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King Peter ed. & intro.
Curzon's Persia
London UK: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited 1988. reprint. Oversize Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight bright clean with faint curl. Light rubbing to cover edges and faint corner bump to bottom corner. An abridged version of the 2 volume 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad Kuchan Kelat-I-Nadiri Meshed Teheran The Northern Provinces Teheran Ishfahan Shiraz to Bushire.192 pages full of illustrations and with double page detailed map of Persia Afghanistan & Beluchistan. dated 1891. 7.5x10" 1.2 Sidgwick & Jackson Limited paperback
Bookseller reference : 6-6Y001 ISBN : 0283997427 9780283997426
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King ABDULLAH preface signed
Kingdom of Peace
No Place Stated: Zohrab Markarian 1995. Book. Illus. by Zohrab. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 4to - over 9�. This is no ordinary book. It is a celebration of two major events; the 60th birthday of H.M. King Hussein November 1995 and the celebration of the Peace Treaty 1994 between Jordan and Israel. Inscribed by King Abdullah II in 1995 asl Prince. Zohrab Markarian Hardcover
Bookseller reference : kh58
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King Abdullah II
Our Last Best Chance : The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
New York New York U.S.A.: Penguin Group USA Incorporated 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First published in 2011 with complete number line including the number one. Hard Cover in very good condition. Cream beige boards with darker cream beige spine cloth. Gold spine lettering with outward crease along spine center from top to bottom. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Front free end paper has scar where previous owner's name sticker was removed. Dust jacket very good with only hint of shelf & edge wear. Not price clipped. Contains two sections of black & white photographs. 346 pages. From the jacket flap ' . . . almost unprecedented for a king to write a memoir that tackles head-on the most explosive issues he faces. . . . decided to do so now out of a sense of urgency a conviction that the window for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is closing. . . . a passionate plea for making the tough decisions necessary to secure a lasting peace before it's too late.' Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : M000682 ISBN : 0670021717 9780670021710
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Kinglake Alexander William
Eothen
London: J.M. Dent & Co No.337 in the Everyman's Library Series. Edited by Ernest Rhys with an introduction by Harold Spender. The log of the author's journey through Palestine Syria and Egypt. Previous owner's name to endpaper dated 5/57. Previous owner's sticker to front pastedown. Loss to leather at head of spine and wear to both spine ends. Else a good clean copy in burgundy leather over soft cards with gilt lettering and decoration and gilt top edge. 238 pages. Full Leather. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. J.M. Dent & Co
Bookseller reference : 064396
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Kinglake A. W.; Spears Major General Sir Edward
Eothen
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1962. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Later Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean slightly tanned pages. Cloth over boards is a bit cocked with light edge rubbing. DJ has overall heavy shelf wear including scuffing and some creasing. ; Account of the author's journey from the Danube through the Ottoman Empire to Cairo in 1835. ; Everyman's Library Travel & Topography; Vol. 337; 7.25" tall; 238 pages. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4990025
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Kinglake AW. A. W.
Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Picador Travel Classics
London: Picador 1995. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Picador Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 038135 ISBN : 0330337769 9780330337762
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KINROSS (Lord)
Within the taurus. a journey in asiatic Turkey.
London, John Murray, 1954. In-8, rel. d’éditeur toile ocre, dos titré, sous jaquette ill., XI-191 pp., carte sur double page, ill. photogr. en noir en planches h.-t. dont le frontispice. Index.
Bookseller reference : 556953
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Kinzer Stephen
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
U.S.A.: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2001. Stated first edition. Black cloth over red boards black/gilt titles. An insider's look at Turkey by a veteran foreign correspondent and the author of other books on foreign affairs. Book unread near fine. DJ likewise near fine. 252 pp. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13803 ISBN : 0374131430 9780374131432
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KIRK (George E.).
A Short History of the Middle East, from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times.
New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1959, in-8°, x-336 pp, 14 cartes, index, reliure pleine toile vermillon de l'éditeur, sans la jaquette, bon état. Texte en anglais
Bookseller reference : 100339
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Kirk, John, British administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922); co-explorer with David Livingstone.
Autograph letter signed ("very sincerely John Kirk"). Zanzibar, 14. VII. 1868.
4to. 6 pp. of 3 ff. With autograph envelope. To the English diplomat and army officer Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul of Zanzibar from 1858 to 1861. Kirk raises his doubts about Sultan Majid bin Said's desire to end the slave trade, whilst already foreseeing that his successor-to-be Burghash bin Said would be more open to this aim. - Kirk expresses his hopes that in Zanzibar there will "soon be a more rigorous policy for suppression of [the] slave trade", noting that "this year the Arabs have had it all their own", as Britain was engaged in the Abyssinian Wars, and that "my experience of the Arabs is [...] they are all liars, but Suliman bin Ali the real Sultan and only man to go to if you wish anything done is decidedly no exception", discussing the poor health of Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar, and a school of thought that his expected successor, Burghash bin Said ("a very intelligent Liberal man, outspoken and quick"), would be more friendly with the English, expanding on the rivalry between various local factions within Zanzibar. - John Kirk, chief assistant to David Livingstone during his celebrated expedition from 1858 to 1863, was appointed vice-consul of Zanzibar in 1866, and in 1873 "persuaded the sultan of Zanzibar to sign an anti-slavery treaty, closing the island's slave markets, and providing protection for all liberated slaves" (ODNB). An incomplete transcription of this letter is reproduced in Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935, pp. 301f.
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Kirk, John, British administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922); co-explorer with David Livingstone.
Autograph letter signed. Zanzibar, 3. VIII. 1884.
4to (240:190 mm). 8 pp. on two double-leaf stationery, watermarked "Original Malling Mill Kent". To "my dear Smith": "It is most pleasing to see here the S[lave] T[rade] is driven back [...] In fact Kilwa now seems the saintly place [...] If this scarcity of food and failure of crops extends far inland we shall have the population begging to be sold. Mafia [Island] may take in slaves but it is so near the mainland that no person on earth could prevent it while the institute exists - but is their demand enough on Mafia for any great number of slaves? Boette and coconuts are its chief exports. When you go there visit Kisiwani [...] where corals are washed out of the bank in thousands [...] The Kilwa ruling family fled at one time it is mentioned in the old Kilwa chronicle. Did these old Kilwa kings [grow?] nothing but coffee & do the Bavarians buy up the silver and gold? Native traders are no fools and if gold & silver is ever found I would gladly pay a little over the value of the metal to settle a few permits [...] If you see your way I think a trip south should may be time well spent. I daren't visit the Kilwa people (Indians) [...] I feel sure the end of the land S[lave] T[rade] is further south and the local demand must be very great. I have little faith in estimates made on short experience, so often a man takes the one month or two when slaves are brought down and multiplies it by twelves for the year's estimate. One thing is to find out the caravan men [...]". - Written during the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 which regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power, Kirk discusses trade of slaves, as well as gold and silver, the latter mainly in reference to Germans. He suggests that slave trade activity is diminishing near Kilwa due to British abolition efforts, though not as much further south. He then presents theories on estimating the numbers of slaves captured. Also interesting and infrequently documented, he presents concern respecting slavery on Mafia Island. [In the mid-1820s, the town of Kua on Juani Island, the southernmost of the Mafia archipelago, was attacked by Sakalava cannibals arriving from Madagascar with 80 canoes, who ate many of the locals and took the rest into slavery. Under a treaty of 1890, Germany took control of Mafia and constructed the buildings still evident on Chole Island.] - The recipient of the letter, identified as 'Smith', may be Sir Charles Euan-Smith, a Colonel in the British Army who in 1887 he would be appointed Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General for the Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar. [In February 1890 the Sultan died and Euan-Smith took advantage of the situation to persuade the new Sultan, Ali bin Said, that Zanzibar should be a British protectorate. This resulted in the so-called Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of July 1890 in which Germany and the United Kingdom agreed on territorial interests in East Africa.]. - By 1868 Omani traders of Zanzibar had long since driven the Portuguese out and Kilwa had been a leading Arab center of the East African slave trade for more than a century. Thriving European plantation economies as close as Mauritius and as far away as Brazil perpetuated the nefarious trade. Kilwa was eventually absorbed into the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1841-1884) which controlled the lion's share of the East African trade. Zanzibar attracted the attention of European imperial and anti-slavery interests which forced the Sultan to close its then-famous slave market in 1873. To this end, the Sultan Bargash signed an edict making slavery illegal and imprisoned the Governor of Kilwa. Even so, the trade for a time remained brisk and a slave was allegedly sold there as late as 1935. Kilwa was part of the colony of German East Africa from 1886 to 1918. - Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) was a Scottish physician, naturalist, explorer, and British administrator in Zanzibar. He accompanied David Livingstone on his second Zambesi expedition from 1858 to 1863. In 1873 Kirk was made the first British Agent and Consul General of Zanzibar, where he eventually convinced the Sultan of Zanzibar to ban the highly lucrative slave trade. He held this post until he returned to England in 1887. He was also a keen botanist, highly regarded by Sir William Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thistleton-Dyer. After the death of Livingston, Kirk pledged to continue Livingston's work to end the East African slave trade. For years he negotiated with the ruler of Zanzibar, Sultan Bargash, gaining his confidence and promising to help enrich the East African domain through legitimate commerce. The Sultan officially banned slave trading in 1873, but it would continue. In 1881 Kirk decided to post a vice-consul, Mr. Jack Haggard to Lamu, Kenya. By 1885, the region was larger and more profitable, his endeavours becoming ever more challenging. Unfortunately, after the Berlin Conference, the British Government forced Kirk as British Consul in Zanzibar to drop the Sultan as part of the "Scramble for Africa". - In 1873, British agent John Kirk by threatening to blockade Zanzibar got Sayyid Barghash ibn Sa'id to sign a treaty banning the slave trade by sea and promising to protect all liberated slaves. On 5 March, the Sultan passed a decree prohibiting the export of slaves from main land and closing of slave market at Zanzibar. Zanzibar slave market was to be closed within 24 hours. In 1875 Sayyid Barghash visited Queen Victoria in England, and in 1876 he proclaimed that conveyance of slaves by land was prohibited nor could slave caravans approach the coast from the interior. Riots broke out in Mombasa against the freed-slave work of the missions, and at Kilwa slave-traders hid 6,000 slaves near the coast. In 1876 the Sultan decreed that no slaves were to be transported overland. Kirk persuaded Barghash to raise an army, and in 1877 Lt. William Lloyd Mathews was appointed to drill the recruits. Slave-trading continued until the Sultan put the Governor of Kilwa in prison. Kirk estimated that during the 1870s about 10,000 slaves a year crossed the Juba River into Somaliland. As the slave trade eventually declined, the export of rubber, cloves, and ivory greatly increased. In 1907 slavery was finally abolished entirely in Zanzibar and Pemba. Kirk died in 1922 at the age of 90.
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Kirkby Bruce
Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2000 Introduction by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Three Canadians set out with three Omani Bedu guides - and camels - to recreate the crossing of the Empty Quarter made Wilfred Thesiger in 1947. Setting out from Salala in Oman to travel over 1200 kilometers of desert to Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf. 224p illus. bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the ffep else fine. Promotional bookmark laid in. FFEP The book is illutrated From Salla iby vyycrfollow the famous crto recreat Sir Wilfred Thesiger's 1947 crossing of the Empty Quarter. Signed by Author. 1st Can Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28227 ISBN : 0771095643 9780771095641
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Kirmani, Mirza Muhammad Karim Khan.
Two treatises on astronomy: Khulasa al-taqwim (Summary of the Calendar) and Risala al-Mizan (A Letter on Balance). Qajar Iran, [July/August 1856 CE =] Dhu'l-Qa'da 1270 H.
8vo (145 x 204 mm). Two treatises bound together: the first in Persian with occasional captions in Arabic, the second in Arabic. Manuscript on polished paper. 45 ff., 18-22 lines. Nastaliq and naskh script in black and red, written space ruled in red and blue, with numerous charts in red, blue, and black and chart headers in blue woodblock print. Folio 10 features moveable slips to complement a chart. 19th century full leather over wooden boards, covers decorated with lacquered gold leaf and illustrated with an astrolabe quadrant; top edge of upper cover recessed at the centre; a flower-shaped inlay to the upper cover is lost. Finely rendered and beautifully bound work on astronomy and timekeeping by Haji Mirza Muhammad Karim Khan-i-Kirmani (1810-73). Karmani was a Shaykhi-Shia scholar, a distant cousin to Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (1769-1834), and a 19th century polymath with mastery of a whole field of Islamic and philosophical sciences, including alchemy, medicine, optics and music. - The first treatise presented here is "Khulasa al-taqwim", a calendar summary in the form of tables for ikhtiyarat, or selections: it thus guides the reader through the selection of auspicious moments in a given day, the station of the moon and the zodiac in the heavens, and describes the solar and lunar calendars, the hours of the day and night, and knowledge of horoscopes. - The second is "Risala al-Mizan", which focuses on the use and construction of astrolabes. Karmani had a particularly keen interest in the engineering behind the astrolabe, a distinctly Muslim invention which is perhaps the greatest technical triumph of the mediaeval world. Indeed, Karmani went on to invent his own version of the astrolabe. Both calendrical knowledge and astrolabe engineering require keen mathematical and geometric knowledge, the study of which is aided by the numerous and often complex charts made available to the reader throughout. One such chart features two movable slips, still fully intact and functional, which practitioners may slide up and down to match up with the chart and aid their calculations. The binding on this volume is particularly striking, as it is illustrated with diagrams of astrolabe quadrants on a field of glittering copper leaf. - Light wear to covers, slightly delicate binding. A well-preserved and uncommonly early copy of Kirmani's astronomical writings. The only comparable manuscript copy to have appeared on the market is a later specimen in a very similar binding, dating from 1312 H/1895 CE, which sold at Christie's (Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Sale, 27 April 2017, lot 16), commanding £21,250.
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Kirsten, Peter.
Notae in Evangelium S. Matthaei ex collatione textuum Arabicorum Aegyptiac[orum] Hebrae[orum] Syriacor[um] Graecor[um] Latinor[um] quae non modo studiosis linguarum, sed et cuilibet vero Christiano erunt utilissimae. Breslau, typis Arabicis ac sumptibus authoris in Officina Baumanniana, 1611.
Small folio (204 x 306 mm). (10), 140 pp. Text in Latin and Arabic, with some Hebrew and Greek, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Tasteful modern sheep-backed marbled boards with giltstamped spine label. First edition of the "notes on the Gospel of Matthew" by the pioneering Arabist and physician Peter Kirsten (1577-1640), who started a private press in Breslau (Wroclaw) in 1607 (cf. Reske 130). His Arabic type, the first to be cut in Germany (by Peter von Selau), shows the influence of the Medicean types. - This is the issue with the letterpress title; another issue has an engraved title. Some copies lack the fifth preliminary leaf (present here): a singleton printed on different paper and in a different typeface, containing a 26-line laudatory poem in Hebrew by Jakob Ebert of Frankfurt, with the Latin translation on the recto. - Kirsten's notes on Matthew's Gospel "are mainly a comparison of the Arabic with the Greek version, and serve to explain the Arabic text. The Coptic and Syriac versions mentioned in the title are no more than marginal readings indicated as such in the Arabic manuscript which he used. These versions, as well as the Hebrew version, are mostly given in Latin translation, but occasionally a slight 12 pt Hebrew type-face is employed" (Smitskamp). - "One of the earliest non-Dutch scholar-typographers in [the] post-Medici tradition was the German Peter Kirsten (1575-1640), a physician of Breslau (Wroclaw), who had travelled and studied in both Italy and Leiden. He created a superior type-face, with some calligraphic qualities" (Roper). - Some very light browning and spotting, but a good copy. OCLC records two copies in the US (New York Public Library and University of Pennsylvania, both apparently with only four preliminary leaves). VD 17, 1:071605E. Smitskamp, PO 113. Fück 58, note 143. Waller 19836. Not in Schnurrer. Cf. Geoffrey Roper, "Early Arabic printing in Europe", in: Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution (Mainz 2002), pp. 129-150, at p. 143.
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Kitto John
The Court of Persia Viewed in Connection with Scriptural Usages
NY: Carlton & Phillips. Good with no dust jacket; Top corner of rear boards gnawed waterstain at . fore-edge of rear half of text penciled owner name on front free endpaper. 1852. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Revised by Daniel P. Kidder. Brown blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Frontispiece wood engraving of Mohammed Shah King of Persia. Kitto was a missionary in Persia in the early 19th century and gives this account of Persian history and life and customs among the royal court. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 176 pages . Carlton & Phillips hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38611
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KLEIN JANET
The Margins Of Empire: Kurdish Militias In The Ottoman Tribal Zone
Stanford University Press Palo Alto: 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. At the turn of the twentieth century the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story of this militia Klein explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate groups they ultimately aim to suppress and how groups who seek autonomy from the state often attempt to do so through state channels. In the end Armenian revolutionaries were not suppressed and Kurdish leaders whose authority the state sought to diminish were empowered. The tribal militia left a lasting impact on the region and on state-society and Kurdish-Turkish relations. Putting a human face on Ottoman-Kurdish histories while also addressing issues of state-building local power dynamics violence and dispossession this book engages vividly in the study of the paradoxes inherent in modern statecraft. Janet Klein is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Akron. "Klein sheds light on some of the most important and complicated relations and negotiations the Ottoman officials were engaged in as their empire crumbled around them. She never loses sight of the broader implications of her work in this original highly valuable look at a significant period in the history of the Middle East."�Resat Kasaba University of Washington "This is a most welcome and very significant contribution to Kurdish history and to the history of the eastern provinces during the late Ottoman period. The rich documentation of the saga of the Kurds as they undergo a very difficult transformation will generate healthy scholarly debate. An excellent book."�Fatma M�ge G��ek University of Michigan Stanford University Press, Palo Alto: 2011 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73091X1
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Klein Théo Youssef Ahmed
Le conflit israélo-arabe: Quelles sources ? Quelles solutions
DU ROCHER 2010 192 pages 13 8x1 6x21 8cm. 2010. Broché. 192 pages.
Bookseller reference : 500062705
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Klieman Aaron S.
Soviet Russia and The Middle East Studies in International Affairs Number 14
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1970. Paper bound edition not stated 107pp includes references. Tight and clean - a near fine copy. 150 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970 unknown
Bookseller reference : 23262 ISBN : 0801811929 9780801811920
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Klieman Aaron S.
Soviet Russia and the Middle East Studies in International Affairs Number 14
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1970 . Paper bound 1st edition 106pp inc. references. Very good. 155 grams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, unknown
Bookseller reference : 12393 ISBN : 0801811929 9780801811920
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KNAPP (Grace H.)
The tragedy of Bitlis - We join: CURZON (Robert) ARMENIA: A Year in Erzeroom and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia.
London, Sterndale Classics, 2002 - IBID, 2003. 2 vol. in-8, paperback, 109pp, B/W illustrations - 154pp, 1854 first edition Reprint.
Bookseller reference : 557385
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Knaust (Cnustinus), Heinrich / [Georgijevic (Djurdjevic), Bartolomej].
Mahometische Genealogia Das ist vom Beschreibung, herkommen unnd Absterben Machemetis, darinnen der gantzen Türckey mit ihrem Provintzen, Völckern, Ursprung, Zunemmen, Reisen, Reichthumen, Glauben, Gesatzen, Gewonheiten, Sitten, Regimenten [...]. Berlin, no printer, 1596.
4to (162 x 202 mm). (12), 128 pp. Modern marbled boards. Posthumous edition, under a new title (and with the author's name misspelt "Enustinus" for "Cnustinus"), of Knaust's 1542 pamphlet "Von geringem Herkommen, schentlichem Leben, schmehlichem Ende des Turckischen Abgots Mahomets". The jurist and poet Knaust (ca. 1521-77) published on a wide range of topics; "his popular-scientific works, written mainly for young readers and interested laymen, proved especially successful" (cf. NDB XII, 167). From p. 33 onwards the book contains an updated German version of the oft-reprinted and anthologized "Cronica und Beschreibung der Türckey" (1530) by the former slave Bartolomej Georgijevic from Transsylvania (Georgius de Hungaria). - Variously browned throughout with a few insignificant waterstains in the margins; occasional 18th century pencil annotations. Rare. VD 16, K 1434. Chauvin XI, 502. Göllner 2200. BM-STC German 473. Boecler 169. Draudius 531. Hammer 1305. Kertbeny 1190. Szabó III, 873. Veress 128.
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Knightley Phillip; Simpson Colin
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
UK: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd 1969. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Dust Jacket is price clipped. Head and tail of spine a little bumped. Some fading to D/J. Edges and corners of D/J a little creased and rubbed. Crease to bottom edge of front D/J. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036460 ISBN : 0171350103 9780171350104
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KNIGHTON William (sans mention d'auteur)
La cour d'un roi d'Orient ou les distractions de Nussir-U-Deen souverain de Luknow, traduit de l'anglais par Bénédict-Henri Révoil.
Couverture rigide. Reliure demi-basane quelconque, défraîchie, épidermures. 316 pages. Rousseurs. Une page abimée (difficulté de lecture).
Bookseller reference : 86022
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Knorr, Georg Wolfgang.
Deliciae naturae selectae oder auserlesenes Naturalien-Cabinet welches aus den drey Reichen der Natur zeiget, was von curiösen Liebhabern aufbehalten und gesammlet zu werden verdienet [...] fortgesetzt von dessen Erben, beschrieben von Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller und in das Französische übersetzt von Matthäus Verdier de la Blaquiere. Nuremberg, (1754-)1766/67.
Large folio. 2 vols. in one. (26), VIII, 132 pp. (4), XX, 144 pp. With coloured engraved title-page (dated 1754), large engraved vignette by Andreas Hoffer after Gottfried Eichler, and 91 (1 folding) coloured or colour-printed engravings by Knorr, J. A. Eisenmann, A. Hoffer and others. Contemporary calfskin binding gilt. First edition of this monumental work of natural history, one of the most splendid zoological works ever produced in Nuremberg. Begun by Knorr as early as 1751, it was continued by his heirs after his death in 1761. The book describes items from the great contemporary natural history collections, including the magnificent white falcon (with hood) from the collection of the famous physician and botanist Christoph Jakob Trew. The illustrations, occasionally printed in colours but mostly hand-coloured in radiant hues, depict birds, exotic mammals, fishes, corals, butterflies and other insects. - Occasional insignificant waterstaining to the wide blank margins of the text; a few plates show unobtrusive fingerstaining. A beautiful, very wide-margined copy in excellent state of preservation, printed on good, strong paper. Plates show clean, distinct colours and superior contrast. Nissen, ZBI 2227. Horn/Schenkling 12038. Hagen I, 426. Dean I, 696. Graesse IV, 35.
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Knox D. Edward
The Making of a New Eastern Question: British Palestine Policy and the Origins of Israel 1917-1925
Catholic University of America Press 1981. light staining top edge. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Catholic University of America Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 348859 ISBN : 0813205557 9780813205557
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Kociejowski Marius
The Pigeon Wars of Damascus
London: Biblioasis 2010. Book. Like New. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Signed dedication by author on ffep.First Paperback Edition. Biblioasis Paperback
Bookseller reference : 043579 ISBN : 1926845021 9781926845029
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Koenig, Alexander.
Die Vögel am Nil von seiner Mündung bis in das Gebiet seiner Quellflüsse (Weisser Nil) auf Grund eigener Reisen und Beobachtungen in Wort und Bild dargestellt […] Zweiter Band. Die Raubvögel. [Bernburg, Kunze, 1936].
4to. 188 pp. Illustrated with 52 colour plates and 2 black and white plates depicting birds of prey, a plate with 4 photographs of nests, and 2 lithographed illustrations in the text of ancient Egyptian statues of falcons. Rebound in blue half morocco with title label. The very rare only published volume of "Die Vögel am Nil" by Alexander Koenig (1858-1940): a monograph on the birds of prey of the entire Nile region, with many beautiful plates. Koenig traveled to the Nile six times to study the local fauna and concentrated his findings in this second volume, completed near the end of his life. Koenig was a scholar and a man of wealth as well an an avid collector. In 1912 he founded the renowned Museum Koenig in Bonn. In 1964 the 'first' volume was published posthumously in Bonn by the Alexander Koenig Stiftung under the title "Alexander Koenigs Reisen am Nil". Koenig had first published his studies on Egyptian birds of prey in the "Journal für Ornithologie" over the course of many years (1907-32) under the title "Avifauna Aegyptiaca", with some plates. All of these contributions were assembled and expanded, with new plates added, in "Die Vögel am Nil". (The plates already published in the journals are marked "Avif. Aeg."). The birds are divided into three types: vultures, falcons, and owls. The chromolithographed plates of vultures are done by F. Naubaur after E. de Maes (the eggs only by De Maes). Most falcon plates are signed "FR" (A. Frisch) in the plate and executed by Otto Kleinschmidt, printed at the Kunstanstalt Köhler at Gera (Germany), others are by F. Neubaur and E. de Maes. Another plate of eggs (XLIX) is by Paul Preiss. Most of the owls are done by F. Neubaur, with the exception of plate LIV, which is signed "JCK" (Keulmans). The ornithological artist Otto Kleinschmidt was also a collector of bird specimens. His collections of over 10,000 specimens was sold to the Museum Koenig in 1935. - In fine condition. Anker 266. Nissen IVB 524.
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Koestler Arthur
Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine 1917-1949
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1962 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 335 pp. Footnotes. Barest hint of a bump to the top corner of the front board. Jacket has one short tear some nicks to the edges soiling. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. LR3-4. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 253346
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Kolars John F.
Tradition Season and Change in a Turkish Village
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1963. SIGNED First edition. Trade soft cover. Published Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1963. 8vo. xv205 pp. illus. Department of Geography Research Paper No. 82. Inscribed by author on title page under his name: "To Susan Who has been there and seen it. John" Spine sunned faded with some fraying at the heel front cover has slight wear at the tips notation in margin on p. 2 of introduction. Good. Laid in is a reprint of an article by the author "Community Studies in Rural Turkey." Article 8 1/2" x 11." 14pp. folded in half. Very Good. Signed by Author. 1st. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo. University Of Chicago Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 002945
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Kollek Teddy and Pearlman Moshe
Jerusalem : Seine Geschichte in vier Jahrtausenden
Tel Aviv Israel: Steimatzky's Agency 1976. Text in GERMAN. Clean bright copy - 282 pages plus register. Next post dispatch from the UK. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Steimatzky's Agency Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021572
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Konzelmann Gerhard
Dies Land Will Ich Deinen Kindern Geben Die Wurzeln Der Tragodie in Nahen Osten
Mm 160x230 Volume di pp. 416, cartonato rigido, sovraccoperta editoriale, in ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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Koran; Sale, George.
THE KORAN; COMMONLY CALLED THE ALCORAN OF MOHAMMED. Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; by George Sale, Gent. To Which Is Prefixed "The Life Of Mohammed": Or the History of That Doctrine.
pp. 472, 8 [Publisher's catalogue]. Book label of Marshall S. Snow (who was a professor of history in St. Louis; There is a bookplate for Marshall S. Snow ( probably Robert Lincoln's Exeter classmate Ca. 1860, and later a professor and dean at various coleges). Large 12mo. Original embossed publisher's full buckram binding. Loss at head and tail of spine. Hardbound. Interesting Koran published during the American Civil War. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ISLAM BOX 2
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Korany Bahgat and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki with Ahmad Yousef Ahmad et al
The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Change 2nd ed.
Boulder: Westview Press 1991. Trade paper bound second edition illlustrated with tables 449pp includes abbreviation page and index. Clean and tight. Very good condition. 610 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991 paperback
Bookseller reference : 21398 ISBN : 0813308755 9780813308753
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Korytko, Stefan.
General orientative map of the world's oil industry / Übersichtskarte der Welt-Naphtha-Industrie / Carte d'orientation de l'industrie de pétrole du monde / Mapa pogladowa swiatowego przemyslu naftowego. Lviv, Stefan Korytko, 1925.
Large folding chromolithographed map (map size 65.5 × 88 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Large folding map of the world, completely in colour, showing the areas containing oil and where oil/gas wells are located. Inserted around the margins of the map are several more detailed inset maps of Europe, Poland, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad, Apsheron (Azerbeidzjan), Sumatra, Japan, Egypt and Borneo. Also included is a large diagram illustrating the world's oil production, from 1860 to 1924. - Only very slightly worn along a few folds. Paper wrappers slightly damaged, otherwise in very good condition.
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Kostyal K. M. Ed.
Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East
Washington D. C: National Geographic Society 2002. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards with black cloth spine gilt titles on front board & spine black endpapers 255 1 pp many color maps & illustrations. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Brief history of the middle east with chapters by Zahi Hawass Andrew Wheatcroft David Fromkin & Sandra Mackey with chapters on the three great religions born there by Yossi Klein Halevi Charles M. Sennott & Milton Viorst and an introduction by Daniel Schorr. Shipping weight 3 lbs. First Printing. . Fine/Fine. 25 X 19� cm. National Geographic Society Hardcover
Bookseller reference : HIME00021 ISBN : 0792269152 9780792269151
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Koszegi Michael A. and J. Gordon Melton eds.
Islam in North America: A Sourcebook
NY: Garland/Religious Information Systems 1992. Hard bound Religious Information Systems Series Vol. 8. 414pp includes large directory of Islamic organizations and index. As new. 660 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. NY: Garland/Religious Information Systems, 1992 unknown
Bookseller reference : 21379 ISBN : 081530918X 9780815309185
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Kotzebue, Moritz von.
Voyage en Perse, a la suite de l'Ambassade Russe, en 1817 ... Traduit de l'Allemand par M. Breton. Paris, A. Nepveu, 1819.
8vo. II, 286 pp. Half title. 4 engraved plates, printed in sepia and hand-coloured, each plate depicting 2 images. Contemporary calf-backed pink paper covered boards, flat spine divided by gilt roll tools in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition in French of a journal of travels in Persia, illustrated with hand coloured plates. In 1817, Moritz Kotzebue, the brother of explorer Otto van Kotzebue, "as a young lieutenant in Russian service, he travelled to Persia in the cortege of a Russian embassy sent to the encampment of Fatha-al-Shah at Soltaniyeh. He kept an informative journal of this embassy, which was afterwards published by his father in Weimar" (Howgego). French, English, Dutch and other editions followed; the present French edition is prized for its hand colored plates, not found in other editions. Provenance: Baron du Puget (period ink stamp on title). Howgego K19. Abbey, Travel 390 (English edition with uncoloured aquatints).
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Kraeling Emil G. H.
Aram and Israel or The Aramaeans in Syria and Mesopotamia Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol. XIII
New York: AMS Press 1966. 155 pp. frontispiece map. Reprint orig. 1918. Head of spine lightly bumped light rubbing to extremities page edges tanned. Size: 8vo. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. AMS Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 06843
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KRAELING (Emil G. H.)
ARAM and ISRAEL or The Amaeans in Syria and Mesopotamia. Columbia Univ. Oreintal studies..
New-York, Columbia Univ. Press, 1918. In-8, brown buckram binding, gold gilt on the first cover plate (book with a crown), library label at spine foot, XVI-155pp, 3 maps in frontispiece, first edition. index of the bible passages, index of geographical names, general index.
Bookseller reference : 557341
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Krafft, Albrecht, oriental scholar and dilettante painter (1816-1847).
Ansicht des Gesandtschaftspallastes in Constantinopel. Probably Constantinople, c. 1840.
Pencil drawing on paper (168 x 252 mm), mounted on tawny backing with inked border, autogr. caption, and signatures. Matted (390 x 312 mm). A pretty view of the Austrian Embassy Palace in Constantinople (Istanbul). The background shows a mosque and the Bosporus with ships, with a few human figures in the foreground. Signed at the bottom right on the backing paper: "Albrecht Krafft mpr", with the signature of "Joh. von Wörndle mpr" opposite (probably the like-named construction administrator of Vienna's imperial palace, whose sons Edmund and August both were to become important painters trained at the Vienna Academy of Arts). - The Viennese orientalist Krafft was admitted to the famous Oriental Academy at the age of 19; here, he catalogued the library's oriental mss. and studied Armenian and Hebrew. His lasting achievement is considered to be his catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish mss. at the Academy. However, Albrecht Krafft, son of the Viennese portrait painter Peter Krafft (who had studied with Tischbein and Füger), was also a gifted dilettante painter who had attended the Academy of Arts simultaneously with grammar school, thus obliging his father's wishes before he followed his own inclinations and turned towards oriental scholarship (cf. Wurzbach XIII, 99). "Only the first volume of his projected 10-volume catalogue raisonnée of the Imperial Gallery at the Belvedere Palace was published (in 1837) - an excellent achievement for its time [...] Parthey, in his 'Deutscher Bildersaal', lists three paintings copied by the younger Krafft" (cf. Thieme/B. XXI, 384). - A few edge defects of the backing paper have been professionally restored.
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Kramer Martin editor
Middle Eastern Lives; the Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative
Syracuse Univ. 1991. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Proceedings of a conference at Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern studies. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Syracuse Univ. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010735
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KRAMER, Samuel Noah ;
L'histoire commence à Sumer.
Sélection des amis du livre, Strasbourg, 1957. Un volume in 8° relié cartonnage éditeur, dos toile, plat illustré, ouvrage illustré de 58 héliogravures.
Bookseller reference : 1019
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Krauss Samuel.
Vier jahrtausende jüdischen Palästinas Palaestinas.
Frankfurt Kauffmann 1922. Octavo. Pp. 158. Hardcover original cloth-backed boards. Good. Binding marked; interior is fine. ~ First edition. Frankfurt, Kauffmann, 1922. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0754
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Kreiger Barbara
Divine Expectations: an american woman in 19th century palestine
Ohio Univ. 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ohio Univ. paperback
Bookseller reference : 018656 ISBN : 0821412957 9780821412954
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Kreiger Barbara
The Dead Sea: Myth History and Politics
<p>Hanover NH Brandeis University Press 1997 trade paperback xxvi-228 pp First Printing of this edition New. Straight tight and clean with no wear or markings in colorful card covers. Originally published as 'The Living Waters' in 1988 'The Dead Sea' is both an analysis of the the myths and legends surrounding the site and an examination of its natural history and its gradual and difficult exploration. Illustrated with reproductions of black-&-white photographs and works of art and a map of the area. Appended: Sources and Chapter Notes Additional Sources Index.</p> paperback
Bookseller reference : 8744
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Kremmer Christopher
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
New York: HarperCollins 2002. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First American Edition 2002. Firat published in Australia in 2002. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Black half cloth w/copper titles copper paper-wrappered boards half inche whitish mark on front near lower edge lower corners gently bumped else Fine quite clean binding tight solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. Nine Parts separated with full page illustration and a decorated page. Two 8 page sections of illustrations on coated paper. Maps. Apart from oil carpets are the best known commodity in the Muslim world. Christopher Kremmer chronicles the fascinating ten-year journey along the ancient carpet trade route that runs through the world's most misunderstood and volatile regions--Afghanistan Iran Iraq India Pakistan and the former Soviet Union republics of Central Asia. The simplest motif on a rug can be filled with religious tribal and political significance places where life continues to bustle with bargaining and gossip at the bazaars whille nations crumble leaders fall confrontation between freedom and terror looms. It is also an historical snapshot of countries at the center of global confrontation that exploded onto the home front on September 11 2001. xii 448 pages with Notes Bibliography Glosary and Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2002 HarperCollins New York. HarperCollins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026009 ISBN : 0060097329 9780060097325
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Kriehuber, Jos[eph].
Mahmoud II, Türkischer Kaiser. Vienna, Mathias Artaria (J. Häussle, L. Letronne), 1828.
Lithographic portrait (555 x 380 mm), matted (618 x 499 mm). Portrait of Mahmud II (1785-1839), the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. A fine likeness by the celebrated Viennese portraitist Joseph Kriehuber. - Some foxing.
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Krishnamurti Jiddu.
Commentaries on Living
Wheaton Illinois U.S.A.: Theosophical Pub House 1967. PB/Gd. condition/312 pages - There is a mystery beyond the capacities and powers of the mind. K1564HR7. Soft Cover. Good. Theosophical Pub House Paperback
Bookseller reference : K1564 ISBN : 0835604020 9780835604024
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Kristol William; Kaplan Lawrence
The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission
San Francisco California U.S.A.: Encounter Books 2003. Hardcover/Gd.condition/153 pages - Saddam's Tyranny and America's mission is discussed in this text. K614HT1. Hard Cover. Good. Encounter Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K614 ISBN : 1893554694 9781893554696
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Kritzeck James & R. Bayly Winder eds
The World of Islam: Studies in honour of Philip K. Hitti
London / New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press 1959. Essays by several authors. Includes a Bibliography of Works by Philip K. Hitti. Several plates. Dust jacket is worn and chipped at top edge. viii 372 pages. 22.5 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Good. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London / New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1959 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7353
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