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Warriner Doreen
Land Reform and Development in the Middle East: A Study of Egypt Syria and Iraq
London: Oxford University Press 1962. Second edition. Bibliography. Index. Worn dj. xi 238 pages. 22 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Oxford University Press, 1962 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6782
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Warwick Ball
Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide SIGNED
Buckhurst Hill Essex: Scorpion Publishing Ltd 1994. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 13.5 x 21.5 cm. Signed by Author. Slight creasing to front cover. Slight foxing to page edges clean text throughout. Signed by the author to title page: 'Warwick Ball Syria Trip 1997'. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 13.5 x 21.5 cm. Paperback. Printed pages: 216 Scorpion Publishing Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 1197E006 ISBN : 0905906969 9780905906966
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Wasser Ben.
Nederlandse pelgrims naar het heilige land.
Zutphen Terra 1983. Crown quarto. Pp. 168. Illustrated maps. Index. Hardcover original cloth gilt with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy practically unused. ~ First edition. Zutphen, Terra, 1983. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1961
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Wasserman James
THE TEMPLARS AND THE ASSASSINS The Militia of Heaven
VT: Inner Traditions. Very Good. 2001. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Softcover. 089281859X . Light corner wear a little corner curling. Internal pages are clean & tight but do have several large earmarks. B/w illus. 318 pages. Book Description: � An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts the Assassins and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. � Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. � Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts the Assassins. 400 Noto ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Inner Traditions paperback
Bookseller reference : 8964 ISBN : 089281859X 9780892818594
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Waterbury John;El Mallakh Ragaei
The Middle East in the Coming Decade: From Wellhead to Well-Being
Blacklick Ohio U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill 1978 Covers have very mild wear to edges with slightly bumped corners. Binding is tight and secure. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. 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. 9 x 6. McGraw-Hill paperback
Bookseller reference : 400591 ISBN : 0070684464 9780070684461
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Watrigant, H. de.
La race pure Anglo-Arabe. Étalons et poulinières inscrits au stud-book Français (1820-1900) avec indication de leur degré de sang arabe. Pau, Garet, 1904.
VI, (8), 369, (3) pp. With numerous folding plates. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine and marbled boards. 8vo. First edition. - Indispensable French studbook of pure-bred Anglo-Arabian horses, indicating their percentage of Arabian blood. - Slight browning, but well preserved. Rare. Mennessier de la Lance 642. OCLC 843391487.
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Watt W. Montgomery
The Majesty That Was Islam: The Islamic World 661-1100
<p>Paperback 276 pages very good condition. PLEASE NOTE: one page with green highlight marks all other pages are clean.</p> Sidgwick & Jackson paperback
Bookseller reference : 490 ISBN : 0283982330 9780283982330
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Waugh, Evelyn.
Waugh in Abyssinia. London, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.
Small 4to. (8), 253, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped spine title. Top edge red. First edition. - In his fourth travel book the British writer Waugh (1903-66), who was commissioned by the Daily Mail to cover events in Ethiopia in August 1935, makes a case for the Italian intervention in the country, presenting "a lucid and interesting narrative of personal experience, and useful as a minority defense of Italian occupation and attack on British policy" (Morris/Dooley). Interestingly enough, a printed sheet of paper denying the oil magnate Francis William Rickett access to travel facilities to Persia and the states on the Persian Gulf is loosely enclosed. On the journey from Port Said, Waugh met Rickett, who was dispatched by the African Exploration & Development Company to conduct secret negotiations with the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in pursuit of a concession. While Waugh was up country, sidetracked by another story, Rickett was conferring with government officials in Addis Ababa at the dead of night. After a week of to-ing and fro-ing, papers were signed by which about half the nation's subsoil rights - an area of nearly 400,000 square km - was made over to Rickett for a period of 75 years. By the time he sailed into Suez, the story had made world headlines. Waugh, for his part, missed the scoop and was sacked. - A few marginal notes in pencil, some of them highlighting passages that also appear in Waugh's 1938 novel "Scoop", a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. Newspaper clipping with excerpts of a review of "Waugh in Abyssinia" from the Times Literary Supplement of 7 November 1936 is loosely enclosed. - Spine and lower inner hinges slightly worn. Still a good copy. Morris/Dooley, Evelyn Waugh: a reference guide 15. OCLC 807259442.
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Wavell, Arthur John Byng.
A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa. London, Constable & Co., 1913.
8vo. IX, (1 blank), 349, (1) pp. With a photo of the author as a frontispiece, 6 plates and 1 folding map of the Arabian Peninsula. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine, and blind-tooling on front cover. An account of the travels of an Englishman through Arabia, including an eye-witness account of the 1911 siege of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. This siege was one of the last big events in the Yemeni-Ottoman conflicts, which started with the first Ottoman attempt to conquer Yemen in 1538. In 1911 a treaty was signed, with which Yemen became a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire until the country could take advantage of the Empire's collapse during and after WWI to reclaim its independence. - Wavell did not intend to include a description of his journey to the holy city of Mecca, but apart from his accounts of Yemen he admits in the preface that the present work breaks no new ground. The places he visited had already been described, possibly more extensively, by other explorers and travellers, but a journey to Mecca and Medina was still quite out of the ordinary for Europeans, and thus a description of his experiences was added to the work. It was first published in 1912 and the present copy was a part of the second impression of that edition, which appeared in 1913. An edited, smaller and thus cheaper second edition appeared posthumously in 1918. The chapters on Wavell's travels in Yemen had been removed and an introduction by Major Leonard Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin, had been added. - Arthur John Byng Wavell (1882-1916) was an English army officer and traveller who was educated and trained at the Royal Military college Sandhurst. He was a cousin of the decorated field marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, who served in the Second Boer War, in other parts of Africa, and in India where he also served as the Viceroy. The author of the present work resigned his army commission in 1906 and went to Mombasa in British East Africa - modern Kenya - where he learnt Arabic and Swahili and where his desire to explore Arabia and even visit Mecca grew. After his travels in Arabia, described in "A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca", he returned to Africa. During the First World War he remained in Africa, where he founded a coastal defence force called the "Arab Rifles", active around Mombasa. Later he was sent to serve near the border of Kenya with Tanzania (then British East Africa and German East Africa), where he was killed in 1916 as a result of a German ambush. - Binding slightly rubbed, very slight foxing on the edges, some foxing on the first and last flyleaves. Small tear in the in the inner margin of the map, without affecting the map itself. Sharp folding lines in the plate of The Haram in Mecca (between pp. 152-152). With an ownership inscription: "R. S. Breene, 1 June, 1928" over the remnants of an erased inscription on the first flyleaf. Howgego IV, W13. Smith, The Yemens, 103. Cf. Macro 2266. Canton, From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia, pp. 161-165. Sotheby's, The library of Robert Michael Burrell, 858 (other ed.).
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WB. WORSFOLD W. B.
The Redemption of Egypt.
George Allen 1899. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece original tissue guard present 3 coloured plates original tissue guards present and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth upper board lettered in gilt enclosing illustration mounted in gilt frame backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top uncut a very good bright clean copy. Very scarce in anything like this condition. George Allen, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14968
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Weber G.
L'Italia e il vicino Oriente.
Roma, Direzione della "Raccolta", s.d. anni '40), in-8, br., pp. 40. ("Quaderni di politica e di economia contemporanea", N. 27).
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Weigall Arthur, ancien inspecteur g?n?ral des antiquit?s du Gouvernement Egyptien
Histoire de l'Egypte ancienne avec 1 carte et 34 gravures hors texte
1 22,3x14 cm., legatura in piena tela con fregi e titolo impresso in oro su tasselo al dorso, pagg, 252, in francese, buone condizioni.Ex libris e firma di appartenenza.
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Weigel, Christopher.
Arabiae Veteris Typus. Nuremberg, ca. 1720.
Hand-coloured engraved map (380 x 320 mm). Striking map of the Arabian Peninusla featuring the geographical features known to the ancients. Decorated with a vignette and 9 medallions depicting camels in the upper right corner. An interesting and highly decorative map. Al Ankary 293. Al-Qasimi 129. Not in Tibbetts.
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Weiland, C[arl] F[erdinand].
[Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas der ganzen Erde]. The Near and Middle Eastern Maps. Weimar, Verlag des geographischen Instituts, 1827-1834.
Six engraved maps, all in four segments on orange cloth with title labels. All ca. 68 x 54 cm. Stored in a contemporary marbled slipcase. A fine set of six maps, comprising all the Near East and Middle East maps from Weiland's great "Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas" (general hand atlas) published by the Geographical Institute in Weimar. - Includes: Turkey and Levant ("Das osmanische Asien", 1829); the Arabian Peninsula ("Arabien", 1834); Persia ("Iran, Afghanistan und Beludschistan", 1828); Africa (1831); Northern Africa ("Das nordwestliche Africa oder die Staaten Fez und Marokko, Algier, Tunis und Tripoli, nebst der Wüste Sahara", 1827); and the Nile Valley with the south-western coast of Arabia ("Das nordöstliche Africa oder Aegypten, Nubien, Habesch, Kordofan und Darfur", 1829). - All with engraved labels of the Paris map dealer and publisher Charles Simonneau with titles inscribed in French. Some mild foxing throughout, but altogether fine. Slipcase worn but professionally repaired. Cf. Espenhorst p. 24; Le Gear 6107 (1848 ed.); Al-Qasimi (2nd ed.), p. 281 (Weiland's map of Arabia, 1839 edition).
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WEILL (Raymond).-
La Phénicie et l'Asie occidentale (des origines à la Conquête macédonienne). 1 carte.
P., A. Colin (Collection Armand Colin), 1939, in 12 broché, 204 pages
Bookseller reference : 25187
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Weinberg (Steven)
Découvrir la Mer Rouge et l’océan Indien
Nathan ; Guides Nature 2005 In-12, sous couverture éditeur souple, 415 pp. Poids estime avec emballage d’expedition : 800 g
Bookseller reference : 15697 ISBN : 2092780352
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WEINSTOCK Nathan
Le sionisme contre Israel
In 8, cm. 13,5 x 22, pp. 619 + (4), brossura editoriale illustrata. Collana "cahiers libres" 146-147-148. Testo in francese. Ampiamente sottolineato a matita.
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Weir James
In Search of Eden
<p>Hardcover with DJ. Stated "First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Haus Publishing". London 2007. xii 174 pp. New never used. Light shelf wear only. Ships immediately.</p> Haus Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio1491 ISBN : 1905791070 9781905791071
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Weir, James.
[Turkey: Constantinople]. 3 watercolors. Constantinople, March 1806.
1) 260:340 mm. 2) 260:350 mm. 3) 260:360 mm. James Weir (d. 1820) was Captain of Marines on HMS Audacious from 1795 to 1800, and was also an accomplished watercolourist. His drawings show 1) "The Seraglio from the Marmora March 1806", 2) "The Seraglio at Constantinople from the harbour", and "7 towers Constantinople 19 March 1806".
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Weir, James.
Collection of 28 topographical and naval views. N. p., [1790s-1810s].
Watercolour on paper, some on 2 sheets, mounted (sizes approximately from 155 x 230 to 300 x 480 mm), some with inscription or sketches on verso, most with captions either mounted, laid down or written directly on image. James Weir (d. 1820) was Captain of Marines on HMS Audacious from 1795 to 1800, and was also an accomplished watercolourist. Some of the earliest watercolours in this group were produced when the Audacious was on patrol off the Portuguese coast in 1796. Others were painted in the months leading up to the Battle of the Nile, when the Audacious was part of Nelson's squadron searching for the French fleet off the Italian coast after it had escaped from Toulon. Others were painted in the months leading up to the Battle of the Nile, when the Audacious was part of Nelson's squadron searching for the French fleet off the Italian coast after it had escaped from Toulon. He also depicted Nelson's flagship, HMS Vanguard, anchored at Naples Bay for repairs in October 1798, when he first met Emma Hamilton. Also shown are views of Syracuse and surrounding area, the Valley of Temples at Agrigento, Catania and Mount Etna, the Temple of Venus at Baia, the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, the interior of the Temple of Concord, Mount Nuovo and Pozzuoli near Naples, the Temple of Ceres at Segesta, Convent of St. Nicolo Argentum, the Iron Mine of Elba. The fleet at Palermo is also depicted, where Nelson had accompanied the royal court of the Two Sicilies after they fled Naples. - Very minor scattered tears or repairs, a few restored or trimmed, light staining or spotting.
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Weiss Ruth
Peace in Their Time: War and Peace in Ireland and Southern Africa
United Kingdom: I B Tauris & Co Ltd 2000. Hardback. Fine/No Dust Jacket. I B Tauris & Co Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 322468 ISBN : 1860644031 9781860644030
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WEISSMAN, STEVE - KROSNEY, HERBERT
LA BOMBA ISLAMICA (TIT. ORIG.: THE ISLAMIC BOMB). TRAD. DI ALDA CARRER. PRIMA EDIZIONE ITALIANA.
IN-8°, PP. 515 (7), ILL. IN NERO N.T., CART. EDIT., SOVR. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), LEGGERISSIME BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO, LEGGERE BRUNITURE AL RISG. ANT. E AL FOGLIO DI GUARDIA VOLANTE ANT., STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE: MOLTO BUONO (VG/F), (I JUMBO). M 690
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Weizmann, Ch[aim].
Zionist Policy. An Address [...] Sunday, September 21st, 1919. London, English Zionist Federation, [1919].
8vo. 27, (1) pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. A speech by Weizmann, director of the British ammunition laboratory until 1919, who became president of the World Zionist Organization in 1921, given at a Zionist conference in London. Weizmann was elected the first president of the newly founded state of Israel in 1949. - Wrappers a little brownstained, paper slightly foxed in places. OCLC 12959743.
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Weiß, Victor Edler von Starkenfels / Schwarzhuber, Theodor Ritter von.
Kej-Kawus in Masenderan. Aus dem Schahname des Ebu'l Kasim Manßur el Firdewsi. Metrisch übersetzt [...]. Vienna, (Strauß' widow for) Braumüller & Seidel, 1841.
8vo. XXX, 177, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers with oriental-style vine pattern. German verse translation of the famous work of Persian poetry by the oriental scholar Weiß (1818-86), a graduate of the Austrian Oriental Academy, in collaboration with Schwarzhuber, another graduate of the Academy and an interpreter for the Austrian embassy to Constantinople since 1841. Dedicated to Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher. - Binding loosened; block broken after p. 48. Somewhat foxed. Publisher's record copy with the bookplate of Vienna's L. W. Seidel & Sohn publishing house to inside of upper cover. Zenker I, 65, 540. Wurzbach LIV, 144.
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Weiß, Victor Edler von Starkenfels.
Die kaiserlich-königliche orientalische Akademie zu Wien, ihre Gründung, Fortbildung und gegenwärtige Einrichtung. Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1839.
8vo. VIII, 120 pp. Contemporary green full cloth with giltstamped spine title. The first essay about the Oriental Academy founded by Maria Theresa in 1753/54, "producing detailed information about this important institution" (cf. Wurzbach), with specimens in Turkish, Arabic and Persian types. Weiß (1818-86), who studied at the Academy himself, "deserves our gratitude, as he tells of several famous Austrian orientalists and statesmen who emerged from this institution" (ibid.). The appendix includes the essays "Denkschrift des türkischen Gesandten Ebubekr Ratib Efendi, vom Jahre 1792", "Gedichte bei der Feier des fünfzigsten Jahrestages von der Errichtung der k. k. Akademie der morgenländischen Sprachen [...]", "Reden bei Gelegenheit der Allerhöchsten Vermählung weil. Sr. k. k. apostolischen Majestät Franz des Ersten mit Ihrer königlichen Hoheit Maria Ludovica Beatrix Erzherzoginn von Oesterreich", "Denkschrift des persischen Gesandten Mirsa Abdul Hussein Chan vom Jahre 1819", and "Bedingungen der Aufnahme in die k. k. orientalische Akademie". - Bookplate of the Albertina collection and later bookplate of the Viennese journalist and writer Vinzenz Chiavacci (1847-1916) to front pastedown. Gugitz 4363. Slg. Mayer IV, 3506. Wurzbach LIV, 144. Not in Slg. Eckl.
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Welch Stuart Cary
Imperial Mughal Painting
Neww York: George Braziller 1978. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. 119 pages. Hardcover with a brown dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. Jacket spine is a bit sunned. A sound copy and clean within. <br/> <br/> George Braziller hardcover
Bookseller reference : 039861 ISBN : 080760870X 9780807608708
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Wells Edward
Historical Geography of the Old Testament in Three Volumes
London: James Knapton 1711. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo panelled calf covers detached; x-libris Society of Biblical Archaeology London. <br/><br/>Folding maps. James Knapton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4847
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Wellsted, J[ames] R[aymond].
Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a Voyage to the Coast of Arabia, and a Tour on the Island of Socotra. London, Henry Colburn, 1840.
Large 8vo. 2 vols. XIII, (3), 405, (1) pp. VIII, 347, (1) pp. With 2 lithogr. frontispieces and a folding map of the Arabian Peninsula. Contemp. blindstamped cloth with gilt title to spine. Only edition. One of the best English 19th-c. accounts of Arabia and the Gulf. Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to the surveying of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman, undertaken on a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. On board the surveying ship Palinurus he was the first European to set foot in the interior of Oman. Starting late in 1835 from the easternmost point of Oman, Wellsted made his way westward through the Ja`alan region to the Wahibah Sands and then struck north up the Wadi Batha to Samad. There he was joined by Lieutenant F. Whitelock, also of the Indian Navy, who had set out from Muscat later. Together they reached Nazwa, the ancient capital of Oman, and climbed the lower slopes of the Jabal al-Akhdhar, in central Oman. In January 1836 they arrived on the Al-Batinah coast and then turned west, recrossing the Hajar mountains and emerging on the edge of the Dhaharah, the rocky steppe that stretches west toward the Rub` al-Khali. - Bindings rubbed; spines rebacked. Interior somewhat foxed as common. Removed from the Worcester Public Library. Rare; the Peter Hopkirk copy fetched £3,500 at Sotheby's (Oct 14, 1998, lot 1192). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2283. Howgego III, 635. Weber I, 67. Wilson 242. Henze IV, 476. Not in Gay, Blackmer, or Ghani.
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Welsch (Velschius), Georg Hieronymus (ed.).
Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus sive Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni. Nunc primum editae è Bibliotheca, cujus accedit Dissertatio, de earundem usu. Augsburg, Johann Schönigk f. Theophil Göbel, 1676.
Small 4to. (14), 137, (19) pp. With engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved plates by Melchior Haffner. Contemporary calf. First facsimile edition of any oriental manuscript. 16 of the 22 finely engraved plates show a Persian perpetual calendar with Ottoman Turkish "commentarius" and floral borders. Welsch had acquired the ms. from Christoph Weikmann's Kunstkammer in Ulm. The remaining six plates are concerned with Arabian astronomy: astrolabe, orrery, zodiac, circular table of Sundays and names of the months in various languages. - The calculation of this calendar is today attributed to the 9th-c. Persian mathematician Wafâ al Buzjâni (cf. BSB München; Humboldt-Universität Berlin). The predominant attribution to one Turkish Sheikh Wafâ had been disputed by Babinger as early as 1927. Abu'l-Wafâ al Buzjâni is regarded as "the last great representative of the mathematics-astronomy school that arose around the beginning of the ninth century, shortly after the founding of Baghdad" (DSB I, 39). His astronomic oeuvre is preserved merely in fragments. The calligraphic commentary, however, is Turkish and (according to Babinger) was prepared by a 17th-c. magistrate, 'Ajn-i 'Alî Mueddinzâde. - Welsch (1624-77) was a physician and "a researcher of the very first magnitude [...] while the works of this polymath were mainly dedicated to the Arabian and Persian sciences, he also has provided proof of his close study of Ottoman Turkish. In this connexion, his important 'Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus' must be cited" (cf. Babinger 1919). Welsch's "Dissertatio" (with Arabic typeface) is aimed at the usefulness of the calendar for relative oriental chronology: he also compares the works of Schall von Bell and Andreas Müller on Chinese astronomy and chronology. - Bookplate of South Library on front pastedown. Occasionally browned. Zenker, Bibliotheca Orientalis I, 1077. Schnurrer 465. Babinger, Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen (1927), 116 & 141. Babinger, Die türkischen Studien in Europa, in: Die Welt des Islams VII, 1919, 117. Not in Balagna, L'Imprimerie Arabe en Europe.
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Werdecker, Josef.
A contribution to the geography and cartography of north-west Yemen (based on the results of the exploration by Eduard Glaser, undertaken in the years 1882-1884). Cairo, l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1939.
8vo. (2), 160 pp. With a portrait of Eduard Glaser, 8 numbered plates and 2 large folding maps. Later half cloth, with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. First separate publication (offprint) of "an extremely important article" (Smith) on the geography of north-west Yemen, based on the results of the unpublished journals of Eduard Glaser, who explored a region that still had to be visited by any other European. It includes a history of exploration of the region, a biography of Glaser, a description of the expedition of his expeditions and two large maps of region (the second a version of the same map in Arabic). The article was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte XX. - A very good copy. Smith, The Yemens 40. Cf. Macro 2288.
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WERKMEISTER (Walter)
Quellenuntersuchungen zum Kitab al'Iqd al-farid des Andalusiers Ibn 'Abdrabbih (246/860-328/940). Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 70.
Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 1983. Fort in-8 br., 551 pp., bibliographie, index. Texte en allemand.
Bookseller reference : 595528
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Wesley G. Pipert
Land Of The Promise Land Of The Strife -
World Books Publishing - 1988. Hardcover/pub.1988/Gd.condition/273 pages - Land of the promise land of the strife. HT138434. Hard Over. Good. World Books Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 38434
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WEST MORRIS L..
La nuova Babele.
In 8°, t.t. edit. con sovrac. ill., pp. 373,(3); prima ed., copia molto buona. (z010/a/d)
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Weston, Stephen.
Remains of Arabic in the Spanish and Portuguese Languages. With a Sketch by Way of Introduction of the History of Spain, From the Invasion to the Expulsion of the Moors [...]. London, S. Rousseau, 1810.
8vo. 186, (2) pp. Modern library cloth. Only edition: an early study of the substantial traces which Arabic and other oriental languages left on the Spanish and Portuguese lexicon: Includes two copious word lists. The English antiquarian, clergyman and linguist Stephen Weston (1747-1830) also produced, in 1802, the earliest English translation of the Greek text of the Rosetta Stone. - Inscribed "From the Author" on the half-title. Spine faded. Removed from the Jews' College, London (a rabbinical seminary now known as the London School of Jewish Studies), with remains of a spine label and their several cancelled stamps. OCLC 224972497. Not in Vater/Jülg.
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Wheatcroft Andrew
The Life and Times of Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa : Ruler of Bahrain 1942-1961
London: Kegan Paul International 1995. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Kegan Paul International hardcover
Bookseller reference : 310455 ISBN : 0710304951 9780710304957
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Wheeler Mortimer
Flames Over Persepolis
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1968. Photos a few in color. Index. Dj. 180 pages. 25.5 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1968) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6601
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Whigham, H[enry] J[ames].
The Persian Problem. An examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad Railway. London, Isbister and Co., 1903.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power." Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. - Ink ownership stamp of Charles C. Sterrett, an American Presbyterian missionary to the Christian population in the region, to the front pastedown. Binding a little rubbed and spotted, endpapers foxed. Small inked library stamp and cancellation to the title page, otherwise very good. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
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Whigham, H[enry] J[ames].
The Persian Problem. An examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad Railway. London, Isbister and Co., 1903.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power". Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to Play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
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White Arthur Silva
From Sphinx to Oracle Through the LIbyan Desert to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon
London: Hurst and Blacket 1899. First Edition first printing. Published London: Hurst and Blacket 1899. Original blue cloth stamped entirely in gilt with gilt cover design. Most copies have black lettering and cover design. Title page printed in black and red dark brown end pages. 8vo. 6"x9" xvi277pp. publisher's ads. B/w frontis title vignette 56 illustrations from photographs by the author 2 fold-out color maps index. Edges untrimmed. White's 1898 desert caravan expedition to Jarabub and account of Siwa. Very good straight clean tight copy pages bright no marks. Mild rubbing to the upper portion of spine lettering otherwise very good or better. Scarce especially in all gilt cover. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Author. 8vo. Illus. Hurst and Blacket Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001512
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White JE. Manchip J. E.
Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
NY: Dover 1970. Paper bound unabridged republication of the work originally published by Crowell in 1952. Illustrated. Fold-out chronological chart inside rear cover. 217pp includes bibliography and index. Covers moderate-heavily creased else very good. Tight and clean. 320 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. NY: Dover, 1970 unknown
Bookseller reference : 22742 ISBN : 0486225488 9780486225487
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White Patrick
LET US BE FREE: A NARRATIVE BEFORE AND DURING THE INTIFADA
Clifton NJ: The Kingston Press Inc 1989. PB. fine wraps softcover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0940670356 This book "is really about loving and admiring the Christians and Moslem Palestinian people particularly students at Bethlehem University." 134pp. The Kingston Press, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS055943I ISBN : 0940670356 9780940670358
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White Paul J. editor; Logan William S. editor
Remaking the Middle East
Oxford United Kingdom: Berg Publishers 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Berg Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 311898 ISBN : 1859731686 9781859731680
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White, George Ransom.
Polish vs. Egyptian Arabian Horses / Polski Arabski kon a Egipski. My Visit to Polish State Stud / Moja Wizyta w Polskim Stadzie Panstwowym. Nashville, George Random White, [1938].
4to. 24 pp., including two black-and-white plates. Text in English and Polish. Bound in printed card covers as issued. Sole edition of this extremely rare publication, printed for private circulation, describing with great excitement the Polish programme of Arabian horse-breeding in the 1930s. On the eve of WWII, Dr George White visited the Polish State Stud and provides an invaluable record of the horses kept there, listing the stallions and mares he saw by name, as well as the names of those recently deceased. In 1939-40, many of Poland's prized Arabians were confiscated by the Russian and German armies, virtually demolishing the breeding programme in that country. - White had travelled the world comparing Arabian horses, having visited Egypt already in 1929 for that purpose, but was awestruck by what he discovered in Poland: "I had seen Arabian horses on four of the five continents of the world, but never before had such an Arabian horse display been exhibited before me ... The Polish Arab is superior in all material respects to the Egyptian". The plate at the end depicts "the author's conception of the world's two greatest living Arabian stallions - Kaszimir and Ofir", belonging to Prince Witold Czartoryski and to the Polish State Stud respectively, and White offers the prediction that "the day is not far distant when the countries of the world will be looking toward Poland for suitable foundation stock in the form of mares and stallions to either start or improve their Arabian horse breeding projects". - George Ransom White (b. 1874) was a friend and advisor to General Jacob M. Dickinson (1890-1963), the owner of Travellers Rest Stud in Nashville, TN. Dickinson began to import Polish Arabians in 1938 following Dr White's advice. - Rare: OCLC shows two copies worldwide, at the National Library of Poland and the British Library.
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WHITTING (P. D.)
Monnaies byzantines.
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1973. Fort in-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile bleu nuit sous jaq. ill., 311 pp., 457 ill. phot. de médailles en noir et en coul., appendices, index. (L'Univers des Monnaies").
Bookseller reference : 521941
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Wickwar W. Hardy
Modernization of Administration in the Near East
Beirut: Khayats 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages lightly tanned with underlined passages writing on ffep. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has edge wear tear at top of spine tanning overall shelf wear. ; Role of public administration in the development of the Middle East. ; 9.0" tall; 201 pages. Khayats hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3430047
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Wiedemann, Eilhard / Hauser, Fritz.
Über die Uhren im Bereich der islamischen Kultur. Halle, Ehrhardt Karras für die Akademie in Kommission bei Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, 1915.
Folio. 272 pp. With 136 text illustrations. Modern half cloth with gilststamped spine title. Study of mediaeval Arabic clock-making techniques, based on published works and unpublished Arabic manuscripts. - Perfectly preserved in a modern private library binding. OCLC 4703118. Nova Acta: Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. C Nr. 5.
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Wiener Alfred.
Juden und Araber in Palästina Palaestina. Zur Erkenntnis der jüngsten Vorgänge.
Berlin Philo 1929. Crown quarto. Pp. 54. Frontispiece photograph of the Wailing Wall. With 2 illustrations to the text; footnotes. Original wrappers bit dog-eared printed with publisher's ads. In a very good condition light pencil underlining and marking. Nice copy. ~ Offprint from "Morgen" Volume 5 No. 5. Judisch Siedlung und Wirtschaft 3. Berlin, Philo, 1929. unknown
Bookseller reference : 0723
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Wiener Alfred.
Kritische Reise durch Palästina Palaestina.
Berlin Philo 1927. Royal octavo. Pp. 156. With 13 maps and illustrations to the text; footnotes appendices indices. Original decorated cloth embossed. In a very good condition. Bookplate institutional stamp on blank verso of prelim sporadic light underlining in pencil. Else a fine copy. ~ Second edition. Berlin, Philo, 1927. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0738
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Wietz, J. K.
Sitten, Gebräuche und Trachten der Bewohner des osmanischen und türkischen Reiches. Prague, Bohmann, 1828.
8vo. 181, (3) pp., final blank f. With 20 engraved plates in original hand colour. Contemporary boards. First edition, issued in ten separate instalments. An entire chapter is dedicated to the Wahhabi Bedouin Arabs, their customs and costumes. The charming engravings in vibrant original hand colour are based on Castellan's 1812 "Moeurs", each plate containing several meticulous costume illustrations. - Spine sunned. Contemporary ownership "S. M. Mayer zu Klagenfurt" on title page; additional (partly deleted) ownership on flyleaf. Very clean altogether. Rare. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 1333. OCLC 255511974. Not in Lipperheide, Colas, or Hiler.
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Wigert Gideon
They Will Never Look Back. Gaza Refugees Rehabilitate Themselves
Jerusalem: Published By Author. 1975 First printing in stapled card covers. 17 pp. Photographs one house plane. Some light soiling and creasing to front cover and into text. Contents fine. Very Good. Soft Cover. Very Good. Box 38. Published By Author. paperback
Bookseller reference : 257676
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