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Simmons James C.
Passionate Pilgrims: English Travelers to the World of the Desert Arabs
New York: William Morrow & Co 1987 "Here are the true legends of those men and women who under the spell of a passionate enchantment lived and loved among nomadic tribes of the Arabian desert" Includes - among others - Lady Hester StanhopeAlexander Kinglake Richard Burton Lady Jane Digby Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Lady Anne Blunt Charles M. Doughty T.E. Lawrence. 399p. bibliography.index. 1st US Ed. Hardcover. As New/As New. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27910 ISBN : 0688065597 9780688065591
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Simons G. L
Iraq: From Sumer to Post-Saddam
St. Martin's Press 1996. Trade Paperback. Very Good. St. Martin's Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 328524 ISBN : 0312160526 9780312160524
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Simons J. Jan Jozef.
Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories.
Leiden Brill 1952. Quarto. Pp. xvi 517. Plus 33 plates with many halftone photo illustrations many of which full-page and a number of folding illustrations all printed on different paper bound in. With numerous full-page illustrations and maps to the text. Footnotes bibliography indices. Hardcover bound in the original publisher's decorated blue cloth gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy with her bookplate. Simons published in 1959 "The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament: A Concise Commentary in XXXII Chapters" - also offered by Librarium. Leiden, Brill, 1952. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1082
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Simons J. Jan Jozef.
Opgravingen in Palestina: Tot aan de Ballingschap 586 v. Chr. Bijbelsche Monographieën.
Roermond-Masseik J. Romen 1935. Royal 8vo. Pp. 412. Footnotes bibliography indices. Plus folding map and 48 halftone photographic plates printed on different paper bound in. With a total of 113 halftone and line-drawn illustrations. Hardcover half cloth and marbled boards with original cover and spine laid down. Very good condition. Small stain to fore-edge of some consecutive leaves remnants of small label to title-page. Good clean copy. ~ First edition. With a remarkably rich collection of photographs of excavation sites and artifacts. Roermond-Masseik, J. Romen, 1935. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0811
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SIMSIR (Bilal N.) [Ed.]
British documents on ottoman Armenians. Volume IV (1895).
Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1990. Fort volume grand in-4 reliure éditeur pleine toile bleu, titre doré au dos et au plat sup. LIX-703 pp., index.
Bookseller reference : 556279
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SINAI Anne.
Middle East Review: American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East. Vol.XII No.2. Winter 1979/80.
New York: Middle East Review 1979/80. Contents include: Why Automony - Interview with Moshe Nissim; From a Peace Treaty to Peace by Claude Klein; The West Bank and Gaza Within the Framework of a Middle East Peace Settlement by Yigal Allon; Labor Opposition to Settlements by Marie Syrkin; What Peace Policy for Egypt - Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Arab Aid to Less Developed Countries by Emmanuel Lottem; Middle East Issues at the Havana Non-Alignment Summit; Foreign Investment in Egypt: What are the Dividends of Peace by Jacobus T.Severiens. Document: 1. Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel; 2. Map of the Sinai Peninsula; 3. The West Bank and Gaza in the Camp David Framework. Pp.64 toned patch to last 3 pages. Paperback rear cover has toned strip inside and outside. Good. . New York: Middle East Review, 1979/80. paperback
Bookseller reference : 39727
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SINAI ANNE & POLLACK ALLEN EDITORS
The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan And The West Bank: A Handbook
American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East New York: 1977. Softcover. Good condition. The area called Palestine a name given to it by the Romans when they crushed the last Jewish kingdom has undergone many divisions throughout it centuries-long history. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0917158016. American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East, New York: 1977 paperback
Bookseller reference : 24533X2 ISBN : 0917158016 9780917158018
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SINAI ANNE & POLLACK ALLEN EDITORS
The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan And The West Bank: A Handbook
American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East New York: 1977. Softcover. Good condition. Cover has slight marks and scratches. The area called Palestine a name given to it by the Romans when they crushed the last Jewish kingdom has undergone many divisions throughout it centuries-long history. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0917158016. American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East, New York: 1977 paperback
Bookseller reference : 24533X1 ISBN : 0917158016 9780917158018
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Sinan, P. J.
Abrégé de grammaire turque. Nouvelle édition. Constantinople, Saint-Benoît, 1854.
8vo. VII, (1), 124, (4) pp. Printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt spine over turquoise marbled boards. Rare Osmanli grammar, attractively printed in red and black throughout, with all words in Arabic characters given in red. - Binding a little bumped at extremeties; occasional very minor brownstaining. Still a pretty copy. OCLC lists only three copies (Hungarian Academy of Sciences; University Library of Basel; Bogaziçi University Library, Istanbul). OCLC 1015017770.
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SINASI GÜNDÜZ.
Anadolu'da paganizm. Antik dönemde Harran ve Urfa.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 144 p., b/w ills. Anadolu'da paganizm. Antik dönemde Harran ve Urfa. Paganism in Anatolia. Urfa and Harran in the Ancient Period.
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SINASI GÜNDÜZ.
Mitoloji ile inanç arasinda. Ortadogu dinsel gelenekleri üzerine yazilar.
Fine English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 258 p., b/w ills. Mitoloji ile inanç arasinda. Ortadogu dinsel gelenekleri üzerine yazilar. Collected articles on religious traditions in Middle Eastern antiquity. MIDDLE EAST Mesopotamia Middle Eastern mythology Myths Canaanite Sumer Akkad Elam Judaica Jewish culture Social history Babylonia.
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SINASI GÜNDÜZ.
Son Gnostikler Sâbiîler; Inanç esaslari ve ibadetleri.
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 20 x 14 cm., [x], [8], 213 p., b/w ills., "Son Gnostikler Sâbiîler; Inanç esaslari ve ibadetleri.", Sinasi Gündüz, Vadi Yayinlari, Ank., 1995. A study on Sabians. The Sabians of Middle Eastern tradition were a religious group mentioned three times in the Quran as a people of the Book, "the Jews, the Sabians, and the Christians". In the ahadith, they were described merely as converts to Islam in the period of Abbasi caliph, but interest in the identity and history of the group increased over time, and discussions and investigations about the Sabians began to appear in later Islamic literature.
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Sinbad the Sailor.
Cartoon Slides. No place or date, [but 1950s].
Oblong 4to. 20 pp. on 20 ff. The story of Sinbad (Sindbad) comes from the "Arabian Nights", where he is as-Sindbad al-bahri" in Arabic.' The present group comprises twenty hand-coloured cartoon slides of Sinbad's adventures, telling the story very nicely with captions in English. - In excellent condition. - From the Collection of John Herzog.
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Singer Caroline & Cyrus L. Baldridge
Half the World is Isfahan
New York & London: Oxford University Press 1936. Illustrations some in color by Cyrus Baldridge. Map on endpapers. Some wear to spine tips and edges. Worn dj. 153 pages. 4to. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1936 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4071
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Singer Curt.
Jerusalem: Twelve Drawings.
Jerusalem Heatid Salingré 1952. Oblong octavo. A set of 12 plates contained in a card portfolio lettered and illustrated. Each plate is a tinted line-drawn illustration printed from at least 2 blocks. A list of captions both in English and Hebrew identifies the view on each plate. In about fine condition. Wraps bit age toned. Excellent set. ~ First edition. The quality of the plates is very high. Printed by the students at the Hadassah Apprentice School of Printing in Jerusalem the quality of the result surpasses that of most more commercially produced similar prints. The dense of the outline ink is remarkable; the tint from the second impression delicate and rich in detail. The portfolio contains views of Jerusalem and environs 13 at all including the cover illustration. Curt Singer painter educated in Hamburg Berlin and Paris. Born in 1905 in Czechoslovakia he immigrated in 1935 to Israel where he soon establishe himself as a painter. Died in 1989. Jerusalem, Heatid, Salingré, 1952. paperback
Bookseller reference : 2303
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Sinoué, Gilbert
Il silenzio di Dio
Ambizioso thriller che ci restituisce tutta la forza visionaria e la magia narrativa di Gilbert Sinoué.
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Sionita, Gabriel.
Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia: accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur [...]. Amsterdam, Willem & Jan Blaeu, 1635.
12mo. 247, (1) pp. With engr., illustrated title page. Contemp. vellum. Second edition of this collection; a reprint of the 1633 Jansson edition. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - Slightly browned throughout. Gay 3452 (year mis-stated as "1653"). OCLC 69059126. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2084. Hage Chahine 4533. Blackmer 1544 (note). Schnurrer 188 (first ed. 1633).
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Sionita, Gabriel.
Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia: accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur [...]. Amsterdam, Johann Jansson, 1633.
12mo. 297 (but: 287) pp. With engraved, illustrated title page. Contemporary limp vellum with traces of ties. First edition of the collection. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - Slight worming to first pages; some waterstaining near end. Contemporary ink ownership to pastedown: "Ex libris Bibliothecae S. Dominici Ferrariae"; old stamp to first half-title. An appealing little volume. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2084 (erroneously "1653"). Blackmer 1544 (note). Weber II, 697. Gay 3452 (erroneously 1653). Hage Chahine 4533. The Heritage Library: Treasures of Islamic and Arabic Heritage (Qatar 2006), s. v. "Travels", with illustration.
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SIR [ALEXANDER ROSSKEEN] HAMILTON GIBB, (1895-1971).
Al-medhal fî al-adâb al-Arabiyye. [= Arabic literature. An introduction]. Translated by Kazim Sadaddin.
Very Good Arabic Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 192 p. Al-medhal fî al-adâb al-Arabiyye. [= Arabic literature. An introduction]. Translated by Kazim Sadaddin.
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Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript
Huntington Library Press 2005. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 109 pages as new. Huntington Library Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 143555 ISBN : 0873282094 9780873282093
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Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Alone in Arabian Nights
London: Wright & Brown 1933. First Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with fading to spine. Rubbing to head and tail of spine and spine edges. heavy foxing to pages and end papers. Central photographic plate is loose. MIDDLE EAST <br/> <br/> Wright & Brown hardcover
Bookseller reference : 301328
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Sirriyeh Hussein
United States Policy in the Gulf 1968-77: Aftermath of British Withdrawal Political Studies of the Middle East
<p>Hardback 297 pages very good condition</p> Ithaca Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1795 ISBN : 0863720072 9780863720079
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Sitwell Sacheverell
Arabesque and Honeycomb
<p>New York: Random House. 1958 1st Am. ed. 224pp. illus. beige cloth tall 8vo: Very Good in a dj torn at spine ends; now protected in a Brodart poly cover tiny rubbed spot @ tail edge of back cover board; rem. stamp on half-title p.; some browning of endpp; else VG Travels in the Middle East focusing on Islamic art and culture by the prolific English writer and art and architecture critic Sir Sacheverell Sitwell 1897-1988 who was the younger brother of Edith and Osbert. </p> New York: Random House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 376
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Sivan Emmanuel
Mythes Politiques Arabes.
France Fayard 1995 paperback. SIGNED inscribed by author on title page. Translated from Hebrew to FRENCH. Apparently not translated into English. -- Softcover. Condition: very good corner lightly bumped. ISBN 2213593272 Fayard paperback
Bookseller reference : 30411 ISBN : 2213593272 9782213593272
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SK. EDDY S. K.
The King is Dead. Studies in the Near Eastern Resistance to Hellenism 334-31 BC. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln NE 1961. 8vo. First Edition with a large folding map as frontispiece and 8 plates on 4; original terracotta cloth gilt back a very good clean in the dustwrapper the latter with one short closed tear. Very scarce especially in this condition. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18347
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SKEELS (Frank), SKEELS (Laure)
Highways and byways of Lebanon.
Reading, Garnet, 2000. Grand in-8 cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur, XVII-504 pp., nombreuses ill. phot. en couleurs e cartes dans le texte, index.
Bookseller reference : 555614 ISBN : 1859641334
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Skinner, [Thomas].
Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land. London, Richard Bentley, 1836.
8vo. 2 vols. XI, (1), 324 pp. XI, (1), 291, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces (portrait and view of the Lake of Tiberias). Contemporary calf with triple giltstamped cover fillets and blindstamped ornamental borders, leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt, spines rebacked to style with giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. First edition. - An account of a journey made in 1833 through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia (Baghdad, Babylon and Basrah), Persia, down the Arabian Gulf (stopping at Muscat, "the hottest place on earth") and thence to India. - Corners bumped; frontispieces foxed. Attractively bound copy; armorial bookplates ("Gadsden", motto "decrevi") to pastedowns; contemporary ownership "C. J. Wilton" to flyleaf. Blackmer 1547. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 237. Röhricht 1808. OCLC 4255403. Cf. Atabey 1142 (1837 second ed.).
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Slater Robert
Warrior Statesman: Life of Moshe Dayan
London: Robson Books Ltd 1992. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Robson Books Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035982 ISBN : 0860517837 9780860517832
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Slatin-Pascha, Rudolf von, administrator in the Sudan, politician, and adventurer (1857-1932).
4 autograph letters signed ("R. Slatin"). [Probably Merano], 1930.
Large 4to. Altogether 6 pp. on 4 ff. In German, to a "dear doctor and friend": "[...] I should like to see you and your dear wife again before my departure [...]" (letter of 12 April; with punched holes in left margin [not touching text]). - "I arrived here 3 days ago after 4 weeks in Bad Hall - without any noticeable results [...]" (letter of 3 September). - "I took Anne Marie from Fetan, where she spent the summer, back to St. Blasien. She has not had the care she needs, but looks well altogether and is happy, though I am not [...]" (letter of 28 September). - "Thank you for your kind letter; I hope that you and your dear wife will do me the honour of dining with me on Saturday at 1 PM [...]" (letter of 6 October). - On stationery with printed address.
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Slatin-Pascha, Rudolf von, administrator in the Sudan, politician, and adventurer (1857-1932).
Archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha. Various places, ca. 1895.
Autograph document in Arabic. 8vo. 1 p. Accompanied by the first published account of Slatin's escape: 3 consecutive issues of the Pall Mall Gazette, 23-25 April 1895 (42 x 37 cm each). Wrapped as a parcel within a bifolium of the Times, inscribed "Slatin Bey's Escape" by Sir Reginald Wingate. An archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha (Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, 1857-1932), who was held prisoner for eleven long years by the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad and his successor. The material was assembled by General Sir Reginald Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department, who facilitated the escape and assisted on the perilous three-week, thousand-kilometre journey across the Nubian desert to Aswan, Egypt. "Probably the most famous European in the history of the Sudan, this Austrian survived as a captive of the Mahdi from 1883 until his escape to Egypt in 1895. His knowledge of the Sudan and its people was unrivalled and after the re-conquest he was appointed Inspector-General, second in authority only to the Governor-General, Reginald Wingate, of whom he was a great personal friend" (H. Keown-Boyd, Soldiers of the Nile [1996], p. 174). - The archive includes an Arabic document presumed to be written by Slatin Pasha (1 p. on thick handmade paper, 16 x 25 cm). Any writing by Slatin Pasha in Arabic is exceedingly scarce. Also, Slatin Pasha's first published account of his captivity and escape in Sudan, in three consecutive "Special Edition" issues of London's Pall Mall Gazette newspapers, preceding his book "Fire and Sword in the Sudan" by an entire year. Dated 23, 24, 25 April 1895 respectively, each contains 1 of 3 parts of Slatin's account entitled "The Story of My Flight". Each issue measures 42 x 37 cm. Wear to extremities and folds, otherwise very good. A scarce contemporary report, complete and in original condition. - Wrapped together within contemporary leaves of the Times, forming a parcel and inscribed by Sir Reginald Wingate "Slatin Bey's Escape", addressed in his secretary's hand to "Miss Campbell, Cawley Priory" - evidently a close friend or relative of Slatin's who Wingate thought would appreciate knowledge of his safety as soon as possible.
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Slekow Ria.
Flammen in Palästina Palaestina: Eine Urenkelin der Katharina von Bora zwischen Arabern und Juden.
Haag Van Stockum 1936. Crown octavo. Pp. viii 178. Plus a number of halftone illustrations printed on different paper bound in. Hardcover original pale yellow boards printed in green embossed endpapers with dust-jacket this defective; small rust stain to fore-edge of few consecutive leaves. Book is in a very good condition. ~ First edition. Haag, Van Stockum, 1936. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1068
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Slonim Reuben
Both Sides Now: A Twenty-five-year encounter with Arabs and Israelis
Toronto/Vancouver: Clarke Irwin 1972. Hard bound illustrated w/photos 176pp includes index. Very good in slightly edge torn scuffed dust jacket. Toronto/Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin, 1972, unknown
Bookseller reference : 4531
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Smith Anthony
Blind White Fish in Persia
London: Allen & Unwin 1953. Travel and exploration in Iran by a group of British scientists. Photos. Third impression. 231 pp. 8vo. Hardcover . Catalogs: IRAN. London: Allen & Unwin, (1953) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3654
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Smith Anthony
Blind White Fish in Persia
New York: Dutton 1953. Chipped dj. Photos. 256 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. New York: Dutton, (1953) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5185
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Smith Charles D
Palestine and the Arab Israeli Conflict
U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan 1992. Text has some highlighting/marks. Binding is tight and secure. 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. Fair. 9 x 6. Palgrave Macmillan Paperback
Bookseller reference : 415209 ISBN : 0312049048 9780312049041
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Smith Dan
State of the Middle East : An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution
Univ of California Press - 2006. Gd. condition - Detailed maps of the conflicts and boundarys of the Middle East . KE97055z. Soft Cover. Good. Univ of California Press - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 7055z ISBN : 0520248686 9780520248687
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Smith Dan
The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict And Resolution
Ewing New Jersey U.S.A.: Univ of California Press 2006. New in shrink wrap. 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. Soft Cover. Fine. Univ of California Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 209339 ISBN : 0520248686 9780520248687
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Smith George Adam.
De historische aardrijkskunde van het Heilige Land inzonderheid in verband met de geschiedenis van Israël en van de oude kerk.
Utrecht Kemink & Zoon 1903. Royal 8vo. Pp. xx 660. Plus folding colour lithographed map illustrating Old and New Testament history according to Palestine Exploration Survey loosely inserted at end as issued. Footnotes appendices indices. Hardcover original black cloth. Spine missing front flyleaf incised map repaired on verso. Internally fine. ~ Translated from the English. Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, 1903. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1412
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Smith Harvey H.; Al Any Nancy W.; Bernier Donald W.; Bunge Frederica M.; et al.
AREA HANDBOOK FOR IRAQ -- DA PAM No. 550-31
Washington DC: US Government Printing Off 1969. HC. good brown cloth hardcover EX-LIB. 411pp. US Government Printing Off unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS055458I
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Smith Reuben W. ed
Islamic Civilization in the Middle East: Course Syllabus
Chicago: University of Chicago / Committee on Near Eastern Studies 1965. A few annotations in pencil. Owner's name on inside front wrapper. "60628" written on the cover. Wrappers worn especially along the spine. xiv 121 pages. 22.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: University of Chicago / Committee on Near Eastern Studies, (1965) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7636
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Smith W. Robertson
Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia
The Netherlands: Anthropological Publications 1966. New edition with additional notes by the author and by Profesor Ignaz Goldziher. Edited by Stanley A. Cook. Reprint of 1907 edition. xxii 324 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. The Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1966 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5152
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Smith Wilfred Cantwell
Islam in Modern History
<p>Paperback 319 pages good condition tight binding clean pages cover slightly worn.</p> Mentor, New American Library paperback
Bookseller reference : 3214
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Smith, W. Robertson.
Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. Cambridge, University Press, 1885.
8vo. XIV, 322, (2) pp. Original brown cloth with giltstamped title to spine. First edition of the standard work by W. Robertson Smith, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. - Removed from the Harvard College Library (with duplicate stamp). A single ink marking in the margin, otherwise fine. Remains of shelfmark labels. Another copy sold for £1,500 at Sotheby's in 1998 (Oct 14, lot 1125: some underlining of text & marks in margins). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1921. Fück 210. OCLC 2156214.
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Smolansky Oles M.
The Soviet Union and the Arab East Under Khrushchev
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press 1974 . Hard bound 1st edition 326pp inc. bibliography and indices. Pencil scored text throughout with occasional marginal notes in pencil else very good in edge chipped and moderately soiled G dust jacket. Well over 500 grams unpacked - depending on destination extra postage may be requested! Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1974, unknown
Bookseller reference : 10059 ISBN : 0838713386 9780838713389
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Smout, Alan Hilder.
Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula. London, printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1954.
Folio (256 x 318 mm). VIII, (2), 96 pp. With 15 leaves of plates and several illustrations in the text. Original cloth with giltstamped spine title. Only edition. - Systematic account of fossilized foraminifera discovered in the desert of the Qatar Peninsula. OCLC 8202535. Not in Macro.
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Snape, Andrew.
The Anatomy of an Horse. London, Miles Flesher for Thomas Fletcher, 1683.
Folio (243 x 367 mm). (12), 237, (1), 45, (7) pp. With engr. portrait of the author by R. White and 48 (of 49) engraved plates (lacking plate I). Contemporary calf with modern morocco label to gilt spine. First edition. Andrew Snape served as serjeant farrier to King Charles II. In his dedication to the king, he speaks of "being a Son of that Family that hath had the honour to serve the Crown of this Kingdom in the Quality of Farriers for these two Hundred Years." It is this classic work on which François Garsault was to base his 1734 "Anatomie Générale du Cheval". - Some brownstaining; some leaves with repaired tears, binding repaired. With armorial bookplate with cipher of George Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (1736-1809) on front pastedown. Huth 26. Mellon 31. Wing S4382. ESTC R-14873. Nissen ZBI, 3887. OCLC 29155938. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance I, 526.
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Snouck Hurgronje, C[hristian].
Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian Archipelago. Leyden & London, E. J. Brill & Luzac, 1931.
Large 8vo. VI, 309, (3) pp. With 20 half-tone plates, folding plan of Mecca, and plan of the Haram. Original blue cloth. First edition of the English translation of a book on the holy city of Mecca by the Dutch orientalist and professor Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936). The book is divided into four large chapters, dealing respectively with daily life, family life, learning and the Jâwah in Mecca. Each chapter is illustrated with several photographs, mostly portraits, depicting among others a physician, a merchant with his slave, a bride and groom, pilgrims and the doorkeeper of the Kaabah, and also including a view of the Masjid al-Haram mosque. The book closes with an index and two maps, one showing Mecca. During his travels Snouck Hurgronje took many pictures of the holy city and its inhabitants, which made him the first western photographer in the city. In 1888 he published two volumes in German entitled "Mekka" describing his travels, to which a "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka" was added in 1888. The present translation is based on the second of the two German volumes from 1888, "which seems likely to appeal to a wider public" (p. V), thus representing a Mecca from nearly fifty years earlier. The two maps included in the first German volume are included here as well, and the 21 reproductions of photographs are a selection from the photographs in the "Bilder-Atlas". - Binding only slighty worn at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior slightly browned, but otherwise a very good copy, clean and well-preserved, with both the text and plates in very good condition. Macro 1238. D. van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgonje: the First Western Photographer in Mecca, 1884-1885 (2011). OCLC 1088989. Cf. Fück 231.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Bilder aus Mekka. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1889.
Folio (282 x 372 mm). 20 collotype prints mounted on 18 sheets loose in red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with half-title, list of plates, title and preface. One of the earliest photographic documents of Mecca and the Hajj, preceded only by the photographs of Muhammed Sadiq Bey published in 1881 (Sotheby's, 4 June 1998: £1,250,000). Much rarer than the author's similarly titled "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka", a portfolio of lithographs to accompany the "Mekka" books which Snouck had published after his return from the Arabian Peninsula. - "Following the publication of 'Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka', Hurgronje received a letter from his doctor in Makkah, whom he had taught the art of photography. The letter contained new photographs of the hajj which were of such great interest that he decided in 1889 to publish his 'Bilder aus Mekka' [...] The photographs provide an insight into the world of Makkah's inhabitants, pilgrims from all over the Islamic world, in addition to the sharif of Makkah, the Turkish governor, and various religious and secular figures" (Badr el-Hage, p. 46f.). - "In 1981 F. H. S. Allen and C. Gavin first identified the earliest Arabian photographer by deciphering his elaborately calligraphed signatures, which without exception had been erased from the plates reproduced by Snouck Hurgronje: 'Futugrafiyat al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka' (The Photography of the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physican of Mecca). This princely eye surgeon had been host to the young Snouck in Mecca immediately after the Dutchman's conversion to Islam. Snouck claimed to have taught his host how to use a camera and attributes to him (without ever mentioning his name) the pictures reproduced in 'Bilder aus Mekka'". - Light spotting, title and text leaves frayed at inner edge (not affecting text), occasional minor stains or wear to edges of mounts, covers rather marked and stained. Very rare: only two copies at auctions internationally during the past decades (the last, at Sotheby's in 2006, was incomplete, lacking all the text leaves). Macro 1233. Badr el-Hage. Saudi Arabia Caught in Time. Reading, 1997. F. E. Peters. The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Place. Princeton University Press 1996.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Mekka. (And:) Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka. Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Half calf with gilt-stamped morocco label to spine. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates (conjoined as 2), 6 (1 double-sized) toned lithogr. plates, and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 40 plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Cloth portfolio with gilt cover title. Remarkable set, rarely encountered complete with the plates volume. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Very nicely rebound, in matching period style portfolio and half calf. An unusually crisp and clean copy throughout: text volumes spotless; the plates with the vintage photographs, much sought after as the earliest photographic documents of the city, its dignitaries and its pilgrims, are backed on thin linen and preserved in perfect condition. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Mekka. (And:) Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka. Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates, 5 (of 6) toned lithogr. plates (one folding), and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 39 (of 40) plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Includes original printed upper board cover, loosely inserted. Modern black library cloth with gilt title to spine; atlas portfolio uniform with books. Contemporary black half roan, spines in five compartments with raised bands gilt, original atlas-portfolio of black cloth-backed printed cream boards. First edition, a complete set with both text volumes and the portfolio with all the photographic plates, but lacking one of the lithographs. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Spines of both text volumes and portfolio professionally restored. Atlas lacks plate XVII (detail of Kiswah fabric), some light scattered spotting, minor creasing to mounts. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
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