‎Middle east‎

‎Saleh Mohamed.‎

‎Das Totenbuch in den thebanischen Beamtengräbern des Neuen Reiches. Texte und Vignetten. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 46.‎

‎Mainz am Rhein Philipp von Zabern 1984. Small folio. Pp. 102. With 126 illustrations. Hardcover bound in the original publisher's full cloth. Crisp new copy in mint condition. ~ First edition. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 46. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1984. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6005

‎SALIERNO Vito.‎

‎Iraq. Dai Sumeri a Saddam Husein. Casalvelino, Capone, 2007.‎

‎8°gr., ril. edit., soprac. ill., pp. 240 con illustrazioni n.t.‎

‎Sally V. Mallison‎

‎Armed Conflict In Lebanon 1982 -‎

‎American Educational Trust Publishing - 1985. PB/pub.1985/Gd.condition/107 pages - Humanitarian law in a real world setting is discussed in this text. HT138442. Soft Cover. Good. American Educational Trust Publishing - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 38442

‎SALOMON, Michel‎

‎Mediterranée rouge. Un nouvel empire sovietique?‎

‎399 pag. con alcune ill.; 21,5 cm. Brossura editoriale. Discreto‎

‎Salten Felix.‎

‎Neue Menschen auf alter Erde: Eine Palästinafahrt Palaestinafahrt.‎

‎Berlin Zsolnay 1925. Crown 8vo. Pp. 276 4 publisher's ads. Hardcover original paper-covered boards lettered in gilt. Good condition. Boards discoloured small dumpmark to upper board short splits to upper joint mended. Else clean good copy. ~ First edition. Berlin, Zsolnay, 1925. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0842

‎Salvin, Francis Henry / Brodrick, William.‎

‎Falconry in the British Isles. London, John van Voorst, 1855.‎

‎4to (29 x 19.5 cm). VII, (1 blank), 147, (1 blank) pp. With 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick. Publisher's blind- and gold-blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon. First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by F. H. Salvin (1817-1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication'' (Schwerdt). - The treatise is illustrated with lithographs by William Brodrick (1814-1888); they show 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22-24 depict equipment used for falconry. The stones for the first edition were destroyed after publication so the plates for the second edition (London, 1873) had to be redrawn. - With bookplate of Leon Colin Somervell on front paste-down. Some pages and plates reinforced, two plates loose, some spotting, but still in good condition. Binding discoloured and slightly worn. Nissen, IVB 147. Souhart 419. Schwerdt II, p. 145. Wood p. 541. Not in Thiebaud.‎

‎Salzmann, Auguste.‎

‎Jérusalem. Etude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours. Planches. Paris, Gide & Baudry, 1856.‎

‎Folio (335 x 432 mm). 3 ff. of letterpress matter (half-title, title and list of plates). With 40 mounted calotypes. Contemporary marbled half morocco on five raised bands with giltstamped spine title; marbled endpapers. Second, "better known" (Parr/Badger) edition of this pioneering work, first published in 1854: only the plate volume with the 40 magnificent calotypes, wanting the separately published 90 pages of text. - Wishing to support L. F. J. Caignant de Saulcy in the controversy concerning the dating of the wall of Jerusalem that followed his journey to the Dead Sea, Auguste Salzmann set out for the Holy Land on 12 December 1853. With the help of his assistant Durheim, he prepared some two hundred waxed-paper negatives of the Jerusalem monuments during his four-month stay. While his findings were first published in a monumental volume in 1854 (the copy of the Duke de Luynes commanded 463,500 Euros at Sotheby's Paris in 2013), the present reduced edition, with prints by Blanquart-Evrard, is better known. "It was an expensive book, a livraison, or fasicle of three prints costing 24 gold francs. A single print was 10 francs [...] Salzmann was acutely attentive to both patina and pattern in attempting to define the architectural strata of a city in which building was built upon building, thus leaving a vertical record of the various cultures that had occupied the city and left their remains on the foundations built by earlier conquerors [...] Salzmann himself described his pictures as having 'a conclusive brutality', but to modern eyes their poetic aspect seems paramount. It would appear that Salzmann was at one and the same time both expert and layman, dispassionate observer and enthusiast. His pictures have this dual quality, flickering rapidly between documentary and poetry. This, one might suggest, is the ideal goal for any photographer". - Binding slightly rubbed and chafed in places. Marginal foxing throughout, affecting only a few photographs; insignificant waterstain to edge; old ownerships erased from title, leaving slight traces. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 25. Tobler 181f. Röhricht 440f. Baier, Geschichte der Fotografie 452f. Gernsheim, History of Photography 186. Witkin/London, Photograph Collector's Guide 86f.‎

‎Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh, Iranian diplomat (1869-1965).‎

‎Autograph Quotation signed ("Prince Smad"). In French. No place, July 1931.‎

‎Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Samad Khan to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were numerous dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "War, terrible in all times, has become vain and profitless today, and is equally disastrous for all involved, as even the counquering countries, as well as neutral countries, without exception, can no longer escape the suffering engendered by that calamity! The solidarity between nations has thus become fatally clear. Because of this, peace is no longer simply an ideal, it is becoming a necessity and an obligation. Even the most sceptical among us must finally give pause and reflect. Yet, how rarely are the means we choose to attain this much desired goal the most practical ones! Despite the fact that it is easy to understand that warfare and arms are merely effects, and that it is illogical to wish to avoid them while their causes persist! Can we extinguish an electric light without turning off the switch? Peace can only be seriously envisaged if it is also on a solid base, honest and practical, cemented by the work of the League of Nations, itself equipped with the effective means of intervention! Security for all, men of state and the people, should be the objective, the effect of which will be an inevitable disarmament and sincerity between nations. General fear must make way for a general trust and for faith in the respect of rights and in the future of humanity. Our civilisation owes this to itself, lest it be overcome. [Signed] Prince Smad, former Extraordinary Ambassador to London, former Persian Minister in Holland, and in France, former Premier Delegate of Persia to the Conference in The Hague and the Conference on the Revision of the Geneva Convention, and Permanent Court of Arbitration". Prince Samad was Ambassador to London, Holland, France. He personally owned the Embassy in Paris, which he made his home. Briefly Prime Minister of Persia in 1918. Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.‎

‎Samii Kuross A‎

‎Involvement by Invitation: American Strategies of Containment in Iran‎

‎University Park Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr 1987. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 321952 ISBN : 0271004908 9780271004907

‎SAMIR SALHA.‎

‎Türkiye, Suriye ve Lübnan iliskilerinde Âsi nehri sorunu.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [ii], 55 p. Türkiye, Suriye ve Lübnan iliskilerinde Âsi nehri sorunu. Orontes River in international relations between Turkey, Lebanon and Syria.‎

‎Samuel Katz‎

‎Follow Me!: History of Israel's Military Elite‎

‎London: Arms and Armour 1989. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Arms and Armour Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 041502 ISBN : 0853687846 9780853687849

‎Samuel R. Wells Jr.‎

‎Security In The Middle East -‎

‎Westview Press - 1987. PB/pub.1987/Fair condition/366 pages - Discusses regional change and great power strategies. TK630977. Soft Cover. Good. Westview Press - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 30977

‎Samuel, Herbert.‎

‎Zionism. Its Ideals and Practical Hopes. London, The Zionist Organisation, [1920].‎

‎8vo. 6, (2) pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. A speech given by the British politician Samuel, appointed High Commissioner of Palestine in 1920, at a meeting led by the English Zionist Federation, celebrating the second anniversary of the Balfour declaration, "which stated that the Government favoured the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine". - Minor flaws to the edges, not touching text. OCLC 504623804.‎

‎Sanders Ronald‎

‎The High Walls of Jerusalem: a History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine‎

‎NY: Holt Rinehart Winston 1983. 1st printing. VG/VG. xx 746 p. maps notes biblio index 8vo; Holt Rinehart Winston hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26704 ISBN : 0030539714 9780030539718

‎Sands William and Kathleen H. Brown editors‎

‎Report on Current Research on the Middle East 1958‎

‎Washington: The Middle East Institute 1958. Including "The Organization of Western and Central Asian Studies Both in the Occident and in the Orient" by Z. V. Togan; "European Archives as a Source for Later Ottoman History" by Roderic H. Davison; "Armenian Works on Historic and Modern Armenian Communities" by Avedis K. Sanjian; "Present State of Arabic Studies in the United States" by Menahem Mansoor. 76 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Washington: The Middle East Institute, 1958 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 7581

‎Sands William ed‎

‎The Arab Nation: Paths and Obstacles to Fulfillment‎

‎Washington: Middle East Institute 1961. A series of addresses presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Middle Eastern Affairs sponsored by the Middle East Institute May 5-7 1960. Contributions by Schacht Polk Goitein et al. 117 pages. 8vo. Wrappers. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Washington: Middle East Institute, (1961) unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4783

‎Sani-zade Mehmed Ataullah.‎

‎[Hamse-i Sânizade]. Kostantiniye (Istanbul), Tabhane-yi Sahane / Dar üt-Tibaat ül-Amire (Imperial School of Medicine), [1820 CE] = 1235 H.‎

‎Folio (208 x 289 mm). 3 parts in 1 volume: 4 (instead of 8?) pp. of preliminaries (blank, alif, ba, gim); 131, (1 blank) pp. and 80 pp. (bound alternatingly), with 56 etched plates; 39, (1 blank) pp.; 283, (1 blank) pp. Contemporary half calf with gilt-stamped spine and marbled covers. The first edition of the first illustrated medical book ever printed in the Muslim world: the pioneering Ottoman physician Sanizade's (1771-1826) medical compendium, the first three books (on anatomy, physiology, and internal medicine) of what would later be known as "Sani-zade's Canon of Five", "Kitâb ül-evvel fi t-tesrihât" ("Mir'âtül-ebdân fî tesrih-i a'zâil-insân"), "Kitab üs-sânî fi 't-tabîyat", and "Kitâb üs-sâlis Miyâr ül-etibbâ". This was one of the earliest Turkish medical works to draw thoroughly on western, Paracelsian and Vesalian science: indeed, it is modelled on and partly translated from Italian and German sources, such as Anton Störck, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Gabriele Fallopio, and Costanzo Varolio, reproducing anatomical illustrations from a variety of sources including Vesalius. - "[B]y and large Ottoman medicine remained [...] attached to its Galenic roots. [...] Real paradigmatic change began to appear only with the upheavals of 19th-century reforms, when translations and adaptations of new European knowledge made their way to the core of the medical profession. One of the first books to spark this revolution was Ataullah Sanizade's compendium 'Hamse-i sanizade', a series of five books published in Ottoman Turkish from 1820 onward, incorporating new medical knowledge from Europe. Sanizade was a brilliant and innovative physician and theorist (as well as musician, astronomer, and historian) who did much to integrate new medical knowledge with the old. His views on medicine encountered much opposition, mainly because of his support for surgery-based study of anatomy. As a result his request to dedicate his chef d'oeuvre to Sultan Mahmud II was denied. In time, however, the compendium came to replace the earlier canonic texts, and was fondly named 'kanun-i sanizade' (Sanizade's canon), referring, of course, to the old master's 'Qanun'. Although the compendium formally adhered to the humoral system and other concepts of ancient medicine, it was here that blood circulation was mentioned for the first time as a scientific concept and as part of a different medical theory. Some of the terminology included in this book formed the basis for a new medical profession that was beginning to take shape" (D. Ze'evi, Producing Desire [2006], p. 20f.). A five-volume Arabic edition appeared at Bulaq in 1828 by direct order of Mehmet Ali. - Part 1 bound as follows (agreeing with the copy in the BSB Munich): 4 pp. of prelims (blank, alif, ba, gim); 3, (1) pp., (2 plates), 2 pp. [index], 5-34 pp., (17 plates), 3-22 pp. [index], 35-68 pp., (9 plates), 23-35 pp. [index; pp. 25-28 numbered 3-6 in error], 1 bl. p., 69-94 pp., (12 plates), 37-48 pp. [index], 95-100 pp., (6 plates), 49-55 pp. [index], 1 bl. p., 101-106 pp., (3 plates), 57-60 pp. [index], 107-120 pp., (5 plates), 61-70 pp. [index], 121-128 pp., (2 plates), 71-80 pp. [index], 129-131 pp., 1 bl. p. Some dampstaining throughout, more prominently so in several plates. In all, a good copy of this rare work, the only edition published during the author's lifetime. OCLC 608102180.‎

‎Santagata, Fernando‎

‎Industria e commercio in Egitto.‎

‎Br., cm16.5x21.5, pp (4) 54 (2), Coll. Quaderni de La Rivista d’Oriente #1.‎

‎Saraste Leena; Coogan Greg translator‎

‎For Palestine‎

‎Zed Books 1987. Hardcover in black cloth. Jacket is in Good condition with rubbing and numerous short creased tears; interior is clean tight and very faintly toned. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Zed Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 618987 ISBN : 0862324130 9780862324131

‎Sarre, Friedrich (ed.).‎

‎Islamische Bucheinbände (Buchkunst des Orients I). Berlin, Scarabaeus, (1923).‎

‎Folio (270 x 360 mm). 167 pp., final blank page. With 4 illustrations in the text, and 36 numbered plates with mounted full-color reproductions of Islamic book bindings, included in pagination. Text and plates with gilt borders. Contemporary cardboard with 6 gilt ornaments, 3 each to upper and lower cover. Edition "B" of this sumptuous work on Islamic bookbinding. Exhibits some of the finest and most valuable tomes from Berlin's Bode Museum as well as examples from a private collection. Bound in the original adorned binding, the giltstamped ornaments featuring floral motifs as well as a hunting scene of a lion attacking a bull. - A total of 36 bindings are here reproduced in excellent colour facsimiles, impressively demonstrating the high quality of Egyptian, Persian, and Turkish book production from the 14th to 19th centuries. Each specimen is accompanied by a page of descriptive text. - Edited by the German orientalist and art historian Sarre (1865-1945), who amassed a great collection of Islamic art during his lifetime. - Extremities somewhat rubbed. Interior in excellent condition. Mejer 554. OCLC 905430423.‎

‎Sarre, Friedrich / Trenkwald, Hermann.‎

‎Alt-orientalische Teppiche. Vienna & Leipzig, Anton Schroll & Co. and Karl W. Hiersemann for the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, 1926-1928.‎

‎Imperial folio (440 x 605 mm). 2 vols. bound as four. 21, (3), (29) pp. (31) pp. 43, (28) pp. (32) pp. With 120 collotype plates (67 colour and 53 black & white, 7 of the latter double-page) by Max Jaffé, and 14 wood-engraved full-page illustrations on the integral leaves. Later half calf with cloth sides. First and only edition of "the most important recent publication with wonderful reproductions of the best known carpets" (Ettinghausen 1936), here in very good condition, rebound in four high-quality half calf volumes. The project was initiated by the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, which had previously published two other works on carpets: "Orientalische Teppiche" (1892) and "Altorientalische Teppiche" (1908). The present work by Sarre & Trenkwald has far more and better illustrations than the earlier works, with 120 fine collotype plates. The authors were highly regarded authorities in the field of Islamic art, especially Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945), "without doubt one of the most influential figures regarding the scholarly formation of Islamic art" (Kadoi/Szanto). He was the director of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin and responsible for the formation of the "most comprehensive collection of Islamic art outside the Islamic world". - The work is characterized by an emphasis on the technique of production. The plates that depict carpets in colour and black & white are preceded by a descriptive page that is sometimes illustrated with a schematic explanation of the knotting technique used for making the carpet. The first part, by Hermann Trenkwald, with 60 plates, is entirely devoted to carpets in the world-renowned collection of the Austrian Museum. The second part, by Sarre, also comprising 60 plates, covers the greatest carpets in other collections throughout the world, including private collections such as that of Baron Maurice Rothschild. - Corners slightly bumped, but in very good condition. R. Ettinghausen, Kali (1936), p. 110. Kadoi & Szanto, The Shaping of Persian Art (2014), p. 227.‎

‎Sarton, George.‎

‎[Al-Thaqafah al-gharbiyah fi riayat al-Sharq al-'Awsat]. The Incubation of the Western Culture in the Middle East. Beirut, Maktabat al-Ma'arif / Luzac, 1952.‎

‎8vo. 80 pp. Original printed wrappers with English title on the lower cover. An academic lecture delivered in 1950 by Havard history professor George Sarton (1884-1956), translated into Arabic by Dr. Omar A. Farrukh, a prolific academic translator and member of the Islamic Research Association, Bombay. George Sarton was considered the founder of the history of science as an independent discipline, and was a proponent of indisciplinary approaches, including not only the combination of scientists and historians, but historians of both Latin and Arabic scientific literature, two traditionally independent disciplines. The topic of the lecture, the so-called "incubation" of Western culture, refers to the Islamic Golden Age, during which Muslim scientists studied Ancient Greek mathematics and natural philosophy and made many of their own interpretations and additions. It was the resulting plethora of Arabic scientific texts which then went on, when translated into Latin, to spark the Italian Renaissance and the "re-birth" of Greek learning (though it was by that time as much Muslim as Greek) in the West. Sarton was among the first modern Westerners to make this connection and to highlight the importance of Arabic literature, making this particular lecture an important building block of the history of science as a discipline. - Light wear and toning, in good condition. OCLC 30183109.‎

‎Sasson, Jean P.‎

‎Tradita.‎

‎La testimonianza sconvolgente e terribile di una donna irachena che è stata torturata nelle prigioni di Saddam Hussein.‎

‎Satloff Robert B‎

‎Among the Righteous‎

‎PublicAffairs 2007. Light shelfwear sticker in rear cover; interior is clean and tight. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. PublicAffairs Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 625975 ISBN : 1586485105 9781586485108

‎Satloff Robert and Patrick Clawson editors The Presidential Study Group‎

‎Navigating through Turbulence: America and the Middle East in a New Century‎

‎Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2001. Report of the Presidential Study Group. xx 80 pages. 25.3 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. ISBN: 0-944029-46-9 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, (2001) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 8155 ISBN : 0944029469 9780944029466