Collection Items

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    Book/Printed Material
    Nei paesi d'Islam, in Barberia, in Egitto, il pellegrino d'Islam, El Yemen; impressioni e ricordi;
    • Contributor: Rossi, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1897-01-01
    • Resource: - 270 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The shores of Lake Aral.
    • Contributor: Wood, Herbert
    • Date: 1876-01-01
    • Resource: - 396 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    La Russie extra-européenne et polaire: Sibérie, Caucase, Asie centrale, Extrême-Nord.
    • Contributor: Semenov, M. P. De
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: - 259 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    An account of the Arab tribes in the vicinity of Aden. An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden is an ethnography prepared for use by the British administrators and army in the Aden Protectorate. It was first published in 1886. This edition of 1909 was "corrected and added to by various officers of the Aden Residency" until September 1907. The Aden Residency and the Aden Protectorate were not the same entities.…

  • Book/Printed Material
    De Kalmukken; beschrijving hunner zeden, gewoonteen, gebruiken, enz. Nieuwe uitgave.
    • Contributor: Bergmann, Benjamin Von
    • Date: 1820-01-01
    • Resource: - 442 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Du Caucase aux Monts Alaï; Transcaspie, Boukharie, Ferganah.
    • Contributor: Leclercq, Jules Joseph
    • Date: 1890-01-01
    • Resource: - 295 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Note on the tribes of the Aden Protectorate. Note on the Tribes of the Aden Protectorate is an annotated list of the Arab tribes and sub-tribes of the Aden Protectorate. The short monograph was prepared by a Captain Knapp of the Royal Artillery. It is undated, but based on internal evidence it can be surmised that it was compiled sometime before administrative functions were transferred from the government of India to the…
    • Contributor: Knapp
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: - 30 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kaukázusi és Középázsiai utazásai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale.
    • Contributor: Zichy, Jen
    • Date: 1897-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Journal of a march from Delhi to Peshâwur and from thence to Câbul, Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshâwur and from Thence to Câbul is a firsthand account by a British officer, Lieutenant William Barr, of an operation led by Lieutenant Colonel Claude Martine Wade during the first year of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). The war began when the main Anglo-Indian force, the Army of the Indus, advanced toward Kabul through the Bolan Pass…
    • Contributor: Barr, William
    • Date: 1844
    • Resource: - 446 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Monograph on the Aden Hinterland as touching the states of Dthala, Yafa, Alawi, etc. Monograph on the Aden Hinterland is an intelligence report prepared in 1908 by a British army major, Harold Jacob (1866-1936), who was posted to the mountainous areas north of the port town of Aden. It is a richly detailed account of tribal life and practical politics. Jacob led the commission to demarcate the border between the Aden Protectorate and Ottoman Yemen. The detachment operated…
    • Contributor: Jacob, Harold F. (Harold Fenton) - Jacob, H. F.
    • Date: 1908-01-01
    • Resource: - 44 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postage stamps of the Hejaz,
    • Contributor: Haworth, W. B.
    • Date: 1922-01-01
    • Resource: - 76 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postal issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd. The Postal Issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd is a descriptive catalog of the postage stamps issued by the Arabian jurisdictions noted in the title. The work is generously provided with analytic photographs and engravings of calligraphic and ornamental detail, including overprints, misprints, variations in ornamental borders and calligraphy, paper, and perforation, and notes on forgeries. According to the author, the stamps were designed…
    • Contributor: Warin, D. F.
    • Date: 1927-01-01
    • Resource: - 150 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The postage stamps of the Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd; a complete and illustrated price-list of the 1924 provisionals, including all subsequent issues up to June 1926. The Postage Stamps of the Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd. A Complete and Illustrated Price-List of the 1924 Provisionals, Including all Subsequent Issues up to June 1926 is a sale catalog of postage and revenue stamps issued by several jurisdictions in Arabia. It is a companion volume to the same author's The Postal Issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd, which is also presented in World…
    • Contributor: Warin, D. F.
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: - 24 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers north of Calcutta (present-day Kolkata). In this decisive encounter, the forces of the British East India Company, under Robert Clive, defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The British victory and…
    • Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Campbell, John - Watts, William
    • Date: 1760

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ
    Энциклопедическій словарь /     The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890-1907 by Brockhaus-Efron, a joint venture of the Saint Petersburg printer I.A. Efron and the F.A. Brockhaus publishing company of Leipzig, Germany. In 86 volumes, the work contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. The encyclopedia was patterned on the famous Brockhaus Enzyklopädie that was published by Brockhaus in Germany…
    • Contributor: Arsenʹev, K. K. (Konstantin Konstantinovich) - Ėfron, I. A. - Petrushevskīĭ, Ḟ. Ḟ. (Ḟedor Ḟomich) - Shevi︠a︡kov, V. T. (Vladimir Timofeevich) - Andreevskīĭ, I. E. - Bachinskīĭ, Vasilīĭ Filaretovich - Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) - Brockhaus, F. A. (Friedrich Arnold)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    La région du Tchad et du Oudaï; études ethnographiques, dialecte Toubou. Cover title: Tchad et Ouadaï. French and/or Toubou. Bibliography: t. 2. p. [273]-275. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-3
    • Contributor: Carbou, Henri
    • Date: 1912-01-01
  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1861; title from cover. Latest issue consulted: 1868.

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872] Title devised by cataloger. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1871
    • Resource: - 2 pages

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ ew gushakutʻiwn ōdotsʻ
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ     Annual Description based on: 1848. Latest issue consulted: 1869.

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 6. tari (1884). Latest issue consulted: 7. tari (1885).

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 14. tari (1873).

  • Periodical
    Haykazean ōratsʻoytsʻ ew lusnatsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1866.

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Afghanistan, 1879-80 Afghanistan, 1879-80 is an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the…
    • Contributor: Baker, William - Burke, John
    • Date: 1879
    • Resource: - 86 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Discours Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-93) was the first president of Côte d'Ivoire. He gave this speech shortly before a September 1958 referendum on the future of French West Africa. Houphouët-Boigny outlined the country's path to independence, but also called for the preservation of strong ties with France, within a new French Community. Côte d'Ivoire became a de facto French protectorate under a series of treaties concluded…
    • Contributor: Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
    • Date: 1958
    • Resource: - 26 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ghana : one year old : a first independence anniversary review This pamphlet recaptures the main events of the first year of Ghana's history as an independent country. It features texts on politics by the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, a political year in review, and greetings from foreign leaders. Also included are articles on the arts, sports, education, science, and agriculture of the country, as well as stories about Ghana's role…
    • Contributor: Danquah, Moses
    • Date: 1960
    • Resource: - 35 pages