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Marco Jindrich
Israel 48
Praze: Josef Novotny / Just New Books 1991. 50 pp. b&w plates throughout. Photographs taken during the summer of 1948. Brief introductory statement by the photographer and captions in Czech English German Russian and Hebrew. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped. Jacket handled and edgeworn with a couple of small chips and tears small piece missing at bottom edge of front panel. Size: Oblong 8vo. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Josef Novotny / Just New Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 08942 ISBN : 8085338017 9788085338010
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Marco Polo.
Historici fidelissimi juxta ac praestantissimi, de regionibus orientalibus libri III [...]. Berlin, Georg Schultz, 1671.
4to. 3 parts in one volume. (6), 26, (16), 167, (51) pp. (8), 115, (13) pp. (4), 107, (9) pp. Letterpress title printed in red and black. With additional engraved title and engr. frontispiece to part 2 (lacking plates of Arabic characters); ornamental head bands and initials. 18th-century calf with gilt spine. All edges red. First edition. "Collated with a manuscript in the library of the Elector of Brandenburg, preface, geographical index, glossary, etc." (Lust). The gifted orientalist Andreas Müller (1630-94) compiled in a single volume this collection of travel accounts and information on China: Part I is an edition of a Berlin manuscript of Marco Polo, including comparisons with editions by Grynaeus (1532) and Ramusio (1559). Part II, often bound last, is an encyclopedia of China by Müller, listing "Chinese peculiarities" based on Chinese and oriental sources (cf. Löwendahl 153). Part III is a Latin version of "Historia orientalis" by the Armenian Hayton of Corycus (d. 1308). - According to Lach, Müller was “one of the most cosmopolitan of [...] world-conscious Europeans” of his time, although he never travelled outside of Europe. He fell out with Kircher over a linguistic issue, and when Chinese writing was described by theologians as a breach of the Second Commandment, his position in Berlin became untenable. Having resigned his position as provost of St. Nicolai in 1685, he relocated to Stettin and spent the remainder of his life with private studies. "By his own ways of publishing he much hampered the production of a bibliography of his works, which would certainly warrant scrutiny. Before his death he destroyed his manuscripts. He negotiated over the sale of his library with numerous universities, but finally, on a whim, gave away a mere 50 books to the Stargard Consistorium in 1692; most of his books and the remainder of his papers he willed to St. Mary's collegiate church in Stettin" (cf. ADB XXII, 513f.). - Some browning and spotting throughout. Still a fine copy from the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown; latterly in the library of Jean R. Perrette (his bookplate). VD 17, 12:108208R. Cordier (Sinica) III, 1968. Lust 288. Löwendahl 153. Morrison II, 535. Ebert 17665. Henze IV, 380. ADB XXII, 513. Brunet III, 69 & 1406 ("receuil assez recherché").
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.
Markou Antoninou Autokratoros ton eis heauton biblioi 12. Guftar-i Marqus Antunin Padishah dar hal-i nafs-i hud-i 'ali-gah. (Ed. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall). Vienna, Anton Strauß (Witwe), 1831.
Large 4to (210 x 267 mm). (2), 168, (2) ff. Publisher's original printed and illustrated boards with an oriental design in three colours and Persian letterpress on both covers. First and only edition of the "Meditations" of Emperor Marcus Aurelius both in the original Greek and in Persian, edited and translated by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall and printed in parallel on opposite pages throughout. "A meticulous typographical production" (Durstmüller). "The 1831 publication of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in Persian comprises one of the 19th century's most intriguing cross-cultural and inter-religious texts. Produced by the Austrian Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and addressed to the reigning Shah of Persia, this translation negotiates a wide diversity of concerns, including political diplomacy, literary aesthetics and religious difference" (J. Einboden, Stoicism or Sufism? Hammer-Purgstall's Persian Meditations, Middle Eastern Literatures 13.1 (2010), pp. 49-68. - Corners bumped, edges a little rubbed. Clean and uncut as issued in the publisher's charming original printed boards, a rare and early example of such a binding. Hoffmann I, 187. Engelmann/Preuss I, 148. Goedeke VII, 766, 80. Durstmüller I, 263. Graesse I, 329. OCLC 257616436.
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Mardiganian Aurora/Gates HL intreted by/Waln Nora foreword
Ravished Armenia: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian the Christian Girl Who Survived the Great Massacres
Yerevan: Armenian Genocide Museum Institute 2013. reprint of 1918 edition. VG. 2 88 p. photos illus maps inside covers stapled paperback; Armenian Genocide Museum Institute paperback
Bookseller reference : 63251 ISBN : 9939822308 9789939822303
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Mardinli, Yusef Ibn Shammas Butris Ibn Kas Yusef, Al-.
[Chaldean prayer book]. [Iraq, Ottoman Empire], 16. XI. 1826.
12mo (80 x 106 mm). Arabic manuscript in Naskhi script. 292 pp. (first 23 ff. foliated by a contemporary hand), 10-12 lines per extensum, black ink, headlines and emphases in red. Marked throughout the text with 36 crosses potent and a few ornaments, one in colour. Contemporary full brown calf with blindstamped oriental decoration. A fine Chaldean-rite prayer book written towards the end of the contested patriarchate of Joseph V Augustine Hindi (lasting from 1781 to 1827). Includes prayers against the plague, for holidays such as Good Friday, Easter and Ascension, for various times of the day, and for thanksgiving, as well as to the Virgin Mary and Christ. Special prayers for women are mentioned, as are certain Psalms, St. Joseph, Pope Sixtus IV, the Ten Commandments, and the necessary steps toward converting to Christianity. Occasionally, differences between the Chaldean and Roman Catholic rites are mentioned. - The book is written in easily legible Arabic, one of the languages of worship for Chaldeans, whose usual language was in fact Aramaic, the language of Jesus. The name of God is here consistently written as "Allah", while a total of 36 crosses are drawn throughout the text. Curiously, the compiler's Nisbah is given as "Al-Mardinli" ("from Mardin"), in the Ottoman rather than pure Arabic form - a detail that gives evidence of the degree to which cultures, religions and languages were intertwined in the Mesopotamian region. - In full communion with Rome, the Chaldean Catholic Church emerged from the Church of the East through the schism of 1552. By the 17th century, leaders would take the name Joseph, for which reason theirs is known as the "Josephite line" of succession. Although Augustine Hindi, the nephew of his predecessor Joseph IV, was never formally granted recognition by the Holy See as Patriarch of the Chaldeans, he was consecrated as bishop and named administrator of the patriarchate, and he became commonly known as Joseph V. - Binding a little rubbed; old note to lower flyleaf, written head over heels. An interesting cross-cultural document of the interaction between the Eastern and Western Churches, between regional languages and religions in the Middle East. Cf. Charles A. Frazee, Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1923 (London, 1983). David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 (Leiden, 2000).
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Marechaux Pascal
Arabia Felix: Yemen and Its People
New York: Barrons 1980 Large format volume with striking photographs of the people and places of Yemen before the current conflictsTranslated from the French by Jane Brenton. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Barrons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31622 ISBN : 0812053680 9780812053685
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Mareschal, Marien de.
Mémoire sur l'éducation des chevaux. (Moulins, L. Desrosiers, 1820).
Small 4to. 8 pp. Study on the training of horses, submitted and presented to the Agricultural Society of Allier, by Marien de Mareschal, Mayor of Deux-Chaises (France). The author tries to demonstrate the benefits of horse breeding. - Small defects to edges; slight dust-soiling.
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Margaroli, G[iovanni] B[attista].
La Turchia ovvero l'Imperio Ottomano osservato nella sua situazione geografica - statistica - politica e religiosa [....] coll' aggiunta di un indice [...] e di un dizionario geografico. Con rami a colori. Milan, Gaetano Schiepatti, 1829.
8vo. 2 parts in one volume. 287, (1) pp. 304 pp. With 4 engraved costume plates in original hand colour. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards with gilt label to spine. Only edition of this Italian handbook on the Ottoman Empire, discussing the geography and state, the city of Constantinople, the government, people and politics, history, as well as religion of Islam. Includes a lengthy section on Arabia and Arabians. The four engraved plates in full colour show an Ottoman infantryman, cavalryman, marine, and Sultan Mehmet II in military costume. Appended is a dictionary of place-names - a gazetteer of the Empire which includes extensive entries on Mecca and Medina. - Untrimmed, light foxing throughout, but well preserved. Old collection stamp of Sig. Antonio Buonamici (motto: "undique rectus") on title-page. Very rare; only three copies known outside Italian libraries (Leipzig University Library, formerly in the library of the great Austrian oriental scholar Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall; Austrian National Library; and Lucian Blaga Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); none in America or the UK. OCLC 895531591. ICCU NAPE\015793. Verzeichnis der hinterlassenen wertvollen Bibliothek weiland des Herrn Josef Freiherrn von Hammer-Purgstall (Wien 1857), no. 890. Not in Atabey, Blackmer, or Lipperheide.
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MARGOLIS Eric S
War at the Top of the World: the Struggle for Afghanistan Kashmir and Tibet
Routledge 2000. hbk 250pp end paper maps excellent in dj as new Routledge, 2000 unknown
Bookseller reference : AsH25 ISBN : 0415927129 9780415927123
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Margot Badran
Opening The Gates -
Virago Publishing - 1990. PB/pub.1990/Gd.condition/412 pages - A century of Arab feminist writing. HT438600. Soft Cover. Good. Virago Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 38600
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Mariette-Bey, Auguste.
Album du musée du Boulaq comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Delié et Béchard, avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Auguste Mariette-Bey. Cairo, Mourès & Cie, 1872.
Folio. 3 unnum. leaves, 40 original photographs on albumenized paper (approx. 245 x 180 mm) on stiff cardboard mounted on hinges, and 42 unnum. leaves of explanations. Publisher's half brown hard-grained morocco, blind stamped calico boards, with gilt title and figures, raised bands. Edges gilt. Beautiful photographic album made in Cairo, the first illustrated catalogue of the first Egyptian Museum. While copies dated 1871 exist, both copies preserved in the French National Library bear the date 1872. The photographs by Hippolyte Délié and Émile Béchard show the halls and antiques of the Bulaq Museum, founded in Cairo in 1863 by the great Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (1821-81). The Museum was created by Auguste Mariette, who in 1858, following his appointment as head of the Antiquities Service, moved the banks of the Nile, in Bulaq, where he assigned four rooms in his residence for exhibitions. Mariette obtained permission to settle in Bulaq in the abandoned offices of the River Company. On these dilapidated premises, where he lived with his family, the "Director of the Historical Monuments of Egypt and the Cairo Museum" converted the first four exhibition halls with the assistance of his faithful assistants Bonnefoy and Floris. The period photographs, published in this 'Album du musée de Boulaq', show the low buildings by the river, almost completely devastated during the flood of 1878. In the preface dated November 1, 1871, Mariette explains the origins of this monumental album: "Mr. Hippolyte Délié and Mr. Béchard requested permission from the Directorate of the Bulaq Museum to reproduce by photography some of the monuments on display in our galleries. Not only the application [...] was explicitly welcomed, but the Director of the Museum feels he must promote the work of the great photographers from Cairo, opening up for them the cabinets of the Museum and choosing among the objects it contains those that appeared to him most worthy of inclusion in the proposed Album. Mr. Délié and Mr. Béchard have followed, for the classification and arrangement of their proofs, the order adopted in the Notice sommaire, which is for sale at the entrance of the Museum. The three plates showing the interior and exterior of the Museum serve as an introduction to the Album. The monuments are then classified into religious, funerary, civilians, historical, Greek and Roman sections. The photographic Album [...] is thus an illustrated catalogue of the Museum. The remarkable execution of the plates allows us also to recommend to everyone this album by Mr. Délié and Mr. Béchard. Travelers will indeed use it as a souvenir of their visit to the Bulaq Museum. Scholars will find the hieroglyphic texts reproduced with such clarity as if they were in direct presence of the monuments. Finally artists will not study from any other work on Egyptology as well as from the beautiful proofs delivered from the apparatus used by Mr. Délié and Mr. Béchard, the difficult problems that relate to the history of art in Egypt". The French photographer Émile Béchard was active during the years 1869-90: "Béchard arrived in Egypt probably together with his partner Délié. He collaborated with him in the production of the Album du Musée Boulaq and in the carte de visite photographs of native types and costumes. There is little information on the life of Béchard. It is known that he was awarded a first class gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, and his images appear in many of the travel and topographic albums until almost the end of the century. His major achievement was no doubt his monumental album of photographs of the most important archaeological sites and antiquities of Egypt […]. It is worthy to note that Béchard did have a great deal of talent in picturing architecture. The neatness of the execution and printing of the final image adds tremendously to the monumentality he was able to reflect in them" (cf. Perez, p. 123). "Délié arrived in Egypt the year the Suez Canal was opened and settled in Cairo. Until the mid-1870s he was in partnership with Émile Béchard. The two collaborated on a major photography album on the Boulaq Museum that was very highly praised as one of the most luxurious and finely printed books of the period. […] Délié's photographs were known already in 1869, and some of them were used that early for woodcuts illustrating articles in Le Tour du Monde. In 1876, he became a member of the Société Française de Photographie, and in 1878 he was awarded a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. For some reason, Délié's images, although equal in quality, are much rarer than those by Béchard, even though both continued to work after they dissolved their partnership. His photographs are exclusively of Egypt, mainly ruins, antiquities, and cityscapes, with a few genre studies" (p. 153f.). Perez also devotes a long notice to the archaeological activity of Mariette, a familiar to photography: "Best known as Mariette Bey, this famous Egyptologist became an archaeologist almost by chance. He was a young schoolteacher in the provincial town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, writing bad novels and chairing the local fishing-club, when he happened across the papers of a relative, Nestor L'Hote. L'Hote's writings of Egypt aroused Mariette's interest, and he turned to the study of Coptic writings and hieroglyphs. He published a number of papers that attracted the attention of Charles Lenormant, who sent him to Egypt in 1850 to hunt down Coptic manuscripts, which were at the time actively collected by British scholars. He remained in Egypt four years, during which time he realized the importance of finding and saving the archaeological treasures still buried in Egypt. Mariette shared his conviction with Ferdinand de Lesseps, whom he met in 1857. The latter appealed to the Viceroy of Egypt, and Mariette was appointed head of the department of Antiquities, a post he created and held until his death in Cairo in 1881. During his years there he displayed an unusual instinct in finding excavation sites; his contribution to Egyptology is invaluable. He was also founder of the Boulaq museum. Photography became an inseparable part of his activity. He mainly employed professional photographers such as Délié, Béchard, and Brugsch, but he himself also photographed, using an 8x10'' camera, newly found artefacts and ancient structures in remote parts of the Egyptian desert. It is interesting to note that, although technically not perfect, Mariette's photographs have a certain precision of angle and composition that makes the image 'right' and authentic. This is no doubt the result of his love and understanding of the objects he was photographing" (p. 194). - Spine scuffed, some foxing. Cf. Nissan N. Perez, Focus East, 1988. On Mariette cf. also J.-M. Carré, "Voyageurs et écrivains français en Égypte", p. 223-249.
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Marigny, [François Augier], Abbé de.
Histoire des Arabes sous le gouvernement des Califes. Paris, Estienne & fils; Desaint & Saillant; Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1750.
4 vols. 8vo. (4), LIV, (8), 460 pp. (4), 535, (1) pp., final blank. (4), 504, (20) pp. (4), 479, (5) pp. Contemporary French mottled calf with gilt spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. First edition of this history of Arabia, at its time a standard work of reference, covering the years 629 through 1288 AD. German and English translations followed within a few years of publication (the German version was prepared by none other than the great playwright of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing). - Rubbed and bumped at extremeties; occasional light browning and insignificant wrinkling to a few pages. A good copy. Gay 3586. Macro 1538 ("1758" in error). Brunet VI, 28011. Graesse IV, 399. Jöcher/Adelung IV, 724.
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Marion Farouk Sluglett Peter Sluglett
Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship
<p>Paperback 346 pages very good condition several pages with light stain. </p> I B Tauris & Co Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 1404 ISBN : 1850433178 9781850433170
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Marita Golden Editor
It's All Love -
Broadway Press - 2009. Gd. condition - Black writers on Soul Mates Family and Friends . AE18984z. Soft Cover. Good. Broadway Press - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 8984z
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Mark Bles
Child at War -
Mercury House Press - 1991. Hardcover/1991/Gd. condition/320 pages - the true story of a young Belgian Resistance fighter. TK74503z. Hard Cover. Good. Mercury House Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4503z
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Mark J. Roberts
Khomeini's Incorporation Of The Iranian Military -
National Defense University Publishing - 1996. PB/pub.1996/Fair condition/106 pages - Khomeini's incorporation of the Iranian military. TI335908. Soft Cover. Good. National Defense University Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 35908
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Mark Weinberg
The World Trade Center : A Landmark to Remember -
Popular Group Publishing - 2001. PB/pub.2001/Gd. condition - A photo text on the World Trade center from beginning to the attack on Sept. 11. D52946z. Soft Cover. Good. Popular Group Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 2946z
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Markham, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or The English Horseman. [...] Newly imprinted, corrected & augmented, with many worthy secrects not before knowne. (London, Edward Allde for Edward White, 1616-)1617.
8 parts in one vol. Titles within wide woodcut borders and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving original label on spine, 8vo. Second edition of this important manual of riding, breeding, hunting, farriery and veterinary matters (following the first of 1607), by one of the earliest western owners of and dealers in Arabian horses. Markham praises the virtues of Turkish and Barb horses, which are said to be "beyond all horses whatsoever for delicacie of shape and proportion, insomuch that the most curious painter cannot with all his Art amend their naturall lineaments. They are to be knowne before all horses by the finenesse of their proportions, especially their heades and necks, which Nature hath so well shap'd, and plac'd, that they commonly save Art his greatest labour: they are swift beyond other forraigne horses, and to that use in England we only imploy them [...]". With notes on saddles and bits (several illustrated), as well as numerous cures for horse ailments. - "Divided into eight books with separate titles. The 2nd and 3rd books bear the date of 1616" (Huth). The title page itself bears no imprint, but rather has the word "Cavalarice" sandwiched between the dates "16" and "17". - Occasional slight browning or marginal waterstaining; several small wormholes to margins near end. Title with dated 1745 inscription, 17th century ink annotation to title verso (traced by a later hand), 20th century ink annotation and tipped-in auction catalogue description to front free endpaper. From the library of Francis McIlhenny Stifler with his bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce; only three copies of this edition sold at auction in the last 30 years. BM-STC 17335. Poynter 19.2. OCLC 18813278. Cf. Huth 15. Podeschi/Mellon 18. Graesse IV, 403. Mennessier de la Lance II, 156. Not in Wellcome.
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Markham, Gervase.
Markham's Maister-Peece, Containing all Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leech, Touching the Curing of all Diseases in Horses [...] Now the seventh time newly imprinted, corrected and augmented [...]. London, William Wilson, 1651.
4to. (14), 591, (23) pp, final blank. With additional engr. title page (frontispiece), 4 full-page text woodcuts (2 folding) and several smaller woodcuts in the text, as well as 1 folding woodcut plate, latterly backed with cloth. Sumptuous mid-19th-century three quarter morocco binding with gilt spine. Extremely rare and early edition of this great English hippiatric manual, first published in 1615, by one of the earliest Western owners of and dealers in Arabian horses. A distinctly modern touch is provided by the small woodcut pointing hands scattered about the margins, denoting new cures and "medicines that are most certaine and approved; and heretofore never published". Gervase (Gervais, Jarvis) Markham, as well as his father Robert, a Nottinghamshire MP and Sheriff, was the owner of valuable horses, and "is said to have imported the first Arab. In a list of Sir Henry Sidney's horses in 1589 'Pied Markham' is entered as having been sold to the French ambassador [and it, or a horse of the same name, may have been given to Markham by Sir Francis Walsingham], and Gervase sold an Arabian horse to James I for £500" (DNB). - Variously browned; occasional corner faults (no loss to text). From the library of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Bt. (1800-62), member of an eminent Anglo-Catholic noble family who sat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1835 (his bookplate on front pastedown; a later bookplate is opposite on the flyleaf). Wing M659. Poynter 20.7. Wellcome IV, 56 (incomplete). Cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, 156. Huth p. 17 (other editions).
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Marlowe John
IRAN
New York: Frederick A. Praeger. with no dust jacket; Good-collectible Ex-Library with Markings. 1963. Hardbound. 144 pages . Frederick A. Praeger hardcover
Bookseller reference : 45855
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Marlowe John
Perfidious Albion : The Origins of Anglo-French Rivalry in the Levant
London: Elek Books 1971. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Previous owner's stamp on ffep. Elek Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030962 ISBN : 0236154257 9780236154258
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Marmaduke Pickthall
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran -
Dorset Press - 1992. Hardcover/Gd. condition/464 pages -The nature and meaning of the Koran as orthodox Muslims see it. D44356z. Hard Cover. Good. Dorset Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4356z
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MARMARA GROUP.
The Marmara Foundation 2013: 16. Euroasian Economic Summit. 9-11 April 2013, Istanbul.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. 4to. (30 x 12 cm). In English. Color photos. 183, [1] p. The Marmara Foundation 2013: 16. Euroasian Economic Summit. 9-11 April 2013, Istanbul.
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Marshall Alex;Bird Tim
Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way
Yale Univ Pr 2011. clean unmarked copy. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Yale Univ Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 351072 ISBN : 0300154577 9780300154573
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Marshall SLA. S. L.
Sinai Victory: Command Decision in History's Shortest War Israel's Hundred Hour Conquest of Egypt East of Suez Autumn 1956
NY: William Morrow 1958. 1st printing. VG/Good dust jacket creasing to edges of dust jacket dust jacket spine lightly sunned. 280 p. maps appendices index small 8vo; William Morrow hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40653
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MARSHALL David.
Where Jesus Walked.
Grantham: Stanborough Press 1986. 1st.ed. In search of Jesus Christ among the towns and villages mountains and deserts - shrines and 'holy places' of present-day Israel." Pp. 173. Lots of coloured illustrations. 1 sketch map. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG. . Grantham: Stanborough Press, 1986. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12151
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Marshall D. Shulman ED.
East-West Tensions in the Third World
Scranton Pennsylvania U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc 1986. PB/Gd. condition/243 pages - Discusses the confrontation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that spilled over in the the Third World. K2194HI3. Soft Cover. Good. W W Norton & Co Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : K2194 ISBN : 0393303373 9780393303377
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MARTIN Christopher.
Striking that Rock. Sydney Carter & Donald Swann explore the Holy Land.
London: SPCK 1975. 1st ed. The story of the making of the series of television films by HTV for ITV about a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pp. 8/119 7 b/w photos. Ex libris university label to verso front cover. P/b. Illustd. cover. G. . London: SPCK, 1975. unknown
Bookseller reference : 10143
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MARTIN James.
A Plain Man in the Holy Land.
Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press. 1987. "Written in the form of a description of an actual Holy Land pilgrimage takes the reader on a magic carpet of imagination round the principal Christian places". Pp 105. 18 b/w illustrations. Owners bookplate to fep. P/b. Clear protective wrap affixed. G. . Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press. 1987. unknown
Bookseller reference : 15445
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Martin Richard C.
Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach 2nd ed.
Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall 1996. trade paperback second edition illustrated with maps and photos 274pp includes glossary bibliography and index. As new. 350 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996 paperback
Bookseller reference : 21411 ISBN : 0132055430 9780132055437
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Martin du Tyrac, Louis Marie (Lodoïs), Comte de Marcellus.
Souvenirs de l'Orient. Paris, Debécourt, 1839.
Small 4to. 2 vols. (4), VIII, 464 pp. (4), 558, (1) pp., final blank page. With 2 engraved plates and one folding map of the Mediterranean. Contemporary half calf over freen marbled boards with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Marbled endpapers. First edition of the travelogue of the French diplomat who secured the Venus de Milo for the Louvre in 1820. The Comte de Marcellus was appointed to the embassy at Constantinople in 1815, and in 1820 was sent to the ports of the Levant and the religious establishments of Palestine. His travels took him to Scio, Delos, Melos, Santorin, Cyprus, Sidon, Cairo and the pyramids, Rhodes, Athens and Smyrna. During his mission the peasant Yorgos Kentrotas discovered the Venus de Milo inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos. The French ambassador Charles François de Riffardeau acquired the statue for France, but it was Marcellus who prevented its shipment to Constantinople and arranged for the Venus to be taken aboard a French ship instead. Chapter VIII of volume I is entirely dedicated to the Venus de Milo and its story, including an engraved illustration of the masterpiece. The other plate shows Pierre Gary, a guard of the Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali. - Occasional foxing. Hinges professionally restored. Provenance: contemporary library stamp of the French ethnographer Eugène de Froberville (1790-1871) to both title-pages. Later in the collection of the British historian William St Clair (1937-2021) with his pencil ownership to the front free endpaper of volume I. Weber 296. Blackmer 1087. Atabey 764. Cobham-Jeffery 36. OCLC 562749585.
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Martin Gilbert
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corner of front cover creased. 136pp. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Paperback
Bookseller reference : 035346 ISBN : 029782113X 9780297821137
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Martin Indyk
Innocent Abroad -
Simon & Schuster Publishing - 2009. Hardcover/Gd. condition/494 pages - An intimate account of american peace diplomacy in the middle east. K1893HI1. Hard Cover. Good. Simon & Schuster Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K1893
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Martin, F[redrik] R[obert].
Miniatures From the Period of Timur in a Ms. of the Poems of Sultan Ahmad Jalair. Vienna, (Adolf Holzhausen), 1926.
Folio (294 x 394 mm). (8), 29, (3) pp. With XVI plates. Contemporary half vellum over papered boards with floral design heightened in gold; title-label to spine. One of 300 copies. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the Viennese printer Adolf Holzhausen on the half-title. - Lavishly appointed collection of miniatures from a Persian illuminated manuscript from the early 15th century comprising the collected works of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (1382-1410). With a description of the manuscript by the British orientalist and historian of Islamic art, Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930), crediting Jalayir with "a not inconsiderable skill in the use of the verse forms commonly found in Persian poetry" (p. 6). The present work features reproductions of some of the most splendid folios of the Persian manuscript and its giltstamped leather binding, as well as a few miniatures originating from similar manuscripts. - Extremities very slightly rubbed; spine-label somewhat worn. Interior in excellent condition. Bound with Florentine silk. OCLC 3499905.
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Martindale Hubbell.
Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Vol. I-II 1-2. Europe Asia Australasia Middle East Africa. North America. The Caribbean. Central America. South America. 2007.
New Providence NJ: LexisNexis 2007. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Hardbacks bound in tan cloth. A nearly new set. Volume I covers Europe Asia Australasia Middle East and Africa. Volume II covers North America The Caribbean Central America and South America. <br/> <br/> LexisNexis hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021593 ISBN : 1561607347 9781561607341
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MARTINO Enrico -
Sul Canale di Suez si scambiano i profughi.
Milano, 1970, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 545/549 con una cartina e 6 fotografie. - !! 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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Martire d'Anghiera, Pietro.
Relationi del signor Pietro Martire milanese. Delle cose notabili della provincia dell'Egitto [...]. Venice, Giorgio de' Cavalli [for Nicolò Bevilacqua], 1564.
Small 8vo. (8) ff. (last blank), 71, (6) ff. (lacking errata). With woodcut printer's device to title page, a headpiece and 3 initials. Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Early Italian translation of the account of the diplomatic mission to Egypt which Martyr d'Anghiera (1455-1526) undertook in 1501 on behalf of the Spanish court "with the intention of persuading the Sultan to adopt a policy of clemency towards the Christians of Egypt and Palestine following the defeat of the Moors in Spain. The outcome of his visit was successful; Martyr received the title of 'maestro de los caballeros', and in 1504 became Papal protonotary and prior of Granada" (Howgego I, p. 689). The author would achieve fame through his chronicles of the early Spanish expeditions to the New World, an important collection of sources on America. - Title page rather wrinkled and stained; old Italian ownership in ink to reverse. The errata ("Errori fatti nello stamparsi") in this edition sometimes comprise a single leaf (with a final blank), sometimes three leaves (resulting in a total of 9 uncounted leaves at the end), but the present copy wants the errata altogether. Edit 16, CNCE 1888. BM-STC Italian 30. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 37. Sabin 1559. Streit XV, 1787. Cf. Gay 2500. Not in Adams.
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Marty, Claude.
Est-il vrai de dire que la membrure du cheval anglo-arabe est légère et insuffisante? (Un chapitre de contribution à l'étude de l'anglo-arabe). Toulouse, (Saint-Cyprien), 1909.
4to. XII, 127, (8) pp., final blank page. Front flyleaf included in the pagination. Original printed wrappers. With dust jacket. Only edition, very scarce. - Noted essay on the physique of the Anglo-Arabian horse, challenging the theory of its over-lightness and insufficiency - the "gravest and most unjust" criticism levelled against the breed. Prepared by the vice-president of the prominent Toulouse stables "Écurie coopérative du Midi", Claude Marty. Of the utmost rarity: a single library copy traceable internationally (French National Library). - The main part of this work is made up of highly informative tables, displaying the distribution of the various breeds in the French, Algerian, Spanish, and Prussian cavalry forces, specifying their origins, as well as weights and body measures, and occasionally even stating their given names. Several other tables show the use of the Anglo-Arabian for public transportation in Toulouse. The work concludes with remarks on the Anglo-Arabian's high bone density and their physical ability to set vehicles in motion. - Ownership stamp of the Bibliothèque de Trélissac to half-title. Dust jacket somewhat worn, minor tears. A few pages loosened. A good copy of this important work rarely seen in the trade. OCLC 457358123.
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Marín López, Diego, painter (1865-1916).
Moroccan soldiers with horses. Tanger, [c. 1900].
A set of two oil panels, 285 x 130 mm each. Signed at bottom right "Marin Tanger".
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MASSE (Henri) [trad.]
'Imâd ad-Dîn al-Isfahânî (519-597/1125-1201), Conquête de la Syrie et de la Palestine par Saladin (al-Fath al-qussî fî l-fath al-qudsî).
Paris, Geuthner, 1972. In-8 broché, en partie non coupé, XIV-460 pp.
Bookseller reference : 593148
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MASSY (P.H.H.)
Eastern mediterranéen Lands. Twenty years of life, sport, and travel.
London, Routledge, 1928. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile bleue, titre doré au dos, XII-261 pp., ill. h.-t. dont 5 cartes, index.
Bookseller reference : 555608
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MASPERO (Gaston).
Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique.
Paris Librairie Hachette 1895-1899 3 vol. relié 3 forts vol. gr. in-8, cartonnages demi-toile à bandes, pièces de titre, 804, 798 et 815 pp., 2 cartes en couleurs et 9 planches hors-texte. Les couvertures sont conservées aux tomes I et II. Les 7 derniers feuillets du tome III sont dactylographiés. Tome I : Les origines : Egypte & Chaldée. Tome II : Les premières mêlées, des peuples. Tome III : Les Empires. Bon exemplaire.
Bookseller reference : 107682
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MASPERO (Gaston).
Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique.
Paris Librairie Hachette 1895-1899 3 vol. relié 3 forts vol. gr. in-8, cartonnages demi-toile à bandes, pièces de titre, 804, 798 et 815 pp., 2 cartes en couleurs et 9 planches hors-texte. Les couvertures sont conservées aux tomes I et II. Les 7 derniers feuillets du tome III sont dactylographiés. Tome I : Les origines : Egypte & Chaldée. Tome II : Les premières mêlées, des peuples. Tome III : Les Empires. Bon exemplaire.
Bookseller reference : 107682
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MAS'UDI
Les Prairies d'or. Tome II [seul]. Trad. française de Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat.
P., Société Asiastique, 1965. In-4 br. non-coupé, pp. [249-558], chronologie.
Bookseller reference : 595508
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MAS'UDI
Les Prairies d'or. Tome premier [seul]. Trad. française de Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat.
P., Société Asiastique, 1962. In-4 br. en partie non coupé, VIII-248 pp.
Bookseller reference : 595511
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MAS'UDI
Les Prairies d'or. Tome IV [seul]. Trad. française de Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat.
P., Société Asiastique, 1989. In-4 br. non-coupé, sous jaquette, pp. [858-1174].
Bookseller reference : 595512
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MAS'UDI
Les Prairies d'or. Tome IV [seul]. Trad. française de Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat.
P., Société Asiastique, 1997. In-4 br. non-coupé, sous jaquette, pp. [1176-1463].
Bookseller reference : 595513
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MASPERO (G.)
Ruines et paysages d'Egypte.
Paris, Librairie orientale & américaine, E. Guilmoto éd., s.d. [1914] Fort in-8, rel. demi-basane ocre à coins, dos à nerfs, titre doré, VII-416 pp.
Bookseller reference : 591956
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Mascis, Antonio.
Vocabolario Toscano, e Turchesco. Arricchito di molte voci Arabe, Persane, Tartare, e Greche, necessarie alla perfetta cognizione della stessa lingua Turchesca. Florence, Niccolò Navesi, 1677.
8vo. (32), "290" (but: 288; omitting 257f.), 38 pp. With engraved frontispiece (portrait of Cosimo Medici III) and woodcut Medici coat of arms on title page. Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Only edition of this uncommon Italian-Turkish dictionary by the Neapolitan linguist Mascis, interpreter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany (to whom his effort is dedicated). In Roman type throughout, even the table of Arabic letters consists only of the letters' transliterated names. The alphabetical word list is followed by quick-reference sections on the parts of the human body as well as on numbers and the names of the Islamic months, and lists of the languagues spoken throughout the Ottoman Empire (no fewer than 33), of the kingdoms and principalities ruled by the Ottomans, and of the names of all the Ottoman sultans to Mehmed IV, reigning at the date of publication. A final part with separate page numbering contains a basic grammar of Turkish to facilitate translation from Italian into the Turkish language. - Occasional brownstaining. Wants endpapers; contemporary ownership on front pastedown. A little loosened, but complete. A rare little vocabulary. The Macclesfield copy, which wanted the portrait frontispiece, commanded £1060. Zaunmüller 389. Vater/Jülg 414. BM-STC Italian XVII, 554.
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Masha'allah Ibn-Atari / Al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Ya Qub ibn Ishaq / et al.
Liber novem iudicum in iudiciis astrorum. Mesehella, Aomar, Alkindus, Zael (etc.). Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, (4 Jan.) 1509.
4to. (6), 96 ff. With a woodcut initial coloured in red and green and several diagrams. Rubricated throughout. - (Bound after) II: Aristotle. Meteorologia. (Nuremberg, Friedrich Peypus, 11 Nov. 1512). 94, (6) ff. (final blank). With 8 large woodcuts in the text, some with touches of contemporary colour. Rubricated throughout. - (Bound with) III: Abraham ben 'Ezra (Aben Ezra, Avenares). In re iudiciali opera. (Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1507). 96 ff. (f. 92 blank). Rubricated throughout, some initials coloured green. Contemporary wooden boards on three raised double bands with leather spine. Two brass clasps (repaired). I: Editio princeps of this "work composed in Arabic probably exactly in the form in which it is preserved in Latin, typical of the encyclopaedic period but limited [...] to certain early sources" (Carmody), uniting the Judaic and Islamic astrological traditions. The form, arranged in twelve parts according to each house, is based on the doctrines of Sahl al-Tustari. The various tracts are constructed from chapters compiled systematically from such writers as Mâshâ'allâh (including the first printing of 'De electionibus') and al-Kindi. The crucial factor that they were translated intact in their present form from Arabic "is apparent in the unified Latin style and terminology" (ibid.). The collection includes a number of quotations attributed to Ptolemy; the rare mention of "Abuali" refers perhaps to Abu 'Ali al-Khayyâj. - "Masha'allah, [a Jew from Basra,] was one of those early 'Abbasid astrologers who introduced the Sassanian version of the predictive art to the Arabs; he was particularly indebted to the Pahlavi translation of Dorotheus of Sidon and to the 'Zik i Shahriyaran', or Royal Astronomical Tables, issued under the patronage of Khusrau Anushirwan in 556. He was also acquainted with some Greek material (perhaps through Arabic versions of Syriac texts) and would have acquired some knowledge of Indian science, both through the Pahlavi texts that he read and through such Indian scientists as the teacher of al-Fazari and Kanaka, who visited the courts of al-Mansur and Harun al-Rashid. It is during al-Mansur's reign that Masha'allah's name first appears: he participated in the astrological deliberations that led to the decision to found Bagdad [...] Masha'allah wrote on virtually every aspect of astrology [...] ['De electionibus'], which quotes Dorotheus, is ascribed to Masha'allah and Ptolemy but is probably by neither" (DSB IX, 159 ff.). - Extremely rare. A very clean copy with only an insignificant inkstain in the lower margin of ff. 12v and 13r and tiny traces of worming in the upper margin of the final two leaves. A few contemporary handwritten marginalia; f. 80v has a contemporary handwritten ownership of Wigand, Baron Redwitz (1476-56), bishop of Bamberg, who as a young man had travelled to Palestine and is remembered as a conservative but not fanatical Catholic cleric during the tumultuous years of the Reformation. - Bound with this work in the same appealing Renaissance volume are two other rare, thematically related contemporary treatises. - II: Aristotle's "Meteorology", long known in the West only through a Latin translation based on the Arabic version "al-'Athar al-`Ulwiyyah". This is the very rare illustrated first edition of Faber's expanded translation, including an extensive commentary by Johannes Cochlaeus, who also mentions the recently-discovered American continent ("Nova illa Americi terra", f. 62v). Comprising the first three of Aristotle's four books (on the heavens, water, and wind), it also constitutes "one of the main sources of medieval geology" (Stillwell, Awakening 577). "Cochlaeus's discussion of the relationship between motion and heat appears quite modern" (cf. Spahn). The woodcuts, coloured in earth tones or simply accented by the rubricator, show spheres as well as light and cloud phenomena; a large woodcut (f. 60v) shows the climate zones of the ancient world. - A single, tiny wormhole in the blank lower margin throughout; another small wormhole in the first two leaves (repaired in A1, insignificant loss to a few letters in A2). A clean and wide-margined copy. - III: The first collected edition of ten astrological treatises by the 12th-century Jewish mathematician and astronomer Ibn Ezra from Tudela in Spain. During his lifetime the town was under the Muslim rule of the emirs of Zaragoza; later he lived in Muslim Andalusia. "Ibn Ezra disseminated rationalistic and scientific Arabic learning in France, England and ltaly [... He] wrote a number of astrological works that were very popular [...] all of them appeared in Latin in 1507. They are rich in original ideas and in the history of scientific subjects" (DSB). - Contemporary marginalia in red, green, and brown ink throughout. Some insignificant browning. The well-preserved binding shows a hunting scene blindstamped into the leather. A fine assembly of important natural scientific works: published by Christian editors and printers in the early Renaissance, they bring together the Muslim and Jewish traditions that were the driving forces behind mediaeval science. I: Edit 16, CNCE 63196. BM-STC ltalian 424. Houzeau/Lancaster 751 ("volume tres rare"). DSB IX, 162. Carmody p. 112. Not in Adams, Mortimer, Essling, Stillwell, Honeyman. - II: VD 16, L 959. Cranz/Schmitt 13. Hoffmann I, 321. Schweiger I, 60. IA 107.806. Alden/Landwehr 512/1. Zinner 953. Brüggemann/Brunken 29. Spahn, Cochläus, p. 16. - III: Edit 16, CNCE 35576. IA 100.150. Adams A 38. Proctor-Is. 12998. Stillwell, Awakening 2. Houzeau/Lancaster 3927 ("rare"). Thorndike II, 917 & 927. DSB IV, 502.
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