‎Middle east‎

‎FISHER SYDNEY NETTLETON‎

‎The Middle East: A History‎

‎Routledge & Kegan Paul London: 1960. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjacket is worn and pieces of it are missing. This history of the Middle East in Muslim times although it includes a general survey of the area before the birtth of Muhammad and discusses at length the development of Islam places its principal emphasis on the modern period. One of its major contributions is the presentation of sufficiently detailed background material to make the contemporary scene as well as the earlier eras intelligible to the reader; at the same time over half the book is focused on events of the last century and a half. Includes an Index. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1960 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 74389X1

‎Fisher Sydney Nettleton‎

‎The Military in the Middle East‎

‎Ohio State University Press 1963. HDJ. VG / G. VERY-GOOD HARDBACK-WITH-DUSTJACKET EXCEPT HALF INCH EDGE TEAR NARROW 'V' SHAPE TO TOP OF BACK OF DUSTJACKET. . /KEYWORDS/: Middle East--Politics and government.; Middle East--Social conditions.; Militarism--Middle East.; Ohio State University Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 56131

‎Fisher W. B. ed‎

‎The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume I: The Land of Iran‎

‎Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1968. Edited by W.B. Fisher. Worn dj. Plates. Folding map. Bibliography. Index. xix 784 pages. 23.5 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: VG/G. . Catalogs: IRAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6581

‎Fisher, A. K. / C. Hart Merriam (dir.).‎

‎The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their Relation to Agriculture. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893.‎

‎8vo. 210 pp. Illustrated with 26 colour plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First edition of a survey of the influence of birds of prey on the agriculture in the United States, published as bulletin no. 3 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Understanding the feeding pattern of these birds was crucial to gauge their role in the ecosystem. Therefore the birds were caught and dissected and their stomach contents studied. This explains why the plates show the birds with their typical food. The 26 full-page chromolithographed plates are signed JLR (J. L. Ridgway and R. Ridgway) and show most birds in their natural habitat with a kill at their paws. Number 26 is placed between 23 and 24. - Bottom of spine damaged and repaired. Nissen IVB 316.‎

‎Fisher, Charles Hawkins.‎

‎Reminiscences of a Falconer. London, John C. Nimmo, 1901.‎

‎8vo. XIV,188 pp. With portrait frontispiece and plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. First edition. - Some foxing, rubbed.‎

‎Fisk Robert‎

‎The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East inscribed Civilization‎

‎<p>London: Fourth Estate 2005 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 1366pp. hardback tall 8vo: Good in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover rear hinge of extremely heavy case bound volume is cracked but firm; else a clean and crisp copy; dj = p-c; tear @ back cover near spine head; else nrVG A monumental history inscribed in Beirut by the award winning British journalist and long time Middle East correspondent.</p> London: Fourth Estate hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23786 ISBN : 18411500710 978184115007

‎Fitzgerald Judith; Fitzgerald Michael Oren‎

‎Universal Spirit of Islam The: From The Koran and Hadith‎

‎World Wisdom Press - 2006. PB/pub. 2006/Gd. condition/148 pages - A text of Islam teachings . AR6v6634z. Soft Cover. Good. World Wisdom Press - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : v6634z ISBN : 1933316160 9781933316161

‎Fitzsimons M. A‎

‎Empire by Treaty: Britain and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century‎

‎Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press 1964. Dust jacket. Maps. Index. xi 235 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1964 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5778

‎Fleming, John Arnold.‎

‎Falconry and Falcons. The Sport of Flight [...]. London, Country Life Limited, (1934).‎

‎4to. XV, (1), 114, (2) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 48 photographic illustrations on 19 plates. Contemporary full green cloth with giltstamped hawk to front cover and giltstamped spine-title. First edition, one of 350 copies signed by the author (this is number 277). - A practical guide to falconry by the industrial chemist, journalist, author, politician, and keen amateur falconer and golfer Fleming (1871-1966), including a glossary of falconry terms as well as observations on the relationship between hawk and falconer. It features "some excellent photographs of the birds in natural settings" (US Air Force Academy), including a hooded merlin, the author with his kestrel, falcons, hawks, merlins, and buzzards attending to their young, as well as birds in flight, and falconers with their animals, including a group of men from Tiwana in Pakistan. - Somewhat brownstained throughout. Handwritten ownership by Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Eton 1934, to front pastedown. Clipped publisher's advertising is loosely enclosed. US Air Force Academy Library Catalogue 27, 4. Barber 22. OCLC 561016854.‎

‎Flinders PETRIE‎

‎Egyptian Architecture. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY‎

‎British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch 1938. 8vo. First Edition with 34 plates containing 155 photographs illustrations plans and diagrams; original terracotta cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in black upper board very lightly age-marked backstrip lightly frayed without material loss at head and tail two corners mildly bruised else a very good clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate removed from front paste-down small stamp on front free endpaper and single neat annotation on title. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 14655

‎Fludd, Robert / Henri de Pisis / Alfakini.‎

‎Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur. "Verona" [= Frankfurt am Main], 1687.‎

‎647, (1) pp. 197, (1) pp. With title-page printed in red and black, 5 (of 6) large folding letterpress tables, 1 double-page engraved folding plate with 2 engraved illustrations, and some woodcut illustrations and numerous letterpress geomantic figures in text. With (2): Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno MDXXXV. Iam primo luci datus, annexis duabus tabellis huic studio mirè inservientibus, caeteroquin utilibus & jucundis. Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunner, 1693. With 2 letterpress folding tables following text, and nearly 200 pages of letterpress tables with geomantic figures. 2 works in 1 volume, bound in reverse order. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. First edition of a collection of three texts on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins. Geomancy comes from the Ancient Greek "geômanteía", a translation of the Arabic term "'ilm al-raml", the "science of the sand". It includes texts by the English physician and astrologer Robert Fludd (1574-1637), the French physician Henri de Pisis and the Arab Alfakini. It is preceded by its separately published supplement Tabulae geomanticae, together forming "the standard printed Latin source for the rules of geomantic practice [...] a handbook and compendium not since rivalled for clarity and completeness" (Skinner). - Fludd's treatise "De Animae intellectualis Scientia seu geomantia" was first published in his magnum opus "Utriusque Cosmi maioris salicet et minoris metaphysica" (1617-19), and appeared slightly altered in the present work. "Fludd [...] tried to present [geomancy] as a science of intellectual soul in which intellectual rays emanated from the mind to mundane affairs and then returned to the center with tidings of the future [...] He discusses how the geomancer should so dispose himself that the intentions of his mind are clearly emitted [...] Fludd's treatise is immediately followed by a longer geomancy by H. de Pisis [first published in 1638]. The work is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar" (Thorndike). The last treatise contains the geomantic questions of the Arab Alfakini, son of Abizarch, based on a manuscript from 1535 and published here for the first time. The manuscript was a Latin translation by Plato of Tivoli (fl. first half of the 12th century), known for his translations of Arabic texts. A supplement to this last text, containing almost 200 pages of tables, is bound first. It opens with a series of 25 numbered questions, the answers to these questions can be found in the tables of the matching geomantic figure. - With a crude drawing of a head on pastedown. Lacking one letterpress folding table in the main work. Browned throughout, as usual, some occasional smudges, a few tears along the folds of the folding tables, and some wormholes in the first two leaves, resulting in a small hole in the gutter of the title-page, otherwise internally still good. Binding soiled and with crudely restored spine. VD 17, 7:692678X & 39:120436C. Caillet 4035. Thorndike VIII, 481f. S. Skinner, Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy (1980).‎

‎FOORD (Edward)‎

‎The Byzantine Empire. The rearguard of european civilization.‎

‎London, Black, 1911. Fort in-8 bradel pleine toile verte, pièce de titre basane bordeaux, XII-431 pp., 32 planches, 7 cartes. Index.‎

‎Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 555597

‎Foot Michael and Mervyn Jones‎

‎Gulty Men 1957. Suez and Cyprus‎

‎New York: Rinehart & Company 1957 First printing in trade paperback. 264 pp. Illustrations. Bump to the toip front corner some soiling to the covers. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Very Good. UB4-3. Rinehart & Company paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 252182

‎Forbes Rosita‎

‎Forbidden Road Kabul to Samarkand‎

‎New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good. 1937. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some beginning bumping and rubbing. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Rosita Forbes n�e Joan Rosita Torr 16 January 1890 � 30 June 1967 was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya together with the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein in a period when this was closed to westerners." "The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road concept refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting Asia with Africa the Middle East and southern Europe. The overland Steppe route stretching through the Eurasian steppe is considered the ancestor to the Silk Roads." . E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : A36069

‎Forbin, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste.‎

‎Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1819.‎

‎Text vol. in 8vo and atlas in folio (670 x 503 mm). (4), 460 pp. (4), 65 pp. Half-titles in both vols.; 80 lithographed, sepia aquatint or engraved plates and plans, the 8 fine aquatints by Debucourt after Forbin, the lithographed subjects for G. Engelmann after Lecomte, Deseynes, Castellan, Carle, and Horace Vernet, Fragonard, Thiénon, Legros, Isabey and others, large folding engraved plan at the end of text vol. 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. First edition. Only 325 copies of this work were produced. "Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's 'Description de l'Egypte' or Denon's 'Voyage'" (Navari, Blackmer). Forbin succeeded Denon as director of museums in 1816 and was authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre (his son-in-law, Marcellus, expedited the acquisition of the recently discovered Venus de Milo). In August 1817 he began a year-long journey to the Levant accompanied by the artist Pierre Prévost and the engineer de Bellefonds. His journey took him to Melos, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Ephesus, Acre, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, and Thebes. - This set includes the frequently lacking 8vo text volume: this has the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bound at the end with a list of plates which were sold separately. The atlas volume repeats the text (entirely reset in-folio, sometimes found in a separate folio volume) and includes the magnificent, highly desirable plates (after Carle Vernet, Fragonard, Isabey, and Forbin himself, as well as Prevost), which show fine views of Greece, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Ramla, Gaza, and Egypt. - Occasional slight foxing, still a splendid 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. The Aboussouan copy (comprising both the folio and the octavo volume) commanded £20,000 at Sotheby's in 1993, while in 2002 the Atabey copy of the folio volume alone fetched £22,000. Atabey 447f. Blackmer 614. Aboussouan 338. Weber I, 68-70. Röhricht 1660. Tobler 144f. Colas 1089. Hiler 321. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 163. Brunet II, 1337. Graesse II, 614. Cf. Lipperheide Ma 16 (2nd ed.).‎

‎Forder Rev. A.‎

‎Petra Perea Phoenicia‎

‎London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1923. Hardcover. Maroon beveled cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many sepia-tone photogravures of archaeological and historic sites and local Bedouin and other residents in the areas of modern Jordan and Lebanon that house the ancient lands of Petra Perea and Phoenicia. ; 112 pages . Marshall Brothers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 36861

‎FORMENTON Fabio‎

‎Tapis d'Orient - Un guide à consulter, 400 illustrations en couleurs‎

‎1997 Editions Celiv - 1997 - 1 vol in-4, cartonnage éditeur + jaquette illustrée - 259 pages -Iconographie en noir & blanc et en couleurs‎

‎Bon état, dos très légèrement insolé‎

Bookseller reference : 89362

‎Forrest AC. A. C.‎

‎The Unholy Land‎

‎Toronto: McCLelland & Stewart 1971. Second Printing. SIGNED 8vo. pp. xii 173. SIGNED on the half-title "Sincerely Al Forrest." Black cloth with silver spine titles housed in a price-intact dust jacket. Bookplate designed by Thoreau MacDonald on front pastedown. Primarily black dust jacket slightly scuffed tiny 1/8" abrasion on spine else very good book in a very good dust jacket. Includes ephemeral newspaper clippings and a photocopy of his article in The Observer Apr./68 "What happened when I criticized Israel." Dr. Forrest was editor of the United Church Observer for 23 years. "In the late 1960s Mr. Forrest travelled through the Middle East Jordan Lebanon Israel Gaza Strip Egypt to gather facts from the people and with the results publiched 'The Unholy Land' which he fled was unbiased. It was his opinion that there will be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians are given a homeland by the nations of the world." from a "Letters to the Editor" article 18 Jan. '79 shortly after his death. Signed. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Toronto: McCLelland & Stewart, 1971. Second Printing. SIGNED Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1579

‎Forster, Charles.‎

‎The Historical Geography of Arabia; or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Hadramaut. London, Duncan and Malcolm, 1844.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols. LXXXIII, (1), 357 pp. VI, 509, (1) pp. With two large folding frontispiece maps of the Arabian Peninsula (56 cm x 41 cm), a large folding chart of inscriptions, 1 engraved plate of inscriptions, and one further folding translation of the same inscription. Apparently never bound with the "vignette plate of Nakab el Hajar" supposed to face p. 335. Repairs to both maps. Only edition of this detailed study of place names, tribal geneaologies, and pre-Islamic inscriptions. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani). Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Gay 3570. Ghani 136. Brunet 19594. NYPL Arabia Coll. 166. OCLC 4892705.‎

‎FOSDICK Harry Emerson.‎

‎A Pilgrimage to Palestine.‎

‎New York:Macmillan1927. 2nd imp. Pp.16/332folding coloured map frontis. photo of Fosdick pasted to verso front covergift inscription to fep pencilled signatures to rear endpaper. Blue cloth gilt title to front spine slightly sunned. G. . New York:Macmillan,1927. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 16598

‎FOUCHET, Max-Pol:‎

‎Indes. - L'art amoureux des Indes. Texte et photographies de Max-Pol Fouchet. ‘Album Guilde du livre’, 288.‎

‎Lausanne, Guilde u Livre, s.d. (1957), gr. in-4°, 95 p., illustré, cartonnage original illustré.‎

Bookseller reference : 9675aaf

‎FOURLAS (Benjamin) Und TSAMAKDA (Vasiliki) (Hrsg.)‎

‎WEGE NACH BYZANZ. Ausstellung im Landesmuseum Mainz, vom 6. November 2011 bis zum 5. Februar 2012.‎

‎Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 2011. In-4, publisher hardback, 354pp, many color phot. in and out text., catalog, bibliography.‎

‎Contributions on the following subjects: Byzanz: Hochkultur wischen Orient und Okzident - Wege nach Byzanz - Das Byzanbild in Westeuropa und die Anfänge der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der byzantinischen Kultur - Die heutige Byzanzforschung: Fragestellungen und Methoden Very good condition - Frais de port : -France 7 € -U.E. 13 € -Monde (z B : 23 €) (z C : 43 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 563453

‎Fr. Eugene Hoade O. P. M.‎

‎Guide To The Holy Land‎

‎<p>This is an excellent copy of Father Hoade's guide geared to Catholic pilgrims.  This copy is amazingly crisp and fresh and is particularly full of obscure facts concerning the history of the Crusaders in Jerusalem.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Franciscan Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : biblio877

‎Francesco Gabrieli‎

‎The Arab Revival‎

‎<p>Hardback 178 pages ex-library book with rubber-stamp marks very good condition tight binding clean pages missing dustjacket. </p> Random Hous hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 504

‎Franck Harry Alverson‎

‎The Fringe of the Moslem World: Being the Tale of a Random Journey by Land from Cairo to Constantinople with Enough of Present Conditions to Suggest the Growing Antagonistic Attitude of the Followers of Mohammed Toward Those Who Profess Christianity‎

‎NY: The Century Co. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn some foxing to first and last . several pages of text shaken. 1928. First Printing. Hardcover. Green decorative cloth binding. Map endpapers photos. The author toured through Turkey Syria Lebanon Israel Palestine and Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 426 pages . The Century Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27125