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Norie, J[ohn] W[illiam].
The New Mediterranean Pilot; containing Sailing Directions for the Coast of Spain, from Cadiz to the Strait of Gibraltar; also instructions for navigating the various coasts, islands, bays, and harbours in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, or Gulf of Venice, Archipelago and Black Sea [...]. Second edition. London, J. W. Norie, 1824.
8vo. (4), 168 pp. Contemporary blue wrappers with original printed cover label. Second edition; rare: not in Copac or OCLC. The first edition appeared in 1817. Also includes the coasts of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers). John William Norie (1772-1843) was one of the most important hydrographic publishers of his time. - Some dog-earing, but still a good copy. OCLC 851876144.
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Numan, Alexander.
Waarnemingen omtrent de horzel-maskers, welke in de maag van het paard huisvesten. Amsterdam, C. G. Sulpke, 1834.
4to. (2), 143, (1) pp. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 5 full-page) by D. Sluyter after H. van Oort. Contemporary stiff grey wrappers. Rare separate issue of Numan's detailed and beautifully illustrated study of the larvae of the equine botfly (family Oestridae), an internal parasite of horses. Alexander Numan (1780-1852) discusses the different species of botfly found in the stomachs of horses, the way the eggs are transferred to the intestines, their growth and development, the effect on the health of the host animal, and the various ways they may be removed. The essay appeared both in the Nieuwe Verhandelingen der eerste klasse van het Koninklijk-Nederlandse Instituut van Wetenschappen, and in the present, much rarer separate issue, where only the plates refer to the journal. - Numan completed his medical studies at Groningen in 1804. He wrote a prize-winning essay on the Keil dysentery epidemic of 1810, which appeared in 1812. In the same year he was asked to translate a veterinary manual and later to write his own, which went through five editions from 1819 to 1856. When the first Dutch veterinary school opened at Utrecht in 1821, no suitable professor could be found in the practice, and the position went to Numan. He went on to write many excellent articles, the best known of which discusses cow pox (1831). - Wrappers slightly damaged at spine, but still very good. A fine copy of a rare and well-illustrated essay by a pioneering veterinary researcher. KVK (1 copy). NCC (4 copies). Not in Garrison/M., Landwehr Coloured Plates, Nissen ZBI.
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Ockley, Simon.
The History of the Saracens. Containing the lives of [...] the immediate successors of Mahomet. Giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, &c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people. The third edition. Cambridge, for Anne Ockley by permission of Henry Lintot, 1757.
8vo. 2 vols. (4), XXI, (29), 80, 339, (21) pp. (4), LVIII, 325, (3), (327)-356, (12) pp. With a folding engraved plate. Contemporary calf; modern spines with giltstamped labels. All edges red. Third edition of this classic and influential work, first published in 1708. Ockley (1678-1720) was Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. "The importance of Ockley's work in relation to the progress of oriental studies cannot be overestimated [...] Ockley for the first time made the history of the early Saracen conquests attractive to the general reader, and stimulated the student to further research. [The 'History'] became a secondary classic, and formed for generations the main source of the average notions of early Mohammedan history" (DNB XLI, 364). The plate shows the Kaaba at Mecca, engraved after a drawing preserved in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The manuscript, which formed the basis of Ockley's work, is now known as the ‘Futûh esh-Sham by pseudo-Waqidi. - Browned and brownstained throughout. From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate; also with engr. bookplate of Robert Fellowes (of Shotesham/Shottesham, Norfolk, d. 1869?). BM 174, p. 334. Gay 98. Graesse V, 7. OCLC 6595742. Cf. NYPL Arabia coll. 33 (1st and later editions).
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[Occultism].
Occult Arabic manuscript. Orient, ca. 1800 / probably 18th or early 19th c.
4to. (167) ff. on smoothed paper. With many magic squares containing letters and numbers. Somewhat damaged contemp. blindstamped calf with fore-edge flap. Unsophisticated manuscript for private practical use, showing signs of heavy wear and apparently continued until fairly recently (with several modern ballpoint entries). Many postscripts on the flyleaves and empty leaves at the beginning and end (7 and 5 ff., respectively) are written in Maghribi style, suggesting a northern African provenance, but the main text is written in a different style. Sprinkled throughout the ms. are numerous magical squares, some bearing numbers, others words (such as "Allah", "light", "earth", etc.), sometimes both combined. Many quotations from the Qur'an and Islamic scholars. Continued at the end by other hands, with many prayers and invocations. Occult manuscripts are rare in the Islamic tradition, as the official taboo against such items was very strong. - Incomplete, but supplemented by an early hand. Occasional loose leaves; frequent fingerstaining and browning; numerous marginalia; edge wear throughout.
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Orme, Robert.
Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan; from the year MDCLIX, origin of the [...] company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan. London, (Luke Hansard for) F. Wingrave, 1805.
Large 4to. (2), LXVII, (1), 472, (32) pp. With engr. portrait frontispiece, a text engraving on p. LXVII, and 3 maps (2 folding). Modern marbled half calf with giltstamped label to gilt spine. Second, enlarged edition (first published in 1782). Newly added in this edition are an account of the "origin of the English establishment and of the East India Company’s trade at Broach and Surat", "A General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan", which Orme began writing in 1752, and an account of the life and writings of the author. Much of Orme’s life was spent in the employ of the East India Company, as a writer, a member of the council at Madras, commissary and accountant-general, and later as historiographer. - Slightly brownstained, a marginal tear to p. 275f., otherwise in good condition. Cox I, 300.
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[Ottoman Wars].
Nuova verissima, e distinta relatione della vittoria ottenuta dall' armi Polache contro Turchi, e Tartari in Vicinanza al fiume Deniester per soccorere Caminiecz. Venice, Zuanne Batti, 1694.
4to. (4) pp. With woodcut printer's device to t. p. Folded broadsheet. Rare contemporary news report about the victory of the Polish and Lithuanian army against the Ottoman troops at Kamianets and the fall of the Turkish-occupied fortress of Gyula to the Imperial troops in late 1694. Also published in German as "Umständliche Relation von dem herrlichen Sieg, welchen die polnische neben der litauischen Armee gegen die Türken und Tataren bei Kamieniec den 6. Oktober 1694 erhalten hat". In the Great Turkish War of 1683-99, the Holy League (Austria, Poland, Venice, and Russia) successfully defended Vienna, then re-conquered Hungary; the war ended with the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. Not in Italian libraries; not in OCLC.
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Owen, Roderic.
The Golden Bubble. Arabian Gulf Documentary. London, Collins, 1957.
8vo. 255, (1) pp. With 13 photo illustrations and a map. Original red publisher's cloth with giltstamped spine title. Original dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. A documentary of a year spent by the author in the Arabian Gulf, discussing Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Buraimi Oasis, Qatar, Kuwait; hunting and falconry. Dedicated "to the honour and glory of His Excellency Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Albufalah, Ruler of Abu Dhabi". - Inscribed in ink from Elizabeth Monroe to "Peter": "To raise the blood-heat" (1957). Now rare. OCLC 1239299. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Palgrave, William Gifford.
Personal narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia. London, Macmillan and Co., 1873.
8vo. (2), VI, (4), 427, (6) pp. With engr. title portrait and 4 engr. plans (wants the map). Original illustrated green cloth with giltstamped spine. Seventh edition, abridged from the two-volume original edition. - This travelogue, recounting a journey across the Arabian Peninsula from Riadh to the Arabian Gulf, was highly esteemed at the time of its publication, though is now known to contain fictional passages. Palgrave disguised himself as a Syrian Christian doctor named Selim Abu Mahmoud al'Eis and spent 13 months travelling. - Some foxing. Cf. Macro 1731 (1865 first ed.). Henze III, 693. Howgego III, P5 (other eds.).
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[Pamukkale - Hierapolis]. Engelmann, [Godefroy].
Pamboukkalesi. [Paris, Deroy, 1838].
Image dimensions ca. 35 x 24 cm (sheet size cs. 43 x 29 cm). Matted. Rare lithograph of the ruins of the Domitian Gate in the Greco-Roman city of Hierapolis, situated immediately above the famous travertine terraces of Pamukkale. From Laborde's "Asia Minor". - Some wrinkling; small tear at upper edge (not touching image).
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Pareja Casanas, Félix M. (ed.).
Libro del Ajedrez, de sus problemas y sutilezas. De autor Árabe desconocido. Según el MS. Arab. Add. 7515 (Rich) del Museo Británico. Madrid, Estanislao Maestre, 1935.
8vo. 2 vols. (8), 257, (5), 247, (3) pp. (III)-CXXIX, (3), 245, (7) pp. Original printed wrappers (professional repairs; 2nd vol. has facsimile front cover). First edition of this mediaeval Arabic treatise on chess, the manuscript of which (dated AH 655/AD 1257) is kept at the British Museum, offering the text together with a Spanish translation and commentary. Modern chess gradually developed from the Arabic game of "Shatranj", which had come to the Arabs from India via the Persian Empire; the first Arabic chess treatises appeared as early as the 10th century, a notable author being the poet as-Suli. - Bindings somewhat rough at the edges; interior well-preserved. GAL S I, p. 905, no. 1 b. OCLC 865325410.
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Pasha, General Djevad, Turkish statesman.
Autograph quotation signed ("P. Djevad, Gl."). In French. Geneva, 27 March 1928.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of General Djevad Pasha to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "In the march towards the ideal of definitive peace, speed is proportional to the development of international solidarity. Once that solidarity has been achieved and the masses feel its effects, war will be definitively banished. [Signed] P. Djivad, Gl., Delegate of the Turkish Republic to the Preparatory Conference on Disarmament". Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Passalacqua, [Giuseppe].
Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Égypte [...] contenant: 1. Le catalogue [...] 2. Des notes et observations [...] 3. Des notices et dissertationes scientifiques [...]. Paris, [à la Galerie d'Antiquites Égyptiennes] , 1826.
8vo. XV, (1), 303, (1) pp. With 2 folding engr. plates (all, foxed, some dampstaining on one plate). Later paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth. First edition. This important catalogue was formed by the Italian excavator Giuseppe Passalacqua (1797-1865) at Trieste. It was "produced for the sale of the collection in Paris and it was bought by Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia for the Berlin museum, of which Passalacqua later became curator. It includes notes and articles on the objects by a number of distinguished academies in addition to those by Passalacqua himself" (Blackmer). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). - Some foxing throughout, particularly at beginning and end. Small waterstain affecting lower corner of last portion of text. Blackmer 1264. Gay 2178. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 95.
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[Persian Telegraph]. Goldsmid, Frederic John.
Telegraph and Travel. A Narrative of the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication Between England and India [...] With Incidental Notices of the Countries Traversed by the Lines. London, Macmillan & Co., 1874.
8vo. XIV, 673, (1) pp. With wood-engraved title vignette, folding map of the Middle East, 3 maps, 4 wood-engraved plates, 1 steel-engraved portrait, and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine title. Marbled edges and endpapers. Fascinating account of the work on the submarine telegraph lines from British India to Turkish Arabia, the so-called "Persian Gulf Cable" laid in the 1860s. An extensive section is devoted to the laying of cables in the Arabian Gulf south of Persia, with a separate diagram of the diversion of the "Persian Gulf Cable" from Elphinstone Island off the northern tip of Arabia to Henjam and Jask. The telegraph lines ultimately reached from London via Munich, Vienna, Constantinople, Diarbekr, and Baghdad to Basrah, then continued by the Indian Government to Bushehr, Henjam, Gwdar and Karachi as well as to Tehran. Other cables connected Cairo with Aden and thence with Bombay. - Some brownstaining and edge flaws, otherwise an excellent copy. Inscribed "Thomas Kirk Johnson Dec. 1876 From R. B. Hull". Howgego III, G31. OCLC 1283945.
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Petermann, Julius Heinrich.
Brevis linguae Arabicae grammatica, litteratura, chrestomathia cum glossario. Berlin, G. Eichler, 1840.
Small 8vo. VI, (2), 125, (3), 92 pp. Later 19th century leather with giltstamped title to spine, both boards and spine with gilt armorial lion crest of the Ducs de Luynes. Leading edges, inner dentelle gilt; marbled endpapers. First edition of Petermann's manual of Arabic in a French master binding for the Duc de Luynes. Issued as part IV of the author's "Porta Linguarum Orientalium" for private study, this also contains a selection of Arabic reading pieces. - Some foxing throughout, otherwise beautifully preserved. From the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre. Vater/Jülg 27. OCLC 27870350.
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Peyron, Amedeo.
Lexicon linguae Copticae. Turin , ex Regio typographeo, 1835.
Small folio (238 x 298 mm). (4), XXVII, (1), 470, (2) pp. Later 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - Since 1815 Peyron (1785-1870) taught oriental languages at the University of Turin. He was a specialist in the Coptic language, the latest stage of Egyptian and spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. His research in this field gained him an international renown that was consolidated by his Coptic dictionary, the earliest of its kind. It remained unsurpassed until Wilhelm Spiegelberg's "Koptisches Handwörterbuch" in 1921. - From the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown. An excellent copy. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 113. Gay 2337. Zaunmüller 228. Vater/Jülg 209. Brunet IV, 584. Graesse V, 247. OCLC 2786885.
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Phelps, Frank T.
Notable North American Thoroughbreds. Blue Earth, MN, Piper Publishers, 1994.
Oblong folio. 440 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in reproductions in colour of paintings by various artists, including paintings by Anthony M. Alonso and from the collection of the National Museum of Racing, Inc. Original calf-backed pictorial cloth, giltstamped spine. In original cloth drop-back box with colour illustration mounted on lid. Limited edition. The original publisher was unable to complete the full 100 copies; only four are reported in OCLC. Illustrated with paintings from the National Museum of Racing. A large tome on race horses in North America, including the history and evolution of the sport and stories of the famous racers and racetracks. "Extremely detailed, especially the pedigrees, racing records and index. I've come to rely on it daily as a valued reference" (John Prather, review in Bloodstock Advisory). "Everyone in the thoroughbred industry should have a copy. The colour plates alone are enough to justify buying it" (Dr. William Reed, review in Mare's Haven). - In excellent condition. OCLC 41093209.
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Picart, Bernard.
Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Paris, Rollin fils, 1741.
Folio (305 x 455 mm). 7 vols. All title pages printed in red and black. With engr. frontispiece, 7 engr. title vignettes, numerous engr. head- and tailpieces and initials, and 243 plates. Contemporary half calf; spine elaborated gilt with double giltstamped red labels. A perfectly preserved tall paper copy of this beautifully illustrated ethnographic work on the world's religions. Despite condemnation by the Catholic church, the publication was a resounding success. "'Ceremonies and customs' prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness [...] as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion" (Hunt). - Based on the author's "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Amsterdam, 1723-1743), the text is corrected (and sometimes entirely revised) from the original edition. The plates are mostly repeated from the Dutch publication, but the vignettes are engraved in Paris (by Duflos and others). Also contains descriptions of irreligious customs, such as the Adamites, Flagellants, etc. - Bindings a little rubbed, a bit browned in places, otherwise an excellent and unusually wide-margined complete copy in uniform bindings with elaborately gilt spines. Brunet I, 1743. Graesse II, 104. Cf. L. Hunt, The Book That Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious Ceremonies Of The World (Harvard UP, 2010). Lipperheide Oc 24. Hiler 708. Cohen/R. 134. Sander 1548. Lewine 414.
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Pientini, Angelo.
Alcorano riprovato nel quale si mostra le falsita' della setta macomettana, et l'ingannevoli astuzie del suo avatore. Diviso in cinque libri. Florence, Giunti, 1603.
4to. (8), 371, (11) pp. Near-contemporary half leather with giltstamped spine. Scarce second edition of this critical discussion of the Qur'an, a treatise by the the Dominican theologian Pientini (d. 1589) directed against Islam and the Prophet. - Slight edge defects and worming to first leaves; some browning and waterstaining, otherwise a good copy. Much rarer than the 1588 original edition (with identical collation), published by Marescotti under the title "Delle demostrationi degli errori setta Macomettana libri quinque". ICCU BVEE\046275. Cf. Edit 16, CNCE 29089 ("Delle demostrationi degli errori della setta macomettana libri cinque", 1588).
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Postel, Guillaume.
De la Republique des Turcs: & La ou l'occasion s'offera, des meures, & Loy de Tous Muhamedistes [Histoire et Consideration de l'origine, loy, et Coustumes Des Tartares, Persiens, Arabes, Turcs & Toutes Autes Ismaelites ou Muhamediques.... La Tiere Partie des Orientales Histoires]. Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.
Three parts in one volume. 4to. 220 x 155 mm. Woodcut device on general and parts titles. Early blindstamped calf, rebacked and refurbished retaining most of original spine. First edition, second issue. Guillaume Postel travelled to Constantinople in 1535 as official interpreter to the embassy of Jean de La Fort to the Turkish sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. He returned there in 1549, and was also the author of the first Arabic grammar in French. "His work is not so much a descriptive account of his travels as a compendium of information gleaned while traveling and from other sources. The third book, 'La Tierce Partie des Orientales Histoires', furnished an usually complete and accurate picture fo the governing system of the Ottoman Empire" (Blackmer). - Without final blank ff6, 2 single wormholes in lower margin of opening few leaves, small repair at inner lower corner of opening 2 leaves, early ownership inscription on first title. Cf. Adams P2015. Atabey 977. Blackmer 1335.
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet [...]. The Sixth Edition, corrected. London, for E. Curll, J. Hooke and T. Caldecott, 1716.
8vo. XII, (2), 286 pp. Contemporary calf. All edges sprinkled in red. 6th edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Chauvin XI, 658. Cf. DNB 46, 353. Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet [...]. The Seventh Edition, corrected. London, for E. Curll, J. Hooke, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1718.
8vo. XIII, (3), 200 pp. Contemporary blindstamped calf (spine rebacked; giltstamped red spine label). 7th edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate. Chauvin XI, 658. Cf. Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Displayed in The Life of Mahomet. [...] The Tenth Edition, corrected. London, W. Baynes, 1808.
8vo. (4), XVIII, 231, (1) pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary marbled half calf with giltstamped spine title. Tenth edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). - From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Previously in the collection of Charles William Tupper (b. 1898), grandson of the Canadian physician and sometime Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, with his engr. armorial bookplate. Cf. DNB 46, 353. Chauvin XI, 656-660 (earlier editions). Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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Qalaji, Qadri.
Al-Khalij al-`Arabi. Beirut, Sharikat al-Matbu`at lil-Tawzi` wa-al-Nashr, 1995.
686 pp. Publisher's original wrappers. 4to. Third edition of this history of the Arabian Gulf, first published 1965. Includes a few maps as well as extensive bibliographical references (pp. 675-681). - Well preserved. OCLC 71425250.
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Qatar Government, Ministry of Education.
Qatar Progress. Nahdat Qatar. Doha, A. B. A. Printing Press, 1962.
8vo. 54, 52, 58 pp. With numerous photographic illustrations, 2 folding maps (both of Qatar: one in English, the other in Arabic). Original brightly coloured pictorial wrappers. First edition. A publication created by the Government of Qatar, to represent the progress the country had made in a number of fields: from Legislative Development to Education. An interesting insight into the various facets of Qatar's modernization. The book contains the same text, printed in three languages: English, French and Arabic. Very rare; OCLC located a mere three copies (French National Library; University of Haifa; School of Oriental and African Studies, London). OCLC 460812475.
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Rainer Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (1827-1913).
View of Jerusalem. No place, 1844.
C. 280 x 180 mm. Pencil and opaque white on brown paper, signed at bottom left: "Rainer | May 1844", captioned at right: "Jerusalem gesehen vom Tempel des Salomon". Matted. Depicts the south-western corner of the Temple Mount (with Dome of the Rock, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and hinting at the recently rediscovered Robinson's Arch). Archduke Rainer, one of the most eminent figures during the rule of Emperor Franz Josef, also was a talented landscape painter and lithographer (cf. Fuchs II, 37). Although he served in political functions (he was Austria's first constitutional Minister-President from 1861 to 1865), his heart always belonged to the arts and sciences. An honorary member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences, the variously talented Archduke was one of the Habsburg family's most remarkable collectors: his Viennese library encompassed some 40,000 volumes (not counting the inherited library in Hernstein Castle), and the "El Fayum" papyrus collection acquired by him, containing a treasure of 180,000 papyri now stored in the National Library, is regarded as "the greatest of its kind in the world" (Unesco, Memory of the world, Nominated Documentary Heritage). - Rainer, son of the brother of Emperor Franz, spent his youth under the tutelage of his artistically inclined parents and excellent teachers, and it was common for the young Austrian Archdukes in the first half of the 19th century to be instructed in draughtsmanship by the great Chamber painters of the time. The Holy Land was not an uncommon station on the tour of contemporary Chamber painters: Eduard Gurk even died there in 1841 on a study tour. - The quality of the present illustration clearly surpasses that of Rainer's known student drawings (two, dated 1839, are preserved at the National Library, Bildarchiv und Fideikommissbibliothek, PK 3050 2 and 3). The mature talent of the Archduke, only seventeen years old in 1844, is especially evident in comparison with the works of other members of the Imperial family, many of which also dabbled in landscape painting (their works are preserved in the so-called Dilettante cassettes in the Albertina).
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Rangin (Sa'adat Yar Khan).
The Faras-nama-e Rangin or The Book of the Horse. Translated from the Urdu by D. C. Phillott. London, (G. Norman and Son for) Bernard Quaritch, 1911.
Large 8vo. XIX, (3), 83, (1) pp. With 3 plates. Original green cloth with giltstamped spine title. First English edition of this classic of hippiatry. "Saadat Yar Khan (1756-1835) was the son of Tahmasap Beg Khan Turani, a Persian nobleman. After his death, Rangin shifted to Delhi and began an army career. In 1787, he left the job and went over to Bharatpur and after two years again shifted to Lucknow where he was in the service of Mirza Suleman Shokoh. After a stay of nine years in Lucknow, he left to travel in Bengal. Later, he reached Gwalior and served the Sindhias for six years. He again resigned from service and took to trading of horses and touring" (Samiuddin, Ency. dict. of Urdu lit., p. 507). - A good, clean copy with C. Antony Penton's bookplate on front pastedown. Boyd/P. 99. Mellon Coll. 309.
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Raswan, Carl.
The Raswan Index and Handbook for Arabian Breeders. Volume I-VII. Acapulco/Mexico, Anthony, 1957-1967.
7 vols. Original illustrated cloth/gilt embossed percaline. First editions, very rare. - Complete set of this famous reference work. No more than 380 copies were printed (and many destroyed by a flood); vols. III and V were limited to a press run of 250 and 284 copies, respectively. Raswan became an expert on the Arabian breed through his lengthy trips to the desert, where he lived with the Bedouins and learned their language and customs. - Some hinges split. All volumes save for VI and the posthumous VII numbered and signed by Raswan, mostly in the year of publication. In very good condition.
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Reinaud, [Joseph Toussaint].
Notice sur la Gazette Arabe de Beyrout, lue dans la séance générale de la Société Asiatique du 29 juin 1858. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.
8vo. 22 pp., final blank f. Contemporary unsophisticated wrappers. Rare offprint from the "Journal Asiatique", 1858, no. 10: Reinaud's account of the growing Arabic literary production among Syrian Christians, and the newly founded Lebanese periodical "Hadiqat al-Akhbar", Beirut's first bi-weekly newspaper. Numerous passages printed in Arabic, quoting from the works of Khalil-al-Khouri and others. - Some foxing throughout, small tear to corner of upper cover; old ownership (dated 1872). OCLC 223258574.
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Reland, Adrian, et al.
Four Treatises Concerning the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Mahometans [...]. London, J. Darby for B. Lintott, 1712.
8vo. 85, (11), 254 pp. Contemporary boards; spine rebacked with calf; giltstamped spine label. All edges red. Four important 17th and 18th century Western treatises on Islam, uniting works by Adrian Reland, Albert Bobovius, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Reland's two works in especial, first published in 1705, were considered a groundbreaking achievement: the first contains a brief dogmatic treatise (translated from an Arabic ms.), providing a Muslim self-portrait, while the second rectifies prevalent misconceptions about Islam (cf. Fück). The material, including translations of many passages, was drawn from original sources, chiefly from the 11th-century philosopher Ahmad ibn al-Husayn Abu Shuja` al-Isfahani (cf. Quérard, La France litt. VII, 512). Adriaan Reelant (1676-1718) held the chair of oriental languages at the University of Utrecht. The third part, originally published in Latin (Oxford 1690) as "Tractus de Turcorum liturgia", also discusses the pilgrimage to Mecca and includes notes by Thomas Hyde. The fourth part, by Mathurin Veyssière de Lacroze, was first published in his "Dissertations historiques sur divers sujets" (Rotterdam, 1707; cf. Quérard IV, 381). The present translation includes "a letter from Mr. Leibnitz to the author" (pp. 245-254). - From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Chauvin XII, 1384. OCLC 15270828. Cf. Fück 102 (Reland). Not in Brunet.
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Riesenthal, Oskar von.
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text. Kassel, Theodor Fischer / C. B. Griesbach's Verlag, Gera, 1894.
Folio (302 x 402 mm). (6), 56 pp. With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth. Second edition of this plate set first published in 1876-78, including several much-sought depictions of falcons. "As these birds of prey are rendered with the utmost attention to detail, the description of their exterior may be confined to that which is not evident from the images or whatever is of particular noteworthiness" (cf. preface). - Binding rubbed and stained; lower hinge beginning to split. Nissen, IVB 782. OCLC 302340448. Cf. Harting 127.
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Mascate (Il sultanato dell' Oman). Milan, Sonzogno, 1900.
8vo. 32 pp. in paper cover, illustrated title page. Numerous illustrations in the text Shortened Italian version of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad (Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Paris 1883). No. 61 of the famous "Biblioteca illustrata dei viaggi intorno al mondo per terra e per mare" series, published 1899-1904. - Some wear, but altogether well preserved. OCLC 799578383.
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Ouvrage illustré par Saint-Elme Gauthier et orné d'une Carte. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1883.
12mo. (4), 292 pp. With woodcut vignette on title page, 13 plates and a folding map. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad. - Some foxing. OCLC 254176761.
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Roberts, James.
The Sportsman’s pocket companion: being a striking likeness or portraiture of the most eminent race horses and stallions [...] drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts. London, printed for R. & R. Baldwin, c. 1760.
8vo (223 x 148 mm). 40 engraved plates, some with vignette at foot, engraved index leaf. Modern olive green morocco gilt by Eighton, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he died at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760. Rare, only two copies recorded in ABPC/AE Online. ESTC records two issues, one published and sold by Henry Roberts, the other printed for R. and R. Baldwin (as here): just one location is given for the first issue (Winterthur), and one for the second (BL). Huth records the work under a variant title, and also notes an 1820 edition. - Plate 12 shorter at margins, some spotting and browning, heavier at margins. A most handsome copy. Huth 38.
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Roberts, James & Henry.
The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the Most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, Represented in Variety of Attitudes. Interspersed with Tail-Pieces & Embellishments Alluding to the Sport. Calculated for the Utility and Entertainment of the Nobility, Gentry, Breeders, &c. London, J. Barker, c. 1800.
8vo. Letterpress title page and 40 engr. plates by James and Henry Roberts, engr. index leaf, and publisher's 4-page catalogue (with woodcut image of cocks fighting). Stitched in wrappers. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he dies at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760, and this Barker edition some forty years later. This copy has no watermarks, but the books listed in J. Barker's catalogue of publications were mostly published in the 1790s. - Spine rubbed and bumped; slight wear to edges and corners. An excellent copy with two small tears imperceptibly restored. Of the utmost rarity: the only copy recorded at auction during the last decades is the Gloucester copy (Christie's, Jan. 27, 2006, lot 592). Huth, p. 38. Cf. Podeschi 54.
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Rooke, Henri.
Voyage sur les côtes de l'Arabie heureuse, sur la Mer Rouge et en Egypte. Contenant le récit d'un combat des Anglois avec M. de Suffrein, et leur expédition contre le Cap de Bonne-Espérance en 1781 [...] Traduit de l'Anglois, d'après la seconde édition. London, Royez, 1788.
8vo. (2), VI, 154 pp. (error in paging: pp. 153-154 misnumbered 152-153). Contemporary boards. First French translation, from the second English edition (first published in English in 1784): an account of a journey made from Yemen to the Red Sea and Egypt and on to Europe. Rooke's narrative commentary on the expedition despatched in 1781 with the object of capturing the Cape provides descriptions of Mecca, Jeddah, and Cairo. Includes extensive notes by the translator. - Slight brownstaining; slight flaw to spine, otherwise in good condition. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1936. Aboussouan 797. Gay 116. Mendelssohn IV, 78. OCLC 4669621. Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 181 (Paris, Agasse, 1788). Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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Rouchdy Bey, Turkish statesman.
Autograph Quotation signed ("Dr Rouchdy"). In French. No place or date.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Dr Rouchdy Bey to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "I cannot conceive of any offensive war whose advantages could equal the benefits of peace for a nation which is independent and which has the possibility of developing itself in freedom. [Signed] Dr Rouchdy". Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Ruete, Emily, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar.
Mémoires d'une Princesse Arabe. Traduit de l'allemand par L. Lindsay. Paris, Dujarric & Cie., 1905.
Small 8vo. (6), 330 pp. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards and giltstamped spine. Marbled endpapers. First French edition of this fascinating biography of the Princess of Oman and Zanzibar, who married a German and later fled to Aden and Hamburg after becoming pregnant by him. The work is considered the first known autobiography of an Arab woman. It presents a remarkable perspective on the daily life of the Sultan in the mid and late 19th century, viewed from the eyes of an well-educated woman - subjects such as "La situation de la femme en Orient" ("A Woman's Position in the East", ch. XVI), courtship ("La mariage arabe", "Arab Matchmaking", ch. XVII), harems and polygamy, and even slavery are discussed at length (the Princess appearing rather favourably disposed to the latter!). As a later Christian convert, she remains fiercely proud of her homeland: "But it is just in Arabia, and with the Arab people, that the true Mahometan spirit, upon which the views of other Eastern nations are founded, has maintained itself most pure" (transl.). Her view of Muslim life represents the level-headed appreciation of a native of both East and West: "I have seen too many of such unhappy cases [of Christian marriage] to make me believe that Christian wedlock stands on a higher level or renders people much happier than the Mahometan [...] it is quite a fallacy to think that woman in the East is placed socially on a lower level than man. The legitimate wife - the purchased Sarari are of course to be excepted - stands in all respects on a par with her husband, and she always retains her rank, and all rights and titles emanating from it". Emily (Sayyida Salme) and her husband lived comfortably in Germany until the latter's death in 1870, upon which Emily was prompted to write the present work partly to alleviate her financial concerns. - Evenly browned throughout. Rare. OCLC 38270253. Cf. Hiler 763 (English ed., New York, 1907).
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Rumi (Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi).
Kolliyât-e Sams-e Tabrizi (The Collected Poems of the Sun of Täbris). Lucknow, [1885 CE] = 1302 H.
Folio. Vol. 2 (of 2) only. 519-1036 pp., lithographed throughout. Contemp. calf, sparsely gilt. Original pink wrappers bound within. Important and scarce Lucknow edition of the famous masterpiece of Persian mysticism. Edited by Seyyed Jalal oddin Saheb andarâbî Bagdâdi. - Wants vol. 1. Very slight browning to interior; binding somewhat rubbed; giltstamping mostly oxydized. KNLL XIV, 465.
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Rycaut, Paul.
The History of the Turkish Empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677. Containing the reigns of the last three emperours, viz. Sultan Morat or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV his Son, the XIII. emperour now reigning. London, printed by J. M. for John Starkey, (1679-)1680.
Folio (204 x 324 mm). 2 parts in 1 vol. (6), 89, (1) pp. 336, (16) pp. With 2 engr. portrait frontispieces and 3 full-page engravings in the text (2 portraits and "a Turkish pageant"); separate half-title: "The Memoirs of Paul Rycaut, Esq., Containing the History of the Turks from the year 1660 to the year 1678". Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red spine label. First edition. "[D]edicated to the king. This was a continuation of Knolles's 'Turkish History', to the sixth edition of which (3 vols. 1687-1700) it was printed as a supplement. The whole work was abridged, with some addenda by Savage", in 1701" (DNB 50, p. 39). Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700) was first employed as private secretary to the British ambassador to Constantinople and later became British Consul and factor at Smyrna. - The portraits show the author and the Ottoman Sultans Murad IV, Ibrahim, Mehmed IV. as well as a splendidly decorated ornate palm, as high as a mast - a gift for the circumcision of the Prince. - Some brownstaining; hinges and edge defects professionally repaired. Bookplate of John Evans (d. 1724), Lord Bishop of Bangor and sometime adversary to Jonathan Swift. Atabey 1074. Aboussouan 808. Wing R2406. Not in Blackmer.
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Rycaut, Paul.
The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion [...]. London, for John Starkey & Henry Browne, 1668.
Folio (198 x 310 mm). (8), 218 pp. With 19 text engravings and two plates (29 costume illustrations in all); wants the frontispiece. Later half calf on five raised bands, gilt, with giltstamped spine label. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled in red. Second printed edition of Sir Paul Rycaut‘s famous Turkish chronicle (the first available), drawn from various authentic sources and from the author‘s own observations. "His most important work [...] presents an animated and, on the whole, faithful picture of Turkish manners" (DNB). "Provides an account of the society and political system of the Ottoman Empire with unprecedented thoroughness" (cf. Osterhammel, Die Entzauberung Asiens, 32). "An extremely important and influential work, which provides the fullest account of Ottoman affairs during the 17th century" (Blackmer). The 1666 first edition, which this replaces, was almost entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London. The attractive engravings depict dignitaries and persons of various ranks in their costumes, also including the illustration of a turban. The loss of the frontispiece is to some degree extenuated by the fact that it merely showed a repeat of the engraving on fol. B2v (Sultan Mehmed IV on his throne). - Corners bumped. Some foxing, but still a good, prettily bound copy. Provenance: bookplate of Stefanos Karatheodoris, a Greek Phanariote diplomat in Ottoman service and father of the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory. Blackmer 1463. Wing R2413. Weber II, 326. Lipperheide Lb 19 (= 1408), note. Howgego R92. Cf. Atabey 1067 (third ed. only).
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Saadi.
Bustan and Gulistan. Persia, ca. 1770 / 18th century.
4to. 116 ff. With 26 illuminated miniatures. Native paper heavily gilt, illuminated in a fine calligraphic hand, with attractive borders. Decorated cloth. A highly interesting Persian manuscript in Nastaliq style containing the two major works of the celebrated Persian poet (1184-1291). "Gulistan" ("The Rose Garden", 1258) and "Bustan" ("The Orchard", 1257) are both filled with semi-autobiographical stories, philosophical meditations, pieces of practical wisdom, and humorous anecdotes and observations, depicted in 26 miniatures in this manuscript. - Binding rubbed and chafed, spine damaged. Some of the miniatures slightly rubbed.
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Saadi.
Rosarium politicum, sive amoenum sortis humanae theatrum. De Persico in Latinum versun [!], & notis illustratum, a Georgio Gentio. Amsterdam, Gerbrand Schagen, 1688.
12mo. (22), 372 pp. With engr. t.p. and 12 engr. plates. Contemp. calf with giltstamped red spine label. Third and final impression of this edition, comprising the Latin part of the first complete translation of Saadi's "Rose Garden" into any western language. Text taken from the Persian-Latin edition of 1651; the annotations are in Latin translation only. The engraved title page still bears the first impression's 1680 date, the charming illustrations were first issued in 1655. - Some browning, otherwise a very good copy. Cf. Brunet V, 24. Schwab 1010.
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Sachau, Eduard.
Muhammedanisches Recht nach schafiitischer Lehre. Lehrbücher des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin Bd. XVII. Stuttgart, W. Spemann, 1897.
8vo. XXIX, (1), 879, (1), 28, (3) pp. Publisher's temporary wrappers with series title stamped to upper cover. Detailed study of the Shafi'i school of fiqh named after Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Idris, Imam al-Shafi'i, or 'Shaykh al-Islam'. Al-Shafi‘i developed the science of fiqh unifying 'revealed sources' - the Quran and hadith - with human reasoning to provide a basis in law. With this systematization of shari'a he provided a legacy of unity for all Muslims and forestalled the development of independent, regionally based legal systems. The four Sunni legals schools or madhhabs- keep their traditions within the framework that Shafi'i established. The Shafi'i school is followed in many different places in the Islamic world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Somalia, and Yemen. - Includes the Arabic text of 'Abû-Shugâ. - An uncut, untrimmed copy.
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Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh, Iranian diplomat (1869-1965).
Autograph Quotation signed ("Prince Smad"). In French. No place, July 1931.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Samad Khan to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were numerous dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "War, terrible in all times, has become vain and profitless today, and is equally disastrous for all involved, as even the counquering countries, as well as neutral countries, without exception, can no longer escape the suffering engendered by that calamity! The solidarity between nations has thus become fatally clear. Because of this, peace is no longer simply an ideal, it is becoming a necessity and an obligation. Even the most sceptical among us must finally give pause and reflect. Yet, how rarely are the means we choose to attain this much desired goal the most practical ones! Despite the fact that it is easy to understand that warfare and arms are merely effects, and that it is illogical to wish to avoid them while their causes persist! Can we extinguish an electric light without turning off the switch? Peace can only be seriously envisaged if it is also on a solid base, honest and practical, cemented by the work of the League of Nations, itself equipped with the effective means of intervention! Security for all, men of state and the people, should be the objective, the effect of which will be an inevitable disarmament and sincerity between nations. General fear must make way for a general trust and for faith in the respect of rights and in the future of humanity. Our civilisation owes this to itself, lest it be overcome. [Signed] Prince Smad, former Extraordinary Ambassador to London, former Persian Minister in Holland, and in France, former Premier Delegate of Persia to the Conference in The Hague and the Conference on the Revision of the Geneva Convention, and Permanent Court of Arbitration". Prince Samad was Ambassador to London, Holland, France. He personally owned the Embassy in Paris, which he made his home. Briefly Prime Minister of Persia in 1918. Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Sarre, Friedrich / Trenkwald, Hermann.
Alt-Orientalische Teppiche. Herausgegeben vom österreichischen Museum für Kunst und Industrie. Vienna & Leipzig, Anton Schroll & Karl W. Hiersemann, 1926.
Imperial folio (600 x 450 mm). 2 vols. 21, 43 pp. With 120 plates (67 of which in full colour). Original half calf with marbled boards and gilt title to spine. First edition. "A milestone publication based on the earlier pioneer works published by the Museum [...] Documentation and technical notes on each carpet. Magnificent illustrations" (Arntzen/Rainwater). Includes a bibliography on oriental carpets and additional examples of oriental rugmaking previously unknown and not published in Martin's 1908 monograph. - A nicely bound copy, interior clean and spotless throughout. Arntzen/Rainwater P629. Enay/Azadi 517.
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[Saudi Arabia - Camels].
Collection of 17 photographs of camels. Saudi Arabia, 1960s.
Spiral-bound album with 6 large and 11 smaller photographs (1 image included in a duplicate print). The present album of black-and-white photographs, all taken by G. F. Larsen, later Vice President of General Services at Aramco, shows camels in the Arabian desert and the locals whom they accompany. - Occasional slight staining; well-preserved in general.
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Saunders, John.
John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and embroidered coat. Peterborough, 1739.
Pastel on paper, laid onto canvas stretched over (original?) wooden board (305 x 410 mm). This pastel was drawn by the prolific itinerant portraitist John Saunders (1682-c. 1758) at Peterborough in September 1739. Saunders is recorded as active in East Anglia, the Midlands and elsewhere in the mid-18th century (cf. Neil Jeffares, "John Saunders", Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 [London, 2006]). The sitter, John Sturges in Turkish costume, wearing a white turban with blue feather and golden embroidered coat, was probably drawn from a mezzotint after John Vanderbank (1694-1739) by Francis Kyte (d. 1744), published in 1733. The pastel is of interest as an example of mid-18th century depiction of Turkish costume. Saunders, perhaps in an attempt to add extra exoticism to Mr. Sturges, has included a curling moustache that is not present in the mezzotint. Sturges, an architect based in the East Midlands, is known to have collaborated with William Talman (1650-1719) at Chatsworth and Milton House in Northamptonshire. The fact that this pastel was produced in Peterborough may indicate some connection with descendants of Sturges, assuming that he himself was dead by 1739. The Fitzwilliam Museum holds a drawing of John Sturges by John Vanderbank (wash on paper, PD.1-1992). - Verso with label bearing 19th century manuscript note concerning the autograph pencil inscription by Saunders top right: “Saunders pinxit after Mr. J[oh]n Vanderbank Peterborough Sept. anno d. 1739”. Two negligible scratches to surface, otherwise good, offered without frame.
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Saunier, Jean de.
La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur anatomie, leurs bonnes et mauvaises qualitez, leurs maladies et les remedes qui y conviennent. The Hague, printed for the author and sold by Adrien Moetjens, 1734.
Folio (365 x 245 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by D. Coster. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gaspard de Saunier by and after Coster and 61 plates by and after François Morellon La Cave, François van Bleyswyck, and Ernst Ludwig. Early 20th century brown morocco, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt centrepieces, red edges, marbled endpapers. First edition. A superb example of this richly illustrated work of equine anatomy and hippiatrics, written by the inspector of the King of France's High Stable and edited by his son, who was riding-master at the Academy of the University of Leiden. It was a popular work which was later translated into German (Glogau, 1767) and into English as "Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses" (London, 1769). - First leaves a little browned due to to paper, otherwise an excellent copy. Huth 66. Mennessier de la Lance 490. Cohen/R. 940. Nissen, ZBI 3592. Brunet V, 149. Graesse VI, 276.
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Sauvaire, H[enry] / J. de Rey-Pailhade.
Sur une mère d'astrolabe Arabe du XIIIe siècle (609 de l'Hégire) portant un calendrier perpétuel avec correspondance musulmane et chretienne. (Extrait du Journal Asiatique). Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1893.
8vo. 125, (1) pp., final blank f. With 2 double plates and several tables, diagrams and illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. First separate edition of this rare study in Islamic astronomy, describing a copper astrolabe made in Seville in 609 A.H. (1212/13 A.D.) by Muhammad ibn Fattouh al-Khamairy. - Occasional brownstaining, still a very good, clean copy, uncut and untrimmed. Creswell 604. OCLC 17716842.
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[Siege of Vienna].
Relation veritable du siège de Vienne. Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1684.
12mo. (8), 159 pp. With folding engraved portrait and folding engr. plan. Contemporary calf. First edition of this account of the 1683 Turkish siege of Vienna. The portrait shows Count Starhemberg. Owner's stamp to title page. Includes an additional engraving, captioned by a contemporary hand: "Mort du Grand Vizir, étranglé par l’ordre de Mehemed 4 pour n’avez pas pris Vienne". Old cancelled stamps. A clean, well-preserved copy, formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Sturminger 2449. Kábdebo II, 182 ("1683" in error, not seen or located). Cf. Graesse VI/1, 76 (Brussels, 1684).
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