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Lustick Ian S. editor
Books on Israel Vol. I
State University of New York 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. State University of New York paperback
Bookseller reference : 0405685 ISBN : 0887067778 9780887067778
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Lustick Ian S
Books on Israel Vol. I
Albany: SUNY 1988. Pages clean & bright -- binding solid. Hard Cover. About Fine. SUNY Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7531 ISBN : 088706776X 9780887067761
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Lustick Ian S
For the Land the the Lord. Jewish Funamentalism in Israel
New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press. 1988 First printing in trade paperback. 241 pp. Apendices photographs notes index. Spine has a slight lean and some creasing minor wear to covers one page of text has some moisture rippling. Clean and unmarked. Very Good. Book. Council on Foreign Relations Press. paperback
Bookseller reference : 39100 ISBN : 0876090366 9780876090367
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Lutfiyya Abdulla M. and Charles W. Churchill eds.
Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures
The Hague: Mouton 1970. Trade paper bound first edition 733pp includes index. Clean and tight. Very good condition. Just over one kilogram unpacked -- extra shipping charges will apply! All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. The Hague: Mouton, 1970 paperback
Bookseller reference : 21380
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Luth Erich.
Israel: Heimat für Juden und Araber.
Hamburg Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit 1958. Crown octavo. Pp. 72. Plus 8 plates with 16 halftone photographic illustrations printed on different paper. Original plain wrappers. In good condition. ~ First edition. Displaying historic photographs the building of towns soldiers in parade the young Moshe Dayan industry etc. Hamburg, Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit, 1958. unknown
Bookseller reference : 0764
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Lutsky V
Modern History of the Arab Countries
Moscow: Progress Publishers 1969. Translated from the Russian by Lika Nasser. Edited by Robert Daglish. Folding maps. Index. Worn dj. Page edges starting to brown. 422 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Moscow: Progress Publishers, (1969) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5208
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Lutsky V
Modern History of the Arab Countries
Moscow: Progress 1969. Translated from the Russian by Lika Nasser. Edited by Robert Daglish. Folding maps. Index. Worn dj. Pages starting to brown. 422 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Moscow: Progress, (1969) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4044
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Lutsky V
Modern History of the Arab Countries
Moscow: Progress Publishers 1969. Translated from the Russian by Lika Nasser. Edited by Robert Daglish. Folding maps. Index. Page edges starting to brown. 422 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Moscow: Progress Publishers, (1969) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5792
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Luxor Museum
Guidebook The Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art.
Cairo Egyptian Antiquities Organization 1978 paperback. Travel guide with photos maps chronology. Softcover 128 pages. Condition: near fine. Egyptian Antiquities Organization paperback
Bookseller reference : 31306
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Luynes, Honoré d'Albert de.
Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. Oeuvre posthume. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1874].
3 vols. and 1 vol of plates. (2), II ff., 388 pp. (6), 222, (6) pp. (4), VI, 326 pp. With 14 lithogr. plates (4 in colour). Printed original wrappers. Folio (390 x 295 mm). Atlas: (4) pp., 85 plates (some double-page-sized), including 65 photogravures by Charles Nègre after Louis Vignes. Original half cloth portfolio. Ties. Rare travel report describing the scientific expedition to Palestine undertaken by the French archaeologist de Luynes (1802-67) in 1864. First edition, very rarely encountered complete: only two copies sold at international auctions during the past decades (both incomplete; the last set wanting plate 44: Sotheby's, 15 Oct. 2003, lot 676, GBP 8500; only 40 plates from the set, including glass and collodium negatives, fetched 21,450 EUR at Sotheby's Paris, 22 March 2003, lot 583). - The work is sought for its splendid illustrations based on photos by Henri Sauvaire and the Naval Lieutenant Louis Vignes. Vol. 1 contains the Duke's travel diary; vol. 2 contains the reports "De Petra à Palmyre" by L. Vignes and "Voyage de Jérusalem, à Karak et à Chaubak" by Mauss and Sauvaire; vol. 3 contains the "Géologie" by L. Lartet (with its own set of plates at the end). The atlas is divided into two parts with a total of 85 plates (thus complete): 67 plates pertain to the Duke's report (3 unnumbered and 64 numbered: 1 map and 1 itinerary in colours, 1 engr. double plate, and 64 photogravures by Charles Nègre after photos by Vignes (views of sites, towns, ruins, etc.); Mauss's report is illustrated by 18 numbered plates: 1 double-page-sized itinerary, 3 plans (2 in colour), and 14 lithogr. plates by Cicéri after photos by Vignes and Sauvaire (views of Karak, Zat-Raz, etc.). - Occasional slight foxing (esp. in vol. 3); plates clean and spotless throughout. A fine, complete set in the original printed wrappers as issued; text vols. are uncut and wide-margined. Röhricht (Bibl. Pal.) 515f., no. 2824. Röhricht (Pilgerreisen) 637, no. 872. Henze III, 312. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 33.
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LW. KING and HR. HALL L. W. H. R.
Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Containing One Hundred Plates and Illustrations. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY
SPCK 1907. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard captioned in red present and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram bevelled boards gilt back black endpapers uncut backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright fresh clean copy. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker 1838-1913 was famously Librarian of Trinity College Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books and was active also as a biblical scholar publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. SPCK, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21954
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LYAUTEY, Pierre
Les revolutions du Proche-Orient
274 pagine; 19 cm. Brossura editoriale con sopracoperta
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LYNCH (H.F.B.)
Armenia. Travels and studies. I. The russian provinces. - II. The turkish provinces.
N.Y., Armenian Prelacy, 1990. 2 vol. grand in-8 cart. éditeur sous jaquette, XV-470 + XI-512 pp., nbr. ill. en noir, cartes et plans, une grande carte dépliante en couleurs volante, index. (Khayats oriental reprints, 15).
Bookseller reference : 555623 ISBN : 1879166003
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Lynne R. Banks
A Torn Country -
Franklin Watts Publishing - 1982. Hardcover/pub.1982/Gd.condition/400 pages - An oral hisoty of the Israeli War of Independence. HT138430. Hard Over. Good. Franklin Watts Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 38430
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Lynne Reid Banks
Torn Country
Olympic Marketing Corp 1982. Nice copy with dust jacket. Minor wear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Olympic Marketing Corp Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 225710 ISBN : 0531098559 9780531098554
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Lyon, George Francis.
A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20. Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Sudan, and of the Course of the Niger. London, John Murray, 1821.
4to. XII, 383, (1) pp. Folding engr. map frontispiece ("Map of a Route through the Regency of Tripoli and Kingdom of Fezzan"), 17 chromolithogr. plates drawn by Lyon and lithographed on stone by G. Harley or D. Dighton, M. Gauci, as well as a text illustration. Modern red cloth with gilt-stamped black spine labels. First edition of Lyon's account of his botched Timbuktu expedition, finely illustrated with 17 plates (created by M. Gauci and D. Dighton after Lyon's own drawings) showing the Arabian desert culture. - In 1818, G. F. Lyon (1795-1832) was sent with surgeon-explorer Joseph Ritchie by Sir John Barrow to find the course of the Niger River and the location of Timbuktu. A year later they had only got as far as Murzouk where they both fell ill. Ritchie never recovered and died, but Lyon survived and continued his travels. After a year he returned to Tripoli, the expedition having failed utterly. Upon return, he was promoted and in 1821 - the same year this book was published - given the command of HMS Hecla on his second attempt. Lyon was reputed to have a genuine informed interest in the culture and inhabitants of the lands he visited. Wearing Arab/Muslim dress and speaking fluent Arabic, he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa. "An important work. Lyon joined the British government scientific mission headed by Ritchie, taking place of Captain Frederick Marryat. They met at Tripoli in November 1818. Ritchie died in 1819 and Lyon took over command of the expedition. He returned to London in July, 1820. Shortly after that he joined Parry's arctic expedition. The fine plates illustrate mostly costumes, and are all after drawings by Lyon" (Blackmer). Fergus Fleming characterizes the relationship between Ritchie and Lyon, who was a "moustachioed extrovert aged twenty-two [...] Lyon was not, on the face of it, suited to African exploration". By his own confession, his main interests were "balls, riding, dining & making a fool of myself". - The plates include: Costume of Tripoli (2 types), Triumphal Arch - Tripoli, Arabs Exercising, The Castle of Bonjem, A Sand Wind on the Desert, Piper and Dancer - Tripoli, The Castle of Morzouk, Tuarick in a Shirt of Leather & Tuarick of Aghades, Tuaricks of Ghraat, Costume of Soudan, Negresses of Soudan, Tibboo Woman in Full Dress, Tibboo of Gatrone, A Tuarick on his Maherrie, camel Conveying a Bride to her husband, A Slave Kaffle. - Offsetting on title from map; map tears repaired. Altogether in very good condition. Blackmer 1044. Abbey Travel 304. Howgego II, L52 (p. 376). Henze III, 318. Lipperheide Ma 14 (note). Colas 1920. Hiler 556. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 397. Lambert I, 147. Tooley 311. Fergus Fleming, Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, 2001, pp. 956. Brunet III, 1254. Graesse IV, 312.
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Léon des Avanchers, Père (born Michel Rey-Golliet), explorer and missionary (1825-1879).
Autograph letter signed ("F. Léon des Avanchers, religieux capucin, Missionnaire apostolique aux Gallas [Affrique centrale]"). Aden, Arabie Heureuse, 22. IX. 1850.
4 pp. on folded bifolium. On blue paper. 4to. Long, interesting and unpublished letter, closely written over four pages, to the French minister Gustav Armand Henri, Comte de Reiset (1821-1905). The twenty-five-year-old missionary, writing from the south-western tip of the Arabian peninsula, describes himself as "perdu au milieu des déserts et dont toute l'imagination est absorbée par l'étude des langues". The capucin friar travelled along the coast of the Red Sea, visiting Tor, Yambo, Medina and Jeddah; the settlements he encounters are wretched hamlets on the edge of the desert. "À Gedda les musulmans font voir le tombeau de notre grande mère Ève. Selon eux, nos premiers parens après leurs chutes vinrent faire pénitence de leurs fautes à La Mecque. Ève mourut à Gedda. La tête de notre première mère repose sur une montagne et ses deux pieds sur deux autres collines voisines et sur son nombril ils ont élevé une pyramide [...]". Léon writes that he feared he would end up eaten by the fish, but finally did arrive in Abyssinia after a 20-day voyage. He continues to describe a beautiful mountaineous landscape peopled by a few Bedouin tribes and evokes their hard life, the cry of the jackals, and the devastation of crops by soldiers and by apes. He states the price of wheat, horses, and farming animals, describes the mining of gold, silver and iron and summarizes the situation in Abyssinia, since the former empire was overthrown by "la lance du farouche Gallas". He describes the savage manners of a country at war: the enslavement of women and children, the emasculation of men, and the rampant diseases. He also explains how the country first seized by the Turks passed to France, and provides his minister with first-hand geopolitical intelligence: "L'Anglais travaille ce pays. Un consul britannique y rôde en tout sens. Mais les Anglais y sont détestés à cause de leur religion. Mais cependant que l'on y fasse attention. L'Abyssinie plutôt que de vouloir subir le joug turke se mettra à la disposition de la première puissance qui voudra l'exploiter. La Sardaigne a envoyé ici un ancien missionnaire pour déterminer Oubié ou un roi de l'Abyssinie à lui donner une partie de la côte pour y colliniser fiat lux [...]". - Léon des Avanchers, friend of the French explorer Antoine d'Abadie, was a missionary in Abyssinia, a geographer, cartographer and explorer of East Africa, and a correspondent of the Società Geografica Italiana. He is known to have bought many slaves to free them and was the founder of the first Catholic church in the Seychelles. - Some original corrections and insertions. Traces of original folds. Well-preserved.
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Löffler, Eduard.
Die österreichische Pferde-Ankaufs-Mission unter dem k. k. Obersten Ritter Rudolf von Brudermann, in Syrien, Palästina und der Wüste, in den Jahren 1856 und 1857. Troppau, Otto Schüler, 1860.
8vo. XV, (1), 240 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with handwritten title label to spine. First edition. - Lively report of an Austrian horse-buying expedition in Syria, Palestine, and the Palestinian desert, carrious out under the Austrian colonel Rudolf von Brudermann, who was to purchase Arabian horses so as to enhance the stock of the Austrian-Hungarian cavalry. The author Löffler was among the participants of the expedition: his first-hand travelogue describes the itinerary and the local customs as well as the newly acquired horses. - A few contemporary ownership stamps of the Stuttgart Museum's library in blue ink to several pages. King Wilhelm I of Württemberg was a famous enthusiast of Arabian horses: his stud in Marbach, just north of the royal residence of Stuttgart, was the first Arabian stud in Europe. - First and last third slightly waterstained. Boyd/P. 75. Kayser XVI, 45.
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Löytved, J[ulius] H[arry].
Konia. Inschriften der seldschukischen Bauten. Berlin, Julius Springer, 1907.
Large folio (306 x 427 mm). VI, (2), 107, (1) pp. With numerous illustrations, 15 of which, showing ornaments, are in contemporary hand colour. Publisher's half cloth. First edition, "printed as a manuscript", on the Seljuq inscriptions in Turkish Konya (many of which embody Qur'anic verses). Illustrated throughout. A good copy. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam V, 500. OCLC 3332642.
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Lütfi Pasha / Tschudi, Rudolf (ed.).
[Asafname - German]. Das Asafnâme des Lutfi Pascha, nach den Handschriften zu Wien, Dresden und Konstantinopel [...]. Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1910.
8vo. XXI, (1), 38 pp., 1 blank f., (2), 45, (1) pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half calf with marbled covers and giltstamped red spine label. All edges red. Edition of the Turkish text (with the first German translation) of the "Asafname", a mirror for ministers written by the Albanian-born Ottoman statesman Lütfi Pasa (1488-1564), grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent. The translation, forming the dissertation of Rudolf Tschudi, was issued as vol. 12 of the "Türkische Bibliothek" edited by Georg Jacob, Professor at Erlangen. - An attractively bound copy with the bookplate of the collector Franz Pollack von Parnau (1903-81), who assembled a famous library in the Viennese palais of his father, the textile magnate Bruno Pollack von Parnau.
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LÜTFÜ SEHSUVAROGLU.
Su barisi Türkiye ve Ortadogu su politikalari.
Fine English Paperback., Very good., 21 x 15 cm, 235 p. "Su barisi Türkiye ve Ortadogu su politikalari, LÜTFÜ SEHSUVAROGLU, Gümüsmotif Yayinlari, Istanbul, 1997"
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M'FARLANE Rev. John.
The Mountains of the Bible. Their Scenes and their Lessons.
London: James Nisbet and Co. 1880. 7th edition. Based on a series of lectures originally published in 1848. Pp.viii/400/16publisher's catalogue engraved frontispiece 3 further full page engravings. Purple cloth gilt roundel title to front gilt title to spine spine sunned. G. . London: James Nisbet and Co., 1880. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41087
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M. B. Williams
Tent And Saddle Through Palestine
Chicago: Winona Publishing 1906 . First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 381 pages brown cloth <br/><br/> Winona Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5925
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M. E. Yapp
The Near East Since The First World War
Longman 1991. Paperback. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear along the edges. Stated third impression. Longman paperback
Bookseller reference : 1020 ISBN : 0582494990 9780582494992
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M. HORTEN.
Die Religiöse Gedankenwelt der Gebildeten Muslime in heuten Islam.
Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In German. [xxiv], 184 p. The Religious ideas of the educated Muslims in Islam. Die Religiöse Gedankenwelt der Gebildeten Muslime in heuten Islam.
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M. J. Kruck von Poturzyn
Lady Hester Stanhope : Eine Frau ohne Furcht
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 235pp. Biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, ths so-called Queen of the Desert - and a woman without fear. She was a British socialite at the end of the 18th century who left her life in Britain to travel and carry out archaeological work in the Middle East. All text in German.
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M. Larkin
The Six Days of Yad Mordechai -
Keterpress- 1977. PB/pub.1977/Gd. condition/270 pages - This text is about struggle. TN13426z. Soft Cover. Good. Keterpress- Paperback
Bookseller reference : 3426z
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M. Thomas Davis
40 Km into Lebanon: Israel's 1982 Invasion
Washington: National Defense University Press 1987. Paper bound first edition illustrated with numerous maps xiii Pp144. Includes references and index. Covers moderately scuffed else a fine copy. Interior is clean/free of markings. 210 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Washington: National Defense University Press, 1987 unknown
Bookseller reference : 18709
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M[EHMED] SEMSEDDIN [GÜNALTAY], (1883-1961).
Islâm tarihi.
Very Good English In modern cloth bdg. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 416 p. Islâm tarihi. Günaltay's 'History of Islam'. First Edition. Roumî: 1339 = Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1923. Özege: 9377.
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M[UALLIM] CEVDET [INANÇALP], (1883-1935).
Sark Ilyadasi: Sehnâme.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 88 p. Sark Ilyadasi: Sehnâme. First Edition. Özege 18610.
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Ma'oz Moshe
Middle Eastern Minorities: Between Integration and Conflict
Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy 1999. Policy Papers Number 50. xvi 111 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. ISBN: 0-944029-33-7 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, (1999) paperback
Bookseller reference : 8057 ISBN : 0944029337 9780944029336
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MA. MURRAY M. A.
Petra. The Rock City of Edom.
Blackie 1939. 8vo. First Edition with 32 plates and 2 full-page maps in the text; original red cloth gilt back covers and edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. With personal bookplate and inscriptions on front free endpaper. Blackie, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15804
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MAALOUF AMIN
PERIPLO DI BALDASSARRE (IL) ( LE PERIPLE DE BALDASSARE )
Pagine: 378 . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Brossura originale con sovracoperta . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Lo scrittore e giornalista libanese dopo "Le crociate viste dagli arabi" alle prese con un raffinato libraio genovese in terra d'Oriente nel 1600. .
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Maas D. Hermann.
Skizzen von einer Fahrt nach Israel.
No Imprint. Crown octavo. Pp. 80. With numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Set in double columns in Gothic type. Original decorated wrappers. In a very good condition. No Imprint. unknown
Bookseller reference : 0710
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MABIN, Yves ; BRUELLE, Frédérique ; KHOURY, Mira
La Voie Royale. 9 000 ans d’Art au Royaume de Jordanie. De la Préhistoire à l’Islam en Jordanie. L’Art Contemporain en Jordanie.
Association Française d’Action Artistique / Musée du Luxembourg 1986 2 volumes, sous étui cartonné, in-4, broché, couv. illustrée, photographies pleines pages en couleurs, vignettes photographiques en n. & b., 304 pp. - 40 pp. Très bon état d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 22172
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MACLER (Frédéric)
Trois conférences sur l'Arménie faites à la fondation Carol I à Bucarest (Roumanie).
P., Geuthner, 1929. In-12 broché, 290 pp., 9 planches d'ill. photogr. en noirn-fine, bibliographie. (Annales du Musée Guimet, Biblio. de Vulgarisation T. 49).
Bookseller reference : 527892
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Macalister R. A. S.
A Century of Excavation in Palestine.
London Religious Tract Society 1930. 8vo. Pp. 336. Plus frontispiece map and 35 halftone plates printed on different paper bound in. Bibliography index. Hardcover original blue cloth spine gilt. Very good condition. Signature clipped out of title rust traces of paper-clip to prelims scattered spotting mostly marginal edges spotted. Else sound copy. ~ Second edition. With a nice set of photographs printed in tinted ink from the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund. London, Religious Tract Society, 1930. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0822
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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
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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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