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John Freely
Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul
London: Viking 1999. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Viking Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 057157 ISBN : 0670878391 9780670878390
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John GADSBY
Mount Sinai and the Holy Land in 1864. IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Alfred Gadsby 1864. 8vo. First Edition with 4 engraved illustrations 2 full-page and a full-page engraved map in the text; neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original brown cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind upper board lettered in gilt yellow endpapers upper joint very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Vividly-written personal account of the author's journey from Marseilles through Palestine and Egypt in 1864. A MOST DESIRABLE COPY IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL AND FRAGILE BINDING OF A WORK FAR SCARCER THAN ITS PREDECESSOR 'MY WANDERINGS'. RARE. Alfred Gadsby, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21186
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John Glubb
Arabian Adventures: Ten Years of Joyful Service
<p>Very good throughout with minimal signs of use some corner wear top front of DJ. No inscriptions or markings and not price clipped.</p> Cassell Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio718 ISBN : 030430171X 9780304301713
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John Griffiths
Afghanistan : Key to a Continent -
Westview Press - 1981. Hardcover/pub.1981/Gd. conditionex-lib/224 pages - Its history Dynastic tribal political culture are examined. TA63313z. Hardcover -. Good. Westview Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3313z
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John Keegan
The Iraq War
London: Pimlico 2005. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Reading crease to spine. Pimlico Paperback
Bookseller reference : 044152 ISBN : 1844134288 9781844134281
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John L. Esposito
Islam: The Straight Path Updated with New Epilogue 3rd edition
Oxford University Press 2005. clean unmarked copy. Revised Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oxford University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 362877 ISBN : 0195182669 9780195182668
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John Laffin
The Israeli Mind SIGNED
London: Cassell 1979. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22 cm. Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Slight fading to spine unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Beige cloth binding small mark to front board slight bumping to board corners otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper: 'For Ian McIntyre with the author's best wishes John Laffin January 1980.'. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 243 Cassell hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1132E515 ISBN : 0304303992 9780304303991
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John Marlowe
Arab Nationalism and British Imperialism: A Study in Power Politics
<p>Hardback 236 pages ex-library book with rubber-stamp marks on several pages. Very good condition overall: tight binding clean pages no dustjacket dark blue cover with slight wear several pages slightly creased & torn at bottom. </p> The Cresset Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1254
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John Rowland
A History Of Sino-Indian Relations: Hostile Co-Existence -
D. Van Nostrand Publishing - 1967. Hardcover/Gd. condition/248 pages - Discusses the origins nature and significance of Sino-Indian tension and its relationship to Sino Soviet conflict. K573HT1. Hard Cover. Good. D. Van Nostrand Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K573
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John S. Badeau
East and West of Suez: The Story of the Modern Near East
<p>April 1943. Good softcover. Staple-bound with thin card covers. Lightly scuffed small letter 'N' on front cover near joint otherwise clean covers; tightly bound; clean interior with some age darkening at page edges; owner's blind embossed stamp on one interior leaf. 12mo 94 pp. Illustrated with charts graphs and maps. 'Headline Books No. 39'.</p> New York: Foreign Policy Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 17238
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John Simpson
Inside Iran -
St. Martin's Press - 1988. Hardcover/pub.1988/Gd.condition/368 pages - Life under Khomeini's regime. HA337680. Hardcover. Good. St. Martin's Press - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37680
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John Simpson; Tira Shubart
Lifting the Veil: Life in Revolutionary Iran
UK: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1995. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Bookplate to half title page. reading crease to spine. Corners and edges a little rubbed. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : 040421 ISBN : 0340628146 9780340628140
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John Simpson and Tira Shubart
Lifting the Veil: Life in Revolutionary Iran. SIGNED
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1995. 1st Edition . Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25 x 9.5 inches 16 x 24 cm. Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Near Fine. Book: First edition first impression. Black cloth binding very slight marking and browning to page edges otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Signed by both authors to title page. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches 16 x 24 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 373 Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1131E488 ISBN : 0340628146 9780340628140
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John Tallis and Rapkin
Turkey in Asia
Tallis John: Turkey in Asia. London. ca.1851. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas. Map engraved by Rapkin. Size approx 360 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. 4 vignettes include Jerusalem and the Castles of Europe and Asia. The map area covers modern day Turkey Cyprus Israel Lebanon Syria Jordan and Iraq. Decorative Border. Single page unfolded map in excellent clean condition. Associated text page of the Montgomery Martin Atlas included. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas.
Bookseller reference : 90989
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Johnson Pamela R.; El Dahry Ahmed; Dekmejian Richard
Egypt: The Egyptian American Rural Improvement Service A Point Four Project 1952-63
U.S. Agency for International Development 1983. First edition. Trade soft cover. Published U.S. Agency for International Development 1983. 4to. xi26 pp.appendix A-J additional text b/w photos tables maps charts many fold-out. Very Good. 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to. U.S. Agency for International Development Paperback
Bookseller reference : 003061
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Johnson & Browning.
Johnson's Turkey in Asia, Persia, Arabia, &c. New York, 1861.
Hand-coloured engraved map (456 x 345 mm). Decorative map of Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan and contiguous regins., with large inset views of Smyrna, Trebisond and Muscat. Shows excellent detail, including towns, rivers, mountains, deserts, roads, etc. Al-Qasimi 270.
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Jon Kimche
Seven Fallen Pillars The Middle East 1915-1950 First Edition
<p>Hardback 326 pages good overall condition tight binding most pages are clean several pages with stains and spots cover worn with stains no jacket. </p> Secker and Warburg, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2174
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Jon Lee Anderson
The Fall Of Baghdad
London: Abacus 2006. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. light fading to covers and spine. Slight darkening to page edges. Abacus Paperback
Bookseller reference : 046904 ISBN : 0349118787 9780349118789
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Jon Lee Anderson
The Fall of Baghdad
Middle East Wars: The Penguin Press 2004. 389 pgs. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. The Penguin Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008759 ISBN : 1594200343 9781594200342
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Jonathan C. Randal
Going All The Way: Christian Warlords Israeli Adventurers and the War in Lebanon
The Viking Press 1983. Hardcover. Very good. No dustjacket. Cover has some wear on the lettering on spine. The Viking Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 300 ISBN : 0670422592 9780670422593
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Jonathan Steele
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
Counterpoint 2011. clean unmarked copy. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Counterpoint Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 362886 ISBN : 1582437874 9781582437873
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Jones Ann
Kabul in Winter Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
Metropolitan Books 2006. Soft Cover. New. 8vo. Metropolitan Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : MiddleEast3003 ISBN : 0739474367 9780739474365
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Jones [Commander James Felix, I.N.].
Selection from the Records of the Bombay Government. Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones, I.N. Bombay, for the Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1857.
Large 8vo. XXII, (2), 500, (folding leaf of appendix) pp. With 27 (of 32) plates, mostly folded and coloured. Modern half calf with marbled paper boards. Red morocco label to gilt spine. First edition, very rare. The volume includes seven important historical, archaeological and geographical essays covering Baghdad, the Nahrwan canal and large parts of Kurdistan, the topography of Nineveh and the old course of the River Tigris. Also included are some 30 maps and plates, many in colour, most notably the ground-plan of Baghdad. Felix Jones first saw service on the Palinurus, surveying the northern part of the Red Sea, whilst a later commission found him engaged on the Arabian survey under Haines. In 1839 he surveyed the harbour of Graine (Kuwait) and this led to an almost continuous period of service in Mesopotamia and the Gulf, ending in 1862 as Political Agent in the Persian Gulf, in which capacity he planned the British invasion of Persia. - Lacks the large maps of the Katul es Kesrawi and River Tigris. Labels to spine chipped, spine faded, occasional blue pencil markings between pages 259 & 288, and between pages 364 & 368. Generally text and plates very clean and fresh, map at page 136 torn at fold with no loss. - No pocket is present in the rebinding nor are the 3 maps which the pocket should contain. Paper slightly browned, otherwise in good condition.
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JONES A. H. M - MONROE E
Histoire de l'Abyssinie des origines à nos jours
Payot Payot, 1935. In-8 broché de 247 pages, 1 carte. Dos bruni sinon Bon état
Bookseller reference : 172097
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Jones, Sir William.
The Works of Sir William Jones. [With:] Supplemental volumes to the Works of Sir William Jones. London, 1799-1804.
Folio (250 x 305 mm). 6 vols. of Works, 3 vols. of Supplements, vol. 3 being: The Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, by Lord Teignmouth. A total of 9 vols. with 2 portraits and 84 plates (some folding). Splendidly bound in contemporary, uniform gilt tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with black spine labels. First edition. - While serving as a judge of the high court at Calcutta, the British orientalist Sir William Jones (1746-94) became a student of ancient India and founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He is best known for his famous proposition that the Indo-European languages sprang from a common source and were genetically related - a suggestion soon to be proved by the linguist Franz Bopp. By the end of his life, Jones had learned 28 languages, including Arabic and Chinese, often by teaching himself. His scholarship helped to generate widespread interest in Eastern history, language and culture, and it led to new directions in linguistic research. Among his many efforts on behalf of the Arabic language and culture are his "Discourse on the Arabs" (I, 35 ff.), his discussion of Arabic idyllic poetry (II, 390 ff.) and Arabic poets in general (II, 587 ff.), his edition of an Arabic elegy by Mi'r Muhammed Husain, offered as an specimen of Arabic in his essay "On the orthography of Arabick words" (I, 212 ff., with plates III and V), as well as his edition of "The Mahomedan Law of Succession to the Property of Intestates in Arabick, Engraved on Copper Plates" (III, 467 ff.) and his study "On the introduction of Arabick into Persian" (Suppl. I, 251 ff.). - A fine set from the library of Marmaduke Wyvill (1791-1872), M.P. for York from 1820 to 1830, with his ownership to flyleaves.
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JONGBLOED MARYCKE.
THE LIVING DESERT.
Emirates printing press/ Motivate publishing, 1988, in 4 broché, 104 pages, très nombreuses photos toutes en couleurs. Couverture décolorée par endroits, sinon très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 3211
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JONQUIERES Albert de
Mirages sanglants. Nouvelles désertiques.
Couverture souple. Broché. 163 pages. Fortes rousseurs.
Bookseller reference : 69726
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Joseph I, Emperor (1678-1711).
Printed privilege for Bartholomew Coreis, signed. Vienna, 15 July 1707.
Folio (193 x 295 mm). 11, (1) pp. With large papered seal. Contemp. marbled wrappers. An Imperial privilege establishing a five-year trade monopoly for olive oil within the Austrian hereditary principalities, to be exercised by an oil company (Bartholomew Coreis & Co.) against payment of half a florin for every hundredweight of oil, as well as tolls and fees, to the treasury. With autograph signature of the short-lived Emperor Joseph and two counter-signatures, one by the court chancellor Johann Friedrich Baron Seilern (1646-1715, previously the architect of the ill-fated marriage of Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte and the Duke of Orléans, later author of the Pragmatic Sanction). The owner of this early oil company could not be traced; he may be related to the Greek scholar Adamantios Korais, born in 1748 (his father Ioannes was a native of Chios). - Evenly browned due to paper; small paper flaw in center of gutter; contemporary binding professionally repaired in the fold. Codex Austriacus III, p. 540-542. Beitraege zur Geschichte der boehmischen Laender 23 (1878), p. 422f.
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Josephus, Flavius ; Gregory, John
Life of Herod
Black octavo in a red slipcase ; xxxi, 259 p., [12] p. of plates : illus, maps ; 24 cm Palestine -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Middle East -- History -- Biblical
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JOUBERT (Joseph)
En dahabièh. Du Caire aux Cataractes. Le Caire - Le Nil - Thèbes - La Nubie - L'Egypte ptolémaïque.
Paris, E. Dentu Ed., [1895]. In-8, rel. demi basane verte, dos à nerfs rehaussés d'un filet doré, titre doré, 476 pp., 9 gravures sur bois h.-t. sous serpentes.
Bookseller reference : 590239
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Jouguet
L'Impérialisme Macédonien & hellénisation de l'Orient
avec 7 planches ( 9 figures) et 4 cartes hors texte Bibliothèque de synthèse historique, l'évolution de l'humanité fort vol in-8, 200x150, relié demi cuir, frottements, tranche de tête dorée, couvertures conservées, 493pp Paris Renaissance du livre 1926 d'autres ouvrages de cette collection en vente, groupez les achats ! C8
Bookseller reference : CZC-8708
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Jouguet
L'Impérialisme Macédonien & hellénisation de l'Orient
avec 7 planches ( 9 figures) et 4 cartes hors texte Bibliothèque de synthèse historique, l'évolution de l'humanité fort vol in-8, 200x150, relié demi cuir, frottements, tranche de tête dorée, couvertures conservées, 493pp Paris Renaissance du livre 1926 d'autres ouvrages de cette collection en vente, groupez les achats ! C8
Bookseller reference : CZC-8708
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Journal. Ito Gikyo Ph. Gignoux et R. Gyselen Jean Louis Bacque Grammont AS. Melikian Chirvani C. MacKinnon ChM. Kieffer J
Studia Iranica Tome 6 - 1977 - fascicule 2
Leiden: E. J. Brill 1977. Association pour l'avancement des etudes iraniennes. Pp. 152-304 14 plates. A new interpretation of Asokan Aramaic inscriptions Taxila and Kandahar I Ito; Cachets sasanides de la collection Azizbeglu Gignoux/Gyselen; Un document ottoman sur la revolte des Ostaglu Bacque-Grammont; Bronzes du Khorassan V Melikian-Chirvani; The dialect of Gio MacKinnon; Etudes Paraci II Kieffer; Notes et chroniques Aubin Comptes rendus. Wrappers lightly edgeworn head of spine and fore-edge lightly bumped. Size: Tall 8vo. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket Paperback. E. J. Brill Paperback
Bookseller reference : 02984
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Journal. Kellens Jean Jozef Wolski Philippe Gignoux Chahryar Adle Assadulla Souren Melikian Chirvani Abd ol Ghafour Ravan
Studia Iranica Tome 4 - 1975 fascicule 2
Leiden: E. J. Brill 1975. Association pour l'avancement des etudes iraniennes. 276 pp. 20 plates maps in text. Yasna 319: la faveur d'Armaiti Kellens; Andragoras etait-il iranien ou grec Wolski; Sous les sceaux sassanides de la Societe numismatique americaine Gignoux; Le minaret du Masjed-e Jame' de Semnan Adle; Bronzes du Khorassan III Melikian-Chirvani; L'amour dans les recits de Djami Farhadi; Les oasis des montagnes de la region de Bam Fecharaki; Notes et chroniques Comptes rendus. Wrappers a bit handled and worn at edges and corners. Size: Tall 8vo. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket Paperback. E. J. Brill Paperback
Bookseller reference : 03030
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Joyce, Miriam
The Sultanate of Oman. a twentieth century history.
Westport, Connecticut, London : Praeger, 1995. XV, 131 S. : Mit 1 Illustr. + 1 Karte/map ; 8° , grauer Org.-Pappb. / hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23521 ISBN : 275952223
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Juan RI. Cole; Nikki R. Keddie eds. R. I.
Shi'ism and Social Protest
New Haven: Yale University Press 1986. Trade paperback first edition 321pp includes index. Unmarked. Small owner label at top of half title page otherwise a tight and clean very good or better copy. 530 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 paperback
Bookseller reference : 18798 ISBN : 0300035535 9780300035537
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Judah L. Magnes
Dissenter in Zion: From the Writings of Judah L. Magnes
Harvard Univ Cambridge 1982. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Arthur A. Goren editor Size: Octavo standard book size. 554 pp. Text is free of previous owner's markings. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. General shelf wear to dust jacket with slight creasing along edges no other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges neat intact and free of foxing but a bit dusty. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Israel; Modern; #36688; Criticism. ISBN: 0674212835. ISBN/EAN: 9780674212831. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: AC012347I. . 9780674212831 Harvard Univ hardcover
Bookseller reference : AC012347I ISBN : 0674212835 9780674212831
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Juergensmeyer Mark
Terror in Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Berkeley: University of California Press 2001. Updated edition with a new preface. Comparative Studies in Religion and Society. Photos. Bibliography. Index. Second printing. Crease in upper corner of front cover. xvii 316 pages. 22.8 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-520-23206-2 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2001) paperback
Bookseller reference : 8099 ISBN : 0520232062 9780520232068
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Julian Reade
Mesopotamian Guidelines for Biblical Chronology Monographic Journals of the Near East: Syro-Mesopotamian Studies volume 4 issue 1
<p>Very Good softcover. Staple-bound with thin card covers. Bright clean covers; tightly bound; bright clean interior. ISBN on inside front cover: 0890030502. 4to 9 pp. Cf OCLC #9155603.</p> Undena Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 18145 ISBN : 0890030502 9780890030509
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JULIUS WELLHAUSEN, (1844-1918).
Islâmin en eski tarihine giris. Translated by Fikret Isiltan.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vvo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [viii], 144 p. Islâmin en eski tarihine giris. Translated by Fikret Isiltan. First Turkish Edition of 'Prolegomena zur ältesten Geschichte des islams' by Wellhausen. Signed and inscribed by Isiltan.
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JULIUS WELLHAUSEN, (1844-1918).
Islâmin en eski tarihine giris. Translated by Fikret Isiltan.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vvo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [viii], 144 p. Islâmin en eski tarihine giris. Translated by Fikret Isiltan. First Turkish Edition of 'Prolegomena zur ältesten Geschichte des islams' by Wellhausen.
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JULLIEN (Christelle)
Itinéraires missionnaires. Echanges et identités. Textes réunis par...
P., Ass. pour l'Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes, 2011. in-8, cart. d'édition ill., 235 pp. (Studia Iranica, 44 - Chrétiens en terre d'Iran IV).
Bookseller reference : 516178
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Junger Sebastian
Fire: With a New Essay on Afghanistan and a New Afterword By the Author
USA: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition with a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword by the author. Bright clean card cover with light edgewear. No soiling. Tight glued binding. Pages clean and without marks of any kind toned. This is a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul. 250 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. Perennial/HarperCollins New York 2002. Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 016841 ISBN : 0060088613 9780060088613
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Jurjani, Zayn al-Din Abu Ibrahim Isma'il bin Husayn al-.
Dhakhirah-i Khwarazm-Shahi. [Probably Anatolia, ca. 1490 / late 15th century CE].
Arabic manuscript on paper with somewhat wavy laid lines only (335 x 239 mm; text area 263 x 176 mm), 544 ff., written in a tidy nasta'liq, 35 lines to the page, text frame of red and blue rules, important words and phrases in red or in larger naskhi; chapter headings repeated in margins in a bold calligraphic script, several marginal annotations in various contemporary and later hands. Early 20th century brown roan preserving covers of contemporary morocco binding blind-stamped with a single tool to form a central motif of three interlocking lozenges, smaller lozenges above and below, blind-stamped corner-pieces. Very rare Arabic translation of Al-Jurjani's important medical compendium, the first major medical text written in the Persian language. - Al-Jurjani (d. 1136) "went to live in Khwarizm in 504/1110 and became attached to the Khwarizmshahs Kutb al-Din Muhammad, to whom he dedicated his 'Dhakirah', and Atsiz b. Muhammad [...] His 'Dhakirah Khwarizmshahi', probably the first medical Encyclopaedia written in Persian and containing about 450,000 words, is one of the most important works of its kind; it also exists in an Arabic version, and was translated into Turkish and (in an abbreviated form) into Hebrew" (Encyclopaedia of Islam). - Modelled on the Qanun of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the "Dhakirah" is divided into ten books, covering: definition and utility of medicine, and the structure and powers of the human body; health and disease, in general, including causes and symptoms of disease, and accidents of the body; the preservation of health; diagnosis, crisis and prognosis; fevers and their treatment; local diseases and their treatment; tumours, ulcers and so forth; the care of the external parts of the body (hair, skin, nails, and so on); poisons and antidotes; and simple and compound drugs. - Binding stained and rubbed. Various seal impressions (some erased) on first and second leaves and at end of text. Paper shows some splashes, soiling and staining, first leaf re-attached and with loss of one or two words on verso (sense recoverable), margins of last few leaves strengthened, but generally in good, sound condition. Provenance: Abdul-Malik bin Mahmud al-Mausuli al-tabib ("the physician"), with his ownership inscription dated 5 Rajab 913 AH (10 Nov. 1507) at the Mu'ayiddi hospital in Mosul; the distinguished German ophthalmologist and Arabist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. GAL I, 487 & S I, 889. Cf. Keshavarz, A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, pp. 52-54 & p. 149. Fihrist records no copies of the Arabic translation.
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Juynboll Abraham Wilhelm Theodorus. Ernst Meier translated by J. Anspach.
Juda en de Assyrische macht gedurende de jaren 741-711. BOUND WITH: Het Hoogelied vrij bewerkt naar het Hoogduitsch.
Leiden Engels 1863. Tiel Campagne 1855. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. Pp. x iv 128; title xii ii 58 ii. Footnotes. Hardcover contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt shelf label to upper board old institutional stamps to prelims. In a very good condition expert repair to gutter of last two leaves. Fine copy. ~ First editions. The first work is an academic dissertation submitted to the University of Leiden in 1863. Leiden, Engels, 1863. Tiel, Campagne, 1855. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0860
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Jâmî, Maulânâ Nûru'dîn 'Abdu'r-Rahmân / Schlechta von Wschehrd, Ottocar Maria Freiherr von (transl.).
Der Frühlingsgarten von Mewlana Abdurrahman Dschami. Aus dem Persischen übertragen [...]. Vienna, k. k. Hof- und Staats-Druckerei, 1846.
8vo. XVI, 152, (1) pp. 116, (1) pp. Persian text within blue borders. With 'Unwân and Persian title in gold, red and blue. Contemporary green full cloth with giltstamped spine title and blindstamped cover rules. First German edition and translation of the Baharistân, "a brilliant if stilted imitation of the Gulistân" (cf. Rypka), and the first independent effort by the oriental scholar Schlechta von Wschehrd (1825-94), a graduate of the Vienna Oriental Academy. Includes the Persian text. One of the principal productions of Vienna's Royal and Imperial State Printing Office, famous for its wide range of printing types (which spanned 35 oriental alphabets as early as 1845). Jâmî (817-898/1414-92) was one of the last classic authors of Persian literature; his work had a lasting impact on Central Asian, Turkish and Indian poetry. - A pretty, wide-margined copy. Zenker II, 39, 496. Durstmüller I, 274. Rypka, Iranische Literaturgeschichte 278, 596. Pohanka 1267. Nawabi II, 271. Frankl 972. Schwab 737. Wurzbach 30, 65f. Brunet II, 777. For the Royal and Imperial State Printing Office cf. Mayer, Wiens Buchdruckergeschichte II, 169.
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Kabbani Rana
Europe's Myths of Orient
Bloomington Indiana U.S.A.: Indiana University Press 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Square tight binding and hinges. Text pages clean and bright. Some writing on ffep. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ edge rubbed with light overall shelf wear. Examination of Western images of the Islamic Orient. Discussion ranges from the 12th to the 20th century but the emphasis is on Victorian artists and adventurers who devised the cult of Orientalism in the 19th century. 8.75" 21 cm tall; 166 pages. Indiana University Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 4630006 ISBN : 0253320852 9780253320858
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Kacimi Mohamed et Leila Sebbar
L'Orient des ecrivains XIXe-XXe siecles: Florilege de textes et bibliographie selective
Paris: Paris bibliotheques Editions 2000. 80 pp. In French. Wrappers a bit handled and edgeworn previous owner address label inside front cover. Size: 8vo. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket Paperback. Paris bibliotheques Editions Paperback
Bookseller reference : 09536 ISBN : 2843310652 9782843310652
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Kaika'us Ibn-Iskandar / Diez, Heinrich Friedrich von (transl.).
[Qabus nama, German]. Buch des Kabus oder Lehren des persischen Königs Kjekjawus für seinen Sohn Ghilan Schach. Berlin, in Commission der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1811.
8vo. 1 blank leaf, (6), 867, (1) pp. With a double-page-sized genealogical table. Later marbled boards with printed spine label. Edges lightly sprinkled. First German edition of this important Persian Mirror for Princes, published at the expense of the translator. Composed in the late 11th century by Kaika'us, ruler of the Iranian Ziyarid dynasty, the book is regarded as a major work of Persian literature. It describes the creation of the world and God's religious duties; duties towards one's parents; the cultivation of the mind and the power of speech; youth and old age; moderation in food; consumption of wine; chess and backgammon; love; the pleasures of life; hot baths; sleep and rest; hunting; polo; war; accumulation of wealth; trust in words; the purchase of slaves; the purchase of properties; the purchase of horses; marriage; children's education; the choice of friends; how to deal with enemies; forgiveness; punishment and favors; studies and legal functions; commercial law; medicine; astrology and mathematics; poetry; the art of minstrelsy; the service of kings; the qualities of a courtier, secretaries, viziers, generals and king; farming and agriculture; finally, generosity. A Turkish translation was commissioned in the mid-15th century by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, and it is this version that was in turn translated into German by Diez. - The oriental scholar H. F. Diez (1751-1817) had trained as a jurist but, bored by his administrative occupation, soon left the Prussian civil service and in 1784 went to Constantinople as Frederick the Great's chargé d'affaires at the Sublime Porte. He was ennobled after only two years of successful diplomatic service. Recalled in 1790 on the eve of the Russo-Turkish War, the self-confessed Turkophile soon retired to the life of an independent scholar and book collector in Berlin. His orientalist publications captured the attention of the learned world, and he moved in the circles of Goethe, Gleim, and Alexander von Humboldt, though largely outside the contemporary tradition of academic oriental studies. "Between his years in Constantinople and his death, Diez pursued his Orientalist studies with extraordinary energy. A string of books authored by Diez and mostly self-published appeared in 1811 [...] Even if many aspects of his scholarly life are almost forgotten, his merits, especially for the development of Turkish studies, are noteworthy [...] His works, almost completely printed at his own expense, reflect his interest in the origins of Asian cultures, literatures, and politics, as well as everyday issues and ethics" (J. Gonnella et al. [ed.], The Diez Albums [Leiden, 2017], p. 58, 76). - Occasional insignificant brownstaining, but a good copy in later marbled boards. Goedeke VII, 586, 36 & 806, 240, 3. Kippenberg I, 1655. Ruppert 1772. Marbach cat., Weltliteratur, pp. 407f. Keudell 954. Not in Wilson (later French translation only).
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Kakar M. Hassan
Afghanistan : The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response 1979-1982
Berkeley CA U.S.A.: University of California Press 1997. Publisher: University of California Press 1997 Good Soft Cover ISBN: 0-520-20893-5. Soft Cover. Good. University of California Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 005776 ISBN : 0520208935 9780520208933
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