Arabic Books

  [Sabāʼik al-dhahab fī maʻrifat qabāʼil al-ʻArab / The Book of Gold Bullion in the Knowledge of the Arab Tribes]   A very rare and important work of on the genealogy of the Arab tribes, as well as a sophisticated early work of lithography from the Arab World by Muhammad Amin Suwaydi’, a revised and expanded interpretation of the legendary…

An ephemeral broadside, printed in Damascus in Arabic and Ottoman languages, marks the stations along the Hejaz Railway between Damascus and Medina, as well as the availability of water for washing and drinking.   Broadside: 37 x 23,5 cm (14.5 x 9.28 inches), original blind stamp (little age-toned, light staining and tiny tears, but overall good).

  A historically important catalogue of 721 books on science, religion and other subjects, published in English and Arabic languages by the American Mission Press in Beirut.   8°, 38 pp. in English, [3 pp.] blank, 51 pp. in Arabic, with illustrations in text, original wrappers with lettering (somehow brittle, with loss of paper in the corners, but without loss…

  [Judhūr al-fikr al-ishtirākī wa-al-taqaddumī fī al-ʻIrāq, 1920-1934 / The roots of socialist and progressive thought in Iraq between 1920 and 1934]   8°. 320 pp., [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with minor folds and staining, spine with tiny repaired tears, old annotations on first title page, otherwise a good, clean, partly uncut example).    

  [The Islamic Architecture of Egypt]   A detailed, richly illustrated work on the Egyptian architecture and history or art.   8°, 169 pp., [193] pages of black and white illustrations and plans, [14 pp.] German text, original white wrappers with lettering (good used example, wrappers slightly age-toned with traces of a small label).

  An usual translation of a popular book Guerrilla Warfare by a Canadian author of Jewish origins printed in Arabic language in the time of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict   8°. 171 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor wear to the wrappers, otherwise an unread uncut example).  

  8°.  114 pp., later marbled paper wrappers (transcription of the title and date in Latin letters and Roman numbers in brown and black ink on the cover, tiny tears in the tile page, otherwise in a good condition).  

The complete first year of one of the first newspapers on law, written under the Western influences and parallelly issued in Ottoman and Arabic languages.   8°. 12 parallel issues in Ottoman (203 pp.) and Arabic languages (199 pp.) (all together 24 units with 402 pp.), bound together. Original cloth boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, original…

  An elegant pamphlet in Arabic language with an elegy for Ahmad, a son of sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman from the Alaouite dynasty, was lithographed in gold in Istanbul.   8°. 12 pp., original wrappers with lettering, all pages lithographed in gold, elegant modern calf with debossed ornaments to contemporary style, bound with old marbled wrappers, modern yellow endpaper…

  [Kitāb tawārīkh mukhtaṣar yunbī ʻan mamālik wa-bilād ʻadīdah wa-mā ḥadatha fīhā min qadīm al-zamān ilá ʻaṣrinā hadhā / Concise History Book, Providing Information on Numerous Realms and Countries and What has Happened in Them from Ancient Times to Our Own Era] A rare work in Arabic language, published in Malta for educational purposes of learning history   8°. 136…

  Exceedingly rare – one of the great monuments of Late Ottoman cartography, being the only official large-format Ottoman transportation atlas, including 26 double-page maps of an original, ingenious proto-modernist design, of which 8 maps concern the Arab World, including 1 map showcasing Hejaz and 1 map depicting Mecca & Jeddah; backed by detailed text explaining numerous itineraries for the…

  Perception of the Balkan Politics in the Arab Countries   An Arab pamphlet on the pact between Yugoslavia, Greece in Turkey,signed in 1953 to prevent the expansion of the Soviet influence to the Balkans   Small 4°. 49 pp., folding map, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor tears in wrappers, otherwise a good example)