|
|
|
Imray, James F[rederick].
Indian Ocean. London, James Imray and Son, 1879.
Engraved map, ca. 103 x 192 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale, approx. 1:10,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depth shown by isolines and soundings. Large blue-backed hydrographic chart of the Indian Ocean, showing an area between the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand. Extends north to include the Arabian and Indian peninsulas, Philippines, and much of China. Shows the Gulf coast as far north as Al-Latif, identifying "Abu Thabi" as the major settlement on the Trucial Coast. Includes courses of currents and standard tracks for shipping through the ocean, with nine inset maps of islands and coastal features (Cargados Carajos; Coetivy; Rodrigues; Wood Island; Farquhar Passage; Tromelin; Réunion; Saint Paul; Saint Denis). - Some browning and staining; a few edge and corner defects professionally repaired (minor corner loss to Cargados Carajos inset). OCLC 884378574. Cf. Tooley II, 407.
|
|
|
Imray, James F[rederick].
Indian Ocean. London, James Imray and Son, 1885.
Engraved map, ca. 103 x 192 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale, approx. 1:10,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depth shown by isolines and soundings. Large blue-backed hydrographic chart of the Indian Ocean, showing an area between the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand. Extends north to include the Arabian and Indian peninsulas, Philippines, and much of China. Shows the Gulf coast as far north as Al-Latif, identifying "Abu Thabi" as the major settlement on the Trucial Coast. Includes courses of currents and standard tracks for shipping through the ocean, with nine inset maps of islands and coastal features (Cargados Carajos; Coetivy; Rodrigues; Des Roches; Farquhar Passage; Tromelin; Réunion; Saint Paul; Saint Denis). - Stamped "Imray & Son, London, 1886". Noticeable browning and staining; several edge and corner defects as well as paper flaws in the map professionally repaired (some corner loss and slight loss near Capetown). Signs of contemporary use with several pencil markings. Cf. OCLC 884378574 (1879 edition). Tooley II, 407.
|
|
|
[Iraq - Kuwait - Iran].
Iraq. Istanbul, [Erkan-i Harbiye-i Umumiye], [1915 CE =] 1331 Rumi.
655 x 660 mm. Lithograph in colours, dissected into 12 sections and mounted on original cloth. First edition of the first accurate Ottoman general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait, and Khuzestan (Iran); the authoritative map used by the Ottoman Army for strategic planning during the "Mesopotamia Campaign", during which Ottoman-German forces mounted a unexpectedly strong resistance to Britain's invasion of Iraq in World War I. Examples of the present map were used by Ottoman commanders who oversaw the successful Ottoman-German defence of Baghdad at the Battle of Battle of Ctesiphon (22-25 Nov. 1915), as well as the capture of the main British army at the Siege of Kut-al-Amara (7 Dec. 1915-29 April 1916). - With text entirely in Ottoman Turkish, the map is based on the British War Office's "Lower Mesopotamia Between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf" (1911), which was itself in part based on Ottoman sources. Both maps were dramatically superior in all respects to previous efforts, forming the culmination of over three generations of reconaissance, capped by critical late-breaking discoveries. - Some light staining in margins and in lower-right quadrant, but generally in good condition. Very rare.
|
|
|
Faisal I., King of Syria and Iraq (1883-1933).
Autograph signature. No place, 17. IX. 1925.
4to. 1 page. Scarce signed leaf removed from an autograph album. Signed in bold black ink, in Arabic, dated 17th September 1925. Also signed by the King's aide-de-camp and companion Tahsin Kadry. With a third, unidentified autograph underneath.
|
|
|
[Plague].
Papers relating to the modern history and recent progress of Levantine plague; prepared from time to time by direction of the president to the local government board, with other papers. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1879. C.-2262. London, George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1879.
Folio. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia. Original publisher’s blue printed paper wrappers. Compilation of observational governmental reports on various outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Middle East, Persia and Egypt between 1853 and 1877. As stated in the introduction, this publication was compiled to study the epidemic in detail, in hopes that such knowledge might benefit Great Britain in the event of an outbreak of the plague in its own territories. The information in these reports proved to be of value during the intensive study of the plague in the 1890s, which led to the identification of the origin of the disease in 1894. - The compilation comprises three parts: the first contains extracts from reports of the medical officers of the local government board, the second is a memorandum by Mr. Netten Radcliffe, and the last contains a few papers considering the medical aspects of quarantine. - Binding worn at the edges and the paper spine damaged at the head and foot. Upper corner of the first few pages slightly soiled, but still in good condition. Creighton, A history of epidemics in Britain (1965) I, 162. Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier, p. 166. Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials, p. 25.
|
|
|
Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan / Desmaisons, (Jean-Jacques Pierre) (ed.).
Shajarah-i Türk. Tarikh al-shu`ub fi Asiya al-Wustá. Histoire des Mogols et des Tatares. St. Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des sciences, 1871-1874.
Large 8vo. 2 vols. (2), II, (2), 386 pp. (2), IV, 393, (1) pp. With a folding genealogical plate. Giltstamped half leather over marbled boards; original printed wrappers bound within. Marbled endpapers. Each volume stored in a cloth-covered slipcase. Editio princeps of the text of the "Shajare-i Türk", the principal historical work by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603-63), Khan of the Uzbek state of Khiva from 1643 until his death. The title is variously translated as "Genealogy of the Turks" and "Genealogy of the Tatars". The book was published in a French translation at Leiden as early as 1726, with additional translations appearing in the later 18th century. The first critical translation was published in Kazan in 1825; a Turkish version (by Vefik Ahmed Pasha) was published at Kazan in 1864. Edited by Jean Jacques Pierre Desmaisons (1807-73), oriental scholar and diplomat in Russian services. Desmaisons studied oriental languages at Kazan and St Petersburg and taught Persian and Arabic at Russian military academies before entering the diplomatic service and being posted to Tehran repeatedly in the 1840s. His present edition includes the text, annotations, and a French translation (the latter of which appeared shortly after his death). - A well-preserved, prettily bound set from the library of the Piedmont collector and self-taught Arabic linguist Luigi Cora (1871-1947) with his bookplate to pastedowns. OCLC 85058877.
|
|
|
Al-Jazairi, Muhammad Ibn-`Abd-al-Qadir.
Kitab `Iqd al-agyad fi 's-safinat al-giyad. [Beirut?], no publisher, [17 Aug. 1876 CE] = 26 Ragab 1293 H.
(8) pp., 1 blank f., 410 pp. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards with giltstamped spine title. Only edition of this treatise about the Arabian horse ("hayl", referred to in the introduction as "the first and foremost of all mounts"), discussing their history, types, uses, domestication and breeding, as well as the various traditions of folklore, religion and literature attached to it in Arab-Islamic culture. - Muhammed al-Jazairi, or Muhammad Pasha (1840-1912/13), was a son of the famous Emir Abdelkader al-Jazairi (1808-83), an Algerian religious and military leader who led the struggle against the French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century. - Binding slightly rubbed; paper evenly browned as common. Contemporary ink ownerships of Fernand Patorni (b. 1837), chief interpreter in Algiers and author of "Les Tirailleurs algériens dans le Sahara" (1884). Very rare: only two copies in library catalogues internationally (Orient-Institut Beirut; Constance University, Germany). OCLC 311370556. Not in Boyd/P.
|
|
|
Al-Watwat al-Kutubi, Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Yahya.
Gurar al-hasa'is al-wadiha wa-`urar an-naqa'is al-fadiha. Bulaq, Matba`at Bulaq, [10-25 Jan. 1867] = second half of Ramadan 1284.
8vo. 12, 483, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf on four raised bands with sparsely gilt spine; pink cloth covers and marbled endpapers. First printing of this prose and verse anthology on the subject of Islamic ethics, containing eight chapters on virtues and another eight on vices. - Al-Watwat al-Kutubi (1234-1318), celebrated as an entertaining compiler, lived in Mamluk Egypt all his life. Unlike many writers of his era was not a member of the Mamluk administration, but rather a wealthy bookseller (hence his byname "Al-Kutubi", "the Bookseller"). - Binding slightly rubbed; paper evenly browned as common. Blank first page has contemporary ink ownership of Fernand Patorni (b. 1837), chief interpreter in Algiers and author of "Les Tirailleurs algériens dans le Sahara" (1884). GAL II, 55. OCLC 253615769.
|
|
|
Bar-Hebraeus, Gregorius (Grighor Abu'l Faraj, Abulfaragus).
Tarikh Muhtasar ad-Duwal. Beirut, al-Matbaat al-Katulikiya al-'Aba' al-Yasuiyin (Jesuits' Catholic Press), 1890.
8vo. (2), 6, 591, (1), 31, (1) pp. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with giltstamped spine title. Rare Beirut-printed edition of this 13th century world chronicle by the great Syrian theologian Bar-Hebraeus (Abulfaragus, 1226-86), first edited by Edward Pococke in 1663. Bar-Hebraeus focuses on the Middle East and the reigning Muslim dynasties as well as on the East and West Syrian Christian churches, covering extensively the rise and spread of Islam and relations between the Christian and Islamic worlds. His account of the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, placing it at the time of the Islamic conquest of the city in 642 and claiming that the books were used as fuel for the ovens in the bath houses (!), contradicts most sources, which place the destruction much earlier. Even for the early periods, Bar Hebraeus makes use of sources that have since been lost, but his most original contribution remains what was in his day recent history. - Bar-Hebraeus, born in what is now Turkey, became Bishop of Gubos in the Syriac Orthodox Church in 1246 and worked in Aleppo from 1252. He wrote the present work in ancient Syriac but translated it into Arabic himself. As Pococke's 1663 publication (with a Latin translation) was the classic edition of the Early Modern period, the present edition is the received modern one. - Binding somewhat rubbed at extremeties. Light browning and brownstaining throughout, but in all a good, tight copy. OCLC 31907278.
|
|
|
Danz, Johann Andreas.
[Segulota di-rabanan] sive Rabbinismus enucleatus, quo ad ea, quae Ebraeo-Chaldaeis vel prorsus non, vel minus usitata sunt [...]. Editio tertia. Jena, Johann Felix Bielcke, 1714.
8vo. (12), 118, (30) pp. - (Bound with) II: The same. [Taro desurio petiho], sive Aditus Syriae reclusus, compendiose ducens ad plenam linguae Syriacae Antichenae seu Maroniticae cognitionem, iuxta viam literatoris Ebraeo-Chaldaei. Ibid., 1715. (10), 92 pp. Contemporary boards. Third edition of Danz's instruction book in the Rabbinic-Hebrew dialects, bound with his introduction to Syriac. The German theologian and oriental scholar Danz (1654-1727) taught at Jena since 1685. He coined several specialist terms of oriental studies and described many Hebrew realia. - Slightly browned; a few edge flaws; old handwritten ownership to title-page. Untrimmed copy. Includes a bifolium of notes in Hebrew and Syriac by a contemporary reader, loosely inserted. OCLC 234072721, 69405205. Cf. ADB IV, 751.
|
|
|
[Gueullette, Thomas-Simon].
Los mil y un quartos de hora, cuentos tartaros. Traducido del idioma frances al espanol por el P. Fr. Miguel De Sequeiros. Madrid, no printer, 1789.
Small 8vo. 2 vols. in one. (16), 260, (4) pp. (2), 318 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped red spine label. Extremely rare second Spanish edition of Guellette's "Les Mille et un Quarts-d’heure, contes tartares" (1715), or "The Thousand and One Quarter-Hours": a series of orientalist tales, of supposedly Tartarian origin, in imitation of Galland's newly-published and wildly popular "Les Mille et Un Nuits", even including additional Sindbad material. The work is sometimes confused with the "Nights" proper: as recently as 2016, Axel Gasquet writes in his study "El llamado de oriente", published by the University of Buenos Aires: "En 1789 un fraile espanol, Miguel de Sequeiros, entrega a la imprenta madrilena un volumen titulado 'Los Mil y un Quartos de Hora: Cuentos Tártaros', que fue la primera traducción expurgada castellana" (i.e., of Galland's "Thousand and One Nights"). In fact, Sequeiros's translation of Gueullette's quite original effort had first appeared in 1742. The two volumes are rarely encountered together; OCLC lists a single complete copy (in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). - Light browning and staining. Handwritten ownerships of Louisa Lee (dated Malaga, 1820), another "Miss Lee" (Florence, 1823), and Adriana Malzac. Palau 168945. OCLC 905226322.
|
|
|
Hardt, Hermann von der.
Brevia atque solida Syriacae linguae fundamenta. Editio secunda. Helmstedt, Georg Wolfgang Hamm, 1701.
8vo. 64 pp., 1 folding table. With printer's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary marbled wrappers. First 18th century edition of this widely used introduction to Syriac, first issued by the Helmstedt professor of oriental languages, Hermann von der Hardt (1660-1746), in 1690 and again in 1694 (all printed by Hamm). - Some browning and brownstaining throughout; occasional slight edge defects without loss of text. The folding plate shows the conjugation of Syriac verbs. - Provenance: ownership of the Heidelberg Jesuits' Seminarium Carolinum (opened in 1730 for Catholic students in the strongly Protestant Palatinate), dated 1744, on title-page. Cf. VD 17, 3:013822V.
|
|
|
Neuphal, Georges.
Vocabulaire Français-Arabe a l'usage des écoles primaires. Al-Mufradat al-wafiyah fi-al-lughah al-faransiyah. Beyrouth, Imprimerie Catholique, 1864.
8vo. 280 pp. Contemporary cloth with giltstamped spine title. Rare French-Arabic dictionary for use at Lebanese primary schools. - Evenly browned throughout due to paper. Copies known only at the Library of the American University in Cairo, the BnF and at the British Library. OCLC 63514556.
|
|
|
Sabbagh, Michel.
Kitab Musabaqat al-barq wa-al-ghamam fi su'at al-hamam. La colombe, messagère plus rapide que l'éclair, plus prompte que la nue. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale (J. J. Marcel), an XIV = 1805.
8vo. 95, (1) pp. - (Bound with) II: Delaporte, Jean Honorat. Principes de l'idiome Arabe en usage a Alger suivis d'un conte Arabe avec la pronunciation et le mot-à-mot interlinéaires. Algiers & Paris, Bastide & Charles Hingray, 1845. (8), 163, (1) pp. With 5 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary navy blue half leather with giltstamped spine. First French edition, with the translation (by Silvestre de Sacy) and the Arabic text printed in parallel, entitled "The race with the lightning and the clouds above: on the success of the messenger pigeon". The Syrian linguist Michel Sabbagh (1784-1816) served as interpreter to the Imperial Army during Napoléon's Egyptian Campaign. He emigrated to France when the army left Egypt and attached himself to Silvestre de Sacy and the Imperial Library and print shop. His original work on carrier pigeons remains a classic. - Bound with this is the third and final edition of a work on Algerian Arabic, first published in 1836 by the Frenchman Jean-Honorat Delaporte (1812-71), who worked as interpreter for the Ministry of the Interior in Algiers. His work begins with the alphabet, vowels, letter forms, orthography, all set out in folding tables, followed by chapters on grammar, syntax, numbers, etc. Included at the end, as an exercise, is the Arabic story known as "La ruse des femmes" (from the Sindbad cycle of Alf layla wa-layla), with a word for word translation into French. - Extremeties a little rubbed; occasional light brownstaining, but a good copy. I: GAL II, 479. OCLC 11618486. Schnurrer BA 426. - II: Chauvin VI, p. 173, no. 331.2. H. Fiori, Bibliographie des ouvrages imprimés à Alger de 1830 à 1850, 50. Playfair, Bibliography of Algeria 1124.
|
|
|
[Syria - Egyptian Expeditionary Force].
Damascus. [Probably Damascus], Field Survey Coy. R.E., E.E.F., 1918.
Bi-chrome printed map, 735 x 510 mm. Scale 1:10,000. Exceedingly rare first issue of the first map of Damascus published by the British Forces only a week after the Fall of Damascus. Drafted by the Royal Engineers from a "captured enemy map" and printed under the surveyors' supervision in the field, probably in Damascus, on a portable press carried by the Field Survey Company unit. - The ancient city of Damascus, one of the final prizes taken by the Entente Powers, was long a great cultural centre, the head of the Syrian Hajj Road, and more recently the northern terminus of the Hejaz Railway and the headquarters of the Ottoman-German forces in the Middle East. In the latter period of WWI, British forces met stiff resistance in Palestine, and it was only near the end of the conflict that they managed to break into Syria. British forces and their allies captured the Damascus on 1 October 1918. Lawrence of Arabia, who was part of the conquering force, was disappointed not to have been amongst the first Allied troops to enter the city, especially as he envisaged Damascus as the future capital of an independent and unified Arab state. - The British occupying force, commanded by Edmund Allenby, was suddenly in control of city of which they only possessed dated information. To ensure public order, to allocate military resources, and to deliver vital goods to civilians, the British command was in urgent need of an accurate, up-to-date map of Damascus. - All maps printed by Entente forces in the field in the Middle East during WWI are extreme rarities. The present map would have been issued in a only very small print run for the use of senior British officers, and printed on fragile paper in a large format, its survival rate would have been very low. We can trace only a single other example of the present first issue of the map, held by the British Library. The second issue, printed by the Survey of Egypt in 1919, is also extremely rare. - In very good condition, clean and bright, with just some minor creasing from having been rolled for many years. OCLC 557017180. British Library Cartographic Items Maps 48855.11.
|
|
|
Andreossy, [Antoine François].
Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace, pendant les années 1812, 1813 et 1814, et pendant l'année 1826, avec un atlas composé de six planches gravées, et de quatre paysages lithographiés. Paris, Théophile Barrois & Benj. Duprat, J. S. Merlin, 1828.
8vo. (4), XLIV, 525, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine title. With the folio atlas: 6 engr. maps and plans and 4 lithogr. views. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with original printed wrapper cover on upper cover. First edition, text and atlas together. Descended from a family of canal builders, Antoine François Conte Andreossi (1761-1828) served at the French embassy in Constantinople from 1811 to 1814, when he was recalled to France by Louis XVIII, much to the dismay of the local French community. Some of the plates show his beloved waterways and fountains; they also include a view of the Hippodrome and Mosque of Sultan Ahmed. - Slight worming to hinges of atlas; old stamp to first engraved plates. Bookplate of Dr. Th. Weber (no. 518). Atabey 22. Blackmer 33. Weber I, 154f. Brunet I, 276. Graesse I, 122. Not in Aboussouan.
|
|
|
[Arabia].
[A collection of ephemera regarding the Arab states]. New York & London, 1951-1975.
3 booklets, a magazine, and a menu. (1) EL-KHATIB, M. Fatallah (foreword). Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. New York, Arab Information Center, June 1958. 8vo. 43 pp. Includes: the Proclamation of the United Arab Republic, the Proclamation of the Arab Union, the Provisional Constitution of the United Arab Republic, the Charter of the United Arab States and the Constitution of the Arab Union. - (2) OMRAN, Abdel-Rahim. Public Health & Welfare in the Arab States: Past, Present and Future. New York, Arab Information Center, November 1959. 8vo. 32 pp. The booklet opens with a history of the Arab contributions to medicine followed by modern statistics. - (3) WRIGHT, Esmond. The Arab World. Current Affairs no. 125. London, Bureau of Current Affairs, 3 February 1951. 8vo. 19, (1) pp. Short overview of the Arab world. - (4) [MENU]. P&O menu. On board the S.S. Arcadia, Sunday 25 March 1962. 8vo. Menu with on front a coloured illustration of a Dhow in the Arabian Sea. Probably offered during a cruise in the Gulf.
|
|
|
Arabian Peninsula. - Brown, Glen F[rancis].
[United States Geological Survey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]. Arabian Peninsula. Map I-270 B-1. Washington, D.C., The Survey (U.S. Geological Society), 1958.
1380:1216 mm. Lambert conformal conic projection, constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:2,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Folded. A highly detailed map of the complete Peninsula, the first modern map in 1:2,000,000 scale: the rare preliminary edition, issued five years before the officical release. Based on the groundbreaking series prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Arabian American Oil Company under the joint sponsorship of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. State Department, "a unique experiment in geological cooperation among several governments, petroleum companies, and individuals" (Seager/Johnston). Also includes the territories of today's Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. "The plan for a cooperative mapping project was originally conceived in July 1953 [... By 1955] there was established a cooperative agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Department of State, and the Arabian-American Oil Co. to make available the basic areal geology as mapped by Aramco and the U.S. Geological Survey" (ibid.). The plan provided for 21 maps on a 1:500,000 scale in both geologic and geographic versions; "a peninsular geologic map on a scale of 1:2,000,000 was to conclude the project [...] The first geographic quadrangle was published in July 1956 and the last in September 1962. While preparation of the geographic sheets was in progress, a need arose for early publication of a 1:2,000,000-scale peninsular geographic map. Consequently, a preliminary edition was compiled and published in both English and Arabic in 1958" (ibid.). While the revised, final version that appeared in 1963 ("I-270 B-2") would incorporate some additional photographic, topographic and cultural data, the exceedingly uncommon present, preliminary edition is surprisingly complete in virtually all respects - a testament to the precision with which Aramco's cartographers proceeded from the very first. Includes a key with symbols for water pipelines, desert watering points, oil fields, pumping stations, refineries, and a glossary of Arabic names. - "Although the search for oil, gas and minerals was ultimately to drive geological survey work across the region [...], in its early years it was the need for water that was the catalyst for Saudi Arabia's resource exploration. In 1944 King 'Abd al-'Aziz approached the United States for a technical expert who could assist with the identification and plotting of the kingdom's natural resources, particularly its groundwater reserves. The individual who arrived, Glen F. Brown, was one of the pioneers of a partnership between the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the government of Saudi Arabia that was to span the next five decades and play an important role in the development of the kingdom [...] By 1954 the Saudi Ministry of Finance, USGS and Aramco were working together to produce the first full series of geographic and geologic maps of the country. The first of their type in the Peninsula, these were published [...] in both Arabic and English versions, and the information they contained formed the basis of subsequent Saudi national development plans. To this day, all modern maps of the kingdom trace their roots back to these first publications" (Parry). - In excellent condition. James V. Parry, "Mapping Arabia", in: Saudi Aramco World 2004/1, p. 20ff. OCLC 30099393. O. A. Seager/W. D. Johnston, Foreword to the Geology of the Arabian Peninsula series (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-A-D, 1966).
|
|
|
Arabian Peninsula - Oman.
[Map of the Eastern Arabian Peninsula]. No place or date (but probably 1970s).
32 photocopies in polypouch binder (ca. 23 x 34 cm). Highly detailed and extensively hand-annotated map of the eastern end of the Peninsula, photocopied from the one-million scale pilots' ONC maps (Operational Navigation Chart) as a set of 32 sheets and self-assembled by a traveller to the region. Covers Oman, including the eastern portion of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The repeated notations, "maximum elevation believed not to exceed 200 feet" and "limits of reliable relief information" bear witness to the measure in which the inner Peninsula still constituted frontier country in the later 20th century.
|
|
|
Ayvansarayi, Hafiz Huseyin.
Hadikat ul-cevami' [Garden of the Mosques]. Istanbul, Matbaa-I Amire, [1864 CE] = 1281 H.
8vo. 2 vols. 310 pp., final blank f. 263, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over green and marbled boards with gilt spine and handwritten spine-labels. A guide to the Muslim monuments of Istanbul: perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic landmarks of the capital. Long recognized by Turkish scholars as a unique source for the city's architecture and urban form, the text, which was completed in 1195/1780 and revised and enlarged between 1248/1832-33 and 1253/1838 by Ali Sati, contains separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes, and other monuments. - From the library of John R. Walsh (1919-93), Professor of Turkish Studies at Edinburgh University, with many neat marginal notes, a few underlinings and a few notes loosely inserted or tipped in, most of which appear to be in his hand. A Turkish newspaper clipping from 1950 glued in vol. 1. - Covers rubbed and bumped at extremeties, but firm. Internally very good. Özege 6565. Cf. Faeuk Sumer, i. A. fas. 59, pp. 386-388.
|
|
|
Belvallette, Alfred.
Traité de Fauconnerie et d'Autourserie suivi d'une étude sur la pêche au cormoran. Evreux, Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey, 1903.
Large 8vo. (12), 269, (3) pp. With 35 plates and numerous illustrations in text. Modern red half sheepskin, with the original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Rare first and only edition of a work on falconry, followed by a short treatise on cormorant fishing by Alfred Belvallette, "well known in France as a skilful falconer, and he writes with a thorough knowledge of his subject [...] French falconers apply the term 'fauconnerie' only to flights with the long-winged hawks (Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby, and Jerfalcon), flights with the short-winged Goshawk (autour) and Sparrow-hawk (épervier) coming under the expressive and very convenient term 'autourserie'" (Harting). The work partly contains original illustrations, including many photographs of falconers in action, but also copies after Schlegel and others. - Belvallette is best known for his earlier work "Traité d'autourserie" (1887); the present work includes this topic as well, but is not included in Bibl. accipitraria or Schwerdt. - With only a couple of spots, otherwise in very good condition. Thiebaud 66. Cf. Harting 219; Schwerdt I, 59. WorldCat (9 copies).
|
|
|
[Biblia arabica - NT].
Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis, id est Matthaeo, Marco, Luca et Iohanne. Rome, typographia Medicea, 1590(-1591).
Folio. 368 pp. With 149 large woodcuts. Contemporary paper wrappers. Rare first edition of the Gospels in Arabic; the first work to be issued from the Medicean Press, directed by G. B. Raimondi. Printed in Granjon's famous large fount, generally considered the first satisfactory Arabic printing type and appears here for the first time. Apart from the Latin title and colophon, the book is in Arabic throughout. Also in 1591 an Arabic-Latin edition was issued, more common than the present one and reprinted in 1619 and 1774. Illustrated with 149 large woodcuts from 67 blocks by Leonardo Parasole after Antonio Tempesta. - Some browning and waterstaining throughout; a few marginal tears. Untrimmed in the original temporary wrappers as issued. The Hauck copy commanded $75,000 at Sotheby's in 2006. Adams B 1822. Mortimer 64. Darlow/Moule 1636. Fück 54. Schnurrer 318. Smitskamp 374.
|
|
|
Boissoudan, Jacques Elie Manceau de.
Le fauconnier parfait, ou méthode pour dresser et faire voler les oiseaux. Paris, pour la Société des Bibliophiles, 1866.
8vo. (IV), XII, 72 pp. Half-title, wood-engraved portrait of Jean-Auguste de Thou to title. 20th century panelled calf. Written at Poitou ca. 1745, this work was not published until 1864 at the end of an edition of Jacques du Fouilloux's "La Venerie". Harting recommends it and writes that his "treatise conveys a good idea of the state of falconry in the 18th century in Poitou, where the native Goshawk was much used". - Occasional spotting, heavier to endpapers. Harting 202. Schwerdt I, 74. Thiébaud 109.
|
|
|
Brodrick, William.
Falconers' Favourites. London, Van Voorst, 1865.
Folio. With 6 tinted lithographed plates, finished by hand, paper guards. Original cloth, gilt. A scarce copy of what is described in the introduction as "a sort of sequel" to "Falconry in the British Isles", 1855. Three of the birds handsomely depicted in life size belonged to Brodrick himself. - 3 plates with some fading and browning, all plates with foxing to varying degrees. Small tear near foot of spine, some staining and marking. Harting 70. Nissen IVB 146. Schwerdt I, 82. Wood p. 262.
|
|
|
Campbell, James.
A treatise of modern faulconry: to which is prefixed, from authors not generally known, an introduction, shewing the practice of faulconry in certain remote times and countries. Edinburgh, Balfour & Smellie for the author, 1773.
8vo. IV, 264 pp. With engraved plate. Contemporary half calf. First edition. The author was falconer to the Earl of Eglington. Pages 259-264 contain a glossary. - Central split to spine and joints splitting, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed. Some foxing, occasional water-staining at head, lightly browned. Harting 49. Schwerdt I, 93. ESTC T100896.
|
|
|
Chappeville, Pierre Clement de.
Petit traité de fauconnerie. Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885.
8vo. 26, (2) pp. Later half morocco, spine gilt, with the original printed wrappers bound within. Schwerdt copy. One of 150 copies. - Spine rubbed. Schwerdt I, 103. Thiébaud 166.
|
|
|
Charles VIII, King of France / [compiled by Emmanuel Victor Pourroy de l’Aubérivière, Comte de Quinsonas].
Comptes de la vénerie et fauconnerie du roi Charles VIII. Archives impériales. Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1860.
8vo. VI, 22 pp. With 4 chromolithographed plates showing 3 stained-glass portraits and an architectural elevation, 2 double-page etched views and a lithographed facsimile of a letter written and signed by Margaret of Austria. Half grey-brown cloth (ca. 1900?). With the publisher’s lavender printed paper wrappers bound in, repeating the arms of the title-page. A remarkable bibliophile edition (limited to fifty copies) of financial accounts and other documents concerning hunting and falconry from the archives of King Charles VIII of France in the years 1485 to 1486. These documents are essential primary sources for the history of hunting and falconry, giving detailed and very specific data to throw light on falconry ca. 1485/86. The text was prepared in conjunction with a publication about Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), Duchess of Savoy, and Quinsonas (1818-1901) wrote a brief introductory chapter to the present book, “Documents pour servir a l’histoire de Marguerite d’Autriche”. The daughter the future Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, she was betrothed to Charles VIII in 1483 and came to the French court to be educated as the future Queen of France. He broke off the engagement to marry her stepmother for political reasons in 1491. So at the time of the book’s documents about Charles VIII she was still betrothed to him and living at the French court. After he broke off their engagement she married twice, the second time in 1501 to Philibert II, Duke of Savoy who died of pneumonia that he caught during a hunt in 1504. The chromolithographs show details from two stained-glass portraits of her, one of her husband Philibert and a view of her “tower” in his chateau in Pont d’Ain. The etchings show Pont d’Ain and Louis XIII’s chateau at Poncin. After Margaret’s brother King Philip I of Spain died in 1506, she became governor of the Low Countries for most of 1507-30. Although the title-page names no compiler and the imprint names only the printer, Quinsonas’s arms appear on the title-page and front wrapper. He was clearly the motive force behind the publication, using the services of the printer Louis Perrin, who pioneered historically allusive book design. - With a presentation inscription from the compiler Comte de Quinsonas to Mr [Louis] de Mas-Latrie (1815-97), historian and palaeographer, on the front wrapper. With an 1890 (?) bookseller’s ticket, the bookplate of Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934), and a modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d’Orcet family, whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. With offsetting of the chromolithographs (in spite of the tissue guards bound in to prevent it), the ribbon marker has left a browned shadow in the gutter margin between 2 pages and the margins of the wrappers have faded to grey-brown, but otherwise in very good condition. A bibliophile edition of documents concerning King Charles VIII’s hunting and falconry in the years 1485-86. Schwerdt 119. Thiébaud 763. For the type cf. Ponot, Louis Perrin & l’énigme des Augustaux (1998).
|
|
|
Chenu, Jean Charles / Des Murs, Marc Athanase Parfait OEillet.
La fauconnerie ancienne et moderne. Paris, Hachette, 1862.
8vo. 176 pp. Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound within. First edition. - Occasional spotting, a little soiled and creased. Harting 200. Schwerdt I, 109. Thiébaud 192.
|
|
|
[Dubai - Royal Family].
Photograph album. Pakistan, early 1970s.
40 photographs (29 in colour and 11 black-and-white). Various sizes (300 x 207 mm to 125 x 125 mm). Stored in large, six-leaf self-adhesive tan leather album (oblong folio, 43 x 34 cm). Includes 51 original colour slides. A privately assembled photo album showing the ruling family of Dubai during a state visit to Pakistan, apparently in the early 1970s. Pakistan was the first country to accord formal recognition to the United Arab Emirates after the state's emergence in 1971. - Nearly half of the images show HH Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (1912-90), the father of the modern Emirate of Dubai, in conversation, at dinners, and relaxing in the garden. Other photos show his sons, the crown prince and later ruler HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum (1943-2006), the present ruler HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The collection was assembled by Azhar Abbas Hashmi, a high-ranking officer of the Pakistani UBL bank (United Bank Limited), founded in 1959 by Agha Hasan Abedi (1922-95), who is seen in seven photographs with HH Sheikh Rashid as well as with his two older sons. While several pictures show the members of the royal family in negotiations with the Karachi banking officials, there are also fascinating images of a falconry tour to the Pakistani countryside (including a fine portrait of HH Sheikh Ahmed with a falcon perched on his arm). The more than fifty original colour slides show other scenes of the same visit; only four of the images are among the prints included in the album. - Some occasional creases and even the odd tear, but in general finely preserved. Three photos printed by Karachi's "Eveready Studio", some inscribed in ballpoint with identification on the reverse ("Mr. S. L. Anwar, HH, Mr. Masood Naqvi, Mr. Iqbal Khateeb / Mr. Hashmi showing the prospect drawings"), one in Arabic, another with ownership stamp: "Azhar Abbas Hashmi, Vice President Gulf Operations, International Division, UBL, HO, Karachi". An unpublished set, entirely unknown and without counterparts in the online Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives, from the estate of Azhar Abbas Hashmi (1940-2016), Pakistani financial manager and eminent literary patron with close ties to Karachi University. Long with UBL, Hashmi would serve as the bank's vice-president before founding several important cultural organisations and becoming known as a man of letters in his own right. It was because of Hashmi’s close connections to the Gulf states that Abu Dhabi provided funds to build the Karachi University’s faculty of Islamic studies, along with Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre and Jamiya Masjid Ibrahi.
|
|
|
Fisher, Albert Kenrick.
The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their Relation to Agriculture. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893.
8vo. 210 pp. With 26 chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gum arabic, tissue guards. Original cloth. Some foxing, rubbed. Anker 144. Nissen 316. Wood 342. OCLC 1171516.
|
|
|
Fisher, Charles Hawkins.
Reminiscences of a Falconer. London, John C. Nimmo, 1901.
8vo. XIV,188 pp. With portrait frontispiece and plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. First edition. - Some foxing, rubbed.
|
|
|
[Frederick II].
Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris De arte venandi cum avibus. Cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranaceo codice camerarii primum edita. [Including:] Albertus Magnus. De falconibus asturibus et accipitribus quibus annotations addidit suas Jo. Gottl. Schneider […] Tomus I[-II] [title vol. II:] Ad reliqua librorum Friderici II et Alberti Magni capita Commentarii […]. Leipzig, heirs of Johann Georg Müller (colophons vol. I: J. G. I. Breitkopf; vol. II: Christoph Carl Klaubarth), 1788-1789.
4to. 2 vols. bound as one. With 6 engraved illustration plates (I-VI, including 1 oblong folio folding). XVIII, 198; [4], 228 pp. Early 19th century half calf. Important scholarly edition, the first (and only?) one to contain the extensive commentaries by Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822). One of the most important mediaeval works on hawking, "still one of the best" (Harting), and an important ornithological and zoological work in general, written by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick (Friedrich) II (1194-1250). Frederick developed an enthusiasm for falconry in Italy and brought experts back from the Middle East when he returned from the crusades in 1239. His treatise discusses the capture, care and feeding, training and use of hawks, as well as the equipment, and was largely responsible for the spread of Middle and Near Eastern falconry through Europe. Frederick's text was first printed in 1596, but the present edition is “preferable à cause des excellentes motes de Schneider” (Thiébaud). The six plates show anatomical drawings of birds of prey, including a skull and skeletons. “By far the greatest contribution to zoology was due, mirabile dictu, to the Emperor Frederick II. His treatise on falconry, De arte venandi cum avibus, was completed by 1248 […] It is an astounding work, taking into account the Greek and Arabic literature on the subject, but essentially based upon the author’s own observations and experiments, and upon the information elicited by himself from his Muslim advisers. It set forth a number of new anatomical facts […] and discussed bird migrations and the mechanical conditions of flight. Frederick even instituted experiments to determine how vultures were attracted to their prey […] I said that Frederick’s knowledge was partly derived from Muslim writings. Indeed an Arabic treatise was translated for him by his astrologer and secretary, Theodore of Antioch, and another in Persian was also known to him” (Sarton). It is followed (vol. I, pp. 175-198) by another celebrated 13th century treatise on falconry: Albertus Magnus’s "De falconibus asturibus et accipitribus". It was originally part of his "De animalibus", where it comprised more than half of the text. "De animalibus" was first printed in 1478 and this part was included in the 1596 first edition of "De arte venandi cum avibus". Volume II contains Schneider’s commentaries, with a six-page Latin-German glossary of technical terms, a 20-page review of the literature, and an index. - With a modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d’Orcet family (barry of 7, sable and argent) at Château du Veuillin in Apremontsur-Allier (Nivernais), whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. Volume I and the second half of vol. II slightly browned with occasional foxing or spots, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is slightly scuffed, the hinges worn with some cracks, and the foot of the spine damaged, but the book block is structurally sound and the tooling on the spine is well preserved. The greatest early work on hawking and falconry, in its most thoroughly annotated edition. Ceresoli, Bibliografia caccia, 243. Harting 308, pp. 168f. Lindner 11.0643.02. Nissen, IVB 333. Sarton, Introduction to the history of science II, 516. Schwerdt I, 188. Sotheby’s (Marcel Jeanson coll.) 28 February-1 March 1987, lot 241. Souhart, cols. 197f. Thiébaud, col. 432. VD18, 80448100 & 80448119 = 12775835.
|
|
|
[Gastaldi, Giacomo].
Seconda tavola. [Venice], Ferrando Bertelli, 1565 [printed ca. 1570].
Engraved map of the Indian Ocean, Indian subcontinent and most of the Gulf region (28 x 39 cm; margins extended to 50 x 66.5 cm), at a scale of about 1:13,500,000 with north at the foot, with the equator reticulated with longitudes based on a prime meridian through Cape Verde, reticulated scales of latitude in the left and right borders, the Tropic of Cancer not reticulated; 3 sea monsters, a spouting whale and 3 ships in the ocean; and on the land elephants, lions and 2 people on horseback carrying spears. Rare very early engraved map showing the Indian subcontinent, the Strait of Hormuz, the eastern half of the Gulf, and the Indian Ocean, including the islands of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Maldives, Seychelles, the western tip of Sumatra and what must be the eastern tip of Somalia. The island Diego Garcia (7° S), labelled "Isole de Don Garzia", touches the southern edge of the map image. The map's own scales indicate that it covers 35°N to 9°S and 60 to 120°E (labelled 85 to 145°E following the Cape Verde prime meridian), but in fact it covers about 60 to 96°E. It is double trapezoidal projection, but tapers only slightly from its widest point at the equator. Many topographic names appear in forms used in early Portuguese accounts of voyages, but most can be identified. In India and Ceylon we find Goa, Mangalor (Mangalore), Cochin (Kochi), Calinapata (Calcutta?), Besinagar (Bangalore), Colmucho (Colombo) and many others; in the Gulf region Cor. Dulfar (Dhofar), the island Macira (Masirah), C. Resalgate (Ras el Had?), Galatia (the ancient site Qalhat), Mazcate (Muscat), the island Quexumo (Qeshm) and Ormus (Hormuz). There is even an unlabelled city close to present-day Abu Dhabi. Two of the ships are labelled with their destinations: Calicut (Kozhikode) on the Malabar Coast and Molucche (the Moluccas) in the East Indies. - Gastaldi first published a similar map as one of a set of three woodcut maps in the first volume of the second edition of Giovanni Battista Ramusio,Navagationi et viaggi, Venice, 1554: the "Prima tavola" shows Africa, the "Seconda tavola" shows the regions in the present map and the "Terza tavola" shows Southeast Asia and the East Indies. These were a great advance on earlier maps, including even Gastaldi's own, taking account of new information from Portuguese explorers. - The woodblocks and whatever copies of the printed edition had not yet been sold were destroyed by a fire in 1557, so for the 1563 edition the publisher had the three maps engraved on copperplates by Niccolo Nelli. Bertelli published the three maps without Ramusio's text, and his maps are usually supposed to have been printed from the 1563 plates, but Karrow describes them as close copies, with his name and the date 1565 added in each map, and Bertelli was an engraver as well as a publisher. Although the first map also has a longer note referring to all three maps, they were probably issued separately as well. Although printed from a single copper plate, the present map image is divided into two parts, with a 7 mm gap between the right and left halves, so that nothing would be lost if the map were bound as a double-page plate. No later state is noted in the literature, so there may have been multiple printings with the unrevised plate. - The present copy is printed on a whole sheet of paper, watermarked: coat of arms (77 x 44 mm) bearing a tree on the central and highest of three hills = --, with about 38.5 mm between chainlines except that the mark is centred on a chainline only 25 mm from the adjacent ones. The tree clearly matches the style of the oak tree in the arms of the family Delle Rovère, including the Popes Sixtus IV and Julius II (who served 1471-1484 and 1503-1513), but their arms does not include the hills. The present mark is very close to Briquet 969 (Lucca 1573-1582) and Zonghi 1737 (Fabriano 1571). Likhachev 3636 (an Italian manuscript f ca. 1570) is not as close. All similar marks noted in the literature date from the period 1569 to 1582, so the present map seems unlikely to have been printed in 1565, but very likely to have been printed ca. 1570 (Bertelli remained active to ca. 1580 or perhaps even later). Bifolco & Ronca lists copies of the 1563 (84a) and the present 1565 (84b) state or edition together, but their separate lists of references suggest the present 1565 version is much rarer. - The margins have been cut down close to the plate edge and in places to the outer edge of the border, and the margins then greatly extended (10-14 cm) with blank paper, but this paper is also contemporary, watermarked: coat of arms bearing a ladder and topped with a 6-point star (90 x 27 mm) = --, similar to Likachev 3524 (Loreto 1564). The map is very slightly browned at the edges (where the pieces of paper used to extend the margins were pasted together) and in the gap between the right and left halves (where the old fold has been reinforced on the back), but the map is otherwise in fine condition. A milestone in the cartography of India and the Gulf States, remarkably well preserved. Bifolco & Ronca, Cartografia topografia Italiana, 84b. Gole, Early printed maps of India, 2. Karrow 30/74.2.
|
|
|
Graziani, Antonio Maria.
De bello Cyprio libri quinque. Rome, Alessandro Zanetti, 1624.
Small folio (184 x 250 mm). (8), 330, (28) pp. Architectural title page engraved (Cl. Mellan sculps.). With woodcut printer's device on final page and several initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary full red morocco, lavishly gilt, with the arms of the Barberini family on an inlaid shield of different-coloured leather on both covers. All edges gilt. First edition, dedication copy. - One of the fundamental sources for the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, when the Turkish forces invaded the island with 400 ships and some 100,000 men, massacring Nicosia's 20,000 inhabitants. Thus wrested from the Venetians, Cyprus would remain under Ottoman rule until 1878, when it was ceded to Britain as a protectorate; Ottoman sovereignty continued until the outbreak of World War I. - A. M. Graziani (1537-1611) studied the law at Padua before becoming secretary to Pope Sixtus and, in 1592, bishop of Amelia (in Umbria). Pope Clement VIII sent him as his nuncio to the Italian princes and states to unite them in a league against the Ottomans. Graziani having died in 1611, his account was published only posthumously: it was edited by his son Carolo, who dedicated the book to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII. Barberini was created a cardinal in 1623; in 1627 he became librarian of the Vatican, and in 1632 vice-chancellor. The engraved architectural title (by Claudio Mellan after Antonio Pomeranci) shows History, "magistra vitae", seated atop an elaborate Baroque structure which incorporates Barberini's arms. This is the dedication copy bound for Cardinal Barberini himself: both covers show the crowned bee arms of the Barberini family on dark green leather, enclosed within borders of blind rules and double fillets with corner fleurons and two different bee cornerpieces, all set within a wide floral border and double gilt fillets. Even the spine is richly decorated with bee tools running up and down between a floral railing. - Corners insignificantly bumped, joints barely starting at foot. Some browning and slight waterstaining throughout, also visible on covers, but endpapers replaced with old paper. Later armorial bookplate of the collector John Stafford Reid Byers (1903-84), of Waterfoot House, Newcastle, County Down, to pastedown. Blackmer 726. Cobham/Jeffery, p. 24. Bruni/Evans, Italian 17th-c. books in Cambridge libraries STC 2547. NUC 211:420. BMC 91:156. Maggs, Cat. 697 (1940-1), no. 114 (this copy). Not in Atabey or Aboussouan. Not in Brunet, Ebert, or Graesse.
|
|
|
Guadagnoli, Filippo.
Apologia pro christiana religione […] respondetur ad obiectiones Ahmed Filii Zin Alabedin, Persae Asphahensis, contentas in libro inscripto Politor Speculi. Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1631.
4to. (12), 607, (1) pp. Contemporary vellum with handwritten spine title. First edition of this important polemical work by Guadagnoli (1596-1656), the first Italian to teach Arabic and Syriac at La Sapienza and one of the correctors for the enormous Arabic Bible which the Propaganda Fide press began work on in 1632. The present piece of theological disputation was "launched against the Safavid scholar Ahmad b. Zayn al-'Abidin. This fascinating dispute was provoked in the first instance by the anti-Muslim tract penned by the Navarrese Jesuit Jerónimo Javier [...] That work found its way to Safavid Persia, where Ahmad b. Zayn al-'Abidin wrote a polemic response that refuted Christianity; he sent it to Rome in hopes that his arguments would convince the Pope. Scholars in Rome, among them Guadagnoli, studied the Safavid text and prepared their own refutation of it, which was published in the Roman presses of the Congregation [...] The work enjoyed wide circulation and reached the Muslim East; we known that it was wielded as a tool of religious propaganda at the court of the Great Mughal, and that years later, in the eighteenth century, an occasional Christian missionary would study it as a valuable resource for religious disputation with Muslims [...] The 'Apologia' contains, for example, quotations from the Qur'an that are written in Arabic and always accompanied by Guadagnoli's own Latin translation [...] The 1631 [first] edition is intensely anti-Islamic and full of ad hominem attacks on the Prophet, while curiously the 1637 version shows an evolution toward a somewhat greater respect for the religion" (García/Rodríguez). - Binding a little loosened. Lightly browned and brownstained throughout, title-page somewhat more strongly. Lacks the lower margin of a2; repairs to the inner and outer margins of A3 (insignificant loss to text). M. García-Arenal and F. Rodríguez Mediano, The Orient in Spain [Leiden: Brill, 2013], p. 302f.
|
|
|
[Gulf of Aden].
Indian Ocean. Africa - Saudi Arabia. Gulf of Aden and Adjacent Coasts. H.O. 1586. 15th edition. Washington, D.C., U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1955-1962.
Large coloured map (136.5 x 90.5 cm). Scale 1:945,200. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Detailed nautical chart of the Gulf of Aden, showing the waters between the Horn of Africa and the South-western coast of Saudi Arabia. "From British, French, and Italian surveys to 1940 with additions and corrections to 1951", this 15th edition issued in 1955 and revised 21 May 1962. With inset maps of Bandar Risut and Qishn Bay (stamped "Cancelled"). Signs of contemporary use, with a 1964 stamp, several pencil markings, duststains and waterstains. Cf. OCLC 31674450 (17th ed., 1978). Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
|
|
|
Harmont, (Pierre).
Le miroir de fauconnerie, ou se verra l’instruction pour choisit, nourrir, & traicter, dresser & faire voler toute sorte d’oyseaux [...]. Rouen, Clément Malassis, 1650.
4to (230 x 165 mm). With a woodcut illustration of a hunt using falcons on the titlepage (90 x 95 mm), 7 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of birds of prey on integral leaves. 38, [2 blank] pp. Half red goatskin morocco (1930s?). Rare fifth edition, the first published outside of Paris, of a concise practical handbook on the choosing, training, care and feeding of birds of prey for hunting, by the falconer to Louis XIII, first published in 1620. "Copies of this work [in any edition] are very difficult to procure" (Harting). The hunting scene on the title-page, which has no related illustration in the first edition or in d'Arcussia, shows two men in the foreground, one blowing a horn and with a dog on a leash, the other holding a falcon and with hawking paraphernalia. It shows falcons attacking birds in the sky, and a hunting scene with dogs and men on horseback chasing a stag in the background. - With the modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d'Orcet family, whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. With a few minor stains and faint offsetting, but still in good condition, the binding with very slight wear to the fore-edge corners, but otherwise fine. A rare and important practical hondbook on falconry, illustrated with the woodcuts of the second (1634) edition, including a hunting scene not in the first edition. Bibl. Mun. Rouen, Histoires de chasses (exhib. cat. 1992–93), 79; Harting, Bibl. accipitraria 156 note; Souhart, col. 238; Thiébaud, col. 493; USTC 6814292 (1 copy); cf. Schwerdt, pp. 230–231 (1620 ed.); for the binder: Fléty, p. 159.
|
|
|
Harting, James Edmund.
Essays on Sport and Natural History. London, Horace Cox, 1883.
8vo. X, 485 pp. Harting 79.
|
|
|
[Iran - Bushehr].
Asia 1:1,000,000 Sheet North H-39 Bushire. [London, War Office], 1944.
782 x 640 mm. In full colour. E48°-E54°/N28°-N32°. Folded. Third edition of this wartime map of the Bushehr area on the southwestern coast of Persia, on the Arabian Gulf. The city was occupied by British troops during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; these were replaced by American soldiers in 1942, who installed a military supply route for the Soviet Union through Iran (the "Persian Corridor"). Interestingly, the present map was copied by the German Luftwaffe as early as 1942 and distributed as "Weltkarte 1:1.000.000 (Iran) / H-39/G-39, Bushire. Hergestellt im Auftrage des Generalstabs des Heeres, Abt. für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (II)". - Somewhat dusty and showing slight edge wear. Very rare. OCLC 1047892528 (a single record).
|
|
|
[Jesuit printing in Lebanon].
Kitab as-Salawat muqtatafah min al-kutub ar-ruhiya. Beirut, Matbaat al-'Aba' al-Yasuiyin, 1876.
16mo (60 x 88 mm). 448 pp. Text printed within red double rules. Contemporary green full morocco, covers and spine prettily giltstamped. Floral endpapers. All edges red, goffered with gilt stars. An anthology of prayers issued by the Jesuit Fathers of the Lebanon, translated into Arabic from Latin (or possibly Spanish), issued in support of the Jesuits' missionary work in the Muslim Middle East. The index contains references to various notable personalities of the Jesuit Order, such as the founder, St Ignatius Loyola, Luigi Gonzaga, Francesco Saverio, Stanislaus Kostka, and others. - Lower hinge professionally repaired. A rare, prettily bound volume.
|
|
|
Korytko, Stefan.
General orientative map of the world's oil industry / Übersichtskarte der Welt-Naphtha-Industrie / Carte d'orientation de l'industrie de pétrole du monde / Mapa pogladowa swiatowego przemyslu naftowego. Lviv, Stefan Korytko, 1925.
Large folding chromolithographed map (map size 65.5 × 88 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Large folding map of the world, completely in colour, showing the areas containing oil and where oil/gas wells are located. Inserted around the margins of the map are several more detailed inset maps of Europe, Poland, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad, Apsheron (Azerbeidzjan), Sumatra, Japan, Egypt and Borneo. Also included is a large diagram illustrating the world's oil production, from 1860 to 1924. - Only very slightly worn along a few folds. Paper wrappers slightly damaged, otherwise in very good condition.
|
|
|
Latham, Simon.
Latham's faulconry, or The faulcons lure and cure: in two books. The first concerning the ordering and training up of all hawks in generall; especially the haggard faulcon-gentle. The second, teaching approved medicines for the cure of all diseases in them. London, Richard Hodgkinson for Thomas Rooks, 1658.
Small 8vo. 2 parts in one volume. (34), 176; (24), 144, (8) pp. With woodcut frontispiece of "The Haggard Faulcon" instead of the additional engraved title-page found in some copies. Second title with woodcut vignette of a gentleman riding his horse with his hawk on his arm. Second part with woodcuts in text, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. 19th century calf, prettily gilt. Marbled endpapers. Pocket-sized reissue of Latham's books on falconry, the former of which had first appeared in 1614. "Latham dedicated this, his first book of Falconry, to Sir Thomas Monson (or Munson, as he phonetically spells the name), Baronet, Master of his Maiestie's Armory, and Master of the Hawkes to his Highnesse" (Harting, p. 15). The second part is Latham's "New and Second Book of Faulconry", first published in 1618 and "usually bound up with the first" (Harting, p. 16). "Ordering and training of all hawks in general and especially the haggard falcon gentle. Approved medicines for the cure of all their difficulties. A very rare and valuable work" (USAF Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series No. 38: Falconry, p. 14). The frontispiece depicts tools of the falconer's trade. - Some spotting and staining throughout; lacking final blank. Lower corner of fol. A2 in the first part torn with slight loss of text (professionally remargined). From the personal collection of the gentleman and Knightsbridge manuscript dealer Myles Colbeck Radford (1897-1963) with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Harting 20 (note). Souhart 285 (note). Wing L568 & L569. OCLC 228729034. Cf. Schwerdt I, 302.
|
|
|
Magaud d'Aubusson, Louis.
La Fauconnerie au Moyen Age et dans les temps modernes. Paris, Auguste Ghio, 1879.
8vo. (8), 272 pp. With half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, with original printed wrappers bound in at end. Signed presentation copy from the author to Florian Pharaon (1827-87). A good association copy of a "work which no student of the history of Falconry should neglect" (Harting). Florian Pharaon was the first Arab editor at Le Figaro, and the translator of an Arabic hunting work into French. - Some spotting, binding rubbed. Harting 211. Schwerdt II, pp. 2-3. Thiébaud 621.
|
|
|
Nasawi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al- / Houdas, Octave Victor (transl.).
Histoire du Sultan Djelal Ed-Din Mankobirti, Prince du Kharezm, par Mohamme En-Nesawi. Traduit de l'Arabe. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1895.
Large 8vo. (2), X, 484, (8) pp. Original printed wrappers. First French translation of the "Sirat as-sulatn Jalaladdin Mankobirti", a biography of the last last Khwarazm-Shah Djalal al-Din Mingirni (Mangubirti) by that ruler's secretary, the Arabic historian al-Nasawi (fl. 1241). This translation by Octave Houdas (1840-1916) was issued to complement his edition of the Arabic text, published in 1891. - Uncut, untrimmed copy; covers chipped and bumped; spine defects. Interior sound; a good copy. GAL I, 319. OCLC 5770162.
|
|
|
(Nicour, Charles).
Ligne de Keneh à Kosseir. Rapport. Cairo, Imprim. des Chemins de Fer, 1891.
Small folio (218 x 340 mm). 19, (9) pp. With 5 folding plans, one measuring more than two metres in length. Original stiff printed wrappers. Extremely rare report on construction plans for a railway from Keneh (Qena) on the eastern shore or the Nile to Kosseir (al-Qosair) on the coast of the Red Sea. The project was never carried out. "La roue de Kéneh à Kosseir a éte étudiée dans un rapport de Ch. Nicour [...] qui déposa ses conclusions le 21 Février 1891 auprès du Conseil d'Administration des Chemins de fer de l'Etat égyptien. Ce rapport fut utilisé par J. Raimondi [...] dans son livre sur 'Le désert oriental égyptien du du Nil à la Mer Rouge' [...] Dans le chapitre V, intitulé 'Projet de chemin de fer de Kéneh à Kosseir [...]' Raimondi rappelle que, dès 1891, on avait formé le projet d'une ligne de chemin de fer de Kéneh à Kosseir. Le port, en effet [...] est le point de la mer Rouge le plus rapproché du Nil [...] Après avoir évalué les recettes probables de cette ligne [...] et avant d'étudier les problèmes de réalisation pratique [...] Raimondi reprend le rapport de Ch. Nicour pour donner une description de la route et une étude du tracé de ce chemin de fer, qui ne devait pas etre réalisé. La mission de Ch. Nicour étudia le terrain en décembre 1890. Elle décrit d'abord la route depuis Kéneh jusqu'à l'entrée de L'Quadi Hammamat, puis elle étudie les gorges de l'Quadi Hammamat proprement dit [...]" (Bernard). - The five plans include: 1) "Ligne de Kéneh à Kosseir. Route du Nord [...] Plan géneral et profil en long", ca. 62 x 205 cm. 2) "Plan de la grande gorge de El Hammamat", ca. 33 x 125 cm. 3) "Plan de la petit gorge de El-Sed", ca. 33 x 77 cm". 4) "Plan de petit gorge de E-Rieh", ca. 33 x 94 cm. 5) "Plan de ville de Kosseir", ca. 59 x 90 cm. - Binding lightly wrinkled and duststained in places, but altogether very well preserved. Inscribed on the upper cover by Yacoub Artin Pasha (1842-1919), the Armenian-born historian and Egyptian Minister of Education, to Julius Franz (1831-1915, "Frantz Pacha"), the German-born senior architect to the Egyptian Viceroy. André Bernard, De Koptos à Kosseir, p. 26. Not in OCLC.
|
|
|
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". - Removed from W. H. Smith & Son's Lending Library (London) with bookplate to front pastedown. Now rare. OCLC 1239299. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
|
|
|
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. Second 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". - Dust jacket slightly frayed, otherwise a good copy of this now-rare title, inscribed "Laurie Tinckler / Bahrain / July 1958" on flyleaf. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
|
|
|
Pomey, François Antoine, SJ.
Ein sehr artig Buchlein von dem Weydwerck und Falcknerey. Stuttgart, Scheible, 1886.
8vo. 65 pp. With woodcut vignettes by Jost Amman. A modern reissue of the "Traitte fort curieux de la venerie et de la fauconnerie" (Lyon 1671). Text in German and French. One of 500 copies. Harting 132.
|
|
|
Salvin, Francis Henry / Brodrick, William.
Falconry in the British Isles. London, John van Voorst, 1873.
4to. (10), 171, (1) pp. William Brodrick's copy with 3 original watercolours by him, heightened with gum arabic. 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates after William Brodrick, some heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt. Second edition, revised and enlarged: the best edition of this handsome work. This copy, with an impeccable provenance, is enriched by the inclusion of three fine original watercolours by the eminent William Brodrick (1814-88), falconer, taxidermist, physician, and artist, whose works of avian portraiture set the standard of their times. - Provenance: "Wm. Brodrick, Little Hill, 1873" (ink inscription to front free endpaper, and a partially erased pencil inscription to title). - Occasional spotting, heavier to endpapers and half-title; spine faded to brown, corners worn, rubbed. Harting 67. Nissen IVB 147. Schwerdt II, 145.
|
|
|
Sarrou, Auguste, French intelligence officer (1874-1968).
The archive of Auguste Sarrou. Mainly Near and Middle East, mainly 1917-1923, with earlier and much later supplementary material.
Various sizes (folio, 4to, 8vo). A total of 460 typescript and 177 manuscript pp. (9 of which comprise merely 2 lines) in 26 fascicles, assembled as 11 portfolios. With a few newspaper clippings as well as 1 photograph each of Hagia Sophia and the gate of Dolmabahce Palace, mounted on cardboard as postcards. A highly important and extensive archive from the secret personal papers of General Auguste Sarrou, France's chief spymaster in the Levant and Turkey during the critical period between 1917 and 1923, when the Near and Middle East were completely re-ordered following the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It features numerous "top secret" spy reports, correspondence and dossiers of political analysis, providing stellar insights into France's central role in shaping the destiny of Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, working to counteract the forces unleashed by Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt. - The present archive consists of dozens of classified intelligence reports, political masterplans and field notes. Most of the documents are typescripts or carbon copies of typescripts (many written by Sarrou), intended for distribution amongst only the most senior French military and political officials. The documents span Sarrou’s entire career, dating from 1908 to the 1960s, although the bulk of the documents concern the critical period from 1917 to 1923. It includes a typescript copy of Sarrou’s autobiography, written at the end of his 60-year-long career in espionage and diplomacy in Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; a series of papers relating to Sarrou’s time serving as a gendarme in Macedonia in the decade prior to World War I, when he notably befriended many leaders of "Young Turks"; and a further series of papers outline his secret "Mission d’Orient", a grand operation to support French ambitions in Syria, Lebanon and Anatolia. Furthermore, a series of highly important and secret analytical reports written by Sarrou provide a "game plan" for how France was to rule Syria and Lebanon (importantly, the Quay d’Orsay largely followed Sarrou’s advice as matters unfolded). Notable is Sarrou’s brutally unflattering assessment of Emir Faisal, Lawrence of Arabia’s old comrade. Additionally, there is an intriguing manuscript report of a meeting held between Arab intellectuals and Djemal Pasha, the Ottoman War Minister, the day before the fall of Damascus, as well as a series of fascinating reports concerning the 1921 attempt on the life of General Henri Gouraud, the French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon. Another series of 25 typescript "Secret" intelligence reports compiled by the Service des informations de la Marine dans le Levant (S.I.L.) in Port Said in 1918 and 1919 contain fascinating raw field intelligence on Anti-French elements throughout the Middle East, as well as the efforts of French assets to counteract these forces through counterespionage and propaganda. A diverse collection of typescript and manuscript research documents, as well as correspondence from key assets, assembled by Sarrou from 1919 to 1922, is supplemented by a series of highly insightful typescript reports, written by Sarrou to advise the French government on the situation in Turkey from 1921 to 1931, covering the rise of Atatürk’s new republic and French efforts to gain influence in Ankara. Finally, there is a collection of letters, documents and postcards from Sarrou’s mid to later career, from the late 1920s until his retirement in the mid-1960s. - Many of the elements of the present archive are likely unique survivors, while a couple examples of some of the typescripts may exist in various French official archives. A detailed list is available upon request.
|
|
|
Receive by email
Download as PDF document
RSS feed
Permanent link
