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Folio (ca. 490 x 610 mm). (86 + 88 =) 174 large black-and-white photographs (14 ca. 95 x 120 mm, the rest ca. 250 x 300 mm). Mounted on cardboard leaves on cloth tabs. Handwritten English captions throughout. Bound for the photographer in two monumental full red morocco albums with giltstamped titles to upper covers. All edges gilt. Two monumental albums with photographs from travels undertaken to Bashan, Argob, Moab and Gilead, presently Jordanian and Syrian territories, in the years 1894-95. Mounted on the album leaves are 174 photographs taken by the British officer Algernon Heber-Percy (1845-1911), recording two of his expeditions to the Levant. Most of the photographs show archaeological sites, ancient ruins, structures, Druze and Bedouin villages and the residents of the villages that Heber-Percy visited in the course of his travels. - The first album, entitled "Argob and Bashan", contains 86 photographs of sites that are today in Syrian territory, specifically Trachonitis, Bashan and Jabal al-Druze, which the photographer visited together with his spouse and two sons in 1894. The sites include villages in the Trachonitis region (the Lajat) as well as in the cities of Qanawat, As-Suwayda, Bosra and other cities, and the road from Damascus to Beirut. The album also includes photographs of the region's Druze inhabitants. - The second album, entitled "Moab and Gilead", contains 88 photographs from sites that are today in Jordanian territory, visited by the photographer in 1895, including Beth Ba'al Ma'on, Dhiban, Umm ar-Rasas, Amman, Salt (Al-Salt) and Jerash. The album also includes photographs of the region's Bedouin inhabitants and three photographs showing a travelling circus of trained animals (a monkey, a goat and a bear) encountered by the photographer in the Madaba area. Heber-Percy also published on the expeditions recorded in these photographs: his account of his travels appeared in two books, "A Visit to Bashan and Argob" (London, 1895) and "Moab Ammon and Gilead" (1896), and some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced in these books. - Bound for the owner by Bennion & Horne, Market Drayton (their label to pastedown). Some foxing, mainly confined to flyleaves; occasional slight edge flaws. Bindings slightly scuffed at the extremeties, but in all a finely preserved, impressive set.

Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Two bespoke made Boxes for the private reference library of Geologist David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Essays / Offprints / Xeroxed materials / Maps etc. included are (short summary only): Box I: 1. R.M.S.Owen and Sami N. Nasr - "Stratigraphy of the Kuwait - Basra Area" 2. A.F.Fox - "Some Problems of Petroleum Geology in Kuwait" (inscribed "with the author's compliments") 3. A.F.Fox - "The Development of the South-East Kuwait Oilfields" (posthumous publication, inscribed "with the author's compliments") [This publication gives a striking short-history of the prospecting in Kuwait and goes back as far as the geological survey on the basis of which the first wells were located in Kuwait and which was carried out in the spring of 1935 by P.T.Cox on behalf of the British Petroleum Company (then the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Company) and R.O.Rhoades for the Gulf Oil Corporation / This publication is also of interest because it includes a discussion with the author (Fox) about the safe-fails regarding the operation of the Burgan 269 oilfield] 4. R.G.S. Hudson - F.E.Eames - Wilkins, G.L. - "The Fauna of some recent marine Depositis near Basrah, Iraq" (stamped "with the author's compliments") 5. Stanford's "General Map of the Middle East (Scale 55 Miles to 1 Inch) [This colorful map from the year 1950 includes an inset-map of the Suez-Canal as well as Air Routes (Scale 240 miles to 1 inch)] 6. R.G.S.Hudson - The Stromatoporoid Genus Millestroma Gregory (Hudson worked for the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited, London, England) 7. R.G.S.Hudson - Jurassic Stromatoporoids from the Lebanon (stamped "with the author's compliments") 8. F.K.North (Carleton University, Ottawa) - Gravitational Tectonics (includes examples of Gravitational Tectonics comparing sections on the Lobitos oilfield in Peru and the front ranges of the Zagros Mountains in Iran; the text mentions the Ankara Melange but also points out a region, much less familiar to North American geologists, namely the "Coloured Melange" in the Makran region of southwestern Iran and western Pakistan, which is part of "the same great belt of Jurassic ophiolites as the Ankara Melange".] 9. John Vernon Harrison and Norman Leslie Falcon - "Gravity Collapse Structures and Mountain Ranges as ecemplified in South-Western Iran" (1935) 10. Ahmad Masri (Author for "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Natural Resources Authority") - "The Geology of Halat Ammar and Al Mudawwara - Map Sheet Nos. 3248 III, 3248 IV" - Amman, Geology Directorate Geological Mappng Division", 1988. 60 pages, with eleven (11) photographic Plates: Photographic Plate 1: Panorama of the Jabal Al Mudawwara dome, consisting of Dubaydib Sandstone Formation. The photo is taken from a distance of about 15 km. Photographic Plate 2: Medium-bedded sandstone of the Dubaydib Formation 2km west of Al Mudawwara Police Post. The vertical burrows of Sabellarifex are well illustrated. Photographic Plate 3: Medium to thin bedded Tubeiliyat Formation, with thin beds of green shale alternating with sandstone as exposed in the Tubeiliyat area 6km northnortheast of Al Mudawwara Police Post. Photographic Plate 4: Tubeiliyat Sandstone dipping gently eastwards, overlain by Batra Mudstone. 10 km east of Al Mudawwara Police Post. Photographic Plate 5: Exposure of Batra Mudstone 11 km east of Al Mudawwara Police Post Photographic Plate 6: Intensely burrowed surfaces on the Khushsha Sandstone at the eastern edge of the sheet area Photographic Plate 7: Halat Ammar Formation lying unconformably on rocks of the Khreim Group. 8 km north-east of the Halat Ammar Customs Post. Photographic Plate 8: The Halat Ammar Formation. Pebbles of Precambrian Aqaba Complex rocks in a gypsiferous finer-grained matrix. Photographic Plate 9: Bivalve shells interbedded with clasts of Precambrian basement in the Halat Ammar Formation Photographic Plate 10: Poorly exposed cryptovolcanic basaltic plugs in steeply dipping Tubeiliyat Sandstone adjacent to the Al Mudawwara fault-zone 8km southeast of the Al Mudawwara Police Post Photographic Plate 11: Steeply dipping Tubeiyliyat Sandstone flanking the Al Mudawwara fault and faulted down with respect to the Dubaydib Sandstone / The publication also includes a thorough Geological History of the Region durig the Ordovician, Lower Silurian, Middle Silurian, Permian age etc. 11. Ruberg, T. / Weber, M.H. / Garfunkel, Z. / Bartov, Y. - "The shallow velocity structure across the Dead Sea Transform fault, Arava Valley, from seismic data" (2007) 12. Benjamin Braeuer - The structure of the southern Dead Sea basin revealed from local earthquake data" (Abstract) 13. Butler / Spencer / Griffiths - Transcurrent fault activity o the Dead Sea Transform in Lebanon and its implications for plate tectonics and seismic hazard. 14. Abdallah S. Al-Zoubi / Till Heinrichs / Martin Sauter - Isam Qabbani - "Geological structure of the eastern side of the lower Jordan valley / Dead Sea rift: Reflection seismic evidence" 15. "Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jordan" - Amman, 2006 (Natural Resources Authority - Petroleum Directorate). 16. "Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jordan" - Amman, 2001 (Natural Resources Authority - Petroleum Directorate). 17. Abdallah Diabat / Ahmed Masri - "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Natural Resources Authority" - Amman, May, 2002. 18. D.W.Holmes - "A Summary of the Regional Geology, Petroleum Potential and Seismic Program Recommendationa in West Jordan for Petrocanada International Assistance Corporation and The National Resources Authority of Jordan" - May 1989 ("The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan") 19. Hans Grunau - "Future of Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Arab World" November 1984. Box II: 1. [Yemen] F.Moseley - "A Reconnaissance of the Wadi Beihan, South Yemen" - With Notes on Basement Control of Gully Alignment in Superficial Deposits (this publication i.

Signed Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. Author Julia Peterkin's own copy, number #3 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Peterkin on the limitation page. Presuambly the first few copies were given to the publisher, author, and photographer. Letter of provenance from a descendant of Peterkin laid in. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and with an additional original signed photogravure. 342 pp. Bound in publisher's original brown paper boards over half cream cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Lacking slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards, front hinge a bit free, light foxing to contents, typical offsetting from photos. A very clean, attractive copy. "Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll. Ulmann's soft-focus photos-rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here-straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" (Roth, 101 Books).

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Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 346 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and with an additional original signed photogravure. Bound in publisher's original brown paper boards over half cream cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Lacking the original slipcase but housed in a custom cloth chemise case; tissue guards replaced though originals are present and laid into a custom-made compartment in the slipcase. Near Fine. Neatly recased, light rubbing and color retouching to covers, contents lightly foxed at edges. Toning, light edge wear and light soiling to additional signed photogravure. "Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll. Ulmann's soft-focus photos-rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here-straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" (Roth, 101 Books).

Hardcover. Limited Edition, #229/350. Quarto, [12], 13-341 pages. Good. Bound in publisher's three quarter white linen, embossed brown paper boards, spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Some staining and discoloration to spine, particularly along hinges, from water. Tide-marks along upper and lower gutter throughout volume, in some cases touching the plates. Lacking publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures after photographs by Ulmann depicting the formerly enslaved alongside their descendants in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. All plates with tissue guards, one tissue guard loose. Some offsetting from photogravures, as usual. With the additional signed photogravure loose within, a duplicate of the photogravure on page 129. Some offsetting to front pastedown and endpaper from photogravure. "When all the sisters' feet are washed, the basins and towels are handed over to the brothers, who wash each other's feet." [page 124]. WP consignment. Shelved case 3. "Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll, and its black population the subject of Ullman's photograph.Ulmann's soft-focus photos - rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here - straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" [Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pages 78-79]. 1367221. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. The signed limited edition of Roll, Jordan, Roll with text by Julia Peterkin and photographs by Doris Ulmann, complete with 90 photographic plates. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Quarto, [10], 13-341pp, [1]. Original brown paper-covered boards, three-quarter white linen corners and spine. Title in gilt on spine, portrait stamped in blind to front cover. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, foxing to cloth, some rubbing to gilt title on spine. Housed in the publisher's brown slipcase, small points of restoration with archival glue to corners. Complete with 90 full-page photographs depicting former enslaved peoples, their families, and their homes. All plates remain vibrant, most lacking tissue guards. Includes an original photograph by Ulmann, laid-in at front with her signature in pencil on the bottom right corner. Stated on limitation page: "Of this special edition of Roll, Jordan, Roll, 350 copies, each numbered and signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann, have been printed by letterpress and copper-plate photogravure. Of these 327 are for sale. This is copy number 122, signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann on the colophon. This collaboration between Ulmann and Peterkin focuses on a group of former slaves and their descendants in the Gullah region of South Carolina. This is the first appearance of the text, followed by the first trade edition published the same year.

Doris Ulmann (illustrator). Hardcover in original quarter white linen and brown paper-covered beveled boards. Housed in a modern custom clamshell folio box covered in brown cloth w/ leather spine label. This is hand-numbered (in ink on the colophon) copy #124 of 350 (327 sold) of the First Limited Edition. Signed by author and photographer. 8.5" x 11.75", 341 pp, 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures with modern tissue guards. The plates are all immaculate with virtually no markings of any kind on the rag sheets and with only slight rubbing on the front panel and rear endpaper. Julia Peterkin won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary in 1929. "No happier collaboration could be conceived than that of Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann in a book which has for its subject the colorful life of the American Negro of the South. Mrs. Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, and Bright Skin have won for her a deserved reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the American black man's life. Doris Ulmann's photographic studies have similarly made her a foremost figure in the field of art. This book is a powerful picturization, in two mediums, of the Southern Negro. Julia Peterkin says of the book: 'I have tried to put down here things which will give as full a picture of Negro life in the South as I am able to give, matters which I want to see in print before they are forgotten.".

Ichigaya, Tokyo 1899. A three-page holographic penned letter on two sheets:, one, two sides, 14 x 20 cm., on buff colored paper, dated and signed by Lafcadio Hearn. RARE & OBSCURE ! A superb letter to William G. Jordan, the editor of the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Hearn sends Jordan a blistering reply to his request to receive more Hearn essays. Hearn in turn states categorically that he shall never submit to any editor or publisher's censorship. The following is the full text of that letter, exactly recorded below in the format as Hearn actually wrote it: [* = our paragraph/space markers] * William George Jordan, Esq., Editor Saturday Evening Post:- * "My Dear Mr. Jordan - Your letter of March 10th is with me. I am afraid that my answer to it will not please you; but I have no doubt that you will be able to understand my view of the question, and I propose to be perfectly frank with you. * I have stopped writing for magazines, because their Editors or perhaps their publishers, are the enemies, and, mostly, the irreconcilable enemies, of literature. They want only work written according to their order. They want only something that is like something which has already pleased the majority of their readers. They do not want anything because it is well-done, because it is original, because it contains a new idea, -no, they want only what they think their readers want. And necessarily they desire, as a consequence of this policy, the commonplace, the lifeless, the imitation, the counterfeit, the pinchbeck. Send them an original story -it is too horrible, or too shocking, or too heterodox, or 'not likely to please the majority of our readers.' Send them an essay; and it is not 'exactly suited for the magazine.' But write what they want, -and you can get your own price for dullness and insi- pidity. It is no wonder that American writers have to speak for an audience in -London ! The American magazines are murdering American literature. * Under no circumstances and for no renumeration will I ever again write anything to order. I have never done so without regretting it. I could not be persuaded to promise a series of so many articles on such or such a subject at any price. * I might undertake, with a fair-minded editor, to be a contributor to some magazine. But I should propose that he be willing to consider any MS. that I might choose to offer him, upon any subject, -that I should never be asked to write upon a particular theme, or to furnish exactly so many notes and words, or to send in a MS. exactly at such and such a time. I should ask for absolute freedom to use my own judgement. And for any MS. -short or long, accepted by him,- I should expect to be paid not less than $100, -unless the magazine were too poor to pay, in which case I might give a MS. for nothing. It would, under any circumstances, be understood that no changes whatever should be made in the text. * I doubt, my dear Mr. Jordan, whether your publishers would agree to this sort of thing, -unless you have a freer hand than most editors. But to undertake to please you upon any other conditions would be a positive injury to myself; and my experience with editors has not been small, - though my success has not been great. I remain, dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, Lafcadio Hearn * Tokyo, Nishigime Ku, Ichigaya, Tomihisacho 21 * /April 8th '99)" * This letter contains numerous underlines to give emphasis to his reply. With a very solid and bold Hearn signature. * HEARN MANUSCRIPTS ARE RARE ! The majority of his manuscripts took the form of his book texts. His personal letters have always been exceptionally RARE and OBSCURE when compared to his book writings. This unique letter truly reflects Hearn's spunk and backbone as well as his ethical and moral stand- ards for himself. It shows his real character as an author and as an especially as an intellectual. A treasure and keen insight to Lafcadio Hearn's personality.

First edition, limited and signed. New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933]. 341 pages. 90 full-page, hand-pulled photogravures (including the frontispiece, all reckoned in the pagination). Lacking the extra, laid-in photogravure, being a duplicate of one of the images in the book, that is found with most copies. Early full vellum with gilt spine and cover lettering and gilt centerpiece on the front cover. 29 x 22 cm. Near fine. The photogravures are all in excellent condition. The text shows some very faint offsetting from the plates throughout, and a half dozen or so of the text pages show moderate foxing. Tissue guards, laid-in throughout, appear to be recent replacements. Housed in a plain linen slipcase, evidently of the same vintage as the binding. FIRST EDITION. #44 of 350 COPIES SIGNED BY JULIA PETERKIN AND DORIS ULMANN. One of the most celebrated American photobooks, "Roll, Jordan Roll "provides a stunning portrait of rural African American life in the low country of South Carolina. Most of the photographs were taken at Lane Syne, the plantation home of author, Julia Mood Peterkin (1880-1961), located near Fort Motte in Calhoun County. Peterkin had previously published "Green Thursday" (1924), a collection of short stories, "Black April" (1927), her bestselling first novel, and "Scarlet Sister Mary" (1928), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Her last novel, "Bright Skin" appeared in 1932. During her short career, she garnered praise from both whites and influential blacks for her sympathetic depictions of African Americans and her rendering of the Gullah dialect. A wealthy New Yorker, Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) studied photography with Clarence H. White, a former colleague of Alfred Stieglitz. She was admired for her technical virtuosity and her photographs were exhibited at prominent studios in New York and other major cities. Much of her early work consisted of portrait photography of notable members of society, including several series on physicians and prominent literary editors. However, her focus soon shifted to studies of rural America, including Shakers and other religious sects, traditional Appalachian craftspeople and musicians, and Native American communities in North Carolina. While she continued to live in New York, where she had an apartment and studio on Park Avenue, Ulmann traveled widely for her work. In the spring of 1929, during one of her trips to the South, she met Julia Peterkin, and the pair quickly formed a deep and lasting friendship. Ulmann s visits to Lane Syne solidified her commitment to documenting African American life and provided her with a rich source of subject matter. The resulting collaboration between author and photographer, "Roll, Jordan Roll", was first issued in a trade edition in December 1933 and received widespread critical acclaim. James Weldon Johnson wrote that ""Roll, Jordan Roll" is the most beautiful and charming book about plantation Negroes of the deep South I that I know of. Doris Ulmann s photographs alone will work a great change in the general ideas about the Southern rural Negro." qt. in Jacobs, "The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann", p. 126. However, the reproductions of the photographs in the trade edition were disappointing, to Ulmann as much as anyone. This was rectified the following month with the issue of this sumptuous, limited edition, which offered a larger format, text finely printed in letterpress on wove paper, and most importantly, photogravures that did justice to Ulmann s camera work. Andrew Roth writes, "Ullman s soft-focus photos -- rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here -- straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" --"The Book of 101 Books : Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century", p. 78. IN ADDITION TO THE SUPERB QUALITY OF THE REPRODUCTIONS, THE LIMITED EDITION ALSO OFFERED TWENTY IMAGES THAT DID NOT APPEAR IN THE TRADE EDITION. The original publisher's binding for the deluxe editio.

Folio (ca. 210 x 330 mm). (8), 245 ff. (1), 246-481 ff. With numerous genealogical plates printed in red and green (of which 2 folding) in the 2nd volume. Original printed flexible boards with cloth-reinforced spine (vol. 2); vol. 1 bound in modern half calf with cloth covers, preserving original printed upper wrapper within. Rare history of the Emirate of Transjordan (today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), then a British protectorate. Presentation copy from the author to Ahmed Salem el Sakrun of the Arab Legion and inscribed by him to "my friend Ahmed Effendi Hsein El Amawi as a remembrance, Amman 23.12.35" on inside of upper wrapper. - The second volume contains not only the first volume's index, but also an annotated directory of the tribes of the various districts of Transjordan, comprising extensive tables, genealogies, and introductory essays on each tribe. With a separate index to the tribes and a bibliography at the end of the volume. Major-General F. G. Peake (1886-1970), known to the Jordanians as "Peake Pasha", served under Lawrence of Arabia and formed the "Arab Legion", the territory's regular army, in the early 1920s. He was later appointed Major-General in the army of the Emirate of Transjordan. Upon his retirement in 1939 he was succeeded in his command by John Bagot Glubb. - Title of vol. 1 trimmed and mounted on blank leaf; some light spotting or soiling; final leaf a little stained, slight fraying to edges at beginning and end, original printed upper wrapper rubbed and stained, lacking lower outer corner. Spine of vol. 2 a little chipped, else fine. - Mimeographed typescript, printed on one side throughout. No copy in British Library. - OCLC 29109691.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. TWO exquisite holiday cards,early 1990's circa 4by5, hand pained.SIGNED BY BOTH, to the well known dance photographer Arlene Jordan, no photos, can be seen at NUD STUDIO.by appntmnt with references.VV6/1.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. RAY JOHNSON cover ONLY to the paperback of ILLUMINATIONS, the book of choice & show for impressionable sophomores in the 1960's (see Patti Smith). See drop some acid and watch out & stand back. Sifting thru the SOHO effects of my first wife Arlene Jordan, I found a copy and began to read, I seem to have been too dull or too sans francais to bother then, when I discovered almost hidden behind the cover that it had belonged to her first husband, the poet William Cirocco, whose neat artistic signature was there. They had married in Buffalo, in the golden age, when they were both very young, in the late 1960's, The marriage was annulled two yrs later, but not before they had visited Ezra Pound in Rapallo and lived with Basil Bunting for a time in a small English Village. Time and tide & dust and regrets and effects rush in. The glue had loosened the cover from the binding and I removed it & SIGNED, HARRY NUDEL APRIL/21. Books are our history and our lives. VV6/0. Signed by Author(s).

Extremely rare Israeli strategic map of the Arabian Peninsula showing oilfields and associated infrastructure. Printed in black, red and blue, the map demarks the political boundaries of the time along with the areas covered by oil companies concessions. Pipelines form a web across the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula (shown in an uncommon vertical orientation), while oilfields and refineries, large and small, are also marked. The IDF probably made the map in responce to the 1956 Suez Crisis and its associated geopolitical shifts. With the Egyptians operating the Suez Canal, and the USA forcing Britain and France to abandon their post-imperial plans, Israel now counted in both U.S. and Soviet plans for their control of Middle Eastern politics. Britain had to anchor its Middle Eastern influence in Cyprus, Aden and Iraq, while the increased American influence can be seen in the huge swathe of territory assigned to Aramco. We have located only one institutional copy of this map, in the National library of Israel.With traces of pins from former wall mounting. A couple of small light stains, some uneven creasing and tears at the edges of some folds and a couple tiny holes where the folds cross. Otherwise in good condition.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1925-26. Bound in 4 nearly uniform contemp. hcloth. Edges a little rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. In "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", Vols 33,34,35 and 36. VII,950"VII,953VIII,954"VII,951 pp. The offered papers: pp. 879-893 (vol.33), pp. 858-888 (vol.34), pp.557-615 (vol.35) and pp.336-363 (vol. 36). Internally fine and clean. First printings of these four absolutely fundamental papers, which together MARK THE TURNING POINT IN THE FABRICATION OF A NEW PHYSICS, Quantum Mechanics, also called "Matrix Mechanics"."In May 1925, Heisenberg took on a new and difficult problem, the calculation of the line intensities of the hydrogen spectrum. Just as he had done with Kramers and Bohr, Heisenberg began with a Fourier analysis of the electron orbits. When the hydrogen orbit proved too difficult, he turned to the anharmonic oscillator. With a new multiplication rule relating the amplitudes and frequencies of the Fourier components to observed quantities, Heisenberg succeeded in quantizing the equations of motion for this system in close analogy with the classical equations of motion.in June Heisenberg returned to Göttingen, where he drafted his fundamental paper [the first paper offered], which he completed in July. In this paper Heisenberg proclaimed that the quantum mechanics of atoms should contain only relations between experimentally observable quantities. The resulting formalism served as the starting point for the new quantum mechanics, based, as Heisenberg's multiplication rule implied, on the manipulation of ordered sets of data forming a mathematical matrix.Born and his assistant, Pascual Jordan, quickly developed the mathematical content of Heisenberg's work into a consistent theory with the help of abstract matrix algebra [the second paper offered].Their work, in collaboration with Heisenberg, culminated in their "three-man paper" ["Dreimännerarbeit" - the third paper offered] that served as the foundation of matrix mechanics. Confident of the correctness of the new theory, Heisenberg, Pauli, Born, Dirac, and others began applying the difficult mathematical formalism to the solution of lingering problems." (DSB).In the last paper offered, the Pauli-paper, he shows that the hydrogen spectrum can be derived from the new theory. His starting-point constitutes, due to Lez, a method for integrating the classical equations of motion of a particle in a Coulomb field. Pauli's paper was received on January 17, 1926, but the main result must have been obtained before November 3, 1925, for on that date, Heisenberg writes Pauli: ".Ich brauche Ihnen wohl nicht zu schreiben, wie sehr ich mich über die neue Theorie des Wasserstoffs freue." Pauli's paper convinced most physicists that Quantum Mechanics is correct. (Van der Waerden).

Rare original pamphletÂestablishing theÂPalestineÂMandate.ÂOctavo, 12 pages. Scarce and desirable. AÂcrucial document in Middle Eastern history. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, despite huge pressure from France, most of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Treaty relating to the post-war political solution of the Middle East was enforced. Emir Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (1885-1933), leader of the Arab Revolt, was named as King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, but as he had relinquished coastal areas of Syria to the French, he found himself undermined by Syrian extremists agitating for a Greater Syria. Wavering, he caved in to their demands and rejected his previous accommodation with the French. Simultaneously, Feisal's political grip of inland Syria started to wane, and the Allies hurriedly reconvened, this time at San Remo, Italy, in April 1920, and hammered out an allocation of Mandates. This change in policy, supported by American enthusiasm for Mandates, brought political stability to the region enforced by imperial ambition and repressive force, killing off the Sykes-Picot Treaty which had, at least in principle, enshrined the idea of Arab self-determinism. The British, under pressure from the Anglo-Indian government, supported the French in order to secure Mesopotamia, and were given the Mandate of Palestine. The present volume is the finalised version of the terms under which the British would govern the Mandate. There was provision for the settlement of Jews and the establishment of 'the Jewish national home' as per the Balfour Declaration of 1917. However, there was considerable debate as to whether this should apply to the eastern area of the Mandate, known as Trans-Jordan, and the current work carries a note explicitly stating that these provisions are not be enacted in Trans-Jordan. In effect this limited the eastern boundary of any future Jewish state to the River Jordan (Khalidi & Khadduri 1650).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Adam Clayton Powell Sr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Octavo. 80pp., errata slip + 3 plate leaves. Pale blue printed wrappers. Wrappers with light foxing and staining, lower right corner of text block gently bumped. very good or better. The scarce autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853-1939) who describes his life of enslavement before the Civil War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan's childhood was traumatizing. His father, a Spaniard who passed for a white man, was absent. His mother, like Jordan, was enslaved. As a boy â "unnamed and known only as "Nig"â " he was struck by the plantation owner's wife for committing a small infraction: "Mother, like an enraged lioness collared her mistress and nearly choked her to death. Of course she was severely flogged by the master for it, but it took nearly the remaining afternoon to do so. From that time until freedom came the master never attempted to whip her without a gun near at hand and being sure that she was well tied. The sight of her bleeding back and her mournful cries for mercy and pity as the blows from a cowhide rained on her bare back will always remain in my memory." During the Civil War, Jordan worked in a Confederate camp with his enslaver who had been compelled to enlist. When victorious Union soldiers came to the plantation, the enslaved men and women were "hidden so as not to fall into the hands of the Yankees, who were pictured to us as dreadful ogres to be shunned at all hazards. ." When the soldiers came again Jordan hid in fear. His mother was dismayed. She had been prepared to escape with her son, who she could not find, and she knew that the soldiers could have taken them to freedom. "Most of the Union soldiers had been mustered out of service" when a second opportunity arose for the Jordans to escape enslavement. It was learned that some Union troops were still encamped in Meridian, Mississippi. Jordan writes that his mother had never taken recompense for her years as a slave, but on the night of their escape, Jordan was instructed to steal a pair of shoes for her "to wear to freedom." In the pouring rain, wading in creeks and lagoons and evading bloodhounds, the duo finally achieved their liberty. It was in this Union "contraband camp" where Jordan was finally able to leave slavery behind. Jordan was still without a name when a camp school teacher asked him for his. Unwilling to be identified as "Nig," Jordan spontaneously gave the first names of two soldiers ("Lewis" and "Jordan") who had been kind to him, thus giving himself a name and having a name for the first time in his life. (Later in life, Jordan added "Garnett" as his middle name, after reading an account of the life of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnett in *The Rising Sun* by William Wells Brown.) A year after the war's end, in 1866, Jordan's aunt was kidnapped by a former slaveowner and never seen again. His sister was kidnapped and his mother was forcefully carried off to be a wet-nurse by a white United States Colored Troops officer. Jordan was sent to live with another officer from the 52nd Colored Regiment. This man treated him cruelly and Jordan ran away. Jordan's narrative continues apace. Eventually, he was baptized on a plantation once owned by Jefferson Davis, and reunited with his mother. Jordan was licensed to preach in 1873 and ordained in 1874. His first ministry was located in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Subsequently, he pastored churches in Texas and finally at Philadelphia's Union Baptist Church. Other portions of Jordan's text concerns his missionary endeavors in Africa, brief biographical sketches of important Baptists, his education, his religious beliefs, and various other events and experiences. The book's interesting Introduction was written by Adam Clayton Powell Sr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York's oldest Black church. Brignano â ""A Baptist minister and missionary, Jordan describes his slave life in Mississippi, and his religious work in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Philadelphia, Africa, and Europe." Not in *Work*. Not in *Catalogue of the Blockson Collection*.

Condition: None. Two Large Quarto albums, each ca. 30,5x24,5 cm (12 x 9 ½ in). Each with 60 card stock leaves. With 144 mounted original photos, including 122 albumen photos ca. 20x26 cm, 19 gelatin silver photos and one photochrome, all ca. 16,5x20,5 cm (6 ½ x 8 in). All photos with period ink captions in English on the mounts, ca. sixty photos with the photographers' signatures or captions in French in negative. Two period black half moroccos with black pebbled cloth boards; front boards with gilt-lettered titles and the owner's name; spines with raised bands, moiré endpapers; all edges gilt. Binder's paper labels on both rear pastedown endpapers ("J. Maudsley & Son, Stationer, Castle Street, Liverpool"). Spines and corners neatly repaired, a few photos mildly faded, a couple of leaves with minor tears not affecting the images; overall very good albums of strong interesting photos. Attractive albums housing an extensive collection of photos which document a Nile river cruise and a trip to the Holy Land, collected and taken by a prominent future Liverpool stockbroker Gray Kynoch Leathart Rae and his father, Edward Rae (1847-1923), a travel writer and himself a Liverpool stockbroker. In 1908, they went up the Nile from Cairo to the Second cataract at Wadi Halfa, visiting ancient Egyptian temples and sites on the way, and then toured around the Holy Land and Constantinople. These two albums mainly contain Antonio Beato's classical studio photos of the Egyptian sites and antiquities collected by Gray Kynoch Rae. Out of 122 albumen photos of Egypt, about fifty-six are signed by Beato in negative, and the rest, similar in size, colour hues and style, are also attributed to him. Four photos of Hellenistic sarcophagi from Constantinople (with French captions in negative) were attributed to Pascal Sebah due to their distinctive cursive type. Antonio Beato's photos illustrate the Raes' return trip down the Nile River, from the Second Cataract in Wadi Halfa to the Great Pyramids of Giza. The images show: the Second Cataract, "temple d'Ipsambul" (Abu Simbel), now non-existent Korosko village (flooded during the construction of the Aswan High Dam), Temple of Dakka, Temple of Al-Maharraqa, Temple of Kalabsha, Temple of the Beghe Island, Temple of the Philae Island (sixteen views from different angles, including a view of the Nile taken from the island), the first Cataract at Aswan, the town of Aswan and Elephantine Island, Temple of Kom Ombo, ancient quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, Temple of Edfu (eight views of various sites and bas-reliefs), Edfu village, Temple of Esna, Temple of Luxor (5), the city of Luxor (general view, Nile banks and steamers, Luxor hotel, travellers on a dahabiya, locals, &c.), Temple of Karnak (25), the village of Karnak, temples and sites of the Theban Necropolis (temples at Medinet Habu, Deir el-Bahri, Qurna, the Ramesseum, the Colossi of Memnon), Dendera Temple, general view of Asyut, bas-reliefs of the Dendera and Abydos Temples, an ancient tomb at Beni Hasan, the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, the Great Pyramids of Giza, &c. Four photos by the studio of Pascal Sébah depict three ancient Hellenistic sarcophagi excavated at the Royal Necropolis of Sidon, modern-day Lebanon (Alexander Sarcophagus, Sarcophagus of the Satrap, and Sarcophagus of the Crying Women) and the Sidamara Sarcophagus (discovered near Sidamara, modern-day central Turkey). There is also a photochrome image of the interior of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. Nineteen gelatin silver photos are the original vernacular photos taken during the trip. They include views of the Philae Temple, inundated after the construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1899-1902, a Nile boat near Luxor, bas-reliefs in the Temple of Seti I in Abydos, River Jordan near biblical Bethsaida, Capernaum, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, portraits of young girls with water jugs in Nazareth and at "the well of Cana of Galilee," local fishermen, &c. Several photos portray Gray Kynoch Rae, posing at.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frontis, which is an added engraved title page depicting ?The manner of travelling upon dromedarys.? Caption under illustration of male rider on dromedary, holding a whip, led by a male figure on foot, 168, 167-178, [12] pages. Complete. Page 68 is a plate of ?Jerusalem as it now is.? Page 106 is a plate of the Great Council. 148 x 94 mm. (12º). Half leather. Additional images available. The Illustrations on pages 68, 106 and 124 are woodcuts, copied from engraved illustrations in earlier editions of this work. 1st title p.: Two Iourneys to Ierusalem 2nd title p.: Two Journeys to Jerusalem, containing first, a strange and true account of the travels of two English pilgrims some years since, and what admirable accidents befel them in their journey to Jerusalem, Gr. Cairo, Alexandria, &c. Secondly, the travels of 14 Englishmen in 1669. to Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the river Jordan, the lake of Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. With the antiquities, monuments and memorable places mentioned in scripture. By T.B: :[= Thomas Burrell] to which are prefixed memorable remarks upon the antient and modern state of the Jewish nation. As 1. A description of the Holy-Land, its situation, fertility, &c. 2. The several captivities of the Jews, after they were posses'd thereof. 3. Probable conjectures of what is become of the ten tribes who were carried captives by the Assyrians, with divers pertinent relations pursuant thereto. 4. The state of the Jews since their extermination, with the present condition of Palestine. Together with a relation of the great council of the Jews in the plains of Hungaria in 1650. to examine the scriptures concerning Christ. By. S.B. [Sam. Brett] an Englishman there present. With an account of the wonderful delusion of the Jews, by a false Christ at Smyrna, in 1666. Lastly, the final extirpation and destruction of the Jews in Persia in 1666. and the occasion thereof. Collected by R.B. [= Richard Burton, pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch] and beautified with pictures. London. Printed for Nath. [=Nathaniel] Crouch [1532?-1625?] at the Bell in the Poulerey, near Cheapside. 1695. 3rd title, p. 56: A Strange and True Account of the Late Travel of Two English Pilgrims. . . 4th title, p. 79: A Journey to Jerusalem or, the Travels of Fourteen English Men to Jerusalem, in the year, 1669. 5th title, p.107: A True Relation of the Proceedings of The Great Council of the Jews by Nath. Homes 6th title, p.118 to 123: A Brief Chronology Concerning the Jews. 7th title, p. 125: The Counterfeit Messiah. . .of the Jews at Smyrna 1666.

Édition Magnifique. One of 26, Letter "R" . " This copy has been printed and specially bound for M.E. McC. Darlington." Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press. All Plates in three states, one hand-colored. 15 vols. 8vo (ca. 1-3/4 inches width per volume, size varies, 8-7/8 height, ca. 25 inches length in total). PLATES IN THREE STATES, ONE OF 26 COPIES. Bound in full red morocco, with the gilt stamped initials of M.E. McC. Darlington in the center of the upper covers, elaborate red morocco dentelles with white interior doublures with Grolier coat of arms, t.e.g. by the Grolier Bindery (stamped on lower front pastedown) All Plates in three states, one hand-colored. 15 vols. 8vo (ca. 1-3/4 inches width per volume, size varies, 8-7/8 height, ca. 25 inches length in total) Édition Magnifique. One of 26, Letter "R" . " This copy has been printed and specially bound for M.E. McC. Darlington." Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press.

-1689. 34 cm. 2 tomos: (I) Frontis, 200 pág., 2 h. (II) 400 pág., 4 h. Ilustr. con 33 grabados a media página en el texto, y 40 lám. con mapas y grabados fuera del texto, de las cuales cinco plegadas y veintisiete a doble página. Enc. en medio pergamino, puntas, cortes pintados, muy deslucida. Papel algo tostado. Ex libris de anterior poseedor. * Olfert Dapper (1635-1689), de origen holandés, era escritor, geógrafo, historiador y traductor. Esta es una de sus obras más conocidas, que aúna sus conocimentos y observaciones de la zona con los textos de anteriores viajeros e historiadores como Josepho o Eusebio. Algunas de estas fuentes han llegado a ser raras hoy en día. Está profusamente ilustrada con mapas y vistas de ciudades de Tierra Santa, Siria, Palestina y tierras adyacentes. Esta traducción alemana es de Jacob von Meursen, quien también realizó los grabados. Siria, Jerusalen, Palestina, Tierra Santa.

1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS THAT TOGETHER FORMED THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. "In spite of its high-sounding name and its successful solutions of numerous problems in atomic physics, quantum theory, and especially the quantum theory of polyelectronic systems, prior to 1925, was, from the methodological point of view, a lamentable hodgepodge of hypotheses, principles, theorems, and computational recipes rather than a logical consistent theory. Every single quantum-theoretic problem had to be solved first in terms of classical physics; its classical solution had then to pass through the mysterious sieve of the quantum conditions or, as it happened in the majority of cases, the classical solution had to be translated into the language of quanta in conformance with the correspondence principle. In short, quantum theory still lacked two essential characteristics of a full-fledged scientific theory, conceptual autonomy and logical consistency" (Jammer, The Conceptual Development 196). The work of Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan in these papers began to rectify these issues and together marked the "starting point for the new quantum mechanics," also called matrix mechanics (DSB). "In May 1925, Heisenberg took on a new and difficult problem, the calculation of the line intensities of the hydrogen spectrum. Just as he had done with Kramers and Bohr, Heisenberg began with a Fourier analysis of the electron orbits. When the hydrogen orbit proved too difficult, he turned to the an harmonic oscillator. With a new multiplication rule relating the amplitudes and frequencies of the Fourier components to observed quantities, Heisenberg succeeded in quantizing the equations of motion for this system in close analogy with the classical equations of motion. In June Heisenberg returned to Göttingen, where he drafted his fundamental paper [the 1st paper], which he completed in July. In this paper Heisenberg proclaimed that the quantum mechanics of atoms should contain only relations between experimentally observable quantities. The resulting formalism served as the starting point for the new quantum mechanics, based, as Heisenberg's multiplication rule implied, on the manipulation of ordered sets of data forming a mathematical matrix. Born and his assistant, Pascual Jordan, quickly developed the mathematical content of Heisenberg's work into a consistent theory with the help of abstract matrix algebra [the 2nd paper].Their work, in collaboration with Heisenberg, culminated in their "three-man paper" ["Dreimännerarbeit", the 3rd paper] that served as the foundation of matrix mechanics. Confident of the correctness of the new theory, Heisenberg, Pauli, Born, Dirac, and others began applying the difficult mathematical formalism to the solution of lingering problems" (DSB). ALSO INCLUDED in ZfP Volume 33 is a major milestone in gravitational wave theory: the Czech physicist Guido Beck's discovery of a family of exact solutions to the equations of general relativity representing gravitational waves with cylindrical symmetry (called 'Beck vacua' or 'cylindrical gravitational waves'). His paper, "Zur Theorie Binärer Gravitationsfelder" appears on pp. 713-738. ALSO: We offer the Heisenberg paper (Volume 33) as a lone offering. Heisenberg, Werner "Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen" in ZfP 33, 1925, pp. 879-893. ALSO, we offer Pauli's 1926 paper with the 1st significant application of & 1st validation of Heisenberg's new quantum mechanics. ("Über das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik" in ZfP 36, 1926). CONDITION & DETAILS: In: ZfP 33 (1925), 34 (1925), 35 (1926). 8vo. (225 x 156mm). 3 full volumes. Volume 33 has no ex-libris stamps whatsoever; volumes 34 and 35 have some on the title page. Handsomely and uniformly rebound in grey linen, gilt-tooled and lettered at the spine. Tightly bound. Very clean inside and out. Near fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In English. xii, 307 pages plus folded map in rear. 245 x 155 mm. Detailed report to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations regarding the British controlled Mandate of Palestine. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the Empire s territories in the Middle East were divided between Great-Britain and France, with the exception of the newly created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and ruled as mandates on behalf of the League of Nations. The Mandate of Palestine was one of the territories governed by Great-Britain on behalf of the League of Nations and the British government had to produce an annual report of the territory s government for the League of Nations. The first proper report was produced in 1924 and they were produced every year thereafter until 1938. The reports contain extensive information on the region at that specific period, describing the economy, politics, judicial system, public health, technological works and religious matters.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In English. xiv, 413 pages plus folded map in rear. Despite being almost a century old, the folded map looks brand new. 245 x 155 mm. Detailed report to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations regarding the British controlled Mandate of Palestine. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the Empire s territories in the Middle East were divided between Great-Britain and France, with the exception of the newly created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and ruled as mandates on behalf of the League of Nations. The Mandate of Palestine was one of the territories governed by Great-Britain on behalf of the League of Nations and the British government had to produce an annual report of the territory s government for the League of Nations. The first proper report was produced in 1924 and they were produced every year thereafter until 1938. The reports contain extensive information on the region at that specific period, describing the economy, politics, judicial system, public health, technological works and religious matters.

4to. 1 p. Bleistift. Der Künstler antwortet auf einem von Jordan an ihn gerichteten Anfrage bittet der Unterzeichnete um freundliche Benennung der 4 Nebenfiguren auf dem Bild Waterloo [Blücher und Wellington auf dem Schlachtfeld von Belle-Alliance] in der Gedenkhalle des Kronprinzenpalais": Da ich dieß Blatt doch nachträglich gefunden, so folgend mit obigen Notizen noch mit." und benennt die 4 Nebenfiguren": Graf de Sales, Pair-Offizier, Nostitz und Gneisenau" neben Wellington und Blücher. - Das Bild befindet sich in den Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek München.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Oblong octavo. String tied green cloth. Blank black leaves with tissue guards for each page. Small label on rear pastedown of "Persekian, Book-Binder / Box-Maker, New Gate, Jerusalem." Near fine with slight wear on the boards; the images fine. 19 glossy gelatin silver photos, each approximately 4" x 6", mounted one per leaf. The majority captioned in English with white album pen. The images depict Palestinian refugees being given aid at Kasr el Halibat [Qasr Al-Hallabat], Jordan by the Near East Combined Committee for Refugee Work (also known by its acronym NECCRW). The images show Bedouin children and adults happily collecting their goats or textiles, Sheiks of the Othman Bedouin meeting with NECCCRW representatives and the desert patrol, and Bedouin camps. While the images are relatively few, they are well-done and show a little documented element of the upheaval in the region.

The Text by Julia Peterkin. The Photographic Studies by Doris Ullman. 251 pp. Illustrated with photographic studies by Doris Ulmann. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. A near fine copy, the cloth bright and unworn with a few very slight marks; unopened; with a small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; in a jacket with some light edgewear and a few nicks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Printed for A Strahan, G Wilkie et al., 1715, Later Edition. Édition Magnifique. One of 26 copies printed and bound in this style, Letter "J". Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press. All the plates appear in three states, one hand-coloured with captioned tissue guards. 15 vols. (circa 25 inches length in total). Bound by the Grolier Bindery (signed in gilt on the front turn-in) in red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of three fillets and a rose head in each corner on a blue or a white goatskin onlay, with long leafy stems on a dotted background, within a frame of gouges and dots. The spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and third panels, the others with gilt compartments containing blue and white roses with leafy stems, the turn-ins and matching inside joints tooled in gilt with fillets, roses, stems and columns, white pigskin doublures blocked with the Grolier arms in gilt with black goatskin onlays, green and pink marbled free endpapers, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Joints slightly rubbed and spine ends worn with some loss. The Edition Magnifique, limited to 26 copies, of which this is lettered J . One of a series of 15 volumes covering 18th century English authors. The binding by the Grolier Society's own bindery (not to be confused with the Grolier Club's bindery) is suitably de luxe. Peg Woffington written by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (2 Volumes), x, [ii], 312pp; ix, [iii], 304pp (folding plate); Colley Cibber written by Himself (2 Volumes), xiv, 399pp; vii, [iii], 400pp; Horace Walpole written by Himselfix, [iii], 329pp; Fanny Burney written by Herself, xiii, [iii], 428pp; Laurence Sterne written by Percy Fitzgerald (2 Volumes), xi, [v], 315; 333pp; Charles James Fox written by B.C. Walpole, together with the character of Mr. Fox by R.B. Sheridan, xi, [iv], 347pp; Captain Gronow written by Himself (2 Volumes), [ii], 411pp; 388pp; Mary Wortley Montagu written by Herself, x, [ii], 334pp; Beau Nash written by Oliver Goldsmith, xvi, [iii], 312pp; Mrs. Jordan written by James Boaden (2 Volumes), xix, [iii], 334pp; xv, [iii], 332pp. Provenance: bookplate for Paquita Lick Machris (designed by James Webb) to the front end paper of Mary Wortley Montagu . Approximately 9 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition titles in gilt to second and third compartments, gilt decorated blue and white onlaid roses to the other compartments, chipped with some loss to the top of the spines of Colley Cibber Vol I and Peg Woffington Vol I see photos. Joints good condition worn and chipped with some minor cracking starting only. Corners good condition gently worn and bumped. Boards good condition worn and marked, with a scratch to the rear board of Colley Cibber Vol I. Page edges good condition Top edge gilt with others either untrimmed or uncut. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition full leather with white pigskin doublures and the Grolier crest, gilt floral decoration. End papers good condition 3 green and pink marbled end papers. Title good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition gently tanned, illustrations in three states. Binding good condition attractive, worn. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: not dated (c1900) Binding: Hardback.

Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' "The Holy Land", published London 1849. Good condition with clean, bright colours. David Roberts' magnificent images of Egypt and the Holy Land rank amongst the finest topographical views of the nineteenth century. Roberts made a two-year journey to the Middle-East commencing in 1838, and whilst there executed numerous watercolours from which the finest were selected for the publication; The lithographs were executed by Louis Haghe. In order to help fund the project, Roberts produced a deluxe subscription edition, from which this lithograph was taken, which is notable for being the only edition to have original hand-colour, which would have been executed under the direction of the artist. Abbey: 272.