Layer William (9 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. Scarce first edition of this large paper volume concerning monumental inscriptions and coats of arms from Cambridgeshire. The first edition of this work, a scarce book. A detailed study of monumental inscriptions and coats of arms in Cambridgeshire, recorded by John Layer in 1632 and William Cole between 1742 and 1782; edited by W. M. Palmer.Illustrated with fifty-one full age plates. Collated, complete. With its unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Marks and offsetting to endpapers. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1953, and to verso half title, undated. Marginal pencil annotation to occasional leaf. Dust wrapper unclipped and sound with shelf wear, loss to head of spine and front wrap, chipping and closed tears tape repaired internally to wraps, visible to externals, sunned to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st Edition. 13(2) 17 pages. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 13, [2], 15, 117 plates; near-fine. Very rare first edition, bilingual in Arabic and English, signed by Ali Wahab on title-page in both English & Arabic. A magnificent publication showing the Royal splendour of the Iraqi Royal Family and one of the finest cars of the 1930s, the Mercedes given to King Ghazi, by Adolf Hitler. Ghazi crashed the car and killed himself in the process. Most of the Royal family pictured were later murdered in an Iraqi nationalist coup d'état in 1958. COPAC locates a single copy, at the British Library.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon état. In-folio plein veau raciné, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés, roulettes, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, roulettes sur les coupes, 307- 152 pp. Coiffe sup. arrachée, coins lég. émoussés, brunissures et petite attaque de ver au second plat. Reliure entachée d'humidité & cintrée. Réunion de pièces relatives à l'instruction et au procès du jacobite (protestant !) Christopher Layer qui projeta de renverser la Couronne au profit de Jacques II Stuart en 1721. Il fut pendu et écartelé. Appendice bien complet des 12 séries de documents ayant chacune une pagination particulière. in-folio.

[Beirut: Dar Alrafidain. 2018]. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 13, [2], 15, 117 plates; near-fine.Very rare first edition, bilingual in Arabic and English, signed by Ali Wahab on title-page. A beautiful publication showing the Royal splendour and one of the finest cars of the 1930s, the Mercedes given to King Ghazi, unfortunaley by Adolf Hitler.COPAC locates a single copy, at the British Library.

First edition, first printing, signed on both the English and Arabic title pages by one of the authors, "With best wishes, Ali Wahab". This is "a pictorial history of Iraq from the Ottoman period though the three generations of the Iraqi monarchy to its extinction by Karem Quassim's 1958 coup" (p. ii). Half a century after the fall of the Hashemite kings, and during the first years of the Iraq War, Lieutenant Colonel William Layer was shown to a trove of photographs of the old monarchy in the ruins of the Zuhur Palace. After cataloguing, digitizing, and translating any notes on the photographs, he left the collection with the Baghdad Museum. Ali Wahab writes in his introduction (in Arabic) that he was alerted to the existence of these photographs by Layer's 2013 article "Photos of the Hashemites", published in Asian Affairs, volume 44, number 1. After reaching out to Layer, Ali performed extensive archival research that formed the foundation of this present volume. It reproduces over 117 of the photographs, showing life for the royal family in Baghdad. There are aerial shots of the city, pictures of all three kings and their families with a variety of state visitors, and a large number of King Faisal II during his childhood in England. Quarto. With over 117 monochrome photographs; text in Arabic and English. Original black boards, spine and boards lettered in silver, purple endpapers stamped with central vignette in blind. With pictorial dust jacket. Boards fresh, a little offsetting, contents bright; jacket without price as issued, panels lightly scratched, one small stain to verso: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.