by John Cramb, photographer to the Queen ; with descriptive letterpress by the Rev. Robert Buchanan, D.D., author of "A clerical furlough", etc. The... Show moreby John Cramb, photographer to the Queen ; with descriptive letterpress by the Rev. Robert Buchanan, D.D., author of "A clerical furlough", etc. The plates are albumen prints. Each plates is accompanied by 1 leaf of descriptive letterpress. Main Heritage Shelves General DS108.5 .C73 1860 Book Item-ID: i22509434 BIB-ID: 2405142 Show less
Claudius Galen Wheelhouse. Main Heritage Compact General D973 .W44 2066 Reference Item-ID: i2256410x BIB-ID: 2408671 Show moreClaudius Galen Wheelhouse. Main Heritage Compact General D973 .W44 2066 Reference Item-ID: i2256410x BIB-ID: 2408671 Show less
Zouaves, Zouaves--Algeria, People, Armies, Colonial, Armies, Colonial--France--Algeria, History
Photograph album complied by a French military officer, possibly a member of the 1st or 10th Zouaves battalion, based in Algeria at the end of the... Show morePhotograph album complied by a French military officer, possibly a member of the 1st or 10th Zouaves battalion, based in Algeria at the end of the 19th century. The album includes amateur photographs – possibly taken by the compiler himself –, photographs taken by professional studios such as the one of Jean Geiser (active in Algiers at the end of the 19th century), but also postcards and other photomechanical prints taken from books and magazines. Photographs are mainly related to Algeria and include views of Bougie [today Bejaïa], Toudja, Lambessa [today Tazoult-Lambèse], Algiers, the gorges of Palestro [today Lakhdaria], and the Touggourt oasis. Among the subjects of the picture, a carnival parade in Algiers, the Bab El Kantra Bridge in Constantine, a military station in Dirah equipped with a telescope, the Azib of the Ben Ali Cherif family, Bab al-Bahr in Bejaïa, the boulevard Admiral Pierre in Algiers, the summer palace of the Governor General, a zawiya, Roman remains, markets, streets, mills, Ramadan prayers and ports. Also, local people, vendors, family portraits and portraits of Zouaves battalions.The album includes views of cities, monuments and landscapes in France and Italy. Title and date devised by Library staff. Titled "Album" in gilt golden letters on the cover. Photographs size 10 x 16 cm. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2014.0033 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i22677951 BIB-ID: 2409645 Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General SF285 .R53 1910 Book Item-ID: i11393154 BIB-ID: 1171449 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General SF285 .R53 1910 Book Item-ID: i11393154 BIB-ID: 1171449 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS107 .H65 1870
by the Rev. F.W. Holland, M.A. ... Date of imprint from British Museum Catalogue. "Published under the direction of the Committee of General... Show moreby the Rev. F.W. Holland, M.A. ... Date of imprint from British Museum Catalogue. "Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." Main Heritage Shelves General DS107 .H65 1870 Book Item-ID: i10176998 BIB-ID: 1019335 Show less
by Gillian Grant. Main Heritage Compact General DS44.5 .G73 1989 Reference Item-ID: i10144596 BIB-ID: 1016095 Includes bibliographical references (p. ... Show moreby Gillian Grant. Main Heritage Compact General DS44.5 .G73 1989 Reference Item-ID: i10144596 BIB-ID: 1016095 Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and indexes. Show less
Christopher James. Main Heritage Compact General TR287 .J36 2009 Reference Item-ID: i2453397x BIB-ID: 2623995 Includes bibliographical references (pages... Show moreChristopher James. Main Heritage Compact General TR287 .J36 2009 Reference Item-ID: i2453397x BIB-ID: 2623995 Includes bibliographical references (pages 586-591) and index. Show less
Collection of portraits related to the history of Aden. Portraits of Arabic people, of the Sultan of Zanzibar and photographs of the visit of ... Show moreCollection of portraits related to the history of Aden. Portraits of Arabic people, of the Sultan of Zanzibar and photographs of the visit of Prince Seif al-Islam al-Hussein, son of the King of Yemen Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869–1938), to Paris on 18 February 1938. Title and date devised by LIbrary staff. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2012.0002 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i22907257 BIB-ID: 2443250 Show less
The album collects the photographs taken by the Naval Officer A. Martiensen, who took part in Wilhelm II's trip to the Levant in 1898, as he was... Show moreThe album collects the photographs taken by the Naval Officer A. Martiensen, who took part in Wilhelm II's trip to the Levant in 1898, as he was serving on the Imperial liner "Hohenzollern" from September 1898 to March 1900. The visit was a key diplomatic move of the German Empire and the Protestant Church to strengthen the political ties with the Ottoman Empire and it was widely reported and commentated in all the media. The album was probably compiled at end of the 1920s, as indicated by the form and layout. Also, pictures are not arranged in chronological order, which would suggest that they may initially have been kept in different places and only later incorporated into the album. The last picture dates from 1929 and shows Martiensen and tourist group seated on camels in front of the Pyramid of Giza. Photographs show Wilhelm II close-ups and in an almost private setting when on board the Hohenzollern - such as for his birthday -, whereas other pictures were carefully staged and intended to serve propaganda purposes. Some of these photographs must have been taken by other people, such as the German photographer Ottomar Anschütz (1846-1907) and Empress Auguste Victoria (1858-1921) and by other professional photographers. The prints have numbers in the negative which could have been catalog numbers the passengers and crew could use to order souvenir pictures. Title devised by Library staff, date from item. The pictures are contact prints from glass negatives with a format of 12 x 18 cm. Most of them have numbers as would have been written on the glass negatives and are captioned in white ink on the mount. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0158 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23299381 BIB-ID: 2496329 Show less
Francis Frith dominated the photographic publishing industry in England in the late nineteenth century. As a photographer, he is known for the... Show moreFrancis Frith dominated the photographic publishing industry in England in the late nineteenth century. As a photographer, he is known for the hundreds of photographs he made in the Near East. He appears to have learned photography in the early 1850s and in 1853 was one of the founding members of the Liverpool Photographic Society. At age thirty-four Frith retired from his wholesale grocer business in Liverpool, to devote himself to personal interests which included photography. Between 1856 and 1860, he made three expeditions to Egypt, Sinai, Ethiopia, and Jerusalem, photographically documenting Middle Eastern architecture and culture. "On the first, he sailed up the Nile to the Second Cataract, recording the main historic monuments between Cairo and Abu Simbel. On the second, he struck eastwards to Palestine, visiting Jerusalem, Damascus, and other sites associated with the life of Christ. The final expedition was the most ambitious, combining a second visit to the Holy Land with a deeper southward penetration of the Nile. Frith photographed most of the key monuments several times, combining general views with close studies of their significant details and broader views of their landscape environment. Upon his return to London, Frith first published his photographs under the title Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described, in two volumes with 76 photographs. Various other works followed, including this publication, the 1860 elephant folio edition by Mackenzie with 20 albumen images. This is one of the most renowned 19th-century photobooks and it is the largest book with the biggest, unenlarged prints ever published. Francis Frith ; with descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Albumen prints size 48.5 x 39 cm. Several prints are signed and dated iin the negative. Photographs are housed in a contemporary green half morocco with green cloth boards, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, upper cover titled in gilt letters and gilt edges. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0103 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23577241 BIB-ID: 2516375 Show less
Scientific expeditions, Scientific expeditions--Asia, Central
The collection documents the expedition made by Henry René d'Allemagne, archivist and paleographist at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, to... Show moreThe collection documents the expedition made by Henry René d'Allemagne, archivist and paleographist at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, to Central Asia and Turkestan, on behalf of the French Ministry of Education, in 1898. The mission—touching Kiev, Odessa, Vladikavkaz, Tbilisi, Baku, Krasnovodsk (today Türkmenbaşy) and the cities along the railway connecting Ashgabat to Bukhara and Samarkand—was intended to survey ancient monuments in Transcaspia and Turkestan. Photographs include views of the above-mentioned cities, pictures of the Ulugbek Madrasa, Kyrgyz yurts and more traditional architectures; portraits of Caucasian type, Russian soldiers and Turkmen riders. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Glass plates are conserved in the original box titled "Positifs sur verre. Voyage au Turkestan". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0030 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23116298 BIB-ID: 2450670 Gorshenina, Svetlana. Explorateurs En Asie Centrale: Voyageurs Et Aventuriers De Marco Polo À Ella Maillart. Genève: Olizane, 2003, p. 303. Show less
Photograph album owned by Captain Charles John Herbert Hay Noble, a British officer who served with the Jsazai Expedition (1892) and as transport... Show morePhotograph album owned by Captain Charles John Herbert Hay Noble, a British officer who served with the Jsazai Expedition (1892) and as transport officer to the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in the Tirah Expeditionary Force campaign on the North-West Frontier Province, led by Sir William Lockhart (1897–98). In 1900 he travelled from India to South Africa on special service, where he distinguished himself in reconnaissance, led a successful night raid on a Boer farm and died in action at Schalkie Farm, near Bethlehem, in November the same year. The album collects photographs of the 1891 Hazara Expedition and include views of Attock, Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, of the Indus Valley, of the town of Murree, camp views, various images including Sikh soldiers and a striking scene of warfare. In addition, there are 2 regimental group photographs, related to the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment, and images documenting military camps. Most of the photographs were taken by British professional photographer John Burke. Burke first served in India as an apothecary assistant in the Royal Artillery. He left the army in 1861 to join William Baker, a retired sergeant who had started a photographic studio in Peshawar. Together they formed Baker and Burke Studio (1867–72), the first commercial studio in that region. In 1873 he established his firm, Burke & Co. (1873-1900) with studios in Peshawar, Rawalpindi, and Lahore. Thanks to his military background, Burke was able to accompany most of the British military campaigns in Afghanistan from the late 1860s to 1897. Out of this experience, he published a series of commercially produced albums collectively known as the Afghan War Album. The present album is mostly composed by individual prints that were available through Burkes studios and booksellers in India and London. Title and date devised by Library staff. Contemporary black half roan, dark green morocco-grained boards ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, white moiré silk effect endpapers. Prints (215 × 280 mm) are mounted to stiff card leaves with detailed inked captions on mounts identifying location and personnel, discreet captions and Burke catalogue numbers in the plate where applicable (26 photographs labelled Burke, Burke and Baker or “B”; 2 with numbers only; 5 captioned “J. Winter”; remainder uncaptioned). "C. J. H. H. Noble" —Charles John Herbert Hay Noble (1870-1901)— is inscribed on the front free endpaper. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0034 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2444229x BIB-ID: 2555507 Show less
This book starts with a description of the pilgrimage to Mecca in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century,... Show moreThis book starts with a description of the pilgrimage to Mecca in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and reviews the role of the Netherlands Consulate - later a legation - both in supervising Netherlands East Indian pilgrims and also in developing diplomatic relations specifically aimed at stimulating trade and other areas of co-operation between the kingdoms. The foundation stone of the relationship between the two countries was laid by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, who is the subject of the second contribution. The third article deals with the life and works of another well-known Dutch Arabist, Daniel van der Meulen, who lived in Jeddah as a diplomat for many years. F.C. Van Leeuwen, D. Oostdam, S.A. Vink. Main Heritage Reading Room DS204.2 .L44 2011 Reference Item-ID: i20406320 BIB-ID: 1476778 Show less
Cities and towns, Cities and towns--Lebanon, المدن والقرى, المدن والقرى--لبنان, DS89.S54 H35 2013
Badr El Hage Main Heritage Reading Room DS89.S54 H35 2013 Reference Item-ID: i22561122 BIB-ID: 2408643 النص بالعربية والإنجليزية. Show moreBadr El Hage Main Heritage Reading Room DS89.S54 H35 2013 Reference Item-ID: i22561122 BIB-ID: 2408643 النص بالعربية والإنجليزية. Show less
