Althamary (2 results)

First edition, here labelled "The Yemen". It is drawn by the elusive cartographer usayn Abd All h Dham r , appearing as H. Althamary, who also produced a map of San a . Only three institutional copies are recorded in WorldCat, at Leiden, the Library of Congress, and Michigan. An Arabic edition and a second English edition were published in 1976. The map is in idiosyncratic English and marks the strategically important governorates of Taiz, al-Bayda , and Ma rib. Several words are misspelled, including "drawen," "boundries," and "vally." The eastern border is left blank, excluding the independent People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. A brief border war took place in October 1972, ending with the Cairo Agreement, which proposed unification of the two Yemeni states. Each was backed by opposing Cold War powers: Saudi Arabia supported the Yemen Arab Republic, while the Soviet Union backed the other. The two states ultimately united in 1990 as the Republic of Yemen. The route annotations in red pen, stretch from Najran in the north to the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the south. Warren P. Aston, "The Origins of the Nihm Tribe of Yemen: A Window into Arabia's Past", in Journal of Arabian Studies: Arabia, the Gulf, and the Red Sea, 4:1, 2014, pp. 134-148. Colour map (660 x 463 mm) scale 1:1,000,000, text in English. Old fold marks, a few small holes at folds, small chip to head not affecting text, a little offsetting at lower margin: a very good copy.

Second edition, labelled here as "The Yemen". It is drawn by the elusive cartographer usayn Abd All h Dham r , here appearing as H. Althamary, who also produced a map of San a . We have identified only six institutional copies on WorldCat, at Exeter, Leiden, NLS, Cornell, LoC, US Geological Survey. The first edition was published in Egypt in 1972, while an Arabic edition appeared in 1976. The map is in idiosyncratic English and marks the strategically important governorates of Taiz, al-Bayda , and Ma rib. Several words are misspelled, including "drawen," "boundries," and "vally." The eastern border is left blank, excluding the independent People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. A brief border war took place in October 1972, ending with the Cairo Agreement, which proposed unification of the two Yemeni states. Each was backed by opposing Cold War powers: Saudi Arabia supported the Yemen Arab Republic, while the Soviet Union backed the other. The two states ultimately united in 1990 as the Republic of Yemen. Warren P. Aston, "The Origins of the Nihm Tribe of Yemen: A Window into Arabia's Past", in Journal of Arabian Studies: Arabia, the Gulf, and the Red Sea, 4:1, 2014, pp. 134-148. Colour lithographed map (655 x 450 mm) scale 1:1,000,000; later laid down on board; white wooden frame, overall 690 x 490 mm; text in English. Slightly toned, some creasing, one small hole: a very good copy.