The king khan (3 resultados)

Condición: As New. Lp record. Garage rock in style.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Original stitch-bound blue printed wraps 16x24cm. 6pp. Very good, worn at the fore-edge, with sections coming loose. In the latest of a series of related agreements dating back to 1861, the Persian Govt here agrees to construct a line from Kashan to the Baluchi frontier via Yezd and Kerman with support from British Telegraph staff and materials supplied at reasonable cost by the British Govt. Containing 3 wires, one would be used by the Persian Telegraph Administration, the others for international traffic. The line would be leased to the Indo-European Telegraph Department (part of the British Government in India), with principal offices in towns and large villages.…

Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Shah Wali to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. The inscription is in Arabic with a typset translation below: "War is a terrible catastrophe, which all peoples of all epochs have always abhorred. [Signed] Prince Shah Wali, Minister of Afghanistan in Paris". - Shah Wali was the brother of Mohammad Nader (ruler of Afghanistan 1929-33), and was posted in Europe as a foreign minister from 1929 until 1945. Nader was assasinated in 1933. - Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.…