‎Middle east‎

‎Quran.‎

‎A miniature Qur'an. Vimperk, Hans Steinbrener, no date (20th century).‎

‎26 x 37 mm. 819, (5) pp. Original leather leather binding richly gilt with floral motifs, with leather clasp and cord with attached magnifying lens. All edges gilt. In original cardboard box. A charming miniature Quran in excellent condition, preserved in its original gilt binding and cardboard box. With richly decorated opening double page frontispiece. Fully vocalized text set in a frame, verse separators, sura headings and section markers in the margins printed in black throughout. These miniature Qurans were printed at the press of Hans Steinbrener since the early 1900s; with the new millennium, the shop closed down and ceased production. These miniature editions of the Holy Quran, with their elaborate gilt leather bindings and attached magnifying glass, count among the finest examples of their kind and as masterpieces of Bohemian printing and craftsmanship. "The firm advertised itself as the continent's largest producer of artistic bindings for prayer books and the largest publisher of prayer books [...] This publisher supplied a market ranging from Manila to New York" (Marija Dalbello, "Franz Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical Photoreproduction", in: Book History, Vol. 5 [2002], pp. 67-103). - Available colours: green, red, blue, brown, maroon. Gilt cover design, box design, and clasp design may vary. Coin shown for size comparison only.‎

‎Quran.‎

‎Illuminated Qur'an manuscript. [Ottoman Empire], [1852 CE] = 1269 H.‎

‎8vo (124 x 180 mm). Illuminated Arabic ms. on polished paper. 301 ff., final blank. 15 lines, Naskh script. Black ink on polished paper. Double-page 'unwan on first two pages shows elaborate gilt ornamentation. Borders in red, black and gold. Gold discs between verses, sura headings written in red. Contemporary blindstamped gilt calf. Complete Quran ms. with occasional coloured floral decoration to the margins. First leaf remargined; some fingerstaining and occasional browning; a very few ink smudges. Spine rebacked in different leather. Altogether a good example.‎

‎R. J. VATIKIOTIS.‎

‎Islam ve ulus devlet. Translated by Enis Arslanoglu.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. , 156 p. Islam ve ulus devlet. Translated by Enis Arslanoglu.‎

‎R. Speight‎

‎God is One -‎

‎Friendship Press - 1989. PB/pub.1989/Gd. condition/138 pages - The Way of Islam. E93075z. Soft Cover. Good. Friendship Press - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 3075z

‎RAAFAT (Samir W. )‎

‎Maadi 1904-1962. Society and History in a Cairo Suburb.‎

‎Cairo, The Palerm Press, 1994. In-8 broché sous jaquette ill., 282 pp., très nb. pl. de reprod. photogr. en n/b., fac-similé, un plan dépliant, tableau généalogique, chronologie, index, texte en anglais.‎

‎Bon ex. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 595321

‎Raban Jonathan‎

‎Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth‎

‎New York: Simon and Schuster 1979. Dj. Map on endpapers. 344 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. Remainder mark on top edge. ISBN: 0-671-25058-2 . Catalogs: SAUDI ARABIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1979) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 533 ISBN : 0671250582 9780671250584

‎RABIN Chaim.‎

‎The Zadokite Documents. I: The Admonition. II. The Laws.‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press1954. Pp.16/96owners name to fepnotations to verso rear board a few marginal marks including a notation to lower margin of p.44. Black cloth gilt title to spine. G. . Oxford: Clarendon Press,1954. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 8795

‎Rabino di Borgomale H. L‎

‎Coins Medals and Seals of the Shahs of Iran 1500-1941‎

‎Dallas: International Nunismatic Press 1973. Five folding tables. Illustrations. Reprint of edition published in 1945. xv 108 pages. 21.6 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: IRAN. Dallas: International Nunismatic Press, (1973) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 8257

‎Rabinovich Itamar‎

‎THE BRINK OF PEACE: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations‎

‎Princeton NJ U.S.A.: Princeton University Press 1998. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A major casualty of the assassin's bullet that struck down Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a prospective peace accord between Syria and Israel. For the first time a negotiator who had unique access to Rabin as well as detailed knowledge of Syrian history and politics tells the inside story of the failed negotiations. His account provides a key to understanding not only U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East but also the larger Arab-Israeli peace process. During the period from 1992-1996 Itamar Rabinovich was Israel's ambassador to Washington and chief negotiator with Syria. In this book he looks back at the course of negotiations terms of which were known to a surprisingly small group of American Israeli and Syrian officials. The author portrays all sides and participants with remarkable flair and empathy as only a privileged player in the events could do. Fine in grey cloth in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3228 ISBN : 0691058687 9780691058689

‎Rabinovich Abraham‎

‎The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed The Middle East‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Schocken Books 2005. PB/Gd. condition/543 pages - The epic encounter that transformed the Middle East. K1547HR7. Soft Cover. Good. Schocken Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : K1547 ISBN : 0805211241 9780805211245

‎Raczynski, Edward.‎

‎Dziennik podrozy do Turcyi odbytey w roku MDCCCXIV. Breslau, Grass, Barth & Co., 1821.‎

‎Royal folio (375 x 488 mm). VII, (1), 204, VIII pp. With 64 plates (46 full-page, 17 half-page and 1 folding), mostly engraved after Ludwig Christian Fuhrmann, some after drawings by the author; 8 engraved text vignettes, 1 engraved tughra as headpiece; lithographed dedication. Modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards with printed title label on spine. First edition. - The very rare original edition of this important account of a journey through Turkey and Asia Minor. According to Brunet the finest publication ever to leave a Polish press, it was soon translated into German as "Malerische Reise in einigen Provinzen des Osmanischen Reichs" (last sold for £20,400 at Sotheby's 2004 Natural History and Travel Sale; no copy of the present original edition has appeared at German auctions during the last decades). - The Polish statesman Count Edward Raczynski (1786-1845), a patron of the arts and founder of the Raczynski Library in Poznan, travelled to Constantinople by way of Odessa during the months of July through November 1814. He was accompanied by the artist Ludwig Christian Fuhrmann (1783-1829), and most of the plates are engraved after his drawings. Raczynski also visited the Troad, the peninsula containing the ruins of Troy, of which a detailed description is given. This beautifully illustrated work is highly sought after for its many detailed engravings, including a folding map of Istanbul, illustrations of the ruins of Troy and Assos, the bay of Lesbos, a portrait of Sultan Muhammad IV, the mosque of the Sultan, etc. - In the present set, most of the plates are early or proofs prints, still lacking numbers and/or captions, which are frequently supplied in meticulous pencil calligraphy (in Polish and English). Leaves of pp. 1/2 and 3/4 transposed; the former bound showing page 2 before 1. Interior severely browned throughout as common. Tears to title and dedication repaired; a few edge flaws due to brittleness of paper. Only 5 copies of this original edition listed in library catalogues internationally (BL, BnF, LoC, Stabi Berlin, NL Sweden). Brunet IV, 20412. Weber 133 (note). Not in Atabey. Cf. Blackmer 1375 (1824 German edition).‎

‎Radziwill, Mikolaj Krzysztof.‎

‎Ierosolymitana Peregrinatio [...] Primum a Thoma Tretero custode Varmiensi ex Polonico sermone in Latinum translata, nunc varie aucta et correctius in lucem edita. Antwerp, Plantin / apud viduam et filios Joannis Moreti, 1614.‎

‎Small folio (ca. 210 x 314 mm). (10), 308, (12) pp. With engraved title-page and 5 full-page engraved illustrations in the text, as well as several woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device. Contemporary full vellum. All edges red. Second, improved Latin edition of this famous account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land by the Polish Prince Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwill (1549-1616), frequently translated and reprinted. First published in 1601; the present edition is corrected and expanded. - During his two-year journey from 1582 to 1584 Radziwill visited not only Palestine, but also Syria, Egypt, Crete, Cyprus, Italy and Greece. "Radziwill, in his account of the pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Egypt, described the ethnic diversity of the inhabitants of these lands. Critics underline the fact that his descriptions were ethnographic in character and quite objective. His 'Peregrynacja' was published in Latin and in Polish and apparently was quite widely read" (S. Grodz, Islam in Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Encounters, in: The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter, Leiden 2015, p. 234). - The emblematic illustrations show sailboats in a fierce storm, such as Radziwill himself encountered, as well as appropriate Biblical quotations in banners decorated with maritime elements, but also a plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (a separate appendix describes the prayers and songs there to be sung). - Binding somewhat brownstained and a little warped; upper hinge starting. Paper evenly browned throughout, occasional brownstains. Provenance: from the library of Duke Franciszek Maksymilian Ossolinski (1676-1756), Polish politician in the service of the exiled Stanislaus I. Leszczynski and an important collector, with his autograph ownership inscription "Ex Libris F. M. Ducis de Tencryn-Ossolinski", dated Lunéville, 12 Sept. 1741, to front pastedown, and a three-line handwritten French quotation from St. Augustine to lower pastedown. In all a good copy of a widely received work; this edition rarely seen at auction. Weber II, 204. Röhricht p. 208, no. 787. Estreicher XXVI, 90. Brunet IV, 1087. Graesse VI, 17. Baumgarten, Hall. Bibl. VI, 65f. Ebert II, 18596. Tobler 83. Cf. Aboussouan 769.‎

‎RAFFONE Paolo -‎

‎La fredda guerra. Iraqi Freedom : geopolitica del nuovo disordine mondiale.‎

‎Roma, Adnkronos, 2003, 8vo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 94 ( allegato a "Il Riformista" ) .‎

‎RAGOZIN, Zénaïda A.‎

‎Historia de Asiria desde el engrandecimiento del Imperio hasta la caída de Nínive. Vertido del inglés por Sido García del Mazo. Con un prólogo y notas de manuel Sales Ferré.‎

‎M., El Progreso Editorial, 1890, 22 x 14,5 cm., láminas e ilustraciones intercaladas, XXVI págs. + mapa plegado + 457 + IX págs. (Falto de la cubierta original anterior).‎

‎Rahman Mushaqur edited by‎

‎Muslim World: geography and development‎

‎Univ Press America 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Univ Press America paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 018866 ISBN : 081916559X 9780819165596

‎Rai Milan with Noam Chomsky‎

‎War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War on Iraq‎

‎London: Verso 2002. Trade paperback first edition illustrated 240pp includes references and index. Scattered highlights throughout else a very good copy. 380 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. London: Verso, 2002 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 24147 ISBN : 1859845010 9781859845011

‎Rajab Jehan S.‎

‎Palestinian Costume‎

‎London and New York: Kegal Paul International. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0710302835 . Profusely illustrated with color photos. Glossary bibliography index. Historical survey of Palestinian textiles jewelry regional costume and embroidery motifs. ; 160 pages . Kegal Paul International hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 39917 ISBN : 0710302835 9780710302830

‎Ralph H. Retzlaff‎

‎Village Government In India -‎

‎Asia Publishing - 1962. Hardcover/pub.1962/Fair condition/140 pages - Professor Retzlaff describes the pattern of rural government organizations in India and presents a critical evaluation of the existing operation of villag e panchayats. KR623089. Hard Cover. Good. Asia Publishing - Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23089

‎RAMAZAN YILDIRIM.‎

‎20. yüzyil Islâm dünyasinda hilâfet tartismalari.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 287 p. 20. yüzyil Islâm dünyasinda hilâfet tartismalari. Controversy and discussions of caliphate in Islamic world in 19th century. ISLAM Islamic world Philosophy Caliphate Middle East Arabic culture Political history Philosophy.‎

‎Ramazani Rouhollah K‎

‎The Foreign Policy of Iran 1500-1941: A Developing Nation in World Affairs‎

‎Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1966. Chipped dj. Index. xviii 330 pages. 24 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1966) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6524

‎RAMSAUR (Ernest Edmondson)‎

‎The Young Turks. Prelude to the Revolution of 1908. Translation and commentary by R. W. Thomson.‎

‎Beyrouth, Khayats, 1965. In-8, rel. d’éditeur toile grise, XII-180 pp., texte anglais. Bibliogr., index (Oriental reprints, n°12).‎

‎Harcover, grey cloth. Fine condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 555884

‎RAMSAY (Sir William M.)‎

‎Social basis of Roman power in Asia Minor.‎

‎Amsterdam, Adolf M. Hakkert, 1967. In-8, rel. pleine toile marron, titre doré au dos et sur le plat sup., X-305 pp.‎

‎Très bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 592522

‎RAMSAY (W.M.)‎

‎The Revolution in Constantinople and Turkey. A Diary. With Episodes and Photographs by Lady Ramsay.‎

‎London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. In-8, rel. d’éditeur pleine toile verte ornée en doré, XV-323 pp., 34 pl. en photogravure h.-t. Edition originale‎

‎Hardcover, green cloth ornamented. Spine faded, scarce and light foxing. Good copy, in first edition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 556950

‎Ramusio, Giovanni Battista.‎

‎Delle navigationi et viaggi in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, nella quale si contengono la descrittione dell' Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varii viaggi, dalla citta di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso à Calicut, & infin' all' isole Molucche, dove nascono le spetierie, et la navigatione attorno il mondo. Venice, heredi di Lucantonio Giunti, 1554-1574.‎

‎3 parts in 3 folio volumes (302 x 205 mm). (4), 34, 436 ff. 30, 248 ff. 6, 34, 455 (not 456) ff. With a total of 51 engravings in the text (7 full-page) and 12 double-page maps and plans (2 full-page). 20th-c. full brown morocco, double-gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, mottled edges. Stored in custom-made calf-edged slipcases. Perfectly complete copy of this superb collection of travels, composed of the first edition of the 3rd part and the second edition of the 1st and 2nd part. The second edition, widely enlarged, of the 1st part, is the first and only one to present the 3 double-page maps representing Africa and India that had not been printed in the first edition of 1550, and which would not be reprinted in the 3rd edition of 1563 since the wood plates of these 3 maps had been destroyed in the fire that ravaged Giunti's workshop in 1557. - "This work, which served as a model to Hakluyt, was the first systematical collection of voyages that had so far appeared [...] It [...] is carefully and intelligently done" (Cox). "All authors are unanimous of their praise of Ramusio's choice of published narratives. Locke, the English philosopher, states that it is 'the most perfect work of that nature in any language'. Harrisse writes, 'The publication of Ramusio's "Raccolta" may be said to open an era in the literary history of Voyage and Navigation. Instead of accounts carelessly copied and translated from previous collections, perpetuating errors and anachronisms, we find in this valuable work original narratives which betray the hand of a scholar of great critical acumen'" (Borba de M.). The first volume, mainly dedicated to Africa and South Asia, happily includes several travel reports of the utmost importance for the exploration of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf region. Lodovico Varthema's travel report, famous for detailing the first recorded visit of a Westerner to Mecca, indeed the first western encounter with the Arab world, contains accounts of the holy cities of as well as of the port of Jeddah, information on Bedouin life and costume, etc. (ff. 162-166). - The account of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India is comparable in importance only to Columbus’s in the west, as it “opened the way for the maritime invasion of the East by Europe” (PMM 42). Da Gama’s pioneering sea voyage ranks amongst the greatest historic events of the second millennium and as “one of the defining moments in the history of exploration” (BBC History, online). It is also considered the turning point in the political history of the Arabian Gulf region, followed as it was by a prolonged period of east-west commerce, conquest and conflict. Critically, the excerpt here published includes details on "una isola [i. e., Julfar] verso il colfo Persico dove altro non si fa che pescar perle" (I, f. 132). - Duarte Barbosa's report includes accounts of Mecca and Medina (f. 323), the ports of Jeddah (ibid.) and Aden (f. 324), the Arab kingdom of Hormuz (ff. 324-327), Julfar and the islands in the Arabian Gulf (f. 325, with reference to pearl-diving), etc. Also, we find the very early and highly influential, albeit imprecise data on the Kuwait region: place names such as Lorom, Gostaque, Bacido, Conga, Menahaon (p. 325) etc. which Slot discusses at some length: "Much of the toponymic information in the Kuwait region on the maps from the Gastaldi group is based on an erroneous interpretation of Duarte Barbosa's text. From this text come the strange names of places in the area of Kuwait like Costaqui (Kuhistaq) which should in fact be placed on the other side of the Gulf [...] Loron [...] might be an error for the Karun River which is on the Persian side just east of the Shatt al-Arab. Then follows inside the inlet of the Gulf of Kuwait the name Manahon. Then follows around this 'Gulf of Kuwait' three names which are cased by erroneous plotting [...]: Congo (Bandar Kong), Costaqui (Kuhistaq) and Bacido (Basaidu) with the offshore island of Queximi (Qism). These are names taken from [...] Duarte Barbosa's book and erroneously plotted on this coast" (Origins of Kuwait, p. 15). - The volume also includes a set of three woodcut maps by Gastaldi: the first showing Africa, the second showing the Indian subcontinent, the Strait of Hormuz, the Eastern half of the Gulf, and the Indian Ocean, while the third shows Southeast Asia and the East Indies. These were a great advance on earlier maps, including even Gastaldi's own, taking into account new information provided by Portuguese explorers. Many of the topographic names in the Gulf region derive from the forms used by these navigators and can be identified, sometimes tentatively, from their place on the first two of these maps and from the early accounts of the voyages: "Cor. Dulfar" (Dhofar), the island "Macira" (Masirah), "C. Resalgate" (Ras al Had?), "Galatia" (the ancient site Qalhat), "Mazcate" (Muscat), the island "Quexumo" (Qeshm), "Ormus" (Hormuz), and there is even an unlabelled city close to the present-day Abu Dhabi. - Occasional handwritten ink notes. Waterstain on the lower part of vol. 2, ff. 31-35; some browned leaves; otherwise fine, a washed copy. Provenance: Professor Eva G. R. Taylor (1879-1966), historian of science and the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the UK, presented to Birkbeck College, University of London (bookplate) and sold through Sotheby's in 1990. Sabin 67731, 67737, 67740. Harrisse 304. Church 99. Borba de Moraes² 698f. Bosch 46. Cox I, 28. Cordier, BS 1939. Fumagalli (Bibl. Etiopica) 83 (note). Gay 258. Adams R 135, 137, 140. Brunet IV, 1100f. Slot, The Origins of Kuwait (1998), p. 15 & 187.‎

‎Randal Jonathan C‎

‎Going All the Way: Christian Warlords Israeli Adventurers and the War in Lebanon‎

‎<p>New York: Viking 1983 1st ed. 304pp. hardback sm 4to: Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover top & fore edges are age darkened; else a clean complete & tight copy A war correspondent's report on the 1982 summer war in Lebanon.</p> New York: Viking hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20321 ISBN : 0670422592 9780670422593