[UNITED ARAB EMIRATES].
Amman Zahyan fi Tarikh 'Imarat Abu Dhabi. (Two Glorious Years in the History of Abu Dhabi).
Beirut, Documents and Research Bureau, [1968].
The work is made up of five chapters, covering the geography, people, history, Al Ain, and the final chapter describing the first five-year plan up to 1972. The illustrations depict the life and government of Sheikh Zayed, showing official engagements and meetings, farming and industry, and city and country life. The genealogy chart shows the family tree of Al-Nahyan family back to the eighteenth century, and the folding map gives a rare depiction of Abu Dhabi as it was in 1968.
First edition; 8vo (23.5 x 17 cm); in Arabic, large folding colour map of Abu Dhabi, folding genealogy chart, profusely illustrated with photographs including frontispiece of Sheikh Zayed, a few pages frayed frayed and frontispiece a little loose; publisher's original decorative wrappers, a little wear to extremities with a small split to upper joint, a very good copy; 158 pp.
Stock code 121619
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Amman Zahyan fi Tarikh 'Imarat Abu Dhabi.
DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:
c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
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