Arabic Books

A collection of poems by an Iraqi author Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, who spent most of his life in exile due to his communist views and apposing the government   Small 8°. 96 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly stained and scuffed on the edges, inside with light staining to the first and last pages, but…

  Lithograph: 82 x 57 cm (32.3 x 14.6 inches) (light age-toning, overall in a good condition).  

  Published at the beginning of the Kingdom's historic First Five-Year Development Plan (1970–1975), this exceptionally rare, gigantic thematic atlas details the infrastructure plans for areas around Riyadh and Dhahran—roughly covering the eastern portions of today's Riyadh and Eastern Provinces—with a primary focus on transportation, oil fields, and spatial geography.  

Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī (ابن الحاج التلساني المغربي). [Kitab Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār al-kubrá / The Book of Suns of Lights and Treasures of Great Secrets] [S.l., S. d., but probably Cairo, ca 1920].  8°, 128 p., contemporary red and black marbled boards, later spine (boards rubbed and lightly scuffed, inside slightly age-toned, with small tears and tiny loss of paper…

  A pamphlet in Arabic language with a decorative cover was made as a propaganda against the former Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli after his deposition in 1954.   Large 8°. 96 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn with tiny scratches and holes in the upper margin on the cover, but otherwise in a good condition).  

A rare book of the Octoechos and other hymns for Arabic-speaking members of the Greek Orthodox Church, printed early at the Patriarchal Press of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

  Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush.   8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).  

[Child Rearing. Written by Dr. Serobyan, the specialist in obstetrics and pediatrics, the doctor of the Lady Cromer Hospital and the orphanage of abandoned children in Egypt]   A rare manual in Arabic language on modern Western medical care for babies was published by the Office of the Public Education and written by a medical doctor of the Lady Cromer…

  [At-Tabiqa Al-Jedyda / The New Class]   The contemporary Arabic translation of a critical work on the new elite class of the Communistic regime, written by a Serbian politician Milovan Djilas in 1957, which gained him seven years in a Yugoslav prison   8°. [8 pp.], 296 pp., original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, mostly in margins, overall in a…