Islamic Culture / Law & Politics

‘ABD AL-RAHMAN ‘AZZAM (ed.). 'Ard al-hukumat al-mamlaka al-'arabiya as-sa'udiya.
[Cairo], al-Maaref Press, AH 1374 [AD 1955]. 3 volumes. Folio. Numerous illustrations and maps. With the maps (supplement to vol. II) in separate matching slipcase. Full description

‘ABD AL-RAHMAN ‘AZZAM (ed.). Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia. Arbitration for the settlement of the territorial dispute between Muscat and Abu Dhabi on the one side and Saudi Arabia on the other.
[Cairo], al-Maaref Press, 1955. 3 volumes. Folio. Numerous illustrations and maps. Modern library cloth. With the maps (supplement to vol. II) in separate matching slipcase. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - BAHREIN]. HH Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa with three other sheikhs.
Gulf region, 1920s. Black and white photograph (gelatin silver print, 8 x 7 cm) mounted on brown cardboard (9 x 8.5 cm). Captioned in white ink. Full description

BERCHET, Guglielmo. La repubblica di Venezia e la Persia.
Torino, G.B. Paravia e comp., 1865. 8vo. With 5 photographic plates. Original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers. Full description

[CANTER, Frans]. Deductie gedaan ... uit den name ende van wegens bewindhebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie ter kamer Amsterdam, eerst requiranten van appoinctement van anticipatie, en nu gedaagdens by mandament van revisie, ter eenre, op ende jegens Aaltje Fransse, weduwe van Cornelis Canter, Jan Canter, en Hendrik van Greuningen, als in huwelyk hebbende Anna Canter, zeggende te zyn moeder, broeder,, en zwager respective, van Frans Canter, alle wonende te Amsterdam, ...
[Amsterdam, 1752]. Folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). Bound as sewn; the back of the last page has a letterpress title, which upon folding served as a title-wrapper.
With: (2) Missive van de bewindhebberen van de generale Neederlandsche geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie ter vergadering van Seeventienen.
[Amsterdam, 1758]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). Bound as sewn. Full description

[COELHO, Simão Torresão and João Pinto RIBEIRO]. Elogio do muy valeroso, e de raras virtudes dom Ioão de Castro illustrissimo governador, & visorrey da India.
Lisbon, Domingos Lopes Rosa, 1642. Small 4to (19 x 15 cm). With a large woodcut ship on title-page. 19th-century half tan sheepskin, refurbished ca. 1925 with grey paper sides and new endpapers. Full description

CONDE, José Antonio and Jules Lacroix de MARLÈS. Histoire de la domination des Arabes et des Maures en Espagne et en Portugal, depuis l'invasion de ces peuples jusqu'a leur expulsion définitive.
Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1825. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spines. Full description

[DE LAET, Johannes]. Turcici imperii status. Accedit de regn. Algeriano atque Tunetano commentarius.
Leiden, Bonaventura Elzevier, 1634. 16mo (10.5 x 5.5 cm). With an engraved title-page. 19th-century textured brown cloth. Full description

DULAC, Antonio Maximino. Genuina exposição do tremendo marasmo politico em que cahio Portugal, com desenganada indicação dos unicos remedios apropriados a' sua cura radical... Tomo I [-II].
Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1834. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With lithographed frontispiece, and a small woodcut Portuguese royal coat of arms on title-page of each part. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Full description

FORESTI DE BERGAMO, Jacobus Philippus. Supplementum chronicarum.
Brescia, Boninus de Boninis, 1. XII. 1485. Small folio (21 x 31 cm). Double rules along inner margins of text and between table columns, rubricated throughout. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, bound in the monastic shop of the Würzburg Benedictines, two clasps. Full description