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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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Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique & de l'Afrique Orientale.
Action de Cinq Cents Francs au Porteur. No 296. Paris, Imprimérie centrale des chemins de fer / Imprimérie chaix, 2. II. 1883.
Folio (ca. 305 x 393 mm). 1 page. Share certificate for a bearer stock security of 500 francs with 24 coupons, signed by two administrators of the "Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique". The company operated from the small port town of Obock, on the Gulf of Tadjoura opposite Aden. It was the site of the first French colony in the region, which was established in 1862, initiating the colonisation of Djibouti. The French were especially interested in having a coaling station for steamships, which proved valuable upon the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
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Soden Hermann Freiherr von.
Palästina Palaestina und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. AND: Map of Jerusalem American Colony Store 1910.
Leipzig Teubner 1904. 12mo. Pp. iv 112 32 publisher's catalogue. Plus one plan of ancient Jerusalem 6 halftone photographic plates 2 coloured maps all printed on different paper bound-in. Printed endpapers illustrated front paste-down colour plate pasted onto back paste-down as issued. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover original beige cloth lettered in black. In fine condition. ~ Second edition. ADDED: Map of Jerusalem. Original letterpress coloured map issued by Fr. Vester & Co. American Colony Store ca. 1910. Overall size ca. 28 x 32 cm image size ca. 25 x 28.5 cm linen-backed printed in black yellow green blue pink red. Issued for tourists and pilgrims to Jerusalem it identifies the major sites in the city the actual excavations of the ancient city wall as well as the location of the American Colony Store itself. It has been folded to fit inside the book but otherwise in fine condition. Leipzig, Teubner, 1904. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0767
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Soden Hermann Freiherr von.
Palästina Palaestina und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge.
Leipzig Teubner 1899. 12mo. Pp. 112. Plus 2 full-page maps printed in colour and one plan of ancient Jerusalem bound at rear; index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover original illustrated cloth publisher's catalogue on endpapers. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Leipzig, Teubner, 1899. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0700
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SOKOLOWICZ JOAQUIN
ISRAELIANI E PALESTINESI
MILANO, GARZANTI, 1989. Le radici, i fatti, le prospettive del conflitto mediorientale. In 16°: pp. 142. Collana Memorie Documenti Biografie. Br. edit. fig.
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Solomon Norman; Erlich Reese; Erlich Reese W.
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
New York New York U.S.A.: Context Books 2003. PB/Gd. condition/188 pages - What the news media didn't tell you concerning Iraq. K846HT9. Soft Cover. Good. Context Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : K846 ISBN : 1893956393 9781893956391
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Solomon Norman; Erlich Reese
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
Context Books 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Context Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 0308064 ISBN : 1893956393 9781893956391
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Solomon Norman; Erlich Reese; Erlich Reese W
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
Context Books 2003. Pages unmarked. Glossy covers moderately edgeworn. Small sliver of cover stock missing at bottom of spine. Binding firm. Trade Paperback. VG. Context Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 68382 ISBN : 1893956393 9781893956391
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Somer, Jan.
Johann Sommers See- und Land-Reyß nach der Levante, das ist nach Italien, Candia, Cypern, Rhodis Egypten, Syrien, Gelobten Lande, Constantinopel und von dar wider durch Ungarn, Italien und Teutschland nach Mittelburg nach Hauß [...]. Frankfurt, Johann Frantz for Wilhelm Serlin, 1664.
4to. (8), 200 pp. With 8 engraved plates (some with touches of colour, two folded). - (Bound with) II: Wenner, Adam. Türckisches Reisebuch von Prag aus biß gen Constantinopel [...]. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter & Wolfgang Endter's heirs, 1665. (8), 135, (5) pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Exceedingly rare Mediterranean travelogue: one of two German editions published in the same year (the other, an entirely different translation, by Cunradus in Amsterdam; the Nuremberg edition cited by several bibliographies is fictitious). Dutch editions had previously appeared in 1649 (the first) and in 1661. Although the Amsterdam-published German edition dates the journey to 1640-42, the Dutch first edition as well as the present translation make it clear that it had taken place as early as 1590-92! Somer's voyage began inauspiciously - he was captured by a Turkish galley in the harbour of Famagusta and briefly enslaved, but was soon set free after the French consul at Alexandria intervened for him. In spite of this episode, he travelled the Ottoman Empire at a time of relative peace (the Long Turkish War with the Habsburgs would not break out until 1593), spending several months in Egypt, Constantinople and Palestine. His colourful account includes a description of desert sandstorms and the trade in Egyptian mummies (not all of them ancient) as well as extensive chapters on Constantinople, the Ottoman court, the ubiquitous baths, Turkish customs and manners, the Muslim faith, curses and magic, etc. Somer returned via then-Ottoman Greece and Hungary, which he also describes. An appendix (pp. 170ff.) contains A. Stockram's topical account of the voyage of the Dutch ship Arnheim, which foundered off Mauritius on the return from Batavia. The translation is credited to "Philemerus Irenicus Elisius" (i.e., Martin Meyer). Rare; the last copy in auction records sold in 1983 (Erasmushaus, an incomplete reissue with only 5 views). - Bound after this is the second edition of A. Wenner's narrative of the Imperial embassy to the Porte in 1616-18, to ratify the Treaty of Zsitvatorok. Wenner served as secretary to the embassy; his "book is a day-to-day account of the journey to Constantinople from Prague, and includes a list of all the entourage from nobles to the apothecary, goldsmith, musicians, tailors, cooks, and so on. A list of presents for the sultan, with their values, is also given" (Atabey). The Treaty of Zsitvatorok "was a landmark in Turkish-European diplomatic relations, when the Turks first began to observe the general principles and courtesies of international law, and to exchange special ambassadors on an equal footing with European nations" (Blackmer). - Some browning throughout due to paper, more pronounced in Somer's work, the title-page of which shows an unobtrusive tear in the upper edge. Contemporary handwritten ownership "Bocken" to recto of flyleaf; verso has stamp and 1978 ownership of the Viennese collector Werner Habel (1939-2015). I: VD 17, 23:231760C. Tobler 86. Röhricht p. 217, no. 820. Paulitschke 532; Ternaux-Compans, Bibliothèque asiatique et africaine, 1977 (both have "Nuremberg" in error for Frankfurt). Cf. Weber II, 216 (Amsterdam German ed.); Kat d. Scheepvart Mus. I, 254f. (Dutch eds.). Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Aboussouan, Howgego, Henze, Cox, or Chauvin. - II: VD 17, 23:234557B. Cf. Atabey 1326; Blackmer 1783; Brunet VI.2, 435 (all for the 1622 first edition). Not in Röhricht, Tobler, Aboussouan or Brunet.
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Sonia K. Weaver
What is Palestine/Israel Answers to Common Questions
Winnipeg: Mennonite Central Committee 2004. New! Paper bound in stapled illustrated wrappers oblong 16mo illustrated in colour throughout 64pp. As new. 180 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Winnipeg: Mennonite Central Committee, 2004 unknown
Bookseller reference : 19930 ISBN : 0973578416 9780973578416
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Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert.
Reisen in Ober- und Niederägypten. Aus dem Französischen. Mit Anmerkungen und einem Sachregister. Leipzig & Gera, Heinsius, 1800.
8vo. 2 vols. XXIV, 453, (3) pp. XXXVIII, 534, (2) pp. With 13 folding engr. plates and 2 folding tables. Contemp. marbled boards with giltstamped spine labels. First German edition of this account of travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated from the French original of the naturalist Charles Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), who had visited Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1777-78. The plates show landscapes, plants, fish, and antiquities. - Binding slightly bumped at extremeties; slight browning throughout. Titles stamped ("Institut für Grenz- und Auslandstudien"). Fromm 24495. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 245. Kainbacher 398. Cox I, 395. Graesse VI/1, 439. Cf. Gay 2250 (1799 French ed.).
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Sookhdeo Patrick
Freedom to Believe: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law
USA: Isaac Publishing 2009. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Isaac Publishing Paperback
Bookseller reference : 038457 ISBN : 0978714199 9780978714192
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SORDI Maria (Livorno 1925 - Milano 2009)
GIUDEA - SIRIA PALESTINA - PALESTINA all'epoca di SETTIMIO SEVERO. Estr. orig. dal Bollettino di studi latini. Anno I, fasc. II, maggio-agosto 1971
In-8°, pp. 6. Bross. edit. SORDI, storica. Allieva di Silvio Accame, insegnò all'Università di Messina e poi di Bologna. Dal 1969 al 2001 insegnò Storia greca e romana all'Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore a Milano.
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Soren Bojholm Jaafar Behbehani Mia Staehr Allan Staehr
Treatment of War Victims in the Middle East
Copenhagen: IRCT 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. IRCT Paperback
Bookseller reference : 059012 ISBN : 8788882381 9788788882384
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Sotheby's -
Books on the Middle East. The Library of Michael Burrell.
London, 1999, 4to brossura, cop. ill. pp. 162 con oltre 900 lotti prezzati.
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Soubhy, Saleh.
Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à Médine. Précédé d'un aperçu sur l'islamisme et suivi de considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision. Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 1894.
Large 8vo. 109 (instead of 129), (2) pp. With 16 (instead of 19) plates. Marbled half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Includes 4 photographic views of Mecca, 3 of Medina and 3 of Jeddah (after Sadiq Bey and others), wants only the ten-leaf appendix, 2 portraits and the plate showing the departure of the Mahmal in Cairo. - Salih Subhi, an Egyptian public health official, was commissioned by his government to undertake the Hajj in 1888 and 1894. Here he describes the eight-month journey in great detail. Muhammed Sadiq Bey was a major pioneer in the history of Arabian photography and the first person ever to photograph the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. - Browned throughout due to paper. Our copy without the ten-leaf appendix before the author's epilogue and portrait. - Rare, the last copy on the market fetched £27,500 (Christie's, April 13 2010, lot 276, with author's dedication), the Burrell copy fetched £8,000 in 1999 (complete, but in modern cloth). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2096. Auboyneau/Fevret 20. OCLC 7055812.
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SOUISSI (Ridha)
Al-Mu'tamid ibn 'Abbad et son oeuvre poétique. Etudes des Thèmes.
Publications de l'Université de Tunis, 1977. In-8 br., 437 pp., index.
Bookseller reference : 595558
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Sourbets, Georges / Saint-Marc, Camille de.
Précis de Fauconnerie [...] suivi de l'Éducation du Cormoran. Niort, L. Clouzot, 1887.
8vo. Half-title and title, (4), 123, (1) pp. With 4 lithographed plates. Contemporary red morocco-backed cloth. One of 150 copies, rare. "A neat summary of nearly all that is necessary to be known in order to tame, train, and fly a hawk successfully" (Harting). - Cloth rubbed, a very good copy. Harting 217. Schwerdt II, 168.
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SOURDEL (D.)
Le Livre des Secrétaires de 'Abd Allah Al-Bagdadi. Extrait du Bulletin d'Etudes orientales de l'Institut Français de Damas, tome XIV, 1952-1954.
circa. 1954. In-4 br., pp [116-153].
Bookseller reference : 595514
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SOURDEL (Dominique)
Inventaire des monnaies musulmanes du Musée de Caboul.
Institut Français de Damas, 1953. In-8 br., XXIII-144 pp., VI pl. en noir in fine, index.
Bookseller reference : 593015
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SOURDEl (Dominique)
L'Etat impérial des califes abbassides, VIIIe-Xe siècle.
Paris, PUF, 1999. In-8 br., couv. rempliée, VI-264 pp., index, cartes, tableaux généal.
Bookseller reference : 595474
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Sousa, João de.
Documentos arabicos para a historia portugueza copiados dos originaes de Torre do Tombo [...]. Lisbon, Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790.
4to. (8), 190, (4) pp. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena's owl and Hermes's staff). Set in roman, italic and Arabic types. Modern green morocco, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco spine label with title in gold and the imprint in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. First and only edition of a collection of letters written in Arabic during the reigns of Kings Manuel I and João III of Portugal (numbered 1-58 in chronological order, the dated letters from 1503 to 1528), from the official Portuguese state correspondence, with the original Arabic and a parallel Portuguese translation. The letters came from North Africa, the Gulf, East Africa, India and the East Indies. The writers include kings, princes, governors, wazirs, sheikhs and noblemen, including Kings "Mahomed Xáh" and "Mir Abanasar" of Ormus, King "Azarkam" of Barus in Sumatra, and kings of Fez, Malindi and Calicut/Kozhikode. They are especially important for the light they shed on Portugal's East Indian trade, but also provide a rare primary source of information about Islamic leaders for whom little documentation has survived. The original Arabic appears in the inside columns with the Portuguese translation in the outside columns, and the apparatus and notes are in Portuguese. João de Sousa (1734-1812), born in Damascus, came to Portugal in 1750 and was appointed the first professor of Arabic at the University of Lisbon. - The Royal Printing Office in Lisbon had used the present Arabic type in 1774 for Antonio Baptista, Instituições da lingua Arabica. The form of the Arabic type may have been influenced by Robert Granjon's of this size, cut in 1586, his smallest Arabic, which was at this time in possession of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, but the direct model and the circumstances of the cutting remain unknown. The type here measures 96 mm/20 lines (14 point). It is not the Arabic type acquired by the Biblioteca Real in Madrid in 1751 for the 1760 Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, which came from the Voskens and Clerk foundry in Amsterdam. - The first page of the first letter is very slightly soiled, otherwise internally fine and clean. Overall in very good condition. A remarkable primary source for numerous Arabic-speaking leaders and their relations with Portugal in the early 1500s. Macro 2098. Palau 320779. Schnurrer 186. Innocêncio IV, 41-42. Palha 2777. Krek, Typographia Arabica, p. 36, no. 3. Streit XVII, 6441. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.
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SOWELL KIRK H
The Arab World: An Illustrated History
Hippocrene Books New York: 2004. Softcover. Brand new book. This comprehensive history of the Arab World has never been more timely. Anyone interested in understanding global affairs would benefit greatly from this book. A panoramic view of the history of the Arab peoples whose world has expanded from the Arabian Peninsula to include North Africa the Levant and the Persian Gulf. The narrative depicts the rise of Islam the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the empire founded by his successors which encompassed the Middle East North Africa and Spain. Following this empire's fragmentation circa A.D. 900 Central Asian rulers controlled the Arab world. Ultimately the age of European dominance produced the modern Middle Eastern and North African states. The author concludes with an analysis of present-day challenges facing the Arab world. ISBN: 0781809908. Hippocrene Books, New York: 2004 paperback
Bookseller reference : 71171X1 ISBN : 0781809908 9780781809900
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Spahni ; Bruggmann
La route des épices
Silva 1992 In-4 reliure éditeur sous jaquette, 204 pp. Illustrations couleurs
Bookseller reference : 5744
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SPARROW Judge Gerald.
Modern Jordan.
London:George Allen and Unwin 1961. 1st ed. Pp.180/4ads8 pages of b/w photo illustrations owners details to feptoning to endpapers. Red cloth minor sunning to spine. G. . London:George Allen and Unwin, 1961. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25994
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Sparvenfeld, Johann Gabriel.
Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit [...] Ioan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius. Uppsala, Johan Henrik Werner, 1706.
4to. (6), 74 pp. With woodcut title vignette. modern boards. Extensively annotated catalogue of 115 Arabic, Persian and Turkish works, mostly manuscripts which Sparvenveldt had acquired in Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia in 1691. Edited with the help of Erik Benzelius and Olof Celsius. The titles are rendered in the original languages in Kirsten's fine Arabic types, brought with him to Sweden from Breslau in 1636. - Insignificant edge staining to title page; reverse shows old library stamp of Upsala College, East Orange, NJ, dissolved in 1995. Untrimmed copy. Smitskamp, PO 113d. Schnurrer 17 & 25. Besterman 152. Warmholtz 9270.
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Sparwenfeld, Johan Gabriel, donor (Eric Benzelius & Olaus Celsius, comp.).
Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV bibliothecam publicam Academiae Upsalenis auxit & exornavit vir illustris & generossissimus Joan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius, ... Uppsala, Johan Henrik Werner (printer to the University), 1706.
4to. [6], 74 pp. With a woodcut garland of fruits, leaves and nuts on the title-page, 1 woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in roman, italic, Arabic and Greek type. Later paper wrappers. Catalogue of the collection of 126 Persian, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, Latin and other books and manuscripts donated to the Library of the University of Uppsala by Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld (1655-1727). It was compiled by the Swedish scholars Eric Benzelius the younger (1670-1756) and Olaus Celsius the elder (1675-1743). The main series of manuscripts (items I-LXI), described in great detail, includes 41 in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, 8 in Greek (one dating back to the eighth century) and 12 in Latin and modern European languages. These are followed by 42 printed books (LXII-CIII) including 2 in Chinese, several in Arabic, the 1581 Ostrog Bible (the first Bible printed in Old Slavonic) and several other exotic languages, including Irish (set in Anglo-Saxon type). A few more manuscripts (mostly Arabic) are added at the end, numbered I-VI and I-XV, plus an unnumbered geographic manuscript in Chinese (3 volumes). This is the earliest catalogue of the Uppsala University Library's collections. The Arabic, Persian and Turkish titles are set in a large Arabic type cut for the physician and orientalist Peter Kirsten by the Swedish punchcutter Peter von Selow (who served his apprenticeship under Tycho Brahe) and first used at Breslau in 1608. Werner, printer to the university at Uppsala sice 1701, seems to have been the first Swedish printer to use types by Nicolaus Kis, two of his italics and one roman appearing in the present book, though not the roman used for the main text. - After finishing his studies at Uppsala, Sparwenfeld travelled throughout Europe and accompanied the Swedish ambassador to Moscow, where he took an interest in Slavonic languages. On his travels he collected many precious books and manuscripts. In 1687 he returned to Stockholm, where he carried out a study of manuscripts from the ancient Goths. He travelled to Holland, France and Spain, dealing with the Blaeu printing office and mediating in the production of Georgian type cut by Nicolaus Kis for the exiled King of Georgia. In 1691 he travelled to Egypt, Syria and Tunis. Though a Protestant, he presented the manuscript of his Slavonic lexicon to Pope Innocent XII, who granted him access to the Vatican library, a rare honour for a Protestant. He returned to Sweden in 1694. He continued to correspond with scholars throughout Europe even after he retired to his estate in 1712. He wrote and spoke 14 languages. - In very good condition, with only occasional very slight foxing, wholly untrimmed, preserving the deckles and point holes and with the bolts unopened. A remarkable catalogue of an extraordinary library, especially rich in Arabic manuscripts. Almqvist, Sveriges bibliogr. litteratur 2838. Smitskamp, PO 113 (note).
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Speakman Harold.
Hilltops in Galilee.
London Methuen 1925. 8vo. Pp. 259. Frontispiece and seven other plates in colour bound in. Hardcover original blue cloth spine gilt. In fine condition. ~ First British edition. Colour illustrations from paintings by the author. London, Methuen, 1925. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0898
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Speiser E. A
The United States and the Near East
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1947. Maps. Map on endpapers. xvi 263 pages. 12mo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1947 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5690
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SPEISER (Ephraim A.)
Mesopotamian origins. The basic population of the Near East.
Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile brune, titre doré en long au dos, XIII-198 pp., bibliogr., index.
Bookseller reference : 556281
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Spencer Christopher
Mineral Wealth of Saudi Arabia
London: Immel 1986 4to cloth pp128 colour plates VG-/G- Includes a chapter on fossils. Slight former damping to one corner of binding and wrapper Fine text and plates. Immel hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1173 ISBN : 0907151132 9780907151135
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Spencer Robert
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West
Washington D.C. U.S.A.: Regnery Pub 2003. Hardcover/Gd. condition/350 pages - How Jihad still threatens America and the West. K835HT9. Hard Cover. Good. Regnery Pub Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K835 ISBN : 0895261006 9780895261007
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Spencer William
Global Studies: The Middle East Second Edition
Guilford: The Dushkin Publishing Group 1988. Bottom corners bumped with subsequent curling of page corner tips. Soft Cover. G-VG with Fault. Small Quarto. The Dushkin Publishing Group Paperback
Bookseller reference : 01010539 ISBN : 0879677457 9780879677459
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Spencer-Smith, J[ohn].
Précis d'une dissertation sur un monument arabe du moyen age en Normandie. Seconde édition. Caen, Chalopin fils, [1827].
8vo. 27, (1) pp. With 5 engraved plates by F. Berthout, Caen, and woodcut vignette of the Académie de Caen on reverse of t. p. Original printed wrappers. Second edition (first printed in 1820), with several illustrations published here for the first time. No. 237 of 300 copies. Rare treatise by John Spencer Smith (1769-1845), an "extrait du procès-verbal de la séance du 14 avril 1820", about the famous Chasuble of Saint-Regnobert preserved at the Cathedral of Bayeux, and about the Cufic-inscribed ivory chest, supposedly part of the Saracen spoils taken by Charles Martel, in which it is stored. The engravings show the chasuble as well as the chest and many details of the inscriptions. The original edition, published by Le Roy in 1820, contained merely a frontispiece and a single text illustration. - Wrapper torn at upper spine end. Binding loosened; significant browning to final quires. With the errata slip bound at the end. OCLC 27973008.
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SPERCO Willy
Moustapha Kemal Ataturk créateur de la Turquie moderne 1882-1931
,Paris, Nouvelles Editions Latines 1958, 204 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br. couverture illustrée
Bookseller reference : 16524
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Spilsbury, F[rancis] B.
Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. Second edition. London, B. R. Howlett for Thomas McLean, 1819.
Folio (500 x 350 mm). IV, 42 pp. With 19 aquatints by Edward Orme after sketches by Spilsbury in original hand colour. Contemporary half cloth with red boards and printed label to upper cover. Second edition of English naval surgeon Francis Spilsbury’s account of his travels in Palestine and Syria during the Napoleonic campaigns there, with 19 finely hand-coloured folio aquatint views. Spilsbury was surgeon on board HMS Tigre during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. The Tigre brought Sir William Sidney Smith to defend Acre against Napoleon’s siege, and led a naval force in support of Turkish armies which finally relieved Acre, and his text gives some account of the military campaigns and the Turkish dignitaries. In his reminiscences Napoleon accused Smith of making him miss his destiny, as Smith’s timely appearance thwarted Napoleon’s drive to invade Syria and forced him to retreat to Egypt. The views are mostly connected with the coastal towns of modern Lebanon and Israel, though several are from Spilsbury’s travels inland to meet the Grand Vizier in charge of the Turkish army, Jezzar Pacha, and other dignitaries. First published in folio in 1803, with a mezzotint portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith that was not included in this second edition; a third followed in 1823. - Some staining to covers; aquatints are perfectly preserved. Tooley 464. Cf. Atabey 1168f. Blackmer 1585. Abbey, Travel 381. Colas 2788. Weber II, 835. Aboussouan 852.
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Spiro Melford E
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited
Durham North Carolina U.S.A.: Duke Univ Pr 1979. Small ink mark on front free endpaper. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Duke Univ Pr hardcover
Bookseller reference : 320616 ISBN : 0822304279 9780822304272
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Sprenger, Aloys, orientalist scholar (1813-1893).
Autograph letter signed offering a translation from the Arabic of El Suyuti's History of the Khalifs. London, between 1836 and 1843.
Two and a half handwritten sides on 2 leaves. Signed "your most obedient humble servant Dr. Sprenger", and concerning various Arabic manuscripts which Sprenger is considering translating. The letter dates from Sprenger's relatively brief time in London (1836-43), and thus predates any of his published works. He decides that Ibn Kourdadbeh's 'Oriental Geography' (the earliest surviving Arabic book on administrative geography) is unsuitable as he can only locate one MS copy. Instead, he offers to produce a translation of Suyuti's famous 'History of the Caliphs', which he notes has been accounted the best of such histories by the Arab encylopaedist Haji Khalfa. Sprenger transcribes several names from English into Arabic for the benefit of his correspondent. - A well-preserved and early letter reflecting Sprenger's outstanding command of Arabic sources. The Austrian-born Sprenger became one of the most noted orientalists of the 19th century, producing a comprehensive 'Life of Mohammad from Original Sources' in 1851.
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Spuler Bertold ed
Handbuch der Orientalistik: Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten: Sechster Band: Geschichte der Islamischen Laender: Sechster Abschnitt: Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Vorderen Orients in Islamischer Zeit: Teil 1
Leiden: Brill 1977. Folding maps. Index. 405 pages. 8vo. Wrappers. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Leiden: Brill, 1977 unknown
Bookseller reference : 4798
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Spuler Bertold
History of the Mongols Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Berkeley: University of California Press 1972. Translated from the German by Helga and Stuart Drummond. Dj. Maps. Index. ISBN: 0-520-01960-1. xiv 221 pages. 22.2 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. Owner's name on front flyleaf. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4926 ISBN : 0520019601 9780520019607
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Spuler Bertold & Ludwig Forrer
Orientalistik III. Teil: Der Vordere Orient in Islamischer Zeit
Bern: A Francke AG. Verlag 1954. Index. 248 pages. 8vo. Worn wrappers. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Bern: A Francke AG. Verlag, 1954 unknown
Bookseller reference : 4793
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Spuler Bertold
The Mongols In History
New York: Praeger 1971. Translated by Geoffrey Wheeler. Map on endpapers. Dj. Bibliography. Index. ix 166 pages. 22.3 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. Owner's name on front flyleaf. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Praeger, (1971) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4927
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Spuler Bertold
The Muslim World: Part II: The Mongol Period
Leiden: E. J. Brill. Translated from the German by F. R. C. Bagley. Folding colored map. Bibliography. Index. Corners of front cover bumped and worn. Spine faded. vii 125 pages. 24.5 cm. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Leiden: E. J. Brill, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8631
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STAFF OF JOHNSON DRAKE & PIPER INC
Middle East War Projects Of Johnson Drake & Piper Inc. For The Corps Of Engineers U. S. Army
Privately Printed New York: 1943. Hardcover no dustjacket. Very good condition. This book was compiled by Johnson Drake & Piper Inc. as a record of the construction work performed by them in the Middle East for the Corps of Engineers U.S. Army as an important part of the war effort. Prepared under War Department Contract No. DA-W-1098-ENG. 108. Highly illustrated with drawings and photos. Privately Printed, New York: 1943 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14949X1
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Stallard Mrs Arthur.
Questors in Palestine: A Travel Story.
Edinburgh Moray 1937. 8vo. Pp. vii 376. Frontispiece. Plus 11 halftone plates bound in. Hardcover original light blue cloth spine lettered in black. In fine condition. Private ownership stamp to front flyleaf blank. An excellent copy. ~ First edition. A highly personal account of a journey to Palestine with visits to Egypt Jordan Lebanon and Syria. Edinburgh, Moray, 1937. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0901
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Standard Oil Company.
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1964 Annual Report. New York, [Standard Oil Company], 1964.
4to. 28 pp. With several photographic illustrations in colour. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated annual report of the Standard Oil Company. With handwritten inscription: "Herzliche Grüsse Henry". - The photographs display oil refineries and gas stations, but also illustrate the multi-purpose character of "Jersey" products, including gasoline used for outboard motors in Bangkok, liquefied petroleum for the operation of greenhouses in Belgium, and Esso asphalt laid in France - "a universal answer to building better highways". With a group portrait of three former and acting company presidents: M. J. Rathbone, Michael L. Haider and J. K. Jamieson.
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Standard Oil Company.
The Lamp. Vol. 35, No. 4. New York, Standard Oil Company, 1953.
Folio (231 x 308 mm). 24 pp. With numerous illustrations in colour and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated corporate magazine of Standard Oil, celebrating the company's international activities. It includes reports on trade with European countries, the recently established Antwerp refinery, the kerosene-powered Seguin lighthouse in Maine, advancing infrastructure in North Africa, and the recycling of oil barrels as musical instruments in the Caribbean. The final three pages display sketched impressions of the Jersey Standard headquarters in New York by the artist Bettina Steinke. OCLC 1755500.
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Stanford, Edward.
Countries between Constantinople & Calcutta including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan & Turkestan. London, 1885.
Large folding map (64 x 86 cm), hand-coloured and mounted on linen. Scale 1:6,969,000. Alai, General maps E.323. Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
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