‎Middle east‎

‎Laqueur Walter‎

‎The Middle East in Transition: Studies in Contemporary History‎

‎<p>Hardback 513 pages ex-library book with rubber-stamp marks tight binding clean pages. </p> Frederick Praeger, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 505

‎LAQUEUR WALTER Z. EDITOR‎

‎The Middle East In Transition‎

‎Routledge & Keegan Paul London: 1958. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. Dustjacket is torn and worn. A 1958 survey of political and social history of the Middle East by 35 outstanding authorities in their field including Sir Hamilton Gibb Bernard Lewis Sa'id Himadeh Charles Issawi Sir Isaiah Berlin Lt.-Col. G. Wheeler and Elie Kedourie. Includes Index. Routledge & Keegan Paul, London: 1958 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5021X1

‎Laqueur Walter ed‎

‎The Middle East In Transition: Studies in Contemporary History‎

‎New York: Praeger 1958. Articles by various writers including Gibb Issawi Lewis Kedourie et al. Chipped dj. xix 513 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Praeger, (1958) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5387

‎Laqueur Walter Z.‎

‎The Middle East in Transition: Studies in Contemporary History‎

‎New York: Frederick A Praeger Publisher 1958. Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger Publisher 1958 .Good HB 513 pp. Hard Cover. Good. Frederick A Praeger, Publisher Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009217

‎Laqueur Walter‎

‎The Struggle for the Middle East: The Soviet Union in the Mediterranean 1958-1968‎

‎New York: Macmillan 1969. A few light marginal check marks in pencil. Index. Dust jacket. viii 360 pages. 21.7 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Macmillan, (1969) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 7314

‎Laqueur Walter‎

‎THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST: THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 1958-1968‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Company 1969. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. Written under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University Washington D.C. The Struggle for the Middle East examines the Soviet efforts to remove Western influence from this land of discord and to strengthen its own positions. 360pp. The Macmillan Company unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS009721I

‎Lari, Muhi al-Din.‎

‎Futuh al-Haramayn [Description of the Holy Cities]. [India or Persia, late 19th or early 20th century].‎

‎Royal folio (380 x 506 mm). Persian manuscript on paper. 140 pp., 9 lines in 2 columns to the page, first leaf and final 3 pp. blank save for the borders. Large Nasta'liq calligraphy in black ink, chapter headings in red. Text enclosed within blue, black, gilt and red borders. Title in red to fol. 2r, large 'unwan headpiece on fol. 2v, column separator decorated with gilt floral designs on fols. 2v-3r, 2 meticulous gilt and coloured colophon decoration on fol. 69r. With a total of 18 coloured illustrations of the Holy Sites (7 full-page, the remainder half-page or larger). Splendidly ornamented embroidered cloth binding with pink morocco edges and pastedowns and fore-edge flap. Monumental manuscript copy of the first Islamic guidebook for the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, which Muhi al-Din Lari (d. 1526/27) completed in India in 1505/06. The book provides instructions on the Hajj pilgrimage rituals and descriptions of important sites that Muslim pilgrims can visit, including of the Kaaba in Mecca. Whilst no early illustrated Indian copies are known, the work began to be widely copied with often lavish illustrations from the later 16th century onwards, mostly in in Ottoman Turkey. - The 18 large-scale illuminations in the present manuscript show the holy sites, locations between Medina and Mecca, and the various stages of the Hajj. The illustration of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca shows the Kaaba, the areas assigned for worship by the various branches of Islam, as well as the doors to the sanctum, minarets, and two rows of colonnades. - In excellent state of preservation throughout.‎

‎LAROCHE Lucienne‎

‎Moyen-Orient‎

‎Nathan Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1979. Grand In-4 relié pleine toile éditeur marron sous jaquette illustrée. 190 pages + photos in et hors texte, croquis et plans. Présentation d'Henry MOORE. Très bel état.‎

‎Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.‎

Bookseller reference : 173135

‎LAROCHE, Lucienne:‎

‎Moyen-Orient. Présentation d'Henry Moore. ‘Merveilles du monde’.‎

‎Paris, Ferdinand Nathan, 1979, gr. in-4to, 190 p., rich. ill., reliure en toile originale, avec jaquette.‎

Bookseller reference : 69955aaf

‎Lassner Jacob‎

‎The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule‎

‎Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1980. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 328 1 pages indexed. Hardcover with a slate-blue dust jacket now in mylar. The spine of the jacket is slightly faded. Book is sound and clean. <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 027515

‎Latham, Simon.‎

‎Latham's faulconry, or The faulcons lure and cure: in two books. The first concerning the ordering and training up of all hawks in generall; especially the haggard faulcon-gentle. The second, teaching approved medicines for the cure of all diseases in them. London, Richard Hodgkinson for Thomas Rooks, 1658.‎

‎Small 8vo. 2 parts in one volume. (34), 176; (24), 144, (8) pp. With woodcut frontispiece of "The Haggard Faulcon" instead of the additional engraved title-page found in some copies. Second title with woodcut vignette of a gentleman riding his horse with his hawk on his arm. Second part with woodcuts in text, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. 19th century calf, prettily gilt. Marbled endpapers. Pocket-sized reissue of Latham's books on falconry, the former of which had first appeared in 1614. "Latham dedicated this, his first book of Falconry, to Sir Thomas Monson (or Munson, as he phonetically spells the name), Baronet, Master of his Maiestie's Armory, and Master of the Hawkes to his Highnesse" (Harting, p. 15). The second part is Latham's "New and Second Book of Faulconry", first published in 1618 and "usually bound up with the first" (Harting, p. 16). "Ordering and training of all hawks in general and especially the haggard falcon gentle. Approved medicines for the cure of all their difficulties. A very rare and valuable work" (USAF Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series No. 38: Falconry, p. 14). The frontispiece depicts tools of the falconer's trade. - Some spotting and staining throughout; lacking final blank. Lower corner of fol. A2 in the first part torn with slight loss of text (professionally remargined). From the personal collection of the gentleman and Knightsbridge manuscript dealer Myles Colbeck Radford (1897-1963) with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Harting 20 (note). Souhart 285 (note). Wing L568 & L569. OCLC 228729034. Cf. Schwerdt I, 302.‎

‎LAUFER (Paul)‎

‎Au Pays du Christ.‎

‎Gr.In-4, XX-476p. Récit de voyage et de pélerinage fait en Egypte et à Jérusalem. Illustré de 112 compositions et vignettes dans le texte. Préface de M. Ernest Favre. Bel exemplaire.‎

‎Launay, [Victor] Marie de / Montani Effendi.‎

‎[Usul-i mimari-î Osmanî]. L’Architecture Ottomane. Ouvrage autorisé par Iradé Impérial et publie sous le patronage de Son Excellence Edhem Pacha, Ministre des Travaux Publics, Président de la Commision Imperiale Ottomane pour L'Exposition Universelle de 1873, à Vienne. / Die Ottomanische Baukunst [...]. Constantinople, Imprimerie et Lithographie Centrales / Pascal Sebah, 1873.‎

‎Folio (390 x 518 mm). VII, (1), 81, (4), 82-86, (2) pp.; 58 pp. With 190 lithographed plates (14 in colour). Modern full black morocco gilt, spine in six compartments gilt, remains of original wrapper cover title inset within lower cover. First and only edition of "the earliest comprehensive study on the history and theory of Ottoman architecture" (Ersoy, p. 117). Only a few copies of this rare work, produced to the most exacting standards of the day, appear to have been printed. It was produced under the patronage of Edhem Pasha, president of the Imperial Ottoman Commission for the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. The text (in German and French, followed by Turkish) consists of a series of monographs. The entire work was "prepared [...] by a diverse group of artists, architects, and bureaucrats who had close professional ties with the palace. The text begins with a lengthy historical overview that embodies a pioneering attempt to define and represent the entire Ottoman architectural past according to the norms of modern historiography [...] The editor of the whole volume, and the author of a substantial portion of the original text, was the amateur historian and artist Victor Marie de Launay, a 'naturalized' Frenchman who held a secretarial position in the Ministry of Trade and Public Works [...] With a keen scholarly interest in architecture, art, and traditional crafts, Marie de Launay, throughout his lengthy bureaucratic career in the imperial capital, was deeply involved in the representation of the Ottoman state in the world expositions [...] The expertly crafted plates that supplement the text of the 'Usul' include plans, elevations, and section of various Ottoman buildings as well as a rich panoply of decorative details and ornamental patterns, all meticulously depicted in accordance with the academic standards of the Beaux-Arts model [...] Accompanying the monochrome illustrations are fourteen chromolithographic plates (printed in the Sébah studios in Istanbul), skillfully drafted with vibrant and sharply delineated colors. In the superior technical quality and graphic precision of its illustrations, the 'Usul' is duly comparable to its highly acclaimed European counterparts, such as Owen Jones's 'The Grammar of Ornament' (London, 1956), Auguste Racinet's 'L'ornement polychrome' (Paris, 1869), or Jules Bourgoin's 'Les arts arabes' (Paris, 1873). Thus, leaving aside the intellectual scope of its text, the 'Usul' must be considered an artistic specimen in and of itself, conceived as a unique showcase of Ottoman technical competence in the art of publishing" (ibid., p. 117-120). The set is not infrequently encountered incomplete: even the Blackmer copy lacked a plate, and that of William Morris (now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Library) lacked three. - Occasional slight brownstaining (not concerning plates), but entirely complete and finely bound to style. Blackmer 956. OCLC 5465203. A. Ersoy, "Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period", in: J. Bailey et al. (ed.), History and Ideology [Leiden 2007], p. 117ff. Not in Atabey.‎

‎LAURENS, Henry:‎

‎Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient. L’Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours.‎

‎Armand Colin, 2005, gr. in-8vo, 492 p., brochure originale.‎

Bookseller reference : 118157aaf

‎Lauthier, [Pierre-Jean-Baptiste], French lawyer (fl. 1694-1718).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("Lauthier"). Paris, 16. II. 1715.‎

‎4to. 3½ pp. on bifolium with integral address panel. A first-hand account of the sensational entry of Mohamed Reza Bey, the Persian ambassador who visited Paris for six months beginning 7 February 1715. Adressed to Monsieur de Gallice, councillor of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence, for delivery to the Parliament's Advocate General, Gaspard de Gueidan (1688-1767), the letter describes the ambassador's arrival, his reception (which is likened to that of a Pope), and the craze he creates among the onlookers, who sing, dance, and stare at him as at a strange animal: "Souffrez, mon charmans magistrats, que je vous presente une morale que je ne sais guere [...] Vous sçavrez, mon cher seigneur, que tout Paris est devenu mamamouchi depuis l'arrivée du seigneur Mehemet Rizabeek en ce pays cy. Cet ambassadeur de Sophi s'est réjouï comme un Pape à nos dépens. Il y avait toujours cinq ou six cent carrosses du monde qui l'allaient voir, comme un animal rare; et Son Excellence Persanne a fait chanter et danser nos dames devant luy, comme des marionnettes qui ne venoient là que pour le divertir. Maintenant il occupe la cour aprez avoir amusé la ville et s'en être amusé. Car on veut le recevoir à son audience avec une magnificence extraordinaire. Le Roy a fait dresser un trone au bout de la grande gallerie. Sa Majesté aura pour huit millions de pierreries sur ses habits [...]; et toute la cour à proportion sera habillée de ce joly coup là. Jamais les marchands d'étoffes d'or et de galons ni les brodeurs n'ont été si occupés [...] Il est vray que le tout se fait à crédit. Mais les gens de qualité sçavent trop bien leurs privileges, pour s'aviser de déroger en payant leurs dettes; cela est du dernier bourgeois. Aussy je vous assure que jamais la cour n'a été autant de qualité [...] Il faut espérer qu'aprèz ce bel oiseau de Perse, il viendra quelque autre amusette au peuple de Paris [...] Je vous avoueray bonnement que j'ay eu la curiosité de voir son entrée dans Paris, afin de l'étudier. Heureusement, il fit une pluye continuelle ce jour là! De sorte que Son Excellence se mit presque en negligé et que Sa Magnificence fut des plus minces, et je trouvay que cela ne valoit pas la façon de ma curiosité. Je ne fut pas le seul pris pour dupes tout Paris y fut trompé [...]". - The ambassador Mohamed Reza Bey (Mehmet Riza Beg) had been chosen for the mission by the Shah of Persia, Sultan Husayn, and travelled with a grand entourage, as befitted the diplomat of a mighty empire. He was solemnly received in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on 19 February 1715 with one of the most lavish ceremonies of the final months of the reign of Louis XIV. During his stay he conducted negotiations towards establishing trade treaties between Persia and France, and conferred with the French on possible joint military operations against the Ottoman Empire. The ambassador's exotic personage inspired the French imagination to create a whole artistic and literary current, the most lasting product of which are Montesquieu's "Lettres Persanes" (1725). - The lawyer Pierre Lauthier, a celebrated orator in his day, was the son of the Aix-based medical writer Honoré Maria Lauthier. Although most bibliographies credit the latter with the biographical preface to Joseph de Tournefort's posthumously published "Voyage into the Levant" (simply signed "Lauthier"), it is not unlikely that Pierre, with his penchant for the exotic, is the actual author of the Life of that famous Aix-born botanist and Middle East traveller (cf. Wellcome III, 458). - Removed from a registry, with traces of mounting along the left edge of p. 1. Traces of oribial folds; slight edge defects, some from removal of the seal, but well preserved on the whole.‎

‎Lawrence T. E‎

‎Oriental Assembly‎

‎London: Williams & Norgate 1939. Photos by the author. Map. Edited by A. W. Lawrence. Spine sloping; cover stains; small punctures in rear joint; spotting on edges. xii 291 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Williams & Norgate, (1939) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3461

‎Lawrence T. E.:‎

‎Revolt In The Desert‎

‎London.The Folio Society2007 With end-paper mapsa portrait frontispiece & 13 b&w illustrations.pp viii 326.Hard coverpictorial cloth gilt.A near fine copy in a near fine slip case. Introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan & sketches by Edward Bawden. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6367

‎LAWRENCE T. E‎

‎Seven Pillars Of Wisdom: A Triumph‎

‎Anchor Books New York: 1991. Softcover. Good condition. Some slight staining. Lawrence's account of the campaign in Arabia as the Arabs rose against the Turks with British assistance during World War I. Includes an Index. "This is an amazing book - amazing in the story that it tells but amazing too that it could ever have been written at all." - The New York Times Anchor Books, New York: 1991 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 94382X1

‎Lawrence T. E.‎

‎The Mint‎

‎London: Jonathan Cape Ltd 1973. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 1973 Reprint of unexpuragted text first published in 1955. Jonathan Cape Ltd Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 039810 ISBN : 0224008056 9780224008051

‎Lawrence TE. T. E.‎

‎The Mint : A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross‎

‎London: Jonathan Cape 1955. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Title page annotated with previous owner's signature and number.Darkening and some slight loss to d/j. Jonathan Cape Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 052228

‎LAWRENCE THOMAS EDWARD‎

‎RIVOLTA NEL DESERTO (LA)‎

‎Traduzione: Cajumi Arrigo . Pagine: 400 . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Altra copia del 1934 con ritagli di giornali in brossura . Note epoca: XI‎

‎Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, 15. X. 1924.‎

‎8vo. 2 pp. With autogr. envelope. Includes TDS by G. E. B. Bromley-Martin, of the Bank of Liverpool and Martin, London (dated 22 Dec. 1924). To Whitney H. Shepardson of New York, who had inquired as to how he might obtain a copy of the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" when the book was finally published: "The Prophet has sent me on your letter, with instructions to deal with it: - and I'm puzzled. Really you know you are foolish to want a copy. It's a thirty guinea book, of which so many copies are being sold as will meet the printing bills (about 120 copies perhaps) with some off-prints of the unadorned text for the twenty or thirty fellows who shared the campaign with me. I can't give them 30-guinea presents: they can't buy 30-guinea books. So I want the subscribers to pay for my generosity in giving them free copies. The prime cost lies in the pictures (about 60, many in colour, at 10/- a print!) and the pictures are only an unjustifiable whim of mine. They have been done by British artists whom I liked, + who would work for me. Such a luxury book is for the idle rich. Mrs. Lamont is getting one. Huntingdon [!] + Pierpont Morgan aren't...! ... Do you feel justified in chucking away so much on an amateur production? The writing is pretentious, dull, hysterical, egotistical, + preternaturally long. No human being has ever been to the end of it [the 335,000 word ms.]. They return it, thumbed to about half way, with pretty speeches. So long as I hold it secret, the sight of it is a boast, so long it will be praised. Seriously, it isn't any earthly good. It costs as I have said, may be a year yet in printing, + is horrible in parts. Eleanor (beg her pardon, but that's her only possible name. The proper ones only indicate her wayward choice of parents etc.) would be sick over it. The thing will not be reprinted entire in my life-time: you suggest 'for a long time.' ... but the prospect isn't pleasing. There will be an American Edition, to secure copyright. Doubleday, probably. He has made a reasonable estimate. It would be printed at my expense, two copies for the Library of Congress, or whatever the show is, + eight for sale: + the sale price will be prohibitive, so that they will never sell, + the edition will never be exhausted, + no one may pirate! I suggest 10,000 dollars, but F.N.D. hasn't yet considered what is above-high-water-mark in U.S.A. Tell me, please, if you are knowing! If despite all faults (my most honest dissuasion puts people on sometimes!) you want a copy: then you'll have to send fifteen guineas, half price - E. will know the size of the extinct coin - to: Manager / Bank of Liverpool + Martins / 68 Lombard St. / London, E.C.3, payable to TE Lawrence, + 'Seven Pillars account'. Balance when you get the book. Let me strongly urge you not to. I have 90 subscribers, so there is no urgency - on the point of helping lame dogs! [...]". - When the book finally appeared in 1926, the cost of each copy to Lawrence was triple the selling price, and it was not until the fourth reprint of the 1927 abridgement "Revolt in the Desert" that his debts were paid off. As the included receipt shows, Shepardson was undeterred and duly transferred the £15. 15/- to Liverpool & Martins' (the last copy of the 1926 "Pillars" at auction commanded £30,000 at Sotheby's in 2009). - The U.S. businessman Whitney Hart Shepardson (1890-1966), educated at Colgate, Balliol (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard, had served as aide to the State Department at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he may have met Lawrence. Between 1925 and 1927 he served as director on J. D. Rockefeller's General Education Board. A leading O.S.S. operative in WWII, he was the first London head of Secret Intelligence and remained with the organization soon to become the C.I.A. until 1946.‎

‎Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Southampton, 18. VII. 1934.‎

‎8vo. 2 pp. and 2 lines on bifolium. "Dear Lady Young I wonder if you (and His Ex.) are still there? Your letter to me sat at 2 Smith Square (Sir H. B. not knowing my whereabouts) till last night, when I called and collected it. I am sorry. Most of my addresses are like that. Would you be so good as to register / T. E. Shaw / Clouds Hill / Moreton / Dorset / as my likeliest spot, in future? It represents my cottage on the heath, which will be home after March when the RAF bring themselves, not reluctantly, to dispense with my help? I'm sorry not to have seen you. I wanted, while you were yet in Nyasa-land, to beg of His Ex. The rectangular skin of a small (1 sq. yard) lion, for my hearth-rug. But Ronald Storrs whom I saw at Southampton about a month ago told me you had been promoted to his province, and that there were no lions. Ronald was physically a very sick man. Mentally he was fighting hard to keep brisk… too hard for his health, I fear. The wreck of an old companion is too near a sight for sorrow, even. I hope Africa suits, after your trial of Asia and Europe. My respects to the Governor! Tell him I saw the fraudulent Abdulla, the other day. Exactly as he was, body & mind. Now, that's the way. / Yours sincerely TE Shaw / A poor letter: but I picture you again in Africa, and my squib spluttering in the void". - Between 1916 to 1918, Abdullah I of Jordan worked with the British guerrilla leader T. E. Lawrence (with whom he had actually never jarred), and played a key role as architect and planner of the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule, leading guerrilla raids on garrisons. From 1921 until his assassination in 1951, Abdullah ruled Jordan, first as Emir under a British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, then as King of an independent nation from 1946 onwards.‎

‎Lawson F‎

‎The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad 'Ali Period‎

‎USA: Columbia University Press 1992. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Slight bend to front and rear board. D/J a little faded with some light shelf wear to edges. Columbia University Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 040292 ISBN : 0231076320 9780231076326

‎LAYARD AUSTEN HENRY‎

‎Nineveh and its remains. A narrative…‎

‎Cm. 20; pp. XXVI, 384, 32. Editorial cloth. Illustrated. A folding map. Dedication Copy to Count Belmondo Caccia. (Middle East) 1397/P‎