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Mittwoch, Eugen.
Proelia Arabum paganorum (Ajjâm al 'Arab) quomodo litteris tradita sint. Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1899.
4to. 44, (4) pp., interleaved throughout. Contemporary marbled half cloth with giltstamped spine label. Dissertation of Eugen Mittwoch (1876-1942), the groundbreaking German scholar who is considered one of the founders of modern Islamic Studies, about the chronicles of the Arabic wars. This constitutes the author's first academic foray into Arabic studies. - Old ink library shelfmark on verso of title page, otherwise fine. NDB XVII, 591. NYPL Arabia coll. 32. Cf. GAL S I, 162.
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Modeen, Mirza Itesa (Itsam al-Din, Mirza) / Alexander, James Edward (transl.).
Shigurf namah-i-velaët, or, excellent intelligence concerning Europe: being the travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen in Great Britain and France. London, James Duncan for John Taylor, 1827.
8vo. XI, (1), 233, (1) pp. With a lithogr. frontispiece in original hand colour. Contemporary auburn calf with giltstamped rules to boards; leading edges gilt; spine rebacked. All edges gilt. First edition of this account of a Middle Eastern civil servant's visit to Britain in 1765, translated from the original Persian manuscript by James Edward Alexander. Born in India, Itesa Modeen learned Persian and entered the service of the British. When Shah Alam wanted to send letters and gifts to King George III in England it was decided that these would be taken by a British army officer, accompanied by Modeen as his translator and secretary. Modeen wrote a record of his journey recording the sights he saw and the excited reactions of Londoners to the unusual sight of a high class "Hindoostanee" (as he called himself) visitor. It was not until some 60 years later that his manuscript account was translated and published. The Mirza spent about almost three years on his trip to Europe, staying mostly in London but also visiting Scotland and Oxford, before returning to his native India. - Insignificant foxing to title and final leaf. From the library of Sir Richard Strachey (1817-1908), the Indian administrator and father of Lytton Strachey (his engr. armorial bookplate to pastedown); later in the collection of Christopher Jower (bookplate to flyleaf). OCLC 8868736.
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Mohammed Ben Youssef, first king of independent Morocco (1911-1961).
Autograph Quotation signed ("Mohammed ben Youssef"). In French and Arabic. [Paris]., 12 Aug. 1931.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Sultan Mohammed V to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "The Prophet of God, may He be blessed by God, said 'War is sleeping. May he be cursed who awakens it'. [Signed] Mohammand ben Youssef]". Mohammed V was chosen by the French regime as Sultan of Morocco, but secretly collaborated with the underground nationalist movement in his country, stirring deep and violent tensions with the French government. In 1953 he was deposed, but refused to formally abdicate and was exiled to Madagascar for 3 years. In 1955 he returned in triumph to a new, independent Morocco and took office once again as chief of state. Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Moritz, B[ernhard].
Sammlung arabischer Schriftstücke aus Zanzibar und Oman. Stuttgart & Berlin, W. Spemann, 1892.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. XXXIV, 111, (1) pp. (2), 136 pp. Publisher's giltstamped red cloth. First edition, re-issue by Georg Reimer, Berlin (their 1902 publisher's stamp on title page). Collection of Arabic texts from Oman and Zanzibar, edited in the original language with a glossary by Bernhard Moritz. - An immaculate copy. Fück 316. OCLC 59217290.
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[Moroccan-Portuguese Treaty of 1774].
Tractado de paz, de navegacao, e de commercio entre o Senhor Rey D. Jozé I° eo Imperador de Marrocos assignado em 13 de Novembro de 1774. Palacio de N. S.a da Ajuda (Lisboa), 13. XI. 1774.
4to. Title and 24 pp., all inset into folio leaves. Marbled spine. Rare contemporary manuscript copy of the peace treaty, in 22 articles, concluded between King José I of Portugal and the Sultanate of Morocco. After the Reconquista, Portugal had expanded into Africa, starting with the territory of Morocco, by occupying cities and establishing fortified outposts along the Atlantic coast. The Portuguese seized numerous Moroccan cities and built coastal fortresses there, but most of these had to be abadoned soon. When Tangier was ceded to England in 1661 and Ceuta finally handed over to Spain in 1668, Portugal's direct involvement in Morocco had essentially come to a close, and when King Juan I abandoned Mazagan under the pressure of Mohamed ben Abdallah in 1769, Moroccan reconquest was complete. Five years later, in 1774, the Governments of Morocco and Portugal concluded a Peace and Friendship Agreement, one of the oldest bilateral agreements of both nations. Ever since his accession in 1757, Sultan Mohamed had sought to adopt the European trading system, while simultaneously safeguarding the spirit of Islam amongst his peoples. To this end, he ratified earlier peace treaties with Great Britain and with the Netherlands, then went on to sign several more, beginning with Denmark, Sweden and Venice; similar treaties were closed with France and Spain (both 1767) and Tuscany (1782). A fundamental principle that was enshrined in all of them was rooted in the annual payment of a fee in cash or in kind. - Slight browning to inset leaves. Apparently removed from a 19th-century document collection, with the original leaves remargined to folio size. A principal document of Luso-Moroccan relations.
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[Morocco].
Carte du Maroc à l'échelle de 1:2,500.000e. Tirée en cinq couleurs en lithographie. Paris, Librairie Hachette & Cie., 1907.
Chromo-lithographed map, c. 60 x 48 cm, folded in original printed wrapper (with portrait of Sultan Abdulaziz). With text and 9 engr. illustrations printed on the reverse. Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin's map of Morocco, drawn by Chesneau and Weinreb. With topographical notes by Franz Schrader. - Edges slightly frayed; some tears to folds; wrapper dusty and waterstained. OCLC 163347954.
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Morse, Edward George.
"A Journal of Remarks and Observations as Kept by E[dward] G[eorge M[orse]. Remarks on board the Sarah Barque of London" [Journal of a Voyage to Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, St Helena and Ascension Island on board the Barque "Sarah" out of London]. Mostly at sea, on board the barque "Sarah" of London, April 1831-14 March 1833 (with additions to 1835).
4to (195 x 165 mm). (191) ff., including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. The journal with an engraved view as frontispiece, 15 full-page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view mounted on 1 page. The lecture notes with a matching pair of engravings of a scull on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink anatomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. - Including: [Anatomical manuscript]. Morse, Edward George. Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue]. [London], November-December 1828. Contemp, sheepskin parchment. A manuscript ship's journal kept by Edward George Morse (Bromyard 1805?-Deal post 1850?), who no doubt served, among other functions, as the ship's surgeon. Morse reflects on Arabian navigation and Arabian explorers, including the deservedly famous Ibn Battuta. "The Arabians like the Chinese are said to have employed the compass to guide them through the trackless sands of the desert or to enable them at the hours of prayer to direct their faces with precision towards the city of Mecca and tomb of the prophet. In the sixteenth century moreover when the Portuguese first visited the Indian seas they found that the Arabians are the chief navigators of those seas [...]". - Morse made his earliest dated entries in April 1831 at the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and others at Madagascar and its surrounding islands from May to August 1831. Those around Madagascar indicate he was on the barque Manchester, but from at least 11 December 1831 to his arrival back in England on 14 March 1833 he was on the barque Sarah, a 600 ton ship sailing out of London. In it he spent a year in the Seychelles 11 December 1831-15 December 1832, including Make Island, Bird Island, Praslin Island and La Digue. - In very good condition. The binding is soiled and rubbed, and the boards slightly warped, but it remains structurally sound. A fascinating and unusual ship's journal with numerous maps, kept in the unused leaves of the author's illustrated anatomical lecture notes of a few years earlier.
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Münster, Sebastian.
Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI. (Basel, Heinrich Petri, September 1554).
Folio. (24), 1162, (2) pp. With woodcut printer’s device on the final leaf by Urs Graf, 14 double-page maps as well as 37 double-page views and approximately 900 woodcuts in the text. Modern vellum. A very early edition of Münster’s monumental work. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), a German cartographer and cosmographer, was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years, and was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe, being the most valued of all cosmographies. - In very good condition, with some very slight overall discoloration; map of the Americas shows unobtrusive rust mark. VD 16, M 6717. Burmeister 89. Hantzsch 77.32. BM-STC German 633. Adams M 1910. Sabin 51381. Borba de Moraes II, 90. BNHCat M 834. Brunet III, 1945. Graesse IV, 622.
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Murphy, C[harles] C[ecil] R[owe].
Soldiers of the Prophet. London, John Hogg, 1921.
8vo. 233, (1) pp. Giltstamped green half calf. Top edge gilt. Only edition. First-hand account of military and intelligence operations in the Gulf area prior to and during World War I, including chapters on "The Arab Revolt in Kermak", "The Rebellion in Oman", "The Persian Gulf in 1913-14", etc. Lt.-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy, 30th Punjabis, from the Suffolk Regiment, wrote several works of military history. - Slight browning; minor chipping to top edge near beginning of volume. OCLC 13460560. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Musil, Alois.
In the Arabian Desert. New York, Horace Liveright, 1930.
Illustrated with 40 photographs and a map at rear. Original publisher's black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and cover. First edition of this popular account of Musil's experiences in Arabia Deserta. An excellent copy. Macro 1669.
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Mustafa Ibn Yusuf al-Bursawi.
Kitab Khuwguha Zada. N. p., [1540 CE] = 948 H.
8vo (18,4 x 12,6 cm). 14 ff., riq'a script, 17 lines on a page, black ink, text markers (Qala-aqulu) in red ink. Dark brown, half-leather binding. "Gloss on a Philosophical Work" by Mustafa Ibn Yusuf al-Bursawi, a Turkish theologian. He also wrote an important refutation on Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and his "Tahafut al-Tahafut". Greek philosophy had entered the Islamic society through the adoption of the neo-platonic worldview by the great philosophers of Muslim Spain. - Minor worming (not affecting text), some glosses near beginning; ff. 5-10 loose.
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Nagel, Johann Andreas Michael (praes.) / Holste, Jakob Christoph Wilhelm (resp.).
Dissertatio inauguralis de prima Alcorani sura [...]. Altdorf, Johann Adam Hessel, 1743.
4to. 56 pp. Slightly later papered spine. Very rare sole edition of this detailed study of the Al-Fatihah, the first Surah of the Holy Qu'ran. By the mid-18th century the text of the Qu'ran had become less of a heretical menace to European scholars and more of a document of serious study: the present work focuses on philological subtleties within the various manuscripts of the Qu'ran known to Europeans including Erpenius, Hinckelmann, Wasmuth, and Schiefferdecker. A printed dissertation defended by one of Nagel's students, Jakob Holste, the text presents a word-for-word comparison of two manuscripts of the Al-Fatihah: one in the possession of Nagel himself, and the other of Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (1541-1610), who had brought a copy back from his visit to the Middle East in 1565. To these are further compared printed editions of Marracio, Hinckelmann, Erpenius, and others. Because no Arab typeface was available in Nuremburg at the time, the author is forced here to write the text of the Al-Fatihah in Hebrew characters (!). The last section of the work gives no less than 17 translations into Latin of the Al-Fatihah drawn from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. Nagel and his student Holste finally propose a 'perfect' conglomerate translation of the Surah based on their findings. Much space is devoted to the question of whether Al-Fatihah was revealed in Medina or Mecca, and Nagel's discussion of this point even includes topographical details collected from previous authors (cf. pp. 13-15, 31-36). - OCLC shows just a handful of copies in institutions worldwide, including one in America at the University of Chicago. The present copy is deaccessioned from the library of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich with small release stamps on verso of title-page. Printed glosses trimmed closely, with occasional loss of a few letters; otherwise a good copy. Schnurrer 382. Chauvin I, LXI. Not in Enay. Cf also Encyclopedia of the Qu'ran IV, 250.
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Najjar, Husayn Fawzi.
Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid. Ustadh al-Jil. [Cairo], al-Dar al-Misriyah lil-Talif wa-al-Tarjamah, [1965].
301 pp. Original wrappers. Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (1872-1963) was a leading spokesman for Egyptian modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Throughout his career he held a number of political and nonpolitical positions, including several academic posts. Owing to his career in education and his influence upon young Egyptians, he came to be known as Ustadh al-Jil (“Educator of the Generation”). - With ms. notes. Covers a little worn, otherwise in excellent condition. OCLC 18299627.
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Nau, M[ichel], SJ.
L'état présent de la religion Mahometane. Seconde edition. Paris, la veuve P. Bouillerot, 1684-1688.
Small 8vo. 2 vols. in one. (8), 252 pp. (14), 9-240, (4) pp. Contemporary French brown morocco with gilt spine (spine-ends repaired). A mixed copy of the 1784 first and the 1788 edition. A Jesuit perspective on the Muslim faith, including many observations on Islamic customs and culture; "contenant les choses les plus curieuses qui regardent Mahomet & l'établissement de sa secte, qui n'ont pas encore été imprimées. Avec des conferences sur la religion chrétienne, & sur l'Alcoran" (subtitle). Indeed, the Tours-born Jesuit Michel Nau (1631-83) had first-hand knowledge of the Middle East: he had undertaken a long voyage to the Holy Land during which he visited Galilee in 1665 and the remainder of Palestine in 1674. He published an account of his journey, "Voyage nouveau de la Terre-Sainte". - From the library of the Abbé de la Paluelle with his ownership to title page and his etched armorial bookplate to pastedown. Chauvin XII, p. 283f., no. 1187 & 1190. Luzac, Bibl. orientalis IX, 26, no. 493. OCLC 54746487. De Backer/Sommervogel V, 1595, no. 3. Cf. Hurter IV, 428.
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Niebuhr, Carsten.
Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen. Amsterdam & Utrecht, (J. J. Besseling for) S. J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven & Co. (I) / Bartolomé Wild (II), 1776-1780.
4to (285 x 233 mm). 2 vols. VIII, (6), 484, (2) pp. (16), 455, (1) pp. With engraved vignette by N. van der Meer to each title-page, 94 plates (30 folding, 64 full-page), and 31 maps and plans (7 folding, 24 full-page, of which the folding map of Yemen handcoloured in outline), engraved by C. Philips, Th. and C. H. de Koning, C. J. de Huyser, C. F. Fritsch, O. de Vries and others. 19th-century half calf. Untrimmed. First Dutch translation of this important and famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published in Copenhagen in 1744-1778 under the title "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern". - ''In volume II, p. 317 he [Niebuhr] begins his description of the journey from Beit el Fakih in the coffee mountains. This is accompanied by three engravings'' (Hünersdorff). There are some 40 other references to coffee in this work, including the journey from Sana'a to Mocha. The plates, the same as used for the first German language edition, include many views of cities, antiquities and statues, natives in traditional dress, hieroglyphs, Arabic script, musical instruments, a reception with the Iman of Sana'a (Yemen), and views of the mosque in Meshed Ali. The 31 maps and plans are of Constantinople, the Nile, Jeddah in the province of Mecca, Bombay, the palace of Persepolis, Muscat, the Arabian ("Persian") Gulf, Baghdad, Mosul, etc. Niebuhr's map of Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. - "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientific expedition. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Baurenfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren" (Howgego). Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. - Bindings used. Large-margined copy of this famous account of the Middle East, Egypt, Persia, and India in fine condition. Howgego I, N24. Hünersdorff, Coffee, p. 1081. Van Hulthem 15024. Nyon 21018. Tiele, Bibl. 796. Cf. Atabey 873-874. Cox I, pp. 237-238. Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et Arabe 3589. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1700. Carter, Robert A. Sea of Pearls, p. 116. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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[Niebuhr Expedition.] Ödmann, Samuel.
Sammandrag af Justitiae-Radets Herr Casten [!] Niebuhrs Resa i Levanten och Beskrifning om Arabien. Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens-Tryckeriet, 1787.
8vo. (24), 455, (23) pp. With 4 engr. plates. Contemporary half calf with gilt title label on gilt spine. Edges sprinkled red. Extremely rare sole edition of this account of the Niebuhr expedition to Arabia in the 1760s. Produced as a cheaper alternative to the hefty 3-volume sets which appeared in German, Danish, French, and other languages, the present work was printed by the Royal press and gives a summary of the journey intended for a popular audience. Swedish interest in the expedition was elicited by the presence of the Swedish botanist and explorer Peter Forsskål in Niebuhr's caravan. After studying Arabic dialects, Forsskål was the first to scientifically describe many plants of the Arabian Peninsula, before dying in Yemen of malaria in 1763. - The plates, modeled after those of the German edition of 1772, depict a Turkish Pilgrim to Mecca; an Arab woman in a hijab, with an inset detail of a burkha; an Arab farm-girl from the 'Coffee Mountains' of southern Arabia; and an Arab nobleman of Yemen. - Binding rather rubbed; blank margin of first few leaves a little toned, otherwise a very good copy, clean and fresh. OCLC shows just 3 copies worldwide: the University of Texas, the Swedish National Library, and the Danish National Library. No copy seen at Anglo-American auction since 1999. OCLC 156793368. James Ford Bell 340.
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Norie, J[ohn] W[illiam].
The New Mediterranean Pilot; containing Sailing Directions for the Coast of Spain, from Cadiz to the Strait of Gibraltar; also instructions for navigating the various coasts, islands, bays, and harbours in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, or Gulf of Venice, Archipelago and Black Sea [...]. Second edition. London, J. W. Norie, 1824.
8vo. (4), 168 pp. Contemporary blue wrappers with original printed cover label. Second edition; rare: not in Copac or OCLC. The first edition appeared in 1817. Also includes the coasts of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers). John William Norie (1772-1843) was one of the most important hydrographic publishers of his time. - Some dog-earing, but still a good copy. OCLC 851876144.
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Numan, Alexander.
Waarnemingen omtrent de horzel-maskers, welke in de maag van het paard huisvesten. Amsterdam, C. G. Sulpke, 1834.
4to. (2), 143, (1) pp. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 5 full-page) by D. Sluyter after H. van Oort. Contemporary stiff grey wrappers. Rare separate issue of Numan's detailed and beautifully illustrated study of the larvae of the equine botfly (family Oestridae), an internal parasite of horses. Alexander Numan (1780-1852) discusses the different species of botfly found in the stomachs of horses, the way the eggs are transferred to the intestines, their growth and development, the effect on the health of the host animal, and the various ways they may be removed. The essay appeared both in the Nieuwe Verhandelingen der eerste klasse van het Koninklijk-Nederlandse Instituut van Wetenschappen, and in the present, much rarer separate issue, where only the plates refer to the journal. - Numan completed his medical studies at Groningen in 1804. He wrote a prize-winning essay on the Keil dysentery epidemic of 1810, which appeared in 1812. In the same year he was asked to translate a veterinary manual and later to write his own, which went through five editions from 1819 to 1856. When the first Dutch veterinary school opened at Utrecht in 1821, no suitable professor could be found in the practice, and the position went to Numan. He went on to write many excellent articles, the best known of which discusses cow pox (1831). - Wrappers slightly damaged at spine, but still very good. A fine copy of a rare and well-illustrated essay by a pioneering veterinary researcher. KVK (1 copy). NCC (4 copies). Not in Garrison/M., Landwehr Coloured Plates, Nissen ZBI.
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Ockley, Simon.
The History of the Saracens. Containing the lives of [...] the immediate successors of Mahomet. Giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, &c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people. The third edition. Cambridge, for Anne Ockley by permission of Henry Lintot, 1757.
8vo. 2 vols. (4), XXI, (29), 80, 339, (21) pp. (4), LVIII, 325, (3), (327)-356, (12) pp. With a folding engraved plate. Contemporary calf; modern spines with giltstamped labels. All edges red. Third edition of this classic and influential work, first published in 1708. Ockley (1678-1720) was Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. "The importance of Ockley's work in relation to the progress of oriental studies cannot be overestimated [...] Ockley for the first time made the history of the early Saracen conquests attractive to the general reader, and stimulated the student to further research. [The 'History'] became a secondary classic, and formed for generations the main source of the average notions of early Mohammedan history" (DNB XLI, 364). The plate shows the Kaaba at Mecca, engraved after a drawing preserved in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The manuscript, which formed the basis of Ockley's work, is now known as the ‘Futûh esh-Sham by pseudo-Waqidi. - Browned and brownstained throughout. From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate; also with engr. bookplate of Robert Fellowes (of Shotesham/Shottesham, Norfolk, d. 1869?). BM 174, p. 334. Gay 98. Graesse V, 7. OCLC 6595742. Cf. NYPL Arabia coll. 33 (1st and later editions).
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[Occultism].
Occult Arabic manuscript. Orient, ca. 1800 / probably 18th or early 19th c.
4to. (167) ff. on smoothed paper. With many magic squares containing letters and numbers. Somewhat damaged contemp. blindstamped calf with fore-edge flap. Unsophisticated manuscript for private practical use, showing signs of heavy wear and apparently continued until fairly recently (with several modern ballpoint entries). Many postscripts on the flyleaves and empty leaves at the beginning and end (7 and 5 ff., respectively) are written in Maghribi style, suggesting a northern African provenance, but the main text is written in a different style. Sprinkled throughout the ms. are numerous magical squares, some bearing numbers, others words (such as "Allah", "light", "earth", etc.), sometimes both combined. Many quotations from the Qur'an and Islamic scholars. Continued at the end by other hands, with many prayers and invocations. Occult manuscripts are rare in the Islamic tradition, as the official taboo against such items was very strong. - Incomplete, but supplemented by an early hand. Occasional loose leaves; frequent fingerstaining and browning; numerous marginalia; edge wear throughout.
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Orme, Robert.
Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan; from the year MDCLIX, origin of the [...] company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan. London, (Luke Hansard for) F. Wingrave, 1805.
Large 4to. (2), LXVII, (1), 472, (32) pp. With engr. portrait frontispiece, a text engraving on p. LXVII, and 3 maps (2 folding). Modern marbled half calf with giltstamped label to gilt spine. Second, enlarged edition (first published in 1782). Newly added in this edition are an account of the "origin of the English establishment and of the East India Company’s trade at Broach and Surat", "A General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan", which Orme began writing in 1752, and an account of the life and writings of the author. Much of Orme’s life was spent in the employ of the East India Company, as a writer, a member of the council at Madras, commissary and accountant-general, and later as historiographer. - Slightly brownstained, a marginal tear to p. 275f., otherwise in good condition. Cox I, 300.
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[Ottoman Wars].
Nuova verissima, e distinta relatione della vittoria ottenuta dall' armi Polache contro Turchi, e Tartari in Vicinanza al fiume Deniester per soccorere Caminiecz. Venice, Zuanne Batti, 1694.
4to. (4) pp. With woodcut printer's device to t. p. Folded broadsheet. Rare contemporary news report about the victory of the Polish and Lithuanian army against the Ottoman troops at Kamianets and the fall of the Turkish-occupied fortress of Gyula to the Imperial troops in late 1694. Also published in German as "Umständliche Relation von dem herrlichen Sieg, welchen die polnische neben der litauischen Armee gegen die Türken und Tataren bei Kamieniec den 6. Oktober 1694 erhalten hat". In the Great Turkish War of 1683-99, the Holy League (Austria, Poland, Venice, and Russia) successfully defended Vienna, then re-conquered Hungary; the war ended with the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. Not in Italian libraries; not in OCLC.
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Owen, Roderic.
The Golden Bubble. Arabian Gulf Documentary. London, Collins, 1957.
8vo. 255, (1) pp. With 13 photo illustrations and a map. Original red publisher's cloth with giltstamped spine title. Original dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. A documentary of a year spent by the author in the Arabian Gulf, discussing Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Buraimi Oasis, Qatar, Kuwait; hunting and falconry. Dedicated "to the honour and glory of His Excellency Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Albufalah, Ruler of Abu Dhabi". - Inscribed in ink from Elizabeth Monroe to "Peter": "To raise the blood-heat" (1957). Now rare. OCLC 1239299. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Palgrave, William Gifford.
Personal narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia. London, Macmillan and Co., 1873.
8vo. (2), VI, (4), 427, (6) pp. With engr. title portrait and 4 engr. plans (wants the map). Original illustrated green cloth with giltstamped spine. Seventh edition, abridged from the two-volume original edition. - This travelogue, recounting a journey across the Arabian Peninsula from Riadh to the Arabian Gulf, was highly esteemed at the time of its publication, though is now known to contain fictional passages. Palgrave disguised himself as a Syrian Christian doctor named Selim Abu Mahmoud al'Eis and spent 13 months travelling. - Some foxing. Cf. Macro 1731 (1865 first ed.). Henze III, 693. Howgego III, P5 (other eds.).
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[Pamukkale - Hierapolis]. Engelmann, [Godefroy].
Pamboukkalesi. [Paris, Deroy, 1838].
Image dimensions ca. 35 x 24 cm (sheet size cs. 43 x 29 cm). Matted. Rare lithograph of the ruins of the Domitian Gate in the Greco-Roman city of Hierapolis, situated immediately above the famous travertine terraces of Pamukkale. From Laborde's "Asia Minor". - Some wrinkling; small tear at upper edge (not touching image).
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Pareja Casanas, Félix M. (ed.).
Libro del Ajedrez, de sus problemas y sutilezas. De autor Árabe desconocido. Según el MS. Arab. Add. 7515 (Rich) del Museo Británico. Madrid, Estanislao Maestre, 1935.
8vo. 2 vols. (8), 257, (5), 247, (3) pp. (III)-CXXIX, (3), 245, (7) pp. Original printed wrappers (professional repairs; 2nd vol. has facsimile front cover). First edition of this mediaeval Arabic treatise on chess, the manuscript of which (dated AH 655/AD 1257) is kept at the British Museum, offering the text together with a Spanish translation and commentary. Modern chess gradually developed from the Arabic game of "Shatranj", which had come to the Arabs from India via the Persian Empire; the first Arabic chess treatises appeared as early as the 10th century, a notable author being the poet as-Suli. - Bindings somewhat rough at the edges; interior well-preserved. GAL S I, p. 905, no. 1 b. OCLC 865325410.
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Pasha, General Djevad, Turkish statesman.
Autograph quotation signed ("P. Djevad, Gl."). In French. Geneva, 27 March 1928.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of General Djevad Pasha to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "In the march towards the ideal of definitive peace, speed is proportional to the development of international solidarity. Once that solidarity has been achieved and the masses feel its effects, war will be definitively banished. [Signed] P. Djivad, Gl., Delegate of the Turkish Republic to the Preparatory Conference on Disarmament". Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Passalacqua, [Giuseppe].
Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Égypte [...] contenant: 1. Le catalogue [...] 2. Des notes et observations [...] 3. Des notices et dissertationes scientifiques [...]. Paris, [à la Galerie d'Antiquites Égyptiennes] , 1826.
8vo. XV, (1), 303, (1) pp. With 2 folding engr. plates (all, foxed, some dampstaining on one plate). Later paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth. First edition. This important catalogue was formed by the Italian excavator Giuseppe Passalacqua (1797-1865) at Trieste. It was "produced for the sale of the collection in Paris and it was bought by Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia for the Berlin museum, of which Passalacqua later became curator. It includes notes and articles on the objects by a number of distinguished academies in addition to those by Passalacqua himself" (Blackmer). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). - Some foxing throughout, particularly at beginning and end. Small waterstain affecting lower corner of last portion of text. Blackmer 1264. Gay 2178. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 95.
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[Persian Telegraph]. Goldsmid, Frederic John.
Telegraph and Travel. A Narrative of the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication Between England and India [...] With Incidental Notices of the Countries Traversed by the Lines. London, Macmillan & Co., 1874.
8vo. XIV, 673, (1) pp. With wood-engraved title vignette, folding map of the Middle East, 3 maps, 4 wood-engraved plates, 1 steel-engraved portrait, and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine title. Marbled edges and endpapers. Fascinating account of the work on the submarine telegraph lines from British India to Turkish Arabia, the so-called "Persian Gulf Cable" laid in the 1860s. An extensive section is devoted to the laying of cables in the Arabian Gulf south of Persia, with a separate diagram of the diversion of the "Persian Gulf Cable" from Elphinstone Island off the northern tip of Arabia to Henjam and Jask. The telegraph lines ultimately reached from London via Munich, Vienna, Constantinople, Diarbekr, and Baghdad to Basrah, then continued by the Indian Government to Bushehr, Henjam, Gwdar and Karachi as well as to Tehran. Other cables connected Cairo with Aden and thence with Bombay. - Some brownstaining and edge flaws, otherwise an excellent copy. Inscribed "Thomas Kirk Johnson Dec. 1876 From R. B. Hull". Howgego III, G31. OCLC 1283945.
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Petermann, Julius Heinrich.
Brevis linguae Arabicae grammatica, litteratura, chrestomathia cum glossario. Berlin, G. Eichler, 1840.
Small 8vo. VI, (2), 125, (3), 92 pp. Later 19th century leather with giltstamped title to spine, both boards and spine with gilt armorial lion crest of the Ducs de Luynes. Leading edges, inner dentelle gilt; marbled endpapers. First edition of Petermann's manual of Arabic in a French master binding for the Duc de Luynes. Issued as part IV of the author's "Porta Linguarum Orientalium" for private study, this also contains a selection of Arabic reading pieces. - Some foxing throughout, otherwise beautifully preserved. From the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre. Vater/Jülg 27. OCLC 27870350.
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Peyron, Amedeo.
Lexicon linguae Copticae. Turin , ex Regio typographeo, 1835.
Small folio (238 x 298 mm). (4), XXVII, (1), 470, (2) pp. Later 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - Since 1815 Peyron (1785-1870) taught oriental languages at the University of Turin. He was a specialist in the Coptic language, the latest stage of Egyptian and spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. His research in this field gained him an international renown that was consolidated by his Coptic dictionary, the earliest of its kind. It remained unsurpassed until Wilhelm Spiegelberg's "Koptisches Handwörterbuch" in 1921. - From the library of the Ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown. An excellent copy. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 113. Gay 2337. Zaunmüller 228. Vater/Jülg 209. Brunet IV, 584. Graesse V, 247. OCLC 2786885.
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Phelps, Frank T.
Notable North American Thoroughbreds. Blue Earth, MN, Piper Publishers, 1994.
Oblong folio. 440 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in reproductions in colour of paintings by various artists, including paintings by Anthony M. Alonso and from the collection of the National Museum of Racing, Inc. Original calf-backed pictorial cloth, giltstamped spine. In original cloth drop-back box with colour illustration mounted on lid. Limited edition. The original publisher was unable to complete the full 100 copies; only four are reported in OCLC. Illustrated with paintings from the National Museum of Racing. A large tome on race horses in North America, including the history and evolution of the sport and stories of the famous racers and racetracks. "Extremely detailed, especially the pedigrees, racing records and index. I've come to rely on it daily as a valued reference" (John Prather, review in Bloodstock Advisory). "Everyone in the thoroughbred industry should have a copy. The colour plates alone are enough to justify buying it" (Dr. William Reed, review in Mare's Haven). - In excellent condition. OCLC 41093209.
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Picart, Bernard.
Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Paris, Rollin fils, 1741.
Folio (305 x 455 mm). 7 vols. All title pages printed in red and black. With engr. frontispiece, 7 engr. title vignettes, numerous engr. head- and tailpieces and initials, and 243 plates. Contemporary half calf; spine elaborated gilt with double giltstamped red labels. A perfectly preserved tall paper copy of this beautifully illustrated ethnographic work on the world's religions. Despite condemnation by the Catholic church, the publication was a resounding success. "'Ceremonies and customs' prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness [...] as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion" (Hunt). - Based on the author's "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Amsterdam, 1723-1743), the text is corrected (and sometimes entirely revised) from the original edition. The plates are mostly repeated from the Dutch publication, but the vignettes are engraved in Paris (by Duflos and others). Also contains descriptions of irreligious customs, such as the Adamites, Flagellants, etc. - Bindings a little rubbed, a bit browned in places, otherwise an excellent and unusually wide-margined complete copy in uniform bindings with elaborately gilt spines. Brunet I, 1743. Graesse II, 104. Cf. L. Hunt, The Book That Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious Ceremonies Of The World (Harvard UP, 2010). Lipperheide Oc 24. Hiler 708. Cohen/R. 134. Sander 1548. Lewine 414.
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Pientini, Angelo.
Alcorano riprovato nel quale si mostra le falsita' della setta macomettana, et l'ingannevoli astuzie del suo avatore. Diviso in cinque libri. Florence, Giunti, 1603.
4to. (8), 371, (11) pp. Near-contemporary half leather with giltstamped spine. Scarce second edition of this critical discussion of the Qur'an, a treatise by the the Dominican theologian Pientini (d. 1589) directed against Islam and the Prophet. - Slight edge defects and worming to first leaves; some browning and waterstaining, otherwise a good copy. Much rarer than the 1588 original edition (with identical collation), published by Marescotti under the title "Delle demostrationi degli errori setta Macomettana libri quinque". ICCU BVEE\046275. Cf. Edit 16, CNCE 29089 ("Delle demostrationi degli errori della setta macomettana libri cinque", 1588).
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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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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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Qalaji, Qadri.
Al-Khalij al-`Arabi. Beirut, Sharikat al-Matbu`at lil-Tawzi` wa-al-Nashr, 1995.
686 pp. Publisher's original wrappers. 4to. Third edition of this history of the Arabian Gulf, first published 1965. Includes a few maps as well as extensive bibliographical references (pp. 675-681). - Well preserved. OCLC 71425250.
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Qatar Government, Ministry of Education.
Qatar Progress. Nahdat Qatar. Doha, A. B. A. Printing Press, 1962.
8vo. 54, 52, 58 pp. With numerous photographic illustrations, 2 folding maps (both of Qatar: one in English, the other in Arabic). Original brightly coloured pictorial wrappers. First edition. A publication created by the Government of Qatar, to represent the progress the country had made in a number of fields: from Legislative Development to Education. An interesting insight into the various facets of Qatar's modernization. The book contains the same text, printed in three languages: English, French and Arabic. Very rare; OCLC located a mere three copies (French National Library; University of Haifa; School of Oriental and African Studies, London). OCLC 460812475.
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Rainer Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (1827-1913).
View of Jerusalem. No place, 1844.
C. 280 x 180 mm. Pencil and opaque white on brown paper, signed at bottom left: "Rainer | May 1844", captioned at right: "Jerusalem gesehen vom Tempel des Salomon". Matted. Depicts the south-western corner of the Temple Mount (with Dome of the Rock, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and hinting at the recently rediscovered Robinson's Arch). Archduke Rainer, one of the most eminent figures during the rule of Emperor Franz Josef, also was a talented landscape painter and lithographer (cf. Fuchs II, 37). Although he served in political functions (he was Austria's first constitutional Minister-President from 1861 to 1865), his heart always belonged to the arts and sciences. An honorary member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences, the variously talented Archduke was one of the Habsburg family's most remarkable collectors: his Viennese library encompassed some 40,000 volumes (not counting the inherited library in Hernstein Castle), and the "El Fayum" papyrus collection acquired by him, containing a treasure of 180,000 papyri now stored in the National Library, is regarded as "the greatest of its kind in the world" (Unesco, Memory of the world, Nominated Documentary Heritage). - Rainer, son of the brother of Emperor Franz, spent his youth under the tutelage of his artistically inclined parents and excellent teachers, and it was common for the young Austrian Archdukes in the first half of the 19th century to be instructed in draughtsmanship by the great Chamber painters of the time. The Holy Land was not an uncommon station on the tour of contemporary Chamber painters: Eduard Gurk even died there in 1841 on a study tour. - The quality of the present illustration clearly surpasses that of Rainer's known student drawings (two, dated 1839, are preserved at the National Library, Bildarchiv und Fideikommissbibliothek, PK 3050 2 and 3). The mature talent of the Archduke, only seventeen years old in 1844, is especially evident in comparison with the works of other members of the Imperial family, many of which also dabbled in landscape painting (their works are preserved in the so-called Dilettante cassettes in the Albertina).
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Rangin (Sa'adat Yar Khan).
The Faras-nama-e Rangin or The Book of the Horse. Translated from the Urdu by D. C. Phillott. London, (G. Norman and Son for) Bernard Quaritch, 1911.
Large 8vo. XIX, (3), 83, (1) pp. With 3 plates. Original green cloth with giltstamped spine title. First English edition of this classic of hippiatry. "Saadat Yar Khan (1756-1835) was the son of Tahmasap Beg Khan Turani, a Persian nobleman. After his death, Rangin shifted to Delhi and began an army career. In 1787, he left the job and went over to Bharatpur and after two years again shifted to Lucknow where he was in the service of Mirza Suleman Shokoh. After a stay of nine years in Lucknow, he left to travel in Bengal. Later, he reached Gwalior and served the Sindhias for six years. He again resigned from service and took to trading of horses and touring" (Samiuddin, Ency. dict. of Urdu lit., p. 507). - A good, clean copy with C. Antony Penton's bookplate on front pastedown. Boyd/P. 99. Mellon Coll. 309.
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Raswan, Carl.
The Raswan Index and Handbook for Arabian Breeders. Volume I-VII. Acapulco/Mexico, Anthony, 1957-1967.
7 vols. Original illustrated cloth/gilt embossed percaline. First editions, very rare. - Complete set of this famous reference work. No more than 380 copies were printed (and many destroyed by a flood); vols. III and V were limited to a press run of 250 and 284 copies, respectively. Raswan became an expert on the Arabian breed through his lengthy trips to the desert, where he lived with the Bedouins and learned their language and customs. - Some hinges split. All volumes save for VI and the posthumous VII numbered and signed by Raswan, mostly in the year of publication. In very good condition.
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Reinaud, [Joseph Toussaint].
Notice sur la Gazette Arabe de Beyrout, lue dans la séance générale de la Société Asiatique du 29 juin 1858. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.
8vo. 22 pp., final blank f. Contemporary unsophisticated wrappers. Rare offprint from the "Journal Asiatique", 1858, no. 10: Reinaud's account of the growing Arabic literary production among Syrian Christians, and the newly founded Lebanese periodical "Hadiqat al-Akhbar", Beirut's first bi-weekly newspaper. Numerous passages printed in Arabic, quoting from the works of Khalil-al-Khouri and others. - Some foxing throughout, small tear to corner of upper cover; old ownership (dated 1872). OCLC 223258574.
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Reland, Adrian, et al.
Four Treatises Concerning the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Mahometans [...]. London, J. Darby for B. Lintott, 1712.
8vo. 85, (11), 254 pp. Contemporary boards; spine rebacked with calf; giltstamped spine label. All edges red. Four important 17th and 18th century Western treatises on Islam, uniting works by Adrian Reland, Albert Bobovius, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Reland's two works in especial, first published in 1705, were considered a groundbreaking achievement: the first contains a brief dogmatic treatise (translated from an Arabic ms.), providing a Muslim self-portrait, while the second rectifies prevalent misconceptions about Islam (cf. Fück). The material, including translations of many passages, was drawn from original sources, chiefly from the 11th-century philosopher Ahmad ibn al-Husayn Abu Shuja` al-Isfahani (cf. Quérard, La France litt. VII, 512). Adriaan Reelant (1676-1718) held the chair of oriental languages at the University of Utrecht. The third part, originally published in Latin (Oxford 1690) as "Tractus de Turcorum liturgia", also discusses the pilgrimage to Mecca and includes notes by Thomas Hyde. The fourth part, by Mathurin Veyssière de Lacroze, was first published in his "Dissertations historiques sur divers sujets" (Rotterdam, 1707; cf. Quérard IV, 381). The present translation includes "a letter from Mr. Leibnitz to the author" (pp. 245-254). - From the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate and notes laid in. Chauvin XII, 1384. OCLC 15270828. Cf. Fück 102 (Reland). Not in Brunet.
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Riesenthal, Oskar von.
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text. Kassel, Theodor Fischer / C. B. Griesbach's Verlag, Gera, 1894.
Folio (302 x 402 mm). (6), 56 pp. With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth. Second edition of this plate set first published in 1876-78, including several much-sought depictions of falcons. "As these birds of prey are rendered with the utmost attention to detail, the description of their exterior may be confined to that which is not evident from the images or whatever is of particular noteworthiness" (cf. preface). - Binding rubbed and stained; lower hinge beginning to split. Nissen, IVB 782. OCLC 302340448. Cf. Harting 127.
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Mascate (Il sultanato dell' Oman). Milan, Sonzogno, 1900.
8vo. 32 pp. in paper cover, illustrated title page. Numerous illustrations in the text Shortened Italian version of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad (Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Paris 1883). No. 61 of the famous "Biblioteca illustrata dei viaggi intorno al mondo per terra e per mare" series, published 1899-1904. - Some wear, but altogether well preserved. OCLC 799578383.
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Rivoyre, Denis de.
Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Ouvrage illustré par Saint-Elme Gauthier et orné d'une Carte. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1883.
12mo. (4), 292 pp. With woodcut vignette on title page, 13 plates and a folding map. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad. - Some foxing. OCLC 254176761.
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Roberts, James.
The Sportsman’s pocket companion: being a striking likeness or portraiture of the most eminent race horses and stallions [...] drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts. London, printed for R. & R. Baldwin, c. 1760.
8vo (223 x 148 mm). 40 engraved plates, some with vignette at foot, engraved index leaf. Modern olive green morocco gilt by Eighton, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he died at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760. Rare, only two copies recorded in ABPC/AE Online. ESTC records two issues, one published and sold by Henry Roberts, the other printed for R. and R. Baldwin (as here): just one location is given for the first issue (Winterthur), and one for the second (BL). Huth records the work under a variant title, and also notes an 1820 edition. - Plate 12 shorter at margins, some spotting and browning, heavier at margins. A most handsome copy. Huth 38.
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Roberts, James & Henry.
The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the Most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, Represented in Variety of Attitudes. Interspersed with Tail-Pieces & Embellishments Alluding to the Sport. Calculated for the Utility and Entertainment of the Nobility, Gentry, Breeders, &c. London, J. Barker, c. 1800.
8vo. Letterpress title page and 40 engr. plates by James and Henry Roberts, engr. index leaf, and publisher's 4-page catalogue (with woodcut image of cocks fighting). Stitched in wrappers. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he dies at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760, and this Barker edition some forty years later. This copy has no watermarks, but the books listed in J. Barker's catalogue of publications were mostly published in the 1790s. - Spine rubbed and bumped; slight wear to edges and corners. An excellent copy with two small tears imperceptibly restored. Of the utmost rarity: the only copy recorded at auction during the last decades is the Gloucester copy (Christie's, Jan. 27, 2006, lot 592). Huth, p. 38. Cf. Podeschi 54.
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