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Forbis W. H
Fall of the Peacock Throne: the Story of Iran
New York: Harper & Row 1980. Dj maps. 305 pp. 8vo. Hardcover . Catalogs: IRAN. New York: Harper & Row, (1980) hardcover
Référence libraire : 0766
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Forder Rev. A.
Petra Perea Phoenicia
London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1923. Hardcover. Maroon beveled cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many sepia-tone photogravures of archaeological and historic sites and local Bedouin and other residents in the areas of modern Jordan and Lebanon that house the ancient lands of Petra Perea and Phoenicia. ; 112 pages . Marshall Brothers hardcover
Référence libraire : 36861
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Foreign Affairs Committee
Appeasing Tehran's Mullahs -
Foreign Affairs Committee Publishing - 1994. PB/Gd. condition/161 pages - Discusses US policy on Iran's resistance under Scrutiny. HI6B. Soft Cover. Good. Foreign Affairs Committee Publishing - Paperback
Référence libraire : K2533
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FORMENTON Fabio
Tapis d'Orient - Un guide à consulter, 400 illustrations en couleurs
1997 Editions Celiv - 1997 - 1 vol in-4, cartonnage éditeur + jaquette illustrée - 259 pages -Iconographie en noir & blanc et en couleurs
Référence libraire : 89362
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Forray, Iván / Heicke, Joseph.
Mekkai kalmár [Mecca tradesman]. Vienna, Reiffenstein & Bösch, [1850].
Hand-coloured lithograph (502 x 370 mm), some parts varnished with albumin, matted (620 x 478 mm). Colour lithograph by Joseph Heicke, showing a Hejaz merchant, based on a drawing by the Hungarian artist and traveller Iván Forray. - Some light duststaining and waterstaining.
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Forrest AC. A. C.
The Unholy Land
Toronto: McCLelland & Stewart 1971. Second Printing. SIGNED 8vo. pp. xii 173. SIGNED on the half-title "Sincerely Al Forrest." Black cloth with silver spine titles housed in a price-intact dust jacket. Bookplate designed by Thoreau MacDonald on front pastedown. Primarily black dust jacket slightly scuffed tiny 1/8" abrasion on spine else very good book in a very good dust jacket. Includes ephemeral newspaper clippings and a photocopy of his article in The Observer Apr./68 "What happened when I criticized Israel." Dr. Forrest was editor of the United Church Observer for 23 years. "In the late 1960s Mr. Forrest travelled through the Middle East Jordan Lebanon Israel Gaza Strip Egypt to gather facts from the people and with the results publiched 'The Unholy Land' which he fled was unbiased. It was his opinion that there will be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians are given a homeland by the nations of the world." from a "Letters to the Editor" article 18 Jan. '79 shortly after his death. Signed. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Toronto: McCLelland & Stewart, 1971. Second Printing. SIGNED Hardcover
Référence libraire : 1579
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Forsskål, Pehr / Niebuhr, Carsten (ed.).
Flora aegyptiaco-arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas Aegyptum inferiorum et Arabiam felicem. Copenhagen, Möller for Heineck and Faber, 1775.
4to (245 x 190 mm). 32, CXXVI, (2), 219, (1) pp. Complete but irregular pagination. With full-page engraved map of part of Yemen, drawn by Niebuhr and engraved by Peter Haas. 19th century half calf over green marbled boards. All edges marbled, title in gilt on spine. First edition of a "pioneer work by the great botanist Forskål which substantially increased the knowledge about the vegetation in the areas he visited. The author proposed 50 new genera, half of which are still valid" (Hünersdorf). The Swedish botanist Peter Forsskål (1732-1763), a brilliant pupil of Linnaeus, was part of the famously doomed Royal Danish expedition to Arabia 1761-1767. Despite his success in studying Arabic and collecting and recording numerous botanical and zoological specimens, all but one of Forsskål's party perished; Forsskål himself contracted malaria and died in Yemen at only thirty-one. The sole survivor was the group's cartographer, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), who returned to Sweden and published Forsskål's meticulous notes, preserved in this volume, which describe a staggering number of Arabian plants for the first time in modern scientific terms. Forsskål was also known for using local Arabic terms for plants and animals in assigning them Latin names. Many Arabic terms are listed alongside botanical descriptions in this volume as well, appearing in both Latin and Arabic scripts. Among these are coffee and the drug plant qat (Catha edulis). Indeed, Forsskål and Niebuhr were the first Europeans to taste the qat. In a note added to his description, Forsskål describes the cultivation and uses of the drug, observing how the Arabs chewed the green leaves to stay awake all night (p. 64). The volume closes with one of Niebuhr's maps, showing the Western side of the Arabian Peninsula, today Saudi Arabia, as it was in the 1760s. - Light external wear, otherwise well-preserved. Pritzel 2969. Hünersdorf, Coffee, pp. 517-518. Stafleu & Cowan 1819. Cf. I. Friis, "Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia", in: Archives of Natural History, vol. 42, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 101-112..
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Forster, Charles.
The Historical Geography of Arabia; or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Hadramaut. London, Duncan and Malcolm, 1844.
8vo. 2 vols. LXXXIII, (1), 357 pp. VI, 509, (1) pp. With two large folding frontispiece maps of the Arabian Peninsula (56 cm x 41 cm), a large folding chart of inscriptions, 1 engraved plate of inscriptions, and one further folding translation of the same inscription. Apparently never bound with the "vignette plate of Nakab el Hajar" supposed to face p. 335. Repairs to both maps. Only edition of this detailed study of place names, tribal geneaologies, and pre-Islamic inscriptions. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani). Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Gay 3570. Ghani 136. Brunet 19594. NYPL Arabia Coll. 166. OCLC 4892705.
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Fosdick Harry Emerson.
A Pilgrimage to Palestine.
London Student Christian Movement 1928. Crown octavo. Pp. xiii 332. Footnotes chronology bibliography indices. Hardcover original blue cloth spine gilt sunned some underlines. Good. ~ First British edition. With index of Scriptural references and extended index of subjects and proper names. The story of a four months journey to Egypt Palestine and Syria with emphasis on geography history and Biblical sources. London, Student Christian Movement, 1928. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0839
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FOSDICK Harry Emerson.
A Pilgrimage to Palestine.
New York:Macmillan1927. 2nd imp. Pp.16/332folding coloured map frontis. photo of Fosdick pasted to verso front covergift inscription to fep pencilled signatures to rear endpaper. Blue cloth gilt title to front spine slightly sunned. G. . New York:Macmillan,1927. hardcover
Référence libraire : 16598
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Fossey Charles
La Magie Assyrienne. Etude suivie de textes magiques transcrits, traduits et commentés par C. Fossey.
(Assiriologia - Magia - Mesopotamia - Occultismo - Esoterismo - Storia delle religioni - Medio Oriente) In 8°, legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con punte, carta decorata ai piatti, pp. (10),474,(2). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses. Edizione originale. Una vecchia firma di appartenenza al recto dell'occhiello. Ottimo stato di conservazione.
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Fossey Charles
Manuel d'Assyriologie. Fouilles, Ecriture, Langues, Litterature, Geographie, Histoire, Religion, Institutions, Art. Tome Deuxieme: Evolution des Cuneiformes. Fascicules 1, 2, 3 et 4.
Louis Conard 1926 4 volumes In-8, 25 cm, 1149 pp., exemplaire aux pages non coupees
Référence libraire : 133694
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FOUCHET, Max-Pol:
Indes. - L'art amoureux des Indes. Texte et photographies de Max-Pol Fouchet. ‘Album Guilde du livre’, 288.
Lausanne, Guilde u Livre, s.d. (1957), gr. in-4°, 95 p., illustré, cartonnage original illustré.
Référence libraire : 9675aaf
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Fourier, Charles / Dain, Charles.
De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage [...]. (Extrait de La Phalange, Journal de l’École Sociétaire). Paris, au Bureau de la Phalange, 1836.
8vo. (4), 54 pp, (1 integral blank leaf). Purple wrappers. Extremely rare sole edition of these definitive statements on slavery by both Fourier and his disciple, the Guadeloupe-born créole lawyer Charles Dain. Both Fourier’s article (“Remède aux Divers Esclavages”, pp. 43-54) and Dain’s “De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage” had also appeared in the impossibly rare "Première Serie" of the journal La Phalange (1836-40). Giving up his legal career in Paris, Dain (1812-72) turned to Fourier and the proto-Communists and was elected Representative for Guadeloupe by the newly-emancipated slaves there in 1848. - “Charles Fourier denounced British apprenticeship [an intermediate solution for emancipated slaves] and the compensation for slave owners embedded in the parliamentary emancipation bill of 1833: ‘And the fruit of this gigantic donation? Nothing other than a vicious circle, as we see in England, where […] one finds […] legions of poor, both theoretical and real” (Jennings, French Anti-Slavery, p. 44). “As far as the indemnity was concerned, Fourier opposed the need for it from the very first words of his [Remède aux Divers Esclavages]. He believed it was madness to spend millions on freeing the slaves, as the English government had done and as the anglophiles among the French advocated […] On the other hand, for Fourier, slavery was the same kind of problem as poverty […] The cause was the excessive fragmentation of landholdings which prevented small landowners from supporting the costs needed to work the land productively” (Simona Pisanelli, Economic Thought and Institutional Change in France, p. 69). - Fourier (1772-1837) and Dain thus believed in a ‘gradualistic’ approach to emancipation and considered slavery as just one of many ‘servitudes’ inflicted upon humanity by corrupt and immoral social strictures. Here, Dain comments that “what we especially call slavery is only the culminating and pivotal point where all of the suffering of society comes together”. These concepts ultimately made their way to America, influencing Albert Brisbane and the American Associationists (cf. Guarnerip, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in 19th-Century America, pp. 252f.). - OCLC shows just a handful of copies worldwide, including just one in the US – at the George Washington University Law Library (an apparently physical copy noted on OCLC with 26 holdings is in fact a digital reproduction). As noted above, examples of the Première Serie of La Phalange (1836-40) are of the utmost rarity (we can find no copies in auction records of the last 50 years). - The present copy sounds very similar to (and may well be) the copy sold at Pierre Bergé in 2013 for €1,180 (“la plaquette est rare. Exemplaire en partie debroche, manques de papier au dos”). - Traces of old block-stitching in the gutter; pages clean and fresh. A good copy. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature II, 29695. Cf also Schmidt, Abolitionnistes de l'esclavage et réformateurs des colonies: 1820-1851, p. 199; Andrews, “Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation”, The Journal of Modern History 85 (2013), pp. 489-527.
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FOURLAS (Benjamin) Und TSAMAKDA (Vasiliki) (Hrsg.)
WEGE NACH BYZANZ. Ausstellung im Landesmuseum Mainz, vom 6. November 2011 bis zum 5. Februar 2012.
Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 2011. In-4, publisher hardback, 354pp, many color phot. in and out text., catalog, bibliography.
Référence libraire : 563453
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Fox Edward
Palestine Twilight
London: HarperCollins 2001. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Part historypart true-crime storyPalestine Twilight weaves the facts of Glock's murder with the history of biblical archaeologyand the brutal febrile politics of the intifada.277pp. HarperCollins Hardcover
Référence libraire : 046168 ISBN : 0002556073 9780002556071
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Fr. Eugene Hoade O. P. M.
Guide To The Holy Land
<p>This is an excellent copy of Father Hoade's guide geared to Catholic pilgrims. This copy is amazingly crisp and fresh and is particularly full of obscure facts concerning the history of the Crusaders in Jerusalem.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Franciscan Press hardcover
Référence libraire : biblio877
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Frady Marshall
ACROSS A DARKLING PLAIN:
New York: Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row 1971. Stated First edition. hardcover. Very Good /very good. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles. 199 pages. Illustrated price clipped dust-jacket designed by Minor White is worn at spine ends. <br/><br/> Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row hardcover
Référence libraire : 000655
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Francesco Gabrieli
The Arab Revival
<p>Hardback 178 pages ex-library book with rubber-stamp marks very good condition tight binding clean pages missing dustjacket. </p> Random Hous hardcover
Référence libraire : 504
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Francis Robinson
The Mughal Emperors : And the Islamic Dynasties of India Iran and Central Asia -
Thames and Hudson Publishers - 2007. Gd. condition - Rulers from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries who all shared the Muslim persianate high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to India. . TR88090z. Hard Cover. Good. Thames and Hudson Publishers - Hardcover
Référence libraire : 8090z ISBN : 0500251347 9780500251348
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Franck Harry Alverson
The Fringe of the Moslem World: Being the Tale of a Random Journey by Land from Cairo to Constantinople with Enough of Present Conditions to Suggest the Growing Antagonistic Attitude of the Followers of Mohammed Toward Those Who Profess Christianity
NY: The Century Co. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn some foxing to first and last . several pages of text shaken. 1928. First Printing. Hardcover. Green decorative cloth binding. Map endpapers photos. The author toured through Turkey Syria Lebanon Israel Palestine and Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 426 pages . The Century Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 27125
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FRANCK (Adolphe)
Etudes orientales
Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1861 in-8, [4]-XI-477 pp., demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque). Bon exemplaire.
Référence libraire : 232988
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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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Frank Gerold
The Deed
Simon & Schuster 1963. Stated first printing. Black cloth and topstain gilt titles and inscription to front and spine. A story involving the assassination of Lord Moyne British Minister of State in the Middle East when the British were in charge and the State of Israel had not yet been created. Frank also wrote other high-profile books including The Boston Strangler Beloved Infidel and I'll Cry Tomorrow. Book very good with owner name and date to ffep partially crossed out. DJ also very good with small chip to head of spine several short repaired tears edgewear. 317 pp. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Référence libraire : 12654
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Frank Gervasi
The Violent Decade -
W.W. Norton Publishing - 1989. Hardcover/pub.1989/Gd. condition/639 pages - Discusses a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East 1935-1945. AI529240. Hardcover -. Good. W.W. Norton Publishing - Hardcover
Référence libraire : 29240
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Frank Rice
Eastern Arabic -
Khayats Press - 1966. PB/pub. 1966/Fair condition/400 pages - An introduction to the spoken arabic of Palestine Syria and Lebanon. J64675z. Soft Cover. Good. Khayats Press - Paperback
Référence libraire : 4675z
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Frank, Othmar.
Chrestomathia Sanskrita, quam ex codicibus manuscriptis, adhuc ineditis, Londini exscripsit, atque in usum Tironum versione, expositione, tabulis grammaticis etc. illustratam edidit [...]. Munich, typographice ac lithographice opera et sumtibus propriis, 1820-1821.
Large 4to (222 x 253 mm.). 2 parts in one volume. XII, 194, (2) pp. (4), 147, (3) pp., all lithographed save for 1 page. With 6 lithographed plates (4 folding). Original temporary grey boards as issued. Rare; one of the first Sanskrit works published in Germany. Lithographed throughout (with the exception of a single letterpress page at the beginning of part 2) and published at the author's expense: "Alles über Umdruck lithographisch gedruckt" (Winkler). Contains the earliest (partial) edition of the Bhagavadgita (in part 2), pre-dating August Wilhelm Schlegel's edition - admittedly better printed - by several years. The former Benedictine monk Frank (1770-1840), an admirer of Persian philosophy, studied oriental languages in Paris and London. In 1821 he took the chair of Indian and Persian at Würzburg University and went to Munich in 1826 as Professor of Sanskrit. In spite of his pioneering work, he exerted little influence on the development of linguistics and Sanskrit studies, probably due to his penchant for mysticism and his laboured, nebulous prose (cf. ADB). - Boards worn; some browning and staining as common. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Graesse II, 629. Winkler 224. ADB VII, 260.
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Frankel Glenn
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel
New York: Simon & Schuster Ltd 1995. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Some light shelf wear to edges and corners of D/J. Simon & Schuster Ltd Hardcover
Référence libraire : 040285 ISBN : 0671796496 9780671796495
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Frankel Glenn
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel
New York: Simon & Schuster 1994 Nice copy. Binding and pages secure text clean and free of markings. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25. Simon & Schuster hardcover
Référence libraire : 207005 ISBN : 0671796496 9780671796495
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Frankel William editor
Israel : The First Forty Years
London: Thames & Hudson 1987. The epic story of Israel's first forty years with classic photographs conveying the essence of its history. Introduction by Abba Eban. 184 duotone illustrations. Large format hardback - 200 pages including index. Prompt dispatch. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Thames & Hudson Hardcover
Référence libraire : 029332 ISBN : 0500541272 9780500541272
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Frankfort Henri & HA Wilson John A. & Jacobsen Thorkild
Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin 1959 Classic vintage Penguin edition first published 1946. Tight reading copy with some neat underlinings 275p. Reprint. Pbk. Good. Penguin paperback
Référence libraire : 26139
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Frankland-Russell, Robert.
Six sketches in lithography representing the common actions of the Horse. London, C. Turner, 1842.
Folio (54.5 x 38 cm). Six tinted lithographs by Day & Haghe after "R.F.R.". Original drab wrappers. First edition in original wrappers. The large tinted lithographs show "walking", "ambling", "trotting", "cantering", "galloping", and "leaping". - Light spotting in the margins, one plate with a short tear in the margin. Spine worn, some soiling to wrappers.
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FRANZ KAFKA, (1883-1924).
[PERSIAN 'METAMORPHOSIS' TRANSLATED BY SADIQ HEDAYAT] Maskh wa Girâkûs-i sikârcî. Tarquma-i Sadiq Hedayat, (1903-1951). Ba indimâm-i: Mihmân-i murdagân, Samsâr, Dar kanîsa-yi mâ. Targuma-i Hasan Qâ'imyân.
Fine Persian Paperback. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 11,5 cm). In Persian. 200 p. Sadegh Hedayat [Sadiq - Sadigh Hidayet], (1903-1951), was an Iranian writer, translator, and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. Hedayat subsequently devoted his whole life to studying Western literature and to learning and investigating Iranian history and folklore. The works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, and Guy de Maupassant intrigued him the most. During his short literary life span, Hedayat published a substantial number of short stories and novelettes, two historical dramas, a play, a travelogue, and a collection of satirical parodies and sketches. His writings also include numerous literary criticisms, studies in Persian folklore, and many translations from Middle Persian and French. He is credited with having brought the Persian language and literature into the mainstream of international contemporary writing. There is no doubt that Hedayat was the most modern of all modern writers in Iran. Yet, for Hedayat, modernity was not just a question of scientific rationality or a pure imitation of European values. In his later years, feeling the socio-political problems of the time, Hedayat started attacking the two major causes of Iran's decimation, the monarchy, and the clergy, and through his stories, he tried to impute the deafness and blindness of the nation to the abuses of these two major powers. He felt alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, and his last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation, and the sense of doom experienced by those subjected to discrimination and repression. OCLC: 777571775 (Leiden Bibliotheek). First Edition in 1950 [1329].
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FRANZ TOUSSAINT
Le voyage du khalife
conte des mille et un jours. In 12 carré broché, faux-titre, titre, 155 pages, Editions Jules Tallandier 125 novembre 1927 collection les chefs d’œuvre de l’orient. Belle édition sur beau papier, dos légèrement insolé
Référence libraire : 10706
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Franzius Enno
History Of The Order Of Assassins
New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The edges of the text block have spots of discoloration. The front pastedown page has a previous owner's inked name and date. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and spots of chipping along with spots of discoloration and wear. "Historian author. Franzius was a lecturer in history at Columbia University 1945-1958. His major published works are HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE N. Y. Funk & Wagnalls 1968 and HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF ASSASSINS N. Y. Funk & Wagnalls 1969." "Assassins is the term used to refer to a group of individuals who were active during the medieval period known as Nizari Ismailis. Often described as a secret order led by a mysterious "Old Man of the Mountain" the Nizari Ismailis were a sect that formed in the late 11th century from a split within Ismailism � a branch of Shia Islam. The Nizaris posed a strategic threat to Sunni Seljuq authority by capturing and inhabiting several mountain fortresses throughout Persia and later Syria under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah. Asymmetric warfare psychological warfare and surgical strikes were often an employed tactic of the assassins drawing their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them." . Funk & Wagnalls hardcover
Référence libraire : A35344
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François Massoulié
I conflitti del Medio Oriente
François Massoulié I conflitti del Medio Oriente. , Giunti Editore 2001, Buone condizioni: libro in buono stato, copertina in buono stato, dorso con lievi segni di usura, tagli leggermente sporchi, pagine pari a nuovo, scritta a penna sul frontespizio Buono (Good) . <br> <br> Copertina flessibile <br> 160<br> 8809202732
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Fraser James B. Baillee
An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With a Detailed View of Its Resources Government Population Natural History and the Character of Its Inhabitants . Including .Afghanistan and Beloochistan
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1834. Second Edition . Quarter Morocco. Fine Book. 6 5/8" Tall. Folding Map and 13 Engravings By Jackson. 472 Pp. A Fine Copy Spine Gilt Very Strong Original Purple Morocco Spine And Tips Original Purple Cloth Original Watered Endpapers And Watered Edges Of Page Block Contents Fine Leather Just Recently Professionally Refreshed. Contents Immaculate Pages Crisp Map Undamaged No Foxing. Heraldic Bookplate "Sperate Et Vivitefortes" Of The Welsh Cavalry Senior Cavalry Of The British Army On Front Pastedown Ownership Signature "John Clements Queens Dragoon Guards" On Verso Of First Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Oliver & Boyd unknown
Référence libraire : 023418
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Frederick Davis Greene MA. and Henry Davenport Northrup DD. M. A. D. D.
Armenian Massacres or The Sword Of Mohammed to which is added The Mohammedan Reign Of Terror In Armenia
<p>This is a good reading copy complete though somewhat stressed in all categories hence the lower price. The engravings are extremely evocative and regardless of one's situation as to the present relations informative as to the roots of today's struggles. A low-cost option.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> American Oxford Publishing Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : biblio903
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Fredrik Barth
Nomado Of South Persia -
Waveland Press - 1961. PB/pub.1961/Gd. condition/161 pages - Discusses the Basseri tribe of the Khamseh confederacy. AR128063. Soft Cover. Good. Waveland Press - Paperback
Référence libraire : 28063
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Freed Rita E
Ramses II. the Great Pharaoh and His Time
Denver Museum of Natural History. 1987 Second printing in hardcover with slipcase. 215 pp. Chronology maps color plates reading list index. Minor wear to slipcase otherwise Fine/Fine. Book. Denver Museum of Natural History. hardcover
Référence libraire : 26138
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Freedman Robert O. editor
The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
Univ. Press of Florida 1993. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Univ. Press of Florida hardcover
Référence libraire : 010757 ISBN : 0813012147 9780813012148
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Freedman Robert O. editor
The Middle East Since Camp David
Boulder CO: Westview 1984. Map. Bibliography. Index. Westview Special Studies on the Middle East. xiv 263 pages. 22.8 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Very Good/none. ISBN: 0-86531-658-9 . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Boulder CO: Westview, (1984) paperback
Référence libraire : 7873 ISBN : 0865316589 9780865316584
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Freely John
The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara
Woodridge UK: Companion Guides 2000. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Trade paperback. As New condition. No store stamp owner's name or bookplate. Bright shiny clean square tight unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp obviously never read. Illustrated with 6 maps 11 plans and a few photos. Glossary. Food dictionary. List of Emperors Kings and Sultans. Select Bibliography. Index. From the rear cover: "Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This COMPANION GUIDE TO ISTANBUL goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore. Revised and updated for this new edition the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic interest around the Marmara including Edirne Bursa and Iznik ancient Nicaea as well as the renowned archaeological site of Homeric Troy. The book is also an introduction to Turkey itself and to its people and their way of life which they are more than willing to share with the traveller sic who takes the time to become acquainted with them. John Freely has lived and worked on America's east coast in Britain and around the Mediterranean but is long-time Professor of Physics at the University of the Bosphorus Istanbul and has lived for many years in Turkey. His understanding of the land and its people has made him a respected interpreter of Turkey ancient and modern." . First Edition. Soft Cover. Publisher's pictorial wraps. 428pp. Companion Guides Paperback
Référence libraire : 002761 ISBN : 1900639319 9781900639316
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Frenzel, F. A.
Joseph wird verkauft. Berlin, A. Sacco, ca 1860.
Toned lithograph. 375:540 mm. From a series of illustrations depicting the Old Testament story of Joseph within oriental scenery of bedouins, palms, and camels. Joseph (Yusuf) is regarded by Muslims as a prophet (Qur'an, suras vi, 84; xl, 34), and a whole chapter Yusuf (sura xii) is devoted to him, the only instance in the Qur'an in which an entire chapter is devoted to a complete story of a prophet. - A few edge flaws, some repaired, with some browning and staining.
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FRESCOBALDI LIONARDO.
Viaggio in Terrasanta.
In 8°, cart. edit. ill. (lievi tracce d'usura), pp. 156,(4) e num. tavv. d'ill. f.t.; coll. "Il Timone. N. 1"; nota a penna non pertinente all'occhietto, lievi fioriture sparse, nel complesso buon es.. (m121) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
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Freya STARK
The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
John Murray 1970. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece title-vignette plates and illustrations in the text and double-page map on green stock some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. John Murray, hardcover
Référence libraire : 27258
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Freytag, Carl.
Die Pferde-Racen des Orients und der südeuropäischen Staaten. Halle (Saale), Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1880.
Folio (260 x 330 mm). 156 pp. With 40 lithographed plates by H. Schenck. Original giltstamped green cloth. Marbled endpapers. Extensive, fully illustrated study of the horse breeds of the Orient and southern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to the Barb and the Arabian horse, praising the latter as "the noblest and most beautiful, possibly also the cleverest of all animals of its species". - Some foxing throughout; hinges repaired. OCLC 245766508. Cf. Huth 280 (series "Die Haustierracen"). Not in Boyd/P.
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Freytag, Georg Wilhelm.
Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst mit sechs Anhängen. Bonn/Leipzig, in Commission bei Carl Cnobloch, 1830.
8vo. XV, (1), 557, (1) pp. German & Arabic text. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped spine label; sprinkled edges. First edition of this compendium of Arabic versification. The German classicist and theologian Freytag (1788-1861) studied at Göttingen, but in his final year accepted an appointment as sub-librarian at Königsberg. In 1815 he became a chaplain in the Prussian Army and visited Paris in that capacity. Upon the proclamation of peace Freytag resigned his chaplaincy and returned to his research in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, studying in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. In 1819 he was appointed to the professorship of Oriental Languages at the new University of Bonn, and he held this post until his death. His principal work was the "Lexicon Arabico-Latinum" (Halle, 1830-1837), an abridgment of which was published in 1837. - Occasional browning; slight chipping to spine; early Swiss ownerships ("Dahler", "R. Tschudi", "Meier") to flyleaf. Stamp of "Stadt-Bibliothek Zürich" on upper cover; deaccessioned from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (stamp on reverse of t. p.). Zenker I, 342. Fück 166. Gay 3361.
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FRICK Frank S
Tell Taannek1963-1968: IV/2: The Iron Age of Cultic Structure
Birzeit: Birzeit University. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 0897570502 . Illustrated. First edition paperback. Fine in oversized pictorial wraps. . Birzeit University paperback
Référence libraire : 23448 ISBN : 0897570502 9780897570503
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FRICK Frank S
Tell Taannek1963-1968: IV/2: The Iron Age of Cultic Structure
Birzeit: Birzeit University. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 0897570502 . Illustrated. First edition paperback. Fine in oversized pictorial wraps. . Birzeit University paperback books
Référence libraire : 23448 ISBN : 0897570502 9780897570503
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