‎Middle east‎

‎Sharif M. R.‎

‎AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS OF PAKISTAN - Fourth Edition‎

‎Bangla Bazar Dacca: Bookman 1952. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. A detailed discussion of the economic problems of Pakistan. 583pp. Bookman unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS051776I

‎SHAW (Thomas);‎

‎Voyages de Mons. Shaw, M.D. dans plusieurs provinces de la Barbarie et du LEVANT : contenant des observations géographiques, physiques, philologiques et mêlées sur les royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis sur la Syrie, l'Egypte et l'Arabie Pétrée.‎

‎Jean Neaulme La Haye 1743 1 vol. 2 tomes en un vol. in 4 de 1 f.n.ch. (page de titre) XLIV 414 pp. et IV 192 pp. 172 pp., pleine basane brune de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches marbrées (restaurations soignées aux coiffes et coins).‎

‎Edition originale française de cette relation estimée (Blackmer 1533 - Brunet V, 362 - Gay 391 - Playfair 247 - Weber II, 500). Ouvrage orné de nombreuses vignettes et reproductions d'inscriptions dans le texte et de ses 33 cartes et planches (certaines repliées). Très bon exemplaire.‎

Bookseller reference : 10890

‎Shawcross William‎

‎The Shah's Last Ride : The Fate of an Ally‎

‎U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition per complete number line. Hardcover in very good condition. Gray boards with sky blue spine cloth containing gold colored spine lettering. Gray endpapers. Text block clean & tight with no markings or writings noted; no remainder marks. Concludes with section to Notes to the Chapters and an Index. Contains black & white photographs throughout. 463 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear and mellow age toning to the white background of the jacket. Not price clipped. Simon & Schuster hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : M000798 ISBN : 0671552317 9780671552312

‎Shawqi Abu Khalil‎

‎Atlas on the Prophet's Biography‎

‎U.S.A.: Dar-us-Salam Publications 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good/Pictorial Boards. Book shows light wear to covers with three pages of interior with marking otherwise clean solidly bound little wear only. Lots of maps with photos and text. 292 pages. Dar-us-Salam Publications hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 140086 ISBN : 9960897710 9789960897714

‎Sheets, G[len] S[cott].‎

‎The Arabian Peninsula and Adjoining Areas. B-1237. [Dhahran / Jeddah / San Francisco], Arabian American Oil Company, Producing Department, Geological Division, March 1942.‎

‎895 x 945 mm. Polyconic projection, constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:4,000,000. Blue-line print. Framed. The only known example: a highly detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula, published by the "Arabian American Oil Co." in March 1942, two years before the company was formally so renamed, and the first effort to produce a large-scale map of the entire Peninsula that satisfied modern technical needs. Clearly produced in a very limited edition for internal use at the crucial, transitional moment in Arabian oil exploration, this is the earliest known map to use the name that still survives in "Saudi Aramco", issued at a time when the company was still officially Standard Oil of California. - The legend identifies railways, primary and secondary roads as well as "explorers' routes", oil pipelines, intermittent streams, airports, towns, "Arab wells", oases, "sand areas", "sabkhas", and "marsh". The Maidan-i-Naftun and Naft Safid oilfields in Iran (and the pipelines that link them to the A.I.O.C. Refinery at Abadan) are illustrated, as are the Kirkuk oilfield and the pipelines running from there to Haifa and Tripoli. Dammam and Dhahran, the sites of the first commercial oil wells in Saudi Arabia, also feature on the map. Aside from that, however, there is no illustrated oil development in the Middle East: the map effectively illustrates the blank slate that was Arabian oil exploration in the early 1940s. On the coast of what was then Trucial Oman, Sharjah, Dubai (with airfield) and Abu Dhabi are identified; the areas to the southwest of Abu Dhabi City are labelled "Sabkha es Salmiyah" and "Taff". Shows adjoining areas from the Bosporus to Somaliland and the USSR. - The "compiler and tracer" (cartographer and draughtsman) is identified as the Aramco engineer G. S. Sheets; separate fields to indicate "checked by" and "revisions" remain blank. Sheets had joined Aramco's predecessor, the California Arabian Standard Oil Company, in 1939 and immediately began work in Dhahran as a geological draftsman in the Production (Exploration) department. Upon his return to the U.S. he prepared several geological maps including the present one and acted as liaison with the Army Map Service. In 1942 he became attached as a civilian to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Army Map Service, but he returned to Arabia in 1944 and in 1955 became staff assistant to the director of Concession Affairs. - In excellent state of preservation. Extremely rare: OCLC locates only two examples, both of which appear to be photocopies (Library of Congress and American University of Beirut). While the large 1963 map of Arabia that succeeded this, also produced by Aramco geologists, has occasionally appeared in the trade, no other original of this early map could be traced in libraries or in auction or trade records. A unique survival. OCLC 1048657705.‎

‎Shelagh Weir‎

‎The Bedouin‎

‎London: British Museum Press 1990. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. British Museum Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 040127 ISBN : 0714125024 9780714125022

‎Shepherd Naomi:‎

‎The Zealous Intruders.The Western Rediscovery of Palestine‎

‎London.Collins1987 First edition.With 20 b&w.illustrations & a map.pp 282.Original cloth gilt. A very.good copy in a very goodslightly edge-worn dust jacket.Includes a 16pp bibliography.Hard cover. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 613

‎Sherira, D. B. (editor).‎

‎[Shanah be-Yisrael 708-709. Parashat ha-shanah bi-temunot]. A Year in Israel 5708-5709. A Pictorial Record. Tel-Aviv, The Israeli Soldiers Welfare Committee / Israel Publications (Hotsa'at Yisra'el), [1949 CE =] 5709.‎

‎Oblong 8vo (170 x 110 mm). 67, (5) pp., illustrated throughout. Original brown printed wrappers decorated with the Haganah symbol and the Israeli flag, interior flaps illustrated with coloured maps. A rare Haganah publication on the first year of Israeli statehood printed in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. The book is made up of 62 patriotic half-tone plates illustrated from photographs of war, politics, and parades, with a few additional images of ships of settlers. Each illustration is captioned in three languages, and most are dated. - The publication was intended for an audience of Israeli soldiers on the occasion of Rosh Hashana, with two introductory remarks addressed "To the Soldiers of the Nation" and "To the Soldiers of Israel", authored by Brigadier Chief of General Staff Yaakov Dory (1899-1973) and Chairman of the Central Soldiers Welfare Committee Joseph Baratz (1890-1968), respectively. Dory was the first Chief of Staff for the IDF, and Baratz was elected to the first Knesset; both had been involved with Haganah since the early days of the Zionist movement. The maps on the interior flaps of each wrapper, printed in colour, are titled "Palestine Partition Map according to U.N. Decision of 29th November 1947" and "Israel Occupied Area at the beginning of the second truce, 18th July, 1948". - Light wear, otherwise in good condition. OCLC 39498227.‎

‎Shiloh Ailon‎

‎People and Cultures of the Middle East‎

‎NY: Random House. Good with no dust jacket; Ex-Library with Markins. 1969. Hardbound. 039430473X . 453 pages . Random House hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32569 ISBN : 039430473X 9780394304731

‎SHILTON Lance R.‎

‎Speaking from the Holy Land.‎

‎London: Oliphants 1970. 1st ed. "The author has made skilful and interesting use of his experience as a visitor to 'those holy fields' where the Son of Man walked in the midst of men. These inspirational chapters commence with the Dead Sea Scrolls and each in turn takes as its starting point one of the following places: Bethlehem Jordan Capernaum Jericho Samaria Jerusalem Siloam Gethsemane Calvary Galilee. Pp.126 toning to pages. P/b with illustrated cover. G. . London: Oliphants, 1970. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 13593

‎Shimoni Yaacov‎

‎Political Dictionary of the Arab World‎

‎New York: Macmillan 1987. Maps. 520 pages. 24.5 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Fine/Fine. ISBN: 0-02-916422-2 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Macmillan, (1987) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 7387 ISBN : 0029164222 9780029164228

‎Shimoni Yaacov & Levine Evyatar editors‎

‎POLITICAL DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE 20TH CENTURY‎

‎Jerusalem Israel: Jerusalem Publishing House 1972. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 100 B&W ill. & 25 maps. An authoritative guide to the understanding of what is happening today in one of the most vitally important areas of the world. In it the reader will find a wealth of information on the historical political geopolitical social and military aspects of the countries of the region as well as an account of the roles which the major powers and other countries have played in the political development of the Middle East since the beginning of the century. 434pp. Jerusalem Publishing House unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS013780I

‎Shipler David K.‎

‎Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land‎

‎New York: Times Books 1986. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Small small tears and loss to d/j. Times Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 059731 ISBN : 081291273x 9780812912739

‎SHLAIM AVI‎

‎War And Peace In The Middle East: A Critique Of American Policy‎

‎Whittle Books New York: 1994. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. ISBN: 0670853305. Whittle Books, New York: 1994 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 36601X1 ISBN : 0670853305 9780670853304

‎SHP.‎

‎The perspective and the proposals of Social Democratic Populist Party concerning the issues of the east and the southeast of Turkey. Social Democratic Populist Party Central Executive Committee, July 1990, Ankara. [Propaganda brochure].‎

‎Very Good English Paperback. Large 8vo. (23 x 12 cm). In English. 48 p. The perspective and the proposals of Social Democratic Populist Party concerning the issues of the east and the southeast of Turkey. Social Democratic Populist Party Central Executive Committee, July 1990, Ankara. [Propaganda brochure]. Rare. Just one copy in OCLC.‎

‎Shwadran Benjamin‎

‎The Middle East Oil and the Great Powers 1959‎

‎New York: Council for Middle Eastern Affairs 1959. Second edition revised. Bibliog. Index. Chipped dj. xvi 529 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Council for Middle Eastern Affairs, 1959 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4657

‎Si Kaddour Benghabrit, Moroccan statesman, founder of the Muslim Instite in Paris (1868-1954).‎

‎Autograph Quotation signed ("Benghabrit"). In French, signatures in French and Arabic. Paris., 22 May 1929.‎

‎Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Si Kaddour Benghabrit 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 dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "Rebellion sleeps in the heart of man, may he be cursed who awakens it'. Thus spoke our Prophet. This is still the living doctrine of modern Islam. How could it not prefer the pure and simple joys of peace to the torments and dark nights of war! [Signed] Benghabrit". Si Khaddour Benghabrit rose to prominence under the French regime in Morocco . He is also remebered for his courage in saving the lives of the many Jews during the Second World War by disguising them as Muslim members of his Paris mosque - somewhere between 500 and 1600 people were saved from deportation in this way, and the Medal of Justice has been awarded to the descendants of Benghabrit by the Yad Vashem Memorial. 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.‎

‎Sibahi, Aziz.‎

‎Uqud min tarikh al-Hizb al-Shuyu 'i al-'Iraqi. Damascus & Baghdad, Mansurat al-Taqafa al-Gadida / Dar al-Ruwad li-al-Tiba`a wa-al-Nasr, 2005.‎

‎372, (8) pp. Original wrappers. 4to. Decades of the history of the Iraqi Communist Party. - A good copy. OCLC 775696684.‎

‎Sid-Ahmed, Mohamed‎

‎After the guns fall silent : peace or Armageddon in the Middle-East‎

‎1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. VG/VG. Foreword by Lord Caradon. 12060. eng‎

‎Siddiqi Mazheruddin‎

‎The Image of the West in Iqbal‎

‎Lahore: Bazm-I-Iqbal 1965. Soft cover. Good. 8vo 146 pages. Softcover bound in off-white wrapper. Spine is chipped and torn hinges are loose but still attached. Text block is sound. There is a cup ring and a previous owner's name on the back cover. <br/> <br/> Bazm-I-Iqbal paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 023696

‎Sike (Siecke), Heinrich (ed.).‎

‎Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit. Utrecht, François Halma, Willem van de Water, 1697.‎

‎8vo. (22), 161, (7), 93, (3) pp. With title-page printed in red and black and decorated with Halma's engraved Athena and Demeter/Ceres device, a woodcut tailpiece, 3 woodcut decorative initials (3 different series) and a factotum built up from cast fleurons. With the main text in Arabic and a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages, and occasional words or lines in Greek, Hebrew and Syriac. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript spine title. First edition of the apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel, with the Arabic text on the versos and the Latin translation on the facing rectos. Sike, a noted orientalist from Bremen, based his edition on a manuscript that was formerly owned by Jacobus Golius, and the many notes include excerpts from the Qur'an and other works. The work narrates miracle stories from the first 12 years of Jesus's life, and probably originated in the fourth or fifth century. Although scholars refer to the text as the "Arabic Infancy Gospel", it was most likely originally written in Syriac. - The wide range of non-Latin types, with not only Arabic and the more common Greek and Hebrew, but also a few words of Syriac, was unusual at this date. Although the book does not explicitly say it was printed by Halma, he had a printing office in Utrecht at this date, while Vande Water appears to have been merely a bookseller-publisher. The device also appears in their joint publications and those of Halma alone, but apparently not in those of Vande Water alone. - With a label with the shelf number of the Neander library on pastedown and a later manuscript presentation inscription on flyleaf. Some foxing, mostly along the margins, otherwise in very good condition. A couple of minor stains on the binding, but otherwise also very good. Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica 412. STCN (8 copies). Zenker, BO 1239. For the device: Van Huisstede & Brandhorst 618.‎

‎SILBERMAN Neil Asher.‎

‎The Hidden Scrolls. ChristianityJudaism and the War for the Dead Sea Scrolls.‎

‎London: Mandarin. 1995. 1st. in this ed. ".Silberman chronicles the history - the Scrolls he believes are the writings of militant Jews in defiant rebellion against the might of the Romans - as well as unravelling the religiousscholarly and political quarrels and debates of the twentieth century." Pp. 7/306. P/b. VG. . London: Mandarin. 1995. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4363

‎SILIOTTI (Alberto) & VIDAL-NAQUET (Alain)‎

‎Journal de voyage en Egypte. Inauguration du Canal de Suez de Roberto Morra di Lavriano. Traduction de Nicole Sels.‎

‎Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1997. In-folio, rel. d'éd. pleine toile rouge et or , 232 pp., carte au front., très nb. ill. en n/b.et en coul. in et h.-t. (dont plusieurs à pleines ou double pp.), texte sur 2 colonnes, première édition française‎

‎Bel ex. -‎

Bookseller reference : 590275

‎Silva y Figueroa, Garcia de.‎

‎L'ambassade [...] en Perse. Paris, Jean du Puis, 1667.‎

‎4to. (12), 506, (30). With woodcut title-vignette and headpiece. Near-contemporary giltstamped full calf with giltstamped spine-title. Leading edges gilt, sumptuously gilt inner dentelle bordering silk pastedowns. Later marbled flyleaves. All edges gilt. First edition of the travelogue of the Spanish diplomat Silva y Figueroa (1550-1624), who embarked on an embassy to Persia in 1614, hoping to secure from Shah Abbas exclusive trading rights in Persia and its dependencies. As the Latin manuscript was not published and a Spanish translation did not appear until the 20th century, this French translation published by de Puis (as well as the one issued by Louis Billaine the same year) long remained the only available version of the itinerary. - In 1619, Figueroa was granted an audience in Isfahan with the Shah, who sought to conclude a trading agreement with the Spanish but would not subscribe to the ambassador's demands for the restoration of Gombroon and other Portuguese enclaves, nor to the exclusion of the English and other nationalities. Negotiations were suspended and Figueroa ended up returning to Spain, where he arrived in 1624 after an absence of ten years. His account describes Lar, Shiraz, Kašan, Qazvin, and Qom as well as other places including the caravansaries where he stayed, and gives interesting ethnographic data on the non-Muslim communities, such as the Armenians in Jolfa or the Zoroastrians, as well as a precise description of Persepolis and its cuneiform inscriptions. Although Antonio de Goueva (1602) and Giambattista and Girolamo Vecchietti (1606) had already recognized cuneiform as a type of writing, Figueroa was the first person to describe the cuneiform characters as shaped like "pyramids" and "obelisks", thus anticipating Pietro della Valle. Of the Persian dependencies, Ormuz and Bahrain were considered of particular importance, the former for its trade in silks, the latter for pearls: "Mais ce Golfe [...] qui est beaucoup plus long que large, ayant au milieu cette fertile Isle de Baharen [...] si celebre par tout l'Orient, à cause de sa riche & precieuse pesche de perles" (p. 59). Furthermore, Figueroa mentions falcons "larger and stronger than in Europe" (p. 105) as well as "excellent horses" (p. 426), and "the best dates of all of Persia" (p. 94). - Covers slightly scuffed. Interior occasionally browned and waterstained; a few small marginal tears, not touching text. Several handwritten marginal annotations, particularly in the index. Bookplate of the bibliophile and horse enthusiast Joseph Guilhem de Lagondie (1809-79) to flyleaf, who sold the book in March 1878 (handwritten note of acquisition by the new owner to flyleaf). Shelfmark label and catalogue description mounted to flyleaf. Palau 313613. Wilson 70. Diba 3. Howgego I, S105. Encyclopaedia Iranica IX, 612f. OCLC 166132497. Not in Blackmer, Atabey or Weber.‎

‎Silvestre de Sacy, [Antoine Isaac].‎

‎[Al-Anis al-mufid lil-talib al-mustafid]. Chrestomathie arabe, ou extraits de divers écrivains arabes, tant en prose qu'en vers, a l'usage de élèves de l'École spéciale des Langues Orientales vivantes. Paris, (J. J. Marcel), l'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1806.‎

‎8vo. 3 vols. (8), 15, (1), 587, (1) pp. (6), XII, 543, (3) pp., final blank leaf. (4), IV, 565, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Contemporary brown boards with giltstamped red spine label. First edition, printed with the beautiful Arabic types of the Imprimerie Imperiale by J. J. Marcel, who in 1798 had brought printing to the Arabic world when he set up the first press in Cairo. - "Opus maximopere, nec vero ultra quam fas erat, laudatum et celebratum ab omnibus qui de eo referrent" (Schnurrer). "Like his Grammar, de Sacy's Chrestomathy was first compiled for his students. In the early 19th century there was a very limited body of reading matter for academic learners of Arabic [...] The Chrestomathy was intended to remedy this fault. But de Sacy immediately combined with this practical aim the scholarly task to use and make known valuable texts from the manuscript troves of the Royal Library in Paris, and so his Chrestomathy contains extensive extracts from late historians (Maqrizi) and geographers, from Hariri's Maqamat, from the Druze canon and from Qazwini's cosmography, as well as several poems from Nabiga to Ibn Farid, and, finally, keeping in mind the practical needs of future interpreters, a collection of state documents, all of this in the original Arabic with French translation and a wealth of annotations [...] It is a credit to de Sacy's interpretative mastery that the Chrestomathy [...] enjoyed a much longer life than similar works usually do, which tend soon to show their age due to the progress of scholarship: for nearly a century his work introduced learners to the masterpieces of Arabic literature" (cf. Fück). - Bindings rubbed and bumped at extremeties; interior well preserved. Scarce on the market. Schnurrer 153. Fück p. 146-148. OCLC 3822297.‎