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Nash, George C; Millett, Christopher [illus]
Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club
London: Chatto & Windus. G: in good condition with poor dust jacket. Inner hinge cracking. Previous owner label to fep verso. Browning to pages. 1935. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 196pp. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : j1136
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Nasir al-Din Shah / Ali Naqi Hakim al-Mamalik.
Ruz-namah. [Tehran, Sayyid Agha Mir Baqir], (1869/70 CE =) 1286 H.
Large 8vo (177 x 263 mm). 3-485 pp. With 11 mostly photographic plates (2 folding, a few tinted in watercolours). Lithographed Persian throughout, text in Nasta’liq script, 14 lines to the page, written by Ali Asghar and dated 1283 H (1866 CE). Contemporary full calf binding with handwritten paper spine label in Persian. Rare travel report of the pilgrimage to the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashad (Khorasan), undertaken by Shah Nasir al-Din in 1866. Lithographed in Persian throughout. - Binding rubbed; spine reinforced at the head. Wants first leaf; some soiling and brownstaining (more pronounced near the beginning) with a few edge and corner repairs. Traces of old block-stitching. Margins show a few contemporary annotations, a few old waqf stamps and Russian blindstamps "Vysochajshe u Kompanija Uglichskoj fabriki" (ca. 1890) from the head office of the paper factory of the town of Uglich, north of Moscow.
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Nasreddin (Nasir ad-Din) Khodja.
Lata'if-i Khaja Nasr al-Din Efendi. Bulaq (Cairo), Dar ut-Tiba'at il-Amire, [1838 CE =] 1254 H.
8vo. 40 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. First Bulaq edition of this collection of witty anecdotes centered on the humorous folk figure Nasreddin; the second edition altogether following that published in Istanbul the previous year. "The influential Cairo prints of 1254 H (1838), 1256 H (1840), 1257 H (1841), and 1259 H (1843) [...] became the basis of European translations, and an unbroken line of [...] Nasreddin Hoca tales thus became cemented in the literary tradition" (Palabiyik). In Ottoman Turkish throughout. - Binding markedly rubbed; some dampstains and traces of worming throughout; several leaves loose. Handwritten ownership of the French diplomat Louis Lagarde (dated 10.11.1932) on first page. Özege 11624. N. Palabiyik, "Justus Raphelengius and the Turkish Folk Tradition", in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.2 (2019), p. 335.
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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (Author)/ Gulf Research Program (Author)/ Gulf Health and Resilience Boa
Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities 2020-2021: Impacts Findings and Lessons Learned
National Academies Press 2024. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 5.98x0.63x8.98 inches. National Academies Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-0309707161 ISBN : 0309707161 9780309707169
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/ Gulf Research Program/ Gulf Offshore Energy Safety Board
Offshore Situation Room: Enhancing Resilience to Offshore Oil Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings of a Workshop
National Academies Press 2022. Paperback. New. 86 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.79 inches. National Academies Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : x-030926913X ISBN : 030926913X 9780309269131
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National Iranian Oil Company.
Iran Oil Journal. No. 146. Tehran, N.I.O.C., November 1970.
4to. 36 pp. With several photographic prints and tables. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Bulletin of the National Iranian Oil Company featuring several images of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, during three inauguration ceremonies. He is depicted opening the 1,200 kilometre Iranian Gas Trunkline, the offshore installations of the Iranian Marine International Oil Company (IMINOCO), and the newly erected Shahpur Chemical Complex in Bandar Shapur. Apart from commemorating these inaugurations in text and image, the present issue includes an English translation of article 11 of the 1957 Petroleum Act as well as tables and statistics of Iranian oil production and "world oil news". - Extremities minimally worn.
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National Iranian Oil Company.
Petroleum Act. [Iran], July 1957.
Folio (202 x 330 - 214 x 325 mm). Together 39 pp. Three typescript drafts in French and English of the 1957 Petroleum Act, a pioneering document of contractual relationships in the oil industry. The personal copies of Fuad Rouhani (1907-2004), later the first Secretary General of OPEC, with his annotations. - In the years immediately following the signing of the 1954 Consortium Agreement, the historic agreement that provided Western oil companies with 50% ownership in Iranian oil production, the fledgling national Iranian oil Industry received an enormous moral boost from the exploration activities conducted around Qom. The discovery of the Alborz oilfield and the Sarajeh gas field by the Iranian Oil Company not only proved Iran's growing technical capacity but it also helped to give Iran a prestige not hitherto enjoyed by any other oil producing and exporting country. Against this background it is therefore hardly surprising that when Enrico Mattei, the Chairman of ENI (the Italian State Oil Company), decided to look for oil supplies in the Middle East by offering new contractual terms, he should turn to Iran and that the government of Iran and the NIOC should greet him with open arms. What had prompted Mattei to come forward with the participation formula was his resentment at the treatment he had received from the major oil companies by being excluded from the Consortium Agreement. Since access to crude oil resources was of utmost importance for Italy and ENI, a way had to be found for entry into the Middle East oil scene. NIOC and ENI thus pioneered a new form of contractual relationship, thereafter known as 75/25 profit sharing, breaking the hallowed fifty-fifty arrangement and heralding a new era in international oil agreements. - Traces of stapling; margins somewhat worn.
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Nau, M[ichel], SJ.
L'état présent de la religion Mahometane. Seconde edition. Paris, la veuve P. Bouillerot, 1684-1688.
Small 8vo. 2 vols. in one. (8), 252 pp. (14), 9-240, (4) pp. Contemporary French brown morocco with gilt spine (spine-ends repaired). A mixed copy of the 1784 first and the 1788 edition. A Jesuit perspective on the Muslim faith, including many observations on Islamic customs and culture; "contenant les choses les plus curieuses qui regardent Mahomet & l'établissement de sa secte, qui n'ont pas encore été imprimées. Avec des conferences sur la religion chrétienne, & sur l'Alcoran" (subtitle). Indeed, the Tours-born Jesuit Michel Nau (1631-83) had first-hand knowledge of the Middle East: he had undertaken a long voyage to the Holy Land during which he visited Galilee in 1665 and the remainder of Palestine in 1674. He published an account of his journey, "Voyage nouveau de la Terre-Sainte". - From the library of the Abbé de la Paluelle with his ownership to title page and his etched armorial bookplate to pastedown. Chauvin XII, p. 283f., no. 1187 & 1190. Luzac, Bibl. orientalis IX, 26, no. 493. OCLC 54746487. De Backer/Sommervogel V, 1595, no. 3. Cf. Hurter IV, 428.
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Naval Intelligence Division - Great Britain.
A Handbook of Mesopotamia. London, Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, 1916-1918.
8vo. 4 vols. (instead of 6). Vol. I: General. 360 pp., 3 colour folding maps at rear, tables. - Vol. II: Irak, The Lower Karun, and Luristan. 512 pp., 1 large folding plan and 1 folding map at rear pocket, 8 b/w photographic plates (spine slightly damaged, hinges weak, lacking title page). - Vol. III: General Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert. 416 pp., 1 large folding map at rear (modern cloth, new endpapers, glossary, appendix, index). - Vol. IV: Corrections and additions to Volume IV. Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan. 166 pp. (library bookplate verso front cover, small stamp on title page). Vol. III in modern library cloth, the rest in original cloth. Prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office for official use only, this Handbook gives an account of conditions in Mesopotamia (Iraq) for the most part as they were before the First World War. These volumes cover the boundaries and physical features of Iraq, its minerals, climate, fauna, administration, transport, irrigation, religion and agriculture. The Naval Intelligence Division (NID) was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty before the establishment of a unified Defence Intelligence Staff in 1965. It dealt with matters concerning British naval plans and the collection of naval intelligence.
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Nechaev, Matviei Gavrilov / Barsov, N. P. (ed.).
Puteshestvie posadskago chelovieka Matvieia Gavrilova Nechaeva v Ierusalim 1719-1720 goda. Warsaw, Soviet Imp. Varshavskago universiteta, 1875.
8vo. (2), 34, II pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. First edition of this exceedingly rare Russian account of a 1719/20 pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the only known work by the Russian merchant Matviei Gavrilov Nechaev (d. 1752). His descriptions of the settlements of Greek merchants in Russia suggest that he was involved in trading with them, an unusual practice at the time. In addition, his travelogue discusses the Turkish tax system, the plague epidemic in Constantinople of 1721, and the Arab revolts in Jerusalem, as well as the Maltese fleet and Russian slaves in Turkey. - A tiny tear to the upper margin of the title-page. Rare; only three copies library catalogues internationally (New York Public Library; Stanford Univ. Library; Dumbarton Oaks); no copy in auction records. OCLC 38678524. Not in Röhricht.
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Nees von Esenbeck, Theodor Friedrich Ludwig.
Plantae officinales oder Sammlung officineller Pflanzen. Düsseldorf, Arnz & Co., [1821]-1833.
Folio. 4 volumes (1 text volume, 2 plates volumes and the supplement volume with plates and interleaved text). (406); (96) ff. plus plates. With lithographed title-pages in plates and supplement volumes; in total 552 plates (the plates volumes with in total 432 lithographed plates (425 hand-coloured, 7 black and white); supplement volume with 120 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary red half sheepskin. Rare complete set with the supplement (often lacking) of a sumptuous botanical work with 552 striking lithographic plates by Aimée Henry. Among the plants and trees depicted are the date palm, the Commiphora gileadensis, and the Acacia Arabica. The work was begun by M. F. Weyhe, J. W. Wolter and P. W. Funke, and finished by the important German botanist and pharmacologist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837), best remembered for his systematic research on the medical properties of plants, which helped to establish pharmacology as a serious academic discipline. The plates appeared in instalments between 1822 and 1828, followed by several instalments of text, and finally a supplement volume in 1833. Some confusion exists as to the general title of the work, since the volumes of plates are titled "Plantae medicinales", whereas the text volume was published as "Plantae officinales". - Bookplate and library stamps in each volume. Some browning and foxing as usual; bindings worn. A good set, rare in its present complete form. GFB, p. 69. Johnston 945. Nissen, BBI 1442. Plesch p. 347. Pritzel 6662. Stafleu/C. 17391. Cf. Graesse IV, 655.
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Negrisoli Aldo - Brugnoni Guido - Sorrentino Nicola
Golf per una migliore qualità della vita
bross. edit. ill., minimo danno alla plastificazione in 4a di copertina
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Nelson, Byron
How I Played the Game: An Autobiography
Dallas TX: Taylor Trade Publishing 1993. Leather in Slipcase. Near Fine. Maroon leather with copper lettering copy 21/500 signed by Byron Nelson one long stain on rear portion of slipcase otherwise clean and bright. <br/> <br/> Taylor Trade Publishing hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 017193 ISBN : 0878338195 9780878338191
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Nelson, William.
The Laws Concerning Game. Of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing and Fowling [...]. London, F. Richardson and C. Lintot, 1762.
8vo. XVII, (1 blank), 255, (27), VIII pp. Contemporary blindstamped full calf. Sixth and final edition of this manual of English hunting law, first published in 1727, deemed "still more useful and satisfactory" (p. 3 of the preface) than its predecessors. Opening with an introduction describing the history of English game law from the time Britain was under Saxon rule, when there "was such plenty of game, that there was no occasion for restraining laws to preserve them" (p. IX), until the reissue of the 1217 "Charter of the Forest" in 1225, the treatise explains key terms of hunting law in alphabetical order, describes exemplary law cases, and discusses when, where and by whom which animals can be chased, and in what manner offenders are proceeded against. The present copy includes the 8-page appendix, giving two acts relating to doves and fish that were passed shortly after the book was printed, which is lacking in some copies of this edition. - Extremities slightly rubbed; hinges cracked. Paper evenly browned throughout. Contemporary ownership of J. Kilsby, dated 1775, to title-page; later in the collection of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), his ownership, dated Kingswood, May 1946, to front pastedown. This edition not seen at auction since 1962. Westwood/Satchell 155. Cf. Schwerdt II, 40 (1732 ed.). ESTC T82611. OCLC 837605604. Not in Souhart, Harting.
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Nerses IV, Klayets'i.
Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae. Viginti quatuor linguis editae. Venice, Insula S. Lazari, 1837.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page, (4), 434 pp. With 1 engr. medaillon (averse and reverse) in the text. Contemporary red half calf with label to gilt spine. Edges in gilt. Fourth edition; the second one in 24 languages. Prayers "for all the hours of the day" by the Armenian Patriarch Nerses IV. (1102-1173). - Clean copy with stamped exlibris on t. p. Brunet IV, 859. Nersessian 510. OCLC 799387339.
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Neuphal, Georges.
Vocabulaire Français-Arabe a l'usage des écoles primaires. Al-Mufradat al-wafiyah fi-al-lughah al-faransiyah. Beyrouth, Imprimerie Catholique, 1864.
8vo. 280 pp. Contemporary cloth with giltstamped spine title. Rare French-Arabic dictionary for use at Lebanese primary schools. - Evenly browned throughout due to paper. Copies known only at the Library of the American University in Cairo, the BnF and at the British Library. OCLC 63514556.
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New St Andrews Golf Club Japan
New St Andrews Golf Club Japan
Japan: New St Andrews Golf Club Japan Very informative book on the New St Andrews Golf Club Japan Looks to be published around 1972 as an information pack for all aspects of the club. This is made up of 3 oblong format card cover booklets 14¼ x 10¼ Inches contained in an attractive cloth covered silver and gold embossed hard cover. Contains 44 pages in total plus three loose colour inserts all in overall bright clean condition a few small foxing spots to covers and a few pages. Many B/w photographs colour illustrations and plans of buildings and courses all present as called for plus very informative text NO dustwrapper outer boards are bright and clean just a small mark to bottom of spine. HEAVY BOOK 1.6 Kg with sound packing EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS.A pleasing example of an interesting and unusual golf book. SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . DecorativeCloth Covered Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. 14 ½ x 11Inches. Hardcover. New St Andrews Golf Club Japan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008750
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Newell Steve
Golf. Il manuale completo per giocare come veri campioni. Ediz. ampliata
ill., br. Semplificato al minimi termini, il golf potrebbe apparire un semplice svago con palla e bastone,Sa, come nessun altro sport, impegna sia sul piano fisico sia su quello mentale. Il primo capitolo illustra come correggere e migliorare la tecnica, il secondo presenta i 10 errori più comuni e i relativi rimedi, il terzo aiuta a padroneggiare ogni tipo di colpo, il quarto è dedicato alla gestione del match dal punto di vista dell'approccio psicologico, emotivo e mentale, il quinto capitolo fornisce informazioni pratiche dando risposta alle domande più diffuse su attrezzatura giusta, formule di gioco e regole del golf. Ogni sezione include un test per stabilire il livello di abilità e fornisce una serie di esercizi progressivi per sviluppare la propria tecnica. Un volume riccamente illustrato, un aiuto indispensabile grazie a un allenamento su misura che permetterà di ridurre in breve tempo il proprio handicap. Le istruzioni e i consigli degli esperti trasformeranno, migliorandolo, il gioco dei golfisti a tutti i livelli.
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Golf. 55 Ratschläge Ihr Spiel zu verbessern. Zeichnungen von Francis Golden.
FDribourg, Office du Livre 1974, in-4to, 125 S., reich ill., Original-Leinenband.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86898aaf
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Golf. My Way. With Ken Bowden and illustrations by Jim McQueen.
London, Heinemann, 1976, in-4to, 264 p., richly ill., copy from the archives of the publisher with stamp ‘Exemplaire d’Archive’, original clothbound with jacket.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 87414aaf
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NICKLAUS Jack, BOWDEN Ken
Golf: tecnicas de juego.
Barcelona: A.T.E., 1982 in-8, 301 pages, illustrations. Cartonnage d'éd., très bon état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13982026
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NICKLAUS JACK - BOWDEN KEN - [JIM McQUEEN - illustrateur]
LECONS DE GOLF - SPORTS 2012
Paris SOLAR 1982 -in-4 broché un volume, broché in-quarto Editeur (paperback in-4 Editor) (21 x 27,5 cm), dos rouge imprimé en noir et blanc, 1ère de couverture imprimée en blanc noir et illustrée en couleurs, toutes tranches lisses, édition abondamment illustrée en couleurs à la manière d'une bande dessinée par JIM McQUEEN, légers plis sur la 1ère de couverture sinon intérieur parfait, 159 pages, 1982 Paris SOLAR Editeur,
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25050
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Mon golf. Collaboration de Ken Bowden et illustrations de Jim McQueen.
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1977, gr. in-8vo, frontispice, 277 p. avec ill., cartonnage original ill. en couleur.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 58114aaf
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Mon golf. Collaboration de Ken Bowden et illustrations de Jim McQueen.
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1977, gr. in-8vo, frontispice, 277 p. avec ill., cachet ‘Exemplaire d’Archive’, cartonnage original ill. en couleur.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86230aaf
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Mon golf. Collaboration de Ken Bowden et illustrations de Jim McQueen. 2e édition.
Fribourg, Office du Livre / Paris, Société française du Livre, 1980, gr. in-8vo, frontispice, 277 p. avec ill., exemplaire des archives de l’éditeur, tamponné ‘exemplaire d’archive’, cartonnage original ill. en couleur.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86381aaf
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NICKLAUS, Jack:
Mon golf. Collaboration de Ken Bowden et illustrations de Jim McQueen. 3e édition.
Fribourg, Office du Livre / Paris, Société française du Livre, 1984, gr. in-8vo, frontispice, 277 p. avec ill., cachet‘Exemplaire d’Archive’, cartonnage original ill. en couleur. Bel exemplaire.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86404aaf
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NICKLAUS, Jack. - BOWDEN, Ken (en collaboration avec).
Mon golf. Illustrations de Jim McQueen.
Fribourg, Office du Livre 1977, 240x190mm, 270pages, reliure d'éditeur. Très bel exemplaire.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80009
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Nichollls, Margaret W.; Sivertz, Barbara P.
The/A History of Nanoose Bay - Third Edition
204 pages. Index. Two fold-out maps. Many black and white illustrations. Topics include: The First People, Explorers, Pioneers, Nanoose areas, Biographies, The Community, The Next Decade (1980-1990) which provides some coverage of Fairwinds. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked. Light wear. A nice copy of this substantial work. Book
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Nick Edmund (Ed.) and Alex Hay (Foreword)
Following the Fairways 1992 - Distinguished Companion to the Golf Courses of Great Britain and Ireland.
Kensington West Productions, 1991. Fifth Edition.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 50561 ISBN : 1871349753
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Nick Edmund:
THE STROKESAVER GUIDE TO THE CLASSIC COURSES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Fine/fine (fine copy as new in fine unclipped dj) quarto 207pp. First printing. Explores 25 of the finest golf courses in the British Isles, the unique challenges, history and special character of each course. Lavishly illustrated with Strokesaver graphics and photographs in colour.
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NICKLAUS JACK - BOWDEN KEN.
Il mio Golf.
In 8°, t.t. edit. con sovrac. ill. (lievi tracce d'uso), pp. 270,(2), riccamente ill. a col. e b.n. n.t.; copia molto buona. (z019)
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Nicklaus, Jack with Ken Bowen
On and Off the Fairway - A Pictorial Autobiography
NY: Simon and Schuster. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Simon and Schuster 1978 first printing. 4to. 256 pp. illus. Near fine in near fine price clipped dj. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1978. Simon and Schuster unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000167
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Nicklaus, Jack
Leçons de Golf
Mm 210x275 Edizione in francese / French edition - Brossura editoriale con copertina illustrata a colori, 160 pagine con splendidi disegni originali a colori. Opera in condizioni molto buone. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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Nicklaus, Jack with Bowden, Ken
Jack Nicklaus : My Most Memorable Shots in the Majors
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, no bumping to corners and tiny knock to spine. Dust jacket not price clipped with light creasing to edges and half-inch nick to top edge near spine. 126pp. The shots Jack Nicklaus has selected for replay in this book are in conditions every golfer has faced at some time on a golf course and he then tells you what you must learn - as he did - from the good and the bad.
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Nicklaus, Jack with Ken Bowden
On and off the fairway : a pictorial autobiography
Updated edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0091349915. 19099. eng
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NIEBUHR CARSTEN
Terrae YEMEN maxima
CARSTEN NIEBUHR Terrae YEMEN maxima Pars Seu Imperii Imani Principatus Kaukebân nec non dilionum Haschid U Bkîl, Nehhm Chaulân Abu Arîs Ch et Aden. Tabua ex pbservtionibus astronomicis et hodometricise jussu et sumtibus Potentisissim Danlae Regum. Friderici V et Christaini VII Autore C NIEBUHR Carte 520x 670 mm avec marges, 380x580mm à la cuvette. Gravure sur cuivre d’après CARSTEN NIEBUHR, vers 1771. Né à Altendorf , ingénieur, mathématicien, et astronome allemand, membre d’une expédition Danoise de la péninsule du Sinaï au Yemen 1761 1767 dont il fut le seul survivant.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 14503
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Niebuhr, [Carsten] / Al-'Umari, Su'ad Hadi (transl.).
Rihla Nibuwr ila Baghdad fi al-qarn al-thamin 'ashr. [Niebuhr's Journey to Baghdad in the Eighteenth Century]. Baghdad, Dar al-Marifa Press, 1954 CE = 1374 H.
8vo. 71, (1) pp. With a map frontispiece and four black and white plates. Original printed wrappers. First edition. An Arabic translation of Carsten Niebuhr's description of Baghdad, originally published in his "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern" (Copenhagen, 1774-78), a remarkable travel account famed for its groundbreaking description of Yemen in the mid-18th century. - Niebuhr, by then the sole survivor of a party of five, visited Baghdad on his return journey to Europe after spending nearly a year in the Arabian Peninsula. He arrived back in Copenhagen in November 1767, where he presented his report and the workings of his departed co-travellers - a mass of writings, plans and sketches which proved to be of the most remarkable and lasting worth. - Two small stains to upper wrapper, edges a little worn, a few gatherings roughly opened, otherwise very good. A few pages unopened. Ink translator's presentation inscription to title-page. Extremely rare; not in OCLC.
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Niebuhr, [Carsten] / Heron, Robert (transl.).
Travels through Arabia and other countries in the East [...]. Perth, R. Morison junior, 1799.
12mo. 2 vols. XX, 339, (1) pp. XII, 359, (1) pp. With 8 engraved plates and one engraved folding map of the Arabian Gulf. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine and spine-title. All edges sprinkled red. Second edition in English of Niebuhr's excellent account of his travels in the Middle East, Egypt, Persia, India and Arabia, the first scientific expedition to this area, subsidised by the Danish king. Of the five scientists, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. The maps Niebuhr drew in the course of the expedition were remarkably detailed and accurate. Indeed, his map of Yemen was the first exact map of the area ever, remaining the standard for the next 200 years. The volumes include authentic descriptions of life and customs in Yemen, Oman and elsewhere, with detailed descriptions of Mecca and Medina, Sana'a and Mocha as well as several references to coffee and coffeehouses. The first volume was adapted from Niebuhr's "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien" (1774) and the second from his "Beschreibung von Arabien" (1772). Previously published in Edinburgh in 1792. - Corners and hinges professionally repaired. With near-contemporary manuscript presentation note to flyleaves: "presented to the Glenbervie Sunday School Library by G. M". Later pencil ownership of the Scottish dentist and naturalist E. G. H. Lightfoot, dated Aberdeen 1953. Some additional pencil notes to pastedown and flyleaf of volume I, including brief biographical notes on Niebuhr in Lightfoot's handwriting. ESTC T176314. Howgego, to 1800, N24. Hünersdorff, p. 1081. OCLC 5416838. Cf. Weber II, 550. Macro 1700. Atabey 873-874 (other eds).
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Niebuhr, Carsten, et al. (Johan Louis Gerlagh, compiler and draftsman).
Aanteekeningen uit de Reise naar Arabie, en andere omliggende landen, van Carsten Niebuhr, geteekent en geschreeven door Joh. Louis Gerlagh. [Hoeven (near Breda)?], 1785.
Folio (29 x 22 cm). 63, (10) ff. Manuscript in Dutch, written in ink on paper, with two loosely inserted supplements (2 bifolia), with a calligraphic title-page (in script lettering with an interior white line giving an incised effect) and 39 pages of (mostly) ink and grey ink wash drawings of inscriptions, musical instruments, buildings, etc., including 3 pages of Kufic inscriptions in black ink with vowel points in red and decorations in red, yellow and green, and a few other written inscriptions showing the styles of script, plus a small drawing of an inscription and a few written examples in the text. Contemporary half canvas, sides covered with printed pattern paper (a matrix of 4-petalled rosettes on a background of horizontal and vertical lines, and dots, in red, blue and yellow, sewn on 3 vellum tapes and tacketted to the canvas spine through a vellum liner. A Dutch illustrated manuscript devoted to the Arabian Peninsula and neighbouring regions, compiled in 1785 by (and the illustrations drawn by) Johan Louis Gerlagh (1735-98), a director of the Dutch West India Company and East India Company (WIC and VOC). He takes a special interest in the various and styles of script, including Egyptian hieroglyphs and at least six styles of Arabic script (kufic, naskh, ta'liq, thuluth, ruq'ah and maghribi), but he also discusses and illustrates bas-reliefs, buildings (including the Great Mosques at Mecca and Medina), musical instruments, footware, a scarab, etc., and provides tables of data concerning tides, compass corrections and temperatures, and accounts of the Islamic calendar, precious stones, weights and measures and coins. The title describes the manuscript as notes from Carsten Niebuhr's "Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen", a Dutch translation (Amsterdam & Utrecht 1776-78) of the German "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien" (Copenhagen 1774-78), but Gerlagh apparently treats Niebuhr's complementary "Beschryving van Arabie" (1774, first published in German in 1772) as an additional volume of the Reize. All the illustrations and most of the text are copied from these two publications. Gerlagh does make use of other sources, however, quoting from Bernhard von Breidenbach's "Peregrinatio in Terra Sanctum" (1486); Heinrich Buenting's "Itinerarium scripturae" (1581); Fredrik Hasselquist's "Travels in the Levant" (1766); J. F. Martinet's "Historie der waereld" (1780-87), and Joseph de la Porte's "Nieuwe reisiger, beschryving van de oude en nieuwe weereldt" (1766-91). - Gerlagh came from a patrician family that had ties with the WIC by at least 1720 (including a director by 1730) and the VOC by at least 1735. He himself was a director of both by 1764. Although he is recorded moving from Tholen to Oosterhout (northeast of Breda) in 1779, this may have been a second residence, for he had already set up in Hoeven (west of Breda) where he served as "schout" (head of the municipality) from 1771 to 1794, his wife died there in 1786 and he died there in 1798, so he probably produced the present manuscript there. His amateur drawings and sketchbooks, most of them in Museum Gouda, have been exhibited. - The manuscript collates: [A]14 (- A9) [B]10 (B1 + [chi]2; - B7, 9, 10) [C]2 [D]4 [E]2 [F]4 [G]6 (± G1, 2, 3, 6) [H]4 [I]2 [K]-[N]4 2[chi]1 [O]-[P]4 [Q]2 = 73 ff., with E2 and H4 blank except for the leaf numbers (ff. 30 & 34). The main paper stock (including the endpapers at the front and probably also at the back) is watermarked: crowned GR in laurel branches, in a circle = Dutch garden (with "Pro Patria" above toward the centre of the sheet) above "H K P" (the main mark can appear in the left or right half sheet). We have not found or identified the initials HKP. After the last numbered leaf (2[chi]) a new part of the text begins with a different paper stock to the end of the manuscript (quires O-Q), similar but with no initials below the Dutch garden, in the general style of Heawood 3700 (1747) and Voorn, Noord-Holland 140 (1790). The cancel leaf G6± may come from the same stock, while the cancel leaves G1±, G2± and G3± show a different stock or stocks: G3± with a lion with 7 arrows, lance and freedom hat (pedestal with "VRYHEYT") in a crowned ring (double lines inside and out) containing (in mirror image) "Pro patria eiusque libertate"), in the general style of Heawood 3148 (1745) and Voorn, Noord-Holland 104-111 (1713-49); and G1± and G2± with the countermark "J[an] H[onig] & zoon", that form shown with a different main mark in Voorn, Noord-Holland 133 (1741). The firm name in the present form, with the present "zoon" (son), is recorded from 1735 to at least 1764 (probably at least 1768), changing to "zonen" (sons) probably by 1774 and certainly by 1793. So the paper used for these three cancel leaves may be several years older than the manuscript itself. - The manuscript is internally in good condition, with most deckles preserved. Binding worn but professionally restored. A good example of the fascination of leading figures in the VOC and WIC with the Arabian Peninsula and vicinity and with Islamic culture. For Niebuhr and his accounts of Arabia: Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 48; Howgego, to 1800, N24; for Gerlagh: Katalogus ... tekenwerk-schilderwerk van Johann Louis Gerlagh (1987); A. Romeijn, De stadsregering van Tholen (1577-1795) (2001), pp. 229f.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Beschryving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld. Amsterdam and Utrecht, S. J. Baalde and J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., 1774.
4to. (6), XLI, (1), 408, (14) pp., 1 blank leaf. Engraved title-page. With 24 numbered plates (7 of which folding), a folding map of Yemen (coloured in outline), and a folding table. - (Bound with) II: Michaelis, Johann David. Vragen aan een gezelschap van geleerde mannen [...]. Ibid., 1774. XLVI, 270, (2) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine and spine labels. First Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India (1761-67), the first scientific expedition to this area. Niebuhr's account is here bound with the Dutch translation of Michaëlis's work, containing a review of the first. "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientfiic expedi - tion. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Baurenfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren'' (Howgego). Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. The plates include views of the mosques of Mecca and Medina, and 6 maps including the map of Yemen and of the Gulf of Suez. Furthermore it contains Arabic specimens from the Qur'an, with vowel points and decorations hand coloured. Niebuhr's "accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). - Handwritten ownership on title-page cancelled, causing some ink spots to neighbouring pages. Extremities somewhat rubbed. A tear in the large map of Yemen repaired with tape; slight foxing to some plates along the fold lines. A good copy of this standard work. Howgego I, N24. Tiele, Bibl. 795f. Gay 3589. Cf. Atabey 873f. Cox I, 237f. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 48.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même. Nouvelle édition, revue & corrigée. Paris, Brunet, 1779.
Large 4to. 2 vols in one. (6), 56, 252 pp. (4), 315, (5) pp. (pages 153-216 of part 2 transposed after p. 88). With 1 folding genealogical table and 25 engraved plates (6 folding), including maps, plans, costumes, views, and 2 showing Arabic text with vowel points, as well as 2 engraved headpieces. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red spine label. Marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled red. Third French edition (first published in German in Copenhagen, 1772). "Édition revue par de Guignes" (Gay). "Niebuhr (1713-1815) participated as astronomer and naturalist to the royal Danish expedition to Arabia in 1763-1767. Together with the naturalist Forskal, the philologist Van Haven and two others, he travelled up the Nile to Suez and Mount Sinai, and from there to Jeddah and Mocha. By the end of their stay in Mocha, all the memebers of the expedition but Niebuhr had died, and Niebuhr travelled on alone to India, returning via Persia, Syria, Cyprus, and Constantinople. The only surviving member of the hazardous expedition, he returned to an indifferent reception in Copenhagen [...] Niebuhr's comprehensive description, particularly of the Yemen region, was the best and most authentic of the day. Many subsequent travellers have acknowledged their debt to him, and only on a few minor points have they shown him to be in error. He was scientifically and philosophically minded, cautious and steady, and hardly the man to masquerade in Mekkah or wander with the Bedouins, but few contributed more solidly to the study of Arabia" (Atabey). - Extremeties a little bumped, hinges repaired. Occasional light browning or staining, more pronounced near beginning. Contemporary handwritten "Avis au Lecteur" bound before title-page, alerting the reader to the transposed quires in part 2. - Rare. Gay 3589. Howgego I, N24 (p. 752). Brunet IV, 74 (note). Cf. Atabey 873. Macro 1699. Not in Blackmer.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même. Nouvelle édition, revue & corrigée. Paris, Brunet, 1779.
Large 4to (205 x 262 mm). 2 volumes. (6), 56, 252 pp. (4), 315, (5) pp. With 1 folding genealogical table and 25 engraved plates (many folding), including maps, plans, costumes, and views, 2 showing Arabic text with vowel points, as well as 2 engraved headpieces. Contemporary full marbled calf with giltstamped spines and red spine labels. Blue coloured endpapers. All edges red. Third French edition (first published in German in Copenhagen, 1772). "Édition revue par de Guignes" (Gay). "Niebuhr (1713-1815) participated as astronomer and naturalist to the royal Danish expedition to Arabia in 1763-1767. Together with the naturalist Forskal, the philologist Van Haven and two others, he travelled up the Nile to Suez and Mount Sinai, and from there to Jeddah and Mocha. By the end of their stay in Mocha, all the memebers of the expedition but Niebuhr had died, and Niebuhr travelled on alone to India, returning via Persia, Syria, Cyprus, and Constantinople. The only surviving member of the hazardous expedition, he returned to an indifferent reception in Copenhagen [...] Niebuhr's comprehensive description, particularly of the Yemen region, was the best and most authentic of the day. Many subsequent travellers have acknowledged their debt to him, and only on a few minor points have they shown him to be in error. He was scientifically and philosophically minded, cautious and steady, and hardly the man to masquerade in Mekkah or wander with the Bedouins, but few contributed more solidly to the study of Arabia" (Atabey). - Noticeable worming to gutter, sometimes touching text but loss to legibility (more extensive in vol. I), much of which professionally repaired. A few handwritten pencil annotations in the margin. Bindings professionally restored. Gay 3589. Howgego I, N24 (p. 752). Brunet IV, 74 (note). Cf. Atabey 873. Macro 1699. Not in Blackmer.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Description de l'Arabie, faite sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux mêmes. Amsterdam & Utrecht, S. J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven & Co., 1774.
4to. XLII, 372 pp. With engraved title (in counted prelims.), 25 engraved plates (8 folding, including large engraved map of the Yemen, in partial colour) and a folding table. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped red morocco label over marbled green boards. Marbled endpapers. Second French edition, translated from the German ("Beschreibung von Arabien") by F. L. Mourier. Includes Niebuhr's famous map of the Yemen and Arabic specimens from the Qur'an, with added hand colouring to indicate vowel sounds. "L'on voit [...] sur la IV et V planche, une feuille copiée d'un Korân, qui est écrit sur du parchemin et conservé comme un grand thresor dans la collection de livres faites par l'Académie Dsjamea el ashar à Kahira, parce qu'on croit, que le Calife Omar l'a écrit de sa propre main. Mais quand Omar ne l'auroit pas écrit, cette feuille est toujours très ancienne et par là-même remarquable" (Chauvin). - This is the famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. Niebuhr's "work on Arabia was the first European attempt at a complete account of Arabia, its people and their way of life. He amassed a vast quantity of factual information which he relates in a simple unrhetorical fashion, distinguishing clearly between things observed personally and things learned from others. The expedition, which lasted six years, was sponsored by the Danish king, and included the brilliant Swedish scientist, Peter Forsskal, who died while in Yemen" (Cat. Sotheby‘s, 13 Oct 98, lot 1010). Of the five scientists, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of the Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. "Niebuhr's comprehensive description [...] was the best and most authentic of the day. Many subsequent travellers have acknowledged their debt to him, and only on a few minor points have they shown him to be in error. He was scientifically and philosophically minded, cautious and steady, and hardly the man to masquerade in Mekkah or wander with the Bedouins, but few contributed more solidly to the study of Arabia" (Atabey). - Binding a little rubbed, spine professionally repaired. A good, wide-margined copy in a contemporary binding from the library of the French historian, archaeologist, numismatist, and orientalist Victor Langlois (1829-69) with his cancelled ownership handwritten to the flyleaf. Chauvin X, p. 57, no. 128; XII, p. 288, no. 1206. Howgego I, N24 (p. 752). Weber II, 548. Gay 3589. Nyon 21017. Grenoble 25621. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1699. Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 116. Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 116.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern. Copenhagen, Nicolaus Möller, 1774-1778.
4to. 2 vols. XVI, (6), 505, (1) pp. With 72 plates and folding map. (16), 479, (1) pp. With 52 plates and maps. Contemporary vellum with title to spine. First edition. - Niebuhr's "work on Arabia was the first European attempt at a complete account of Arabia, its people and their way of life. He amassed a vast quantity of factual information which he relates in a simple unrhetorical fashion, distinguishing clearly between things observed personally and things learned from others. The expedition, which lasted six years, was sponsored by the Danish king, and included the brilliant Swedish scientist, Peter Forsskal, who died while in Yemen" (Cat. Sotheby‘s, 13 Oct 98, lot 1010). Of the five scientists, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of the Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. - An unsophisticated, exceptionally fine copy. Macro 1700. Gay 3589. Howgego I, N24 (p. 752).
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen. Amsterdam & Utrecht, (J. J. Besseling for) S. J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven & Co. (I) / Bartolomé Wild (II), 1776-1780.
4to (285 x 233 mm). 2 vols. VIII, (6), 484, (2) pp. (16), 455, (1) pp. With engraved vignette by N. van der Meer to each title-page, 94 plates (30 folding, 64 full-page), and 31 maps and plans (7 folding, 24 full-page, of which the folding map of Yemen handcoloured in outline), engraved by C. Philips, Th. and C. H. de Koning, C. J. de Huyser, C. F. Fritsch, O. de Vries and others. 19th-century half calf. Untrimmed. First Dutch translation of this important and famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published in Copenhagen in 1744-1778 under the title "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern". - ''In volume II, p. 317 he [Niebuhr] begins his description of the journey from Beit el Fakih in the coffee mountains. This is accompanied by three engravings'' (Hünersdorff). There are some 40 other references to coffee in this work, including the journey from Sana'a to Mocha. The plates, the same as used for the first German language edition, include many views of cities, antiquities and statues, natives in traditional dress, hieroglyphs, Arabic script, musical instruments, a reception with the Iman of Sana'a (Yemen), and views of the mosque in Meshed Ali. The 31 maps and plans are of Constantinople, the Nile, Jeddah in the province of Mecca, Bombay, the palace of Persepolis, Muscat, the Arabian ("Persian") Gulf, Baghdad, Mosul, etc. Niebuhr's map of Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. - "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientific expedition. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Baurenfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren" (Howgego). Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. - Bindings used. Large-margined copy of this famous account of the Middle East, Egypt, Persia, and India in fine condition. Howgego I, N24. Hünersdorff, Coffee, p. 1081. Van Hulthem 15024. Nyon 21018. Tiele, Bibl. 796. Cf. Atabey 873-874. Cox I, pp. 237-238. Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et Arabe 3589. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1700. Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 116. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen. Amsterdam and Utrecht, Steven Jacobus Baalde and Johannes van Schoonhoven & Co. and Bartholomeus Wild (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling), 1776-1780.
2 vols. VIII, (6), 484, (2) pp. (16), 456 pp. (6), XXXXI, (1), 408, (14) pp. With 2 engraved title-pages, each with an engraved vignette (that for volume 2 from the plate of the 1774 "Beschryving" with the lettering revised; that for volume 1 copied from it and unsigned), 125 engraved plates numbered I-LXXII, [LXXIII] (vol. 1) & I-LII (vol. 2) (38 folding), showing topographic views, watermills, people, Egyptian and Persian antiquities, Egyptian, Persian, cuneiform and other inscriptions, etc. by C. F. Fritsch, C. J. de Huyser, Th. Koning, G. H. Koning, C. Philips, O. de Vries, Baurenfeind and others. The unnumbered folding map of Yemen ("Tabula Itineraria", plate size 48.5 x 41.5 cm), with the trade routes coloured by hand, covers a smaller area at a larger scale than that in the Beschryving. - (Bound with) II: Niebuhr, Carsten. Beschrying van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld. Amsterdam, Steven Jacobus Baalde; Utrecht, Johannes van Schoonhoven & Co. (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling), 1774. With engraved title-page showing an engraved vignette by N. van der Meer (2 female figures with a globe and other instruments) and 25 engraved plates numbered I-XXIV, (XXV), including 7 folding showing 1 view of military exercises, 2 Kufic inscriptions (coloured by hand) and 4 maps. The unnumbered map of Yemen (plate size 58.5 x 39 cm) is coloured by hand in outline. The full-page plates include maps, topographic views, costumes, coins, Arabic inscriptions, etc. All by C. J. de Huyser, N. van der Meer, Th. Koning and C. Philips. 2 works in 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half tree calf, sides covered with paste paper; rebacked, with original gold-tooled backstrip laid down. One of the very rare large paper copies of the first and only editions of the Dutch translation by Jacob van Ekers of Niebuhr's famous account of a voyage to Arabia and surrounding countries (ad 1) and his description of Arabia, Egypt and the Middle East (ad 2). Both works were originally written by the Danish traveller and surveyor Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) and published in German, in Copenhagen in 1772 under the titles, "Beschreibung von Arabien" and "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern". Both works were also translated in French and English. - In 1760 Niebuhr was invited to join a scientific expedition to Egypt. Other members of the expedition were Friedrich Christian von Haven (a Danish linguist and orientalist), Christian Carl Kramer (a Danish physician and zoologist), Georg Baurenfeind (an artist from southern Germany), Berggren (a Swedish ex-soldier) and Pehr Forrskal (a Swedish botanist). In January 1761, the expedition sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark to Alexandria, Egypt. The members of the expedition spent a year in Egypt, visiting Suez and Mount Sinai. They left Suez in October 1762 and sailed to Yemen. In May 1763 they reached Mocha where Von Haven and Forrskal died from malaria. In August 1763 Baurenfeind and Berggren died, followed by Kramer in February 1764. Niebuhr was the only one left to continue the expedition. In 1764, he explored India, sailing from Bombay to Muscat, as well as Shiraz, Babylon, Baghdad, Mosul, and Aleppo. He spent some time in Persepolis in 1765 where he has made very detailed drawings and maps, which were used for more than a hundred years. In 1766, he explored Palestine before finally returning to Copenhagen on 20 November 1767, after a journey of seven years. When he returned to Copenhagen the Swedish government warmly welcomed him and paid the costs of engraving the plates to illustrate his accounts of the voyage. Both works are lavishly illustrated, having together 2 large maps of Yemen and 148 beautifully engraved maps, plans and views of all the regions Niebuhr visited. - The present set has both works printed on the same large watermarked paper (Strasbourg bend above VDL) and is only slightly trimmed, measuring 296 x 242 mm with the tranchefiles still visible (regular copies are printed on unwatermarked paper measuring 275 x 217 mm). Not even Tiele mentions the existence of copies on large paper. - Binding slightly rubbed on the sides and rebacked as noted; otherwise good. With a few occasional spots, the half-titles slightly thumbed and a few mm of minor browning in the upper margins; a very good large paper copy, only slightly trimmed. Howgego, to 1800, N24. Tiele, Bibl. 795f. Cf. Atabey 873f. Cox I, 237f. Gay 3589. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 48.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Voyage en Arabie & en d'autres Pays circonvoisins. Tome premier (-second). Traduit de l'Allemand. Amsterdam & Utrecht, S. J. Baalde & Barthelemy Wild, 1775-1780.
4to. 2 vols. VIII, (6), 409, (1) pp. VI, (10), 389, (1) pp. With 2 engraved titles (in counted prelims.), 124 engraved plates (many folding), and folding map of Yemen (in partial colour). Contemp. full calf with gilt cover borders and giltstamped labels in red and green to fully gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. First French edition, translated from the German ("Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern", 1774) by F. L. Mourier. Title pages are dated 1776-80; colophones dated 1775-79. The famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. Niebuhr's "work on Arabia was the first European attempt at a complete account of Arabia, its people and their way of life. He amassed a vast quantity of factual information which he relates in a simple unrhetorical fashion, distinguishing clearly between things observed personally and things learned from others. The expedition, which lasted six years, was sponsored by the Danish king, and included the brilliant Swedish scientist, Peter Forsskal, who died while in Yemen" (Cat. Sotheby‘s, 13 Oct 98, lot 1010). Of the five scientists, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of the Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. - Old stamps erased from title pages (leaving insignificant waterstain), otherwise a perfect set in immaculate original French bindings. Howgego I, N24 (p. 752). Weber II, 549. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 66. Gay 3589. Van Hulthem 15024. Nyon 21018. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1700. Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 116. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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Nielsen, Leslie and Henry Beard
Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Book.
London, Harper Collins, 1995. 132 SS., 3 Bll. Verlagswerbung. (19 x 14,5 cm), gelber original Pappband im illustr. original Schutzumschlag.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23953
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Nieuhof, Joan.
Het Gezantschap der neêrlandtsche oost-indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China [...]. Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670.
2 parts in one volume. Engraved title page, letterpress title in red and black, 2 armorial engraved plates, 2 ff. of dedication, 208 pp. 258, (10) pp. With 111 engravings in the text, 1 folding engraved map, and 35 double-page-sited engraved plates. Full calf, spine and covers stamped in blind, spine label. Folio. Second Dutch edition (previously published in 1665) of this description of the 1655-57 embassy of Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, with a general account on China in part 2. The plates show views (including Batavia, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Beijing), plans, costumes, flora and fauna etc. - "The Dutch, being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the Chinese trade. After much opposition the Government succeeded in sending merchants to try the pulse of the Chinese at Canton. Upon their report it was determined to despatch ambassadors from Batavia to the Court of Peking to solicit liberty to trade. This is the embassy written up by Nieuhoff, who was steward to the ambassadors" (Cox). - The selection of plates varies from copy to copy. The present one contains two engraved armorial plates not called for in the list of plates, but not the portrait (not mentioned there either) and also lacks the plate "Paolinxi". - Hardly browned of soiled; insignificant edge flaws at beginning and end. Map wrinkled, waterstained and with repaired edge tears. Cat. Nederl. Hist. Scheepvart Mus. 499. Cordier, BS 2345. Graesse IV, 675. Tiele 800. Cf. Boucher de la Richarderie V, 297; Cox I, 325; Henze III, 612.
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Nightingale, Dave; et al
The Sporting News, October 14, 1985 - Bill Veeck on Drugs in Baseball
68 pages. Features: Lots of footbal and baseball coverage; Bill Veeck's views on the Pittsburgh drug trials; Photo of Tony Fernandez spraying champagne on Manny Lee as Blue Jays win pennant; Photo of Buffalo Bills' Justin Cross playing golf with one arm (as the other is broken); Phil Niekro's 300th win - article with photo; Harry Neale is new Detroit Red Wings' coach - photo; Article on Glen Sather; Big Heads Biggest Foe for Edmonto Oilers - article with photo of Gretzky with Paul Coffey; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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