Middle East Archives - Page 2 of 4

Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Beirut, Lebanon / Lebanese Civil War: Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Civil War
- 650.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A fascinating large format map of greater Beirut made by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency to aid the CIA and the American military early in the Lebanese Civil War when the city was a hotbed of espionage and major faultline in the Cold War; an extremely accurate and detailed depiction based upon satellite reconnaissance, it labels every major building, street…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
- Carte de la Turquie d’Asie (moins l’Arabie) / Eschelle de 1 / 1 000 000.
- 2,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The colossal, authoritative general map of Anatolia, the Levant, Lower Egypt and western Iraq made for strategic use by the French Army on the eve of World War I; these regions all being scenes of pivotal military action and espionage operations during and in the wake of the conflict, from which France played a critical (and controversial) role in the…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
- DISTANCE-TIME-ROUTE MAP / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: ممالك محروسه شاهانه [Imperial Guarded Domain…]
- 3,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The very first distance-time-route map of the Ottoman Empire, one of the great masterpieces of Hamidian Era thematic cartography, it depicts the entire realm of the Sublime Porte from Albania to Yemen, noting the travel times between hundreds of locations, including various routes of the Hajj; devised by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army and published in Istanbul.…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Egypt Atlas: اطلس ابتدائى للقطر المصرى [Elementary Atlas of Egypt].
- 2,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A very rare and important Arabic language school atlas of Egypt, commissioned by the country’s Education Ministry and Ministry of Finance, emblematic of the country’s emerging national awakening whereby Egyptians gradually regained control over their country’s economy and institutions from the British quasi-colonial regime; in this vein, such cartographic works in the Arabic language, made for the use of…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- IRAQ – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Ирак [Irak]
- 150.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Colour print, 69 x 88 cm (27.2 x 34.6 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 7 pp, wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- IRAQ / IRAN – PETROLEUM (OIL) HISTORY / DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: [A Complete Collection of the 3 Official Maps (on 4 Sheets) certifying the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey by the Shatt Al-Arab Waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran Frontier, according to the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913].
- 1,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Extremely rare – the complete series of the 3 maps (on 4 sheets) of the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey in the vicinity of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran frontier, above the head of the Persian Gulf, as mandated by the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913; this boundary settlement was surveyed by Indian Army engineers under the supervision…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- IRAQ / KUWAIT / IRAN / PETROLEUM HISTORY / WORLD WAR I: Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
- 980.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign Siege of Kut Al-Amara Ottoman Military Field Cartography “Captured” Enemy Map: [Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign. Siege of Kut Al-Amara]
- 3,600.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- ISFAHAN / IRAN: Guide Map of Isfahan
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
- Add to cart
Quick View
- Quick View
- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].
- 3,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…
- Add to cart