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Tripp Charles
A History of Iraq
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corners of covers rubbed with crease to top right corner. Cambridge University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 038647 ISBN : 0521556333 9780521556330
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Tripp Charles
A History of Iraq
Cambridge Univ Pr 2000. clean unmarked copy. Paperback. Fine. Cambridge Univ Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 352923 ISBN : 0521556333 9780521556330
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TRIPP CHARLES
A History Of Iraq
Cambridge University Press Cambridge: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Covers events in Iraq from 1998 up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire to the development of the state its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein. This is a story of social conflict of power struggles between rival clans of hostility and wars with neighboring states as well as their aftermath and Iraq's deteriorating relations with the West. The book offers an incisive analysis of the making of a modern state and how it creates its own distinctive politics. Includes an Index."Tripp offers a very readable account that presents the many different political figures the ebb abd flow of central government relations with Kurds and Shi'ites and the ongoing regional and international coverage." - Foreign Affairs ISBN: 052152900X. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30219X1 ISBN : 052152900X 9780521529006
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TRIPP Charles
A History of Iraq
Cambridge University Press 2000 hbk. hbk 8vo 311pp ISBN 0521554047 still in publ s heat . Cambridge University Press, 2000, hbk paperback
Bookseller reference : Irq5 ISBN : 0521554047 9780521554046
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TRIPP Charles
A History of Iraq
Cambridge University Press 2000. hbk 8vo 311pp ISBN 0521554047 still in publ s heat . Cambridge University Press, 2000, paperback
Bookseller reference : Irq10 ISBN : 0521554047 9780521554046
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TRIPP Charles
History of Iraq: Second Edition
NY:: Cambridge University Press. Fine. 2005. Paperback. 052152900X . Second edition 13th printing. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Cambridge University Press, paperback
Bookseller reference : 40307 ISBN : 052152900X 9780521529006
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TRIPP Charles
History of Iraq: Second Edition
NY:: Cambridge University Press. Fine. 2005. Paperback. 052152900X . Second edition 13th printing. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Cambridge University Press, paperback books
Bookseller reference : 40307 ISBN : 052152900X 9780521529006
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Troen Selwyn Ilan & Shemesh Moshe ed
THE SUEZ-SINAI CRISIS 1956: RETROSPECTIVE AND REAPPRAISAL
NY:: Columbia Univ. Pr. Fine unmarked Hardback; DJ-Fine. 1990. ISBN: xiv 395 pp. Catalogs: HISTORY - MIDDLE EAST. Keywords: HISTORY EGYPT SUEZ CANAL SUEZ CRISIS SINAI PENINSULA. Columbia Univ. Pr. hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS024754I
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Trofimov Yaroslav
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
New York: Doubleday 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Ex-Library First Edition Ex-Library Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Library stamp on inside of covers and on upper edge-no other lib markings. Quite clean and unmarked book; backstrap partially loose from crash so front cover has some movement possible. b/w photographs. Pages spotless no creases. Orange and black unclipped jacket is bright and clean slight edgewear. New archival cover to jacket so tape residue strip from library jacket removal is on the book boards. SAUDI ARABIA HISTORY-SIEGE 1979 ABDULLAH AL QAHTANI AFGHANISTAN OSAMA BIN LADEN BRZEZINSKI ZBIGNIEW BEDOUINS BIN BAZ ABDELAZIZ GRAND MOSQUE IRAN IRAQ ISLAM KAABA VANCE CYRUS YEMEN UTEYBI JUHAYMAN BIN SELF 301 pages with Notes and Sources Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2007 Doubleday New York. Doubleday hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026730 ISBN : 0385519257 9780385519250
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TROST Ernst -
Davide e Golia. Il conflitto intorno a Israele.
Milano, Longanesi, 1968, 16mo tutta tela editoriale con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 302 con 7 cartine nel testo e 41 tavole fotografiche fuori testo (Il Cammeo) .
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TRUMPENER (Ulrich)
Germany and the Armenian Persecutions, 1914-1918. From "Germany and the Ottoman Empire 1914-1918", Princeton University Press, 1968.
Beirut, Hamaskaine, s.d. (1970). In-8, broché, 75 pp., texte anglais.
Bookseller reference : 556682
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Tucher, Hans.
Gründtlicher und Eigentlicher Bericht der Meerfart [...] gen Venedig, Jerusalem, zu S. Katharinen Berg, Sinay, Alexandria, un[d] wider gen Nürnberg gethan, was wunders er zu Wasser und Land, und was sich die Bilger in dem heyligen Landt, auch in der Wüsten biß zum Roten Meer, leyden müssen, erfaren hat […]. Frankfurt, Georg Rab & Weygand Han, 1561.
4to. 75, (1) ff. - (Bound with) II: Fabri, Felix. Eigentliche beschreibung der hin unnd wider farth zu dem Heyligen Landt gen Jerusalem, und furter durch die grosse Wüsteney zu dem Heiligen Berge Horeb Sinay, darauß zuvernemen was wunders die Pilgrin hin und wider auff Land und wasser zu erfahren und zu besehen haben. [Frankfurt, David Zöpfel], 1556. 219, (1) ff. With a title woodcut depicting a pilgrim with two camels. Contemporary blindstamped leather over wooden boards. I: A fine Renaissance edition of Tucher's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, undertaken in 1479-80 and first published by Schönsberger in Augsburg in 1482. Tucher (1428-91) was a wealthy Nuremberg merchant who moved in humanistic circles; "his travel report is remarkable in several respects: geographically, because it provides a different, non-traditional route from Jerusalem to Mt. Sinai. Tucher departed from Gaza like Breydenbach, Count Solms, and Felix Fabri in 1483, and seems to have crossed the Tih by the pass el-Mureikhy (which he calls 'Roackie'). But Tucher's stations in the desert denote a different route and are even more difficult to reconcile with the known localities. In historical respect, Tucher's account is remarkable for abstaining largely from the fabulous and for revealing a sense of factual reporting, even though much space is given to miraculous episodes, as might be expected from a text of this genre and age. Finally, it is of linguistic interest" (ADB). - II: Editio princeps of Fabri's pilgrimage account. Felix Fabri, a native of Zurich and a Dominican preacher at Ulm, describes his two pilgrimages made to the Holy Land, the first in 1480, as chaplain to Georg von Stein, and the second in 1483-84 as chaplain to Johannes Truchsess von Waldburg, as part of the same party as Breydenbach. - Title-page of Tucher frayed. Some light staining throughout. Worldcat lists 3 copies of Tucher in the US, and 5 copies of Fabri. Not a single copy of Tucher in auction records; a copy of Fabri in a modern binding commanded £4140 at Sotheby's in 1998. I: VD 16, T 2164. Röhricht 390. ADB XXXVIII, 766. - II: VD 16, F 136. Röhricht 395 ("Ulm").
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TUCHMAN BARBARA. W
Bible And Sword: England And Palestine From The Bronze Age To Balfour
Ballantine Books New York: 1984. Softcover. Good condition. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and later the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Demonstrates that the seeds of the present troubles in the Holy Land commenced many years before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Includes an Index. "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer a shrewd with a lively command of high drama." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer ISBN: 0345314271. Ballantine Books, New York: 1984 paperback
Bookseller reference : 54323X2 ISBN : 0345314271 9780345314277
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TUCHMAN BARBARA. W
Bible And Sword: England And Palestine From The Bronze Age To Balfour
Ballantine Books New York: 1984. Softcover. Fair condition. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and later the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Demonstrates that the seeds of the present troubles in the Holy Land commenced many years before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Includes an Index. "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer a shrewd with a lively command of high drama." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer ISBN: 0345314271. Ballantine Books, New York: 1984 paperback
Bookseller reference : 54323X1 ISBN : 0345314271 9780345314277
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Tucker Judith
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Cambridge England: Cambridge Univ Pr 1985. First edition first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge England: Cambridge Univ Pr. 1985. 8vo. xii251 pages. Pages somewhat darkened else very good in very good dust jacket. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Cambridge Univ Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002212 ISBN : 0521303389 9780521303385
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Tucker Mike
Among Warriors In Iraq
New York New York U.S.A.: Lyons Pr 2005. 234pp. Biblio. Wear extremities rubbing. VG. Lyons Pr unknown
Bookseller reference : 065795 ISBN : 1592287328 9781592287321
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Tudela'li Benjamin & Ratisbon'lu Petachia.
Ortaçag'da iki Yahudi seyyahin Avrupa, Asya ve Afrika gözlemleri; Üç kitada sosyal, siyasi, ekonomik iliskiler, azinliklar, dini kurumlar ve Haçli Seferleri. Translated by Nuh Arslantas.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [vii], 160 p. Ortaçag'da iki Yahudi seyyahin Avrupa, Asya ve Afrika gözlemleri; Üç kitada sosyal, siyasi, ekonomik iliskiler, azinliklar, dini kurumlar ve Haçli Seferleri.
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Tughra'i, al Husayn ibn 'Ali.
L'elegie du Tograi, avec quelques sentences tirées des poetes Arabes, l'hymne d'Avicenne, & les proverbes du Chalife Gali. Paris, R. Soubret, 1660.
8vo. 80 pp. 18th-century blind-ruled brown calf, blindstamped arms of William Stirling Maxwell on the upper cover and his blind cipher on the lower cover. Spine and vertical title label gilt; turn-ins gilt. Marbled flyleaves. All edges red. Green silk marker. First edition in a Western language of the celebrated autobiographical lament of the poet, royal secretary, and soldier Al-Tughra'i, who rose to Vizier only to be beheaded. His elegy, "Lamiyyat al-'Adjam", is probably the first major work of Arabic poetry published in the west. The other significant early Arabic work here contains an offering of proverbs selected from the "Exalted Aphorisms" of the fourth Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib (601-661), the only person born in Mecca's sacred Kaaba sanctuary, cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad. - The editor and Royal Interpreter for Arabic, Pierre Vattier (1623-47), translated these pieces into French for their stylistic elegance and textual importance. He held the Chair of Arabic at the Collège de France from 1658 until his death and contributed an extended opening essay on Arabic prosody, here in its only edition. - Front joint cracked, extremeties slightly bumped; title remargined at lower edge. Altogether a fine copy. - Provenance: from the collection of the proverb bibliographer P. A. Gratet-Duplessis (1792-1853), recording on the final flyleaf the date of his acquisition (Lyon, 1828) and the price paid. In the sale of his library in 1856, the volume was described as a "joli exemplaire de ce curieux et rare petit volume" (p. 156, no. 969). A slightly later owner has quoted from Duplessis' bibliography on the second front flyleaf. Later bookplates of William Stirling Maxwell, Keir House, and Lt. Col. V. S. M. de Guinzbourg on pastedowns and flyleaf. Schnurrer 196. Zenker, BO 403. Cioranescu 65583. Gratet-Duplessis, Bibliographie parémiologique, 70. Moll, Sprichwörterbibliographie, 7624 ("1640" in error).
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TURGUT AKPINAR.
Türk tarihinde Islâmiyet.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 230 p. Türk tarihinde Islâmiyet. Islam in Turkish history.
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Turki Fawaz
Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolutionary
New York New York U.S.A.: Monthly Review Press 1988 Excellent copy with just very minor edgewear. 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. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Monthly Review Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 609238 ISBN : 0853457476 9780853457473
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Turkish Ministry of Tourism and Information
Come to Turkey -- Itineraries
Istanbul Turkey: Ministry of Tourism and Information 1967. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 32 pages 8 X 7 inches oblong. <br/><br/>10 different itineraries complete with maps and description of things to see. Ministry of Tourism and Information paperback
Bookseller reference : 5568
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Turkish Ministry of Tourism and Information
Turkey Black Sea Region
Istanbul Turkey: Ministry of Tourism and Information 1967. First Thus. Paperback. Good in Wraps. 32 pages 4 7/8 X 7 inches <br /><br />Full color tourism brochure with local write-ups for all the important places like Sinop Samsun Trabazon and Gumushane. Ministry of Tourism and Information paperback
Bookseller reference : 5569
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Tutsch Hans E.
Facets of Arab Nationalism Waynebook No.16
Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1965. Paper bound first edition 157ppincludes reference notes bibliography and index. Very good. 180 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965 unknown
Bookseller reference : 24828
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Tutsch Hans E
Facets of Arab Nationalism
Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1965. Bibliography. Index. Owner's name on first page. 157 pages. 20.3 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7803
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Tutsch Hans E
Facets of Arab Nationalism
Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1965. Bibliography. Index. 157 pages. 20.3 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7711
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Tweedie WK. W. K.
Eastern Manners and Customs
London: T. Nelson and Sons 1870. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: T. Nelson and Sons 1870. 12mo. 143pp. illustrated with b/w drawings. Green cloth with black and gilt designs. Some wrinkling to the cloth design and titles rubbed wear at the tips presentation inscription on fly leaf. Very good minus. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo. T. Nelson and Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005983
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Tweedie W. K.
The Lakes and Rivers of the Bible.
London T. Nelson 1864. Small octavo. Pp. viii 9-288. Tinted lithograph frontispiece. Plus 14 other tinted lithographs on 9 plates some full-page. Ornamental head- and tail pieces. Hardcover bound in the original decorated blue pebble-grain cloth gilt ornament and lettering stamped within triple-rule gilt border spine illustrated in gilt all edges gilt crack to inner hinge some wear to spine ends front flyleaf incised. In a very good condition. Nice copy of a charming book with a lovely set of plates. ~ First edition. The chief interest of many of the events recorded in the Bible gathers round its rivers and lakes and this book attempts to link the explanation of the Scripture with the description of the scenes which are visited. It draws on many sources namely Robinson's "Researches in Palestine" Lynch's "Narrative of the American Exploring Expedition to the Jordan and the Dead Sea" Stanley's "Sinai and Palestine" and several others. Of particular value are the charming plates a set of delicate pen-and-ink lithographs known as "Nelson Prints". The image of each plate is first printed from a lithograph stone in a purplish ink. The plate is then coloured in pale blue and fawn from separate relief wood blocks. Not in Tobler who refers 225 only to Tweedie's earlier work "Jerusalem and its Environs" 1860. London, T. Nelson, 1864. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0803
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Tychsen, Thomas Christian.
Grammatik der Arabischen Schriftsprache für den ersten Unterricht, mit einigen Auszügen aus dem Koran. Göttingen, Dieterich, 1823.
8vo. VIII, 263, (1), 40 pp. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped red spine label. All edges red. Only edition. - The principal work of the Göttingen oriental scholar T. C. Tychsen (1758-1834), a grammar of Arabic that replaced that of Michaelis, including a 40-page "Anthologia Coranica" in Arabic which contains suras 1, 68, 91-96 and long excerpts from suras 2, 23, 47, and 5. The instructional text (though not the Qur'anic appendix) of the present copy has been closely studied, corrected and extensively annotated in German, Arabic, and Latin on more than 70 pages by an unidentified contemporary scholar or student of oriental languages, in a manner often consistent with preparatory notes for a revised edition. Sources cited include Scheidius, Reiske's Abulfeda, De Sacy, Rosenmüller, and Gesenius; the latest is the third volume of Freytag's Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, published in 1835. - Binding rubbed, extremeties bumped. Evenly browned throughout due to paper. Formerly in the library of the Gießen-based Arabist Wilfried B. C. Schaum (b. 1943) with his 1970s stamp to the title-page. Kayser V, 484. OCLC 614537916.
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TYDEMAN Richard.
The Kingdom of Solomon.
London: Privately printed 1972. 0. An illustrated lecture on the history and geography of the Holy Land. Pp.21 4 black & white photos 3 maps/plans. Blue illustrated card covers a little rubbed. VG. . London: Privately printed, 1972. 0 unknown
Bookseller reference : 36545
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U.S. Army.
Untitled printed WWII document for American soldiers in the Middle East. No place or date [but early 1940s].
Single folded sheet. Two red stamps to interior. A curious document, issued for the use of American servicemen in the Middle East during the Second World War. It was clearly meant to be employed when a soldier was lost or had been separated from his command, as it asks "Arab peoples" to help the bearer of the document. This plea, attributed to Roosevelt, is printed in Arabic, English and French. The back of the card also features seven useful words and phrases, in English and Arabic. - A touch worn, light staining to back of card.
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UBICINI (M.A.)
LETTERS OF TURKEY. An account of the religious, political, social, and commercial condition of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE. The reformed institutions; Army, Navy, &c, &c Translated from the french of. M. A. Ubicini, by Lady Easthope. Parts 1 and 2.
New-York, Arno Press, 173. In-8, binding mauve full buckram, gold title on the spine and on the first plate cover, VII-450pp, anastatic reprint of the first english edition (London, John Murray 1856)
Bookseller reference : 557350
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Ujfalvy, Charles Eugene de.
Atlas anthropologique des peuples du Ferghanah. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1879.
4to (174 x 260 mm). 16 pp. Includes 34 (of 70) loose albumen photographs, images approximately 130 x 100 mm each, mounted separately and numbered, housed in a modern album. Text volume in original paper wrappers. Rare anthropological publication, with original photographic documentation, of the inhabitants of the Fergana region in the extreme east of Uzbekistan, near Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. - Born in Transylvania, Károly Jenö (Charles Eugene) Ujfalvy de Mezokövesd (1842-1904) was a noted Austro-Hungarian ethographic researcher and linguist of Central Asia and the Himalayas. He settled in France, where he was trained by the noted anthropologist Paul Broca, and taught Asian history and geography at the School of Oriental Languages. The Ministry of Education sent him on a mission to Russia, Siberia, Turkestan and Uzbekistan in 1876, on which journeys he recorded these images of locals in the region. (Ujfalvy would also travel to Samarkand and Bokhara and lead an expedition to the Kashmir in 1880.) This is the fourth of a total of six volumes concerning the French expedition to Central Asia. In his preface, Ujfalvy develops the aims of his enterprise and outlines the principles by which one may obtain anthropologically useful portraits: subjects are to be photographed in the nude, from the front and in profile, against a white background and using a light metre. The individuals, whose portraits measure exactly one-eighth of their natural size, are identified by name, race, sex, height, and age, as well as by the colour of the skin, the hair, and the eyes. The photographs were realised with the aid of one photographer "Kazlowski, le plus habile de Tachkend"; the present album likely constitutes his only published work. - Text volume chipped at edges with some repairs, otherwise good; photos well preserved. OCLC 698467635.
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Ullens de Schooten Marie Therese
Lords of the Mountains: Southern Persia and the Kashkai Tribe
London: Travel Book Club n.d. Photos. Bibliography. Index. Evidence of light exposure to moisture in bottom margin. 128 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. London: Travel Book Club, n.d hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4869
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Ulloa, Alfonso de.
Le historie di Europa. Venice, Bolognino Zaltieri, 1570.
4to. (8), 176 pp. With woodcut printer's device on title page and several woodcut headpieces and initials. 18th century full vellum with giltstamped red spine label. In spite of the subtitle ("nuovamente mandate in luce"), this is the first edition of Ulloa's history of the Ottoman wars in Hungary, including an account of the 1566 Siege of Szigetvár. Though the battle resulted in an Ottoman victory, it halted the Ottoman advance on Vienna that year, and Vienna was not threatened again until 1683. "The Castilian-born Alfonso Ulloa was entrusted with various diplomatic missions by Emperor Maximilian as well as by King Philip II and thus had a first-hand knowledge of the events of the years 1566-1569. Disregarding the frequently panegyrical tone of the account, the book may still be used as a valuable historical source" (Göllner). Apponyi, on the other hand, cautions that "this is nothing but a reprint of Pietro Bizarri's 'Historia', published the previous year [... The book nothing to do with Ulloa's account of the events at Sziget published in his own 'Comentarios' in 1569: apparently, he found it easier to rip off Bizarri than himself ...] Ulloa has the nerve to present this shameless piece of plagiarism to his patron with the most unctuous and swaggering phrases [...] Cautiously, Ulloa shied away only from copying certain personal accounts of Bizarri's, or rather from presenting these experiences of Bizarri's as his own; everything else is reproduced verbatim". - Title page shows some brownstaining, otherwise a clean copy in a pretty contemporary binding. Formerly in the collection of the Marquess of Bute with the family's engraved armorial bookplate (from the library of Luton House, Bedfordshire; pre-1845) on the pastedown. Edit 16, CNCE 38245. Adams U 40. BM-STC Italian 704. Apponyi I, 437. Göllner I, 1271.
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Unat Faik Resit
Hicri Tarihleri Miladi Tarihe Cevirme Kilavuzu
Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi 1974. Tables of comparative Hijri and Christian Dates. Bibliography. In Turkish.Annotations on two or three pages. Some wear to Wrappers Softcover. xvi175 pages. 23.7 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1974 paperback
Bookseller reference : 8342
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United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates Where Dreams Come True
UAE Ministry of Information and Culture 1976 4 volumes in slipcase : Vol. 1 Maps / Vol.2 Essays / Vol. 3 Facts and Figures/ Vol.4 United Arab Emirates. Some wear to slipcase.;. Soft Cover. Very Good. Boxed Set. UAE Ministry of Information and Culture paperback
Bookseller reference : 28718
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United Arab Airlines.
2 ticket holders and matches. No place, ca. 1960.
325 x 235 mm; 220 x 145 mm. Pack of matches with 18 matches. Ticket holders for a United Arab Airlines flight (probably to Japan) and a pack of matches promoting the Comet 4c Jet. The bigger holder is illustrated with a lithograph showing Geishas. - The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. The last Comet variant, the Comet 4C, first flew on 31 October 1959. Ordered by Kuwait Airways, Middle East Airlines, Misrair (later United Arab Airlines), and Sudan Airways, it was the most popular Comet variant and made its final flight in 1997.
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United Nations
The Development of Manufacturing Industry in Egypt Israel and Turkey
New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs 1958. . xiv 131 pages. 28 cm. Wrappers Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1958 paperback
Bookseller reference : 8863
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United Nations
The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem Part I: 1917 - 1947
NY: United Nations 1979. Oversize Paperback. GOOD-. READING COPY. Tight bright clean and unmarked interior. Age tanned and soiled exterior. Corner bump has dog-eared the top corner of about1/2 of the pages. 110 annotated pages including maps. 10-7/8x8-5/8" U.N. Publication Sales No. E.78.I.19. "study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 32/40B of 2 December 1977." United Nations paperback
Bookseller reference : 5-7Y012
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Unknown Author
Faces and places in time. Jordan - where adventure awaits you
<p>A quality tourist guide in 26 colour pages with a picture of King Hussein & Queen Noor on the first page. Light handling wear only.</p> Jordan Tourism Board paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio368
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Unsuri, Abu al-Qasim Hasan.
Masnavi-i Vamiq va 'Azra [Metiochus and Parthenope]. Persia, 1830.
Folio (212 x 324 mm). Persian manuscript on faintly ruled paper. 1 blank leaf, 336 pp. (168 ff.), 1 blank leaf. Text is complete, but last leaf is missing. 1 illuminated headpiece and 49 illustrations in ink and bright watercolour wash. Text in black, ruled in black, with important words and phrases picked out in purple. 19th century leather ruled and stamped in blind. Lavishly illuminated Persian manuscript depicting the romance which came to define the love story in Western literature. Composed by Abu al-Qasim Hasan Unsuri (ca. 961-1039), the original Persian was in fact lost, and preserved in a Turkish translation. Unsuri's version was itself based on what was already an ancient love story in his own time, the Ancient Greek novel "Metiochus and Parthenope", which also survives only in fragments. Though certainly derived from the Greek, like many Persian romances with Greek origins, "the nature of the relationship is not [...] the simple one of the earlier (Greek) material influencing the later (Persian) material, as the Greek novels contain a number of motifs and topoi which are identified within the narratives themselves as Persian in origin. The relationship between the love narratives of the two cultures appear, therefore, to have been one of mutual reciprocity over a considerable stretch of time" (Davis). - Some fragments of the original Persian do survive: Sa'id Nafisi collected 141 verses of "Wameq o 'Adra" that were used as evidence in Persian dictionaries, and 372 more verses were discovered by Mohammad Šafi' in the binding of an old manuscript in 1950 (Blois, 201). Unsuri's version was translated in the 16th century into Turkish by Shaikh Mahmud Lame'i, though in comparison with the earlier fragments, this is considered a loose translation of the original. However, it provides the source of most subsequent translations and most of what we know of "Vamiq va 'Azra", as a romance which underpins the genre. In literature both medieval and modern, the narratives of the original persist: lovers separated by a kidnapping, a virgin who must use a range of tricks to elude unworthy attempts on her chastity, an interrupted wedding, and a seemingly final separation with the (supposed) death of one of the lovers. In this way, "Vamiq va 'Azra" echoes down the literary ages. - Covers somewhat worn but professionally repaired; still tightly bound. Light soiling, otherwise a beautifully illustrated and uncommon manuscript. Richard Davis, "Greece IX. Greek and Persian Romances", in: Encyclopaedia Iranica XI, 339-342. Francois de Blois, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Vol. V: Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 2004), pp. 201-204.
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Upton Joseph M
The History of Modern Iran
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1965. Map. Bibliography. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs 2. Third printing. vi 164 pp. 21 cm. Wraps . Catalogs: IRAN. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965 paperback
Bookseller reference : 6053
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Upton Joseph M
The History of Modern Iran
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1960. Map. Bibliography. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs 2. vi 163 pp. 8vo. Wraps . Catalogs: IRAN. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960 paperback
Bookseller reference : 5161
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Upton, Peter.
A grey Arab mare by a Bedouin tent with four falcons on stands. No place, 1977.
Watercolour over traces of pencil. 708 x 490 mm. Signed and dated by the artist. Matted.
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Upton, Peter.
An Arab mounted on a grey Arabian mare with a Bedouin encampment in the background. No place, 1974.
Watercolour heightened with white. 681 x 520 mm. Signed and dated by the artist. Matted.
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Upton, Peter.
Farida. Royal Jordanian Stud. No place, 1984.
Watercolour over pencil, matted. Signed and dated by the artist lower left. 460 x 363 mm. An impressive watercolour of the famous Arabian mare, dedicated by the artist "to Rachel".
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Upton, Peter.
Gold Roseifa. No place, [c. 1987].
Ballpoint, heightened with white. 378 x 278 mm. A sheet of annotated preliminary sketches for Upton's watercolour portrait of the three Arab mares Gold Roseifa, Russallka, and Roxiralot. - Matted.
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Upton, Peter.
Portraits of three Arab mares Gold Roseifa, Russallka and Roxira. No place, 1987.
Watercolour over pencil. 780 x 525 mm. Signed and dated by the artist. Matted.
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Upton, Peter.
Roxira. No place, [ca. 1987].
Ballpoint, heightened with white. 373 x 276 mm. Matted. A sheet of annotated preliminary sketches (one on recto, two on verso) for Upton's watercolour portrait of the three Arab mares Gold Roseifa, Russallka, and Roxiralot.
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Upton, Roger D.
Newmarket & Arabia. An Examination of the Descent of Racers and Coursers. London, Henry S. King & Co., 1873.
8vo. XI, (1), 211, (1) pp. With a hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 large folding lithographed pedigree tables. Original burnt red cloth binding with giltstamped title to spine and upper cover. First edition. - Upton was one of the early experts on the bloodlines of British thoroughbreds. His book describes both the influence of the Arabian horse on the development of the English thoroughbred as well as many interesting aspects of the Arabian horse. Shortly after the publication of this work - intended to "point out errors that have been committed in the breeding of our horse" (p. iii) - he travelled in Arabia to obtain purebred horses and so improve the quality of British cavalry remounts. Upton served with the 9th Lancers. - Binding somewhat bumped and rubbed with traces of moisture to covers. Lightly browned throughout, paper brittle with occasional edge or corner flaws, frontispiece and title-page rather foxed. Rare. Boyd/P. 130. Huth 273. OCLC 12795478.
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