‎Golf‎

‎Sinbad the Sailor.‎

‎Cartoon Slides. No place or date, [but 1950s].‎

‎Oblong 4to. 20 pp. on 20 ff. The story of Sinbad (Sindbad) comes from the "Arabian Nights", where he is as-Sindbad al-bahri" in Arabic.' The present group comprises twenty hand-coloured cartoon slides of Sinbad's adventures, telling the story very nicely with captions in English. - In excellent condition. - From the Collection of John Herzog.‎

‎Sionita, Gabriel.‎

‎Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia: accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur [...]. Amsterdam, Johann Jansson, 1633.‎

‎12mo. 297 (but: 287) pp. With engraved, illustrated title page. Contemporary limp vellum with traces of ties. First edition of the collection. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - Slight worming to first pages; some waterstaining near end. Contemporary ink ownership to pastedown: "Ex libris Bibliothecae S. Dominici Ferrariae"; old stamp to first half-title. An appealing little volume. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2084 (erroneously "1653"). Blackmer 1544 (note). Weber II, 697. Gay 3452 (erroneously 1653). Hage Chahine 4533. The Heritage Library: Treasures of Islamic and Arabic Heritage (Qatar 2006), s. v. "Travels", with illustration.‎

‎Skavnak, Bryan‎

‎The Daddy Caddy: Share Happiness with your Family through Golf‎

‎BryanSkavnak#Golf Academy 2012-12-11. Paperback. Very Good /None as issued. 6x0x9. Excellent clean copy with unmarked text. Cover is glossy with very light wear to surface and corner tips. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. Bryan\Skavnak#Golf Academy paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : CD11811050021 ISBN : 0615741959 9780615741956

‎Skinner, [Thomas].‎

‎Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land. London, Richard Bentley, 1836.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols. XI, (1), 324 pp. XI, (1), 291, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces (portrait and view of the Lake of Tiberias). Contemporary calf with triple giltstamped cover fillets and blindstamped ornamental borders, leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt, spines rebacked to style with giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. First edition. - An account of a journey made in 1833 through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia (Baghdad, Babylon and Basrah), Persia, down the Arabian Gulf (stopping at Muscat, "the hottest place on earth") and thence to India. - Corners bumped; frontispieces foxed. Attractively bound copy; armorial bookplates ("Gadsden", motto "decrevi") to pastedowns; contemporary ownership "C. J. Wilton" to flyleaf. Blackmer 1547. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 237. Röhricht 1808. OCLC 4255403. Cf. Atabey 1142 (1837 second ed.).‎

‎Slatin-Pascha, Rudolf von, administrator in the Sudan, politician, and adventurer (1857-1932).‎

‎Archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha. Various places, ca. 1895.‎

‎Autograph document in Arabic. 8vo. 1 p. Accompanied by the first published account of Slatin's escape: 3 consecutive issues of the Pall Mall Gazette, 23-25 April 1895 (42 x 37 cm each). Wrapped as a parcel within a bifolium of the Times, inscribed "Slatin Bey's Escape" by Sir Reginald Wingate. An archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha (Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, 1857-1932), who was held prisoner for eleven long years by the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad and his successor. The material was assembled by General Sir Reginald Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department, who facilitated the escape and assisted on the perilous three-week, thousand-kilometre journey across the Nubian desert to Aswan, Egypt. "Probably the most famous European in the history of the Sudan, this Austrian survived as a captive of the Mahdi from 1883 until his escape to Egypt in 1895. His knowledge of the Sudan and its people was unrivalled and after the re-conquest he was appointed Inspector-General, second in authority only to the Governor-General, Reginald Wingate, of whom he was a great personal friend" (H. Keown-Boyd, Soldiers of the Nile [1996], p. 174). - The archive includes an Arabic document presumed to be written by Slatin Pasha (1 p. on thick handmade paper, 16 x 25 cm). Any writing by Slatin Pasha in Arabic is exceedingly scarce. Also, Slatin Pasha's first published account of his captivity and escape in Sudan, in three consecutive "Special Edition" issues of London's Pall Mall Gazette newspapers, preceding his book "Fire and Sword in the Sudan" by an entire year. Dated 23, 24, 25 April 1895 respectively, each contains 1 of 3 parts of Slatin's account entitled "The Story of My Flight". Each issue measures 42 x 37 cm. Wear to extremities and folds, otherwise very good. A scarce contemporary report, complete and in original condition. - Wrapped together within contemporary leaves of the Times, forming a parcel and inscribed by Sir Reginald Wingate "Slatin Bey's Escape", addressed in his secretary's hand to "Miss Campbell, Cawley Priory" - evidently a close friend or relative of Slatin's who Wingate thought would appreciate knowledge of his safety as soon as possible.‎

‎Smeds, Helmer; Gastrin, Jan; Simons, Lennart; Akerblom, Bror: Editors‎

‎Den Osterbottniska Byn - En Samling Minnesbilder (The East Gulf Village - A Collection of Memory Photos)‎

‎610 pages. Text in Swedish. Black and white photos in text. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book‎

‎Smith, Peter‎

‎How to play par fours‎

‎Fine hbk in glazed pictorial boards. ISBN 1858330580. (Play winning golf). 20748. eng‎

‎Smith, Scott (Editor)/ Golf Digest (Editor)‎

‎Breaking 100 90 80: Taking Your Game to the Next Level With the Best Teachers in Golf‎

‎Doubleday 2004. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 11.50x9.50x1.75 inches. Doubleday hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1-0385511906 ISBN : 0385511906 9780385511902

‎Smithsonian Institution.‎

‎ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. FOR THE YEAR 1891.‎

‎715 p. + Maps. Original cloth binding. The articles include studies of : Celestial Spectroscopy; Circulation of the Atmosphere; The Gulf Stream; Divergent Evolution through Segregation; Struggle for L ife in the Forest; Geographic Distribution of Life in North America; Mounds of the Mississippi Valley; Economic Botany; Evolution of Commerce; Etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎

‎Snape, Andrew.‎

‎The Anatomy of an Horse. London, Miles Flesher for Thomas Fletcher, 1683.‎

‎Folio (243 x 367 mm). (12), 237, (1), 45, (7) pp. With engr. portrait of the author by R. White and 48 (of 49) engraved plates (lacking plate I). Contemporary calf with modern morocco label to gilt spine. First edition. Andrew Snape served as serjeant farrier to King Charles II. In his dedication to the king, he speaks of "being a Son of that Family that hath had the honour to serve the Crown of this Kingdom in the Quality of Farriers for these two Hundred Years." It is this classic work on which François Garsault was to base his 1734 "Anatomie Générale du Cheval". - Some brownstaining; some leaves with repaired tears, binding repaired. With armorial bookplate with cipher of George Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (1736-1809) on front pastedown. Huth 26. Mellon 31. Wing S4382. ESTC R-14873. Nissen ZBI, 3887. OCLC 29155938. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance I, 526.‎

‎SNEAD, SAM:‎

‎SAM SNEAD ON GOLF.‎

‎<p>UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. Owner's neat ink namedate to ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj. Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedaction shot colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/djwith yellow and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A few snicks to head of spine/backstrip and rear top cornerlower edges much less affected.Top edges lightly dust-soiledfore-edges clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's brightcrispclean sharp-corneredoriginal speckled sage green cloth boards with brightcrispwhite ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated 1st edn1-146pp paginated includesa Preface by Oscar Fraley11 chapterscontemporary b/w action sequence photographs by Charles Yerkowand an Index; plus unpaginated 2pp blankshalf-title with author's b/w portrait photograph to it's versotitle pagea Contents list/tableanother title separator pageand 4p blanks at the rear. Sam Snead is known as the golfer with the greatest swing in the history of the game.Here his famous swing is captured in a series of action photographs that give you a close-up look at each important stage of the motion. "If you are having trouble breaking 100it is mostly in your headnot in your aim" is Snead's introduction to psychological side of golf.The "week-end golfer's" difficulties - erratic puttingpoor chip shots topped shotsslicing and all the rest - are analysed by Snead and the main points of his analysis are then set down in chart form.He shows the importance of blue-printing and planning your round and how to gain complete confidence in yourself and your ability to play a bettermore leisurely game.You get expert guidance on the three most vital phases of the game - the gripthe stance and the swing - as well as a description of each type of clubits purposeadvantages and disadvantages swing weightsshaft lengths and gripsalways written with the average golfer well in mind.All through this friendly and helpful book the emphasis is upon developing a natural easy-going style. Sam Snead is perhaps the greatest winner in the annals of golf competitionfor he has scored over 100 tournament victories since he began his career in 1937and has taken the Vardon Trophywhich goes annually to the golfer with the lowest scoring average over the entire yearno less than four times.He has been in many Ryder Cup teams.Yetfor all thisthere is never a hint of strain in the way he plays golf and his object in writing this book is to show you how to play the game in the same relaxed way. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the orderespecially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. </p> LONDON.NICHOLAS KAYE LIMITED,1962. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : rja651916

‎Snead, Sam und Dick Aultman‎

‎Golf beginnt mit vierzig. Mit Illustrationen von James McQueen. Deutsch von Hans-Jürgen Jendral. Deutsche ERSTAUSGABE.‎

‎Starnberg, Von-der-Tann-Str. 11 : F. O. Kless-Böker [Selbstverlag], 1980. 176 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen. Originalleinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 24 cm.‎

‎Nur der Umschlag mit leichteren Gebrauchsspuren ( etwas berieben) , sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar. der deutschen ERSTAUSGABE.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 263749

‎Snead, Sam.‎

‎SAM SNEAD'S NATURAL GOLF. How to Play a Winning Game Your Natural Way. Edited by Tom Shehan. Revised Edition.‎

‎159p. Illus. Original paperback. Pages browned, but still in very good condition. Valuable information. Great gift for the golfer on your list.‎

‎Sneddon, Richard.‎

‎THE GOLF STREAM. Illustrations by Bob Crosby.‎

‎75p. + Frontis. Cartoon illustrations by Bob Crosby. Endpapers foxed. 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Boards partially stained. Hardbound. Very good. This humorous golf book is quite scarce. GAMES BOX 4‎

‎Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.‎

‎Bilder aus Mekka. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1889.‎

‎Folio (282 x 372 mm). 20 collotype prints mounted on 18 sheets loose in red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with half-title, list of plates, title and preface. One of the earliest photographic documents of Mecca and the Hajj, preceded only by the photographs of Muhammed Sadiq Bey published in 1881 (Sotheby's, 4 June 1998: £1,250,000). Much rarer than the author's similarly titled "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka", a portfolio of lithographs to accompany the "Mekka" books which Snouck had published after his return from the Arabian Peninsula. - "Following the publication of 'Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka', Hurgronje received a letter from his doctor in Makkah, whom he had taught the art of photography. The letter contained new photographs of the hajj which were of such great interest that he decided in 1889 to publish his 'Bilder aus Mekka' [...] The photographs provide an insight into the world of Makkah's inhabitants, pilgrims from all over the Islamic world, in addition to the sharif of Makkah, the Turkish governor, and various religious and secular figures" (Badr el-Hage, p. 46f.). - "In 1981 F. H. S. Allen and C. Gavin first identified the earliest Arabian photographer by deciphering his elaborately calligraphed signatures, which without exception had been erased from the plates reproduced by Snouck Hurgronje: 'Futugrafiyat al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka' (The Photography of the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physican of Mecca). This princely eye surgeon had been host to the young Snouck in Mecca immediately after the Dutchman's conversion to Islam. Snouck claimed to have taught his host how to use a camera and attributes to him (without ever mentioning his name) the pictures reproduced in 'Bilder aus Mekka'". - Light spotting, title and text leaves frayed at inner edge (not affecting text), occasional minor stains or wear to edges of mounts, covers rather marked and stained. Very rare: only two copies at auctions internationally during the past decades (the last, at Sotheby's in 2006, was incomplete, lacking all the text leaves). Macro 1233. Badr el-Hage. Saudi Arabia Caught in Time. Reading, 1997. F. E. Peters. The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Place. Princeton University Press 1996.‎

‎Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.‎

‎Mekka. (And:) Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka. Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889.‎

‎2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates, 5 (of 6) toned lithogr. plates (one folding), and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 39 (of 40) plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Includes original printed upper board cover, loosely inserted. Modern black library cloth with gilt title to spine; atlas portfolio uniform with books. Contemporary black half roan, spines in five compartments with raised bands gilt, original atlas-portfolio of black cloth-backed printed cream boards. First edition, a complete set with both text volumes and the portfolio with all the photographic plates, but lacking one of the lithographs. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Spines of both text volumes and portfolio professionally restored. Atlas lacks plate XVII (detail of Kiswah fabric), some light scattered spotting, minor creasing to mounts. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.‎

‎SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE LYON‎

‎BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE LYON‎

‎5ème livraison .Septembre à décembre 1886. Contient : EXPLORATIONS ET TRAVAUX GEOGRAPHIQUES DES MISSIONNAIRES EN 1884 ET 1885 par Valérien GROFFIER. LES POSSESSIONS FRANÇAISES DE LA CÔTE DES ESCLAVES. CORRESPONDANCE. RECONNAISSANCE DU FLEUVE OGUN ET LETTRES par P. ZAPPA. LETTRES D’AUSTRALIE. NOUVELLES HEBRIDES par CH. HAURET. Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, Lyon, 1886. In-8 ( 16 X 25 cm) broché, 107 p. ( 257-364 pp) Bien complet des 2 cartes dépliantes dont celle des Possessions européennes de la Côte des Esclaves.‎

‎Petit manque de papier en haut du dos . Bon état.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 278

‎Somer, Jan.‎

‎Johann Sommers See- und Land-Reyß nach der Levante, das ist nach Italien, Candia, Cypern, Rhodis Egypten, Syrien, Gelobten Lande, Constantinopel und von dar wider durch Ungarn, Italien und Teutschland nach Mittelburg nach Hauß [...]. Frankfurt, Johann Frantz for Wilhelm Serlin, 1664.‎

‎4to. (8), 200 pp. With 8 engraved plates (some with touches of colour, two folded). - (Bound with) II: Wenner, Adam. Türckisches Reisebuch von Prag aus biß gen Constantinopel [...]. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter & Wolfgang Endter's heirs, 1665. (8), 135, (5) pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Exceedingly rare Mediterranean travelogue: one of two German editions published in the same year (the other, an entirely different translation, by Cunradus in Amsterdam; the Nuremberg edition cited by several bibliographies is fictitious). Dutch editions had previously appeared in 1649 (the first) and in 1661. Although the Amsterdam-published German edition dates the journey to 1640-42, the Dutch first edition as well as the present translation make it clear that it had taken place as early as 1590-92! Somer's voyage began inauspiciously - he was captured by a Turkish galley in the harbour of Famagusta and briefly enslaved, but was soon set free after the French consul at Alexandria intervened for him. In spite of this episode, he travelled the Ottoman Empire at a time of relative peace (the Long Turkish War with the Habsburgs would not break out until 1593), spending several months in Egypt, Constantinople and Palestine. His colourful account includes a description of desert sandstorms and the trade in Egyptian mummies (not all of them ancient) as well as extensive chapters on Constantinople, the Ottoman court, the ubiquitous baths, Turkish customs and manners, the Muslim faith, curses and magic, etc. Somer returned via then-Ottoman Greece and Hungary, which he also describes. An appendix (pp. 170ff.) contains A. Stockram's topical account of the voyage of the Dutch ship Arnheim, which foundered off Mauritius on the return from Batavia. The translation is credited to "Philemerus Irenicus Elisius" (i.e., Martin Meyer). Rare; the last copy in auction records sold in 1983 (Erasmushaus, an incomplete reissue with only 5 views). - Bound after this is the second edition of A. Wenner's narrative of the Imperial embassy to the Porte in 1616-18, to ratify the Treaty of Zsitvatorok. Wenner served as secretary to the embassy; his "book is a day-to-day account of the journey to Constantinople from Prague, and includes a list of all the entourage from nobles to the apothecary, goldsmith, musicians, tailors, cooks, and so on. A list of presents for the sultan, with their values, is also given" (Atabey). The Treaty of Zsitvatorok "was a landmark in Turkish-European diplomatic relations, when the Turks first began to observe the general principles and courtesies of international law, and to exchange special ambassadors on an equal footing with European nations" (Blackmer). - Some browning throughout due to paper, more pronounced in Somer's work, the title-page of which shows an unobtrusive tear in the upper edge. Contemporary handwritten ownership "Bocken" to recto of flyleaf; verso has stamp and 1978 ownership of the Viennese collector Werner Habel (1939-2015). I: VD 17, 23:231760C. Tobler 86. Röhricht p. 217, no. 820. Paulitschke 532; Ternaux-Compans, Bibliothèque asiatique et africaine, 1977 (both have "Nuremberg" in error for Frankfurt). Cf. Weber II, 216 (Amsterdam German ed.); Kat d. Scheepvart Mus. I, 254f. (Dutch eds.). Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Aboussouan, Howgego, Henze, Cox, or Chauvin. - II: VD 17, 23:234557B. Cf. Atabey 1326; Blackmer 1783; Brunet VI.2, 435 (all for the 1622 first edition). Not in Röhricht, Tobler, Aboussouan or Brunet.‎

‎Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert.‎

‎Reisen in Ober- und Niederägypten. Aus dem Französischen. Mit Anmerkungen und einem Sachregister. Leipzig & Gera, Heinsius, 1800.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols. XXIV, 453, (3) pp. XXXVIII, 534, (2) pp. With 13 folding engr. plates and 2 folding tables. Contemp. marbled boards with giltstamped spine labels. First German edition of this account of travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated from the French original of the naturalist Charles Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), who had visited Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1777-78. The plates show landscapes, plants, fish, and antiquities. - Binding slightly bumped at extremeties; slight browning throughout. Titles stamped ("Institut für Grenz- und Auslandstudien"). Fromm 24495. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 245. Kainbacher 398. Cox I, 395. Graesse VI/1, 439. Cf. Gay 2250 (1799 French ed.).‎

‎Soubhy, Saleh.‎

‎Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à Médine. Précédé d'un aperçu sur l'islamisme et suivi de considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision. Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 1894.‎

‎Large 8vo. 109 (instead of 129), (2) pp. With 16 (instead of 19) plates. Marbled half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Includes 4 photographic views of Mecca, 3 of Medina and 3 of Jeddah (after Sadiq Bey and others), wants only the ten-leaf appendix, 2 portraits and the plate showing the departure of the Mahmal in Cairo. - Salih Subhi, an Egyptian public health official, was commissioned by his government to undertake the Hajj in 1888 and 1894. Here he describes the eight-month journey in great detail. Muhammed Sadiq Bey was a major pioneer in the history of Arabian photography and the first person ever to photograph the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. - Browned throughout due to paper. Our copy without the ten-leaf appendix before the author's epilogue and portrait. - Rare, the last copy on the market fetched £27,500 (Christie's, April 13 2010, lot 276, with author's dedication), the Burrell copy fetched £8,000 in 1999 (complete, but in modern cloth). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2096. Auboyneau/Fevret 20. OCLC 7055812.‎

‎Sousa, João de.‎

‎Documentos arabicos para a historia portugueza copiados dos originaes de Torre do Tombo [...]. Lisbon, Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790.‎

‎4to. (8), 190, (4) pp. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena's owl and Hermes's staff). Set in roman, italic and Arabic types. Modern green morocco, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco spine label with title in gold and the imprint in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. First and only edition of a collection of letters written in Arabic during the reigns of Kings Manuel I and João III of Portugal (numbered 1-58 in chronological order, the dated letters from 1503 to 1528), from the official Portuguese state correspondence, with the original Arabic and a parallel Portuguese translation. The letters came from North Africa, the Gulf, East Africa, India and the East Indies. The writers include kings, princes, governors, wazirs, sheikhs and noblemen, including Kings "Mahomed Xáh" and "Mir Abanasar" of Ormus, King "Azarkam" of Barus in Sumatra, and kings of Fez, Malindi and Calicut/Kozhikode. They are especially important for the light they shed on Portugal's East Indian trade, but also provide a rare primary source of information about Islamic leaders for whom little documentation has survived. The original Arabic appears in the inside columns with the Portuguese translation in the outside columns, and the apparatus and notes are in Portuguese. João de Sousa (1734-1812), born in Damascus, came to Portugal in 1750 and was appointed the first professor of Arabic at the University of Lisbon. - The Royal Printing Office in Lisbon had used the present Arabic type in 1774 for Antonio Baptista, Instituições da lingua Arabica. The form of the Arabic type may have been influenced by Robert Granjon's of this size, cut in 1586, his smallest Arabic, which was at this time in possession of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, but the direct model and the circumstances of the cutting remain unknown. The type here measures 96 mm/20 lines (14 point). It is not the Arabic type acquired by the Biblioteca Real in Madrid in 1751 for the 1760 Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, which came from the Voskens and Clerk foundry in Amsterdam. - The first page of the first letter is very slightly soiled, otherwise internally fine and clean. Overall in very good condition. A remarkable primary source for numerous Arabic-speaking leaders and their relations with Portugal in the early 1500s. Macro 2098. Palau 320779. Schnurrer 186. Innocêncio IV, 41-42. Palha 2777. Krek, Typographia Arabica, p. 36, no. 3. Streit XVII, 6441. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.‎

‎Sparwenfeld, Johan Gabriel, donor (Eric Benzelius & Olaus Celsius, comp.).‎

‎Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV bibliothecam publicam Academiae Upsalenis auxit & exornavit vir illustris & generossissimus Joan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius, ... Uppsala, Johan Henrik Werner (printer to the University), 1706.‎

‎4to. [6], 74 pp. With a woodcut garland of fruits, leaves and nuts on the title-page, 1 woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in roman, italic, Arabic and Greek type. Later paper wrappers. Catalogue of the collection of 126 Persian, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, Latin and other books and manuscripts donated to the Library of the University of Uppsala by Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld (1655-1727). It was compiled by the Swedish scholars Eric Benzelius the younger (1670-1756) and Olaus Celsius the elder (1675-1743). The main series of manuscripts (items I-LXI), described in great detail, includes 41 in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, 8 in Greek (one dating back to the eighth century) and 12 in Latin and modern European languages. These are followed by 42 printed books (LXII-CIII) including 2 in Chinese, several in Arabic, the 1581 Ostrog Bible (the first Bible printed in Old Slavonic) and several other exotic languages, including Irish (set in Anglo-Saxon type). A few more manuscripts (mostly Arabic) are added at the end, numbered I-VI and I-XV, plus an unnumbered geographic manuscript in Chinese (3 volumes). This is the earliest catalogue of the Uppsala University Library's collections. The Arabic, Persian and Turkish titles are set in a large Arabic type cut for the physician and orientalist Peter Kirsten by the Swedish punchcutter Peter von Selow (who served his apprenticeship under Tycho Brahe) and first used at Breslau in 1608. Werner, printer to the university at Uppsala sice 1701, seems to have been the first Swedish printer to use types by Nicolaus Kis, two of his italics and one roman appearing in the present book, though not the roman used for the main text. - After finishing his studies at Uppsala, Sparwenfeld travelled throughout Europe and accompanied the Swedish ambassador to Moscow, where he took an interest in Slavonic languages. On his travels he collected many precious books and manuscripts. In 1687 he returned to Stockholm, where he carried out a study of manuscripts from the ancient Goths. He travelled to Holland, France and Spain, dealing with the Blaeu printing office and mediating in the production of Georgian type cut by Nicolaus Kis for the exiled King of Georgia. In 1691 he travelled to Egypt, Syria and Tunis. Though a Protestant, he presented the manuscript of his Slavonic lexicon to Pope Innocent XII, who granted him access to the Vatican library, a rare honour for a Protestant. He returned to Sweden in 1694. He continued to correspond with scholars throughout Europe even after he retired to his estate in 1712. He wrote and spoke 14 languages. - In very good condition, with only occasional very slight foxing, wholly untrimmed, preserving the deckles and point holes and with the bolts unopened. A remarkable catalogue of an extraordinary library, especially rich in Arabic manuscripts. Almqvist, Sveriges bibliogr. litteratur 2838. Smitskamp, PO 113 (note).‎

‎Special feature / AON (Aoki, Ozaki, Nakajima) that can change your golf Complete research round interview Shoji Ozaki VS Senichi‎

‎Sports Graphic Number 158 November 5 1986 No. 23‎

‎Not Available 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2090502113709194

‎Spilsbury, F[rancis] B.‎

‎Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. Second edition. London, B. R. Howlett for Thomas McLean, 1819.‎

‎Folio (500 x 350 mm). IV, 42 pp. With 19 aquatints by Edward Orme after sketches by Spilsbury in original hand colour. Contemporary half cloth with red boards and printed label to upper cover. Second edition of English naval surgeon Francis Spilsbury’s account of his travels in Palestine and Syria during the Napoleonic campaigns there, with 19 finely hand-coloured folio aquatint views. Spilsbury was surgeon on board HMS Tigre during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. The Tigre brought Sir William Sidney Smith to defend Acre against Napoleon’s siege, and led a naval force in support of Turkish armies which finally relieved Acre, and his text gives some account of the military campaigns and the Turkish dignitaries. In his reminiscences Napoleon accused Smith of making him miss his destiny, as Smith’s timely appearance thwarted Napoleon’s drive to invade Syria and forced him to retreat to Egypt. The views are mostly connected with the coastal towns of modern Lebanon and Israel, though several are from Spilsbury’s travels inland to meet the Grand Vizier in charge of the Turkish army, Jezzar Pacha, and other dignitaries. First published in folio in 1803, with a mezzotint portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith that was not included in this second edition; a third followed in 1823. - Some staining to covers; aquatints are perfectly preserved. Tooley 464. Cf. Atabey 1168f. Blackmer 1585. Abbey, Travel 381. Colas 2788. Weber II, 835. Aboussouan 852.‎

‎Spreti, Karl Graf von - 1806 - München - 1865‎

‎Küstenstrich bei Nauplia.‎

‎o.J. Aquarell über Bleistift, auf Velin, rechts unten bezeichnet und datiert ?Nauplia im Juni 1834.?. 17,7:29 cm.‎

‎Graf Spreti war Offizier und 1833f. mit den bayerischen Truppen in Griechenland. Er malte griechische Veduten und radierte Pferde- und Militärdarstellungen. Zeichnungen von ihm befinden sich in der Maillinger-Sammlung in München.‎

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