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POSENER (Georges)
L'enseignement loyaliste. Sagesse égyptienne du Moyen Empire.
Genève, Librairie Droz, 1976. In-8 broché, 150 pp., 7 pl. de reprod. photogr. en n/b., 89 retranscriptions, appendices, index.
Référence libraire : 591197
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Postel, Guillaume.
De la Republique des Turcs: & La ou l'occasion s'offera, des meures, & Loy de Tous Muhamedistes [Histoire et Consideration de l'origine, loy, et Coustumes Des Tartares, Persiens, Arabes, Turcs & Toutes Autes Ismaelites ou Muhamediques.... La Tiere Partie des Orientales Histoires]. Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.
Three parts in one volume. 4to. 220 x 155 mm. Woodcut device on general and parts titles. Early blindstamped calf, rebacked and refurbished retaining most of original spine. First edition, second issue. Guillaume Postel travelled to Constantinople in 1535 as official interpreter to the embassy of Jean de La Fort to the Turkish sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. He returned there in 1549, and was also the author of the first Arabic grammar in French. "His work is not so much a descriptive account of his travels as a compendium of information gleaned while traveling and from other sources. The third book, 'La Tierce Partie des Orientales Histoires', furnished an usually complete and accurate picture fo the governing system of the Ottoman Empire" (Blackmer). - Without final blank ff6, 2 single wormholes in lower margin of opening few leaves, small repair at inner lower corner of opening 2 leaves, early ownership inscription on first title. Cf. Adams P2015. Atabey 977. Blackmer 1335.
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Poujoulat Baptistin.
Voyage dans l'Asie Mineure en Mésopotamie à Palmyre en Syrie en Palestine et en Égypte. Faisant suite à la correspondance d'Orient I-III. THREE VOLUMES.
Bruxelles Meline Cans 1841. Three volumes. Small octavo. Pp. viii 292; 316; 294. All 3 half-titles present. Hardcover uniformly bound in contemporary quarter ribbed cloth and marbled boards slight rubbing to edges spine lettered and numbered in gilt bit discoloured in places. In a very good condition. ~ Rare complete set of the rare variant issue which was published in 3 volumes. Bruxelles, Meline, Cans, 1841. hardcover
Référence libraire : 5315
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POUJOULAT (Baptistin);
Histoire de JERUSALEM.
Vermot Paris 1855 1 vol. In-4 de VIII 464 pp.; demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons frappées à froid, tranches dorées.
Référence libraire : 15246
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Poulain de Bossay
Recherches sur Tyr et Palaetyr
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Paris, Arthus Bertrand1863 ; In 4 Br. 144 pp E.O. contient une carte de Tyr dépl.
Référence libraire : 35501774
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Poullet, Thomas.
L'ingenieur en abregé, ou introduction a la praticque de la geometrie, des sinus, & de la fortification, le tout expliqué, sans aucun embarrass de demonstrations, ny de citations, mais seulement par de simples proportionelles, regles d'arithmetique, definitions, & figures. Avec une nouvelle façon de fortifier. Vienna, Jean-Baptiste Hacque, 1673.
4to (150 x 190 mm). (40), 128 pp. With large engraved view on title-page, 3 full-page engr. plates in text, 9 half-page engr. plates in text, and 1 folding engr. plate bound at rear. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum with remains of manuscript title on spine. Extremely rare sole edition of this guide to fortification, written by a French sapper who had served in the Venetian navy during the Ottoman Siege of Candia (1648-69), in Crete. In his 40-page preface "au lecteur", Poullet writes at length about his experiences as a military engineer during the siege (illustrated in two half-page plates in text), and even includes 'attestations' in Italian of his military service under Marcantonio Giustiniani, dated from Zante (Greece), 1st March 1670. - Writing shortly before the Siege of Vienna in 1683, Poullet expresses the hope that his manual incorporates some of the lessons learned from the 21-year battle for Candia - seen as an impressive feat of resistance, despite ending in defeat for the Venetian forces. His illustrated examples of fortifications constantly refer to the best methods for fighting 'les Turqs' and the mistakes made in Crete. - With a handful of early manuscript corrections in text; plate 11 printed upside-down; head of spine with some loss, crudely repaired; internally one or two discreet wormholes, otherwise a very good copy. - A rare survival: OCLC shows just 5 copies worldwide (none in the US or UK); KVK adds one further, at the Austrian National Library. The copy at the Czech National Library is lacking one leaf of prelims. Mayer, Wiens Buchdrucker-Geschichte I, 1849.
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Powell E. Alexander
By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
NY: Garden City Publishing Co. 1923. reprint. Fair/no dust jacket front endpaper removed bookstore name/address stamp/small bookplate on front endpaper covers soiled. xxii 392 p. frontis photos fold-out map index Garden City Publishing Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 59619
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POWELL DAVIES A.
The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
New York: The New American Library of World Literature. 1956. "The story of the discovery of the ancient religious documents in a cave near the Dead Sea - with a scholarly interpretation of their relationship to the Holy Scriptures and the origin of Christianity". Pp 137 8 b/w illustrations slight toning to pages. P/b. Illustrated cover. G. . New York: The New American Library of World Literature. 1956. unknown
Référence libraire : 24527
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Powell, E[dward] Alexander.
The Last Home of Mystery. Adventures in Nepal together with accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway. Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co. (Star Books), (1929).
8vo. XI, (1), 332 pp. With 16 photographic illustrations on 8 plates, all in black-and-white halftone, one as a frontispiece. Publisher's illustrated orange cloth. First Garden City edition in the year of the Century Co. first issue. Includes mentions of the "Pirate Coast", Bahrein and the Gulf. The American author E. Alexander Powell (1879-1957) had worked war correspondent during World War I and was commissioned as a captain in military intelligence in 1917. He subsequently took up journalism before switching to a successful career as an adventure and travel writer. - Upper corner a little buckled; a few pencil annotations. From the collection of the Austrian civil servant Dr. Alfred Brandner, with his ownership stamp and inscribed to him (Vienna, 1941) on the flyleaf. OCLC 408932.
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Powers, R. W. et al.
Geology of the Arabian Peninsula. Sedimentary Geology of Saudi Arabia. A review of the sedimentary geology of Saudi Arabia as shown on USGS Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-270 A, "Geologic map of the Arabian peninsula", 1963. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966.
Large 4to. VI, 147, (1) pp. With 10 folding maps and plates stored loosely in envelope. Original printed wrappers. Front cover with owner's stamp "W. R. Farrand". - Binding slightly rubbed, larger tears to spine.
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Powys, Thomas Littleton, 4th Baron Lilford / Trevor-Battye, Aubyn (ed.).
Lord Lilford on birds. Being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late President of the British Ornithologists' Union [...]. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1903.
4to. XVII, (1), 312 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece and 12 plates. Contemporary full cloth with gilt hawk on front cover, giltstamped title to cover and spine. First edition. - Posthumously published work of natural history by the distinguished British ornithologist Lord Lilford (1833-96), whose aviaries at Lilford Hall, installed in the 1890s, aroused the envy of field ornithologists of the day and were especially noted for the collection of birds of prey. Edited by his friend, the traveller, naturalist and writer Aubyn Bernard Rochfort Trevor-Battye (1855-1922), it includes descriptions of the Lilford Hall premises, its ponds, paddocks, and aviaries, as well as notes on otter hunting, and an introduction to falconry written by Reverend Gage Earle Freeman, which, in matters of introducing the sport, is regarded "the best short essay ever written" (Barber). It features quotations from Lilford's earlier publications, as well as private letters, and a speech he gave in his role as President of the British Ornithologists' Union in February 1894, as well as some sections from the journal Lilford kept during his travels in the Mediterranean in 1874, 1878-79, and 1882. In addition, the work comprises an appendix drawing from Lilford's notes on everyday events in his aviaries, stating for example that his "English raven rolls and enjoys himself in the snow" (p. 272), as well as a complete list of his publications. The illustrations, carried out by the Scottish painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), are studies of individual birds in the Lilford aviaries, showing, inter alia, Lämmergeier, cranes, a golden eagle in its nest, a trained goshawk sitting on a falconer's hand, two ruffs fighting, flamingoes, and a Greenland falcon. The frontispiece depicts Lilford in his study with a dead falcon lying on his desk as well as a live song bird sitting on his backrest. - Small tears to spine; two small holes in the hinges; corners slightly bumped. Interior with occasional light brownstaining. Handwritten ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood, 16 January 1942, to front pastedown. Barber 10. Ballance, Birds in Counties 233. OCLC 314718094. Not in Harting, Schwerdt.
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Prendergast John
The Road To India: Guide to the Overland Routes to the East
London UK: John Murray 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Printing of this scarce title. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Two page map of the area in the center of the book. Orange cloth gilt titled very clean and unmarked with a small bump to the rear bottom edge otherwise fine. Internals clean and unmarked. The author has over 40 years experience driving in the East including 8 return trips to India by road since 1960. The overland route he took was through Turkey Iran Afghanistan and Pakistan to India with much information on vehicles distances traveling times gas stations etc with plenty of anecdote and history exploration of handicrafts of an area landscape etc. This particular route may be a thing of the past for a while-doesn't sound like a likely trip today! But wonderful for the armchair traveler or for those optimistic about future trips! 206 pages. 6 x 8.75 inches. 1977 John Murray London UK John Murray hardcover
Référence libraire : 015457
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Prep by DOGAN ERTUGRUL.
Dogu'nun kadin mirasi.
As New As New English Original softcover with original dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 25 cm). 159, [1] p. Color ills. Prepared for 'Istarlar kapimizda' exhibition at 10 - 18 June 2005 by Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediyesi. =[Women heritage of the East].
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Prep. and edit by: ÖZGÜR KAVAK.
Abbâsî veziri Tahir'den oglu Abdullah'a siyasî nasihatnâme. Prep. and edited by Özgür Kavak.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Large Roy. 8vo. 139 p. Except the text facsimile pages of manuscript found in Istanbul libraries and in original Arabic text and its transcription.
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Prep. by M. MURAT KARGILI.
Hajj: The Holy Journey. The Hajj route through the postcards.= Hac: Kutsal yolculuk. Kartpostallarla Hac yolu.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 29 cm). Bilingual in English and Turkish. B/w and color ills. 306 p. "Persevering against wars, disasters, and epidemics for more than 13 centuries, the Hajj is the only ritual that has continued without interruption in the history of humanity. There have been absolutely no changes in its religious character, yet the scope of the changes made to its physical structure in the last century is much greater than the total of the changes implemented throughout the 13 centuries in question. And by using postcards, this book aims to help visualize what the Hajj was like before all these changes. This book will allow you to witness the past of the sublime and multifaceted act of worship through the medium of the postcards. We humbly hope to succeed in opening up new horizons in the minds and hearts of those interested in this topic, and especially those who have performed their pilgrimage or have yet to perform it. Contents Part I and Part VI .departure and arrival of the pilgrims, people seeing them off and welcoming them. Apart from giving us an idea about the different forms of this journey in the past, postcards also tell us how great a number of lands and peoples were affected around the time of pilgrimage every year. Part II .ceremonies from Istanbul, Damascus and Egypt. Part III is dedicated to Hejaz, Jeddah and Yanbu. These postcards may give us clues about the daily life in the Hejaz in those years, and how the pilgrims traveled and found accommodations. Parts IV and V .the holy cities of Mecca and Medina .sights from the two holy cities, Masjid al-Haram and Masjid al-Nabawi. These postcards provide an opportunity to compare the present state of these two cities with their near past in terms of architecture and town planning. Part VII. The Ottoman State launched the Hamidiye Hejaz Railroad project at the beginning of the 20th century. This was the greatest project undertaken after the Industrial Revolution for the comfort and safety of the tens of thousands of pilgrims undertaking the Hajj journey
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Press Jesaias.
Neues Palästina-Handbuch Palaestina. Führer durch Palästina.
Wien Fiba 1934. Small octavo. Pp. 552. Plus 8 folding colour lithograph maps and 10 folding lithograph plans printed in 2 colours. With 18 maps and plans to the text tables. Six appendices indices. Endpaper maps. Original plain card covers with integrated dust-jacket printed flaps. In excellent condition old institutional stamp. ~ First edition. A remarkably detailed work encompassing not only a travellers' guide but a source book on Palestine and the Holy Land which in the author's words is intended to give "ein Bild von Land und Leuten Geschichte und Kultur Wirtschaft und Forschung" and hoped "dürfte jedem Palästina-reisenden ein wilkommener Freund und Führer sein." Jesaias a resident of Jerusalem provides a wealth of information meticulously detailed. He scans the land north- and southwards paying special attention to the major cities of Haifa Tel-Aviv Jaffa and Jerusalem and continues to Trans-Jordan and Syria. In the appendices he gives a full list of all Jewish villages in Palestine with related information that could be gathered from the sources available at the time a glossary of Hebrew words and a concordance of Biblical places mentioned in the guide. Indeed the only aspect seems to have been neglected in this work is a reference to the fauna and flora of the land. Wien, Fiba, 1934. unknown
Référence libraire : 1420
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Press Jesaias.
Palästina Palaestina und Südsyrien Reisehandbuch.
Jerusalem Benjamin Harz 1921. Small octavo. Pp. viii 377 1 publisher's ad. Plus large folding lithograph map of Jerusalem and environs printed in 2 colours; 3 coloured folding maps of Palestine; 4 halftone reproductions of drawn views one full-page printed on different paper; 3 halftone maps and plans printed on different paper all bound in. With 3 text illustrations; tables indices. Hardcover bound in the original crimson cloth lettered in yellow decorative spine all edges red ribbon marker; light marginal dampstain at second half of the book not affecting text; neat old ownership signature. In a very good condition with all plates and maps present in fine condition. ~ First edition. Published for the Palestine Express Company. With handsome maps and a lovely set of drawing by E. M. Lilien very delicately reproduced. Jerusalem, Benjamin Harz, 1921. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0800
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Preston Lee E. in association with Nashashibi Karim A.
TRADE PATTERNS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Washington DC: American Enterprise Inst 1970. PB. good wraps softcover. The United States Interests in the Middle East Series. 96pp. American Enterprise Inst unknown
Référence libraire : BOOKS040731I
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Pretyman, Herbert Edward.
Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman. Written During his Expedition to the Kittar Mountains, Between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891. [London], printed for Private Circulation Only, 1892.
4to. VI, 50 pp. With a portrait frontispiece of the author, from a photograph, 34 other photographic illustrations on plates, and a double-page sketch map of the Kittar Mountains. Publisher's purple cloth, blocked in black and gilt with ibex and palm tree. All edges gilt. First edition. Extremely rare example of this journal which covers Pretyman's 1891 hunting expedition to the Kittar mountains, the Eastern Desert of Egypt between Qena on the Nile and Quseer on the Red Sea, using the only known map of the area produced by Floyer four years earlier. H. E. Pretyman, a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, travelled back from Ismalia to London in 1891 but died the same year, whilst Camp Adjutant at Bisley, and it is believed he had not fully recovered from a severe attack of typhoid and jaundice in 1889. His father, the Rev. Frederic Pretyman, arranged to have the journal published as a memorial volume. - Extremeties insignificantly rubbed, light brownstaining or foxing to a few places in the first and last few leaves. An excellent copy. Meckly, Alpine Journal. Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books 204. Lloyd, Cat. of the Graham Brown and Lloyd Collections in the NLS, 813. Not in Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting Books.
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Preuss Walter.
Die jüdische Arbeiterbewegung in Palästina. Volume II: Das Werk der organisierten Arbeiterschaft und seine Problematik.
Berlin Hechaluz 1933. Small octavo. Pp. iv 159. Footnotes; tables. Original printed wrappers marked repaired; small marginal stain to few leaves. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. After receiving his doctorate in economics Preuss left Europe to established and to head the statistical department of the Histadrut in Israel. Berlin, Hechaluz, 1933. unknown
Référence libraire : 1936
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Prevost L. ea. e. a.
Le sinaï hier . Aujourd'hui. Étude topographique biblique historique archéologique.
Paris Lethielleux 1936. Crown quarto. Pp. 314. With maps and numerous halftone illustrations many of which full-page. Footnotes bibliography appendices. Hardcover contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards. In a very good condition indeed. ~ First edition. Paris, Lethielleux, 1936. hardcover
Référence libraire : 1033
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Preziosi, Amadeo.
Stamboul. Souvenir d'Orient. Paris, Imp. Lemercier, 1861.
Oblong folio (498 x 370 mm). Lithographed title-page, 29 chromolithographed plates, protected by tissue guards. Original green cloth with blind-ruled and ornamental borders to both covers and gilt Tughra of Sultan Abdulmejid I to the upper cover. First edition, second issue. - Complete suite comprising 29 chromolithographs with captions in French and English, depicting life scenes and views of Istanbul: a druggist's shop, Turkish ladies walking, a guard house, carriage, silk bazar, sweetmeat shop, water carrier, the Bosporus, a coffee house, whirling dervishes, etc. The Maltese painter Preziosi (1816-82) is known for his watercolours and prints of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and Romania. In 1842 he moved to Constantinople, where he remained until his death. - Some foxing, more extensive on title-page. Covers slightly rubbed, but generally in fine condition. - Provenance: The title-page bears a handwritten inscription in French from Catinca Nico de Catargi, a member of the notable Wallachian family Catargiu, to "la Comtesse Han" (i.e., the German writer Ida Countess von Hahn-Hahn, 1805-80), dated 16 April 1865. Atabey 999. OCLC 70296476. Cf. Blackmer 1353 (1865 ed.); Colas 2422 (1858 ed.).
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Price, M. Philips
Storia della Turchia. Dall'impero Alla Repubblica
Mm 120x200 Collana "Storia e vita". Volume cartonato rigido di 276 pagine, alcune illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo, sovraccoperta editoriale. Esemplare in buone condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
Mahometto Den. [Translated by Tadasu Hayashi]. Tokyo, Higashi Kan'ichi, Meiji 9 [1876].
8vo. 2 vols. 88, 47 ff. Original Japanese fukuro-toji bindings. First Japanese edition: the first Japanese book on the life of the prophet Muhammad, drawn from Prideaux's "The True Nature of Imposture Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet" (1697) and translated into Japanese by Hayashi Tadasu, later to become Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Rare as a complete two-volume set. - Bindings very slightly stained, otherwise fine. Cf. Chauvin XI, 185f., 656ff. (other editions).
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet [...]. The Sixth Edition, corrected. London, for E. Curll, J. Hooke and T. Caldecott, 1716.
8vo. XII, (2), 286 pp. Contemporary calf. All edges sprinkled in red. 6th edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Chauvin XI, 658. Cf. DNB 46, 353. Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet [...]. The Seventh Edition, corrected. London, for E. Curll, J. Hooke, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1718.
8vo. XIII, (3), 200 pp. Contemporary blindstamped calf (spine rebacked; giltstamped red spine label). 7th edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate. Chauvin XI, 658. Cf. Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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Prideaux, Humphrey.
The True Nature of Imposture, Fully Displayed in The Life of Mahomet. [...] The Tenth Edition, corrected. London, W. Baynes, 1808.
8vo. (4), XVIII, 231, (1) pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary marbled half calf with giltstamped spine title. Tenth edition of this "often reprinted" (DNB) treatise, first published in 1697. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. "Prideaux's literary reputation rests on his ‘Life of Mahomet’ (1697) [... of which] the story has been told that the bookseller to whom he offered the manuscript said he ‘could wish there were a little more humour in it.’ No sign of humour was ever shown by Prideaux, except in his proposal (26 Nov. 1715) for a hospital in each university, to be called ‘Drone Hall,’ for useless fellows and students. The ‘Life of Mahomet’ was in fact pointed as a polemical tract against the deists. [...] Some of its errors were noted by Sale in the discourse and notes to his translation of the ‘Koran,’ 1734" (ibid.). - From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Previously in the collection of Charles William Tupper (b. 1898), grandson of the Canadian physician and sometime Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, with his engr. armorial bookplate. Cf. DNB 46, 353. Chauvin XI, 656-660 (earlier editions). Gay 3623 (1st. ed.).
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PRIOR Michael and TAYLOR William.
Christians in the Holy Land.
London: The World of Islam Festival Trust 1995. 0905035321. 2nd printing. "The topics discussed include a historical survey of church state Christian communities and the Holy Places the tradition of pilgrimage socio-economic and socio-demographic patterns and justice and peace. The various major churches in the Holy Land and the perceptions obligations and expectations of the community are also examined." Pp.235. Paperback. VG. . London: The World of Islam Festival Trust, 1995. 0905035321 paperback
Référence libraire : 41726 ISBN : 0905035321 9780905035321
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Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile.
L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'la fin du XVIIIe. Paris, Morel, [1869-]1877.
1 volume of text (4to) and 3 vols. of plates (large folio). Text: 1 bl. f., title leaf, viii, 296 pp., 1 bl. f. With 34 lithogr. plates (all with tissue guards) and 73 text illustrations. Half morocco with giltstamped title to gilt spine. Spine rebacked. Plate volumes all with half title, title, list of contents and a total of 200 engraved plates (130 of which are chromolithographs and 48 tinted lithographs). Plate volumes bound uniformly with text volume in giltstamped half morocco with cloth covers. Very scarce first edition of this splendid, unsurpassed standard work on Islamic art. Prisse d'Avennes spent many years in Egypt after 1826, first as an engineer in the service of Mehmet Ali. After 1836 he explored Egypt disguised as an Arab and using the name Edris Effendi; during this period he carried out archaeological excavations in the valley of the Nile. In 1860, Prisse d'Avennes returned to France with a wealth of documentation and drawings, which he subsequently had reproduced by specially trained draughtsmen and published in this monumental set. "'Arab Art', however, is more than a monument to the author's tenacity, skill, and devotion. For the historian of architecture, it is a precise source, a unique documentary record [...] On an entirely different level, Prisse d'Avennes has provided today's architects, designers, artists, and illustrators with some of the finest examples of measured drawings, pattern details, and illustrations of selected aspects of the built environment of a medieval Islamic city. But 'Arab Art' is not merely an exercise in architectural description. Prisse d'Avennes writes about and records in the plates art forms ranging from elaborately decorated tiles to carpets and fabrics, to Korans and illuminated manuscripts. His text examines how these objects were made and the way they were used, and describes the value placed on them by contemporary society. The result is that his book offers invaluable glimpses of aspects of Arab life as they were viewed by a sympathetic West European" (preface to the 1963 London edition). - Beautiful, complete set (the last copy sold at auction was incomplete). Text and plates uncommonly clean and in an excellent state of preservation throughout, in contrast to the known copies in libraries and in institutional possession. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 138-140.
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Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile.
La décoratión arabe. Décors muraux. Plafonds. Mosaiques. Dallages. Boiseires. Vitraux. Étoffes. Tapis. Reliures. Faiences. Ornements divers. Extraits du grand ouvrage L'art arabe. Paris, 1885.
Folio (310 x 405 mm). 4 pp. index of plates. 110 plates, 100 of which are in colour (incl. 26 double-page plates). Contemp. half leather with gilt title to spine, marbled boards. First edition of this selection from the author's famous, standard work on Arabian art, published between 1869 and 1877. The plates are slightly reduced from the original format and limit themselves to characteristic elements of decoration and ornament from all areas of the visual and applied arts of the Middle East. "'Arab Art', however, is more than a monument to the author's tenacity, skill, and devotion. For the historian of architecture, it is a precise source, a unique documentary record [...] On an entirely different level, Prisse d'Avennes has provided today's architects, designers, artists, and illustrators with some of the finest examples of measured drawings, pattern details, and illustrations of selected aspects of the built environment of a medieval Islamic city" (preface to the London 1963 edition). - Spine shows insignificant traces of restoration; interior clean and spotless. A fine copy. OCLC 643808682. Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 138-140.
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Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile.
Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of life, in the valley of the Nile. London, James Madden, 1848.
Folio (382 x 522 mm). (6), 60 pp. With mounted chromolithographed additional decorative title heightened with gold, tinted lithographed portrait, and 30 hand-coloured lithographs. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Contemp. red half morocco with giltstamped cover and spine title. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with morocco label. First edition. Only a small portion of the press run - as the present copy - was coloured by hand, providing the utmost detail and atmosphere to the splendid plates showing bedouins, horses, local life and costumes. One of the most sought-after and earliest publications by Prisse d'Avennes, who spent many years in Egypt after 1826, first as an engineer in the service of Mehmet Ali. After 1836 he explored Egypt disguised as an Arab, using the name Edris Effendi; during this period he carried out archaeological excavations in the valley of the Nile. In 1848 he first published his "Oriental Album". This unusual visual collection of "characters, costumes and modes of life in the valley of the Nile" is augmented by a commentary by the renowned orientalist and Egyptologist James Augustus St. John. - The frontispiece portrait depicts the artist's friend George Lloyd in the robes of a sheikh reclining with a hookah, and camels in the background. Lloyd, a botanist accompanying the expedition, accidentally shot himself whilst cleaning a rifle. - Final plate with a few minor repairs to margins; final leaf creased and with marginal repairs. One or two other minor marginal defects. - While normal copies of the first edition regularly appear in the trade or at auctions, the present coloured de luxe issue with all the plates is quite rare. The Atabey copy fetched £36,000 (Sotheby's, May 29, 2002, lot 975); the Longleat copy commanded $59,200 (Christie's, June 13, lot 110) that same year. Atabey 1001. Blackmer 1357. Lipperheide Ma 30. Colas 2427. Hiler 772. Brunet IV, 885. Graesse V, 449. Cf. Heritage Library, Islamic Treasures, s. v. "Art" (illustration). Not in Cook (Egyptological Libr.), Fumagalli (Bibliogr. Etiopica), Gay, Abbey.
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Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile.
Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. London, James Madden, 1851.
Folio. 31 tinted lithographed plates, all with partial hand-colouring. Contemporary red half morocco gilt. Second edition of one of the most sought-after and earliest publications by Prisse d'Avennes, who spent many years in Egypt after 1826, first as an engineer in the service of Mehmet Ali. After 1836 he explored Egypt disguised as an Arab, using the name Edris Effendi; during this period he carried out archaeological excavations in the valley of the Nile. In 1848 he first published his "Oriental Album". This unusual visual collection of "characters, costumes and modes of life in the valley of the Nile" is augmented by a commentary by the renowned orientalist and Egyptologist James Augustus St. John. - The frontispiece portrait depicts the artist's friend George Lloyd in the robes of a sheikh reclining with a hookah, and camels in the background. Lloyd, a botanist accompanying the expedition, accidentally shot himself whilst cleaning a rifle. - Light foxing, affecting some plates, with 2 plates trimmed at foot and laid down. Atabey 1001. Blackmer 1357. Colas 2427. OCLC 4423031. Cf. Brunet IV, 885 (1st ed. only). Heritage Library, Islamic Treasures, s. v. "Art" (illustration). Not in Abbey. Lipperheide Ma 30 (1st ed.).
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Procksch Otto.
Die Völker Altpalästinas. Das Land der Bibel Band I Heft 2.
Leipzig Hinrichs 1914. . Octavo. Pp. 42. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition old ownership signature; wraps lightly foxed. ~ First edition. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1914. paperback
Référence libraire : 0716
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Procksch, [Franz], educator (1838/39-1910).
Meine Pilgerfahrt nach Jerusalem. (1902.) [Probably Vienna], Christmas 1902.
4to. German ms., ink on paper. 180 pp. (on 91 unnumbered leaves). Contemporary half calf over green cloth boards, spine on five raised bands, titled in gilt with giltstamped covers; all edges red. Bookbinder's label of Albert Günther, Vienna, on lower flyleaf. A clean and well-legible manuscript describing the author's six-week pilgrimage to Jerusalem undertaken in February and March 1902 from Vienna via Budapest, Fiume, Ancona, Rome, Naples and Messina to Alexandria, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. Proksch gives an extensive and colourful account not only of the holy sites of Palestine, which he has long wished to visit, but also of various sites in Egypt, including the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo and the oriental bazaars. - Dedicated to Princess Marie (Wilhelmine Franziska) "Maritschy" Auersperg (1880-1960), daughter of Prince Franz Joseph Auersperg: "Der Prinzessin Maritschy gewidmet, zur freundlichen Erinnerung an den alten Procksch" ("To Princess Maritschy, so that she may fondly remember old Procksch"). Proksch, a doctor of canon and civil law, had been the private educator of Prince Auersperg and his siblings. In 1905 the princess would marry Karl von und zu Trauttmansdorff. The family acquired Weissenegg Castle (near Mellach in Styria) in 1923; the castle library's bookplate (dated 1935) is affixed to the pastedown. Remains of a pasted shelfmark label to spine; very well preserved.
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Prof. Dr. J. J. Fahrenfort
India/Pakistan -
J.A. Boom En Zoon Publishing - 1965. Hardcover/pub.1965/Fair condition/206 pages - Discusses India and Pakistan. TI636178. Hardcover. Good. J.A. Boom En Zoon Publishing - hardcover
Référence libraire : 36178
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PROF. DR. A ZEKI VELIDI TOGAN.
Scientific collaboration of the Islamic Orient and the Occident. A lecture delivered in the Faculy in the Law on 17th May 1950.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In English. 26 p. Scientific collaboration of the Islamic Orient and the Occident. A lecture delivered in the Faculy in the Law on 17th May 1950.
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PROF. DR. AHMET SAVRAN.
Abbasi edebiyatinda Sulîler ve Ebû Bekr es-Sulî.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xi], [1], 216 p. Abbasi edebiyatinda Sulîler ve Ebû Bekr es-Sulî. 'Suli' family (A family in Turkish / Turkic origin) in Abbasid literature and Abu Bakr as-Suli. Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya al-Suli, (266-267 Hegira / 880 Gregorian; 334-335 Hegira / 946 Gregorian) (aged 6869. lunar calendar) was a nadim (boon companion) of successive Abbasid caliphs. He was noted for his poetry and scholarship and wrote a chronicle called Akhbar al-Radi wa'l-Muttaqi, detailing the reigns of the caliphs al-Radi and al-Muttaqi. He was a legendary shatranj (an ancestor of chess) player, still remembered to this day. Upon the death of al-Radi in 940, al-Suli fell into disfavour with the new ruler due to his sympathies towards Shi'a Islam and as a result had to go into exile at Basra, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty. Born into an illustrious family of Turkish origin, Al-Suli's great-grandfather was the Turkish prince Sul-takin and his uncle was the poet Ibrahim ibn al-'Abbas as-Suli.
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PROF. DR. ISMAIL AKA.
Iran'da Türkmen hâkimiyeti. (Kara Koyunlular devri). [HARDCOVER EDITION].
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [ix], 102 p. Iran'da Türkmen hâkimiyeti. (Kara Koyunlular devri). Turcoman dominance in Iran in the period of Karakoyuns. TURKOLOGY Turcoman culture Politic history Iran Shia - Sunni Islam History of Turks.
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PROF. DR. ISMAIL AKA.
Iran'da Türkmen hâkimiyeti. (Kara Koyunlular devri). [PAPERBACK EDITION].
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [ix], 102 p. Iran'da Türkmen hâkimiyeti. (Kara Koyunlular devri). Turcoman dominance in Iran in the period of Karakoyuns. TURKOLOGY Turcoman culture Politic history Iran Shia - Sunni Islam History of Turks.
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Prof. Dr. MUHAMMED HAMIDULLAH, Dt. MACIT YASAROGLU.
Kur'an-i Kerîm tarihi ve Türkçe tefsirler bibliyografyasi. Translation from French: Mehmet Sait Mutlu.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [=History of Quran, and the bibliography of Turkish commentaries]. Kur'an-i Kerîm tarihi ve Türkçe tefsirler bibliyografyasi. Translation from French: Mehmet Sait Mutlu.
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Prof. Haim Gerber
Economy and Society in an Ottoman City: Bursa 1600-1700
<p>This book is devoted to the social and economic history of the western Anatolian city of Bursa in the 17th century. During this period Bursa was a major Middle Eastern center. The study examines the economic activity of the city commerce crafts and banking and attempts to evaluate the role of the <em>waqf</em> in this sphere. The author has based himself primarily on legal documents preserved in the city's archives .</p><p>A major concern of this book is whether a decline occurred in the Ottoman Empire at this time. The author concludes that this is primarily true for the end of the century but that this decline was cyclical rather than long-term. The author also points out that the gap between East and West was not as great as is often assumed.</p> The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation hardcover
Référence libraire : M3
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Prost, Claude.
[Mémoires publiés par les membres de l' Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire sous la direction de M. George Foucart. Tome Quarantième.] Les revètements céramiques dans les monuments musulmans de l'Égypte. Cairo, Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1916.
Folio (280:366 mm). VIII, 54 pp., last blank f. With 12 photographic plates. Original printed boards. Only edition of this important work on Islamic Mamluk-era architectural decoration in Cairo. - Spine rebacked; covers rubbed and waterstained. Rare. OCLC 7491549.
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Prothro Edwin Diab Lutfy Najib
Changing Family Patterns in the Arab East
Beirut: American University of Beirut 1977. Publisher: American University of Beirut 1977 Good HB 240 pp. EX-LIB. with usual markings. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. American University of Beirut Hardcover
Référence libraire : 011841
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Pryce Jones David
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
London UK: Phoenix Press / Orion 2002. 1st paperback. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new - gift quality! Reprint on 1989 hardbound with new introduction. "The author argues then and now persuasively that the Arabs are caught in a closed circle from which they have not been able to escape a circle defined by deeply rooted tribal religious and cultural traditions." 464 indexed annotated pages. 1.6 Phoenix Press / Orion paperback
Référence libraire : 6-4T009 ISBN : 1842126113 9781842126110
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Pryce Jones David
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs with a New Preface by the author
<p>Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 2002 1st ed. thus. 464pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good text is age browned; else a nice clean and uncreased copy Cover praise for this examination of the way Arab societies work from David Shipler Elie Kedourie Daniel Pipes Amos Elon et al.</p> Chicago: Ivan R. Dee paperback
Référence libraire : 15402 ISBN : 1566634407 9781566634403
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Pryce Jones Alan
The Spring Journey
London: Corden-Sanderson 1931. The author's debut work serves as a full-length record of a long journey through the Near East. Clean square hardback in a price-clipped d/w showing light shelfwear & tear and now protected in a plastic jacket. Fore and lower page edges remain untrimmed. Enclosed laid in is a newspaper cutting for the author's obituary. 320 pages. Prompt dispatch. First Edition. Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Corden-Sanderson Paperback
Référence libraire : 065507
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Ptolemaeus, Claudius.
Sexta Asie Tabula. Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482.
Double-page woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, with near-contemporary manuscript vignette illustrations of an Ababeel bird, Makkah and Kaaba in pen and wash heightened in gold. 414 x 572 mm. Framed (78 x 56 cm). The first-ever printed woodcut map of the Arabian peninsula, here in original hand colour and adorned with unique, hand-drawn illumination added by a contemporary artist. The map was published in the first atlas printed outside Italy; it was the first atlas to be illustrated with woodcut maps. Remarkably, the hand-drawn vignette illustrations include a depiction of the relief of Makkah, besieged by Abrahah, through the Ababeel birds, who pelted the attacking army of war elephants with burning stones from the pits of the fires of hell. The image shows a gigantic blue-and-gilt Ababeel bird above the city, engulfed in flames - not only one of the earliest depictions of Makkah but also an amazing example of cross-cultural exchange of narratives during the early Renaissance, proving a Western illustrator's familiarity with a Middle Eastern tradition famously referenced in the Qur'an (sura 105, known as al-Fil, The Elephant): "Wa 'arsala 'Aalayhim tayran 'Ababeel, Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeel" ("And He sent against them birds in flocks, Striking them with stones of burning clay"). No other example with these illustrations of Makkah is known, nor are they contained in any printed edition of Ptolemy. Campbell, Earliest Printed Maps, p. 179-210. Schreiber 5032. Tibbetts 8 (p. 37). The Heritage Library, Islamic Treasures, s. v. "Maps". Cf. Heritage Library, Qatar, p. 8f (illustration). Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 21.
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Ptolemaeus.
Sexta Asiae Tabula. [Rome, Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck for Domitius Calderinus, 1478].
Engraved map of the Arabian peninsula, printed (as usual) on two joined folio leaves (together 563 x 396 mm). Framed (79:63 cm). Highly important early map of the Arabian Peninsula and adjoining regions, from the extraordinary 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemy's "Geography", created under the direction of Conrad Swenheym (who apprenticed with Gutenberg). The second map of the Peninsula ever published, in its first state, this is the earliest obtainable printed map of Arabia, preceded only by the less detailed and crudely engraved specimen in the Bologna edition of Ptolemy, which is generally regarded as unobtainable. - The present map is an excellent example of Swenheym's finely engraved map of Arabia, based upon Ptolemy. Among the towns shown are Medina (Lathrippa) and the archaeological sites of Zubarah (Catara) and Al-Dur (Domana). The association of Macoraba with Mecca is disputed. Shirley notes that "[t]he new copper plates engraved at Rome for the 1478 edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography' are much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the Bologna edition. There is evidence that work on the Rome edition had been started in 1473 or 1474, and several of the plates may well have been engraved before those printed [by Taddeo Crivelli] at Bologna in 1477. The printing was carried out by two skilled printers of German origin: Conrad Sweynheym and his successor Arnold Buckinck; the publisher was Domitius Calderinus. Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578" (p. 3). - Until the 1477 edition was definitively dated, the 1478 edition was believed to be the first printed atlas. Buckinck completed the work started by Sweynheym, whose method of using a printing press for the copperplate maps, together with the fine engraving, produced excellent results. Christopher Colombus owned a copy of this edition, which he annotated. The plates for the 1478 Rome Ptolemy were later purchased by Petrus de Turre in 1490, who published the second, unchanged edition of the map; it was again reprinted in 1507. The editions are identical, although there are different watermarks in the paper (though there is some debate as to whether the watermarks are in fact completely reliable in determining the editions). - Some faint stains along the edges of the paper and in the gutter. In very good condition. Al Ankary 3. Nordenskiöld 201.21. Tibbetts 4. Campbell, Letter Punches: a Little-Known Feature of Early Engraved Maps. Print Quarterly, Volume IV, No. 2, June 1987, pp. 151-154. For the atlas: Shirley, Mapping of the world 4.
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Published by BURHAN CAHID [MORKAYA], (1892-1949).
[TEACHING THE NEW LETTERS] Köroglu + Yeni Köroglu. No: 1-104 (1928-1929).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary quarter leather bdg. Handsomely bound. Six raised bands to spine, the second compartment has the title, the fifth has "issue 1-104", and the sixth has ex-owner's name of the volume, "Semseddin" lettered gilt. Original end-papers of the period. Slightly age-toned on the lower pages, fading on extremities of boards, overall a very good volume. Folio. (41 x 29 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) and Turkish with Latin letters. This folio volume consists of 104 issues of the periodical, each issue has 4 pages, which has mostly color illustrated covers as well as several b/w ones. A rare togetherness of the first 104 issues of this Turkish satirical magazine, richly illustrated with thousands of attractive illustrations and caricatures, was published in Istanbul twice a week every Wednesday and Saturday with at least four, at most eight pages, during the Letter Revolution 1928, when the transition from the Arabic alphabet to new Latin letters was ensured. The collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society during and after the Letter Revolution in New Turkey, 1928, placing the new Latin alphabet instead of old Arabic letters and contributing to the development of reading and writing skills of the new Turkish society, as well as "creating the basis for the rapid social evolution in the young Turkish Republic Revolution" soon after the proclamation of the Republic in 1923. The newspaper had a printing house with the same name headquartered in Bab-i Ali (The Sublime Porte of Constantinople), the place where the heart of the Ottoman press was. Burhan Cahid Morkaya left Karagöz Newspaper and founded Köroglu Newspaper in 1928 and wanted the people living in Istanbul and Anatolia to be able to read and write new letters. Indeed, during the period of its publication, Köroglu Newspaper reached the most remote corners of the New Turkish Republic with its attractive cartoons covering local and mostly international subjects. In addition to this news and cartoons, Morkaya also published Turkish reading passages with Arabic letters that were transcripted into Latin letters. Therefore, he created a great positive effect that facilitated the transition to new letters during the Turkish Alphabet Revolution. Duman 1155.
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PUGET de SAINT PIERRE;
Histoire des DRUSES, Peuple du LIBAN, formé par une Colonie de François. Divisée en trois livres; Contenant leur origine, leur agrandissement, l'Histoire de l'Emir Facardin, leur état actuel & la nature de leur Commerce. Dédiée à Monseigneur le Duc de Berry.
Cailleau Paris 1763 1 vol. In-12 de 2 ff.n.ch. XII 358 pp., veau fauve raciné de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre, tranches marbrées.
Référence libraire : 14641
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