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Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) - Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924). [The Problem of Irrigation and Water Supply in Mesopotamia] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1334 [1918]. 8°, 14 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering on the cover (minor foxing, otherwise in a good, clean condition) (#70726). An Ottoman pamphlet on the irrigation in…

  A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…

  Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Detailed map of Isfahan, made by a "Father of Iran'S Cartography" Abbas Sahab. 

  8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)  

  8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).  

[The Basis for the Anatolian Turkish Antiquities and Carvings in Stone. Ankara]   An extensive illustrated work on Turkish history or art in Anatolia   2 volumes, large 4°. Vol. 1: 54 pp., blank, 41 plates printed recto in black and white and colour, original wrappers with lettering (wrappers and first pages with light foxing, later spine, last plate with…

  [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).

الازميرى Muḥammad ibn Walii Izmiri), Author of the Commentaries; ملا ( خسرو Molla Hüsrev, died 1480) Author of the Original Tex

A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…

  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).