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MacBride Sean
Israel in Lebanon -
Evergreen Book Distribution 1983. PB/pub. 1983/Gd. condition/281 pages - Report of the International Commission to Enquire into Reported Violations of International Law by Israel During Its Invasion of the Lebanon . TR56167z. Soft Cover. Good. Evergreen Book Distribution Paperback
Bookseller reference : 6167z ISBN : 0903729962 9780903729963
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MacCallum Elizabeth P.
THE NATIONALIST CRUSADE IN SYRIA
New York: The Foreign Policy Assn 1928. HC. very good wraps softcover EX-LIB Bound in Library Boards. B&W illustrations. Contents include: Class A Mandates in Present-Day Controversary; Roots of Rebellion: The Craving for Independence; Roots of Rebellion: Syria's Territorial Organization; Roots of Rebellion: The Agitation for Individual Liberty; Roots of Rebellion: The Decline of Trade and Agriculture; The Druze Uprising; General Sarrail's Recall; The Rebellion Under General Sarrail's Successors; M. de Jouvenel and M. Ponsot Deal with the Political Situation; The Fruits of Rebellion; The Influence of the Permanent Mandates Commission. 299pp. The Foreign Policy Assn unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS048767I
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MACDONALD MICHAEL
Overreach: Delusions Of Regime Change In Iraq
Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq a fair number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone except a few die-hards thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the talented and experienced men and women who planned and initiated the war What were their assumptions Overreach aims to recover those presuppositions. Michael MacDonald examines the standard hypotheses for the decision to attack showing them to be either wrong or of secondary importance: the personality of President George W. Bush including his relationship with his father; Republican electoral considerations; the oil lobby; the Israeli lobby. He also undermines the argument that the war failed because of the Bush administration's incompetence. The more fundamental reasons for the Iraq War and its failure MacDonald argues are located in basic axioms of American foreign policy which equate America's ideals with its interests distorting both in the process and project those ideals as universally applicable. Believing that democratic principles would bring order to Iraq naturally and spontaneously regardless of the region's history and culture or what Iraqis themselves wanted neoconservative thinkers with support from many on the left advocated breaking the back of state power under Saddam Hussein. They maintained that by bringing about radical regime change the United States was promoting liberalism capitalism and democracy in Iraq. But what it did instead was unleash chaos. Michael MacDonald is Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations at Williams College. "In Overreach MacDonald methodically dissects the top ten reasons most often used to explain why the war was a failure and in the process shows each to be self-serving inadequate misleading�or all of the above. He does the same for explanations of why we went to war in the first place."�Scott Beauchamp Bookforum "MacDonald demonstrates vigorously and with intellectual clarity why the tenets of American exceptionalism do not usually translate to other areas of the world with Iraq being just one example. A useful analysis of failed American military initiatives that could inform future debates about interventions in traditionally despotic nations that are also split among historically hostile religious factions."�Kirkus Reviews "With gloomily apt timing as U.S. bombs drop once again on a now deeply fractured Iraq international relations specialist MacDonald analyzes the usual explanations for why the Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq in 2003 and finds them lacking. MacDonald argues that beyond oil the Israeli lobby or Bush family history the Iraq War and its horrific outcomes owe their existence to a more general trait in U.S. foreign policy namely a tendency to equate the country's values with its interests."�Publishers Weekly "Overreach is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how and why the project of 'regime change' in Iraq not only failed but was incoherent from the outset. With his characteristic political acumen meticulous research practices and marvelously lucid prose MacDonald reveals the tragic political not cultural! blindness suffered by American architects of that project. This is a gripping sad and immensely important story."�Wendy Brown University of California Berkeley "It is easy to forget how many supported the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003. For anyone who wants to remember what happened�and what went wrong�this is an absorbing read. We misunderstood Iraq and the war MacDonald shows because we misunderstood ourselves�profoundly and tragically."�Russell Muirhead Dartmouth College Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 83696X1
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MacDonald Robert W
The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization
Princeton: Princeton University Press 1965. Bibliography. Index. xiii 407 pages. 20.2 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition Book/Dj:. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7463
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Macedo, Joaquim José da Costa de.
Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes. Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844.
Folio. (4), 232 pp. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms with owl and Hermes staff on the title-page, decorated "Tuscan" titling caps for the title and script type for the author's name. Set in roman and italic, with transcriptions of and quotations from documents in Greek and Arabic.Modern brown paper wrapper, side stitched through 3 holes. A detailed scholarly study of ancient sources for the history and geography of the Canary Islands, attempting to prove that the Portuguese discovered them before Islamic explorers, and that Islamic geographers knew them only through classical Greek and Roman sources. The main text (pp. 1-105) is followed by extensive notes from a wide variety of sources (pp. 107-168) and transcriptions of numerous primary sources, some in Greek or Arabic (pp. 199-232). In passing it also provides a wealth of information about navigation in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by classical Greek and Roman and by Islamic explorers. - Macedo (1777-1867), son of a Lisbon professor and librarian, was an historian, archivist, councillor to the Kingdom of Portugal and a member of many academic societies at home and abroad. His work on Portuguese explorers in general and the Canary Islands in particular began with a brief 1816 essay read to the Academia Real. He returned to the subject after almost thirty years, publishing the present account in both the present separate publication and as vol. VI of the proceedings of the Academia Real das Sciencias. While Macedo's claim for Malocello's discovery of the Canaries in 1336 is no longer accepted, the Islamic geographer Idrisi noted a Portuguese voyage to the Canaries already before 1154. - In fine condition and wholly untrimmed, with all deckles intact, giving very large margins. The modern wrapper is slightly tattered. A detailed study of early voyages to the Canary Islands, with the texts of primary sources in Greek, Arabic and other languages. Porbase (1 copy). Cf. Innocêncio IV, 96 and XII, 80 (issue in proceedings). For the author: Protásio, "MACEDO, JOAQUIM JOSÉ DA COSTA DE (1777-1867)" in: Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses.
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MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius.
Hive seyahatnamesi ve tarihi: musavver. Istanbul, Basiret Matbaasi, [1875 CE =] 1292 H.
4to. 459, (1) pp. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic type. With 1 folding map and 32 woodcut plates. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine and spine title (partly oxydized). First edition. - Exceedingly rare Turkish translation (by Ahmed Sükrü) of the popular account of the 1873 Russo-Khivan war and the fall of the Khivan Khanate by the American war correspondent MacGahan (1844-78), first published in New York in 1874 as "Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva". After a daring journey through the Kyzil Kum desert, MacGahan joined the Russian commander Konstantin von Kaufmann’s army on the banks of the Amu Darya. In his report he vividly describes the fall of the Khanate to three Russian columns reaching it from North and East. The book discusses the situation of Kazakh (misleadingly called "Kirghiz") and Yomuk Turkmen nomads, Uzbek and Sart settlers, as well as of Persian slaves, and includes a report on earlier failed Russian attempts to conquer Khiva. While MacGahan is impressed by the beautiful gardens and orchards of the Khanate, he is disappointed by the city of Khiva, the capital and main residence of its ruler. Even the Khan's palace, in which he is allowed by the Russian authorities to spend a few days, including a visit to the treasury room, strikes him as unspectacular. The illustrations, based on designs and paintings by artists and Russian officers, including Vereschagin and Feodoroff, show portraits, scenes of rural and nomad life, somewhat stereotypical depictions of locals, as well as buildings, army generals, and battle scenes. - While the original English edition occasionally appears at auction, the Turkish edition has never been seen on the market. - A few crayon annotations and underlinings in a contemporary hand. Binding slightly bumped at extremeties. Paper evenly browned and brownstained throughout; a few pages somewhat waterstained in the second half of the volume. OCLC 1014870496. Özege 7682. Cf. Atabey 744 (English ed.).
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Mackey Chris; Miller Greg
The Interrogator's War: Breaking Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
London: John Murray 2004. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. John Murray Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033378 ISBN : 0719566207 9780719566202
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Mackey Sandra
Lebanon: Death of a Nation
<p>New York: Doubleday Anchor Books 1991 1st ed. thus. 307pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good text is age browned; else a clean complete & tight copy A popular study of Lebanon’s civil war era that began in 1975.</p> New York: Doubleday Anchor Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 17389 ISBN : 0385413815 9780385413817
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Mackey Sandra
Saudis : Inside the Desert Kingdom
New York: Signet : Penguin Books 1990. A comprehensive survey of Saudi Arabia its history its resources - espeically oil - its religion its outlook on the world and the world's outlook on it its economic development its relationships with other Arabic nations its secretive monarchichal government and rulng family the impact of American and Israeli Zionist politics on this nation's evoluton much more. Wraps bibliography indexed 468pp. A nice copy. Second Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Signet : Penguin Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008973 ISBN : 0451170512 9780451170514
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MacKey Sandra
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
W W Norton & Co Inc 2003. Gd. conditon - Iraq's and the history of Saddam Hussein . AE18255z. Soft Cover. Good. W W Norton & Co Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 8255z ISBN : 0393324281 9780393324280
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MacKey Sandra
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 2002. 415pp/illus. Considers what the future of Iraq would be without Saddam Hussein. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004483 ISBN : 0393051412 9780393051414
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MacKey Sandra
The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom
New York: Meridian 1988 Faint corner wear to cover. Some creasing to spine. Binding and pages secure text clean and free of markings. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Trade Paperback. Very Good-. Meridian paperback
Bookseller reference : 206998 ISBN : 0452010632 9780452010635
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Mackey Sandra
The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom inscribed
<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1987 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly by author on half-title p. 433pp. hardback tall 8vo: Good in a Good dj couple of small fore edge specks; else a clean complete & tight copy The author’s first book. Mackey 1937-2015 also wrote about Iraq Lebanon and the Middle East in general.</p> Boston: Houghton Mifflin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13467 ISBN : 0395411653 9780395411650
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Mackey Sandra
The Saudis; Inside the Desert Kingdom
NY: New American Library/Meridian 1988. Paper bound first Meridian edition 433pp includes bibliography and index. Spine somewhat splayed but a tight clean copy. Near very good. 482 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. NY: New American Library/Meridian, 1988 unknown
Bookseller reference : 22641 ISBN : 0452009480 9780452009486
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MacKey Sandra
The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom
W W Norton & Co Inc 2002. PB/pub.2002/Gd. condition/446 pages - The leadership and politics of Saudi Arabia. KR16607z 0393324176. Soft Cover. Good. W W Norton & Co Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 6607z ISBN : 0393324176 9780393324174
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MacKey Sandra
The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom
E Rutherford New Jersey U.S.A.: New Amer Library 1990. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. 5th Printing. Very good mass market paperback. Nice clean tight copy. New Amer Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : EF2025 ISBN : 0451170512 9780451170514
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Mackintosh Smith Tim
TRAVELS WITH A TANGERINE: a Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Welcome Rain Publishers 2001. 351pp. Blue hardback DJ flaps glued to inside covers EX-LIB minimal markings VG Retraces the first stage of the Moroccan's eccentric journey from Tangiers to Constantinople . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Yeoman Martin. Welcome Rain Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : wb7044011 ISBN : 1566492475 9781566492478
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MacLean Robinson
THE BAITED BLONDE Dell Mapback #508
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company Inc. 1951. 1st printing. Vintage paperback. Reading crease a few creases at lower corner light wear else a very good tight copy. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Cover painting by Robert Stanley. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Stanley Robert cover. Vintage Paperback. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019672
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MacLeod Arlene Elowe
Accommodating Protest: Working Women the New Veiling and Change in Cairo
: Columbia Univ Pr 1993. Corners bumped. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Columbia Univ Pr paperback
Bookseller reference : 316542 ISBN : 0231072813 9780231072816
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MacPhee John
The Silent Cry: One Man's Fight for Croatia in Bosnia
Manchester: Empire Publications Ltd 2000. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corners of covers a little rubbed and creased. Empire Publications Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : 040422 ISBN : 1901746089 9781901746082
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Madaule Jacques.
Le retour d'Israël.
Bruges Desclée de Brouwer 1951. Crown octavo. Pp. 194. Plus 2 maps one of which coloured bound in. Original white wrappers lettered in red and black. Uncut and entirely unopened. In a very good condition. Wraps bit dust-soiled. Excellent copy Practically unused. ~ First edition. Bruges, Desclée de Brouwer, 1951. paperback
Bookseller reference : 0770
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Maddy Weitzman Bruce
The Crystalization of the Arab State System : Inter-Arab Politics 1945-1954 Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Ser.
Syracuse NY U.S.A.: Syracuse University Press 1993. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Syracuse University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 302780 ISBN : 0815625758 9780815625759
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Maddy Weitzman Bruce
The Crystallization of the Arab State System 1945-1954
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1993. Bibliography. Index. xvi 253 pages. 23.5 cm. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-8156-2575-8 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (1993) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6573 ISBN : 0815625758 9780815625759
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Madiha Rashid al Madfai
Jordan the United States and the Middle East Peace Process 1974-1991 Cambridge Middle East Library
Cambridge University Press 1993. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. 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. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.25 x 6.25. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 217561 ISBN : 0521415233 9780521415231
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MADIHA RASHID AL MADFAI
Jordan the United States and the Middle East Peace Process 1974-1991 Cambridge Middle East Library
<p>Hardback 279 pages very good condition dustjacket with slight wear. PLEASE NOTE: highlight marks on several pages most pages are clean.</p> Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1203 ISBN : 0521415233 9780521415231
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MAFFEI Marco -
Aspetti dell'imperialismo britannico. I petroli del vicino Oriente.
Milano, 1940, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 625/629 con 2 cartine. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
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Magaud d'Aubusson, Louis.
La Fauconnerie au Moyen Age et dans les temps modernes. Paris, Auguste Ghio, 1879.
8vo. (8), 272 pp. With half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, with original printed wrappers bound in at end. Signed presentation copy from the author to Florian Pharaon (1827-87). A good association copy of a "work which no student of the history of Falconry should neglect" (Harting). Florian Pharaon was the first Arab editor at Le Figaro, and the translator of an Arabic hunting work into French. - Some spotting, binding rubbed. Harting 211. Schwerdt II, pp. 2-3. Thiébaud 621.
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Magdi Allam
Saddam
Storia segreta di un dittatore. L'inquietante ritratto di un tiranno. Parte prima: L'uomo Parte seconda: Il tiranno, Parte terza: il doppiogiochista Parte quarta: il guerrafondaio
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Magdi Allam
Viva Israele – dall'ideologia della morte alla civiltà della vita – 1° ed.
Allo stato di nuovo
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Maggio, Francesco Maria.
Syntagmaton linguarum orientalium quae in Georgiae regionibus audiuntur. Liber Primus. Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1670.
Folio (225 x 332 mm). 2 parts in one vol. (12), 143, (1) pp. (6) pp., 1 blank f., 96 pp. With printer's woodcut device to both title-pages. Contemporary half vellum over papered boards with faded handwritten spine title. Second edition of this "at least linguistically rather unusual combination of a Georgian and a Turkish grammar, using the Georgian types first displayed in 1629" (Smitskamp). This is "an almost line for line reprint of the 1643 edition, only distinguishable by the 'Iterum imprimatur' [...] The work is set in mkhedruli type that has no upper case, but upper and lower case khutsuri type (the sacred script) is also displayed, absent in the 1629 'Alphabetum'. In the second part, containing a Turkish grammar (the third of its kind, after those by Megiser [1612] and du Ryer [1630]), the Hebrew and Syriac scripts [...] are also discussed as vehicles of the Arabic or Turkish language. Maggio mentions della Valle as his instructor in Turkish [...] At the end of the second part a Turkish translation is printed of the 'Corolla B.M. Virginis', a widely used devotional prayer" (ibid.). - Binding lightly rubbed. Some browning throughout; occasional worming in the margins. A few contemporary ink corrections in Georgian script. Removed from the library of the Capuchin mission to Trabzon, Turkey (Missione dei Cappuccini di Trebisonda) with their stamp to the title-page. Smitskamp, PO 227. Lang 167. Vater/Jülg 140.
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Maggio, Francesco Maria.
Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano della Congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Fede di Giesù Cristo, crudelissimamente ucciso da’ Turchi di Barberia, nella città di Tripoli, a 17 di febbraio l’anno 1645 [...]. Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzari, 1657.
4to. (40), 24, (4), 25-234 pp., final blank leaf. With 3 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum with ms. title to spine. Very scarce first and only edition of the life and death of San Alipio, who was captured by Ottoman pirates on 1 July 1643 and brought to Tripoli. He converted to Islam, but repented and was martyred on 17 February 1645 when he told to the Pasha that he wished to return to his Christian faith. The plates show the martyrdom (a supersized image after the prelims, folded in at the bottom) and the holy relics of the Saint. - Some defects to spine, otherwise fine. Old ownership of the "Convento dell' Angelo Custode" on the flyleaf. Streit XVI, p. 525, no. 4001. ICCU UM1E\007052.
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Magistrati, Massimo
Le condizioni ambientali del medio oriente nel quadro dell'alleanza atlantica
24 cm, brossura; pp. 17
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MAGLIOCCO VITO.
La strada per Gerusalemme.
In 8°, cop. edit. con sovracc. ill. (lievi fioriture sparse), pp. 89,(3), con ill. b.n. n.t.; tracce di scotch alla prima c. bianca e a pag. 90; firma dell'autore a pag. 3, buon es..
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Magliocco Vito.
La strada per Gerusalemme.
R. O4.
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Magnum Photos Inc
Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afganistan
New York New York U.S.A.: Power House Books 2002. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Power House Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 320096 ISBN : 1576871517 9781576871515
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Magnum; edited by Robert Dannin
Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afganistan
New York New York U.S.A.: Power House Books 2002 238 pages. Tight binding clean pages. A hint of light shelf wear with very slightly wavy pages otherwise a better than Very Good copy protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not Ex-library. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. Power House Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 04228 ISBN : 1576871517 9781576871515
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Magnus Ralph N. edited by
DOCUMENTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST - UNITED STATES INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Washington DC: American Enterprise Institut 1969. PB. very good wraps softcover. 232pp. American Enterprise Institut unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS048949I
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Magnus, Paul
Fungi. Ein weiterer Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Pilze des Orients.
1903. 8°. S 573-587 (1). Mit 2 lithogr. Tafeln. Orig.-Heft + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + (leicht fleckig). = Tieé à part du "Bulletin d'Herbier Boissier", seconde série, tome III, und J. Bornmüller "Iter anatolicum tertrium", 1
Bookseller reference : 26852AB
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Mahfouz LABIB
PELERINS ET VOYAGEURS AU MONT SINAÏ (Recherches d'archéologie, de philologie et d'histoire, tome XXV)
Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 1961. Un volume in 8° relié demi-percaline noire à coins, dos lisse et titre doré, VIII, 180 pp, 24 planches hors-texte. Bon état, cachet de l'Université de Louvain ouvrage déclassé.
Bookseller reference : 1532
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Mahajan Rahul
Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond
Seven Stories 2003. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Seven Stories paperback
Bookseller reference : 0207461 ISBN : 1583225781 9781583225783
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Mahalah Jay Gilbert L. Farr Melissa S. Fellow et al
Foreign Mission Work of American Friends: A Brief History of Their Work from the Beginning to the Year Ninteen Hundred and Twelve
American Friends Board of Foreign Missions 1912. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Mahalah Jay Gilbert L. Farr Melissa S. Fellow et al. Foreign Mission Work of American Friends: A Brief History of Their Work from the Beginning to the Year Ninteen Hundred and Twelve. Each sketch prepared by the Board in Control. American Friends Board of Foreign Missions 1912 First Printing. Navy blue cloth-covered hc with gilt-stamped title on spine xvi 256 pp with index bw photographs two maps pasted in between text pages. History of early American Friends Quakers foreign mission work including Mexico Cuba Africa Jamaica Alaska Palestine Japan China and India various yearly meetings. Good: covers scuffed and lightly rubbed light bleedthrough around pages with photos. Copy 1 is ex-church-library with sticker on spine and plate/card pasted on endpapers gilt worn off minor markings including location of cities on a map. Copy 2 has head and tail of spine worn and small stain on front edge gilt worn off po name in ink on ffep. Copy 3 has po plate on front pastedown and markings on ffep. <br/><br/> American Friends Board of Foreign Missions hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2654
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Mahdavi Shireen
For God Mammon And Country: A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant: Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin Al-zarb 1834-1898
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1999. This scholarly text is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb 1834-1898 rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran�s wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer a trader in textiles precious stones opium carpets agricultural products and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah his court and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah his prime minister and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America.Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur industrialist and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe he invested in mining established factories with imported machinery such as glass china and silk reeling built a railway line and urged the Shah to establish a national bank. He also became an advocate of reform and curbs on arbitrary rule. He befriended the famous Islamic reformer Jamal al-Din Afghani. An innovator in business Amin al-Zarb led a very traditional life at home. Gifted at making money he was nevertheless a pious man who contributed generously to religious and charitable causes. Shireen Mahdavi draws on hitherto unpublished family archives to write not only a biography of a fascinating nineteenth-century merchant but also a social history of the period. Her portrait of Amin al-Zarb also provides important insights into the economic social and political role played by merchants in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East in the nineteenth century. 286 pp. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MS-45 ISBN : 0813336422 9780813336428
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Maheu Rene/Barbey Bruno photos
Iran: Rebirth of a Timeless Empire The Grand Livres Series
Paris: Editions J.A 1976. 1st trade printing. VG/VG dust jacket. 291 p. color photos large 4to; Editions J.A hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56673 ISBN : 285258042X 9782852580428
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Mahmoud Hussein
Arabs & Israelis : A Dialogue -
Holmes & Meier Publishers - 1975. Hardcover/pub. 1975/Gd. condition/223 pages - In the aftermath of the October 1973 War the possibility of a genuine dialogue between Arabs and Israelis finally emerged. D25356z. Hardcover -. Good. Holmes & Meier Publishers - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5356z ISBN : 0841902089 9780841902084
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Mahmoud Ra'if.
Cedid Atlas Tercümesi [= New Atlas, Translated]. Üsküdar/Istanbul, Tab'hane-yi Hümayunda / Mühenduishâne Press, [April 1803-March 1804 CE] = 1218 H.
Folio (533 x 364 mm). (3), 79 pp., engraved, illustrated title-page and 25 engraved maps after William Faden, in contemporary hand colour. Contemporary black morocco, richly stamped in silver and blind. Bright yellow pastedowns. In custom-made half morocco solander box. The first European-style atlas printed in the Islamic world: an exceedingly rare, handsome, and entirely complete example in its original first binding. "[T]he first world atlas printed by Muslims [...], of which only fifty copies were printed" (Library of Congress, Near East Collections: an illustrated guide, online). Several copies were reserved for high-ranking officials and important institutions; most of the remainder were destroyed in a warehouse fire during the Janissary Revolt of 1808. "Based on several estimates and accounting for the single maps (torn-out from bound volumes of the atlas) sold or being offered worldwide, it is believed that a maximum of 20 complete examples could be present in libraries or in private collections, whereas some sources suggest that there exist only 10 complete and intact copies in the world. As such, it is one of the rarest printed atlases of historical value" (Wikipedia). - A prestigious project for the Ottoman Palace with the seal of approval of the Sultan Selim III, this work was one of the avantgardistic enterprises promoted by Mahmoud Ra'if to introduce Western technical and scientific knowledge to the Ottoman state. Composed of 25 maps based on William Faden's "General Atlas", it is the first Muslim-published world atlas to make use of European geographic knowledge. On each of the maps the place-names are transliterated in Arabic. The Atlas includes Raif's 79-page geographical treatise "Ucalet ül-Cografiye" and the frequently missing folding celestial map on blue paper. - Maps very clean, showing only a few minor stains and repaired tears to folds; a creasemark to the map of Africa; an internal tear to pre-Revolutionary map of France. Binding professionally repaired at extremeties and upper hinge with a few scuffmarks and insignificant traces of worming. An excellent copy, one of the very few surviving specimens in the beautiful original oriental leather binding (the only other known example was sold through us in 2019). A severely defective copy recently commanded an auction price of USD 118,750 (Swann Galleries NY, 26 May 2016, lot 199). OCLC 54966656. Not in Philipps/Le Gear. Not in Atabey or Blackmer collections.
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Mahmoud Ra'if.
Tableau des nouveaux reglemens de l'Empire Ottoman. Constantinople, Imprimerie du Genie, sous la direction de Abdurrahman Efendi, 1798.
Folio (210 x 308 mm). 60 pp. With 27 engraved and etched plates (some double-page). Contemporary speckled sheep. Marbled pastedowns. First and only edition, printed at the second printing press established in Istanbul. "A rare and very interesting work outlining the military reforms and the regulations for the New Troops established by Selim III in 1796/97" (Blackmer). The author, Mahmoud Ra'if, was a member of the reform movement instigated in Turkey by Sultan Selim III, who tried to change the traditional political structures of the Ottoman Empire and replace them with a political state that owed much to his youthful contact with Europe, and more particularly, the influence of the French Revolution. After his succession in 1789, Selim took steps to establish a new state under the Nizam-Jedid ("new order") regulations - from which the present work derives - underpinning his state with the formation of a new army and military infrastructure. Among the moves towards "Europeanisation" were the installation of printing presses at the military engineering school (where the present work, the first from the press in roman types, was printed), and the establishment of Ottoman embassies in the capitals of Europe, including London, where Mahmoud Ra'if served as secretary to the Ottoman Ambassador in the mid 1790s. As outsiders feared, the very reforms which are the subject of his work led to Selim's murder in 1808, while the author himself was "cut to pieces" by the enraged Janissaries whose elite position had been threatened. "The establishment of these troops - the Nizam-Jedid - and the jealousy which this aroused was one of the main factors leading to the revolt of the Janissaries in 1808 which cost Selim, and later the author of this work, their lives" (Blackmer). - Binding very slightly worn, interior clean and flawless throughout. Provenance: armorial bookplate of the Swedish diplomat Johan Henrik Tawast (1763-1841), who was seconded to Constantinople in 1812-13 to help negotiate the Russian-Turkish peace treaty of Bucharest; his autograph note "Scutari, 9 janvier 1813. 16 piastres, 20 pares" inscribed to front pastedown. Latterly in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. Atabey 752. Blackmer 1060.
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Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1785-1839, ruled 1808-1839).
Signed document (Berat) in Ottoman Turkish. Constantinople, [August 1818 CE =] first days of Shawwal 1233 H.
80 x 27 cm. Ink and gold dust on paper. With large Tughra. Concerns an order of horses. The document was given to a British sailor whose family preserved it until recently.
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Mai Mukhtar
In the Name of Honor
Atria Publishing - 2006. Hardcover/Gd. condition/171 pages - A Pakistani woman raised in poverty and illiteracy has responded to the violence and gender apartheid directed at her and other women with an insistence on justice and education. K1078HR2. Hard Cover. Good. Atria Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K1078 ISBN : 1416532285 9781416532286
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MAILLART Ella
La via crudele. Due donne in viaggio dall'Europa a Kabul
in 8°, pp. XVI, 221, bross. edit. con sovracop. ill. Collana: Viaggi e Avventura, diretta da Bruno Gambarotta, traduz. e note di Silvia Vacca, con 1 cartina in nero. Ottimo. 121-41
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Maillet, Benoît de.
Description de l'Egypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la Geographie ancienne et moderne de ce païs, sur les monumens anciens [...]. Paris, Louis Genneau & Jacques Rollin, 1735.
4to (214 x 250 mm). 2 parts in one volume. XXI, (3), 328, 242, (10) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (2 of which folding), and 1 engraved folding map of Egypt. Contemporary full calf with traces of gilt spine (oxydized) and remnants of a spine-label. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. First edition. - Prominent compendium of all that was known about Egypt at the time, taking the form of a series of letters written by the French consul and inspector of the French institutions in the Levante, Benoît de Maillet (1656-1738), stationed in Cairo from 1692 to 1708, edited and compiled for publication by the cleric Jean-Baptiste le Mascrier (1697-1760). During his time in Egypt, Maillet developed a great interest in Arabic and Egyptian life, as well as in Egyptian antiquities and Arabic architecture. With his work he greatly expanded European knowledge about the country, its antiquities and the manners and costums of its inhabitants. The frontispiece shows a portrait of the author, while the plates depict tombs, sarcophagi, obelisks, and animals. The two folding plates exhibit the Mikias, or Nilometer, in Cairo, and a cross section of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The final chapter discusses the annual Hajj to Mecca and describes the cities of Mecca and Medina, as well as Mahomet's tomb. - Title-page a little duststained, with traces of a removed stamp of ownership. Somewhat foxed and brownstained throughout, more pronounced among first and last leaves. Upper margins slightly waterstained near the end. The map of Egypt shows small marginal flaws. Upper joints and extremities professionally restored. A near-contemporary note on the estimated price of the volume by a former owner on front flyleaf. A good copy. Atabey 748. Blackmer 1061. Gay 2105. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 170. Paulitschke 717. Not in Weber.
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