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Wilber Donald N
Persian Gardens and Garden Pavilions
Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle 1962. Photos. Plans. Bibliography. Index. Chipped dj. Small piece missing from top of dust jacket. 239 pages. 26.5 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: IRAN. Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6602
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Wilken Robert L
The Land Called Holy : Palestine in Christian History and Thought
New Haven CT U.S.A.: Yale University Press 1992. Light wear. Hardback. Very Good. Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 311083 ISBN : 0300054912 9780300054910
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WILKINSON T. J
Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia: Vol. I: Settlement and Land Use at Kurban Hoyuk and Other Sites in the Lower Karababa Basin
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0918986648 . Oriental Institute Publications Volume 109. Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23791 ISBN : 0918986648 9780918986641
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WILKINSON T. J
Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia: Vol. I: Settlement and Land Use at Kurban Hoyuk and Other Sites in the Lower Karababa Basin
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0918986648 . Oriental Institute Publications Volume 109. Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23791 ISBN : 0918986648 9780918986641
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WILLEMART, H. e P.
Dossier du Moyen-Orient arabe. Geographie, économie, politique
350, [2] pp., ill. in nero e a colori f.t.; 19 cm. Mezza tela artigianale, tit. in oro al dorso. Poche sottolineature a matita nel testo
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William B. Quandt
The Politics Of Palestinian Nationalism -
University Of California Press - 1973. PB/pub.1973/Fair condition/234 pages - A study of a controversial study of Palestiniam nationalism. TN637022. Soft Cover. Good. University Of California Press - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 37022
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William L Cleveland
A History of the Modern Middle East
<p>Clean & tight & unmarked. Mild bumping of corners. Mild shelf/edge wear.</p> Westview Press paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio558 ISBN : 0813334896 9780813334899
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William Plomer
Ali the Lion: Ali of Tebeleni Pasha of Jannina 1741-1822
London: Jonathan Cape 1936. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 5.75 x 8.25 inches 14 x 20.5 cm. First printing. Lacking jacket. Brown cloth binding with a couple of light marks. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed. Light indentations to half title page appear to be from scribbling to front free endpaper before removal. Inked note and previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Inked name to half title page. Scattered foxing good solid binding. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches 14 x 20.5 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 288 Jonathan Cape hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1197E005
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William R. Brown
The Last Crusade -
Nelson Publishing - 1980. PB/pub.1980/Gd.condition/399 pages - A negotiator's Middle East Handbook. HT138419. Soft Cover. Good. Nelson Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 38419
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William Yale
The Near East -
University Of Michigan Press - 1958. Hardcover/pub.1958/Gd. condition ex-lib/485 pages - A modern history of the Near East. TA631875. Hard Cover. Good. University Of Michigan Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31875
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Williams Ann
Britain and France in the Middle East and North Africa
London / New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press 1968. Photos. Maps. Bibliography. Index. xiv 194 pages. 20.3 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London / New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1968 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7640
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Williams John Alden
Islam
New York: George Braziller Inc 1962. Publisher: George Brazilller Inc. 1962 Good HB 256 pp. text off white. Hard Cover. Good. George Braziller, Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005939
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Williams General William Fenwick
The Siege of Kars 1855
London: Stationary Office 2000. Uncovered Edition. Paperback. Fine. 260 pages 4 1/2 X 7 1/4 inches. "Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have NOT previously been available in a popular form. Stationary Office paperback
Bookseller reference : 3332 ISBN : 0117024546 9780117024540
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Williams L. F. Rushbrook
THE STATE OF PAKISTAN
London: Faber and Faber 1962. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations maps. 254pp. Faber and Faber unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS049277I
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Williams Talcott
Turkey A World Problem of To-Day
Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine. 1921. Possible First Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. There is a bit of ground-in dirt to the front cover has well. The text pages are clean and bright. Included is a map as the frontispiece. "Williams was born at Abeih Ottoman Turkey the son of Congregational missionaries. He graduated from Amherst in 1873. Afterwards. he was employed at the New York World and as a correspondent for the New York Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle." Included are sections regarding the massacre of Christians and of Armenians along with another section on the Kurds. " After the war ended a military administration named Occupied Enemy Territory Administration was established in the captured territory of the former Ottoman Syria. The British sought legitimacy for their continued control of the region and this was achieved by obtaining a mandate from the League of Nations in June 1922. The formal objective of the League of Nations Mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century "until such time as they are able to stand alone." . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31974
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Willmet, Johannes.
Oratio de retinenda antiqua Batavorum in literis orientalibus gloria. Publice habita die 26 Novembris a. 1804. Amsterdam, ex typographia Civitatis Amstelaedamensis, 1805.
Large 4to (210 x 250 mm). (4), VII, (1), 64 pp. Original half calf over marbled boards and giltstamped spine and title lable. Only printing of this oration on the great contributions made by Dutch scholars to the study of oriental languages, delivered by the Amsterdam professor Willmet (1750-1835) on 26 November 1804. A student of Everard Scheidius, Willmet also produced a valuable Arabic dictionary in 1784 (cf. Smitskamp, PO 317). - Old library shelfmarks to upper cover and front pastedown. A little browned and brownstained near the end, otherwise well preserved; a good, wide-margined copy. OCLC 64504237.
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Willner Dorothy
Nation-Building and Community in Israel
Princeton University Press 1969. Former owner's names on free endpaper. Hardback. Very Good/Worn Torn. Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011004
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Willyams, Cooper.
[A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure. With a description of the Battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798]. [London, J. White, 1802].
Folio (ca. 350 x 493 mm). 17 aquatint plates in original hand colour and one double-page-sized aquatint map of the Mediterranean in original hand colour, all with captions in English. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title and 2 floral ornaments to spine. Marbled endpapers. Collection of 18 of the 43 illustrations from the account of the voyage of HMS Swiftsure and the Battle of the Nile by the British clergyman and artist Willyams (1762-1816), who served as chaplain aboard the ship, a vessel of Admiral Nelson's squadron captained by Benjamin Hallowell Carew. The 17 plates in the present volume show views of the caves of Gibraltar and the Spanish Church in the city, the Bay of Fournelles, Ischia, a street in Caiffe at the foot of Mount Carmel featuring two dromedars, Aboukir castle, caverns near Syracuse and the Temple of Minerva, the Palermo Capuchin catacombs, and a view of Scylla on the coast of Calabria, as well as an attack on the French camp near Aboukir, an attack of Turkish gun boats on the castle of Aboukir, and a group of three Arabs aboard the Swiftsure. The aquatint map shows the Mediterranean Sea with the courses of the British and French fleets up to their encounter in the Bay of Aboukir in August 1798. Designed by Willyams, the illustrations were engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler. - Binding somewhat rubbed near extremities. Right margins of several plates brownstained or a little worn (not touching image); map brownstained on left and right margins and near the gutter (hardly touching image); the plate with the entrance into the Ear of Dionysius with traces of 2 folds near lower right corner (not touching image). An appealing compilation of decorative images documenting the route of the British fleet leading up to the Battle of the Nile. For the original publication cf. Abbey 196. Blackmer 1813. Atabey (2nd ed.) 1339. Graesse VII, 456.
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Wilson Evan M.
JERUSALEM KEY TO PEACE
Washington D.C.: The Middle East Institute 1970. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket hardcover author inscribed. B&W illustrations. The author recounts his experiences in Jerusalem 1964 to late 1967. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to the former head of the Smithsonian Institution. 176pp. The Middle East Institute unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS053228I
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Wilson Graeme
Zayed 1918-2004 : A Tribute to H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan
Dubai and London: Media Prima 2005. Book. Like New. Cloth/Laminated Boards. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Head and tail of spine bumped. 227pp. Media Prima Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 028189
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Wilson Richard Ed
Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'
West Nyack New York U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr 2005. First printing. A collection of essays on various aspects of terrorism and the war on terror. Contributors include such notables as Richard Falk Mary Robinson Wikto Osiatynski David LubanThomas Cushman Carol GreenhouseRichard Goldstone and others. Many essays footnoted with documentation. A very good plus copy with owner's signature to ffep but evidently unread. 347 pp. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Cambridge Univ Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 11705 ISBN : 0521618339 9780521618335
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Wilson MACARTHUR
Auto Nomad in Barbary. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Cassell 1950. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece 70 plates on 34 and a large folding map; original terracotta cloth gilt back backstrip mildly faded but all gilt wholly legible edges lightly spotted a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chipped with minor loss not affecting lettering at head of backstrip. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The 'auto' in question is a 18HP Wolseley; the route travelled is from France to South Africa via Spain Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt the Sudan and so down through East Africa to Durban. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION Cassell, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25457
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Winer Gershon.
The Founding Fathers of Israel.
New York: New York: Bloch Publishing Company 1971. 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 289 pages indexed. Hardback with an brown and black dust jacket. The jacket shows mild wear and is price clipped. The book is fresh and clean. <br/> <br/> New York: Bloch Publishing Company, (1971). hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033832
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WINGATE Sir Andrew.
Palestine Mesopotamia and the Jews.
London: Pickering & Inglis nd.c1919. 0. The Spiritual Side of History with a Synopsis of the War. Written by the President of the British Society for the propagation of the Gospel among the Jews. Pp.290/6ads folding map to front 10b/w photo plates folding synopsis of the Warrepaired to end. Red cloth slight sunning to spine bumps to edges. G. . London: Pickering & Inglis, nd.(c1919). 0 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 34795
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WINSCH GERT
IL REGIME INGLESE IN PALESTINA
Edizione: Prima traduzione italiana . Pagine: 88 . Illustrazioni: Molte riproduzioni fotografiche e documentali . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Brossura con sovraccoperta brunita con alette . Stato: Buono . Collana: L'inghilterra senza maschera n°2 .
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Wint Guy and Peter Calvocoressi
Middle East Crisis
Harmondsworth: Penguin 1957 . Mass market paperback first edition illustrated with maps 141pp includes appendices. Very good. 90 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957, paperback
Bookseller reference : 21361
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Wint Guy and Peter Calvocoressi
Middle East Crisis
Great Britain: Penguin Books 1957. Second printing. Maps. A Penguin Special S167. 141 pages. 18 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Great Britain: Penguin Books, (1957) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7655
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Winter, Anthony.
L'Arabie Petree, Deserte, et Heureuse. Utrecht, 1683.
Engraved map (19 x 25 cm), contemporary hand-coloured. Seventeenth century map of Arabia, engraved by de Winter after Sanson.
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Wirsing Giselher.
Engländer Juden Araber in Palästina Palaestina.
Jena Eugen Diederichs 1938. Octavo. Pp. 280. Plus frontispiece and 11 other halftone photographic plates printed on different paper bound in. With 6 letterpress maps to the text some full-page. Notes index. Hardcover original off-white cloth lettered in green. In a very good condition. Overall an excellent copy. ~ First edition first printing 1st to 3rd Thousand. Displaying a nice collection of historical portraits many of which original. Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1938. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0829
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WITTE (Baron jehan de);
En PALESTINE.
H. Chapelliez et Cie Paris 1889 1 vol. In-12 de 2 ff.n.ch. 414 pp., demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs fileté.
Bookseller reference : 13097
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WITT (C.)
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand. Translated from the german by F. Younghusband. With a preface by H.G. Dakyns.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1891. In-12, rel. d’éditeur percaline bleue, premier plat illustré, XIV- 191 pp., texte anglais + 23 p. (cat. de l’éditeur), carte en couleur en frontispice, 12 planches h.-t. et fig. en noir in-t.
Bookseller reference : 556659
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Wittlin Alma. Translated by Norman Denny
Abdul Hamid: The Shadow of God
London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1940. 296 pp. frontispiece portrait numerous b&w plates. Covers faded and stained head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped rear board bumped at fore-edge small scuff to bottom edge of front board page edges tanned and lightly soiled. Interior unmarked. Size: 8vo. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. John Lane The Bodley Head Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 07889
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WM. THOMSON W. M.
The Land and the Book. Or Biblical Illustrations drawn from the Manners and Customs the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
Nelson 1878. 8vo. with an engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates all original tissue guards present and number engraved illustrations in the text preliminaries lightly spotted; original ochre cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black gilt back bevelled boards brown endpapers corners lightly bruised hinges starting but binding entirely sound else a very good bright clean copy. Nelson, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24579
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WOESTYN (Eugène).
Guerre d'Orient. Les victoires et les conquêtes des Armées alliées.
Paris, 16, rue Mazagran, 1856. 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume in-4, demi-basane noire, dos droit orné de filets dorés et d'un aigle impérial doré, 383 pp.
Bookseller reference : 22487
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WOESTYN (Eugène).
Guerre d'Orient. Les victoires et les conquêtes des Armées alliées.
Paris, 16, rue Mazagran, 1856. 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume in-4, demi-basane noire, dos droit orné de filets dorés et d'un aigle impérial doré, 383 pp. Une grande carte rempliée en couleurs gravée sur acier et 30 planches gravées hors-texte, Bon de souscription joint (premiers souscripteurs : Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III - Son Altesse Impériale le Prince Napoléon - Son Altesse Impériale la Princesse Mathilde - L'ex-commandant en chef de l'armée de Crimée, CANROBERT, Maréchal de France. Bel exemplaire. (guerre de Crimée).
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WOLLEY Sir Leonard
"Mésopotamie, Asie Antérieure; L'art ancien du Moyen-Orient. Collection : L'Art dans le monde."
Paris, Editions Albin Michel, 1961. 18 x 24, 262 pp., ca 60 planches en couleurs (images contrecollées), 73 figures, reliure d'édition pleine toile rouge + étui carton illustré, très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 96744
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Wolf, Hieronymus (ed.).
Historia rerum in oriente gestarum ab exordio mundi et orbe condito ad nostra haec usque tempora. Frankfurt/Main, Sigmund Feyerabend, 1587.
Folio (240 x 362 mm). (4), 297, (44) ff. Title page printed in red and black. With woodcut vignette to t. p., printer's device to final page, and woodcut arms of Nidhard Thungen on dedication leaf. Original calf (restored). The first edition of this work to include Turkish material: an early, important collection of sources on Byzantium, Turkey, and the Islamic world, containing writings by Laonikos Chalkokondyles ("Historiarum de origine ac rebus gestis Turcorum libri X"), Nikephoros Gregoras ("Historiae Byzantinae libri XI"), Johannes Zonaras, and Niketas Choniates, as well as additional material by several other writers on Turkey. - Binding professionally repaired. Some brownstaining and waterstaining throughout; a few repaired paper flaws near beginning and end. VD 16, H 3899. Adams H 634. BM-STC German 259. Atabey 582. Blackmer 819. Hoffmann II, 628f.
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Wolf, Joseph.
Accipiter nisis. (London, ca. 1873).
Hand-coloured lithograph. 380 x 555 mm. Fine image of a Sparrowhawk, from John Gould's monumental "Birds of Great Britain" (London, 1862-1873, 5 vols.). Joseph Wolf (1820-99) "was the first bird artist to understand and use the new freedom of style that lithography allowed [...] He introduced natural settings and a feeling of motion into his paintings. Early training in lithography and art [...] opened the door to Wolf's development into one of the first and finest true bird artists. He breathed life into the stiff 'bird on a perch' portrayals so characteristic of bird art of the day. Wolf liked especially to paint birds of prey and game birds, with their subtle browns and grays" (Cornell University Library). Fine Bird Books 102. Nissen IVB 372. Sauer 23. Wood 365. Zimmer 261.
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Wolf, Joseph.
Archibuteo lagopus. (London, ca. 1873).
Hand-coloured lithograph. 380 x 555 mm. Fine image of a Rough-Legged Buzzard, from John Gould's monumental "Birds of Great Britain" (London, 1862-1873, 5 vols.). Joseph Wolf (1820-99) "was the first bird artist to understand and use the new freedom of style that lithography allowed [...] He introduced natural settings and a feeling of motion into his paintings. Early training in lithography and art [...] opened the door to Wolf's development into one of the first and finest true bird artists. He breathed life into the stiff 'bird on a perch' portrayals so characteristic of bird art of the day. Wolf liked especially to paint birds of prey and game birds, with their subtle browns and grays" (Cornell University Library). Fine Bird Books 102. Nissen IVB 372. Sauer 23. Wood 365. Zimmer 261.
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Wolfe Michael
Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
New York: Atlantic Monthly 1993. 331 pp. Tiny nick to lower corner of rear board otherwise Fine. Jacket lightly handled and edgeworn. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Atlantic Monthly Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 03071 ISBN : 0871135183 9780871135186
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WOLFF Richard.
Israel Act III.
Illinois USA: Tyndale House 1967. 1st ed. "Act I - The Chosen People Act II - Survival in the Human Jungle Act III - The Return. Richard Wolff writes about the Middle East with the sympathy of an intimate friend and the balanced judgment of a scholar." Pp.94 with b/w sketch map of Middle East. P/b with illustrated cover G. . Illinois USA: Tyndale House, 1967. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12935
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WOLFF Richard.
Israel Today.
Wheaton: Tyndale House Publications. 1972. "An in-depth analysis of the Middle East situation - ground fighting and air raids - as seen from a Christian perspective." Pp 175. 3 maps. P/b. Edges scuffed. G. . Wheaton: Tyndale House Publications. 1972. unknown
Bookseller reference : 14490
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Wolfram von Soden
Introduzione all'orientalistica antica
Autori: Wolfram von Soden. Curatori: C. Mora. Traduttori: L. Marchini.
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Wollaston, Arthur N.
The Sword of Islam. London, John Murray, 1905.
8vo. VIII, (4), 523, (1) pp. With folding map and 16 printed plates. Contemp. red smoothed goatskin morocco binding, elaborately giltstamped for the Royal Asiatic Society with their monogram and motto on covers and (slightly faded) spine. All edges gilt. First and only edition. The fine illustrations show the approach to Mecca, Damascus, Gibraltar from the East, a nook in Algiers, the Tomb of the Khalifs in Cairo, the Gate of Blood in Toledo, a mosque in Cordova, the Alhambra in Granada, a reproduced double-page from the Qur'an, the mosque at Mecca, Medina, pilgrims' dress, Meccan chiefs with camel and attendant, etc. - This copy awarded in 1912 to the later journalist, political theoretician and British Communist Rajani Palme Dutt (1896-1974) as school prize for Essays by William Henry Denham Rouse, headmaster at Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. - Dutt's father, Upendra Dutt, was an Indian surgeon; his mother Anna Palme Dutt was Swedish and related to the future Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme. Dutt was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class degree in classics after having been suspended for a time due to his status as a conscientious objector in World War I. Dutt married an Estonian, Salme Murrik, in 1922. His wife had come to Great Britain in 1920 as a representative of the Communist International. That same year, he joined the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and remained one of its most conservative members all his life. In 1921 Dutt founded a monthly magazine called 'Labour Monthly', a publication which he edited until his death. - Spine slightly rubbed; front hinge repaired; a nicely preserved presentation copy in a fine RAS binding.
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Wolpert Stanley
Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny
Cary North Carolina U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr 1996. Hardcover/Gd. condition/546 pages - A biography of Nehru. K679HT7. Hard Cover. Good. Oxford Univ Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K679 ISBN : 0195100735 9780195100730
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WOOLLEY (Sir Leonard).-
Ur. Histoire d'une découverte. 136 photographies, 2 hors-texte en couleurs, 3 plans, 1 carte, 23 culs-de-lampe. Traduit de l'anglais par Josette Gasser-Demanjon.
P., Albert Guillot (Collection Les Hauts Lieux de l'Histoire), 1957, grand in 4° cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 164 pages ; petites déchirures à la jaquette, anciennement réparées au scotch.
Bookseller reference : 39649
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Wood, Casey Albert / Fyfe, Florence Marjorie.
The art of falconry being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen [...]. Boston, C. T. Branford, 1955.
4to. (2), CX, 637, (1) pp. With 2 coloured plates (including a portrait frontispiece) and 184 black and white plates (1 of which not included in pagination). Original full cloth with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Second edition of this important English translation of the famous Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. It was prepared by the Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist C. A. Wood (1856-1942), who studied animal vision, especially that of birds, and was first published in 1943 by Stanford University Press. The plentiful illustrations include a portrait frontispiece of Frederick II, photographs of various decorative manuscript pages from "De arte venandi cum avibus", falconer's equipment, and landmarks associated with the Emperor, including Castel del Monte and his tomb in Palermo, as well as drawings and photographs of various species of falcons and hawks, and a map of southern Italy and Sicily showing the Emperor's castles and hunting lodges. - Giltstamping somewhat faded; edges very slightly foxed. A very good copy of this second edition, never seen at auction. Oelgart 24B. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, 192. OCLC 459570612.
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Woodford, Michael.
A Manual of Falconry [...]. London, Adam & Charles Black, (1960).
Small 4to. XVI, 192 pp. With photographic frontispiece, 11 photographic plates, and 9 illustrations in the text. Original full cloth with giltstamped falcon to cover and giltstamped spine-title. First edition. An authoritative textbook, one of two classics on falconry to appear in 1960 (the other being Jack Mavrogordato's "A Hawk for the Bush"). It discusses the choice of hawk for training with the necessary furniture and appliances, individual species used in falconry, their particular challenges in training and management, their handling when flown at quarry in the field, falcons' home life, their health and disease, as well as how to deal with lost hawks, and the moult. - With contributions by S. E. Allen and Jack Mavrogordato on game hawking and rook hawking. The impressive illustrations display various birds of prey, including lanners, sakers and peregrines, as well as merlins, kestrels, and goshawks, sometimes hooded or on perches. One photograph shows a young boy working with a kestrel. The other illustrations show the equipment typically used in the sport, including the falconers' knot, hoods, jesses, and bells. - Edges and endpapers slightly foxed. A single copy in auction records. Oelgart 31A. Cf. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, 590 (U.S. edition). OCLC 1079355522.
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Woodsmall Ruth Frances
Moslem Women Enter a New World
London: George Allen & Unwin 1936. Publications of the American University of Beirut Social Science series No. 14. Photos. Folding map. Preface by Bayard Dodge. Index. Cover worn chipped and scuffed. Ex library: card pocket inside front cover and label on front flyleaf; no other external or internal markings. 432 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: George Allen & Unwin, (1936) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6308
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Woodsmall Ruth Frances
Women and the New East
Washington: Middle East Institute 1960. Foreword by Bayard Dodge. Map. Photos. Index. Chipped dj. xvi 436 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Washington: Middle East Institute, 1960 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4799
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