‎Golf‎

‎Vayssettes, [Eugène] / Antoine d'Alger (transl.).‎

‎[Al-Awzan wa-al-akyal]. Système légal des poids et mesures, traduit en arabe. Algiers & Constantine, Bastide & Amavet, 1858.‎

‎Small 8vo. (2), 30 pp. Lithographed and illustrated throughout. Original yellow printed wrappers. Lithographed in Arabic throughout (save for the French wrapper-title): a rare official manual of the legal system of weights and measures used in French Algeria, intended for Arab-French schools. The booklet was drawn up by the school principal Eugène Vayssettes and translated by an Arab known only as Antoine, after an earlier effort by the military interpreter Ahmed ben Lefgoun had been condemned by the board as too complicated and linguistically obscure. The illustrations show various receptacles and measuring units. - In excellent condition. OCLC 493647389.‎

‎Venturi Ken with Al Barkow‎

‎The Venturi Analysis Learning Better Golf from the Champions‎

‎U.S.A.: Atheneum 1982. pages dull yellowed. binding loose and hinges broken. edge wear with dents tears chips. corners dented creased and split. covers worn dented creased scratched scuffed ink rubbed/chipped ect. back cover yellowed. covers creased along spine edge from use. spine edges worn creased dented chipped. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Unknown Edition Printing. Trade Paperback. Fair. Atheneum Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 100132 ISBN : 0689706332 9780689706332

‎Vernet, Antoine-Charles-Horace (Carle).‎

‎Chef de Mamelucks. Paris, Jazet and Bance & Aumont, [1821].‎

‎Aquatint print (image size: 485 x 390 mm, not including title and imprint; paper size: 55 x 45 cm), engraved by Jean Pierre Jazet after Vernet. Striking aquatint of a Mamluk leader by the acclaimed French artist Carle Vernet (1758-1836), best known for his depiction of horses and war scenes. The Mamluk leader is depicted in traditional garb with a scimitar dangling from a robe in his hand, on a horse, with a fighting scene in the background in front of a Middle Eastern town. The engraver, Jean Pierre Jazet (1788-1871), must have been a skilled artist himself. - A lithographed copy, retaining some of the original splendour, was published in Vienna by Joseph Trentsensky a few years later. - A fine copy in a crisp impression. Dayot, Carle Vernet (1925), no. 102. Nagler XXII, p. 440. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 617.‎

‎Vernet, Horace / Goupil, [Frédéric Auguste Antoine].‎

‎Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient. Rédigé par M. Goupil Fesquet. Orné de seize dessins. Paris, Challamel, [1843].‎

‎Large 8vo. 228 pp. (misnumbered "328"). With lithogr. frontispiece and 15 lithogr. plates, all in beautiful contemporary colour, raised in gum Arabic, with tissue guards. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine. First edition; republished in Brussels in 1844. The artist Goupil-Fesquet (1817-78) accompanied Vernet to Egypt and Syria, where is is known to have taken the first dagerreotypes in the area - only two months after the discovery of photography was announced in 1839. This work is an account of that famous journey which became a landmark in the history of photography in the Near East. In addition to his description of the famous tour, Goupil discusses the oriental decorative arts. - Strong foxing throughout. Blackmer 718. Weber I, 309. Not in Ibrahim-Hilmy.‎

‎Veron J. Michael‎

‎The Caddie‎

‎New York: Thomas Dunne Books 2005. 292 pp. Pb. VG. Thomas Dunne Books Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 130813 ISBN : 0312325622 9780312325626

‎Veyssière de la Croze, Maturin.‎

‎Historische Beschreibung des Zustandes der christlichen Religion in Ethiopien und Armenien. Danzig, Johann Heinrich Rüdiger, 1740.‎

‎8vo. (16), 344 pp. Modern marbled calf with gilt title to spine. First German edition. "Il La Croze era bibliotecario del re di Prussia. Il primo libro di quest' istoria narra le origini e il progresso del monofisismo, il secondo contiene la relazione di Etiopia del patriarca Bermudez, il terzo racconta il progresso e la decadenza della influenza portoghese in Etiopia" (Fumagalli). - Some brownstaining throughout. Fromm 26499. Mulsow, Drei Ringe, p. 150. Cf. Cioranescu 35510. Fumagalli 2268. Gay 2691 (1739 first French ed.). Not in Kainbacher or Paulitschke.‎

‎Vidal, F[ederico] S.‎

‎The Oasis of Al-Hasa. [Dhahran, Saudi Arabia], Aramco, 1955.‎

‎8vo. (16), 216 pp. With a folding map in the lower cover. Original printed cloth. First edition of this study of the traditional historical region of Al-Hasa near Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, created a World Heritage site in 2018. The anthropologist and surveyor Federico S. Vidal, an Aramco employee, would develop his work into a 3-volume Harvard Ph.D. thesis in 1964. - Handwritten ownership of Hazel D. Blair to front free endpaper. An excellent copy of this scarce work.‎

‎Vien, Joseph-Marie.‎

‎Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque: Mascarade turque faite à Rome par Messieurs les pensionnaires de l'Académie de France et leurs amis au carnaval de l'année 1748. [Paris, ca. 1749].‎

‎Folio (368 x 255 mm). Etched and engraved title and 31 etched plates (numbered 1-30 and one unnumbered). Contemporary French red morocco gilt, arms of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac on covers (Olivier 407, fer 15), within gilt border of Richelieu’s repeated motif of two crossed batons intertwined with an ornamental “R”, repeated with coronet within arabesques at the corners, spine gilt in compartments with same motif. First edition; a large-paper copy with Richelieu's arms. Vien's charming series of etchings depicts the costumes worn by members of the French Academy in Rome for a "Turkish masquerade" held during the Carnival celebrations of 1748. This masque is an outstanding example of the influence the orient exerted on western style during the late-Baroque era, showcasing the degree to which cultural transfer was possible and even a matter of enthusiastic adoption by the west but little more than half a century after the siege of Vienna. The elaborate masquerades at the French Academy constituted an important fixture in the Roman calendar. As director of the Academy, Vien organised the masque of 1748, the fabulous costumes of which are presented here, designed, drawn and etched by Vien himself. The costumes in the present suite are "a curious mixture of authentic Turkish habits and European invention" (Blackmer), showing the stock figures of the Turkish court liberally enhanced with elements of Vien's own concoction. The fantastical nature of the creations is a far cry from the sober neo-classical style with which Vien is commonly associated (his pupils included some of the foremost artists of the period, notably Jacques-Louis David). Vien's original drawings and oil paintings for the Mascarade are held by the Musée du Petit Palais; they were exhibited in Berlin in 1989. - Some marginal dampstaining and foxing, binding rebacked retaining most of original spine, corners repaired. This copy commanded $26,000 at Christie's New York in 1997. - Provenance: from the library of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac (1696-1788), a close friend of Louis XV of France, though critical of Madame de Pompadour. He is supposedly the model for the character of Valmont in Choderlos de Laclos' "Les Liaisons dangereuses". Atabey 1288. Lipperheide Sm 10. Colas 3005 (suggesting the plates are un-numbered). Hiler 879. Le Blanc II, 122, 8-39. Cohen/R. 1014f. Brunet V, 1211. Cf. Blackmer 1730. Cf. Gay 3644. Graesse VI/2, 311 (Paris, Bassan et Poignan).‎

‎Vigeland, Carl‎

‎Stalking the Shark : Pressure and Passion on the Pro Golf Tour‎

‎No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 224pp.‎

‎VILLA GABRIELE‎

‎VILLA D'ESTE 1926-1986 UNA STORIA, UN MITO.‎

‎8°, CARTONATO EDITORIALE CON LOGO OVALE APPLICATO AL PIATTO ANTERIORE E TITOLO AL DORSO, SOVR. COLOR ARGENTO CON FOTO A COLORI, RISGUARDI CON FOTO B.N., PG. 128 (4), 78 FOTO B.N. N.T. E DIVERSE A COLORI N.T. NON NUMERATE, EDITO DAL CIRCOLO GOLF IN OCCASIONE DEL 60° ANNO DI FONDAZIONE, BUONO\OTTIMO STATO. (C)‎

‎Villiers, Allan.‎

‎Sons of Sindbad. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1940.‎

‎4to. XIV, 346 pp. With end-paper maps. Blue cloth with gilt embossed titles to spine. First edition. An account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, around the coasts of Arabia and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; pearling in the Arabian Gulf; and the life of the shipmasters, the mariners and merchants of Kuwait. With particular attention to Basra, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Muscat. Numerous black and white photographs by the author, the master mariner and adventurer Allan Villiers (1903-82). - A fine copy. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2250.‎

‎Vilnay, Zev.‎

‎Ha-Ma'arakhah le-shihrur Yisra'el. Jerusalem, Ha-Lishkah ha-rashit shel ha-Keren ha-kayemet le-Yisra'el, [1949].‎

‎8vo. 160 pp. Illustrated. Original pale blue wrappers titled in navy. First edition of "The Campaign for the Liberation of Israel": a rare publication on the First Arab-Israeli war by Israeli geographer Zev Vilnay (1900-88). Better known for his lectures on outdoor hiking and touring in Israel, Vilnay also served as a military topographer in Haganah and later the Israel Defense forces. His work, written in Hebrew, is profusely illustrated with maps showing transportation corridors, troop movements, and military and civilian installations. Vilnay's maps depict battles in and around Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, the Upper and Eastern Galilee, and many more, discussing strategy and the use of infrastructure and landscape in waging war. An interesting geographer's view of Israeli military action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. - Light wear to spine. OCLC 19195703.‎

‎VINCENT Jean‎

‎BORD SUR BORD . De Vannes à Houat .‎

‎1959 Jaquette Couverture rigide 1959 1959 Chez l ' auteur , 1959 , in4° broché , jaquette illustrée . Illustrations noir et sépia de l'auteur . Couverture légèrement défraichie restaurée . Edition à tirage limité numérotée . Envoi de l' auteur . Un dessin original en dernière page . Langue: Français‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : M17708

‎Vincenzo Maria de S. Caterina da Siena.‎

‎Il Viaggio all'Indie Orientali. Con le osservationi, e successi net medesimo, i costumi, kiti di varie natione, & reconditissimi arcani de gentili; cavati consomma diligenza da loro scritti, con la descrittione degl'animali quadrupedi, serpenti, ucelli, e piante di quel mondo nuovo, con le loro virtu singolari. Venice, Apresso Giacomo Zattoni, 1678.‎

‎4to. (24), 516, (20) pp. With woodcut printer's device on title page and several woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary limp vellum. Second edition of one of the most important 17th-century Italian travel reports of the Middle East and India. Vincenzo Maria (Murchio) was a Carmelite missionary with a keen eye and much interest to record manners, customs, and natural history. Travelling through Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Persia, Arabia before arriving in India, he returned to his homeland via Muscat. His book is far more then an intinerary of the Carmelite mission to India: book I recounts the journey to Malabar, also mentioning the Middle East, Mecca, Arabia, religion and other subjects. Book two is about the Christians of St. Thomas; book three is on political, religious and social life of Malabar. Book IV, probably prepared with the aid of Father Matthew, describes the plants of Malabar and the return trip to Europe. With a description of Goa. "Perhaps the most important of the 17th century Italian travellers" (Atabey). - A good copy with slight staining and soiling. Atabey 1297 (3rd edition). Streit V, 538. Cat. NHSM I, p. 240. Graesse VI, 327. Not in Blackmer or Weber.‎

‎Visconti, Giammartino Arconati.‎

‎Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea (1865). (Including:) Atlante per servire al Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea. Torino, Vincenzo Bona, 1872.‎

‎Royal 4to (31 x 27 cm). 2 vols. 439; 46, (2 blank) pp. (vol. II, pp. 1-2 blank). With 2 title-pages printed in red and black, each with the author's wood-engraved decorated GAV monogram and motto; vol. 1 with 2 folding lithographed maps (1 printed in black, brown and blue, with the route coloured by hand in red, of the Sinai Peninsula; the other in black and white, of the city of Petra); 40 mounted albumen prints after paintings by Emile Pierre Metzmacher (mainly 11.5 x 16 cm), individually mounted with letterpress captions on the mount; and 2 engraved plates; vol. 2 with 6 numbered engraved plates of molluscs and insects. Set in roman and italic types, with incidental Arabic, and sans-serif Greek and Latin capitals to render ancient inscriptions. The Diario in the original publisher's maroon cloth with the author's crowned monogram gold-blocked on the front board and spine, and blind-blocked on the back board, with the title in gold on the spine. The Atlante in the original publisher's blue cloth, with the author's crowned monogram and the title gold-blocked on the front board, and the monogram in a larger size blind-blocked on back board. Both volumes with gilt edges, orange endpapers and with tissue guard leaves tipped in, protecting the albumen prints and engraved plates. Rare first and only edition of an Italian account of an 1865 expedition through "Arabia Petrea", meaning the Sinai Peninsula and adjoining parts of what are now Israel and Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra, now in Jordan, where parts of "Raiders of the Lost Arc" were filmed (the spectacular ancient buildings are carved into the solid rock walls of the cliffs and probably date from the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD). - The photographically reproduced paintings show the author on camelback, numerous Bedouins, Arabs, Egyptians and Ethiopians as well as archaeological sites, monuments and topographic views. The plates in the second volume depict molluscs and insects, reflecting the author’s own research interests in the field of natural history, in addition to archaeology. The typography has been designed to suit the antiquarian subject, with Louis Perrin's Augustaux roman capitals on the title-pages, the main text set in what would then have been considered an "antique" style (types influenced by pre-1800 models) and sans-serif capitals used to represent the ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. The author quite literally put his stamp on the work, with his crowned monogram not only on the title-page and binding, but also embossed in the paper, where it serves as a sort of watermark. - The book does not indicate the size of the edition, but since most of the illustrations are original albumen prints, there cannot have been many copies produced. The present copy may be a more deluxe binding than the Blackmer copy, also inscribed by the author to a woman, for it was in green cloth with only Visconti's single initial "V" on the front board. The volume with the Diario is a presentation copy with the author’s presentation inscription to a woman named Josephine. - Bindings slightly worn, the blue cloth a little stained. First and last leaves of both volumes browned, some foxing, some fly-leaves with a tear (not affecting the plates), the map of Petra stained due to oxidation, with some browning caused by the albumen prints on the facing leaves, but overall in good condition. Blackmer 1742. Gay 3650 bis. Macro 2254 (not noting plates): Not in Howgego, Ibrahim-Hilmy, or Weber.‎

‎Visscher.‎

‎Magni Turcarum Domini Imperium. Amsterdam, c. 1680.‎

‎Engraved map (51 x 84 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Large map of the Turkish Empire in original colour stretching from the Gulf of Oman to Morocco. Al-Qasimi 78; Tibbetts 154.‎

‎Visser Reona Children of the Mississippi Gulf Coast‎

‎Story of a Storm: A Book about Hurricane Katrina‎

‎Very Good. Used book in very good condition. Some cover wear may contain a few marks. Ex-library with the usual stamps. 100% guaranteed. 061520 unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 1893062864[vg] ISBN : 1893062864 9781893062863

‎Visser Reona Children of the Mississippi Gulf Coast‎

‎Story of a Storm: A Book about Hurricane Katrina‎

‎Quail Ridge Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from Reno NV. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! Quail Ridge Press unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : GRP96417301 ISBN : 1893062864 9781893062863

‎Vivien Saunders‎

‎The golf handbook for woman The complete guide to improving your game‎

‎Il libro all’interno è illustrato con delle fotografie e dei disegni a colori. La copertina in cartone di colore celeste e giallo è illustrata con delle fotografie a colori, si presenta leggermente scurita dal tempo ed ha il bordo stanco. Le pagine all’interno sono in ottime condizioni. Numero pagine 224. USATO‎

‎Vogel, Antje‎

‎Das grosse Buch für kleine Golfer‎

‎Münster, Coppenrath, 1989. Ln, tadelloses Exemplar‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 05965

‎Vogüé, Melchior de.‎

‎Le Temple de Jerusalem. Monographie du Haram-ech-Chérif. Suivie d'un essai sur la topographie de la Ville-Sainte. Paris, Noblet & Baudry, 1864.‎

‎Large folio (330 x 448 mm). VIII, 142 pp. With 57 text illustrations, 37 numbered plates and a final extra heliogravure plate. Contemporary marbled half calf. Marbled endpapers. A study by Melchior, marquis de Vogüé (1829-1916), of the decorative interior art of the Mosque of Omar, with colour reproductions of details of painted entablements, cupolas, and other mural decorations, of the enameled porcelain ornament, and of stained glass windows. Also includes details of sculptured pilasters, capitals, entablements, etc. - Waterstained throughout. OCLC 2227954.‎

‎Volkswagenwerk AG Öffetnlichkeitsarbeit‎

‎Presseinformation: Golf GTI 16 V, Scirocco GTX 16 V. Mit Broschüre "16-Ventiler" u. "Golf syncro".‎

‎Wolfsburg, Selbstverlag, 1985. 9 technische Fotos u. 25 Fotos m. Außenansichten der Autos in Schwarz-Weiß auf Hochglanzfotopapier (24x18 cm), 31 S.; 11 S.; 15 S., 2 Original-Broschuren u. ein eingebundener Original-Kartonband in einer zweiflügeligen Mappe mit je einem Einschub für die losen Fotos. Zustand 2.‎

‎Dreisprachig: deutsch, englisch, französisch.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : F0213

‎Volney, C[onstantin] F[rançois Chasseboeuf, Comte de].‎

‎Simplification des langues orientales, ou méthode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues Arabe, Persane et Turque avec des caractères Européens. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an III [= 1794/95].‎

‎8vo. (2), 135, (3) pp. With 3 folding tables and 1 engraved plate. Contemporary wrappers with printed spine-label. Only edition of this introduction to Arabic, written by the Comte de Volney (1757-1820) as history professor at the newly-founded École normale, immediately after the end of the Terreur and his release from prison following the fall of Robespierre. In spite of its wide-ranging title, the book comprises essentially an Arabic grammar and a collection of Arabic proverbs; the long introductory chapter has been hailed a model of style. Volney had learned Arabic in 1782 in preparation of a long journey through Egypt and Syria. The work displays his ingenious method of simplifying the study of Arabic, Persian and Turkish by transliterating the alphabets into European characters. The tables give the Arabic alphabet, the conjugation of regular verbs, and instructions on how to write Arabic letters by hand, as well as the Arabic alphabet in European characters intended for merchants travelling to Asia and Africa. With a section of Arabian proverbs included as samples. - Untrimmed in the original grey temporary wrappers as issued; a few pages uncut. A good copy of this important work. Provenance: from the collection of the psychoanalyst and bibliophile Jacques Lacan (1901-81). Gay 3429. Brunet V, 1351. Cioranescu 663767. Monglond III, 481. OCLC 21978700.‎

‎Vossius, Isaac.‎

‎De Nili et aliorum fluminum origine. Den Haag, Adrian Vlacq, 1666.‎

‎4to. (16), 170, (4) pp., final blank f. With 2 large folding maps. Contemporary vellum. First edition. - Early study on the sources of the Nile by the Dutch classicist and librarian Isaac Voss (1618-89). The maps show north-eastern Africa from Zanzibar to the Nile Delta (with large parts of the Arabian Peninsula) and a detail thereof, focusing on the tributary region of Lake Tana in Dembiya, Ethiopia. Also includes an "Appendix ad scriptum de natura et proprietate Lucis. Accedit epistola ad amicum, de potentiis quibusdam mechanicis" (p. 77-170), an early and little-received discussion of the nature of light, refraction, colours, optics, mechanics, and even comets (for a note on Voss's work on Snel's law of refraction of light rays, cf. DSB XII, 501). - Slight browning, spine defective. Early 19th c. title inked to corner of upper cover. Provenance: 1) in the collection of the cleric and abolitionist Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), later Archdeacon of the East Riding, with his 1804 ownership to t. p.; 2) in 1810/11 the book was in the collection of Percy B. Shelley's friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862), famously expelled from Oxford together with the young poet for having published the treatise, "The Necessity of Atheism" (his ownership "T. Jeff.n Hogg, Univ. Coll., Oxon." on pastedown); 3) in 1898 the volume passed into the library of the Swiss-born U.S. officer Edward Louis Berthoud (1828-1910), best known for his role as chief engineer and secretary of the Colorado Central Railroad during its expansion throughout Colorado in the 1870s (his stamp and ms. ownership to t. p. and the reverse of the plates); 4) acquired on 12 Feb. 1903 by the Colorado chemist Charles Skeele Palmer (1858-1939) (his ownership on t. p.); 5) Ida May Lewis (ownership, dated 1945, on pastedown). With irreverent ms. notes at the end of the dedication (to King Louis XIV) by either Berthoud or Palmer: "Vossius give us a rest"; under the author's signature: "A Brick". Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 312. OCLC 8556942. Cf. Gay 2317 (Paris ed.).‎

‎VV.Aa.‎

‎ESPAÑA HOYO A HOYO. LOS MEJORES CAMPOS DE GOLF ESPAÑOLES.‎