‎Middle east‎

‎Vollmann William T.‎

‎An Afghanistan Picture Show Or How I Saved the World‎

‎New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1992. First Edition First Printing . Grey Boards. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. Drawings By The Author Maps. Near fine book with slight rubbing along bottom edge of boards in a fine DJ not price-clipped. Signed by author on title page. <br/> <br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024725 ISBN : 0233980229 9780233980225

‎Volney (Constantin-François Chassebeuf de)‎

‎Les Ruines ou méditation sur les révolutions des empires.‎

‎Bourg, Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon 1791 Petit in-4 demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs, fleurons et filets, couverture supérieure restaurée conservée, VIII - 242 pp. Deux planches dépliantes in-fine humidités sur la seconde. Restauration à la première couverture. Forte humidité angulaire et rousseurs éparses. Il manque le frontispice.‎

‎Seconde édition, l’année de l’originale. Le plus célèbre ouvrage de l’auteur : une méditation sur la vicissitude des empires et sur les effets du despotisme et de la superstition tels qu’il les avait observés en Orient. Bon état d’occasion Livres anciens‎

Bookseller reference : 9471

‎Volney, C[onstantin] F[rançois Chasseboeuf, Comte de].‎

‎Simplification des langues orientales, ou méthode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues arabe, persane et turque, avec des caractères européens [...]. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an III [= 1794/95].‎

‎8vo. (4), 135, (3) pp. With 3 folding tables and 1 engraved plate. Later blue wrappers. Only edition of this introduction to Arabic, written by the Comte de Volney (1757-1820) as history professor at the newly-founded École normale, immediately after the end of the Terreur and his release from prison following the fall of Robespierre. In spite of its wide-ranging title, the book comprises essentially an Arabic grammar and a collection of Arabic proverbs; the long introductory chapter has been hailed a model of style. Volney had learned Arabic in 1782 in preparation of a long journey through Egypt and Syria. The work displays his ingenious method of simplifying the study of Arabic, Persian and Turkish by transliterating the alphabets into European characters. The tables give the Arabic alphabet, the conjugation of regular verbs, and instructions on how to write Arabic letters by hand, as well as the Arabic alphabet in European characters intended for merchants travelling to Asia and Africa. With a section of Arabian proverbs included as samples. - Pages 30-31 unopened. A good copy of this important work, untrimmed as issued. Gay 3429. Brunet V, 1351. Cioranescu 663767. Monglond III, 481. OCLC 21978700.‎

‎Volpi Frederic‎

‎Islam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria 1988-2001‎

‎London: Pluto Press 2003. Book. Fine. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 168pp. Pluto Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 033943 ISBN : 0745319769 9780745319766

‎von Grunebaum Gustave. E. ed‎

‎Studies in Islamic Cultural History‎

‎The American Anthropological Association 1954. Index. Includes "Islamic Studies and Cultural Research" by G.E. von Grunebaum "The Bedouinization of Arabia" by Werner Caskel "The Sociological and Educational Role of the Dervish Orders in the Ottoman Empire" by Hans J. Kissling and "Iran and Islam" by Bertold Spuler. Index. Comparative Studies of Cultures and Civilizations No. 2. The American Anthropologist Vol. 56 No. 2 Part 2 Memoir No. 76 April 1954. Sewn signatures. xi 60 pp. 8vo. Wraps . Catalogs: IRAN. The American Anthropological Association, 1954 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 4442

‎Vossius, Isaac.‎

‎De Nili et aliorum fluminum origine. Den Haag, Adrian Vlacq, 1666.‎

‎4to. (16), 170, (4) pp., final blank f. With 2 large folding maps. Contemporary vellum. First edition. - Early study on the sources of the Nile by the Dutch classicist and librarian Isaac Voss (1618-89). The maps show north-eastern Africa from Zanzibar to the Nile Delta (with large parts of the Arabian Peninsula) and a detail thereof, focusing on the tributary region of Lake Tana in Dembiya, Ethiopia. Also includes an "Appendix ad scriptum de natura et proprietate Lucis. Accedit epistola ad amicum, de potentiis quibusdam mechanicis" (p. 77-170), an early and little-received discussion of the nature of light, refraction, colours, optics, mechanics, and even comets (for a note on Voss's work on Snel's law of refraction of light rays, cf. DSB XII, 501). - Slight browning, spine defective. Early 19th c. title inked to corner of upper cover. Provenance: 1) in the collection of the cleric and abolitionist Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), later Archdeacon of the East Riding, with his 1804 ownership to t. p.; 2) in 1810/11 the book was in the collection of Percy B. Shelley's friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862), famously expelled from Oxford together with the young poet for having published the treatise, "The Necessity of Atheism" (his ownership "T. Jeff.n Hogg, Univ. Coll., Oxon." on pastedown); 3) in 1898 the volume passed into the library of the Swiss-born U.S. officer Edward Louis Berthoud (1828-1910), best known for his role as chief engineer and secretary of the Colorado Central Railroad during its expansion throughout Colorado in the 1870s (his stamp and ms. ownership to t. p. and the reverse of the plates); 4) acquired on 12 Feb. 1903 by the Colorado chemist Charles Skeele Palmer (1858-1939) (his ownership on t. p.); 5) Ida May Lewis (ownership, dated 1945, on pastedown). With irreverent ms. notes at the end of the dedication (to King Louis XIV) by either Berthoud or Palmer: "Vossius give us a rest"; under the author's signature: "A Brick". Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 312. OCLC 8556942. Cf. Gay 2317 (Paris ed.).‎

‎Vryonis Speros‎

‎The Mechanism of Catastrophe‎

‎Greekworks. 2005. clean unmarked copy. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Greekworks. Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 326582 ISBN : 0974766038 9780974766034

‎Vryonis Jr. Speros‎

‎Readings in Medieval Historiography‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Bibliography. v 458 pages. 20.9 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 7460

‎VS. Naipaul V. S.‎

‎Beyond Belief‎

‎New Delhi India: Viking Penguin India 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo 439 pages brown cloth; small green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition which was <br/><br/>Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett Elizabeth Hardwick Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia Iran Pakistan and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions" it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this Islam in his view is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review". Viking Penguin India hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4586 ISBN : 0670883344 9780670883349

‎W. BYFORD JONES‎

‎Forbidden Frontiers. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Hale 1958. 8vo. First Edition with plates half-title title and Contents lightly spotted neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth gilt back fore-edges lightly spoted else a good firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Early and well-written account of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hale, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25852

‎W. H. Bartlett‎

‎The Nile Boat or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt‎

‎London: Henry G. Bohn 1862. 5th Edition . Good Plus. 5.5 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Red blind stamped cloth binding gilt decoration to spine. Very light wear to head/foot of spine a few marks to covers. Binding is loose with some gatherings protruding from the page block however all pages are securely attached. Engraved bookplate to front paste down endpaper - glue from bookplate has marked and slightly torn facing free endpaper. Some marks and foxing to text and plates. Well illustrated several fold out plates. . Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.5 x 8 inches 13.5 x 20 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 229 Henry G. Bohn hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1121E060

‎WAARDENBURG (Jean-Jacques)‎

‎Les Universités dans le monde arabe actuel. Vol. I : Texte. Vol. II. Statistiques.‎

‎Paris, Mouton, 1966. 2 vol. in-8 br., 383, 184 pp., importante bibliographie, index.‎

‎Couv. un peu fanées, bon ensemble. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 595560

‎Wagner, Johann Christoph.‎

‎Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente. Eine grundrichtige Beschreibung deß ganzen Aufgangs, sonderlich aber deß Hochlöblichen Königreichs Ungarn, und der ganzen Türckey, auch deren Völcker, welche selbigem Monarchen zinßbar, als Mohren, Arabern und Tartarn, von ihren grausamen Proceduren, gegen die Christenheit [...]. Augsburg, Jakob Koppmayer, 1684.‎

‎Small folio (206 x 324 mm). (8), 162, (6) [instead of 8] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With double-page-sized frontispiece, 39 (instead of 41) engr. plates and 2 engr. maps; numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemp. blindstamped leather over wooden boards with 2 clasps. First edition of this highly interesting, appealing work, a topical publication produced but a year after the 1683 Siege of Vienna. Four additional volumes would be prepared by 1689. The plates show views of Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Near and Middle East (Jerusalem, Egypt, Babylon, etc.), as well as Sultan Mehmet IV and the relief of Vienna. - Binding rubbed. Some brownstaining throughout with occasional waterstains. Several leaves rebacked or reinforced in the margins (occasional loss to text or image); wants the view of Ofen (Buda) and the "Crowning of the Empress" as well as one leaf of the index. VD 17, 23:300271C. Lipperheide LB 22. Nebehay/W. 794. Not in Apponyi.‎

‎Wakin Edward‎

‎CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST‎

‎New York: Facts On File. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0816031541 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings. Back endpaper is missing; Profiles eight Arab and Israeli leaders who have been instrumental in shaping the turbulent and sometimes triumphant histories of their lands.; Global Profiles; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 142 pages . Facts On File hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 62422 ISBN : 0816031541 9780816031542

‎Wallace Lew‎

‎The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell--Vol II‎

‎New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1906. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover 1906 Retired Library Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. An older book nice worn small thick with a fascinating story. The author was a minister to Turkey thus his intimate knowledge of that part of the world. Brown cloth binding w/ gilt titles; panels and edges rubbed bottom front corner has dark smudge spine has slight lean. Corners rounded. Sewn binding tight and solid. Pages clean no underlining no highlighting no writing moderately toned. Brown endpapers book-taped reinforced at hinge. There is residue left on the back paste-down from a library pocket and a lib. number on spine. This is a lesser known work by the author of Ben-Hur; he served as governor of the territory of New Mexico and as a U.S. diplomat as minister to the Ottoman Empire. Lew Wal;lace 1827-1905. 578 pages w/index. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 1906 Harper & Brothers New York and London. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002626

‎Waller John H‎

‎Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War‎

‎Austin Texas: University of Texas Press 1993. Classic highly acclaimed text presents a first-rate historic account of adventure treachery and intrigue revolving around the British failure in Afghanistan in the 1840's described by Cpt. Arthur Conolly of the Bengal Calvary as "The Great Game" when England competed with Czarist Russia for strategic advantage in Central Asia. 329 pgs. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper. Small crease to lower front corner. Minimal shelfwear. No spine creases. Signed by Author. First UTP Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/ . 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. University of Texas Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : MS-5 ISBN : 0292790732 9780292790735

‎Wallin, Georg August (Yrjö Aukusti).‎

‎Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Helsingfors (Helsinki), (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853.‎

‎8vo. VII, (1), 126 pp., final blank f. With lithogr. map at the end of the volume; printed notes of a Bedouin melody within the text. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine title and marbled sides, original printed yellow wrappers bound within with wood-engraved desert illustration on back cover. First edition, published posthumously. - Extremely rare account of Wallin's principal journey through Arabia, unknown to most bibliographers: "It was not until two years after his death", writes Henze, "that the report of his first (and most important) journey (performed in 1845, a year before the appearance of the first volume of Carl Ritter's 'Arabia') was published". This refers to the English "Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca", which was printed in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1854. In fact, an extensive account of the first leg of this highly significant journey was first given to the world in December 1853, but little more than a year after the author's passing. Of this Swedish-language book, edited by Berndt Otto Schauman, less than two dozen copies are known worldwide, 12 of which are in Finnish libraries (the remainder distributed throughout Sweden [4 copies], Germany [2 copies], Denmark, France, and the U.S.A. [a single copy each]). In contrast with the later JRGS publication, the present work includes an appendix rendering Arabic terms and phrases that occur throughout the text in the original language and script. - Like his more famous contemporary J. L. Burckhardt, Wallin was fluent in Arabic and, in local costume, was capable of passing for a scholarly sheikh. Indeed, the two explorers are often compared: "I see many points of resemblance between them, the same iron constitution, the same versatility, the same indomitable energy, the same imperturbable temper" (H. C. Rawlinson, quoted in Henze). Financially backed by his alma mater, the University of Helsinki, Wallin departed for the Middle East in 1843 and set out on his expeditions from Cairo under the name of Abd al-Wali. "In 1845, proceeding southeast across the wastelands of the Nafud Desert, he reached Ha'il then continued by force of circumstances southward to Medina and Mecca. From there he returned to Egypt" (Howgego). More precisely, he "moved eastwards from Wadi al-Araba, first touching upon the upper regions of Wadi Sirhan, then on to the oasis of Djuf ('Algawf') and crossed the central regions of Shammar, via Djobbah ('Gubbi'), the Great Nefud ('Nufood'), and Hail [...] Of Shammar and its inhabitants he provided the fullest account, unsurpassed by later travellers in its scholarly precision" (Henze). After his return to Europe in 1850, Wallin was made Professor of oriental languages at Helsingfors. His notes provide a detailed overview of the political and religious movements and the role of the different tribes in Palestine and especially in Saudi Arabia. - Occasional brownstaining; binding somewhat rubbed, but a fine copy on the whole. Provenance: contemp. ownership "Bergelin" to front wrapper cover; bookplate of the journalist Kurt Bergengren (1920-85) on pastedown. K.-E. Henriksson (A Wallin Bibliography), in: Studia orientalia 17 (1952), p. 13-16, at p. 13. OCLC 551923531. Cf. Macro 2262. Howgego II (1800-50), W12, p. 627. Henze V, 452 (all citing only the 1854 JRGS publication). Cf. Fück 198 (mentioning the journey). Not in Gay or Ibrahim-Hilmy.‎

‎Wallin, Georg.‎

‎[Qissat Yusuf an-Naggar] sive historia Josephi Fabri lignarii. Liber apocryphus ex codice manuscripto regiae bibliothecae Parisiensis. Leipzig, Andreas Zeidler, 1722.‎

‎4to. (16), 110, (2) pp. Contemporary full calf. First edition of the Arabic text of the "History of Joseph the Carpenter", one of the oldest New Testament Apocrypha. A compilation of traditions concerning Mary, Joseph, and the "holy family", it probably was composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th or early 7th century but is preserved only in Coptic and Arabic versions. The Arabic text was edited by Georg Wallin (1686-1760), the learned Lutheran archbishop of Göteborg. - Some browning, more pronounced in margins of title-page. Binding lightly rubbed at extremeties. Old Swedish deaccessioning note ("Duplett") on pastedown. Wants first free endpaper. Rare. Schnurrer 413. OCLC 165689104.‎

‎Walls Neal H‎

‎Desire Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth‎

‎Atlanta Georgia U.S.A.: Amer School of Oriental Research 2001. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Amer School of Oriental Research hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 318945 ISBN : 0897570561 9780897570565

‎WALLS Neal‎

‎Desire Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth‎

‎Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0897570561 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . American Schools of Oriental Research hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 23369 ISBN : 0897570561 9780897570565

‎WALTER (Christopher).‎

‎L’iconographie des Conciles dans la tradition byzantine.‎

‎Paris, Institut d’Etudes Byzantines, 1970, in-8, 299 pp., illustrations, broché.‎

Bookseller reference : 200395

‎WALTERS MINETTE‎

‎THE ECHO‎

‎NY: G.P. PUTNAM'S & SONS 1997. Signed By Author. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FINE/FINE. G.P. PUTNAM'S & SONS Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002061 ISBN : 0399142517 9780399142512

‎WALTZ (P.)‎

‎La Question d'Orient dans l'Antiquité‎

‎Paris, Payot, 1942 in-8, 368 pp., demi-basane brune à coins, dos à nerfs (reliure de l'époque).‎

‎LIVRE NON DISPONIBLE À PARIS, VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

Bookseller reference : 204364

‎WARDi (Ali)‎

‎A Study in the Society of Iraq.‎

‎University of Bagdad, 1960. Grand in-8 br., 378 pp. Texte en arabe.‎

‎Dos légèrement insolé, bon ex. au demeurant. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 595536

‎Warnery, [Charles-Emmanuel] de.‎

‎Remarques sur le militaire des Turcs et des Russes. Breslau, Wilhelm Theophil Korn, 1771.‎

‎8vo. 264 pp. With 3 folding engr. plates. Contemp. calf with giltstamped red label to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Second, enlarged edition, published a year after the first and now including "diverses observations sur les grandes actions qui se sont passées dans la dernière guerre d’Hongrie, et dans la présente en Moldavie". This is the first work of the Swiss-born De Warnery (1720-86), published in a German translation as early as 1766 (purportedly against his own wishes): according to the author, never one to eschew self-aggrandizement, he was the first to "unmask the Turks" and show that they did not warrant the fear with which they were usually viewed (cf. ADB XLI, 176). The plates show suggestions for battle arrays. - Unobtrusive repairs to lower cover of the appealing binding. Variously browned and brownstained due to paper. Rare. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Barbier IV, 257. Cf. Atabey 1321 (first ed. 1770). Not in Blackmer.‎