Middle East & Islamic World

MORRIS, James [later known as (Catherine) Jan MORRIS]. Sultan in Oman.
London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MU'AMMAR, Sayid Ya'coub; B.L. STRACHAN. Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. 4to. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled. 8 pp. Full description

MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. [Egyptian ABC book].
[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publisher's printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red. 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description

MURPHY, James Cavanah. The Arabian antiquities of Spain.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. [4], 21, [1] pp. Full description

NAU, Michel. Voyage nouveau de la Terre-Sainte, enrichi de plusieurs remarques particulieres qui servent à l'intelligence de la Sainte Ecriture. Et de diverses reflexions Chrétiennes qui intruisent les Ames devotes dans la conoissance & l'amour de J.C.
Paris, Andre Pralard, 1702. 12mo. Woodcut printer's device and several woodcut headings and endings. Two bookplates (one of 1933) on silk inner side and first leaf. 19th-century red morocco, spine ribbed with 6 compartments of which 4 are richly ornamented with very fine gilt flowers, gilt bordered dentelles, inside boards lined with silk and gilt inside dentelles and gilt edges, the binding is signed "P. BOZERIAN". [20], 661, [3] pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Palestine and Transjordan. Geographical handbook series.
(colophon:) Oxford, University Press, December 1943. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. With 1 large folding map stored in a pocket on the back board of the communications of Palestine (air fields and landing grounds, railways, roads and sea plane moorings), 2 other folding maps (geological map of Palestine; map of Haifa Harbour), 1 double-page plan of the church of Holy Sepulchre and 58 other figures in the text. Also with 154 half-tone photographs, inserted on separate leaves and all numbered and captioned. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettering on front board and spine. XV, 621, [1 blank] pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Syria. April 1943.
With:
(2) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Palestine and Transjordan. December 1943.
(3) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Western Arabia and the Red Sea. June 1943.
Stationery Office, University Press Oxford, 1943-1946.
3 volumes. Many plates, tables and photographs. Each volume including separate fold-out maps, one in colour. Contemporary green cloth with the title in gold on the front boards and the spines. [2], XVI, 485, [1]; [2], XV, [1], 621, [1]; [2], XIX, [1], 659, [1] pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. [MASON, Kenneth, a.o.]. Iraq and the Persian Gulf. September 1944. B.R. 524 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.
[Oxford,] Naval Intelligence division, 1944. 8vo. With numerous diagrams, reproductions of photographs and maps, including a loose map in the pocket at the back. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover. 682 pp. Full description

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Persia. Geographical handbook series for official use only.
(colophon:) Oxford, University Press, September 1945. Large 8vo. With 1 large folding map of Iraq, Arabia and Persia bound at the end of the book, 11 smaller folding maps and 50 illustration figures in the text (smaller maps, current and wind charts, sections, diagrams on the rainfall, etc.). Also with 337 half-tone photographs, inserted on separate leaves and all numbered and captioned. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettering on front board and spine. XIX, [1 blank], 638 pp. Full description