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Lokman.
Amthal Luqman al-Hakim [The Fables of Luqman, ed. Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval]. [Paris, Molé for Eberhardt, 1818/1819].
Large 4to (210 x 263 mm). 23, (1) pp. Contemporary unsophisticated wrappers. Early edition of the text of Lokman's Fables, never released in the regular book trade. Edited by Caussin de Perceval père (1759-1835), professor of Arabic at the Collège de France sice 1784. Includes four additional Fables not previously edited. "Ce livre n'a pas été mis dans le commerce. Il y a des exemplaires en grand papier. Caussin utilise le manuscrit de Paris et, aux 37 fables connues, ajoute le texte des quatre nouvelles, qui Marcel avait traduites en 1803" (Chauvin). - Wrappers frayed; wrinkled and browned with edge flaws throughout. Stamps of the Paris Jesuit Seminary. Chauvin III, 13. OCLC 978526580.
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Long R Brent signed and inscribed / Mississauga Golf and Country Club
The First One Hundred Years: Mississauga Golf and Country Club / Mississauga Centennial 1906 - 2006 -by R Brent Long -a Signed Copy 100 Years / MGCC
Mississauga Ontario: Mississauga ON: Mississauga Golf and Country Club 2006 1st Edition First Printing 2006. -----------hardcover about 12.25w x 8.75h inches a Near Fine example in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket with some sunning to the front panel and spine signed and inscribed by the author "To P___ J___ A very special place for golf family Enjoy the 2nd 100 years/ Brent Long" 168 pages colour and b&w photos any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED///. Signed see description. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine see desciption/Near Fine see description. Illus. by Photo Cover. NOT Price Clipped. Mississauga, ON: Mississauga Golf and Country Club, 2006, 1st Edition, First Printing Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 163057
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Longhi, Gioseffo.
Alessandria. Bologna, Longhi, [1670s].
1065 x 578 mm. Cloth-backed engraved view on 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below (4 columns in Italian: "Descrizione della Città di Alessandria d'Egitto") with publisher's imprint. Matted. Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries: a unique, large-scale view of Alexandria as seen from the north. Formerly the most powerful city of the ancient world after Rome, Alexandria came under Ottoman rule in 1517 and subsequently lost much of its importance to the new port of Rashid (Rosette), 40 miles east, though it would regain some of its former prominence with the construction of the Mahmoudiyah Canal in 1807. In Longhi's engraving, the Ottoman influence may be discerned in the people's clothing as well as in the city's architecture. Within the city are several mosques; the ancient obelisks are shown crowned with crescents. On the river Nile, which flows through the city and underneath the walls, the view depicts numerous trade boats and sailors. Outside the walls lies Pompey's Pillar. The Italian letterpress text pasted under the engraving provides mostly historical and geographical information. - Longhi's panorama seems to draw various aspects from previous works to create its own original representation of the Egyptian city. The perspective is similar to that used in Pierre Belon's 1553 "Observations" and in Braun and Hogenberg's 1575 "Alexandria, Vetustissimum Aegypti Emporium, Amplissima Civitas", published in their famous "Civitates orbis terrarum", but also to that in Mallet's smaller, almost certainly later (1683) view of Alexandria. Apart from the Braun/Hogenberg map, however, the principal model for Longhi's view was likely his own view of "Gran Cairo", apparently published simultaneously: the bird's-eye view and general composition correspond to this similarly rare engraving, which was probably based on a 1549 woodcut panorama created by Matteo Pagano in Venice. - According to scholars, Gioseffo (Giuseppe) Longhi (1620-91) issued a series of views of Italian and foreign cities between 1654 and 1674. A publisher, bookseller and archiepiscopal printer, he was active in Bologna from 1650 to the time of his death. Not only did he publish maps, but he was also a prolific literary editor, notably publishing all the dramatic works of the Italian playwright Giacinto Cicognini. - An excellent specimen. Cf. Tooley, Mapmakers III, 150 (for Giuseppe Longhi).
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Longhi, Gioseffo.
Gran Cairo. Bologna, Longhi, 1670.
945 x 620 mm. Engraved view on 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below (4 columns in Italian, 4 columns in Latin: "Descrittione del gran Cairo [...] Cairi quae olim Babylon") with publisher's imprints. Watermark Panzano. Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries, this unique, large-scale view of Cairo reflects the economic and cultural effervescence of the second-largest city in the Empire: under Ottoman rule since 1517 and having expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel, Cairo in the latter half of the 17th century was second only to Constantinople. The Ottoman influence may be discerned in the people's clothing in the foreground as well as in the city's architecture. On the river Nile, the map depicts numerous trade boats and sailors. To the left are soldiers battling as part of a tournament; on the right are the Sphinx (wearing a necklace!) and the famous pyramids of Giza: those of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, as well as the smaller pyramids. The centre of the city shows numerous mosques and gardens. The letterpress text pasted under the engraving provides mostly historical and geographical information (in Italian and Latin). - Longhi's panorama seems to draw various aspects from previous works to create its own original representation of the Egyptian city. Indeed, it bears some resemblance to Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 "Cairos, quae olim Babylon, Aegypti maxima urbs", published in their famous "Civitates orbis terrarum". There are also similarities with Donato Bertelli's "La gran città del Cairo" (Venice 1575), as well as with the map of "Le Grand Caire" produced by the French soldier and traveller Henri de Beauveau (published in his "Relation journaliere du voyage du Levant", Nancy 1615). Ultimately, these plans probably all derive from a 1549 woodcut panorama credited to Matteo Pagano (or a Venetian engraving derived from it), as they all depict the city from the same viewpoint and on a similar scale. Longhi's map even takes up some of the ornaments of the Braun/Hogenberg map, such as the two people riding on a horse and a donkey in the foreground, though the antiquities as well as the numerous irrigation wheels are here shown in much greater detail. - According to scholars, Gioseffo (Giuseppe) Longhi (1620-91) issued a series of views of Italian and foreign cities between 1654 and 1674. A publisher, bookseller and archiepiscopal printer, he was active in Bologna from 1650 to the time of his death. Not only did he publish maps, but he was also a prolific literary editor, notably publishing all the dramatic works of the Italian playwright Giacinto Cicognini. - Some small marginal tears repaired; slight marginal fraying to upper left. Cf. Tooley, Mapmakers III, 150 (for Giuseppe Longhi); Schulz, Venice 70 (for Arrigoni/Bertarelli).
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Longhurst Henry
Talking About Golf
London: MacDonald & Co 1966. Provides hours of real enjoyment as Britain's most famous golf writer shares anecdotes about famous golfers past and present about triumphs and disasters about clubs and courses all over the world. Good clean hardback with slight bow to cover in an unclipped d/w showing light shelfwear - 150 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. MacDonald & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 059972
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LONGHURST Henry
I Wouldn't Have Missed It. HENRY LONGHURST AT WAR
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece;black cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-faded else a good, bright, clean copy. The golf commentator's second volume of autobiography, this time covering his army service in WWII. SCARCE. Enser, p.331.
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LONGHURST Henry
Never on Weekdays. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Lonicer, Philipp (ed. & transl.) / (Menavino, Giovanantonio).
Chronicorum Turcicorum in quibus Turcorum origo, principes, imperatores, bella, praelia, caedes, victoriae, reique militaris ratio, et caetera huc pertinentia [...] exponuntur. Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1584.
8vo. 2 parts in one vol. (16), 435, (13) pp. (16) , 208, (14) pp., final blank f. With woodcut vignettes to both title pages (the first showing an Ottoman warrior, after J. Amman) and two (repeated) printer's devices at the end. Contemporary vellum. Remains of ties. First octavo edition of Lonicer's collection of Turkish history, previously published in 1578 as a hefty three-volume folio set with woodcuts attributed to Jost Amman. The present issue is a pretty, handily pocket-sized edition minus the illustrations, incorporating several important changes to the text. Book 2 of the first part still comprises Menavino's "Mahometicae leges, religio, vita" in Lonicer's translation, while Aventin's appendix at the end of part 1 is omitted, as is the entire third volume of the folio edition (Barletius's "Scanderbeg"). The beginning of part 2 includes an important new addition: Contarini's "De bello Turcico", with the description of the Battle of Lepanto. - Binding rubbed; large defects to spine. Interior somewhat browned as common with occasional insignificant waterstains to margins. A few contemporary censorship marks in ink; title page shows contemporary ownership "Ex libris fratris Constantini Cruseni Augustiniani" (obliterated) and of the Augustinians' monastery of St Thomas (Kostel sv. Tomáše) in Prague. VD 16, L 2464. BNHCat L 379. BM-STC German 525. Adams L 1456. Göllner 1773. Atabey 729. Graesse IV, 265. Pétrovitch 48. Hammer 1090. Chauvin XII, 248, 1019 (& cf. 266, 1107). Yerasimos 126. Not in Blackmer (cf. 1030 note).
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Loomis, Ruth (Signed)
Small Stories of a Gentle Island
96 pages. Author and illustrator have signed and inscribed front flyleaf. Author was born and raised in Seattle where she graduated from the University of Washington. In the early fifties she and her husband moved to a small island, Pylades, located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. These stories describe her feelings for the beauty of that world, interwoven with the people and creatures who inhabit it. She now resides on Vancouver Island and is a Canadian citizen. Light wear. Nice copy Book
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Lopez (Nancy) - Wade (Don) - Saunders (Vivien), Foreword
Lopez on Golf
Stanley Paul Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under illustrated dust-jacket In-4 1 vol. - 216 pages
Bookseller reference : 48085
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Lopes de Castanheda, Fernão.
The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, Enterprised by the Portingales, in their Daungerous Navigations [...]. London, Thomas East, 1582.
4to (146 x 201 mm). (6), 164 ff. With woodcut border surrounding title-page and woodcut initials throughout. 19th century full calf ruled in blind, bound for the Inner Temple Library, London, with two morocco spine labels. All edges red. First English edition of one of the most important historical works of the first great age of discovery, "very rare" (Hill). The author mentions several journeys to the "Moores of Arabia" (27r), such as one in 1487 "to Toro, which is a place that hath his harbour in the Straights of the red Sea in the Coast of Arabia", and other places "in the selfe same Straightes of the Redde Sea" (2v), the ships also passing by "Ormuse" (Hormuz, 3r) on their return journey from India to Cairo. - Most of the "Historie" is devoted to the great Portuguese thrust into Asia in the early 16th century, chronicling their epic expansion to India, the East Indies, and China between 1497 and 1505. Castanheda himself spent some two decades in the Portuguese colonies in the East, and so was well equipped to write this account. It is one of the primary sources for the early Portuguese trading empire, a model that the British were beginning to emulate at the time of publication. This work is equally important, however, for its American content, being the first to describe in detail the voyage of Cabral and his discovery of Brazil in 1500, while on his way out to the East Indies. Cabral's landing is the first recorded there, recounted in Chapters 29-31 of the present work. "A most interesting and rare book" (Sabin). - Originally published at Coimbra in 1551, the book was translated by "Nicholas Lichefield" (probably Thomas Nicholas, the well-known translator of the Tudor era). This edition is appropriately dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. - Binding lightly rubbed in places, but still very presentable. A few near-contemporary annotations and manicules. Upper corner of title-page professionally repaired. Front pastedown shows engraved armorial bookplate (ca. 1700) of the barrister-at-law Herbert Jacob of St Stephen's (Hackington) in Canterbury, who bequeathed his books to the Inner Temple, London. Subsequently removed from the Inner Temple Library, now bearing their winged-horse crest in gilt on upper cover, engraved bookplate on pastedown and two different ink stamps to title-page and variously throughout. Offered by Hordern House, Sydney, in 1998 and sold to the San Francisco collector Bruce McKinney; the lower pastedown shows the bookplate of his 2009 sale. A scarce title with good provenance, in an appealing modern binding. Alden/Landis 582/54. Hill 1035. Borba de Moraes 166f. Palau IV, 262. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 274-279. STC 16806. Sabin 11391. Streeter Sale 26. Not in Church.
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Lopez Nancy
Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer/With Don Wade
Chicago: Contemporary Books 1987. Oversized 216pp including index Photos Previous owner's address sticker on front facing page otherwise book is AS NEW. Presumed First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. Very Good. Contemporary Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 58550 ISBN : 0809247119 9780809247110
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Lopez Nancy
Nancy Lopez's the complete golfer / with Don Wade
<p>Contemporary Books 1989. ISBN 0809247119. First edition. Large Size Paperback. Size about 8 x 10 inches. b/w photos indexed. Very Good</p> Contemporary Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 2451 ISBN : 0809247119 9780809247110
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Lopez Nancy with Peter Schwed
The Education of a Woman Golfer
NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 1979. hardback. 0671247565 . 191 pages . Simon & Schuster hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2779 ISBN : 0671247565 9780671247560
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LOPEZ Nancy con WADE Don -
Il grande golf.
Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1990, 8vo tela editoriale con sovraccoperta a colori, pp. 204, interamente illustrato con foto in nero nel testo.
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Lord, Charles Al[fred].
3 partly autograph letters of a jockey. Maisons-Laffitte and other places, 1883/84.
8vo. Altogether 6 pp. Each with envelope. Together with a calling card (also with envelope). 3 letters by the French jockey Charles Alfred Lord about his own horses and races performed: "J'ai lessé Landrail là [à Rochefort], ayant à la faire courir à Fontenay-le-Comte, Sables d'Olonne et Chalans. Mais il ses trouvé de bon chevaux engager dans les deux premières réunions et ayant lessé un garçon avec la jument, je m'atander qu'il aurais fait ce que je lui avais dit, de la promener matin et soir en main; comme il n'étais pas assez fort pour la tenir, je lui ais enlevez la selle afin qu'il ne la monte pas pour ne pas quelle s'emballe. Si il avez fait ce que je lui avais dit, elle aurais été prete à courir comme elle été assez prete lorsque je lais monté. Il ny avais qu'à la maintenir par des promenades. Faites en ce que vous voudrais. Elle s'atellera bien j'en suis sur. Faites en votre jument de service et lorsque je viendrai je vous aporterai selle et bride pour la monter et la tenir. Si je vais à Pau cet hivert, on la fera saillir par Lord-Sting pour faire un demi sang. Si non vous la ferais saillir par un troteur et comme elle a de bonne dispositions pour troter, cela vous fera un troteur [...]". - On headed paper.
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Lorne Rubenstein
A Disorderly Compendium of Golf
New York New York U.S.A.: Workman Publishing Company 2006. Book. As New. Trade Paperback. A nice clean Trade Paperback in a like new condition. A great buy from a recent purchase of as new books!. Workman Publishing Company Paperback
Bookseller reference : SA3096 ISBN : 0761140840 9780761140849
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Lotti, Lotto.
[Ch' n' ha Cervell ava gamb.] La liberazione di Vienna assediata dalle armi Ottomane. Poemetto giocoso. E la Banzuola. Dialoghi sei. In lingua popolare Bolognese. [Prob. Bologna, c. 1746].
8vo. (8), 248 pp. With engr. frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by G. M. Cantarelli. Contemp. blue wrappers. Third edition (probably printed in Bologna) of Lotto Lotti's (1667-1714) poem celebrating the liberation of Vienna from the 1683 Turkish siege, written in the Bologna dialect and first published in Parma in 1685. "Divided in 5 cantos of 30 to 40 eight-line verses each" (Kábdebo). Pretty engravings; the one facing the first canto (a besieging army aiming their cannons) shows contemporary touches of blue colour in places. Includes Lotti's collection of dialogues, "La Banzuola" (likewise illustrated throughout). - Date taken from the engraving on fol. O5v. Untrimmed copy. Sturminger 1973. NUC (pre-1956) vol. 342, p. 194. ICCU UBOE\075844, VEAE\001888. Graesse IV, 264. Cf. Kábdebo II, 290.
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Lotti, Lotto.
Ch' n' ha Cervel hapa gamb. O sia la liberatione di Vienna assediata dall' armi Ottomane. Poemetto giocoso. In lingua popolare Bolognese consecrato. Parma, heredi di [Mario] Vigna, 1685.
8vo. (16), 121, (3) pp. With engr. frontispiece and 5 engr. plates by Giovanni Giuseppe Cosattini. Contemp. Italian vellum. First edition of Lotto Lotti's (1667-1714) poem celebrating the liberation of Vienna from the 1683 Turkish siege, written in the Bologna dialect. "Divided in 5 cantos of 30 to 40 eight-line verses each" (Kábdebo). Among the pretty engravings are scenes of the siege and battle. - Somewhat browned and (finger-)stained throughout; worming to blank margin near beginning; vellum on lower board and spine-end restored professionally. Sturminger 1971. Kábdebo II, 290. British Library (17th c. Italian books) I, 503. ICCU VEAE\001923. Graesse IV, 264.
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Louis Salvator, Archduke of Austria.
Der Golf von Buccari - Porto Re. Bilder und Skizzen. [By Louis Salvator, Archduke of Austria. With maps.]
Prag Mercy 1871,cartonnage decoré editeur IN4 percaline rouge plat et dos orne,tranches dorees, 125 S;p. 125 p., [45] c. di tav. : ill. ; 29 cm + 2 cartes toilées en couleur,depliantes in fine geogr.,lithographie couleur + gravures sur chine collée,sur papier fort,+ 2 cartes toillées depliantes in fine,
Bookseller reference : 17569
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Louis T. Stanley
This Is Putting
<p>This copy of famed English golf teacher Louis T. Stanley's important work on putting is in sercicable shape the jacket being fairly inconspicuously repaired. The great Gary Player was an admired of Stanley's mental approach to the game.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> The Citadel Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio350
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Louis XVI / Silvestre de Sacy, [Antoine Isaac] (ed.).
[Al-durr al-manzum fi wasaya al-sultan al-marhum]. Testament de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, avec une traduction arabe par M. le Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, de l'Imprimierie Royale, 1820.
8vo. 19, (1), 22, (2) pp. Contemporary grey wrappers. First Arabic edition. "Silvestre de Sacy translated the Last Will and Testament of Louis XVI into Arabic and had the translation printed together with the French original in 1820, in hopes that it might prove a comfort and encouragement to the Christians of the Orient, while giving Muslim readers a demonstration of Christian submission and evangelical meekness" (cf. Fück). Three years previously, de Sacy had published the late King's Testament (together with the last letter of Marie Antoinette) in a luxurious folio edition. "Sacy never let his Christian convictions hamper his work as a scholar, for he saw religion as a personal matter. Although he revealed his faith at times, it was never to pose it as the strongest model against which to judge other religions. He was nevertheless very pious. There is no other way to explain his translation of the guillotined king, Louis XVI, into Arabic [...]. He apparently wished to show how devout, simple and charitable his beloved monarch had been" (Kamal as-Salibi, The Druze [London 2005], p. 20). - The orientalist de Sacy, a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in France, began his career as professor of Arabic at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes in 1796. In 1806 he was offered the chair of Persian at the College of France and in 1824 was appointed director of the school of oriental languages. He also acted as advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, translating political propaganda into Arabic, including the "Bulletins of the Grande Armée" (cf. Atabey 1134). - An excellent, untrimmed and wide-margined copy in mint condition, printed on strong paper, the central counter-leaf remaining uncut. Fück 144 (note 377). Bibliothèque de Sacy III, 4781f. OCLC 25217438.
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Louise Suggs
Par Gold for Women
Prentice Hall 1953. No dust jacket. Covers have some edge wear discoloration to spine and very light water mark to bottom. Pages of text are clean lightly toned and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. . Hard Cover. Good. 8.25 x 5. Prentice Hall Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 210326
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Louisiana. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad
Report of the Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad with accompanying documents : also a bill reported to liquidate said Road 1866 Leather Bound
2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1866. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 40. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LB1111001238079
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Louisiana. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad
Report of the Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad with accompanying documents : also a bill reported to liquidate said Road 1866
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 40. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1866. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111001238079
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Louisiana. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad
Report of the Special Committee on the Mexican Gulf Railroad with accompanying documents : also a bill reported to liquidate said Road 1866 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 40. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1866. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111001238079
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Loutfi, Galal / Jaber, Ali S[alama].
Geology of the Upper Albian-Campanian Succession in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia, Neutral Zone, Offshore Area. Paper No. 62 (B-3). [Kuwait], Arabian Oil Company, Ltd. (Japan), 1970.
Large 4to (20.6 x 28.5 cm). (3), 14, (3). With one map in the text, 3 folding diagrams and 4 numbered plates (plate II and IV comprising 3 pages each), as well as 4 corresponding pages of captions. Original printed wrappers. Stapled and perforated. Rare conference paper for the Seventh Arab Petroleum Congress organized by the Secretariat General of the League of Arab States, held in Kuwait from March 16 to 22, 1970. Authored by the geologist Galal Loutfi and the paleontologist Ali Salama Jaber, it discusses the stratigraphiy of three oil fields in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabian Neutral Zone offshore area, namely Khafji, Hout, and Dorra. The illustrations show the geologic profile of the area with its various rock formations, as well as microfacies of four different kinds of limestone in a total of 33 figures. - Front cover slightly brownstained along edges; a larger trace of glue on inside of lower cover; interior otherwise crisp and clean. A single copy located in libraries worldwide (Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève). OCLC 716527649.
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Love Davis III
Every Shot I Take : Lessons Learned About Golf Life and a Father's Love
New York: Simon & Schuster 1997. A square tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped 20.00. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on a PGA TOUR SHOPS bookplate. NO owner's name. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original light brown boards with a dark brown spine lettered in shiny gold. First printing with complete number row 13579 10 8642 on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "With every shot he takes Davis Love III provides a tribute to the strength and the value of his father's teachings. And in EVERY SHOT I TAKE he shares with us the lessons he learned about how to play golf with power with skill and with joy. Those lessons range widely from the psychological 'Let your attitude determine your golf game; don't let your golf game determine your attitude' to the physical 'To hit the ball far hit the ball straight; I try to hit the ball at 80 percent of my overall power because at 80 percent I have a much better chance of hitting the ball with the center of the clubface' to the technical 'When you begin your downswing and your left foot returns to the ground put your cleats in the same holes they were in originally'. They include drills like the Hitchhike Drill where you place your right hand behind your back and your left thumb on your right shoulder then in a spinning motion move your thumb to your left shoulder -- that's the golf swing in miniature! There are the Ten Commandments of Putting six steps to successful long bunker shots and tips for playing in the wind and rain on fast greens or out of long rough. Yet all are ultimately about something more than golf.". Signed by the Author signature only. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 204pp. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010180 ISBN : 0684834006 9780684834009
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Low John L.
F. G. TAIT A Record
Classics of Golf. As New. 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages . Classics of Golf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 67192 ISBN : 0940889218 9780940889217
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Low, Charles Rathbone.
History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863). London, Richard Bentley, 1877.
8vo. 2 vols. XX, 542 pp. VI, 596 pp. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling to the boards, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Neatly rebacked with the original spines laid down. First edition, uncommon in the cloth. Forms the basis for studies of campaigns and exploration wherever the Bombay Marine operated: in the Red Sea, the Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Laccadives, Maldives and west coast of India, the Andamans, Java and Burma. Of primary importance as a record of the history of the British presence in the Gulf, where the Bombay Marine served as police force, mail carrier, ethnographer, surveyor and, when necessary, strike force for over three centuries - in particular in the period when British relations with the Gulf sheikhdoms were being consolidated. Includes detailed accounts of hydrographic surveys by the Indian Navy, including those in the Gulf. Never surpassed as a history of the maritime arm of India's foreign policy. - Engraved bookplates of the Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich, to the front pastedowns with manuscript annotations of their receipt in April 1878; small paper press-mark labels above. Extremeties slightly rubbed, light browning, but overall a very good set. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1492. NMM V, 2273.
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Low, Charles Rathbone.
History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863). London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1877.
8vo. 2 vols. XX, (8), 541, (1) pp. (final page of appendix erroneously bound at rear of vol. II). VI, 596 pp. Modern half calf over marbled boards, giltstamped labels to spine. The only published detailed history of the British Navy and its engagement with the Arabs of the Gulf. Covers specifically the British naval power in the Near and Middle East from the earliest days of the East India Company until its abolition in 1863. Forms the basis for studies of campaigns and exploration wherever the Bombay Marine operated: in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Laccadives, Maldives and west coast of India, the Andamans, Java and Burma. Of primary importance as a record of the history of the British presence in the Gulf, where the Bombay Marine served as police force, mail carrier, ethnographer, surveyor and, when necessary, strike force for over three centuries - in particular in the period when British relations with the Gulf sheikhdoms were being consolidated. Includes detailed accounts of hydrographic surveys by the Indian Navy, including those in the Gulf. Never surpassed as a history of the maritime arm of India's foreign policy. - A finely preserved copy. Macro 1492. NMM V, 2273.
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Lowe Stephen R.
Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen Bobby Jones and the Rise of American Golf
Chelsea MI: Sleeping Bear Press 2000. Signed by author on title page very clean tight and bright. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sleeping Bear Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016580 ISBN : 1585360090 9781585360093
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LPGA Ladies Professional Golf Association
2003 LPGA Media Guide
Ladies Professional Golf Association. 2003. Paperback. Used. Clean solid book with shelf wear. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore.; 8.90 X 6 X 1.10 inches . Ladies Professional Golf Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 3667
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Lucas, Paul.
Voyage [...], fait en M.DCCXIV, &c. par ordre de Louis XIV. dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Paléstine, Haute et Basse Égypte, &c. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwers, 1720.
12mo. 2 vols. (20), 436, (8) pp. (2), 345, (26) pp. Title pages printed in red and black. With 32 engr. plates, some folding, and 2 folding engr. maps. Contemp. full calf, cover blindstamped and gilt, spine and leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Second edition (first published in 1719). "Paul Lucas (1664-1737), merchant, naturalist, doctor and antiquary, made many visits to various parts of the Levant following his service with the Venetians at Negroponte in 1688. [...] This work describes Lucas's third voyage of 1714 to 1717 during which he visited Constantinople, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and also includes a list of the antiquities discovered" (Blackmer). Edited and co-written by Antoine Banier. The plates show Tyre, Damascus, the Great Pyramid and numerous other antiquties, flora and fauna; the maps show Asia Minor and the Nile Delta. "Many commentators have criticised Lucas for the often fabulous nature of his accounts, but his writings convey a vivd sense of the nature of the East, laced with considerable classical erudition" (ibid.). - Occasional insignificant browning. A fine copy from the library of Henry Blackmer with his bookplate on the pastedowns; latterly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 734. Blackmer 1038 (this copy). Weber II, 472. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 394. Gay 2122. Röhricht 2145. Tobler 122. Henze III, 289. Chatzipanagioti-S. 569. Paulitschke 663 (note). OCLC 832706737. Cf. Aboussouan 579 (1719 Rouen ed.).
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Ludolfo, Jobo.
Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur, deo volente, aliquando in lucvem proditurae. Jenae, ex Officina Orientali Samuelis Krebsii, 1676.
Title page and 38 unnumbered pages of text. Half cloth binding from around 1870 with gilt spine-lettering and marbled boards. This is a preliminary outline of the material to be covered extensively in Ludolf's "Istoria Aethiopica", which was published in three volumes from 1681 to 1693. Job Ludolf, a German German scholar, and the "founder of Ethiopian studies" (Katalog der Eutiner Landesbibliothek) gathered the most important information available about Ethiopia in his time, working for a time in collaboration with one of the Ethiopian monks who stayed in Rome. In addition to his monumental history of the country, he wrote dictionaries and grammars of Ge'ez and Amharic. His intensive studies of Ethiopian culture and life made his work the best 17thcentury source on the region described. "A most important work on Abyssinia" (cf. Paulitschke), "of an importance transcending his own time". Very good condition outside, text shows browning and foxing. Stamp on reverse of title page. A particularly scarce and hardly known work, preceding Ludolf's famous publication on Ethiopia by a full 5 years and at the same time Ludolf's very first publication!
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Lukach [later Luke], Harry Charles.
The City of Dancing Dervishes and Other Sketches and Studies from the Near East. London, Macmillan & Co., 1914.
8vo. XI, (1), 257, (1), (2, advertisements) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt vignette of a dervish to front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of this study of Sufi practice in Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq and Cyprus. From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, extensively underlined and marked by the king with the inscription "Villa Savoia - 21.2.15" to last page; shelfmark label of the royal library to spine. The king terminated this book only three months before Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, de facto entering WWI. Villa Savoia was first purchased by the house of Savoy in 1872. Subsequently sold to count Telfner, the royal family's financial administrator, Villa Savoia, which in the meanwhile had been renamed Villa Ada (as it is still known today) after Telfner's wife, was purchased back in 1904 by Vittorio Emanuele III, who admired its vast park and secluded location, making it perfect as a private retreat within Rome for the royal family, as well as a safe refuge during WWII (an elaborate bunker was built within the estate). In 1946 King Umberto II gifted the villa to Egypt, as a symbol of gratitude for the hospitality received during his and his father's exile; the villa now hosts the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt. - Some very light scattered foxing, but a very good copy. Rare. OCLC 82156703.
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Lumb, Nick
Beginner's Guide to Golf
111p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Lumb, Nick, Michael Hobbs and John Pinner
The complete book of golf : techniques, great golf courses, history
Hardback reprint in dustjacket. VG/VG. ISBN 185348038X.15710. eng
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Lumsden, Thomas.
A Journey From Merut in India, to London, Through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, and France, During the Years 1819 and 1820. London & Edinburgh, Black, Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen; Oliver & Boyd, Mecredie, Skelly & Co., 1822.
8vo. VII, (1), 272, 12 pp. With a folding hand-coloured map and a plate (view of Mount Ararat). Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, rebacked retaining original spine. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - Rare travel report by the British lieutenant Thomas Lumsden, who journeyed from Meerut near Delhi down the Ganges to Calcutta, then onwards by boat to the Arabian Gulf and by land through Persia (Iran), the Caucasus, and southern Russia. A German translation appeared in the same year (and was republished in 1824). The author gives a detailed account of his voyage through the Gulf from Muskat to Bushire immediately after the British Navy's controversial 1819 campaign against Ras al-Khaimah, and notes approvingly the Arabs' kindness and hospitality toward their foreign guests ("which could hardly have been the case, had their detestation of Christians been in reality as great as the Koran tends to inspire"), as well as the entire absence of the cruel mistreatment of the sailors so common on European ships. - Plate slightly browned; a fine copy. Wilson 131. Salmaslian 135. Miansarov 3022 Lowndes 1413. Western Travellers in the Islamic World AR-2028. Cf. Griep/L. 840. Engelmann 124. Not in Macro.
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Luxart Communications Staff
Quick Series Guide to Golf Rules Quick Series Guide Ser.
Ft. Lauderdale FL: Luxart Communications. New. 1998. Spiral-bound. 2980226572 . New unread unmarked. Convenient flip-thru design and index tabs. Fits easily in a shirt pocket or a golf bag. The pages are laminated for durability. The guide to the penalties and privileges of golf. Learn the rules of golf in 20 minutes! This detailed concise guide covers the most common situations encountered on every part of the course. Increase your knowledge and settle arguments with our Golf Rules guide. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 How this guide is organized; 2 Infringements & privileges for different situations: Teeing ground - Infringements & privileges - Putting green - Improving the lie - Practice shots - Advice on the course - Pace of game - Score cards - Equipment - Striking the ball 3 Abnormal conditions of the course 4 Lost or out of bounds ball 5 Provisional ball 6 Unplayable lie 7 Obstructions - Movable and Immovable 8 Water hazard; lateral water hazard 9 Chart: Ball at rest moved by 10 Chart: Ball in motion deflected by 11 Lift a ball - Infringements & privileges 12 Place replace and drop 13 Definitions 14 Golf etiquette. ; 24 pages . Luxart Communications unknown
Bookseller reference : 5622 ISBN : 2980226572 9782980226571
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Luxart Communications Staff
Quick Series Guide Golf Log Quick Series Guide Ser.
Ft. Lauderdale FL: Luxart Communications. As New. 1998. Spiral-bound. 2922164160 . New unread unmarked. Quick statistics at your fingertips! This guide is more than a simple log book - it is a unique statistical tracking system. Documenting your game's vital statistics will allow your strengths and weaknesses to be easily identified helping you to focus on areas that need improvement. The Golf Log is a system that will allow you to track and chart up to 40 games this season. � Handicap index � Note-taking section � Stats and graphs. The first section or the Green Section contains the Game Logs: 20 pages to track 40 games plus a Handicap Index 2 pages long to calculate and log the handicap. The second section or the Blue Section consists of 8 pages of Game statistics. These 8 pages of summary grids allow you to review detailed statistics of your game. Following the grids are 6 pages of graphs allowing you to graph your score handicap and other aspects of each game. In the back of the Blue Section is a Directory consisting of 4 pages to note partners and favorite golf courses. A last section of Definitions rounds up the book.; 48 pages . Luxart Communications unknown
Bookseller reference : 3270 ISBN : 2922164160 9782922164169
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Luxart Communications
Quick Series Guide to Golf Games Quick Series Guide Ser.
Ft. Lauderdale FL: Luxart Communications. As New. 1997. Spiral-bound. 2980226556 . New. Convenient flip-thru design makes it easy for anyone to get fast reliable information at their fingertips. Golf is known as an emotional game of skill and concentration - but that doesn't mean you can't have fun. Golf Games was created to spice up your round of golf offering individual team and tournament games. Enjoy! � Game basics � Calculating point games � Tournament games � Fun games TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction � Game basics � The grid Type of game; Format; Number of players � How to calculate point games � How to settle tie games 2. 10 individual games � Bingle-Bangle-Bongle � Beat the Worst � Perfecto � Pennies � The Defender � Nine points � Shoot-out � Rabbit � The Bear � Satan's Choice 3. 3 individual or team games � Skins � Longest yard � Bridge4. 8 team games � Low Ball - Low Total � Low Ball - High Ball � Long and Short � 2-1-1 � Round Robin � Las Vegas � 3 in 1 � The Wolf 5. 4 tournament games � Odd and Even � Stableford � One Club � Scramble 6. 4 fun games � Pink Lady � I Play it Again � Play it Again Sam � The Rope. ; 20 pages . Luxart Communications unknown
Bookseller reference : 777 ISBN : 2980226556 9782980226557
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Luynes, Honoré d'Albert de.
Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. Oeuvre posthume. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1874].
3 vols. and 1 vol of plates. (2), II ff., 388 pp. (6), 222, (6) pp. (4), VI, 326 pp. With 14 lithogr. plates (4 in colour). Printed original wrappers. Folio (390 x 295 mm). Atlas: (4) pp., 85 plates (some double-page-sized), including 65 photogravures by Charles Nègre after Louis Vignes. Original half cloth portfolio. Ties. Rare travel report describing the scientific expedition to Palestine undertaken by the French archaeologist de Luynes (1802-67) in 1864. First edition, very rarely encountered complete: only two copies sold at international auctions during the past decades (both incomplete; the last set wanting plate 44: Sotheby's, 15 Oct. 2003, lot 676, GBP 8500; only 40 plates from the set, including glass and collodium negatives, fetched 21,450 EUR at Sotheby's Paris, 22 March 2003, lot 583). - The work is sought for its splendid illustrations based on photos by Henri Sauvaire and the Naval Lieutenant Louis Vignes. Vol. 1 contains the Duke's travel diary; vol. 2 contains the reports "De Petra à Palmyre" by L. Vignes and "Voyage de Jérusalem, à Karak et à Chaubak" by Mauss and Sauvaire; vol. 3 contains the "Géologie" by L. Lartet (with its own set of plates at the end). The atlas is divided into two parts with a total of 85 plates (thus complete): 67 plates pertain to the Duke's report (3 unnumbered and 64 numbered: 1 map and 1 itinerary in colours, 1 engr. double plate, and 64 photogravures by Charles Nègre after photos by Vignes (views of sites, towns, ruins, etc.); Mauss's report is illustrated by 18 numbered plates: 1 double-page-sized itinerary, 3 plans (2 in colour), and 14 lithogr. plates by Cicéri after photos by Vignes and Sauvaire (views of Karak, Zat-Raz, etc.). - Occasional slight foxing (esp. in vol. 3); plates clean and spotless throughout. A fine, complete set in the original printed wrappers as issued; text vols. are uncut and wide-margined. Röhricht (Bibl. Pal.) 515f., no. 2824. Röhricht (Pilgerreisen) 637, no. 872. Henze III, 312. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 33.
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Lyle Sandy with Andrisani John
Learning Golf: The Lyle Way The Sure and Simple Way to Play the Game
U.S.A: Harper & Row 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ken Lewis. Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Near Fine Condition Illustrations throughout by Ken Lewis. Fine tan cloth binding with green titles on spine very clean and unmarked tight & soild. Rem mk on bottom edge. Orange mark on corner of front endpaper-otherwise internals are spotless as new. A "total golf book". Lyle explains how to groove a consistently good swing offers advice on pitching chipping and putting practice exercises the rules and etiquette of the game. From grip to follow-through from power-driving to putting he shows you in practical terms how to build and improve your game. B/w illustrations throughout by Ken Lewis.7.5x9.5" tall. 189 pp. Harper & Row hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020587 ISBN : 0060160829 9780060160821
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Lyle Sandy; with John Andrisani
Learning Golf : The Lyle Way The Sure and Simple Way to Play the Game
New York:: Harper & Row Publishers 1986. A bright shiny clean square tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is only slightly rubbed with 1 tiny nick on the rear panel. No chips. No tears. NOT price clipped 17.95. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh crisp and unmarked. Illustrated with drawings diagrams and golf-swing action photographs throughout. "First U.S. Edition" is so stated with complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. NOT a book club edition. Glossary of Golfing Terms. Appendix: Sandy Lyle Profile with a list of his career victories and stats. Bound in the original beige cloth lettered in bright green on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "LEARNING GOLF : THE LYLE WAY is a total golf book. Here Lyle explains how to groove a consistently good swing offers advice on pitching chipping and putting and covers a host of other topics such as practice exercises the rules and etiquette of the game how to get youngsters started and the importance of fitness and diet. Beyond the mechanics of the swing he also discusses the ins and outs of shotmaking variations and tactical choices. From grip to follow-through from power-driving to putting. he shows you in practical terms how to build and improve your game.". First Printing of the First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Ken Lewis drawings. 189pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Harper & Row, Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005405 ISBN : 0060160829 9780060160821
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Lyle, Sandy with John Andrisani
Learning golf: the Lyle way : the sure and simple way to play the game
3rd impression. Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/VG. 12959. eng
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LYON Cécilia
Le Golf de Valescure à Saint-Raphaël - Histoire d'un riche passé
Cannes, Imprimerie seaCOM, 2015, in-4 br. (24 x 30), 143 p., préface de Georges Ginesta et de François Naumann, abondante iconographie en n. et en coul., couverture à rabats, état de neuf.
Bookseller reference : QWA-18982
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Lyon, George Francis.
A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20. Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Sudan, and of the Course of the Niger. London, John Murray, 1821.
4to. XII, 383, (1) pp. Folding engr. map frontispiece ("Map of a Route through the Regency of Tripoli and Kingdom of Fezzan"), 17 chromolithogr. plates drawn by Lyon and lithographed on stone by G. Harley or D. Dighton, M. Gauci, as well as a text illustration. Modern red cloth with gilt-stamped black spine labels. First edition of Lyon's account of his botched Timbuktu expedition, finely illustrated with 17 plates (created by M. Gauci and D. Dighton after Lyon's own drawings) showing the Arabian desert culture. - In 1818, G. F. Lyon (1795-1832) was sent with surgeon-explorer Joseph Ritchie by Sir John Barrow to find the course of the Niger River and the location of Timbuktu. A year later they had only got as far as Murzouk where they both fell ill. Ritchie never recovered and died, but Lyon survived and continued his travels. After a year he returned to Tripoli, the expedition having failed utterly. Upon return, he was promoted and in 1821 - the same year this book was published - given the command of HMS Hecla on his second attempt. Lyon was reputed to have a genuine informed interest in the culture and inhabitants of the lands he visited. Wearing Arab/Muslim dress and speaking fluent Arabic, he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa. "An important work. Lyon joined the British government scientific mission headed by Ritchie, taking place of Captain Frederick Marryat. They met at Tripoli in November 1818. Ritchie died in 1819 and Lyon took over command of the expedition. He returned to London in July, 1820. Shortly after that he joined Parry's arctic expedition. The fine plates illustrate mostly costumes, and are all after drawings by Lyon" (Blackmer). Fergus Fleming characterizes the relationship between Ritchie and Lyon, who was a "moustachioed extrovert aged twenty-two [...] Lyon was not, on the face of it, suited to African exploration". By his own confession, his main interests were "balls, riding, dining & making a fool of myself". - The plates include: Costume of Tripoli (2 types), Triumphal Arch - Tripoli, Arabs Exercising, The Castle of Bonjem, A Sand Wind on the Desert, Piper and Dancer - Tripoli, The Castle of Morzouk, Tuarick in a Shirt of Leather & Tuarick of Aghades, Tuaricks of Ghraat, Costume of Soudan, Negresses of Soudan, Tibboo Woman in Full Dress, Tibboo of Gatrone, A Tuarick on his Maherrie, camel Conveying a Bride to her husband, A Slave Kaffle. - Offsetting on title from map; map tears repaired. Altogether in very good condition. Blackmer 1044. Abbey Travel 304. Howgego II, L52 (p. 376). Henze III, 318. Lipperheide Ma 14 (note). Colas 1920. Hiler 556. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 397. Lambert I, 147. Tooley 311. Fergus Fleming, Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, 2001, pp. 956. Brunet III, 1254. Graesse IV, 312.
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Léon des Avanchers, Père (born Michel Rey-Golliet), explorer and missionary (1825-1879).
Autograph letter signed ("F. Léon des Avanchers, religieux capucin, Missionnaire apostolique aux Gallas [Affrique centrale]"). Aden, Arabie Heureuse, 22. IX. 1850.
4 pp. on folded bifolium. On blue paper. 4to. Long, interesting and unpublished letter, closely written over four pages, to the French minister Gustav Armand Henri, Comte de Reiset (1821-1905). The twenty-five-year-old missionary, writing from the south-western tip of the Arabian peninsula, describes himself as "perdu au milieu des déserts et dont toute l'imagination est absorbée par l'étude des langues". The capucin friar travelled along the coast of the Red Sea, visiting Tor, Yambo, Medina and Jeddah; the settlements he encounters are wretched hamlets on the edge of the desert. "À Gedda les musulmans font voir le tombeau de notre grande mère Ève. Selon eux, nos premiers parens après leurs chutes vinrent faire pénitence de leurs fautes à La Mecque. Ève mourut à Gedda. La tête de notre première mère repose sur une montagne et ses deux pieds sur deux autres collines voisines et sur son nombril ils ont élevé une pyramide [...]". Léon writes that he feared he would end up eaten by the fish, but finally did arrive in Abyssinia after a 20-day voyage. He continues to describe a beautiful mountaineous landscape peopled by a few Bedouin tribes and evokes their hard life, the cry of the jackals, and the devastation of crops by soldiers and by apes. He states the price of wheat, horses, and farming animals, describes the mining of gold, silver and iron and summarizes the situation in Abyssinia, since the former empire was overthrown by "la lance du farouche Gallas". He describes the savage manners of a country at war: the enslavement of women and children, the emasculation of men, and the rampant diseases. He also explains how the country first seized by the Turks passed to France, and provides his minister with first-hand geopolitical intelligence: "L'Anglais travaille ce pays. Un consul britannique y rôde en tout sens. Mais les Anglais y sont détestés à cause de leur religion. Mais cependant que l'on y fasse attention. L'Abyssinie plutôt que de vouloir subir le joug turke se mettra à la disposition de la première puissance qui voudra l'exploiter. La Sardaigne a envoyé ici un ancien missionnaire pour déterminer Oubié ou un roi de l'Abyssinie à lui donner une partie de la côte pour y colliniser fiat lux [...]". - Léon des Avanchers, friend of the French explorer Antoine d'Abadie, was a missionary in Abyssinia, a geographer, cartographer and explorer of East Africa, and a correspondent of the Società Geografica Italiana. He is known to have bought many slaves to free them and was the founder of the first Catholic church in the Seychelles. - Some original corrections and insertions. Traces of original folds. Well-preserved.
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Löffler, Eduard.
Die österreichische Pferde-Ankaufs-Mission unter dem k. k. Obersten Ritter Rudolf von Brudermann, in Syrien, Palästina und der Wüste, in den Jahren 1856 und 1857. Troppau, Otto Schüler, 1860.
8vo. XV, (1), 240 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with handwritten title label to spine. First edition. - Lively report of an Austrian horse-buying expedition in Syria, Palestine, and the Palestinian desert, carrious out under the Austrian colonel Rudolf von Brudermann, who was to purchase Arabian horses so as to enhance the stock of the Austrian-Hungarian cavalry. The author Löffler was among the participants of the expedition: his first-hand travelogue describes the itinerary and the local customs as well as the newly acquired horses. - A few contemporary ownership stamps of the Stuttgart Museum's library in blue ink to several pages. King Wilhelm I of Württemberg was a famous enthusiast of Arabian horses: his stud in Marbach, just north of the royal residence of Stuttgart, was the first Arabian stud in Europe. - First and last third slightly waterstained. Boyd/P. 75. Kayser XVI, 45.
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