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LONDRES, Albert.
Pecheurs de perles.
in-16, 188 pp., broché, couv. illustrée. Très bel exemplaire [MB-5]
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Longhi, Gioseffo.
Alessandria. Bologna, Longhi, [1670s].
1065 x 578 mm. Cloth-backed engraved view on 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below (4 columns in Italian: "Descrizione della Città di Alessandria d'Egitto") with publisher's imprint. Matted. Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries: a unique, large-scale view of Alexandria as seen from the north. Formerly the most powerful city of the ancient world after Rome, Alexandria came under Ottoman rule in 1517 and subsequently lost much of its importance to the new port of Rashid (Rosette), 40 miles east, though it would regain some of its former prominence with the construction of the Mahmoudiyah Canal in 1807. In Longhi's engraving, the Ottoman influence may be discerned in the people's clothing as well as in the city's architecture. Within the city are several mosques; the ancient obelisks are shown crowned with crescents. On the river Nile, which flows through the city and underneath the walls, the view depicts numerous trade boats and sailors. Outside the walls lies Pompey's Pillar. The Italian letterpress text pasted under the engraving provides mostly historical and geographical information. - Longhi's panorama seems to draw various aspects from previous works to create its own original representation of the Egyptian city. The perspective is similar to that used in Pierre Belon's 1553 "Observations" and in Braun and Hogenberg's 1575 "Alexandria, Vetustissimum Aegypti Emporium, Amplissima Civitas", published in their famous "Civitates orbis terrarum", but also to that in Mallet's smaller, almost certainly later (1683) view of Alexandria. Apart from the Braun/Hogenberg map, however, the principal model for Longhi's view was likely his own view of "Gran Cairo", apparently published simultaneously: the bird's-eye view and general composition correspond to this similarly rare engraving, which was probably based on a 1549 woodcut panorama created by Matteo Pagano in Venice. - According to scholars, Gioseffo (Giuseppe) Longhi (1620-91) issued a series of views of Italian and foreign cities between 1654 and 1674. A publisher, bookseller and archiepiscopal printer, he was active in Bologna from 1650 to the time of his death. Not only did he publish maps, but he was also a prolific literary editor, notably publishing all the dramatic works of the Italian playwright Giacinto Cicognini. - An excellent specimen. Cf. Tooley, Mapmakers III, 150 (for Giuseppe Longhi).
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Longhi, Gioseffo.
Gran Cairo. Bologna, Longhi, 1670.
945 x 620 mm. Engraved view on 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below (4 columns in Italian, 4 columns in Latin: "Descrittione del gran Cairo [...] Cairi quae olim Babylon") with publisher's imprints. Watermark Panzano. Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries, this unique, large-scale view of Cairo reflects the economic and cultural effervescence of the second-largest city in the Empire: under Ottoman rule since 1517 and having expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel, Cairo in the latter half of the 17th century was second only to Constantinople. The Ottoman influence may be discerned in the people's clothing in the foreground as well as in the city's architecture. On the river Nile, the map depicts numerous trade boats and sailors. To the left are soldiers battling as part of a tournament; on the right are the Sphinx (wearing a necklace!) and the famous pyramids of Giza: those of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, as well as the smaller pyramids. The centre of the city shows numerous mosques and gardens. The letterpress text pasted under the engraving provides mostly historical and geographical information (in Italian and Latin). - Longhi's panorama seems to draw various aspects from previous works to create its own original representation of the Egyptian city. Indeed, it bears some resemblance to Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 "Cairos, quae olim Babylon, Aegypti maxima urbs", published in their famous "Civitates orbis terrarum". There are also similarities with Donato Bertelli's "La gran città del Cairo" (Venice 1575), as well as with the map of "Le Grand Caire" produced by the French soldier and traveller Henri de Beauveau (published in his "Relation journaliere du voyage du Levant", Nancy 1615). Ultimately, these plans probably all derive from a 1549 woodcut panorama credited to Matteo Pagano (or a Venetian engraving derived from it), as they all depict the city from the same viewpoint and on a similar scale. Longhi's map even takes up some of the ornaments of the Braun/Hogenberg map, such as the two people riding on a horse and a donkey in the foreground, though the antiquities as well as the numerous irrigation wheels are here shown in much greater detail. - According to scholars, Gioseffo (Giuseppe) Longhi (1620-91) issued a series of views of Italian and foreign cities between 1654 and 1674. A publisher, bookseller and archiepiscopal printer, he was active in Bologna from 1650 to the time of his death. Not only did he publish maps, but he was also a prolific literary editor, notably publishing all the dramatic works of the Italian playwright Giacinto Cicognini. - Some small marginal tears repaired; slight marginal fraying to upper left. Cf. Tooley, Mapmakers III, 150 (for Giuseppe Longhi); Schulz, Venice 70 (for Arrigoni/Bertarelli).
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Longrigg Stephen
The Middle East
Chicago: Aldine. Good with no dust jacket; Ex-Library with Markins. 1963. Hardbound. 291 pages . Aldine hardcover
Bookseller reference : 34342
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Longrigg Stephen H.
The Middle East: A Social Geography
London: Gerald Duckworth 1964. Hard bound reprint edition illustrated with maps and plates 291pp includes appendices and index. Very good in very good dust jacket. 455 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1964 unknown
Bookseller reference : 21392
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Longrigg Stephen Hemsley
The Middle East: A Social Geography
Chicago: Aldine 1970. Small stain on back cover. Revised edition. Photos. Maps. Bibliography. Index. 291 pages. 20.8 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: VG/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: Aldine, (1970) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7334
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Longva Anh Nga
Walls Built On Sand: Migration Exclusion And Society In Kuwait
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1997. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs Indians East Asians and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society�that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archival research the author examines the social dimension of labor migration to Kuwait since independence in 1961 exploring how the presence of over one million foreign workers has influenced the way Kuwaitis organize their lives and perceive themselves. In particular Longva looks at the relations between two sharply differentiated social categories and the politics of exclusion that have allowed Kuwaitis to protect their rights and privileges as citizens against infringement by the huge influx of expatriates. Longva examines the little-studied system of kafala or sponsorship under which all foreign workers enter and reside in the country showing how it has become the most critical source of power for native Kuwaitis vis-�-vis immigrants. She also addresses aspects of ethnicity and class describes the life of expatriates and looks at developments in gender relations and the role of women in building the national identity in the context of migration and modernization. 266 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MS-44 ISBN : 081332758x 9780813327587
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Lonicer, Philipp (ed. & transl.) / (Menavino, Giovanantonio).
Chronicorum Turcicorum in quibus Turcorum origo, principes, imperatores, bella, praelia, caedes, victoriae, reique militaris ratio, et caetera huc pertinentia [...] exponuntur. Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1584.
8vo. 2 parts in one vol. (16), 435, (13) pp. (16) , 208, (14) pp., final blank f. With woodcut vignettes to both title pages (the first showing an Ottoman warrior, after J. Amman) and two (repeated) printer's devices at the end. Contemporary vellum. Remains of ties. First octavo edition of Lonicer's collection of Turkish history, previously published in 1578 as a hefty three-volume folio set with woodcuts attributed to Jost Amman. The present issue is a pretty, handily pocket-sized edition minus the illustrations, incorporating several important changes to the text. Book 2 of the first part still comprises Menavino's "Mahometicae leges, religio, vita" in Lonicer's translation, while Aventin's appendix at the end of part 1 is omitted, as is the entire third volume of the folio edition (Barletius's "Scanderbeg"). The beginning of part 2 includes an important new addition: Contarini's "De bello Turcico", with the description of the Battle of Lepanto. - Binding rubbed; large defects to spine. Interior somewhat browned as common with occasional insignificant waterstains to margins. A few contemporary censorship marks in ink; title page shows contemporary ownership "Ex libris fratris Constantini Cruseni Augustiniani" (obliterated) and of the Augustinians' monastery of St Thomas (Kostel sv. Tomáše) in Prague. VD 16, L 2464. BNHCat L 379. BM-STC German 525. Adams L 1456. Göllner 1773. Atabey 729. Graesse IV, 265. Pétrovitch 48. Hammer 1090. Chauvin XII, 248, 1019 (& cf. 266, 1107). Yerasimos 126. Not in Blackmer (cf. 1030 note).
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Looman T. M.
Gids voor den Bijbellezer.
Amsterdam Höveker 1887. Crown octavo. Pp. xx 491. Plus five coloured lithographed maps four of which folding one as frontispiece. Appendix glossary. Hardcover contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with original cover laid down. In a very good condition some notations to one table marginal tear to one leaf signature clipped out of half-title. Overall nice well preserved copy. ~ Sixth edition. With the following maps: Kanaän of het Heilige Land; De oude wereld; Tocht der Israeliten uit Egypte naar Kanaän; de Profeten des Ouden Testaments aanduidende de vier Wereldrijken; de reizen van Paulus in Europa en Azië. Amsterdam, Höveker, 1887. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0847
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Lopes de Castanheda, Fernão.
The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, Enterprised by the Portingales, in their Daungerous Navigations [...]. London, Thomas East, 1582.
4to (146 x 201 mm). (6), 164 ff. With woodcut border surrounding title-page and woodcut initials throughout. 19th century full calf ruled in blind, bound for the Inner Temple Library, London, with two morocco spine labels. All edges red. First English edition of one of the most important historical works of the first great age of discovery, "very rare" (Hill). The author mentions several journeys to the "Moores of Arabia" (27r), such as one in 1487 "to Toro, which is a place that hath his harbour in the Straights of the red Sea in the Coast of Arabia", and other places "in the selfe same Straightes of the Redde Sea" (2v), the ships also passing by "Ormuse" (Hormuz, 3r) on their return journey from India to Cairo. - Most of the "Historie" is devoted to the great Portuguese thrust into Asia in the early 16th century, chronicling their epic expansion to India, the East Indies, and China between 1497 and 1505. Castanheda himself spent some two decades in the Portuguese colonies in the East, and so was well equipped to write this account. It is one of the primary sources for the early Portuguese trading empire, a model that the British were beginning to emulate at the time of publication. This work is equally important, however, for its American content, being the first to describe in detail the voyage of Cabral and his discovery of Brazil in 1500, while on his way out to the East Indies. Cabral's landing is the first recorded there, recounted in Chapters 29-31 of the present work. "A most interesting and rare book" (Sabin). - Originally published at Coimbra in 1551, the book was translated by "Nicholas Lichefield" (probably Thomas Nicholas, the well-known translator of the Tudor era). This edition is appropriately dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. - Binding lightly rubbed in places, but still very presentable. A few near-contemporary annotations and manicules. Upper corner of title-page professionally repaired. Front pastedown shows engraved armorial bookplate (ca. 1700) of the barrister-at-law Herbert Jacob of St Stephen's (Hackington) in Canterbury, who bequeathed his books to the Inner Temple, London. Subsequently removed from the Inner Temple Library, now bearing their winged-horse crest in gilt on upper cover, engraved bookplate on pastedown and two different ink stamps to title-page and variously throughout. Offered by Hordern House, Sydney, in 1998 and sold to the San Francisco collector Bruce McKinney; the lower pastedown shows the bookplate of his 2009 sale. A scarce title with good provenance, in an appealing modern binding. Alden/Landis 582/54. Hill 1035. Borba de Moraes 166f. Palau IV, 262. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 274-279. STC 16806. Sabin 11391. Streeter Sale 26. Not in Church.
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Lorenz, L. von & C.E. Hellmayr
Ein Beitrag zur Ornis südarabiens. Mit ''field notes'' des Collectors Mr. G.W. Bury.
1902 19 p., 1 nice chromolithographed plate, roy. 4to, paperbound (covers missing). Front and back somewhat soiled, plate clean.
Bookseller reference : VV00962
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Lorch Netanel
One Long War: Arab Versus Jew Since 1920
New York: Herzl Press 1976. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Although identified as the American edition this was printed and bound in Israel by the original publisher Keter. Red boards gilt titles on spine xvi 254 pp maps & photos in text bibliography. DJ rubbed at extremities two tears under 2 cm to top edge of blank rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Views the many outbursts of violence since the founding of "the homeland for the Jews in Palestine" as one long war. Contents: pre-state period; war of independence; armistice years; 1956 Sinai campaign and after; years of "understanding"; six-day war; years of 242; Yom Kippur war; comparisons & conclusions. Shipping weight 2 lbs. International 1 lb. 12 oz. First US Edition. . Fine/VG. 23� X 15� cm. Herzl Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : HIME00017 ISBN : 0706515455 9780706515459
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LORD SELWYN LLOYD
Suez 1956: A Personal Account Coronet Books
HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD 1979. Cover has light creasing at corners rubbing along edges and sunning to spine. Some pages have sparse note in margin. Binding is tight and secure. Ships today or next business day. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Soft Cover. Good. 7x4.5. HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD Paperback
Bookseller reference : 219962 ISBN : 0340250615 9780340250617
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Lord, Charles Al[fred].
3 partly autograph letters of a jockey. Maisons-Laffitte and other places, 1883/84.
8vo. Altogether 6 pp. Each with envelope. Together with a calling card (also with envelope). 3 letters by the French jockey Charles Alfred Lord about his own horses and races performed: "J'ai lessé Landrail là [à Rochefort], ayant à la faire courir à Fontenay-le-Comte, Sables d'Olonne et Chalans. Mais il ses trouvé de bon chevaux engager dans les deux premières réunions et ayant lessé un garçon avec la jument, je m'atander qu'il aurais fait ce que je lui avais dit, de la promener matin et soir en main; comme il n'étais pas assez fort pour la tenir, je lui ais enlevez la selle afin qu'il ne la monte pas pour ne pas quelle s'emballe. Si il avez fait ce que je lui avais dit, elle aurais été prete à courir comme elle été assez prete lorsque je lais monté. Il ny avais qu'à la maintenir par des promenades. Faites en ce que vous voudrais. Elle s'atellera bien j'en suis sur. Faites en votre jument de service et lorsque je viendrai je vous aporterai selle et bride pour la monter et la tenir. Si je vais à Pau cet hivert, on la fera saillir par Lord-Sting pour faire un demi sang. Si non vous la ferais saillir par un troteur et comme elle a de bonne dispositions pour troter, cela vous fera un troteur [...]". - On headed paper.
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Loretta Napoleoni
The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State ISIS and the Redrawing of the Middle East
Seven Stories Press 2014. clean unmarked copy. Paperback. Fine. Seven Stories Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 363670 ISBN : 160980628X 9781609806286
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LOTI Pierre et VIAUD Samuel (son fils)
"Suprêmes visions d'Orient; fragments de journal intime."
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1921. 12 x 19, 316 pp., broché, bon état.
Bookseller reference : 98806
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LOTI (Pierre, Louis Marie Julien VIAUD, dit . . . )(1850-1923).
Fantôme d'Orient.
1892 PARIS, Calmann-Lévy, Éditeurs, 1892, Br. 18, 5x12, couv. beige,(6), 234 et (2) pp.,Edition originale,non coupé,frais.
Bookseller reference : 3760
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Loti (Pierre) - Viaud (Samuel)
Suprêmes visions d’Orient. Fragments de journal intime.
Calmann-Lévy 1925 In-12 demi-maroquin, dos à nerfs orné de caissons rocaille, filets noirs et dorés, couvertures conservés, 316 pp. Dos passé. Bon exemplaire.
Bookseller reference : 23127
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Loti Pierre.
Aziyadé. Illustrations de Aug. Leroux.
Con composizioni colorate a pochoir nel testo e a piena pagina. Edizione ordinaria su velina a la forme.
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Lotti, Lotto.
[Ch' n' ha Cervell ava gamb.] La liberazione di Vienna assediata dalle armi Ottomane. Poemetto giocoso. E la Banzuola. Dialoghi sei. In lingua popolare Bolognese. [Prob. Bologna, c. 1746].
8vo. (8), 248 pp. With engr. frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by G. M. Cantarelli. Contemp. blue wrappers. Third edition (probably printed in Bologna) of Lotto Lotti's (1667-1714) poem celebrating the liberation of Vienna from the 1683 Turkish siege, written in the Bologna dialect and first published in Parma in 1685. "Divided in 5 cantos of 30 to 40 eight-line verses each" (Kábdebo). Pretty engravings; the one facing the first canto (a besieging army aiming their cannons) shows contemporary touches of blue colour in places. Includes Lotti's collection of dialogues, "La Banzuola" (likewise illustrated throughout). - Date taken from the engraving on fol. O5v. Untrimmed copy. Sturminger 1973. NUC (pre-1956) vol. 342, p. 194. ICCU UBOE\075844, VEAE\001888. Graesse IV, 264. Cf. Kábdebo II, 290.
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Lotti, Lotto.
Ch' n' ha Cervel hapa gamb. O sia la liberatione di Vienna assediata dall' armi Ottomane. Poemetto giocoso. In lingua popolare Bolognese consecrato. Parma, heredi di [Mario] Vigna, 1685.
8vo. (16), 121, (3) pp. With engr. frontispiece and 5 engr. plates by Giovanni Giuseppe Cosattini. Contemp. Italian vellum. First edition of Lotto Lotti's (1667-1714) poem celebrating the liberation of Vienna from the 1683 Turkish siege, written in the Bologna dialect. "Divided in 5 cantos of 30 to 40 eight-line verses each" (Kábdebo). Among the pretty engravings are scenes of the siege and battle. - Somewhat browned and (finger-)stained throughout; worming to blank margin near beginning; vellum on lower board and spine-end restored professionally. Sturminger 1971. Kábdebo II, 290. British Library (17th c. Italian books) I, 503. ICCU VEAE\001923. Graesse IV, 264.
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LOUIS Florian
Atlas historique du Moyen-Orient
Paris, Autrement, "Collection Atlas/Mémoires", 2020, 17 x 25, 95 pages sous couverture souple illustrée. Iconographie en couleurs. Cartographie de Fabrice Le Goff.
Bookseller reference : MOYENORIENT7770420
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LOUIS Patrick
Minorités au Moyen-Orient
Id, vers 2000. In Id, vers 2000. In-8 carré broché de 485 pages, cartes. Très bon état
Bookseller reference : 151965
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LOUIS MASSIGNON, (1883-1962).
Dogus devrinde Islâm tasavvufu. Translated by Mehmed Ali Aynî. Prep. by Osman Türer, Cengiz Gündogdu.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 181 p. A study on Islamisc mysticism and sufism in the early Islamic period. Louis Massignon was a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding. He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic church's relationship with Islam.
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LOUIS MASSIGNON.
La mubâlaha de Medine et l'hyperdulie de Fatima. Etude sur la proposition d'ordalie faite par la prophete Muhammad aux chretiens Balhârith du Najran en l'an 10/63i a Medine.
Very Good English In modern cloth bdg. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In French. 33, [3] p., numerous b/w plts. La mubâlaha de Medine et l'hyperdulie de Fatima. La mubâlaha de Medine et l'hyperdulie de Fatima. Etude sur la proposition d'ordalie faite par la prophete Muhammad aux chretiens Balhârith du Najran en l'an 10/63i a Medine.
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LOUIS MASSIGNON.
Parola data. [= Parole donnee]. Introduzione di Vincent-Mansour Monteil; a cura di Claudia Maria Tresso.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Italian. 488, [3] p., numerous b/w plates. "Gli scritti dell'autore affrontano i temi più svariati: da Maria Antonietta ai Sette Dormienti, dai giardini ai tappeti, dall'uso delle metafore al lessico mistico. Le vicende e la morfologia delle civiltà appaiono sempre come una mutevole costellazione di "intersignes", fino a comporre una "storia gnostica, quella che ci manca". Massignon fu egli stesso un mistico e un uomo d'azione, coinvolto nelle operazioni più segrete sulla scena del Medio Oriente, un po' sulla falsariga di Lawrence d'Arabia, da lui venerato. Massignon è stato colui che ha compreso l'unità e la misteriosa tensione interna fra le tre Religioni del Libro, accomunate dalla figura di Abramo: Ebraismo, Cristianesimo, Islamismo."
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LOUIS Patrick
Minorités au Moyen-Orient
Id, vers 2000. In-8 carré broché de 485 pages, cartes. Très bon état
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Louis Toscano
Triple Cross -
Birch Lane Publishing - 1990. Hardcover/pub.1990/Gd.condition/321 pages - Israel the atomic bomb and the man who spilled the secrets. TN136526. Hardcover. Good. Birch Lane Publishing - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36526
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Louis XVI / Silvestre de Sacy, [Antoine Isaac] (ed.).
[Al-durr al-manzum fi wasaya al-sultan al-marhum]. Testament de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, avec une traduction arabe par M. le Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, de l'Imprimierie Royale, 1820.
8vo. 19, (1), 22, (2) pp. Contemporary grey wrappers. First Arabic edition. "Silvestre de Sacy translated the Last Will and Testament of Louis XVI into Arabic and had the translation printed together with the French original in 1820, in hopes that it might prove a comfort and encouragement to the Christians of the Orient, while giving Muslim readers a demonstration of Christian submission and evangelical meekness" (cf. Fück). Three years previously, de Sacy had published the late King's Testament (together with the last letter of Marie Antoinette) in a luxurious folio edition. "Sacy never let his Christian convictions hamper his work as a scholar, for he saw religion as a personal matter. Although he revealed his faith at times, it was never to pose it as the strongest model against which to judge other religions. He was nevertheless very pious. There is no other way to explain his translation of the guillotined king, Louis XVI, into Arabic [...]. He apparently wished to show how devout, simple and charitable his beloved monarch had been" (Kamal as-Salibi, The Druze [London 2005], p. 20). - The orientalist de Sacy, a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in France, began his career as professor of Arabic at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes in 1796. In 1806 he was offered the chair of Persian at the College of France and in 1824 was appointed director of the school of oriental languages. He also acted as advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, translating political propaganda into Arabic, including the "Bulletins of the Grande Armée" (cf. Atabey 1134). - An excellent, untrimmed and wide-margined copy in mint condition, printed on strong paper, the central counter-leaf remaining uncut. Fück 144 (note 377). Bibliothèque de Sacy III, 4781f. OCLC 25217438.
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Loutfi, Galal / Jaber, Ali S[alama].
Geology of the Upper Albian-Campanian Succession in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia, Neutral Zone, Offshore Area. Paper No. 62 (B-3). [Kuwait], Arabian Oil Company, Ltd. (Japan), 1970.
Large 4to (20.6 x 28.5 cm). (3), 14, (3). With one map in the text, 3 folding diagrams and 4 numbered plates (plate II and IV comprising 3 pages each), as well as 4 corresponding pages of captions. Original printed wrappers. Stapled and perforated. Rare conference paper for the Seventh Arab Petroleum Congress organized by the Secretariat General of the League of Arab States, held in Kuwait from March 16 to 22, 1970. Authored by the geologist Galal Loutfi and the paleontologist Ali Salama Jaber, it discusses the stratigraphiy of three oil fields in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabian Neutral Zone offshore area, namely Khafji, Hout, and Dorra. The illustrations show the geologic profile of the area with its various rock formations, as well as microfacies of four different kinds of limestone in a total of 33 figures. - Front cover slightly brownstained along edges; a larger trace of glue on inside of lower cover; interior otherwise crisp and clean. A single copy located in libraries worldwide (Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève). OCLC 716527649.
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LOVERDO (Costa de).
Le Bataillon sacré, 1942-1945.
Stock, 1968, in-8°, 353 pp, préface du général Kœnig, 16 pl. de photos hors texte, 15 cartes, broché, couv. illustrée à rabats, bon état
Bookseller reference : 18370
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LOVELL Mary S.
A Rage to Live. A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Low, Charles Rathbone.
History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863). London, Richard Bentley, 1877.
8vo. 2 vols. XX, 542 pp. VI, 596 pp. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling to the boards, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Neatly rebacked with the original spines laid down. First edition, uncommon in the cloth. Forms the basis for studies of campaigns and exploration wherever the Bombay Marine operated: in the Red Sea, the Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Laccadives, Maldives and west coast of India, the Andamans, Java and Burma. Of primary importance as a record of the history of the British presence in the Gulf, where the Bombay Marine served as police force, mail carrier, ethnographer, surveyor and, when necessary, strike force for over three centuries - in particular in the period when British relations with the Gulf sheikhdoms were being consolidated. Includes detailed accounts of hydrographic surveys by the Indian Navy, including those in the Gulf. Never surpassed as a history of the maritime arm of India's foreign policy. - Engraved bookplates of the Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich, to the front pastedowns with manuscript annotations of their receipt in April 1878; small paper press-mark labels above. Extremeties slightly rubbed, light browning, but overall a very good set. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1492. NMM V, 2273.
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Low, Charles Rathbone.
History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863). London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1877.
8vo. 2 vols. XX, (8), 541, (1) pp. (final page of appendix erroneously bound at rear of vol. II). VI, 596 pp. Modern half calf over marbled boards, giltstamped labels to spine. The only published detailed history of the British Navy and its engagement with the Arabs of the Gulf. Covers specifically the British naval power in the Near and Middle East from the earliest days of the East India Company until its abolition in 1863. Forms the basis for studies of campaigns and exploration wherever the Bombay Marine operated: in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Laccadives, Maldives and west coast of India, the Andamans, Java and Burma. Of primary importance as a record of the history of the British presence in the Gulf, where the Bombay Marine served as police force, mail carrier, ethnographer, surveyor and, when necessary, strike force for over three centuries - in particular in the period when British relations with the Gulf sheikhdoms were being consolidated. Includes detailed accounts of hydrographic surveys by the Indian Navy, including those in the Gulf. Never surpassed as a history of the maritime arm of India's foreign policy. - A finely preserved copy. Macro 1492. NMM V, 2273.
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Lowdermilk Walter Clay
Palestine: Land of Promise
New York: Greenwood Press 1968. Reprint of 1944 edition. 244 pp. Land reclamation development and conservation in Palestine. Signed under non-personal inscription by Inez Marks Lowdermilk author's widow and dedicatee of the present book on dedication page and additionally inscribed and signed by her to previous owner on front free endpaper. A photocopy of an article by Inez Lowdermilk is laid in. Spine cocked rubbed at crown and heel; upper corners of boards bumped page edges tanned. Lacks dust jacket. . Inscribed. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Greenwood Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10894
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Lowenstein Fritz.
Das juedische Palaestina Das jüdische Palästina. FIRST EDITION.
Jerusalem Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael & Keren Hajessod 1927. Small octavo. Pp. 51 1 commercial ad. Includes an unsigned preface apparently by the author. With 7 photo-plates including a map of Palestine and a map of Emek Yisrael. Appendix. Original plain wrappers lettered in brown. In a very good condition. ~ The rare first edition. In the second edition Löwenstein is no longer identified himself as the author. He was the director of the Zionist Information Office for Tourists in Palestine. A fascinating publication published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish National Fund and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller's guide to the Holy Places it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. It includes background information for visits in Jerusalem Tel Aviv and its region Haifa Valley of Yisrael Nazareth Afula Beth Shean as well as some newly established villages. The appendix brings a financial report of the Fund's activities. The cover states the publisher's price of 3 Piaster - 60 Pfennig. Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael & Keren Hajessod, 1927. unknown
Bookseller reference : 5279
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Lowenstein Fritz.
Das juedische Palaestina Das jüdische Palästina.
Jerusalem Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael 1927. Small octavo. Pp. 48. Plus 2 extra pages with 3 photo-plates and 6 other such illustrations. With a folding line-drawn map tipped-in onto inside of back wrap. Appendices. Original decorated wrappers lettered in red with a woodcut illustration of a Holy Land landscape spine very lightly rubbed. In about fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ Second edition. A fascinating publication published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish National Fund and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller's guide to the Holy Places it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. It includes background information for visits in Jerusalem Tel Aviv and its region Haifa Valley of Yisrael Nazareth Afula Beth Shean as well as some newly established villages. Further there are detailed programmes for a three-day a five-day a week and two-weeks visits with advise what to do and where to go on each day. There is also a train timetable and a currency conversion table. The second part is the history of the Zionist Movement in Palestine and the book concludes with a financial report of the Fund's activities. This copy includes the road map "Erez-Israel" with indication of railways main roads paths and tracks marshes and rivers as well as Jewish National Fund land and national frontier. Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael, 1927. unknown
Bookseller reference : 2299
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LP. Vidyarthi L. P.
Leadership In India -
Asia Publishing - 1967. Hardcover/pub.1967/Fair condition/375 pages - The quality of leadership is a vital faction affecting the development of a nation presents a study of leadership in rural India. AI629318. Hardcover -. Good. Asia Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 29318
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Lt. General William G. Pagonis
Moving Mountains -
Harvard Business Publishing - 1992. Hardcover/pub.1992/Gd.conditionunderlining/248 pages - Lessons in leadership and logistics from the Gulf War are discussed in this text. TI636187. Hardcover -. Good. Harvard Business Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36187
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Lucas Eric
Judisches Leben auf dem Lande: Eine Familienchronik Lebensbilder German Edition
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1991. TPB. VG. VERY-GOOD TRADE-PAPERBACK Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 69678 ISBN : 3596106370 9783596106370
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Lucas, Paul.
Voyage [...], fait en M.DCCXIV, &c. par ordre de Louis XIV. dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Paléstine, Haute et Basse Égypte, &c. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwers, 1720.
12mo. 2 vols. (20), 436, (8) pp. (2), 345, (26) pp. Title pages printed in red and black. With 32 engr. plates, some folding, and 2 folding engr. maps. Contemp. full calf, cover blindstamped and gilt, spine and leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Second edition (first published in 1719). "Paul Lucas (1664-1737), merchant, naturalist, doctor and antiquary, made many visits to various parts of the Levant following his service with the Venetians at Negroponte in 1688. [...] This work describes Lucas's third voyage of 1714 to 1717 during which he visited Constantinople, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and also includes a list of the antiquities discovered" (Blackmer). Edited and co-written by Antoine Banier. The plates show Tyre, Damascus, the Great Pyramid and numerous other antiquties, flora and fauna; the maps show Asia Minor and the Nile Delta. "Many commentators have criticised Lucas for the often fabulous nature of his accounts, but his writings convey a vivd sense of the nature of the East, laced with considerable classical erudition" (ibid.). - Occasional insignificant browning. A fine copy from the library of Henry Blackmer with his bookplate on the pastedowns; latterly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 734. Blackmer 1038 (this copy). Weber II, 472. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 394. Gay 2122. Röhricht 2145. Tobler 122. Henze III, 289. Chatzipanagioti-S. 569. Paulitschke 663 (note). OCLC 832706737. Cf. Aboussouan 579 (1719 Rouen ed.).
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Ludolfo, Jobo.
Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur, deo volente, aliquando in lucvem proditurae. Jenae, ex Officina Orientali Samuelis Krebsii, 1676.
Title page and 38 unnumbered pages of text. Half cloth binding from around 1870 with gilt spine-lettering and marbled boards. This is a preliminary outline of the material to be covered extensively in Ludolf's "Istoria Aethiopica", which was published in three volumes from 1681 to 1693. Job Ludolf, a German German scholar, and the "founder of Ethiopian studies" (Katalog der Eutiner Landesbibliothek) gathered the most important information available about Ethiopia in his time, working for a time in collaboration with one of the Ethiopian monks who stayed in Rome. In addition to his monumental history of the country, he wrote dictionaries and grammars of Ge'ez and Amharic. His intensive studies of Ethiopian culture and life made his work the best 17thcentury source on the region described. "A most important work on Abyssinia" (cf. Paulitschke), "of an importance transcending his own time". Very good condition outside, text shows browning and foxing. Stamp on reverse of title page. A particularly scarce and hardly known work, preceding Ludolf's famous publication on Ethiopia by a full 5 years and at the same time Ludolf's very first publication!
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LUKE (Harry)
More Moves on the Eastern Chequerbord.
London, Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile grise, pièce de titre noire au dos, X-268 pp., 24 planches d'après des photographies, glossaire, index.
Bookseller reference : 556380
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Lukach [later Luke], Harry Charles.
The City of Dancing Dervishes and Other Sketches and Studies from the Near East. London, Macmillan & Co., 1914.
8vo. XI, (1), 257, (1), (2, advertisements) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt vignette of a dervish to front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of this study of Sufi practice in Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq and Cyprus. From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, extensively underlined and marked by the king with the inscription "Villa Savoia - 21.2.15" to last page; shelfmark label of the royal library to spine. The king terminated this book only three months before Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, de facto entering WWI. Villa Savoia was first purchased by the house of Savoy in 1872. Subsequently sold to count Telfner, the royal family's financial administrator, Villa Savoia, which in the meanwhile had been renamed Villa Ada (as it is still known today) after Telfner's wife, was purchased back in 1904 by Vittorio Emanuele III, who admired its vast park and secluded location, making it perfect as a private retreat within Rome for the royal family, as well as a safe refuge during WWII (an elaborate bunker was built within the estate). In 1946 King Umberto II gifted the villa to Egypt, as a symbol of gratitude for the hospitality received during his and his father's exile; the villa now hosts the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt. - Some very light scattered foxing, but a very good copy. Rare. OCLC 82156703.
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Luke Harry Charles ed. Cook's Traveller's Handbook
Cook's Traveller's Handbook: The Traveller's Handbook for Palestine and Syria
London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co 1924. New edition revised by Harry Charles Luke. With an appendix on the historical interest of the sites and monuments of Palestine by J. Garstang. Maps. Folding maps including one in pocket. Index. Small tears in edges of frontispiece map. viii 520 pages. 17 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: SYRIA. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1924 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6097
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Lukitz Liora
Iraq: The Search for National Identity
<p>Paperback 212 pages very good condition corner slightly bumped.</p> Frank Cass paperback
Bookseller reference : 2301 ISBN : 0714641286 9780714641287
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LUMER Hyman
Middle East Peace: A New Stage in the Struggle
New York: Political Affairs Publishers 1973. First edition thus. 8vo; stapled wrappers 19 pp. Reprinted from the Dec. 1973 issue of Political Affairs magazine organ of the Communist Party USA. Marxist perspective on the 1967 war. A Near Fine copy. Political Affairs Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 01771
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Lummis Adair T.; Haddad Yvonne Yazbeck
Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study
Cary North Carolina U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr 1987. Gd. condition - Islam is now an American phenomenon . H57040z. Soft Cover. Good. Oxford Univ Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 7040z ISBN : 0195041135 9780195041132
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Lumsden, Thomas.
A Journey From Merut in India, to London, Through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, and France, During the Years 1819 and 1820. London & Edinburgh, Black, Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen; Oliver & Boyd, Mecredie, Skelly & Co., 1822.
8vo. VII, (1), 272, 12 pp. With a folding hand-coloured map and a plate (view of Mount Ararat). Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, rebacked retaining original spine. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - Rare travel report by the British lieutenant Thomas Lumsden, who journeyed from Meerut near Delhi down the Ganges to Calcutta, then onwards by boat to the Arabian Gulf and by land through Persia (Iran), the Caucasus, and southern Russia. A German translation appeared in the same year (and was republished in 1824). The author gives a detailed account of his voyage through the Gulf from Muskat to Bushire immediately after the British Navy's controversial 1819 campaign against Ras al-Khaimah, and notes approvingly the Arabs' kindness and hospitality toward their foreign guests ("which could hardly have been the case, had their detestation of Christians been in reality as great as the Koran tends to inspire"), as well as the entire absence of the cruel mistreatment of the sailors so common on European ships. - Plate slightly browned; a fine copy. Wilson 131. Salmaslian 135. Miansarov 3022 Lowndes 1413. Western Travellers in the Islamic World AR-2028. Cf. Griep/L. 840. Engelmann 124. Not in Macro.
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Luqman: Annales des Presses Universitaires d'Iran
Luqman: Annales des Presses Universitaires d'Iran Revue semestrielle
Teheran Iran: Presses Universitaires d'Iran 1987. Troisieme annee - no. 1 Automne-Hiver 86-87. Articles in French on Iranian subjects plus a 2-page summary in Persian. 140 pages. 23.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: IRAN. Teheran Iran: Presses Universitaires d'Iran, ?1987 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7894
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