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Irby, Charles Leonard / Mangles, James.
Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor; During the Years 1817 & 1818 [...]. London, T. White & Co, 1823.
Small 4to. XXXIII, (1), 560 pp. With an engraved folding map of Asia Minor, 3 engraved plans (2 of which folding), and 6 lithographed plates. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped borders, spine and spine-labels. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by one of the authors to pastedown: "Captain Shiffner R.N. frm. Capt. Mangles". - Early privately published travelogue of the Middle East. It consists of 6 letters, the first and last of which are dated Cairo 1817 and Cyprus 1818 respectively. Irby and Mangles, both naval officers, assisted Giovanni Battista Belzoni in his excavation at the site of Abu Simbel, an independent account of which is given in the present work. From there, they travelled through the desert to Gaza, Jaffa, Beirut and Tripoli; thence to Baalbek and Antioch; and reached Aleppo, where they were among the earliest modern explorers of Syria. They continued to Palmyra, Damascus, down the Jordan valley, and through the Holy Land. - The engraved plans include a ground plan of the great temple of Ebsambal, a ground plan of Petra, and a portion of the Dead Sea. The lithograph plates, prepared by William Westall, James Duffield Harding, and others, include scenic views of the Nile and Aswan, as well as a botanical study of the Heshbon wheat. - Covers somewhat rubbed and spotted; rebacked preserving most of the original spine and green morocco labels. Corners bumped. Paper occasionally slightly foxed; the map with a small tear. From the library of Captain Henry Shiffner (b. 1789). Atabey 606. Blackmer 860. Ibrahim Hilmy I, 325. Weber I, 123. OCLC 257597235.
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Irwin, Eyles.
A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route Through the Desarts of Thebais, Hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year MDCCLXXVII. In letters to a Lady. London, J. Dodsley, 1780.
4to. XVI, 400 pp. With 3 folding maps and 3 plates. Contemporary full calf, spine elaborately gilt, leading edges gilt, red morocco label. Second edition (the earliest mentioned). Irwin relates the series of misadventures which occurred on his journey back from India after his dismissal from the East India Company. Following the near wreck of his ship he was taken prisoner by Arabs who took him to the Nile, whence he travelled to Cairo on his release. - The East India Company servant Eyles Irwin, born in Calcutta in 1751, was appointed to survey the Black Town in 1771 and "was made superintendent of the lands belonging to Madras [...] In 1776 he became caught up in the political storm that overtook the governor of Madras, George Pigot, who was placed in confinement by members of his own council. Irwin supported Pigot, and in August he was suspended from the company's service. Early in 1777 he left India in order to seek redress in England. Irwin later published an account of his journey home, which was entitled 'A series of adventures [...]'. In this he displayed his classical education and described his experiences and observations during the journey, which lasted eleven months [...] Irwin returned to India in 1780 as a senior merchant and his route was again overland, but this time via Aleppo, Baghdad, and the Persian Gulf" (ODNB). The author recounts his imprisonment in Yanbu, Arabia, and further voyage to Jeddah, as well as his adventures in Egypt, his journeys through the Peloponnesus and Balkans as well as Persia. He includes an "Ode to the Persian Gulf", which extols the beauties of Bahrain. In 1802, Irwin was to produce a musical play, "The Bedouins, or Arabs of the Desert: a Comic Opera in Three Acts" (1802), which played in Dublin for three nights. - The plates include views of the town of Mocha (al-Mukhah) on the shore of the Red Sea in Yemen, including its early mosques, and of the Straits of Bab al Mandab ("Babelmandel"). Also shown is a detailed view and chart of Yanbu, the port giving access to al Medina. - Macclesfield bookplates to front pastedown and free endpaper. Plates somewhat toned and offset, otherwise an excellent copy, sumptuously bound. Macro 1293. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 325. Gay 66. Brunet III, 459. Blackmer 865. Cf. Weber II, 576 (3rd ed.).
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Irwin, Eyles.
Begebenheiten einer Reise auf dem rothen Meer, auf der arabischen und ägyptischen Küste, ingleichen durch die thebaische Wüste. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1781.
8vo. (10), 476 pp. With 4 folding engr. plates and 3 folding engr. maps. Contemp. half vellum with blue marbled boards. All edges red. First German edition. "Irwin's report contains several additions to the observations of C. Niebuhr" (cf. Henze II, 688), and significantly more detailed maps and charts. The East India Company servant Eyles Irwin, born in Calcutta in 1751, was appointed to survey the Black Town in 1771 and "was made superintendent of the lands belonging to Madras [...] In 1776 he became caught up in the political storm that overtook the governor of Madras, George Pigot, who was placed in confinement by members of his own council. Irwin supported Pigot, and in August he was suspended from the company's service. Early in 1777 he left India in order to seek redress in England. Irwin later published an account of his journey home, which was entitled 'A series of adventures [...]'. In this he displayed his classical education and described his experiences and observations during the journey, which lasted eleven months [...] Irwin returned to India in 1780 as a senior merchant and his route was again overland, but this time via Aleppo, Baghdad, and the Persian Gulf" (ODNB). The author recounts his imprisonment in Yanbu, Arabia, and further voyage to Jeddah, as well as his adventures in Egypt, his journeys through the Peloponnese and the Balkans as well as Persia. He includes an "Ode to the Persian Gulf", in which he extols the beauties of Bahrain. In 1802, Irwin was to produce a musical play, "The Bedouins, or Arabs of the Desert: a Comic Opera in Three Acts (1802), which played in Dublin for three nights. - Translated by Johann Andreas Engelbrecht (1733-1803), commercial correspondent and average adjuster (not "J. A. E[beling]", as a contemporary owner has resolved the initials under the preface). Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped; pencil scribblings to last leaf but one. Slight brownstaining. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 865 (note). Chatzipanagioti-S. 463. Holzmann/B. II, 11272. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 326. Gay 66. Cox I, 232. Brunet III, 459. Graesse III, 430. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1293 (2nd London ed.).
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Irwin, Robert
Islamic Art
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 272 pages. Many color illustrations.
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Isaacs, Rev. A. A.
Four views of the mosques and other objects of interest occupying the site of the temple at Jerusalem. London, Day & Son, 1857.
Folio. 4 tinted lithographs drawn and lithographed from photographs taken by A. A. Isaacs. Original printed wrappers. First edition. A very scarce depiction of the great mosques of Jerusalem. The views are: "General View of the Great Mosque of the Sakara", "The Mosque of the Sakara and Judgement-Seat of David", "Facade of the Mosque El Aksa", and "The Marble Pulpit and Colonnades". The wrapper states that these are the first published views of the Mosques. - Lithographs lightly foxed, spine repaired. An excellent copy. Not in Abbey or Tobler.
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Isard Walter and Julian Wolpert editors
The Middle East: Some Basic Issues and Alternatives
Cambridge MA: Schenkman Publishing Company 1972. Published in collaboration with Peace Research Society International as Volume XV Papers. vii 167 pages. 22.8 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Cambridge MA: Schenkman Publishing Company, (1972) paperback
Bookseller reference : 7516
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Ishak Priest Amram
The History and Religion of the Samaritans
Nablus: Greek Convent Press Jerusalem n.d. . 37 pages. 23.9 cm. Wrappers Soft cover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Nablus: Greek Convent Press (Jerusalem), n.d paperback
Bookseller reference : 8785
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ISIN DEMIRKENT.
Haçli seferleri.
New Turkish Paperback. 4to. (28 x 24 cm). In Turkish. [14], 306, [2] p., color and b/w ills. Haçli seferleri.
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Iskandar, Amin ; Sa`dawi, `Atif ; Mashru' Dirasat al-Dimuqratiyah fi al-Buldan al-`Arabiyah.
Nahwa ruyah wataniyah li-ta`ziz al-dimuqratiyah fi Misr : buhuth wa-munaqashat al-nadwah al-fikriyah allati nazzamaha Mashru` Dirasat al-Dimuqiratiyah fi al-Buldan al-`Arabiyah [al-musharikun] Amin Iskandar [et al.] ; tahrir `Atif al-Sa`dawi.
Quarto custom bound in black boards; 390 p. , bib., index ; 24 cm In Arabic. Scarce in cloth thus. || Study of democracy in Egypt.
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Iskander Zaky and Alexander Badawy. Inscribed Copy
Brief History of Ancient Egypt
Cairo Egypt 1954 Third edition in trade paperback. This edition is revised and considerably enlarged. Inscribed by Mr. Badawy to noted RLDS churchman George Njiem on the half-title page. 202 pp. Figures bibliography index. Some staining to the covers mostly on rear. Good. Trade Paperback. Good. LR8-1. paperback
Bookseller reference : 255036
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Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation Center for Cultural and Internation Studies
Six Theories About the Islamic Revolution's Victory
Iran: Alhoda Publishers 2000. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corners of covers a little rubbed. Some light rubbing to edges of covers and head and tail of spine. Alhoda Publishers Paperback
Bookseller reference : 040299 ISBN : 9644722299 9789644722295
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Islamin Nuru [The Light of Islam].
Hicaz Rehberi. Haccin, Faydalarini, Yollarini, Tarifelerini, Dualarini planla ve Cedvellerle gösterir [...]. Istanbul, Ismail Akgün Matbaasi, 1952.
Small 8vo (126 x 177 mm). 63, (1) pp. With several black and white illustrations; 2 large folding maps (63 x 42 cm / 43 x 51 cm) inserted in a paper pocket on the inner side of the rear wrapper. Original printed wrappers. Rare "Hicaz Rehberi" (Hijaz guide): a detailed Turkish-language guide to the Hajj and the Hejaz region, including maps of Mecca and Medina as well as instructions for the routes, for prayers and tariffs, and other various useful tips for pilgrims. The two folding maps are "Ravza-I Mutahhara'nin Plani" (The Map of the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi) and "Kâbe-i Muazzamanin Haritasi ve Hac ile Umrenin Menâsiki" (The Map of the Kaaba and the Place of Worship of Hajj and Umrah). - Original seller's label pasted to back cover. Old ink ownership, dated 1958, to title-page. Slightly age-toned and stained. Extremely rare: no institutional copies recorded in OCLC or KVK.
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Ismael Tareq & Haddad William ed.
Iraq: The Human Cost of History
Pluto Press 2004. 269 pp. The contributors " . reveal why the sanctions regime failed in its most basic aims and ask serious questions about the real motivations of the powers involved . " Appears unread. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pluto Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 011095 ISBN : 0745321488 9780745321486
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Ismael Tareq Y. with Naseer H. Aruri P. Edward Haley et al
The Middle East in World Politics: A Study in Contemporary International Relations
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1974. Paper bound first edition 297pp includes reference notes background readling list and index. Owner name and address inked to half title page. Few scattered markings to text else very good. 590 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1974 unknown
Bookseller reference : 21368 ISBN : 0815601018 9780815601012
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ISMAIL YIGIT.
[Umayyads, (661-750)] Emevîler, 661-750.
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 343 p. [Umayyads, (661-750)] Emevîler, 661-750. Umayyads, founded in Damascus by Mu'awiya b. Abu Sufyan and lived for 90 years, was the first dynastical state in the Islamic History. The Umayyad period is well-known with the transition of the office of caliphate into a dynasty as well as with fight against opposing groups and conquests gained outside. In this period, in which Istanbul was sieged for several times, the boundaries of the state have stretched from Turkestan to inner France and from Anatolia to India thanks to the conquests gained in east and west, thus spreading Islam rapidly in this vast land. The Umayyad period, in which studies in the field of Islamic sciences increased, and consequently led to increased number in the production of the books, witnessed the emergence of the first political and sectarian movements as well. The foundations of Islamic art was also laid in this period.
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ISMET GIRITLI.
Super powers in the Middle East.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 202 p. Super powers in the Middle East.
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Ispahani Mahnaz Z
Roads and Rivals : The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of Asia
Ithaca NY U.S.A.: Cornell University Press 1989. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 303762 ISBN : 0801422205 9780801422201
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Israeli Raphael
The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas & Babylonian Intrigue - The Regional Impact on Shi'ites Kurds Sunnis & Arabs: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue - . Impact on Shi'ites Kurds Sunnis and Arabs
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 2004. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 278pp. Sussex Academic Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032765 ISBN : 1903900905 9781903900901
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Israeli Defence Forces, West Bank Command.
Minsharim, tsavim u-minuyim [Proclamations, Orders and Appointments] shel Mifkedet kohot Tsahal be-ezor ha-Gadah ha-ma`aravit. Mahashir, awamir wa-Ta`yinat sadirah `an Qiyadat Quwat Jaysh al-Difa` al-Israili fi mantaqat al-Diffah al-Gharbiyah. (Jerusalem, Merkaz press), August-December 1967.
Small folio (207 x 311 mm). 295, (1) pp. 26 ff., numbered 1-27. Issues 1 through 7 (of 8) bound together, with an additional booklet is bound at the end of the volume (addendum file no 1., 29 Oct. 1967). Contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt-printed title label in Hebrew and Arabic to upper cover. The first orders issued by the IDF military authorities in the West Bank after the Six-Day War (Milhemet Sheshet Ha-Yamim, or Harb 1967). Printed in Hebrew and Arabic, the pamphlets include more than a hundred and fifty orders, proclamations and lists of position-holders. - Binding somewhat stained, but generally well preserved. OCLC 20345168.
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Issawi Charles
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
New York: Columbia University Press 1982. 304 pages. 23.3 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Good. Dust jacket is faded on spine. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1910
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Issawi Charles
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
New York: Columbia University Press 1982. Bibliography. Index. xiii 304 pages. 23.3 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Very Good. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5203
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Issawi Charles
Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts Studies in Middle Eastern History
New York NY U.S.A.: Oxford University Press Incorporated 1998. clean unmarked copy. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Oxford University Press, Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : 306410 ISBN : 0195118138 9780195118131
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ISSAWI Charles
Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts
Oxford University Press 1998. hbk . small 8vo. 150pp. ISBN:0195118138 excellent in dj . Oxford University Press, 1998, hardcover
Bookseller reference : MdE61-B ISBN : 0195118138 9780195118131
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Issawi Charles
Crusades and Current Crises in the Near East: A Historical Parallel
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs 1957. Offprint from International Affairs Vol. 33 No. 3 July 1957. Inscription on cover: "To Aziz Atiya To whom this little study owes everything C. I.". 11 pages numbered 269-279. 24.6 cm. Wrappers Softcover. Condition: Good/none. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1957 paperback
Bookseller reference : 7699
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Issawi Charles
Egypt: An Economic and Social Analysis
London: Oxford University Press 1947. Hard bound 1st ed. 219pp inc. bibliography & index. Very good in rubbed dust jacket. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. London: Oxford University Press, 1947, unknown
Bookseller reference : 2008
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ISSERLIN BSJ. B. S.
The Israelites.
London: Thames & Hudson 1998. 1st ed. "Meticulously researched this detailed and informative study will be invaluable to both general and specialist readers as well as anyone interested in the Bible and its world." 26cms. x 18cms. Pp. 304 159 illustrations. Green cloth gilt title to spine illustrated d/w. VG/VG. . London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28764
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ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER L'ASIA
Siria. A cura di Massimo Cremonese
150 pagine; 24 cm. Brossura editoriale. Ottimo
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Itamar Rabinovich
The War For Lebanon 1970-1983 -
Cornell University Press - 1984. Hardcover/pub.1984/Gd.conditionex-lib/241 pages - Discusses the war for Lebanon. HA938345. Hard Cover. Good. Cornell University Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38345
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Ivan Mannheim
Footprint : Jordan Handbook. The Travel Guide
London: Footprint 2000. Maps. Spine uncreased photographic covers. First Edition. Soft Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Footprint unknown
Bookseller reference : 39629 ISBN : 0658010867 9780658010866
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Ives, Edward.
A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV, and an Historical Narrative or the Operations of the Squadron and Army in India, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive [...]. Also, a Journey from Persia to England, by an Unusual Route [...]. London, Edward & Charles Dilly, 1773.
Large 4to. XII, 506 pp. With 2 folding maps and 13 plates. Modern red calf retaining original giltstamped spine label. First edition. - The British surgeon Edward Ives travelled to East India on an Admiral's ship in 1754. After working at a local hospital for a while, he returned to England in 1758. His return route through the Middle East was the same as that chosen, but a few years later, by Carsten Niebuhr: from Basra via Hille, Baghdad, Mosul, Diarbekr, Biredjik, and Haleb to Latakia. He met with Mubarak bin Sabah, the Sheikh of "Grane" (Kuwait): "In connection with Kuwait, Ives's text is especially important for the insight it gives into the economy of caravan traffic and Kuwait's place in it. Many sources present Kuwait as a port, oriented towards the sea. Ives shows another side of Kuwait. We see that the Shaikhs of Kuwait are quite mobile individuals, travelling to Syria with their camels. The Shaikh is landbound, occupied with caravans [...] The seaward side of Kuwait's economy was [...] controlled by the Al-Khalifa family" (Slot, 135). In addition, Ives was the first author to provide a detailed description of the ruins of Ktesiphon, previously visited by Pietro della Valle (cf. Henze). "Ives' presence at many of the transactions which he describes and his personal intimacy with Watson give his historical narrative an unusual importance, and his account of the manners and customs of the countries he visited are those of an enlightened and acute observer [...] The appendix contains an 'Account of the Diseases prevalent in Adml. Watson's squadron, a description of most of the Trees, Shrubs, and Plants of India, with their medicinal virtues'" (Cox). - Insignificant browning; a good copy. Howgego I, P117. Wilson 107. Diba 115. Cox I, 299. Henze II, 690f. Graesse III, 439. Slot, The Origins of Kuwait (1998), p. 135ff. & 187.
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Izzeddin Nejla
The Arab World: Past Present and Future
Chicago: Regnery 1953. Photos. Index. Foreword by William Ernest Hocking. Slight wear at corners. xii 412 pages. 24.5 cm. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: Regnery, 1953 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6223
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Izzeddin Nejla
The Arab World: Past Present and Future
Chicago: Regnery 1953. Photos. Chipped dj. Foreword by W. E. Hocking. xii 412 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: Regnery, 1953 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3211
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Izzeddin Nejla
The Arab World: Past Present and Future
Chicago: Regnery 1953. Photos. Foreword by W. E. Hocking. Hinge crack; corners bumped. xii 412 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Chicago: Regnery, 1953 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3670
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Izzeddin Nejla
THE ARAB WORLD: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1953. HC. very good light brown cloth hardcover no dustjacket. 19 B&W ill. The author brings together an appreciation of the Arab spirit and an understanding of the issues affecting the present and future of Arab national life. 412pp. Henry Regnery Company unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS011716I
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J. BAIKIE
Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley.
Methuen 1932. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece plates plans in the text and a map; original red cloth gilt back lower board lightly mottled at fore-edge else a very good bright clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION Methuen, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23602
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J. Maxwell Miller; John H. Hayes
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight wrinkling to lower edge of early pages and no bumping to corners. 523pp. A history of parts of the Middle East compared to the accounts given in the Old Testament.
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J. TALLIS. J. RAPKIN
Map of Arabia. Facsimile re-issue.
Felix Rosensteil's Widow & Son for Trident International n.d. c. 1985. Steel-engraved map on ivory stock measuring 12. 25 x 15.5 ins approx. 31.25 x 39.0 cms with engraved surface 8.75 x 11.75 ins approx. 22.0 x 30.0 cms coloured in outline; four coloured vignettes of Arab Women Arab Men with horse Camel and Palm and Mount Sinai illustrations by H. Warren; engraving by J. Rogers; decorative scroll frame incorporating title cartouche a fine copy. Mounted ready for framing in double card mount ivory over blue with gilt frame border. Rapkin's map for Tallis was first issued c. 1856 and contains significantly more detail that that produced for the 'Illustrated Atlas' of 1851. Areas covered include Babylon Basra Cairo Jerusalem Oman Persian Gulf Red Sea and Suez. This high-quality facsimile accurately reflects thetones of the contemporary hand colouring and makes a most attractive map at a fraction of the cost of the original. Felix Rosensteil's Widow & Son for Trident International, unknown
Bookseller reference : 5992
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JA. de C. HAMILTON ed. J. A.
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from Within. With a Foreword by Sir Stewart Symes. HUMPHREY BELL'S COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
Faber 1935. 8vo. First Edition with a large folding coloured map; handsomely bound in red full morocco back with raised bands lettered and ruled in gilt a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With the trade ticket of Hugh Rees of Regent Street on front paste-down. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR HUMPHREY BELL AND WAS PRESENTED BY HIM TO HIS ALMA MATER WITH ITS PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. One of the greatest English public servants of the Sudan Sir Bernard Humphrey Bell 1884-1959 was the second son of the Rev. J.T. Bell headmaster of Christ's Hospital School then at Hertford. He was educated at Christ's Hospital 1894-1903 followed by a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge where he graduated BA in 1906. In the following year he joined the Sudan Political Service and in 1912 married Lilian Constance Bagot daughter of the Rev. G.P. Dew. In 1917 he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn and from 1918-1923 served in Baghdad first as President of the Court of First Instance and then as President of the Court of Appeal. In 1923 he returned to Sudan as Judge of the High Court having first been appointed CBE in that year. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Sudan in 1926 and received the insignia of the second class of the Order of the Nile from the King of Egypt in 1929. From 1930-1936 he served as Legal Secretary to the Government of the Sudan after which he retired and was created KBE in the following year. During WWII he served as Assistant Legal Advisor to the Home Office. Sir Humphrey Bell died in Hampshire in 1959. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY. Faber, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21470
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Jabarti, 'Abd al-Rahman.
Merveilles biographiques et historiques; ou, Chroniques du Cheikh Abd-el-Rahman el Djabarti [...]. Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 1888-1896.
Small folio (188 x 278 mm). 9 volumes. X, 334; 309, (3); 276, (2); 298, (2); 235, (3); 328, (2); 429, (3); 382, (2); 335, (1) pp. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. First French edition. Translation of the "'Aja'ib al-athar fi al-tarajim wa-al-akhbar" by 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti (1754-1822): an important chronicle and source collection for the period of Ottoman rule in Egypt, an era largely marked by a dearth of historical sources from the inhabitants of the country. Jabarti's history is of particular importance for the early 19th century and the time of the French expedition, of which he gives a comprehensive account, as well as for the beginning of the regency of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Because of Jabarti's severely critical view of Muhammad Ali and his reign, the work was long banned in Egypt, and only after the accession of the Khedive Tewfiq did it see its first complete publication and translation (by Chefik Mansour bey, Abdulaziz Kalil bey, Gabriel Nicolas Kalil bey, and Iskender Ammoun effendi). - "The Cairo gentleman Al-Jabarti provides a remarkable, lucid and nuanced account on the French occupation in Egypt" (Fierro, 2). - A few insignificant edge tears or chips; a few paper flaws professionally repaired. Spines rubbed and scuffed; spine-ends chipped or repaired. Generally a very finely preserved set of this rare and important work on Egypt. OCLC 2513833. Not in Ibrahim-Hilmy.
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Jaber Kamel Abu; Buhbe Matthes; Smadi Mohammad
Income Distribution in Jordan
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1990. Scholarly text authored by a group of distinguished Jordanian economists examines the extent to which economic inequality in Jordan has increased since 1973 despite- and due to a concerted program of economic development. Utilizing empirical data on the distribution of income the authors analyze the wage and income differentials by occupation economic sector rural/urban variables; relationship to poverty-line social security and health care expenditures. Includes analyses of income distribution in the West Bank and Gaza. 208 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Westview Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : MS-27 ISBN : 0813379334 9780813379333
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JACQUEMART Albert
HISTOIRE DE LA CERAMIQUE. Etude descriptive et raisonnée des poteries de tous les temps et de tous les peuples.
Paris Hachette et Cie 1873. Grand et fort in-8 750pp. Rel éditeur plein vélin ivoire, dos lisse et plats ornés d'une composition géométrique et florale en couleurs, tête dorée (A. Souze). Orné de 200 figures gravées sur bois dans le texte, 1000 marques et monogrammes, 12 planches hors texte gravées à l'eau forte. Motifs en couleurs de la reliure très légèrement effacés par endroits,coupure sans manque page 418.
Bookseller reference : GITa406
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Jackh Ernest ed
Background of the Middle East
Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1952. Chapters by Harry Hazard Arthur Jeffery Philip Hitti Edgar Alexander Joseph Schacht Salo Baron Maurice Dimand Harry Howard et al. Maps. Index. Each chapter has a separate bibliography. Cover stained. vii 236 pages. 8vo. Hardcover. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1952) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5549
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Jackson Elmore
Middle East Mission : The Story of a Major Bid for Peace in the Time of Nasser and Ben-Gurion
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated 1983. Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 1983 V.Good HB ISBN: 0-393-01785-0. Hard Cover. Very Good. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008552 ISBN : 0393017850 9780393017854
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Jackson, James Grey.
An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the District of Suse. London, W. Bulmer, 1809.
Large 4to. XVI, 287, (1) pp. With 11 (5 folding) aquatints and 2 folding engraved maps. Modern marbled half calf, bound to style. First edition. "For sixteen years, Jackson lived in various parts of Morocco, where he tirelessly collected information on this country as well as on the interior of North Africa, including intelligence regarding commerce and trade routes to Timbuktu, and about that city" (cf. Henze). The plates show views as well as the local flora and fauna. The final addendum contains a brief list of phrases in the local dialects, including "Have you a horse?" and "camel", "dates", etc. - Slight brownstaining, but a good copy. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Abbey 296. Gay 1248. Henze II, 696. Graesse III, 441. Cf. Brunet III, 477 (3rd ed.).
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Jackson, Kate.
Around the World to Persia. Letters Written While on the Journey as a Member of the American-Persian Relief Commission in 1918. New York, printed only for private circulation among friends (by the New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, PA), 1920.
8vo. (2), 76 pp. , final blank leaf. Cloth-backed boards with paper title labels on front cover and spine. Privately published collection of letters from wartime Persia in 1918, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Maddalene and Murray Franklin with love from Kate Jackson". - Kate Jackson wrote a series of letters to her sister in the United States while she and her husband were travelling "to Persia as members of the American-Persian Relief Commission": while "quite personal in character, they present a picture of experiences under somewhat unusual conditions and during a very memorable period" (from the prefatory note by A. V. Williams Jackson). Few copies were printed, not for publication, but intended simply to be given to friends. - In the letters themselves, Jackson discusses studying Persian, her voyage via Japan and Bombay, being the only woman on a troopship up the Tigris, meeting Syrian and Armenian refugees on the way out of Baghdad, and the reports she has heard on the Armenian genocide, and describes the celebration of the Armistice in Tehran. - Covers somewhat worn, otherwise an inscribed copy in good condition. OCLC 10350636. Not in Wilson.
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Jacob Neusner
An Introduction To Judaism - A Textbook Reader
Westminster Press - 1991. Hardcover/pub.1991/Gd. condition/476 pages - A textbook and reader on an introduction to Judaism. AR628487. Hard Cover. Good. Westminster Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28487
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JACOBS MATTHEW F
Imagining The Middle East: The Building Of An American Foreign Policy 1918-1967
University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill: 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people politics and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the region have shaped justified and sustained U.S. cultural economic military and political involvement there. Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic business government and media specialists interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of World War I through the late 1960s. During that period Jacobs argues members of this network imagined the Middle East as a region defined by certain common characteristics - religion mass politics underdevelopment and an escalating Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and as a place that might be transformed through U.S. involvement. Thus the ways in which specialists and policymakers imagined the Middle East of the past or present came to justify policies designed to create an imagined Middle East of the future. Jacobs demonstrates that an analysis of the intellectual roots of current politics and foreign policy is critical to comprehending the styles of U.S. engagement with the Middle East in a post-9/11 world. Matthew F. Jacobs is assistant professor of history at the University of Florida. "A provocative book full of extraordinary archival research Imagining the Middle East is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the background to America's collision with radical Islam during the last quarter of the twentieth century." - Douglas Little Clark University author of American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 "Jacobs takes a novel compelling approach to the broad American experience in the Middle East during the formative years of U.S. national involvement there. This book makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the history of U.S. official and non-official interaction with the Middle East in the middle twentieth century." - Peter Hahn professor of history The Ohio State University University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill: 2011 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73972X1
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Jacquesson, Ernest, French civil engineer (1831-1860).
"Voyage en Égypte et en Palestine: notes et souvenirs". Autograph manuscript. N. p., 1856-1857.
Folio (ca. 200 x 292 mm). French manuscript on lined paper with calligraphed title. (174) pp. on 90 ff. in two loose fascicles (45 ff. each). Stored together with a 1920s typescript copy of the same text, (2) + 39 + 20 pp. on 62 ff., in modern half-calf portfolio with gilt title to spine in a cardboard slipcase. The original manuscript of Jacquesson's travelogue of Egypt and the Levant, written in connection with the preparations for the building of the Suez Canal (1859-69) and published in 1857. The civil engineer Ernest Jacquesson had travelled to Egypt together with Ferdinand de Lesseps, the father of the Suez Canal, and other members of the "Commission Internationale pour le percement de l'isthme de Suez" founded in 1855. In the preface, Jacquesson announces that he shall not write about the Canal project, as his friend, the politician and journalist Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, has already published "a series of highly interesting articles" on the subject, but will rather focus on "observations of the country, the mores and customs of its inhabitants, and on gathering interesting peculiarities" that he personally witnessed. The subsequent trip to Palestine is set in a context with the Crimean War: "At the current moment all eyes are directed towards Egypt [...] and towards Palestine considering the reforms that the new state of affairs, resulting from the Crimean War, will bring there imminently". - The journey lasted from November 1855 to April 1856, leading from Alexandria to Cairo, Upper Egypt, Nubia, via Alexandria to Jaffa, Ramla, Jerusalem, Jericho and back to Paris via Jerusalem and Marseille. Jacquesson and his company visited the most important monuments of Egypt and the Holy Land. On 30 November 1855 they enjoyed an audience in Cairo with Mohamed Sa'id Pasha of Egypt, who held a military parade in honour of his French guests. According to Jacquesson, de Lesseps introduced him and his companions individually to Sa'id Pasha. - As Jacquesson states in the preface, his notes had been previously published in the "Journal de la Marne" between June and September 1856, dating the present fair copy to between late 1856 and 1857. - Both covers somewhat dusty and soiled. The first fascicle shows a very minor waterstain affecting the right margin of a few pages; the cover leaf has several tears (partly affecting the title), some of which are restored. Some browning and stains overall, minor tears to the margins. The accompanying typescript is on French typewriter paper watermarked "Johannot et Cie Extra Strong", produced between ca. 1913 and 1936, showing punched holes and occasional light staining. Altogether in excellent state of preservation. E. Jacquesson, Voyage en Égypte et en Palestine: notes et souvenirs (Paris, J. Best, 1857).
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Jafarzadeh Alireza
Iran Threat The: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis
Basingstoke Hants United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. 9&1/2" by 6&1/2". Dark green binding with silver title clean and tight 284 pages; jacket is clean and bright. Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026690 ISBN : 1403976643 9781403976642
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Jafarzadeh Alireza
Iran Threat The: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis
Basingstoke Hants United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan 2007. 284pp. From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing expose of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in terror attacks to his impact on Iran's weapons program. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006790 ISBN : 1403976643 9781403976642
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