The creative history of Iraq /
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"Credit for the preparation of this publication is due to Sayid Fuad Safar, the Inspector-General of Excavation, and Sayid Bashir Francis, the Specialist Inspector of Antiquities. Acknowledgement is due also to Mr. David Oates, of Cambridge University, and to Sayid Antran Ivan, photographer of the Directorate-General of Antiquities"--Pref.
"February, 1957"--Foreword.
Foreword signed by Director-General of Antiquities. :
53 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color), color maps ; 28 cm.
The conquest of civilization /
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"Illustrated lining-papers".
At head of title : New edition, fully revised and reset.
The plates, which precede title-pages, have half-title : sixteen pages of photographs specially selected by Charles Breasted, many of them through the courtesy of the Oriental Institute, for The conquest of civilization. :
xii, 669 pages : illustrations, plates. 23 cm.
Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean in ancient and early medieval times /
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Based on the author's thesis, Princeton University, which was presented under title : Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean during the ninth and tenth centuries A.D.
Reprint of the ed. published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., which was issued as v. 13 of Princeton Oriental studies. :
viii [i.e. xiii], 131 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
0374939853
Distant views of the Holy Land /
: "This book offers a selection of over 350 early photographs, paintings, and drawings of the length and breadth of the Holy Land from the rich repository of images in the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund. As these images were produced before modern development impacted on these landscapes they are an invaluable resource. The pictures are accompanied by 7 maps and plans showing the locations depicted and a commentary describing the biblical context, informed by up-to-date scholarship. The book is divided into five chapters; an introduction which includes a brief account of pilgrimage to the Holy Land through the ages, followed by a series of geographical 'tours' through Galilee, Samaria, and Judea and Philistia, before culminating with a focus on the two main sites of interest for the traveller: Bethlehem and Jerusalem. While often very beautiful in their own right, the pictures also reflect the interest and sensibilities of the photographers and those who collected them, and capture the opposing undercurrents of scientific enquiry and piety characteristic of 19th Century European society. In the case of the photographers engaged by the PEF, a striving for objectivity is strikingly evident in their work"--Provided by publishrer. : vi, 321 pages ; 29 cm. : 9781781790618