Middle East & Islamic World

[MESOPOTAMIA]. [Indian Army General Staff]. For official use only. Field notes. Mesopotamia. General staff, India. February 1917.
Including: Index to field notes, Mesopotamia, 1917.
Calcutta, Superintended government printing, 1917. Small 8vo. With 1 folding heliozincographed map of "Lower Mesopotamia", with some routes in red, and three folding letterpress tables. Original green cloth. [3], [1], 326(=325), [1]; [1], [1 blank], XX pp. Full description

[MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN]. Critical study of the campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Part II - Maps.
Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1925. 25 (of 26) folding maps, sketches etc., as always lacking the "Explanation of the Method of giving Map Co-ordinates adopted in Chapters XIII and XX". Original tan cloth map-case with original printed label to cover. 25 (of 26) folding ll. Full description

MEULEN, Daniël van der and Hermann von WISSMANN. Hadramaut, some of its mysteries unveiled.
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1932. 8vo. With a folding map of the region as a frontispiece, a very large folding map (ca. 75 x 106 cm) in the back behind a blue cloth strip mounted on the inside of the back board, and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. Original navy blue buckram. XXVI, 248 pp. Full description

MEULEN, Daniël van der. Aden to the Hadhramaut. A journey in South Arabia.
London, John Murray, [1947]. 8vo. With a double-page map (printed on coated paper) signed: "drawn by M. W. Hawes from a sketch map by Prof. von Wissmann." and 91 black and white photographic illustrations. Original light grey/ beige cloth, with gold-lettering on the spine. XVI, 254, [2 blank] pp. Full description

MEURS, Jacob van. Nova totius Arabiae Foelicis, Petraeae, et Desertae.
[Amsterdam, ca. 1680]. Engraved map (30 x 35 cm), contemporarily hand-coloured. Matted. Full description

MICHAELIS, Johann David. Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.
Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde; Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & comp., 1774. 4to. Set in roman type with incidental Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac and 1 word in Coptic. Near-contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [4], XLIV, 256, [16], 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[VIEW - MIDDLE EAST]. [Mountainous landscape with Middle Eastern and classical Roman ruins, 6 shepherds with their flocks, several figures riding dromedaries and one riding a donkey, (date?) palms, lakes, etc.].
[Palestine?, ca. 1910?]. An enormous panoramic view drawn in coloured gouaches on a single, continuous roll of paper (70 x 583 cm), the drawing running to the edges of the paper. Full description

[MIDDLE EAST]. New outlook: Middle East monthly.
Tel Aviv, Tazpioth, 1957-1975. 18 instalments, plus 1 duplicate. 8vo. Original wrappers. Full description

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERCA. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin [8 issues].
New York, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1973-1978. 8 volumes. Each volume ca. 100 pp. Full description

[MIDDLE EAST - WALL MAP]. Mapah carta shel ha-mizrah ha-tikhon. (Carta's Map of the Middle East).
[Jerusalem], Carta, 1973 121 x 92 cm. Colour-printed map (folded). Scale 1:20,000,000. Full description