Steineke is credited with the first discovery of oil in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia. An interesting document of American-Arab relations in the mid-20th century and an excellently preserved copy of a some-what self-destructive production.

£950 [94788]

206LEBKICHER, Roy. The Training of Saudi Arab Employees: Arabian American Oil Company. Reprinted from the Year Book of Education 1954. London & New York: University of London, Columbia University and Evans Brothers, 1954Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original pale blue printed wrappers. A little rubbed and some marginal staining to wrappers, contents a touch toned, else very good.

first edition, an offprint from The Year Book of Education (1954) and decidedly uncommon: not listed in Copac and OCLC lo-cates only 16 copies in institutional libraries worldwide. The contents are: The Training Problem of Aramco, The Training and Educational System, and The Development of the Saudi Employee. The eminent petroleum geologist Roy Lebkicher (1895–1968) was described as “a brilliant and original education-al thinker as well as an able and experienced executive” whose training policy at Aramco produced “outstanding success in technological development”. He co-wrote a number of works in-cluding the Aramco and World Oil: Handbooks for American Employees series (1952). See also the previous item.

£375 [95273]

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207LEGEY, Françoise. The Folklore of Morocco. Preface by Marshal Lyautey. Translated from the French by Lucy Hotz. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935Octavo. 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 and traditions presented here. Speake includes Legey among the “scholar-administrators” who arrived with establishment of the French protectorate in 1912, whose “exacting labours” produced such “meticulous detailed work” (Literature of Travel and Exploration, “Morocco”). An uncommon book, particularly so in the jacket.

£350 [117438]

William Beckford’s copies, bound by Kalthoeber – with the rare supplement

208LEMPRIÈRE, William. A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco: including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, etc. London: printed for the author and sold by J. Walter, J. Johnson, and J. Sewell, 1791; [Together with] SANCHEZ, Franco. A Corrective Supplement to Wm. Lempriere’s Tour . . . [Amsterdam:] Gaspar Heintzen, 17942 works, octavo and octavo in half-sheets (212 × 127 mm). Contemporary marbled calf by Christian Kalthoeber (his ticket to vol. 1 front free end-paper verso, now slightly oxidised as usual), smooth spines richly gilt in compartments with central floral tools and leaf-form cornerpieces between Greek-key and double fillet rules, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, rolled Greek-key border gilt to covers, beaded roll gilt to board-edg-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 tipped in to initial blanks, a further slip laid in; printed bookplates to front pastedowns noting the bequest of S. B. Miles’s library to Bath Pub-lic Library by his widow in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Lemprière’s Tour with bumped and slightly worn tips, light spotting to folding map and sig. N. An excellent set.

first editions, William Beckford’s copies (Beckford sale cat-alogue nos. 2880–1), with his pencilled annotation to the initial

blank of the first work, noting “[p.] 218 at night, Sidy Mahomet had constantly six blood hounds in his chamber” and other detail; subsequently in the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with the usual bookplates and markings (see above). A highly appealing set, in a splen-did contemporary binding by Kalthoeber (fl. 1780–1817), the pre-eminent bookbinder of Regency England. Sanchez’s sup-plement is extremely rare, with a single copy traced in libraries (Oxford) and none listed in auction records. Lemprière (d. 1834) entered the Army Medical Service when young and by 1789 was attached to the garrison of Gibraltar. In September 1789 Muhammad III of Morocco asked the garrison to send an English doctor to attend his son, Mawlay Absolom, who was suffering from a cataract, promising him “every pro-tection and a guarantee of expenses and good rewards and the release of certain Christian captives” (Cox). Lemprière accepted the commission, reaching Taroudant in late October “where he attended the prince with great success. His only rewards, however, were ‘a gold watch, an indifferent horse, and a few hard dollars’. He was then summoned to attend some women of the sultan’s harem, and, having reached them on 4 December 1789, was detained in Morocco a long time against his will and was not allowed to leave until 12 February 1790, again with mis-erable remuneration” (ODNB). On publication, first as here for Lemprière himself, and in 1793 for a wider public, his account “aroused most interest for its description of the sultan’s harem” (ibid.) The supplement by Sanchez, who is described on the title page as a “Spanisch gardner in Morocco, and a friend to William Lampriere [sic]”, addressed a number of its minor inaccuracies.

Cox I p. 391; Gay 1298; Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the Brit-ish Army, Vol. I, 1147.

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209LESSEPS, Ferdinand de. The Suez Canal. Letters and documents descriptive of its rise and progress in 1854–1856. Translated by N. D’Anvers. London: Henry S. King and Co., 1876Octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine, sides and spine decorated in gilt and black, gilt scarab motif on front cover, brown coated endpapers. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper of “J. Howard McLean, Aston Hall” (Shifnal, Shropshire). Spine slightly rolled, inner joints neatly refurbished, touch of foxing to prelims and end matter. A very good bright copy with the 48 pp. of pub-lisher’s advertisements at the end (dated March 1876).

first edition in english of de Lesseps’s Lettres, journal et documents pour servir à l’histoire du Canal de Suez (Paris: Didier, 1875), published in the wake of British involvement when “in 1875 Disraeli, in a dazzling secret coup assisted by the Rothschilds, bought for Britain the shares originally subscribed for by the Khedive Ismail” (Printing and the Mind of Man 339).

£200 [114060]

210LESSEPS, Ferdinand de. Recollections of Forty Years. Translated by C. B. Pitman in two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 18872 volumes, octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, spine and front cov-ers lettered in gilt, both covers blocked in black, floral endpapers, vol. 2 unopened. Extremities lightly bumped, short area of wear at head of first joint, slight marking, minor foxing principally to edges. Overall, a very good copy.

first edition in english, translated from Souvenirs de quar-ante ans (1887). Ferdinand de Lesseps is best remembered as the engineer who designed the Suez Canal.

£150 [96442]

211LEVY, Reuben. The Social Structure of Islam. Being the Second Edition of The Sociology of Islam. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jack-et. Spine very gently bumped and rolled. A very good copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with a tanned spine and the odd small mark.

first one-volume edition, originally published in two volumes as The Sociology of Islam (1931–33), this copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with his own-ership inscription dated “Dhahran 1957”. Having completed his doctorate in Islamic mysticism at Princeton in 1955, Heer worked as a translator for Aramco at their Dhahran headquar-ters for two years before returning to the US to teach at Stan-ford. Levy (1891–1966) was professor of Persian at the University of Cambridge.

£125 [104046]

212LEWIS, Norman. Sand and Sea in Arabia. With 123 illustrations. London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1938Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With 123 black and white photographic illustrations in the text. Spine lightly toned, boards very faintly soiled, endpapers a little foxed. An excellent copy.

first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Trude & Adolf, N. Lewis, 1940”. Sand and Sea is Lewis’s second book, a photo-essay which origi-nated from a partly failed spying mission when Lewis was asked by the British Foreign Office to photograph Yemen. Although Lewis and his two travelling companions were denied entry to the country at the port of Hodeida they somehow managed to visit the region, taking in the cities of Lahej and Aden, and trav-

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elling along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coastlines aboard a sambuk and cargo steamer.

£575 [94448]

213LEWIS, Wyndham. Filibusters in Barbary. New York: National Travel Club, 1932Octavo. 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 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]

214LIBBEY, William, & Franklin E. Hoskins. The Jordan Valley and Petra. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 19052 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

American Bible Society in Beirut and editor of an Arabic Bible published in 1916.

Not in Gay, Macro or Weber; Khatib, Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans 54 (volume II only).

£300 [117614]

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215LOUGHLAND, Ronald A., & Khaled A. Al-Abdulkader. Marine Atlas. Western Arabian Gulf. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Aramco, 2011Folio (375 × 304 mm). Original photographic boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, blue endbands and endpapers, CD-ROM in open-faced case to rear. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, drawings and charts. Some 30 farewell inscriptions to retiring Aramco executive “Kris[to-pher Horvath]” on front pastedown and free endpaper. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, a few restored nicks to spine, hinges uniformly rein-forced with blue buckram. Internally bright and fresh, a very good copy.

first edition. An exhaustive scientific survey of the marine and coastal habitats found along the Saudi Arabian portion of the Gulf, an area covering some 1,200 miles of diverse coastline (including islands) from Ra’s al-Khafji on the Kuwaiti border in the north to Ra’s Abu Qamis on the border with the UAE in the south; also included is an in-depth chapter on the history of the region. Scarce: Copac traces two copies in UK libraries, with OCLC adding just four in libraries worldwide.

£1,200 [102570]

216LUSIGNAN, Sauveur. A history of the revolt of Ali Bey, against the Ottoman Porte, including an account of the form of government of Egypt; together with a description of Grand Cairo, and of several places in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria: to which are added, a short account of the present state of the Christians who are subjects to the Turkish government, and the journal of a gentleman who travelled from Aleppo to Bassora. London: James Phillips, 1783Octavo (225 × 135 mm). Uncut in the original grey boards, paper back-strip, printed paper label to spine. With a laid-in typed translation into Italian of a British newspaper report of Joachim Murat’s invasion of

Sicily, dated Messina, 19 September 1810. Contemporary manuscript correction to author’s address on title page, a touch rubbed and marked overall, corners and head of spine bumped, surface splitting to tail of both joints and along rear hinge, old restoration to backstrip at tail, occasional light foxing as usual. Complete with the errata leaf. An excel-lent, entirely unsophisticated copy.

first edition, rare in the original boards. An important ac-count of the revolt of ‘Ali Bey, the shaykh al-balad of Egypt who declared the country independent of the Ottoman Empire before proceeding to seize control of the Hijaz and invade Syr-ia. His rule ended following the insubordination of his most trusted general, Abu al-Dhahab, which led to Ali Bey’s exile then death outside the walls of Cairo. “Very little is known of Lusig-nan, who claims to have known Ali Bey personally. He seems to have been a Greek or more probably a Cypriot who took refuge in London; he advertises himself as a teacher of ancient and modern Greek (on A5v), but there is no mention of him in Leg-rand. Perhaps he is connected with the Giacomo Lusignan who later acted as a factotum for the Earl of Guildford” (Blackmer).

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217LYNCH, Thomas Kerr. A Visit to the Suez Canal. London: Day and Son, Limited, 1 March 1866Octavo. Original reddish-brown sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and front board, panelling in blind to both boards. Tinted lithographic half-title and 9 other plates, folding lithographic map, plans to the text. Small ink stamp of the Clinton Hall Association to title page. Very mild shelf-wear, light browning mainly marginal, some slight chipping to the fore edges, but overall a very good copy.

first edition. Lynch travelled with his brother Henry Blosse Lynch “on the second Euphrates expedition of 1837–42, with the aim of establishing steam communication with the areas drained by the Euphrates and Tigris and the Persian Gulf. Iron-ically, the difficulties which he encountered proved the unat-

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tractiveness of the river compared with the sea route to India: but Lynch, with a brother, probably Henry, set up the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company in 1862. Its steamers regularly plied the rivers and, because it was the only formal representation of British interests in the area, it received protection from the Foreign Office. Lynch travelled extensively in Mesopotamia and Persia. After his return home he was for some years consul-gener-al for Persia in London” (ODNB). His trip to view progress on the Suez Canal was clearly at least partially professionally-motivated. Uncommon, only six copies on Copac, OCLC adding just four, only two of these, including the Library of Congress, in America.

Not in Ibrahim-Hilmy or Blackmer.

£975 [46459]

218MCCRINDLE, John Watson. The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea: being Translations of the “Periplus maris Erythraei” by an Anonymous Writer and partly from Arrian’s Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos . . . Bombay: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1879Octavo. Original black sand-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine, blind frames to sides, green endpapers. Spine-ends and tips lightly bumped and rubbed, endpapers browned. A very good copy.

first edition in book form, scarce, with one copy listed in auction records in the last 50 years. McCrindle, of the Bengal Ed-ucational Service, translated from the Greek two of the most im-portant sources for Arabia and the Persian Gulf in antiquity. The

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 of Himyarite and Sabaean kingdoms, and the Frankincense King-dom of king Eleazus, probably Iliazz Yalit I, in the Hadramawt. Arrian’s account describes a voyage undertaken on the orders of Alexander the Great in 325 bce, which resulted in the Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 267). Alexander’s admiral, Nearkhos (Nearchus), sailed from the In-dus estuary and eventually landed at a town named as Diridotis, evidently Teredon, a city founded by Nebuchadnezzar in what is now Kuwait. William Vincent, who produced a commentary on the text in 1797, called it “the first event of general importance to mankind in the history of navigation” (ODNB). Provenance: ex-Bath Public Library, from the bequest of Mrs Miles, wife of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. Samuel Bar-rett Miles (1838–1914), with bookplate, manuscript shelf-mark and blind-stamps as usual. Miles spent most of his career as a po-litical agent in Oman and what are now the United Arab Emirates. He noted the voyage of Nearkhos in his posthumously-published 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 admiral, Nearchus, when passing up the Persian Gulf, sighted Cape Maceta or Cape Mussendom, and heard from the pilot of a great Omani emporium . . . Alexander hearing his report, deter-mined on sending an expedition to circumnavigate the Arabian peninsula, but his early death in Babylon put an end to this and other schemes, and for nearly a hundred years no fresh light was thrown on the land” (p. 8). Miles has annotated the preface, prais-ing McCrindle’s “useful” translation but criticising his notes as “kucha”, Hindi for raw. The book is an expanded form of articles which originally appeared in the Indian Antiquary.

£3,000 [94810]

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The end of the Khivan khanate

219MACGAHAN, 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. On hearing of the departure of a force to Central Asia under General Skobelev, MacGahan defied the ban on correspondents accompanying the expedition. He crossed the Kyzyl-Kum desert on horseback and was present at the surrender of Khiva. His later investigations of the Bulgarian atrocities in 1876 were in-strumental in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the Russo–Turkish War of 1877–8, a key factor in Bulgaria gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Atabey 744; Ghani p. 233; Yakushi M12 – all for different English lan-guage editions.

£850 [103689]

220MACLEAN, Arthur John, & William Henry Browne. The Catholicos of the East and his People. Being Impression of Five Years’ Work in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission; an Account of the Religious and

Secular Life and Opinions of the Eastern Syrian Christians of Kurdistan and Northern Persia (known also as Nestorians). London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered and deco-rated in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers. Folding map frontis-piece, wood engravings to the text. Joints and extremities rubbed, spine darkened, very faint soiling overall, small bump to fore edge of both boards, fore edge spotted, internally clean. A very good copy.

first and only edition of this important account of the Church of the East, uncommon in the original cloth. In 1886 Maclean (1858–1943) travelled to Urmia in Iranian Azerbaijan as the first head of Archbishop Benson’s mission to the Assyrian Christians, “which had as its purpose not conversion, which its statutes forbade, but the strengthening of faith and religious practice” (ODNB). Despite opposition from Persian authori-ties, Maclean oversaw the establishment of a Syriac press and numerous schools for clergy and laypeople. He returned to his

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former parish at Portree, Skye, in 1891, co-authoring the present account and also writing an important grammar of Syriac (1895), followed by a dictionary (1901). In an address to the Lambeth Conference in 1908 he suggested that the Church of England was concerned not only “to restore these ancient Churches for their own sakes, but also one may confidently hope that in the future they will be able to do what we Westerns cannot do – 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 England, p. 125).

Wilson p. 133.

£750 [117047]

221MAGAUD D’AUBUSSON, Louis. La Fauconnerie au moyen age. Paris: Auguste Ghio, 1879Octavo (220 × 140mm). Later blue half morocco, marbled boards, title direct to spine, top edge gilt, the others lightly sprinkled brown, original wrappers bound in front and back. Spine mildly sunned, light toning, a very good copy. Armorial bookplate of Thorvald Lindquist to front past-edown, the great majority of Lindquist’s falconry collection is now in the library of the Royal Armoury, Stockholm, having been acquired from him in 1944; subsequent plate of Tony Huston, son of film director John Huston, and one of America’s leading falconers.

first edition. “A work which no student of the history of Fal-conry should neglect. Amongst the ‘Pièces Justificatives’ at the end of the volume will be found a chronological list of the Grand Falconers of France; extracts showing the expenses attending the maintenance of hawking in France, from the Household Accounts of François I, Henri I, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XVI; the state of Falconry at the court of France in 1785” (Harting). The work has a dedicated section on ‘La Fauconnerie chez les Arabes’, by Général Daumas, recognized as the French Army’s

leading expert on Arab culture, and the head of the North Afri-ca, Bureaux Arabes.

Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria 211.

£1,250 [92663]

222MALCOLM, Sir John. The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time: containing an Account of the Religion, Government, Usages, and Character of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom. London: for John Murray and Longman and Co., by James Moyes, 18152 volumes, quarto (294 × 228 mm). Contemporary half russia, marbled sides, decorative gilt spines, red speckled edges. Large folding map, 22 engraved plates (8 from archaeological sites, 8 topographical, 6 stipple portraits). Contemporary bookplates of John Garratt (1786–1859, Lord Mayor of London 1824–5). Joints rubbed (inner hinges neatly strength-ened), closed-tear to map, plates lightly foxed. A handsome set in a period binding.

first edition of this interesting and important work by the diplomatist and administrator in India Sir John Malcolm (1769–1833). Sent on a diplomatic mission to Tehran in early 1810 Malcolm was received “with pomp and cordiality”, developed a trusting relationship with the shah, and found time to introduce the potato to the country (known locally as “Malcolm’s plum”). “His classic History of Persia, which appeared in 1815, brought him an honorary doctorate of laws from Oxford. Translated into French (1821), German (1830), and Persian (n.d.), the history was particularly valuable for contextualizing events surrounding his own time in Persia, and served as the standard western work for about a century” (ODNB).

Arcadian Library 12281, and p. 91 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani p. 236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134

£3,750 [100702]

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223MALCOLM, Sir John. [Title in Persian] Ta’rikh-i Iran (The History of Persia). Bombay: 1287 ah (1870/1 ce)2 volumes in one, tall quarto (332 × 230 mm); lithographed through-out. Native binding of contemporary straight-grain black half roan, green pebble-grain cloth sides, double fillet rolls forming compart-ments to spine gilt, titles direct to second and fourth gilt, remaining compartments with central fleuron devices gilt, edges speckled red. Portrait frontispiece, 29 plates with albumen prints mounted within lithographed foliate borders with captions as issued, large folding lithographic map opening to 650 510 mm. Blindstamp of Bath Public Library to a number of leaves and most plates. A few pale markings to sides, corners a touch bumped, light toning, sporadic faint spotting as 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 to no loss of albumen print, vol. II pp. 112–3 finger-marked, most plates with a gentle ripple to edge of mount with images spared. Overall a very good copy.

first edition in persian, rare, with perhaps six complete copies in libraries, this copy from the collection of noted British diplomat and orientalist Col. Samuel B. Miles (1838–1914), with his wife’s presentation plate to Bath Public Library to the rear pastedown, and blind-stamps as usual. “The translation of Malcolm’s history was the outcome of a British mission to Iran in the 1860s for the purpose of establish-

ing a telegraph line connecting India to Great Britain through Iran. While en route to India, the head of the mission, Major General Frederic Jon Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of Kirman, Muhammam Isma’il Khan Vakil al-Mulk” who in return requested a Persian translation of the History, Malcolm having been a good friend of his father. Malcolm’s account was critical of the Qajar dynasty, however, and Goldsmid was only able to commission one Mirza Isma’il Hayrat to produce a Persian ver-sion once back in India, “where translators were unconstrained by Qajar imperial sensibilities and where the ruling British had inherited a Persian literary and bureaucratic tradition from their Mughal predecessors” (Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, pp. 24–5).

Arcadian Library 12281 for the first edition overall and p. 85 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani p. 236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134.

£5,000 [102966]

224MANN, Michael. The Trucial Oman Scouts. The Story of a Bedouin Force. With a Foreword by Bernard Burrows. Wilby, Norwich: Michael Russell, 1994

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Octavo. Publisher’s red boards, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. 16 plates, maps to the text, coloured pictorial endpapers after a painting of Jahili Fort, Buraimi by David Shepherd. Very good, the jacket price-clipped.

first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Alan Niekirk after many years of friendship, Michael Mann”, and additionally signed by Lt.-Col. W. J. Martin, TOS commander 1953–5 until forced by ill health to hand over command. His tenure was recognised by the award of the OBE. C. P. Pirie-Gordon, the political agent to Oman, recorded that “Colonel Martin’s particular duty was to expand a force which at the time he assumed command had consisted of under 100 men with a single officer into one of 500 men with 10 British officers and numerous British other ranks as well as local troops. All the administrative and technical details of this considerable short-term expansion fell to Colonel Martin, who achieved the establishment of a highly creditable regiment in the face of considerable difficulties and frustrations in a remark-ably short time” (p. 45). The book is a well-written account of the development of the unit originally formed as the Trucial Oman Levies, an armed gendarmerie, in 1951. The Buraimi Incident, followed by the Jeb-el Akhdar Campaigns in Oman, led to its expansion into a fully equipped Bedouin brigade which was eventually absorbed into the Union Defence Force with the establishment of the United Arab Emirates in 1971. The book is relatively recently published, but almost unfindable.

£350 [112584]

A Jesuit covers Muslim Spain with “admirable objectivity”

225MARIANA, Juan de. The General History of Spain. From the Peopling of it by Tubal, till the Death of King Ferdinand, who united the Crowns of Castile and

Aragon. With a Continuation to the Death of King Philip III. Written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana. To which are added, Two Supplements, the First by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen de Soto, bringing it down to the Present Reign. The Whole translated from the Spanish. By John Stevens. London: Richard Sare, Francis Saunders and Thomas Bennet, 1699Folio (348 × 215 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked with the original spine laid down, red morocco label, raised bands, compartments gilt with attractive scrolled corner-tools enclosing a large floral lozenge. From the collection of British Arabist and colonial officer 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 blind-stamps as usual, together with an early 20th-century bookseller’s ticket (Meehan of Bath) and the pencilled inscription “This book be-longed to Professor Mitford”. A little rubbed, some neat restoration to extremities, contents browned, a good copy.

first edition in english, and still the only complete edition, of “the standard work on Spanish history up to the 18th century . . . [which] does not merely report events in lucid chronological order and with admirable objectivity, but includes analyses of the mechanisms of princely power” (Braun, Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought, p. 2). First published in Latin at Toledo in 1592 as Historiae de rebus hispaniae, the text was updated by Mariana down to the death of Philip III in 1621. In 1601 Mar-iana first published his own Spanish translation of the work, from which this English translation was taken. The English work 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 (1535?–1624), a native of Talavera de la Reina, became a Jesuit at Simancas, studied at the University of Alcalá and taught in Rome, Loreto, Sicily, Paris, and the Low Countries.

£1,250 [93999]

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226MARKHAM, Sir Clements R. A General Sketch of the History of Persia. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874Octavo (212 × 135 mm). Near-contemporary red half calf, richly gilt spine, grey morocco label, red cloth sides, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers. Folding map frontispiece. 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. Spine lightly sunned, extremities and joints rubbed, a few small por-tions of stripping to calf, map faintly offset to title, a few minor spots. A very good copy.

first edition of this detailed account, notably containing an entire chapter on “The Persian Gulf and the Seyyids of Oman” and surprisingly uncommon on the market, with a handful of copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. Cambridge Persian-ist E. G. Browne considered it “the chief work of reference in En-glish” alongside Sir John Malcolm’s (A Literary History of Persia, p. vii). Markham’s “extraordinary influence . . . on geography and its institutions in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries” was perhaps second only to Sir Roderick Murchison’s (ODNB).

Ghani p. 240; Diba p. 72; Wilson p. 137, erroneously giving a date of 1870 as well as 1874.

£1,250 [117616]

227MARSH, George P. The Camel. His Organization, Habits and Uses, considered with Reference to his Introduction into the United States. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856Octavo (117 × 109 mm). Contemporary brown quarter sheep, match-ing combed cloth boards, title gilt direct to spine, marbled edges and endpapers A couple of illustrations to the text. A little rubbed at the ex-tremities and slightly stained on the boards, but overall a very nice copy. The binding is lettered in gilt on the spine for the “Ohio School Library”

with a gilt accession date of 1860, a rather pretty binding, and no other signs of library use.

first edition. George Perkins Marsh (1801–82) was an Amer-ican lawyer, philologist and diplomat, whose book Man and Nature (1864) is recognised as an early work of conservationism or ecology, and was key in the establishment of the Adirondack Park. From 1849 to 1852 he was United States minister resident to the Ottoman Empire, doing much sound work there in the cause of religious tolerance. It was also during this time that he began his researches into the “practicability and expediency of introducing the camel into the United States . . . several months of travel in Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea and Syria, presented opportunities for a good deal of personal observation” (Pref-ace). He also thoroughly researched the subject reading “Ritter’s valuable and learned essay . . . Carbuccia’s work on the Drome-dary of Algeria, Hammer-Purgstall’s erudite paper Das Kamel and other instructive treatises on the subject”. In 1861 Marsh’s next diplomatic posting was as first United States minister to the Kingdom of Italy. Serving until his death in 1882, Marsh became the longest-serving chief of mission in US history. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

Sabin 44735.

£150 [97464]

228MASON, Michael. The Paradise of Fools. Being an Account by a Member of the Party, of the Expedition which covered 6,300 miles of the Libyan Desert by Motor-car in 1935. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, scorpion device gilt to the front board. With the striking pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 22 other plates, folding coloured map at the rear. A little chafed head and tail of the spine, corners a touch bumped, free endpapers differentially browned, minor production flaw at the head of the rear hinge, else very

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good in slightly rubbed jacket, foxed on the flaps, with some slightly am-ateurish restoration at the head of the spine, but pictorially and textually complete. Bookplate of Charles Edward Rusbridge, who served in Libya with the RAOC during World War II, to front pastedown.

first edition of this lively and uncommon account of an ex-pedition described in Fliegel Jezerniczky’s on-line Libyan Desert bibliography as “an extraordinary journey”, during which a party led by Mason and W. B. Kennedy Shaw traversed “virtually all major parts of the Libyan desert. They started from Kharga, reaching the Gilf Kebir via Abu Ballas, making the first crossing of the dune belt in the ‘Gap’ to enter Wadi Hamra, discovering two major wadis transversing the southern Gilf (and locating a cave with rock paintings on the col between them), then con-tinuing via Selima and Erdi to El Fasher (where they met Almásy and party). On the northbound leg they traversed the southern Libyan Desert, continuing to Uweinat, passing the western side of the Gilf, then traversing the Great Sand Sea to reach Siwa”. The cave at Mogharet el Kantara containing the paintings of cattle and a homestead scene, the only known site containing rock art in the south-eastern portion of the Gilf Kebir, is now known as Shaw’s Cave. Shaw published his findings in the Geo-graphical Journal (“An Expedition in the Southern Lybian Desert”, vol. 87, 1936) and Antiquity (“Rock Paintings in the Lybian Des-ert”, vol. 10, 1936). During the Second World War Shaw went on to become a founder member of the Long Range Desert Group, whose scorpion badge was very similar to that used here on the front board. Mason, who had previously spent time fur-trapping in Canada, and sparring with Jack Sharkey, was recruited to naval intelligence by Ian Fleming, lending a number of characteristics – physical and temperamental – and terrific tales to the compos-ite who became James Bond.

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229MASSON, Charles. Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab; [together with] — Narrative of a Journey to Kalat. London: Richard Bentley, 1842 & 1843Together 2 works in 4 volumes, octavo. Original matching purple combed cloth, title gilt to spines, panelling in blind to boards, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. Single-tint lithographic frontispiece and one other similar plate to each volume of the first-named, together with numerous wood-cut illustrations to the text; large folding map to the pendant volume. All spines a little sunned, and crumpled head and tail with some minor splits and chips, overall a little rubbed, and bumped at the extremities, light browning to the text-blocks, and some foxing particularly to the plates; the pendant volume neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, end papers renewed, folding map with two closed tears, no loss; a very good set.

first editions. Considered “to be the most enigmatic among the European explorers” of the north-west frontier, Masson (1800–53), was born John Lewis in London. In 1821 he enlisted as a private in the East India Company’s infantry, later trans-ferring to the Bengal European Artillery. He was present at the siege of Bharatpur in 1826 but deserted in early July 1827 in Agra and changed his name. He travelled to Afghanistan and em-barked on over a decade of “pioneering travel and antiquarian investigation. During this period he collected well over 80,000 ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronol-ogy of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries after the death of Alexander the Great. From 1834 Masson pub-lished news of his discoveries in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The following year he was recruited by the East India Company as news writer in Afghanistan, in return for a free pardon for his desertion and a small allowance” (ODNB). He also 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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Although Masson lacked any formal training, “as an accurate observer of, and extensive traveller in, a virtually unknown land he was unrivalled”, and the present narrative “has been judged to be a record which is unsurpassed . . . for the width of its scope of inquiry into political, social, economic and scientific matters and the general accuracy of its conclusion” (Chopra).

provenance: with the ownership initials of Lieut.-Col. John Archibald Ballard, dated 1857, to the front free endpaper of vol-ume I. Ballard was educated at Addiscombe, and commissioned in the Bengal Engineers in 1850. He earned a considerable reputation for his “cool bravery in action” (Buckland) during his services attached to the Turkish forces in the Crimea, com-manding a brigade in Omar Pasha’s campaign in Mingrelia. “Ballard returned to India in 1856 [and] served as assistant quartermaster-general in the Persian campaign, and afterwards

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in the Indian mutiny with the Rajputana field force, taking part in the pursuit and rout of Tantia Topi’s forces. His promotion was singularly rapid, advancing in 1858 from lieutenant to lieu-tenant-colonel. He was subsequently mint-master at Bombay. Having attained the rank of lieutenant-general, he retired in 1879” (ODNB).

Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Times, pp. 43–4; Riddick 148 & 149; Yakushi M108a, for the first-named.

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230MAUGHAN, William Charles. The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land. A New Edition. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875Octavo (212 × 131 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco, decora-tive gilt spine, dark purple pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved map frontispiece of the author’s route. Binding a little rubbed.

First published in 1873, followed by a second edition in 1874. The author was born in 1836, the son of Captain Philip Maughan of the East India Company and Elizabeth Arnott. He attended Edinburgh Academy before entering into banking in Edinburgh, London, and Rome. Maughan wrote numerous works including travel, history, and one work of fiction, Julian Ormonde (1882). He unsuccessfully stood for parliament twice. He died in 1914.

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231MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1933Quarto. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine. With price-clipped dust jacket. 71 plates from photographs, illustrations to the text, some full-

page. The jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few minor edge-splits and chips, but overall a very good copy of this handsome production.

first and only edition of an important study, never super-seded, which in fact “remains the only authoritative work on the subject” (obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where he was employed in Department of Antiquities. He rose to be-come Director of Archives, before leaving to become the first Sir David Sassoon Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1932. From 1943–5 Mayer served as rector of the university, and from 1940 to 1950, he was president of the Israel Exploration Society and was honorary president of the Israel Oriental Society. Mayer died in 1959. A print-out of the AO obituary, which includes an exhaustive of Mayer’s works, is laid in.

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232MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Mamluk Costume. A Survey. Geneva: Albert Kundig, 1952Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With 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.

first edition of the first monograph on medieval Islamic costume since Reinhard Dozy’s Dictionnaire détaillé (1845). May-er’s findings, based on literary and documentary evidence and focusing on the development of court ceremonial under al-Nasir Muhammad, are still authoritative today. The Mamluks were a Turkic slave dynasty who ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz from the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in 1250 to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, with Cairo as their capital.

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233MAYNARD, Frederick Pinsent. Letters on the Baluch–Afghan Boundary Commission of 1896 under Captain A. H. McMahon, C.I.E. Written to the Englishman (Calcutta) and Times of India (Bombay) by their Special Correspondent with the Mission. Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1909Small octavo. Original dark blue sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, black surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, and very slightly mot-tled, pale toning, single worm-track through the last few leaves, but overall very good indeed.

first and only edition. Extremely uncommon: OCLC has Brit-ish Library and University of Nebraska only. The Afghan–Baluch boundary from Domandi to the Persian frontier was one of the last sections of the borders of India to be officially demarcated (see Davies, The Problem of the North-West Frontier, 1890–1908, p. 162). May-nard – who was to become one of India’s leading ophthalmologists, performing over 14,000 operations for cataracts, and publishing important papers on glaucoma – accompanied McMahon’s com-mission as medical officer, publishing a couple of scientific papers relating to observations made on the expedition, along with these unofficial “despatches” contributed to the Indian press. Maynard’s letters are picturesque but highly informative, always retaining a sense of the importance of the task in hand, and the vital role that the commanding officer played in the success of their operations: “All of this has not been accomplished without great forethought, great tact, and the constant exercise of those qualities of mind and heart in dealing with more or less civilised races, and which are possessed by Captain McMahon in an em-inent degree. The proof of this is that the demarcation of 800 miles of frontier . . . all of it lying among tribes more noted for their lawlessness and disregard for their manners, and in country which, when not actual desert, has been hitherto regarded as un-safe for British officers to visit, has been settled, much of it rapid-

ly, and all of it without accident” (p. 87). Maynard had previously served on the Black Mountain Expedition, as the superintendent of Patna Opium Factory, 1895–1901, and as Civil Surgeon Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Patna and Darjeeling. He died in 1921 at the age of 57.

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234MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt. London: Hugh Rees Ltd, 19302 volumes, large quarto (320 × 254 mm). Original green cloth, spines and front covers lettered and ruled in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 7 half-tone photographic plates including portrait fron-tispiece, 31 colour plates, 3 folding coloured maps. British diplomatic provenance, with the ink-stamp of an unidentified “Residency Library” to the front free endpaper, spines with inked shelf-marks (repeated at upper inner corners of front boards) and partially effaced labels. Lightly 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-forced (heavy text-block). A very good copy with bright colour plates.

first edition. Michael Nicoll was assistant director of the Zo-ological Gardens at Giza from 1906 until his retirement in 1924. When posted to Cairo as chief intelligence officer to the Egyp-tian expeditionary force, Meinertzhagen sought Nicoll out and the pair became friends. Nicoll died in 1925 and Meinertzhagen, who had resigned from the army the same year, was approached by his widow to turn his copious notes into a book. He returned to Egypt to carry out the necessary field work and toured the country extensively by motorcar; following his resignation such birding trips were a useful cover for observing international politics. “Until Michael Nicoll went to Egypt in 1906, no compe-tent ornithologist had resided in the country, made systematic collections and worked them out, or had made seasonal obser-vations year in year out” (Preface).

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235MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954Quarto. Original sand buckram, top edge brown, spine lettered in green. With the dust-jacket. 19 colour plates, 9 photographic plates from the author’s photographs, 88 text figures and maps, large folding regional map in end-pocket. Endpapers slightly browned, light foxing to the fore-edge, overall very good in jacket, with some neat professional repairs to minor splitting and chipping along the top edge.

first edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author to army officer and merchant banker, Sir Reginald Lind-say “Rex” Benson: “In gratitude for 36 years valued friendship”. An excellent copy of Meinertzhagen’s ornithological magnum opus, inscribed to another freewheeling soldier, one of Menin-ertzhagen’s closest banking and birding friends.

The recipient of this copy, Rex Benson, had served with dis-tinction in the First World War (MC, DSO, four times mentioned in despatches). After the armistice he became chief of the Brit-ish Mission and was attached to the staff of Sir Henry Wilson at the peace conference. He was next military secretary to the gov-ernor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd; then involved in a Meinertz-hagen-esque scheme dreamed up by Lloyd George to open trade with post-Revolutionary Russia; liaison officer to the French First Army until the evacuation from Dunkirk; subsequently appointed chairman of the inter-allied timber commission in 1940; in 1941 becoming military attaché at the British embassy in Washington under Lord Halifax.

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236MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Army Diary, 1899–1926. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960Octavo. 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.

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237(MILES, Samuel Barrett.) Sammelband of articles on classical Islamic history and Arabic literature. Paris: Société asiatique/Leiden: Brill, 1838–626 works in one volume, octavo (203 × 116 mm). Later 19th-century “native” green half morocco by the Bycullah Education Society’s Press, raised bands to spine with twin gilt fillets either side, gilt title to second compartments, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers. Sides lightly rubbed, stripping to lower outer corners; de Goeje’s text clean, the other articles variably spotted, pale tide-mark to fore edge of first few leaves and to and lower outer corner of later leaves. Very good.

first editions, comprising Michael de Goeje’s rare and im-portant Mémoire sur les Carmathes de Bahraïn, together with five Journal Asiatique articles mainly on classical Arabic poetry, bound for British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), with his occasional pencilled corrections to the text, a printed bookplate noting his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manu-script shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual; loosely inserted is the laid-in carte-de-visite of the Rev. A. Clifford, Bishop of Allahabad, attached to a handwritten note concerning an article on famous Arabian and Persian libraries. Miles spent a significant part of his consular career in the Arabian Peninsula, stationed mainly in Muscat, from where he conducted numerous expeditions into the Arabian interior. His reports, which appeared mainly in journals or confidential pub-lications such as Lorimer’s Gazetteer and were partially collected after his death as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919), show that he was “not mere political agent or an observant trav-eller but a classical scholar and Arabist” (Al-Hajri, British Trav-

el-Writing on Oman, p. 162) – as this eclectic volume confirms. The articles comprise, in bound order:

a) DE GOEJE, Michael Jan. Mémoire sur les Carmathes de Bahraïn. Leiden: Brill, 1862. De Goeje’s study of the Qaramitah, the syncretic Shi’ite sect which revolted against the ‘Abbasid Ca-liphate from their Bahraini stronghold in the ninth century ce, was the first volume of his four-part Mémoires d’histoire et de géographie orientales, his principal work of original research (he was mainly noted for preparing editions of Arabic texts). Untraced in auction records; three copies in UK libraries (Cambridge, Manchester and Oxford), 12 world-wide, all held in Germany, the Netherlands or Switzerland.

b) CHERBONNEAU, J. A. “Harith et Labna, episode du roman d’Antar, traduit de l’arabe en français” (January 1845, pp. 5–38). A character in the celebrated romance of ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad, Harith “became proverbial for his arrogance” in Arabic literature (Ency. Brit.)

c) QUATREMÈRE, Etienne. “Mémoire sur la gout des livres chez les orientaux” (July 1838, pp. 35–78). On books and book-collecting in the classical Islamic period, drawing on Ibn Khaldun, al-Makrizi, and other recently unearthed sources.

d) — “Mémoire sur l’ouvrage intitule Kitab-alagani, c’est-a-dire, Recueil de Chansons” (November 1838, pp. 465–526). Quatremère was the third European scholar to translate a part of the great anthology of classical Arabic poetry and music, after de Sacy (1835) and Kosegarten (1819).

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]

238MILSTEIN, Rachel. Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1990Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. 26 plates of which 4 in colour. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a closed tear to the foot of front panel, a few mild nicks to the rear and manuscript overprice sticker to the front flap.

first edition, with the ownership inscription of noted Iranian bibliophile Cyrus Ghani, dated New York, November 1990, to the front free endpaper.

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239(MOHAMMED ALI.) The Life of Mohammed Ali, Viceroy of Egypt. To which are appended, the Quadruple Treaty and the Official Memoranda of the English and French Ministers. London: E. Churton, 1841Small octavo. Original grey-green limp cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover, marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette title incorporating a por-trait of Mohammed Ali, engraved folding map of the Middle East. En-graved title and map lightly foxed. A very good copy, with the four pages of publisher’s terminal advertisements.

first edition and distinctly rare: Copac records only three copies (Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, not in the British Li-brary) and OCLC adds just the copy at Columbia. There was a succinct contemporary review in the American Eclectic magazine (January–May 1841): this “small publication is merely a com-pilation of facts and documents that are of easy access, but yet such as, at this moment, briefly bring under the eye of the gen-eral reader such particulars as he must be desirous of finding 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 months keeping, not only England and France, but the whole of Europe, in an unusual ferment and state of anxiety”. Mehmet Ali (1769–1849) was an Ottoman viceroy and founder of the Egyptian royal family, who played the leading role during the long-running Egyptian–Ottoman wars (1831–40). The war was concluded when the British fleet bombarded Egyptian forces in Beirut in early September 1840 and an Anglo-Ottoman force landed, forcing an Egyptian retreat.

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240MONRO, Vere. A Summer Ramble in Syria, with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul. London: Richard Bentley, 18352 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm). Contemporary maroon morocco by G. Cartland of Eton, title gilt directly to spine, flat bands with an attrac-tive gilt lozenge roll, floral panels to compartments, elaborate gilt panel composed of floral, foliate and palmette tools within blind panels to boards, all edges gilt, pale cream surface-paper endpapers,brown silk page-markers still intact. Lithographed frontispiece to each. Very minor shelfwear, pale browning, overall a clean and handsome set. This copy inscribed in 1845 as an Eton leaving present to Arthur Benson Dickson from “his sincere friend” William Thomas Dickson.

first edition of an uncommon and entertaining narrative, commended by the reviewer of The London & Westminster Review as of “more than ordinary merit”; Monro’s “descriptions are spirited and graphic; his style is lively and idiomatic, devoid of stiffness or affectation” and “without making any pretensions to the higher qualities required of a traveller . . . [he] possesses qualifications of another kind, in a degree not possessed by the majority of travellers; an adventurous and determined spirit, and great capability of enduring fatigue and privation” (Vol. XXV, June and July 1836). Monro graduated from University College, Oxford, took or-ders in 1825, and in 1826 was appointed curate of Stokesley, in the diocese of York, his contemporary reviewer remarking that he was proof that “the race of hard-riding parsons” was not ex-tinct in England. The Egyptian leg of Monro’s journey was writ-

ten up by his travelling companion James Augustus St John – an odd fringe figure in the worlds of London radicalism and orien-talism – in his Egypt and Mohammed Ali (1834), which is dedicated to Monro. The plates show a pilgrim encampment on the banks of the Jordan, and Monro’s bivouac on Mount Lebanon, “previ-ous to passing the snow”. A desirable 19th-century account of the region, in a superb example of an Eton gift binding.

Atabey 827; Blackmer 1148; Rohricht 1833; Weber I, 234.

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241MORIER, Sir James Justinian. [Oriental romances; a collection of his works in first edition.] London: Richard Bentley, 1824–479 works in 24 volumes. Bound in handsome uniform mottled calf by Rivière & Son, boards with small Greek key border in gilt, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, the first title listed below top edge gilt, others uncut, the rest all edges gilt. Some titles with small inkstamp of Robert Inglis on verso, engraved bookplate on front past-edowns. Joints lightly rubbed, but a magnificent collection of most of Morier’s fictional output.

first editions of all nine works, including four presen-tation copies from the author, most inscribed “From the Au-thor” at the head of title, but the sixth inscribed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis Bart. “From his faithfl. & ever obliged friend, the author” on

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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 Persia as secretary successively to Harford Jones and Sir Gore Ouseley and acted as aide to Persian dignitaries in London. He pub-lished two critically acclaimed travel books – A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818) – before beginning the sequel of novels which brought him popularity and critical acclaim: the first and best of which, the Adventures of Hajji Baba of Isphahan (1824), displays his humorous and perceptive por-trayal of Persian life and an easy style. “There is still considerable literary interest in Hajji Baba, and in Morier’s memorable evocation of Persian life and character, in Europe, America, and the Middle East” (ODNB). The recipient of one and perhaps all of the presentation copies, Sir Robert Harry Inglis (1786–1855), second baronet, was an evan-gelical politician, loosely associated with the Clapham Sect, a large part of his parliamentary career dominated by his fierce opposition to Catholic emancipation, but nevertheless a man of wide literary, 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.,

vol. 1 only with half-title, lacking in vol. 2 & 3; title in vol. 1 and a few other leaves very lightly soiled); The Adventures of Hajii Baba, of Ispa-han, in England, 1828 (2 vols., without half-title in vol. 2, all called-for, but with final imprint leaf in vol. 1); Zohrab the Hostage, 1832 (3 vols., without initial advert leaf or half-titles in vol. 2 & 3); Ayesha, the Maid of Kars, 1834 (3 vols.); Abel Allnutt, A Novel, 1837 (3 vols., vol. 1 without half-title); The Mirza, 1841 (3 vols., half-titles); Martin Toutrond: A Frenchman in London in 1831, 1849 (half-title, etched frontis & wood-engraved illustrations by Measom, frontis lightly browned at edges); The Banished: a Swabian Historical Tale, 1839 (3 vols., vol. 2 & 3 lacking half-titles, vol. 3 also 4pp. publisher’s catalogue at end); St. Roche. A Romance, from the German, 1847 (3 vols., half-titles, genealogi-cal table at end of vol. 3).

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242MORRISON, John. The Advantages of an Alliance with the Great Mogul: In which are principally considered Three Points of the highest Importance to the British Nation. I. The immediate Preservation and future Prosperity of the East India Company. II. The legal Acquisition of an immense Revenue to Great Britain. III. The promoting of a vast Increase in the Exports of British Manufactures. Second edition. With a Postscript, obviating Doubts. London: for T. Cadell; J. Millan; and Richardson and Urquhart, 1774Octavo (205 × 127 mm) in fours, except for the last gathering. Contem-porary tree calf, flat spine gilt with floral sprays and stars, red morocco label. Engraved bookplate of Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (née Mellon; 1777–1837). Front joint cracked at head and tail, front inner hinge cracked but cords and leather holding, spine label just lifting in one corner, binder’s blanks tanned from turn-ins, small hole in last leaf costing a few letters on recto only, the sense easily guessed, nevertheless a most attractive copy overall.

second edition, the same year as the first, with an additional gathering at the end “obviating Doubts”; one of three printed attempts made by Morrison, a former major in the service of the East India Company, to attract attention to his proposal of an alliance with his employer Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emper-or. The provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa would be given over to the English in exchange for arms, military training, and payment of the tribute owed to the shah. One of the many ar-guments that Morrison advanced in its favour was that it would prevent the Mughal Empire falling into the Russian sphere of influence. The pamphlet includes transcripts of letters Morrison had written to the governor of Bengal, John Cartier, on the same subject.

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242MOSER, Heinrich. Durch Central-Asien. Die Kirgisensteppe – Russisch-Turkestan – Bochara – Chiwa – Das Turkmenenland und Persien. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1888Tall quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and elaborately decorated with floral sprays and arabesque panelling in black, gilt and grey, French fillet to rear board in blind, marbled edges, floral endpapers. 19 heliotypic plates including portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue guard, some 140 images to the text of which several full-page, lithographed folding map to rear, coloured in 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 tanned as usual. An excellent copy in a remarkably bright binding.

first edition in german, originally published in Paris in 1885, of this attractively produced account of an expedition into Russian Central Asia in 1882–3. In 1882 Swiss-born horologist Moser was invited to join the suite of General Tchernaieff, who was on his way to Tashkent as the tsar’s governor general. From Tashkent, Moser continued to Samarkand and Bukhara, sailed down the Amu Darya River on a boat to Khiva, crossed the Kara-kum Desert to Ashkabad, and then made his way via Bojnurd to Tehran, and across the Caspian to the Caucasus, the Black Sea and finally, in 1883, Istanbul. He accumulated a remarkable col-lection of central Asian artefacts, now held, undisplayed, by the Bern Historical Museum.

Henze III, 542; Yakushi M 262 b.

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244MUIR, Sir William. A History of the Christian Church to the Time of Constantine. Agra: Wm. H. Haycock, Secundra Orphan Press, 1848

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first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the noted Orientalist and administrator to his elder brother John, “Jn Muir from W.M., Agra, 22 Ja[nuar]y 1849”. John is widely con-sidered to have been “one of the most significant British patrons and scholars of Sanskrit of the mid-19th century” (ODNB), but his brother’s influence was certainly the greater. From Haileybury William Muir (1819–1905) travelled out in 1837 to take up a posting on the North West Provinces, where he would see almost 40 years of continuous service. A series of minor positions in the revenue and judicial services were followed by “posts in the provincial capital of Agra, first as secretary to the board of revenue in 1848, and then, from 1852, as secretary to Lieutenant-Governor James Thomason, with whose evangelicalism and administrative inno-vations in the fields of land revenue and education he was very sympathetic. His first twenty years of Indian service proved him sound rather than exceptional”. The Mutiny and subsequent civil uprising of 1857–9 provided Muir with greater scope for initiative, and his intelligence work in the province drew him to the attention of the Governor-General, leading to his eventual rise in 1868 to the provincial governorship. He retired to Britain in late 1876 but continued to play an active role in Indian affairs until 1885, as a member of the Council of India in London. He was then appointed principal of Edinburgh University, his alma mater, retiring in 1903. He has been recognised for his contribution to the stabilisation of land revenue problems in north-west India following the up-risings, but his Islamic scholarship and educational endeavours, both in India and Scotland, were probably of greater long-term significance: “His preoccupation with higher education reflected partly his perception of the élites, particularly the Muslims, as bulwarks of the raj in the north-west, and partly his evangelical

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]

245MUIR, Sir William. Extracts from the Coran. In the original with English rendering. London: Trübner & Co., 1880Octavo 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 front board. Muir had originally intended to produce a trilingual work with renderings into Urdu as well, but was advised by his “Mahometan friends . . . that the very act of using extracts se-lected from it would be held a desecration”. Muir’s other works include his chef d’œuvre Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira (London, 1858–61) and The Coran: Its Composition and Teaching; And the Testimony it Bears to the Holy Scriptures (Lon-don, 1878). Institutionally uncommon, with Copac tracing eight copies in UK libraries and OCLC adding nine worldwide. Rare in commerce.

£350 [90058]

246MUIR, Sir William. The Mohammedan Controversy; Biographies of Mohammed; Spenger on Tradition; The Indian Liturgy; and the Psalter. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and twin rules gilt to spine, blind frames to covers, edges untrimmed, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding comparative schedule for liturgies. 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 blind-stamps as usual. Spine-ends and tips very lightly rubbed, short nick to head of front joint, light toning to contents. A very good copy.

first edition in book form of these five articles by the noted orientalist and colonial administrator, first published between 1845 and 1887, mostly in the Calcutta Review; copies are inevitably common institutionally, but rare in commerce. “William Muir presents the paradox of a scholar drawn irresistibly to the Arabic literary heritage and to close friendships with individual Mus-lims, who nevertheless felt compelled by his religious convic-tions to denigrate Muslim beliefs and social institutions in both their Arabian and Indian settings” (ODNB). His views of Islam were nevertheless highly influential and provoked rebuttals es-pecially from Indian scholars, notably Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan.

£250 [117725]

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The most brilliant Semitic scholar of his time

247MÜLLER, David Heinrich. “Verschiedene Schriften” [spine title]. Leipzig: G. Kreysing/Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1875–816 works in one volume, octavo (212 × 131 mm). Modern library buckram, title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. 13 plates, mainly folding and in-cluding inscriptions and plans. Plate of Bath Municipal Library to front free endpaper recto, accession notes verso and to first title verso, and 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-scription of Himyaritic. Very good condition overall.

Sammelband of journal articles and offprints containing some of Müller’s “very valuable works” (New International Encyclopaedia) on the pre-Islamic southern Arabian kingdom of Himyar, col-lected by British Arabist and colonial agent Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), noted for his exploration and study of Oman, and bequeathed by his widow to Bath Public Library. The first article is a presentation copy, inscribed by Müller to “Mr S. B. Miles, Resident . . . der Verfasser” on the title page, one of the plates depicting inscriptions being based on draw-ings by Miles; the fifth article is also inscribed, from “d[er] Verf[asser]”. To the rear there are seven related text fragments, all in German with occasional interlinear English translation in Miles’s hand, including Alfred von Kremer on “Die himjarische Kasiden” and an article by Maltzan, “über den Dialect von Mah-ra (Méhri in Südarabien)”; these are followed by an intriguing run of 35 printed plates, mainly folding and depicting Himyaritic inscriptions, together with one folding manuscript leaf also depicting inscriptions, probably a specimen provided to Müller by Miles. The main articles, providing an engrossing overview of Müller’s work, comprise:

a) Himjarische Studien (Leipzig: G. Kreysing, 1876). Offprint from the Zeitschriften der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. XXX;

b) Himjarisches Bild mit Inschrift. Offprint, ibid.;

c) Die Harra-Inschriften und ihre Bedeutung für die Entwick-lungsgeschichte der südsemitischen Schrift. Offprint, ibid.;

d) Himjarische Inschriften. Nebst einem Anhang zur Textes-kritik der himjarischen Kaside (Leipzig: G. Kreysing, 1875). Offprint from ZDMG vol. XXIX;

e) Bericht über die Ergebnisse einer . . . Reise nach Constanti-nopel (Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1878);

f ) Die Burgen und Schlösser Südarabiens nach dem Ilkil des Hamdani. (Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1879–81).

Müller (1846–1938) was originally intended for the rabbinate; “only at the age of twenty-six did he go as a student to the uni-versity of Vienna. There he devoted himself to Semitic philology . . . [and] took his PhD in 1875”, becoming full professor in 1885. The sixth article is a partial edition of the Iklil of Hamdani (893–945) in the original Arabic, with commentary, and is a precursor to his highly significant iteration of the complete text, published in 1884–91; Hamdani’s encyclopaedic work is a key source for southern Arabia before and after the rise of Islam. Müller sub-sequently accompanied the Imperial Academy of Sciences expe-dition to southern Arabia in 1898. His discoveries in Socotra re-deemed an expedition marred by an unfeasible attempt to pene-trate the difficult Arabian interior. His colleagues and students, who included Musil, Glaser, and Rhodokanakis, considered him “the most brilliant Semitic scholar of his time” (Serjeant et al., eds, New Arabian Studies, Vol. 1, p. 57), a judgement reflected in 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 under Muslim auspices

248(MÜTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim, trans.) KRUSINSKI, Judas Thaddeus. [Title in Ottoman Turkish:] Tarih-i seyyah der beyan-i zuhur-i Agvaniyan ve sebeb-i inhidam-i bina-i devlet-i Sahan-i Safeviyan (A Traveller’s Chronicle Concerning the Emergence of the Afghans and the Cause of the Collapse of the Safavid Dynasty). Istanbul: Dar al-Tiba’ah al-Ma’murah, 1142 ah (1729 ce)Octavo (215 × 152 mm). Contemporary dark red quarter morocco, marbled sides, catch-title (Tarih-i Agvan) to bottom edge in black ink. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bind-ery. Four Ottoman ownership stamps to ff. 1 and 21, later (1189 ah) ownership inscription to f. 1 by “Ahmad”, possibly the owner of the seal 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 joint, earlier leaves with very faint dampstaining to bottom edge and slight finger-marking to bottom corners, very occasional light spotting 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 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

in the 1740s, serving as court translator, ambassador of French kings Louis XIV and XV, and intermediary between the Safavids and the Papacy (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The Afghan invasion saw the Safavid ruler Shah Sultan Husayn executed and the capital Isfahan sacked, precipitating the eventual downfall of the once-great em-pire in 1736 following a brief period of Safavid reconquest. Originally composed in Latin, Tarih-i seyyah was translated into Turkish by the Ottoman diplomat Ibrahim Müteferrika and be-came only the third text to be printed on his new printing press, the first press established under Muslim auspices. Following a long struggle against conservative religious sentiment, Müteferri-ka was finally granted permission for his project by Sultan Ahmet III in 1729. The first book printed was Kitab-i Lügat-i Vankulu, an Ar-abic–Persian–Turkish dictionary based on the Sihah of al-Jawhari, with the second being Katib Çelebi’s Tühfet ül-kibar fi esfar il-bihar (Concerning Naval Expeditions), followed by the present title in the same year. The press was discontinued in 1742, with the conse-quence that any such “Turkish incunabula” are uncommon.

Burrell 165 for the first edition and 448 for the first in English. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.

£12,500 [100191]

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249NAJAF-KULI MIRZA. Journal of a Residence in England, and of a Journey from and to Syria, of Their Royal Highnesses Reeza Koolee Meerza, Najaf Koolee Meerza, and Taymoor Meerza, of Persia. To which are prefixed some Particulars respecting Modern Persia, and the Death of the late Shah. Originally written in Persian by Najaf Koolee Meerza, and translated, with Explanatory Notes by Assaad Y. Kayat. [London:] printed for private circulation only [by W. Tyler, 1839]2 volumes (197 × 120 mm). Original blue-green cloth, rebacked with the original blind-ruled and gilt-lettered spines laid down, sides decora-tively panel-stamped in blind with central bouquet vignettes gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Litho-graphic facsimile of letter from the author as frontispiece. Tips bumped 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-ing. A good copy.

first edition of this fascinating and commercially very scarce account of the first visit to England by any member of a Persian ruling dynasty (Monthly Review, vol. 3, 1839). “As the British became more deeply invested in protecting interests in India, re-lations with Persia became complex. In 1834, several sons of the late Fath Ali Shah claimed the right to rule Persia, creating the possibility of civil war. The British entered the fray, supporting one son and containing other claimants. [Firman Firman] who was imprisoned [by the new ruler Mohammed Shah, r. 1834–48] begged his sons to travel to England to plead the case for his release and protection of the family. This memoir of the success-ful visit captures the British fascination with their first visitors of the Persian ruling class. While the government negotiated the diplomatic situation, the princes were toured through the country and fêted across fashionable London. The enthusiastic diarist offers extensive (and sometimes exaggerated) descrip-

tions of his experiences, which included a meeting with Princess Victoria with introductions performed by Sir Gore Ouseley” (Harry Ransom Centre). The three princes travelled to England by way of Damascus, where the British consul John Farren pro-vided them with his interpreter Assaad Kayat, a Syrian Christian who later became agent for the Church of England Society for Promoting Christian Education in Syria. The account describes the recent history of Persia and the bloody accession of Moham-med Shah, the princes’ outward voyage (which also took in Leb-anon and Egypt), their stay in London, and the return journey through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Wallachia.

Wilson p. 155.

£1,750 [117140]

Important account of Kokand

250NALIVKINE, Vladimir Petrovic. Histoire de Khanat de Khokand. Traduit de Russe par Auguste Dozon. Paris, Ernest Leroux, éditeur, 1889Quarto (273 172 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, marbled boards, by Joseph Bretault, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tric-olour silk page-marker. Original wrappers bound in front and back. Double-page engraved map. A very lightly rubbed at the extremities, pale toning, a very good copy in an attractive contemporary binding by Bretault, a pupil of Victor Champs, recognised as one of the foremost binders practising in Paris at the turn of the 19th century (Devauchelle, La Reliure en France, III, p. 127).

first edition in french, originally published in Russian in 1886 at Kazan, this edition issued for l’École des langues orien-tales vivantes. Institutionally well-represented, but uncommon in commerce with just two copies at auction in the last 50 years. This is an important account of the Khanate of Kokand, a city now in the Ferganah region of Uzbekistan. Nalivkine (1852–1918)

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began his career as an artillery officer and saw service in the con-quest of Khiva in 1875, the following year becoming commander of Namengan in Ferghana. He then left the service to become a “rural proprietor” (translator’s preface) and embarked on ethno-graphical and linguistic studies of the region, producing in time both the first Russo–Sart and Russo–Uzbek dictionaries. In 1884 he was recalled to the service at the specific instructions of Gener-al Cherniaev, the governor-general of Russian Turkestan, in order to establish a school at Tashkent for the teaching of Russian and mathematics, while himself occupying the chair in Sart and Per-sian at the lycée there. Nalivkine was the author of the first course-book for the elementary schools that the Russians were estab-lishing throughout the region. He was a member of the Tashkent State Duma, and subsequently head of the Turkestan Committee of the Provisional Government, and commander of the Turkestan Military District. In November 1917, power in Tashkent was seized by the Bolsheviks and their Left Social Revolutionary allies, and with the transfer of power to the soviets, Nalivkine went into hid-ing. He committed suicide in January 1918.

£1,750 [104677]

“As ruffianly a lot of cut-throats as ever a Christian gentleman had command of”

251NAPIER, Edward. Reminiscences of Syria, and the Holy Land. London: T. C. Newby; Parry, Blenkarn and Co., 18472 volumes, large duodecimo (200 × 120 mm). Original green diago-nal-ribbed cloth, decorative blind rules to spines, titles and decorative camel and pyramid motifs gilt to compartments, covers decoratively pan-el-stamped in blind, edges untrimmed, yellow surface-paper endpapers, binder’s ink-stamp (Marrow) to front pastedowns. Tinted lithographic frontispiece to each volume, folding lithographic area map, one plan. Contemporary school prize plate (Kilmarnock Academy) to front free endpaper vol. 1, associated inscription in vol. 2. Spines faintly sunned,

extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, a few pale marks to sides, spo-radic marginal foxing or soiling, several leaves with shallow chips or short closed tears at top or fore edges where roughly opened, the text never af-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.

second edition of this important eyewitness account of the Second Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41), “a mixture of historical information, anecdotes of travel, and a description of the cam-paign” (Blackmer). Uncommon, with one copy only in UK librar-ies (Manchester), this an attractive example of the original cloth. “When the British fleet was engaged on the coast of Syria in 1840, Napier . . . was dispatched to the Nablus Mountains to keep the Druse and Maronite chiefs firm in their allegiance to the [Ottoman] sultan. In the depth of winter, which was very severe in the mountains, he collected a force of 1500 irregular cavalry, whom he declared to be ‘as ruffianly a lot of cut-throats as ever a Christian gentleman had command of ’. With his irregulars he watched [Egyptian commander] Ibrahim Pasha . . . so closely that Ibrahim retreated through the desert east and south of Palestine instead of occupying Jerusalem and ravaging the settled country round about as he had intended. However, when Napier’s force came suddenly upon an outpost of Ibrahim’s cavalry, they fled, leaving Napier and three other Europeans to themselves. Napier retired to the Turkish headquarters, where he acted as military commissioner until the convention of Alexandria put an end to the war. In January 1841 Napier was dispatched to bring back the chiefs of Lebanon, whom Ibrahim Pasha had sent to work in the goldmines of Sennar, a service he successfully completed” (ODNB). Shortly afterwards he was sent to Egypt to secure the release of Syrian troops held by Muhammad Ali Pasha. For his services he was made brevet lieutenant-colonel and received a gold medal from the sultan. He retired on half-pay in 1843, but later served in the Cape Frontier War and in the Crimea, retiring in 1870 with the rank of lieutenant-general, and dying later the same year.

Blackmer 1184 for the first edition; not in Bruce.

£1,250 [117076]

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252(NASER AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR.) Report in Relation to the Entertainment of His Imperial Majesty the Shah, in the Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday, the 20th of June, 1873; [together with] Entertainment to His Majesty The Shah of Persia. Description of the Guildhall with Programmes of Music [and a colour-printed ticket and menu for the reception]. London: Presented to the Court of Common Council, 2 October 1873Together 4 items. The Report, foolscap quarto (332 × 212 mm), original green card printed wrappers; 2 folding, hand-coloured lithographic floor-plans, full-page table plan, plates of ticket designs and menus. The Entertainment, octavo (212 × 131 mm), original pink card printed wrappers; folding hand-coloured lithographic plan. Accompanied by an unused example of the large (459 × 274 mm) colour-lithographed admis-sion ticket to the reception with its “coupon” and a similar menu (285 × 184 mm). Some slight rubbing and soiling of the wrappers, but overall very good indeed.

first and only editions. Of the Report, Copac records the Guildhall copy only, OCLC adding a copy in Leiden; a single copy of the Entertainment located at Chicago: both extremely uncommon. The Report contains a full subscriber’s list, impres-sions of the various tickets, a table plan for the Royal Table, menus, programmes of dances, and the text of the mayoral ad-dress, in both English and Farsi; the Entertainment – being more by way of a programme – has a history of the Guildhall, pro-grammes for the performances of the bands of the Coldstream

and Grenadier Guards and the Royal Artillery, and a simplified floor plan. The ticket to the reception, printed by Blades, East and Blades, features a portrait of the Shah, the arms of the city of London, and of the Persian royal house ornately printed in red, blue, green, sepia, and gold. The menu is similarly decora-tive, featuring a wonderful Islamic-style border. Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar was the first Shah of Persia to visit Europe in modern times. His travels seem to have been an effort to obtain some influence in the power-struggle being played out between Britain and Russia on his northern borders. He was fascinated by the technological advances he saw, and introduced a number of western innovations to Persia, including a modern postal system, train transport, a banking system and newspaper publishing. He was also the first Iranian to be photographed. The Shah was sumptuously entertained during his visit, and was appointed a Garter Knight by the Queen, the first Persian to be so honoured. His admiration for western ways and his perceived deference to the European powers were certainly factors that contributed to his assassination in 1896 by a follower of the Is-lamicist Jamal-al-Din Afghani.

£2,500 [61505]

253NEAVE, Dorina L. Remembering Kut. London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1937Octavo. 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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254NECHAYEV, Alexay Vasilievich. Po gornoi Bukharie. Putevye ocherki (In the Mountains of Bukhara. Travel Stories). St Petersburg: M. Stasulevich, 1914Octavo (240 × 162 mm). Contemporary tan morocco-backed brown lin-en boards, title gilt direct to spine, grey patterned endpapers. 2 plates, numerous illustrations to the text. A little rubbed at the extremities, light browning, a couple of underlinings in the text, private library stamp to verso of the rear free endpaper.

first edition. In 1906 Alexksay Vasilievich Nechayev (1864–1915), a paleontologist and geologist from Kazan, made a trip into the Bukhara for the purposes of a scientific survey. How-ever, the present work is his account of the everyday life and traditions of the local people in this isolated locale. The expedi-tion extended into the mountainous areas of Bukhara that had previously not been visited by Russians. Nechaev recounts local legends, the folk tales of the gold-miners, and regional customs and living conditions, at the same time offering descriptions of the stunning landscapes along the way. Nachayev is best known for his pioneering work on the stratigraphy and paleontology of Paleogene sediments of the Volga Region and Upper-Permian rocks of the eastern and north-eastern European part of Russia. Uncommon, OCLC lists just three locations.

£2,500 [110611]

255NEWTON, Charles Thomas. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant. London: Day & Son, Limited, 18652 volumes, tall octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, elaborate blind panelling to boards, cream endpapers. Folding map frontispiece to each, 12 lithographic plates from photographs by Francis Bedford after drawings by Newton and his wife, 20 plates, one of them folding, the majority etched after photographs by Colnaghi and Spackman, 2 double- and 2 full-page maps, one double- and 2 full-page

plans, numerous wood-engraved illustrations to the text. A little rubbed, volume I rear board slightly bubbled and mottled, rear endpapers disc-oloured, and both hinges repaired, some light browning, but overall a very good set, presenting well.

first edition. Following graduation from Oxford, where he was a friend of Ruskin, “Newton entered the British Museum in 1840 as assistant in the department of antiquities under Edward Hawkins. Here he took advantage of the opportunity to study at first hand a wide range of antiquities, including coins, and acquired a thorough training in curatorship . . . In 1852 Newton resigned from the British Museum on appointment as vice-con-sul at Mytilene. From April 1853 to January 1854 he served as act-ing consul at Rhodes . . . In addition to consular duties he was authorized to serve the interests of the museum by acquiring antiquities through excavation and purchase. His excavations on Kalymnos in 1854 and 1855, financed by Lord Stratford de Red-cliffe, the British ambassador at Constantinople, yielded many inscriptions for the British Museum. Also in 1855 he unearthed the bronze serpent from Delphi in the hippodrome at Constan-tinople and visited Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) for the first time. After a second visit in the following spring he obtained a government grant of £2000 together with naval and military support for an expedition to retrieve some lions from the mau-soleum immured in the castle of St Peter and to excavate the 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-logical institutions: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, to which he gave an inaugural address in June 1879; the Egypt Exploration Fund, founded in 1882; and the British School at Athens, opened in November 1886. Newton died in 1894.

Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 284

£1,250 [99196]

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Illustrated survey of the Ottoman world including the Arabian Peninsula

256NICOLAY, Nicolas de. The Navigations, Peregrinations and Voyages, made into Turkie, conteining sundry singularities which the Author hath there seene and observed: Devided into foure Bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diversitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and manner of living, aswel in time of warre as peace: with divers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger. London: imprinted by Thomas Dawson, 1585Octavo (187 × 141 mm). Mid 17th-century speckled calf, red morocco label, raised bands, triple blind rules to spine and boards, red speckled edges. 57 full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, headpieces and borders to title page and illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Ed-ward Vernon Harcourt (1825–1891), author of Sporting in Algeria (1859), on the front pastedown, contemporary inscriptions to initial blanks and upper margin of title page, the latter dated 1593 and at end of dedica-tion. Expertly rebacked to style, endleaves renewed; small loss to lower

outer corner of title leaf not affecting text or border, a few minor marks, a very good copy.

first edition in english; first published in French by Guillaume Roville in Lyon in 1568 with copper-engraved illus-trations. Nicolay was the Geographer Ordinary and Valet to the Chamber to Henri II, who sent him to accompany Gabriel d’Aramon’s embassy to Suleiman the Magnificent in 1551, his unofficial mission being to survey the places visited, including Istanbul. Also included is a “Description of the three Arabies”, together with a report “Of the Pilgrims of Mecqua”. The 60 woodcuts in the present English edition were copied from the Antwerp versions, possibly by a Dutchman called Charles Tressell (the monogram CT appears in at least two cuts). The ex-plicit woodcut of “a Religius Turke” facing p. 102, is often found mutilated, but remains intact in this copy. Other woodcuts include the earliest depictions of inhabitants of Algiers, Tripoli, Turkey, Greece, Persia and Armenia, also a number of Jewish occupational costumes, a physician, a Jewess and a merchant. The section on Arabia features a plate of “A Merchant of Arabia”, while the description of the hajj includes two images, “Pilgrim Moores returning from Mecqua” and “Sasquas, of nation a Moore, a bearer of water, and a Pilgrim of Macqua”. Colas con-sidered it the first serious attempt to describe the costume and

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customs of the Near East: “C’est la première série de documents sérieux sur les habillements du proche Orient”. The text was edited by John (i.e. Hans) Stell. The work is frequently cited by Shakespeare scholars as a source for The Merchant of Venice.

Arcadian Library for German, [9167], French [8748], and Italian [14172] editions, p. 152 refers; Atabey 871; Blackmer 1197; Colas 2203; not in Macro; STC 18574.

£25,000 [92271]

257NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien. Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst gesammelten Nachrichten abgefasset. Copenhagen: printed at the Hofbuchdruckerey by Nicolaus Möller, 1772Quarto (249 × 186 mm). Modern pale tan half morocco on marbled boards, darker tan label to spine, floral devices gilt in compartments, edges red. Title page vignette of geography and astronomy, arms of the House of Oldenburg as headpiece to the dedication, 18 plates, 4 of them 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 stamps of “Bibliothek Prof. Engels” to title and verso of the dedication leaf, light browning, occasional foxing, but overall a very good copy.

first edition. Niebuhr trained as a surveyor in order to support himself into his majority, then receiving a small inheri-tance. He next studied mathematics at Göttingen before joining the Hanoverian corps of engineers. In 1760 he was invited to join the scientific expedition being sent out by Frederick V of Den-mark. Originally intended for the purpose of illustrating certain passages from the Old Testament, it developed truly encyclo-paedic ambitions, the party consisting of Niebuhr as surveyor, 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

the only one to return. From Constantinople they proceeded to Egypt and spent a year there, ascending the Nile and visiting Suez and Mount Si-nai. “Disguised as pilgrims . . . they left Suez in October 1762 for Jiddah, from where they advanced down the coast in a tarrad (an open boat), making frequent landings as far as Al Luhayyah in Northern Yemen” (Howgego). On their way to Mocha, Niebuhr and Forrskål contracted malaria, and on arrival von Haven died, swiftly followed by Forrskål, and by late 1763 the whole party were so ill that they were carried onto a vessel bound for Bom-bay. On the voyage Berggren and Baurenfeind died, followed by Kramer in early 1764, leaving Niebuhr as the only survivor, seemingly protected by his adoption of native dress and diet. Continuing alone he visited Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz, Persepo-lis, Babylon, Baghdad, Mosul, Aleppo, Cyprus, and Jerusalem. “Niebuhr described the town and its inhabitants in minute detail and made a map of the surrounding area. Continuing northward along the coast, he crossed the Taurus mountains of Turkey to Brusa and Constantinople, then made his way home-ward through Poland and Germany.” Niebuhr published in Denmark, under the patronage of the schizophrenic king, Christian VII, to whom the book is dedi-cated, the cost of the plates being defrayed by the government. Niebuhr was a remarkably conscientious and accurate observer, and this official account of his travels has long been considered one of the classic accounts of the geography, people, antiquities and archaeology of the region, his maps remaining in use for over 100 years.

Brunet IV 74; Cox I, pp. 237–8; Graesse IV, p. 674; Howgego N24.

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258(NIMATULLAH.) DORN, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard. History of the Afghans: Translated from the Persian of Neamet Ullah . . . London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829–362 parts quarto bound as one. Original green sand-grain cloth, paper label to spine. A little rubbed, spine label chipping and slightly scuffed, but largely legible, front hinge just started and the first quire slightly loose as a consequence, endpapers browned, light toning throughout, a very good copy.

first edition. Dorn (1805–1881) was a pioneer in many areas of Iranian studies in Russia. “He was particularly interested in the Pashtuns and published annotated editions and translations of texts on tribal history. Dorn never visited Afghanistan, but he nevertheless established the scientific basis for Afghan studies, particularly the first systematic description of Pashto” (Ency-clopaedia Iranica). Ni’mat Allah al-Harawi (fl. 1613–1630), called Nimatullah, was a chronicler and waqia-navis, or court reporter, at the court of the Moghul Emperor Jahangir. He compiled the Makhzan-i-Afghani from materials accumulated by Haibat Khan of Samana, and, while some of the content is somewhat fanci-ful, the book was a major source for the origins of the Pashtuns, also including the genealogies of the Afghan rulers in Bengal and some events contemporary with its composition. For this 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 his own use, in the year 1131 of the Hejra (a.d. 1718)” (Preface).

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259NORDEN, Hermann. Under Persian Skies: A Record of Travel by the Old Caravan Routes of Western Persia. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928Octavo. Original blue diagonal-ribbed cloth, titles and dervish vignette gilt to spine, decorative panel with lobed cornerpieces in blind to front board, bottom edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, 39 similar plates, folding colour map. Spine

gently rolled, upper outer corners lightly bumped and rubbed, mild foxing to prelims, very occasional mild spotting to the text. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with rubbed and slightly chipped extremities and joints, and a bookseller’s overprice sticker to spine.

first edition of this detailed account of Persia under Reza Shah, seldom encountered in this condition with the dust jack-et; this is a particularly bright example of the original cloth. A German edition followed a year later, under the title Persien wie es ist und war. Norden sailed to Damascus, travelled across the Syrian desert to Baghdad, before continuing through Najaf, Basra, across the Persian Gulf to Shiraz, then Isfahan and Tehran before returning via Baku and Trabzon. Norden was born in Emden, Germany in 1870 and migrated to America at the age of 16 to work for his uncle’s cotton business. By 1911, he had amassed such a fortune that he was able to give up work to travel. Several books, all pub-lished between 1923 and his death in London eight years later, attest to intrepid career in which Norden always sailed out alone and relied solely on local guides. In 1922 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Author not in Howgego.

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260(NOTT, Sir William.) STOCQUELER, Joachim Hayward, ed. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Commander of the Army of Candahar, and Envoy at the Court of the King of Oude. Edited at the Request of Sir William Nott’s Daughters, Letitia Nott and Charlotte Bower, from Documents in their Exclusive Possession. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 18542 volumes, octavo. Original red linen-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling with large laurel wreath centre-tool to all boards, cream surface-paper endpapers. Engraved frontispiece to each, portrait to volume I, a view of the fortress at Ghuzni to volume II. Lightly rubbed and soiled, crumpled head and tail of the spines, frontispiece to volume 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 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 an attractive provenance.

first edition of this uncommon memoir, an important source for the First Afghan War. Nott was commissioned as ensign in the East India Company’s army in 1800, and posted to the 20th Bengal Native Infantry, serving with them in the expe-dition to the west coast of Sumatra in 1805. From 1811 until 1825 he served as “superintendent of native pensions and paymaster of family pensions at Barrackpore”, but after leave in England re-turned to India to take command of the 20th NI. Despite having “been so long in a semi-military post, he brought his regiment into such a state of efficiency that his services were required to do the same for other regiments. He commanded a succession of native infantry regiments and on 1 December 1829 was pro-moted colonel” (ODNB). During the First Afghan War Nott commanded the troops at Kandahar and Quetta, sending out “small successful expedi-tions from both locales against rebellious tribes” (Riddick, Who Was Who); and in 1842 was placed in command of “all the troops in Lower Afghanistan and Sindh, and of the political officers there”. His operations in defence of Kandahar, and in relief of Kabul were rewarded by his appointment to the residency and Lucknow with the title of envoy to the king of Oudh; and the presentation of “a valuable sword in the name of the British gov-ernment” by Lord Ellenborough, who told Wellington that he considered Nott to be superior to all the other generals. “Ellenborough was right. Despite his cantankerous nature Nott was by far the best general in the Anglo–Afghan War. He was also a protagonist of the sepoy, whom he compared fa-vourably with the British soldier.” In 1844 he was created GCB, voted an annuity of £1,000 by the directors of the Company, and granted the freedom of the City of London. He died aged 63 on New Year’s Day 1845.

Bruce 4060.

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261OCKLEY, Simon (ed.) An Account of South-West Barbary: Containing what is most Remarkable in the Territories of the King of Fez and Morocco. Written by a Person who had been a Slave there a Considerable Time; and published from his Authentick Manuscript. To which are added, two Letters: one from the Present King of Morocco to Colonel Kirk; the other to Sir Cloudesly Shovell: with Sir Cloudesly’s Answer, etc. London: for J. Bowyer and H. Clements, 1713Octavo (175 × 108 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Folding map frontispiece, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut facsimile of Ismael’s seal to p. 130, occasional Arabic types. With the half-title. Handwritten biographical note (early 20th-century) on Ockley to front free endpaper. Board-edges lightly rubbed, corners worn, boards a little scuffed, section of superficial worming to rear, inner hinges cracked but firm, old paper repair to front pastedown, half-title and title a little soiled, the occasional marginal spot or mark, neat tear to fore-margin of sig. E5 from folding, the text unaffected. A good copy.

first and only edition (although a 16–page abridgement was published in 1721). Ockley (1679–1720) was Adams professor of Arabic at Cambridge. His ethnographic account of Morocco was allegedly based on the report of a Christian slave, though there is no reference to any period of captivity. His translation of two letters from Mawlay Isma’il (1672–1727) secured him a brief position in government “translating correspondence from the same ruler . . . with whom England had commercial relations” (ODNB), though the fall from power of Robert Harley, his influ-ential patron, meant that he had no such further employment. There is also a translation of Mongol conqueror Hulegu’s letter to the Sultan of Aleppo. Ockley is best remembered for his Con-quest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt, by the Saracens (1708) and his Histo-ry of the Saracens (1718), together the first attempt at a continuous history of the Arabs in English.

Lowndes p. 1716.

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262O’DONOVAN, Edmond. The Merv Oasis. Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian during the Years 1879–80–81 including Five Months’ Residence among the Tekkês of Merv. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 18822 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered spines. Engraved portrait frontispiece of O’Donovan, 15 plates of maps, plans and facsim-iles (some folding), large coloured folding map of the Russo–Persian frontier (in pocket at end of volume II). Very slight dishing of covers otherwise an excellent set.

first edition. “In 1879 O’Donovan, still in search of adventure, undertook, again as Daily News correspondent, his celebrated journey to Merv in Turkestan – a daring, difficult, and hazardous feat, with which his name became associated. From the Russian advanced posts on the south-eastern shores of the Caspian Sea he travelled through Khorasan, and eventually, with great diffi-culty and at considerable risk, accompanied only by two native servants, he reached Merv. He was at first suspected by the Tur-komans of being an agent of the Russians, who were then threat-ening an advance on Merv. For several months he consequently remained in Merv in a sort of honourable captivity, in danger of death any day, and with no prospect of release. According to his own account, O’Donovan helped mount artillery, and was made one of the ruling triumvirate. He managed to send into Persia a message, which was thence telegraphed to John Robinson, the manager of the Daily News. In this dispatch O’Donovan explained his position, and appealed to his friend: ‘For God’s sake get me out of this’. Robinson applied to the Foreign Office and to the Russian ambassador in London, and immediate steps were taken to effect O’Donovan’s release. However, by his own efforts, com-bining courage with diplomacy, he extricated himself from his perilous position. On returning to London ‘the man of Merv’ was a celebrity, and he read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society. In 1882 he published a book on his adventures” (ODNB).

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Superb visual record of Khiva and Bokhara

263OLUFSEN, Ole. The Second Danish Pamir-Expedition. Old and New Architecture in Khiva, Bokhara and Turkestan. Published at the Expense of the Church Ministry and Carlsberg Fund. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1904Folio. Original sand buckram, title in brown to front board spine. 26 half-tone plates from photographs. Just a little rubbed, front free endpaper slightly browned, the text pages more lightly so, overall a very good copy.

first edition of this important architectural study from the two Danish Pamir Expeditions. Olufsen commanded both of these trips into Central Asia, 1896–9, during which the team visited Bokhara as a guest of the Emir; carried out exhaustive scientific surveys throughout the Pamirs; made the first anthro-pological study of the Siaposh and the mountain Tajiks; and “scaled peaks as high as 8,000 metres and living with the Kyrgyz nomads” (Howgego). Olufsen’s was to be the last non-Russian scientific expedition in the region for 90 years. On the second trip the party was “provided with a camera and 2,000 glass plates” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie centrale: voyageurs et aven-turiers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, p. 224), making this remark-able visual record possible.

Howgego, IV, O7; Yakushi O32.

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Essential reference on Bokhara, uncommon inscribed

264OLUFSEN, Ole. The Emir of Bokhara and his Country. Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (With a Chapter on my Voyage on the Amu Darya to Khiva.) Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag; William Heinemann, London, 1911

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first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, of this highly detailed and well-illustrated study of the region by the Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society, drawing on the material accumulated during his command of the First and Second Danish Pamir Expeditions, 1896–97, 1898–99, from which he brought back more than 700 artefacts of ethnographic and scientific significance now at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. Olufsen was fluent in Russian and Usbegic, so he was able to conduct his own interviews with natives, employ-ing only a Tajik interpreter with whom he conversed in Ottoman Turkish. In Bokhara the travellers “were welcomed as guests” by the Emir, lengthening their stay, with the result that the present study “can be used as a work of reference on the details of the region’s architecture, archaeology, customs, religions, tradition-al costume, and for its profuse illustration from photographs of ethnographic and handcrafted pieces, monuments and local peoples” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie Centrale. Voyageurs et aventuriers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, pp. 225). The book is a relatively fragile production, with the thin cloth, heavy text-block, and large folding map all contributing to the frail condition of copies usually encountered; this, lightly and skilfully restored, is a very superior copy, and very uncommon indeed inscribed.

Howgego, IV, O7; Yakushi O34.

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265OMAR KHAYYAM. The Calendar. Being excerpts from the Quatrains of the Poet or Naishápúr, as translated by Edward FitzGerald – Now set to Pictures by Blanche McManus. Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1903Tall quarto (280 × 114 mm). Original green cloth, decorative label to front board printed in red, green and black, decorative endpapers. Title page recapitulating design to label, 12 sketches by McManus within foliate border, all printed in red, green and black. Extremities slightly rubbed, label faintly soiled and toned with a very small chip to bottom edge and a mild surface abrasion to partial loss of letter on imprint, in-ternally crisp and fresh. A very good copy.

third edition of this attractive illustrated calendar incorpo-rating verses from the Ruba’iyat, really rather scarce with just three institutional copies recorded, all in the US, though an uncommon title in any state, with only two copies identified for the first iteration (New York, 1899) and four for the second (Lon-don, 1901, with listings referring to a 1902 printing apparently substituting the year in the calendar for the year of publication). The present version was followed by just one further edition, published by L. C. Page and Company the next year. Blanche McManus was a prolific book-illustrator from Loui-siana. She travelled widely in Europe and Africa with her author husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield, collaborating with him 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.

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266OSLER, Edward. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1835Octavo (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 booksellers ticket of Chapman and Hall to rear pastedown. Extremities and joints lightly rubbed, tips bumped, a few shallow scuffs to boards, front board partially sunned, plates a little foxed, remnant of pasted slip to rear pastedown. A very good copy with an excellent provenance.

first edition. On the back of distinguished service in the French Revolutionary War, Edward Pellew (1757–1833) was ap-pointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1805 and subsequently of the North Sea Fleet for a short period before receiving a transfer to the Mediterranean Fleet, “a great compli-ment as, comprising some seventy to eighty warships, it was the largest naval force outside home waters and involved consider-able responsibilities. These included the blockade of Toulon . . . close co-operation with the various forces resisting Napoleon in eastern Spain; guarding the extensive British commerce in the region; patrolling the coasts of Napoleon’s southern empire in Italy and the Adriatic; ensuring no further French adventures in Egypt; and maintaining the delicate diplomatic relations with the Ottoman empire and the Barbary powers” (ODNB). He retained command until Napoleon’s abdication in 1814 and was made Baron Exmouth, returning the next year during the Hundred Days. After Napoleon’s second abdication Exmouth was directed to conclude treaties with the Barbary states for the abolition of slavery. After learning of the massacre of some 200 Christians by the dey of Algiers in 1816 he led the joint An-glo-Dutch bombardment of the city, which secured the acqui-

escence of the dey and, on his return to England, the enhanced title Viscount Exmouth of Canonteign. This still-authoritative biography is Osler’s most important work.

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The Phillipps copy of an important oriental manuscript catalogue

267OUSELEY, Sir William. Catalogue of Several Hundred Manuscript Works in Various Oriental Languages. London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, M.A., 1831Quarto. Stitched in original marbled wrappers. Housed in black cloth drop-back box, title gilt to spine. Facsimile frontispiece with some hand-colour. A little rubbed on the wrappers, lightly browned, overall very good.

first edition, presentation copy, of the catalogue of one of the finest collections of such works in private hands at that date, describing 724 manuscripts. Decidedly uncommon, just ten copies on OCLC, no copies traced at auction. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, with Sir Wm. Ouseley’s compliments, London July 24th 1831”. Phillipps, the foremost bibliomaniac of his own or any other era, managed to resist the temptation to add Ouseley’s collection to his own assemblage of over 60,000 manuscripts.

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Ouseley (1767–1842), became fascinated by Oriental studies during his education in Paris. After a brief period of military service with the 8th Dragoons, he sold out and went to Leiden to continue his studies. “In 1795 Ouseley published Persian miscel-lanies . . . a treatise on the various styles of Persian handwriting, enriched with many illustrations of manuscripts, and numerous notes showing considerable research. On his return to England in 1796 Ouseley was gazetted major in Lord Ayr’s regiment of dragoons stationed at Carlisle . . . In 1801 he wrote to the earl of Chichester dwelling on his ambition to become an envoy to some eastern court, and asking the earl to use his influence in procuring a government subsidy and approval for a proposed journey to Persia [which did not] take place until 1810, when Sir William accompanied his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, as private secretary, on his mission to the shah of Persia . . . In July of 1810 they started from Portsmouth on HMS Lion for India and Persia, from where William Ouseley returned to Britain with the new treaty in July 1812. He published his account as Travels in Various Countries of the East, More Particularly Persia whose title-page states that the author was an honorary fellow of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh, Göttingen, and Amsterdam, and a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal” (ODNB). His collection was offered for sale but remained unsold at his death in 1842, being purchased the following year by the Bodleian.

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268OUTRAM, 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, 1840Octavo. Contemporary maroon diced roan presentation binding, neatly rebacked with the original spine with gilt title and tooling laid down, attractive panelling in blind and gilt to boards, all edges gilt, mid-blue printed moiré effect endpapers. 2 folding plans with dispositions in colour. Later armorial bookplate of Alexander-David Seton of Mounie to front pastedown. A little rubbed at the extremities, light browning, but overall a very good copy.

first london edition, family presentation copy from Outram’s mother, inscribed on the title page, “To Allan Hard-en Esq. with the best regards of the Author’s Mother”, with an inked note from the recipient remarking that Outram’s mother – “a woman of great self-reliance and independence” (ODNB) – was his “grandfather’s sister”. Originally published in India in the same year, this first-hand account of the First Afghan War is uncommon in either edition, Copac listing seven copies of the London edition and three of the Bombay. Outram “was attached in 1838 to Sir John Keane’s staff, when commanding the Bombay Army through Kandahar and Ghazni to Kabul. Outram from Kabul led the pursuit of Amir Dost Mu-hammad across the Hindu Kush, in 1839, and took a prominent part in the operations in South Afghanistan” (Buckland).

Bruce 4487.

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269OWEN, William Fitzwilliam. Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar. Performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. London: Richard Bentley, 18332 volumes, octavo (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary green half calf, mar-bled boards, gilt fillet rules to spines, red morocco labels. 5 lithographic plates, 4 folding maps. Rubbed overall, tips bumped and worn, exten-sive tear to folding map facing vol. 1 p. 413 touching the cartouche, the others with short closed tears to stubs. A good copy.

first edition, from the collection Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), British Arabist, colonial agent and explorer of inland Oman, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, and subsequently bequeathed by his wife to Bath Public Library, with bookplates, manuscript shelf-marks 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 almost certainly Miles’s. A highly apposite association copy. Owen (1774–1857) was appointed in 1821 to survey the east coast of Africa. In late 1823 he proceeded to Muscat to obtain the Sayyid’s permission to survey the coastline of Omani pos-sessions, “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 presented this. He therefore commenced at Ra’s al-Hadd, continuing to the island of Masirah, where he charted 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 fe-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 Arabian Studies, vol. 2, p. 10). Owen’s account notably includes a brief description of Muscat and its commerce and inhabitants. In addition to his surveying activities, Owen was much exercised by the Arab slave trade and “determined to stamp it out. Finding the Mazrui rulers of Mom-basa under siege by their suzerain, Sayyid Said, sultan of Oman, Owen in February 1824 on his own initiative raised the siege and took the town under British protection in return for a promise by the Mazrui to abolish slavery. Though disowned by the home government, the protectorate lasted over two years” (ODNB).

Gay 101; Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 86; Macro 1727; SABIB III 611.

£1,750 [117623]

270PALMER, Edward Henry. The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years’ Wanderings, undertaken in Connexion with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 18712 volumes, octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, panels in blind to boards, cream endpapers. Coloured lithographic frontispiece to vol. 1, tinted lithographic frontispiece to vol. 2, 12 other tinted lithographic plates, 2 plain line plates, 5 folding maps, 3 of them coloured. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B.

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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 the correct names of places on the Sinai peninsula. He thus came for the first time into contact with Arabs, learned to speak their dialects, and obtained an insight into their modes of thought and life. In the summer of 1869 he returned to England, but left again on 16 December for another expedition. This time he and Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt-Drake walked alone the 600 miles from Sinai to Jerusalem, identifying sites and searching vainly for inscriptions. They explored for the first time the Desert of the Wanderings (Tih) and many unknown parts of Edom and Moab, and accomplished much useful geographical work. En route Palmer made many friends among the Arab sheikhs, among whom he went by the name of ‘Abdallah Efendi. The travellers went on to Lebanon and to Damascus, where they met Captain Richard Burton, who was then consul there, and with whom Palmer struck up a friendship. They returned home in the autumn of 1870 by way of Constantinople and Vienna. A popular account of these two expeditions was written by Palmer in The Desert of the Exodus” (ODNB).

Blackmer 1238; Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 88; cf. Rohricht 3125.

£450 [94011]

271PARDOE, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett. London: George Virtue, 1838

Quarto (268 × 204 mm). Contemporary half calf, raised band to spine forming compartments ruled in gilt, red morocco label, marbled sides, sprinkled edges, 80 engraved plates with tissue guards including portrait frontispiece (after Henry Room) and map, engraved vignette title page. Spine sunned, rubbing to sides, corners slightly worn, pale tide-marking to fore edge of frontispiece and engraved title, the former faintly oxidised in margins, contents otherwise remarkably clean and fresh: an excellent copy with strong impressions of the plates.

first edition. “In 1835 Pardoe accompanied her father to Con-stantinople, and at the time it was felt that no woman apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had acquired so intimate a knowl-edge of Turkey” (ODNB). The Beauties of the Bosphorus was published to capitalise on the great success of the author’s City of the Sultan (1837) and to provide a text for Bartlett’s engravings, which were among the earliest of his Eastern series to appear, and demon-strated “his skill in architectural drawing, and . . . an ability to handle more open landscape work” (Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England, p. 114). William Bartlett spent most of 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, including “The Column of Theodosius”, which “well indicates the variations in tone he was able to achieve” (ibid., p. 96).

Atabey 922; Blackmer 1254.

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272PÂRIS, François Edmond. Souvenirs de Jérusalem. Lithographié par Hubert Clerger, Jules Gaildrau et Fichot. Ouvrage publié par l’escadre de la Méditerranée. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1862]Large folio (630 × 490 mm). 17 leaves, loose in contemporary green cloth portfolio with original printed wrapper mounted to front panel, green cloth ties. Coloured lithographic plan mounted to title leaf as issued, 2 text leaves, and 14 lithographic plates of which 12 in original hand-co-lour. Pencilled pagination to upper inner corners of plates. Subtle repair to edges of title, text leaves, and a few plates (Halte des pèlerins, Vue génerale de Jérusalem, Intérieur de la Porte d’or, and Mosquée el Aksa), 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.

first and only edition of this uncommon pictorial account of the visit of the Mediterranean squadron of the French navy to Jerusalem in 1861. Most of the plates illustrate the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, though there are also depictions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Mosque of Omar. “Pâris was named commander of the third division of the Mediterranean Squadron in December, 1858. He was already well known as a naval artist . . . and he produced works on the technology of steam engines and other technical matters” (Blackmer). The co-lour plates in this copy are exceptionally bright.

Blackmer 1255; not in Abbey, Arcadian Library, Atabey, Burrell, Gay or Weber.

£5,000 [107989]

273PARSONS, Abraham. Travels in Asia and Africa; including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over the desert to Bagdad and Bussora; A Voyage from Bussora to Bombay, and along the Western Coast of India; A Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea; and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta in Egypt. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808Quarto (263 × 208 mm). Recent half calf to style, marbled boards, red morocco label, compartments enclosing elliptical roundels formed by

gilt gallery and disc roll. Frontispiece of Baghdad, plate of Antioch, both uncoloured aquatints. Frontispiece somewhat browned, a little creased and with a small repair at the inner margin, overall a little browned, a minor paper repairs to corners of a few leaves, slight damp cockling in the lower margin, particularly towards the rear, but remains a very copy.

first edition. Little is known of Parson’s origins, he was probably born in Bristol, the son of a merchant captain. “In early life he visited many countries in command of merchant vessels, an occupation that suited a man ‘naturally fond of novelty, and remarkably inquisitive’” (ODNB). He unsuccessfully tried to establish himself as a merchant in Bristol, but in 1767 was ap-proached by the Turkey Company to become their “consul and marine factor” at Iskenderun, Aleppo’s port, where he worked for six years before ill-health forced him to resign. Subsequently he travelled extensively for “commercial speculation, making several journeys in Asia Minor in 1772–4, and travelling from Iskenderun through the mountains to Aleppo. From there he crossed the desert to Baghdad, where he stayed between May and October 1774. He travelled up the Euphrates to Hillah and downriver to Basrah, where he was during the siege by a Persian army in 1775. He next visited Bombay, and then – ever inquisi-tive – made a lengthy voyage along the west coast of India as far as Goa, returning to Bombay early in 1776. In 1778 he travelled via the Red Sea and Egypt, and visited Mocha, Suez, Cairo, and Rosetta. Having returned to Europe in the same year he retired to Leghorn, where he died in 1785.” He left his manuscript account to his brother-in-law, the Revd John Berjew of Bristol, whose son, the Revd John Paine Berjew, edited it for publication. Parsons was as curious and attentive traveller, his observations giving “insights into the various places that he visited, including Bombay, Mocha, and Cairo. Ev-erywhere he took much interest in commerce, government, and ways of life”, of particular interest are his account of the prepa-rations at Cairo for the inundation of the Nile, and of its effects; and his description of “the 216 groups making up the grand procession of pilgrims to Mecca”. Abbey notes an octavo edition of 1802, apparently in error.

Abbey, Travel 348; Atabey 927; not in Blackmer; Gay 104; Hamilton, Arca-dian Library 12649

£1,850 [99192]

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274PERESS, Gilles. Telex Persan. Paris: Contrejour, 1984Folio. Original photographic card wrappers. Photographs throughout. Extremities very lightly rubbed. An excellent copy.

first edition of the work with which Peress announced his premiership in the world of conflict reportage photography. These photographs were taken in Iran December 1979 – January 1980, at the conclusion of the revolution that lead to Ruhol-lah Khomeini being announced Supreme Leader of the newly formed Islamic Republic of Iran.

£825 [105111]

275(PERKINS AND WILL.) Master Plan for the New Campus of Umm Al-Qura University. Makkah al-Mukarramah, Al-A’abidiya District, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [Chicago: Perkins and Will, 1991]Oblong folio (280 × 435 mm). Comb-bound in original green leatherette case, titles and concentric panelling gilt to front board. Text in English 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 geometric designs, initial decorative “basmalah” leaf with glassine wrapper, full-page colour photograph of architectural model, 6 page of colour photographs of Saudi royals, profuse maps, photographs, tables and plans throughout the text, in colour and black and white. A few faint scuffs and marks to front board, occasional mild toning towards extremities. A very good copy.

An attractively presented and exhaustively documented archi-tectural master plan, an interesting record of modern Islamic architecture, untraced in libraries or commercial records. “The Master Plan is influenced by three considerations: The Islamic Tradition, including the Saudi heritage status of Makkah Al-Mu-karramah . . . The Climate and Ecology of the Region . . . [and] the specific operational needs as defined in the functional Space

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-anese firm Dar al-Handasah in 1986 and awarded the contract for Umm al-Qura soon after. Umm al-Qura University grew out of the College of Sharia, founded in Mecca in 1949; it assumed its present name by royal decree in 1980. It continues to focus on the Islamic sciences and is popular among the conservative population of the Hijaz, though it also offers courses in medi-cine and the applied sciences. “Like other Islamic universities, its aim is to supply the judges, imams and teachers required throughout the country; in the government its graduates occupy posts in the ministries concerned with education, justice and ‘the preservation of virtue’” (Abir, Saudi Arabia: Society, Govern-ment and the Gulf Crisis, p. 19). A laid-in letter from the chairman of the company, Robert Cooke, dated March 1992, sheds light on publication. “Although we have been working on the Umm al Qura University project in Makkah for approximately four years, we were not able to pub-lish the Master Plan Report until six months ago. It’s interesting that we published the Report after we had awarded the first construction packages! This was due to the incredible length of time it took to get the University to agree on the Arabic transla-tions. Anyway, it’s done and represents, I feel, a very thorough representation of the dedication and work of a lot of people that is resulting in a fine building complex”.

£2,500 [113436]

276(PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising the Persian Gulf and its Approaches from Ras al Hadd, in the South-west, to Cape Monze, in the East. London: published by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1955Octavo (240 × 150 mm). Original blue cloth, titles in yellow to spine and front board. 2 full-page maps, 4 pages of coloured buoyage systems, several diagrams and tables to the text, 30 plates of coastal profiles. Ownership monogram and sticker to notations of supplements page; notices from the publisher tipped in before title page and p. 1. Spine

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slightly sunned, front board a touch bowed, a little rubbed overall. A very good copy.

First published 1870, this tenth edition following the ninth of 1942. All editions of these highly detailed navigational hand-books to the Gulf tend to be uncommon. Beyond the specifically maritime aspects, they provided background on local condi-tions, climate, items of trade and so forth; this edition in partic-ular stands as a valuable record of areas that were soon to devel-op beyond recognition following the discovery of oil: “The coast between Dibai [sic] and Abu Dhabi . . . is, except for a small village, at which there are some date trees . . . quite barren, un-inhabited, and . . . there is no tree larger than a mangrove bush. Landing unarmed on the mainland between Dibai and Abu Dha-bi is not recommended, for it is often visited by Bedouin from the interior” (p. 161). Abu Dhabi itself “consists for the most 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, on one of which is the flagstaff. A small tower stands on the beach, where there are several prominent stone buildings, one of which is erected on the low sandy point which projects slight-ly in a north-westerly direction from the town” (p. 163). Similar 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]

277(PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. N.P. No. 63. Comprising the Persian Gulf and its Approaches from Ra’s al Hadd, in the South-west to Ras Muari in the East; [Together with] Supplement No. 5 – 1974 to Persian Gulf Pilot (Eleventh Edition, 1967). Corrected to 7th December, 1974. London: published by the Hydrographer of the Navy, 1967, & 1974Octavo. Original blue cloth, title in yellow to spine and to the front board; supplement wire-stitched in the original printed paper front wrapper, and plain cardboard lower. Folding general map frontispiece and 13 other full-page maps, 21 plates of coastal profiles. Folding fron-tispiece to the supplement. Slightly sunned at the spine and board edges, lightly rubbed, endpapers a touch browned, front wrapper of the supplement just toned at the fore-edge.

First published 1870, this eleventh edition following the tenth of 1955.

Macro 290 for the seventh edition, 1924.

£1,250 [99504]

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278PERTSCH, Wilhelm. Die Arabischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Zu Gotha. Auf Befehl Sr. Hoheit des Herzogs Ernst II von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha verzeichnet. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1878–925 volumes, octavo (231 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary black half moroc-co, marbled boards, title gilt to spines, edges sprinkled, turquoise end-papers, original wrappers bound in. German and Arabic text. 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Light shelf wear, pale browning, occasional small blind stamps, a scatter of foxing fore-edge, front and back only, a very good set.

first editions. Uncommon in complete state, OCLC shows perhaps fewer than 20 sets completing worldwide; Copac lists just two: SOAS and Glasgow, the Oxford set lacking the much later fifth volume; no other copies traced at auction. The five volumes comprise the catalogue of the extraordinary collection of Arabic manuscripts at the ducal library at Gotha, most of which were originally purchased on behalf of Augustus, duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg by the German Orientalist Urlich Jaspar Seetzen (1767–1811) during his residence and travels in Constantinople, Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem and Cairo. The compiler Wilhelm Pertsch (1832–1899) had studied oriental lan-guages in Berlin and Tübingen, with a nine-month Studienreise taking in Paris, London and Oxford. He began work at the ducal library at Schloss Friedenstein in 1855, the start of nearly 25 years spent working with the more than 3,000 Oriental manuscripts in the library, which eventually resulted in the five volumes offered here, as well as another three covering the Persian and Turkish collections. Pertsch was also responsible for listing the Persian and Turk-ish manuscripts in the Prussian State Library in Berlin. In 1879 he was appointed chief librarian at Gotha and in 1883 made di-

rector of the scientific works at Friedenstein; he was also made an honorary member of the Berlin, Leipzig and Göttingen Acad-emies of Science. Pertsch’s reputation rests upon his exemplary catalogues of the oriental manuscripts at Gotha and Berlin. This important collection remains intact at the Forschungsbibliothek Burg Friedenstein.

£4,500 [94282]

279PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabia of the Wahhabis. London: Constable and Co Ltd, 1928Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 29 plates from the author’s own photographs (including frontispiece), plan, large folding colour map to rear opening to approx. 600 × 800 mm, 14 line-drawings to the text. Bookplate of Comte Raoul Chandon de Birailles (1850–1908), champagne merchant and wine historian, to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, extremities lightly bumped, half-title browned, a very good copy.

first edition of the work completing Philby’s account of his mission to Ibn Sa’ud, ruler of the Nejd, in 1917, begun with The Heart of Arabia, published in 1922. The British were keen to woo Ibn Sa’ud into attacking the Rashids of Ha’il, allies of the Turks, and Philby travelled by camel from the Persian Gulf to Riyadh. “There he spent ten days and was deeply impressed by the personality of Ibn Sa‘ud. It was the start of an admiration that stayed with him for life. Persuading Ibn Sa‘ud to provide an es-cort, he continued his journey, again by camel, to Jiddah on the Red Sea . . . This crossing of Arabia from coast to coast brought him for the first time into the public eye. In Jiddah, Philby met the Hashemite ruler of Hejaz, the Sharif Husain, leader of the Arab revolt, whose sons were in the field against the Turks, un-der the guidance of T. E. Lawrence. He became convinced that 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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arguments to this effect did not prevail, either then or later . . . Few would quarrel with the inscription on [Philby’s] tombstone: ‘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 the Arabs had to have their independence – he was right and almost everyone else was wrong” (ODNB).

Macro 1774.

£675 [112502]

The nucleus of Sheba’s Daughters

280PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. “The Land of Sheba, parts I & II”; [and] STEIN, Aurel. “Note on Remains of the Roman Limes in North-Western Iraq” In: The Geographical Journal, vol. XCII, Nos. 1 & 2. London: The Royal Geographical Society, July & August 19382 volumes, octavo. Original blue printed wrappers. Philby: 7 plates from the author’s own photographs; folding map of south-west Arabia to rear of No. 1 (approx. 1 cm : 55 km) opening to 245 × 400 mm, large folding map of the same to rear of No. 2 (1:1,000,000), coloured in outline, opening to 410 × 720 mm, with sketch map of Shabwah ruins (1:20,000) inset. No. 1 lightly creased with a tear between rear wrapper and spine, map to rear of no. 2 with closed tear along fold; overall, very good, high-ly uncommon in this condition.

first editions. “Most of Philby’s later explorations were car-ried out by motor vehicle . . . An opportunity for real exploration in an unmapped quarter arose in May 1936 when Ibn Sa‘ud asked Philby to map the boundary between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Philby started his journey south at Mecca, and worked south to Khamis, Abaha and Najran in the Yemen border region. At Najran he made archaeological discoveries of great impor-tance, including a script never before found in southern Arabia” (Howgego), evidenced in hundreds of inscriptions which Philby

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 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.

Philby’s piece: Macro 1788, Howgego IV p. 31. For Stein, vide ibid., S65

£250 [97475]

281PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Sheba’s Daughters. being a record of travel in Southern Arabia. With an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A. F. L. Beeston. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1939Large octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with Athena’s owl. Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear. Boards severely mottled as usual, spotting to endpapers and occasional-ly to the text, about very good. A few marginal notes in Bates’s hand.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To G. L. Bates with the author’s thanks and good wishes. H. St. J. B. Philby, 1/5/39.” George La-timer Bates was an eminent ornithologist, naturalist, and author of the Handbook of Birds of West Africa. Bates had spent some 25 years in West Africa supporting himself by supplying specimens to the Natural History Museum. After the publication of his book he began to assist the Museum in cataloguing the bird samples being sent back from Arabia by Philby. Following an invitation from Philby, Bates taught himself Arabic and went out to join him in 1934, partly to assist in collecting specimens, but also to carry out research for a book on the birds of Arabia. Although he contributed several papers on regional species to Ibis, the book was never published, but after his death in 1940 the manuscript was used by Meinertzhagen in the produc-tion of Birds of Arabia. Philby presentation copies are decidedly uncommon.

£1,875 [59530]

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282PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Background of Islam, being a Sketch of Arabian History in pre-Islamic Times. Alexandria: Whitehead, Morris, 1947Octavo. 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 copies signed by the author. Philby had originally approached John Murray to publish the present work with the intention of establishing himself as an authority on pre-Islamic Arabia, but Murray rejected the manuscript having established that much of Philby’s source material had been superseded. Philby, undaunt-ed in his self-belief, published at his own expense. Philby had converted to Islam in 1930 and was known among his Arabian associates as Sheikh Abdullah. A moderately fragile and un-common book, this copy retains what certainly appear to be the flaps from a tissue jacket.

Macro 1778; not in Arcadian Library.

£1,250 [114457]

283PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian Days. An Autobiography. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1948Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, three-quarter profile por-trait in gilt to the front board. Portrait frontispiece and 48 plates. Some-what rubbed, light browning, but overall very good.

first edition, second impression, two months after the first. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed for R. J. G. Candlish with the best wishes of the author H. St. J. B.

Philby, 21/8/51”, and with Candlish’s ownership inscription as a member of the British Military Mission to Saudi Arabia.

£300 [87914]

284PHILLIPS, Wendell. Qataban and Sheba. Exploring Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955Octavo. Original dark red cloth-textured boards, titles and vignette to spine gilt. 32 photographic plates, 5 diagrams to the text, double-page sketch map to centre of volume, map endpapers. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket; scarce in this condition.

first u.k. edition, the same year as the first US edition. “In the spring of 1950 Wendell Phillips, a young palaeontologist turned explorer and archaeologist, led the first American archaeological team to excavate the major ancient cities along the spice routes of South Arabia. The project was sponsored by the American Foun-dation for the Study of Man (AFSM), which was founded by Phil-lips in 1949” (Potts, ed. Araby the Blest: Studies in Arabian Archaeology, p. 91). The team managed to excavate Timna, the ancient capital of the Qataban kingdom, Hajar bin Humeid, and Marib, the Sa-baean city believed by some to be the Sheba of the Old Testament, before tribal hostilities forced them to travel to Dhofar Province, Oman, where they surveyed the ancient spice port of Sumhuram. Phillips also had an audience with the ruler of Yemen and was granted the title of Mustashar by the Sultan of Oman.

£325 [106173]

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285(PORTER, Sir James.) LARPENT, Sir George. Turkey; its History and Progress: from the Journals and Correspondence of Sir James Porter, Fifteen Years Ambassador at Constantinople; continued to the Present Time, with a Memoir of Sir James Porter, by his Grandson . . . London: Hurst and Blackett, 18542 volumes, octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate blind panelling to both boards, Porter’s arms gilt to the front boards, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece to each. Lightly rubbed, the spines tanned, frontispieces and title pages foxed, light toning, otherwise a very good set.

first edition. “Includes Porter’s unpublished journals and his very interesting papers and correspondence; volume II contains Larpent’s work on the progress of reform in Turkey, much of it based on Ubicini’s Lettres sur la Turquie (1851–4)” (Atabey). Porter (1710–1776) met Lord Carteret through a mutual friend, and was “employed by him on several secret commercial mis-sions to the continent . . . In 1741 he was sent to Vienna to assist Sir Thomas Robinson in the negotiations between Austria and Prussia; he returned the following year to Vienna on a special mission to Maria Theresa” (ODNB). He was appointed ambas-sador at Constantinople in 1746 and remained in the post until 1762, winning praise from Sir William Jones for protecting Brit-ain’s mercantile interests in the Ottoman empire. On his retire-ment in he devoted himself to scientific and literary pursuits, but was forced to decline the nomination for the presidency of the Royal Society in 1768, “not feeling himself of sufficient con-sequence or rich enough to live in such a style as he conceived that the president of such a society should maintain”.

Atabey 975; not in Blackmer.

£1,500 [105237]

The painstaking work of a genuine scholar

286PRICE, David. Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History, from the Death of the Arabian Legislator, to the Accession of the Emperor Akbar, and the Establishment of the Moghul Empire in Hindustaun. From the Original Persian Authorities. London: J. Booth; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; and Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 18213 volumes in 4, quarto (272 × 208 mm). Recent brown half sheep period-style, spines gilt tooled on raised bands, blind tooled in com-partments, red and black twin labels, marbled sides and edges. Large folding handcoloured map of Asia (from the eastern Meditarrenean to Korea, and from Siberia to Mysore). An attractive set: clean and well-margined.

first edition sheets with title pages dated 1821 and issued by the publishers on completion of the work, scarce. A signifi-cant work by the orientalist and army officer David Price (1762–1835), who saw action in the Third Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan, and, on retiring from the East India Company’s service, settled in Wales and “devoted himself to writing long, leisurely works on Arabian, Persian, and Indian history. Of these the best-known and the most important is Chronological Retrospect . . . This covers the period from the death of Muhammad to the accession of Akbar. The earlier volumes are based chiefly on the Persian chronicles of Mirkhand and Khandamir, and are most detailed and accurate with respect to Persian history; but in the last volume Abu’l-Fazl is largely used. It is written in the over-or-nate style of Price’s sources, but it is the painstaking work of a genuine scholar anxious to do full justice to his authorities. Without pretending to any striking grasp or generalization, it 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

287(QATAR.) Qatar Petroleum Company – Guide to Qatar. Doha: Qatar Petroleum Company, [c.1958] & 1965Landscape octavo (202 × 260 mm). Wire-stitched in colour pictorial card wrappers. Stylishly designed, richly illustrated from photographs, and with line-drawings, colour-printed throughout. Very good.

first edition, with a tipped-in slip giving updated oil produc-tion statistics through to 1964. Extremely uncommon; OCLC records just two copies of the first title (Library of Congress and Dallas Public Library). A fascinating guide book to Qatar produced just before the transition to independence began, presented here as a press pack in a spiral-backed blue textured card folder lettered in gilt “With the compliments of Q.P.C”, together with a copy of anoth-

er introduction to the emirate: “Qatar: A Special Issue prepared for The Fifth Arab Petroleum Congress & The Seconed [sic] Arab Petroleum Exhibition Cairo–March 16th 1965” (landscape octa-vo, colour printed wrappers, portrait frontispiece, and 9 pages of illustrations from photographs, 2 full-page sketch maps, tables and graphs to the text, no copy traced institutionally). Also included in the pack are maps of the Qatar and its capital: a folding 1:10,000 scale plan of Doha (397 480 mm), produced by Survey Section, Exploration Division, QPC in June 1960 (two copies on OCLC); and a folding QPC 1:500,000 geological map of the Qatar peninsula (475 × 273 mm) “traced from Q/00.0336 Qatar map 1:250,000 compiled by R. V. Browne”. Material relating to the mid-20th century development of the oil-industry in the Arabian Peninsula is markedly uncommon.

£2,250 [92674]

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“The first systematic exposition of a complete cosmography in Islamic literature” (Ency. Iran.)

288QAZWINI, Zakariya’ ibn Mu‘ammad ibn Mahmud al-. Kosmographie. [Erster Theil:] Kitab ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat [Arabic]. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. [Zweiter Theil:] Kitab Athar al-bilad [Arabic]. Die Denkmäler der Länder. Aus den Handschriften der Bibliotheken zu Berlin, Gotha, Dresden und Hamburg. Herausgegeben von Ferdinand Wüstenfeld. Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1848–94 parts in 2 volumes, octavo. Contemporary olive-green half calf, mar-bled boards, red morocco labels to spines, edges sprinkled red, blue endpapers, original printed wrappers bound in to rear. Arabic types. 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Title pages foxed, mild sporadic spotting to text, blue pencil markings to printed wrappers, offset to Ara-bic half-titles. A very good, attractively bound copy

first editions of Qazwini’s Cosmography and his Geography, known in Arabic respectively as the ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat (“Won-ders of Created Things”) and the Athar al-bilad (“Traces of the Lands”). The first of these is considered “the first systematic

exposition of a complete cosmography in Islamic literature” (Ency. Iran.) and draws on sources from Aristotle and Ptolemy to the Torah and the Qur’an; the second is a valuable synthesis of Arabic geographical treatises including Yaqut’s Mu’jam al-buldan, and is “organized according to the earth’s seven climes, with de-scriptions of the cities, countries, mountains, and rivers of each. Included in the descriptions of the cities and countries are short biographies of the famous luminaries who came from them” (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, p. 652). Qazwini (c.1203–1283) was born in the Persian city of Qazwin and studied under the great Sufi Ibn al-’Arabi in Damascus before serving as a judge in Iraq under the last ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tasim (r. 1241–58). After Hülegü’s sack of Baghdad he entered the patronage of Mongol vizier al-Juwayni, to whom the present texts are dedicated. Qazwini “has been called the medi-eval or Muslim Pliny, a comparison justified by the abundance of his learning” (Sarton p. 868). The immense popularity of his works is demonstrated by the number of manuscript copies still extant, in Persian and Turkish as well as Arabic. Wüstenfeld’s “pioneer edition” (Ency. Iran.), printed entirely in Arabic except for a German introduction to each volume, is fair-ly common institutionally, but extremely rare in commerce, with just a single copy listed at auction in the last 50 years.

GAL I 633; Piper p. 36; Zenker II, 853 & 856.

£4,500 [94271]

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289(QUR’AN; Arabic & Latin.) Alcorani textus universus. Ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus, Eademque fide, ac pari diligentia ex Arabico idiomate in Latinum translatus; Apposititis unicuique capiti notis, atque refutatione: His omnibus praemissus est Prodromus Totum priorem Tomum imples, In quo contenta indicantur pagina sequenti. Padua: Typographia Seminarii, 16982 volumes in one, folio in sixes (346 × 225 mm). Contemporary vellum, sometime rebacked and relined, raised bands, compartments lettered in gilt, sides decoratively panel-stamped in blind, red sprinkled edges. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, figurative initials. Complete with all sectional title pages and the 2 leaves of errata to the rear. Book label (“HB”) and detailed pencilled collation to front pastedown. Vellum faintly soiled, short superficial splits to head of front joint and foot of rear, old thumb-tags to fore edge of section-titles in the Prodromus and to title of the Refutatio Alcorani, minute hole intermittently appearing in fore margins (probably from the papermaker’s mould), the text never affected, sporadic pale foxing to margins, the occasional minor spot or mark. Prodromus: title and sig. A1 browned and marginally restored, 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-ginalia to pp. 7, 84 & 87, contemporary inked marginalia to pp. 22, 83 & 352, sigs. A3–B1 dampstained, pale tide-mark occasionally appearing in upper outer corners, spreading in final few leaves, closed tear to lower outer corner of sig. 2D3, the text spared. A very good copy, tall, crisp and imposing, with deep impressions of the Arabic types, and of the appeal-ing woodcuts.

first edition of Marracci’s Qur’an, “the greatest pre-modern European work of Qur’anic scholarship” (Burman). The second volume, entitled “Refutatio Alcorani”, comprises the second obtainable edition of the original Arabic, a Latin translation considered “by far and away the best translation of the Qur’an to date” (Hamilton), and an analysis and refutation of each surah, and is preceded by the second edition of Marracci’s extensive

prefatory work, the Prodromus ad Refutationem Alcorani, which was first published in 1691 and includes a life of Muhammad. 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-run was ordered to be destroyed. In 1694 the second Arabic edition was published by Abraham Hinckelmann, a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, though lacked a translation or any form of commentary beyond the introduction. Marracci’s efforts were intended to compete with such Lutheran interpretations and formed “part of a vast war effort . . . with the aim of restoring the intellectual and theological glory of the Church of Rome and the memory of the Vatican as Europe’s foremost centre of Orien-tal studies” (Elmarsafy, The Enlightenment Qur’an, online). “Marracci, an Italian priest of the order of the Chierici rego-lari della Madre di Dio who was also professor of Arabic at La Sapienza as well as confessor to Pope Innocent XI, divided the text of the Qur’an into manageable sections which he presented to his readers first in carefully vocalized Arabic, and then in his new Latin translation, followed by a series of notae that address lexical, grammatical and interpretive [sic] problems. Like most other Latin Qur’an translators, Marracci often includes material drawn directly from Muslim commentators . . . but his careful notes generally also supply far more explanatory material . . . By virtue of its extensive notes on the text throughout, Marrac-ci’s enormous edition provided his European readers with the Qur’an accompanied . . . by much of its traditional Sunni inter-pretation” (Burman). A cache of manuscripts unearthed in the library of Marrac-ci’s order in 2012 has since verified his claim to have translated the Qur’an four times before committing it to print. The result was a landmark of Arabic scholarship which finally ended the

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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.)

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290(QUR’AN; German.) Der Koran. Oder, Das Gesetz der Moslemen durch Muhammed, den Sohn Abdallahs. Auf den Grund der vormaligen Verdeutschung F. E. Boysen’s von neuem aus dem Arabischen übersetzt, durchaus mit erläuternden Anmerkungen, mit einer historischen Einleitung, auch einen vollständigen Register versehen, von Samuel Friedrich Günther Wahl. Halle: Gebauer, 1828Octavo (215 × 125 mm). Original boards, brown paper backstrip, inked manuscript title to spine. Title-page printed in red and black, folding genealogical table. Extremities and joints slightly rubbed, a few pale markings to spine, contents toned, small spill-burn to sig. G7 costing half a letter on each side. An excellent copy, largely unopened in the sec-ond half, rare in original boards.

first edition thus, based on Friedrich Boysen’s German translation (1773), which alongside Sale’s English and Savary’s French was one of three 18th-century translations to inspire almost all further editions in these languages throughout the 19th century (Leaman, ed. The Qur’an: An Encyclopaedia, p. 667). Samuel Wahl (1760–1834), editor of the present iteration, was professor of oriental languages at Halle. Uncommon: Copac traces two copies only in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library and Oxford); OCLC adds 12 worldwide.

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291RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Through Wahabiland on Camel-back: an Account of a Journey of Exploration in Eastern and Central Arabia. Undertaken at the Instance and the Cost of the Royal Danish Geographical Society in 1912. Cairo: Government Press, 1916

Octavo. Original pale tan cloth, lettered in black to the front board, panels in blind to both boards, grey endpapers. Boards very slightly fin-ger-soiled, endpapers a little browned, but overall an excellent copy.

first edition in english, translated by E. T. Leeds, archae-ologist, Assistant to the Keeper of the Ashmolean, and friend of T. E. Lawrence, “made for the Admiralty War Staff and privately printed and issued by the Arab Bureau, Cairo, for official use only”, with a print-run of 100 copies only, hence unsurprisingly rare, with two copies only on OCLC (British Library and Oxford University). Raunkiaer’s narrative of his 1912 expedition was first published in Copenhagen by the Royal Danish Geographical Society in 1913. Raunkiaer’s journey through Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Ara-bia – “from Koweit by Bereida to the Wahabite town of Riadh, returning to the coast by way of Hofuf . . . ground [that] had not been touched by Europeans for a considerable time” (from Raunkiaer’s obituary in the Geographical Journal) – came at a time of religious fanaticism, and his account is a lively and highly evocative one: “Days spent lying in camp like this are by no means pleasant . . . As day follows day, I see myself observed with ever more hostile eyes . . . As things are, the rumour of an infidel’s approach will spread to Shakrah and other towns in South Nedjd long before I arrive there myself; and the more ma-lignant that rumour, the smaller the probability of escape from my adventure with a whole skin at the end.” Raunkiaer survived the expedition, but his health was broken, and two years later he died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen, aged just 25. This copy was originally owned by Alfred Guillaume, Arabist and scholar of Islam, who served in the Arab Bureau in Cairo during the First World War, with a few pencilled marks to the margins and some page notes to the last page of the text. Guil-laume’s library sold through Thornton’s of Oxford in 1969–70.

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292RAWLINSON, George. The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World; or, the history, geography, and antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources. Second Edition. London: John Murray, 18713 volumes, octavo (216 × 135 mm). Late 19th-century dark green half calf by Bayntun, decorative gilt spines, marbled sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. 4 folding maps, numerous wood-en-graved illustrations in the text. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with his monogram owner-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-ated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Spines sunned and with a few dark blemishes, two maps with short closed-tears, titles of volumes I and II with closed-tears neatly repaired, gutter of volume II title page a little unsightly but a good, clean set, handsomely bound.

second edition, improved and updated, following the first of 1862–67; Rawlinson’s preface notes that the chapters on the his-tory and chronology of Chaldaea and Assyria have been expanded as “so much fresh light has been thrown on these two subjects by additional discoveries made partly by Sir Henry Rawlinson, partly by his assistant, Mr George Smith, through the laborious study of fragmentary inscriptions now in the British Museum”. George Rawlinson (1812–1902) “was a prolific author of schol-arly summaries of the results of research and archaeological excavations in the Middle East, which remained standard during

his lifetime” (ODNB). His brother, Sir Henry Rawlinson – de-scribed by Wallis Budge as “the father of Assyriology” – was the dedicatee of the present work.

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“The bright shining light of archaeological method and conscience”

293RHIND, A. Henry. Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862Large octavo. Original purplish pebble-grain, title gilt to spine, panels in blind to boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. Coloured frontispiece and 7 other tinted or coloured plates, one with gold, numerous illustra-tions to the text. Irregularly sunned on the boards and spine, front hinge just a little cracked, light browning and some foxing front and back, but overall very good.

first edition. Having begun his archaeological researches in his native Scotland, Rhind’s health forced him to winter in Egypt 1855–6 and 1856–7. While there he undertook the “important in-vestigations of the tombs at Thebes” (ODNB) which are recorded here. His methodical practice (he was the first archaeologist to record the exact locations of finds and their relationships) has led to him being hailed as the “bright shining light of archaeo-

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logical method and conscience” (Wilson, Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh). On his death at only 30 years old, he left funds for two scholarships at Edinburgh University; endowed an industrial institution for orphan girls in his home town; bequeathed his library and £400 for excavations to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; and the copyright of this book and some moneys from his estate towards the establishment of a series of lectures, the prestigious Rhind Lectures which continue to this day.

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294RHOTERT, Hans (ed.) Transjordanien. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen. Mit Beiträgen von Franz M. Th. Böhl, Professor in Leiden, und Dr. K. Willmann, Wisebaden. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1938Quarto. 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.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Rhotert on the front free endpaper to an unnamed recipient, thanking them for their support for the Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphol-ogie. The leader’s account of the work of the Nordgruppe der XII. Deutschen-Innerafrikanischen Forschungsexpedition in the Trans-jordan and Libya includes the first scientific study of the rock art at Kilwa, pioneering work in the field, never translated into English. This is not an uncommon book institutionally, with some 70 copies showing on OCLC, and is fairly frequently encountered com-mercially, but very rarely inscribed or in such excellent condition.

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295ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia, from Drawings Made on the Spot . . . With Historical Descriptions by William Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. London: F. G. Moon, 1846–493 volumes, large folio (600 × 430mm). Contemporary deep purple full morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments separated by raised bands, titles direct to second and fourth gilt, covers elaborately panel-stamped in gilt with a Greek-key border incorporating a pleasing foliate roll, all edges gilt, broad turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in match-ing cloth-lined slipcase with marbled sides. 124 tinted lithographed plates, 3 vignette-titles and 121 plates, in the scarcest form, with origi-nal hand-colour, cut to the edge of the image and mounted on card in imitation of water-colours, as issued, mounted on guards throughout. Armorial bookplate of Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker to front past-edowns. Very faint rubbing to extremities; offsetting to tissue guards, very occasional light foxing as often, the large majority of plates clean and fresh. An excellent set.

first edition, in the preferred deluxe coloured for-mat, of “one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” (Abbey Travel). No publication before this had pre-sented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Representing the com-pletion of a project begun in 1842, but a discrete work in its own right, Egypt & Nubia was published in three formats between 1846 and 1849, with the deluxe coloured-and-mounted format offered at triple the price of the simplest format. David Roberts, RA (1796–1864), enjoyed a wide popularity in his day for his European views, but it is on the outstanding suc-cess of this project that the modern appreciation of his work is based. In August 1838 he arrived in Alexandria to start a carefully planned enterprise. It is claimed that he was the first European to have unlimited access to the mosques in Cairo, under the pro-viso that he did not commit desecration by using brushes made from hog’s bristle. Leaving Cairo, he sailed up the Nile to record the monuments represented in the Egypt & Nubia division of the work, travelling as far as Wadi Halfa and the Second Cataract. At the time of publication it was these views that excited the most widespread enthusiasm. Roberts had already discussed publication of the views with Finden before leaving for the Near East, but on his return both Finden and Murray, who was also approached, baulked at the risks involved in a publication of the size and grandeur envis-aged. However, Francis Graham Moon – “a self-made man from a modest background” (ODNB) who had attracted the attention of the queen and ventured to represent himself as ‘Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty’ – accepted the challenge, and per-suaded Louis Haghe to lithograph Roberts’s drawings. Roberts acknowledged that Haghe’s work was hardly less important than his own, complimenting his “masterly vigour and boldness.” The burdensome demands of the task may have even prompt-ed Haghe’s early retirement as a lithographer. The Reverend George Croly (1780–1860), poet and well-known contributor to Blackwood’s and The Literary Gazette, was engaged to edit the text from Roberts’s journal. This was “undoubtedly the most costly and lavish, and potentially risky, publishing enterprise that

Moon had ever undertaken. Investing £50,000 in the project . . .” As a promotional tool, an exhibition of the original drawings was opened in London in 1840 and subsequently toured the country, creating a considerable stir and drawing praise from Ruskin who described them as “faithful and laborious beyond any outlines from nature I have ever seen.” The exhibition cat-alogue also served as a prospectus for the projected work, and was apparently very successful in bringing forward subscribers, without whom any work of this size would have been doomed. The work was subsequently published in a variety of smaller formats. In a dramatic gesture, the lithographic stones for the original large format work were broken at an auction of the remaining plates in December 1853 so that the originals could never be reproduced. Widely recognised at the ultimate expression of tinted lithog-raphy, an artistic and commercial triumph, Roberts’s Egypt & Nubia was the result of a uniquely fortuitous collaboration be-tween artist, publisher and engraver. This – a wonderful copy, in the preferred state, in a splendid contemporary binding – fully embodies the continuing impact of the project.

Abbey Travel 272; Tooley 401–2; Blackmer 1432.

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296ROCHE, Paul. With Duncan Grant in Southern Turkey. London: Honeyglen Publishing, 1982Octavo. 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 rubbed jacket.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: “For Leila, who would have loved Duncan as much as I did, from Paul R.” The recipient, Leila Hadley Luce (1925–2009), was a New York socialite who wrote several travel books. She made a marginal correction on p. 70. With Duncan Grant in Southern Turkey is a journal of the author’s three-week stay in Turkey with the Bloomsbury group artist in 1973. Their friendship spanned three decades and Grant spent the last years of his life with Roche and his family.

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297ROGERS, J. M. Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili. Musée Rath, Geneva, 7 July – 24 September 1995. [London:] Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, & The Nour Foundation, in association with Azimuth Editions, 1995Folio. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Colour photographs throughout. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a short closed dear to the head of the spine.

first edition, case-bound issue, of this exhibition cata-logue, one of 1,000 copies thus; there were also 1,000 copies issued in paperback. The Nasser D. Khalili collection is one of the world’s largest private collections of Islamic art, compris-ing more than 20,000 pieces including manuscripts, ceramics, paintings, textiles, glass and weaponry.

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298ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich. Analecta Arabica. Leipzig: Johan Ambrosius Barth, 1825–8Octavo (222 × 150 mm). Rebound to style in half sheep, marbled boards, plain spine, 5 compartments formed by triple gilt fillet, red morocco label in the second. Highly elaborate Arabic titles to parts II and III in red and black, decoration built up of typographic elements, Arabic text within red panel, each part of the Latin text with separate series and section titles. Narrow worm-track to the outer margin of the first four leaves, skilfully repaired, occasional light browning to text block, largely marginal. A very good copy.

first and only arabic and latin text edition of three interesting and varied Arabic manuscripts. Each has prefatory material in Latin and the first two parts also have an extensive Arabic–Latin glossary. The three parts are: “Institutiones juris Mohammedani circa bellum contra eos qui ab islamo sunt alie-ni. E duobus al-Codurii codicibus”, which presents a selection from the Mukhtasar of al-Quduri, a legal epitome of composed 973–1037 by a leading Sunni fakih, jurist, of the Hanafi school, extracts discussing the legal ramifications of Islamic war against infidels; “Zohairi Carmen al-moallakah appellatum. Cum scholiis Zuzenii integris et Nachasi selectis e codicibus manu-scriptis” offers a translation with scholia of the Moallaka of Ka‘b ibn Zuhair, pre-Islamic poet; and “Syria descripta a Scherifo el-Edrisio et Khalil ben-Schahin Dhaheri. E codicibus Bodleian-is” an extract from al-Idrisi’s universal geography of those parts discussing Syria. Rosenmüller (1768–1835), the son of an evangelical theolo-gian, became a professor at the University of Leipzig, firstly in

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Arabic, 1796, and subsequently in oriental languages from 1813. A pioneering effort to make the texts of important Arabic manu-scripts available to scholars and to open them to a wider reader-ship with Latin translations and scholarly notes.

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299ROSSI, Giambernardo de. Dizionario Storico degli Autori Arabi piu Celebri e delle Principali Loro Opere. Parma: della Stamperia Imperiale, 1807Octavo (213 × 138 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled 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.

first edition of this handsomely-presented bio-bibliographi-cal compilation on the great Arab authors of history. The author was one of the leading Italian Orientalists of the period, lecturer in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, and theology at the University of Parma. Relatively common institutionally, but rarely encoun-tered on the market.

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300ROUNDELL, [Julia]. Lady Hester Stanhope. London: John Murray, 1909Octavo. 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

widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated blind-stamps as usual. Stanhope (1776–1839), a niece of William Pitt, was the most ex-traordinary woman traveller of the 19th century. She left England in 1810, and in Malta met Michael Bruce, the son of a wealthy businessmen; the pair became lovers and visited Constantinople and Cairo and travelled in the Levant, where “no one really knew quite who Lady Hester was (was she perhaps the daughter of the king of England?) but everyone knew that she was a great person-age and must be treated as such” (ODNB). 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-alcade, and had herself crowned queen of the desert. In 1813 Stan-hope sent Bruce home and moved into a former convent in the foothills of Sidon, Lebanon, and eventually Dar Jun, an even more remote spot high in the Lebanese mountain. She became in-creasingly hermetic and developed an obsession with the occult, though for a time maintained interest in the world outside, giving sanctuary to refugees during the civil strife which convulsed Leb-anon in the 1820s and 1830s. As her health failed and she became increasingly unstable mentally, “her native servants and European 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 Jun and died, alone” (Robinson).

Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 57–8.

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301RUSCHENBERGER, William Samuel Waithman. A Voyage round the World; including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835, 1836, and 1837. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838; [together with] ROBERTS, Edmund. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat; in the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, during the Years 1832–3–4. New York: Harper & Brothers, 18372 volumes, octavo (220 134 mm; 215 138 mm). Uniformly bound in black half morocco, title gilt to spine, flat bands sparingly tooled, marbled sides and endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Half-title bound in to the first-named. Contemporary booklabels of P. C. Brooks, perhaps Peter Chardon Brooks, New England merchant and underwriter, who made his fortune in the East India trade. Very slight shelf-wear, both volumes with some foxing, but overall a very handsome pair.

first editions. Individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschen-berger the more so, and together here offering a very full record of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle and Far East. A naval surgeon, “Ruschenberger sailed . . . to the East for the purpose of obtaining information and negotiating and secur-ing treaties of friendship and commerce with Eastern Powers. Rushenberger describes his journey to the dominions of the Sul-tan of Muscat and Oman, to Ceylon, India, Java. Siam, Cochin China, the Bonin Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, California, and Mexico” (Hill). The principal in the negotiations with these foreign pow-ers was to be Edmund Roberts who had “formed an intimate acquaintance” with the Sultan of Oman when on a trading

expedition to Zanzibar in 1827, and had persuaded his “kins-man through marriage, Senator Levi Woodbury . . . [Andrew] Jackson’s secretary of the navy” to promote the embassy (DAB). Roberts was appointed as special agent of the United States to negotiate treaties with Muscat, Siam, Cochin China and Japan if practicable; “his mission, however, was to be secret, and he was given as ‘ostensible employment’ the position of clerk” to Com-mander Geisinger. Roberts successfully concluded treaties with Siam, and with Muscat, which treaty included a “most-favoured-nation” clause, and remained the basis of US–Omani relations until 1958. He re-turned to the East to continue his work in Cochin China, China, and Japan, but died of fever at Macau in 1837. Although not noted in the title, Roberts contains around 120 pages of close description of the culture and business practices of China; Ruschenberger has a 75–page section specifically on “The dominions of the Sultan of Muscat;” and is also an import-ant Hawaiian source, some of this material being omitted from the London edition of the same year, as also the “aspersions” of the British (noted by both Sabin and Howes).

Forbes 1123; Hill p. 533; Howgego R33; Howes 514a; Sabin 74197 for the first-named: the latter, Cordier 2113; Forbes 1123; not in Hill; Howgego R19; not in Lust; Sabin 71884.

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The Arabs and Greek learning

302RUSKA, Julius. Griechische Planetendarstellungen in arabischen Steinbüchern. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1919Octavo. Plain pink light card wrappers. Frequent line-drawings to the text. Wrappers irregularly sunned, light toning, negligible foxing to-wards front and rear. A very good copy.

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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. Ruska (1867–1949) was a German Arabist and historian of sci-ence. This copy from the collection of American Islamicist Nich-olas Heer, with his ownership inscription on the front panel.

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303RUSSELL, Lindsay. The Gates of Kut. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1917Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles and frame to front board in blind. Spine sunned and rolled, pale mottling to covers with a darker marking to the front. A good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, blind-stamped thus on the title-page. This novelised account of the infamous siege of Kut, modern-day Iraq, “arguably, Britain’s worse military de-feat since the surrender of Cornwallis’s army in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War” (Patrick Crowley, Kut 1916: Courage and Failure in Iraq, 2009), carries a dedication to Captain James Macallan, a medic in the 6th East Lancashire Regiment who was killed fighting in Mesopotamia in 1917. Surprisingly uncommon, with six copies only in British and Irish libraries, and OCLC add-ing twelve worldwide.

Not in Falls or Lengel.

£125 [110861]

304RUSTUM, A. J., & C. K. Zurayk (eds.) Provisional Readings in the History of the Arabs and Arabic Culture. For the use of freshmen at the American University of Beirut. Printed for private circulation. Beirut: American Press, 1940

Octavo (240 × 164 mm). Original printed wrappers. Very lightly sunned along spine and extremities, lower outer corner of front wrapper slightly curled, rear wrapper with a shallow chip to upper outer corner and few very small marks. A very good copy.

presentation copy of the second, greatly expanded edition, inscribed by the editor “To my friend Mr William Wit-man, with my best compliments, AJ Rustum” on the title page, next to the ink-stamp of the American Legation, Beirut, dated 2 April 1943. William Witman II (1914–1978) was an American diplomat who served as vice-consul in Beirut from 1939 to 1944. During the French mandate period Asad Rustum established himself as one of two “leading national historians of Lebanon” alongside his compatriot Fouad Afram al-Boustani, with whom he collab-orated on a series of textbooks entitled Ta’rikh Lubnan (Kaufman, Reviving Phoenician: The Search for Identity in Lebanon, p. 117). His co-editor Constanin Zurayk was a highly influential Lebanese historian and theoretician of Arab nationalism who is credited with first using the term nakbah for the Palestinian exodus of 1948. The first edition, published in 1934 as Provisional Readings in the Medieval History of the Near East, was edited solely by Zurayk continued only as far as the Crusades. The present edition adds chapters on the Mamluks, the Arabs in Spain, and the modern history of the Middle East. Contributions include essays by “the celebrated orientalists and historians such as Arnold, De Goeje, Gibb, Hell, Hitti, Lammens, Nicholson, Noeldeke, Philips, Zay-dan and others who have done so much to build Arabic history on a firm basis of scholarship” (Foreword). Scarce: just one copy traced in British and Irish libraries (Durham).

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305SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Passenger To Teheran. London: The Hogarth Press, 1926Octavo. Original marbled brown and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and 31 black and white plates. Ends and corners only a trifle rubbed, faint spotting to edges, endpapers and very occasionally with-in, an excellent copy of the book with the dust jacket dust soiled, and chipped at corners and along the edges but nevertheless in good condi-tion considering its rarity.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her lover Hilda “Stoker” Matheson (1888–1940). The inscrip-tion, to the front free endpaper, reads “From V. Dec 1928”. This book was one of several inscribed by Vita in December 1928 and given to her then-lover Hilda Matheson (1888–1940), whom she nicknamed “Stoker”. Matheson was Director of Talks at the BBC, and on 11 December Vita had delivered a radio broadcast there, appropriately on the subject of “The Modern Woman”. They spent the night together, and Hilda was off work “sick” on the 12th. On the 13th, in one of the more than 100 surviving letters from Hilda to Vita, she wrote: “All day – ever since that blessed and ever to be remembered indisposition, I have been thinking of you – bursting with you – and wanting you – oh my god wanting you.” It is possible that this book was gifted by Vita to “Stoker” during this “ever to be remembered indisposition”, or at some other moment in this month at the height of their affair. The coupled also travelled in Savoy together in 1929, and Vita dedicated her poem from that venture “Storm in the Moun-tains” (1929) to Hilda. When Matheson died in December 1940

after a botched hospital operation, Vita in an obituary described her characteristically as a “sturdy little pony”. Passenger to Teheran relates the author’s travels with her diplo-mat husband Harold Nicolson through Egypt and Iraq to Teh-ran, Persia (Iran), to witness the coronation of Reza Shah. This is a superb presentation association in the rare dust jacket – we have only ever handled one other copy in jacket, and can trace only one at auction, in 1974.

£2,500 [116527]

306SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia. The Hogarth Press: London, 1928Octavo. Original marbled brown and black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. With 32 plates. Ends and corners nicked, occasion-al light spotting within, but an excellent copy in the bright smart jacket with a few marks and closed tears.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to her lover Hilda “Stoker” Mathe-son, “From V. Dec. 1928”. For the recipient and the likely cir-cumstances of this presentation, see the previous item.

Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A17.

£1,500 [116523]

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The classical treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druzes

307SACY, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de. Exposé de la Religion des Druzes. Tiré des livres religieux de cette secte, et précédé d’une introduction et de la vie du Khalife Hakem-Biamr-Allah. Paris: l’Imprimerie royale, 18382 volumes, octavo (215 × 132 mm). Later 19th-century red-brown half 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-

ture, a sacred scripture [consisting] mainly of the writings and letters of the founders of the Druze religion, notably Hamza and al-Muqtana” (ibid.) De Sacy (1758–1838) is remembered as “a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in France” (Atabey). Uncommon: six copies only listed at auction in the last 50 years, including two at the Aboussouan sale in 1993, and the Atabey copy in 2002.

Atabey 1134; not in Blackmer.

£3,750 [117632]

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308SALE, Lady Florentia. A Journal Of The Disasters In Affghanistan, 1841–2. London: John Murray, 1843 [together with a three-page letter from Lady Sale, and a contemporary copy of Dr Brydon’s famous account of his experiences on the retreat from Kabul] Octavo (187 × 114 mm). Contemporary reddish pink full diced calf, green morocco label, low, flat bands, compartments with gilt triple fillet panel enclosing lozenge centre-tool with spiral arabesque corner-pieces, triple fillet panels gilt to boards, sun in splendour gilt edge-roll, marbled edg-es and endpapers. Bookseller’s label of E. Blackwell of London Street, Reading to front pastedown. Folding frontispiece plan of Kabul, and one other map. Attractive armorial bookplate of James Bonnell on front pastedown; gift inscription from his relative Mary Anne Harvey Bonnell, 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-erwise, an excellent copy.

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 by & very grateful for all the kindness and attention shown to us. Sale dined with the Court of Directors on Wednesday & the 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-ance was almost denied him. I was completely taken aback at my health being drunk & the universal cheering that accompanied it . . . This evening we were asked to the Russian Ambassadors but sent an excuse as being in the country. Tomorrow we dine at the Duke of Wellington’s to meet the Prince of Prussia. On Monday Sale dines with the Junior United Service Club. So you see being in the country is nothing very quiet. I fear you will think us very ungrateful for all the attention shewn us here when I say how happy I am in the prospect of returning to India in December, but which constitutes Home”. The book is also accompanied by a six-page contemporary transcription of Brydon’s famous letter to his brother recount-ing his experiences as the sole survivor of the retreat from Ka-bul: “Here I am at this place, all safe but not all sound, having 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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most wonderful manner, and I am the only European who has escaped from the Cabool Army of 13000”. The transcription is on three sheets of paper watermarked Renshaw & Kirkman, 1840, and with the blind stamp of the Devizes stationers Henry Bull, folded to form three bifolia.

Bruce 4489; Riddick 163

£2,000 [99194]

309(SA’UD, King.) The Picture Story of a Memorable Visit. [N.p. , Washington DC?]: 1957Folio (510 × 358 mm). Spiral bound within original green cloth-backed printed buff boards. Profusely illustrated from black and white photo-graphs, text and captions in Arabic and English, title page and section titles – printed on coloured washi paper – in Arabic alone A little rubbed and soiled on the boards with some chipping, mild finger-soiling to a few leaves, but overall very good.

first and only edition of this commemorative pictorial souvenir of King Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Al Sa’ud’s official visit to America. Extremely uncommon, just ten locations on OCLC, all in the United States. “The following pages present a photographic portrayal of the visit to the United States of America by His Majesty, King Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Al Sa’ud at the invitation of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The visit was prompted by the earnest desire of the two leaders, as men of peace and honor, to agree upon pro-grams and policies which would foster harmony among nations, and serve the well-being of peoples . . . His Majesty and his party were in the United States only eleven days. But, these were busy, fruitful days, from the morning of January 29, 1957, when a squadron of United States Air Force jet aircraft flew out to sea to meet the liner Constitution, until the morning of February 9, when the President’s personal airplane soared away from Wash-ington National Airport . . . The camera has recorded the high-

lights of the memorable visit: the full military honors accorded to King Sa’ud upon his arrival in New York, the unprecedented personal welcome by the President in Washington, the meetings at the White House, the conferences with Secretary Dulles and other officials, the discussions with diplomats and statesmen of the Arab countries, the expressions of hospitality – these and other events . . . ” The other officials and dignitaries referred to included Rich-ard Nixon as Vice President, Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense, Dag Hammar-skjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Krishna Me-non, India’s permanent representative at the UN, Abdul Khalek Hassuma, Secretary General of the Arab League, Crown Prince Abd-al-llah of Iraq, and the UN General Assembly, and Dr. Ah-mad Husain, the Egyptian ambassador. Sa’ud’s trip included vis-its to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Arlington Military Cem-etery, the Washington Islamic Center, and a banquet hosted by Fred A. Davies, chairman of Aramco. The visit was a key element in America’s political manoeuvring following the Suez Crisis, designed in large part to prevent Soviet Russia from replacing French and British influence in the region. Sa’ud was persuaded to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine, and $250,000,000 towards his defence budget, and in so doing found himself at odds with the rise of Arab nationalism, and a target for Nasserist calls from Egypt for the removal of the Arab monarchies. Following worsening conflict with his brother Faisal over his indebtedness, and his court’s refusal to keep pace with the modernisation of other Arab nations, Sa’ud was forced to abdicate in 1964, going into exile in Geneva. Publication is usually attributed to the US government, but the awkwardness of the English, and the care in the presentation of the Arabic captioning and titles, suggest that it may have been produced in Saudi Arabia with American backing, positive spin at home for a less than triumphant diplomatic foray.

£2,750 [100128]

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310(SAUDI MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND AVIATION.) Presentation volume commemorating the opening of King Abdulaziz International Airport. Riyadh: Tihama, [1981]Original button-fastened dark red leatherette folio presentation box (415 × 260 mm), gilded metal roundel with relief of the hajj terminal mounted to front panel, green velvet lining. Containing 3 pamphlets in pictorial wrappers (2 wire-stitched) and a large (80 mm diameter) commemorative coin engraved with a relief portrait of King Abdulaziz, as issued. Pamphlets all with text in Arabic and English, and illustrated throughout from colour photographs. Leatherette very slightly lifting in isolated sections along edges on rear panel with a few faint creases, one pamphlet (“Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defence and Aviation International Airports Projects”) lightly rubbed at extremities, coin with one very faint scratch to verso. Overall very good.

King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, was opened in 1981, and was the first airport in the world to contain a hajj termi-nal specifically for Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca. It was designed by the noted Bangladeshi-American engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan, and was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Archi-tecture in 1983 chiefly for its innovative tent-like roofing system. One pamphlet, titled “King Abdulaziz International Airport”, in wrappers printed with symbols for amenities, comprises sections titled “Asset to the Kingdom”, “A City Within a City”, “Gateway to Mecca”, and “World’s Newest Airport”. Another, “King Abdulaziz International Airport – Jeddah”, in wrappers illustrated with photographs of Saudi royals, provides a more strictly factual overview of the airport and its facilities. The third pamphlet, “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defence and Aviation International Airports Projects”, shows the luxury inte-riors and art collections of the airport’s VIP areas.

£475 [113447]

The first American account of a firsthand experience in Arabia

311SAUNDERS, Daniel. A Journal of the Travels and Sufferings of Daniel Saunders Jun. A Mariner on Board the Ship Commerce of Boston, Samuel Johnson, Commander, which was cast away near Cape Morebet, on the Coast of Arabia, July 10, 1792. Leominster: printed by Charles Prentiss for Robert B. Thomas, Sterling, 1797Duodecimo in eights (132 × 105 mm). Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled paper boards. Early 19th-century inscriptions to free endpa-pers. Split to head of front joint but still holding firm, marbled paper rubbed, chipped and faded, peeling off on front board, short closed tear to fore edge of front free endpaper, paper stock browned and with the occasional blemish. A very good copy in unrestored condition.

second edition, published three years after the first. Saun-ders was second mate on board the Grand Sachem out of Salem on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in 1791. He received a discharge from that vessel’s captain at Mauritius and trans-ferred to the ship Commerce as an able seaman. “A combination of bad weather and poor navigation resulted in the Commerce being grounded of the Dhofar coast . . . Twenty-seven of the crew . . . succeeded in getting ashore, and commenced a very strenuous journey overland to Muscat. The journey took 51 days, and when the group arrived in Muscat there were only eight survivors. Daniel Saunders wrote an account of the ordeal . . . his book contains information on the manners and customs of the local Arabs . . . It is both the first published account of an extended journey through part of Oman by Europeans, and the first American account of first-hand experience in Arabia. Saun-ders returned to the United States in 1793, and continued life 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]

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The discovery of Homeric Troy

312SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Trojanische Alterthümer. Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Troja. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874Octavo (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 north-west Anatolia as the site of Homeric Troy is still consid-ered today “the greatest of all archaeological finds” (PMM). His methods, which involved the destructive use of dynamite, were widely criticised by later scholars, but at the time his account of his discovery enjoyed a popularity unequalled by any previous work in the field. Schliemann, the son of a pastor from Meck-lenburg, made his fortune in business before devoting himself entirely to proving the reality of the Homeric epics. “In 1870 [he] started work at Hisarlik and by 1873, at the lowest stratum, he laid bare vast fortifications destroyed by fire and discovered a treasure of gold jewellery . . . What Schliemann had in fact dis-covered is now known to be a pre-Achaean city, long preceding the Homeric city; but he had proved his initial thesis: here was the real site of Troy” (ibid.)

Printing and the Mind of Man 362.

£1,750 [112133]

The first Turkish grammar printed in England

313SEAMAN, William. Grammatica linguae turcicae, in quinque partes distributa. Oxford: Henry Hall, printer to the University, and sold by Edward Millington, 1670Quarto (182 × 147 mm). Recent tan sheep to style, raised bands to spine forming compartments, titles to second gilt, double-rules to sides in blind, edges speckled blue. Printer’s device to the title page, 2 figurative initials, floral head- and tailpieces. Occasional contemporary marginalia and underlining in black ink, later (19th-century?) annotations in pencil, ownership inscription to verso of title repeated undated on sig. 2A4, 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 last two leaves browned and somewhat soiled, the former additionally with old repair to fore edge, faint chipping to corners towards first and last few leaves, light browning throughout, a few small worm-tracks, 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 copy.

first and only edition, sir william jones’s copy, of the first Turkish grammar printed in England; this copy inscribed 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-

logue makes no mention of the present title though it could well have been offered as part of a larger lot from a collection rich in Turcica. One of 300 copies printed, well-held institutionally but complete copies scarce in commerce. Seaman (1606/7–1680) graduated MA from Balliol College in 1626 before travelling to Constantinople in the service of English ambassador, Sir Peter Wyche. He returned sometime before 1631 to resume his position as rector at Upton Scudamore, the rural Wiltshire parish of his birth. His first publication in the field of Turkish studies was an English translation of Sadettin Hoca’s Tac üt-tevarih (“The crown of histories”), printed in 1652 as The Reign of Sultan Orchan, Second King of the Turks. As one of the very few Englishmen to know Turkish, he was later commissioned by Robert Boyle to translate the New Testament into Turkish (pub-lished in 1666) as part of the burgeoning project to evangelise the Levant. Armenian Turkish-speaker Shahin Kandy suggested that Seaman’s Turkish was so artificial as to be incomprehen-sible, though Boyle was sufficiently unperturbed to fund the production of the present title by subscribing to purchase £20 worth of copies: a considerable sum (ODNB). Seaman’s effort was not the first Turkish grammar to be printed in Europe, a distinction which belongs to Hieronymus Megiser’s 1612 Institu-tionum linguae turcicae, though it was unusual in employing Arabic types, the first such work printed in Oxford, an astronomical compendium incorporating Ulugh Beg’s star tables, having ap-peared in 1648, and a few minor adaptations were required for Turkish characters. Madan notes two issues of this title, not distinguished in ESTC. This copy is Madan 2863*, with a five-line Latin note on p. 183 stating that Seaman’s grammar and his translation of the New Testament can each be purchased from either Millington or the author; the Blackmer copy was Madan 2863, in which this note is omitted.

Blackmer 1518; Madan III, 2863*; Wing S2179. See further Alastair Ham-ilton, “Oriental Languages”, in Ian Gadd, ed. The History of Oxford Univer-sity Press, vol. I pp. 405–6.

£2,500 [105026]

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314SÉMACH, Yomtob. Alliance Israélite Universelle – Une Mission de l’Alliance au Yémen. Paris: Siège de la Société, [1910]Octavo. Crudely glued into later card wrappers but now detached, typed title label to front wrapper, title page present. 4 plates. Quite heavily browned, some staining, ink marks to the title page.

first edition thus. Scarce, one copy only on OCLC, at Har-vard. Extracted from the Bulletin de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle, paginated pp. 48–162, this copy has the MS notation “Edition corrigée” to the front wrapper. Based in Paris, the Alliance, the first international Jewish organization, advocated the emancipa-tion of the Jewish population and the protection of Jewish rights around the world. The present piece is an account of a visit to the Yemen to report on the condition of the Yemenite Jews, perceived at the time in terms of one of the Lost Tribes. Sémach was the director of the Alliance’s school at Beirut, and as part of his mission he was to lay the foundations for the education of the Yemenites within the Francophone western cultural model favoured by the organization.

£250 [43623]

315SHARP, Granville. Three Tracts on the Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; With an appendix addressed to the Hebrew nation. London: by W. Calvert for Vernor and Hood, F. and C. Rivington, J. White, J. Hatchard, W. Dwyer, and L. Pennington at Durham, 1804Octavo (187 × 110 mm). Uncut in original boards, white paper backstrip, manuscript title to spine. With the individual title pages and half-titles for each tract, the register continuous except for the appendix. Spine slightly rolled and chipped, a few small markings to covers. An excel-lent, entirely unsophisticated copy.

first and only edition. Sharp (1735–1813) is best remem-bered as one of the first abolitionists, through whose efforts

“the anti-slavery movement gained public attention and sympa-thy and . . . transformed itself from a benign climate of opinion to a highly organized campaign” (ODNB); Thomas Clarkson identified him as the founder of the movement. He was also an esteemed amateur linguist and theologian, having taught himself Hebrew and Greek while apprenticed to a London lin-en-draper in order to debate with two of his fellow apprentices, one of whom was Jewish, the other a member of the Unitarian Socinian sect, which denied the divinity of Christ. His Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament (1798; 3rd edn, 1803) “argued strongly for the divinity of Christ and struck a blow against the Socinian position” (ibid.) “Dr Henry Lloyd, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, lauded Sharp for his insights into the pronunciation of Hebrew, as did Bishop Horsley on Sharp’s new insights on Hebrew syntax . . . A refrain seen in many reviews . . . was that Sharp’s treatment was the finest in print, the ablest defence of a view, a great insight that would stand the test of time” (Wallace, Granville Sharp’s Canon and its Kin, p. 47).

£750 [111956]

316SHEA, David, & Anthony Troyer (eds.) The Dabistan, or School of Manners, translated from the Original Persian, with Notes and Illustrations. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 18433 volumes, tall octavo. Original green cloth, paper-spine labels, edges untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s be-quest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, manuscript shelf-marks to spines and front-pastedowns, and blind-stamps to the text as usual. Spine-labels largely missing, vol. 1 spine chipped at foot, vols. 2 and 3 slightly nicked, skilful restoration to joints, sides lightly rubbed, tips bumped, endpapers browned, occasional light spotting, vol. 2 sigs. 21–2 foxed more heavily, occasional pale-tide marks to margins of vols. 2 and 3, only touching the text in vol. 3 contents. A good copy.

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first complete edition in english of this “important [Persian] text of the Azar Kayvani pseudo-Zorostrian sect. It was written anonymously between the years 1645 and 1658 and contains important information particularly about the prevalent religions of India in the 17th century” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The author, erroneously identified by Sir William Jones as one Muhsin Fani, appears to to have composed most of the text during the reign of Shah Jahan, travelling to various parts of India to study different religious creeds; his attempt to keep his identity secret probably reflects the orthodox religious climate subsequently promulgated by Awrangzeb (r. 1658–1707). Each chapter is devoted to the beliefs of a different group, includ-ing Parsis, Hindus, Tibetans, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and (treated separately) Sufis, as well as smaller communities. The Persian text was printed in Calcutta in 1809; a partial translation by Francis Gladwin had previously appeared in the New Asiatic Miscellany (1789). This edition is scarce, with seven copies listed at auction since 1933.

£1,250 [94074]

317SHEEAN, Vincent. The New Persia. New York & London: The Century Co., 1927Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board black. 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

1927; Pearson’s mission there is referenced in this book, and a photograph of him appears at p. 128.

£475 [103595]

318SHELL COMPANY. Shell Motor Tours. A complete guide to the best and most interesting provincial and desert routes in Egypt. Cairo: Shell Company and the Royal Automobile Club of Egypt, 1930Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in red and black. A little rubbed and soiled on the wrappers, light marginal toning, overall very good.

first edition of this extremely uncommon early moto-tourist handbook for Egypt, with no copies traced in libraries. Tours are listed with Cairo and Alexandria as starting points, begin-ning with 50-mile round trips, such as Cairo to the pyramids at Saqqara, and extending to considerably longer journeys, includ-ing Cairo to Luxor and Alexandria to the isolated Siwa Oasis, testament to a time when Egypt was perhaps more easily navi-gable than it is today. Routes are meticulously described and the notes pages are filled with detailed itineraries in manuscript, not limited to Egypt but also including routes to Jerusalem and Petra.

£575 [99983]

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319SHELL COMPANY. King Fouad Way: Cairo to Alexandria Desert Road. Cairo: Shell Company, 1939Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original photographically illustrated card wrappers. Profusely illustrated with photographs and cartoons through-out the text. A little rubbed on the wrappers, separating towards the tail, but overall very good.

first and only edition. This pamphlet celebrates Shell’s completion of the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road in November 1939, a project which had taken the company over three years and made them considerably less profit than expected under stringent conditions imposed by an Egyptian government in-creasingly resentful of British hegemony. In equal parts a brief history of the project and a manual for correct road usage, the foreword strikes an apologetic note: “The road across the desert . . . has received undeserved criticism and publicity mainly in-stigated by interested parties . . . If you have patience to read to 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 lorries and tanks; It is six metres wide like the Suez Road; All ac-cidents so far have been due to unsafe cars and bad drivers” (p. 3). An uncommon record of the latter days of British influence in Egypt, with no other copy traced.

£450 [99978]

320SHOBERL, Frederic. The World in Miniature; Persia, Containing a brief description of the country; and an account of its government, laws, and religion, and of the character, manners and customs, arts, amusements, etc. of its inhabitants. London: for R. Ackermann, 18223 volumes in one, duodecimo in sixes (135 × 83 mm). Contemporary straight-grain roan, rebacked, spine richly gilt, red morocco label, twin

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 shaved on Persian at Prayers plate (facing p. 72 vol. 2), rear inner hinge superficially split but firm. A good copy with fresh plates.

first edition of the fifth title in the World in Miniature series. Shoberl was textually indebted to Ouseley, Malcolm, J. M. Kin-neir, Waring, Morier and other contemporary authorities; the engravings reproduce designs by Persian artists. “The aim of this interesting series [was] to increase the store of knowledge con-cerning the various branches of the great family of Man” (Abbey). With the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, heir to a suc-cessful chain of dispensing chemists, based in Nelson, Lan-cashire: “A collector of books, in a delightful room at his home, white-painted bookshelves stacked high on all the available wall space show to advantage the hand-tooled leather bindings of a collection that has been acquired slowly and with discrimination over the years” (The Chemist and Druggist, 7 September 1957).

Abbey, Travel 6; Colas 2726; Tooley 515.

£1,000 [115123]

321SHUQAYR, Na‘um. [Title in Arabic] Ta’rikh Sina al-qadim wa’l-hadith wa-jughrafiyatuha . . . (The History and Geography of Sinai Ancient and Modern, with a summary of the histories of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula with regard to their commercial and military relations by way of Sinai, from the beginning of history to the present day). Cairo: Matba’at al-Ma’arif, 1916Octavo (244 × 160 mm). Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 27 similar plates, some 100 illustrations from photographs to the text; 3 sketch maps of Sinai quarantine station for returning pilgrims, the Arabian Peninsula and environs and the Ottoman military advance through Sinai in 1915; large 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 from cloth, light toning, rear hinge split. A good copy.

first edition. Three detailed chapters cover the geography, Bedouin and history of the Sinai Peninsula; in the preface Shuqayr

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writes that the book was about to go to press when war was de-clared in 1914 and he decided to extend the scope of his study with a “conclusion” (khatimah), not so much a conclusion as “a history of the Arabs before and after the advent of Islam, in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond” (p. 6). Na‘um Shuqayr (1863–1922) was born in Choueifat, Beirut and studied at the Syrian Protestant College, now known as the Amer-ican University of Beirut. On graduating he moved to Egypt and worked in military intelligence, initially for the Egyptian Army. He was then transferred to the Sudan, where he served under Lord Kitchener and Sir Reginald Wingate, the dedicatee of the present piece, and gathered intelligence on Mahdist forces – an experience which culminated in his 1903 study of the Sudan. He was later posted to Sinai with a brief to maintain peace between the Bedouin tribes, serving there during the Khedival–Ottoman border dispute of 1906. The photographs are mainly derived from other works in French, Arabic and English, including Sutton’s My Camel Ride from Suez to Mount Sinai (1913), with some original imag-es, but Shuqayr does not make quite clear which ones these are (p. 7). The excellent folding map to the rear, however, is explicitly the author’s own revision of the most complete map of Sinai then available, originally produced by the British War Office. Scarce: Copac locates just two copies in the British Isles (Ox-ford and Cambridge) with OCLC adding seven in the US and four across Israel and Lebanon.

Not in Gay or Macro. For Shuqayr see Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli, al-A‘lam.

£3,500 [102606]

322SLATIN, Rudolf C. Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes. 1879–1895. Translated by Major F. R. Wingate. London: Edward Arnold, 1896

Octavo. Original dark red cloth, gilt lettered spine, pictorial gilt block on front cover, top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece, 21 plates, 2 folding maps. A few marks to binding, touch of foxing to title.

third edition, same year as the first, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: “To General George W. Wingate, with best compliments from the author, R. Slatin. Merano 4/III [1]928”. This is almost certainly George Wood Wingate (1840–1928), an American lawyer who served in a New York regiment during the Civil War and later as a general in the National Guard; he may have been related to the book’s translator, F. R. Wingate. Merano (or Meran) is a spa resort in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Perhaps both men were “taking the waters” there at the time the book was presented. “Slatin’s career in the Sudan covered thirty-six eventful years. He started in January 1879 in the finance department as an in-spector with the rank of a bimbashi (the Turkish equivalent of a major). Later that year he was appointed governor of Dara, in south-western Darfur, and after less than a year became gover-nor-general of the whole province. In his major publication Fire and Sword in the Sudan (1896) Slatin was vague about his duties in Darfur. However, his life as governor-general was soon disrupt-ed by Muhammad Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullahi, who in June 1881 de-clared himself the Mahdi of the Sudan. Soon the Mahdi and his followers (ansar) escaped from Aba Island, on the White Nile, to the Nuba Mountains and Slatin became actively involved in the uprising . . . Fire and Sword in the Sudan was published in English in 1896 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Its impact on pub-lic opinion in Europe was greater than Wingate had expected. It appeared in numerous editions until 1935, and was translated into German, Italian, French, and Arabic” (ODNB).

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323SOLOVIEV, Vladimir. Tri sily. Publichnoe chtenie. (Three Forces; A Public Reading.) Moscow: M. Katkov, 1877Octavo (222 × 150 mm), pp. 16. Original printed paper wrappers. Housed in a black cloth rounded-spine slipcase and chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Small circular library label to front wrapper, oval library stamp to blank portion of first and last leaves. Wrapper largely split along spine, but still holding, front wrapper and first leaf a little crumpled at head, with a short tear but no loss, trace of library label and shelfmark to front wrapper; a very good copy.

Scarce first edition of the Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic Vladimir Soloviev’s rousing lecture, “Three Forces”, read to the Society of Amateurs of Rus-sian Literature in April 1877. “In the academic year 1876–7 Soloviev returned to teaching and worked on a second book, The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge. Before the year was over, however, he resigned his 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 lifestyle which suited him best, that of an independent scholar and publicist. Soloviev picked a good time to begin his publicis-tic career. Early in 1877 Russia declared war on the Ottoman em-pire in response to Turkish violence against Orthodox Christians in the Balkans. For the first time since the end of the Crimean War (1856), the Eastern Question returned to the center stage of European politics and and lent new urgency to the issue of Russia’s historical mission . . . Hitching religious philosophy to Russian messianism . . . his thesis was as simple as it was bold. The world is dominated by two opposed, but equally flawed, religious principles: the Islamic or oriental principle of ‘the inhuman God,’ a formula justifying universal servitude, and the modern European principle of ‘the godless human individual,’ a formula validating ‘universal egoism and anarchy.’ The conflict between these principles can only end in a vicious circle. Fortu-nately for humanity there is a country, Russia, where East and

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 synthesis of the future.” (Paul Valliere, Modern Russian Theology: Orthodox Theology In A New Key, p. 114). “The great Russian religious philosopher V. Solov’ev, wrote about the influence of the religious philosophy of Islam on the cultural history of Western countries. He said that in the devel-opment of the history of humanity there are three forces: the first would like to subdue humankind to God; the second would skip ‘the unity of the world’ and give freedom to the individual form of life; the third would reconcile the unity of God with individual freedom. In the modern world, according to Solov’ev, these forces exist in three historical cultures: the first is the Arabian East, the second is Western civilization, and the third is Slavonic.” (Abdusamedov Anvar, “The Place of Islamic Culture in Social Progress”, Spiritual values and social progress, Uzbekistan philosophical studies, 1, p. 70).

£7,500 [86058]

The first work to collect the earliest photographs of Mecca and Medina

324SOUBHY, Saleh. Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à la Médine. Précédé d’un aperçu sur l’Islamisme et suivi de considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d’un appendice sur la circoncision. Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, 1894Octavo (225 × 150 mm). Black crocodile-skin-textured paper sides, red-brown cloth backstrip, black morocco label lettered in gilt to spine. Pho-tographic frontispiece and finispiece, 17 plates after the photographs of Muhammad Sadiq Bey and al-Sayyid ‘Abd al-Ghaffar al-Baghdadi. Ex-tremities lightly rubbed with small area of wear to corner of front board, contents toned, half-title missing, old tape-repair to verso of contents page. Altogether a more than presentable copy of an uncommon publi-cation.

first and only edition. Saleh Soubhi was an Egyptian pub-lic health official commissioned by Khedive ‘Abbas II to write a report on the conditions experienced by pilgrims to Mecca.

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He performed the hajj twice, in 1888 and 1891, producing this detailed account, to which are affixed a response to European criticisms of Islam and an appendix making several suggestions with regard to improving hygiene practices en route. The Pèlerinage notably collects the work of the first two men to photograph the holy cities of Arabia. Muhammad Sadiq Bey was a military engineer who had performed the hajj several times as treasurer of the Egyptian mahmal, or official caravan. His pho-tographs of Mecca and Medina, the first ever, appeared in his work Mash’al al-Mahmal (“The Torch of the Mahmal”), published in Cairo in 1881 and now with only two copies extant in libraries worldwide (NY Public Library and the National Library of Mo-rocco). ‘Abd al-Ghaffar was a medical doctor and the first Arab photographer of Mecca. He had been taught the craft by Dutch orientalist Snouck Hurgronje; his images were first published in Hurgronje’s Bilder aus Mekka (1889).

Burrell 725; Macro 2096. Not in Gay, Blackmer or Hamilton, The Arcadian Library.

£4,000 [99252]

325SPEKE, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary straight-grain blue morocco, rebacked and relined some time in the early 20th century, smooth spine decoratively gilt in compartments, two-line gilt border enclosing deco-rative blind frame to sides, floral cornerpieces in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, one other similar portrait, 24 further plates and 46 illustrations to the text, mostly after 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.

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 in London the strained relationship between the two explorers was finally sundered by the acclaim greeting Speke’s discovery, which Burton felt to be premature. In 1860 Speke returned to Africa to confirm his thesis, and in spite of complicated diplo-macy involved in crossing the various kingdoms of the interior, eventually located “the point where the Nile issues from Lake Victoria – which he reached on 28 July 1862 and which he named Ripon Falls. This was the crowning moment of the expedition and of Speke’s career” (ODNB). Unfortunately Speke’s compan-ion James Grant, suffering from an ulcerated leg, had returned northward, so the discovery was unverified; nor did the party follow the Nile stream closely as they travelled north to Bunyoro, allowing critics to question whether Speke’s river really was the Nile. On his return to London Speke almost immediately came under fire, not least from Burton, who questioned whether he had found the same lake from the north as he had seen from the south. The British Association arranged a public debate to be held in Bath on 16 September 1864, but Speke was found dead the previous day, apparently killed in a hunting accident. The circumstances of his death, his dispute with Burton, and 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-timated. In discovering the ‘source reservoir’ of the Nile he succeeded in solving the ‘problem of all ages’ . . . He and Grant were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa, and thereby gained for the world a knowledge of rather more than eight degrees of latitude, or about five hundred geographical miles, in a portion of Eastern Africa previously totally unknown” (ibid.)

Czech p. 151; Howgego IV, S53, S54; Ibrahim–Hilmy 255.

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326SPIRO, Socrates. The Moslem Pilgrimage. An authentic account of the journey from Egypt to the holy land of Islam, and a detailed description of Mecca and Medina and all the religious ceremonies performed there by the pilgrims from all parts of the Mohammedan world. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1932Small octavo (180 × 122 mm). Original blue quarter cloth, light blue pa-per boards, half-tone reproduction of Ibrahim Rifat Pasha’s photograph of the Egyptian mahmal mounted to front board within printed titles as issued. 37 half-tone plates from photographs by Ibrahim Rifat Pasha, Batanuni Bey, and Sadiq Bey (i. e. “Mohammed Sadek Pasha”). Contem-porary ownership inscription “A little Easter thought, Cairo – 1934” to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, wear to headcaps, tips lightly rubbed and bumped, boards sunned, front inner hinge split at head but holding, text-leaves toned, plates bright and fresh, a very good copy.

first and only edition of this uncommon account of the hajj, collecting some of the earliest and most important photographs of Mecca and Medina. A decidedly scarce title on the market, with two copies traced at auction; Copac traces three copies only in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library, London Library and Glasgow), OCLC adds fourteen world-wide. “Socrates Spiro (1868–?) was an Egyptian of Syrian and Greek descent. He was educated at the American Mission College in Cai-ro. His first post was as a private secretary of the undersecretary of state for finance, and later he became director of Egyptian ports and lighthouses . . . In 1907 Spiro went to work in Geneva as a lec-turer of Arabic at the university there. He returned to Egypt in 1912, where he first worked for the Egyptian Gazette and then was appoint-ed Arabic editor of the Egyptian Mail . . . In 1932, he published a book titled The Moslem Pilgrimage. After that, all traces of Socrates Spiro seem to vanish, which is strange for a man who held such high pub-lic functions” (Bassioney, Al-Arabiyya, vol. 47, p. 3). Chapters cover the Egyptian mahmal (official caravan), the Cai-ro–Mecca route, the Suez–Jeddah route, Mecca, Medina, and the

Haifa–Medina railway. “My first authority is the late Mohammed 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 information he obtained at first hand in a book now out of print [i.e. Mash’al al-Mahmal, 1881] . . . My second authority is Mohammed Labib Al-Batanuni Bey, who accompanied the ex-Khedive Abbas Pasha in 1909 to the Hedjaz, and subsequently published a record of this journey [al-Rihlah al-Hijaziyah, 1911]. My third authority is a number of newspapers articles relative [sic] to the officials who accompany the caravan, much information about the sacred towns, etc., and my fourth is that of men who made the journey . . . The il-lustrations . . . are principally drawn from the above two works, and from that of Ibrahim Rifat Pasha [Mir’at al-haramayn, 1924], the most complete on the subject” (Preface).

£1,375 [113279]

327SPRENGER, Aloys. A Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Orientalis Sprengeriana. Giessen: Wilhelm Kelle 1857Octavo in half-sheets (209 × 125 mm). Contemporary sprinkled paper boards, green paper spine label, sprinkled edges. Contemporary book-seller’s ticket of Luzac and Co. to front pastedown. Spine rubbed, ex-tremities lightly bumped and worn. A very good copy.

first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow German orientalist Johann Gildemeis-ter on the front free endpaper, dated March 1857. Laid in is a copy of Sprenger’s 18-page pamphlet, Dr. Halm und die Bibliotheca Sprengeriana (Heidelberg: Adlon, 1857), a response to the outrage expressed by the Bavarian state librarian at the sale of his collec-tion to the Prussian archives in Berlin – the pamphlet extremely uncommon, with only the Yale copy traced in libraries. Sprenger (1813–1893), an Austrian orientalist, travelled to India in 1843, becoming principal of Delhi College and secretary to 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 (1812–1890) was professor of oriental languages at Bonn and Marburg. He focused mainly on Sanskrit but in 1836 published an edition of the section on India from al-Mas’udi’s Muruj al-dhahab, an important tenth-century chronicle in Arabic; Sprenger began an edition soon after for the Oriental Translation Fund, though only managed one volume, published in 1841. Both items come from the library of British colonial agent and Arabist Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), with his ownership inscription to front pastedown, a printed bookplate indicating his widow’s bequest of his collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, with association manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual: an excellent additional association.

£1,500 [117636]

328SPRENGER, Aloys. Die Post- und Reiserouten des Orients. Mit 16 Karten nach einheimischen Quellen. Erstes Heft [all published]. Leipzig: in Commission bei F. A. Brockhaus, 1864Octavo (213 × 135 mm). Later 19th-century green quarter cloth, marbled boards, title gilt to spine, grey marl endpapers. 16 folding maps. A little rubbed, some light browning, but overall very good.

first and only edition, published as volume III, part 3 of the Abhandlungen der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, of this study of itineraries and post-routes through India, Persia, the Middle East and Arabia, entirely based on regional sources, by the great Austrian-born Orientalist. The work was compiled when he was professor of Oriental Languages at Bern, a period when he pub-lished “his most valuable works, mainly on ancient geography and early Islamic history” (ODNB); it is referred to by Kremer in his work on south Arabian lore as “excellent and highly useful . . . opening entirely new ways of instruction” (our translation). The book includes a large folding map of routes in Arabia.

Macro 2105.

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The first published dictionary of Yemeni Arabic

329STACE, Edward Vincent. An English–Arabic Vocabulary. For the use of students of the colloquial. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893Octavo in half-sheets (215 × 130 mm). Original blue diagonally-ribbed cloth, titles and double fillet rolls to spine gilt, frame to boards in blind, edges sprinkled red, yellow endpapers. Six pages of publisher’s advertisements to rear. Spine sunned with minor wear to head and foot, extremities lightly bumped, a few faint markings to boards, a couple of small dents to rear board, top edge dust-darkened. A very good copy.

first and only edition of the first bilingual dictionary of Ye-meni Arabic (Vanhove, p. 750). European studies of colloquial Ar-abic in fact have a longer printed history than dictionaries of the classical form, with Pedro de Alcala’s Arte para saber la lengua araviga (Granada, 1505), based on the Granadan dialect, identified as “the first attempt to propagate knowledge of the Arabic language in print” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library). The present vocabulary deals with Yemeni Arabic and records the language “of the streets, the bazaar, trading ports, and the caravans from Yemen”. As the First Assistant Political Resident, Aden, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Stace was notably placed in charge of the 183 Ethiopian Oromo children rescued by the British Navy from an Arab slave dhow bound for Jiddah in 1888; the decision was made to send them to South Africa to be looked after by mis-sionaries at the Lovedale Institution in the Eastern Cape.

See Martine Vanhove, “Yemen”, in Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Lin-guistics, vol. IV, pp. 750–8. Not in Macro or Gay.

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330STARK, Freya. The Southern Gates of Arabia. A Journey in the Hadhramaut. London: John Murray, 1936Octavo. 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 rolled, scattered pale markings to cloth, contents slightly toned, a few trivial spots to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author “To Mr. Guest with affectionate and grateful thanks for much help, from Freya May 1936” on the front free endpaper. Arthur Rhuvon Guest (1869–1946) was an accomplished Arabist who helped Stark with her original researches into Hadhramaut his-tory, and read the manuscript. In the acknowledgements Stark thanks Guest “for his invaluable assistance during the writing of my book – an assistance to which such Islamic learning as appears within its pages is chiefly due”. After achieving recognition with her first book The Valley of Assassins (1934), which described travels in Iraq and Iran, Stark went to Hadhramaut, southern Arabia, in search of ancient trade routes, landing at Mukallah and travelling inland to Tarim via Jol, Wadi Daw’an, Khuraybah, and such ancient cities as Shibam and Sayun. She returned a celebrity, and her book, “of-ten considered a classic of travel writing” (ODNB) was awarded the Mungo Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

Macro 2120; Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 28–30.

£875 [116857]

331STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut. London: John Murray, 1938Quarto. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and front board green, text printed on grey paper. With the photographic dust jacket. With 130 monochrome plates after photographs by the author, map of the Hadh-ramaut on green paper. An excellent copy in the jacket with extremities a little rubbed and creased, short closed tear to head of rear panel and some nicks to extremities.

first trade edition, the presumed first issue binding.

£475 [112511]

332STEVENS, John. The History of Persia. Containing, the Lives and Memorable Actions of it Kings from the first Erecting of that Monarchy to this Time; an Exact Description of all its Dominions; a Curious Account of India, China, Tartary, Kermon, Arabia, Nixabur, and the Islands of Ceylon and Timor; as also of Cities occasionally mention’d, as Schiras, Samarkand, Bokhara, etc. . . . To which is added, an Abridgement of the Lives of the Kings of Harmuz, or Ormuz. London: for Jonas Brown, 1715Octavo (188 114 mm). Later 18th-century panelled calf, rebacked and relined probably in the 19th century with the original flat gilt spine laid down, red morocco label, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece trimmed and laid down verso of second blank. Lascelles bookplate to second blank recto; faded contemporary ownership inscription to title. Joints and extremities skilfully refurbished, contents variably browned, occasional spotting, small hole to title not affecting text, first gathering dampstained. A good copy.

first and only edition. “The book is a translation of a work in Spanish published in 1610 by Pedro Teixeira (erroneously identified by Stevens as Antony), a Portuguese traveler and writer about whom little is known. Some time after 1586 Teixeira traveled to Portuguese Goa in present-day India. From there he went to Persia, where he became proficient in Persian and acquired books and manuscripts on the history of the country. Teixeira’s book consisted of a summary and translation of the Tarikh-i rawzat al-safa (“History of the kings of Persia”) by Mir Kh-vand, Muhammad ibn Khavandshah (1433–98), a summarized translation of a Persian chronicle of the kings of H[o]rmuz, and an account of his own voyage from India to Italy in 1600–01. Stevens’s work contained numerous errors and inaccuracies, but it played an important part in making Persia better known to 18th-century European and especially British readers” (Library of Congress, online.)

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Ghani p. 256; Goldsmiths’ 5195; Wilson p. 216.

£1,500 [94080]

333STEWART, Duncan. A Practical Arabic Grammar. London: John W. Parker, 1841Octavo (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

three hundred pages of good and clear print, we have, besides the grammar, a century of proverbs from Maidani, and a series of historical extracts from Abdulfadá; a list of the most useful books for the study of the language, and a preface, containing an account of the chief Arabic grammars etc. already in exis-tence” (The Asiatic Journal, May–August 1842, p. 54). Scarce in commerce.

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first edition of this travel account by Stewart of his four-month trip through the Middle East taking him from Cairo to Damascus. Stewart was a Scottish pastor and one of the leading figures in the Italian Protestant and Waldensian movement from the 1840s onwards. The journey documented in this book inspired his commentary on the four gospels, written from 1862 until his death in Livorno 1887, which is said by the Society of Waldensian Studies to have had “a significant impact among Italian evangelicals”.

£450 [117489]

335STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Autograph letter signed, quoting a Persian fable. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati: 15 December 1840Single bifolium (245 × 195 mm), folded four times for posting, 12 lines written in black ink to front panel with the date “Dec. 15 1840” lightly pencilled to upper outer corner; rear panel verso ink-stamped “Walnut Hills, Dec. 16” and addressed in black ink to Mr Louis Cist, Cincinnati, Ohio, in Stowe’s hand, semicircle neatly cut into fore edge, probably where originally attached to red ?wax seal at gutter opposite. Housed in a custom blue half cloth book-form case with marbled sides and back-strip lettered in gilt on front panel. Slightly toned, a few pale marks, old restoration to extremities, some judicious repair along folds. Overall, very good.

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 Beecher family home, now kept as a museum, was where she first began to write, and where she lived until shortly after her marriage to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836; the couple later moved to Maine, where Stowe was a university lecturer. Louis Cist was the author of the Cincinnati Miscellany (1845), a work of local history. His collection of autographs was sold at auction in 1886–7. This letter was more recently in the collection of noted Danish-Amer-ican bibliographer and libarian Jens Christian Bay (1871–1962), with his pencilled ownership inscription to the inside cover of the book-form case, below a typescript mounted label reading “Kongeligt Dansk Hof-Bogbinderi [Royal Danish Bindery,] El-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 Library in that city.

£750 [111447]

336STRUYS, Jan Janszoon. Les Voyages de Jean Struys, En Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes, et en Plusieurs autre pais étrangers; Accompagnés de remarques particuliéres fur la qualité, la religion, le gouvernemont, les costumes & le néoce des lieux qu’il a vus; avec quantité de figures en taille douce definées par lui-même; & deux lettres qui traitent à fond des malheurs d’Astracan. A quoi l’on a ajouté comme une Chose digne d’etre suë, la Relation d’un Naufrage, dont les suites ont produit des effets extraordinaires. [Bound with] Relation du Naufrage d’un Vaisseau Hollandois, Nommé Ter Schelling, Vers la Côte de Bengala: où L’on voit des effects extraordinaire de la faim, & plusiurs autres choses remarquables, arrivés à ceux qui montoient ce Batiment. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 16812 parts in one, quarto (238 × 187 mm) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, First title printed in red and black, 2 additional engraved titles, and 19 folding plates, engraved illustrations. From the library

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first edition in french, first published in Amsterdam in 1676, before becoming a Europe-wide best-seller. Purporting to be an account of the travels of a Dutch sail-maker and seaman, the truth of these adventures has been challenged in the past. However, it is now widely accepted that although “replete with plagiarised text and improbable events . . . the ghost-written text . . . is nevertheless a useful source” (review of Boterbloem, The Fiction and Reality of Jan 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 Sierra Leone, 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

redemption by the VOC in Batavia. Following the publication of his book Struys went to sea again in the employ of the Danish court, and on his return retired to Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, where he died in 1694 “a man of relative wealth and celebrity” (Rob-erts). Struys’s highly-coloured text is further dramatized by some very explicit plates, but there are also some excellent views includ-ing one of Muscat, where he was in 1672, from the sea.

Blackmer 1616; Boterbloem, The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys, 2010; cf. Ghani p. 357; Howgego, I, S185; Landwehr, VOC, 423–4 refer; Macro 2152; Roberts, Les voyages de Jean Struys, University of Reading Special Collections Services featured item, July 2011; Wing S6019.

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337STUART, Brian. Adventure in Algeria. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936Octavo. Publisher’s oatmeal cloth lettered in blue, ?remainder binding. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 7 other plates, sketch maps to the endpapers. Cloth just a little mottled, half-title and final blank a little browned, otherwise very good indeed in slightly rubbed jacket, a few short splits and minor chips at the edges, adhesive tape repairs verso.

first edition of this account of service in North Africa with the French Foreign Legion, and wanderings thereafter. “It is to Sidi bel Abbes and Ain Safra that he takes us – the garrison towns of the notorious French Foreign Legion. There as a troop-er he spent five years. Years of hardship and danger, of comrade-ship and content. When, at last, he took leave of the Legion, he began his remarkable lone trek into the desert” (jacket blurb). Basil Bunting, reviewing in the Spectator, evidently enjoyed the book: “Lieutenant Brian Stuart, who joined the French Foreign Legion, liked it, and was bitterly disappointed when the doctor marked him ‘inapte service’, set off to cross the Sahara on foot with a volume of Pedro de Alcantara in his pocket and very few francs . . . I don’t suppose the Royal Geographical Society will offer him its medal, yet he saw men and cities in the spirit of Odysseus, and can convey their caviar. The narrative moves.” Genuinely uncommon in the jacket.

£350 [117449]

338SUYUTI, Jalal al-Din al-. History of the Caliphs. Translated from the Original Arabic by H. S. Jarrett. Calcutta: the Asiatic Society, 1880–16 parts in one volume, octavo in half-sheets (250 × 152 mm). Contem-porary half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, original purple printed paper wrappers

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 widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Small portion of stripping to morocco on backstrip, spotting to prelims and endleaves, very occasionally to text, one of the bound wrappers partially torn. A very good copy.

first edition in any language of Suyuti’s Ta’rikh al-khulafa’, fairly common in libraries, but rare in commerce, with no copies traced in auction records; the first Arabic edition was printed in Cairo 1887. A prolific polymath, Suyuti (1445–1505) was born in Cairo, where he lived through the final decades of the Mamluk Sultan-ate. His cohesive and authoritative chronicle of Muslim rulers, from the immediate successors of Muhamamad to the shadow ‘Abbasid caliphs of his own time and also covering Muslim Spain, is a work “right on the chronological edge of the historical period of classical Islam” (Calder and others, eds, Classical Islam: A Source-book of Religious Literature, p. 83). “Suyuti wanted to curb certain excesses of the Mamluk regime. He drew a favourable contrast between the piety of Saladin, the restorer of Sunnism in Egypt, and the present rulers. His praise went to jurists, religious judges, Sufis, and mystics; he highlighted the heroic resistance of a qadi to Baybars. Suyuti offers a glimpse of Sunni ‘pious opposition’, at odds with the temper of the dawlah [regime] and scornful of its power” (Black, History of Islamic Political Thought, p. 148). Jarrett was an Indian Army soldier and colonial officer. He also produced translations of the 16th-century “Constitute of Akbar” (Ain-i Akbari) and the Ibn ‘Arabshah’s account of Timur. Suyuti’s other notable works include his immense commentary on the Qur’an.

Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 5.

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339SYKES, Christopher. Changed: Being an Account of a Voyage in Modern Persia. With illustrations by Christopher and Angela Sykes. Southampton: privately printed at the Camelot Press, 1932Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Black and white frontispiece and 15 other plates. Spine gen-tly rolled, corners of boards a little bumped, light foxing to prelims and fore edge of text block. An excellent copy.

first edition of the author’s first book. Sykes, whose father had helped found the Arab Bureau with T. E. Lawrence and signed the Sykes–Picot agreement of 1916, took a course in Persian studies at the School of Oriental Studies, London. He later became hon-orary attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, 1930–31. This pri-vately printed book describes two journeys, from Yazd to Shiraz, and from Shiraz to Isfahan, undertaken in the latter half of 1931. He later spent two years travelling in Persia and Afghanistan with Robert Byron, an adventure captured in Byron’s The Road to Oxiana (1937). The book is handsomely produced and rare, with no copy in the British Library, Copac locating a National Trust copy only in Britain and OCLC locating only the copy at the Harry Ransom collection, University of Texas, Austin.

£3,500 [92305]

Inscribed to Percy Cox – Wassmuss’s rival in Mesopotamia and Persia

340SYKES, Christopher. Wassmuss. “The German Lawrence”. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936Octavo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in green, top edge green. Map endpapers, 12 photographic plates including frontispiece, of which 7 by Robert Byron. Newspaper clipping tipped to front free endpaper, containing a letter from one MacLeod M. Ferguson correcting Sykes’s account of “The Prisoners of Ahram”; recent bookplate of of British politician John “Jack” Donaldson (1907–1998) and his wife Frances (1907–1994), noted author and biographer, to the front free endpaper verso, below an obliterated ownership inscription. Boards very slightly sprung, a few portions of faint soiling to cloth, mild spotting to prelims and endpapers, occasional pencilled markings, mainly question- and exclamation marks, probably Cox’s, to the margins. A very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author “To Sir Percy Cox, from Christopher Sykes, March 1936” on the first blank and with Cox’s oval armorial book label. Cox was British consul general at Bushehr from 1904 to 1909, when he was promoted to political resident of the Persian Gulf; in the same year, Wilhelm Wassmuss arrived in Bushehr as German vice-consul. In the years leading up to war Wassmuss enjoyed great success in encouraging tribal revolts against the British in southern Persia. When war began Cox was appointed chief political officer with the Indian Expeditionary Force, mas-terminding the army’s political relations with Mesopotamia, and encouraging the resistance of Ibn Sau’d. Wassmuss contin-ued in his activities and “so worrisome did he become that the British violated Persian neutrality in efforts to arrest him. When they failed Sir Percy Cox even offered a reward for Wassmuss – alive or dead. The Foreign Office, however, was horrified at the prospect of political assassination and the idea was suppressed . . . Cox, however, had a measure of revenge. Later, when India had occasion to ask him if there was not something to be done to stop Wassmuss, he could only reply, ‘The risk which we incur of exciting the abhorrence of His Majesty’s Government togeth-er with the inability of the Indian Government to authorize any practical form of support to Haidar Khan after his . . . abortive endeavour to arrest Wassmuss, render it very difficult to do anything which would have effect” (Olson, Anglo-Iranian Relations During World War I, p. 71 note). After 1916 Wassmuss’s influence waned as it became clear to tribal leaders that a German victory over the British was not guaranteed. He received almost no recognition back in Germany after the war, and returned to Bushehr in 1924 intending to set up a farm and repay local tribal leaders from the profits; the farm failed and he returned to Germany, dying in poverty in 1931. Cox, on the other hand, was appointed high commissioner in Iraq in 1920, performing “the most important work of his ca-reer” (ODNB), arguing in favour of a continued British presence and setting up an Arab regime under Feisal. In 1922 he persuad-ed Ibn Sa’ud to recognise the state of Iraq, and retired the fol-lowing year. He died in a hunting accident in 1937, the year after this copy was inscribed.

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341SYKES, Sir Percy. A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 19152 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers 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 in end-pockets, title-page vignettes, headpieces, numerous illustrations to the text. Hunting bookplate of Francis White to the front pastedowns. Spines sunned, some very light rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy.

first edition of this highly influential history by one the great scholar-administrators, whose considerable literary output and lengthy firsthand experience of the country established his rep-utation as “an authority on Persian history, geography, and cus-toms” (ODNB) and earned him the Royal Geographical Society patron’s gold medal in 1902. Although it was intended in large part as a manual for British officers, Sykes’s History contains much that has since become historical currency. Sykes first became interested in the Persia and the Great Game at a young age, and made his first visit to the country in 1893, a six-month trip on horseback. He returned later that year entrusted with building relations with local leaders, and spent until June 1894 producing maps and surveys, as well as climbing the extinct Kuh-e Taftan volcano. Later that year he became the first British consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan. With Thomas Holdich he demarcated 300 miles of the Perso –Baluch frontier in 1896, over the next year introduced polo to Tehran, in 1898 founded the British consulate of Sistan and Kain, on the Afghan border. After service in the South African War in moved to Mashhad in 1905 and was appointed consul-general for the government of India in Khorasan. For the next eight years he produced annual trade reports, collected Russian intelligence and dealt with Shi’ite pilgrims from India, and gathered materi-al for his History, which was several times reprinted and reached

a third edition by 1930, but this first edition is uncommon, far more lavishly illustrated than subsequent editions, and is by far the most handsome.

Ghani 363; Wilson p. 221.

£650 [114855]

The foundation of classical Arabic historiography

342TABARI, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-. Chronique d’Abou Djafar Mohammed Tabari, fils de Djarir, fils d’Yezid; traduite sur la version persane d’Abou-Ali Mohammed Belami, fils de Mohammed, fils d’Abd-Allah, d’après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, par Louis Dubeux. Paris: for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1836Large quarto (320 × 250 mm). Original green cloth, printed paper label to spine as issued, binder’s ticket of W. Runting, Chancery Lane to front pastedown. Frequent Arabic types. Engraved presentation leaf printed in purple with foliate border. Scattered light cockling to cloth, heavier on 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, small spot to fore edge, a little pale foxing towards front and rear, else internally crisp, fresh and almost entirely unopened. A very good copy.

first edition in any language of Tabari’s Ta’rikh al-rusul wa’l-muluk (“History of Prophets and Kings”), “the most import-ant of the classical Arabic historical texts still extant” (Encylopae-dica Iranica), volume I (all published); this copy with a presenta-

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tion leaf addressed to noted translator and businesswoman Lady Charlotte Guest (née Schreiber, 1812–1895), best remembered for her edition of the Mabinogion, the medieval Welsh prose cycle and the earliest recorded prose literature of the British Isles. “Introspective and uninterested in the usual accomplishments thought fit for a young lady”, Guest also taught herself Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian (ODNB). Dubeux’s text, based on the 963 ad Persian translation by Sa-manid vizier Bal’ami, covers the period from the creation of the world to the time of Biblical prophet Shu’ayb. One of the first works published by the Oriental Translation Fund, the trans-lation was not completed until the edition in four volumes by Hermann Zotenberg, published 1867–74. Tabari (839–923) was one of the most eminent scholars of the early ‘Abbasid era. Born in Amol, present-day Iran, he fol-lowed the custom of the time and visited the various intellectual centres of the Islamic east, including Basrah, Kufah, and Rayy, before eventually settling in Baghdad. Although learned in juris-prudence and hadith, he is remembered chiefly for his immense Qur’anic commentary and his Ta’rikh: “both are notable for their comprehensiveness and their meticulous citation of multi-ple and often conflicting sources, presumably in order to bring out their differences in accounts and interpretations, though not always (especially in the history) attempting to resolve them” (ibid.)

£1,250 [110201]

343TATE, George Passman. The Frontiers of Baluchistan. Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan. With an Introduction by Col. Sir A. Henry McMahon. London: Witherby & Co., 1909Octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spine, French fillet panels in blind to boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. Coloured frontispiece from a watercolour by the author, 36 plates from photographs, folding route map, folding coloured area map at the rear. A little rubbed, neatly recased, endpapers renewed, light browning and scattered foxing, but overall a very good copy.

first edition, a fairly uncommon book, this copy accompa-nied by an atmospheric original watercolour by Tate, which is reproduced as a plate in the book, captioned “Nad Ali. The delta of Seistan from the Tell of Surhdik”. The book gives a fascinating account of the author’s travels on the borders of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, and into Seistan, as an Extra Assistant Superintendent, Survey of India, employed on the Baluch–Afghan Boundary Mission, 1895–6, and Seistan Arbitration Mission, 1903–5; on the latter Tate was in charge of the survey section. Both missions were undertaken under Sir Henry McMahon, who was later Governor-General of Baluch-istan, and who here commends Tate in his introduction for for the “strength and picturesque colouring of his portraiture of the country and people he describes”.

Wilson p. 223.

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344TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste. Les Six Voyages . . . en Turque, en Perse, et aux Indes. Pendant l’espace de quarante ans . . . Premiere . . . [and] Deuxieme Partie [together with] Recueil de plusieurs Relations Et Traitez singukliers & curieux de J. B. Tavernier . . . [Amsterdam?:] suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 16793 volumes, duodecimo (153 × 92 mm). Late 18th-century crimson straight-grain morocco, title gilt direct to spine, flat bands, triple fillet gilt panels to compartments, French fillet panels with rosette corner-pieces to boards, single rule edge-roll, all edges gilt, French blue and cream silk head- and tailbands, French blue silk page-markers, marbled endpapers, gilt palmette roll to turn-ins. Vol. I with engraved half-title and 9 plates, all but one folding; vol. II with 25 plates, of which 19 are folding, illustration to the text; Receuil with portrait frontispiece and 8 folding plates, double-folding map of Japan and folding map of Tonkin. (Copies have been recorded recently with 42, 44, and 45 plates, this 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.) Book labels of Sefik E. Atabey to the front pastedowns. Some very slight rubbing to the joints, corners, head- and tailcaps, light toning, occa-sional spotting, a few small marginal tears, no loss of text, map of Japan slightly torn on a fold, but overall an extremely pretty set.

first small format edition, following the quarto firsts of Les Six Voyages (1676) and Recueil (1678); a beautifully presented set of this highly desirable edition of the voyages of this “most famous among the ‘business travellers’” (Speake). Tavernier made six trips to Asia in search of fine jewels – the 112 carat diamond that he purchased at Golconda became Louis XIV’s famous French Blue, and was later re-cut to reappear as the notorious Hope Diamond – and his records of business practices, commodities and currencies must have been carefully studied by all who were planning expeditions to the East. How-ever, he was also a man of wide ranging interests and keen ob-servation, studying the history, politics, religions and cultures of the countries that he visited, and giving excellent accounts

of, among other things, the practices of Hinduism; the history of the Moghul empire; and the workings of the Ottoman court: “He has a straightforward style and makes no attempt to gen-eralize or philosophize.” Tavernier’s was a direct and readable record, and was understandably extremely popular. The text is enhanced by the plates, which are crisply cut and full of detail, covering all aspects of his narrative, including views of Baghdad and Kandahar; Tavernier’s passeport, or firman, from Shah ‘Abbas II; a royal funeral procession in Tonkin; pre-cious stones acquired in India; a fakir; the currencies of India, Persia and Japan; an Indian katara, or push dagger; and the splendid map of Japan showing the Stations of the Tokaido.

Atabey 1201 (this copy, wrongly recorded as having 42 rather than 44 plates; binding illustrated); Brunet V, 681; Howgego, I, T14; Weber II, 277; this edition not in Blackmer.

£10,000 [70570]

345THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1959Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, title to spine, and abstracted sand dune device to the front board in gilt and white. With the dust jack-et. Frontispiece and 46 plates, 8 maps to the text, some full-page, fold-ing map mounted on the rear pastedown. Endpapers typically toned, pale toning to the margins, else very good in clipped, slightly rubbed, minor edge chips and splits, old tape repair at the head of the spine.

first u.s. edition, signed by the author on the title page; same year as the UK first. This was Thesiger’s first book and “and, in his opinion, his finest” (ODNB). “During the years that I was in Arabia I never thought that I would write a book about my travels . . . Seven years after leaving Arabia I showed some photographs I had taken to Graham Wat-son and he strongly urged me to write a book about the desert. This I refused to do . . . The following day Graham Watson came

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to see me again, and this time he brought Mark Longman with him. After much argument the two of them persuaded me to try to write this book. Now that I have finished it I am grateful to them, for the effort to remember every detail has brought back vividly into my mind the Bedu amongst whom I travelled, and the vast empty land across which I rode on camels for ten thou-sand miles” (Introduction).

£1,350 [100851]

Tamerlane the great

346(TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) WHITE, Joseph, trans. Institutes Political and Military, written originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane; First translated Into Persian By Abu Taulib Alhusseini; and thence Into English with Marginal Notes By Major Davy, Persian Secretary to the Commander in Chief of the Bengal Forces from the Year mccclxx to mccclxxiii, and now Persian Secr. to the Governor General of Bengal. The Original Persian transcribed from a ms. in the Possession of Dr. William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen . . . and the Whole Work published with a Preface, Indexes, Geographical Notes, &c. &c. Oxford: At Clarendon-Press, 1783Quarto (279 × 216 mm). Modern half calf by Period Binders, marbled boards, red morocco label, floral lozenges gilt to compartments, red edges. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plans. Text finely printed in English and Persian. Ownership inscription of Horace P. Biddle, lawyer, judge, poet, musicologist, and famous hermit of Indiana, to title page. Light browning throughout, offsetting from the portrait to the blank facing, and from the plans to the blank verso of the text leaf facing, and verso of the plan bound before, else very good.

first edition in english of the so-called Autobiographical Memoirs of Timur, or Temür, historically known as Tamerlane, the most powerful ruler in Muslim world, and founder of the Timurid dynasty. Current scholarship rejects the autobiograph-ical claims of the original manuscript, but it remains one of the most reliable sources for the social and military organisation of the Timurids and was the text on which the Moguls of India based their administrative and military ideas. “What emerges most strikingly from the accounts of Temür’s life is his extraordinary intelligence – an intelligence not only intuitive, but intellectual. He was first of all a master politician and military strategist, able to win and keep the loyalty of his nomad followers, to work within and transform a highly fluid political structure, and to lead a huge army to conquests of unexampled scope . . . What is most impressive, because least expected, is the scope of Temür’s intellectual interest and ability . . . The histories of his reign extol his knowledge of astronomy, medicine, and particularly of the history of the Arabs, Persians and Turks. His delight in debating with scholars was inexhaust-ible . . . ” (Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, pp. 16–17). The Arab historian Ibn Khaldun met Timur, and described him as “the sultan of the universe and the ruler of the world”, going on to explain to the emperor “his favourite theory, that ‘asabiyah, group solidarity, was necessary for sovereignty, and the greater the number sharing the ‘asabiyah , the greater the power of the sovereignty. ‘You know how the power of the Arabs was estab-lished when they became united in their religion in following their Prophet’” (Gies, “The Man who met Tamerlane”, Saudi Ar-amco World, Sept.–Oct. 1978). The son of a humble broadloom weaver, the translator Joseph White was Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford. This transla-tion was published at the expense of the East India Company. Uncommon, with a just dozen locations on Copac.

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347(TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) OSTROUMOV, Nikolai Petrovich. Ulozhenie Tumura (The Code of Timur). Kazan: The University Press, 1894Octavo (251 × 158 mm). contemporary black pebble-grain paper-covered boards, blind single fillet panel to boards, spine unlettered, pale green endpapers. A little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, spine creased, corners bumped, small hole to the title page, no loss of text, some brown-ing throughout, heavier to the front and rear, but overall very good.

first edition of the first translation into russian of the legal code of timur, provided with a scholarly commen-tary by Ostroumov. Extremely uncommon, just the British Library copy on Copac, no copies recorded on OCLC. Nikolai Ostroumov (1836–1930) “arrived in Tashkent in 1877 to take up the post of director of schools in the newly created prov-ince of Turkestan. He had been recommended to the Governor General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman by Nikolai Ivanovich Il’minskii, the famous Kazan’ missionary and Orientalist, whose student Ostroumov had been. Ostroumov had trained in Islam and Turkic languages, and this knowledge very quickly made him a confidant of Kaufman. Ostroumov retained this proximity to power all through the tsarist period. Until 1917, Ostroumov served the state in various capacities. In 1883, he was appointed the editor of the Turkiston viloyatining gazeti, the vernacular official gazette, through which he sought to shape the contours of local cultural debates in the direction of Russian state interests. He acted as a censor for local-language publications, and his opinion on “native” affairs was routinely sought by local administrators. At the same time, he produced a vast corpus of scholarly writing on the ethnography and history of Central Asia, and on Islam. Ostroumov translated the Bible into Chaghatay and wrote anti-Is-lamic polemics in Russian. His private papers include correspon-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]

348(TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR.) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry. Translated. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1908Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the front board, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 24 illustrations to the text, some full-page. Slightly rubbed at the corners, endpapers a touch browned, else very good.

first edition, one of 500 copies. “A very important work by a falconer who flourished in the middle of the 19th century . . . gives a detailed account of falcons as well as hunting-birds in general, and the author quotes from a number of early authori-ties on falconry” (Hohenstaufen). The translator, Phillott, joined the 40th foot from Sandhurst, and served later in the 28th Punjab infantry, and in the 3rd Pun-jab cavalry. He was with the Zhob Valley field force in 1890; and was deputy assistant quartermaster general and interpreter with the Hazara field force in 1891; and employed in the operations on the north-west frontier in 1897–98. After serving as consul in Persia for two years, he was employed in the India Office. “Col-onel Phillott was a distinguished Orientalist, the author of many elementary and advanced works for students of Hindustani, Urdu, and Persian. He translated Cavalry Drill and Mountain Warfare into the Indian vernaculars, and contributed many pa-pers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of which he had been general secretary, philological secretary, and twice gold medallist. He was a Fellow of Calcutta University, where he had been Persian lecturer” (The Times, obituary 12 Sept. 1930).

Hohenstaufen, The Art of Falconry, pp. 595 & 607.

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349TULLOCH, Alexander Bruce. Recollections of Forty Years’ Service. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, dark blue surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy.

first edition, signed by the author on the first blank, “Yours sincerely, Alex. B. Tulloch.” Sir Alexander Bruce Tull-och (1838–1920) was a British soldier and military intelligence officer. He joined the 1st Royal Scots in 1855 and served in the Crimea, India, China and Egypt. He worked in the Intelligence Department of the War Office and was in charge of the Intelli-gence Department in Egypt, being sent on missions to Belgium, Crete and elsewhere. He commanded the Welsh Regiment in South Africa and Egypt. An important interlude in this book relates to his service in China, at Taku Forts, and the taking of Peking.

Bruce 2331.

£100 [66603]

350TURNER, William. Journal of a Tour in the Levant. London: John Murray, 18203 volumes, octavo. Original buff paper-covered boards, printed paper la-bels to spines. Housed in a black cloth flat back solander box. 22 plates, 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 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, spines mildly creased, upper joint of volume III starting, two leaves in

volume I badly opened with slight marginal loss, and a few others leaves with minor splits, but overall an exceptional set.

first and only edition of what Atabey describes as “this im-portant work” and Blackmer a “very interesting work.” Turner’s “chatty” account includes observations on local manners and customs; an account of a meeting and conversation with Ali Pa-sha; and lengthy descriptions of two visits to Cyprus. Decidedly uncommon, exceedingly so in boards. Turner’s father was a friend of George Canning, to whom this book is dedicated, who obtained a clerkship in the Foreign Office for William in 1809. In 1811 he was attached to the embas-sy of Robert Liston and accompanied him to Constantinople. Turner “remained in the East for five years, and during that time visited most parts of the Ottoman empire, as well as the islands and mainland of Greece. While in Asia Minor he endeavoured to emulate Leander and Lord Byron by swimming the Hellespont, and, failing in the attempt, palliated his ill success by pointing out that he had tried to swim from Asia to Europe, a far more difficult feat than Byron’s passage from Europe to Asia” (ODNB). Byron responded in a letter to John Murray, and Turner “in a counter-rejoinder, overwhelmed his adversary with quotations from ancient and modern topographers.” In 1824 he returned to Constantinople as secretary to the British embassy, and for 18 months during Stratford Canning’s absence was minister-plenipotentiary. In 1829 he was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to Colombia, a post from which he retired from the service after nine years. He died in 1867.

Abbey, Travel 375; Atabey 1251; Blackmer 1687; Hilmy II, p. 297.

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351(UZBEKISTAN.) Group of original photographs relating to the extension of the Trans-Caspian Railway across Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan: 1894–537 original photographs, various small formats, all but one with pen-cilled captions in Russian verso, most of them dated. Housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A few splits and chips at the edges, one with a significant tear, but no loss, variable tone, but all remain clearly readable, overall very good.

A revealing collection of images taken on a surveying expedi-tion into Central Asia, seemingly taken as research related to the construction of the Samarkand–Andijon extension of the Trans-Caspian Railway, which was approved in 1895 and com-pleted in 1899. The area covered centres on Samarkand itself and the city’s immediate environs, but a putative route across parts of neighbouring Turkmenia can be roughly plotted. The history of photography in Uzbekistan only really starts in 1882 with the arrival of Volga German Wilhelm Penner in Khiva as part of the Mennonite Migration. The first native photogra-pher, Khudaibergen Divanov, a pupil of Penner and the first to take moving pictures in Uzbekistan, did not start work into the turn of the century, making this group early indeed. As explained in a later feature in the popular illustrated news magazine Niva (1, 1900, pp. 216–220), this was a highly challeng-ing part of the project due to the terrain encountered on the pro-jected route: the fast rivers, expanses of desert, and mountain ranges with precipitous valleys, all of which feature in the wider landscapes collected here. The main group of images, around a third of the total, show Samarkand itself, views of the Gur-i-Emir, Shah-i-Zind, Bibi Khanum mosques, the streets of the native quarter, the market in the Registan, and a wonderful image of the party setting out

from their lodgings in the city, loading their equipment onto ar-bas, the typical large-wheeled carts of the region; and the nearby village of Siab [Siyab], where the excavations began, lodgings in the native settlement, the tomb of Danyar, the prophet Daniel, and fording the river. There are several views of the bridge over the Amu Darya, one striking image including a train approach-ing in the distance, and a paddle-side-wheeler moored nearby. This was the wooden bridge, often lost in floods, that was not replaced by a permanent structure until 1901. Another group focusses on Tamerlane’s Gates, the famous defile at Zizzak/Dzhizak in the Jilanuti valley on the way to the Zerafshan. One print (of several) is captioned on the back: “Ta-merlane passed through here in the beginning of the C15th. He ordered the carving of Arabic two inscriptions into the rock. Now in a few fathoms from these inscriptions lies the railroad. 1895”. There are some wonderful scene-setting pictures of condi-tions on the trip, the small settlements, or kishlaks, in which they stayed, their guides sleeping on the flat roofs of the single-sto-rey dwellings; the setting up of the researcher’s yurt en route – “operation undertaken by Kirghiz ladies”; the “quicksands of Barkany in Kizilcum [Kyzylkum] Steppe”; and the walls of the fortress of Geok Tepe, seen in the distance, famously the scene of Skobelev’s bloody victory in 1881, effectively securing the Rus-sian conquest of Central Asia. Pleasingly, several of the images include members of the Russian team, loading carts at Samarkand, fording the Siyab on horseback, following Tamerlane’s Canyon on arbas, and posing on Tamerlane’s Arch on the Zeraphshan. A full listing of the captions and dimensions with contextual notes is available on request.

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The first British mission to Abyssinia, with illustrations by Henry Salt

352VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount. Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. London: Printed for William Miller, 18093 volumes, quarto (300 238 mm) original boards with near contempo-rary sheep reback, red morocco labels to spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved vignette headpieces, 69 plates, maps and plans, 11 of them folding, including a 2 large maps of the Red Sea area, “from the Straits of Bab-el-mandeb to Salaka,” & “From Salaka to Suez.” A little rubbed, hinges repaired, some plates with short splits at the fore-edge, 2 plates torn without loss and repaired, but overall very good.

first edition, one of 50 large paper copies. “This work contains much information of a novel and important kind . . . It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and Draughtsman to Lord Valentia” (Lowndes). Henry Salt supplied all the drawings upon which the plates are based and in the same year, 1809, published a series of hand-coloured aquatints under his own name entitled Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. Valentia’s was the first Brit-ish mission to Abyssinia, sent to conclude an alliance to obtain a port on the Red Sea in case Napoleonic France should seize Egypt, and was important in opening Abyssinia to the West.

Abbey 515; Brunet V, 1034; Howgego I, E19; Lowndes IV pp. 2747–8.

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353VAN DYCK, Edward A. History of the Arabs and their Literature before and after the rise of Islâm, within the limits of their peninsula and beyond it. An outline for the use of the pupils of the Khediviah School, compiled from Arab and European sources. Ljubljana: Ig. v. Kleinmayr & Fed. Bamberg, 1894Octavo (220 × 146 mm). Original brown morocco-grain half cloth, blue paper boards printed in black. Glasgow University library-stamp to front pastedown, associated shelf-mark label to the same and to front board and ink-stamp to p. 222 . Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, irreg-ular toning to boards, contents tanned, surface splitting to front inner hinge and between pp. 208–9, label sometime removed from front free endpaper. A very good copy.

first and only edition in english of this uncommon late Khedival-period course-book for Cairene students, originally published in Arabic the previous year as Ta’rikh al-’Arab wa-adabi-him, scarce in commerce and just five copies in UK libraries, of which two are in the British Library. Van Dyck was an American diplomat who served as consul-ar clerk and vice-consul in Beirut and Cairo, taught at Cairo’s Khediviah (Khedival) school and translated a number of early Arabic texts into English, including Avicenna’s Compendium on the Soul. He was the son of Cornelius van Dyck, a missionary best remembered for his Arabic translation of the Bible.

For the author see Ruth Kark, American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914, p. 62

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354VAN NICE, Robert L. Saint Sophia in Istanbul. An Architectural Survey. Washington, DC: The Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, & Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1965 & 1986Atlas folio (908 × 595 mm) Original blue-green portfolio, gilt lettering on spine, and front board. Colour view of Saint Sophia and 46 loose plates of architectural renderings, offset and collotype; the two sewn as issued 8–page introductory texts with contents lists laid-in.

first edition, complete in both instalments – published more than 20 years apart – and uncommon thus; this apparently num-ber 96 of 750 copies. “So seldom in the history of architecture has there appeared, seemingly without precedent, a monument of such remarkable 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

main structure as well as later accretions on its periphery. In sum, the study provides a framework and indispensable point of departure for examining any of the numerous architectural, structural, or historical questions connected with more than fourteen hundred years of the building’s continuous use”. This copy is from the library of William L. MacDonald (1921–2010), noted architectural historian, author of Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, and The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, who participated in the excavation of the mosaics at Haghia Sophia in the early 1950s when studying for his AM at Harvard. It has his ownership in-scriptions to the front pastedown of the portfolio and the front wrapper of the first instalment.

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355VICTORIA, Queen of Sweden. Extensive photographic archive of her travels in Italy and Egypt. 1890–1374 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

views, titled “Italien”. Boxes slightly rubbed, with minor signs of wear; three with short splits on front hinges, and three others neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; a couple of photographs with minor chips to corners, but overall in excellent condition and handsomely-presented.

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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 Successeurs, Caire”. This is possibly the Zeki Bey who served at Gallipoli, was brother-in-law of the last sultan Mehmed VI and accompanied him into exile. There are a further 348 large photo-graphs (200 × 260 mm or slightly smaller). Of these, 246 are Egyp-tian views, landscapes and street scenes, taken in Cairo, Karnak, Medinet Habu, Luxor, Ibsamboul, Medamut, Aswan, Giza, Abu Simbel, Alexandria, Heliopolis, Suez – offering high-quality pan-oramic views of temples and pyramids, the Nile itself, streets and squares of the major cities, mosques and Muslim tombs, Arab houses, souqs, and various genre scenes and “types”, street-ven-dors, barbers, soldiers, cameliers, women and children; scenes of Arab meals and pastimes – in short, a vividly touristic and high-Orientalist view of Egypt. Of this group more than 100 pho-tographs are from the studio of Antonio Beato; and more than 140 from the studio of Pascal Sébah, many signed in the negative. All of the photographs are mounted on stiff cardboard leaves, loosely inserted in the impressive custom-made boxes, with around a third of with neatly inked captions in Swedish. As Princess of Baden, Victoria had married Gustaf V of Sweden in order to strengthen ties between the German and Swedish courts. Despite the birth of three children, it was not a happy marriage – Gustaf was rumoured to be bisexual – and the couple’s summer trip in 1890–1 may have been arranged in an attempt to rebuild the relationship. Victoria was a strong-willed and independent woman, as well as being highly artistically accomplished in a range of media. She was an skilled amateur photographer and painter, and she also sculpted. During this trip she both photographed and painted extensively, experi-menting with various developing techniques, and producing some genuinely impressive photographic work. The trip trig-gered her interest in archaeology and collecting antiques; her impressive collection of Egyptian antiquities was later donated to the University of Uppsala, where it is still housed today.

Accompanying the collection is a copy of Victoria’s highly attractive, and extremely uncommon, privately printed account of her Egypt travels, Vom Nil (Karlsruhe, 1892), just six copies on OCLC, all in Germany; together with first and second editions (Stockholm, 1923 and 1931) of her biography Drottning Victoria, similarly uncommon with just a handful of copies of both. All three feature images from the Egyptian expedition made by the queen herself. The print of the picture of the renowned Cairo Mena House Hotel is inscribed by her on the mount “Till minne af Nyårsda-gen 1891 på Mena House/ från/ Victoria (In memory of the New Year’s day 1891 at Mena House, from Victoria)” this image being reproduced at p. 78 in the second edition of the queen’s biogra-phy. Fifteen of the queen’s photographs are captioned in Swedish on verso, with four specifically noted as “Foto taget 1891 af Kro-nprinzessin”. Six further photographs from the group were repro-duced in the queen’s Egyptian book; the reproduced photographs are “Bedouin girls” (p. 21), “Cameel mit Zuckerrohr” (p. 24), “Chephren-Pyramide” (p. 52), “Cataracten-Landschaft” (p. 102), “Bellal” (p. 103), and “Ammontempel von Karnak” (p. 141). This superb photographic archive was clearly assembled by a person close to the queen during her travels, possibly her per-sonal physician, and, as noted, includes 25 large photographs taken by Victoria personally. Loosely inserted in the box con-taining this group is an elaborate Arabic document, part-printed in gold and completed calligraphically, together with the orig-inal decorated envelope with the annotations “Dr. Lundberg”, and “Ordensbref Osmaniéorden”, which would appear to the official letter conferring the Order of Osmanieh, the second highest order of the Ottoman Empire, on Victoria’s doctor.

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The Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf

356VINCENT, William. The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; containing an Account of the First Navigation attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean . . . London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1797Quarto (277 × 214 mm). Late 19th-century brown half morocco by W. Brown of Bath, marbled boards, red morocco label. With engraved fron-tispiece and 6 engraved maps and charts, 4 of them large and folding, illustrations in the text A little rubbed and with some stripping from the corners, light browning, some offsetting from the plates and maps, a very good copy.

first edition of Vincent’s important commentary on Ne-archus’s voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 bc, as recorded by Arrian of Nicomedia. The expedition, ordered by Alexander the Great, marked the Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 267), and the entire fourth chapter is dedicated to the region. This copy has highly apposite provenance, being ex-Bath Pub-lic Library with the legacy bookplate of Mrs Miles, wife of Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), long-time agent of the British government in Oman and author of The Tribes and the Countries of the Persian Gulf (posthumously published, 1919), in which he described Ne-

archus’s voyage: “It was in the time of Alexander that the land of Oman was first seen by Europeans. His admiral, Nearchus, when passing up the Persian Gulf, sighted Cape Maceta or Cape Mussendom [=Musandam], and heard from the pilot of a great Omani emporium . . . Alexander hearing his report, determined on sending an expedition to circumnavigate the Arabian pen-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 thrown on the land” (p. 8). Nearchus eventually landed at a town named as Diridotis, evidently Teredon, a city founded by Nebuchadnezzar in what is now Kuwait. Vincent himself believed that the voyage was “the first event of general importance to mankind in the history of navigation . . . His commentary drew on a wide range of sources and he was assisted by Samuel Horsley, dean of Westminster, who loaned two astronomical treatises, and by Alexander Dal-rymple, hydrographer to the Admiralty, who prepared charts for him. More unusually for the period he made use of oral evidence from those who had recently visited the regions concerned” (ODNB). These last included Niebuhr, Sir Harford Jones-Brydges (“resident for the Company at Busheer and Basra”), in addition to Dalrymple. Vincent’s purpose “was not to translate Arrian, but to make him intelligible to an English reader, and to investigate a variety of subjects, historical, geographical and commercial” (author’s preface). Vincent pursued the subject further in his two-part

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1800–5). His reputation today rests on these two works.

Howgego I N10; Macro 2253.

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357VISCHER, Hanns. Across the Sahara from Tripoli to Bornu. London: Edward Arnold, 1910Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine and front cover. Mono-chrome half-tone frontispiece, 22 plates, 21 illustrations in the text, folding coloured map of Vischer’s route from Tripoli to Lake Chad. Con-temporary presentation slip on front pastedown. Spine lightly sunned, front inner joint cracked, scattered light foxing and a few marginal pencillings, closed-tear at map stub. A good copy with the publisher’s 8–page catalogue at the end (dated January 1910).

first edition of this important account by the Swiss-born mis-sionary, colonial administrator and explorer Sir Hanns Vischer (1876–1945). “Disembarking at Tripoli he joined a caravan of forty men and women, many of them freed slaves who had attached themselves to the caravan for protection, with forty camels and two horses. Constantly harassed by marauding Tuareg and distressed by the blistering heat and unending search for water, Vischer proceeded via Lake Murzuq and the Bilma coast and successfully arrived at Lake Chad, thereby becoming the first Englishman of the modern era to cross the Sahara. En route he discovered desert rock art and Roman inscriptions in the midst of waterless, lifeless tracts of desert, and found stone implements of the Miocene period – evidence of an ancient and prosperous culture in the Fezzan . . . Vischer’s achievement was widely acclaimed in the press, the Illus-trated London News in 1909 describing him as one of Britain’s greatest explorers, on a par with Shackleton” (Howgego).

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358WALPOLE, Frederick. The Ansayrii, and the Assassins, with Travels in the Further East, in 1850–51. Including a visit to Nineveh. London: Richard Bentley, 18513 volumes, octavo. Original brick red cloth, gilt lettered and blind stamped spines, ornamental blind stamped border on sides, yellow coated endpapers. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of the author by G. Remy in volume I, two other engraved frontispieces of scenes by J. W. Cook. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper of each volume of Charles Bowles Hare (1841–1911), Bristol businessman. Spines toned, a little rolled and chipped at foot, sides slightly discoloured, a touch of wear to joints, internally clean, terminal advertisement leaf in each vol-ume, and all frontispieces present (which is not usual).

first edition, uncommon. “An account of journeys in 1850–51 through Ottoman lands, with the primary intent of exploring the mountains of an Ismaili sect known as the Ansayrii or Assas-sins, between Safyta and Nahr El Kebir (northern Lebanon-Syr-ia). The book includes a detailed description of the Ansayrii, their customs, and way of life, as observed by the author during his sojourn among them. Also descriptions of Asia Minor as far north as Trebizond” (Ghani). Frederick Walpole (1822–1876), third son of the earl of Orford, was a British naval officer who earlier had written an account of a Pacific voyage in Four Years in the Pacific in Her Majesty’s Ship Collingwood from 1844 to 1848 (Lon-don, 1849).

Ghani, Iran and the West, p. 387 (calling for frontispieces in vols. I and II only); Röhricht, Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae, p. 448; not in Atabey or Wilson.

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359WEIL, Gustav. Geschichte der Chalifen. Nach handschriftlichen, größtentheils noch unbenützten Quellen Mannheim: Friedrich Bassermann, 1846–513 volumes, octavo (218 × 136 mm). Near-contemporary green half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to spine, top edges gilt others uncut, original wrappers bound in to rear of each volume. 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 manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Light browning and some spot-ting, but overall very good indeed.

first edition of Weil’s path-breaking history of Islam, which relied in large part on Muslim sources still in manuscript. Sets are fairly common in institutions, but rarely encountered on the market. Weil (1808–1889) was born in Sulzburg in Baden, and was originally destined for the rabbinate, but at a young age found that he had little taste for the theological life and in “1828 he en-tered the University of Heidelberg, devoting himself to the study of philology and history; at the same time he studied Arabic under Umbreit. Though without means, he nevertheless went to study under De Sacy in Paris in 1830, and thence followed the French military expedition to Algiers, acting as correspondent at Algiers for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. This position he resigned in 1831, and journeyed to Cairo, where he was ap-pointed instructor of French at the Egyptian Medical School of Abu-Zabel. He utilised the opportunity to study with the Arabic philologists Mohammed Ayyad al-Tantawi and Ahmad al-Tunsi. Here also he acquired Neo-Persian and Turkish, and, save for a short interruption occasioned by a visit to Europe, he remained in Egypt till March, 1835” (The Jewish Encyclopaedia). On his return to Europe a dispute with Hammer-Purgstall blocked his way to becoming privat-docent at Heidelberg until the intervention of de Sacy, after which Weil was made assistant

librarian, becoming librarian in 1838. Weil’s Thousand and One Nights (1837–41), the first complete translation into German, was intended to be a “philologically exact version”, however it was badly marred by the intervention of the publisher who changed “many objectionable passages, and thus made of it a popular and saleable work. This perversion caused Weil much vexation”. His life of the prophet (1843), was the first to go back to the ear-liest sources available in Europe, and was later acknowledged by Washington Irving as a major source for his own Life of Mahomet (1850). After 1866 Weil limited his literary activity to reviewing, being pensioned off the year before his death. His collection of Arabic manuscripts was presented to the University of Heidelberg by his children. Two pendant volumes to the present work were published nearly a decade later, treating the Mamluk Sultanate and the shadow ‘Abbasid caliphate which they established in Cairo.

Gay 3451 for a biographical summary.

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360WELLSTED, James Raymond. “Narrative of a Journey from the Tower of Bá-’l-haff, on the Southern Coast of Arabia, to the ruins of Nakab al Hajar, in April, 1835. Read January 23, 1837.” In: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. VII, Part I. London: John Murray, 1837Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 2 lithographed folding maps, “Sketch of a Route to the Ruins of Nakab al Hajar on the Southern Coast of Arabia”, “Map of Oman in Arabia”. Slightly rubbed and soiled, spine creased, light browning of the text-block, short closed tear to one of the maps, but overall very good. Largely unopened.

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first edition of this important account of the pre-Islamic mountain fort of Naqab al-Hajar (modern-day Yemen), sub-sequently incorporated into the author’s Travels in Arabia (pub-lished the following year) and extremely uncommon in this condition in the original wrappers. Wellsted (1805–1842) a naval officer with the East India Com-pany, was sent to survey the southern coast of Arabia on board the Palinurus, under the command of Captain Haines, in 1833. In April 1835, while stationed on the Yemeni coast between Al Mukalla and Aden, he heard news from the local Bedouin of an ancient fort some 50 miles inland. He procured camels and a lo-cal guide and travelled up the Wadi Meifah, “the most interest-ing geographical feature we have yet discovered on the southern coast of Arabia” (p. 32), assiduously describing local topography and agriculture. His was the first recorded visit of a European to Naqab al-Hajar, a site which he believed to date from the Sabae-an or Himyaritic period. “Wellsted’s papers read before the Royal Geographical Society procured him immediate recognition in the scientific world, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 6 April 1837 . . . Wellsted was an acute observer and not blinded by prejudice or ignorance in his description of the local people. His accounts of the geography of [southern Arabia], particularly the irrigation systems and the way of life in remote mountain tracts, continue to be important as a unique description of the country at an ear-ly date” (ODNB).

Macro 2278 for the 1906 (Bombay Selections) edition.

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361WELLSTED, 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, and a Tour of the Island of Socotra. London: Henry Colburn, 18402 volumes, octavo (213 132 mm). Attractive recent dark green half moroc-co on 19th-century marbled boards to style, original red morocco labels, compartments formed by a zig-zag foliate roll, stylized tulip-head loz-enge gilt to compartments, light brown endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Lithographic frontispiece to each, folding map. Boards a little rubbed, hygroscopic tide-mark in the upper margin of the frontispiece to volume I, no encroachment on the image, some archival tissue repairs to minor splits to the folds of the map, light browning to the text-blocks, as usu-al, overall very good.

first edition. “In November 1835 Wellsted had permission to travel in Oman, and went to Muscat with Lieutenant F. Whitelock, also of the Indian navy. The imam gave them every assistance in his power, but their fever and the disturbed state of the country curtailed their plans. None the less, the two reached areas which no European had previously seen and which were not visited again by Europeans for another hundred years” (ODNB). Wellsted seems to have attempted another venture into Oman the next winter, but he arrived at Muscat “in an acute stage of fever. ‘In a fit of delirium he discharged both barrels of his gun into his mouth, but the balls, passing upwards, only inflicted two ghastly wounds in the upper jaw’. He was carried to Bombay, and thence returned to Europe on leave. He retired from the service in 1839, ‘and dragged on a few years in shat-tered health and with impaired mental powers, chiefly residing in France’” (ibid.) He died in 1842.

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362WESTON, Stephen. Evraq-i Perishan [title in Persian]. Moral Aphorisms in Arabic, and a Persian Commentary in Verse, translated from the originals. With specimens of Persian poetry. Likewise additions to the author’s conformity of the Arabic and Persian with the English language. London: by S. Rousseau, 1805Octavo (227 × 141 mm). Untrimmed in original pink paper boards with title printed in black to covers, rebacked and recornered late c.19th in dark purple roan with new yellow surface-paper endpapers, rolled bands gilt to spine forming compartments, second and third gilt-lettered direct. Bookplate of Harold Blundell to front pastedown. Front joint skilfully restored, superficial cracking to roan along spine, extremities worn, staining to front cover, rear cover rubbed, foxing to title-page and earlier leaves, scattered light spotting otherwise. A good copy only.

first and only edition, commercially very scarce work translated from a 16th-century manuscript and once identified as a formative influence on the oriental yearnings of the young Lord Byron, a thesis which has since proved controversial as no explicit reference to the text has yet been identified in Byron’s writings (Cochran, ed., Byron and Orientalism, p. 71). Stephen Weston was a noted antiquarian and classical scholar. The final section of the text is an addendum to his Specimen of the Conformi-ty of the European languages, particularly the English, with the Oriental languages, especially the Persian, published in 1802. He also wrote a partial translation of the Shah Nameh and compiled an anthology of Persian distiches.

Bibliotheca Marsdeniana p. 254.

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363WILD, Auguste. Mixed Grill in Cairo: Experiences of an International Hotelier. Bournemouth: Sydenham & Co., 1954Octavo. Original pale grey cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. 12 plates. Slight sunning at the extremities, free endpapers browned, 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 slightly rubbed, and mildly tattered jacket.

first edition of these reminiscences of life at Cairo’s Hotel d’Angleterre, which was never “a particularly glamorous hotel. Located away from the hum of the Azbekiya it appealed to a serious and sober clientele, and it provided them with spacious apartments rather than just bedrooms” (“Hotel d’Angelterre: Then & Now”, Andrew Humphreys’s Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel website). Gertrude Bell stayed there in 1911. The hotel was owned by George Nungovich, a Greek-Cypriot from Limas-sol, who began his career in Egypt as a porter at Cairo station. During the Sudan campaign he found employment as the stew-ard in the mess of one of the Highland regiments stationed in the city and emerged with enough capital to enter the hotel business. “His managers were carefully chosen. He knew he had found a gem when he met Auguste Wild in Zurich. Wild was the manager at Bar au Lac Hotel, and had already met such well known figures as Cesar Ritz and Arthur Towel. Nungovich’s sto-ries about Egypt tempted Wild to leave Switzerland, particularly when he learned that Prince Djemil Toussoun had sold Nungov-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 unique in that he was the only manager in Nungovich’s company 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.

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364WILLCOCKS, Sir William. The Irrigation of Mesopotamia. London: E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, 1911Octavo. Original sage green morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and to the front board together with the author’s monogram in gilt and a palm tree device in darker green. With the dust jacket. Numerous ta-bles to the text. A little bumped at the corners and head and tail of the spine, light browning to the text, some foxing to the endpapers, but a very good copy indeed in slightly browned jacket with a few short closed tears and minor chips, some archival tissue repairs verso, but largely complete. Lacking the accompanying large portfolio of plates, as almost invariably.

first edition. Trained at the Thomason Civil Engineering College at Roorkee in 1874 Willcocks became personal assistant to Colin Scott-Moncrieff, superintending engineer on the con-struction of the Ganges Canal. When Scott-Moncrieff became director of irrigation in Egypt in 1883, Willcocks accompanied him. “In Egypt, Willcocks had to contend with a variety of nations and languages, and the ingrained practice of bribery, against which he resolutely turned his face. Eccentric, voluble, and excitable by temperament, he found it difficult to agree to differ with his chiefs and colleagues, and in his thirteen years in Egypt he was not promoted . . . During this period Willcocks surveyed and levelled from Cairo to Wadi Halfa, explored the upper Nile for possible sites for reservoir dams, and lectured on irrigation and applied mechanics at the Polytechnical School where he also presided over examinations” (ODNB). He was manager of the Cairo Water Company from 1897 to 1899, then until 1905 managing director of the Daira Sania Land Company, which acquired 250,000 acres of land which were sold 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]

365WILSON, Arnold Talbot. The Persian Gulf: an Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. With a Foreword by the Right Hon. L. S. Amery. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. Coloured frontispiece, 18 monochrom eplates from photographs, folding coloured map in end-pocket. Spine a little rumpled, small bump to fore edge of back cov-er. A very good copy.

first edition of this important contribution to the historiog-raphy of the region. Accompanied by an interesting one-page autograph letter signed (dated 24 March 1930), on the stationery of HMS Ormonde, a 24–class minesweeping sloop employed in hy-drographic surveying in the Persian Gulf. Commander Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt writes to his friend Fitzroy thanking him for the loan of the book, and remarking “sorry to hear that you are not returning to this delightful locality. Tho’ I don’t suppose that you are much upset”, before going on to comment on recent events: “We have had a good deal of fuss here with the Sheikh of Khasab [Oman] since you left but have at least managed to get the job done. I expect Master Khasab will receive a shell or two on his village before long”. The sheikh had imprisoned Sultan Taimur’s wali, or magistrate, there and was refusing to recognise Taimur’s authority, and was indeed shelled for his pains, fleeing, but returning shortly to accept Muscati rule when he was unable to obtain tribal support (see Al-len, Oman: the Modernisation of the Sultanate, p. 62).

Macro 2316.

£750 [109448]

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366WILSON, 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, 1802Quarto (287 × 221 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt-banded spine, gilt roll tool border on sides enclosing single-line gilt panel with corner rosettes, gilt roll tool turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Abercromby by Meyer after Hoppner, handcoloured folding map of the western branch of the Nile (Cairo to Rosetta), map of the battle of Al-exandria (units handcoloured), handcoloured map of the skirmish near Rahmanie, 2 folding letterpress tables. Old dampstain to frontispiece and title page (causing discolouration), occasional thumbing, closed-tear in margin of Alexandria map, a very good wide-margined copy in a lovely period binding.

first edition of this popular first-hand account of the British expedition to wrest Egypt from French control, written by Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777–1849), who served under the expe-dition’s leader, Sir Ralph Abercromby. Wilson “landed at Abu Qir Bay on 7 March 1801, and took part in the action of the 13th and in the battle of Alexandria on the 21st. Upon Abercromby’s death Major-General (later Lord) Hutchinson succeeded him and em-ployed Wilson on several missions. In July Wilson entered Cairo with Hutchinson, and was at the siege of Alexandria in August and its capitulation on the 25th. He left Egypt on 11 September and returned to England via Malta and Toulon, arriving at the end of December. For his services in Egypt he was made a knight of the order of the Crescent of Turkey. “In 1802 Wilson published The History of the British Expedition to Egypt, which went through several editions. The work derived especial popularity from its charges of cruelty against Napoleon, towards both his prisoners at Jaffa and his own soldiers at Cairo. Napoleon complained to the British government and, receiving

no satisfaction, ordered Colonel Sebastiani to issue a count-er-report” (ODNB). An interesting association copy, with the contemporary own-ership inscription on a preliminary blank of “G. Bosville”: appar-ently Lieutenant-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate (1775–1832), who legally changed his name to Godfrey Bosville (1814) and then to Godfrey Bosville Macdonald (1824). He served in the Low Countries, West Indies, Cape of Good Hope and the Peninsular, where Wilson also served but, it would appear, not at the same time. Bosville’s brother Thomas married Wilson’s sister Fanny in 1793. “My sister Fanny had in the year 1793 married Colonel Bosville of the Coldstream Guards, brother of Mr. Bosville of Thorpe Hall and of Lady Macdonald . . . Obliged a week after he had married my sister to embark with his regiment for Holland, he was soon afterwards killed in the action of Lincelles, where the Guards acquired great credit. No officer in the corps was more esteemed; and though 6 feet 4 inches in height, he was, from his corresponding symmetry of form, con-sidered one of the handsomest men in Europe” (a footnote adds: “his height occasioned his death, for a musket-ball struck him in the head”) (Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, from Autobiographical Memoirs, London 1862, p. 53).

Sandler 3481.

£1,500 [107066]

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367WILSON, William Rae. Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. With a Journey through Turkey, Greece, the Ionian Isles, Sicily, Spain, &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824Octavo (229 × 138 mm). Modern cream paper-backed grey boards, orig-inal printed label to spine, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece and 12 litho-graphic plates. With occasional contemporary marginalia. Spine slightly darkened, small chip to label affecting last letter of “land”, boards a touch soiled with some minor scuff marks, short split to bottom of front joint, light spotting and tanning throughout, mild offsetting from plates. A very good copy.

second edition of the first travel book by Wilson (1772–1849). Originally published in 1823, the second edition was extensively enlarged to include descriptions of the journey to Greece and Turkey as well as six additional plates. A popular book, Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land inspired Wilson to continue writing. He published several travel books, including ones on the Mediter-ranean (1824), Scandinavia and northern Europe (1826), Russia (2 volumes, 1828), and France and Italy (1835). “His Christian beliefs were strong and had in part prompted his first journey to the Holy Land. An upright man, a writer and a distributor of tracts, he was rather intolerant, and his strict sabbatarianism provoked Thomas Hood’s discursive and pungent ‘Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire’, published in 1837” (ODNB).

Atabey 1341; Blackmer 1822; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 338; Tobler 146; Weber I, 129

£375 [94268]

368WINKLER, Hans A. Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt II. (including ‘Uwenat). Archaeological Survey of Egypt. Sir Robert Mond Desert Expedition, Season 1937–1938 Preliminary Report. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press for The Egyptian Exploration Society, 1939Royal quarto (315 × 245 mm). Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 61 black and white plates, largely from photographs, folding map at the rear. Spine gently rolled. A very good copy in the slightly rubbed jacket with a few minor edge-splits and chips.

first edition of this handsomely produced survey of sites found on the west bank of the Nile from Qena to Aswan, Jebel Uweinat, and the road leading from the Nile Valley to Dakhla through the Kharga Oasis; volume I relates to the previous sea-son’s expedition, to the Eastern desert. “The recognition of Egyptian rock art as something that could be closely linked to the archaeologically known cultures of the Nile Valley served as a strong impetus for further research. Several surveys and recording campaigns were organized in Upper Egypt and Nubia during during the last decade of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The most celebrated accomplishment in the study of rock art is undoubtedly the work of German ethographer Hans Alexander Winkler in the Eastern and Western deserts of Egypt. Winkler’s magnum opus, Rock-Drawings of Southern Egypt, is still one of the most important collections of rock-art material from Egypt” (UCLA Encyclopae-dia of Egyptology). For the last month of the expedition, Winkler joined the team of O. H. Myers and Major R. A. Bagnold, who were exploring the Gilf el-Kebir and the ‘Uweinat, and on returning to Germany was conscripted to the Wehrmacht and killed in action in 1945.

£850 [99988]

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369WINNETT, Frederick V., & William L. Reed. Ancient Records from North Arabia. With contributions by J. T. Milik and J. Starcky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970Octavo. 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 Qal’ah, four miles from Sakakah, they recorded seven images of ostriches, along with Thamudic and Nabataean inscriptions. West of the qasr at Sakakah, a small sandstone hill called Burnus bore shallow engravings of 13 or so female figures wearing flat-topped hats with fringe along with some indeterminate animals. Perhaps because the arms of the women are bent at the elbow and their hands are up in the air, Winnett and Reed referred to them as the ‘dancing girls’. They noted, however, that the scene equally could depict praying. A lion was identified along with Thamudic inscriptions just five km from the oasis of Al Jawf. At Ghar al Hamam, 3 km northeast of Tayma, they found figures of ibexes and domestic cattle alongside Thamudic inscriptions. At the summit of Jabal Ghunaym, 14 km southeast of Tayma, they flipped over a stone slab to reveal a petroglyph of a human female, which they interpreted as a goddess. On their descent, they located three triangular heads with pairs of horns that had been reported earlier by Philby (1957). These are associated with a crescent moon and stars and may represent aspects of the god Salm” (Arabian Rock Art Heritage website).

£150 [92591]

370WITTMANN, William. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the Desert into Egypt during the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in Company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission. To which are annexed, Observations on the Plague, and Meteorological Journal. London: for Richard Phillips, 1803Quarto (264 × 204 mm). Later 19th-century tan half sheep by W. Brown of Bath, marbled sides, smooth spine blind-ruled in compartments, title direct to second gilt, edges sprinkled blue. Folding lithographic frontis-piece, folding facsimile firman, 2 maps, one large folding, one full-page coloured, 20 plates, 16 of them hand-coloured stipple-engravings of costume, several heightened in gum arabic. 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 Li-brary in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Tips worn, variable light offsetting from plates, frontispiece spotted, short tear to folding map stub, facsimile firman with short tear repaired verso. A very good copy.

first edition. Wittman was a surgeon in the Anglo-Turkish 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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In this work he is at pains to explain the decline of Ottoman military prowess, which he attributes to the degradation of the Janissary Corps. The costume plates mainly depict Ottoman sol-diers and functionaries, and several were reproduced by McLean in his Military Costume of Turkey. There was a German edition in 1804.

Not in Abbey; Atabey 1344; Blackmer 1832; Cobham-Jeffery p. 65; Gay 148; Hilmy II p. 339; Weber II, 647.

£2,500 [117638]

371WOLFF, Joseph. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843–1845. To ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845Octavo. Original sage green diagonal combed cloth embossed, title gilt to spine, elaborate foliate panelling to boards. Tissue-guarded frontis-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.

first u.s. edition; first published in the UK in the same year. Joseph Wolff, “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, where in November 1831 brigands robbed and enslaved him . . . He then traversed Bukhara and Balkh, and reached Kabul, emerging from central Asia in a state of nudity after having been plundered and compelled to march 600 miles without clothing.” He crossed India from Ludhiana to Bombay and returned to En-gland via Egypt and Malta. Trips to Abyssinia and America followed, and in 1843 he was commissioned to return to Bokhara to seek out information concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, two players of the Great Game held there as spies. Unbeknownst to Wolff or his sponsors both officers had been executed in 1842 soon after their capture, which fact Wolff “eventually discovered after an amazing series of adventures in which he barely escaped with his life. He was accompanied by Abdul Wahab, a painter and watchmaker who produced the il-lustrations for the book” (Blackmer).

Blackmer 1833, this edition; Wilson p. 246; Yakushi W108.

£450 [103499]

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372WOOD, John. A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. New edition. With an essay on the geography of the valley of the Oxus. By Colonel Henry Yule. With maps. London: John Murray, 1872Octavo. Contemporary blue-green diagonally-ribbed cloth, spine let-tered in gilt, triple blind rules to covers, gilt arms of the Dominican Order to front, top and fore edges untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps. From the library of St Dominic’s College, Dunedin, with associated stamps and manuscript accession numbers to spine and endleaves. Spine rolled, extremities rubbed, head of front joint split but holding, internally clean; with the initial errata leaf. A good copy.

second edition, revised. Following his success in leading an expedition up the Indus in 1835, Wood was appointed as assistant to Alexander Burnes’s mission to Afghanistan. “The mission had both commercial and military aims, and Wood was charged with gathering information about the Indus and the topography and mineral deposits of the surrounding area” (ODNB). Having followed Burnes up the Indus and then to Ka-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

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 narratives for its scientific discipline in the quality of descrip-tion of the Indus, the Oxus, bird and plant life, mountains and so forth. Its detail is precise and technical, as opposed to the more emotional soarings of others” (Riddick).

Riddick, Glimpses of India, 186.

£250 [111897]

373(WORLD WAR I: PERSIA.) From the Gulf to the Caspian: Being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia 1916 to 1919. Written by various members of the unit who remain anonymous. Cheltenham: Burrow [printer and publisher: E. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd.], [1920]Landscape octavo. Wire-stitched in the original rust-coloured light card pictorial wrappers. 8 plates, graph to text, unit symbol to the first page. Ex-Imperial War Museum copy, their ink-stamp to title, last page and p. 16, inked accession details to title page, “withdrawn” stamp on inside back cover. Just a little rubbed and lightly crumpled at the corners, pic-torial section loose from staples, light toning, but overall very good.

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first and only edition, extremely uncommon: Copac cites copies at only two British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library and Imperial War Museum); worldwide, OCLC adds State Library of Victoria only. A very useful list of operations and an accompanying colour-ful “historical sketch” show that the 33rd MAC left Devonport in early September 1916, sailed down the Suez Canal to Perim, Aden, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf (”dolphins and flying fish play-ing round the ship”), Shatt al-Arab and disembarked at Basra. In Iraq they negotiate the Twin Canals before moving forward to Sinn, Atab, Shumran Bend (26 February 1916: ”on all sides were evidences of the recent fighting”), and Baghdad. Operations from Baghdad then proceed to Baqubah, Sharoban, Fallujah, Ramadi (”a hot bed of disease”), to Hit and Anah, Hillah, Kirkuk, Khanaqin. They then link up with Dunsterforce before moving on to “Kasvin” (present day Qazvin, Iran) and “Norper force” (North Persia Force). Also included is a list of “personal addresses of personnel”.

White, Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army, p. 139.

£350 [117726]

The first European in the Hadramaut for 250 years

374WREDE, Adolf von. Reise in Hadhramaut: Beled Beny‚ Yssà und Beled el Hadschar. Herausgegeben, mit einer Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Erklärung der Inschrift von Obne versehen von Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan. Brunswick: Friedrich Wieweg, 1870Octavo. Modern library buckram, title gilt to spine. Folding map and a facsimile plate of an inscription. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), bequeathed by his widow to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-mark to the title page, and library plate to the front free endpaper. Light spotting, title page browned and marked, sig. 19 repaired, small spot to map. A good copy.

first edition. Adolf von Wrede, a Bavarian nobleman, was “the first scientific traveller who succeeded in penetrating into the region of Hadhramaut” (van der Meulen, cited after Trautz, “Adolf von Wrede”, in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 20, no. 4, 1933). He travelled to the region, now part of Yemen, in 1843, becoming the first European visitor in 250 years. He reached as 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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375WRIGHT, George Newenham. The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn from Nature by Sir Grenville Temple, W. L. Leitch, Irton, & Allen. With an Analysis of

the Mediterranean and Descriptions of the Plates. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [c.1840]Quarto (272 × 209 mm). Contemporary dark red full morocco, spine 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.

£750 [105114]

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377WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand. Geschichte der Arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1840Octavo. Original plain orange paper wrappers, all edges untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838–1914), bequeathed to Bath Public Library in 1920, with associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Wrappers nicked and soiled, old tape repair to front panel verso, occasional spotting, still a very good copy.

first edition of the work which was long considered the first Western history of Arabic science and medicine, and though in fact preceded by an obscure work in French by Pierre Joseph Amoreux, published in 1805, it remains the foundational work on the subject (see Arcadian Library p. 216). The last 16 pages are lithographed extracts from three Arabic biographical dictionar-ies: al-Nawawi’s Kitab Tahdhib al-asma’, Ibn Abi Usayba’ah’s Kitab ‘Uyun al-anba’ fi tabaqat al-atibba’, and Ibn Shubhah’s Kitab Tabaqat al-Shafi’iyah. Copies are fairly prevalent in institutional libraries, but extremely rare in commerce, with three listed at auction in the last 50 years.

Garrison & Morton, 5th edition, 6502; Macro 2345

£2,000 [117640]

376WRIGHTE, William. Grotesque Architecture, or Rural Amusement; consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper Plates, with Scales to each. To which is added, a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them. London: printed for Henry Webley, 1767Octavo (229 × 143 mm). Contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked to style. Frontispiece engraved by Isaac Taylor after A. Thornthwaite, 28 engraved plates. Pencilled ownership inscription of John Ingleby, 1774, at head of title. Some leaves evenly toned, but an excellent copy.

first edition. Wrighte’s striking designs for rustic architec-ture and gardens are innovative in English garden design by introducing Islamic motifs to the existing modes of Chinese and Gothick, with seven plates of designs for garden buildings inspired by mosques. The author refers the reader for more in-formation on the history of Islamic architecture to “Dr. Shaw’s 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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378WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand. Die Çufiten in Süd-Arabien im XI. (XVII.) Jahrhundert. Aus dem dreissigten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Göttingen: Dieterische Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1883Quarto. Near-contemporary dark brown bead-grain cloth by W. Brown of Bath, front board lettered in gilt. 3 folding genealogical tables. 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 collec-tion to Bath Public Library in 1920, manuscript shelf-marks to spine and front pastedown, and blind-stamps to the text as usual. Covers lightly marked, free endpapers browned, pasted slip apparently removed from front, title page slightly foxed, upper outer corner of text-block a trifle bumped, faint crease to pp. 1/2, final folding table faintly spotted and with a short nick to fore edge. A very good copy.

rare offprint of Wüstenfeld’s “valuable study” of Sufism in 17th-century Yemen (Encyclopaedia of Islam); two copies only listed in auction records. Wüstenfeld worked from a manu-script copy of the Khulasat al-Athar, a biographical dictionary by 17th-century scholar Muhammad al-Amin al-Muhibbi. His arti-cle is noted for its description of the influential ‘Alawiyah order, whose founder, Muhammad ibn ‘Ali (d. 1255), is reputed to have introduced Sufi practice into the Hadramaut; it also remains current reference for its information on the Shattariyah order.

Macro 2342, misdated to 1863; not in Gay or Zenker.

£1,250 [117639]

379WYLD, James. Map of Afghaunistan, Caubul, the Punjab, Rajpootana, and the River Indus; [together with] Notes to Map of Afghaunistan, the Punjab, &c &c. London: James Wyld, 1842Original brown diaper cloth, title in gilt to the front panel within elab-orate panel. Text in original printed pink paper wrappers. Folding en-graved map, coloured in outline, bisected into 24 panels and mounted on linen, opens 600 823 mm. Map-case a little rubbed, and sunned at the spine, map slightly browned verso, the wrappers of the text pam-phlet slightly rubbed and with some minor creasing, text toned, but overall both pieces very good.

first edition of this map of Afghanistan. Uncommon, Copac shows two locations for the map, Oxford and Durham, four fur-

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ther on OCLC, Melbourne, Minnesota, Nebraska and BnF, but just a single location for the accompanying explanatory pam-phlet, British Library.

£1,750 [94803]

380WYLLY, Harold Carmichael. From the Black Mountain to Waziristan. Being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the North-West Frontier Province, and of our military relations with them in the past. With an introduction by Sir Horace L. Smith Dorrien. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912Octavo. Original orange cloth, black and red rules to spine and covers, spine lettered in black and front cover in red, all edges red. With the dust jacket. 8 folding maps to rear, one in colour. Spine gently rolled, pale spotting to endpapers and half-title, very short closed tear to stub of map I. A bright, excellent copy in chipped dust jacket with an over-price sticker to spine and remnants of old tape repair verso.

first edition of this valuable survey of the North-West Fron-tier Province, in the rare dust jacket. There is chapter-by-chapter coverage of individual tribal regions and British operations therein, with a series of detailed folding area maps to the rear. Wylly (1858–1932) served in the Tirah Campaign of 1897–98, and was struck by British ignorance of the tribes beyond the Indus. 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]

381ZURAYK, Costi K. Provisional Readings in the Medieval History of the Near East. For the use of freshmen at the American University of Beirut. Printed for private circulation only. Beirut: American Press, 1934Octavo (233 × 163 mm). Original printed wrappers. Lightly sunned and marked overall with mild chipping to head of spine and upper outer corner of rear wrapper, occasional faint creasing to upper outer corners of text leaves, shallow chip to fore edge of pp. 107–10 not affecting text. A very good copy.

first edition of this extremely uncommon survey of Arab history from the pre-Islamic era to the Crusades, with essays by “the celebrated orientalists and historians such as Arnold, De Goeje, Gibb, Hell, Hitti, Lammens, Nicholson, Noeldeke, Philips, Zaydan and others who have done so much to build Arabic history on a firm basis of scholarship” (Foreword). Inter-vening chapters cover Muhammad, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids. Constanin Zurayk (1909–2000) was a highly influential Lebanese historian and theoretician of Arab nationalism who is credited with first using the term “nak-bah” for the Palestinian exodus of 1948. We trace only one other copy in libraries or in commerce, at the University of Balamand, Lebanon.

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Abdur Rahman 179Abu Dhabi 2, 78, 153, 276Abyssinia 31, 352Aceh 158Aden 17, 38, 60, 101, 106, 109, 142, 212,

329, 373Afghanistan 10, 12, 19, 22, 62, 108, 117,

119, 122, 179, 185, 229, 233, 248, 258, 260, 268, 308, 343, 379

Africa 3, 32, 47, 53, 60, 91, 118, 146, 161, 168, 218, 236, 269, 273, 325, 337

agriculture 94, 160Al-Andalus: see SpainAlexandria 42, 121, 136, 295, 318, 319, 355,

366Algeria 33, 88, 128, 180, 207, 256, 266, 337,

375Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone 7Arabian Peninsula 17, 18, 38, 52, 101, 106,

112, 187, 218, 256, 311, 321, 353, 356Arabic language 3, 5, 27, 39, 40, 51, 66, 75,

80, 90, 95, 97, 109, 113, 127, 133, 134, 144, 153, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 168, 174, 237, 247, 248, 261, 275, 278, 288, 289, 298, 299, 302, 309, 310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 333, 342, 353, 362

Arabic numerals 72Arabs 2, 3, 31, 77, 78, 115, 148, 167, 169,

205, 218, 270, 279, 302, 304, 311, 321, 346, 353, 356

Aramco 18, 151, 205, 206, 215, 309Armenia 80, 202, 256Asia Minor 8, 26, 49, 54, 66, 87, 241, 273,

350, 358, 370Assyria 6, 49, 202, 203, 220, 292astronomy 50, 174Babylon 6, 54, 87, 176, 202, 257, 292Bahrain 2, 30, 51, 90, 119, 151, 237, 276Baluchistan 92, 132, 229, 233, 343Bates, George Latimer 281

Beckford, William 208birds 132, 234, 235, 281; see also falconryBlunt, Wilfrid Scawen 13Bokhara 58, 152, 263, 264, 332, 371Bray, Norman Napier Evelyn 204Browne, William Henry 220Brucks, G. B. 78a, 78dBurma 8, 85Burton, Richard F. 16, 60, 61, 118, 270, 325camels 164, 227Central Asia 12, 46, 51, 58, 70, 117, 122,

152, 159, 161, 219, 229, 242, 263, 351, 371

Chesney, Francis 6coffee 183Constantinople 43, 79, 81, 114, 141, 148,

149, 247e, 255, 257, 270, 271, 285, 350, 370; see also Istanbul

costume 232, 256Crimea 43, 107, 141dictionaries & grammars 80, 95, 96, 109,

129, 130, 313, 329, 333Doha 5, 23, 287Dozon, Auguste 250Druzes 307East Indies 34, 85, 203

Egypt 13, 14, 24, 25, 42, 49, 53, 63, 64, 67, 75, 84, 103, 104, 105, 106, 119, 120, 121, 136, 152, 155, 164, 170, 216, 227, 230, 232, 234, 239, 251, 257, 273, 295, 305, 318, 319, 321, 326, 349, 352, 355, 363, 366, 367, 368, 370

Egyptian Expeditionary Force 188, 234falconry 11, 221, 348FitzGerald, Edward 265Foster, Mrs Jonathan 77Genghis Khan 171Gibraltar 208Grant, Duncan 296Greece 42, 49, 148, 149, 256, 350, 367, 370, 375Hadhramaut 38, 330, 331, 374Hebrew 39, 315heraldry 231Hindustani 129Holland, T. A. 175horses 88, 92, 152, 153, 160Houghton, M. 78cIbn Saud 104, 151, 279India 3, 8, 9, 57, 59, 63, 79, 92, 94, 103,

108, 119, 122, 123, 129, 143, 150, 152, 162, 169, 176, 229, 233, 246, 268, 273, 286, 316, 328, 332, 343, 344, 349, 352, 356, 371, 372

Iran 274Islam 4, 9, 100, 135, 144, 211, 246, 282,

289, 290, 298, 307, 323, 324, 326, 359Islamic architecture 23, 68, 163, 263, 264,

275, 310, 354, 376Islamic art 93, 111, 238, 297Ismaili 307, 358Istanbul 20, 242, 248, 256, 354Jericho 175Jerusalem 26, 52, 56, 79, 86, 157, 257, 270,

272, 318Kalthoeber, Christian 208

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Kandahar 19, 22, 260, 268, 344Khiva 177, 219, 242, 263, 264, 351Kokand 48, 70, 250Krusinski, Judas Thaddeus 248Kurdistan 40, 41, 110, 118, 202, 220Larpent, Sir George 285Leeds, E. T. 291Libya 73, 106, 228, 294Littman, Ludwig Richard Enno 36Malay states 165Malet, Sir Edward 13Matheson, Hilda 305, 306Maughan, Philip 78bMcManus, Blanche 265Mecca 24, 29, 87, 98, 102, 112, 118, 137,

142, 161, 173, 178, 273, 280, 310, 324, 326

Mesopotamia 6, 37, 54, 87, 124, 145, 204, 253, 303, 340, 364, 373

Morocco 95, 168, 207, 208, 213, 261Mortel, Richard 7Muhammad (Mohammed, Mahomet),

the Prophet 4, 9, 29, 100, 135, 137, 163, 181, 246, 286, 289, 381

Muir, Sir William 4, 244, 245, 246Muscat 26, 27, 38, 47, 51, 54, 87, 119, 176,

237, 257, 269, 276, 301, 311, 336, 361music 66, 115, 149, 252Nabataeans 3, 36, 97, 98, 112, 115, 154,

160, 184, 369naval pilots 17, 276, 277Nearchus 218, 356Nineveh 45, 54, 202, 358Nott, Sir William 10, 260oil industry 7, 18, 27, 30, 51, 76, 151, 205,

206, 287Ostroumov, Nikolai Petrovich 347Palestine 1, 42, 106, 125, 148, 157, 164, 187,

195, 214, 216, 251, 270, 334

pearl-diving 5, 30, 119, 148Peel, William 75Pellew, Edward 266Persepolis 12, 123, 203, 257Persia 6, 8, 12, 21, 26, 34, 41, 49, 51, 62, 74,

76, 83, 92, 93, 108, 122, 123, 124, 132, 140, 144, 146, 152, 176, 182, 185, 220, 222, 223, 226, 241, 248, 249, 252, 256, 259, 273, 292, 305, 306, 317, 320, 332, 336, 339, 340, 341, 348, 371, 373

Persian Gulf 3, 15, 51, 69, 78, 119, 145, 169, 215, 217, 218, 226, 259, 276, 277, 279, 340, 356, 361, 365, 373

Persian language 50, 51, 129, 130, 140, 144, 174, 223, 316, 335, 342, 346, 362

Petra 98, 154, 184, 214, 318Phillott, Douglas Craven 348Photius 3Pre-Islamic period 3, 69, 112, 115, 156,

218, 247, 282, 298, 360, 381Qatar 5, 276, 287Ra’s al-Khaymah 2, 119Red Sea 3, 17, 35, 169, 183, 212, 218, 273,

352, 373Reed, William L. 369Rentz, George 205Rezvan, Efim 15Roberts, Edmund 301rock art 154, 228, 294, 357, 368, 369Russia 15, 51, 58, 70, 122, 139, 141, 159,

172, 179, 182, 185, 203, 219, 242, 262, 323, 336, 347

Saudi Arabia 7, 28, 68, 98, 104, 119, 205, 206, 215, 275, 280, 283, 291, 309, 310, 369

Sayili, Aydin 50Schier, Karl 1Silveira, Humberto da 7Sinai 26, 35, 52, 75, 106, 125, 157, 184, 230,

257, 270, 321, 334

Sindh 10, 51, 103slave trade 2, 32, 60, 266, 269Spain 77, 137, 160, 163, 167, 225, 304, 338,

367Sparroy, Wilfrid 178Stanhope, Lady Hester 300Steineke, Max 205Stocqueler, Joachim Hayward 260Sudan 25, 32, 53, 118, 322Suez 17, 24, 42, 63, 64, 101, 104, 142, 184,

209, 210, 217, 257, 273, 309, 326, 352, 355, 373

Süleyman the Magnificent 20Syria 1, 6, 26, 36, 41, 42, 53, 54, 89, 114,

118, 124, 138, 195, 198, 216, 232, 240, 249, 251, 259, 298, 321, 370, 371

Syriac 39Thebes 136, 293Thesiger, Wilfred 11, 345Troy 312Turkestan 177, 179, 242, 250, 262, 263, 347Turkey 8, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 65, 84, 114,

124, 126, 138, 141, 145, 148, 149, 181, 216, 253, 256, 271, 285, 296, 354, 364, 367, 370

Turkish language 219, 248, 313Turkmenia 351United States of America 17, 104, 301, 309Uzbekistan 46, 351; see also Bokhara,

Khiva, and KokandWassmuss, Wilhelm 340White, Joseph 346Whitelock, H. H. 78f, 78gwomen 21, 40, 43, 126, 141, 165, 207, 208,

256, 300, 305, 306, 330, 331, 355, 369Yaqub Beg 48Zurayk, C. K. 304, 381


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