Books

& Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

first and only edition, titles and text in French and German in facing columns and Ottoman Turkish at end, 186 (not unusually0 of a possible 190 lithographed plates, including coloured plates, after de Launay, Montani, Boghoz, Chachian and Maillard, original wrappers, lacking spine, original printed card portfolio, one plate repaired with tape, [Blackmer 956, not Atabey], folio, Constantinople, 1873

***Rare, few copies appearing at auction over the years. It would appear only a few copies appear to have been printed.

"This interesting work illustrates important examples of Ottoman architecture and detailed elements from such buildings, including woodwork, carved stonework, ironwork, pavements, tiles, etc. The plates... have been produced photolithographically by Pascal Sebah, who established a photographic studio in Pera probably before 1870 and was well known as a photographer of sites in Constantinople and the Bosphorus" (Blackmer). 1873.

£2,000-3,000

66 Middle East.- Middle East.-

A collection of 9 maps of Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, various sizes, most engraved, all hand-coloured, including editions of Ptolemy such as Porro (Girolamo) Tabula Asiae IIII, from Magini's edition of Ptolemy's ‘Geographia’, hand-coloured in outline, Italian text on verso, Venice, 1596; and another, depicting Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Arabia

Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, circa 1598; Mallet (Alain Manesson) Syrie Moderne, in ‘Description de l’Univers’,

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

map depicting the region including Syria, Lebanon and Israel, drape-style cartouche, held aloft by putti with religious symbols, 1638; Visscher (Nicolaes) De Gelegentheyt van t'Paradys ende t'Landt Canaan, decorative map of the region between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf with Paradise, depicted to the east of Babylon, incorporating engravings of Adam and Eve with the serpent, the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, compass rose, scale of miles cartouche and a depiction of Jonas and the whale, German text, Amsterdam, circa 1660; Roux (Joseph) Maps of the coast near St. Jean d’Acre, and of the port of Alexandrette, from ‘Ports et rodes de la Mediterranée’, handcoloured in outline, 1764; Toms (William) Syria, [printed for F. & C. Rivington etc.], 1799; Tallis (John) Syria, steel engraving in hand colour, in ‘An Illustrated Atlas of the World’, 1851, v.s. (9) s.

£300-400

67 Palestine Palestine.Tillotson (John)

Palestine: Its Holy Sites and Sacred Story

First edition, illustrated throughout, original decorated cloth, n.d. § Geikie (Cunningham) The Holy Land and the Bible, 2 vols, folding map of Palestine, original cloth, rubbed and slightly worn, bookplate, 1887 § Valentine (L.) Compiler and Editor. Palestine Past and Present, illustrated, original cloth, lacking front endpaper, worn, n.d. § Wingate (Sir Andrew) Palestine, Mesopotamia, and the Jews, first edition, folding map, and chart, photographic illustrations, original cloth, n.d. and quantity of others, v.s. (13)

£100-150

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

68 Post Gulf War Ordnance Contamination Map of the State of Kuwait, 1991 Post Gulf War Ordnance Contamination Map of the State of Kuwait, 1991

With an inset map of 1989 Kuwait City, Showing a key of potential unexploded ordnance including cluster bombs and landmines and instructions on avoiding and reporting them.

Scale: 1-300,300, approx. 700mm x 1000mm (2)

£250-350

69 Soubhy. Pèlerinage a La Mecque et a Medine.1894 Soubhy (Dr Saleh) first edition, half-title, 19 photographic plates after Sadiq Bey and others, to include images of Mecca and three of Medina, as well as views of Jeddah and the Mahmal, original red silk binding stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed, slightly foxed, 8vo., Cairo, Imprimie Nationale, 1894

Pèlerinage a La Mecque et a Medine. Precede d'un apercu sur l'islamisme et suivi de considerations generales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision.

*** Soubhy was an Egyptian public health official who was commissioned by his government to undertake the Hajj in 1888 and 1891.

£3,000-4,000

70 Torrens (Lt.-Col. Henry d'Oyley) Travels in Ladak, Tartary, and Kashmir Torrens (Lt.-Col. Henry d'Oyley)

Travels in Ladak, Tartary, and Kashmir, first edition, folding lithographed map and 12 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding panoramas, one with a split to a fold, wood-engraved illustrations, lacking errata slip, light foxing, to some plates, rebound (?) in quarter cloth over boards, worn and bumped, signs of worming through upper joint of front board to joint not affecting text of plates, 8vo.,