for official use only
GENERAL STAFF, INDIA.
Field Notes. Mesopotamia. Catalogue No. M. 3. (11349).
Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printer India, February, 1917.
Designed for official use only, the map and guide put particular emphasis on routes and rivers, but also provides an interesting overview of the region's history and an assessment of its current political climate. Qatar and Kuwait, which 'now flies a flag of its own' in the region, both receive early mentions (p.4).
A glossary located to the rear provides helpful definitions of local words, like 'Ghazi... A champion of Islam', and 'Qalib... A well with a wide mouth, and very broad near the water. Men often descend into it to fill their water-skins'. Interestingly, Arab is translated as 'A man of one of the Arab tribes, but not necessarily a Bedouin. The plural Aarab* denotes the people, the nation. When applied to a Shaikh, as "Zaid's Aarab," it means followers'.
Second, enlarged edition; 8vo (18 x 13 cm); folding lithographic map of Lower Mesopotamia in pocket, 3 folding tables; early issue without the later published index pamphlet, original green cloth wallet binding, spine and upper panel lettered in black, little wear to extremities, a very good copy; [4], 326, [1]pp.
Stock code 116512
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Field Notes. Mesopotamia.
VARTHEMA, Ludovico de.
The Itinerary Ludovico de Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508.
1928.
$411.00
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.
$20,533.00
