‎Middle east‎

‎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.‎

‎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>‎

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎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.‎

‎Champagny Comte Franz de.‎

‎Rome et la Judée. Au temps de la chute de Néron ans 66-67 après Jésus-Christ.‎

‎Paris Lecoffre 1858. Octavo. Pp. viii 541. Plus engraved frontispiece map. Footnotes appendix. Hardcover contemporary half cloth and marbled boards spine gilt with a Shelf label at foot all edges marbled. In fine condition old institutional stamp and label. A fine crisp copy. ~ First edition. Paris, Lecoffre, 1858. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0851

‎CHANDLERY PJ. P. J.‎

‎Pilgrim-Walks in Rome: A Guide to the Holy Places in the City and its Vicinity.‎

‎London: Manresa Press 1908. 0. 3rd edition enlarged with a preface by Rev.John Gerard. Pp.xvi/530 folding map has repaired tear to index list photo portrait frontispiece of Pope Pius X further black & white illustrations throughout owner's name to front free endpaper owner's details to contents page spotting to endpapers with cracking to rear inner hinge still firm. Green cloth with gilt decoration to front and gilt title to spine. G. . London: Manresa Press, 1908. 0 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 37745

‎CHANDRASEKARAN RAJIV‎

‎Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone‎

‎Alfred A. Knopf New York: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone a walled-off enclave of towering plants posh villas and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation from the impreial viceroy L. Paul Brenner III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country. Includes an Index. "An extraordinary vivid and compelling anatomy of a fiasco." -- Rick Atkinson author of An Army at Dawn ISBN: 1400044871. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 2006 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 89948X1 ISBN : 1400044871 9781400044870

‎Chandrasekaran Rajiv‎

‎Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone‎

‎Vintage Books 2007. Creasing and light wear to wraps; light thumbing to textblock fore-edge else interior is clean and tight. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Vintage Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 617132 ISBN : 0307278832 9780307278838

‎Chanlaire, Pierre Gregoire & Mentelle, Edme.‎

‎Carte du théâtre de la Guerre en Orient. Paris, Chanlaire & Mentelle, 1798-1799.‎

‎Original outline colour. Dissected and laid on linen in two sections, together 940 x 1540 mm. A two-sheet wall map showing Prussia, Turkey, Egypt and Abyssinia in the west, and the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, Persia, Arabia and Somalia in the east. Two inset maps show the routes from Siré to Gondar and from Gondar to the sources of the Nile. According to the inscription, the map is based on that of "the late J. B. Laborde" (Jean-Benjamin de Laborde [1734-94], a traveller and musician), with amendments; however we have been unable to trace a map of the region by him. - The vast map was published to satisfy French interest when their seemingly-unstoppable General Bonaparte turned his attention to the conquest of Egypt in 1798. Napoleon had captured Malta en route to Egypt, and the oval title vignette shows him overseeing the burial of the French dead under Pompey's Pillar after the capture of the important port city of Alexandria (July 1798). - After the defeat of the Mameluk army at the Battle of the Pyramids it was Napoleon's intention to subdue the rest of the Ottoman Empire before moving to threaten British interests in India. However, as the political situation in Paris was deteriorating, Napoleon decided to leave his army in Egypt in 1799, returning to France to become First Consul. His army was less fortunate, surrendering to the British at Alexandria in 1801. - This map is very scarce: the French citizens' interest in maps of the Orient evaporated as quickly as Napoleon's.‎

‎Chappeville, Pierre Clement de.‎

‎Petit traité de fauconnerie. Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885.‎

‎8vo. 26, (2) pp. Later half morocco, spine gilt, with the original printed wrappers bound within. Schwerdt copy. One of 150 copies. - Spine rubbed. Schwerdt I, 103. Thiébaud 166.‎

‎Chapple Joe Mitchell‎

‎To Bagdad and Back‎

‎<p>First edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece by Saul M. Arkin frontispiece etching by Levon West 2 color plates by Konrad Meindl about 10 b/w drawings by Chauncy Howard Peters 32 sepia-tone photographs 2 facsimiles. Original full red cloth stamped gilt and dark blue on spine and upper cover t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good rubbing to spine of blue background. 298 pages.</p><p>Inscribed presentation copy signed and inscribed by Chapple to Guy Edward Murchand on front free endpaper: ".with sincere regards of the author and an appreciation of the 'new models'.The Attic Boston 1926 sic!." No other signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Author's travel in Egypt Palestine Lebanon Syria and Iraq. Notable for Levon West's etched portrait of Mohammed something which could never be accomplished by any Islamic true believer.</p> Chapple Publishing Company, Limited hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2221958

‎Charles Enderlin‎

‎The Lost Years -‎

‎Other Press - 2007. Gd. condition: An exploration of the Arab - Israeli conflict . TR552ml. Hard Cover. Good. Other Press - Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 52ml

‎Charles M. Brand‎

‎Icon And Minarett: Sources Of Byzantine And Islamic Civilization -‎

‎Prentice Publishing - 1969. Hardcover/pub.1969/Gd.conditionex-lib/180 pages - Icon and minarett sources of byzantine and islamic civilization is discussed in this text. HA137493. Hardcover. Good. Prentice Publishing - hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 37493

‎Charles Montagu DOUGHTY‎

‎Wanderings in Arabia. Being an Abridgement of 'Travels in Arabia Deserta'. Second Impression thus.‎

‎Duckworth 1927. 8vo. Second Impression thus with a frontispiece and folding map small neat signature on half-title; original green cloth gilt back a very good clean copy. Nice copy of the second impression of the first single-volume edition. Garnett's abridgement of Doughty's nineteenth century classic first published in two volumes in 1908 brought the work to a new and appreciative audience including T E Lawrence. Professor Bonney Doughty's geological tutor attributed to this publication the award by the RGS of the Founder's Gold Medal in 1912. The first single-volume edition appeared in 1926. Scarce. Duckworth, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21878

‎Charles Tripp‎

‎A History of Iraq‎

‎<p>Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. </p> Cambridge University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1306 ISBN : 0521556333 9780521556330

‎Charles VIII, King of France / [compiled by Emmanuel Victor Pourroy de l’Aubérivière, Comte de Quinsonas].‎

‎Comptes de la vénerie et fauconnerie du roi Charles VIII. Archives impériales. Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1860.‎

‎8vo. VI, 22 pp. With 4 chromolithographed plates showing 3 stained-glass portraits and an architectural elevation, 2 double-page etched views and a lithographed facsimile of a letter written and signed by Margaret of Austria. Half grey-brown cloth (ca. 1900?). With the publisher’s lavender printed paper wrappers bound in, repeating the arms of the title-page. A remarkable bibliophile edition (limited to fifty copies) of financial accounts and other documents concerning hunting and falconry from the archives of King Charles VIII of France in the years 1485 to 1486. These documents are essential primary sources for the history of hunting and falconry, giving detailed and very specific data to throw light on falconry ca. 1485/86. The text was prepared in conjunction with a publication about Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), Duchess of Savoy, and Quinsonas (1818-1901) wrote a brief introductory chapter to the present book, “Documents pour servir a l’histoire de Marguerite d’Autriche”. The daughter the future Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, she was betrothed to Charles VIII in 1483 and came to the French court to be educated as the future Queen of France. He broke off the engagement to marry her stepmother for political reasons in 1491. So at the time of the book’s documents about Charles VIII she was still betrothed to him and living at the French court. After he broke off their engagement she married twice, the second time in 1501 to Philibert II, Duke of Savoy who died of pneumonia that he caught during a hunt in 1504. The chromolithographs show details from two stained-glass portraits of her, one of her husband Philibert and a view of her “tower” in his chateau in Pont d’Ain. The etchings show Pont d’Ain and Louis XIII’s chateau at Poncin. After Margaret’s brother King Philip I of Spain died in 1506, she became governor of the Low Countries for most of 1507-30. Although the title-page names no compiler and the imprint names only the printer, Quinsonas’s arms appear on the title-page and front wrapper. He was clearly the motive force behind the publication, using the services of the printer Louis Perrin, who pioneered historically allusive book design. - With a presentation inscription from the compiler Comte de Quinsonas to Mr [Louis] de Mas-Latrie (1815-97), historian and palaeographer, on the front wrapper. With an 1890 (?) bookseller’s ticket, the bookplate of Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934), and a modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d’Orcet family, whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. With offsetting of the chromolithographs (in spite of the tissue guards bound in to prevent it), the ribbon marker has left a browned shadow in the gutter margin between 2 pages and the margins of the wrappers have faded to grey-brown, but otherwise in very good condition. A bibliophile edition of documents concerning King Charles VIII’s hunting and falconry in the years 1485-86. Schwerdt 119. Thiébaud 763. For the type cf. Ponot, Louis Perrin & l’énigme des Augustaux (1998).‎

‎CHARLES-ROUX (François)‎

‎L'Angleterre et l'expédition française en Egypte. Tome premier. Société royale de géographie d'Egypte‎

‎Le Caire, (1925). Grand in-8 broché non coupé, couverture illustrée en noir et en couleurs, XXIV-278 pp., 1 carte dépl. en couleurs in fine.‎

‎Dos insolé, petit manque en bas du dos, bon ex. non coupé néanmoins. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 595771

‎CHARMES (Gabriel)‎

‎Cinq mois au Caire et dans la Basse Egypte. Deuxième édition.‎

‎P., G. Charpentier, 1880. Petit in-8, bradel de l'époque pleine percaline bleue, dos titré, [1] ff., II-368 pp.‎

‎Dos sali, rousseurs, cependant bonne condition générale. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 561747

‎CHARTOUNI (Charles)‎

‎Histoire sociétés et pouvoir aux Proche et Moyen Orients. T. I : Histoire sociale. T. II : Sociologie, sciences politiques.‎

‎P., Geuthner, 2001. 2 tomes en 2 vol., in-8 br., 296, 301 pp.‎

‎Très bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 450356

‎CHASSIN Général L. M.‎

‎Bélisaire généralissime byzantin (504-565) . Avec quatre cartes .‎

‎,Paris, Payot Bibliothèque Historique 1957, 254 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br. couverture illustree . Bon etat.‎

Bookseller reference : 18423

‎CHATEAUBRIAND‎

‎Itin?raire de Paris ? J?rusalem. Sans date.‎

‎Broch?. 566 pages.‎

‎CHATEAUBRIAND‎

‎Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. En 2 volumes.‎

‎Couverture rigide. 2 volumes, reliure demi-chagrin rouge. 487 +390 pages. Rousseurs.‎

‎Livre. Editions P. Pourrat Frères (Collection : Oeuvres complètes de M. le vicomte de Chateaubriand, tome VIII et IX), 1836.‎

Bookseller reference : 47762