Recent Acquisitions

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Collection of thirteen press photographs].
[1930s]. With 13 gelatin silver prints (various sizes). Housed in a brown kraft paper envelope. [13] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT]. [Collection of twelve photographs, capturing daily life in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s].
[Saudi Arabia or Kuwait], 1954. Ca. 28.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet size: ca. 35.3 x 27.8 cm). Twelve photographic prints, all signed and dated. Housed in clear plastic folder. [12] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHARJAH]. [The Blue Souk in Sharjah].
[Sharjah, 1980]. Ca. 19.5 x 29 cm. One photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder, with a piece of cardboard for protection. 1 photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SULTAN OF LAHEJ]. [The Sultan of Lahej and his family].
[Ca. 1877]. One albumen print (ca. 18 x 21 cm). Mounted onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 23 x 29 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[POSTCARDS - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Hajj].
[Second half 20th century]. Various sizes. Four postcards and one press photograph. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [5] photographs. Full description

[PROCLAMATION - ZANZIBAR]. The special gazette for Zanzibar.
[Zanzibar], Saturday, 9 December, 1911. Ca. 34 x 21.5 cm. With the coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom printed on the front. 4 pp. Full description

RIBOUD, Marc (photographer). [Visitors awaiting an audience with King Faisal].
[Riyadh], 1974. The sheet is ca. 33 x 47 cm. One photographic print (ca. 25.5 x 40 cm), signed by hand. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

SÉBAH, Jean Pascal (photographer). [Raka'ah demonstration].
[Late 19th century]. Two albumen prints (each ca. 27 x 21 cm), signed and numbered in the negative. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

SÉBAH, Pascal (photographer). [Festivities in Cairo].
[Late 19th century]. Three albumen prints (each ca. 19.5 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [3] photographs. Full description

[SPACE UAE]. [Translation: The caravan. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The first Arab Muslim astronaut].
Dammam, Aramco and Fiat public relations department, September/October 1985. Ca. 28 x 22 cm. With numerous illustrations and photographs. The magazine is completey written in Arabic. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 48 pp. Full description