‎Middle east‎

‎Haines, Stafford Bettesworth.‎

‎Memoir to Accompany a Chart of the South Coast of Arabia. [London, The Royal Geographical Society], 1839-1845.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols., pp. 125-156 and 103-160 of the Geographical Journal of 1839 and 1845, respectively. With a text illustration and two large folding engr. maps of the South East Arabian coast. Offprints in modern wrappers. Early British study of today's Yemen coast. Captain S. B. Haines led a party aboard the "Palinurus" in the 1830s to survey the almost unknown southeast coast of Arabia; he seized Aden in 1839 on behalf of the East India Company, for use as a coaling station for ships steaming to and from India. Appointed Political Agent by the Bombay Presidency of the EIC, Haines served in this capacity (without leave) for the next fifteen years, presiding over Aden’s rapid expansion as a fortress and as a port which by the early 1850s boasted a population of some 20,000. Haines’s deep personal commitment to the revival of Aden’s prosperity ultimately led to his tragic imprisonment in Bombay for debt and to his death (aged only 58) in 1860. But in South West Arabia his name lived on and for decades local tribesmen referred to the inhabitants of Aden as "Awlad Haines" ("Haines’s children"). These two articles, separated by six years, contain Haines's full account of the findings of the survey, with accompanying maps. Among the members of the party was James Wellsted, who during the course of the survey explored the island of Socotra, and also proceeded into the Arabian Peninsula as far as the Rub' al Khali. - Insignificant edge tear to one map, otherwise fine. Macro 1101.‎

‎Haines, Stafford Bettesworth.‎

‎Survey of Part of the South East Coast of Arabia. London, Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1845.‎

‎Engraved map (360 x 315 mm). A map by Captain S. B. Haines (1805-60), Commander in the Indian Navy and the first political agent in Aden, showing his surveys of the coastal areas that had never before been recorded or charted, with one area remaining unexplored after his expedition. - Being the first charting of this section of the coast, Haines's map is a rare primary source. Haines commanded the East India Company's survey ship "Palinurus" from 1833 to 1839. His survey of the coast of Southern Arabia, performed in 1839, was driven by the Company's requirement for a coaling station to service its steamship on the Bombay-Suez route. The map extends from the Wadi Masilah near Sawit to Jebel Saffan, passing Morbat and Ras Madrakah, also showing Masirah Island and some smaller islands in Curia Muria Bay. Elevations are indicated, as are freshwater lakes, small villages, and a region irrigated for cultivation at Dafhar. One section along the coast is marked "unexplored". - This map pre-dates by more than two decades the construction of the Suez Canal Company, which opened on 17 November 1869. During this time, mail came overland through Egypt from Alexandria to Cairo, then Suez. - Folded, but in very good condition.‎

‎HAJJAR (Joseph)‎

‎L' Europe et les destinées du Proche-Orient (1815-1848)‎

‎Paris, Bloud & Gay, 1970 gr. in-8, IX-632 pp., bradel demi-toile jaune à coins, dos orné, couv. cons.‎

‎LIVRE NON DISPONIBLE À PARIS, VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

Bookseller reference : 176478

‎Hakakian Roya‎

‎Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran‎

‎Broadway Books 2005. Nice copy with just minor edgewear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Broadway Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 227495 ISBN : 0609810308 9780609810309

‎Haker Erol‎

‎From Istanbul to Jerusalem. The Itinerary of a Young Turkish Jew‎

‎Istanbul Turkey: The Isis Press. 2003 Firt printing in trade paperback. 295 pp. Footnotes bibliography. Fine. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. BW3-3. The Isis Press. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 259757 ISBN : 9754282498 9789754282498

‎Halat A.‎

‎Maxims of Ali: Translated Into Persian and English and Persian Quatrains‎

‎Unknown 1960. Publisher data not given in English not positive of date either. Two pages have certain lines crossed out in blue felt tip pen as if they were censored--still legible beneath though. Text else clean well bound. Moderate cover wear with a bump/crease to upper spine that has a 1-inch tear repaired neatly. Soft Cover. Good. Octavo. Unknown Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 14579

‎Halevy Levin Isaac ed.; Sandberg Willem; Mansfeld Alfred; Kiesler Frederick J.; Bartos Armand P.; Yadin Yigael; Kahane Pe‎

‎Ariel: A Review of the Arts and Sciences in Israel Number 10 Spring 1965: Israel Museum Issue‎

‎Jerusalem: Cultural Relations Department Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1965. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square tight binding. Wraps have small tear at top of spine overall light soiling and shelf wear faint spine crease. Pages clean slightly age-darkened. Illustrated with color black and white photographs. Contents: Sandberg "The Message of Human Creativity"; Mansfeld "Unity in Diversity"; Kiesler and Bartos "The Shrine of the Book"; Yadin "The Scrolls in the Shrine"; Kahane "The Biblical and Archaeological Museum"; Amiran "Science in the Serivce of Archaeology"; Noguchi "A Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem"; Ardon "Whither Israel Art"; Katz "A Tabernacle in the Wilderness"; Roth "Jewish Ceremonial Art": Gordon "The Museum's Junior Wing"; Frankfurter "Art Based on the Old Testament."; 9.0" 23 cm tall; 75 pages. Cultural Relations Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4850008

‎Hallez (Xavier) - Raiymbergenov (Saïra)‎

‎Chants des Steppes (livre + CD) - Musique et chants du Kazakhstan‎

‎Du Layeur 2002 In-8, cartonnage éditeur, 47 pp. Illustrations.‎

‎Très bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 4035

‎Halliday Fred‎

‎Iran: Dictatorship and Development Second Edition‎

‎England: Penguin 1980. Maps. Bibliography. Owner's name neatly written at top of first page. 361 pages. 18 cm. Wrappers Soft cover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-14-022010-0 . Catalogs: IRAN. England: Penguin, (1980) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 8882 ISBN : 0140220100 9780140220100

‎Halliday Fred‎

‎Soviet Policy in the Arc of Crisis‎

‎Washington: Institute for Policy Studies 1981. Trade paperback first edition illustrated with maps extensively referenced 143pp includes appendices. Ex-libris with previous owner stamp bottom of title page else tight and clean. Very good. 210 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1981 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 21238 ISBN : 0897580281 9780897580281

‎Halpern Manfred‎

‎The Politics of Social Change in the Middle east and North Africa‎

‎NJ: Princeton University Press. Good with no dust jacket; Ex-Library with Markins. 1963. Hardbound. 0691030510 . 429 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 34330 ISBN : 0691030510 9780691030517

‎Halpern Manfred‎

‎The Politics of Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa‎

‎Princeton: Princeton University Press 1965. Folding map. Owner's name and address sticker inside front wrapper. Worn Wrappers Softcover. xxv 431 pages. 20.2 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1965) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 7614

‎Hamaker, Hendrik Arent.‎

‎Specimen catalogi codicum mss. orientalium bibliothecae academiae Lugduno-Batavae [...]. Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans, 1820.‎

‎Large 4to (220 x 261 mm). (4), VIII, 264, (2) pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped red spine label and sparsely gilt spine. Edges lightly sprinkled in red. Only edition. - Pioneering specimen of a catalogue of oriental manuscripts in the Leiden library, with extensive extracts in Arabic, produced by H. A. Hamaker (1789-1835). "Ce spécimen ne contient que douze articles" (Brunet). "The descriptions of a mere twelve items on 238 pages illustrate the diligence with which the author attends to each and every title. Indeed, the final MS, the 'Qamus al-Muhit' of Firuzabadi, is discussed on no fewer than 60 pages. Each author is provided with extensive biographical excerpts with Latin translations, to which are added extremely detailed discussions of scholarly literature. Had Hamaker kept up this method for all the oriental MSS in Leiden, estimated at a number of some ten thousand, he should have wanted about 25,000 pages, not to mention hundreds of pages of indices. It is thus questionable whether Hamaker intended more with his 'Specimen' than to provide an example of an ideality which was to promote his planned catalogue [...]. And yet, had he been able to realize this ideal with the help of other scholars, this would have given to the world a source-based work of reference which would have preserved its value to this day, not superseded either by Brockelmann's 'Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur' nor by Sezgin's 'Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums'" (cf. B. Liebrenz, Arabische, persische und türkische Handschriften in Leipzig [Leipzig 2008], p. 73). - Some creases to paper; binding rubbed and chafed in places. A good copy from the library of the Dutch theologian Christiaan Jacobus van der Vlis (1813-42) with his handwritten ownership on the front pastedown. Besterman 4352. Brunet III, 26f. & VI, 31385. Cf. Fück 181 (for Hamaker).‎

‎Hambright K. D.; Ragep F. J.; Ginat Joseph‎

‎Water in the Middle East : Cooperation and Technical Solutions in the Jordan Valley‎

‎Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 2006. Book. New. Cloth. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. "Water in the Middle East" presents historical and cross-cultural perspectives on water and conflict prospects for future cooperation in the water arena among Middle Eastern countries the political economy of water and technical solutions to water shortages in the Jordan Valley and the relationships among water agriculture and environmental sustainability. Through case studies and essays natural and social scientific water experts from Israel Palestine Jordan and the United States examine: The role of water in Middle East conflicts and the possibility of regional solutions to water scarcity requiring cooperation among states; Long-term prospects of various aquifers and other fresh-water sources including desalination; current and future environmental deterioration of water resources; Breakthroughs and developments increasing regional agricultural productivity depending less on high-quality waters while turning to lower quality resources such as recycled and brackish waters; alternatives to current water-usage patterns particularly with regard to agriculture and the possibility of redirecting water to tourism and other economic sectors. While this book highlights the complexities pertaining to regional water scarcity and inequitable distribution the contributors offer no definitive conclusions or facile solutions; yet there is a broad consensus that regional solutions to maximize water resources must be pursued even as desalination becomes more viable both from technical/economic standpoints. The continuing deterioration of existing water supplies in terms of quantity and quality mandate that any solution must be achieved within a political/social framework of peace enlightened economic policies and the application of technical solutions that take due account of environmental concerns.249pp. Sussex Academic Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017817 ISBN : 1845191226 9781845191221

‎Hamelsveld Ysbrand van.‎

‎Aardrykskunde Aardrijkskunde des Bybels. Tweede deel.‎

‎Amsterdam Johannes Allart 1790. Octavo. Pp. 410. Hardcover bound in contemporary half calf spine gilt with gilt morocco lettering-piece boards rubbed. In good condition. ~ First edition. Second part only. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1790. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4352

‎Hamilton, Alexander.‎

‎A New Account of the East Indies. Giving an exact and copious description of the situation, product, manufactures, laws, customs, religion, trade, etc. of all the countries and islands, which lie between the Cape of Good Hope, and the Island of Japon. London, C. Hitch & A. Millar, 1744.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols. XXXII, 400 pp. VII, (1), 320 pp. With a total of 8 folding maps and 11 plates as called for. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red labels to gilt spine. Second London edition of this important work, first published in Edinburgh in 1727, "which remains to this day one of the most valuable first-hand histories of English merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean and East Indies" (Howgego). It covers "the whole of the Orient" (Hill) from Ethiopia to Japan and is very strong on India (some 20 chapters, not counting Bengal, which is described separately), but also includes an extensive section on the Arabian Peninsula: chapter IV "gives a little description of the coast of Arabia the Happy, from Mount Sinai to Mocha, with some observations on the religion, customs and laws"; chapter V "gives a description of the Immaum of Mocha's country, particularly its situation, laws, customs and commerce"; chapter VI "contains a description of Aden [...], also an account of the sea-coast of Arabia petraea, as far as Muskat and Bassora", chapter VII "treats of the kingdom and city of Muskat, and of their religious and civil customs [...] and a little account of the sea-coast of Arabia deserta, as far as Bassora", while chapter VIII "gives an account of Bassora City, and that part of Arabia deserta". Includes a rough, but apparently original map of the Gulf, showing "Barreen Island", "Cape Mussendon", and little detail along the Peninsula's northeastern coast in between save for a place labelled "Zoar", here not indicating Sohar in Oman but clearly referencing the area of the present-day Emirate of Sharjah (even Niebuhr's 1765 map still shows a town named "Seer" - Sir, Julfar - opposite the island of "Scharedsje"). The text mentions the region's trade in horses and pearls, stating, "There are no towns of note between Muskat and Bassora, but Zoar, and but very few inconsiderable villages; but there are two or three pretty convenient harbours for shipping. The southernmost is about 6 leagues to the southward of Cape Mosenden, called Courfacaun. It is almost like Muskat Harbour, but somewhat bigger, and has excellent fresh water from deep wells, about a quarter of a mile from the landing place. The village contains about twenty little houses; yet there are pretty good refreshments to be had there [...]". - In India, Gujarat and Bombay are covered particularly extensively, and the illustrations include not only a detailed coastline map of the subcontinent, but also several plates showing Ganesha, the elephant-headed god; a religious procession involving an elaborate wheeled scaffold from which men are hung; the temple of Jagannath; and the notorious "Juggernaut" car. - The Scottish captain Hamilton went to sea, in his own words "very young", in 1688, and travelled as far as the Barbary coast before basing himself in Surat and trading and travelling all over the Indian Ocean, "visiting, it is said, every port between the Cape and Canton" (Howgego). He made a reputation for himself as a foul-mouthed, resourceful and bold operator fending off Baluchi robbers, treacherous governors and Indian pirates. - Bindings professionally repaired. Light browning and occasional waterstaining; a few pencil annotations. Provenance: from the collection of the American diplomat Alexander Weddell (1876-1948) and his wife Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell (1874-1948); deaccessioned from the Virginia House Museum, Richmond (handwritten ownership "A. & V. Weddell, 1924, Calcutta" to flyleaves; bookplate to pastedowns). Alt-Japan 630. Howgego I, p. 477, H13. Cf. Macro 1115. Goldsmiths' 6522. Hanson 3724. Cordier, Indosinica 890. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages (2004) 765.‎

‎Hammer-Purgstall, [Joseph von, ed.].‎

‎Mahmud Schebisteri's Rosenflor des Geheimnisses. Persisch und Deutsch. Pest & Leipzig, Hartleben, 1838.‎

‎4to. VI, 32 pp. With 2 lithogr. plates and 28 ff. of Arabic letterpress with lithogr. borders, toned in various colours. Modern boards with the original wrappers bound within. First edition. - Without any doubt Hammer’s finest work in imitation of an oriental manuscript: the Persian text of the famous Sufi manual ‘Golshan-e Râz’ is printed in seven four-leaf quires of varying colours, each framed by a lithographed sequence of interlaced flowers and animals (pheasants, deer, antilopes, panthers, jackals). The German translation, the unsophisticated typography of which provides a striking contrast to the luxurious Persian text, is illustrated by two plates of topographical interest. The binding preserves the original blue paper wrappers with a large emblematic lithograph of a shell hidden among a bouquet of roses, drawn by Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling. - Occasional slight foxing. Untrimmed. Goedeke VII, 767, 100. Rabenlechner I, 122. Cf. Brunet III, 34 (Vienna, 1838 ed.).‎

‎Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Frhr. von, oriental scholar and diplomat (1774-1856).‎

‎Letter signed. Vienna, 21 Nov. 1846.‎

‎Large 8vo. 1½ pp. on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient, answering a request for a copy of his Ottoman History or the Divan of Hafiz: "[...] Ihren Wunsch eines Exemplars der osmanischen Geschichte oder des Diwans von Hafis zu erfüllen, bin ich leider nicht im Stande, da ich von dem ersten [...] Werke selbst nur ein Exemplar mehr besitze und Hafis, wenn ich auch ein Exemplar desselben kaufen wollte, nicht mehr zu haben, sondern längstens vergriffen ist; ich sende Ihnen aber dafür fünf Bändchen des Gemäldesaals, die untereinander in keinem Zusammenhang stehen und deren Inhalt für Sie selbst mehr Interesse haben dürfte, als die zehn Bände der osmanischen Geschichte, samt dem Umblick der Reise nach Brussa, den zwei Abhandlungen Samachschari's, und Ghasali's und der Zeitworte des Gebetes, die nicht nur nach dem Tode meiner innigst geliebten Gattinn, sondern auch nach dem großen Unglücke, das mich Anfangs Septembers durch den Tod meines hofnungsvollen 21 jährigen jüngeren Sohne betroffen hat, als die beßte Tröstung erprobt worden von Ihrem hochachtungsvoll ergebenen / Hammer-Purgstall [...]". - Some brownstaining and wrinkling.‎

‎Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.‎

‎Die Geschichte der Assassinen aus morgenländischen Quellen. Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1818.‎

‎8vo. VIII, 341, (3) pp. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine and labels in red and black; covers and edges marbled. First edition. - The first extensive history of the medieval Muslim sect of the Assassins, a radical group from whose name the English term for a political or religious killer is derived. A fanatical branch of the Ismaili Muslims who viewed themselves as martyrs, the Assassins specialised in political murder (usually carried out with a dagger), often conducted in broad daylight and in full view of the public, so as to instill terror in their foes. Contemporaries found it incomprehensible that they entirely accepted the fact of their own death as a consequence, as they made no attempt to escape and exposed themselves to the revenge of the victim's followers. Acting from a strong ideological conviction, the Assassins aimed to re-establish a theocracy, the basic Islamic order bequeathed by the Prophet, as they felt their contemporary world order to be usurped by tyrants. Most of their victims were Sunni Muslims, especially the Seljuk rulers of the 12th and 13 centuries. - For this history, Hammer-Purgstall draws from a wide variety of mainly oriental sources (Ibn Khaldun, Jihannuma, Abulfeda, Persian and Turkish chronicles, with a small number of western studies included), all of which he lists at the beginning, and ultimately compares the mediaeval sect to the modern fanatics of his own day, particularly the Jacobin party of the French Revolution. Among the goals which he wishes to have achieved with his book, he writes, is to have "given a vivid account of the pernicious influence of secret societies under weak governments, and of the hideous abuse of religion for purposes of committing atrocities of unscrupulous ambition and unfettered despotism". - Slight browning, but a good, finely bound copy. Provenance: from the Thun-Hohenstein library in Decín (Tetschen) with their armorial stamp "Tetschner Bibliothek" on the reverse of the title page. When the castle was requisitioned by the Czechoslovakian army in 1933, the library was transferred to Prague and dispersed to the trade. Goedeke VII, 762, 47. Wurzbach VII, 274, I B 1. FRA 70 (1940), p. 572. Cf. Atabey 556; Blackmer 787 (English ed.).‎

‎Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.‎

‎Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey [...] aus dem Türkischen und Griechischen verdeutscht. Pest, C. A. Hartleben, 1840.‎

‎8vo. With lithogr. frontispiece, (8), XXXII, (2), 115 pp.; 49 ff. (Turkish text). Original pictorial wrappers bound in, 20th century speckled calf, gilt. First and only edition, one of 300 copies. - "A book particularly important to lovers of falconry, its origin and history" (Schwerdt). Includes a list of books and manuscripts in many languages on falconry. - Foxed (as often), cloth rubbed. Harting 112. Schwerdt I, p. 228.‎

‎Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.‎

‎Memnon's Dreiklang, nachgeklungen in Dewajani, einem indischen Schäferspiele; Anahid, einem persischen Singspiele; und Sophie, einem türkischen Lustspiele. Vienna, Wallishausser, 1823.‎

‎8vo. XXI, (3), 319, (1) pp. Contemporary calf with giltstamped cover borders, gilt spine, giltstamped red spine label; leading edges gilt; all edges gilt. First edition. - Hammer's German translations of the Indian pastoral play "Dewajani", the Persian musical play "Anahid", and the Turkish comedy "Sophia". - From the library of the Swedish diplomat Ulf Torsten Undén (1877-1962) with his ownership "U. T. Undén" signed twice to endpapers. Goedeke VII, 764, 64. Wurzbach VII, 276, 43. WG² 29. OCLC 19226414.‎

‎Hammer[-Purgstall], Joseph von.‎

‎Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, grossentheils aus bisher unbenützten Handschriften und Archiven. Pest, C. A. Hartleben, 1827-1835.‎

‎Large 8vo. 10 vols. Contemp. marbled half calf with giltstamped spine label. With 10 woodcut vignettes on half-title, 8 engr. maps, and a large plan of Constantinople (rather browned). First edition of the author's principal publication, a standard work unsurpassed to this day. Also discusses the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were part of the Ottoman Empire since 1517. Hammer, father of Ottoman Studies and founder of modern orientalist scholarship in Austria, was one of the 19th century's greatest specialists on the Near East. - The map belonging to vol. 7 is bound at the end of vol. 8 in error. Bindings somewhat rubbed; spines, spine-ends and corners bumped. From the library of the Royal Prussian Hussar Guard Regiment (with their stamps, giltstamped spine labels, and giltstamped shelfmark). ADB X, 483. Brunet III, 32. Graesse III, 205. Goedeke VII, 765, 75. OCLC 6139878.‎

‎Hammudah Abdalati‎

‎Islam in Focus -‎

‎Islamic Teaching Center Press - 1975. PB/pub.1975/Fair Condition/211 pages - A examination of Islam. H62981z. Soft Cover. Good. Islamic Teaching Center Press - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 2981z

‎Hamza Khidhir‎

‎Saddam's Bombmaker : The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear & Biological Weapons Agenda‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks. Very Good. 2001. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall 0743211359 . Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 0764658 ISBN : 0743211359 9780743211352

‎Hamza Khidhir with Jeff Stein‎

‎Saddam's Bombmaker The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon‎

‎Simon & Schuster/A Touchstone Book 2000. Corner tips lightly rubbed. 352 pages. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Simon & Schuster/A Touchstone Book paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 014597 ISBN : 0743211359 9780743211352