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Boraie Sherif ed
Oriental Costumes
Cairo: Zeitouna 1988. The Bedestan Collection. "Limited edition of 2000 copies. Copy No. 1735". Introduction by R.P.A. Dozy from his introduction to Dictionnaire Détaillé des Noms des Vêtements chez les Arabes. Small price sticker on back of stiff wrappers. Beautiful color reproductions of works by Emile Prisse d'Avennes Jean-Baptiste van Moor and anonymous artists. Includes pictures of inhabitants of the Levant Egypt and Turkey. 72 pages. 24 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition Book/Dj: VG/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Cairo: Zeitouna, 1988 paperback
Bookseller reference : 6709
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Borchsenius Poul.
And it was Morning: The Story of the Jews in our Time.
London George Allen & Unwin 1962. Octavo. Pp. 218 6 publisher's catalogue. Plus 12 plates with numerous halftone photographic illustrations printed on different paper bound in. With one map index. Hardcover original decorated red cloth spine gilt. In fine condition. ~ First English edition. Translated from the Danish by Reginald Spink. With a nice collection of historic photographs several from the Sinai Campaign. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0818
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Boscovich, Rugjer Josip.
Giornale di un viaggio da Costantinopoli in Polonia [...]. Bassano & Venice, Remondini, 1784.
4to. XXIV, 231 pp., final blank page. Original Italian carta rustica binding, spine reinforced with paper and bearing a handwritten title-label. First Italian edition of this detailed report of a journey from Constantinople to Poland via Bulgaria and Moldavia. A snapshot of the Ottoman Balkans and their varied inhabitants in the mid-18th century, enriched with an intriguing description of the ruins of Troy. - The journey was untertaken by the Jesuit polymath Boscovich (1711-87) together with the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte Sir James Porter (1710-86). Boscovich, who is today celebrated for having anticipated features of atomic physics as early as 1758 in his "Philosophiae naturalis theoria", had travelled to Constantinople in 1761 with the Venetian ambassador Pierre Correro to observe the transit of Venus. As he arrived late and failed to observe the transit, Boscovich accompanied Sir James on his return to England via Poland, the outbreak of war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire having rendered other routes impassable. From Poland Boscovich then proceeded to St Petersburg, where he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Ill health soon compelled him to return to Italy. - Couched as a travel diary, the account covers the entirety of Boscovich's journey to Poland from 25 May to 15 July 1762, describing in detail the small villages and towns he visited. From Ragusan merchants to Greek princes, and the quality of 'eau de vie' in Bulgar villages, Boscovich notes details with the detached skill of the scientist. The account of the 'mihmandar', the Ottoman official assigned to act as a guide-cum-minder for diplomatic travellers within the empire, is a particularly substantial one. The work concludes with an account of the ruins of Troy as observed by Correro in 1761, as well as a brief summary of Boscovich's forthcoming magnum opus, the five-volume "Opera pertinentia ad opticam et astronomiam" (1785). - The "Journal" was first published in French in 1772; the present edition is the first in the original Italian. An alleged 1772 Italian edition recorded by De Backer/S. appears to be a ghost. - Hinges and head of spine worn. Binding somewhat foxed and loosened in places. A light waterstain to the lower corner of a few leaves. Acquired in 1890 from the Italian bookseller Franceschini as noted on front pastedown. Untrimmed, wide-margined copy. De Backer/S. I, 1844, 87. DSB II, 331. Whyte, Boscovich, p. 220. OCLC 20041024. Cf. Atabey 137 (1772 ed.). Not in Blackmer or Weber.
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BOTTERO Jean
"Babylone et la Bible; entretiens avec Hélène Monsacré. "
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1994. 14 x 22, 319 pp., broché, très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 102.958
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BOTTERO Jean
"Mésopotamie; l'écriture, la raison et les dieux. Bibliothèque des histoires."
Paris, Gallimard, 1987. 14 x 22, 373 pp., quelques illustrations, broché, bon état (couverture légèrement insolée).
Bookseller reference : 102.959 ISBN : 2070708799
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BOTTERO Jean, HERRENSCHMIDT Clarisse, VERNANT Jean-Pierre
L'orient ancien et nous. L'écriture, la raison, les dieux.
Paris: Albin Michel, 1996 in-8, 229 pages. Bibliographie. Broché, très bon état. Edition originale.
Bookseller reference : 1225673
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Botero, Giovanni.
La seconda [terza, quarta] parte delle relationi universali. Brescia, appresso la Compagnia Bresciana, 1599.
4to. 3 parts in one vol. (8), 227, (1) pp. (12), 268 pp. (8), 112 pp. With 3 woodcut printer's devices to title pages and 9 engraved maps in the text of part one. 17th-century vellum mit ms. spine title. First Brescia edition. - Second, third and fourth volume of this famous geographical treatise by Giovanni Botero (1544-1617), with the map of Arabia on p. 173 and a map of Persia (including the north-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula) on p. 133. Originally conceived as a statistical examination of the ecumenical propagation of Christianity, in subsequent editions the work gradually expanded until it formed a comprehensive repertory of anthropology and geography, with systematic accounts of the physical properties, demographics, economic resources, military power, and political constitution of all states of the world. - Wants the first part, which would have formed a separate volume (536 pp.). Vellum damaged at lower edge. Interior shows some browning with occasional worming to margins; a few contemporary marginalia. BM-STC Italian 122. Adams B 2559. Edit 16, CNCE 7301.
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Botero, Giovanni.
Relationi universali. Arricchite di molte cosse rare, e memorabili. E con ultima mano dell'autore. Venice, Giunta, 1640.
4to. (8), 800, (36) pp. With 4 folding engr. plates (Europe, Asia, Africa, America). - (Bound with) II: The same. Della ragioni di stato, libri dieci. Ibid., 1640. (8), 264 pp. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title. Famous geographical treatise by Giovanni Botero (1544-1617), with Arabia pictured on both the Asia and the Africa plate, and discussions of the Arabian Peninsula (pp. 120 ff.), the Middle East (pp. 123 ff.), "Arabia troglodotica" [!] (p. 130 f.), Egypt (pp. 131 ff.). Originally conceived as a statistical examination of the ecumenical propagation of Christianity, in subsequent editions the work gradually expanded until it formed a comprehensive repertory of anthropology and geography, with systematic accounts of the physical properties, demographics, economic resources, military power, and political constitution of all states of the world. - Appended to this is Botero's famous treatise "Della ragion di Stato" (The Reason of State), in which Botero argues - against Machiavelli - that a prince's power must be based on some form of consent of his subjects, and princes must make every effort to win the people's affection and admiration. - Some browning throughout; occasional insignificant edge defects and small tears; traces of old library stamps. Graesse I, 504. Cf. Cox I, 71.
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Bottero Jean
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Baltimore MD U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" Tall. Johns Hopkins University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 002572 ISBN : 0801868645 9780801868641
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BOUDOT-LAMOTTE (Antoine)
Ahmad Shawqi, l'homme et l'oeuvre. Tome I et II.
Université de Lille III, 1974. 2 vol. in-8 brochés, 865 pp. en continu, IV planches en noir hors-texte, index, bibliographie, chronologie.
Bookseller reference : 593138
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BOUDOT-LAMOTTE (Antoine)
Contribution à l'étude de l'archerie musulmane. Principalement d'après le manuscrit d'Oxford bodléienne Huntington n°264.
Damas, Institut français, 1968. In-8 br., XIX-183 pp., 15 planches de fig., reprod. et ill. photogr. en noir. Envoi autographe de l'auteur.
Bookseller reference : 593016
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BOUTHOUL B.
Le grand maître des Assassins.
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1936 in-8, 232 pages, bibliographie. Broché, manque de papier en queue.
Bookseller reference : 1219654
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Boulainvilliers, Henri de.
The Life of Mahomet. London, W. Hinchliffe, 1731.
8vo. (8), VIII, 400 pp. Modern half calf with giltstamped title to spine. First English edition. Book 1 contains a description of Arabia, as well as of Mecca and Medina; books 2 and 3 contain Mohamed's genealogy and biography. The historian Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722), translator of Spinoza's "Ethics", wrote on topics so diverse as astrology, physics, philosophy and theology, though many of his writings were not printed until after his death. For his neutral reasoning, his works were cited by subsequent writers who would prove influential in the development of Western political thought and historical research. - Short tear to title page repaired; some browning and brownstaining throughout. From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and copious notes laid in. Chauvin XI, p. 149, no. 477. BMC 3:1075.635. Cf. Aboussouan 153 (Amsterdam, 1731). NYPL Arabia coll. 164.
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Bounni Adnan & Al As'Ad Khaled
Palmyra - History Monuments & Museum
Damascas: Not Stated 1997. Wear to the covers else an internally clean copy of this book which offers a guided tour and history to the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra as it was in 1997. 139 pages. Illustrated with b/w and colour photographs. Third Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Not Stated Paperback
Bookseller reference : 065274
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Bourgoin, Jules.
Les Arts Arabes. Architecture - Menuiserie - Bronzes - Plafonds - Revêtements - Marbres - Pavements - Vitraux - etc. Paris, A. Morel & Cie., 1873.
Folio (360 x 454 mm). (4), 3, (1), 4, (4), VIII, 28 pp. With 51 engr. plates and 41 chromolithographic plates. Contemporary half calf on 5 raised bands and giltstamped title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Only edition of this rare collection of stunning ornamental plates, showing Islamic architectural designs and decorative details thereof. With accompanying text by Bourgoin (1838-1908), who had spent years in Egypt as an architect and made extensive travels to Syria and Palestine. This monumental work, with a preface by E. Viollet-le-Duc, first made Arabic art widely known in Europe and was immediately recognized as a classic. Included with this set are three original pen-and-ink sketches of the geometrical mosaic designs in the Alcazar of Sevilla, as well as a sketch of western gothic architecture. - Some foxing throughout as usual, but mainly confined to margins. Binding slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities; still an excellent copy. Blackmer 185. Gay 3435. OCLC 558156807.
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Bournoutian George A. trans
The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete Patmut'iwn of Kat'oghikos Abraham Kretats'i
Costa Mesa CA: Mazda Publishers 1999. Annotated translation from the critical text with an introduction and commentary. Armenian Studies series number 1. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. A history of northern Iran and Transcaucasia during the reign of Nader Shah written in Armenian by the Supreme Patriarch of the Armenian Church. 191 pages. 23.5 cm. Hardcover. ISBN: 1-568-59082-2 . Catalogs: ARMENIA. Costa Mesa CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6798 ISBN : 1568590822 9781568590820
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Boustani Rafic & Philippe Fargues
The Atlas of the Arab World: Geopolitics and Society
New York: Facts on File 1991. Charts. Maps. Index. 144 pages. 29.5 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Facts on File, (1991) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6090
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Boustead, Hugh.
The Wind of Morning. The Autobiography of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead. London, Chatto & Windus, 1974.
Large 8vo. 240 pp. With 8 double-sided plates with multiple images and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine. With dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock, with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket. The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), Britain's political agent in Abu Dhabi during the early 1960s. - A British military officer and diplomat, Boustead served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, including Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. For his remarkable military career, he received a knighthood, multiple military crosses and other honours. Boustead started as a midshipman with the Royal Navy before switching to the British Army to fight in France during the First World War and later in Turkey, the Mediterranean, and even in Sudan with the Camel Corps. His work in the Middle East was geared towards generally improving the living conditions of the local people, by helping to establish peace between tribes, improving agriculture, building schools and hospitals, and training Sudanese and Arab administrators. Boustead also took part in the 1920 Olympics and went mountaineering in the Alps and even the Himalayas. He ended his career as the political agent (ambassador) to Abu Dhabi from 1962 until his retirement in 1965. The present work was written during the first few years of his retirement and was first published in 1971, the year in which the United Arab Emirates achieved independence. The present copy is one of the third impression. - Slight foxing throughout (including on the dust jacket, not on the outside of the covers), a few brownstains on pp. 56-57 and 59, mostly in the margins and not affecting the legibility of the text. Overall in fine condition. OCLC 255358654.
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Boutet, Robert / Ben Mahmoud, Noureddine.
Pèlerinage de guerre de l'Afrique du nord aux lieux saints de l'Islam. Casablanca, Impriméries réunies de la Vigie Marocaine et du Petit Marocain, [1940].
8vo (127 x 192 mm). 107, (5) pp. Original printed green wrappers. Only edition of this rare account of the "North African War Pilgrimage", the Hajj of the year 1940 - the last before the Second World War brought an effective hiatus on the Meccan pilgrimage for two years. Together with the French journalist and ethnographer Robert Boutet, the Moroccan and Tunisian radio journalist and theatre critic Noureddine ben Mahmoud (1914-1990) published the account of his pilgrimage to Mecca, performed between 19 February and 2 March 1940. The book describes the special travel conditions imposed by the war and the struggle for influence by the European powers, who feared that the pilgrimage would serve as a platform for North African separatists under the leadership of King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. - Ben Mahmoud also published on the Saudi press, in particular about the periodical "Um El Qurra", whose editorial staff he visited while in Arabia. Later based in Paris, he became one of the heads of the Mosquée de Paris and the Institut de Paris in 1961. - Covers a little foxed, otherwise fine. Uncut and untrimmed as issued. OCLC 5544875.
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BOVET FELIX (1824-1903).
VOYAGE EN TERRE SAINTE. SEPTIEME EDITION REVUE ET CORRIGEE.
PARIS. CALMANN LEVY, EDITEUR. 1876. PETIT IN-8 (12,5 X 18,5 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (4) + 420 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE A LA BRADEL 1/2 CHAGRIN VERT BOUTEILLE, DOS LISSE ORNE D’UN FLEURONS DORE, TITRE DORE. ILLUSTRE D’UNE CARTE DE TERRE SAINTE ET D’UN PLAN DE JERUSALEM REPLIES, EN COULEURS. BON EXEMPLAIRE.
Bookseller reference : 3641
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BOVET (Félix)
Voyage en Terre-Sainte.
In-8, 420p. Quatrième édition revue et corrigée. Récit de voyage en Egypte, en Judée et en Samarie. Avec une carte de la Terre-Sainte et un plan dépliant de Jérusalem d'après M. van de Velde dessiné par A. de Mandrot.
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Bowarowski, Carl, painter (1853-1927).
Horse Race. No place, [ca. 1900].
Grey wash on paper, signed. 15.3 x 31.7 cm. Anton Carl Bowarowski (1853-1927) began his studies at the Viennese Academy under Carl von Blaas, Eduard von Engerth, and Johann Nepomuk Geiger, then proceeded to study in Munich (where he later settled) under Ludwig von Loefftz and Wilhelm Duerr. He began as a painter of small historical scenes; from 1893 onwards, Bowarowski was also active as an illustrator for various magazines and publishing houses.
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Bowen Jeremy
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East
New York: Thomas Dunne Books 2003. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Thomas Dunne Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 047468 ISBN : 0312338643 9780312338640
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Bowersock GW. G. W.
The International Role of Late Antique Cyprus
Nicosia Cypress.: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. 2000 First printing in paper covers with French flaps. 27 pp. Colour map footnotes. Very minor bump to top of foredge. Clean and unmarked. Near Fine. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Book. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. paperback
Bookseller reference : 35702
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Bowes Alison M
Kibbutz Goshen: An Israeli Commune
Waveland Pr Inc 1989. clean unmarked copy. owner's name. Paperback. Very Good. Waveland Pr Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 354348 ISBN : 0881333956 9780881333954
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Boyall, Richard John.
Brownlow Carriage Manufactory, Grantham [...] and Sheffield. London, W. S. Johnson, c. 1880.
Oblong 8vo. Frontispiece (coloured lithograph view of the Carriage Works, Grantham), 40 attractive individual colour lithographs. Tissue guards. Original blue cloth; title stamped in gilt on upper cover. All edges gilt. The lithographs show carts, broughams, dress coaches, landaus, private omnibuses, wagonettes, shooting carts, hound vans, phaetons, dog and pony carts, etc. The title page provides a lengthy description of the works undertaken, with assurances of quality and affordability. - Slightly brownstained, flecked, and rubbed. Rare; COPAC locates a single copy (University of York Libraries; Grantham library holds another copy).
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Boyarin Jonathan
Palestine and Jewish History : Criticism at the Borders of Ethnography
Minneapolis MN U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press 1996. Trade Paperback. Very Good. University of Minnesota Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 306654 ISBN : 0816627657 9780816627653
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Bozkurt K. Erhan translated by Aylin Alkoc
Life in Harem
<p>published in Turkey 1998. 48pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Fine. A colorfully illustrated short study of the subject.</p> published in Turkey paperback
Bookseller reference : 20585 ISBN : 9757559873 9789757559870
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Brasey Edouard
Les sept portes des mille et une nuits
2003, Edition du Chêne. In-4 Relié avec jaquette, 183pp. Des nombreuses illuatrations en couleur.
Bookseller reference : ART7207M
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Bradley-Birt, F[rancis] B[radley].
Persia. Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian. (Oriental Series vol. XX). Boston/Tokyo, J. B. Millet Co., (1910).
8vo. XI, (1), 323, (1) pp. With coloured frontispiece and 5 photo plates; title within colored ornamental border. Original boards with illustrated spine. An account of travel through the "Land of the Lion and Sun" in an age redolent of the Tales from the Arabian Nights and the Rubaiyat. First published in 1909 (by Smith Elder & Co., London), under the title "Through Persia, from the Gulf to the Caspian". The frontispiece shows a group of Persian shepherds. - Spine tanned, otherwise well preserved. OCLC 2226672. Cf. Wilson 29.
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Braeckle, Jacques de.
Memoires du voiage de Constantinople de Jacques de Bracle seigneur de Bassecourt. Manuscrit du XVIe siècle. No place, ca. 1570.
4to (210 x 135 mm). French manuscript on paper. 90 ff. Flemish Bastarda in black ink, 26 lines. Bound with 16 strictly contemporary specimens of Turkish silhouette paper, a series of 28 watercolours, heightened in gilt and two extensive, early 19th century manuscript additions (complete transcript of the the travelogue and a biography of the author). Slightly later vellum with ms. title. Unique, fascinating and unpublished manuscript containing the account of a diplomatic journey to the Ottoman Empire in 1570. Braeckle (1540-71), a Flemish physician, "assisted Charles Rym Baron de Bellem, Ambassador of Maximilian II in Constantinople, probably as a secretary. He wrote an account of his journey, which contains interesting details about the places he visited, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, incidents, etc." (Aug. Vander Meersch, in: Belgian National Biography II, 903). Leaving Prague on 13 March 1570, the mission passed through Vienna and then Hungary and Czechoslovakia before entering Ottoman territory, visiting the mosques and caravanserais of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (c. 1505-79), Grand Vizier of Sultan Selim II (1524-74) who ruled the Turks at the time of Rym's and Braeckle's journey. Their stay in Constantinople lasted from 31 May to 12 August 1570, permitting the author to describe several monuments and works of art. During the journey back they travelled through Bulgaria, Serbia (they were held in Belgrade for nearly a month), and Hungary. The mission ended with their return to Germany on 23 October 1570. Jacques de Braeckle died shortly afterwards, in 1571. - The ms. is accompanied by a beautiful set of 28 original watercolours heightened in gilt. Showing Turkish people in traditional costumes, such illustrations were usually fashioned for sale to travellers in Constantinople or passed on to western merchants. However, as the present set includes the caravanserai of the diplomatic legation, it is extremely likely that these were created with the sole purpose of illustrating the diplomatic mission of Charles Rym, described within the present manuscript. The figures are captioned next to the subjects (16th century Italian script in black ink), indicating that the legends were recorded after the plates were collated and sewn together, or that they were included in books before insertion into the present volume. Among the illustrations are the caravanserai of the ambassadors to Constantinople, Sultan Selim II, the Mufti, costumes of Ottoman dignitaries and the military, a Persian, a Moor of Barbary, a lady in burqa, a Bulgarian, a giraffe, etc. The author of the Italian captions may have been the ambassador Edoardo Provisionali: he was responsible for several diplomatic missions and is known to have appreciated the Ottoman culture; furthermore, de Braeckle left Constantinople in his company (cf. Yerasimos). The manuscript is also bound with 16 remarkable specimens of 16th c. Turkish paper (title in French in pen on the first sheet: "papier de Turquie"). At the beginning of the volume is a transcription, calligraphed in an elegant French cursive of the early 19th century (18 unnumbered ff., black ink, 21 lines per page). The volume ends with a short biography of the author (2 pp., black ink, with the arms of de Braeckle). Yerasimos provides a detailed chronology of the journey, listing the major cities visited as well as monuments and curiosities noted by the travellers. - Only three manuscript copies of the present travelogue are recorded, mostly restricted to family use: two copies are in the National Archives of Belgium in Brussels (Fonds 692 Lalang, 8f., cf. Yerasimos); a third copy is bound in a miscellany and kept at the communal Archives of Ghent. - Binding rubbed, spine detached, in excellent condition internally. Stéphane Yerasimos, Les Voyageurs dans l'Empire Ottoman (XIVe-XVIe siècles), Ankara, 1991, pp. 286f. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.
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Brand Charles M. Editor
Icon and Minaret: Sources of Byzantine and Islamic Civilization
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall Inc. 1969 First printing in trade paperback. 189 pp. Some edgewear and rubbing to covers store stamp on rear of front cover. Very Good. Book. Prentice Hall, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 20933
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Brand Charles M. editor
Icon and Minaret: Sources of Byzantine and Islamic Civilization
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1969. . xii 180 pages. 20.3 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1969) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7457
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BRAUNTHAL Julius -
Il socialismo in Israele.
Roma, Opere Nuove, 1958, 16mo brossura originale, pp. 64 (Il Socialismo Contemporaneo, 9) .
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BREMOND (Edouard).
Conseils pratiques pour les cadres de l'armée métropolitaine. appelés à servir au Levant ou en Afrique
Paris-Limoges-Nancy, Charles-Lavauzelle, 1920 in-8, 145 pp., un f. n. ch. de table, avec des illustrations dans le texte et une carte dépliante hors texte (le Maroc), broché.
Bookseller reference : 228674
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BREASTED (James Henry)
Egypt through the stereoscope. A journey trhough the Land of the Pharaohs.
New York, London, Underwood & Underwood, 1905. In-8, rel. éd. perc. brune, titre doré, 360 pp., 1 fig. in-t., texte en anglais, index in fine, la brochure reliée in fine des cartes et plans, annoncée au sommaire est manquante.
Bookseller reference : 595994
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Brecher Michael With Benjamin Geist
Decisions in Crisis. Israel 1967 and 1973
Berkeley: University of California Press. 1980 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 479 pp. Figures tables appendixes bibliography indexes. Very minor spine twist otherwise fine. Jacket has light shelfwear. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. BW4-9. University of California Press. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 260476 ISBN : 0520037669 9780520037663
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Brenchley Frank
Britain and the Middle East: An Economic History 1945-87
London: Lester Crook Academic Publishing 1989. 391 pp. Very slight bow to boards otherwise Fine. Jacket edgeworn with one small closed tear. 8vo Size: 8vo. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Lester Crook Academic Publishing Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 05848 ISBN : 1870915070 9781870915076
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Bresnier, (Louis-Jacques).
Cours pratique et théorique de langue Arabe. Algiers & Paris, Bastide, Challamel, Duprat, 1855.
8vo. XVI, 668 pp. With a frontispiece printed in colours and gilt in the style of an Arabic title (lith. Bastide). Elegant oriental-style red morocco binding with fore-edge flap, covers blindstamped with gilt borders, spine gilt in western style. Marbled endpapers. Widely received introduction to Arabic by L. J. Bresnier (1814-69), a disciple of Silvestre de Sacy and the first professor of Arabic in Algiers. - Some insignificant foxing to margins, but a fine copy in a unique binding, from the library of the Algerian essayist and Muslim leader Mourad Kiouane, a participant in the World Muslim Conference held in Karachi in February 1951 (with his ownership stamps). Even many leaders among the Algerian Muslims of the 1950s, educated by the French colonial system, spoke good French but only Algerian Arabic rather than the standard variety, which hampered their ability to converse with the leaders of other Arab nations. Famously, Algeria's first president Ahmed Ben Bella broke out in tears when invited by Nasser to speak for the first time before an Egyptian audience, but finding himself unable to do so. Partly in response to this, and to promote pan-Arabism, Nasser sent droves of Arabic instructors to Algeria in the 1960s. OCLC 929616431.
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Bretholz Wolfgang
Aufstand Der Araber Mit 28 Abbildungen Auf Kunstdrucktafeln
Wien: Kurt Desch 1960. Small ink check mark on front endpaper. Text in German. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Kurt Desch Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 047550
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Breton [de la Martinière, Jean-Baptiste Joseph].
L'Égypte et la Syrie, ou moeurs, usages, costumes et monumens des Égyptiens, des Arabes et des Syriens. Précédé d'un Précis historique. Paris, A. Nepveu, 1814.
12mo. 6 vols. With 84 engraved plates, mostly aquatints, in contemporary hand colour, several folding. Contemp. red grained morocco, blindstamped and giltstamped, spine gilt, leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. All edges gilt. First edition, the rare coloured issue in contemporary French master bindings. - Contains a large number of very pretty views and charming genre scenes, also showing costumes, arms, tools, etc. Accompanied by notes by Jean Joseph Marcel (1776-1854), director of the French imperial printshop at Cairo. Immaculate, sumptuously bound copy from the library of Mary Lecomte du Noüy with her gilt morocco bookplate on all pastedowns. Uncommonly well preserved; most copies in the great travel collections were incomparably the worse for wear: the Atabey copy was described as "rubbed, upper joint of vol. VI wormed" and was uncoloured, as were most of the press run and all recent copies showing up in trade or at auction. Atabey 148. Blackmer 200. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 87. Röhricht 1631. Lipperheide Ma 10. Colas 438. Hiler 113.
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Brewer Julius A
The Literature of the Old Testament in Its Historical Development
New Yo;rk: Columbia Univ Press 1924. Records of Civilization Sources and Studies Series. Ex-library. Signed "H Walter Danner 27 September 1926". Previous Owner. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Columbia Univ Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : L170207-07
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Breydenbach Bernhard Von. Ubertragung Und Nachwort Von Elisabeth Geck.
Die Reise Ins Heilige Land. Ein Reisebericht Aus Dem Jahre 1483. Bernhard Von Breydenbach.
Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler 1977. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. 56 pages. Hardcover with a white pictorial dust jacket. Rubbing and moderate wear to the jacket. The book is sound and clean. Illustrated with foldout facsimile illustrations. A facsimile of the 1483 edition. A nice copy. <br/> <br/> Guido Pressler hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18873
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Breydenbach, Bernhard von.
Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. Mainz, Erhard Reuwich, 11 Feb. 1486.
Folio (226 x 312 mm). 147 (instead of 148) unnumbered ff. (lacking the final blank). With numerous red and blue Lombardic initials (some up to eight lines high), full-page title woodcut, 8 woodcuts and 6 woodcut alphabets in the text, 2 woodcut initials (1 armorial), small woodcut printer's device, and 7 folding woodcut views (some with text or woodcut illustrations on verso). Finely gilt maroon shagreen binding, ca. 1820, with giltstamped title and decorations to spine; covers stamped in gilt and blind with pretty floral borders and gilt decorations to corners; leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. Red endpapers. All edges gilt. Editio princeps of the first modern travelogue of a journey from Venice to the Holy Land, and "the first illustrated book of travel ever printed [...] [T]he folding panoramic views [...] are the first authentic representations of the famous places depicted, i. e., the ports usually visited by every pilgrim of the period [... The] artist was Erhard Reuwich [..., who] graphically record[ed] the impressions of the voyage" (Davies). The splendid panoramic folding views show Venice (ca. 160 cms long!), Porec and Corfu (both ca. 40 cms), Methoni, Crete and Rhodes (all ca. 80 cms) as well as Jerusalem (ca. 130 cms). - This work is considered the first authentic Western source for the Near and Middle East, as the illustrations were prepared from actual observation of the lands and people described. Breydenbach travelled to the Holy Land in 1483/84 with a large party including the artist Reuwich from Utrecht. Following the traditional route, they travelled from Venice to Corfu, Modon, Crete, Rhodes and Jaffa before arriving in Jerusalem, and then through the Sinai desert to Mt. Sinai, Cairo, and Alexandria on the return journey. The book quickly became extremely popular and was translated into French, Dutch and Spanish before 1500. It includes illustrations of Middle Eastern and Bedouin costume, a glossary of common Arabic words, and pictures of animals encountered on the journey (including a crocodile, a camel, and even a unicorn), as well as an Arabic alphabet - the latter of especial importance for being the first of its kind ever to see print: "The first representation of Arabic letters in a printed book was done in Germany; this was the woodcut of the Arabic alphabet in Bernhard von Breydenbach's 'Peregrinatio'" (Toomer). - Title-page trimmed to the neatline, remargined on all sides, a narrow strip along the left edge as well as a tiny ornament at the bottom supplied in meticulous ink. A témoin to upper corner of a single leaf (not touching text), another leaf showing a short tear near the gutter and traces of old glue; lower corner of final leaf remargined. Dry-cleaned throughout very carefully, the paper retaining light browning and occasional fingerstains. The views are very well preserved throughout and present as entirely complete, although some have small portions supplied from other copies of the same edition or are professionally retouched: some 22 cms in the middle section of the view of Venice are barely noticeably supplied in ink, and three segments are from another copy; tiny flaws in the folds. One fold in the view of Methoni is rebacked with a tiny gap. One half of Crete and Rhodes each supplied from another copy, seguing into each other in professionally drawn ink retouchings measuring ca. 2 cms. Right half of the view of Rhodes trimmed to neatline and remargined; a few professionally restored edge tears. The spectacular view of Jerusalem, frequently lacking, is complete and uncommonly well preserved, showing only are few well-restored edge tears. Altogether an outstanding copy on strong, unusually wide-margined paper, splendidly bound in the early 19th century. - The present first edition is extremely rare in the trade, usually appearing only in severely mutilated copies or even in fragments comprising no more than a few leaves. The only similarly complete copy in auction records since 1900 was the Perrins-Wardington copy (complete), sold at Sotheby's in 2005 for £265,600 (today, ca. EUR 500,000), while the Consul Smith copy sold at Christie's in 2018 lacked one quire consisting of the Jerusalem view and 2 woodcut scenes, as well as about half of Venice and Rhodes views. - From the library of the great English bibliophile Thomas Edward Watson, 1st Bart. (1851-1921) with his engraved bookplate ("St. Mary's Lodge, Newport Monmouthshire") on the front pastedown; old bookseller's catalogue clipping mounted to flyleaf and pencil annotation: "This is a far finer copy than the B[ritish] M[useum] Copy ..., that being badly coloured & much wormed". Last in a noted German private collection and acquired directly. HC 3956. Goff B-1189. GW 5075. Proctor 156. Pellechet 2979. BMC I, 43. BSB-Ink B-909. Klebs 220.1. Schreiber 3628. Bodleian B-552. Hubay 468. Schäfer 84. Oates 52. Davies, Breydenbach, no. I. Fairfax Murray 92. Campbell (Maps) 65. Hillard 486. Aquilon 181. Arnoult 366. Parguez 275. Péligry 226. Torchet 228. Zehnacker 577. ISTC ib01189000.
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Brion de la Tour
Carte de l'Arabie rédigée en grande partie d'aprèsle voyage récent et les de M. Niebuhr.
23,5X34 cm, bon état, pliures.
Bookseller reference : DZN-369
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BRIANT (Pierre)
Etat et pasteurs au Moyen-Orient ancien.
P., Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. In-8 broché, 267 pp., 27 cartes, fig. et ill. photogr. en noir dans le texte, bibliographie, index. (Coll. Production pastorale et société).
Bookseller reference : 594244
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BRICE Denise.
Etude paléontologique et stratigraphique du dévonien de l'Afghanistan.
Contribution à la connaissance des brachiopodes et des polypiers rugueux. Paris , Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 1970. Grand in-4 (28x23). 364 pages. Broché, couvertures grises imprimées.
Bookseller reference : 3275
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BRICE (W. C)
The turkish colonization of Anatolia. Reprinted from the "Bulleton of the John Rylands Library", vol. 38, n°1, sept. 1955.
Manchester University Press, 1965. In-8, broché, 44 pp.
Bookseller reference : 556883
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BRIEM O. E.
Les soci?t?s secr?tes de myst?res. Les myst?res des peuples primitifs. Les myst?res de l'orient et de l'antiquit?. Les myst?res hell?nistiques. Traduit du Su?dois par E. Guerre.
Broch?. 379 pages.
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Briffardière, Antoine Gaffet de la.
Petit traité de fauconnerie ou se trouvent les termes de cette espèce de chasse [...]. Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885.
8vo. 26, (1) pp., final blank page. Original printed wrappers. Only edition. One of only 150 copies of this treatise on falconry, which is in fact a reprint of the same treatise included in Briffardière's 1742 "Nouveau Traité de Vénerie" (pp. 383-401), which Pierre Clément de Chappeville published after the author's death. Apparently, the editor of the present edition confounded Chappeville with Briffardière, as it was the latter, not the former, who was appointed "Gentilhomme de la Vénerie du Roy", a title mistakenly given to Chappeville on the title-page. - Covers somewhat browned and brownstained; spine chafed; binding loosened. Margins slightly worn. Contemporary ownership of B. C. R. Langford, as well as a later ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood, September 1943, to front pastedown. Handwritten note on title-page regarding the confusion of authorship, likely by Garton. Schwerdt I, 103. Thiébaud 166. Harting 171. Souhart 367. OCLC 54185123.
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