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Binyamin ben Yonah, mi-Tudelah / L'Empereur, Constantijn (ed. & transl.).
[Masa'ot shel rabi Binyamin]. Itinerarium D. Beniaminis cum versione & notis. Leiden, Elzevir, 1633.
8vo. (48), 234, (22) pp. With woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten spine title. First Hebrew edition: printed in Latin and Hebrew parallel text, with some passages in the notes in Arabic. "A pretty edition, and the only one to unite the text with a Latin translation" (cf. Brunet). Two duodecimo editions, in Hebrew only and in Latin only, were also published by Elzevier that same year. - Benjamin of Tudela, the "Wandering Jew" or "Wandering Rabbi", made a particular ethnographic study of the Jewish population of the various lands he visited on his travels. Setting out from Spain around 1160, he included Greece and the Aegean Archipelago, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad, and Alexandria in his thirteen-year peregrination. Returned from his travels, he wrote his book in 1178. "One feature of his narrative is its division into what he actually saw and what he heard" (Blackmer). In Cyprus, for instance, he is stinging in his criticism of those who are "nempe Epicurei [...] Sabbathi vesperam profanant". - A clean and well-preserved copy. Willems 377. Pieters 122. Blackmer 120. Weber II, 67. Brunet I, 774 ("Belle édition"). Cf. Cobham-Jeffery p. 4. OCLC 122871307. Not in Atabey.
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Biot, J[ean]-B[aptiste].
Recherches sur plusieurs points de l'astronomie Égyptienne, appliquées aux monumens astronomiques trouvés en Égypte. Paris, Firmin Didot, père et fils, 1823.
8vo. XL, 318 pp. With 2 folding tables and 2 (instead of 4) folding lithographed plates. Contemporary marbled half calf. Edges sprinkled blue. First edition of this rare work on Egyptian astronomy and the so-called "Dendera zodiac". The zodiac was removed from the temple of Dendera by French soldiers during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and is today kept at the Louvre. Conceived around 50 BC, it shows astrological symbols and gives evidence of the remarkable astronomical knowledge of ancient Egyptian priests. The mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) is best known as the author of the "Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique" (1805). Although some copies contain two additional plates showing the zodiac, these appear to be missing from most copies. - Corners somewhat bumped. Removed from the Imperial Russian Military Academy with their bookplate to front pastedown. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 70. Gay 1646. Brunet VI, 8193. OCLC 4895344.
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Birgili, Muhammad Ben Pir-Ali / Garcin de Tassy, Joseph Héliodore (ed.).
[Vasiyetname - French]. Exposition de la foi musulmane [...]. Paris, G. Dufour & E. d'Ocagne, 1822.
8vo. (6), X, 166 pp. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine and giltstamped spine-label. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. First edition. French translation of the "Vasiyetname", the Turkish catechism by the Hanafi Maturidi scholar and moralist Imam Birgivi (1522-73), who lived during the height of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by the French orientalist Garcin de Tassy (1794-1878). Invoking honesty, devotion, unity and fraternity, the "Vasiyetname" was directed at the common people, and was therefore written in Kaba Türkçe, a simpler, vulgar version of Ottoman Turkish used by unskilled workers and farmers. - Apart from the Muslim catechism, the present volume includes a translation of the "Pend-Namèh" by Saadi Shiraazi by the same editor, and a translation of the poem "Al-Burda" by Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), as well as two fairy tales from the "Anwari Soheili", the famous collection of folk tales by Bidpai ("The Falconer" and "The Bear and the Gardener"). - Binding somewhat rubbed; lightly bumped at extremities; hinges starting. A few pencil underlinings. Small portion of lower right corner of title-page torn off; tiny marginal tear to p. 33f. Traces of two removed paperclips and some ink dashes to half-title. Decorative contemporary bookplate in Arabic to front pastedown. Shelfmark stamped to half-title. Two red square stamps to title-page, another to first page of the preface and first page of the "Exposition". OCLC 165361693.
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Birjandi, Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-.
Sharh al-tadhkirah. No place, [ca. 1585/1591 CE =] 999 or 994 H.
Large 8vo (146 x 238 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished oriental paper. 865 pp. (paginated in a later hand), 25 lines, per extensum. Black ink with red underlinings and emphases. With numerous diagrams in the text. Contemporary blindstamped full calf, restored and spine rebacked. A rare, complete, and well-preserved late 16th century manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary on the "Tadhkira", the memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints of predecessors. - Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528) was a prominent Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist from Birjand. A pupil of Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, he anticipated notions later developed by Galileo Galilei in the West. - Copied by the scribe Abd al-Wahhab bin Mawlana Baha al-Din. Somewhat browned throughout; some waterstaining to lower half, more pronounced near the end of the volume. The text illustrations show sections, celestial spheres and other astronomical and mathematical diagrams. Old waqf stamp to first leaf. Restored binding uses original cover material.
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Biscionio, Antonio Maria.
Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae catalogus [...]. Tomus primus [no more published], codices orientales complectens. Florence, ex Imperiali Typographio, 1752-(1757).
Folio (282 x 410 mm). 2 parts in 1 volume. LV, (1), 199, (1) pp. 121, (1) pp. Title page printed in red and black. With engr. frontispiece, engr. title vignette, 9+26+1 (= 36) engr. plates, numerous text engravings (one full-page), and several engr. initials, head- and tailpieces. All edges sprinkled in red. Disbound. First and only edition of this ambitiously conceived catalogue of the Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and Greek manuscripts at the Laurentian Library ("Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana") in Florence. The 9 engraved plates of the first part show the architectural details and ornaments of the library that was planned and partly built by Michelangelo; the plates of the second part show examples from the illuminated manuscripts of the collection - a rich trove of Near-Eastern and Middle-Eastern book art. Antonio Maria Biscionio (1674-1756) was a celebrated scholar and the appointed keeper of the Laurentian Library. "No more published; later catalogs were issued by Biscioni's successor as librarian, Angelo Maria Bandini. An abridgment appeared in 1757 under title: 'Bibliothecae ebraicae graecae florentinae, sive Bibliothecae mediceo-laurentianae catalogus'" (OCLC). - Vellum slightly rubbed at extremeties; foxing to edges of final pages. Rare; only two copies in international auction records since 1950. Graesse I, 432. OCLC 6475224.
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Bishara, Marwan
The Invisible Arab : The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
Nation Books 2012. Hardback. Fine/Fine. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Nation Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 351068 ISBN : 1568587082 9781568587080
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BITTERLIN Lucien
Alexandrette. Le "Munich" de l'Orient, ou quand la France capitulait...
Paris: Jean Picollec, 1999 in-8, 366 pages, cartes, illustrations. Broché, bon état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1376971
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BITTEL, Kurt:
Les Hittites. ‘L'univers des formes’, volume 24.
Paris, Gallimard, 1976, in-4to, 1 ff + 333 p., avec 340 images (héliogravures et photographies en couleur) + 5 cartes (dont 1 dépl.), reliure en toile originale avec jaquette ill. Bel exemplaire.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 112739aaf
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BITTEL Kurt
Les Hittites
Paris, Gallimard, 1976. In-4 carré relié toile éditeur rouge sous jaquette illustrée rempliée. 332 pages. Nombreuses reproductions en noir et en couleurs, dans et hors texte, cartes dépliantes. Dictionnaire index, bibliographie. Collection l'Univers des Formes. Très bon état
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BITTEL Kurt, Van den BERGHE L., Von SODEN W., RAVA O. E., HALDAR Alfred e altri
Beitrag zu EFLÄTUN-PINAR (Bittel) + Monuments récemment découverts en IRAN Méridonal (Van den Berghe) + Zur ersten Tafel von LUDLUL bel nemeql ((Von Soden) + The Passage on GILGAMESH and the Wives of URUK (Rava) + Fice CUNEIFORM Inscriptions in the national Museum of Stockholm (Haldar).
Numero speciale: Fasciculus Francisco Mario Theodoro DE LIAGRE BÖHL dedicatus. Bibliotheca Orientalis uitgeven vanwege Nederlandisch Institut voor het Nabije Osten. Nn. 1-2, Jan.-Maart 1953. In-4° (cm. 30x23,3), cartoncino leggero editoriale, ombre in cop., ottimo l'interno. I saggi sopra citati occupano 14 pagine deel fascicolo; le successive 62 pagine sono sutte di RECENSIONI in varie lingue di opere sull'antichità nel MEDIO ORIENTE, EGITTOLOGIA, ASSIRIOLOGIA, JUDAICA, Asia Minore, Storia delle Religioni. Complessive 76 pagine + 29 ILLUSTRAZIONI b.n. in 7 TAVOLE fuori testo.
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Bizzarri, Pietro.
Rerum Persicarum historia, initia gentis, mores, instituta, resque gestas [...]. Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel / Claude de Marne & Johann Aubry's heirs, 1601.
Folio (222 x 337 mm). (8), 644, (32) pp. With woodcut devices on title page (repeated at the end) and several pretty woodcut initials. Modern blindtooled leather binding, spine in six compartments and gilt spine title. Second, enlarged edition (first printed in 1583). Important collection of previously published works about Persia, including the travels of the Venetians Giuseppe Barbaro (1436) and Ambrogio Contarini (1473), "together with several other tracts relating to the Turks, including works by Callimachus, Minadoi, [etc.]" (Sotheby's, Atabey sale, no. 117). - Spine somewhat faded. Rather browned and foxed throughout due to paper, as common, but altogether clean; occasional insignificant worming to margins. Title and final leaf show stains from removed stamps. VD 17, 23:231248Y. Atabey 112. Schwab 47. Graesse I, 433. Brunet I, 956 & VI, 28069. Cf. Adelung I, 139ff. Cicogna I, 360. Cox I, 258. Not in Blackmer.
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Blanche LEE CHILDE
Impressions de voyage. Alexandrie et le Caire. La Haute Egypte
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] 1882 | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 19864
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BLACHERE (R.), SAUVAGET (J.)
Règles pour éditions et traductions de textes arabes.
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1945. In-8 br., 42 pp.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 595526
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Blacheres, Regis et Henri Darmaun
Extraits des Principaux Géographes Arabes du Moyen Age deuxième edition
Paris: Librarie C. Klincksieck 1957. Hard bound second edition 392pp. Bottom corners bumped and hinges a bit weak else very good. 471 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Paris: Librarie C. Klincksieck, 1957 unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21381
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BLACK Matthew.:
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Doctrine.
London: The Athlone Press 1966. 1st.ed. "The relevance and importance of the scrolls for the study of Christian beginings doctrinal as well as historical is now widely recognized." Pp. 24. A very few marginal spots. P/b. Slight fading to cover. G. London: The Athlone Press, 1966. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13637
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BLACK, Matthew. (ed).:
The Scrolls and Christianity. SPCK Theological Collections 11.
London: SPCK 1969. 1st.ed. "The main emphasis is on the light thrown by the Scrolls on New Testament problems.Judaism which were current during the New Testament period." Pp. 132. P/b. G. London: SPCK, 1969. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13310
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Blackwell, Eric.
Cairo to Bagdad. Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Iraq and other places, 1919].
Oblong 4to. Album with 148 small original black and white photographs on 18 ff. Contemporary giltstamped full cloth with printed title and 2 silhouette images. Extremley rare photographs from the first successful motor crossing of the desert from Damascus to Baghdad in 1919, preceding by four years the well-known efforts by the Nairn brothers, which resulted in the establishment of the overland mail service between Damascus and Baghdad. The photographs were taken by the 18-year old Eric Blackwell, who had planned to enlist as a pupil pilot in the RAF, had his training cut short by the Armistice, and decided instead to volunteer for the projected desert expedition. Carried out by a military convoy of 10 Model T Fords and some 15 men under the command of Lt. Col. Keeling, the aim of the expedition was to set up a chain of whitewashed stone markers to aid the pilots of an air mail service between the eastern Mediterranean and India, cutting out the lengthy Suez-Aden-Bombay sea route. - The photographs document the journey from Cairo to Haifa by train, then on to Damascus on established roads, up to the expedition's last outpost before the open desert, Dumair. The following pictures show the men setting up the stone signs, repairing their vehicles, sometimes having to push them forward (a total of six Fords had to be abandoned along the way), posing for group pictures, and travelling through the vast desert landscape, stops along the way including Abu Kamal, Ana, Ramadi and Fallujah, before reaching Baghdad, and going on to the ruins of Babylon, Basra, Bombay, Aden, and Suez. - Photographs are mounted in groups, with captions in English. Enclosed is an envelope containing seven loose photographs torn from the album, as well as a brief typewritten account of the journey, and correspondence relating to the loan of photographs for a magazine article, referring to it as a "grand trip". - Extremities lightly bumped. A few photographs loose; traces of photographs torn away in places. Impressive visual material of this little-known epic journey. Cf. Aramco World July/August 1981, vol. 32, nr. 4.
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Blaeu, Willem Jansz.
India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adiacentes. Amsterdam, 1640.
Engraved map of Southeast Asia, showing the area from India in the northwest to the southernmost part of Japan in the northeast, with the Indonesian archipelago in the south and an outline of the western part of New Guinea (now part of Indonesia). The areas depicted also include present-day Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Blaeu, Willem Janszoon.
Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum. Amsterdam, 1642.
Engraved map (38 x 49,5 cm), contemporarily hand-coloured. Scale 1:9,000,000. 17th century map of Persia stretching from the Caucasus to Afghanistan and from the Arabian Desert to the Indus River, published in the monumental Blaeu Atlas. Koeman Bl 18a.
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Blaine, Gilbert.
Falconry (The Sportsman's Library, volume XV). London, Philip Allan, 1936.
8vo. VIII, 9-253, (1) pp., final blank. With 8 photographic plates and several illustrations in the text. Contemporary full blindstamped cloth with silver-stamped title to cover and spine. First edition, rare. A classic of falconry describing the training and care of hawks, by the renowned falconer Blaine, drawing on more than 40 years of experience in the field. When the book was reprinted in 1970, the publisher's blurb noted that the book was "extremely scarce and second-hand copies are making as much as eight guineas in the sales rooms". - Blaine, a longtime member of the Old Hawking Club, "was one of those legendary figures who seems to come along in falconry every so often, raising the standards of the sport as well as pushing the envelope of what can be accomplished" (Gallagher). His useful handbook provides an introduction to the sport, and includes a glossary of falconry terms as well as a short bibliography on the subject, mentioning an English edition of the famous Persian falconry treatise "Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri". - The plates show a greenland falcon, a falcon eyass, a passage falcon, a falcon pluming a grouse, two eyass tiercels, a goshawk, and a team of passage hawks weathering. The smaller illustrations in the text display falconer's equipment, the beaks of falcons and hawks, and the technique of repairing damaged feathers. - Handwritten ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood 1946, to front pastedown. Two black and white photographic illustrations clipped from a magazine, showing tiercels, are loosely inserted. - Somewhat browned and brownstained throughout. A single copy in auction records. Gallagher, Falcon Fever 177. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 3, 2. OCLC 603525547.
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BLISS (Edwin Munsell)
Turkey and the armenian atrocities.
S.l., Edgewood. Publ. Co., [vers 1896]. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile vert amande, titre illustré au dos et au plat sup., XV-574 pp., ill. photogr. en noir h.-t., index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 555573
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BLISS (Edwin Munsell)
Turkey and the armenian atrocities.
Fresno (Californie), Meshag Publications, 1982. In-8, broché, couv. ill., 574 pp., ill. en noir h.-t., une carte dépliante. Index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 557028
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Bliss, Frederick Jones
The Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine
NY: Scribner. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Scribner 1912. 8vo. xiv354 pages. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Lectures delivered before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross. Spine sunned fade spots across covers mild foxing to pastedowns endpapers. Binding straight and tight pages clean. good plus. . Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1912. Scribner unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002442
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Blount, Sir Henry.
A Voyage into the Levant. A Breife Relation of a Journey, lately performed by Master H.B. Gentleman, from England by the way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosnah, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes and Egypt, unto Gran Cairo: With particular observations concerning the moderne condition of the Turkes, and other people under that Empire. The Second Edition. London, Printed by I.L. for Andrew Crooke, 1636.
Small 4to. (2), 126 pp. Trimmed, touching the first work title and a few headlines and page numbers. Expertly bound to style in 19th century straight grained brown morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Scarce early English work on the Levant. Blount journeyed to the Levant in 1634 and first published his account two years later (the present second edition appearing later in the same year). It is an important English work and one of the first to view the Turks without prejudice. "Blount wrote objectively and viewed Turkish society as different from, but equally valid to, the life he knew in England" (Blackmer catalogue). Provenance: E.B.,Trinity College, Cambridge (inscription on verso of title dated 1748). Atabey 119 (first edition). Blackmer 154. STC 3137. Wing B3317. Weber 289.
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Blundeville, Thomas.
The Foure Chiefest Offices Belonging to Horsemanship: That is to Say, the Office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keeper, and of the Ferrer. London, Humfrey Lownes, 1609.
4to. 2 pts. in 1 volume. (232) pp., including two title pages with fine woodcut borders. With 50 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound to style in modern blindstamped brown calf with giltstamped red spine label and sparsely gilt spine. Early edition of the first comprehensive book in the English language about the care, breeding, and riding of horses. The "Four Offices" are those of the breeder, rider, keeper, and ferrer: this volume contains the first two offices. Among the illustrations are 43 full-page examples of bits and bridles. Some 17th- or 18th-c. ink annotations. Blundevill(e) (1522-1606) was, according to the Arabian Jockey Club, "one of the founders of the thoroughbred industry." He originally translated Gisone's "Gli Ordini di Cavalcare" (1550) as "The Art of Rydynge" (1560), which was the first modern treatise on classical dressage and later incorporated as one of the chapters of this book. First published in 1565/66; all editions published prior to 1650 are considered uncommon. DNB V, 271.
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Blunt Wilfrid Scawen
Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events
NY: Howard Fertig. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. Reprint of this 1922 title. xi 416pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Howard Fertig hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42498
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Blunt Anne
Voyage en Arabie. Pèlerinage au Nedjed, berceau de la race arabe.
(Viaggi - Medio Oriente - Viaggiatrici inglesi dell'Ottocento - Lady Anne Isabella King Noel Blunt - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Orientalismo) In 8°, elegante legatura coeva firmata Magnier in mezza pelle rossa, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e ricche impressioni in oro, piatti in percallina rossa decorati da cornici a secco lineari ed ornate, tagli dorati, pp. (4),LXVIII,447,(3), con una tavola in antiporta, 53 illustrazioni xilografiche nel testo di G. Vuillier tratte da acquerelli di Lady Anne Blunt (40 a piena pagina e 13 intercalate nel testo), alcune scritture musicali nel testo, tavola genealogica di Ibn Saoud e di Ibn Rashid nel testo, una carta geografica ripiegata fuori testo. Prima traduzione francese a cura di Léopold Derome dell'opera "A Pilgrimage to Nejd", London, Murray, 1881. Sul frontespizio sono indicate 60 illustrazioni xilografiche nel testo, diversamente dall'Indice dove ne vengono citate 53 tutte presenti alla collazione. Volume solido con tracce di ossidazione non gravi su alcune pagine, peraltro solido e ben conservato.
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Blunt, Anne.
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign" [...]. London, John Murray, 1881.
8vo. 2 vols. XXXI, (3), 273 pp., final blank page; IX, (3), 283 pp., 1 blank page, 24 pp. of adverts. With 2 woodcut frontispieces (included in pagination), 13 woodcut plates, and several woodcut illustrations in the text, as well as 1 folded map of Northern Arabia. Contemporary full cloth, decorated in black and gold on covers and spine. First edition. A true classic of travel literature, describing the 1879 expedition across the Nejd from Beirut, south into the Great Nefud, north to Baghdad and east to the Arabian Gulf, undertaken by Anne Blunt and her husband Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a prominent couple of British explorers. Conveying "an ideal of an Arab aristocracy of the desert" (Nash), the travelogue describes the Blunts' interaction with sheikhs and emirs, but also their fascination with Arabian horses, including an account of the stables at Hail. Lady Blunt was, along with her husband, the founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud, and the first European woman to journey to Central Arabia. Furthermore, the Blunts were the first Europeans to enter the Jebel Shammar in the Nejd "openly and at leisure", free to map and record geographical and physical features. - Apparently received as a gift from the author, with pencil inscription by the recipient on the flyleaf of volume I: "Lady Anne Blunt to Stephen Pearse" (?), additional pencil ownership of Flawn E. Thomas (?); a previous ownership erased. A few annotations and reading notes, also marking the date of beginning and ending each volume, between 6 and 13 October 1928. Later pencil acquisition note referencing Heffers bookshop in Cambridge (for 1/5/-), dated 11 January 1940. - Bindings a bit stained and slighty rubbed. Paper slightly foxed throughout; small tear to inner margin of the map (not touching image), small tear in the lower margin of the map repaired; tear to the contents page of vol. II repaired. Overall a good copy. Macro 555. Nash, Travellers to the Middle East 73. Howgego III, B49. Boyd/P. 16. NYPL Arabia Coll. 164. Henze I, 277.
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BOCCAZZI Cino -
Lawrence d'Arabia. L'avventuriero dell'assoluto.
Milano, Rusconi, 1982, 8vo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 235.
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Bocharov Gennady; Kojevnikov Alyona translator
Russian Roulette: Afghanistan Through Russian Eyes
NY: Harpercollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0060391103 . Index. Author photo on rear jacket panel. The Soviet journalist relates stories about the Afghanistan war from his eight years reporting from there. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages . Harpercollins hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29091 ISBN : 0060391103 9780060391102
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Bocthor, Ellious / Caussin de Perceval, Armand Pierre.
Dictionnaire Français-Arabe. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828.
Large 4to. 2 vols. VII, (1), 461, (1) pp. (4), 435, (1) pp. Near-contemporary sprinkled gold-tooled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 recessed cords, gold-tooled board edges, shell-marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges. First edition, edited by Caussin de Percival. One of the first complete French-Arabic dictionaries. The Copt Ellious Bocthor (1784-1821) held a chair for Vulgar Arabic at the École des Langues Orientales in Paris. - Some foxing throughout, otherwise an excellent copy. 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 in both vols. Fück 151. Vater/Jülg 457. OCLC 493558888. Cf. Gay 384 (1864 third ed.).
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Bodansky, Yossef
Bin Laden : The Man Who Declared War on America
2001. Soft Cover. Very Good. Publisher: Primia Publishing 2001 Very Good Soft Cover ISBN: 0-7615-3581-0 paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006045 ISBN : 0761535810 9780761535812
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Bodansky, Yossef
Chechen Jihad
2007. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - AL Qaeda's training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror . AH97713z hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7713z ISBN : 0060841702 9780060841706
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Bodansky, Yossef
Secret History Of The Iraq War
New York New York U.S.A.: Regan Books 2004. 570pp. Bodansky reveals the war was doomed from the start by the massive and systemic failures of the American intelligence community. As he argues nearly every aspect of America's conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood in both the court of public opinion and the White House itself. Drawing upon an extraordinary wealth of previously untapped intelligence and regional sources The Secret History of the Iraq War presents the most detailed fascinating and convincing account of the most controversial war of our times and offers a sobering indictment of an intelligence system that failed the White House the American military and the people of the Middle East. Price clipped on dj. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Regan Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006360 ISBN : 0060736798 9780060736798
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Bodansky, Yossef
The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism
New York: Prima Pub 2002. 652 pp. biblio index. Very light wear. DJ: light rubbing. Hb. VG/VG. Prima Pub Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 122758 ISBN : 0761535799 9780761535799
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Bodansky, Yossef
The Secret History Of The Iraq War
New York New York U.S.A.: Regan Books 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Fine. 1st 1st Large thicker book black boards bright orange lettering on spine 570 pages pp. 157-176 top tips creased. DJ glossy with photo of troops and dark smoke on front spine and back. Very Fine DJ/Near Fine book. <br/> <br/> Regan Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36864 ISBN : 0060736798 9780060736798
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Bode, Baron C[lement] A[ugustus] de.
Travels in Luristan and Arabistan. London, J. Madden and Co., 1845.
8vo. 2 vols. XX, 404 pp. XII, 398, (2) pp. With 15 lithographed and wood engraved plates (two folding) and 2 folding engraved maps. Recent period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and black gilt morocco labels. A very good set. First edition. - An important account of Persia with detailed descriptions of the antiquities, archaeological sites, and the ancient history of the country. In 1841, de Bode travelled from Tehran to Isfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz, Kazeroun, Shushtar, Susa, Khorramabad and back to Tehran. "Luristan" (modern "Loristan"), or the land of the Luri people, is a western province of Persia; its main city is Khorramabad. "Arabistan" (now "Khuzestan") is located in the Eastern Persia and the main city is Ahwaz. - De Bode provides a detailed account of the ancient cities of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Ahaemenid Empire, and Susa, which used to be the capital of the legendary civilisation Elam, mentioned in the Bible. In his narrative he describes numerous archaeological sites, lists the names of settlements, describes the history of the local tribes and their manners and customs. In a supplement he published his observations on the routes of Timur and Alexander the Great, who crossed south-western Persia during their conquering marches. "It is with the view of rescuing from a second oblivion this once classical ground that the Author has endeavoured to draw aside a corner of the veil which still covers this mysterious region" (preface). One of de Bode's advisors whom he acknowledges in the preface was the renowned assyriologist Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-95), an expert in Persian and Indian vernacular languages who explored Susiana and Persian Kurdistan and was called by Budge, in "The Rise and Progress of Assyriology" (1925), "the father of Assyriology" (ODNB). - "Clement Augustus de Bode, a member of the Russian legation in Tehran, filled some empty spaces in existing maps" (Howgego). "It is mostly a travel book [...] the author gives a good picture of tribal life and especially the political situation in Fars; principally the hostility between the Qashqai tribe which controlled Shiraz. There are also descriptions of historical sites and monuments along the way" (Ghani, p. 93). Abbey, Travel, 391. Howgego II, G2. Henze I, 281. NYPL Arabia coll. 165.
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BOGHARIAN (Norair)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Library. Grand catalogue of St. James manuscripts. Volume VII.
Jerusalem, Armenian Convent Printing Press, 1974. In-4 broché, [15] ff., 551 pp. à 2 col., fac-similés en noir dans le texte, texte en arménien.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556287
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BOGHARIAN (Norair)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Library. Grand catalogue of St. James manuscripts. Volume VIII.
Jerusalem, Armenian Convent Printing Press, 1977. In-4 broché, [7] ff., 465 pp. à 2 col., [1] f., fac-similés en noir dans le texte, texte en arménien.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556288
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Bogolubow, Andrei.
Tapis de l'Asie Centrale. St. Petersburg and Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1908.
Large folio (680 x 500 mm). 43 plates (36 of which are in colour), 2 double-page coloured maps. XXVI, (2) pp. Original wrappers. German text in wrappers and loose plates in original grey cloth portfolio with giltstamped titles. First edition of "the first great book on turkoman rugs" (Arntzen/Rainwater). The magnificent plates in full colour are printed on special paper, each sheet bearing the label of the St. Petersburg "Manufacture des Papiers de l'État". - Title page of the text volume shows a closed tear, otherwise fine. Cf. Arntzen/Rainwater P618 (the 1973 reprint only).
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BOHAS, Georges
Les Araméens du bout du monde. La mémoire des chrétiens d'Orient.
1994 Editions Universitaires du Sud - Collection "Monde Arabe" - 1994 - In-8 broché, couverture illustrée - 183 pages + cahier de 45 reproductions photographiques en N&B in fine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 126653
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Boha-Eddin (Yusuf ibn Rafi Ibn Shaddad al-Mausili) / Albert Schultens (ed.).
[Sirat al-Sultan al-alik al-Nasr Salih al-Din]. Vita et res gestae Sultani, Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini [...]. Grandiore cothurno conscripta ab Amadoddino Ispahanensi ex mss. Arabicis [...] Editit et latine vertit Albertus Schultens. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1732.
Folio. Four pts. in 1 vol. (30), 278 pp. (2), 64 pp. 26, (88, index) pp. Title-page printed in red and black, Arabic and Latin text in two columns. Original calf. First edition (reprinted in 1755). The eminent Arabian writer and statesman Bohaddin, better known in the East as Ibn-Sjeddad, "wrote several works on Jurisprudence and Moslem Divinity; but the only one that can be interesting to us is his 'Life and Actions of Saladin', which, with other pieces connected with the same subject, was published by Albert Schultens, at Leyden, in 1732, accompanied by a somewhat inelegant Latin translation, also by notes, and a Geographical Index. This work affords a favourable specimen of the historical compositions of the Arabs [...] The enthusiasm with which every thing about [Saladin] is narrated, and the anecdotes which the author, from his own personal knowledge, is able to communicate respecting that extraordinary character, give his work a great degree of interest" (Enc. Britannica, Suppl. II [1824], p. 352f). Schnurrer 148, no. 175. Gay 2238. Cf. Fück 107. Not in Smitskamp.
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Boha-Eddin (Yusuf ibn Rafi’ Ibn Shaddad al-Mausili) / Albert Schultens (ed.).
[Sirat al-Sultan al-alik al-Nasr Salih al-Din]. Vita et res gestae Sultani, Almalichi Alnasiri, Saladini [...]. Grandiore cothurno conscripta ab Amadoddino Ispahanensi ex mss. Arabicis [...] Editit et latine vertit Albertus Schultens. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1732.
Folio. Four pts. in 1 vol. (30), 278 pp. (2), 64 pp. 26, (88, index) pp. T. p. printed in red and black, Arabic and Latin text in two columns. Contemp. blindstamped vellum on seven raised bands with faded ms. title to spine. First edition (reprinted in 1755). The eminent Arabian writer and statesman Bohaddin, better known in the East as Ibn-Sjeddad, "wrote several works on Jurisprudence and Moslem Divinity; but the only one that can be interesting to us is his 'Life and Actions of Saladin', which, with other pieces connected with the same subject, was published by Albert Schultens, at Leyden, in 1732, accompanied by a somewhat inelegant Latin translation, also by notes, and a Geographical Index. This work affords a favourable specimen of the historical compositions of the Arabs [...] The enthusiasm with which every thing about [Saladin] is narrated, and the anecdotes which the author, from his own personal knowledge, is able to communicate respecting that extraordinary character, give his work a great degree of interest" (Enc. Britannica, Suppl. II [1824], p. 352f). - An appealing copy in Dutch blindstamped vellum from the Berne Abbey, home of the Premonstratensians of Heeswijk, North Brabant, and the oldest extant religious community in the Netherlands (their stamp on t. p.). Modern protective flyleaves (but original pastedowns). Slight wrinkling to final pages; otherwise clean and unbrowned. Schnurrer 148, no. 175. Gay 2238. OCLC 21516733. Cf. Fück 107. Not in Smitskamp.
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Bohl, F. M. Th. (Franz Marius Theodor) de Liagre.
Kanaän vóór den intocht der Israëlieten volgens Egyptische en Babylonische bronnen. Rede bij de aanvaarding van het hoogleeraarsambt aan de rijks-universiteit te Groningen 1 maart 1913.
Groningen J. B. Wolters 1913. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Royal octavo. Pp. 40. Notes. Original printed wrappers bit edge worn. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl' 1882-1976 inauguration lecture upon receiving Professorship chair at the Groningen University in 1913. Very rare. 002-1 <br/> <br/> Groningen, J. B. Wolters paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0712
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BOISSIER (Alfred).
Choix de textes relatifs à la divination Assyro-Babylonienne, avec 4 planches (Vol I) et Vol.II fascicule I.
1905 2 vol. in-8 , VIII, 275pp. et (2ff.),70pp., br. Genève Köndig 1905-1906,
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3607
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BOISSIER (Alfred)
Choix de textes relatifs à la divination Assyro-Babylonienne, avec 4 planches.
1905 br. 2 vol. in-8, Genève Kündig 1905-06,
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 12236
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Boissoudan, Jacques Elie Manceau de.
Le fauconnier parfait, ou méthode pour dresser et faire voler les oiseaux. Paris, pour la Société des Bibliophiles, 1866.
8vo. (IV), XII, 72 pp. Half-title, wood-engraved portrait of Jean-Auguste de Thou to title. 20th century panelled calf. Written at Poitou ca. 1745, this work was not published until 1864 at the end of an edition of Jacques du Fouilloux's "La Venerie". Harting recommends it and writes that his "treatise conveys a good idea of the state of falconry in the 18th century in Poitou, where the native Goshawk was much used". - Occasional spotting, heavier to endpapers. Harting 202. Schwerdt I, 74. Thiébaud 109.
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Bolitho, Hector.
Beside Galilee: A Diary in Palestine.
London Cobden-Sanderson 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 8vo. Pp. 183. Frontispiece. Plus eight halftone plates bound in. HARDCOVER original green cloth. Very good condition. Cloth faded numbers painted to spine. Internally bright. ~ FIRST EDITION. F-4 IN <br/> <br/> London, Cobden-Sanderson hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0895
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Bonet-Maury, Gaston.
L'Islamisme et le Christianisme en Afrique. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1906.
8vo. (4), VI, 299, (1) pp. With one folding map. Publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition of Bonet-Maury's study of Abrahamic religions in Africa, supporting both Christianity and Islam as superior alternatives to local beliefs. A protestant clergyman and academic, Gaston Bonet-Maury (1842-1919) wrote extensively on monotheistic faiths and their unity, proposing them as a significant factor in the development of Western civilisation. - Slight marginal toning, a few light marks, otherwise a very good copy. From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, with manuscript pencil poem to final blank and shelfmark label of the royal library to spine.
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Bonfils, Felix / Zangaki / American Colony, et al.
[Photograph album - Jerusalem]. [Palestine, ca. 1880s].
Oblong folio (425 x 330 mm). 102 albumen photographs (220 x 275 mm) mounted on card. Contemporary green pebbled cloth ruled in blind. A large collection of portraits and views of Jerusalem and surroundings, most signed or captioned in-plate by Felix Bonfils (46), the American Colony studio (16), Zangaki (7), Dumas, and P. Sebah. Striking scenes include sea-bathers in the Dead Sea, the market at Jaffa overflowing with melons, the Greek Orthodox ceremony of the washing of the feet in the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, several scenes of the interior of the same church, the Tombs of the Kings, the convent of Mar Sabba clinging to a cliffside, the Christmas Day pilgrimage in Bethlehem, the Valley of Jehoshaphat, street scenes of Jerusalem populated by passersby in Ottoman and European dress, men and camels resting along the banks of the Jordan or aiming their rifles across the river for the camera, the "Mosque of Omar" (Dome of the Rock, Qubbat as-Sakhra) and the interior of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (also known as the Qibli Mosque). The collection also includes portraits, largely of locals: two portraits of women from Nazareth, all in European style dresses under long headscarves, two wearing tall pattens to keep their feet from the street mud; father and son street vendors in Ottoman dress, a young woman from Bethlehem in an elaborately embroidered jacket, and a bearded man captioned "Cheik de Village". - Some fading and occasional wear to photographs, binding skilfully rebacked and repaired. An interesting and wide-ranging collection documenting Jerusalem from the individual to the historical scale just prior to the turn of the century.
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