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Reinhard, Max (ed.).
Das Pferd in der Kunst. Erinnerungsband der Ausstellung "Das Pferd in der Kunst". Hrsg. vom Kulturamt der Hauptstadt der Bewegung, München, Direktor Max Reinhard. Munich, Schmidt, 1936.
Large folio (450 x 330 mm). 114 ff., illustrated throughout with original photographs, with tissue guards. Original padded cloth with inlaid cast metal coverpiece. Stunning album commemorating the National Socialist exhibition on the history of the horse as represented in art from the stone age to the 20th century, held in Munich's Residenz from July 22 until November 15, 1936. Only 300 copies were produced (this copy is numbered 220). Perfectly preserved. Cf. OCLC 162880518 (4to).
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Reinhart T.
Distruggere la Palestina – la politica israeliana dopo il 1948 – postfazione di U. Tramballi
Allo stato di nuovo
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Reinharz Jehuda
Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman
Oxford Univ Pr 1993. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Oxford Univ Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 324610 ISBN : 0195072154 9780195072150
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Reland, Adrian, et al.
Four Treatises Concerning the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Mahometans [...]. London, J. Darby for B. Lintott, 1712.
8vo. 85, (11), 254 pp. Contemporary boards; spine rebacked with calf; giltstamped spine label. All edges red. Four important 17th and 18th century Western treatises on Islam, uniting works by Adrian Reland, Albert Bobovius, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Reland's two works in especial, first published in 1705, were considered a groundbreaking achievement: the first contains a brief dogmatic treatise (translated from an Arabic ms.), providing a Muslim self-portrait, while the second rectifies prevalent misconceptions about Islam (cf. Fück). The material, including translations of many passages, was drawn from original sources, chiefly from the 11th-century philosopher Ahmad ibn al-Husayn Abu Shuja` al-Isfahani (cf. Quérard, La France litt. VII, 512). Adriaan Reelant (1676-1718) held the chair of oriental languages at the University of Utrecht. The third part, originally published in Latin (Oxford 1690) as "Tractus de Turcorum liturgia", also discusses the pilgrimage to Mecca and includes notes by Thomas Hyde. The fourth part, by Mathurin Veyssière de Lacroze, was first published in his "Dissertations historiques sur divers sujets" (Rotterdam, 1707; cf. Quérard IV, 381). The present translation includes "a letter from Mr. Leibnitz to the author" (pp. 245-254). - From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Chauvin XII, 1384. OCLC 15270828. Cf. Fück 102 (Reland). Not in Brunet.
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RENAN Ernest
SAINT PAUL. Histoire des origines du Christianisme, Livre Troisième qui comprend depuis le départ de Saint Paul pour sa première mission jusqu'à l'arrivée de Saint Paul à Rome (45-61). 12e édition.
Paris Calmann Lévy 1888. In-8 LXXVII 572pp dont table. Demi chagrintabac à coins signés, dos à nerfs orné de filets et cadres de filets dorés, tête brique, non rogné, plats de la couverture conservés, reliure de l'époque. Orné d'un belle carte en couleurs dépliante. Rousseurs par endroits. Bel exemplaire, complet du texte et de la carte, reliure soignée, solide, en bon état, décorative.
Bookseller reference : GITh317
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Renan, Joseph Ernest.
Mission de Phénicie. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale/Nationale, 1864-1874.
Folio (ca. 275 x 365 and 370 x 555 mm). Altogether 13 volumes (7 text volumes and 7 issues of plates in 6 volumes). (4), 884, (4) pp. With 70 engraved and lithographed numbered plates, including 1 folded plate, 1 folded map, and 8 plans, 3 of which folded; a few in original hand colour. Contemporary wrappers. Plates stored in two half cloth portfolios. First edition. - A rare complete set of this monumental description of the 1860/61 archaeological expedition to Lebanon and Syria, commissioned by Napoleon III and led by the renowned scholar of Semitic languages, Joseph Ernest Renan. The text volumes give a vivid account of the expedition, its route and findings, and include several illustrations within the text, while the plates provide additional documentation of the visited archaeological sites. Engraved by Jules Penel (b. 1833), Georges Erhard Schièble (1821-80), and others, they include a map of the expedition area, Phoenician monuments at Amrit, Arwad, Byblos, Sidon and other places, as well as a folded plate showing the Kabr Hiram mosaic and 3 folded plans depicting Sidon and the Sidon necropolis. This important work documents the state of the excavations at that time and triggered further research on the Phoenicians. A facsimile edition appeared in 1998. - Text volumes uncut. Some wrappers faded, extremities bumped. Paper somewhat browned as common; plates fresh and clean.
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Republique Tunisienne Ministere des Affaires de la Femme et de la Famille. Centre de Recherches d'Etudes de Documentation et d
Catalogue Elyssa. 1er Volume
Tunis Tunisia: Editions Du CREDIF 1995. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the French and Arabic languages. Sound binding. Pages clean bright. Wrappers have handling wear heavier wear at corner tips. ; Bibliography of published works on women in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa. ; 9.5" tall; 443 pages. Editions Du CREDIF unknown
Bookseller reference : 4630025
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RESAT GENÇ.
Gelb, Rot, Grün farben in Glauben und in den Nationalen Traditionen der Türken.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Foolscap 8vo. (20 x 11 cm). In German. [ix], 98 p., color ills. Gelb, Rot, Grün farben in Glauben und in den Nationalen Traditionen der Türken. German Edition of Genç's 'Colors in the Turkish beliefs and national customs yellow-red-green'. The people and communities originated from the Turkish race were spread from two main streams: Oghuz and Kipchak - The Oghuz group consisted of twenty four tribes who were referred in many national sources started with Mahmud of Kashgar. The Kipchak originated communities who settled in Asia from North East to North West, in Eastern Europe -even in Western Europe-, and in Caucasus were divided also into 24 groups. The Kipchaks like Oghuzs had 24 different seals (damga, tamga, tamka), however we do not have related scientific public opinion unfortunately. Regarding the relations of Turkish communities settled in Anatolia with the other communities coming from the same origin, the historic, sociological and ethnographic sources are necessary to be restudied.
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Revue Commentaire, "Il n'y a pas de bonheur sans liberté, ni de liberté sans vaillance" - Fondée par Raymond Aron en 1978
Commentaire N°104
2003 Commentaire N°104, Volume 26, Hiver 2003-2004 - Grand In-8, Broché - pp. 769-1043 - Résumé en photographies
Bookseller reference : 103408
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Revusky A.
Jews in Palestine.
London King 1935. Octavo. Pp. xvi 390. Frontispiece map. With numerous halftone illustrations printed on different paper. Footnotes bibliography index. Hardcover original blue cloth spine gilt with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First British edition. Revusky offers "The first complete description of contemporary activities and developments in Palestine and a clear and interesting panorama of the various phases of Jewish work there." A fine copy of this rare edition. London, King, 1935. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0877
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REY (Emmanuel-Guillaume).
Notice sur la cavea de Roob ou Scheriat-El-Mandour
Paris, 1886 in-8, 11 pp., carte repliée, broché.
Bookseller reference : 226074
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REY (Emmanuel-Guillaume).
Recherches géographiques et historiques sur la domination des latins en Orient accompagnées de textes inédits ou peu connus du XIIe au XIVe siècle
Paris, 1877 gr. in-8, 74 pp., broché Rousseurs.
Bookseller reference : 226080
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REY (Emmanuel-Guillaume).
Résumé chronologique de l'histoire des Princes d'Antioche
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1896 gr. in-8, 87 pp., broché
Bookseller reference : 226081
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Reygasse, Superior of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) in Mount Lebanon (dates unknown).
3 autograph letters signed. Tripoli and Eden, 1855-1856.
(Large) 4to. Altogether 8¾ pp. on 3 bifolia. Three letters to the Prelate in Austro-Hungary, Jacob Mislin (1807-78), signed, containing reports of the position of the Lebanese Christians, especially about Youssef Bey Karam (1823-89), a Maronite freedom fighter in Mount Lebanon: "Le Cheik Joseph Caram, sur l'avis qu'il avait reçu de votre Grandeur s'était préparé à faire une brillante réception à leur Altesse Royale le Duc de Brabant et son auguste épouse, il avait mis à contribution tout ce que son pays pouvait lui fournir de ressources matérielles, pour donner à leur Altesse un témoignage éclatant de la vénération qui lui et tout son pays professent pour elles. Après de nombreux préparatifs, ayant appris que leur Altesse n'avait pu exécuter leur voyage au cèdres, sa douleur a été à son comble. Vous connaissez ses instincts pour les devoirs de l'hospitalité; En cette occasion ils s'étaient déployés au delà de tout ce qu'on peut dire. Pendant les dix ou douze jours de son attente, il avait mis plusieurs villages à contributions, pour réparer les chemins trop raboteux et qui pouvaient offrir quelques dangers, il avait aussi envoyé au haut des montagnes ôter la neige tout le long de la route depuis les cèdes jusqu'à l'autre côté du Liban; il avait entretenu pendant plusieurs jours une cinquantaine de cavaliers dans sa maison; il avait acheté et distribué huit quintaux de poudre à tous ses gens armés aux quels il donnait quelque teinture de la manœuvre militaire pour que leurs salves fussent exécutées avec ordre; il avait fait de grands achat de tentures pour tapisser tout l'intérieur de sa maison et ses avenues &c.&c.&c., le tout à ses frais, malgré la maudicité de ses ressources. Son cœur généreux et on ne peut plus désintéressé serait certes loin d'espérer quelque compensation à toutes ces dépenses, il se tiendrait même grièvement offensé sur le point d'honneur, s'il savait que je vous au fait connaître ces détails; c'est donc à son inçu et sur le conseil de quelques uns de ses nombreux amis que je me donne la liberté de vous en entretenir, afin que si vous le jugez convenable, vous portiez ces faits à la connaissance de leur Altesse Royale; votre ami se croirait déjà trop flatté de savoir que sa bonne volonté leur est connue. Le Prince de Jouinville dans son voyage en Syrie l'avait pris tellement en affection qu'il voulait l'emmener à la cour, si l'Auguste sœur de ce digne Prince voulait lui continuer le même intérêt, nous la prierions de vouloir bien obtenir de la porte Ottomane, pour le Cheik Joseph Caram, le titre serait le prix de son parfait dévouement, non seulement pour le servir de leur Altesse Royale, mais encore pour celui de tous les européens qui voyagent dans ces pays et cela depuis un bon nombre d'années, suivant en cela les traces de son illustre Père. Mille pardons, Monseigneur, de la liberté que je prends moi pauvre missionnaire; c'est peut-être un excès de tendresse de ma part" (10 May 1855). - "Le scheik Joseph Caram gouverneur d'Eden, Sgorta, […] vient de scavoir l'honorable et précieux souvenir de son Altesse Royale le Duc de Brabant. Cette marque distinguée de la munificence du Prince a été reçue avec de grands transports d'enthousiasme et une pompe vraiment triomphale. On est allé à rencontre de la précieuse epingle, avec le même élan et la même solemnité que si c'eut été son Altesse en personne qui venait honorer ces contrées de sa personne. Le Scheik Joseph ne fait rien à moitié: il a voulu que la foule nombreuse qui faisait cortège au Cadeau Royal, depuis Tripoli, avec chants, musique, salves, tournois, comprit la signification qu'il voulait donner à cette fête. […] publiant avec une grande conviction, en face de tous, que tout honneur vient de Dieu et doit retourner à Dieu, que ce n'est qu'en vue de glorifier sa souveraine Majesté qu'on doit accepter la gloire mondaine; que le glorieux Prince qui veut bien condescendre à honorer la personne n'a d'autre dessein dans ses largesses que d'étendre le royaume de celui de la libéralité du quel il tient le sceptre et la couronne […]" (1 Feb. 1856). - "Le fanatisme des Musulmans se réveille. Un de ces jours le tribunal de Tripoli a condamné à (3) mort un Maronite pour avoir maudit Jésus Christ. Ce n'est pas, comme vous le pensez bien, par respect pour la religion chrétienne et son divin instituteur, mais pour avoir raison de condamner à la même peine de mort quiconque blasphémerait le nom de Mahomet : car disent-ils la loi du Coran est encore dans toute sa vigueur et le Hati-Scherif n'a pas voulu toucher la question de la liberté de conscience […]" (21 June 1856).
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REYMOND (Paul)
Histoire de la navigation dans le canal de Suez.
Le Caire, I.F.A.O., 1956. In-8 broché, 274 pp., 33 fig. in t. (cartes, reprod. gravures...), 11 graphiques dépliants, importantes annexes et statistiques in fine.
Bookseller reference : 595899
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Reynolds Dwight editor
Interpreting the Self : Autobiography in the Arabic Literacy Tradition
Berkeley CA U.S.A.: University of California Press. NEW. 2001. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall 0520226674 . University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : MiddleEast05 ISBN : 0520226674 9780520226678
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Reynolds Dwight editor
Interpreting the Self : Autobiography in the Arabic Literacy Tradition
Berkeley CA U.S.A.: Berkeley CA U.S.A.: University of California Press 2001 2001. Paperback. VG-. 336pp. Index Refs. Glossary Appendices. Rubbing wraps wear extremities corners rough. Paperback. VG-. Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 2001 Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048759 ISBN : 0520226674 9780520226678
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Rezun Miron
Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East
<p>Hardback 140 pages fine condition. </p> Praeger hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1590 ISBN : 0275943240 9780275943240
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RHONE (Arthur)
Coup d'oeil sur l'état du Caire ancien et moderne. Illustrations de Mm. Paul Chardin, C. Mauss, J. Bourgoin, etc.
Paris, Imprimerie de A. Quantin, 1882. In-4, rel. de l'ép. pleine perc. brune, titre doré en long, 48 pp., dessin au front., très nb.croquis, dessins, vignettes en n/b. in-t. Envoi autographe de l'auteur à A. Lepoux au faux titre.
Bookseller reference : 596001
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RICCIOTTI GIUSEPPE
CANTIERE DI HIRAM (IL) - MATERIALI PER COSTRUZIONI SPIRITUALI
Pagine: 340 . Illustrazioni: Foto in bianco e nero nel testo. . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Brossura grigia editoriale . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Timbro.Bruniture. Da Israele all'Egitto viaggi nella terra degli Ebrei e di Gesù. Raccolta di articoli pubblicati sull "Avvenire d'Italia" .
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Rice, C. Colliver
Persian women & their ways; the experiences & impressions of a long sojourn amongst the women of the land of the shah, with an intimate description of their characteristics, customs & manner of living
Small quarto in grey minimally ornamented cloth; 2 preliminary leaves, 9-312 pages, frontispiece, illustrations (map) plates 22 cm Women -- Iran. Manners and customs. Social life and customs. Iran. Persia. Islam. Travel
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Rich, Edmund Tillotson.
Report and Estimates of Cost of Motor Roads in South East Persia Between Bandar Abbas and Kerman. Delhi/Simla, 1917/1918.
Folio (218 x 340 mm). Two parts: 1) Confidential. Survey by Major E.T. Rich, R.E., of routes between Bandar-Abbas and Kerman. General Staff, India. Simla: Government Branch Press, 1917. 9, 13, (1), 7, 16 = 46 pp. With six maps and plans (two folding), a proof plate with 2 photo views, and 13 leaves of original manuscript, typewritten and printed telegrams related to the report. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. - 2) Confidential. Report by Major E. T. Rich, R.E., on the Construction of Motor Roads in South Persia between Bandar Abbas and Kerman. 1917. General Staff, India. 2 vols. Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1918. Vol. 1: (2), IV, 38 pp. With 12 leaves of plates (including one proof plate) and 8 maps and plans (3 folding). Vol. 2: 39-54 pp. With 3 folding maps. Occasional red ink notes by Rich in text and on the maps/plans; original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Occasional red ink notes by Rich in text and on the maps/plans; both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Custom-made hardcover binding with the first publisher’s wrapper of the original report pasted to the front board. With a large folding linen backed map of Persia in the pocket at rear. Addenda (see below). Special custom-bound, historically important archive, compiled by E. T. Rich and containing confidential printed reports, 18 maps and plans, as well as original documents related to the survey of potential routes for a motor road between Bandar Abbas and Kerman in southern Persia. The survey was carried out by Rich as a part of the Persian campaign during the First World War on the special orders of the Chief of General Staff in India. As a part of WWI military operations, Bandar Abbas was occupied by British forces under command of Sir Percy Sykes in March 1916, and the survey was apparently undertaken in order to establish additional supply routes to the war’s Persian front. Rich was ordered "to report as soon as possible on the best route for a road to take motor lorry traffic from Bandar Abbas to Kerman and to frame estimates from the same and proposals as to the best way of carrying out the work." The survey was done between December 1916 and June 1917; a year later Rich was promoted a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.) for his work. Nevertheless, the road never was constructed, probably because of the cardinal changes on the Persian front after the collapse of the Russian front line as a result of the revolution in February 1917. - The volume contains: confidential reports by Rich; printed "Working notes" on the survey; maps and plans of Bandar Abbas, Kerman, and the area in between; telegrams sent to him from the Chief of General Staff (Delhi & Simla), Surveyor General’s Office in Calcutta, British Consul in Bandar Abbas; tables with distances and estimates of construction, printed views of the area et al. Several leaves slightly age-toned, but overall a very good custom-made copy. - Supplemented with Rich’s copy of a typewritten dispatch from the British Vice-Consul in Bandar Abbas to the Chief of Roodbar (South Persia) Zarghan-us-Saltaneh, dated Bandar Abbas, 2 Dec. 1916. In the dispatch the consul asks for the assistance to Rich who is going to visit the area under the chief’s control during the course of his road survey. The copy is signed by the consul and has his manuscript note "Original sent by special messenger direct to Zarghan-us-Saltaneh." - There are also two autograph signed letters by Rich, addressed to his aunt in London and written while on field service in Southern Persia. The letters are dated 10 & 25 Dec. 1916, housed in the original envelope with a postal stamp of Bandar Abbas, and contain interesting notes about Rich’s work and his observations on the native life. [Near Kerman:] "It is Xmas evening & as I have no one to talk to, the nearest white man being over 100 miles away, I am writing instead. Being high up over 5000 feet in the mountains, it is bitterly cold & proper Xmas weather, but personally I’d prefer it a bit warmer as I can’t keep warm no how at night which means continuously waking up [...] The food of the villagers about here is most strange, being dates & bread about 2 lbs of each per diem & nothing else. They feed the horses & cows on dates & even the dogs. I eat them once a day for lunch which consists of porridge, bread & cheese & dates. I often envy the meals my servants get at home when I am out on these expeditions." - E. T. Rich (1874-1937) was a British military engineer and surveyor, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He graduated from Sandhurst with the Pollock Medal and was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. In 1895 he went out to India and was posted to railway survey work in Burma. In 1905-1909 Rich worked as survey officer on the Indian North-West Frontier, and took part in the Bazar Valley and Mohmand Campaigns of 1908 (as a divisional and a chief survey officer respectively). During the latter he was slightly wounded and for his services was promoted brevet-major. In 1911 Rich was appointed the head of the survey office on the Burma frontier post at Myitkyina, where he carried out the survey of the border with Tibet and Yunnan. In 1916/17 he was in charge of the survey party looking for the alternative routes between Bandar Abbas and Kerman in South Persia; in 1918 he was in charge of the North West Persia Survey Detachment which accompanied British intervention in the Caspian under command of General Dunsterville. Rich carried out important surveys in Baku, Batum and Tiflis. After WWI Rich returned to Burma where he became the head of the Burma Circle of the Survey of India. In 1920-22 while surveying the unadministered territory between Burma and Assam he encountered slavery and human sacrifices still practiced there; in 1925 he took part in the Sir Harcourt Butler’s Mission to the Hukawng Valley to suppress slavery. Rich retired with the rank of Colonel and C.I.E. in 1929. "Colonel Rich was a great linguist, and besides his knowledge of Urdu, Pushtu, and Persian, he was able to converse in Yunnanese and several dialects of Burma - Kachin, Maru, and Lisaw [...] He was a keen explorer throughout his career and did much to encourage a spirit of adventure in younger officers who served under him” (Obituary, The Geographical Journal 91.1 [1938], p. 96).
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RICHARD (Jean)
La Papauté et les missions d'Orient au Moyen Age (XIIIe-XVe siècles). Deuxième édition augmentée d'une postface
Rome, Ecole Française, 1998 gr. in-8, XXXIV-325 pp., cartes in-t., index, bibliographie, broché, couverture illustrée.
Bookseller reference : 209778
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RICHARD (Jean)
Le Royaume latin de Jérusalem. Préface de René Grousset
Paris, P.U.F., 1953 petit in-8, 367 pp., demi-chagrin bleu à coins, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, premier plat de couverture conservé (reliure moderne).
Bookseller reference : 220426
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Richard Clogg
Anglo-Greek Attitudes: Studies in History
St. Martin's Press/St. Antony's College 2000. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dustjacket has some wear along the edges. Cover has light wear. Light foxing on page edges. Stated first printing. St. Martin's Press/St. Antony's College hardcover
Bookseller reference : 125 ISBN : 0312235232 9780312235239
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Richard Locke
Bantustan Gaza -
CAABU Publishing - 1985. PB/pub.1985/Gd. condition/70 pages - Examines the Gaza Strip history under the British Mandate and then under Egyptian rule. AE74499z. Soft Cover. Good. CAABU Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 4499z
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Richard N. Frye
Iran
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1954. 1st Edition . Fine/Good. 5 x 7.5 inches 12.5 x 19 cm. Dust jacket: Heavy foxing slight wear to top edge unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good Plus. Book: A few tiny spots to top page edge otherwise in perfect condition. Overall book condition is Fine. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe �11.55; USA �16.68; Oceania �15.13; Rest of World �14.56. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches 12.5 x 19 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 126 George Allen and Unwin Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1172F004
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Richard T. Reynolds Col. USAF
Heart of the Storm the Genesis of the Air Campaign Against Iraq
Middle East Wars: Air University Press 1996. 147 pgs. Photos. 3rd printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Air University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 009110
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Richards Alan
Egypt's Agricultural Development 1800-1980: Technical and Social Change
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1982. Scholarly study describes and interprets the transformation of Egyptian agriculture from the beginning of cotton cultivation in the early nineteeth century to the economic changes under Anwar Sadat. The author uses both microeconomic theory and social and political analysis to show how the interaction of social classes technical change government policy and the international and state systems have shaped Egypt's agricultural development. 296 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MS-35 ISBN : 0865310998 9780865310995
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Richards Alan
Food States and Peasants: Analyses of the Agrarian Question in the Middle East
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1986. Comprehensive scholarly text examines the issues of food problems government policy and social class formation in the Middle East focusing on Turkey and Egypt. Topics covered include political economy of demand: food subsidies and political conflict; political economy of supply: taxes and subsidies; agrarian relations; transformation of the agricultural labor force; etc. 282 pp. Illustrated with 55 tables. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. . Westview Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : MS-18 ISBN : 0813371171 9780813371177
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Richardson, John.
A dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English. To which is prefixed a dissertation on the languages, literature, and manners of Eastern nations. Oxford, printed at the Clarendon Press, sold by J. Murray and D. Price, 1777-1780.
Folio (275 x 407 mm). 2 vols. (4), XLVIII, (16) pp. 2144 (but: 2136: skipping 441-448) cols. (4) pp., XX cols., (6) pp., 2286 cols. 19th century English calf. First edition of the first Persian-Arabic-English dictionary, edited by the orientalist Sir John Richardson (1740/41-1795). The first volume includes a dissertation on the languages, literature and manners of Eastern nations. ''An excellent work. As the first vol. or Persian, Arabic and English part was published separately, many more copies were sold than of the second or English, Persian, and Arabic. A few broken sets of the first volume being left, the booksellers were led to reprint several deficient sheets, and so with the copies left on hand of the second vol. they made up some perfect sets. But these are easily known from the original'' (Clarke), as they are printed in London in 1800. - "On 12 November 1767 [Richardson] was proposed for the Society of Antiquaries of London as of Furnival's Inn. In London he pursued both the law and the study of Arabic and Persian. In his oriental interests Richardson was much influenced by another young man, William Jones, who was already coming to be regarded as a prodigy of learning in Asian languages. With the growth of British territorial power in India the potential market for a Persian dictionary had aroused the interest of London publishers and by 1770 Jones and Richardson were working on a new version of Franciscus Meninski's 'Thesaurus linguarum orientalium', first published in 1680-87. Progress was very slow, and Jones withdrew to concentrate on his legal career, leaving the field to Richardson. Thanks to his 'ingenuity and perseverance' (memorial of A. Hamilton and G. Nicol to East India Company, 6 Feb 1776, BL OIOC, E/1/60, no. 26), an abridged version of the original project eventually appeared in two volumes in 1777 and 1780 as A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English. Fundamentally revised by others, notably by Charles Wilkins in 1806 and 1810, the dictionary was to have a long life, but although the company took 150 sets, there were few other subscribers and Richardson got little reward for the huge effort he had expended on it" (Marshall). - Bindings rubbed and worn, inner hinges partly split, endpapers renewed. Some staining and marginal repairs to interior; larger tears to 5 leaves, staining to both titles, ownership inscriptions partly inked out; both titles showing central repaired clipping as well as marginal strenghtening and collector's stamp. A large part of both volumes shows worming to gutter; a few leaves with repairs. Zaunmüller 189. Vater/Jülg 25. Graesse VI, 113. Cf. Brunet IV, 1285 (later ed. only, 1806-1810). Clarke, John. (1806). The Bibliographical Miscellany - Supplement, vol. 1 (London, 1806) pp. 273-274; for Richardson: Marshall, "Richardson, John [styled Sir John Richardson, ninth baronet] (1740/41-1795), orientalist", in: ODNB (online ed.).
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RICKLEFS M. C.
A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1200 Third Edition
Stanford University Press 2001. large pbk 495pp illustrns andmaps ISBN: 0804744807 covers sl shelf worn some problem in book production has left some later pages loose and pp 406- apparently missing remainder of text clean tight and unmarked would serve as a useful working copy Stanford University Press, 2001, paperback
Bookseller reference : Indo8 ISBN : 0804744807 9780804744805
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Ricks Thomas E
Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq
The Penguin Press 2006. clean unmarked copy. Hardback. Fine/Fine. The Penguin Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 355131 ISBN : 159420103x 9781594201035
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Ricoldus de Monte Crucis.
Confutatio Alcorani seu legis Saracenorum, ex graeco nuper in latinum traducta [per Bartholomeus Picenus de Montearduo]. [Basel, Nikolaus Kessler], ca. 1507.
Small 4to (140 x 187 mm). 68 ff. (but title is fragmentary, preserving the letterpress only, laid down to old paper). Near-contemporary full leather binding, spine rebacked. All edges red. Rare edition of this famous and scare refutation of the Qur'an. The Dominican Ricoldus (ca. 1243-1320) was sent to the orient as a missionary in 1288. He visited the Holy Land and travelled to Baghdad via Cilicia, Erzurum, and Tabriz. During his stay in Baghdad, Ricoldus studied the Qur'an and other works of Islamic theology, for controversial purposes, arguing with Nestorian Christians. He is said even to have begun a translation of the Qur'an about 1290, but it is not known whether this work was completed. - Ricoldus returned to his native Florence around the year 1300 to compose or edit several works about the Middle East. While many of his writings praise the Muslims' social behaviour, hospitality and sense of honour, his best-known work, the "Contra legem Sarracenorum", is a notorious refutation of the Islamic doctrines. Largely a compilation from William of Tripolis, Marcus of Toledo and the "Contrarietas alpholica", and probably an early effort written in preparation of Ricoldus's mission, it contends that the Qur'an's self-contradictory passages, confused arrangement and want of miracles prove that Islam cannot be a true revealed religion. Despite Ricoldo's hostility towards Islam his work shows specific knowledge of the Qur'an and overcomes one important prejudicial error common to other medieval criticisms of Islam: the perception that Muhammad introduced a christological heresy. The work was widely received; a Greek translation was prepared as early as 1385 by Demetrius Kydones, which was re-translated into Latin by Bartolomeo Piceno as "Improbatio" or "Confutatio Alcorani". A Spanish version appeared at Toledo in 1502, and Luther translated parts into German in 1530 (his "Verlegung des Alcoran" appeared in 1542). It influenced Pope Pius II, John of Segovia and Nicolaus Cusanus (cf. LMA VII, 808). - Binding worn but professionally repaired; spine rebacked. Some fingerstaining and browning with occasional slight worming to gutter. Trimmed rather closely with printed marginalia cropped in places, title fragment torn out and mounted, preserving some old handwritten annotations. Provenance: Mehmed V (1844-1918), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909, with his his Arabic bookplate on the pastedown. VD 16, R 2328. BNHCat R 296. This edition not in Panzer.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias / Engelbrecht, Martin.
"Unterschiedliche Arten der Pferde und Manier zu reiten" ("Various kinds of horses and manners of riding"). No place, mid-18th c.
8 engravings, 255 x 180 mm each. Attractive series of horses (and mules) used in Arabia, Germany, England, Spain, Tartary, Turkey, and Hungary. - Captions and four-line descriptions in German and French.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias.
Arabisches Pferd. Cheval d'Arabie. Equus Arabiae. No place, 18th century.
Engraving. 285 x 357 mm. Matted. An Arabian horse led by a bedouin, engraved by the young Martin Elias Ridinger after a drawing by his famous father.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias.
Türkischer Pferdsaufbuz samt einem die nötigen Anmerkungen hierzu enthaltenden Brief. Augsburg, Martin Elias Ridinger, 1752.
Oblong folio (450 x 336 mm). Letterpress title page (with extensive description on the reverse) and 4 engraved plates. Contemporary blank wrappers, stored in custom-made cardboard portfolio with giltstamped cover label. First edition. A fine series of four elaborately decorated Turkish horses, based on drawings prepared in Constantinople and sent to Ridinger by Baron Gudenus. As stated in the letter from Constantinople, dated 7 March 1741 and printed on the reverse of the title page, the Ottoman dignitaries could be distinguished by the various kinds of luxurious cloths, jewels, and finery they applied to their stables. The officials would vie with each other for the most splendid equestrian adornments, often showering their animals with gold and silver, diamonds, silk, and delicate embroideries. At a state reception in 1740, the Sultan was reported to have shown a parade of 30 horses, each covered in a different kind of precious stone. Such a horse laden with ornament, led into the seraglio by a Janissary, is pictured in plate I: four ostrich feathers adorn the head (a distinction afforded only to the Sultan's personal stable), while the chest bears a splendid rosette belt. Plate II shows a rising "Divani", such as is ridden by the Grand Vizier when dressed in state, with silver chains jingling from its halter and an embroidered blanket under the saddle. Plate III shows another Divani (titled "du coté gauche", but a rare variant imprint from front right), with different bridle and blanket; an elaborately tooled gilt thong is strapped across the chest. The final plate IV shows the "cheval de main d'un Pacha" besides a large kiosk, with a long blanket, rich silver and gemstone decoration and two leopard skins. - Some fingerstaining in the margins, but well preserved. Thienemann 594-597.
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Riesenthal, Oskar von.
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text. Kassel, Theodor Fischer / C. B. Griesbach's Verlag, Gera, 1894.
Folio (302 x 402 mm). (6), 56 pp. With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth. Second edition of this plate set first published in 1876-78, including several much-sought depictions of falcons. "As these birds of prey are rendered with the utmost attention to detail, the description of their exterior may be confined to that which is not evident from the images or whatever is of particular noteworthiness" (cf. preface). - Binding rubbed and stained; lower hinge beginning to split. Nissen, IVB 782. OCLC 302340448. Cf. Harting 127.
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Rigot, Félix-Jean-Jacques.
Nuzhat al-mahafil fi ma'rifat al-mafasil. Hadhihi risalah fi mafasil al-faras. Bulaq (Cairo), Dar al-Tiba'ah al-'Amirah (Matba'at Bulaq), [July 1841 CE =] Jumada II 1257 H.
8vo (125 x 182 mm). (8), 80 pp. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt dentelle borders along both covers. Ottoman Turkish treatise on equestrian anatomy: a translation of the "Traité des articulations du Cheval" (Paris 1827) by the French veterinary surgeon Félix Rigot (1803-47), translated by Muhammad 'Abd al-Fattahh al-Misri and edited by Mustafa Hasan Kassab. - Old ticket inscribed in French "Arabe - Chirurgie" pasted to inside of lower cover. A very good, clean copy. OCLC 56713283.
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Rihani, Ameen.
Around the Coasts of Arabia. London , Constable, 1930.
8vo. X, (2), 364 pp. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic plates and a full-page map in text. Original publisher's black cloth, with title in gold on spine. First edition, British issue, of a travelogue by the distinguished Lebanese Arab-American writer Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). Divided into five parts, it describes his time with King Husein in the Hijaz, the Idrisi in Asir, Aal Sabah, the sheiks of Kuwait, Aal Kalifah, the sheiks of Bahrein, and Aden and the protectorates. It is one of the most important sources for the historical background of the Idrisid Emirate of Asir. - Rihani, who moved to New York when he was twelve, is considered the founding father of Arab-American literature. His early English writings mark the beginning of a school of literature that is Arab in its concern, culture and characteristic, English in language, and American in spirit and platform. - A few occasional spots, but otherwise in very good condition.
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Risk Allah Effendi (Habeeb).
The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon. London, James Madden, 1854.
8vo. XII, 400 pp. Contemporary full blue calf, the spine elaborately gilt, blue silk page-marker, all edges gilt. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free-endpaper. Second edition. "The author, a Christian Arab from Lebanon, gives a very interesting account of life among the native Christian population. The work consists of a mixture of autobiographical anecdotes, travels and information on Syria and Lebanon. There is also an amusing chapter on how a young Syrian sees England, plus a very interesting account of silk-worn culture" (Blackmer, 1427). - Minor wear to extremities of spine, corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Cf. Blackmer 1427 (first edition).
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Rittersberger-TiliÁ, Helga
Rethinking global migration : practices, policies and discourses in the European neighbourhood
Red/white octavo; 255 p : b&w ill/maps ; 24 cm. Middle East -- Emigration and immigration; Laws; Policies.
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Rivière, Henri / Migeon, Gaston.
La céramique dans l'art musulman. Paris, Émile Lévy, 1913.
Imperial folio (405 x 474 mm). 2 vols. (10), 12, (2) pp. With 10 colour illustrations in the the text and 100 full-page coloured illustrations mounted on plates. Sumptuous dark brown contemporary full calf, gilt, covers lined in silk, with silk endpapers. First edition of this monumental publication on Islamic pottery, no. 107 of 200 copies printed. All ceramics pictured within the two volumes are described in detail with place and date of origin as well as the current owner (mostly French noble or institutional collections). Includes a bibliography on the subject and list of plates. - Union Club bookplate. Contemporary bindings somewhat rubbed; hinges professionally repaired, otherwise a fine copy, clean throughout. Rare. Not in Arntzen/Rainwater.
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Rivlin Benjamin & Joseph S. Szyliowicz eds
The Contemporary Middle East: Tradition and Innovation
New York: Random House 1965. Essays by numerous authors. Maps. Light cover stains. x 576 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Random House, (1965) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5346
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RIVOYRE (Denis de);
Les vrais Arabes et leur pays. BAGDAD et les Villes ignorées de l'Euphrate.
Plon, Nourrit et Cie Paris 1884 1 vol. In-12 de 2 ff.n.ch. 320 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table); demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs fileté.
Bookseller reference : 13536
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RIVOYRE, Denis de
Les Vrais Arabes et leur pays. Bagdad et les villes ignorées de l'Euphrate. Illustrations de Saint-Elme Gautier et carte spéciale.
1884 1 P., E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1884, in-12 broché de 320 pages -2 ff. n.ch., sous couverture gris-bleu imprimée ; quelques piqûres, exemplaire plutôt agréable.
Bookseller reference : 10289
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Mascate (Il sultanato dell' Oman). Milan, Sonzogno, 1900.
8vo. 32 pp. in paper cover, illustrated title page. Numerous illustrations in the text Shortened Italian version of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad (Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Paris 1883). No. 61 of the famous "Biblioteca illustrata dei viaggi intorno al mondo per terra e per mare" series, published 1899-1904. - Some wear, but altogether well preserved. OCLC 799578383.
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Ouvrage illustré par Saint-Elme Gauthier et orné d'une Carte. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1883.
12mo. (4), 292 pp. With woodcut vignette on title page, 13 plates and a folding map. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad. - Some foxing. OCLC 254176761.
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Ro'I Yaacov
The Limits to Power: Soviet Policy in the Middle East
Croom Helm 1978. light staining top edge. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Croom Helm Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 348862 ISBN : 0856648175 9780856648175
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RO'I (Yaacov).
From Encroachment to Involvement. A Documentary Study of Soviet Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1973.
New York et Jérusalem, 1974, fort gr. in-8°, xxxix-616 pp, biblio, index, reliure toile éditeur, jaquette, bon état. Texte en anglais
Bookseller reference : 7343
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