Recent Acquisitions

[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

SALZMANN, Auguste. Jérusalem. Étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque Judaïque jusqu'à nos jours.
Paris, Gide & J. Baudry (on the back of both half-titles and the back wrapper of the text volume: printed by Jules Claye in Paris; on each photographic plate: printed by Louis Blanquart-Evrard in Lille), 1856. 2 volumes. Folio. With 40 mounted salt print photographs, 3 full-page plates (2 lithographs, 1 chromolithograph), and numerous illustrations in the text.
Volume 1 in contemporary gold-tooled half black goatskin. Volume 2 in contemporary gold-tooled quarter red goatskin. [4], 90, [2]; [4], [2] pp. + 40 leaves with mounted salt prints. 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

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board [16], [11 blank] ll. Full description