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[Cyanea].
Cyanea. Oder die am Bosphoro Thracico, ligende hohe Stein-Klippen. Von welchen zu sehen seyn, gegen Mittag das Vor-Meer Propontis, mitternachts das Schwartze-Meer, Pontus Euxinus, mit denenselben umbligenden Ländern, wie auch den Insulen Cypern und Candien. Augsburg, Astaler f. Enderlin, 1687.
8vo. (4), 74, (2) pp. With 27 (17 folding) engr. plates and folding engr. map. Contemp. vellum (wants ties). One of several descriptions of the Mediterranean published by Enderlin. Includes reports of Constantinople, Moscow, and Kiev as well as the islands of Cyprus, Crete, and the Crimean. The plates show views of Candia, Canea, Famagusta, Kaminiek and Constantinople, as well as plants and animals. - Index to illustrations cropped and mounted on reverse of title. Some browning and brownstaining. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. VD 17, 23:279658Z. Blackmer 1303. Cf. Atabey 402.
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[Description de l'Égypte].
Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française. Planches. [Antiquities. Etat Moderne, Histoire Naturelle]. Paris, L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1809.
Elephant folio (685 x 510 mm). 2 plate volumes. [Antiquities volume]: Half-title, title for Histoire Naturelle [!], list of artists (mounted). 92 large engraved plates, maps, and plans, including 2 colour, 9 double page, and a few folding, numbered 1-97 (lacking plates 15, 18, 49, 79, 87). - [Etat Moderne]: Half-title, title, list of artists (all trimmed and mounted). 57 engraved plates and maps, including 2 double page. 19th century green half morocco, spines gilt. All edges gilt. From the first comprehensive description of ancient and modern Egypt. Two plate volumes from the 23-volume series produced by the commission of scholars and artists that accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798-1801. The complete set comprises 10 text and 13 plate volumes, divided into "Antiquités", "Mémoires", "Histoire naturelle", "Etat moderne", and "Carte topographique", published between 1809 and 1828. The present volumes are something of an amalgam: the spine and title page of one indicate the first volume of plates for "Histoire Naturelle", but the 92 large plates within are from the first volume of "Antiquités", depicting architecture and ruins, monuments, tombs, artifacts, views, elevations, and maps from Philae, Eswan, Edfou, Esne, Koum Omobu, and elsewhere. The volume labeled "Etat Moderne" (with a corresponding title page) features a selection of plates from volumes 1 and 2 of "Etat Moderne", in addition to 21 plates from the first volume of "Histoire Naturelle", including 17 ichthyological plates as well as plates mineralogical and botanical. - Condition report for "Antiquités": all plates backed with new sheets, scattered foxing (significant to 2 or 3 plates) and a few pale dampstains, a few repaired tears and marginal restorations, lower third of plate 10 lacking, some restoration to spine. - "Etat Moderne": Plates trimmed at plate marks and mounted to elephant folio sheets, dampstaining throughout at upper right quarter, restoration to margins outside image of several plates, title page trimmed close at upper margin and worn at lower margin, plate 14 scuffed with loss of text, foxing throughout, staining to natural history plates, repairs to margins mostly outside of image of several plates. Blackmer 476. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 239. Gay 1999. Cf. Tobler p. 236 (citing the Carte Topographique only). Heritage Library, Islamic Treasures, s. v. "Art" (illlustration). Graesse II, 365.
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Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al- / Fischer, August.
Biographien von Gewährsmännern des Ibn Ishâq, hauptsächlich aus ad-Dahabî. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1890.
(4), XVIII, (2), 116 pp. Original printed wrappers. An edition of Arabic biographies, mainly taken from Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi's (1274-1348) "Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal", an abridgement of al-Mizzi's abridgement of al-Maqdisee's "Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal", a compendium of historical biographies for hadith narrators. Puvlished as a Halle dissertation. - Some edge, spine and wrapper defects. Uncut. OCLC 57075606.
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Domenicus Germanus.
Fabrica overo Dittionario della lingua volgare arabica, et italiana. Rome, Sac. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1636.
4to. (10), 102 pp. With woodcut title vignette to title page. Later half vellum (c. 1850). First edition. "Inscriptio fallax; Dictionarii haud quidpiam exhibet liber; Grammatica est, et quasi prolusio et praecursio Dictionarii, brevi post editi" (Schnurrer). First issue with Arabic letters from the printing office of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV. Not actually a dictionary, as the title suggests, but rather an introduction to vernacular Arabic. Three years later, the Franciscan Dominicus (1588-1670), known as Germanus (from Silesia), would publish an Arabic-Italian dictionary, entitled "Fabrica linguae Arabicae" - which has no connection with the present work, in spite of the similar title. - Old shelfmark on reverse of title page. Rare. STC 306. Smitskamp 224. Schnurrer 67.Brunet II, 1553. Ebert 8379. LThK III, 396. Zaunmüller 18 (imprecise).
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Drouville, Gaspard.
Voyage en Perse, fait en 1812 et 1813. Troisième édition. Paris, Masson & Yonet, 1828.
2 vols. 8vo. (4), XI, (1), XXV, (26)-264, (2) pp. (4), 259, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces and 6 engr. plates, all in contemp. colour. Contemp. marbled half calf with double giltstamped spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Third edition. - Drouville was a cavalry officer who went to Persia in the service of the Tsar and spent three years there. His vivid account of Persian manners, customs, and military organisation contains charming costume plates in contemporary colour. - Occasional minor brownstaining; professional repairs to spine-ends. Hage Chahine 1413. Wilson 62. Graesse II, 435. Cf. Howgego II, G2 (1st and 2nd ed.). Henze II, 97. Lipperheide Lc 9. Colas 901. Hiler 249 (all for the 1825 second ed. 1825 only). Schwab 144. Diba Collection p. 180 (first ed.).
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[East India Company].
Anno decimo tertio Georgii III. Regis. An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe. [Fi al-sanath al-salisah `ashar min julus al-Malik Jurj al-Salis. Dasturi bara-yi istihkam-i bandubast-i mushakhkhas banabar bihbudi intizam-i mu` amalat-i Inglish Kampani dar Hindustan chunankih dar Firangistan]. London, Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1774.
Small folio (232 x 280 mm). 36 ff. Contemporary marbled wrappers. All edges gilt. The Regulating Act of 1773, published in Persian and English on opposite pages. - British interest in Persia and the Arabian Gulf originated in the 16th century and steadily increased as British India’s importance rose in the 18th century. In the beginning, the agenda was primarily of a commercial character: realizing the region's significance, the British fleet supported Shah Abbas in expelling the Portuguese from Hormuz in 1622. In return, the British East India Company was permitted to establish a trading post in the coastal city of Bandar 'Abbas, which became their principal port in the Gulf. The Company became responsible for conducting British foreign policy in the region, and concluded various treaties, agreements and engagements with Gulf states. In 1763 the EIC established a permanent residency at Bushehr, on the Persian side of the Gulf. By the early 1770s, the East India Company was in severe financial straights due both to corruption and nepotism as well as from steeply declining tea sales to America and heavy annual payments made to maintain the trading monopoly. When approached for assistance, the government enacted legislation to supervise ("regulate") the activities of the Company. This "Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company" constituted the first step toward eventual British government control of India, thus radically limiting the role of EIC in the administration of India. In 1784, little more than a decade later, Pitt's India Act would take reforms even further. - Another issue in the same year is known, with identical typesetting, but in which each page of text is enclosed within an engraved frame (these copies are printed in a taller folio format ). Slight edge repairs; spine restored. From the library of William Aldersey, president of the board of trade in Bengal, with his ownership (dated 1774) to recto of f. 1. ESTC T145421. OCLC 560572771.
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[Broadsheet].
Hanoch, die Erste Statt der Welt. [Prague, J. Hiller, c. 1730?].
Folio (271 x 493 mm). Broadsheet with 5 engravings and two columns of letterpress. Extremely rare, uncommon print describing the legendary Biblical city of Enoch, the "first city of the world", founded by Cain and named after his first son (cf. Gen. 4:17). The centre of the sheet shows a large (264 x 152 mm) view of the city (workmen erecting the walls in the background; Cain's family farming in the foreground), with numerous animals including elephants and lions. The smaller engravings to the left and right (130 x 85 mm each) show pumpkins ("Pepones"), a white falcon, a crane, and several marine animals (including a seal, dolphin, and sand flea). To the left and right of these are columns of letterpress text describing the city in eight twelve-line verses. - The style of the view is obviously closely related to the illustrations familiar from the Prague engraver Jan Hiller (active 1716-46, cf. Dlabacz, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon für Böhmen I, 628-631), who also provided the plates for Myller's "Peregrinus in Jerusalem", a work that not only contains several topographical views, but also botanical and zoological illustrations. The Myller plate "La Ragna, die Meer-Spinne" shows several of the marine creatures depicted here in exactly the same fashion: clearly, Hiller re-used his work for the present broadsheet. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that the five plates evidence varying degrees of wear: while the large, central illustration shows good, strong contrast, the other four are markedly fainter. - Mounted on sturdy paper, probably by a near-contemporary collector; trimmed close to the plate edges. Slight brownstaining.
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Elphinstone, Mountstuart.
An account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India: comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy. The second edition, with an entirely new map. London, Longman et al., 1819.
8vo. 2 parts in one volume. XXIII, 512 pp. XII, 495 pp. With 14 (13 hand-coloured) aquatint plates and an engr. map. Contemp. red half morocco with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Second edition of this detailed account of Kabulistan. The pretty engravings mainly depict costumes. "According to A. Janta, Elphinstone's encompassing scope and psychological insight have never been surpassed: for the historically leaning ethnologist, Elphinstone's work remains a source of the very highest caliber" (cf. Henze). - Occasional insignificant brownstaining. The pretty binding was probably prepared for Lt. Joseph Davey Cunningham (1812-51), who in 1849 published the standard "History of the Sikhs" (his autogr. ownership, "J. D. Cunningham, Caubul", on the flyleaf). Latterly in the collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Abbey 504 (note). Hiler 269. Cf. Lipperheide Ld 16. Colas 960. Henze II, 164. Wilson 66. Howgego II, E10 (first and later eds.). Brunet II, 966.
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Elphinstone, Mountstuart.
An account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London, Longman and others, 1815.
4to (268 x 205 mm). 675 pp. With 2 maps, one folding, 14 aquatint plates, all but one coloured by hand. Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco gilt by Lubbock of Newcastle (rebacked). Marbled endpapers. Rare first edition of this detailed account of Kabulistan. The pretty engravings mainly depict costumes. "According to A. Janta, Elphinstone's encompassing scope and psychological insight have never been surpassed: for the historically leaning ethnologist, Elphinstone's work remains a source of the very highest caliber" (cf. Henze). - Armorial bookplate of John Waldie. Small tears to folding map professionally repaired. Howgego II, E10. Abbey, Travel 504. Tooley (1954) 209. Wilson 66. Henze II, 165. Lipperheide Ld 16. Colas 960. Hiler 269. Brunet II, 966. Graesse II, 469.
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Erpenius, Thomas.
Rudimenta linguae Arabicae. Accedunt eiusdem praxis grammatica; & consilium de studio Arabico feliciter instituendo. Leiden, ex typographia auctoris, 1620.
8vo. (16), 184, (56) pp. With woodcut printer's device on t. p. Modern half vellum with marbled covers. Rare first edition. "The work opens with the well known 'Consilium de studio arabico feliciter instituendo' here published for the first time. At the end is given a 'Catalogus librorum arabicorum', compiled by Erpenius and Coddaeus, and listing most of the work concerned with Arabic published so far. It is one of the sources for the alleged Koran printed in Venice ca. 1520" (Smitskamp). Remarkably, the author printed his introduction in the Arabic style, from right to left. Erpenius (1584-1624), professor of oriental languages at Leiden, "is one of the men whom the study of oriental languages owes its resurrection [...] He set up his own printing shop with Hebrew, Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Turkish type" (cf. ADB). Until well into the 19th century his works, published in numerous editions, remained the foundation of Arabic language teaching in the west. - A few underlinings and marginalia in Latin and Arabic. Some waterstaining. From the library of the Danzig Lutheran Nathanael Dilger (1604-79) with his marginalia and autograph note of acquisition, dated November 1625, on title page. Graesse II, 499. Hoefer XVI, 309. Schnurrer 55. Smitskamp 88. ADB VI, 329 ("1628" in error). Cf. Ebert 6914. Gay 3400 (later ed.). Brunet 1050 (later ed.).
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Erpenius, Thomas.
Rudimenta linguae Arabicae. Accedunt eiusdem praxis grammatica; & consilium de studio Arabico feliciter instituendo. Paris, [Vitray], 1638.
Large 8vo. (16), 184, (48) pp. Title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette in red and black. Contemp. limp vellum. "A scholar’s issue, with 5 prefatory leaves" (Smitskamp): the first of three versions distinguished by Smitskamp of the third edition of the "Rudimenta". As the earlier editions (first: 1620; second, posthumously: 1628), this is printed in the beautiful Arabic type of Savary de Brèves. Erpenius (1584-1624), professor of oriental languages at Leiden, "is one of the men whom the study of oriental languages owes its resurrection [...] He set up his own printing shop with Hebrew, Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Turkish type" (cf. ADB). Until well into the 19th century his works, published in numerous editions, remained the foundation of Arabic language teaching in the west. - Old ownership of Bernard Marin Bottelko on title and final page (the latter repaired by a former owner). Occasional insignificant browning and waterstaining to margins. Aboussouan 310. Goldsmith E 273. CLC E 524. Duverdier, Impressions, 201. Schnurrer 69. Silvestre de Sacy 2769. Smitskamp 281.
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Eutychius Said ibn Al-Batriq, Patriarch of Alexandria.
Ecclesiae suae origines. Ex ejusdem Arabico nunc primum typis edidit ac versione & commentario auxit J. Seldenus. London, Bishop, 1642.
4to. (2), XXXVIII, 184 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With a woodcut in the text. - (Bound with) II: Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Exercitationes Anti-Morinianae: De pentateucho Samaritano. Zurich, Bodmer, 1644. (20), 116 pp. Contemporary vellum. The first book in Arabic ever printed in England, some parts set in Arabic and Latin parallel text. "Partial edition of the Annals of the Melkite patriarch Said ibn Batriq as a polemic on the origin of the Alexandrian Church and the distinction between priests and bishops, to which Ecchellensis was to reply in extenso" (Smitskamp). - II: First edition of Hottinger's study on the Samaritan pentateuch, directed against the findings of the Oratorian Jean Morin. - Insignificant browning due to paper; altogether a fine copy. I: Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 225. Graf II, 34. Schnurrer 171. Fück 86. Smitskamp 370 (with different imprint). - II: BM-STC H 1722. Fürst I, 414.
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[Falconry].
Collection of ten original watercolors showing various falcons. Probably Scandinavia, c. 1840.
Various sizes, c. 14 x 22 cm to c. 20 x 25 cm. Mounted on folio backing paper. Stored in custom-made sand coloured half morocco solander case. Ten finely executed pen-and-ink drawings of different falcons in various poses, all captioned and vividly watercoloured by a mid-19th-century artist. Includes the Saker Falcon, Iceland Falcon, Greenland Falcon, Merlin, Lanner Falcon, Norway Falcon etc. - Well preserved.
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Ferrari, Giambattista, SJ.
Nomenclator Syriacus. Rome, S. Paolini, 1622.
4to. (16) pp., 944 cols., (152) pp. With armorial woodcut to title page. Contemp. vellum. First edition. "A Syriac-Latin lexicon of Classical and New Testament Syriac, the second such after that of Masius [1571]" (Smitskamp). This surprisingly copious dictionary was edited by Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655), who not only taught Hebrew at the Collegium Romanum for nearly three decades, but is also known as a botanist of some repute, in whose honour the Iris species "Ferraria" is named. The title woodcut shows the arms of Cardinal Alessandro Orsini, to whom Ferrari dedicated his effort. - Some brownstaining (occasionally more pronounced). BM-STC 336. Aboussouan 331. De Backer/Sommervogel III, 677, 4. Smitskamp 189. Zaunmüller 372. Vater/Jülg 387. Ebert 7483.
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Francklin, William.
Observations made on a tour from Bengal to Persia in the years 1786-7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis; and other interesting events. London, T. Cadell, 1790.
8vo. VIII, 351, (1) pp. Handsome period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and red gilt morocco label. Period ink inscription on the first page of the Preface: "G. Matcham". With an autograph letter signed from Colonel Francklin to Major Moor, dated 1835, attached to the front endpaper. 4to. 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper. Second edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author. While the writing is not particularly clear, the letter is in very good condition. Most likely from the library of English explorer and Officer of East India Company George Matcham (1753-1833). Being William Francklin's older contemporary, Matcham served in the Company in 1771-85 and extensively travelled across the Near East and the Red Sea on the way from India to England and back (cf. ODNB). William Francklin (1763-1839) was an Officer of the East India Company and a prominent orientalist; member, and in later years, librarian of the council, of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was also a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. "A distinguished officer, Francklin also enjoyed considerable reputation as an oriental scholar. In 1786 he made a tour of Persia, in the course of which he lived at Shiraz for eight months as the close friend of a Persian family, and was thus able to write a fuller account of Persian customs than had before appeared. This was published as 'Observations Made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia' (Calcutta, 1788) and was translated into French in 1797" (ODNB). Francklin's account was also published in German the same year as our English edition. The first edition was published in Calcutta in 1788. "An important book in the growing interest of 'Orientalism.' There are numerous references to Hafez. (Francklin's book was read by Byron, among others). The book is also important because of the retelling of comments the author had heard about Karim Khan Zand. The author states eye-witnesses had told him Karim Rhan always rode at the head of his troops; his soldiers liked him; there was nothing great in him but he was considered a just man even though during the last year of his reign he committed some cruel acts. We are also informed that Karim Khan was a 'debaucher.' The author saw a full cycle of Ta'zie during his stay in Shiraz" (Ghani). "Describes Cochin, Tellicherry, Anjengo, Goa, Bombay etc." (Kaul Travels 858). - A very good, handsome copy. Howgego I, E8. Ghani 138. Cox I, 257. Henze II, 165.
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Gagnier, Jean.
La vie de Mahomet; traduite et compilée de l'Alcoran, des traditions authentiques de la Sonna, et des meilleures auteurs arabes. Amsterdam, Wetsteins & Smith, 1732.
8vo. 2 vols. (2), XLII, (6), 460 pp. (6), 413, (32) pp. with 2 engr. frontispieces, 2 engr. title vignettes, and folding plate. Contemp. polished calf bindings with triple cover fillets, spines richly gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. First edition, long the standard Life of the Prophet. - "This truly excellent, historical biography provides an account of Muhammad's life including all the fables and miracles. The author was the first to use superior, recent sources and usually quotes from the Arabic authors verbatim. His translations are nothing less than brilliant, and his work was long considered the best biography of the Prophet. Many later authors used it" (cf. Enay). Jean Gagnier (1670-1740) taught oriental languages at Oxford. The plate showing the Kaaba in Mecca is based on a ms. in the Bodleian Library. - Insignificant browning. Engraved bookplate to pastedown. A very appealing copy, perfectly preserved. Chauvin XI, pp. 4-7. Gay 3619. Brunet 28000. Silvestre de Sacy 1438. Enay 33.
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Gebauer, Christian David.
Det Kongelige danske Stutteri. Kopenhagen, Königl. Kunstakademie, 1822(-1827).
Oblong large folio (570 x 419 mm). Lithographed illustrated title, 2 ff. of text, 16 mostly coloured lithogr. plates showing horses (c. 33 x 45 cm, paper dimensions c. 40 x 55 cm; some with borders), 5 (instead of 6) ff. of descriptive letterpress text (the missing page supplied in ink). Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine label. Extremely rare and early series of lithographs. The large and appealingly coloured plates depict important stallions and mares from the famous Danish Royal Stud at Frederiksborg (Pegasus, Flink, Zephir, Palnatoke, and Velskat, among others). All horses are branded with a monogram and often also with the crown. The publication was originally planned to comprise 12 issues of 4 plates each but no more than the first four were produced. - Two plates are trimmed and mounted on different backing paper (one with a repaired tear). Text shows foxing, but plates are generally clean. Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped at extremeties, with damage to spine. Nissen 1499. Not in Schwerdt or Mennessier de la Lance.
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General Staff, India, 1917.
Some Notes on the Country above Baghdad. Provisional Edition. Simla, Government Central Press, 1917.
(6), 29, (1) pp. Original printed cloth with fore-edge flap. 8vo. Only edition. "The area dealt with in this handbook is bounded on the north by the caravan route between Dair-az-Zaur and Mosul, on the east by that between Mosul and Baghdad; on the south by that between Baghdad and Fallujah; and on the west by the river Euphrates. The tract thus defined includes portions of the Baghdad and Mosul Wilayats, and of the Sanjaq of Zaur" (note on p. [iii]). - Some brownstaining to endpapers and edges, otherwise in fine condition. Rare: only two copies in libraries via OCLC (British Library; Texas A&M Univ. Library). From the library of Peter Hopkirk with his bookplate on front pastedown. Catalogue No. O.B. 44. Case No. 17217. OCLC 48133490.
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Germigny, Jacques de, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1534-1592)
Autograph letter signed. Pera les Constantinople, 15. VI. 1584.
Folio. 3 pp. With integral address leaf. Appointed by King Henri III, Jacques de Germigny served as French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1579 to 1585. - Writing to Lieutenant General M. de Montholon, recounting the torment of two Jewish women and their Jewish and Christian lovers: "[…] nous attendons encor de ce coste là le boyteaux avecq les gallères du cappitaine Bassa lequel est Osman Bassa [Assan Bassa, roi d’Alger] sont ycy attenduz en bonne dévotion. Nottamment led. Osman que ce seigneur veult faire triompher à son entrée audid Constantinople pour sa valeur et ses conquestes qu’il a faites […]. Et le mesme mofti a envoyé un fetfa ou advis à cedit seigneur portant que si son Altesse lui alloit en personne au devant qu’elle ne feroit chose qui fust contre leurs lois. Et ia esté deffendu par cry publicq à touttes femmes de ne se trouver le jour de lad. entrée par les rues, sous grand peine, ainsi demeurer aux maisons et à venir par les fenestres pour plusieurs respects. Et sur ce propos je vous diray qu’il se faict teftis ou informations aud. Constantinople en tous les quartiers ou parroisses des mosquées de la prud’hommie et chasteté de toutes lesdictes femmes turques à l’instance des spahis et aïas bassi, pour avoir esté trouvées et prinses en adultère ces jours derniers. Deux femmes de semblables hommes leurs compaignons qui se retrouvent à la guerre, l’une avec un Juif qui en fut samedy dernier empallé vif, devant la porte de la grande sinagogue, qui soit audit, et icelle ayant esté noyée. Et aultres pour avoir esté aussi prinse avec un chrétien arménien, que l’on tient, seront ensemblement et aujourd’huy traynez à la queue d’un cheval les visaiges contre terre par tout ladit. ville. Et après s’ils auront encore vie mis aux Ganches sur le port […]". - Early diplomatic correspondence relating to the Ottoman Empire, especially on such a delicate matter, is of the utmost rarity.
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Gladwin, Francis.
The Persian Moonshee. London, Oriental Press, Wilson & Co., 1801.
Small folio. 3 parts in 1 vol. (6), 106, 74 (but: 147), 82 pp. (wanting half-title and final advert leaf). With 32 engr. plates of Persian and Arabic type. Later brown cloth. Third edition. - Gladwin's Persian grammar, richly illustrated with plates in Persian and Arabic type. The first part is "The Persian Grammar"; the second ("Pleasant stories in an easy style") consists of parallel texts in English and Persian on opposite pages with duplicate numbering. The third part ("Phrases and dialogues in Persian and English") has the English and Persian in parallel columns. In the year of publication Gladwin was appointed first professor of Persian at the East India Company's College at Fort William. First published in 1795 at Calcutta, and again in 1800, but ABPC records only this 1801 edition at auction (one copy fetching £1,200 at Sotheby's in 1997). - Small neat stamp on verso of title page and terminal leaf. Some brownstaining; still a nice copy. Scarce. Ghani 482. Graesse III, 91.
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Gorecki, Leonhard.
Descriptio belli Ivoniae, Voivodae Valachiae, quod anno MDLXXIIII, cum Selymo II, Turcarum imperatore, gessit. Huic accessit Io. Lasicii historia de ingressu Polonorum in Valachiam cum Bogdano, & caede Turcarum. Frankfurt, Wechel, 1578.
8vo. 156, (2) pp. With woodcut printer's device to title page. Modern vellum. Joint printing of these two works by Leonhard Gorecki and Johann Lasicius about the Romanian struggle against Turkish rule. A German version in quarto was published simultaneously. The account includes the insurgencies of the Valachian governors Bogdan and Ivonia in 1572 and 1574. With the support of Polish troops the Romanians achieved an early victory against the Ottomans, but their luck changed with the assassination of Ivonia. - A clean copy, formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. VD 16, G 2666. BM-STC German 364. Göllner 1693. Kertbény 898. Estreicher XVII, 247. Schottenloher 43476 a. Graesse III, 119.
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Gouin, Édouard.
L'Égypte au XIXe siècle. Histoire militaire et politique, anecdotique et pittoresque de Méhémet-Ali, Ibrahim-Pacha, Soliman-Pacha. Paris, Paul Boizard, 1847.
4to. (4), IV, 470, (2) pp. With 20 coloured wood-engraved plates. Contemp. marbled half cloth with giltstamped spine title. Only edition of this military and political history of Egypt in the early 19th century, illustrated with coloured plates after drawings by J.-A. Beaucé. - Some foxing throughout; plates rather severely browned due to paper. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 271. Gay 2043. Sander 306.
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Guer, Jean-Antoine.
Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire, et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire ottomane. Paris, Coustelier Merigot & Piget, 1746-1747.
4to. 2 vols. (4), XXIV, 453, (19) pp. (2), VIII, 537, (2) pp. With engr. title vignette, 10 engr. initials, 20 engr. text vignettes, 2 engr. frontispieces, and 28 engr. plates. Contemp. calf gilt with giltstamped spine labels. First edition (vol. 2: second ed.). "This work is especially valued for its engravings of Turkish costume figures and genre scences by Duflos after Boucher and Hallé" (Navari Greek), as well as for "its fine folding panorama of Constantinople" (Atabey). "The French writer and jurist Guer (1713-64) had not travelled. His work is based on a wide knowledge of historiography and travel literature. It is singled out by the high quality of its wealth of illustrations" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister). The first edition was published by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47; the same year saw the second edition (Merigot & Piget in Paris) as well as the third (Mortier in Amsterdam). Nearly all sets in the trade are mixed copies. - A good, nearly unbrowned copy from the library of Baron Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz with his autograph ownership to titles. Atabey 534. Auboyneau 301. Blackmer 762. Weber II, 761. Chatzipanagioti-S. 382. Cohen/R. 465. Colas 1348. Hiler 401. Hage Chahine 2000. Navari (Greek) 308. Sander 872. Brunet II, 1783. Cf. Aboussouan 308. Lipperheide Lb 31 (Mortier).
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Guer, Jean-Antoine.
Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire, et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire ottomane. Paris, Merigot & Piget, 1747.
4to. 2 vols. (4), XXIV, 453, (19) pp. (2), VIII, 537, (2) pp. With 2 engr. title vignettes, 10 engr. initials, 20 engr. text vignettes, 2 engr. frontispieces, and 28 engr. plates. Contemp. calf gilt with giltstamped spine labels. Second issue in the year of first publication. "This work is especially valued for its engravings of Turkish costume figures and genre scences by Duflos after Boucher and Hallé" (Navari Greek), as well as for "its fine folding panorama of Constantinople" (Atabey). "The French writer and jurist Guer (1713-64) had not travelled. His work is based on a wide knowledge of historiography and travel literature. It is singled out by the high quality of its wealth of illustrations" (Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister). The first edition was published by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47; the same year saw the second edition (Merigot and Piget in Paris) as well as the third (Mortier in Amsterdam). - Inconspicuous repairs to folds of Constantinople view; occasional slight browning. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 534. Auboyneau 301. Blackmer 762. Weber II, 761. Chatzipanagioti-S. 382. Cohen/R. 465. Colas 1348. Hage Chahine 2000. Navari (Greek) 308. Sander 872. Cf. Aboussoan 308. Lipperheide Lb 31 (Mortier). Brunet II, 1783 (1746).
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Frhr. von, oriental scholar and diplomat (1774-1856).
Letter signed. Vienna, 21 Nov. 1846.
Large 8vo. 1½ pp. on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient, answering a request for a copy of his Ottoman History or the Divan of Hafiz: "[...] Ihren Wunsch eines Exemplars der osmanischen Geschichte oder des Diwans von Hafis zu erfüllen, bin ich leider nicht im Stande, da ich von dem ersten [...] Werke selbst nur ein Exemplar mehr besitze und Hafis, wenn ich auch ein Exemplar desselben kaufen wollte, nicht mehr zu haben, sondern längstens vergriffen ist; ich sende Ihnen aber dafür fünf Bändchen des Gemäldesaals, die untereinander in keinem Zusammenhang stehen und deren Inhalt für Sie selbst mehr Interesse haben dürfte, als die zehn Bände der osmanischen Geschichte, samt dem Umblick der Reise nach Brussa, den zwei Abhandlungen Samachschari's, und Ghasali's und der Zeitworte des Gebetes, die nicht nur nach dem Tode meiner innigst geliebten Gattinn, sondern auch nach dem großen Unglücke, das mich Anfangs Septembers durch den Tod meines hofnungsvollen 21 jährigen jüngeren Sohne betroffen hat, als die beßte Tröstung erprobt worden von Ihrem hochachtungsvoll ergebenen / Hammer-Purgstall [...]". - Some brownstaining and wrinkling.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Des osmanischen Reichs Staatsverfassung und Staatsverwaltung. Vienna, Camesina, 1815.
8vo. 2 vols. XLII, (2), 499, (1) pp. X, 531 (but: 532) pp. Contemp. wrappers. First edition. Encompassing account of the legal constitution, administration, and public, civil, and fiscal law of the Ottoman Empire, compiled by the great Austrian oriental scholar Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. - Somewhat browned throughout. Untrimmed copy, somewhat rough at the edges. Bookplate of Oskar Göschen to pastedowns; last in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Goedeke VII, 760, 39. Wurzbach VII, 270 & 274.
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Han, Paul Conrad Balthasar.
Venediger Löwen-Muth und Türckischer Ubermuth. Nuremberg, Miltenberger f. Hoffmann, [1669].
12mo. (8), 367 (instead of 369), (1) pp. (wanting p. 47/48). With double-page-sized frontispiece and 9 (2 folding) engraved plates. - (Bound with) II: [Stiege, Ch.]. Berahtschlagung der Götter über Deutschland. Ibid., 1669. (12), 295, (1) pp. With double-page-sized engraved title-page. Contemporary vellum. One of three editions published in the same year: a rare historico-geographical account of Crete, with a focus on the capture of the island by the Ottoman fleet in 1645 and the ensuing siege. Includes a view of the naval battle of the Dardanelles as well as views of Crete, Rhodes, Malta, Cyprus and Soudha. The number of plates varies from copy to copy. - Wants fol. B12. Some engravings show unsophisticated colouring. Slight paper defect to frontispiece (professionally repaired); some browning and brownstaining throughout. Bound with this is a rare German pamphlet of Baroque political satire. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. I: BM-STC H 261. Atabey 560 (note). Blackmer 538 (note). - II: Holzmann/B. VI, 2263. Not in BM-STC, Faber du Faur or Goedeke.
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Happel, Eberhard Werner.
Thesaurus exoticorum. Alßdann eine kurtzbündige Beschreibung von Ungarn. Hamburg & Frankfurt, Wiering & Hertel, 1688.
Folio (221 x 352 mm). 5 parts in 1 vol. (10), 120, 192, 160 (but: 156), 288 (but: 388), (4), 115, (1) pp. (without 4 ff. of index). With engraved t. p., 26 double-page-sized engravings (mostly folding), 3 folding engr. maps, 3 folding woodcut plates, and numerous text engravings. Marbled pastedowns. Contemp. calf. A complete copy of the first edition, noted for its illustrations, half of which are devoted to the Islamic World. This exceptionally wide-ranging collection of politics and travel reports, anecdotes, scientific discoveries, and experiments is a testament to Happel's shrewd journalistic understanding of popular taste. The woodcuts constitute the principal work of Thomas Wiering (cf. Thieme/Becker XXXV, 537). "Has special interest for the American collector, as it consists of a series of 15 curious representations of the aborigines of America, all with detailed descriptions of their manners, customs, religion" (Sabin). Mainly concerned with the Turkish Wars in Europe (and also mentions the campaigns in southern Greece from 1684 to 1688). "The last part of the work is of particular interest in that it contains the first complete transcription of the Qu'ran into German language" (Koc, 164). - Engraved title page shows ink censorship to pudenda of allegorical figure; four-line ms. inscription (dated 1690). Several plates trimmed closely or remargined (occasional slight loss to image). Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. VD 17, 39:131766W (citing 25 plates and 2 engr. maps). Ömer Koc Collction, I, 92 (pp. 163-173). STC H 315. Dünnhaupt 15.1. Borba de Moraes 393. Hayn/Gotendorf III, 84. Jantz 1291. Alden 688/117. Sturminger 1464. Sabin 30279. Graesse III, 208.
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Hartmann, Johann Georg.
Traité des Haras, [...]. avec un traité des mulets. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1788.
8vo. LVI, 312, (4) pp. With 2 folding engr. plates and 5 (3 folding) tables. Contemp. calf binding (repaired); marbled endpapers. First French edition. - "Été longtemps considéré comme un ouvrage classique" (Mennessier de la L.). - First and final gatherings a and V misbound, but complete. Old stamp to title page; occasional browning and waterstaining. Mennessier de la Lance I, 607. Huth, p. 51. Schrader 181.
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Hedenborg, Johan.
Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839.
Large 4to. 216, (2) pp. With title page, portrait, map, 47 plates (46 coloured), and illustrated endpapers, all lithographed. Publisher's original cloth gilt. First and only edition. Hedenborg spent many years in Asia Minor, Egypt, and Arabia as physician to the Swedish embassy. "His costume plates are charming depictions of the residents of Constantinople, court functionaries, and street traders" (Atabey). - Endpapers and title page stamped "Trolleholms Bibliotek"; lithographed bookplate of Count Carl Trolle-Bonde (1843-1912). Last in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer (his autograph pencil ownership, dated London 1992, to pastedown). Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Not in Lipperheide or Colas.
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[Horse Race].
Set of horse racing posters and programmes. Various places, 1879 to 1884.
Altogether 12 items, various formats. Set of posters and programmes for horse races at Saintes, Marmande, Castillonnès (Lot-et-Garonne), Jonzac, Gémozac, Mirambeau, Mansle (Charente), Valence-d'Agen (Tarn-et-Garonne), Pons et Saujon. - Occasional damage to edges.
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[Horse Races].
Horse Race Betting Tickets and Bag of a Felonious Bookmaker. [South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, ca 1900-1905].
Collection of approximately 300 original betting cards, produced and intended for soliciting bets, sixty years before gambling was made legal. Three complete of sets of illustrated printed betting tickets, 100, 200, and 500 numbered series, respectively, each measuring 95 x 50 mm. Featuring an engraved illustration of English jockey Frederick Archer, a famously daring and successful Victorian rider who won most or possibly all of the great English turf prizes and accumulated a large fortune. Tickets are printed in Leeds, with stamp in bottom margin reading J. Richardson, "Bookmaker's Outfitter," Sporteries Leeds. Contained in the shoulder bag Charles Drew, English bookmaker who was arrested for charges of illegally soliciting bets on at least one occasion in 1901. Leather shoulder bag measuring 340 x 240 mm, with original strap, working clasps, inner pockets, his name in gilt to one side. Very good condition. Little is known of gambling bookie Charles Drew, but that his residence and business were based in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, in Northeast England, he married Ann Brown on 19 Jul 1852 at the South Shields St. Hilda parish church, and that he actively, illegally solicited gambling on streets by circulating betting cards for horse races. On 15 March 1901, the South Shields Daily Gazette reported on Drew's illegal activities: "At South Shields to-day, Charles Drew, bookmaker, was charged with betting East Street on Thursday last." Detective Sanderson and other officers deposed to the defendant being in the street taking bets in the usual way from 12 p.m. till 3 p.m. on the day named..." Several decades later, the gambling pastime which was already firmly entrenched in British culture would finally become a legal pastime. 1 September 1960, BBC: "1 January 1961 gambling for small sums will be legal for games of skill [...] betting shops will take gambling off the streets [...] At the moment, anyone who wants to place a bet on the horses has to demonstrate they have enough credit to set up an account with a bookmaker and do their dealings by telephone".
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[Turkish Wars in Hungary].
Hungarisch-Türkische Chronik. Das ist: Curieuse un[d] dabey kurzgefaßte Beschreibung alles desjenigen, was sich vom ersten grausamen Kriegs-Zug der Türken, wider das Königreich Hungarn, und derselben Könige, bis auf gegenwärtige Zeit, Merk- und Denkwürdiges zugetragen. Frankfurt, Leipzig & Nuremberg, Loschge & Froberg[er], 1684.
12mo. (2), 956 pp. With double-page-sized folding frontispiece, 15 (3 folding) engr. plates, and folding engr. map. Contemp vellum. This lavishly illustrated chronicle of the Turkish wars shows numerous views of cities and battles, including Constantinople and the 1683 siege of Vienna, as well as various scenes of torture and several portraits of military leaders. A second edition was published in 1685, with larger maps and plates. A second and third volume were produced in 1686-88. - Evenly browned throughout, as common: insignificant worming near end. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. VD 17, 75:699267S. Sturminger 972. Kelenyi 216. Cf. Apponyi 2705. Gugitz 569a. Not in STC or Horvath.
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Irwin, Eyles.
Begebenheiten einer Reise auf dem rothen Meer, auf der arabischen und ägyptischen Küste, ingleichen durch die thebaische Wüste. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1781.
8vo. (10), 476 pp. With 4 folding engr. plates and 3 folding engr. maps. Contemp. half vellum with blue marbled boards. All edges red. First German edition. "Irwin's report contains several additions to the observations of C. Niebuhr" (cf. Henze II, 688), and significantly more detailed maps and charts. The East India Company servant Eyles Irwin, born in Calcutta in 1751, was appointed to survey the Black Town in 1771 and "was made superintendent of the lands belonging to Madras [...] In 1776 he became caught up in the political storm that overtook the governor of Madras, George Pigot, who was placed in confinement by members of his own council. Irwin supported Pigot, and in August he was suspended from the company's service. Early in 1777 he left India in order to seek redress in England. Irwin later published an account of his journey home, which was entitled 'A series of adventures [...]'. In this he displayed his classical education and described his experiences and observations during the journey, which lasted eleven months [...] Irwin returned to India in 1780 as a senior merchant and his route was again overland, but this time via Aleppo, Baghdad, and the Persian Gulf" (ODNB). The author recounts his imprisonment in Yanbu, Arabia, and further voyage to Jeddah, as well as his adventures in Egypt, his journeys through the Peloponnese and the Balkans as well as Persia. He includes an "Ode to the Persian Gulf", in which he extols the beauties of Bahrain. In 1802, Irwin was to produce a musical play, "The Bedouins, or Arabs of the Desert: a Comic Opera in Three Acts (1802), which played in Dublin for three nights. - Translated by Johann Andreas Engelbrecht (1733-1803), commercial correspondent and average adjuster (not "J. A. E[beling]", as a contemporary owner has resolved the initials under the preface). Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped; pencil scribblings to last leaf but one. Slight brownstaining. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 865 (note). Chatzipanagioti-S. 463. Holzmann/B. II, 11272. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 326. Gay 66. Cox I, 232. Brunet III, 459. Graesse III, 430. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1293 (2nd London ed.).
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Jackson, James Grey.
An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the District of Suse. London, W. Bulmer, 1809.
Large 4to. XVI, 287, (1) pp. With 11 (5 folding) aquatints and 2 folding engraved maps. Modern marbled half calf, bound to style. First edition. "For sixteen years, Jackson lived in various parts of Morocco, where he tirelessly collected information on this country as well as on the interior of North Africa, including intelligence regarding commerce and trade routes to Timbuktu, and about that city" (cf. Henze). The plates show views as well as the local flora and fauna. The final addendum contains a brief list of phrases in the local dialects, including "Have you a horse?" and "camel", "dates", etc. - Slight brownstaining, but a good copy. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Abbey 296. Gay 1248. Henze II, 696. Graesse III, 441. Cf. Brunet III, 477 (3rd ed.).
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[Jigsaw Atlas]. Frémin, A. R.
Atlas. Paris, Monrocq & Geisendörfer for Auguste Logerot, ca. 1879.
8 jigsaw puzzles, 302 x 228 mm each: lithographs in original hand colour, laid down to wood panels. Relief shown by hachures. Stored in decorative box (320 x 250 x 55 mm). Charming hand-coloured geographical puzzle set, manufactured by Logerot in Paris, rarely encountered complete and with eight maps: World, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and France. Puzzles of this type were first produced in London by John Spilsbury in the 1760s, but the style passed to the continent and became a popular educational tool in France and Germany in the early to mid 19th century. Logerot issued his puzzles from the 1850s onwards; the European borders of this set point to a production date between 1878 and 1880. The puzzle maps are stored in the box fully assembled, each resting on a paper mat with cloth tabs for easy retrieval. - In excellent condition. Cf. OCLC 56131950. Tooley III, p. 148 ("99 jugsaw puzzles, c. 1850").
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[Jihad].
El Dschihad. Zeitung für die muhammedanischen Kriegsgefangenen. Nr. 46. Turkotatarische Ausgabe. Berlin, 14. XI. 1916.
Folio (469 × 314 mm). 3, (1) pp. The diplomat, orientalist, and historian Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) had published a memorandum as early as 1914 on "revolutionizing the Islamic territories of our enemies", i.e. trying to persuade religious leaders in the Muslim world to call for a Holy War against colonial powers such as Britain and France. Allied to this was a campaign to try and radicalize Muslim prisoners of war (a mosque was even erected in one camp, Wünsdorf - the first ever built in Germany) through printed matter, such as the camp newspaper "El Dschihad". Circulation began on 5 March 1915, with editions produced in Arabic, Russian, and - the largest print-run - Tartar (reaching 91 issues, the last published on 22 October 1918). Similar newspapers, under different names, were also issued in Georgian, Hindi, and Urdu. The only holdings outside Germany located by WorldCat are at the Hoover Institution (Arabic, Russian, and Tartar editions) and the Library of Congress (Russian edition). Not in COPAC. - Toned due to paper stock; two small wormholes at head; creased where previously folded. ZDB-ID 2079196-3. OCLC 643380726.
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Charles VI, Emperor.
Printed mandate for a "Turk tax" to be levied in Upper Austria. Wien, 25 Jan. 1738.
Folio, ca. 58 x 44 cm. 1 p. At the beginning of the third year of war against the Ottoman army in the Austro-Russian-Turkish War of 1735-39: a mandate to the Upper Austrian Estates and their subservients regarding an extraordinary tax to be raised for the support the Imperial army. "We [the Emperor] should have wished nothing better, from the time that we were obliged to take arms against the hereditary enemy, than to re-establish the peace, and effect this either through the force of weapons or by kind acts; however, as during the time of our recent campaign our so numerous and well-equipped armies have much suffered from illnesses, long and tiring marches, and other hardships which must needs accompany a war, and thus have been hindered in achieving the desired further successes, and peace negotiations are yet distant, though We do not desist in pursuing all means conducive to achieving such an end, all that is now necessary is to replenish our forces, and convey here the necessary tools, in other words, to make our forces capable of effectively preventing all enemy action, and to bring peace and safety to our kingdom and dominions; all of which, as everybody will readily acknowledge, cannot be done without great expenditure, for which our treasury and the ordinary grants from the estates are not sufficient, We have found Ourselves compelled, even if against our own wishes, to apply a general contribution, or Turk tax [...]". - Traces of folds with slight tears and paper defects; captioned on reverse by a contemporary hand.
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Kindleben, Christian Wilhelm.
Galanterieen der Türken. "Frankfurt und Leipzig" [= Altona, J. H. Kaven & Comp.], 1783.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. XVI, 340 pp. (3)-136 pp. With engr. frontispiece by Wentzel (counted in the pagination) and 40 folding costume plates by Endler, in original hand colour. Modern marbled boards retaining original giltstamped red spine label. First edition. - A frequently loose account of oriental conditions and excesses; "based exclusively on earlier travel publications" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-S.). The appendix of pt. 2 has a separate title: "History of a noble Turkish lady who, dressed as a man, found her fortune and death amongst weaponry in Europe". The prologue admits that this appendix "bears no connexion with the preceding matter" - indeed, it has nothing to to with Ottoman history at all, but is a satire on German conditions during the Seven Years' War, replete with allusions which would bear closer study. The author, Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (1748-85), was sometime assistant to Basedow at the Philanthropinum reform school in Dessau. - The engravings show costumes for gentlemen and ladies; "the images of the Sultana combine elements drawn from various illustrations found in Ferriol's 'Recueil'" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-S.). - Evenly browned throughout. German postwar trade records cite a single coloured copy. Chatzipanagioti-S. 481 (= 482; citing merely 39 plates). Frauen reisen 316. Lipperheide 1419 (Lb 3). Colas 1607. Hiler 496. Hayn/Gotendorf III, 559 (and V, 111; VII, 723). Goedeke IV/1, 929, 33.
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Kotzebue, Moritz von.
Voyage en Perse, a la suite de l'Ambassade Russe, en 1817 ... Traduit de l'Allemand par M. Breton. Paris, A. Nepveu, 1819.
8vo. II, 286 pp. Half title. 4 engraved plates, printed in sepia and hand-coloured, each plate depicting 2 images. Contemporary calf-backed pink paper covered boards, flat spine divided by gilt roll tools in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition in French of a journal of travels in Persia, illustrated with hand coloured plates. In 1817, Moritz Kotzebue, the brother of explorer Otto van Kotzebue, "as a young lieutenant in Russian service, he travelled to Persia in the cortege of a Russian embassy sent to the encampment of Fatha-al-Shah at Soltaniyeh. He kept an informative journal of this embassy, which was afterwards published by his father in Weimar" (Howgego). French, English, Dutch and other editions followed; the present French edition is prized for its hand colored plates, not found in other editions. Provenance: Baron du Puget (period ink stamp on title). Howgego K19. Abbey, Travel 390 (English edition with uncoloured aquatints).
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La Mottraye, Aubry de.
Voyages en Europe, Asie & Afrique. Den Haag, Johnson & van Duren, 1727.
Folio (200 x 315 mm). 2 vols. (14), 472, 23 pp. (6), 496, 39 pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces, 2 engr. title vignettes, 47 engr. plates (some folding) after Hogarth, Picard and others, and 4 folding engr. maps. Modern half calf. First edition in French. "This important work describes La Mottraye’s travels over a 26-year period which took him through Northern Europe to Tartary and the Levant. The plates are of particular interest and include many signed by Hogarth which form part of his early work. They illustrate antiquities, objets d’art, and scenes of the eastern life. Especially interesting is a plate showing a dance at a Greek wedding, with each member of the party dressed in a different costume" (Blackmer). Chapter XII of vol. 1 discusses the Quran, and the Appendix contains extracts from a manuscript on the Muslim faith as well as a section on the Islamic calendar. "Aubry de la Mottraye, a Huguenot, travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Africa during the years 1696 to 1729, beginning in Scandinavia, where he became a confidant of Charles XII. He then went on to Tartary and the Levant. The work contains several notable costume plates, particularly relating to the Levant, some of which may have been inspired by Ferriol and Le Hay's 'Recueil de cent estamped représentant différentes nations du Levant' (1714)" (Atabey). - Occasional edge defects, repaired. Slight brownstaining. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 946. Weber II, 443. Röhricht (Palästina), p. 287. Tobler 116. Chatzipanagioti-S. 504. Hage Chahine 2602. Lipperheide Cl 6. Graesse IV, 90.
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Laborde, Léon de, French archaeologist (1807-1869).
Five autograph letters signed (two "Léon de Laborde" and three "Cte de Laborde"). No place, 1858, 1861, 1865 and undated.
Altogether 4 ½ pp. on 6 ff. Various 8vo formats. Three on letterheads of the Cabinet du Directeur Général des Archives de l'Empire Paris. Three addressed to "Monsieur", one to "Monsieur et cher Collègue", and one to "mon cher Monsieur". I: Apologising for "la nullité de ce volume. Le temps, mon zèle et surtout vos encouragements m'aideront à accomplir ma tâche" (29 April 1839, 8 lines). - II: "Je voudrais avoir le temps, monsieur, de faire des articles pour la revue du centre, mais au milieu des richesses, dont on m'a confié la garde, je souffre le supplice de Tantale en me consacrant uniquement à faciliter les travaux des autres". Sends a message to be passed on to "Mr D'auvergne"' (23 February 1858, 15 lines). - III: Concerning "la correspondence relative à la vente du cabinet de Mr de Julienne" (25 May 1861, 8 lines). - IV: He is too busy to undertake any enterprise "en dehors de mes travaux commencés, mais je viendrai à la fin de l'année réclamer la place que vous m'offrez dans votre journal" (1 September 1865, 8 lines). - V: Thanks the recipient for the information relating to letters by Napoleon Bonaparte in the British Museum. Asks him to continue his work "dans la même forme et me le renvoyer pour que je puisse, pendant votre séjour a Londres, vous signaler ce qui est à transcrire" (undated, 18 lines). Asks whether the volume the recipient refers to is the same as that described by Panizzi. - All very good, on lightly aged paper.
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Lacroix, A[uguste] de.
Storia privata e politica d' Abd-el-Kader. Bologna, Giuseppe Tiocchi, 1846.
8vo. 277, (3) pp. With engraved portrait and folding lithographed manuscript facsimile. Contemporary marbled green half cloth with giltstamped spine title. Early study of the Algerian rebel Abd el-Qadir, the Emir of Mascara (1807-83), published at the height of his insurrection against the French invaders. On 21 December 1847, after being denied refuge in Morocco because of French diplomatic and military pressure on its leaders, `Abd al-Qadir surrendered to General Louis de Lamoricière in exchange for the promise that he would be allowed to go to Alexandria or Acre. Two days later, his surrender was made official to the French Governor-General of Algeria, Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale. The French government refused to honour Lamoricière's promise and `Abd Al-Qadir was exiled to France. - Binding rubbed; some brownstaining to interior. Rare. OCLC 48656095.
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Lang, Heinrich.
The Bosporus and Istanbul. [Istanbul], 1875.
Oil on wood. Signed and dated. Framed (455 x 258 mm). Museum-quality panoramic painting of Istanbul with steamships and sailboats on the Golden Horn and the Hagia Sophia in the background. The foreground is dominated by the Grand Vezier Hüseyin Avni Pasha in a coach, escorted by horsemen, surrounded by a crowd. - The Regensburg-born Heinrich Lang, noted painter of horses and battles as well as writer and illustrator, studied with Karl Steffek in Berlin, Friedrich Voltz and Franz Adam in Munich and Adolf Schreyer in Paris. He travelled to Greece and Turkey and proved himself a careful observer of Ottoman costume and culture. His colourful paintings of Turkish tradesmen, camel drivers, donkey-drawn wagons and splendidly decorated carriages show his great attention to detail and were greeted by contemporaries as a much-welcomed relief from the grey military scenes that had dominated the previous years (cf. ADB Ll, 551).
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Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).
Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Plymouth, 10. VI. 1931.
4to. 1 p. To a Mr. Bain, apparently a bookseller: "I am unfortunate: I need one of my own rotten books - a Revolt in the Desert, any late edition. Can you find one cheap? Send me those Irish Memories, too, about which you sent me a chit ... and are there any of S. Sassoon's skits on Wolfe (Pinchbeck Lyre's) to be got? Any edition. I wanted two. There is also a book called 'Juan in America' which I must read. Nothing else, I hope [...]". - Traces of folds.
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Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).
Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, 15. X. 1924.
8vo. 2 pp. With autogr. envelope. Includes TDS by G. E. B. Bromley-Martin, of the Bank of Liverpool and Martin, London (dated 22 Dec. 1924). To Whitney H. Shepardson of New York, who had inquired as to how he might obtain a copy of the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" when the book was finally published: "The Prophet has sent me on your letter, with instructions to deal with it: - and I'm puzzled. Really you know you are foolish to want a copy. It's a thirty guinea book, of which so many copies are being sold as will meet the printing bills (about 120 copies perhaps) with some off-prints of the unadorned text for the twenty or thirty fellows who shared the campaign with me. I can't give them 30-guinea presents: they can't buy 30-guinea books. So I want the subscribers to pay for my generosity in giving them free copies. The prime cost lies in the pictures (about 60, many in colour, at 10/- a print!) and the pictures are only an unjustifiable whim of mine. They have been done by British artists whom I liked, + who would work for me. Such a luxury book is for the idle rich. Mrs. Lamont is getting one. Huntingdon [!] + Pierpont Morgan aren't...! ... Do you feel justified in chucking away so much on an amateur production? The writing is pretentious, dull, hysterical, egotistical, + preternaturally long. No human being has ever been to the end of it [the 335,000 word ms.]. They return it, thumbed to about half way, with pretty speeches. So long as I hold it secret, the sight of it is a boast, so long it will be praised. Seriously, it isn't any earthly good. It costs as I have said, may be a year yet in printing, + is horrible in parts. Eleanor (beg her pardon, but that's her only possible name. The proper ones only indicate her wayward choice of parents etc.) would be sick over it. The thing will not be reprinted entire in my life-time: you suggest 'for a long time.' ... but the prospect isn't pleasing. There will be an American Edition, to secure copyright. Doubleday, probably. He has made a reasonable estimate. It would be printed at my expense, two copies for the Library of Congress, or whatever the show is, + eight for sale: + the sale price will be prohibitive, so that they will never sell, + the edition will never be exhausted, + no one may pirate! I suggest 10,000 dollars, but F.N.D. hasn't yet considered what is above-high-water-mark in U.S.A. Tell me, please, if you are knowing! If despite all faults (my most honest dissuasion puts people on sometimes!) you want a copy: then you'll have to send fifteen guineas, half price - E. will know the size of the extinct coin - to: Manager / Bank of Liverpool + Martins / 68 Lombard St. / London, E.C.3, payable to TE Lawrence, + 'Seven Pillars account'. Balance when you get the book. Let me strongly urge you not to. I have 90 subscribers, so there is no urgency - on the point of helping lame dogs! [...]". - When the book finally appeared in 1926, the cost of each copy to Lawrence was triple the selling price, and it was not until the fourth reprint of the 1927 abridgement "Revolt in the Desert" that his debts were paid off. As the included receipt shows, Shepardson was undeterred and duly transferred the £15. 15/- to Liverpool & Martins' (the last copy of the 1926 "Pillars" at auction commanded £30,000 at Sotheby's in 2009). - The U.S. businessman Whitney Hart Shepardson (1890-1966), educated at Colgate, Balliol (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard, had served as aide to the State Department at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he may have met Lawrence. Between 1925 and 1927 he served as director on J. D. Rockefeller's General Education Board. A leading O.S.S. operative in WWII, he was the first London head of Secret Intelligence and remained with the organization soon to become the C.I.A. until 1946.
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Lechevalier, [Jean Baptiste].
Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin. Paris, Dentu, 1800-1802.
8vo. 2 vols. XII, 168 pp. (4), (169)-416 pp. With 6 folding engr. maps. Contemp. marbled calf with gilt cover borders and double labels to gilt spines. Marbled endpapers. Variant issue of the first edition, probably the second issue altogether. "Le Chevalier had assisted Choiseul-Gouffier in his 'Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce', and was then sent to Jassy to observe Russian troop movements. His work is an account of a journey round the shores of the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea" (Atabey). While Chatzipanagioti-S. differentiates between the first and the second edition, the present variant is not described: the verso of the half-title of vol. 1 shows only the "avis au relieur"; p. 168: "Fin du tome premier"; p. 169 (beginning of text in vol. 2) is unpaginated. Thus, this apparently constitutes the second issue of the first editon. - Lechevalier stood in the service of Choiseul-Gouffier; from 1787 onwards he accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti on a tour of the Mediterranean which lasted several months. The maps show the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles, the Black Sea, the Bosporus, Constantinople, and Brussa. - Both title pages have contemporary ownership stamps ("S" with princely crown); a few minor tears to maps have been professionally repaired; some staining to title page of vol. 2. A prettily bound copy, formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 995. Weber II, 649. Atabey 697. Graesse IV, 137. Cf. Chatzipanagioti-S. 538f.
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Lord, Charles Al[fred].
3 partly autograph letters of a jockey. Maisons-Laffitte and other places, 1883/84.
8vo. Altogether 6 pp. Each with envelope. Together with a calling card (also with envelope). 3 letters by the French jockey Charles Alfred Lord about his own horses and races performed: "J'ai lessé Landrail là [à Rochefort], ayant à la faire courir à Fontenay-le-Comte, Sables d'Olonne et Chalans. Mais il ses trouvé de bon chevaux engager dans les deux premières réunions et ayant lessé un garçon avec la jument, je m'atander qu'il aurais fait ce que je lui avais dit, de la promener matin et soir en main; comme il n'étais pas assez fort pour la tenir, je lui ais enlevez la selle afin qu'il ne la monte pas pour ne pas quelle s'emballe. Si il avez fait ce que je lui avais dit, elle aurais été prete à courir comme elle été assez prete lorsque je lais monté. Il ny avais qu'à la maintenir par des promenades. Faites en ce que vous voudrais. Elle s'atellera bien j'en suis sur. Faites en votre jument de service et lorsque je viendrai je vous aporterai selle et bride pour la monter et la tenir. Si je vais à Pau cet hivert, on la fera saillir par Lord-Sting pour faire un demi sang. Si non vous la ferais saillir par un troteur et comme elle a de bonne dispositions pour troter, cela vous fera un troteur [...]". - On headed paper.
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Lucas, Paul.
Voyage [...], fait en M.DCCXIV, &c. par ordre de Louis XIV. dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Paléstine, Haute et Basse Égypte, &c. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwers, 1720.
12mo. 2 vols. (20), 436, (8) pp. (2), 345, (26) pp. Title pages printed in red and black. With 32 engr. plates, some folding, and 2 folding engr. maps. Contemp. full calf, cover blindstamped and gilt, spine and leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Second edition (first published in 1719). "Paul Lucas (1664-1737), merchant, naturalist, doctor and antiquary, made many visits to various parts of the Levant following his service with the Venetians at Negroponte in 1688. [...] This work describes Lucas's third voyage of 1714 to 1717 during which he visited Constantinople, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and also includes a list of the antiquities discovered" (Blackmer). Edited and co-written by Antoine Banier. The plates show Tyre, Damascus, the Great Pyramid and numerous other antiquties, flora and fauna; the maps show Asia Minor and the Nile Delta. "Many commentators have criticised Lucas for the often fabulous nature of his accounts, but his writings convey a vivd sense of the nature of the East, laced with considerable classical erudition" (ibid.). - Occasional insignificant browning. A fine copy from the library of Henry Blackmer with his bookplate on the pastedowns; latterly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 734. Blackmer 1038 (this copy). Weber II, 472. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 394. Gay 2122. Röhricht 2145. Tobler 122. Henze III, 289. Chatzipanagioti-S. 569. Paulitschke 663 (note). OCLC 832706737. Cf. Aboussouan 579 (1719 Rouen ed.).
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Lyon, George Francis.
A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20. Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Sudan, and of the Course of the Niger. London, John Murray, 1821.
4to. XII, 383, (1) pp. Folding engr. map frontispiece ("Map of a Route through the Regency of Tripoli and Kingdom of Fezzan"), 17 chromolithogr. plates drawn by Lyon and lithographed on stone by G. Harley or D. Dighton, M. Gauci, as well as a text illustration. Modern red cloth with gilt-stamped black spine labels. First edition of Lyon's account of his botched Timbuktu expedition, finely illustrated with 17 plates (created by M. Gauci and D. Dighton after Lyon's own drawings) showing the Arabian desert culture. - In 1818, G. F. Lyon (1795-1832) was sent with surgeon-explorer Joseph Ritchie by Sir John Barrow to find the course of the Niger River and the location of Timbuktu. A year later they had only got as far as Murzouk where they both fell ill. Ritchie never recovered and died, but Lyon survived and continued his travels. After a year he returned to Tripoli, the expedition having failed utterly. Upon return, he was promoted and in 1821 - the same year this book was published - given the command of HMS Hecla on his second attempt. Lyon was reputed to have a genuine informed interest in the culture and inhabitants of the lands he visited. Wearing Arab/Muslim dress and speaking fluent Arabic, he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa. "An important work. Lyon joined the British government scientific mission headed by Ritchie, taking place of Captain Frederick Marryat. They met at Tripoli in November 1818. Ritchie died in 1819 and Lyon took over command of the expedition. He returned to London in July, 1820. Shortly after that he joined Parry's arctic expedition. The fine plates illustrate mostly costumes, and are all after drawings by Lyon" (Blackmer). Fergus Fleming characterizes the relationship between Ritchie and Lyon, who was a "moustachioed extrovert aged twenty-two [...] Lyon was not, on the face of it, suited to African exploration". By his own confession, his main interests were "balls, riding, dining & making a fool of myself". - The plates include: Costume of Tripoli (2 types), Triumphal Arch - Tripoli, Arabs Exercising, The Castle of Bonjem, A Sand Wind on the Desert, Piper and Dancer - Tripoli, The Castle of Morzouk, Tuarick in a Shirt of Leather & Tuarick of Aghades, Tuaricks of Ghraat, Costume of Soudan, Negresses of Soudan, Tibboo Woman in Full Dress, Tibboo of Gatrone, A Tuarick on his Maherrie, camel Conveying a Bride to her husband, A Slave Kaffle. - Offsetting on title from map; map tears repaired. Altogether in very good condition. Blackmer 1044. Abbey Travel 304. Howgego II, L52 (p. 376). Henze III, 318. Lipperheide Ma 14 (note). Colas 1920. Hiler 556. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 397. Lambert I, 147. Tooley 311. Fergus Fleming, Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, 2001, pp. 956. Brunet III, 1254. Graesse IV, 312.
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