Highlights

AUDUBON, John James. The viviparous quadrupeds of North America.
New York, John James Audubon, 1845-1848. 3 volumes. Large 1mo (70×55 cm). With 150 striking coloured plates, all lithographed on stone, printed and coloured by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, after drawings by after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, and the backgrounds after Victor Audubon. Each volume also with a title-page and a list of contents. Late 19th-century black morocco. Full description

BELL, Charles Courtenay (compiler). [Photograph album: Sheikhs of the Trucial Coast].
Various places, including Hong Kong, Mumbai, Muscat, Sharjah, and Aden, 1900-1909. Oblong folio (27.5 × 18.8 cm). With 91 albumen photographs pasted in, plus 10 loose at the rear, ranging from panoramas of 16 × 43.7 cm to smaller photographs of 5.5 × 6.5 cm. Contemporary half black morocco. [15] ll. Full description

CLERCQ, Louis De. Voyage en Orient - Voyage en Espagne, 1859-1860
[Paris, France], J. Blondeau et Antonin, 1860. 6 volumes bound in 5 albums. Oblong 1mo (ca. 45 x 60 cm). With 222 photographs, albumen prints from waxed paper negative, including 23 panoramas, all mounted on cardboard, each plate with a lithographed number and caption. Album I contains photos of cities, monuments, and other picturesque views of Syria (49 prints including 11 panoramas); II: castles from the time of the Crusaders in Syria (37 prints including 5 panoramas); III: views of Jerusalem and holy places in Palestine (30 prints including 1 panorama); IV (bound together with III): the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (14 prints); V: monuments and picturesque sites in Egypt (41 prints including 1 panorama); VI: cities, monuments, and other picturesque views in Spain (51 prints including 5 panoramas). The sizes of the albumen prints vary from ca. 20 x 27 cm. to ca. 112 x 20 cm.

Uniform, original red leather-grained cloth with the title and name of the author lettered in gold on the front board. Full description

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. [Description de la mer méditerranée].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1670]. Folio (29 x 45 cm). With 9 double-page engraved charts only, each sheet ca. 44 × 55 cm, each mounted on stiff paper with maps back-to-back, with thick red and black ink borderlines. 8 of 9 maps are by Colom, numbered 2-9 in the plates from; plate 1 has been replaced with Johannes de Rams map of the Mediterranean: "Paskaart vande Middelandsche Zee In twee deelen vertoont". Contemporary stiff paper wrappers, with a manuscript label pasted upside down on the back wrapper, reading: "Carta Marinaresca del Mar Mediterraneo". Full description

DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY TOPOGRAPHIC CENTER. Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Official standard names approved by the United States board on geographic names.
Washington, D. C., Defense mapping agency topographic center, 1976. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo. With one map of the Persian or Arabian Gulf in the first volume. Contemporary blind-tooled green buckram with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red speckled edges. [2], xiii, [1 blank], [2], 17, [1 blank]; [2], 19-47 [=29], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DUBAI – ROYAL FAMILY]. Photograph album.
Pakistan, Early 1970s. 40 photographs (29 in colour and 11 black-and-white). Various sizes (300 x 207 mm to 125 x 125 mm). Includes 51 original colour slides. Stored in large, six-leaf self-adhesive tan leather album (oblong folio, 43 x 34 cm). Full description

DÜRER, Albrecht. [with Johannes STABIUS and Konrad HEINFOGEL]. [Imagines coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus zodiaci].
[ca. 1515]. Map and leaf size ca. 43.5 x 42.5 cm. Woodcut map of the northern hemisphere in its second state, with Dürer's monogram. The map depicts all known constellations in the northern hemisphere in great detail, resulting in an intricate map in which all constellations can be clearly identified upon close inspection. According to Ptolemaic tradition the twelve signs of the Zodiac are displayed on the northern hemisphere and are to be read counter-clockwise. That is, as seen from space, or as they would appear on a celestial globe. The constellation figures are therefore shown from their back view. Dürer decorated the four corners of the northern chart by portraits of four ancient authorities, dressed in their assumed national dress, each holding a celestial globe: Aratus representing the Greek, Ptolemy the Egyptian, Al-Sufi the Islamic, and Marcus Manilius the Roman tradition of astronomy.
Mounted in a gold-coloured frame (67.5 x 67.5 cm), in white passe-partouts with a gilt line directly framing the map on the inside of the passe-partouts. Full description

[FRA MAURO Mappa Mundi – Carlo NAYA]. [Life-size photograph of the Fra Mauro map of the world].
Venice, Carlo Naya, ca. 1871. Hand-coloured photograph, ca. 223 × 223 cm. Mounted and framed. Full description

GENERAL STAFF INTELLIGENCE HEADQUARTERS PALESTINE. Short handbook of Palestine.
[London?], printed by the Printing and Stationery Services, M. E. F., 1947. 8vo. With one folding map and four folding tables. Original printed orange/brown paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 78 pp. Full description

[GROUNDPLAN - LIBRARY - DUBAI]. [Plan of an Arabic library].
[Dubai?], 1975. Ca. 75 x 105 cm. One large printed plan. Folding. [1] l. Full description

MEKELBURG, Corporal George (compiler). [Album of 250 photographs of the Middle East].
[Habbinya?, ca. 1944]. Ca. 20 x 16 cm. With 250 gelatin silver prints (various sizes), mounted on the leaves of a ruled notebook. Contemporary quarter black cloth, blue waterered paper sides, blue sprinkled edges. [85] ll. Full description

[PAINTED PEEPAL LEAF]. [Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum].
[Late 20th or early 21st century]. Ca. 23 x 13.5 cm. One painting. The leaf is placed on top of a black cardstock with a gold painted border around the edge. [1] leaf. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALGERIA]. Sahara Algérien - la prière.
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 21 x 27.5 cm). Mounted on grey/green cardboard (ca. 28 x 39 cm), with a black border around the albumen print. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. [Collection of 43 press photographs].
[1960s]. Various sizes. With 43 glossy press photographs (including one duplicate). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [43] photographs Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - CAR SHOW]. Car show.
[1970s]. Eight photographs (all ca. 9 x 12.5 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [8] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - FALCONRY]. [Two Bedouins hunting with birds of prey].
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 22 x 27.5 cm). Tipped onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 40 x 30 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - HOLY CARPET]. RAU, William Herman and Roddo York YOUNG (photographers). [Holy carpet].
[Early 20th century]. Various sizes. With two stereographic cards and one photographic print. Mounted on cardboard. [3] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA]. [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].
[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. [12]; [12] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JERUSALEM]. [Photo album of Jerusalem].
[Jerusalem?, late 19th century]. Ca. 20 x 15 cm. With 20 albumen prints (each ca. 5.5 x 8.5 cm). Later black shark (?) leather. [10] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - KING FAISAL]. [King Faisal].
[Ca. 1970]. Ca. 40 x 30.5 cm. Two large photographic prints. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA]. [Lawrence of Arabia].
[Ca. 1962]. One glossy photograph (ca. 20 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Arabic men praying outside].
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 22.5 x 27.5 cm). Tipped onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 40 x 30 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Collection of eleven snapshots from the Middle East].
[Iraq?, early 1920s]. With 11 snapshots (all ca. 6 x 9 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [11] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - LEBANON - EGYPT]. [Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].
[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board. [17] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAIT]. Dr. Midhat Sheikh-el Ard.
[Saudi Arabia?, 1930s]. One photograph (37 x 29. cm). Mounted on later beige cardboard (ca. 52 x 41 cm). [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAIT]. [Arabic Bedouin].
[1935]. One photographic print (ca. 30.5 x 23.5 cm), signed and dated. Mounted on beige cardboard (ca. 33.5 x 25.5 cm), with a gold-coloured border around the photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Collection of thirteen press photographs].
[1930s]. With 13 gelatin silver prints (various sizes). Housed in a brown kraft paper envelope. [13] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Collection of thirteen press photographs].
[1980s]. Eight photographs are 21.5 x 16.5 cm, the others are 24 x 18 cm. Thirteen glossy press photographs. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [13] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT]. [Collection of twelve photographs, capturing daily life in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s].
[Saudi Arabia or Kuwait], 1954. Ca. 28.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet size: ca. 35.3 x 27.8 cm). Twelve photographic prints, all signed and dated. Housed in clear plastic folder. [12] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHARJAH]. [The Blue Souk in Sharjah].
[Sharjah, 1980]. Ca. 19.5 x 29 cm. One photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder, with a piece of cardboard for protection. 1 photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SULTAN OF LAHEJ]. [The Sultan of Lahej and his family].
[Ca. 1877]. One albumen print (ca. 18 x 21 cm). Mounted onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 23 x 29 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[POSTCARDS - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Hajj].
[Second half 20th century]. Various sizes. Four postcards and one press photograph. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [5] photographs. Full description

[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. [Jacobus ANGELUS, trans.; Nicolaus GERMANUS, ed.]. Sexta Asie Tabula.
Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482. Oblong 1mo (whole sheet: 41.5 by 57 cm). With a double-page woodcut map. Finely coloured by a contemporary hand, with near-contemporary manuscript vignette illustrations of an Ababeel bird, Makkah (Mecca) and the Kaaba in pen and wash highlighted in gold. Full description

RIBOUD, Marc (photographer). [Visitors awaiting an audience with King Faisal].
[Riyadh], 1974. The sheet is ca. 33 x 47 cm. One photographic print (ca. 25.5 x 40 cm), signed by hand. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

SCHLEGEL, Hermann and Abraham Hendrik VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de fauconnerie.
Leiden & Düsseldorf, Arnz & Comp., 1844-1853. Two parts in one volume. Folio (ca. 51 x 70 cm). With a tinted lithographed title-page mounted on India paper, incorporating 11 vignettes illustrative of falconry by and after J. B. Sonderland. Further with 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falcons and falconry accoutrements, and 2 tinted lithographed plates mounted on India paper, of heron hawking. The illustrations are executed by Wendel, J. Dillmann, Portman and von Wouw, after J.B. Sonderland, J. Wolf, C. Scheuren (or G. Saal) and Portman and von Wouw. Expertly bound in contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco and red cloth over boards. Full description

SÉBAH, Jean Pascal (photographer). [Raka'ah demonstration].
[Late 19th century]. Two albumen prints (each ca. 27 x 21 cm), signed and numbered in the negative. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

SÉBAH, Pascal (photographer). [Festivities in Cairo].
[Late 19th century]. Three albumen prints (each ca. 19.5 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [3] photographs. Full description

[SPACE UAE]. [Translation: The caravan. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The first Arab Muslim astronaut].
Dammam, Aramco and Fiat public relations department, September/October 1985. Ca. 28 x 22 cm. With numerous illustrations and photographs. The magazine is completey written in Arabic. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 48 pp. Full description

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board [16], [11 blank] ll. Full description

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. THOMAS, Colonel S. Morgan (compiler). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Col. S. M. Thomas. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. [23], [4 blank] ll. Full description

VALENTINUS, Petrus Pomarius (editor). Articella nuperrime impressa cu[m] q[uam] plurimis tractatib[us] pristine impressio[n]i sup[er]additis, ut p[atet] i[n] pagina seque[n]ti. Petri Pomarii Valentini Hispani ad lectore[m] Hexastycho[n] ...
[(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine du Ry impensis Jacques Giunta, 1525]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration, the title-page printed in red and black with a decorated woodcut border, and numerous woodcut initials in the text. Later parchment with the manuscript title on the spine. "369" [= 367] ll. Full description

ZANGAKI BROTHERS and others (photographers). [Cover title:] Egypte.
[Egypt, ca. 1870-1913]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 41 cm). With 83 albumen prints, of which 2 folding panorama photographs, 17 signed and numbered in the negative by the Zangaki brothers, and 66 larger prints of the oil industry. Contemporary embossed brown cloth (made to imitate reptile skin), with the title blind-tooled on the front board, decorative paper endpapers. [42], [8 blank] ll. Full description

ZANGAKI BROTHERS (photographers). [Pilgrims].
[Ca. 1880]. Various sizes. Two albumen prints and one later photograph. The photographs of the Zangaki brothers are mounted on either side of limp board, the third photograph is mounted on stiff paper. All housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [3] photos. Full description