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Hunt, Thomas.
De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, in schola linguarum, VII kalend. Augusti, MDCCXXVIII. Oxford, Sheldon for Richard Clements, 1739.
4to. (2), 56, (2) pp. With engr. printer's device on t. p. Disbound. University oration on the Arabic language, its age, beauty, and usefulness, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747. - Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Trimmed rather closely. Some foxing near beginning and end; t. p. shows punched library ownership ("Philadelphia Divinity School") and shelfmarks. Schnurrer 12. OCLC 27855095.
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Hunt, Thomas.
De usu dialectorum orientalium, ac praecipue Arabicae, in Hebraico codice interpretando. Oratio habita Oxonii, in scola linguarum, VII kalend. Martii, MDCCXLVIII. Oxford, Sheldon for Richard Clements, 1748.
4to. (2), 34 pp. Modern marbled wrappers. All edges red. University oration on the usage of Arabic dialects, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747. - Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek and Hebrew. Slight browning near beginning and end. A good, wide-margined copy. Schnurrer I, 13. OCLC 1067273.
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Hunter, Don
Spinner's Inlet
163 pages. The fictional little community of Spinner's Inlet, in the idyllic Gulf Islands along the west coast, is home to some unique and engaging characters. "Delightful." - Jack Webster. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Book
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Hunter, F[rederick] F[raser].
Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Calcutta, Survey of India Offices, 1908/1910.
Folding map of Arabia (180 x 135 cm), coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on cloth (24 sections). The exceptionally rare first independently issued edition of this famous, meticulously prepared map of Arabia and the Gulf. The "Hunter map" is an enormous, wall-size chart showing an astounding degree of detail. The "Gulf portion being largely based on actual surveys can be considered fairly accurate. [...] Kuwait (except that portion based upon actual surveys) Hasa, Jabal Shammar, Qasim, 'Aridh, Oman, Hadhramaut are the result of exhaustive use of detail supplied by travellers supplemented by months and months of enquiry by local Political Officers. The map of these portions can certainly claim superiority over any previous work of the kind" (Notes on the Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf [...] compiled by Capt. F. Fraser-Hunter 1905-1908 [Calcutta, 1910], p. 1). - The Canadian-born Hunter later became a major figure in British India's Intelligence Service. As the author recalled in his 1919 "Reminiscences", "a great deal of the information on the map was from sources considered secret at the time" (p. 357). Special surveys of the country's interior areas were carried out to achieve a hitherto unprecedented degree of accuracy: "The map was a distinct advance on anything which existed, as in 1908 no general map of Arabia on such a large scale existed" (p. 360). - Hunter's map was first issued in a very limited press-run to accompany John G. Lorimer's "Gazetteer of the Gulf" (1908); at that time it still bore the title, "Map of the Persian Gulf, 'Oman, and Central Arabia". It was subsequently used (and praised) by St John Philby during his journey across Arabia. Indeed, reliable topographical information was an invaluable asset not least to the local Sheikhdoms in their territorial disputes during this politically volatile age: Hunter recounts that on one occasion, the Sheikh of Umm-al-Qaiwan went so far as to torture his relative, the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, into signing away his right to strategically important islands in the Arabian Gulf, a stratagem foiled only by the happy intervention of the British Political Resident. - Stamp of the University Library of Nijmegen on the cloth backing. A very few minute traces of worming, otherwise in fine, spotless condition. Never seen in the trade: the only two copies of this map in auction records were both of the 1914 issue (Christie's, 2012, and Sotheby's, 2013). Not in Al Ankary or Al-Qasimi.
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Hunter, F[rederick] M[ercer] / Sealy, C. W. H. / Mosse, A. H. E.
An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden. Bombay, Government Central Press, 1909.
Large 8vo. 2 vols. (6), II, 356 pp. 14 genealogical tables (9 folding) & 3 hand-coloured folding maps. Original green cloth gilt. First and only edition of this excessively rare manual on the tribal structures in the very area where the region's biggest ongoing armed conflict started in 2011. Compiled initially in 1886, the text was brought up to date in 1907 by Captain A. E. Mosse. The authors provide a chronological breakdown of the events, relationships and hostilities of each of the 16 tribes in the Aden area. In addition, the work discusses the nature of each tribe (i.e. "a proud, warlike and independent race"), their income and their organisation, with notes on sub-tribes and their reigning families. The appendix includes copies of the treaties and agreements signed between local tribes and the British, many of which led to the establishment of the British Protectorate. - Aden was ruled as a part of British India from 1839 until 1937, when it became a Crown Colony. Its proximity to Zanzibar, the Suez canal and Mumbai made it an important strategic possession in the British Empire. Hunter wrote the first account of some of the tribes surrounding Aden in his work "An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia" (1877). - Slightly rubbed and spotted. Old library shelfmarks to upper covers; some contemporary underlinings in coloured pencil. The tables are at the end of the text volume, while the maps are stored loosely in a pocket in a separate volume. - Rare. Only two copies traced at auction within the last 50 years, one of which was lacking the maps showing the tribes of Yemen and the boundaries of the Aden protectorate. Not in Macro.
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Hunter, Frederic Fraser (ed.) / Burrard, Sir Sidney Gerald (director).
Southern Asia series - Southern Persia sheet - Persia, Arabia and Turkey in Asia. [Dehra Dun, Survey of India Office], sold at the Map Record and Issue Office, Calcutta, 1912.
615 x 880 mm, on a scale of 1:2,000,000. Large heliozincographed folding map in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints. Folded. Large detailed terrain map of the Arabian Gulf and the surrounding area with a legend of geographic denominations in English, Arabic, and Farsi, such as "Fort: Qasr (Arabic), Kaleh, Kalat (Persian)". The map shows terrain levels in particular detail and the major roads, railways and telegraph lines. The sheet latitude limits are: 24°-32° north and 44°-60° south, including Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. - The map was published in 1912 by the India Survey Office under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard (1860-1953), who was Colonel and Surveyor General of India in that year. He was majorly invested in the geographical and cartographic survey of India, especially the Himalayas, and retired one year after the publication of the present map. The map is based on Frederic Fraser Hunter's (1876-1959) first large scale general map of Arabia for the India Survey Office in 1906-08. Hunter was also involved as editor in the creation of the present Southern Persia map. As the Southern Persia sheet the present map is part of a very large nine-sheet combined map covering the area from the Red Sea to India, called the "Survey of India Southern Asia Series" (1912-45). The present map and a separately published index could be obtained only on application through an officer at the Map Record and Issue Office in Calcutta. - Some slight foxing, a tiny tear on the crossing of two folds, bottom edge frayed. Otherwise in good condition. D. Foliard, Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula. In: Geographies of Contact (2019), pp. 71-76. F. F. Hunter, Reminiscences of the Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, in: GJ 54 (1919), pp. 355-363.
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Hunter, William Wilson.
The Imperial Gazetteer of India. London, Trübner & Co., 1881.
8 vols. (instead of 9, lacking vol. 1). Modern green library cloth. (With): The same, New Edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1909. 16 vols. (instead of 25, lacking vols. 1 through 9). Publisher's original cloth. A total of 24 volumes; numerous maps. A torso of the first edition of this famous geographical directory of the British Indian Empire, and of the posthumous 1908 "New Edition". The Scottish historian and statistician Hunter, a member of the Indian Civil Service, is best remembered for having compiled the present work of reference work, which he first conceived in 1859. The first edition was published in nine volumes in 1881 (a second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885-87). After Hunter's death in 1900, Herbert Hope Risley, William Stevenson Meyer, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled the twenty-six volume New Edition, which consisted of four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India, 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and giving statistics and summary information, and one volume comprising the index and atlas. - Removed from the Bradford Free Library (1881 ed.) and the British Library - Lending Division (1908 ed.) with markings as usual. Occasional insignificant spine wear; well-preserved in all.
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Hurewitz, J[acob] C[oleman] (ed.).
Documents of Near East Diplomatic History. New York, Near and Middle East Studies, School of International Affairs, Columbia University, 1951.
4to. XV, 332 pp. Published as a typescript printed on one side. Original cloth. An invaluable collection of primary source documents, mostly in English (a few in French), related to international relations and the Middle East. The volume is composed as an aid to students at Columbia University, using documents available from that library only, covering nearly every nation in the Middle East and their relations with European nations. Topics include the texts of commercial and territorial treaties (including regarding the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits), Napoleon's proclamation to the Egyptians, territorial negotiations, proclamations of goodwill and protection of foreign merchants, the Suez Canal concession, regulations for colonies in the region, the Baghdad railroad, the mandate for Palestine, World War I and World War II regional restructuring discussions, etc. Most documents are from the 19th and 20th centuries, with the earliest being "Capitulation with France of February 1535", and the most recent, "Nationalization of the Oil Industry in Iran, 2-30 May 1951." A brief commentary is provided before each document describing context and significance. These papers represent an enormously important work for scholars, students, historians and diplomats, bringing together, as they do, such core reference material. In 1956, Hurewitz would expand this collection to the two-volume publication "Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East: a documentary record". - J. C. Hurewitz (1914-2008) did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual decision to concentrate on the Middle East. He worked for the Near East section of the OSS during World War II, then worked successively at the State Department, as a political adviser on Palestine to the President’s cabinet and for the UN secretariat. As a Professor, Hurewitz began studying Middle Eastern politics in 1950, before the field had emerged as an academic discipline. From 1970 until his retirement in 1984, he was director of Columbia's Middle East Institute. - Handwritten ownership (dated Washington, October 1952) on half-title; later in the collection of the professor of oriental studies and Brandeis librarian Miroslav Krek (1924-2014), with his ownership stamp on the reverse. OCLC 5749457.
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Hurt Harry III
Chasing the Dream A Mid-Life Quest for Fame and Fortune on the Pro Golf Circuit
Avon Books a Division of Hearst Corporation 1997. Bar code and library name label on front panel of d/j which is mylar covered and taped on library label with withdrawn stamp on it on front endpaper. 279 pages. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Avon Books a Division of Hearst Corporation hardcover
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: 008600 ISBN : 0380973073 9780380973071
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Hurt III Harry
Chasing the Dream A Mid-Life Quest for Fame and Fortune on the Pro Golf Circuit
New York: Avon Books 1997. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 279pp. First edition second printing with number line beginning with 2. The true story of a 43 year old's mid-life crisis which manifested itself in the journey from amateur tournaments and mini-tours all the way to the PGA Tour Qualifying School and beyond. No name no book-plate etc. A very clean copy in bright flawless dust-jacket. Very fine in like jacket. Second Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Avon Books Hardcover
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: 004495 ISBN : 0380973073 9780380973071
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Hussein bin Ibrahim Al-Kitbi Al-Falak.
Astronomical manuscript. No place, [1929 CE =] 1345 H.
Small folio (205 x 282 mm). Turkish manuscript on paper. 113 pp., per extensum, with half-page illustrated headpiece and numerous tables. Black and occasional red ink on paper, text ruled in red and green ink throughout. Contemporary black half calf over cloth boards. Decorated paper pastedowns. A "brief account of knowledge of some constants" by Hussein bin Ibrahim Al-Kitbi Al-Falak, written in accurate penmanship and containing numerous astronomical tables in black and red ink. - Paper a little browned and brownstained. Bookplate on front flyleaf with printed portrait, dated 1342.
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Hussein, Saddam.
[On the Revolution and Women. Second edition]. Baghdad, [Revolution Publications, 1979].
12mo. 85, (3) pp. Original wrappers with lettering. A rare pamphlet in Arabic, containing Saddam Hussein's speech on the role of women in revolutions. The speech was given in 1977, two years before Saddam formally came to power in 1979. The pamphlet was reprinted in the year of his election. With this speech Saddam touched the problem of women's liberation vs. strong local traditional values in the time of the Arab national struggle. In the 1970s Iraqi women had free access to the education, voting rights, could own property and were encouraged to pursue posts in high positions, but during the following decades the importance of the traditional patriarchal family started undermining these rights. - Wrappers slightly stained and with soft folds, old signature on the top of the title-page, otherwise in good condition. Rare; we could not find any institutional examples.
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Huston Mervyn J.
GOLF AND MURPHYS LAW
Edmonton Alberta: Hurtig Publishers 1981. 157 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Graham Pilsworth. The Chapters are: Murphy's Law; Basic Principles; The First Tee; The Fairway; The Rough; Sand Traps and Water Hazards; Putting; Equipment; Preparations; Retroactive Adjustments; Deportment; The Administration; The Home Front; and The Nineteenth Hole. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Graham Pilsworth;. 8vo. Hurtig Publishers Hardcover
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: 203180 ISBN : 0888302088 9780888302083
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Huston Mervyn J. editor P. G. Wodehouse; Hollis Alpert; Ira Mothner; Harold Schonberg; Paul Gallico; Stephen Leacock; Michael G
GREAT GOLF HUMOUR
Edmonton Alberta: Hurtig Publishers 1977. 287 pp. Pink cloth lettered in silver on the spine; green endpapers; headband. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name inside. This story and article collection contains: Introduction; The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh by P. G. Wodehouse; The Pitching Wedge by Hollis Alpert Ira Mothner and Harold Schonberg; The Witch of Woonsapucket by Paul Gallico; The Golfomaniac by Stephen Leacock; A Child's Guide to Golf by Michael Green; The Ooley-Cow by Charles E. Van Loan; One in a Trillion by Barrie Payne; The Happy Golfer � excerpt by Henry Leach; The Way It Ought To Be Done by Patrick Campbell; Crying Towel by Robinson Murray; The Wide Wide World of Double Bogey Golf by Hollis Alpert Ira Mothner and Harold Schonberg; A Caddy's Diary by Ring Lardner; The Charm of Golf by A. A. Milne; Who Wants To Marry Money By Glynn Harvey; How to Talk Golf - excerpts by David Langdon; Cowboy on the Green by Max Green; Golf and the POO Muscle by Mervyn J. Huston; All Golf Is Divided Into Three Parts by Harry Leon Wilson; Four Balls Two Balls and Mixed Foursomes by Rex Lardner; On Diegeling by Bernard Darwin; Golf the Loneliest Game by Roland Wild; Prils of the First Tee by Michael Green; Wide Open - excerpt by Dan Jenkins; Goat Getting by Morie Morrison; The Captain and the Secretery by Patrick Smart; A New Way to Better Golf - excerpt by Rex Beach; The Rivercliff Golf Killings by Don Marquis; The 7th Hole by Fred Beck and O. K. Barnes; The Colonel and the Hunt by George Houghton; Are You Making Enough Fun by Joe James; U.S. Versus U.K. by Stephen Potter; The Bogey Man - excerpt by George Plimpton; Watching My Wife by John L. Hulteng; Muny Golf Takes Guts Right Mac by Jay Cronley; and Golf Is a Funny Game by Ronald Heager. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Hurtig Publishers Hardcover
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: 215597 ISBN : 0888301413 9780888301413
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Hutchinson Horace ed.
British Golf Links: A Short Account of the Leading Golf Links of the United Kingdom
London: J.S.Virtue & Co. Ltd. G: in Good condition. Rubbed extremities. Spine darkened. Several small splits to outer hinges. Some bumping. Ex libris bookplate 'Constitutional Club Library'. Some inner hinge cracking. End papers chipped and browned. Slight age darkening to page edges not impinging. 1897. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with bevelled edges. 330mm x 250mm 13" x 10". 331pp adverts. Numerous illustrations and portraits. . J.S.Virtue & Co. Ltd hardcover
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: r5023
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Hutchinson Horace G.
FIFTY YEARS OF GOLF
New Jersey: United States Golf Asso. Very Good with no dust jacket; Limited: #698 of 1500 Copies. 1985. limited ed. Hardbound. 0941774058 . 229 pages . United States Golf Asso. hardcover
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: 52565 ISBN : 0941774058 9780941774055
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Hutchinson Horace G
Golf Greens and Green-Keeping
London: Country Life. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Boards rubbed and marked. Damp staining to back eps. Some marking and browning within. Minor chipping to margins. Pages uncut. 1906. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 219pp. . Country Life hardcover
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: L0402
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HUTCHINSON Horace G. HODGE Thomas; FURNISS Harry; Ill. GOLF Badminton Library
Golf. With contributions by Lord Wellwood; Sir Walter Simpson Bart.; Right Hon. A.J. Balfour; M.P. Andrew Lang; H.S.C. Everard; and others
London: Longmans Green and Co. 1890. Sport FIRST EDITION. Octavo 18 x 13cm pp.xiv; 463; 1 blank. With numerous illustrations by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. Recent dark green half morocco over green cloth sides gilt title on red morocco labels and gilt to spine top edge gilt. Some spotting/toning occasional pencil underlining. Exterior fine. An ideal reference work from a well respected authority on the history of golf and how it was played towards the turn of the twentieth century. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890 unknown
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: 55119
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Hutchinson Horace G
The Book of Golf and Golfers
London: Longman's Green & Co. G : in Good condition plus without dust jacket. Slight darkening to page ends. Ownership details on title page crossed out. Teg. 1899. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xvi 316pp. 71 portraits. . Longman's Green & Co hardcover
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: e7497
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Hutchinson, Horace G
Golf. With contribution by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, Bart., Right Hon. A.J. Balfour, M.P. Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, and others.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. 3 Aufl., 3 edition. 8°. XIV, 469 S. Front., 1 Tit.-Vign., 21 Taf. u. zahlr. Textabb. Illustr. Or.-Lwd. Ecken u. Kanten etw. ber. u. bestossen. Tls braun- u. fingerfl. Illustrated original cloth. Slightly rubbed and bumped. Partly stained. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
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: 10010AB
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Hutchinson, Horace Gordon and Henry James Moncreiff
Golf - The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes Horace G. [Gordon] Hutchinson Howland, Henry E., George H. Sargent, Horace G. Hutchinson, Hanson Hiss, Charles Turner, John Duncan Dunn, and others
London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902. XIV, 480 S. / pages; Mit 28 Tafeln und 65 Abbildungen im Text. With numerous illustrations by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. gebundene Ausgabe, illustrierter Leinenband, Exemplar in gutem Erhaltungszustand
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: 26653
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Hutchinson, Walter: Editor
Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War, Series 7, Number 2, August 14 - August 20, 1940
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration by C. Gibberd of a wrecked Nazi plane; General de Gaulle's Free Frenchmen; Anti-Aircraft guns in day and night action; Photos of German fighter attacking British balloon; Illustrated text of speech by Winston Churchill entitled "Progress of the War"; Photos of some of the 152 german planes shot down on August 18th; Photos of German bomb damage in England; Series of centerfold illustrations show how the R.A.F. checks the number of enemy machines destroyed; Photo of the Italian submarine Galileo Galilei in the Gulf of Aden behind the trawler Moonstone which captured it; Excellent full-page photo of a devastating artillery bombardment upon Fort Maddalena, the Italian outpost in Eastern Libya; Great photo of the Officers of the York and Lancasters Regiment outside their mess in Egypt; Italian guns and tanks taken; The Occupation of Iceland; Illustrated article by Lord Milne entitled "The Auxilliary Military Pioneer Corps"; Great photo of Nazi oil depot at Dolvik, Norway on fire after being attacked by Skua aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm; Photos of honoured men including R.B. Stannard, Lilian Phillips, H. Ervine-Andrews, H. Hicholls, A.S. Irwin, William Dickson, Daphne Pearson, J. Simpson; A Commentary on the war this week; full-page map illustrating the week's bombing raids by the R.A.F.; Illustration by S. Drigin of the bombing of a mercy ship in the Channel on August 14th; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Hyde, Thomas.
Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem origo, antiquitas, ususque per totum Orientem celeberrimus. Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1694.
8vo. 3 parts in one volume. (72), 184, (4), 71, (1), (14), 278 pp. With 12 engravings in the text, 3 folding plates and several woodcuts. 19th century mottled boards, spine ruled in gilt, titled in gilt on black leather spine label. All edges speckled. First edition of this important work dedicated to oriental games from Arabia and Persia as well as from India and China, including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes the first scholarly account devoted to the history of chess, as well as Asian board games from Arabia, Persia, India, and China, including backgammon, draughts, and dice. Two folding plates illustrate chessboards; further in-text illustrations show the various types of game pieces in Caxton-era England, Turkey, and India. The second and third parts explain the history of dice and many other Chinese games. - Contains numerous texts in Hebrew, Chinese, Arabic, Greek, and other languages. "Ouvrage curieux. Les exemplaires n'en sont pas communs" (Brunet). Hyde was an orientalist and later became Bodleian Librarian. - Binding lightly rubbed at extremities, outer front hinge splitting, small paper library label on lower spine. Paper repair to top right edge of front free endpaper and to reverse of largest folding plate. Interior gently toned, edges of folding plates lightly rubbed, a few inked and penciled notes on front endpapers. Graesse III, 403. Von der Linde I, 88-90. Cordier (Sinica) 3142. Wing H3875 & H3877. ESTC R1348.
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Hyde, Thomas.
Mandragorias, seu historia shahiludii. Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1694.
8vo. 3 parts in one volume. (72), (4), 184, 71, (1), (16), 278 pp. With 12 engravings in the text, 3 folding plates and several woodcuts. Contemporary English calf with red label to gilt spine. All edges red. First edition. Important work dedicated to oriental games from Arabia and Persia as well as from India and China, including backgammon, draughts and dice. Also contains the first scholarly account devoted to the history of chess (pp. 53-137), with two folding plates showing chessboards, engravings of a giraffe, and examples of various types of chessmen (English from the time of Caxton; Turkish; and several kins of Indian specimens). The second part explains, inter alia, the "Promotiones Mandarinorum", the history of dice, and many other Chinese games. Contains numerous texts in Hebrew, Chinese, Arabic, Greek and other languages. Hyde was an orientalist and later became Bodleian Librarian. "Ouvrage curieux. Les exemplaires n'en sont pas communs" (Brunet). - Upper spine-end professionally repaired; inner hinges reinforced. Light browning throughout due to paper. From the library of the chess-player and collector James Wilson Rimington Wilson (1822-77) of Broomhead Hall near Sheffield, with his autograph ownership in ink ("J W Rimington Wilson / Chess Library") to pastedown. Graesse III, 403. Von der Linde I, 88-90. Cordier (Sinica) 3142. Wing H3875 & H3877. ESTC R1348.
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Höcker, Christoph
Golf von Neapel und Kampanien. Dreitausend Jahre Kunst und Kultur im Herzen Süditaliens.
Köln, DuMont, 1999. 21 cm. 360 S., Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. kart. Einband und Seiten leicht gebräunt, Fußschnitt fleckig, kleiner Besitzervermerk auf dem Vorsatz. DuMont Kunst-Reiseführer.
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: 18144BB
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HÜSEYIN TUNCAY.
The golf's adventure from Ottoman to present.
New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In English. 104 p., b/w and color ills. History of golf in Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The golf's adventure from Ottoman to present. The book you are holding is trying to enlighten the adventure of golf in Anatolia which started approximately 118 years ago. The adventure of golf on this land, which started in 1895, is now continuing with searches for fields for new clubs in pursuit of establishing new touristic areas. We can observe that champion golfers passed through this land even a century ago, not even during the time that the Ottoman Empire was shattered by wars did they give up on this sport and that during the modernizing attempts in 1930s and 1950s golf played a significant role. In addition to this, we proved thrugh research that, the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal was a member of a golf club and the Prime Minister Adnan Menderes was the chairman of the Istanbul Golf Club for 3 years and it was even stated in the election manifesto of the Adalet Party, which once was the ruling party, that improving golf was among the goals. During the times when democracy in Turkey was cut up by military coups, Izmir and Ankara golf clubs were shut down and lost their fields, yet nobody expected the same thing to happen to Istanbul Golf Club. However, Istanbul Golf Club also joined the group of clubs that lost its fields. The adventure of Turkish golf, which now is a trademark of Belek, still continues to be problematic þn terms of clubs and struggles to spread in Anatolia. Golf, which is not a sport for the elite but the elite of the sports, will become a discipline practiced and enjoyed by the Turkish people in the future. OTTOMANIA History of sports Gold Republican Turkey Corporate history Istanbul Golf Club Belek Golf
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IACOBUCCI Jeffrey - BACHFEN von ECHT, Marie Hélène -
Guida ai campi da golf delle Alpi. Austria, Francia, Germania, Italia, Iugoslavia, Svizzera.
Milano, Sonzogno, 1990, 4to (cm. 28,5 x 22,5) legatura tutta tela con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori (alcuni piccoli strappi) pp.367 riccamente illustrato da fotografie a colori.
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IACOBUCCI Jeffrey - BACHOFEN von ECHT, Marie Hélène -
Guida ai campi da golf delle Alpi. Austria, Francia, Germania, Italia, Iugoslavia, Svizzera.
Milano, Sonzogno, 1990, 4to (cm. 28,5 x 22,5) legatura tutta tela con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori (alcuni piccoli strappi) pp. 367 riccamente illustrato da schemi e tabelle in nero e da fotografie a colori. Interno perfetto.
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Iacobucci, Jeffrey
Golf in den Alpen
München, Mosaik, 1986. PP, OU, Schuber, 189S, gutes Exemplar,
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: 04255
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Ian T Henderson
Compleat Golfer: An Illustrated History of the Royal and Ancient Game
Trafalgar Square October 1982. Hardcover Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Trafalgar Square hardcover
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: 70795 ISBN : 0575032189 9780575032187
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Ian T. HENDERSON and David I. STIRK
Golf in the Making. Revised Edition. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sean Arnold 1994. 4to. Revised Edition with very numerous plates and illustrations throughout; green cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first complete published history of the evolution of the game. Sean Arnold, hardcover
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Ibn Abi Zar` al-Fasi, `Ali ibn `Abd Allah / Tornberg, Carl Johan.
Annales regum Mauritaniae a condito Idrisidarum imperio ad annum fugae 726. Uppsala, Litteris Academicis, 1843-1846.
Large 4to (230 x 280 mm). 2 parts in 4 volumes. (2), 144, (2) pp. (2), 145-281 pp. 360 pp. (8), XIV, 361-446 pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Arabic text with Latin translation and commentary of this chronicle of mediaeval Moroccan dynasties, including the Idrisids, Zanata, Almoravids, Almohads, and Merinids, by Zar al-Fasi (d. after 726/1326). - Somewhat wrinkled and dust-stained; untrimmed. GAL II, 240f. OCLC 682184610.
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Ibn al-`Awwam, Abu Zakariya Yahyá ibn Muhammad.
Le livre de l'agriculture d'Ibn-al-Awam (Kitab al-Felahah). Traduit de l'Arabe par J.-J. Clément-Mullet. Paris, A. Franck (Albert L. Herold succ.), 1864-1866.
8vo. 2 vols. (instead of 3). Contemporary purple half calf with marbled boards and endpapers. First French edition of Ibn al-‘Awwam's famous "Book of Agriculture", probably written towards the end of the 12th century and regarded as the most comprehensive agricultural treatise in Arabic. The author "gathers all the knowledge of his time concerning agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry into a huge compendium of excerpts from all the previous agronomical traditions and treatises [...] To these he often adds his own observations and experiences [...] He records, for example, his experiments in grafting the wild olive of the mountains with the domesticated olive of the plain, and his successful cultivation of saffron, under irrigation, in the mountains [...] Ibn al-‘Awwam’s treatise comprises 34 chapters dealing with all aspects of husbandry - it mentions 585 different plants, explains the cultivation of more than 50 fruit trees, and includes many valuable observations on soils, manures, grafting, and plant diseases (Sarton 1927-48, II, pp. 424-25). Ibn al-‘Awwam also includes an agricultural calendar, one of the few Andalusi agronomists to do so. The last section of his work is devoted to animal husbandry, with chapters on cattle, sheep, goats, camels, horses, mules and donkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, pigeons, peacocks and beekeeping. As well as being of great value and interest for the study of agricultural history, the Kitab al-filaha has enabled scholars to reconstruct the original texts of some previous authors whose work has only survived in abridged or fragmented form. In addition, the profusion of references, even though sometimes entangled and difficult to unravel, provides the historian with a wealth of information on the transmission of knowledge" (Filaha). - Lacks the second part of vol. 2, not published until 1867; the set thus comprises chapters 1-30 (out of 34). Well preserved. Fück 204. Mennessier de la Lance I, 667. NYPL 184. OCLC 6985613.
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Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.
Kitab Minhaj al-talib li-ta'dil al-kawakib. Northern Africa, [ca. 1490 / 15th century CE].
4to (160 x 202 mm). Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 27 pp. plus 57 pp. of tables, 22 lines per extensum, written in black Maghribi script, emphases and section titles in red; extensive tables at the end. - (Bound with) II: Nour al-Din 'Ali bin Abd al-Qadir al-Fardi al-Hasani. Kitab al-Fawa'id al-jalilah fi fi hall majhulat al-wasila. Near East, 18th century CE. Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 98 pp., 19 lines per extensum, black naskh with emphases in red. - (Bound with) III: Brain manuscript. Near East, 18th century CE. Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 25 pp., 19 lines per extensum, written in black naskh with emphases in red. - All bound together in oriental brown leather with fore-edge flap, a central oval medallion and stamped borders. A collection of three different Arabic treatises bound in one volume, dealing with astronomy, keeping time and mathematics, as well as psychology, written in Northern Africa and Near East. - Bound first is the "Kitab Minhaj al-talib li-ta'dil al-kawakib" by the Marrakesh-born mathematician, astronomer, and Sufi scholar Ibn al-Banna' (also known as Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi, 1251-1321). A long treatise about astronomy, the movements of the planets, and calculating the times of prayer according to location, it was published by Juan Vernet Ginés in 1952. - The "Kitab al-Fawa'id" by the mathematician Nouraddin ‘Ali al-Faradi (d. 870 H / 1465/66 CE) is a commentary on the "Kitab al-wasila fi 'ilm al-hisab" by the Egyptian mathematician Ibn al-Ha'im al-Misri (d. 1412). A copy is stored in the Al-Azhar Library, Cairo (shelfmark 4374). - At the end is a shorter text containing two sections (fasl 4 and fasl 5) excerpted from a treatise on the power of the human brain and how to exercise it. - The treatise of Ibn al-Banna' shows some edge damage from worming and old repairs, otherwise internally quite sound. Binding professionally restored; modern spine and flap hinge. Provenance: from the private collection of the English art dealer Oliver Hoare (1945-2018), who launched the Islamic Art Department at Christie's. I: GAL II, 331, 5. - II: Cf. GAL S II, 1024, 77.
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Ibn al-Hajib.
Kafiyah. [Rome, Typographia Medicea, 1592].
4to. 48 ff., printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary yellow boards with restored calf spine. First edition. "Editio princeps of this popular short syntax of the Arabic language, written in the 13th century. Two centuries later an Oriental printed edition was published in Istanbul (1786), but in the meantime this edition, printed in Arabic (30 point) throughout, could well have passed for a manuscript [...] To some copies a Latin title page was added bearing the legend: 'Grammatica Arabica dicta Caphia auctore filio Alhagiabi'" (Smitskamp). - Composed by the Arabian grammarian Uthman Ibn Umar, known as Ibn al-Hajib (1175-1249), and printed at the Medicean Press, founded in 1584 by Cardinal Ferdinando I de’ Medici and directed by Giambattista Raimondi (1536-1614), an able scholar of Arabic. - Some edge faults (professionally repaired), old repairs to title page, with slight loss to letterpress. A wide-margined copy, generously printed in 13 lines per page. An exceptionally appealing typographical achievement. Edit 16, CNCE 44392. Adams U 102 (both s. v. Uthman). BM-STC Italian 706. GAL I, p. 303. Smitskamp 30. Schnurrer 42.
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Ibn al-Haytham, Abu 'Ali al-Hasan (Alhazen).
[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi. Eiusdem liber de crepusculis & Nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X [...]. (Ed. F. Risner). Basel, Eusebius Episcopius & haeredes Nicolai Episcopii, (August) 1572.
Folio (235 x 338 mm). 2 parts in 1 vol. (6) pp., 1 blank leaf, 288 pp. (8), 474, (2) pp. With 2 different woodcut printer's devices on title-page and colophon, half-page woodcut on reverse of title-page (repeated on half-title of pt. 2), and numerous diagrams in the text. Contemporary full limp vellum binding with later ink spine label (wants ties). First edition of "the most important work of its kind in Arabic literature" (cf. Poggendorf), this copy inscribed by the German humanist Wilhelm Xylander (1532-76), sometime rector of Heidelberg University. - Ibn al-Haytham (965-c. 1040), known as Alhazen in the Western tradition, has been hailed as "the greatest Muslim physicist and one of the greatest students of optics of all times [...] The Latin translation [...] exerted a great influence upon Western science. It showed a great progress in experimental method. [Alhazen's book contains] research in catoptrics, [a] study of atmospheric refraction, [a] better description of the eye, and better understanding of vision [as well as an] attempt to explain binocular vision [and the] earliest use of the camera obscura" (Sarton). "This combined edition served as the standard reference work on optics well into the 17th century, influencing scientists such as Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes" (Norman). - "The Arab physicist Alhazen preserved for us all that was known by the ancients in the field of optics and added some contributions of his own. His book remained a standard authority thru the 1600s. He understood that light emanated spherically from a point and greatly improved on Ptolemy's uncertain rule for refraction which, he showed, held true only for small angles. He covered many cases of reflection and refraction and his explanation of the structure and function of the eye was followed for 600 years" (Dibner). - The 'Liber de crepusculis', the work on dawn and twilight included in Risner's 'Opticae thesaurus' and attributed to Alhazen, is actually the work of his contemporary Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani (cf. Norman; DSB, p. 208). The optical study by the Polish scholar Witelo, likewise here included, is "a massive work that relies extensively on Alhazen [and] offers an analysis of reflection that was not surpassed until the 17th century" (Norman). - Binding stained; edges worn. Interior browned with some waterstaining throughout the margins; occasional edge defects. Inscribed on the title-page by Wilhelm Xylander, professor of Greek and Logic at Heidelberg and editor of numerous translations from Greek (cf. ADB XLIV, 582-593): "Xylandri dono Antonius Roverius Nemausensis possidet" (followed by a Greek dedication and Xylander's signature). The recipient Antonius Roverius (Antoine Rouvier) from Nîmes had matriculated at Heidelberg on 1 July 1572. - Later in the library of the famed microscope builder and collector Alfred Nachet (1831-1908) and his son Albert. - An appealing copy of a principal work of Arabic science as received in the West with important provenance. VD 16, H 693 (H 692, V 1761). Adams A 745. BM-STC 383. Dibner 138. Norman 1027. Honeyman I, 73. DSB VI, 205 & XIV, 461. GAL I, 470. Poggendorf I, 31. Duncan 113. Sarton I, 721. Carmody p. 140. Thorndike/Kibre 803, 1208. Vagnetti D62. BNHCat A 241. IA 103.705. Brunet I, 180. Arabick Roots Doha AR79. Collection Nachet (1929), 50 (this copy).
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Ibn al-Haytham, Abu 'Ali al-Hasan (Alhazen).
[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi. Eiusdem liber de crepusculis & Nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X [...]. (Ed. F. Risner). Basel, Eusebius Episcopius & haeredes Nicolai Episcopii, (August) 1572.
Folio (235 x 328 mm). 2 parts in 1 vol. (6) pp., 1 blank leaf, 288 pp. (8), 474, (2) pp. With 2 different woodcut printer's devices on title-page and colophon, half-page woodcut on reverse of title-page (repeated on half-title of pt. 2), and numerous diagrams in the text. Contemporary full limp vellum binding with later ink spine label (wants ties). First edition of "the most important work of its kind in Arabic literature" (cf. Poggendorf), this copy inscribed by the German humanist Wilhelm Xylander (1532-76), sometime rector of Heidelberg University. - Ibn al-Haytham (965-c. 1040), known as Alhazen in the Western tradition, has been hailed as "the greatest Muslim physicist and one of the greatest students of optics of all times [...] The Latin translation [...] exerted a great influence upon Western science. It showed a great progress in experimental method. [Alhazen's book contains] research in catoptrics, [a] study of atmospheric refraction, [a] better description of the eye, and better understanding of vision [as well as an] attempt to explain binocular vision [and the] earliest use of the camera obscura" (Sarton). "This combined edition served as the standard reference work on optics well into the 17th century, influencing scientists such as Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes" (Norman). - "The Arab physicist Alhazen preserved for us all that was known by the ancients in the field of optics and added some contributions of his own. His book remained a standard authority thru the 1600s. He understood that light emanated spherically from a point and greatly improved on Ptolemy's uncertain rule for refraction which, he showed, held true only for small angles. He covered many cases of reflection and refraction and his explanation of the structure and function of the eye was followed for 600 years" (Dibner). - The 'Liber de crepusculis', the work on dawn and twilight included in Risner's 'Opticae thesaurus' and attributed to Alhazen, is actually the work of his contemporary Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani (cf. Norman; DSB, p. 208). The optical study by the Polish scholar Witelo, likewise here included, is "a massive work that relies extensively on Alhazen [and] offers an analysis of reflection that was not surpassed until the 17th century" (Norman). - An old dampstain throughout, almost entirely confined to the outer and lower margins. Endpapers restored with old material. Upper corner of the title-page shows old blind-stamped rosette device and early calculations done in ink. 20th century bookplate to front pastedown. From the library of the French industrialist and patron Pierre Bergé (1930-2017); acquired from the sale of his estate. VD 16, H 693 (H 692, V 1761). Adams A 745. BM-STC 383. Dibner 138. Norman 1027. Honeyman I, 73. DSB VI, 205 & XIV, 461. GAL I, 470. Poggendorf I, 31. Duncan 113. Sarton I, 721. Carmody p. 140. Thorndike/Kibre 803, 1208. Vagnetti D62. BNHCat A 241. IA 103.705. Brunet I, 180. Arabick Roots Doha AR79. Collection Nachet (1929), 50 (this copy).
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Ibn Al-Kalbi, Hisham.
Le livre des idoles. (Kitab el Asnam.) Texte arabe. 2me edition. Cairo, Imprimerie Bibliothèque Egyptienne, 1924.
Large 4to. (4), IV, 40, 111, (1) pp. With 2 facsimile plates. Original staple-bound printed wrappers (professionally restored). In slipcase. Second edition. "Texte arabe publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique de la biblithèque Zèki Pacha accompagné d'une préface en Francais et enrichi de notes critiques par Ahmed Zeki Pacha." - The "Book of Idols" (Arabic: Kitab al-Asnam), written by the Arab scholar Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi (737-819), describes godheads and rites of ancient Arab religion. The text is critical of pre-Islamic religion and decries the state of religious corruption which the Arabs had supposedly descended to since the founding of the Kaaba. The book was instrumental in identifying "shirk" (the sin of polytheism) with the idolatry of the pre-Islamic Arabs. Ahmad Zaki Pasha, the Egyptian philologist, discovered the text; he bought the sole extant manuscript at auction in Damascus. The manuscript, one of many in his extensive collection, was donated to the state after his death in 1934. - Edge defects to French title page, otherwise insignificant edge wear; a good, untrimmed copy. From the library of the Swedish theologian (Karl Vilhelm) Helmer Ringgren (1917-2012), Professor of Old Testament exegesis at Turku and Uppsala, with his pencilled margin notes and ownership to title page. Ringgren's works include "Islam, Aslama and Muslim" (1949) and "Studies in Arabian Fatalism" (1955). GAL S I, p. 212. OCLC 7012435.
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Ibn al-Nafis al-Qarashi, Ala'addin Abu 'l Hasan Ali / Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
Kitab al-Mujaz fi al-Tibb [A Summary of Medicine]. [Central Asia, probably ca. 1550 CE / mid-16th century CE or later].
Tall 8vo (104 x 220 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished paper. (1), 185, (1) ff. Naskh script in black and occasional red ink, with catchwords and extensive marginal notes in a contemporary hand. 19th century leather, ruled and decoratively stamped in blind. Popular and influential mediaeval Arabic handbook for medical students by the great Damascus anatomist Ibn al-Nafis (1210-88). Long considered a commentary on Avicenna, this is now viewed by scholarship as an original work which also discusses Avicenna's ideas, and thus as "an independent book meant to be a handbook for medical students and practitioners, not as an epitome of Kitab Al-Qanun of Ibn Sina as thought by recent historians" (Abdel-Halim, 2008). One of the author's most widely received works, it provides a useful sum of medical knowledge to aspiring physicians of the mediaeval and early modern periods alike. It was still being copied centuries on from the death of Ibn al-Nafis, who is famous for first describing the pulmonary blood circulation, thereby anticipating by many centuries the efforts of William Harvey. - Not dated by the scribe, but one of the ownership dates on the first leaf is dated Shawwal 1100 AH (July/August 1689 CE), and the date of copying would be estimated around 950 AH, or possibly later. Covers lightly scuffed, interior shows marginal paper repairs and slight trimming to outermost marginal notes. The main text is clean and unmarred. GAL I, 493, 37, 2 & I, 457 (s. v. Ibn Sina). Rabie E. Abdel-Halim, "Contributions of Ibn Al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD) to the Progress of Medicine and Urology. A Study and Translations From his Medical Works", in: Saudi Medical Journal 29.1 (2008), pp. 13-22.
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Ibn al-Nafis al-Qarashi, Ala'addin Abu 'l Hasan Ali / Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
Sharh Qurashi. Tashrih al-ad'a al-murakkabbah min kitab al-Qanun [The Commentary of Qurashi. Anatomy of the Compound Organs from The Canon of Medicine]. Central Asia, [12 Nov. 1674 CE =] 13 Sha'ban 1085 H.
8vo (127 x 214 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished paper. 80 ff. Part 2 (of 2). Black and occasional red ink, with catchwords and a few marginal notes in a contemporary hand. 19th century limp red morocco. Rare and important 17th century manuscript of the most famous work of Ibn al-Nafis (1210-88), written at only twenty-nine years of age. Unlike the author's two other commentaries on Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, the "Sharh Qurashi" is extremely uncommon. The present part includes his most important contributions to medicine and anatomy: in describing the pulmonary blood circulation, he anticipated by many centuries the works of the 17th century scientists Marcello Malpighi and William Harvey. - Ibn al-Nafis "was the first person to challenge the long-held contention of the Galen School that blood could pass through the cardiac interventricular septum, and in keeping with this he believed that all the blood that reached the left ventricle passed through the lung. He also stated that there must be small communications or pores ('manafidh' in Arabic) between the pulmonary artery and vein" (West, 1877). In his commentary, "pulmonary circulation was described, for the first time, in much detail [...] this circulation was not described by Galen, and only Al-Akhawayni had provided some accurate details about it. He contradicted Galen's reports on the presence of a pathway of 'invisible pores' or a visible hole between the right and left cavities, and stated that blood moves to the lung through vena arteriosa (pulmonary arteries). There, it mixes with air and is filtered, then it moves back to the left cavity via the arteria venosa (pulmonary vein)" (Alghamdi, 1001). Many of al-Nafis's statements remain accurate to medical science today, making this work one of the most groundbreaking of its era. - Morocco binding somewhat rubbed and lightly soiled, with a few small closed tears to extremities. A tiny paper flaw in margin of f. 19 and old paper repair to edge of f. 53. Exterior leaves slightly browned and brittle, with some wear and soiling to edges. A well-preserved and highly unusual survival of a major text in the history of medicine during the Islamic Golden Age. GAL I 493, 37, 7. M. Alghamdi et al., "An Untold Story: The Important Contributions of Muslim Scholars for the Understanding of Human Anatomy", The Anatomical Record 300 (2017), pp. 986-1008. J. B. West, "Ibn al-Nafis, the Pulmonary Circulation, and the Islamic Golden Age", in: Journal of Applied Physiology 105 (2008), pp. 1877-1880.
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Ibn al-Wardi, Umar / Hylander, Andreas.
[Alpha kai omega]. Operis cosmographici Ibn El Vardi caput primum, de regionibus et oris. Lund, Carl Gustaf Berling, 1823.
4to. XIII, (1), 310, (40) pp. (thus complete). Modern boards. First edition thus, containing the Arabic text as well as the Latin translation. Based on a series of 39 dissertations inceived by Hylander in 1784, this is only the second European publication in book form of any extract from the great cosmographic treatise "Haridat al-'Aja'ib wa-Faridat al-Ghara'ib" ("The Pearl of Wonders") by the Arab historian Ibn Al-Wardi (1292-1349 CE), a compilation largely based on the works of Najmaddin al-Harrani and Al-Maqdisi's "Bad' al-halq". Arabia is discussed extensively on pp. 176ff. The 40-page index is alphabetized by the Arabic alphabet, from Alif to Ya'. - "Hylander commenca la publication de cet ouvrage en 1784 dans des cahiers separés, dont les 3 premiers (p. 1-32) ne contienent que la traduction latine, les cahiers 4 et suivantes le texte arabe avec la traduction latine. Il en a paru 39 jusqu'en 1809, les cahiers 40-44 contenant les régistres se sont suivis jusqu'en 1823. Le livre 'Alpha kai Omega' contient le texte arabe des trois premiers cahiers et la fin de l'ouvrage" (Graesse). - Light waterstaining in the lower margin; very light worming to upper gutter of a few quires; trimmed farily closely at the lower edge. In all a good copy. GAL II, 131. Graesse III, 406. Brunet III, 397. OCLC 7535239. Cf. Ebert 10444 (32 dissertations only).
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Ibn Batuta & Samuel Lee (editor).
The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work. (Including:) Report of the proceedings of the first general meeting of the subscribers to the Oriental translation fund, with the prospectus, report of the committee and regulations. London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J. L. Cox) and sold by J. Murray, Parbury, Allen & Co. and Howel & Stewart, 1829.
Large 4to (32 x 26). "XVIII" [= XX], (2), 243, (1) pp. With various passages including the original Arabic text. Also with a subscription leaf for the Marquess of Lansdowne ("this copy was printed for the most noble the Marquess of Lansdowne"), printed in black and blue, with wood-engraved illustration, in a cast floral border printed in red. Later half calf. Top edge gilt. First edition of the first substantial English translation of the travel account of Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta (1304-68/69), known in the West as the Arabian Marco Polo, with extensive footnotes. "While on a pilgrimage to Mecca he made a decision to extend his travels throughout the whole of the Islamic world. Possibly the most remarkable of the Arab travellers, he is estimated to have covered 75,000 miles in forty years" (Howgego). His journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. - The account, known as the Rihla, is esteemed for its lively descriptions of his travels, giving notable information on the history, geography and botany of the countries and cities Ibn Batuta visited. He describes, for example, the city of Aden as follows: "From this place I went to the city of Aden, which is situated on the sea-shore. This is a large city, but without either seed, water, or tree. They have, however, reservoirs, in which they collect the rain-water for drinking. Some rich merchants reside here: and vessels from India occasionally arrive here. The inhabitants are modest and religious" (p. 55). - Endpapers, half-title and subscription leaf foxed, some spots on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy, only slightly trimmed leaving generous margins. Binding very good as well. Howgego, to 1800, B47.
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Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.).
The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work. (Including:) Report of the proceedings of the first general meeting of the subscribers to the Oriental translation fund, with the prospectus, report of the committee and regulations. London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J. L. Cox) and sold by J. Murray, Parbury, Allen & Co. and Howel & Stewart, 1829.
Large 4to (32 x 26 cm). "XVIII" [= XX], (2), 243, (1) pp. With various passages including the original Arabic text. Modern half morocco. First edition of the first substantial English translation of the travel account of Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta (1304-68/69), known in the West as the Arabian Marco Polo, with extensive footnotes. "While on a pilgrimage to Mecca he made a decision to extend his travels throughout the whole of the Islamic world. Possibly the most remarkable of the Arab travellers, he is estimated to have covered 75,000 miles in forty years" (Howgego). His journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. - The account known as the Rihla, is esteemed for its lively descriptions of his travels, giving notable information on the history, geography and botany of the countries and cities Ibn Batuta visited. He describes, for example, the city of Aden as follows: "From this place I went to the city of Aden, which is situated on the sea-shore. This is a large city, but without either seed, water, or tree. They have, however, reservoirs, in which they collect the rain-water for drinking. Some rich merchants reside here: and vessels from India occasionally arrive here. The inhabitants are modest and religious" (p. 55). - A very good copy, binding very good as well. Howgego, to 1800, B47.
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Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari, Ahmad ibn Yahyá.
Condizioni degli stati cristiani dell'Occidente secondo una relazione di Domenichino Doria da Genova. Testo arabo con versione italiana e note di M. Amari. Rome, Salviucci, 1883.
Folio (225 x 300 mm). 23, (1), 15, (1), 3, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Separately paginated offprint from the proceedings of the Royal Academy dei Lincei. The Damascus-based scholar Abu'l-`Abbas Ahmad bin Yahyá bin Fadlallah al-`Omari (1301-49) is famous for his 27-volume encyclopedia of geography, history and biography, from which is taken this essay on the Christian occident as seen through the eyes of a Mediaeval Muslim ("R. tastamil `ala kalam gumli fi amr masahir mamalik al-Fireng [...]"). - Wrappers stained, edges chipped. Uncut, untrimmed copy. GAL S II, p. 176. OCLC 7089983. Reale accademia dei Lincei (anno CCLXXX 1882-83), Serie 3a, Memorie della Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filolgiche, vol. XI.
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Ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi al-Wa'iz, 'Izzadin 'Abdassalam ibn Ahmad.
Kashf al-asrar 'an il-hikam al-muda'a fi t-tuyur wal-azhar (The secrets of the realm of the birds and flowers revealed). [Probably Morocco], [1878/79 CE =] 1296 H.
4to (180 x 225 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper. 47 pp. 23-25 lines, per extensum, in black and occasional red and yellow ink. Bound in modern blue cloth with marbled covers. A mystical contemplation of animate and inanimate creatures, in particular of birds and flowers, whose various qualities proclaim the existence and wisdom of their creator. A popular and much-copied work by the Muslim mystic Ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi (d. 678 H/1279 CE?). A French translation was published in Paris in 1821; an edition of the Arabic text appeared in Cairo in 1280 H. - Written in an elegant northern African, very probably Moroccan calligraphy. A few edge flaws due to brittleness of paper, but on the whole well preserved. Cf. GAL I, 451 & II, 808f.
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Ibn Khaldun.
Muqaddimat Ibn Khaldun. Al-juz' al-awwal min Kitab al-'ibar wa-diwan al-mubtada' wa-al-khabar fi ayyam al-'Arab al-'Ajam wa-al-Barbar wa-man 'asarahum min dhawi al-sultan al-akbar wa-huwa tarikh wahid 'asruh. Beirut, al-Matba'h al-Adabiyah, 1900.
8vo (162 x 239 mm). 588 pp. Contemporary blindstamped blue cloth. Third Beirut edition of Ibn Khaldun's famous "Muqaddimat fi'l tarikh" (Prolegomena to History). "Ibn Khaldun's title to enduring fame [...] is bound up with that remarkable product of his pen, the Prolegomena to History. Here his genius reveals itself in its full splendor. Here he scatters with lavish hands the ripe fruits of his reflection on the course of human history. Hammer-Purgstall hailed him as an Oriental Montesquieu [...] He was indeed the first to describe comprehensively the state of the various sciences in the Muslim world: the arts, the trades, the commerce, the means of obtaining a living; the forms of government and the administration of justice and public affairs; every important aspect of the social life known to him" (Schmidt, p. 14). The Beirut edition, first issued in 1879, was the first produced by Arabic scholars; previously, the text had been published only by Etienne Quatremère (Paris 1858). - Binding a little rubbed; extremeties bumped. Front flyleaf loose; final leaves a little stained with light edge flaws, but a complete, sound copy. Schmidt, Ibn Khaldun, p. 56. OCLC 993710073.
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Ibn Miqlash al-Wahrani, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad.
Sharh Muqaddamah al-Ajurrumiyah [Commentary on the Al-Muqaddima al-Ajurrumiya of al-Sanhaji]. Northern Africa, [15 Feb. 1729 CE =] 16 Rajab 1141 H.
4to (156 x 225 mm). Arabic manuscript on strong laid paper. 154 pp, 24 lines per extensum, calligraphy in beautiful and fine Maghribi in brown ink, titles in yellow, emphases words are in yellow, red, or green. Bound in late 19th century marbled boards with cloth spine. Uncommon commentary by Ibn Miqlash al-Wahrani on a versification of the "Ajurrumiya", the famously popular outline of Arabic grammar written by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Da'ud as-Sanhaji Ibn Ajurrum (d. 723 H / 1323 CE in Safar). A Northern African manuscript from the early 18th century CE, colophon signed by the scribe Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ramadan ibn Isma'il al-Hariri and dated 16 Rajab 1141 AH, "at the time of the noon prayer". - Numerous marginal annotations; modern pencil pagination. Binding rubbed, old stamp to front endpaper, otherwise well preserved. Cf. GAL II, 237ff.
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) / Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-‘Ala' Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar).
Abhomeron Abynzohar. Colliget Auerroys. [Venice, Gregorius de Gregoriis], 20 Sept. 1514.
Folio (213 x 310 mm). (1), 108 pp. Contemporary carta rustica binding. The "al-Taysir" ("Theysir") of Ibn Zuhr, and the "al-Kulliyyat" ("Colliget") of Ibn Rushd, here edited by Hieronymus Surianus. This is the fourth edition in all, the first having appeared in Venice in 1490. Printed by the press of Gregorius de Gregoriis, which in the same year had produced the first book entirely printed in Arabic, the famous Fano Book of Hours. - The "Taysir" and the "Kulliyyat" were composed as complements to a comprehensive medical work on the anatomy of organs, health, disease, clinical symptoms, drugs and food, hygiene and therapeutics. Ibn Rushd, not himself a practicing physician, wrote on the generalities of medicine and invited Ibn Zuhr, one of the pre-eminent clinicians and medical therapists of Moorish Spain, to write on the particulars. The resulting book was Ibn Zuhr's most important work, and it was highly influential in the West until the Renaissance. - "Although a true follower of Hippocrates and Galen, [Ibn Zuhr] developed numerous original ideas through his medical experimentation and observation. [He] wrote on the therapeutic value of good diets and on antidotes against poisons, and cautioned against deliberate uses of purgatives in treating the sick, who needed curing medications, not 'poisons' [...] He also recommended tracheotomy" (DSB XIV, 637f.). - Provenance: Hand-drawn armorial shield, "Maureni" (?), Verona, 1656. A clean, appealing copy with insignificant worm damage to binding, affecting the margin of the first two and the last two leaves (professionally repaired; no loss to text). No copy in trade records. BM-STC Italian 2. Durling 368 (imperfect). Waller 563. OCLC 978244354. Not in Adams or Wellcome.
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Ibn Saiyid an-Nas / Kosegarten, Johann Gottfried Ludwig.
Carminum orientalium triga. Arabicum Mohammedis ebn seid-ennas Iaameritae Persicum Nisami Kendschewi Turcicum Emri. Stralsund, Carl Löffler, 1815.
8vo. 144 pp. Contemp. marbled boards. All edges sprinkled in red. Only issue of this edition of the text, with commentary, Latin translation and a loose German version of an Arabic poem by Ibn Saiyid an-Nas, a Persian one by Nizami, and a Turkish one by Emri. Following his dissertation, this was the first great scholarly publication by Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (1792-1860), who later assisted Goethe with his "Diwan". In 1817 he was made professor of oriental languages at Jena. - Some browning due to paper; inscribed to a "Dr. Vermehren" (dated 1816) on front pastedown. Although the print shop used by the publisher was equipped with Arabic, Persian and Greek types, no types were available for the passages in Sanskrit and Armenian: these few words, on p. 48-49, had to be supplied in manuscript (possibly by the author himself?). GAL II, p. 85. Brunet VI, 15940. Graesse IV, 45. Goedeke XVI, 605, 1 & XVII, 749, 1. Hamberger/Meusel XVIII, 420.
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Ibn Sidah, Abu l-Hasan `Ali.
Kitab al-Mukhassas. Bulaq, Al-Matba al-Kubra al-Amiriya, 1898-1903.
4to. 17 parts in 5 vols. Contemp. half calf. Principal work of Ibn Sîdah (1007-1066), the great blind Andalusian lexicographer: the most important Arabic encyclopedia and dictionary. Lemmas are arranged in groups based on different classes of words. Two manuscripts are preserved: one in Cairo (dated 1202) and one in the Escorial. - Occasional edge wear; some browning and brownstaining. A good copy. GAL I, p. 308. EI II, 445. OCLC 20111625.
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