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Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. Softcovers; text in English and Arabic; staple-bound; with stamps "Property of Population Research Center"; spine reinforced with tape; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Presented at the International Socialist Congress in Berlin, March 1973, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto." 61 p., clean and unmarked on strong paper only mildly age-toned; binding firm; red and white wrapper with black lettering has two faint smudges on rear panel; light rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Original colour illustrated paper covered boards 14 x 22cm. 155pp including double-page map. Covers very good, bumped to the spine ends, interiors fine. This is a reprint, by permission of the Foreign Office, of Cornwallis' "Handbook to Asir", originally prepared for internal use by the Arab Bureau in Cairo, and published on 1 June 1916. The original Preface states: "This Handbook has been compiled almost entirely from native information obtained recently in Cairo, but gathered originally in Asir itself not later than the outbreak of the present war. there being almost no European literature on Asir of any value, and no European having visited the interiors of the country and furnished a report since the French surgeons and others who accompanied the Egyptian forces in the thirties of the last century". It covers geography, people, manufactures, agriculture, livestock, trade, taxes, history and politics, military organisation, tribal notes, personalities, roads and communications, route reports, etc.

Folio (212 x 335 mm). (2), 276, IX, (1) pp., final blank, with one folding plate (counted as p. 152). Contemporary half cloth with original printed boards, issued thus. Gertrude Bell's personal copy of this excessively rare manual on the social, political and economic structures of the Arab tribes living in the Baghdad Vilayet (Province) as drawn up in July 1918, only months before the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire ended the old administrative divisions and led to the formation of several new states - indeed, to the creation of the modern Arab world. - Arranged alphabetically by the names of the tribes, this handbook - essentially a carefully compiled and redacted British intelligence file printed for the use of British Political Officers and their assistants in a region then undergoing dramatic upheavals - offers surprisingly detailed information on the tribes' origins, loyalties and internal quarrels, the locations of their settlements, strength of their possessions, economic and bargaining power, as well as their kinships, often including genealogical tables. The names of the tribes' leaders are given in full, frequently also in the original Arabic. - Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), who had firsthand experience among the tribes, signed her name in pencil ("Gertrude Lowthian Bell") on the front free endpaper. Several neatly pencilled additions to some of the entries are likewise in her hand: next to the name Fahad ibn Hadhdal she notes that he died and the name of a "rival" (this underlined), apparently a "bin Dughaiyin" (p. 16). In another entry she notes that Jazza' ibn Mijlad "blockaded Turks in North for allies in 1st war" (p. 17) and that the A'marat prefer to winter near al-Hafan. There are several references to her fellow political officer, St John Philby, and a correction that the Al-Dulaim are "all Sunnis" (p. 265), and none Shi'ahs. - Gertrude Bell was a traveller, political actor, and archaeologist who was a key player in the nation-building after World War I, especially in Iraq. She founded the Iraq Museum, translated Persian poetry, and advised the British government's foreign policy at nearly the highest level. It is little surprise that she would have owned one of the few copies of this important source, containing otherwise nearly unobtainable population statistics as well as details on the political history of a region in which traditional tribal feuds became mingled with international high politics. Considering the limited scope of intended distribution and the sensitive nature of the information contained, it is safe to say that this invaluable compendium never had more than a very limited press-run; indeed; only three copies are known today in libraries worldwide, and none with such unique provenance. - Covers rubbed, title-page brittle and reinforced with two library stamps carefully removed but still faintly visible. A closed tear to the folding map. Later in the collection of the American missionary turned political biographer Harry J. Almond (1918-2007), with his handwritten ownership in ink next to Bell's own. In all very well preserved. No copy in auction records. - OCLC 921927074, 729268761.

The finest contemporary map of the Çanakkale sector of the Gallipoli Campaign, the site of the dreaded "Narrows" of the Dardanelles where allied naval forces made their ill-fated attempt to "force the straits" towards taking Istanbul, at a scale of 1:20,000. Drafted in Cairo under the direction of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) at the Arab Bureau's Intelligence Office, based on a recently captured Ottoman map. The main map image is in black with land contours in brown, waterways in blue, and vegetation in green, with soundings printed in the strait and a grid of parallels and meridians in red (with a note that they are based on a magnetic north). The larger squares (each 5 x 5 smaller squares) are numbered (in a single sequence for the six maps in the series) and the 25 smaller squares designated by letters a-z (without e) - printed only in square 33, so that any 600 x 600 metre square on the map can be specified with coordinates.In the early days of World War I, the British and allied forces sought to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the conflict by taking Constantinople, by way of the Dardanelles. The Gallipoli Campaign (17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916) involved a force of 490,000 British, Indian, Australian, New Zealander and French troops making various landings upon the Gallipoli Peninsula that strategically guarded the mouth of the Dardanelles. The 325,000 Ottoman defenders, backed by German forces, successfully repelled these raids in one of the bloodiest military conflicts in world history.From the outset, the Allies were hampered by a lack of accurate maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula and the adjacent Asian shore of the Dardanelles. They eventually succeeded in capturing a complete six-part set of excellent, newly published Ottoman surveys showing the battle theatre in its entirety. These maps were rushed to the map department of the Intelligence Office (later the famed "Arab Bureau") in Cairo, where they were translated, enlarged and improved by a team headed by Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence, later known as "Lawrence of Arabia". These maps were printed by the Survey Department, Egypt, as a series of six interconnecting maps, although each map was designed to act as a stand-alone work complete in and of itself (a geographic key to all six maps is present on the back of the present map).Overall clean and bright, with some very light stains in the upper-left quadrant and light wear at some fold vertices.l Not in WorldCat. Folded. Colour-lithographed map (79 x 62.5 cm), printed in black, brown, red, blue and green. Mounted on contemporary cloth, with the key on the back (printed on or printed and pasted onto).

Colour lithograph, 790 x 625 mm. Mounted on original cloth with maps series key printed on verso. Folded. The finest contemporary map of the Çanakkale sector of the Gallipoli Campaign, the site of the dreaded "Narrows" of the Dardanelles where Allied naval forces made their ill-fated attempt to "force the straits" towards taking Istanbul. Drafted in Cairo under the direction of T. E. Lawrence at the Arab Bureau's Intelligence Office, based on a recently captured Ottoman map. - In the early days of World War I, the Entente sought to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the conflict by taking Constantinople, by way of the Dardanelles. The Gallipoli Campaign (17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916) involved a force of 490,000 British, Indian, Australian, New Zealander and French troops making various landings upon the Gallipoli Peninsula that strategically guarded the mouth of the Dardanelles. The 325,000 Ottoman defenders, backed by German forces, successfully repelled these raids in what was one of the most bloody military contests in world history. - From the outset, the Allies were hampered by a lack of accurate maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula and the adjacent Asian shore of the Dardanelles. They eventually succeeded in capturing a complete six-part set of excellent, newly published Ottoman surveys showing the battle theatre in its entirety. These maps were rushed to the map department of the Intelligence Office (later the famed "Arab Bureau") in Cairo, where they were translated, enlarged and improved by a team headed by Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence, later known as "Lawrence of Arabia". These maps were printed by the Survey Department, Egypt, as a series of six interconnecting maps, although each map was designed to act as a stand-alone work complete in and of itself (a geographic key to all six maps is present on the verso of the present map). - Overall clean and bright, with some very light staining to upper-left quadrant and some light wear at some fold vertices.

First editions, first issues. Six colour lithograph maps measuring 630 by 785mm or  490 by 880mm. Scale 1 : 20,000. Very good copies mounted on linen with pin-holes from hanging, folded with a little staining. Cairo, Survey Department, Rare and important: a complete set of maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula produced under the direction of T.E. Lawrence in Cairo and based on captured Ottoman maps.   In June 1915, working on the basis of a partial set of maps found on a captured Turkish soldier, T.E. Lawrence?s Arab Bureau produced this series of six maps, each separately mapping the entire length of the Gallipoli Peninsula in a format designed to be issued to officers fighting in the field.   The maps are as follows: Kurija Dere; Bogali; Anarfarta Saghir; Chanak; Krithia; and Damler.   Of these, Kurija Dere (now Kocadere) is the most important, being an advanced topographical rendering of the Ari Burnu sector (named after the sea point located in the centre of the map), in the north-western part of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It was issued in the summer of 1915 while the Gallipoli campaign was still ongoing. It adds the toponyms Anzac Cove, Brighton Beach, Hell Spit, and Maclagan?s Ridge, while noting the critical battles of August, 1915: Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair.   The maps provide a clear understanding of the extreme difficulty that both the ANZACs and the Ottoman defenders faced while operating in such rugged territory. Soldiers often had to climb slopes of over 45° in gradient while enduring enemy fire. A series of red numbered grids, all orientated to the magnetic north to aid the use of the map in the field, have been added as Allied troops previously encountered severe orientation problems using the old maps of Gallipoli. The text panel to the right of the maps explains, in both English and French, how to use the grid reference as well as providing chart for converting feet to metres. A ?reference? translates Turkish topographical terms into English.   In the event that they were captured, the importance of these maps were such that officers were generally given only the sector relevant for them. While the campaign was vital to the history of both Australia and New Zealand, it also made the name of Ottoman Colonel Mustafa Kemal, better known as ?Atatürk.?   The Gallipoli Campaign ran from 17 February, 1915 to 9 January, 1916 and involved a force of 490,000 Allied soldiers (British, Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and French troops) who were deployed in a series of landings along the Gallipoli Peninsula which was defended by 325,000 Ottoman troops. The Allies were hampered by misguided assumptions regarding the strength of Turkish forces, as well as poor geographic intelligence, notably relying on an Admiralty chart published in 1908 which was both inaccurate and at an unhelpful scale of 1 : 50,000, as well as a French map dating from the Crimean War.   While individual maps appear on the market from time to time, complete sets are very rare indeed. Brought together, they clarify the impossible demands of the entire campaign.   Oral, H., Gallipoli through Turkish Eyes (Istanbul, Bahçesehir University Press, 2012), pp.219-37.         .

First edition. Colour-printed map, measuring 505 by 675mm. Scale 1 : 250,000. Dissected and then backed on original linen, folded for use, ms. ink annotations. Cairo, Survey Department, A wonderful copy of this remarkable map of Gallipoli belonging to Lt. Eric Arundel Wilton dso, Signalling Officer of the 16th Battalion. Wilton went ashore on the first day of the landings and was invalided off the peninsula with a serious gunshot wound a week later.     The map was originally produced by the British War Office in October 1908 (as is noted on the map itself) but this is the first wartime issue, specifically produced in Cairo for the use of the forces ashore at Gallipoli in 1915 by the map-making group headed by T.E. Lawrence. There was later a second issue, easily identified by the addition ?corrected to July 1915,? just before the major series of secondary landings in August.     This is a medium-format map on a 1:250,000 scale, perhaps less well-known than the series of 1:20,000 maps of specific sites. The scale allows the map to take in the entire peninsula, from the landing sites on the western coast right across the peninsula to the dreamt-of destination at Gallipoli itself.  In addition to topographical information it denotes vegetation, water features, natural landmarks, populated places, and transport routes.    The map has the ownership inscription of Wilton (1892?1932), a Victorian who enlisted into the AIF straight from the new Royal Military College at Duntroon, where he had been part of the first intake of June 1911. He was immediately appointed as a Lieutenant and Signalling Officer in the 16th Battalion, landing at Gallipoli on the first day. He was reported badly wounded on 1 May, although some sources, notably the account of the battle by the artist Ellis Silas (also a signaller in the 16th), suggest he had actually been carrying the wound for days.     Given that Wilton was wounded and evacuated from Gallipoli within a week of the landing, never to return, the inference must be that this is the map issued to him as Signalling Officer for the landing: this would accord with the physical evidence on the verso, his name and ?copy no. 27? being added in ink ? clearly the map was only given out under very strict controls. Below these notes has been added a stamp for the ?4th Infantry Brigade? dated May 29, 1915 (perhaps it was in some sense checked off by the Brigade after his evacuation given the strategic information it contains?). That he retained the map can be seen from the fact that Wilton has added his rank of ?Major? to the inscription, a rank he did not attain until he was in France.     After his evacuation, Wilton received treatment in Egypt, Malta and ? most unusually ? Florence before rejoining his battalion on the Western Front. Promoted to Major and transferred to one of the new Australian Machine Gun Companies, he saw action at Pozières in June 1916. Wounded a second time, he recuperated in England before being sent back to France in January 1917, initially with the 4th Machine Gun Company. He was promoted Brigade Major of the 4th Battalion in July, transferring to the 12th in the same role in October. His actions during Third Ypres, at Zonnebeke, in January 1918 led to him being awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his ?tenacious? work in organising the battalion?s defensive line in appalling weather while under heavy artillery fire. Twice Mentioned in Dispatches, Wilton was in a training position by the end of the war.     After his return to Australia in March 1919 he was taken on the permanent staff of Duntroon as an instructor in tactics with a particular remit to study the use of mechanised vehicles. He died in a motorcycle accident in Kew in 1932. An obituary in the Melbourne papers hailed him as a ?mechanical genius.? He was buried with full military honours at Boroondara Cemetery. .