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Carlyle, J[oseph] D[acre].
Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Kaliphat, With Some Account of the Authors. The Second Edition. London, W. Bulmer for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
Large 8vo. XVI, 143, (1), 70 pp. With 1 engr. plate of music. Contemp. full calf with giltstamped cover borders, attractively gilt spine and green gilt spine label. Second, posthumous edition, first published in Cambridge in 1796. Poets include Lebid ben Rabiat Alamary, Hassan Alasady, Abd Almalec Alharithy, Abu Saher Alhedily, Hatem Tai, Jaafer ben Alba, Alfadhel ibn Alabas, Meskin Aldaramy, Nabegat Beni Jaid, Imam Shafay Mohammed ben Idris, Ibrahim ben Adham, Isaac Almousely, Abu Mohammed, Abd Alsalam ben Ragban, Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany, etc. The Arabic text follows the English translation (with separate page count). J. D. Carlyle (1759-1804) was professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. He was appointed chaplain by Lord Elgin to the embassy at Constantinople in 1799, and pursued his researches in Eastern literature in a tour through Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece and Italy, collecting in his travels several valuable Greek and Syriac manuscripts. - Occasional browning to text; covers sunned in places. A handsome copy from the library of John Pulteney with his engr. armorial bookplate to front pastedown. BMC 4:1258.1197. Gay 3436. Graesse II, 49. OCLC 2770074.
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Carmichael Joel
The Shaping of the Arabs: A Study in Ethnic Identity
London: George Allen and Unwin 1969. Bibliography. Index. Worn dj. 407 pages. 22 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: George Allen and Unwin, (1969) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6423
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Carmichael Joel
The Shaping of the Arabs: A Study in Ethnic Identity
New York: Macmillan 1967. Bibliography. Index. Worn dj. 407 pages. 215 mm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Macmillan, (1967) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6346
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Carne, John.
Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. illustrated. London u. a., Fisher, 1836-1838.
4to. 3 vols. With 3 engraved title-pages, 2 engr. maps, and 113 (instead of 117) plates. (4), 80 pp. 76 pp. 100, (4) pp. Contemporary cloth. First edition. The attractive views of Alexandria, Antioch, Beirut, Damascus, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Rhodes, Tripoli etc. are engraved from drawings by W. H. Bartlett, W. Purser and others. - Slightly rubbed and bumped, spine faded and with small tears. Blackmer 291. Aboussouan 187. Weber I, 1125. Cf. Howgego II, E4 (p. 194). Tobler 167.
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Caroline Moorehead editor.:
Over the Rim of the World. Freya Stark Selected Letters
<p>London.John Murray1988. ISBN 0 7195 4619 2 First edition.With a map & foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.pp x 404. Hard covergreen cloth gilt.Page edges are slightly browned otherwise a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket.</p> Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7290 ISBN : 0719546192 9780719546198
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Caroz Yaacov
The Arab Secret Services
<p>London: Corgi Books 1978 1st ed. thus. 440pp. paperback: Good to near Very Good text is age browned; else a nice clean complete & tight copy uncreased</p> London: Corgi Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 22699 ISBN : 0552109320 9780552109321
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CARRE (Jean-Marie)
Voyageurs et écrivains français en Egypte. Deuxième édition revue et corrigée.
Le Caire, I.F.A.O., 1956. 2 vol. in-8 broché, XL-369, 411 pp., front., bibliographie, index.
Bookseller reference : 595921
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CARRE Abbe
The Travels of Abbe Carre in India and the Far East, 1672-1674. Translated from the manuscript Journals of his Travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett, and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN SERIES BINDING
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set. With personal bookplate on front paste-downs. The set comprises: Vol. I: From France through Syria, Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa and Bijapur; Vol. II: From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thome; Vol. III: Return Journey to France with an Account of the Sicilian Revolt against Spanish rule at Messina. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 95, 96, 97. Bridges & Hair, p.282.
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CARTER JIMMY
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Simon and Schuster Inc. New York: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. Pulling no punches Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism. Includes an Index. Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York: 2006 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 88525X1
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Carter Jimmy
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
New York: Simon & Schuster 2006. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 047471 ISBN : 0743285026 9780743285025
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Carter Jimmy
The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East New Edition signed
<p>Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press 1993 reprint. SIGNED on title p. by author. 243pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A nice crisp collectible copy of this book originally published in 1985.</p> Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 22898 ISBN : 1557282935 9781557282934
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CARTER JIMMY
The Blood Of Abraham
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston: 1985. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. A portrait that illuminates and explores the central issues regarding the Middle East from many points of view: the United States' neglected but still awaited role as mediator for peace while the Soviets' role expands in the region; Israel's military ascendancy its economic crisis and the internal struggle to define borders of a permanent and secure homeland; Syria's enveloping control over Lebanon and its wuest for pan-Arab leadership; a war-torn and occupied Lebanon's frustrated efforts for sovereignty over its own land; the pursuit of self-determination by uncompromising Palestinians while control of their own destiny slips away; an endangered Jordan and its thwarted hopes to speak for the Palestinians; Egypt's balancing act between expanding peace with Israel and rejoining the Arab world; Saudi Arabia's search for elusive Arab consensus as region events threaten stability. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0395377226. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1985 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73620X1 ISBN : 0395377226 9780395377222
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CARTER WN. W. N.
The People of the Book and their Land.
London: Church Missions to Jews 1946. 3rd ed. "This book . on Palestine and Jewish subjects . is an attempt to put into small compass what could only be gathered otherwise as the compiler has done from numerous scattered works. It is issued in the hope that it may be useful to Sunday School teachers and others." Pp. 93 with small b/w drawings throughout. B/w drawing on fep of Solomon's Stables. P/b with illustrated cover. G. . London: Church Missions to Jews, 1946. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12847
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CARTER VAUGHN FINDLEY.
Sir James W. Redhouse: The making of a perfect orientalist? = Sir James W. Redhouse: Mükemmel bir dogubilimcinin öyküsü? (American Board Library Occasional Publications No: 1).
New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English and Turkish. 236 p., 1 b/w portrait of Redhouse frontispiece, b/w ills. Sir James W. Redhouse: The making of a perfect orientalist? = Sir James W. Redhouse: Mükemmel bir dogubilimcinin öyküsü? (American Board Library Occasional Publications No: 1). First published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society in 1979, and now revised and updated, Carter Findley's "The Making of a Perfect Orientalist?" is a scrupulously researched biography of the enigmatic nineteenth-century Turkish language scholar James W. Redhouse. Primarily embodied in two major dictionaries-A Lexicon, English and Turkish (1861) and A Turkish and English Lexicon (1890)-Redhouse's work established a crucial base for the further development of English-Turkish lexicography. Unparalleled at the time, his contributions remain vital today, forming the core of a number of bilingual English-Turkish dictionaries which still bear the Redhouse name. A brief overview of the press that published Redhouse's lexicons, as well as the reminiscences of two editors who helped revise them in the twentieth century, round out this provocative study of the life of James Redhouse.
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Cary, John.
A New Map of Persia, from the Latest Authorities. London, 1811.
Hand-coloured engraved map (515 x 470 mm). A highly detailed late 18th Century map of Persia, from an early edition of Cary's atlas. Offers extraordinary detail regarding cities, trade routes and physical geography. In some cases Cary offers annotations on important battle sites and on the ruins of ancient Mesopotamian cities. - A near fine example in beautiful wash color. Al-Qasimi 217.
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Caryle Murphy
Passion for Islam -
Scribner Publishing - 2002. Hardcover/pub.2002/VG conditionirregular pages /359 pages - Shaping the modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience. TK42898z. Hard Cover. Good. Scribner Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2898z
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Casola, Pietro / Newett, Mary Margaret (ed.).
Canon Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In the Year 1494. Manchester, University Press, 1907.
Large 8vo. VI, (2), 427, (1), (8, publisher's catalogue) pp. With photographic frontispiece and one folding map showing the itinerary of Casola's voyage. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. - The journal kept by Canon Pietro Casola during his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, started on the 15th of May 1494, which took him to Rhodes, Jaffa, Nablus, Ramallah, Lod, Bethlehem and Jericho, is an invaluable source of information on the economy, industries, food and culture of all the places of the Middle East he visited along the way. - Some minor discolouration to spine and rear board; foxing to title and endpapers. Bookseller's label "Ferd. Ongania - Libraio della Real Casa - Venezia" to lower outer corner of front pastedown; shelfmark label of the Italian royal library to spine, showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy. A beautiful copy. Cox I, 243. Cf. Weber II, 125. Röhricht 446.
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Cassels Lavender
The Struggle For The Ottoman Empire 1717-1740
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The spine ends have some beginning bumping. The price clipped dust jacket has several small edge tears nicks and some rubbing to the spine ends. "With Constantinople as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries. While the empire was once thought to have entered a period of decline following the death of Suleiman the Magnificent this view is no longer supported by the majority of academic historians. The empire continued to maintain a flexible and strong economy society and military throughout the seventeenth and much of the eighteenth century." . Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : A35322
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Cassini, Giovanni Maria.
L'Arabia delineata sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797.
Engraved map (35 x 49 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Rare map of Arabia, from the “Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale”, with a decorative title cartouche showing a nomadic camp. Al Ankary 227.
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Castell, Edmund.
Lexicon Syriacum, ex eius lexico heptaglotto. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1788.
2 parts in 1 vol. (2), VIII, (2), 393, (2), 393-980 pp. With half-title. 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. 4to. First separate edition of Castell's Syriac-Latin dictionary, taken from the author's great "Lexikon heptaglotton" (1669) and here edited by the German Biblical scholar Johann David Michaelis. The English orientalist Edmund Castell (1606-85) was appointed Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1666. - Insignificant browning; upper spine-end chipped, otherwise a well-preserved, prettily bound copy. From the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown. Zaunmüller 372. Vater/Jülg 387. Graesse II, 65. OCLC 4683081.
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Castellan, A. L.
Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Paris, Nepveu, 1812.
12mo. 6 vols. With 6 engraved frontispieces and 66 engraved plates, all in original hand colour. Contemp. calf gilt; all edges gilt. First edition. "Plates are by Dalvimart, most of them reduced from those in William Alexander’s ‘Costume of Turkey’" (Hiler). The pretty plates (some aquatints) depict not only various costumes and head coverings, but also dramatic scenes. - Well-preserved, appealingly bound copy with engraved bookplate of Baron de La Roche Lacarelle to pastedowns. Removed from the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 300. Aboussouan 189. Hage Chahine 821. Lipperheide Lb 42. Colas 545. Hiler 143. Auboyneau 370. Brunet I, 1226. Graesse I, 530.
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Castiglioni, C[arlo] O[ttavio].
Memoire geographique et numismatique sur la partie orientale de la Barbarie appellée Afrikia par les Arabes, suivi de recherches sur les Berbères atlantiques anciens habitans de ces contrées. Milan, Imprimerie Imperiale et Royale, 1826.
Large 8vo. 127, (3) pp. Contemporary wrappers. Only edition. - "His principal work in the department of Oriental literature [...] in which the origin and history of those cities of Barbary of which the names occur upon Arabic coins are detailed" (Men of the Time [1868], p. 161). The Italian classicist and numismatist C. O. Castiglioni (1784-1849) was descended from Baldassare Castiglione, author of "Il Cortegiano". This work established his reputation. - Old shelfmark label on wrappers. Some slight brownstaining. An untrimmed, wide-margined copy. Leitzmann 21. Astor Library Cat., Supplement, p. 116.
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Castle Wilfrid T. F.
Syrian Pageant. The History of Syria and Palestine 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1945: A Background to Religion Politics and Literature.
London Hutchinson n.d. Royal 8vo. Pp. 184. Frontispiece map. Plus 16 full-page halftone plates. Footnotes indices. Hardcover original light blue cloth. Prelims browned top of spine mended some rubbing to cloth on lower board. Else nice clean copy. London, Hutchinson, n.d. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1415
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Castro, Dom João de.
Naauwkeurig verhaal van een reys door Portugiejsen uyt Indien gedaan na Soez, in de jaaren 1540 en 1541. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706.
8vo. (2), 78, (6) pp. With an engraved folding map of the Arabian Peninsula, 3 engraved folding plates, and an engraved title-vignette. Later full cloth. Rare first Dutch edition of the travelogue of a 16th-century sea voyage around the Arabian Peninsula. Castro's voyage took him from Socotra up the Red Sea. He landed on both the African and the Arabian coast before reaching Suez; his account includes descriptions of the various ports he encountered en route as well as observations on the naming of the Red Sea. - Dom João de Castro (1500-48) was a naval officer and later Viceroy of Portuguese India. In 1538 he embarked on his first voyage to India, arriving at Goa and immediately proceeding to the defense of Diu. Castro was responsible for the overthrow of Mahmud, King of Gujarat, whose interests threatened Portuguese control of the Goan coast. Castro died in Goa in 1548 and was initially buried there, but his remains were later exhumed and transferred to Portugal. - Traces of glue near the gutter of the title-page, but a good copy in a modern binding. Only three copies traceable in auction records. BMC V, 168:149. OCLC 224637211. Cf. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, DC7. Avila Perez 1562. Welsh 4780 (other eds.).
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Castéra, Jean-Henri / Argyropoulos, Iakovos (Yakovaki Efendi) (transl.).
[Icmal-i eva'il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya. Katerina Tarihi (General Overview of the Russian Empire, or The History of Catherine). Bulaq, Matbaatü Sahibi'l-Fütuhati'l-Bahire, [Oct./Nov. 1830 CE] = Jumada I 1246 H.
4to (175 x 260 mm). (10), 225, (1) pp. Contemporary French half leather over marbled boards, spine prettily gilt with title "Histoire de Cathérine". Marbled endpapers. Early Bulaq imprint; a translation of the French biography of Catherine the Great by Jean-Henri Castéra (1749-1838), "Vie de Catherine II, Impératrice de Russie", published in two volumes in Paris in 1797. It was exceedingly popular in Europe and saw translations into many languages. This was the first Western historical text translated into Ottoman Turkish and printed by the Bulaq press in Cairo, at the time of volatile relations between the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and Egypt. The first edition, comprising only 160 pages, was published by the Bulaq Press in 1244 (AD 1828). The present, enlarged second edition with annotations by the editor Sadullah Said Amedi was issued two years later. The translator Iakovos Argyropoulos ("Yakovaki Efendi", 1776-1850) was a linguist and official translator of the Sultan, appointed as official dragoman in Vienna. - Binding a little rubbed, extremeties slightly bumped. Interior shows occasional light browning, brownstaining and dampstains, but generally very clean. Several juvenile pencil sketches to final endpapers. - Provenance: ownership of the French diplomat Alphonse Nicolas ("Collège de France, 1887") on the front free endpaper; his stamp on the sarlowh and on several pages. Nicolas (1864-1939) was born in Rasht in northern Persia, where his father served as dragoman at the French consulate. He learned Persian and Russian and was admitted to the École des Jeunes de Langues in 1874. He entered the foreign service and was posted in Persia when he signed his name to this work in 1887. Özege 10359. OCLC 951557955. J. Strauss, "An den Ursprüngen des modernen politischen Wortschatzes des Osmanisch-Türkischen", in: Radoslav Katicic (ed.), "Herrschaft" und "Staat". Untersuchungen zum Zivilisationswortschatz im südosteuropäischen Raum 1840-1870. Eine erste Bilanz (Vienna 2004), pp. 197-256, here at p. 208. Arzu Meral, "A Survey of Translation Activity in the Ottoman Empire", in The Journal of Ottoman Studies XLII (2013), p. 116.
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Castéra, Jean-Henri / Argyropoulos, Iakovos (Yakovaki Efendi) (transl.).
Icmal-i eva'il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya. Katerina Tarihi (General Overview of the Russian Empire, or The History of Catherine). Bulaq, Matbaatü Sahibi'l-Fütuhati'l-Bahire, [1830 CE] = 1246 H.
4to. (10), 225, (1) pp. Contemporary black cloth boards over black leather spine with gilt decoration. Early Bulaq imprint; a translation of the French biography of Catherine the Great by Jean-Henri Castéra (1749-1838), "Vie de Catherine II, Impératrice de Russie", published in two volumes in Paris in 1797. It was exceedingly popular in Europe and saw translations into many languages. This was the first Western historical text translated into Ottoman Turkish and printed by the Bulaq press in Cairo, at the time of volatile relations between the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and Egypt. The first edition, comprising only 160 pages, was published by the Bulaq Press in 1244 (AD 1828). The present, enlarged second edition with annotations by the editor Sadullah Said Amedi was issued two years later. There appear to be two versions, differing in the pattern of the headpiece and numbering of the index pages; possibly the headpiece was replaced after the first printing plate broke (our copy seems to show broken lines in the upper part of the headpiece). The translator Iakovos Argyropoulos ("Yakovaki Efendi", 1776-1850) was a linguist and official translator of the Sultan, appointed as official dragoman in Vienna. - Light waterstaining throughout, mostly in the lower half; old tears and repairs to blank margins of first leaf. Old numbers written and stamped in blue ink to front endpaper; minute wormholes to blank inner margins of final leaves; a tear to p. 111. Özege 10359. OCLC 951557955. J. Strauss, "An den Ursprüngen des modernen politischen Wortschatzes des Osmanisch-Türkischen", in: Radoslav Katicic (ed.), "Herrschaft" und "Staat". Untersuchungen zum Zivilisationswortschatz im südosteuropäischen Raum 1840-1870. Eine erste Bilanz (Vienna 2004), pp. 197-256, here at p. 208.
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CATALUCCIO FRANCESCO
STORIA DEL NAZIONALISMO ARABO 1939
In 16o, pp. 333, cartonato, 2 carte piu' vv. ripiegata f. t. e 4 carte f. t. Vol. num. 17 della collana Manuali di Politica Internazionale. Timbri ed etichette di estinta biblioteca. Ottimo (3473/POLITICA - NAZIONALISMO - MONDO ARABO - MEDIO ORIENTE)
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Catherwood Christopher
Winston's Folly: How Winston Churchill's Creation of Modern Iraq led to Saddam Hussein
London: Constable 2004. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Paperback Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. reading crease to spine. Some light rubbing to corners and spine. 267pp. Constable Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033865 ISBN : 1841199397 9781841199399
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CATTAN Henry
Jerusalem
hbk 229pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new <br /> St. Martin's 1981, hardcover
Bookseller reference : MdE72 ISBN : 0312441827 9780312441821
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CATTAN Henry
Jerusalem
Hbk 229pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj almost as new. <br /> St. Martin's 1981, hardcover
Bookseller reference : MdE47-B ISBN : 0312441827 9780312441821
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Caubet Annie, Pouyssegur Patrick
L'Orient ancien
Pierre Terrail 1999 In-4 broché 29,8 cm sur 24. 207 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 81615
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Caulfield Anne
Kingdom of the Film Stars: Journey into Jordan
US: Lonely Planet. Paperback. 0864424612 books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Fine. 1997. Lonely Planet paperback
Bookseller reference : WARE102BRM1147 ISBN : 0864424612 9780864424617
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CAVAIGNAC (Eugène)
SUBBILULIUMA et son temps.
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1932. In-8, broché, 108 pp., index. 1 planche et 1 carte dépliante h.-t. (Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Strasbourg.
Bookseller reference : 580275
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CAVAIGNAC E
Chronologie de l'Histoire mondiale
Payot Payot, 1946. In-8 broché de 235 pages. Tache au bas de la couverture sinon Bon état
Bookseller reference : 172098
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CAVAIGNAC Eugène
Le problème hittite.
Couverture souple. Broché. 200 pages. 8 planches et 2 cartes repliées hors texte.
Bookseller reference : 128486
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CAVIT SUNAR.
Tasavvuf tarihi.
Fine English Tasavvuf tarihi., Prof. Dr. Cavit Sunar. Paperback. Pbo. Fine. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [vii], 228 p. A study on history of tasavvuf (Islamic mysticism).
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Cebes (Pseudo-) / Ibn Miskawayh.
Parafrasis arabe de la tabla de Cebes, traducida en Castellano é illustrada con notas por D. Pablo Lozano y Casela. - Texto arabe de la parafrasis de la Tabla de Cebes, sin mociones ni version, para exercicio de los principantes. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1793.
Large 4to (158 x 240 mm). (6), 219, XL, (29) pp. With different engraved vignette on each title-page and folding engraved plate. Contemporary Spanish marbled calf, flat spine with red morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. First joint edition in Arabic and Spanish. - The Neoplatonist Persian philosopher Ibn Miskawayh (932-1030) worked as a chancery official and librarian for various viziers of the Abbasid empire; many of his works show and document the influence of Greek philosophy on his thought. His Arabic paraphrase occasionally contains additional passages not recorded in the original Greek text. - The "Pinax" ("Table" or "Painting") is an allegorical moral sketch of human life commonly attributed to the Greek philosopher Cebes, a student of Socrates, though the book's real author likely flourished in the first century AD. The Neoplatonist and Pythagorean perspective of late Hellenistic Stocism earned the text great popularity among later readers: "To us, all this appears sterile and trite; yet its impact was such that even the visual arts attempted to recreate a fiction whose author in fact shows little graphic flair" (Wilamowitz). One such attempt to transfer the titular "painting" into an engraving is found in the present edition. - Extremities quite insignificantly rubbed; a very appealingly preserved copy. Hoffmann I, 447. Palau 50822 ("Bella edición"). Not in Engelmann/Preuss.
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Centorio degli Hortensi, Ascanio.
Commentarii della guerra di Transilvania. (With:) La seconda parte de' commentarii delle guerre. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1566-1569.
4to. 2 vols. in 1. (40), 266, (2) pp. (32), 298, (2) pp. With woodcut printer's devices on both titles, and different device on reverse of final leaf. Contemporary limp vellum. First edition (part 1: second issue) of Centorio's memoirs, here complete with both parts, comprising the years until 1553 (pt. 1) and then continued to 1560 (pt. 2). The author's principal work. Centorio lived in Milan around the middle of the 16th century. "Commentaries on the wars against the Turks from Mohács in 1526 onwards. Offers a detailed account of the conflict between Ferdinand and John Zápolya, as well as of the battles of Castaldo. Although the title of pt. 1 mentions 'Re Lodovico XII', this is about Louis II of Hungary, who drowned after the Battle of Mohács, not about Louis XII of France" (cf. Göllner). Dedications to Ottavio Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza, and Consalvo Ferrante di Cordova, duke of Sessa. Includes four sonnets by the author and Lodovico Dolce. "Fine woodcut initials and headpieces" (cf. Apponyi). - Slight waterstain near beginning; front pastedown stamped by the Madrid bookseller Gabriel Sanchez. Edit 16, CNCE 10794/10799. Göllner 1061 (pt. 1 only). Adams C 1269. BM-STC Italian 165. Atabey 211. Jöcher I, 1804. Cf. Apponyi 381 (pt. 1, 1st issue only). Not in Blackmer.
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Cesana G.A.
Da Firenze a Suez e viceversa. Impressioni di viaggio.
<p>19 cm, rilegatura coeva in mezza pelle con titolo e fregi impressi in oro al dorso, piatti marmorizzati, p. 355.</p>
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Cesarani David
Major Farran's Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State
Da Capo Pr 2009. clean unmarked copy. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Da Capo Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 348068 ISBN : 0306818450 9780306818455
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Chadwick Owen
The Popes and European Revolution Oxford History of the Christian Church
Oxford and Cambridge: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1981. Slight moisture damage to side and bottom edge papers DJ price-clipped with one crease and minor edge wear over all a very nice copy. ISBN: 0198269196. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. The Popes and European Revolution Oxford History of the Christian Church Owen Chadwick. Catalogs: Religion. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007795 ISBN : 0198269196 9780198269199
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Chafets Ze'Ev
Double Vision: How America's Press Distorts Our View of the Middle East
New York: William Morrow & Co 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Binding of copper half cloth silver titled with ivory boards; very clean and unmarked with slight bumping of lower corners. Interior is Fine--very clean and completely unmarked. Clean and bright unclipped jacket. not clipped. A book to help readers to understand the Middle East - and the news we get about it and the news we don't get. Many countries in the Middle East are off limits to reporters; we don't hear about the threats to journalists and the censorship they must practice. The author examines the distortion of many of America's prestigious newspapers and the subtle influences on the way we look at this part of the world. It names names in a stunning expose of journalistic self-censorship duplicity and failure by some of America's most famous news people. 349 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher: William Morrow & Co. New York 1985. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015229 ISBN : 0688039774 9780688039776
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Chai Winberg
Saudi Arabia: A Modern Reader
Indianapolis Indiana U.S.A.: Univ of Indianapolis Pr 2005. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Synopsis The book's editor political scientist Dr Winberg Chai provides in his introduction a concise overview of this largely unknown kingdom from its geography and history to its contemporary role in the 'war on terrorism'. "Saudi Arabia: A Modern Reader" provides readers enough historical data and contemporary information about the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to understand their role in the Middle East and to form their own opinions about its present and future relationship to the United States.200pp. Univ of Indianapolis Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 015965 ISBN : 0880938595 9780880938594
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Chailand Gerard
Palestinian Resistance The
Bath: Chivers-Penguin. Good/Good. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall 189 pages. This hardcover edition has been specially bound and supplied by Cedric Chivers Ltd. of Bath in association with Penguin Books. Dustjacket spine is lightly sunned. . Chivers-Penguin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24316
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Chaim Herzog
The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East
Random House 1982. Hardcover. Very good. No dustjacket. Cover has light wear. Book Club Edition. Random House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 712
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Chaim Herzog
The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East from the War of Independence Through Lebanon
Middle East Wars: Random House 1982. 392 pgs. Maps & photos. Jacket has light wear. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 009621 ISBN : 0394503791 9780394503790
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Chaim Herzog
The Arab-Israeli Wars -
Random House Publishing - 1982. Hardcover/pub.1982/Gd.condition/441 pages - War and peace in the Middle East from the war of independence through Lebanon. TE2v34119. Hardcover -. Good. Random House Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : v34119
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CHALIAND Gérard
Le malheur kurde
Seuil, 1992. In-8. Broché. Couverture illustrée. 220 pages. Cartes. Garde blanche coupée en biais. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 4123
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Chalkokondyles, Laonikos.
L'histoire de la decadence de l'empire grec. Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1632.
Folio (250 x 360 mm). 4 parts in 1 vol. (16), 1015, (29) pp. 289 cols., (3) pp. 4 pp., cols. 5-128 (+ 2 ff.), (2) pp. 65 ff., 66-114, (4) pp. (several mispaginations). With engr. t. p., 2 engr. plates, and numerous engravings in the text. Contemp. calf. All edges red. Chronicle of the early history of the Ottoman empire; one of several editions printed in the same year. First published in its French translation in 1577, this work by the Byzantine historian Chalkokondyles (c. 1423-90) was republished frequently throughout the 17th century, always including the account of Ottoman costumes and an interpretation of the seventeen enigmatic illustrations of Byzantine prophecies foretelling the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. The folding plate depicts a bird’s-eye view of Constantinople with its prominent buildings. The chronicle itself is illustrated by numerous portraits of rulers. The costume plates were originally designed for the travel account of Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83), first published in 1567 (cf. Lipperheide Lb 2), who had visited the Ottoman court as a diplomat in the services of King Henry II. - Hinges and extremeties professionally repaired. Engraved title closely trimmed at top; slight loss to edge of plate showing the Turkish army as well as one costume plate. Occasional brownstaining and edge defects throughout. From the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Cf. Atabey 214. Navari (Greek) 138. Hage Chahine 860-862. Navari (Greek) 138. Hamilton 23. Not in Blackmer.
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Chamberlayne, John.
Oratio dominica in diversas omnium fere gentium linguas versa. Amsterdam, W. & D. Goeree, 1715.
4to. 2 parts in 1 vol. (48), 94 (but: 96), (6) pp. (2), 256 (but: 156) pp. Title page printed in red and black. With 2 folding engr. plates and some 20 text engravings, all showing script specimens. - (Bound after) II: Morin, Stephan. Exercitationes de lingua primaeva ejusque appendicibus. Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1694. (14), 448, (8) pp. With engr. title page and 4 folding engr. plates. Contemp. Dutch blindstamped vellum with oriental-style, lozenge-shaped cover ornaments. First edition. - The Lord’s Prayer in more than 150 languages, including many European and Asian languages, but also Arabic (in two styles), Persian (in two styles), Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, etc., many of which are rendered both in Latin transliteration and in their original scripts, engraved in the text or as folding plates. The second part contains nine remarkable treatises on typefaces and languages, including the first publication ever of "De variis linguis" by the great German philosopher and polymath G. W. Leibniz. The English courtier John Chamberlayne (1666-1723) is said to have known sixteen languages; among his many writings is an immensely popular, amusing tract on coffee, tea, and hot chocolate which he published at the age of 19 (cf. DNB). - II: First edition. The plates show coins and medals from Palestine and Samaria. - One corner bumped. Insignificant browning; a good, clean copy. I: Ebert 3978. DNB IV, 9. Brunet I, 1761. Graesse II, 112. Ravier 317 (pt. 2 only). - II: Ebert 14415. Fürst II, 390. Lipsius 268.
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