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Bachagha Aberrahman Ou Rabah, Algerian statesman.
Autograph Quotation signed ("Aberrahman Ou Rabah"). In French. No place or date.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Aberrahman ou Rabah 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. "Our wish, we French Muslims of Algeria, like that of all Frenchmen, is the peace in dignity of France and the safeguarding of her global interests. But if this peace that we wish for so ardently might prove impossible, on a troubled day, the native Algerians would be, as we well know, in the front ranks of the defenders of the country. [Signed] Abberrahman Ou Rabah, Bachagha, Member of the Supreme Council of the Government, Member of the Chamber of Agriculture, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour". 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.
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Backlund, Gary (editor); Grey, Paul (editor)
Easy Kayaker : A Guide to Laid-Back Vancouver Island Paddling
190 pages including index. Written for the novice and intermediate kayaker and for those interested in paddling Vancouver Islands incredibly beautiful shorelines. Includes numerous illustrations and maps. Book
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BADDIEL SARAH an Introduction by Peter Dobereiner.
GOLF THE GOLDEN YEARS: A PICTORIAL ANTHOLOGY.
UKQrto HBdw/djreprint.Originally and first publishedbysame publisher1989.It was reprinted in 1990 and again in 1992 - this particular edition. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Brightcrispcleanglossy colour photographic golfing ephemera illustrated dw/dj panelswithgreenwhite and yellow lettering to front panel and black lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny pin-pick abrasion to front panel of dw/dj; about 1/2" in from spine/backstrip's gutter and about 3.5" from bottom edge of dw/djcocomitant spot to bd lightly affected.Top edges lightly tonedfore- edges brighter and cleaner; contents pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain dark green cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstripa dark green headband and immaculate plain dark green eps.UKQrto HB dw/djreprint8-173pp paginated includes an introduction by Bernard Darwin3 sectionsover 220 coloured illustrations throughout the text and the bookplus unpaginated half title page with colour photograph of a golfer figurine to it's rectotitle pagecontents list/tablea foreword by Peter Dobereineran afterword by author/compiler Sarah Baddiel and an alphabetical list of ephemera. "Golf: The object is to drive a gutta-percha ball in the smallest number of strokes into a succession of holesscattered most of them at wide intervals from each other over some waste track of turf. . ." So The Pall Mall Gazette attempted to describe the game in November 1868. Unauspicious beginnings; but since thenthe game of golf has captured and held the imagination of millionsall over the world.Today golf can be something of an industryin which a fortune can be won or lost on a missed putt.But there was a golden age of golf: an age of amateurism and near-innocence; one that all lovers of the game think of with affection and a touch of nostalgia.'GOLF: THE GOLDEN YEARS' is a celebration of that age: the end of the 19th century and the first 40 years of the 20thwhen giants of the game such as Vardon and Sarazen walked the linksand the colossus that was Bobby Jones towered over them all.Divided into three sectionsand introduced by a history ofgolf in the golden age from the incomparable pen of BernardDarwinthe book covers the whole spectrum of the golfing world.On every page there is something to entertaindelightand inform.The first section - Great MomentsGreat Courses - ranges from a report of a pilgrimage to St. Andrews in 1892through Sarazen's great charge at the Open in 1932to a 1937 report of the world's most testing finish: the last two at Carnoustie.Great Charactersthe second sectionprofiles Tom Morris"the Father of Golf"and reports on thelife and play of the remarkable Bobby Jones.The final section - A Golfing Bag - covers such vital matters as etiquette on the golf course and a defence of caddiesas well as tips on play from names that are now legends.Beautifully illustrated throughout from the collections ofone of the world's leading experts on golfing ephemera and those of her friends'Golf: The Golden Years' is a treasure-house to delight all golfers - scratch players andduffers alike - and be an invaluable source of reference tocollectors.Not only does it bring to life the playersthe courses and the great moments from golf's golden age; it also conveys a sense of the sheer funthe exhilarationand- sometimes - the low comedy of a day on the links. Sarah Baddiel fell in love with the game of golf some 12 years ago then 1989.Since thenshe has become probably the world's foremost dealer in golfing literature and ephemera.Golfianaher shop in Grays Antique MarketLondonis well-known to professionals and amateurs alikeon both sides of the Atlantic.She is a member of the Golf Collector's Society of America and the British Golf Collector's Societyand frequently contributes to golfing magazines and books; she wrote for the section on Collecting Golfiana for the Library Association's definitive 'Sourcebook of Golf'. Since April 2013and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.STUDIO EDITIONS LTD.,1992. hardcover
Bookseller reference : rja617616 ISBN : 1851703209 9781851703203
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BADDIEL Sarah -
Golf. The Golden Years A Pictorial Anthology.
UK, Bracken Books, 1989, 4to legatura editoriale con sovraccopertina illustrata colori, pp. 174 compl. ill. a colori.
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Bader Jeff
Soldiers' Angels: May No Soldier Go Unloved
Pasadena: Angel Press 2007. 2nd edition. Fine. 330 p. photos 8vo paperback; Angel Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 41048 ISBN : 0615146902 9780615146904
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Bagnoli Giuliano
Golf. Tecnica regole preparazione. Nuova ediz.
br. Disciplina sportiva o raffinato passatempo, il golf richiama sempre più appassionati. Questo manuale, destinato a chi è semplicemente curioso di conoscerlo meglio come a chi lo sta imparando sul campo, è una guida competente a uno sport tanto bello quanto salutare.
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Baha'addin al-'Amili.
Tashrih al-aflak [Anatomy of the celestial spheres]. [Central Asia, 18th century].
8vo (160 x 252 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished oriental paper. 12 pp. on 7 ff., ca. 18 lines, per extensum. Black ink with red emphases. With numerous red and black ink diagrams in the text. Contemporary blindstamped full calf, restored and spine rebacked. The "Tashrih al-aflak", known as "general outline of astronomy" or "anatomy of the celestial spheres", is a summary of theoretical astronomy. The philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet Baha' al-Din (953-1030 H / 1547-1621), a native of Baalbek, relocated to Iran with his father. Having completed his studies, he is said to have travelled for 30 years before settling in Isfahan, where he was highly respected as Sheikh al-Islam at the court of Shah Abbas. In the present treatise he affirmed a view in support of the positional rotation of the Earth. Baha' al-Din was one of the first Islamic astronomers to advocate the feasibility of the Earth's rotation in the 16th century, independent of Western influences. - Noticeable duststaining throughout; edges remargined. The restored binding uses the stamped original cover material. GAL II, 415, 6.
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Bahgat, Aly.
Hafriyat al-Fustat (Majmu`at al-manazir al-futughrafiyah). Fouilles dal Foustât (Album de photographies). Cairo, Mathaf al-Fann al-Islami, [1928 CE] = 1347 H.
Folio (280 x 382 mm). (2), 5, (1) pp., 32 photographic plates. Original green half cloth with printed covers. First Arabic edition. Atlas of plates intended to accompany Aly Bahgat's 1928 Arabic translation of the original French edition of his "Fouilles dal Foustât" (Paris, 1921). The city of Fustat, the first capital of Egypt under Arab rule, reached its peak in the 12th century, with a population of approximately 200,000. It was the center of administrative power in Egypt until it was ordered burned in 1168 by its own vizier, Shawar, to keep its wealth out of the hands of the invading Crusaders. The remains of the city were eventually absorbed into nearby Cairo. Today, Fustat is part of Old Cairo, with few buildings remaining from its days as capital, though there have been many archaeological digs which have taken advantage of the wealth of buried material in the area. Many ancient items recovered from the site are on display in Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art. - Table of contents and captions in Arabic and French. At head of title: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyah / Musée de l'Art Arabe. - Corners insignificantly bumped; altogether well-preserved. OCLC 28312546.
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Bahya ibn Yosef ibn Paquda / Yahuda, A[braham] S[halom] (ed.).
Al-Hidaja ´ila Fara´id al-Qulub. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1912.
Large 8vo. XVIII, (1), 113, (1), 407, (3) pp. With 3 lithogr. plates. First modern edition of the original Arabic text of "Al Hidayah ila Faraid al-Qulub" ("Guide to the Duties of the Heart"), written in 1080 by the Jewish philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda, who lived at Zaragoza, in Muslim Spain. The work offers the first Jewish system of ethics and was translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in 1161-80 ("Chovot ha-Levavot"). It is based on numerous non-Jewish sources, including writings of Islamic mysticism and Arabic neo-Platonism. Yahuda's edition uses mss. in the libraries of Oxford, Paris, and St Petersburg. - In excellent condition. OCLC 68138636.
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Bahya ibn Yosef ibn Paquda / Yahuda, A[braham] S[halom] (ed.).
Al-Hidaja ´ila Fara´id al-Qulub. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1912.
Large 8vo. XVII, (3), 113, (3), 407, (1) pp. With 3 lithogr. plates. Contemporary red cloth with giltstamped spine title; original blue wrappers bound within. First modern edition of the original Arabic text of "Al Hidayah ila Faraid al-Qulub" ("Guide to the Duties of the Heart"), written in 1080 by the Jewish philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda, who lived at Zaragoza, in Muslim Spain. The work offers the first Jewish system of ethics and was translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in 1161-80 ("Chovot ha-Levavot"). It is based on numerous non-Jewish sources, including writings of Islamic mysticism and Arabic neo-Platonism. Yahuda's edition uses mss. in the libraries of Oxford, Paris, and St Petersburg. - In excellent condition. Herlitz IV/2, 1521. OCLC 3117215.
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Baignieres, Paul de / Abou Naddara.
L'Égypte Satirique. Album d'Abou Naddara, illustré de 48 pages de gravues. Les deux affreux tyrans du Nil, Tewfik et son père Ismail. Vision du Cheikh Abou Naddara. Conférences: l'Egypte au xixe siècle, l'invasion anglaise, le mahdi. Paris, Lefebvre, 1886.
8vo (170 x 253 mm). 38, (2), 112 pp. With a wood-engraved portrait of Abou Naddara and numerous illustrations. Modern marbled half calf with gilt-stamped spine. Silk divider. Inscribed to Paul Leclerc, "ami de l'Égypte, hommage respectueux du Cheikh Abou Naddara", also signed in Arabic. - "Abou Naddara" was the first Arabic magazine to feature cartoons (with captions in French and Arabic), as well as the first work to use in the press a form of colloquial Arabic, radically different from the literary form. - The Egyptian journalist James Sanua ("Ya'qub Rufa'il Sanu'" in Arabic, but usually known simply by his pseudonym, Abou Naddara, "father of spectacles") was born into a family of Sephardic Jews in Cairo. He played an important role in the development of the Arabic theatre in the 1870s, but it was as a satirical journalist that he became best known, targeting the Khedive as well as the British interlopers. He founded the satirical magazine "Abou Naddara" in 1877, which immediately enjoyed a broad appeal and was quickly suppressed; of the 15 issues that appeared between March and April 1877, no copies are known. Sanua went into exile in 1878, but his celebrated journal, reproduced lithographically from manuscript in Arabic and French, continued to appear, printed in Paris at a shop aptly located in the Passage du Caire in the 2e arrondissement. Within Egypt, where the magazine's smaller format allowed it to be smuggled inside other larger newspapers, its circulation was considerable, with possibly over 3000 copies of each issue printed. There is evidence of its presence in the highest echelons of Egyptian society, and its content focused on the political and financial turmoil in Egypt, as Sanua was undoubtedly privy to information from friends and informants well-placed inside administrative circles. - Extremely rare. Loosely inserted is a folded original issue of the "Journal Oriental" ("Directeur & Rédacteur en chef: J. Sanua Abou Naddara"), no. 8, dated 25 September 1886 (entirely lithographed in Arabic). OCLC 25737746.
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Baird AC. A. C.
Strokesaver: Distance Guide for Gullane Golf Club No. 1 Course Scotland
Paisley Scotland: Strokesport Abbey Mill Business Centre 1992. Collectible pocket-size distance guide for Gullane Golf Club No. 1 Course in Scotland. Publication date is 1992. Stapled booklet about 30 pages. Hole-by-hole illustrated distances. Article about the course by A.C. Baird. Soft Cover. Fine. 4.25 x 7 Inches. Strokesport Abbey Mill Business Centre Paperback
Bookseller reference : 10663
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Baird Archie
Golf on Gullane Hill
Edinburgh: Privately Published. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. 2008. Reprint. Green hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm 9" x 6". 90pp. B/W illustrations. . [Privately Published] hardcover
Bookseller reference : L0672b ISBN : 0951520008 9780951520000
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Baird Archie
GOLF ON GULLANCE HILL A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF GULLANE GOLF CLUB
MacDonald Printers. Good; Signed limited edition. Number 306 of 500. 1985. Hardback. 68 pages . MacDonald Printers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 134754
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Bajironde Zallaku, Ethiopian statesman.
Autograph Quotation signed. In Amharic. [Paris]., 27 Sept. 1927.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Bajironde Zallaku 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 League of Nations acts for peace and security for the whole world". With French inscription in his hand "Premier Deleguè de l'Empire d'Ethiopie, Bajironde Zallaka". Zallaka was the former Ethiopian Minister of Finance. - The Ethiopian Empire's relationship with the League of Nations is of particular interest during this period. In 1923 Haile Selassie I had secured entry into the League as the only remaining independent African state. In 1936 the Italian delegation withdrew from the League after their brutal invasion of Ethiopia, and Haile Selassie made his famed journey to Geneva to plead his country's case in person. Although the Empire was by now in Italian hands, Selassie's entry to the hall of the League of Nations was sympathetically accompanied by an introduction as "His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Ethiopia". His speech on the occasion, given amids the jeers of the Italian journalists present, is sometimes considered among the most stirring of the 20th century. 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.
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Baker, Alene and Lustig, Elaine
Golf : to play this game you gotta have balls and clubs and tees
VG reprint in spiral binding.10260. eng
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Baker, Russell; Zion, Sidney; Markham, James M.; Baldwin, Carl R.; Berger, Raoul; Istomin, Eugene; Borgenicht, Miriam; Lelyveld, Joseph; et al
The New York Times Magazine, October (Oct.) 9, 1977 - The Troubled World of Mike Burke
124 pages. Features: Two-page ad for the Cadillac Seville Elegante; Dodge Challenger ad; Carte Blanche credit card ad features photos of Raymond J. Mulligan President of Liggett Group, Inc.), John C. Emery, Jr. (President of Emery Air Frieght, Corp.), Robert F. Weltzien (President of Timex Corp.), and Ken Dunsire, President of Carte Blanche Corp.; Two-page ad for the 1978 Buick Electra; Nice one-page color-photo ad for CIE fragrance features Candace Bergen; Fantastic two-page color spread of the line of 1978 Pontiac cars - Grand Prix, LeMans, Phoenix, Sunbird, Firebird and Bonneville; The Troubled World of Madison Square Garden President Mike Burke - beset by unhappy fans, languishing teams and the big threat in the Meadowlands; The War That Won't Go Away - after 19 months of devastation, Lebanon is still embattled - torn by alliances that extend far beyond its borders - with photo of Beirut street scene with destroyed buildings in background; Wonders of Irish Art - lustrous show opens this week at the Metropolitan Museum; The Imperial Court - has the Supreme Court usurped legislative powers reserved for the states?; Dave Ness is featured in a Vantage cigarette ad; Conversation with "Fingers" - Concert Pianist Eugene Istomin and his baseball theme for four hands; The Many Faces of a Brownstone - west side home is restored to its former grandeur; Sexy color-photo ad for "The Elancyl Method"; Tennis player Marty Riessen appears in tennis ad; Warm and Wild - color photos of fur coats; Beauty Photos - Irene Ramp, Merle Ann Taylor, Pat Hammond, Francine Dreir, Deborah Carroll, Lyn Christopher; English pie recipe; Whatever Happened to Xavier Rynne?; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Balbi, Gasparo.
Viaggio dell'Indie Orientali. Venice, Camillo Borgominieri, 1590.
8vo. (16), 149 ff. (misnumbered as 159), (1) p., (23) ff., with woodcut diagram (f. 144), woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound in 19th c. polished tan calf, gilt spine, gilt borders to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled pastedowns, red edges, silk ribbon bookmark, stamped by binder "Dupré" on front flyleaf. First edition of this important travelogue by the Venetian state jeweller and gem merchant Gasparo Balbi, detailing his nine-year voyage from Venice to the Far East between 1579 and 1588, and a work of special historical interest for its eyewitness information about the Arabian Peninsula in this early period. In this book, Balbi was "the first writer to record the place names between al-Qatif and Oman that are still in use today" (G. R. King, p. 74). His "interest in the area lay in the pearls that came from the oyster beds of which the most extensive are those in the waters around al-Bahrayn, those off the Qatar peninsula and especially those in the western waters of Abu Dhabi. Either taking his information first-hand from a local individual or using a navigator's list, Balbi recorded place-names along the coast of modern Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman" (G. King, p. 248). According to Slot, "practically none of the names of places on the coast between Qatar and Ras al Khaima occur in other sources before the end of the eighteenth century" (p. 36). The present work is also of the highest significance for including "the first European record of the Bani Yas tribe" (UAE Yearbook 2006, p. 20), the largest and most important tribe of the Arabian Peninsula, from which emerged both the Al Nahyan and the Al Maktoum dynasties, today's ruling families of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. - Balbi travelled extensively in the Arabian Peninsula in search of precious stones. He knew "the waters off the Abu Dhabi coast as the Sea of Qatar and mentions the following places now in UAE territory: Daas (Das), Emegorcenon (Qarnein), Anzevi (Azanah), Zerecho (Zirkuh), Delmephialmas (Dalma), Sirbeniast (Sir Bani Yas), Aldane (Dhanna), Cherizan (identified as Khor Qirqishan, just off Abu Dhabi island), Dibei (Dubai), Sarba (Sharjah), Agiman (Ajman), Emelgovien (Umm al-Quwain), Rasa-elchime (Ras al Khaimah), Sircorcor (Khor al-Khuwair), Debe (Dibba), Chorf (Khor Fakkan) and Chelb (Kalba)" (G. R. King, UAE: A New Perspective, 74). From Venice Balbi sailed for Aleppo, proceeding to Bir and from there overland to Baghdad, descending the Tigris to Basra, where he embarked for India. The "Viaggio dell'Indie Orientali" proved to be the most widely read source of information about India throughout the next century. In the tradition of mercantile guidebooks, such as the 14th century "Practica della mercatura" compiled by Pegolotti, this is one of the few secular travelogues to the Orient published in the 16th century. And in addition to providing the kind of practical information required by merchants trading in precious stones among other wares, Balbi, with a jeweler's eye for rarities, allows himself considerable license in recording his personal observations at exotic sights (e.g., the cave Temples of Elephanta and his enthusiasm for elephant tusks f. 100v) or in mentioning incidental occurrences along the way, such as his chance meeting in Goa with the famous embassy of Japanese legates on their way home. Balbi dates his stays to particular places in a precise manner, always gives a careful explanation of the local system of exchange (coins, weights, and measures), describes commercial routes in India in detail and even includes a monsoon calendar. Balbi also discusses Goa, Negapatam, and Pegu (Burma), the latter a source of great fascination owing to its sensational wealth and the section most frequently anthologized in travel collections. The "Viaggio dell'Indie Orientali" was reprinted in 1600 (also rare). The account was translated into Latin and equipped with illustrations in the 1606 'India' volume of the De Bry series, and a partial English translation (above all, the section on Pegu) subsequently appeared in Purchas. An Arabic translation was published in 2008, but a full English translation never appeared. - Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards. Narrow upper margin, mend at f. 25, otherwise remarkably well preserved. BM-STC Italian 68. Howgego I, B7. Cordier Japonica 112. Brunet I, 618. Graesse I, 279. Kress Library of Economic Literature S 276. B. J. Slot, The Arabs of the Gulf, 1602-1784. G. King, "Delmephialmas and Sircorcor: Gasparo Balbi, Dalmâ, Julfâr and a Problem of Transliteration," Arabian Archeology and Epigraphy, vol. 17 (2006), pp. 248-252. UAE Yearbook 2006, p. 20. G. R. King, "The Coming of Islam and the Islamic Period in the UAE," in UAE: A New Perspective, I. Al-Abed & P. Hellyer (eds.), pp. 68-97. W. M. Floor, The Persian Gulf: A Political and Economic History of Five Port Cities, 1500-1730. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, I.1, 473-475. Penrose, Travel and Discovery, 198. Placido Zurla, Di Marco Polo e degli altri viaggiatori veneziani piu illustri, II, 258-265. J. Charpentier, "Cesare di Fedrici and Gasparo Balbi," Indian Antiquary LIII (1924), pp. 51-54.
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Baldwin Hanson W. with special notes by Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid &Admiral William F. Halsey on the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Sea Fights and Shipwrecks: true tales of the seven seas
NY: Hanover House. VG in G DJ. 1955. 18 tales of men and ships in stress upon the oceans of the world from the days of sail to the age of the atom. . Mutiny mystery wreck and battle from 1816 to 1945. DJ price clipped and edge wear owner note in pencil ft endpaper. . Hanover House unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS046444I
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Baldwin, Hanson W.
Sea Fights and Shipwrecks
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 320 pages. Contents incldue: Saga of a stout ship the U.S.S. Houston, Saginaw Gig, Battle for Leyte Gulf, Mutiny on the Somers, Lusitania, Mary Celeste, Battle of Jutland, etc.
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Balfour, [Isaac] Bayley.
The Island of Socotra and its Recent Revelations. (London, William Clowes & Sons for the) Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1883.
8vo. 19, (1) pp. Sewn. Separately paginated offprint from the Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain: an account of the history, topography, ethnology and botany of the Island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea. The Scottish botanist Sir I. B. Balfour (1853-1922) was Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1884 to 1888, and Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1922. - Well preserved.
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Ballantine, Henry.
Midnight Marches Through Persia. Boston & New York, Lee & Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham, 1879.
8vo. (2), 267 pp., final blank. With a double-page wood-engraved frontispiece, 8 wood-engraved plates, including 2 maps of Ballantine's route, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary blindstamped cloth with giltstamped spine-title; brown coated endpapers. First edition. - Exceedingly rare account of a five-and-a-half-month journey from Bombay to New York by the Indian-born American merchant Ballantine, carried out in an attempt to acquire as much information as possible on commerce in Persia. Setting out from Bombay on 7 May 1875, Ballantine visited Karachi, Muscat, Ormus, Bandar Lengeh, Bahrain, Bushire, Shiraz, and Tehran, as well as Moscow, St Petersburg, and Stockholm before reaching London and Liverpool. Conceived as a commercial report, the travelogue covers currencies, weights and measures, and matters of export and import as well as pearl fishing, silk production and opium culture. It also describes the local climate and infrastructure, including water supply and telegraph lines, the ruling Sultan and Shahs, and the Arabian way of life (especially mentioning coffee). In his conclusion, Ballantine calculates the total cost of his journey at 265 pounds in railway, steamer and caravan fares for himself and his servant, a sum which he compares with cheaper modes of travel. The frontispiece shows a bird's-eye view of Bombay, while the plates depict a bazar in Ispahan, Char Bag and the palace at Ispahan, the southern gate of Tehran, the Shah of Iran, and the Tehran Royal Audience Hall. - Extremities very slightly bumped, inner hinges starting, but in all a fine copy, the interior clean and crisp. Pencil ownership of Mrs. John F. Spring of Greenfield, MA, on flyleaf. A single copy in auction records; the London 1875 edition cited by Wilson would appear to be a ghost. Ghani 28f. Wilson 13. OCLC 1706565. Not in Macro or Hünersdorff.
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Ballesteros
La methode Ballesteros - Apprenez a golfer avec le plus grand golfeur du monde
Pangreen, 1994. Format 15x21 cm, cartonnage, 79 pages.Tres bon etat.
Bookseller reference : 30728
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BALLESTEROS (Severiano) et ANDRISANI (John)
Le Golf au naturel
InterEditions 1989, in-4 (29 x 22,5 cm) cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, 241 p. (très bon exemplaire ; épuisé) Tout, vraiment tout sur le golf, par "le plus grand champion autodidacte de tous les temps", avec des illustrations de Dom Lupo.
Bookseller reference : 40440
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Ballesteros, Seve and John Andrisani
Natural Golf
1st edition. Folio, 219 pages, illustrated. Nr fine condition hardback in very good condition dust jacket, jacket has been price clipped. Dedcation to previous owner from family on free front endpaper. 40796. eng
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Ballesteros, Severiano
Trouble Shots - Schwere Schläge - leicht gemacht
Hamburg, Jahr Golf Magazin, 1996. PP, OU, 172S, gutes Exemplar
Bookseller reference : 08201
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Balogh James C. & Walker William J.
GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT & CONSTRUCTION: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Boca Raton Florida: Lewis Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Hardback. 0873717422 . 951 pages . Lewis Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54906 ISBN : 0873717422 9780873717427
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BALTA, Paul
Iran Irak. Une guerre de 5000 ans.
Paris, éd. Anthropos, janvier 1987, EDITION ORIGINALE, in-8, cartonnage souple, coub. ill. en noir sur fond vert clair éd., 318 pp., nb. cartes en noir, bibliographie, index, table des matières, Une histoire de la guerre du Golf entre l'Iran et l'Irak, deux pays musulmans mais de confession différentes ! Très bon état
Bookseller reference : 71110
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BALTA, Paul.
IRAN IRAK UNE GUERRE DE MILLE ANS
Paris : Anthropos, 1987. In-8 (22 cm), broché, couverture souple illustrée, 315 pages-6 pages de planches (cartes).
Bookseller reference : 01389
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Baltusrol Golf Club.
Baltusrol Golf Club of Baltusrol Mountain organized October 10 1895 : constitution by-laws rules officers and members April 1908. 1908
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 62. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1908. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111009762960
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Baltusrol Golf Club.
Baltusrol Golf Club of Baltusrol Mountain organized October 10 1895 : constitution by-laws rules officers and members April 1908. 1908 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 62. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1908. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111009762960
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Baltusrol Golf Club
BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS Revised October 16 1976
Springfield N. J.: Baltusrol Golf Club. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Beautifully bound in clean green leather with gilt decorated front cover. Text block tight clean & intact. Color photograph illustrations. Includes 1978 golf members list . New Jersey; Color Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages . Baltusrol Golf Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13306
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Bamberger Michael signed
This Golfing Life
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. NOT price clipped $24.00. A bright shiny clean square tight copy. Sharp corners. NO remainder mark. Pages are crisp and unmarked. A collection of behind-the-ropes golf stories about caddie-yard lifers golf bums swing gurus eager rookies and wistful veterans as well as acclaimed intimate profiles of stars such as Arnold Palmer Annika Sorenstam Tiger Woods Jack Nicklaus John Daly and Michelle Wie. Bound in the original green boards lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "'SPORT'S ILLUSTRATED'S Bamberger knows how to tell a story. He has a bag's worth of good tales with days spent on the links as a caddie player and reporter. While there's no question of his becoming a touring professional he loves the game from the inside out and his facility with a pen lessens his handicap.' -- Kirkus Reviews.". INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR on title page. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. vii 264pp. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 014999 ISBN : 0871139286 9780871139283
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Bancroft, Griffing
The Flight of the Least Petrel
403p. illus. At head of title: Lower California: A Cruise Hardcover Very good condition
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Baqir, Muhammad, ibn Muhammad Jawad al-Musawi.
Kitab-i mostatabb-i patuluji-yi tibbi. Tehran, 1300 H [= 1883 CE].
Large 8vo (180 x 250 mm). (288) ff. Full auburn leather, titled on paper spine label. A volume of medical pathology printed lithographically in Persian (with occasional Arabic), featuring detailed descriptions of physical ailments, including the appearances of ailing organs as might be seen by a surgeon, the areas of the world in which a particular disease or ailment was more common, and the history of a disease as known to medical science at the time. Each entry is titled and numbered, though not always consecutively, and a table of contents can be found at the rear. - An interesting and detailed medical textbook, covering everything from the venereal to the cardiovascular, probably reproduced lithographically from a contemporary manuscript. The likely scribe of that original manuscript, named in the colophon, was Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Jawad al-Mussawi al-Asfahani. - Blindstamps from the library of the Fabryky Sergyeva, Ukraine, appear on some pages. Light exterior wear. Title-page loose with edge flaws, occasional light stains, otherwise generally in good condition.
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Bar-Hebraeus, Gregorius (Grighor Abu'l Faraj, Abulfaragus).
Tarikh Muhtasar ad-Duwal. Beirut, al-Matbaat al-Katulikiya al-'Aba' al-Yasuiyin (Jesuits' Catholic Press), 1890.
8vo. (2), 6, 591, (1), 31, (1) pp. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with giltstamped spine title. Rare Beirut-printed edition of this 13th century world chronicle by the great Syrian theologian Bar-Hebraeus (Abulfaragus, 1226-86), first edited by Edward Pococke in 1663. Bar-Hebraeus focuses on the Middle East and the reigning Muslim dynasties as well as on the East and West Syrian Christian churches, covering extensively the rise and spread of Islam and relations between the Christian and Islamic worlds. His account of the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, placing it at the time of the Islamic conquest of the city in 642 and claiming that the books were used as fuel for the ovens in the bath houses (!), contradicts most sources, which place the destruction much earlier. Even for the early periods, Bar Hebraeus makes use of sources that have since been lost, but his most original contribution remains what was in his day recent history. - Bar-Hebraeus, born in what is now Turkey, became Bishop of Gubos in the Syriac Orthodox Church in 1246 and worked in Aleppo from 1252. He wrote the present work in ancient Syriac but translated it into Arabic himself. As Pococke's 1663 publication (with a Latin translation) was the classic edition of the Early Modern period, the present edition is the received modern one. - Binding somewhat rubbed at extremeties. Light browning and brownstaining throughout, but in all a good, tight copy. OCLC 31907278.
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BARBEROUSSE Michel
CUISINE BASQUE ET BEARNAISE (Plus de 100 recettes traditionnelles)
Paris : Éditions Barberousse, 5e édition revue et complétée, s.d. Broché 19,5x15cm, 111 pages illustrées en noir, table des recettes. [Traces de scotch en première et dernière pages, quelques taches diffuses en couverture]
Bookseller reference : SPN-554
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Barclay, James A.
Golf in Canada : A History
626 pages including index. The complete history of the game in Canada. Over 400 black and white photographs. 32 pages of full colour. Contents divided into the following sections: The Pioneers 1873-1889; Coast to Coast 1890-1899; Amateurs Supreme 1900-1918; The Golden Years Between the Wars 1919-1944; Golf International 1945-1974; The Glen Abbey Years 1975-1990. "It is my view that this book will rank with the best of its kind. For golf in Canada it is an invaluable record. For those who love the game it will be a delightful read. - from Foreward by Ralph Costello, Honourary Life Governor of the Royal Canadian Golf Association. Decorated endpapers. Prior owner's signature upon title page else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. A wonderful gift for your favourite golf afficionado! Book
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Barker, John & Meaden, Richard (editors)
EVO Magazine November 2000 : Number 25
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright front cover, slight scratching to spine and no bumping to corners. 170pp. Performance car magazine with features on the BMW M3, 247bhp Impreza WRX, BMW 720bhp X5, Vauxhall Corsa SRi, Volvo S60 T5, Golf TDI, Overfinch Range Rover, Mercedes ML55 AMG, Cadillacs, Lotus Sport Elise, Mercedes 190E Cosworth, winning Mondeos, Porsche GT Road Racer, Bugatti V16, Aston Vanquish plus pages of news, performance car listings/statistics, engineering matters and lots more.
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Barkow Al
History of the Pga Tour
New York: Doubleday 1989. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Doubleday 1989 second printing. large 8vo. xiii298pp. illustrated with plates and tables. Some dust foxing along top edge of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005021 ISBN : 0385261454 9780385261456
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Barkow Al et al
Wit & Wisdom of Golf: Insightful Truths & Bad Lies
Lincolnwood: Publications International. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1997. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 192 pp. . Publications International hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS008485I
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Barnes, James M.
Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes : A Complete Book of Instruction
252p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Baron Harry
Golf Resorts of the USA
NY: New American Library. VG. 1967. Hardbound. 332 pages . New American Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14958
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Barrett David Consultant
The Love of Golf
Lincolnwood ILLinois: Publications International Ltd 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. One-stop source for intriguing information and lively anecdotes about the game of Golf its history its greatest players and its best courses. Glossy paper photos/illustrations on nearly every page. 319 pages. 6.75 x 6.75 inches. Publications International Inc. Lincolnwood Illinois 2005. Publications International, Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011333 ISBN : 1412711320 9781412711326
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Barretto, Joseph.
A Dictionary of the Persian and Arabic Languages. Calcutta, S. Greenway, India Gazette Press, 1804-1806.
8vo. 2 vols. (4), IV, 150 pp. (2), 921, (1) pp. Modern green library cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition of this early Arabic and Persian dictionary, long considered one of the best of its kind (cf. Encyclopaedia Americana X, 39). Prepared by Joseph Barretto junior (d. 1825), a Calcutta merchant and banker. The Barrettos were a Portuguese family long established in India, producing two governors of the country. "Arabic, Persian, and Urdu printing in India really began in Calcutta under the East India Company from the 1780s onwards. Of the three languages, Persian was paramount to the Company's interests" (Ency. of Islam VI, 805). - Small hole to f. C2 of vol. 1 (affecting one word of the text); lower corner of final leaf of vol. 2 torn away (affecting one letter of text); some light foxing throughout (more so to initial and terminal leaves). Withdrawn from the Glasgow University Library with their bookplate and withdrawal stamp to pastedowns. Rare. Vater/Jülg 25 ("1805-06"). Graesse I, 298. Not in Zaunmüller or Kaul.
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Barron, J[ohn] B[ernard].
Mohammedan Wakfs in Palestine. Jerusalem, at the Greek Convent Press, 1922.
8vo. (2), 73, (1) pp. Original green printed wrappers. First edition. The author was Director of Revenue and Customs for the Government of Palestine and was put in charge of supervising the religious endowments. Finding no European work on the subject of wakfs, he was compelled to publish his notes on the subject. - A few small splits to spine, small area of loss to rear wrapper, otherwise good. Duplicate stamp and partially erased reference stamp to front wrapper. OCLC 42828458.
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Barros e Sousa de Mesquita de Macedo Leitao e Carvalhosa, Visconde de, Manuel Francisco de Santarem.
De l'introduction des procédés relatifs à la fabrication des étoffes de soie dans la Péninsule hispanique sous la domination des arabes; recherches précédées d'un examen sur la question de savoir si ces procédés y étaient ou non connus avant le IXe siècle de notre ère. Paris, Maulde & Renou, 1838.
8vo. 64 pp. Burgundy paper spine. First and only edition. Discusses trade in silk and attempts at silk production in various parts of the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, Valencia, Murcia, etc., from ancient times until the 1820s, with some emphasis on the efforts of the Arabs. The second Visconde de Santarem (1791-1856) has been called "the greatest figure in the history of Portuguese cartography" (Cortesão, History of Portuguese Cartography I, 23); in fact, it was Santarem who coined the term "cartographia". He travelled to Brazil with the royal family in 1807 and held various diplomatic posts; he also served as Keeper of the Royal Archives at Torre do Tombo from 1824 until 1833, when he was dismissed for political reasons. Although he spent the rest of his life in Paris, his standing with the Portuguese government later improved to the point that the government funded many of his publications, and appointed him Keeper of the Torre do Tombo without requiring him to return to Portugal. Porbase locates copies at the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Innocêncio V, 435-438. OCLC 458944557.
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Barros, João de / Couto, Diego de.
Da Asia. Nova ediçâo. Lisbon, na Regia Officina Typografica, 1777-1788.
Large 12mo. 24 vols. With engraved portraits of Barros, Couto, Henry the Navigator, and Afonso de Albuquerque and 3 (instead of 5) folding maps. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines with giltstamped titles and volume numbers. Edges lightly sprinkled red. A fundamental travel work: the best and most complete edition of what is considered the most comprehensive publication on Portuguese exploration and colonial history by João de Barros (decades I-IV) and Diego de Couto; the first edition to include decades X and XI. Books 2 and 3 of the "Decada Segunda" offer a detailed narrative of Afonso de Albuquerque's expedition to the Arabian Gulf and his conquest of Ormuz in 1507; the island remained under Portuguese occupation from 1515 to 1622. As vassals of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Ormuz jointly participated in the 1521 invasion of Bahrain that ended Jabrid rule of the Arabian archipelago. - This is "the best edition of this famous work on Portuguese colonial history. The first edition appeared at Lisbon, Madrid and Paris from 1552 to 1645. It consists of 12 "Decadas" (decades), comprising the history of the years 1420-1600. Only Decadas I, II, III and a part of IV are by J. de Barros, the rest is by D. de Couto, who begins his part also with Decada IV, so that there are two Decadas IV" (Laures). De Barros (1496-1570), head agent for the Portuguese overseas trade authority "Casa da Índia", managed to persuade King João III to commission from him a history of the Portuguese in India (including Asia and southeast Africa). The result earned him renown as one of the first great Portuguese historians, and the the title of a "Portuguese Livy". The 'Decades' contain "the early history of the Portuguese in India and Asia and reveal careful study of Eastern historians and geographers, as well as of the records of his own country. They are distinguished by clearness of exposition and orderly arrangement. They are also lively accounts" (Enc. Britannica). Cordier, BJ, 34 and BS, 2309. Innocencio III, 322. Laures 642. Streit IV, 667 (with extensive list of contents) & VI, 630. This edition not in Borba de Moraes. For the maps cf. Gole, India, 8.
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Barros, João de / Couto, Diego de.
Da Asia. Nova ediçâo. Lisbon, na Regia Officina Typografica, 1777-1788.
Large 12mo. 24 vols. With engraved portraits of Barros, Couto, Henry the Navigator, and Afonso de Albuquerque and 5 folding maps. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf, spines with titles and number of volume on giltstamped red labels. Edges lightly sprinkled red. A fundamental travel work: the best and most complete edition of what is considered the most comprehensive publication on Portuguese exploration and colonial history by João de Barros (decades I-IV) and Diego de Couto; the first edition to include decades X and XI. Books 2 and 3 of the "Decada Segunda" offer a detailed narrative of Afonso de Albuquerque's expedition to the Arabian Gulf and his conquest of Ormuz in 1507; the island remained under Portuguese occupation from 1515 to 1622. As vassals of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Ormuz jointly participated in the 1521 invasion of Bahrain that ended Jabrid rule of the Arabian archipelago. - This is "the best edition of this famous work on Portuguese colonial history. The first edition appeared at Lisbon, Madrid and Paris from 1552 to 1645. It consists of 12 "Decadas" (decades), comprising the history of the years 1420-1600. Only Decadas I, II, III and a part of IV are by J. de Barros, the rest is by D. de Couto, who begins his part also with Decada IV, so that there are two Decadas IV" (Laures). De Barros (1496-1570), head agent for the Portuguese overseas trade authority "Casa da Índia", managed to persuade King João III to commission from him a history of the Portuguese in India (including Asia and southeast Africa). The result earned him renown as one of the first great Portuguese historians, and the the title of a "Portuguese Livy". The 'Decades' contain "the early history of the Portuguese in India and Asia and reveal careful study of Eastern historians and geographers, as well as of the records of his own country. They are distinguished by clearness of exposition and orderly arrangement. They are also lively accounts" (Enc. Britannica). - A crisp, uniform set with a contemporary ink note by L. Quesnel on the front pastedown of the index volumes and 19th century collector's blue monogram labels (JCQ?) to flyleaves. Cordier, BJ, 34 and BS, 2309. Innocencio III, 322. Laures 642. Streit IV, 667 (with extensive list of contents) & VI, 630. This edition not in Borba de Moraes. For the maps cf. Gole, India, 8.
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Barros, João de.
Decada primeira (-segunda) da Asia. Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez for Antonio Gonsalvez, 1628.
Large 4to. 2 vols. (7), 208 ff. (5), 238 ff. Title vignettes (royal arms of Portugal). Uniform mottled calf with giltstamped red and green spine labels. All edges yellow. Second edition of the first two of the three "Decades" on Portugal's Middle Eastern enterprises (a fourth volume was produced posthumously in 1615, and the set was continued by other hands). "This is considered by Du Fresnoy as being a good edition" (Clarke, The Progress of Maritime Discovery, p. 132). The writer de Barros (1496-1570), head agent for the Portuguese overseas trade authority "Casa da Índia", managed to persuade King João III to commission from him a history of the Portuguese in India (including Asia and southeast Africa). The result, published between 1552 and 1563, earned him renown as one of the first great Portuguese historians, and the the title of a "Portuguese Livy". The 'Decades' contain "the early history of the Portuguese in India and Asia and reveal careful study of Eastern historians and geographers, as well as of the records of his own country. They are distinguished by clearness of exposition and orderly arrangement. They are also lively accounts" (Enc. Britannica). Books 2 and 3 of the "Decada Segunda" (fols. 21 ff.) offer a detailed narrative of Afonso de Albuquerque's expedition to the Arabian Gulf and his conquest of Ormuz in 1507; the island remained under Portuese occupation from 1515 to 1622. As vassals of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Ormuz jointly participated in the 1521 invasion of Bahrain that ended Jabrid rule of the Arabian archipelago. - Slight waterstaining throughout first volume; old handwritten ownership "Jose Joares E Britto" to title pages, with earlier ink ownerships obliterated (ink corrosion to title of vol. 2 and final leaf of vol. 1). A good set. Palau I.181b. Howgego I, B34, p. 91. Arouca B 56f. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Cultural Relations I, p. 42, no. 75. OCLC 4507939. Cf. Macro 474.
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