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Abdel-Kader A. Razak.
Israele e il mondo arabo. Ebrei e arabi di fronte all'avvenire.
Prima ediz.; R. D5.
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Magliocco Vito.
La strada per Gerusalemme.
R. O4.
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FALES Frederick Mario
PRIMA DELL'ALFABETO. La storia della scrittura attraverso testi cuneiformi inediti. Con il contributo di Lucio Milano, Giovanni Pettinato, Sandro Salvatori, etc.
In-4 (cm. 29.60), cartonato editoriale, pp. 269, (1), con numerose illustrazioni, soprattutto a colori, nel testo. Macchioline a risguardi e guardie. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
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WOOLLEY Leonard
UN REGNO DIMENTICATO : STORIA DI UNA SCOPERTA ARCHEOLOGICA.
In-8 (cm. 22), cartonato editoriale, pp. 200, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero di cui 43 fuori testo. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
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AL KHAYY M Omar (Kaiam)
ROBAI'YYÂT (Rubaiyat).
In-8 (cm. 27.80), cartonato editoriale, pp. XV, (3), 115, (3), con una illustrazione monocroma fuori testo. A cura di Lorenzo Zichichi e Norberto G. Kuri. Con un'incisione di Piero Guccione. Esemplare numerato di 500 copie impresse. Taglietto alla cuffia superiore; peraltro, testo in buono stato (text in good condition).
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HOURANI Albert
STORIA DEI POPOLI ARABI. Da Maometto ai nostri giorni.
In-8 (cm. 23.80), tela editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. XV, 563, (5), con alcune carte geografiche in bianco e nero nel testo. Traduzione a cura di Vermondo Brugnatelli. Prima edizione italiana. Minime tracce di polvere alla sovracoperta; peraltro, volume in ottimo stato (nice copy).
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IGNATIUS David
NESSUNA VERITA’.
In-8 (cm. 22.40), brossura illustrata, con alette, pp. 335, (1). Traduzione di Silvia Levato. Prima edizione italiana. Minime tracce di polvere alla brossura. Lievissime abrasioni alle cuffie; peraltro, volume in ottimo stato (nice copy).
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Santagata, Fernando
Industria e commercio in Egitto.
Br., cm16.5x21.5, pp (4) 54 (2), Coll. Quaderni de La Rivista d’Oriente #1.
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KHITROWO B. DE
Itineraires Russes en Orient traduits pour la Societe de l'Orient Latin
Cm. 25; pp. 334. 1930 Half leather. Very good copy. (Middle East) 1390/P
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LAYARD AUSTEN HENRY
Nineveh and its remains. A narrative…
Cm. 20; pp. XXVI, 384, 32. Editorial cloth. Illustrated. A folding map. Dedication Copy to Count Belmondo Caccia. (Middle East) 1397/P
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VALABREGA, Guido
Il Medio Oriente dal primo dopoguerra a oggi
1 Vol. In-16 pag. 116. Copt. ill PROG 41073 CATT_ATT 54
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D'ASARO, Franz Maria
Kurdistan nazione fantasma
1 Vol. In-8 gr pag. 238 alc. ill. f. t. Copt. ill PROG 36763 CATT_ATT 49
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VAN ESS-John.
Incontro con gli Arabi.
Milano-Garzanti, 1948 in 8° pp. 271 con bibliografia. Dall’indice: Allah, il suo Libro e il suo apostolato; La lingua degli angeli; I Beduini; Fatima e le sue sorelle; L’orfano sulla soglia; Una soluzione per la Palestina. Collana “Memorie e Documenti”.
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AA.VV.
Stati del Mediterraneo Orientale e del Mar Rosso 1941.
Carta fisico-politica molto interessante. Cartina a sette colori - Scala 1:4000000 (cm. 96x156). Milano-Ist. Studi politica intern., 1941. Sono segnalate: ferrovie, strade principali e secondarie, oleodotti, paludi, pozzi petroliferi, sorgenti, castelli, ponti, fiumi, mercati. Sono presenti riquadri in varie scale: il Bosforo, i Dardanelli, il Canale di Suez, il Delta del Nilo, Alessandria, Cairo, Istanbul. Piccole riparazioni sul retro. Ottime condizioni.
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(Scepper, Cornelius Duplicius).
Rerum à Carolo V. Caesare Augusto in Africa bello gestarum commentarii, elegantißimis iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati. Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1555.
8vo. (8), 183, (8) ff., last blank f. With woodcut printer's device on t. p. and three folding woodcut plates. - (Bound after) II: Bruto, Giovanni Michele. De rebus a Carolo V. caesare Romanorum imperatore gestis, oratio. Ibid., 1555. (48) ff. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and different, larger device on last f.; several woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum with ms label to spine. Traces of ties. Re-issue of the first edition, published the previous year. This documentation of the North African expeditions of Charles V against Tunis and the Arabian Coast was compiled by the Imperial envoy Scepper (d. 1554) from eyewitness accounts by Nicolas de Villegaignon and Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrelle, augmented by extracts from Giovio and others. The remarkable views of sieges show the environs of Tunis as well as Algiers and El Kef (Aphrodisium). - Bound at the beginning of the volume is the first edition of Bruto's first work, a polished prose encomium for Charles V, dedicated to his son, King Philip II of Spain. Giovanni Bruto (1515-94), a banished Italian scholar, spent a large part of his life travelling and served as court historian to Emperors Rudolph II and Maximilian II. - A very clean, practically spotless copy. Title page of Bruto stamped; final flyleaf replaced by five modern blank leaves. With fine, contemporary acquisition note by the Austrian statesman and military commander Count Georg von Helfenstein-Gundelfingen (1518-73) on the pastedown, dated London, 1559 ("Emptus Lundini Angliae Metropol."), from the time of his diplomatic mission in Great Britain. "In 1558 Helfenstein was Imperial Governor of Upper Austria, in 1559 Prefect of the Imperial Court. At this time he was sent to England by Emperor Ferdinand to pursue a marriage between Ferdinand's third son, Archduke Charles, with Queen Elizabeth" (cf. ADB XI, 687). Later in the Fürstenberg Library in Donaueschingen. I: BM-STC Dutch 183. Göllner 938. Paulitschke 355, Schottenloher 28.353. Graesse VI, 294. Palau 262.149. Gay 1376 ("précieux recueil"). Cf. Yerasimos 179. Not in Adams, Brunet or Kainbacher. - II: IA 126.080. Adams B 2973. BM-STC Dutch 43. Graesse I, 558. Palau 36.453. Brunet I, 1307 ("Peu commun").
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Büsching, A[nton] F[riedrich].
Große Erdbeschreibung. Drei und zwanzigster Band. Asia. Erste Abtheilung. Brno, Joseph Georg Traßler, 1787.
8vo. Vol. 23 (of 24) only. 557, (1) pp. Contemporary blue boards with handwritten spine title and library label. Trassler's reprint of Büsching's great geography: volume 23 only, dedicated to the Near and Middle East, i.e., the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia, Syria, and the Levant. - Occasional light browning due to paper; light staining to boards.
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[Treaty of Karlowitz].
Copia instrumenti Turcici cum Moscovita. No place or printer, [ca. 1699].
8vo. 13, (1) pp., final blank f. Contemp. papered spine. One of several impressions of this pamphlet, all published simultaneously, about the Treaty of Karlowitz signed on 26 January 1699 in Sremski Karlovci (today in Serbia), which ended the Austro-Ottoman War of 1683-97 after the Ottoman side had been defeated at the Battle of Zenta. - Dated at the end: "Anno 1698 Mense Decembri Die 25." Rare. VD 17, 12:194179A.
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Chessé.
L'Algérie. Sites & Monuments. Paris, L. Boulanger, [c. 1900].
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 32 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from French Algeria (mosques, the ports of Oran and Algiers, Arabic villages, etc.). - Slight edge defects to wrapper covers, otherwise well preserved.
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Kammerer, Albert.
La Mer Rouge, l'Abyssinie et l'Arabie. Tome 2: Les guerres du poivre. Les Portugais dans l'Océan Indien et la Mer Rouge au XVIe siècle. Histoire de la cartographie orientale. Cairo, Société royale de géographie d'Égypte, 1935.
Folio (280 x 360 mm). 2 parts in 2 vols. (4), XVI, 262 pp. (2), 263-555, (1) pp. With large colour map, 169 plates (15 in colour, including 13 large portolan facsimiles) and 95 text illustrations. Contemporary half cloth with original printed covers and spines. Important study of Near-Eastern travel routes, also including Mecca and oriental cartography. Only vol. 2 (out of 3, published 1929-52), published as no. 16 in the series "Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte". Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author to the French psychiatrist Pierre Janet (1859-1947): "A Monsieur le Dr. Pierre Janet membre de l'Institut en témoinage de haute estime et d'admiration [...]" (Paris, 7 Nov. 1937); Janet's autograph ownership on front flyleaf. Janet, a great bibliophile, was a member of the Institut de France since 1913; he is credited with coining the words ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’ and was an important forerunner of Sigmund Freud. - Spine of the first volume beginning to split; covers show slight staining (more pronounced in second volume), with occasional browning to margins. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1339. Henze II, 315 (s. v. Estevâo da Gama). OCLC 2891592.
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Khoury, H(eneine) B.
Glimpses Behind the Veil. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1935].
Large 8vo. X, 342 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 62 illustrations on 23 plates. Original red cloth. First edition. - "The travels (c. 1934) of an Arab girl in the Near and Middle East, including a journey with her brother through Lebanon, Iran and the Persian Gulf. The author, a feminist of sorts, visits Tehran, the Caspian region, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz and Bushehr. She views Reza Shah favorably, 'the roads are safe', modernization, industrial plants, etc." (Ghani). Also contains chapters on her sojourn in the "romantic pearl islands of Bahrein" (with an illustration of the author in local Bahraini costume, a gift of the ruler and his wife). - Occasional slight foxing, but well preserved. Ghani 208. OCLC 18175528. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
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[Hafiz].
Hafiz commentary. [Istanbul], [1852 CE] = 1286 H.
Folio. 2 vols. 503, (1) pp. 460 pp. Dark brown calf bindings with fore-edge flap; oxydized giltstamped cover decorations); wants upper cover of vol. 1.
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[Egypt and Sudan].
Collection of 30 photographs of Port Said, Cairo, and Southern Egypt. Egypt, c. 1890.
Albumen prints on cardboard, mostly captioned on the reverse. Measurements c. 265 x 220 to 285 x 225 mm. The photographs depict the harbour of Port Said (6), ships on the Suez canal (3) and a lithograph of the canal (1), the shady oases of Ismailia halfway to Suez (2), the streets and harbour of Suez (2), the pyramids of Gisa (with tree-lined avenue beside the railroad and with four natives on camels; 2) and 3 photos of the Gezireh Palace Hotel near Cairo and of the splendid hotel fountain. To these are added 11 pictures of natives in traditional dress: 2 images of Bisharin warriors from northern Sudan, six natives capturing a ten-foot Nile crocodile, a Bedouin next to a resting camel, a Nubian from Khartum, the portrait of a "professeur arabe" (in semi-profile), 4 images of fellah women (some with little children), as well as the portrait of a semi-nude café waitress. The photographs, many of which bear captions and the name of the studio, are principally taken by the Greek photographer Zangaki; others are issued by Arnoux, G. Massaoud, Schroeder & Cie. in Zurich, Lekegian & Co., etc. Some fading.
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Al-Shanti, Ahmad M. S.
Oolitic Iron Ore Deposits in Wadi Fatima Between Jeddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Mineral Resources Bulletin 2. Jeddah, Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, 1966.
V, (1), 51, (1), l. bl. f. With portrait frontispiece (HRH King Faisal) and 13 folding maps in pocket. Original printed green cloth binding. Rare Saudi government publication on iron ore deposits (mainly Goethite and Hematite) in Western Arabia. As stated in the foreword, "Bulletin 2 is the first geological report on an occurrence of a single metallic mineral to be published by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources". Wadi Fatima, east of Jiddah on the Arabian Red Sea coast, is a microcosm of the geology of the Jiddah area. Rocks ranging in age from 800-million-year-old metamorphic rocks to Tertiary lava flows are exposed, and illustrate the geological richness of western Saudi Arabia. "The Wadi Fatima ore deposits promise to become one of the main sources of iron for the developing steel industry of the Kingdom". Binding rubbed with some discoloration to spine, otherwise fine. OCLC 4053546.
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[Hormuz - Bellin, Nicolaus].
Das Eyland Ormus oder Jerun. No place, mid-18th c.
Engraving, 252 x 308 mm. Matted. Hormuz Island, near Qeshm Island in the Arabian Gulf. Cf. Al-Quasimi 175.
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[Arabian Peninsula].
Laila. North F-38. Second edition. Army/Air Style. [London], War Office, 1944.
707:601 mm. Photolithographed in 3 colours. Scale 1:1,000,000. Rare RAF map of central Arabia, showing Jebal Tuwaiq, the desert west, and Wadi ad-Dawasir south. Compiled by the R.G.S., drawn by the War Office, and photolithographed by the O.S. in 1943 for the Royal Air Force. The first edition was published in 1925. - Slightly wrinkled, but in good condition. OCLC 634949403.
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Attar, Farid al-Din.
Tezkereh-i-evliâ. Manuscrit ouigour de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Reproduit par l'héliogravure typographique. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1890.
Folio. (4), 392 pp. Original printed boards with later cloth spine. First edition of this Uyghur work ("Mémorial des Saints") by Farid al-Din `Attar (d. ca. 1230), preserved in a ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Printed in the language's characteristic Arabic-derived alphabet. - Edges rubbed and bumped; covers stained. Interior foxed throughout. An uncut, untrimmed copy. Collection orientale, tome 16: 2me série, tome II (wants the first volume containing the French translation). OCLC 7524145.
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Bérard, Victor.
Le Sultan, l'Islam et les Puissances. Constantinople - la Mecque - Bagdad. Avec deux cartes hors texte. Paris, Armand Colin, 1907.
Small 8vo. VI, 443, (3) pp. With 2 folding maps. Contemp. half leather with giltstamped spine title. Only edition. The maps show Egypt and Abessinia with the Arabian Peninsula and Asia Minor with the Middle East and Iraq. - Some foxing throughout; slight worming to lower corner of preliminary matter. Corners rubbed and bumped. Sold at Sotheby's 2002 Travel Sale for 454 GBP (later half morocco). OCLC 252331293.
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Boha-Eddin (Yusuf ibn Rafi’ Ibn Shaddad al-Mausili) / Albert Schultens (ed.).
[Sirat al-Sultan al-alik al-Nasr Salih al-Din]. Vita et res gestae Sultani, Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini [...]. Grandiore cothurno conscripta ab Amadoddino Ispahanensi ex mss. Arabicis [...] Editit et latine vertit Albertus Schultens. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1732.
Folio. Four pts. in 1 vol. (30), 278 pp. (2), 64 pp. 26, (88, index) pp. T. p. printed in red and black, Arabic and Latin text in two columns. Contemp. blindstamped vellum on seven raised bands with faded ms. title to spine. First edition (reprinted in 1755). The eminent Arabian writer and statesman Bohaddin, better known in the East as Ibn-Sjeddad, "wrote several works on Jurisprudence and Moslem Divinity; but the only one that can be interesting to us is his 'Life and Actions of Saladin', which, with other pieces connected with the same subject, was published by Albert Schultens, at Leyden, in 1732, accompanied by a somewhat inelegant Latin translation, also by notes, and a Geographical Index. This work affords a favourable specimen of the historical compositions of the Arabs [...] The enthusiasm with which every thing about [Saladin] is narrated, and the anecdotes which the author, from his own personal knowledge, is able to communicate respecting that extraordinary character, give his work a great degree of interest" (Enc. Britannica, Suppl. II [1824], p. 352f). - An appealing copy in Dutch blindstamped vellum from the Berne Abbey, home of the Premonstratensians of Heeswijk, North Brabant, and the oldest extant religious community in the Netherlands (their stamp on t. p.). Modern protective flyleaves (but original pastedowns). Slight wrinkling to final pages; otherwise clean and unbrowned. Schnurrer 148, no. 175. Gay 2238. OCLC 21516733. Cf. Fück 107. Not in Smitskamp.
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Bowarowski, Carl, painter (1853-1927).
Horse Race. No place, [ca. 1900].
Grey wash on paper, signed. 15.3 x 31.7 cm. Anton Carl Bowarowski (1853-1927) began his studies at the Viennese Academy under Carl von Blaas, Eduard von Engerth, and Johann Nepomuk Geiger, then proceeded to study in Munich (where he later settled) under Ludwig von Loefftz and Wilhelm Duerr. He began as a painter of small historical scenes; from 1893 onwards, Bowarowski was also active as an illustrator for various magazines and publishing houses.
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[Bublay, Ferdinand].
Aden harbor. Aden, 12 Oct. 1893.
Photograph panorama, taken from the Austrian corvette "Fasana". Two conjoined albumen prints on backing cardboard, with Bublay's autogr. caption. 490 x 180 mm. Impressive view, photographed near the beginning of the two-year expedition of the Austrian "Fasana", in which the later Rear Admiral Bublay participated as ensign. This Austrian circumnavigation of the world, begun in Pola on Sept. 1, 1893, was completed in March 1895. - Includes a group photograph of the "Fasana" officers during a "Picknik im Middle-Harbour (Sydney) 9./5. 1894" (Bublay's caption).
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Carelli, Gabriele, landscape and watercolour painter (1820-1880).
Oasis with Bedouins. No place, [c. 1860].
545 x 165 mm. Watercolour on paper, signed at bottom right "Gab. Carelli". Carelli was a "watercolourist of great repute. His life was adventurous. He studied unter Leith, the Englishman, in Naples, then went to Rome; later, in Paris, he took commissions from the court and painted for the Versailles Gallery and the Palais Royal [...] For Napoleon III he designed an album of one hundred drawings, and Tsar Alexander III bought several of his works" (cf. Thieme/Becker V, 591).
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Carne, John.
Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. illustrated. London u. a., Fisher, 1836-1838.
4to. 3 vols. With 3 engraved title-pages, 2 engr. maps, and 113 (instead of 117) plates. (4), 80 pp. 76 pp. 100, (4) pp. Contemporary cloth. First edition. The attractive views of Alexandria, Antioch, Beirut, Damascus, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Rhodes, Tripoli etc. are engraved from drawings by W. H. Bartlett, W. Purser and others. - Slightly rubbed and bumped, spine faded and with small tears. Blackmer 291. Aboussouan 187. Weber I, 1125. Cf. Howgego II, E4 (p. 194). Tobler 167.
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Elcesaeus, Thomas.
Series indulgentiarum earumque explicatio quae Christifidelibus in orientalibus plagis versantibus concessae sunt cum theologalibus actibus et formula benedictionis in articulo mortis constitutis. Rome, typographia S. Congr. de Prop. Fide, 1817.
Large 12mo. 106 pp. With woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary wrappers. Arabic edition of Catholic indulgences for penitence, eucharist, and extreme unction. Some worming. OCLC 302419328.
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Erpenius, Thomas.
Rudimenta linguae Arabicae. Florilegium sententiarum arabicarum ut et clavim dialectorum ac praesertim arabicae adjecit Alb. Schultens. Editio altera, aucta indicibus. Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans & Jean le Mair, 1770.
4to. (6), 374, (174) pp. With engr. publisher's device on t. p. Contemp. half calf with giltstamped red label to gilt spine. All edges red. Re-issue of the 1733 4th edition (first published in 1620). "An important addition is Schultens' 'Clavis dialectorum', in which he discusses the lexicological relation between Hebrew and Arabic. Another new feature is the anthology of proverbs entitled 'Al-Nawabig' [...] The indexes are this time predominant, for Arabic alone 142 pages" (Smitskamp). Erpenius (1584-1624), professor of oriental languages at Leiden, is regarded as "one of the men whom the study of oriental languages owes its resurrection" (cf. ADB). His own private printing shop, equipped with Hebrew, Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Turkish type, produced its first specimens as early as 1615. - Some slight browning and brownstaining throughout due to paper. Contemporary bibliographical note to front flyleaf; ms. ownership "Fuchs" to pastedown. Smitskamp, PO 76. Schnurrer 108. Gay 3400. Brunet II, 1050. Graesse II, 499. Ebert 6914.
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Fiorillo / Zangakis.
La Mer Rouge. Sites & Types d'Indigènes. Paris, L. Boulanger, [c. 1900].
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 18 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from the Red Sea. Depicts the wells of Aden, street scenes from Jeddah, the Arabic bazaar at Suakim, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
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Forster, Charles.
The Historical Geography of Arabia; or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Hadramaut. London, Duncan and Malcolm, 1844.
8vo. 2 vols. LXXXIII, (1), 357 pp. VI, 509, (1) pp. With two large folding frontispiece maps of the Arabian Peninsula (56 cm x 41 cm), a large folding chart of inscriptions, 1 engraved plate of inscriptions, and one further folding translation of the same inscription. Apparently never bound with the "vignette plate of Nakab el Hajar" supposed to face p. 335. Repairs to both maps. Only edition of this detailed study of place names, tribal geneaologies, and pre-Islamic inscriptions. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani). Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Gay 3570. Ghani 136. Brunet 19594. NYPL Arabia Coll. 166. OCLC 4892705.
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Gay, Jean.
Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'Afrique et a l'Arabie. Catalogue méthodique [...]. San Remo & Paris, J. Gay & fils / Maisonneuve & Cie., 1875.
8vo. XI, (1), 312 pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Edges sprinkled in red. First edition. - No. 94 of 500 numbered copies of this standard bibliography of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. - Spine and hinges somewhat rubbed, otherwise fair. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1010. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 255. Besterman 167 & 440. OCLC 5665824.
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Gervais-Courtellemont, [Jules].
Mon voyage a la Mecque. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1896.
8vo. (2), 236 pp. With frontispiece, large folding panorama, and 30 text illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Rare first edition. Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863-1931), a convert to Islam, was one of the very few Western visitors to Mecca during his time. The classic account of his pilgrimage is of special interest due to the numerous illustrations drawn after photographs by the author and documenting buildings that have survived only greatly changed or which have disappeared altogether. - An untrimmed, well-preserved copy with very slight browning. Uncommon; auction records list the 2nd edition only (published in the same year), fetching as much as £950 (Sotheby's, Oct 14, 1998, lot 740); last sold for £750 (Sotheby's, Oct 15, 2003, lot 638). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1016. Howgego III, G10. OCLC 23429140.
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Gervais-Courtellemont, [Jules].
Mon voyage a la Mecque. Deuxième édition. Paris, Hachette, 1896.
8vo. (2), 236 pp. With frontispiece, large folding panorama, and 30 wood-engraved text illustrations (some full-page). Contemp. green half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Second edition. - Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863-1931), a convert to Islam, was one of the few Western visitors to Mecca during his time. His classic account of his pilgrimage is of special interest for the numerous illustrations engraved after photographs by the author. Many of the buildings and sites thus documented have since changed significantly or disappeared altogether. - Foxed throughout; old library stamp on t. p. Binding rubbed and bumped; spine faded. From the library of the "Cercle Militaire d'Amiens" with their name giltstamped to lower spine-end. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1016. OCLC 490071086.
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Gloukhariov, [Alexei].
A Lipizzaner of the Spanish Riding School performing a Capriole. Vienna?, 1995.
170 x 115 mm. Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white. Signed and dated. Matted.
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Goeje, M[ichael] J[an] de.
Mémoire sur les Carmathes du Bahrain et les Fatimides. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1886.
8vo. 1 bl. f., (6), 232 pp. Original front printed wrapper cover bound within contemporary red half morocco with marbled boards and giltstamped spine. Marbled endpapers. Mémoires d'Histoire et de Géographie Orientales, No. 1, second edition (first published in 1862). Standard work on a mediaeval Shi'a Ismaili group, the Qarmatians of Bahrain, which at this period included much of eastern Arabia as well as the islands that comprise the present state. For much of the 10th century the Qarmatians were the most powerful force in the Persian Gulf and Middle East, controlling the coast of Oman and collecting tribute from the caliph in Baghdad. They instigated what has been termed a "century of terrorism" in Kufa: they considered the pilgrimage to Mecca a superstition and, once in control of the Bahraini state, they launched raids along the pilgrim routes crossing Arabia. In 906 they ambushed the pilgrim caravan returning from Mecca and massacred 20,000 pilgrims. The Qarmatians came close to raiding Baghdad in 927 and sacked Mecca and Medina in 930. The assault on Islam's holiest sites saw the Qarmatians desecrate the Well of Zamzam with corpses of Hajj pilgrims and take the Black Stone from Mecca to Al-Hasa. - The Dutch Arabist and Orientalist de Goeje (1836-1909) taught at the University of Leiden. He was editor of the "Encyclopaedia of Islam" and collated the Bodleian manuscripts of al-Idrisi. - A few contemporary pencil notes in the margins. With an appendix containing relevant Arabic texts. Minor rubbing to binding, but altogether a fine copy of this rare work; no copy in auction records. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1052. OCLC 4738568. Cf. Fück 211 (for Goeje).
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Hammer[-Purgstall], Joseph von.
Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, grossentheils aus bisher unbenützten Handschriften und Archiven. Pest, C. A. Hartleben, 1827-1835.
Large 8vo. 10 vols. Contemp. marbled half calf with giltstamped spine label. With 10 woodcut vignettes on half-title, 8 engr. maps, and a large plan of Constantinople (rather browned). First edition of the author's principal publication, a standard work unsurpassed to this day. Also discusses the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were part of the Ottoman Empire since 1517. Hammer, father of Ottoman Studies and founder of modern orientalist scholarship in Austria, was one of the 19th century's greatest specialists on the Near East. - The map belonging to vol. 7 is bound at the end of vol. 8 in error. Bindings somewhat rubbed; spines, spine-ends and corners bumped. From the library of the Royal Prussian Hussar Guard Regiment (with their stamps, giltstamped spine labels, and giltstamped shelfmark). ADB X, 483. Brunet III, 32. Graesse III, 205. Goedeke VII, 765, 75. OCLC 6139878.
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Harrison, Paul W.
The Arab at Home. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1924].
8vo. XII, 345, (1) pp. With frontispiece, folding map and 37 plates. Original giltstamped blue cloth. First British edition, printed in the U.S.A. This work, dedicated to Abdul Aziz bin Saud, one of the author's "best friends", catered to a Western public eager to learn about the Arab people and about Ibn Saud, whose military success against the Al-Rashidi and consolidation of control over the Nejd had brought him to international awareness. The following year, he would conquer the Hejaz. - Foxing and brownstaining to interior. Rear hinge split. Removed from the Times Book Club, London, with their inconspicuous bookplate on rear pastedown and contemporary accession stamp (2 July 1926). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1134 (cites a 1923 London edition in error).
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Krafft, Albrecht, oriental scholar and dilettante painter (1816-1847).
Ansicht des Gesandtschaftspallastes in Constantinopel. Probably Constantinople, c. 1840.
Pencil drawing on paper (168 x 252 mm), mounted on tawny backing with inked border, autogr. caption, and signatures. Matted (390 x 312 mm). A pretty view of the Austrian Embassy Palace in Constantinople (Istanbul). The background shows a mosque and the Bosporus with ships, with a few human figures in the foreground. Signed at the bottom right on the backing paper: "Albrecht Krafft mpr", with the signature of "Joh. von Wörndle mpr" opposite (probably the like-named construction administrator of Vienna's imperial palace, whose sons Edmund and August both were to become important painters trained at the Vienna Academy of Arts). - The Viennese orientalist Krafft was admitted to the famous Oriental Academy at the age of 19; here, he catalogued the library's oriental mss. and studied Armenian and Hebrew. His lasting achievement is considered to be his catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish mss. at the Academy. However, Albrecht Krafft, son of the Viennese portrait painter Peter Krafft (who had studied with Tischbein and Füger), was also a gifted dilettante painter who had attended the Academy of Arts simultaneously with grammar school, thus obliging his father's wishes before he followed his own inclinations and turned towards oriental scholarship (cf. Wurzbach XIII, 99). "Only the first volume of his projected 10-volume catalogue raisonnée of the Imperial Gallery at the Belvedere Palace was published (in 1837) - an excellent achievement for its time [...] Parthey, in his 'Deutscher Bildersaal', lists three paintings copied by the younger Krafft" (cf. Thieme/B. XXI, 384). - A few edge defects of the backing paper have been professionally restored.
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Hedenborg, Johan.
Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839[-1842].
Large 4to. 216, (2) pp. With lithogr. portrait frontispiece, map and 47 plates (46 of which are costume lithographs in original colour). Original illustrated wrappers bound within contemporary brown cloth with giltstamped front cover illustration (spine rebacked with giltstamped label). First edition. - When Count Loevenhjelm was appointed Swedish ambassador to the Porte, the naturalist Hedenborg (1787-1865) accompanied him as his medical attendant. He published another work on Egypt and died in Rhodes. The attractive plates in this present work depict the costumes of a wide range of the inhabitants of Constantinople. - Binding rubbed; interior browned, showing the occasional fingerstain. Rare. Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Howgego II, E5 (p. 195). Göllner 40. OCLC 34458777. Not in Lipperheide, Colas or Hiler.
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Herbelot, [Barthélemi].
Bibliotheque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel, contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Paris, Compagnie des libraires, 1697.
Folio (262 x 400 mm). (32), 1059 [but: 1057], (1) pp. T. p. printed in red and black. Contemp. calf on six raised bands with giltstamped label to richly gilt spine (rubbed). First edition of this copious, variously reprinted dictionary of the culture and history of the Near East. "One of the landmarks in Arabic studies" (Hamilton 36). Continued by A. Galland after the death of Herbelot. - Somewhat brownstained; slight worming in lower margin near beginning. From the library of Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire), owned by Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709), with engr. bookplate on front pastedown. Atabey 572. Fück 98. Graesse II, 376. Hoefer XXIV, 283. Zischka 15. OCLC 53777588.
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Hunt, Thomas.
De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, in schola linguarum, vii kalend. Augusti, MDCCXXVIII. Oxford, Sheldon for Richard Clements, 1739.
4to. (2), 56, (2) pp. With engr. printer's device on t. p. Marbled wrappers. University oration on the Arabic language, its age, beauty, and usefulness, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747. - Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Traces of old binding stitches; slight tear in final errata leaf restored with Japanese paper. Schnurrer 12. OCLC 27855095.
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Hunt, Thomas.
De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, in schola linguarum, VII kalend. Augusti, MDCCXXVIII. Oxford, Sheldon for Richard Clements, 1739.
4to. (2), 56, (2) pp. With engr. printer's device on t. p. Disbound. University oration on the Arabic language, its age, beauty, and usefulness, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747. - Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Trimmed rather closely. Some foxing near beginning and end; t. p. shows punched library ownership ("Philadelphia Divinity School") and shelfmarks. Schnurrer 12. OCLC 27855095.
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[Indian Ocean]. Hofmann, L. C.
The Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. No place, 1942.
Ms. map (black and brown ink on paper). 735 x 412 mm. Hand-drawn map showing the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent and the coast of Burma with the vast expanses of sea they border, reaching from the Suez Canal and Kenya in the West to the Maldives and on to Sumatra in the East. Signed and dated "Dr. L C Hofmann 1942" at bottom right (probably not the Dutch professor of Civil Law, Ludwig Christoph Hofmann [b. 1902]).
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Lammens, Henri, SJ.
L'Arabie occidentale avant l'Hegire. Beirut, Imprimerie Catholique, 1928.
4to. (4), 343, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. - The French monk Henri Lammens (1862-1937) spent most of his life in Lebanon. He lectured in Islamic history at the Jesuit University of Beirut and was editor of the journal "al-Machreq". Here, Lammens discusses the situation of Christians and Jews in Mecca before the advent of Islam, the military organisation in Mecca, Arabic religious ceremonies, the border between Syria and Hijaz, etc. - Slight edge and spine repairs. Ownership note "Shaffer" on t. p. Untrimmed, partly uncut copy. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1401.
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