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Kumar, S. Vinaya; et al
Jetwings, January 2004: Monthly Magazine of Jet Airways
216 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: The Mundanthurai sanctuaryis Tamil Nadu's haven for wildlife enthusiasts; The Unknown Lucknow; Bharatpur's Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary; Devil Rays off the coast of the Maldives; Nagpur and Indian aviation achievements; Suits that make the man; Jijoy Chowdhury's evocative images of a winter morning in Kolkata; Kurukshetra is steeped in mythological grandeur; Sakinalu packs a punch for the Telegus; Sri Lanka's capital; Bentota Beach; Sigiriya Rock; Buddhist art; Sri Lankan cuisine; Tea and golf in Nuwara Eliya's green hills; Baila; Sri Lankan writers; Tamilian tales; Geoffrey Bawa's architectural style; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Kunos, Ignaz (ed.).
Türkische Volksmärchen aus Stambul. Leiden, Brill, (1905).
8vo. XXXII, 410 pp. Original half cloth with giltstamped spine title. All edges marbled. First edition of this collection of Ottoman fairy tales, translated and with an introduction by the Hungarian linguist, turkologist, and folklorist Ignác Kúnos (1860-1945).- Binding somewhat bumped at extremeties, inner hinges and first flyleaf cracked.
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Kuntz, Rudolf.
Abbildungen Königlich Württembergischer Gestütts Pferde von orientalischen Racen. Stuttgart, [Ebner], 1823-1824.
Oblong folio (550 x 635 mm). Issues I and II (of 3). With 12 (out of 18) tinted chalk lithographs by L. Ekeman-Allesson after R. Kuntz. Wants text and table of subscribers. Stored loosely in 2 original wrappers with title label and green original half calf portfolio with gilt-lettered title and borders. Traces of ties. First and only edition. Commissioned by the Board of the Württemberg Stud, the first Arabian stud in Europe, this almost unobtainable series of large format plates shows the Stud's full-blooded Arabian horses with decorative oriental backgrounds. The plates constitute extremely early examples of chalk lithographs (listed individually by Winkler, Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie, 180, 57). Kuntz (1797-1848) was known for his "excellent depictions of horses" (cf. Thieme/B.); throughout his brief career he studied thoroughbreds in England, Hungary, and Paris as well as in Germany. In 1832 he became Painter to the Court of Karlsruhe, Baden; he suffered a stroke in 1846 and died in the newly-founded Illenau mental hospital. - Very slightly stained in places, three plates slightly browned. Of the utmost rarity. This copy removed from the collection of the House of Hanover, dispersed from 2005 (largely through Sotheby's). Includes a publisher's ad (by L. Harrison, Strand) for "A Series of Lithographic Drawings of Celebrated Horses" after James Ward, dedicated to George IV. Nissen 2327. Thieme/B. X, 444 & XXII, 116. Winkler, Die Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie 180.57.
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Kuntz, Rudolf.
Abbildungen Königlich Württembergischer Gestütts Pferde von orientalischen Racen. Stuttgart, Ebner, 1823-1824.
Oblong folio. With 18 tinted chalk lithographs by L. Ekeman-Allesson after R. Kuntz. With lith. title, lith. dedication and 3 ff. of letterpress text. Stored in a modern half morocco leather case. First and only edition. Commissioned by the Board of the Württemberg Stud, the first Arabian stud in Europe, this almost unobtainable series of large format plates shows the Stud's full-blooded Arabian horses with decorative oriental backgrounds. The plates constitute extremely early examples of chalk lithographs (listed individually by Winkler, Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie, 180, 57). Kuntz (1797-1848) was known for his "excellent depictions of horses" (cf. Thieme/B.); throughout his brief career he studied thoroughbreds in England, Hungary, and Paris as well as in Germany. In 1832 he became Painter to the Court of Karlsruhe, Baden; he suffered a stroke in 1846 and died in the newly-founded Illenau mental hospital. - Of the utmost rarity, no copy of the complete series with all three issues as present here traceable in auction records. Nissen 2327. Thieme/B. X, 444 & XXII, 116. Winkler, Die Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie 180.57.
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Kuntz, Rudolf.
Abbildungen saemmtlicher Pferde-Racen, nach dem Leben gezeichnet, lithographirt und herausgegeben von Rudolph Kuntz mit naturhistorischer Beschreibung von E. d'Alton. 1. bis 4. Lieferung [= all published]. Stuttgart, Georg Ebner'sche Kunsthandlung, [1827-1832].
Oblong royal folio (536 x 445 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved dedication to Ludwig Wilhelm August, Grand Duke of Baden, (4), XX pp. of letterpress text, 25 plates (= 24 lithogr. plates of horse portraits and 1 anatomical plate). Contemporary half calf with handwritten cover label; publisher's original illustrated lithogr. wrappers bound within. First edition, self-published by the author in Karlsruhe, with Ebner's Stuttgart address pasted on the wrapper's upper cover. All that was published of this splendid and rare work about the principal breeds of horses, issued in what must have been a very small press run by Kuntz (1797-1848), Painter to the Court of Karlsruhe, Baden, who is also known for drawing the full-blooded Arabian horses of the Royal Württemberg Stud, the first Arabian stud in Europe. For the present work Kuntz made extensive travels in Hungary, London and Paris to draw his exquisite portraits of Arabian, Persian, Egyptian, Nubian, English and many other thoroughbred horses from life. - Binding professionally repaired at the edges. Interior somewhat foxed and fingerstained. From the officers' library of the Württembergian Uhlan (light cavalry) regiment no. 19. Nissen, ZBI 2328. Thieme/Becker XXII, 116. Wells 4313. Graesse I, 87.
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Kurpershoek, Paul Marcel.
Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia. 1. The poetry of ad-Dindân a Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. 2. The Story of a Desert Knight. The Legend of Sçwîh al-'Atâwi & Other 'Utaybah Heroes. 3. Bedouin Poets of the Dawâsir Tribe Between Nomadism & Settlement in Southern Najd. Leiden, New York, Cologne, Brill, 1994-1999.
Large 8vo. 3 volumes. XVII, (5), 368, (4) pp. XIV, (4), 512, (2) pp. XX, 506, (4) pp. With 2 portraits as frontispieces in vols. 1 and 2. 16 pages with illustrations and 2 maps at the end of vols. 2 and 3. Red cloth with title information in gold on front cover and spine of all 3 vols. All 3 vols. have a dust jacket. Outstanding research on the oral traditions of the Bedouins in central Arabia, divided into 3 volumes containing information on the poetry and narratives of various Bedouin tribes and an analysis and translation of various poems and stories. Kurpershoek has recorded, transcribed and translated all poetry and narratives he discusses in this work. - Since its first publication in 1994-99, this trilogy has been expanded with two additional volumes: vol. 4, published in 2002, deals with Saudi tribal history, while vol. 5 (2005) looks back on almost 20 years of research on and involvement with Arabian oral culture. - The Dutch scholar, author and diplomat P. M. Kurpershoek specialises in Arab studies. Kurpershoek studied Arabic language and culture at the Universities of Leiden and Cairo; since 1974 he has worked for the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs, the UN and NATO. As a professor of languages and cultures of the Islamic Middle East at the University of Leiden, he has performed research on the Bedouins of Saudi Arabia. From 2002 until 2013 he served successively as Dutch ambassador to Pakistan, Turkey, and Poland. Subsequently, from August 2013 until December 2014 he served as envoy to Syria. - Spines of the dust jackets of vols. 1 and 2 are slightly discoloured, otherwise in very good condition.
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Kusnetz Marc/Arkin William M. /Meigs Montgomery/Shapiro Neal/Brokaw Tom foreword and DVD narration
Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Insider Story
Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2003. 1st printing. Fine/Fine dust jacket. xviii 238 p. color photos DVD in sleeve roster of KIA 4to; Andrews McMeel Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 71137 ISBN : 0740740598 9780740740596
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Kölbing, Alexander
Richtig gutes Golf : mehr wissen, besser spielen ; komplexe Technik, einfach erklärt. 4., neu bearb. Aufl., (Neuausg.)
München : blv, 2010. 247 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ; 27 cm OPappband, Bibliotheksexemplar
Bookseller reference : 149127
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L'Isle, Guillaume de / Buache, Philippe.
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie &c. Paris, Philippe Buache, 1745.
Hand-coloured engraved map (635 x 505 mm). A fine example of Philippe Buache's edition of Guillaume de l'Isles highly detailed map of the region centered on the Red Sea. The map extends west to include Sicily, the Southeastern Mediterreanean, Barbaria, Nigritie, and a Guinea on the West Coast of Africa. To the east, the map includes the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf of Aden and the Kingdom of Ajan and Dadel. De l'Isle's maps provided the first truly scientific mapping of the regions covered, showing the flamboyant Dutch style of illustrations and adopting a highly detailed and decorative approach to the printed map. The result is a combination of spectacular detail and accuracy, not approached by the Dutch or any other 17th Century map makers. The detail in this map reflects this Renaissance of style and accuracy. Tibbetts 199. Cf. Al-Qasimi 268 (1707 ed.).
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L'Isle, Guillaume de.
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie &c. Amsterdam, Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, (1730).
Hand-coloured engraved map (645 x 540 mm). Guillaume de l'Isle used the three classic divisions in this map, but it also contains other divisions and subdivisions based on geographical and political considerations. - Well preserved. Tibbetts 199. Cf. Al-Qasimi 268 (Paris ed. 1707).
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La Boullaye-Le-Gouz, François de.
Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye-le-Gouz gentil-homme Angevin, où sont décrites les religions, gouvernemens, & situations de estats & royaumes d'Italie, Grece, Natolie, Syrie, Palestine, Karamenie, Kaldée, Assyrie, grand Mogol, Bijapour, Indes orientales des Portugais, Arabie, Egypte, Hollande, grande Bretagne, Irlande, Dannemark, Pologne, isles & autres lieux d'Europe, Asie & Affrique, où il a séjourné, le tout enrichy de figures. Paris, François Clousier, 1653.
4to. (16), 540, (10), (2 blank) pp. With a woodcut and an engraved author's portrait, 34 woodcut illustrations in text, including several full-page, and some woodcut initals, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. Rare first edition of a travelogue by the French explorer, merchant and diplomat François de la Boullaye-Le Gouz (ca. 1610-69). The largest part of the book deals with his travels through the Middle East and India, while a smaller parts treats Le Gouz's travels through Europe. In 1643 he travelled the Middle East under the name Ibrahim Beg, visiting Syria, Palestine, Persia, Egypt, Anatolia and Armenia. "Like so many European travellers in the east he adopted oriental clothes and an oriental name ... Unlike most European travellers to the east, however, La Boullaye-Le Gouz continued to wear his Persian clothes in his return to France and was consequently regarded as something of a curio" (Hamilton). A few years later he was sent by the French king with an embassy to the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan, where he met and became great friends with the Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660). - La Boullaye-Le Gouz describes the routes he takes, the cities he visits and the people he meets along the way, with frequent observations on religion, natural history and commerce. The illustrations show various Indian deities, some city views or buildings, Indian and Eastern costumes, plants and trees. Pages 243-255 deal with plants, fruits and trees in India, including several palm trees, a fig tree, a jack tree and a melon tree. "The work is notable for its information on northern India and its relations to Persia, and for its inclusion of a summary of the Ramayana" (Howgego). - In Europe, Le Gouz travelled Italy, Greece, Poland, England, Ireland, Germany, and the Netherlands. In his later years he travelled again to Persia and died in Isfahan probably in 1669, whereafter the Shah ordered a splendid funeral to be held. Included at the end of the book is a list of names of the people La Boullaye-Le Gouz met, sorted by country; a list of uncommon words, and a table of contents. A second, enlarged edition was published in 1657 at Troyes. - Binding rubbed, restored and front hinge partly cracked. Occasional small (water) stains, otherwise in very good condition internally. Atabey 645. Hage-Chahine 2526. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 22. Howgego, to 1800, L4. Slot, The Arabs of the Gulf 1602-1784, p. 410. WorldCat (5 copies). Not in Blackmer.
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La Chappelle, George de.
Recuel [!] de divers portraits des principales dames de la Porte du Grand Turc. Tirée au naturel sur les lieux. Paris, Antoine Estienne / chez le Blond, 1648.
Folio (235 x 335 mm). Engraved title, 3 pp. of dedication, 1 leaf (Privilege du Roy), 12 leaves of text interleaved with 12 engraved plates, woodcut headpieces and initials. The plates, probably by Noel (not Nicolas) Cochin after La Chapelle, show costumes against a scenic background. Contemporary full vellum. First edition, very rare. Georges de la Chappelle, a native of Caen, accompanied the French envoy Le Haye to the Porte and spent several years in the Levant. His work is known to us almost exclusively through these engravings, showing what Thieme/Becker described as "the prettiest ladies in the Imperial Seraglio". In the introductory text included in this first edition, La Chappelle explains that the series was occasioned by a recent French edition of Chalcocondyles, in which (as he complains) the women's costumes were very poorly drawn. La Chappelle clearly had a special interest in female costume: "his own representations are highly detailed, with special attention paid to the fabulous jewels and fine needlework that adorn the garments of Levantine costume. (According to the preface, the accuracy of his drawings could be attested by Le Haye [...], in whose presence the drawings were executed.) To add verisimilitude to the plates, examples of Turkish, Persian, Tartar, Armenian and Greek costume are depicted against topographical backgrounds showing the areas in and around Constantinople in which the models were most likely to reside" (Atabey). Curiously, several of these backgrounds, when placed side by side, form a near-consecutive panorama of Constantinople and its environs. - Occasional light brownstains; wants front flyleaf. Vellum slightly stained and wrinkled; lower cover shows traces of old calculations. An attractive copy in a strictly contemporary binding. Atabey 648. Colas 1697. Thieme/Becker VI, 378f. Cf. Blackmer 935 (2nd edition). Not in Lipperheide or Cohen/de Ricci.
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La Croix, Sieur de.
Etat general de l'Empire Otoman, depuis sa fondation jusqu'a present. Et l'abregé des vies des empereurs. Paris, Pierre Herissant, 1695.
4 vols. (24), 484, (28) pp. (4), 470, (18) pp. (4), 599, (1), 89 (1) pp. (40), 411, (5) pp. With a total of 2 engr. frontispieces (in vols. 1 and 4). Original French calf with giltstamped spine. Encompassing study of the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th century, at a time when its power in Europe was waning, but it remained a force to be reckoned with. Rare, especially when including the 4th volume ("Suite de l'Etat general de l'Empire otoman [...] Quatrieme tome") which contains accounts of the state of the Greek, Armenian and Maronite churches in the Ottoman Empire. "According to the Gennadius Library, this was translated by Petis de la Croix and edited by La Croix. In fact the privilege is ceded to La Croix, former secretary of the French embassy at Constantinople. It seems likely that there must be a family connection between the two, although the original family of Petis de la Croix was Petis, not La Croix" (Atabey). - Binding slightly rubbed, but on the whole in good condition. The Atabey copy (3 volumes only) commanded £15,000 at Sotheby's in 2002 (lot 646). Atabey 651. OCLC 470426837. Not in Blackmer or Cobham-Jeffrey.
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La Croze, [Mathurin] V[eyssière de].
Histoire du christianisme des Indes. Den Haag, freres Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1724.
8vo. (16), 570, (54) pp. Title printed in red and black. With engr. frontispiece, engr. title vignette, 1 folding engr. map, and 3 engr. plates. Contemporary brown full calf with richly gilt spine in six compartments. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. First edition of this missionary history of India, based not only on the works of Goueva, Geddes, Bernier, and Tavernier, but also on the manuscripts of Ziegenbalg, whose Danish mission is described on pp. 536-566. Includes an account of the trial and execution of a King of Ormuz for sodomy, "un peché infame fort connu à Rome aussi-bien qu'en Orient" (p. 340), and a defence of Islam against the common charge of being a religion established and maintained through war and violence (p. 525). The author "questions the logic of corrupt Portuguese authority over good Indians; religion is merely a pretext for European domination, it would be more appropriate for the Indian subjects to give religious instruction to their European rulers" (Teltscher). The plates show the Hindu godheads Brahma, Ishvara (Shiva), and Vishnu. - Binding slightly rubbed; hinges weakened. Occasional slight foxing. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). OCLC 18426305. Cf. K. Teltscher, India described. European and British writing on India 1600-1800 (Delhi, OUP, 1995), pp. 89f. & 100f.
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La Fontaine, Jean de.
[Amtal Lafuntin al-hakim]. Choix de fables tirées de Lafontaine et écrites en arabe vulgaire par messieurs P[rudent-Marie-Auguste] Vignard et A[uguste] Martin. Constantine, Abadie, 1854.
8vo. (2), 45, (1); (8), III, (1), 95, (1) pp. With a folding table. Original printed wrappers. Thirty of Lafontaine's Fables in Arabic: the first Arabic translation of this famous work, an extremely rare Algerian-printed publication issued for instruction in the Arabic language together with a collection of French-Arabic dialogues. - Wrappers a little stained; a few ink and pencil corrections to the preface. An untrimmed, wide-margined copy. Only two copies in library catalogues internationally (Bibliothèque nationale de France and Leiden University). OCLC 776989551.
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La Mottraye, Aubry de.
Voyages en Europe, Asie & Afrique. Den Haag, Johnson & van Duren, 1727.
Folio (200 x 315 mm). 2 vols. (14), 472, 23 pp. (6), 496, 39 pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces, 2 engr. title vignettes, 47 engr. plates (some folding) after Hogarth, Picard and others, and 4 folding engr. maps. Modern half calf. First edition in French. "This important work describes La Mottraye’s travels over a 26-year period which took him through Northern Europe to Tartary and the Levant. The plates are of particular interest and include many signed by Hogarth which form part of his early work. They illustrate antiquities, objets d’art, and scenes of the eastern life. Especially interesting is a plate showing a dance at a Greek wedding, with each member of the party dressed in a different costume" (Blackmer). Chapter XII of vol. 1 discusses the Quran, and the Appendix contains extracts from a manuscript on the Muslim faith as well as a section on the Islamic calendar. "Aubry de la Mottraye, a Huguenot, travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Africa during the years 1696 to 1729, beginning in Scandinavia, where he became a confidant of Charles XII. He then went on to Tartary and the Levant. The work contains several notable costume plates, particularly relating to the Levant, some of which may have been inspired by Ferriol and Le Hay's 'Recueil de cent estamped représentant différentes nations du Levant' (1714)" (Atabey). - Occasional edge defects, repaired. Slight brownstaining. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 946. Weber II, 443. Röhricht (Palästina), p. 287. Tobler 116. Chatzipanagioti-S. 504. Hage Chahine 2602. Lipperheide Cl 6. Graesse IV, 90.
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Labid / Al-Chalidi, Yusuf Dija-ad-din (Hrsg.).
Der Divan des Lebid. Nach einer Handschrift zum ersten Male herausgegeben [...]. Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1880.
(2), 152 SS. Bedr. blaue Originalbroschur. 8vo. Sehr seltene persische Textausgabe des Diwans des Dichters Labid. Yusuf Diya (1829-1906), der acht Monate lang an der Wiener Orientalischen Akademie Arabisch gelehrt hatte, war Abgeordneter des türkischen Parlaments in Konstantinopel und 1870-76 sowie 1878-79 Bürgermeister von Jerusalem. - Minimal stockfleckig. Unbeschnittenes, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. Nur zwei Exemplare nachweisbar: Dänische Königliche Bibliothek sowie Nationalbibliothek Strasbourg. OCLC 475092069.
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Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houton de.
Relation du voyage a la recherche de la Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ère. et la 2de. année de la République Françoise. (Including:) Atlas pour servir à la Relation du voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse [...]. Paris, H. J. Jansen, an VIII [= 1799/1800].
3 vols. 4to (2 text volumes) and folio (atlas). XVI, 442 pp. 332, 113, (1) pp. Atlas with engr. title page, large folding map (590 x 865 mm) and 43 full-page engr. plates (numbered 2-44), including 14 botanical plates drawn or completed by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Modern mottled half calf, each spine with gold decorated rules and 2 green sheepskin labels, decorated paper sides ("schrottel"/sprinkled pattern over a paste wash), text volumes with sprinkled edges. First edition of Labillardière's famous and finely illustrated narrative, a classic work of travel literature. The mysterious disappearance of the great French explorer Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse led to much speculation in France. On 9 Feb. 1791 the Constituent Assembly passed a decree ordering, among other things, that the King be petitioned to order the fitting out of one or more ships equipped with naturalists, scientists and draughtsmen, with the twofold mission of searching for M. de la Pérouse and of making inquiries relative to the sciences and to commerce. Two ships, La Recherche under the command of Rear-Admiral D'Entrecasteaux and L'Espérence under the command of Captain Kermadec, were fitted out. Proceeding via the Cape of Good Hope to Tasmania, they made extensive investigations of its coastline. They also visited New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga, New Britain and other groups, making extensive inquiries, but found no trace of the missing navigator (cf. Ferguson). The voyage, however, yielded a vast amount of new and valuable information on Australia's natural history and the aboriginal people of Tasmania. - Plates include views of the Admiralty Islands, Tasmania, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tonga and impressive portraits of their inhabitants, while other plates show ethnographical objects, birds and plants. Most plates were engraved by Copia or Perée after Piron. The botanical plates were engraved after drawings by the celebrated Belgian botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redouté (10 plates) and after Piron, completed by Redouté (4 plates). Three of the four ornithological plates were engraved after Jean Baptiste Audebert. - In the same year Janssen also published an 8vo edition, followed by several editions in French, German and English. In 1826 some materials from La Pérouse's ships were traced back to the island Vanikoro, and a 1964 expedition identified the remains of one of his ships there. Further investigations concluded that both both ships were wrecked there and that most of the men who survived the wreck were killed by natives. A few eventually left the island, but their fate remains unknown. - Each text volume has the library stamp of the British Admiralty Office on the title and final page, those on the title pages with cancellation stamp. Plates mounted on new stubs, a few plates slightly frayed along the edges, some mostly marginal foxing and occasionally other spots or smudges, more serious in the title pages and half-titles, otherwise in very good condition. Nissen, ZBI 2331. Ferguson 307. Hocken, New Zealand, 28f. Kroepelien 697. Sabin 38420. Stafleu/C. 4070. Cf. Hill 178 (8vo ed.). Not in Catalogue of Redoutéana.
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Laborde, Léon [Emmanuel Simon Joseph] de.
Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée. Paris, Giard, 1830.
Imperial folio (420 x 596 mm). (8), 87, (1) pp. With large lithographed title vignette and coat of arms of Wilhelm II on dedication leaf. 69 lithographed plates, maps and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, mostly mounted on India paper (3 of which folding or double-page and 1 coloured). Period-style half calf with gilt title to spine. First edition of "an important work" (Blackmer), complete with all the magnificent views in large folio format. All subsequent editions, including the English one, were published in octavo and retained only a few plates of the original edition, all in considerably reduced format. Laborde made the journey to Petra with the engineer Linant de Bellefonds in 1828, travelling from Suez via St. Catherine's and through Wadi al-Araba to Akabah. Although Burckhardt, Irby and Mangles had explored Petra before Laborde, he was the first to make detailed drawings of the area. Dedicated to the Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse (1777-1847). - Slight browning and foxing, occasional waterstaining and tears to folds; a small tear in the map repaired, but in all a good, wide-margined copy. Rare: the last complete copy came up for auction in 2009 (Christie's, 3 June, lot 120: £23,750). Blackmer 929. Gay 929. Henze III, 101. Brunet III, 714. Vicaire IV, 758f. Nissen ZBI, 2335. Not in Atabey. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1386 (2nd ed. only). Howgego 335, L2 (1830-33 ed.).
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Laborde, Léon de, French archaeologist (1807-1869).
Five autograph letters signed (two "Léon de Laborde" and three "Cte de Laborde"). No place, 1858, 1861, 1865 and undated.
Altogether 4 ½ pp. on 6 ff. Various 8vo formats. Three on letterheads of the Cabinet du Directeur Général des Archives de l'Empire Paris. Three addressed to "Monsieur", one to "Monsieur et cher Collègue", and one to "mon cher Monsieur". I: Apologising for "la nullité de ce volume. Le temps, mon zèle et surtout vos encouragements m'aideront à accomplir ma tâche" (29 April 1839, 8 lines). - II: "Je voudrais avoir le temps, monsieur, de faire des articles pour la revue du centre, mais au milieu des richesses, dont on m'a confié la garde, je souffre le supplice de Tantale en me consacrant uniquement à faciliter les travaux des autres". Sends a message to be passed on to "Mr D'auvergne"' (23 February 1858, 15 lines). - III: Concerning "la correspondence relative à la vente du cabinet de Mr de Julienne" (25 May 1861, 8 lines). - IV: He is too busy to undertake any enterprise "en dehors de mes travaux commencés, mais je viendrai à la fin de l'année réclamer la place que vous m'offrez dans votre journal" (1 September 1865, 8 lines). - V: Thanks the recipient for the information relating to letters by Napoleon Bonaparte in the British Museum. Asks him to continue his work "dans la même forme et me le renvoyer pour que je puisse, pendant votre séjour a Londres, vous signaler ce qui est à transcrire" (undated, 18 lines). Asks whether the volume the recipient refers to is the same as that described by Panizzi. - All very good, on lightly aged paper.
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Laborde, Léon de.
Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres. Paris und Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841.
Folio. LXI, (1), 146; 48 SS. Anhang. Mit 13 (davon 3 gefalt. und 8 ganzseitigen) Tafeln mit insges. 19 Karten, wovon 8 als Lithographien ausgeführt. Halblederband der Zeit auf fünf falschen Bünden mit goldgepr., ornamentalen Rückentitel, marmorierten Decken und mehrfarbigen Vorsätzen aus lackiertem Kamm-Marmorpapier sowie grünem Lesebändchen. Erste und einzige Ausgabe dieses für die moderne christliche Bibelwissenschaft bahnbrechenden geographischen und soziologischen Kommentars zum im AT geschilderten Auszug der Israeliten aus Ägypten. Das Werk des französischen Archäologen und Reisenden Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph Laborde (1807-69) besticht vor allem durch die nach seinen detailreichen Zeichnungen von den Pariser Firmen Formentin, Kaeppelin und Thierry kräftig und sauber lithografierten Tafeln, welche folgende, damals auch neue kartographische Erkenntnisse enthaltende Aufnahmen zeigen: eine Übersichtskarte der Wegstrecke des Exodus, Teile der ehemals römischen Provinz Arabia Petraea (in etwa die Sinai-Halbinsel und den Westen des heutigen Jordanien umfassend), den westlichen Teil des heutigen Ägypten und die Gegend der Stadt Suez, den Golf von Sues, den Wadi Feiran auf der Halbinsel Sinai, das Gebirgsmassiv rund um Horeb und Katharinenberg im Süden des Sinai, die Gegend rund um Dahab am Roten Meer und den Golf von Akaba. Bemerkenswert ist auch Labordes kenntnisreiche Analyse der Bibeltexte, die zudem in altgriechischen und lateinischen Versionen abgedruckt sind. "On aimera lire, par exemple, les observations sur la magie effectuées à propos de plaies d'Egpyte, ou tout ce que Laborde écrit sur les animaux, les maladies ou les coutumes d'Orient" (François Laplanche). - Eingebunden: "Discours du Roi. Séance Royale du 9 janvier 1843." Gr.-8vo. 4 SS. bzw. ein reichlich, mit Holzstichen illustriertes Ankündigungsblatt für zwei weitere Werte von Laborde: "Voyage en Orient" und "Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée." Gr.-4to. 4 SS. - Einband an den Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen, innen durchgehend stockfleckig, fliegender Vorsatz mit hs. Besitzervermerk, insgesamt kompaktes, hübsch gebundenes Exemplar mit den gut erhaltenen, nur wenig fleckigen Karten. Mayeur/Hilaire, zit. in WBIS/ABF 3.0266.378.
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Lacoste, Pierre-Eugène, painter (1818-1907).
Oriental scene. No place, 1892.
Watercolour on paper, 290 x 460 mm, matted (600 x 398 mm). Beautiful orientalist watercolour, inscribed by the artist "à Monsieur Coullon, souvenir affectueux". Lacoste, a genre painter equally adept at landscapes and architecture, was a student of Rouillet, Cambon, and Cogniet. He exhibited at the Salon from 1839 to 1907, also drawing costumes for the various Parisian scenes, including for the Opéra from 1876 to 1885. His series of watercolours painted for Verdi's "Aida" in 1880 is remarkable; a design for "Ramses" is now kept at the Getty Museum. The present orientalist scene is typical of its age but distinguished by its large format and masterly quality. It shows a Middle Eastern oasis with Moorish-type buildings near a palm grove reflected in a waterhole, surrounded by eight characters in local costumes going about their lives: a man is perched on his camel; two men are wearing red hats; two women, possibly slaves, carry jugs on their heads. In the foreground, cargo unloaded from a camel suggests a Bedouin desert stopover. - Slight foxing and waterstaining to matte, not concerning the painting.
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LACOSTE, R.
La Russie sovietique et la Question dOrient. La Poussee sovietique vers les mers chaudes, Mediterranee et Golfe Persique. Avec 5 cartes.
Paris, Les Editions Internationales, 1946. in-8°, 238 pages, -, broche, couverture.
Bookseller reference : 14459
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LACOSTE, R.
La Russie sovietique et la Question d’Orient. La Poussee sovietique vers les mers chaudes, Mediterranee et Golfe Persique. Avec 5 cartes.
in-8°, 238 pages, -, broche, couverture. Qq. ann. (crayon) sinon bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
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LACOUTURE, Jean - KHOURI, Gerard D. - TUENI, Ghassan.
Un Siecle Pour Rien. Le Moyen-Orient arabe de l'Empire ottoman a l'empire americain.
Paris, Albin Michel, 2002. in-8°, 367 pp., 5 cartes, gloss., broche, couv.
Bookseller reference : 21662
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LACOUTURE, Jean - KHOURI, Gerard D. - TUENI, Ghassan.
Un Siecle Pour Rien. Le Moyen-Orient arabe de l'Empire ottoman a l'empire americain.
in-8°, 367 pp., 5 cartes, gloss., broche, couv. Tres bel exemplaire. [DV-19]
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Lacroix, A[uguste] de.
Storia privata e politica d' Abd-el-Kader. Bologna, Giuseppe Tiocchi, 1846.
8vo. 277, (3) pp. With engraved portrait and folding lithographed manuscript facsimile. Contemporary marbled green half cloth with giltstamped spine title. Early study of the Algerian rebel Abd el-Qadir, the Emir of Mascara (1807-83), published at the height of his insurrection against the French invaders. On 21 December 1847, after being denied refuge in Morocco because of French diplomatic and military pressure on its leaders, `Abd al-Qadir surrendered to General Louis de Lamoricière in exchange for the promise that he would be allowed to go to Alexandria or Acre. Two days later, his surrender was made official to the French Governor-General of Algeria, Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale. The French government refused to honour Lamoricière's promise and `Abd Al-Qadir was exiled to France. - Binding rubbed; some brownstaining to interior. Rare. OCLC 48656095.
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Lacroix, A[uguste] de.
Storia privata e politica d' Abd-el-Kader. Bologna, Giuseppe Tiocchi, 1846.
8vo. 277, (3) pp. With engraved portrait and folding lithographed manuscript facsimile. Original printed wrappers. Early study of the Algerian rebel Abd el-Qadir, the Emir of Mascara (1807-83), published at the height of his insurrection against the French invaders. On 21 December 1847, after being denied refuge in Morocco because of French diplomatic and military pressure on its leaders, `Abd al-Qadir surrendered to General Louis de Lamoricière in exchange for the promise that he would be allowed to go to Alexandria or Acre. Two days later, his surrender was made official to the French Governor-General of Algeria, Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale. The French government refused to honour Lamoricière's promise and `Abd Al-Qadir was exiled to France. - Some brownstaining to interior. Rare. OCLC 48656095.
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
Human Kinetics Publishers. Used - Very Good. Ships from Reno NV. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! Human Kinetics Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP115570829 ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
Human Kinetics Inc. LikeNew. Book is sharp with only minor wear. Has a publisher's remainder mark. Human Kinetics, Inc. unknown
Bookseller reference : 38VGFI001IY4 ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
2005-01-02. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0880119799n ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association Martin Block Dan Drane
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
Human Kinetics 2005-09-26. Paperback. Used:Good. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0880119799 ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
Human Kinetics Publishers. Used - Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Human Kinetics Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP11271489 ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association; Martin Block; Dan Drane
Accessible Golf: Making It a Game Fore All
Human Kinetics 2005-09-26. Paperback. Good. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG0880119799 ISBN : 0880119799 9780880119795
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics 2000-04-26. Paperback. Very Good. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : 0880119802-2-17039016 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD codes toys may not be included. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : 3190005011 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association Staff
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : G0880119802I4N10 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics. Used - Good. Good condition. Writing inside. Human Kinetics unknown
Bookseller reference : S06C-02378 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Human Kinetics unknown
Bookseller reference : N26C-02469 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
2000-04-26. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 0880119802q ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics 2000 Next Day Shipping!. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket as Published. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : 001251
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Human Kinetics 2000-04-26. Paperback. Used:Good. Human Kinetics paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0880119802 ISBN : 0880119802 9780880119801
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Ladies Professional Golf Association
Player Guide 1988
Sugar Land TX 1988. Soft Cover. 304p. 20.5 cm. Biographies and pictures of all women professional golfers in 1988. Stock# 102639. Good / paper. perfect bound pp.101-110 loose. Sugar Land TX 1988 paperback
Bookseller reference : 102639
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Ladies' Golf Club
A Taste of Marabella
San Juan Capistrano CA.: Morris Press 1999. First Edition. Spiral Bound Hardcover. Very Good. Morris Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MCC01
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LadiesO Golf Union
LADIESÕ GOLF UNION OFFICIAL YEAR BOOK 1938
N.p: LadiesÕ Golf Union 1938 . First edition. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. N.p: LadiesÕ Golf Union 1938 . First edition. Illustrated with a number of b/w ads. 234 pp. Softcover. 8vo. Burgundy stiff wrappers. Ends of spine worn; wrappers lightly soiled over all very good. Very good/No jacket issued. LadiesÕ Golf Union paperback books
Bookseller reference : 50290
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Lafaurie (André-Jean) et Pascassio (Bernard)
Le golf , dans la collection Connaissance et Technique
Editions Denoel , Connaissance et Technique Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1989 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur illustré d'une photographie en couleurs de Ballesteros petit In-4 1 vol. - 238 pages
Bookseller reference : 72372
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LAFAURIE ANDRE JEAN
Le golf
Denoël Denoel 1989. In-8 cartonnage de 237 pages illustrées. Très bon état
Bookseller reference : 107874
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LAFAURIE ANDRE JEAN
Le golf
Denoel 1989. In-8 cartonnage de 237 pages illustrées. Très bon état
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LAFAURIE André-Jean
Jean Garaialde. Maître du Golf. Quarante ans de victoires
Pangreen, 1995, 127 p., in-4 cartonnage ed., nombreuses photos. n. et b. et couleur, petit accroc au plat inférieur sinon très bon état
Bookseller reference : QWA-1548
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Lafaurie, Andre-Jean und Jean-Francois Lefevre
Golflandschaften. Die reizvollsten Fairways der Welt.
Schindellegi : Heel, 1992. 191 S.; zahlr. farb. Abb. Pb., mit Schutzumschlag
Bookseller reference : 122630
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