Middle East & Islamic World

[INDIA – ARMY, GENERAL STAFF BRANCH]. Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Confidential. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, 1921.
Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing, 1921. 8vo. With frontispiece, 31 plates, 7 maps (3 in pocket on inside of back board), and 8 panoramas, mostly folding.Contemporary half calf, green cloth sides, gold-stamped red spine labels. X, 187, [1] pp. Full description

[INDO-PERSIAN SILK PAINTING - after Ustad MANSUR]. [Pair of peafowls].
[20th century?]. Ca. 107 x 74 cm. Painting on silk. The silk canvas is mounted on a fibreboard panel of the same size. Full description

[INTELLIGENCE OFFICE - ARAB BUREAU - CAIRO]. Chanak.
Cairo, Survey Department Egypt, 1915 Colour-lithographed map (79 x 62.5 cm), printed in black, brown, red, blue and green. Mounted on contemporary cloth, with the key on the back (printed on or printed and pasted onto). Folded. Full description

[IRANIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION NEW YORK]. WANTED. SHAH of IRAN by the Iranian people for the murders committed below (only after 1953).
New York, Iranian Student Association, [ca. 1974]. Folio. With 4 illustrations of the Shah.Pamphlet. Full description

[MAP - IRAN - IRAQ]. PHILIP & SON. Iran (Persia) and Iraq.
London, George Philip & sons, [1930s]. Colour printed map, 54 x 68 cm, with yellow covers (19.5 x 11 cm). Full description

[MAPS - IRAQ]. [Reconnaissance maps of Iraq].
[UK Government], Survey Directorate HQ Tenth Army / Indian Field Survey Co., 1942 42 chromolithographed topographic maps of parts of Iraq, made from aerial photographs during World War II, on a scale of 1:100,000 and 1:253,440 (a quarter-inch to a mile). 68 x 50.5 cm & 60 x 47 cm. Full description

[IRAQ DESERT] 2 lithographic WWII maps: Rutba and Wadi Al Ubaiyidh.
[UK Government], Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1940-1942. 2 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:500,000. 820 x 640 mm and 770 x 648 mm. Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved. Full description

[IRAQ -ENGLAND - PHOTOGRAPHY]. Life in England and Military Snap Shots in Iraq and Turkey, 1912-1920.
4to. Approximately 120 mounted (usually 2-4 to a page) snap shots ranging in size from 60 x 40 mm to 120 x 100 mm. Brief captions in black ink under almost all the photos. 1/4 leather album. Full description

[ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT]. [7 publications about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict].
Beirut, Bern, New York and Moscow, [various publishers], 1968-1983.
Comprising (in chronological order):
(1) ARAB INFORMATION CENTER. Israeli expansionism. New York, [ca 1970].
(2) L'AGENCE DE PRESSE NOVOSTI. Proche-orient: la voie d'une paix juste. Moscow, 1970.
(3) PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION. Israel's policy towards Palestinians, 25 years of terrorism. Beirut, [ca. 1973].
(4) ARAB INFORMATION CENTER. The Arab-Israeli conflict. A brief presentation. New York, 1974.
(5) ASSOCIATION SUISSE-ARABE. Israel et la torture. Bern, 1977.
(6) ADAMS, Michael. Israel's treatment of the Arabs in the occupied areas (2x). New York, [1977].
(7) UNITED NATIONS. Commitee on the exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. New York, 1983.
8 volumes (7 publications). Varying from 16.5 x 9.5 cm to ca. 23 x 15.5 cm. With maps and black-and-white photographic illustrations in some of the publications. All in their original printed paper wrappers. Full description

[ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT]. [Collection of publications from organisations around the world who support Palestine, from the 1970s]
Beirut, Paris, and San Francisco, [various publishers], 1968-1975.
Comprising (in chronological order):
(1) LE COMITÉ D'INFORMATION DES FEMMES ARABES DES "AMIS DE JERUSALEM". Faits et réalités. Le problème Palestinien, No. 2, Avril 1968.
(2) THE LEBANESE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION ON PALESTINE. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 5, June-July 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(3) IDEM. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 6, August 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(4) IDEM. Facts. Today in the Middle East, No. 7, October 1974. Beirut, 1974.
(5) CALIFORNIA MIDDLE EAST PEACE COALITION. The Middle East peace organizer April 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(6) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer June 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(7) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer August 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(8) IDEM. The Middle East peace organizer Sept. - Oct. 1975. San Francisco, 1975.
(9) EUROPEAN COORDINATING COMMITEE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE ARAB WORLD. Eurabia, no. 3, October 1975. Paris, 1975.
9 volumes (4 publications). All approximately A4-sized (ca. 28 x 22 cm). Original printed paper wrappers, stapled. Full description