Lot 63
Middle East
Pamphlets, photographs and printed ephemera relating to Saudi Arabia, Iran and elsewhere
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
National Iranian Oil Company. The First Year of Activity of the Iranian Oil Operating Companies [cover-title]. [Tehran:] Iranian Oil Exploration and Producing Company, Iranian Oil Refining Company, 29th October 1955. Folio (32 x 19cm), original cloth-backed printed card wrappers, mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only, 31 [3] ff., with envelope pocket mounted to inside front cover (empty), list of appendices on f. 2 mentions maps and photographs but neither present;
Saudi Ministry of Information. Two poster-size photographs of the Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, c.1980, approx. 50 x 70cm and 50 x 65cm;
Ibid. News from Saudi Arabia. [Riyadh:] Ministry of Information, 1966. 11 weekly numbers (non-sequential), folio, 8 pp. (each a single broadsheet folded twice), halftone photographic illustrations, decorative mastheads printed in blue, text in English;
Oman - Jebel Akhdar War. An Appeal to World Conscience. Issued by the Bureau of Imamat Oman [Arabic title on front wrapper: Nida' ‘Uman ila’l-damir al-'alami]. Cairo: Dar El Hana Press, 1959. Oblong 4to, original lithographic pictorial wrappers, 18 pp., text in English and Arabic, photographic illustrations and sketches in text, all printed in red and black;
Saudi Arabia. Realidades. Panorama Informativo sobre el reino de Arabia Saudita. Buenos Aires: published by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Argentina, January 1978 & January-February 1979. 3 monthly numbers, folio, stapled in original wrappers, 13, 11, 12 ff., mimeographed typescript, text in Spanish and Arabic, spotting and marginal silverfish damage to wrappers, third number lacking part of f. 10;
Saud (1902-), King of Saudi Arabia, & Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), Shah of Iran. Original photograph, c.1955. Gelatin silver print, 15 x 20.5cm, Associated Press ink-stamp and typescript caption on verso ('King Saud in Iran: King Saud of Saudi Arabia, saluting, and his host, the Shah of Iran, at the wheel of a jeep, on their way to watch army manoeuvres at Aghdesieh';
and 15 similar items (4 photographs of the Shah receiving a decoration, possibly French; 4 Saudi pamphlets, including 2 copies of Noticias de Arabia Saudi, Boletin de la Embajada de Arabia Saudi en Madrid, 1958; 2 contemporary pamphlets relating to the Algerian war of independence; 4 photographs of Ahmed Ben Bella, president of Algeria, and others at the 1964 Arab League conference; and one other) (a folder)