Bushehr (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. (4), 106 leaves. 208 x 155 mm. Rabbi Avraham Hamuy was born in Aleppo to Rabbi and Kabbalist Raphael and Rachel. In 1864 he married and approximately one year later his wife and their child died on the same day. He also lost his father and a sister early. These deaths devasted him and he left Aleppo and spent the next 22 years traveling in living in many cities and countries. In 1865 he was in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, where he studied with Rabbi Rachamim Antebi. He moved to Izmir, Turkey, studying with Rabbi Haim Palaggi. In 1870 he published, in Izmir, his first book, which is offered here, Haakh Nafshenu. He visited Austria, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania. In 1873 he moved to Italy, living in Livorno (Leghorn), where he received ordination as a schochet (ritual slaughter, in accordance with kosher laws). In 1876 he was in Thesaloniki. In 1878 he was in Gibraltar, Libya and very likely Lebanon. In 1879 he traveled to Algeria, Tunisia and Marocco and Yemen. In 1881 he reached India. In 1882 he was in Persia. In 1884 Baghdad. He visited more than 45 cities and wrote 65 works, 15 of which were published. He passed away, single and alone, in 1886 in the Persian port city of Bushehr. He published in Hebrew, Spanish and Ladino, and also wrote unpublished works in Arabic. He was a charismatic kabbalist and judaic scholar who proacticed folk medicine and kabbala. At some of the places he visited or lived in, for example, Gibraltar, He was offered a position as the chief rabbi, but his often acerbic personality brought him into conflict with people, and after descending to personal insults during disputes, usually over religious issues, he was kicked out of some cities. He spoke Hebrew, Spanish, Ladino, Arabic, Italian and some French. He dealt in Kabbala, medicine, amulets, alchemy and herbal medicine. Unlike many who did a great deal of traveling, he never collected alms from far flung communities on behalf of the impoverished Jews in Eretz Israel. His passion was to promote and publish his writing, which he viewed a means of atoning for sins he felt he must have committed to deserve the loss of his family. As he saw it, his books were his children.

Original colour lithographed map. 475 x 612 mm on 644 x 785 mm (sheet). Scale 1:1,000,000. Folded. Third edition of this wartime map of the Bushehr area on the southwestern coast of Persia, on the Gulf. The city was occupied by British troops during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; these were replaced by American soldiers in 1942, who installed a military supply route for the Soviet Union through Iran (the "Persian Corridor"). - With a reminder that "the boundary between Iran and Iraq should not be considered as final. Its settlement is still under negotiation". - Interestingly, the present map was copied by the German Luftwaffe as early as 1942 and distributed as "Weltkarte 1:1.000.000 (Iran) / H-39/G-39, Bushire. Hergestellt im Auftrage des Generalstabs des Heeres, Abt. für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (II)". - Pencil annotations calculating the estimated time of arrival from Kuwait city to Taylor Rock off the coast of Kuwait suggest, that the map was used for navigation. - Somewhat toned and showing slight edge wear. Very rare. - OCLC 1422580272.

Original colour lithographed map. 465 x 630 mm on 613 x 690 mm (sheet). Scale 1:1,000,000. Folded. Rare first edition of this wartime map of the Bushehr area on the south-western coast of Persia, on the Gulf. It stretches from Muhammara city and Bubiyan Island off the coast of present-day Kuwait in the West to Fars province with Shiraz and the marshlands that would become lakes Tashk and Bakhtegan in the East. Shows important places, railways, roads and boundaries, rivers, and elevation. - Small edge flaws; main roads marked by hand with a thick red pencil. A single copy available at the Hamburg State and University Library. - OCLC 246231053.

782 x 640 mm. In full colour. E48°-E54°/N28°-N32°. Folded. Third edition of this wartime map of the Bushehr area on the southwestern coast of Persia, on the Arabian Gulf. The city was occupied by British troops during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; these were replaced by American soldiers in 1942, who installed a military supply route for the Soviet Union through Iran (the "Persian Corridor"). Interestingly, the present map was copied by the German Luftwaffe as early as 1942 and distributed as "Weltkarte 1:1.000.000 (Iran) / H-39/G-39, Bushire. Hergestellt im Auftrage des Generalstabs des Heeres, Abt. für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (II)". - Somewhat dusty and showing slight edge wear. Very rare. - OCLC 1047892528 (a single record).