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MAITLAND Louise
Forest Venture. Conquering the Deserts of the Middle East. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Major General Moshe Dayan
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
Middle East Wars: Harper & Row Publishers Inc. 1966. 236 pgs. Photos & illustrations. Light jacket wear. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007866
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Major General Moshe Dayan
Diary Of The Sinai Campaign -
Schocken Publishing - 1965. PB/pub.1965/Gd. condition/236 pages - This text does its part as an accurate and honest narrative as the Israeli Chief of Staff saw it of the campaign that expelled Egypt from the Gaza Strip and Sin ai discusses much more. AI228915. Soft Cover. Good. Schocken Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 28915
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Major General Moshe Dayan
Diary Of The Sinai Campaign -
Schocken Publishing - 1967. PB/pub.1967/Gd.condition/236 pages - Major-General Moshe Dayan's diary of the Sinai campaign. TI636098. Soft Cover. Good. Schocken Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 36098
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MAKAROFF (Noubar)
Le Déporté de Deir-ez-Zor. La déportation des Arméniens ottomans en 1915.
P., La Pensée Universelle, 1998. In-8, broché, couv. ill., 203 pp., ill. en noir dans le texte. Bibliogr.
Bookseller reference : 556639
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Makin, Jirjis ibn al-'Amid (Georgius Elmacinus) / Erpenius, Thomas (transl.).
Historia saracenica, qua res gestae muslimorum Inde a Muhammede Arabe. Leiden, Johannes Maire & Elzevier, 1625.
4to. (8), 372, 75, (1) pp. With woodcut title vignette. Contemporary vellum. Quarto edition of Elmacinus's great chronicle, "Tarih al-muslimin" ("Kitab al-magmu` al-mu-barak"), translated by Erpenius. This "History of the Saracenes" is actually a history of Islam from the days of the Prophet up to the year 1118. Erpenius, professor at Leiden, is remembered as "one of the men whom the study of oriental languages owes its resurrection" (cf. VI, 329). "The translation of the second part of the 'Tarih al-muslimin', an Arabic chronicle written by the Copt Georgios Al-Makin in the thirteenth century. The first part was already missing from the manuscript which Erpenius used. The text and translation were published by Golius, who had to edit the last two chapters, where Erpenius had broken off. There are three editions: a folio edition containing text and translation; this quarto edition of the translation only, and a small-octavo edition of the text only. The manuscript used for this edition was lent to Erpenius by the Palatine Library, a fact which he acknowledges in the dedication to King Frederick of Bohemia [...] Next to the title and the dedication, the preliminaries contain a short anonymous note introducting the work to the reader (no date, no mention of an Arabic text), and a list of the Khalifs mentioned in the translation" (Smitskamp). - Title page insignificantly browned; slight paper defects in the list of Caliphs (with old repairs), otherwise well-preserved. Rahir 197. Willems 232. Smitskamp PO, 83. Brunet II, 964 (note). Schnurrer 155. GAL I, 348. Juynboll 111-114. Fück 71ff.
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Makin, Jirjis ibn al-'Amid (Georgius Elmacinus) / Vattier, Pierre (transl.).
L'histoire Mahometane, ou les quarante-neuf Chalifes du Macine divisez en trois livres [...]. Paris, Remy Soubret, 1657.
4to. (8), 9-44, 332 pp. - (Bound with) II: Ibn 'Arabshah, Ahmad ibn Muhammad / Vattier, Pierre (transl.). L'histoire du grand Tamerlan divisée en sept livres. Ibid., 1658. (24), 248, (4) pp. - (And) III: The same. Portrait du grand Tamerlan, avec la suite de son histoire iusques à l'establissement de l'Empire du Mogol. Paris, Vattier, Augustin Courbé & Jean Huart, 1658. (8), 146, (2). Contemporary vellum. All edges sprinkled in red. A milestone of French Arabist scholarship in the 17th century. I: First French edition of the "General History of the World" ("Kitab al-Magmu' al-mubarak") by Girgis al-Makin ibn al-'Amid, known in the Latin tradition as Georgius Elmacinus. Born in Cairo in 602 AH (1205 AD) to a Coptic civil servant in the War Ministry, he later served in a similar function in Syria. His chronicle had previously been translated into Latin (by Erpenius) and English (by Purchas); the work "for the first time provided wider circles in the west with an overview of Islamic history from its beginnings to the Crusades and acquainted them with the prime of the Baghdad Califate, previously almost unreceived, through an account ultimately based on Tabari" (cf. Fück). - II/III: First French translation (issued in two parts) of this important critical, at times even satirical eyewitness account of the life of Tamerlane (Timur Lenk), the great Turkish conqueror of the 14th century. "A frequently malicious account, in spite of the panegyrical form in which it is couched" (cf. GAL). Based on the original Arabic text written in 1437-38 by the Syrian author Ahmad lbn 'Arabshah who was secretary to Sultan Ahmad of Baghdad. In the late 16th century Timur was made famous in Europe through Christopher Marlowe's play "Tamburlaine" (published in 1590). The 17th century Western translations of Ibn Arabshah's work "for the first time acquainted the occident with a model of Arabic rhyming prose which also had the power to captivate the reader by its subject, as well as with the elaborate rhetorical style so characteristic of the literary taste of the Orient" (cf. Fück). Pierre Vattier (1623-67), physician to the Duke of Orleans, was the author of several treatises and translations on various aspects of Middle Eastern or Muslim culture. - Some browning and occasional inkstaining throughout. Top spine-end repaired. A good copy. The Macclesfield copy commanded £3,400 at Sotheby's in 2008. I: GAL I, 348. Schnurrer, p. 115, no. 155. Gay 3568. Fück 73. Aboussouan 449 ("1558" in error). OCLC 1811219. - II/III: GAL II, 29. Schnurrer, p. 137, no. 167. Fück 82. OCLC 29069177/29069426.
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Makiya Kanan
Cruelty and Silence
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Jonathan Cape Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : 034864 ISBN : 0224037331 9780224037334
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Makiya Kanan
Cruelty and Silence: War Tyranny Uprising in the Arab World
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. By the author of "Republic of Fear" written under the pseudonym of Samir al-Khalil which first sounded the alarm about the cruelty and totalitarian nature of Saddam Hussain's regime. In "Cruelty and Silence" written under his own name Makiya confronts the rhetoric of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political cruelty in the Middle East. In his exploration of these cruelties he lays out the nationalist mythologies that underpin them. He calls for a new politics in the Arab world a politics that puts absolute respect for human life and a revulsion of cruelty above all else. Fine Binding of black half cloth with silver titles gray boards spotless tight & solid square with sharp corners. Internals as new also. Black glossy jacket with red and blue titles with photograph by Makiya of Arab children. 367 pages with Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc New York 1993. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022184 ISBN : 039303108X 9780393031089
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Malcolm, John.
The History of Persia. From the Most Early Period to the Present Time. London, James Moyes for John Murray and Longman & Co., 1815.
Small folio. 2 vols. XII, (2), 644 pp. With folding engr. map and 11 plates. VII, (1), 715, (1) pp. With 11 plates. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine label. First edition of this "ouvrage importante" (Brunet), based on Malcolm's (1769-1833) three diplomatic visits to Persia. While the history it provides extends back to the earliest kings known at the time, the most valuable contribution made by this book is its detailed description of the contemporary Qajar dynasty from its outset. Complete with 24 copper engravings on 23 plates including the large folding map of Persia as well as several portraits and views. Occasional foxing to margins; contemporary ownership to title page. Bindings a little rubbed, with slight weakening to hinges. A good, wide-margined copy. Howgego II, M7. Ghani 236-239. Wilson 134. Brunet III, 1333. Graesse IV, 350. Schwab 360. Sotheby's, Hopkirk sale, 963. Sotheby's, Burrell sale, 496. OCLC 19941897.
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Maliepaard CHJ. C. H.
Zwervend tussen Arabieren en Koerden
<p>228pp. geïll.met 34 tekeningen van A.A.Tadema 35 buitentekstill.foto's. Reisverslag - met historische achtergronden.</p> Den Haag, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgeversmij hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio803
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Malise RUTHVEN
Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Garnet Publishing Reading 1994. 4to. First Edition with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs the majority full-page and map in the text; black cloth gilt back backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. St. Anthony's College Middle East Archives. Garnet Publishing, [Reading, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27253
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Mallowan MEL. M. E.
EARLY MESOPOTAMIA AND IRAN
London: Thames & Hudson. Good. 1965. Paperback. 142 pages . Thames & Hudson paperback
Bookseller reference : 48598
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Mallowan M. E. L
Early Mesopotamia and Iran
London: Thames and Hudson 1965. Illustrations some in color. Map. Bibliography. Index. 142 pages. 21 cm. Wrappers Softcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. London: Thames and Hudson, (1965) paperback
Bookseller reference : 6589
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MALLOWAN Max
Mallowan's Memoirs. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published three months after the first impression. Mallowan was an eminent archaeologist and Egyptologist, and husband to Agatha Christie
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Malone Joseph J
The Arab Lands of Western Asia
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1973. Index. Small gouge in front cover. x 269 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-13-043950-9 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1973) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7498 ISBN : 0130439509 9780130439505
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Malone Joseph J
The Arab Lands of Western Asia
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1973. Index. Small tear at top of front cover. x 269 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-13-043950-9 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1973) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7777 ISBN : 0130439509 9780130439505
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Maloof Joseph N
ARAB-AMERICAN HISTORY LEBANESE DIASPORA: IN NEW YORK AND THE WORLD KHIZANAT AL-AYAM ARABIC TITLE: KITAB KHIZANAT AL-AYAM FI TARAJIM AL-�LZAM
New York: Matba�at Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: Matba�at Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . A number of b/w plates mostly portraits of world leaders and rulers. 308 pp. Text in Arabic. Hardcover. 4to. Dark blue cloth. The text of this book is in Arabic only the dedication to President William McKinley is in English. The overall theme of the work is the Lebanese Diaspora but a large part of the book consists of short biographical pieces on world leaders and rulers including Queen Victoria and other rulers of Europe Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey Abbas Pasha of Egypt Muzaffar ad-Din of Persia and Melelik of Ethiopia. Other biographical sketches include the reform politicians of the Ottoman Empire Lebanese and Syrian politicians and intellectuals and the patriarchs of the Eastern Christian churches. Also included is a short preview of the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Because of the cheap paper used both free endpapers are separated at the hinge otherwise the book is tight and clean. Nonetheless the textblock paper is extremely brittle and therefore fragile. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. Matba�at Jaridat al-Ayyam hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44243
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Maloof Joseph N
ARAB-AMERICAN HISTORY LEBANESE DIASPORA: IN NEW YORK AND THE WORLD KHIZANAT AL-AYAM ARABIC TITLE: KITAB KHIZANAT AL-AYAM FI TARAJIM AL-ÕLZAM
New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . A number of b/w plates mostly portraits of world leaders and rulers. 308 pp. Text in Arabic. Hardcover. 4to. Dark blue cloth. The text of this book is in Arabic only the dedication to President William McKinley is in English. The overall theme of the work is the Lebanese Diaspora but a large part of the book consists of short biographical pieces on world leaders and rulers including Queen Victoria and other rulers of Europe Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey Abbas Pasha of Egypt Muzaffar ad-Din of Persia and Melelik of Ethiopia. Other biographical sketches include the reform politicians of the Ottoman Empire Lebanese and Syrian politicians and intellectuals and the patriarchs of the Eastern Christian churches. Also included is a short preview of the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Because of the cheap paper used both free endpapers are separated at the hinge otherwise the book is tight and clean. Nonetheless the textblock paper is extremely brittle and therefore fragile. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 44243
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MALRAUX (André) / IZIS
Israel.
In-4, 159p. Edition originale numérotée 1/15030 exemplaires sur papier sans bois. Texte liminaire de Malraux. Couverture et frontispice de Chagall. Illustré de 78 photographies en noir et blanc reproduites en héliogravure d'Izis.
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MALTESE Paolo.
Perché il quarto conflitto Arabo-Israeliano?
Un'analisi fredda e imparziale della difficile situazione del Medio Oriente. Da una parte un popolo di profughi, espropriato dalle sue terre dagli israeliani e massacrato dai giordani con la sdegnata complicità di egiziani e siriani, dall'altra Israele, che a sua volta imprigiona migliaia di dissidenti ebrei, in nome di un nazionalismo altrettanto controrivoluzionario dei suoi nemici.. Ottimo esemplare. Brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 171, in 8°
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Malti Douglas Fedwa
Men Women and Gods : Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics A Centennial Bk.
University of California Press 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 305823 ISBN : 0520200721 9780520200722
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MANTRAN (Robert)
Histoire d'Istanbul
Fayard "Histoire des grandes villes du monde" 1996, in-8 broché, couverture illustrée à rabats, 382 p. (très bon exemplaire) Illustrations in-texte, glossaire, bibliographie, chronologie et double index. Remarquabe évocation historique de la seule ville au monde à être bâtie sur deux continents, "faite pour dominer et commander à toute la terre"...
Bookseller reference : 44092
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MANTRAN (Robert) [Dir.]
Histoire de l'empire ottoman.
Paris, Fayard, 1989. In-8, cart. éd. ill. en coul., 810 pp., 16 cartes en n/b. in-t., chronologie, glossaire, bibliographie, index.
Bookseller reference : 601003
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MANTRAN, Robert
L'expansion musulmane (VIIème - XIème siècles)
1969 Editions Presses Universitaires de France (P.U.F.), Collection "Nouvelle Clio", Série "L'Histoire et ses problèmes", n° 20 - 1969 - Petit in-8, cartonné, couverture illustrée - 334 p.
Bookseller reference : 119311
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MANTRAN (Robert)
L'expansion musulmane. VIIe - XIe siècle.
Paris, PUF, 1991. In-8 broché, couv. ill. en coul., 334 pp., qq. cartes, index.
Bookseller reference : 599529
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Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von.
Morgenländische Reyse-Beschreibung. Hamburg & Schleswig, Johann Holwein for Christian Guth, 1658.
Folio. (32), 248, (36) pp. With separate engraved title-page, engr. portrait, double-page engraved map and 21 large text engravings by Christian Rothgießer; woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. - (Bound after) II: Saadi (ed. Adam Olearius). Persianischer Rosenthal. In welchem viel lustige Historien, scharffsinnige Reden, und nützliche Regeln. Ibid., Johann Holwein for Johann Naumann, 1654. (52), 196, (30) pp, final blank f. With separate engraved title-page, engr. portrait and 33 large text engravings by Rothgießer. Contemporary vellum. First edition of this famous travel report, containing "many interesting details of the eternally plentiful oriental world" (cf. Henze). While the engraved maps depict Southeast Asia from Persia to Japan and Java, the remaining engravings mainly illustrate the customs of the Arab world, of Persia and India. "Mandelslo was a German traveller and adventurer (1616-44). Originally a page at the court of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, in 1635 Mandelslo was attached to the duke's embassy to Moscow and Persia, a mission intended to open trade negotiations. The Duke's librarian and mathematician, Adam Olearius, accompanied the embassy as its secretary. The ambassadors themselves remained in Persia, but in 1638 Mandelslo, feeling the need for wider travel, obtained permission to travel on to India. Sailing from Hormuz, he landed at Surat in April 1638 then travelled through Gujarat to Agra, Lahore, Goa, Bijapur and Malabar. He sailed for England from Surat in January 1639, calling at Ceylon and Madagascar, but was to die of smallpox five years later. Before his death, Mandelslo had entrusted his rough notes to Olearius, who subsequently published them bound with his numerous official accounts of the embassy" (Howgego I, 677). This first edition is significantly rarer than its later reworkings and translations; ABPC lists a single complete copy at auctions of the last decades (Sotheby's, Oct 11, 2005, lot 177, £3,400). - Bound with this is the first German edition of Saadi's "Gulistan", also edited by Olearius. - Old armorial bookplate (name erased) and bookplate of Eivind Hassler (1939-2009) on front pastedown. I: VD 17, 23:233226D. Lipperheide Ld 1. Adelung II, pp. 306-308. Alt-Japan-Katalog 943. Bircher A 6927f. Cordier, Japonica, cols. 362-368. Cox I, 271f. Dünnhaupt, pp. 293-294, 30.1. V. Gelder, Het Oost-Indisch avontuur, pp. 77, 99, 263. Howgego I M38. Commissariat, "Mandelslo's Travels in Western India", in: The Geographical Journal, 78 (1931), pp. 375ff. - II: VD 17, 23:282436H. Dünnhaupt S. 2991, 24.1. Bircher A 251. Goedeke III, 65, 7.
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Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von.
Morgenländische Reyse-Beschreibung. Hamburg, Christian Guth (printed by Johan Holwein, Schleswig), 1658.
Folio. (32), 248, (36) pp. With engraved frontispiece by Christian Rothgiesser, full-page engraved author's portrait, double-page engraved map, and 21 large engravings in text, mostly signed by Rothgiesser; woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-ruled leather, remnants of ties. First complete German edition of an important and entertaining travel account by Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, edited by Adam Olearius. Mandelslo was attached to the diplomatic mission of Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, to Moscow and Persia. Frederick's aim was to negotiate a new trade route for Persian silk and to make his small duchy an important centre of European silk trade. After visiting Moscow, the mission continued along the Volga to Astrakhan and from there to Persia, crossing the Caspian Sea near Shamakhi. Via Ardabil, Qazvin and Kasan the party finally reached the capital, Isfahan. The ambassadors remained in Persia for several months (only to return without concrete results), but Mandelslo travelled further to the east. He sailed from Hormuz to Surat and proceeded through Gujarat to Agra, Lahore, Goa, Bijapur and Malaba, visiting Ceylon, Madagascar, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena on his return voyage in 1639. Before his death 5 years later, he had entrusted his rough notes to Olearius, who subsequently published them with a third part containing descriptions of the Coromandel coast, Bengal, Siam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bantam, the Philippines, Formosa (Tai-wan), China and Japan. Small contemporary owner's entry ("Jos[eph] Baudler"?). Some foxing and brownstaining; slight tears in lower margin of pp. 31 and 137. A very good copy of an important account of an embassy to Persia and further to the East. VD 17, 23:233226D. Lipperheide Ld 1. Adelung II, pp. 306-308. Alt-Japan-Katalog 943. Bircher A 6927f. Cordier, Japonica, cols. 362-368. Cox I, 271f. Dünnhaupt, pp. 293-294, 30.1. V. Gelder, Het Oost-Indisch avontuur, pp. 77, 99, 263. Howgego I M38. Commissariat, "Mandelslo's Travels in Western India", in: The Geographical Journal, 78 (1931), pp. 375ff.
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Mandeville, John.
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem: and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Islands and Countryes. London, J. Woodman, D. Lyon & C. Davis, 1725.
8vo. XVI, (8), 384, (8) pp. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf with giltstamped cover fillets, rebacked to style with giltstamped red label, leading edges gilt. All edges sprinkled in red. Rare, reliable 18th-century English edition of the classic (though partly fictional) 14th-century account presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, India and the East Indies, published from a 15th-century manuscript in the Cottonian Library (MS Titus C XVI). "This is the completest edition up to date" (Cox). According to the story he set off on his travels in 1322 from Saint Albans in England, returned in 1343, wrote the present account in 1364 and died in 1371. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse (1338-1400) or Jean de Bourgoigne (d. 1372) of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East, Middle East, India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Muhammad (p. 169). - Occasional slight browning, but well-preserved. Provenance: Sold as a duplicate by the Bodleian Library (with the Radcliffe Infirmary's armorial bookplate and cancellation stamp); later in the collection of H. C. Gleave (his bookplate). Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 12. Cox I, 319. Cf. Henze III, 363 (1883 reprint of this edition). Gay 2128.
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Mandeville, John.
The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight, … to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John: to Inde, and divers other countries. London, Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, [printing probably shared by 2 printers, one possibly Samuel Roycroft], 1696.
4to (19.5 x 15.5 cm). (4), "139" [= 135], (5) pp. With a woodcut ship on the title-page (with a griffin on the sail) and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly about 55 x 80 mm) plus about 10 repeats, each with a thick-thin border. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Gold-tooled, red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London (ca. 1875/80), with 5 (false?) bands on the spine, each board with a double frame of double and triple fillets and 2 different sets of 4 corner pieces, author and title in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments, the others with gold-tooled decorations and the date and place of publication at the foot, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, straight-combed endpapers, gilt edges, stamped on the back of the free marbled endleaf in sans-serif capitals: "Bound by Riviere". A rare 17th-century English edition, with about 60 different woodcut illustrations, of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, India and the East Indies. According to the story he set off on his travels in 1322 from Saint Albans in England, returned in 1343, wrote the present account in 1364 and died in 1371. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse (1338-1400) of Liege. A 1371 manuscript survives and it first appeared in print under the title Itinerarius in Dutch (ca. 1477), French (1480), German (1480) and other languages, and in English in Richard Pynson's edition of ca. 1497/98. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands: a man with only one enormous foot that he can use as a parasol, a dog-headed man, a man with his face in his chest, a girl who turns into a dragon, griffins, nine-metre giants, ants that gather gold, diamonds that mate and give birth to baby diamonds and much more that spoke to the imagination (though the ox-headed man is presented as an idol that was worshipped, rather than a fantastic beast). The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East, Middle East, India and East Indies. It shows carrier pigeons, an elephant and other recognizable or plausible scenes. It also incorporates and illustrates some biblical stories. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed. Most of the present woodcuts are loosely and indirectly based on those in the 1481 Augsburg edition, partly in mirror image. The book went through dozens of editions in English and other languages. It reached more or less the present form with the 1650 London edition, which may have used the same woodblocks (we have not had an opportunity to compare them). The imprint of the present edition names four London publishers, and one of them (Conyers) also advertises his edition of William Lithgow's Nineteen years travels (1692) at the foot of the last page. The book was registered for these four publishers in the term catalogue for Trinity 1696, issued in June. The printing was probably shared between two different anonymous printers: exactly half way through the book, between quires I and K, the running heads, the textura type used for the main text and the roman drop capitals opening the chapters change. The 1684 edition by four London publishers (none named in the present edition) not only uses the same woodblocks but is also typographically almost identical to the first half of the present edition and no doubt came from the same printer. The drop capitals differ, but those in the present edition have not been recorded before 1688. Samuel Roycroft and James Orme both used them, and Roycroft used at least several of the other types in the first half. The book is printed on coarse laid paper with no watermark. Halliwell, in his 1869 edition of Mandeville, noted the present edition for its woodcuts and reproduced at least many of them from the Grenville copy now at the British Library. Only 5 other copies are known, all in U.S. libraries. Robert Riviere (1808-82) established his famous bindery in Bath and moved it to London in 1840, gaining a reputation as one of England's best binders for the quality of his materials and workmanship. He signed his bindings "Bound by Riviere" from 1860 to 1880 (thereafter Riviere & son). - With an early owner's inscription faded on the title-page and 2 armorial bookplates on the paste-down: Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-85), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941) in Liverpool, a member of Parliament, along with a loosely inserted signed autograph letter (ca. 1900) from Bright's brother Hugh Bright (1867-1935) in Leeds, giving him the book and noting that he bought it at Young's "some years ago". With 8 leaves with their margins extended at the fore-edge and foot ( N2-O4, Q1, probably sophisticated from another copy of the same edition), sometimes shaving a catchword or quire signature, the title-page and last page somewhat worn and dirty, but further in good condition, with a few minor marginal chips and tears restored or repaired and 3 leaves with minor water stains in one corner. The spine is slightly faded but the binding is still very good. A rare edition of Mandeville's voyages, illustrated with about 60 woodblocks cut ca. 1650. Arber, Term catalogues II, p. 593, item 8; ESTC R217088 (5 copies); J. O. Halliwell (ed.), Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile (1866), p. xvi (item 2, from the Grenville library); Wing M417 (same 5 copies); for the story in general: Cambridge History of English Literature (1976), pp. 78-87.
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Manfred W. Wenner
Modern Yemen 1918-1966
John Hopkins University Press 1968. Hardcover in tan cloth. Two very short tears to jacket rear cover else very light wear to jacket; boards are crisp and unworn; ink remainder mark on foot else interior is clean tight and bright. 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. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. John Hopkins University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 625687
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Manger, Samuel Hendrik Sam.
Oratio inauguralis, de incremento philologiae sacrae ab idonea Arabiae atque Palaestinae exploratione sperando. Franequerae, Gulielmus Coulon, 1762.
Folio. (4). 67, (1 blank) pp. With a woodcut coat of arms of the province of Friesland on the title-page, 1 woodcut headpiece, 1 woodcut tailpiece (plus 2 repeats) and 4 woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Set in roman and italic types with a few words of Hebrew. Modern boards, covered with grey paper, red and blue sprinkled edges. First and only edition of an inaugural lecture by Samuel Hendrik Manger (1735-1791), appointed ordinary professor of oriental languages and of Hebrew antiquities at the University of Franeker in 1760. Partly under the influence of the orientalist Albert Schultens, Manger valued Arabic studies for the insights they gave into Old Testament scholarship. In his present inaugural lecture, he discusses the controversial expedition to Palestine that several scholars were planning to make in that year. It shows his interest in archaeological research carried out in expeditions instigated by the German scholar Johann David Michaëlis. Manger believed they would inaugurate a new era in Biblical scholarship. - In very good condition and with very large margins, with only some minor marginal foxing in the title-page and an occasional unobtrusive small stain. STCN (3 copies); for the author: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme I, pp. 155-156; NNBW IX, col. 644.
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Mango Andrew
Discovering Turkey
London: Batsford 1973. Photos. Dj. Bibliog. Index. 272 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Batsford, (1973) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5349
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Mango Andrew
THE TURKS TODAY
Woodstock NY: Overlook. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1585676152 . Remainder mark; 9 X 5.90 X 1.30 inches; 288 pages . Overlook hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35790 ISBN : 1585676152 9781585676156
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Mango Cyril
Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome History of civilization
<p>xiii 334 p. 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. History of civilization. Includes: Illustrations Plates.</p><p>world history</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio898970081 ISBN : 0684167689 9780684167688
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Mangold, Peter
Superpower Intervention in the Middle East
Very good clean copy, spine of jacket shows slight fading. Pages bright and tight. Used
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Manlio, Giovanni Giacomo (Johannes Jacobus Manlius or Manliis), Quirico de Augustis and Paulus de Suardis.
Luminare maius. Cinthius ut totum radiis illuminat orbem. Illuminat latebras sic medicina tuas. Lumen apothecariorum. (Venice, Gregorio de Gregori, 8 Jan. 1513).
Folio (305 x 210 mm). 77, (2), (1 blank) ff. With 13 woodcut decorated initials (6 series?) plus 8 repeats, 4-line typographic "Lombarbic" initials. Set in rotunda gothic types in 2 columns, with a preliminary note in roman type. With contemporary pen decorations in brown ink added to about half of the initials and occasional similar pen decorations in the margins, an occasional manuscript paragraph mark, some rubrications in brown ink and some initials coloured with a transparent ochre wash. Early 20th-century vellum, possibly incorporating older materials, sewn on 3 recessed supports, red spine label. Seventh known copy of an early edition of an important treatise on pharmacology and medical botany, by Giovanni Giacomo Manlio di Bosco (fl. 1490-post 1500), first published in Venice 1490 or Pavia 1494 (Sordano records an edition by Octavius Scotus in 1490, but the ISTC records no edition by him until 1496). It is a commentary on ancient Arabic and Greek pharmacological works, especially the Arabic treatises of Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh (ca. 777-857), a Nestorian Christian physician from Assyria who taught at the academy in Gundeshapur, Iran, and was personal physician to four caliphs. It gives instructions for preparing numerous medicines, indicating the quantities of the ingredients (simples, each derived from a single plant) and describing each ingredient. The present edition includes Manlio's preliminary note addressed to Bernardinus Niger, included in the 1494, 1496 and 1499 editions but omitted in many later editions. - The title-page indicates that the book also contains "Lumen apothecariorum", a work by Quirico de Augustis de Tortona of Milan (fl. 1486-97), first published in 1492. But it is not present here or in any of the other seven copies we have traced. The two works were combined in the Venice editions of 1504, ca. 1502/05 and 1506. De Gregori apparently followed one of these editions but did not include the second work. Hieronymus Surianus (fl. 1458?, d. 1522?) edited the first two. - With contemporary and later marginal manuscript notes. With the text area of B2.7 somewhat browned, an occasional small and unobtrusive stain, and a few small worm holes in the last few leaves, but generally in very good condition. Some of the manuscript notes have been shaved. The binding is slightly dirty and the boards slightly bowed, but the binding is still good. A rare early edition of an important work of pharmacology. Durling 2938. EDIT 16 29621 (1 copy). ICCU 29621 (same copy). KVK & WorldCat (5 copies). Emiliano Sordano, Il Luminare maius di Manlio del Bosco, thesis, University of Torino, 2010, p. 41. USTC 840112 (2 copies). Cf. Adams M 370 (1506 ed.). BM-STC Italian 410 (1504 and other eds.). Schelenz, Geschichte der Pharmazie, p. 414 (1529 ed.). Wellcome 4017 (1628 Lyon ed.). Not in Garrison & Morton; Honeyman; Norman Lib.
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Mannerheim, Carl Gustav.
Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908. Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1940.
2 volumes. (30,5x22cm). IV, 741; IV, 54, 16, 48, 36, 36, 12, 6, 30, 12 pp. With numerous illustrations in text, one small map after the preface, and 15 folding maps in the second volume. Half sheepskin, cloth sides. First edition of a travelogue through Asia, written by Carl Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951), future president of Finland, 1944-1946. In 1906, Mannerheim, then a colonel, was sent on an expedition to Asia. "The object of this expedition was to study conditions in the interior of Northern China, collect statistical materials and perform various tasks of a military nature", says Mannerheim in the preface. Russia wanted to know the state of affairs in China due to the reforms and modernization undertaken by the Qing Dynasty. Besides that, Mannerheim wanted to collect items of scientific interest for the National Museum in Helsinki and to study the little-known peoples living in Northern China. This makes the work, with its numerous illustrations by photographs, an interesting anthropological account as well. The first volume contains Mannerheim's journal with many photographs. The second describes the scientific results the artefacts Mannerheim took with him to Helsinki and, including sculptures, costumes and utensils. - Number 33 out of limited edition of 100 and signed by the author. With owner's inscription of Ewald Henttu on flyleaf, dated 1940. Very good copy; binding slightly rubbed along the extremities.
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Mansel Philip
Sultans in Splendor: Monarchs of the Middle East 1869-1945
New York: The Vendome Press. Many photos. Bibliography. Index. Dj. 192 pages. 27.7 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 0-86565-109-4 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: The Vendome Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8460 ISBN : 0865651094 9780865651098
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Mansfield Peter
A History of the Middle East
<p>Hardback 373 pages very good condition.</p> Viking Adult hardcover
Bookseller reference : 482 ISBN : 0670815152 9780670815159
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MANSFIELD PETER
The Arabs-New Edition
London England: Penguin Books 1985. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Third Edition 1985. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Peter Mansfield explores social political and historical aspects--from the pre-Islamic nomads of Arabia the life of Muhammad and the rise of Arab power that followed to the Western Colonial period the tragedy of Palestine and the modern Arab renaissance reinforced by the power of oil. To be read by anyone who wants to know about the Arab world and how they have become what they are today. Pictorial wrappers are clean with moderate wear to extremities with creased corners rubbed edges. Overstock mark on bottom edge. Soundly bound. Pages clean no marks moderately toned. 527 pages with Index. 5.2 x 7.8 inches. England Penguin Books 1985. Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 008335 ISBN : 0140225617 9780140225617
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Mansfield Peter ed
The Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey
London: Oxford University Press 1973. Fourth edition. Folding map. Bibliog. Index. Chipped dj. xi 591 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Oxford University Press, 1973 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5994
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Mansfield Peter
The New Arabians
Chicago: J. G. Ferguson 1981. Photos. Index. Chipped dj. Introduction by George Rentz. xiv 274 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: J. G. Ferguson, 1981 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3821
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Mansoor Peter
Baghdad at Sunrise
Yale Univ Pr 2008 Hardback. Fine/Fine. Yale Univ Pr hardcover
Bookseller reference : 333188 ISBN : 030014069X 9780300140699
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Mansur, Ahmad
Qissat suqut Baghdad
Large quarto in orange pictorial wraps; 190 p. , bib. refs. ; 24 cm Iraq War, 2003; essays. Subtitle on cover: Haqiqah bi-al-wathaiq!; Suqut Baghdad
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Manz Beatrice Forbes
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Maps. Bibliography. Index. xi 227 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. ISBN: 0-521-40614-5 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1991) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7535 ISBN : 0521406145 9780521406147
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Manzoni, Renzo.
El Yèmen. Tre anni nell' Arabia felice. Escursioni fatte dal Settembre 1877 al Marzo 1880. Rome, Eredi Botta, 1884.
Large 8vo. (8), VI, (2), 446 pp. With portrait frontispiece, 21 plates (7 of which double-page sized; last single-page plate included in pagination), 2 folding coloured maps of Yemen, folding plate of the game "abdùr", folding coloured plan of Sana'a, folding view of Sana'a, folding view of Aden, as well as numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blindstamped spine and giltstamped spine-title. Marbled endpapers. First edition, rare. Richly illustrated account of Yemen, without doubt "one of the fullest descriptions of life in San'a' and Turkish-occupied North Yemen" (Auchterlonie) ever to be published. The Italian explorer Manzoni (1852-1918) spent three years travelling the Yemen, altogether staying an entire year in Sana'a, his "citta bellissima". He "investigated the city more thoroughly and described it more vividly than any of his predecessors [...] also, he was the first to draw a map of the city" (cf. Henze). The illustrations include pretty views of Sana'a and Aden, as well as portraits of the local population. - Extremities very slightly rubbed; some remnants of ink stains on the frontispiece; minor browning to margins throughout; last folding map with small tears (repaired). Library stamp of the Paris École des Langues Orientales Vivantes to title-page, somewhat rubbed. Marked as a duplicate in red pencil on the blank recto of the frontispiece. Auchterlonie 138. Henze III, 366.
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MARTIROSYAN (A.H.) [Ed.]
Armeniaca. English summaries of armenological publications in Armenia. 2001.
Erevan, Mashtots Inst. of Ancien Manuscripts, 2006. In-4 broché, VII-225 pp., index.
Bookseller reference : 555583
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MARTIROSYAN (A.H.), SHIRINIAN (M.E.) [Ed.]
Armeniaca. English summaries of armenological publications in Armenia. 2002.
Erevan, Mashtots Inst. of Ancien Manuscripts, 2007. In-4 broché, VII-171 pp., index.
Bookseller reference : 555586
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MARCAIS (Georges)
La berbérie musulmane et l'Orient au Moyen-Âge.
Paris, Aubier, Montaigne, 1946. In-8 broché, 304 pp.
Bookseller reference : 589059
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