Bedouins (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. 13 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Second Edition. A rare early 19th-century ethnographic work in two compact volumes, Picturesque Travels presents a panoramic introduction to the worldâs peoples for a British/Scottish audience during the height of the Romantic fascination with global exploration. Published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, this second edition is âembellished with twenty-four wood cutsâ showing peoples from Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, including the Bedouins, Kamtschatkans, Koreans, Chinese, Otaheitans (Tahiti), and the Esquimaux (Inuit). Each short section combines descriptive geography with anecdotal accounts of dress, manners, and customs â" material derived from travel literature of the 18th century (Cook, Anson, Russian and missionary reports) and adapted for youthful or popular audiences. The woodcuts provide a striking window into how early 19th-century Europeans imagined and stereotyped global âothers,â making the work of enduring value to collectors of early ethnography, colonial studies, missionary history, and childrenâs literature. Context & Significance: Publisher: Oliver & Boyd was one of Edinburghâs leading publishers of juvenile and educational works, often disseminating travel narratives and âimprovingâ literature aimed at young readers. Colonial & Imperial Context: The volume reflects Britainâs imperial reach and the curiosity (often couched in stereotypes) about non-European peoples. Its descriptions of Kamtschatka, Corea (Korea), and Otaheite (Tahiti) are some of the earliest accessible depictions for general readers. Rarity: While travel narratives of the grand scale were common, illustrated juvenile ethnographic works survive far less frequently in complete sets, especially with all woodcuts present. Collecting Angle: Highly desirable for collections in ethnography, colonial/imperial studies, childrenâs literature, and the history of anthropology. This two-volume Edinburgh set exemplifies how British publishers popularized the expanding horizons of exploration and empire for a younger or popular audience. Illustrated with 24 woodcuts, it brings together anecdote, geography, and ethnography in a visually striking form. Scarce in the trade. Goodâ"Fair. Contemporary bindings worn, spines scuffed with loss to leather at head/tail, paper shelf labels affixed. Marbled boards rubbed. Internally quite clean, with some foxing and toning. Plates crisp and well-printed, with no significant loss. Hinges tender but holding. Contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards, gilt spine rules, spine labels âPicturesque Travelsâ with volumes numbered â1â and â2.â Early paper shelf labels present (âF15â). Binding worn, rubbed, corners bumped, and boards edgeworn, but holding firm. Embellished with 24 woodcuts (depicting Bedouins, Natives of Kamtschatka, Corea, China, Otaheite, Esquimaux, etc.). (illustrator). …

Condition: 1850-1900. Chanson des Arabes Bedouins très célèbre parmi eux sous le nom de Mizmouna mode Heraq, correspondant au Jovien pour Chant et Piano XIXe siècle 26.0 x 20.8 cm Très bon état 035840 Chant et Piano.

2 stereoscopic images, c. 80 x 80 mm each, mounted on cardboard (177 x 88 mm) with printed captions. The portrait shows the seventy-odd-year-old Sheikh, wearing numerous medals on his burnous, before a door. Significantly superior specimen compared to the only other known set, that in the Keystone-Mast Collection of stereoscopic views in the California Museum of Photography.…

Breaden, George W. Three photographs of Bedouin life and missionary travel in the Hejaz, 1927, document domestic shelter, desert transportation, and contact between local inhabitants and American Protestant missionaries during the consolidation of the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd under Ibn Saud. The images preserve a Bedouin family beneath a tent, men gathered beside an early automobile, and Breaden traveling by camel with a local companion, providing visual evidence for the study of Arabian social life, material culture, mobility, and Christian missionary ambitions on the peninsula. Breaden and Reverend William F. Smalley, representatives of the Palestine and Arabian Border Mission of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, entered the Hejaz through Ma'an and Aqaba in November 1927 to investigate the feasibility of establishing missionary and educational work; Saudi authorities arrested them and expelled them through Jeddah, barring their reentry into the Hejaz and Nejd. Three original vernacular photographs, each approximately 3½ × 5½ inches, made in the Arabian Peninsula in 1927. The first shows members of a Bedouin family gathered beneath the shade of a low desert tent, recording the shelter's textile construction and the arrangement of its inhabited space. The second depicts several Bedouin men standing beside a period automobile in open desert terrain, juxtaposing customary dress with motorized travel and illustrating the coexistence of established desert lifeways and newer transportation technologies. The third shows George W. Breaden and a Bedouin companion mounted on camels, with the surrounding arid landscape emphasizing the practical importance of camel transport beyond established roads. Manuscript notations appear on the versos and may provide further evidence of sequence, location, or identification. The photographs were made only months after Ibn Saud was proclaimed King of the Hejaz in January 1926 and shortly before his territories were renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932; they therefore belong to a period of political centralization rather than the French colonial administration invoked in the original description. Breaden's attempted survey also reveals how foreign missionary organizations evaluated the peninsula as a possible field for religious and educational expansion, while his arrest records the new government's control over foreign religious activity. Two photographs lack one corner, without reported loss to the principal subjects; all three have verso notations and light evidence of handling. Good. The group combines intimate observations of Bedouin domestic and transportation practices with documented evidence of an unsuccessful American missionary initiative in the Hejaz.…