Middle East & Islamic World

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Queen of Sheba.
London, Melbourne and New York, Quartet Books, 1981. 4to. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary black cloth with title in gold on the spine and a colourful dust jacket. 141, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPH - ABU DHABI]. [Photograph of a dhow in the harbour of Abu Dhabi with two large cranes in the background].
[Abu Dhabi, 1970s?]. Photo: ca. 50.5 x 63.5 cm; paper board: ca. 56 x 68.5 cm. A large photographic print in colour mounted on thick paper board. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALHAMBRA]. MAUZAISSE, Charles (photographer). [Collection of 13 photographs of the Alhambra in Granada].
[Granada, ca. 1865]. All albumen photographic prints (18 x 24 cm) are mounted on black card stock (29.5 x 21 cm). [13] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT], SÉBAH, Jean Pascal. [Collection of 34 albumen prints of Egypt].
[Cairo?, 1888-1900?]. 34 albumen prints (ca. 22 x 27 cm) mounted on cream cardstock (ca. 28 x 35.5 cm). Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. ZANGAKI BROTHERS. [Cover title:] Aegypten 1891.
[Egypt, Zangaki brothers, 1891]. Oblong album (31.5 x 41 cm). With 34 large albumen prints mounted on heavy cardstock leaves. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French in the negative and signed 'Zangaki'. The last one is signed Sebah & Joallier. The Zangaki prints measure 22.5 x 28.5 cm; the Sebah & Joallier one is 20.5 x 26.5 cm. Original gold-stamped bubble-grained maroon cloth over boards. [36] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ENGINEERING - IRAN]. [Collection of 19 engineering photographs in Iran].
[Iran, 1307-1308 AH (= 1928-1930 CE)]. Oblong album (24.5 x 29.6 cm). With 19 black and white photographs (ca. 23.1 x 17.1 cm) on thick dark blue/black paper. Mid-19th-century bright blue faux-leather, the front board features a pictorial on-lay within a rectangular frame, the illustration depicts a young woman in traditional costume holding a large ceramic vessel. The joints are laced through onto 2 supports. [9] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAN - OIL INDUSTRY]. [Collection of ten photographs of the oil industry].
[Iran, before 1980]. Various sizes. With 10 photographs. The collection is housed in a plastic file folder, with each photograph also separately kept in a plastic folder. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - EGYPT]. [34 photographic prints of Egypt, Jerusalem and Turkey].
[1880-1900]. With 34 albumen prints (various sizes), of which most signed and captioned in French in the negative, several with a manuscript caption in the lower margin. The photographs are mounted on cardstock or in a passe-partout, the two largest photographs are mounted on opposite sides of the same sheet of thick cardboard. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. [Album with photographs showing parts of Israeli captured territories including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula].
Israel, 1967. Oblong album (ca. 20 x 26 cm); photographs in slightly varying sizes (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). 44 silver gelatin photographs (including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted). Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - YEMEN - EGYPT]. [Album containing photographs of Yemen and Egypt].
Yemen, Egypt, and other places, ca. 1889. Oblong folio (37.8 x 28 cm). An album containing 25 albumen prints (ca. 20 x 27 cm), including 1 double page, mounted on thick card leaves, many captioned in English. Contemporary burgundy/auburn gold- and blindstamped calf (lozenge-patterned blindstamping). Re-backed with the original back strip laid down. Gold-stamped turn-ins, white watered silk endpapers, gilt edges. [26] ll. Full description