This scrapbook--created by the Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo--documents life in Nubia through photographs. Topics include work, leisure, architecture, and agriculture among other subjects. Some pages are missing photographs.
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example. It is added by applying gold powder or a thin sheet of gold (Gold Leaf) to a cover, board or pages.\r\nGilting is not only for decorative reasons it also serves a purpose. When applied with glue, gilt helps to protect the page edges from moisture, browning, and dust. Gold paint can also be applied but may scuff or chip.\r\n
Abidin Dino - Resim - Edebiyat - "Pera Palas" - İstanbul - Türkiye. Abidin Dino'nun "Pera Palas" adlı yapıtının İngilizcesi, 22.08.1998. Yazı (Kitap Metni).
'""The illustrations on this edition are the work of Sapper Dawson; some from life and others from Margaret Greave\'s originals and the author\'s photographs""--Mounted label on t. p.; Saba\'s personal libarry collection is a 1943 reprint.; One copy also from Mahmoud Saba\'s personal library Collection at the American Unversity in Cairo.'
with a verbal translation and explanatory notes by William Jones.In English and Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project). Copy digitized: Law School Library: MOSLEM 1782.
"A Victorian commonplace book (similar to a scrapbook)this one was written by a Robert JohnsonJuniorin 1846. Topics include a poem written about his brother's deathdiary entries describing Ibrahim Pasha as well as a cricket matchfireworksand performances. Several of the pages are written in shorthand."
Scrapbook compiled by Denys Johnson-Davies containing newspaper articles published in locations highlighting his work. The scrapbook is part of the Denys Johnson-Davies Papers at the AUC Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Johnson-Davies (1922 - 2017) was one of the foremost Arabic-to-English literary translators, translating novels, short stories, plays, and poetry by prominent literary figures like Naguib Mahfouz.\r\n\r\n
Dünya Futbol Şampiyonası - Abidin Dino - Belgesel Sinema - Film - Spor. 29.06.1966. Abidin Dino'nun yönettiği "Goal!" filminin teknik kadrosu ve genel notları. Bülten.
'"The first edition of this book appeared under the title of A book, of gardening for the sub-topics by Mary Stout and Madeline Agar"--Author\'s foreword.\r\nOne copy is from the Margo Veillon library collection.\r\nFrom the personal library collection of Mahmoud Saba.\r\nMahmoud Saba\'s personal library collection copy 2 has pencil inscription.\r\nMargo Veillon library collection copy has inscription.\r\nIncludes index.'
History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).Author: Charles Rathbone Low.Publication Details: London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-vi); octavo.1 volume (575 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 229mm x 140mm
The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; from unpublished letters and journals. In two volumes. Vol. II.Publication Details: London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill ; Bombay : Smith, Taylor, and Co., MDCCCLVI [1856] C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.Notes: Printer's name from colophon. Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references.Physical Description: vi, 631, [1] p., 1 port. ; 23 cm. (8º)1 volume (631 pages)Dimensions: 230mm x 140mm
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters:I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', 'Surface, Coast and River Systems', 'Climate', 'Sanitary Conditions', 'Race and Language' and 'Population';II: 'Political History', including 'Chronological Summary', 'Introduction', 'Early period of Turkish Occupation, 1638-1834', 'Later period of Turkish Occupation, 1834-1914', and 'Commercial Developments';III: 'Social and Political Conditions', including 'Religious', 'Political', 'Public Education' and 'General Observations';IV: 'Economic Conditions', including 'Means of Communication', 'Industry', 'Commerce', 'Finance' and 'General Remarks'.There is also an appendix which includes tables of 'Exports to Principal Countries from Baghdad', 'Imports from Principal Countries to Baghdad', 'Principal Exports from Basra' and 'Principal Imports to Basra'. This is followed by a section entitled 'Authorities' which is a bibliography of references used for the preparation of the volume. This section is divided into 'Historical' (including 'Confidential Sources'), 'Economic' ('Official' and 'General') and 'Maps'. There is a pocket at the back of the volume to house maps, but there are no maps present.1 volume (76 folios)Pagination: The volume contains an original printed pagination sequence.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
An historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan.Author: James Baillie Fraser.Publication details: Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale Court; and Simpkin & Marshall, London.Edition: second edition.Physical Description: 14 engravings, including 1 map.1 volume (472 pages)This volume contains a list of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of engravings.Dimensions: 170mm x 100mm
Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus, authored by Grattan Geary, editor of
The Times of India.Publication details: Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, London.Physical description: Volume 2 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo1 volume (355 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp iii-x). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xi).Dimensions: 195mm x 135mm.
This volume is a confidential report, printed at the War Office, by Harrison and Sons, printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, in 1899, and authored by Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh, Intelligence Division, War Office, concerning the resources, administration and general affairs in Baluchistan and Seistan [Sīstān] following his political mission in 1897. The report contains an introduction by the author, (folio 4), dated 5 December 1898, in which he mentions that details from the report are being incorporated into the Baluchistan Gazetteer and Route books. He also pays tribute to Colonel Bell and Captain Henry Dundas Napier who preceded him, as well as Captain Arthur Henry McMahon and George Passman Tate. The text of the report is accompanied by footnotes and section headings appear in the left and right hand margins.The report includes a table of contents on folio 5 with the following five chapters:'Chapter I. General Account of Journey across the Baluchistan Desert' (folios6-8), including details of incidents en route, future trade prospects, danger threatening commerical prospects, and a list of leading merchants in Seistan;Chapter II. Russian Designs and Political Consideration' (folios 8v-10), includsing details of future policy, approaches to Seistan, alternative routes, influential Sardars of Seistan, treatment of refugees by the British Government, and the feeling of the people;'Chapter III. Resources and Population of Seistan' (folios 11-24), including details of administration, fertile places, a list of villages, climate, seasons and winds, sanitation, population, transport (camels, donkeys and horses), windmills, agriculture, industries and trade, Camel Corps, sport and shooting, locusts, and fish;'Chapter IV. Exploration of the District in the West and South' (folio 25), including details of crossing the Dasht-i-Shelag, pollution of wells, character of country, routes, and pilgrimage;'Chapter V. Land System - Revenue and Productions &c' (folios 26-29), including details of ijaras [
ijārah], tenant rights and responsibilities, hardship of tenants, collection of revenue, culturable area, annual yield, surplus grain, irregularity and delayed water supply, and ancient ruins.There is a list of nine appendices (folio 5v) as follows:'A.- Geneaological tables of Sarbandi, Kayani, and Naroi tribes' (folios 30-31);'B.- List of Taoki tribes in Seistan' (folio 31v);'C.- Average temperature of each camp', April to November 1897 (folios 32-35);'D.- Aneroid readings', April to November 1897 (folios 36-39);'E.- List of wells and springs', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folio 39v);'F.- List of villages', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folios 40-41);'G.- Table of meteorological observations, Baluchistan' (folios 41v-43);'H.- Table of meteorological observations, Seistan' (folios 44-50);'I.- Table of meteorological observations, Neh and Birjand Districts' (folios 50v-51).The file also includes five maps and sketches, store in a pocket (folio 58). They are listed on folio 5v as follows:'No. 1. Baluchistan and Seistan' (folio 53);'No. 2. Seistan' (folio 54);'No. 3. Route plan of Robat Nala' (folio 55);'No. 4. Waterways of the Helmund [Helmand] Delta' (folio 56);’No. 5. Nasratabad [Naṣratābād] Fort' (folio 57).1 volume (58 folios)This volumes contains a page of contents (folio 5) referencing page numbers.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Outram & Havelock's Persian Campaign. By Capt. G. H. Hunt, 78th Highlanders. To Which Is Prefixed, a Summary of Persian History, an Account of Various Differences between England and Persia, and an Inquiry into the Origin of the Late War. By George Townsend, Author of "Russell's Modern Europe Epitomised"Author: Captain G H Hunt.Contributor: Sir Henry Havelock, KCB; Sir James Outram.Publication Details: London: G. Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-viii); with illustrations; octavo.1 volume (352 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references.Dimensions: 183mm x 115mm
The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies. Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume,
A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol, was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.1 volume (480 pages)
Correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. Parts one and two of three.Topics covered:the proposed application by the Société Internationale d'Études for the option to construct a Trans-Persian Rail line;concessions for the Kerman Mining Concession and Persian Railway Syndicate;possible alignments for the rail line;areas of control for Britain, Russia and France;the point of access to the Persian Gulf;the military implications of the line for the Government of India.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject files was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part, listed by year. This is placed after the last piece of correspondence on file.1 volume (251 folios)The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.The subject 4045 (Trans-Persian Railway) consists of 2 volumes, with parts one and two comprising one volume, and part three comprising the second volume.Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 253; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-251; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
Intelligence report on Kuwait, compiled for the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department by Captain Henry Harris Hewitt Dowding of the Essex Regiment, and printed at the Government Central Printing Office in Simla, 1903.The contents of the volume are as follows:Introductory remarks;Harbour, anchorages;History of Kuwait (of the Wahabis, the Ibn Rashid family, the war between Nejd and Kuwait);Political (relations between Kuwait and Great Britain, the situation in 1901-02, foreign relations with Russia, Germany, Turkey, events during 1902);Military forces, including their strength, arms and equipment, organisation, standard of efficiency and tactics;Towns: Kuwait, its population and defences; Jehara [Al-Jahrah], its importance, population and defences;Administration, government, free trade, currency;Resources, commercial, not agricultural;Climate;CommunicationsFour appendices follow the main text: A. routes; B. the Wahabi family; C. the Ibn Rashid family; D. the Shaikhs of Kuwait. The volume also contains three illustrations: the foreshore at Kuwait (folio 3); Mobarek-bin-Subah [Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] and his youngest son Naser (folio 9); the Shaikh’s residence in Kuwait (folio 17). The volume also contains three maps: a map of Kuwait and the surrounding country (folio 30); a map of Kuwait harbour (folio 31); and a rough diagram of Jehara (folio 32).1 volume (33 folios), with 3 mapsThe volume is arranged into a number of sections, with major headings in the text and subheadings indicated alongside the text in the outer margins. A contents page (folio 6) lists these major headings and subheadings, along with the volume’s illustrations and maps, and refers to the volume’s original pagination system. Four appendices follow the main text. An alphabetical index (folios 26-28) also refers to the volume’s original pagination system.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.