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CHARTOUNI (Charles)
Histoire, sociétés et pouvoir aux Proche et Moyen Orients. T. I : Histoire sociale. T. II : Sociologie, sciences politiques.
P., Geuthner, 2001. 2 tomes en 2 vol., in-8 br., 296, 301 pp.
Référence libraire : 450356
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CHASLES Raymond
Israel et les nations
,Paris, Lamarre 1945, 253 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br.
Référence libraire : 2381
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CHASSIN Général L. M.
Bélisaire généralissime byzantin (504-565) . Avec quatre cartes .
,Paris, Payot Bibliothèque Historique 1957, 254 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br. couverture illustree . Bon etat.
Référence libraire : 18423
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CHATEAUBRIAND
Itin?raire de Paris ? J?rusalem. Sans date.
Broch?. 566 pages.
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CHATEAUBRIAND
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. 2 volumes.
Couverture souple. 2 volumes brochés. 446 + 404 pages. Nom manuscrit sur les pages de titre.
Référence libraire : 60701
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CHATEAUBRIAND
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. En 2 volumes.
Couverture rigide. 2 volumes, reliure demi-chagrin rouge. 487 +390 pages. Rousseurs.
Référence libraire : 47762
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CHATEAUBRIAND (DE), F. A.:
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. (Oeuvres complètes de Châteaubriand. Tome IV).
Paris, Furne et Cie, 1865, gr. in-8vo, 3 ff., LXXVI + 486 p. derniers 4 p. avec pt. obstruct. dans la marge) + 4 grav. sur acier (A. Johannot del et Ceroni sc ) dont le frontispice, étiq. du relieur sur contre-plat + étiq. libraire (à Nantes) sur titre, reliure orig. en demi-cuir, 4 faux-nerfs.
Référence libraire : 45508aaf
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Chateaubriand (M. le Vicomte de).
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem précdé de Notes sur La Grèce et suivi des Voyages en Italie et en France.
Ensemble de deux volumes de format petit in 8° de volume I:faux titre, frontispice, titre, 378 pp.; et pour le volume II: faux titre, titre, 420 pp.; étiquettes de prix au contreplat de chaque volume; reliure uniforme en demi chagrin rouge; caissons dorés; titres dorés; armes dorées du Lycée Lamartine de Macon sur le premier plat de chaque volume. Discrètes piqures; sinon bel ensemble en parfait état pour ce précurseur des "Voyages en Orient" des grands auteurs du 19e. Voir les photos.
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CHATEAUBRIAND 8 lithographies par Hadamard.
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Les quatre Stuart.
Couverture rigide. Reliure toile rouge. 287 pages. Légère usure aux coiffes.
Référence libraire : 15639
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Chateaubriand De, François-René
Opere di F. A. De Chateaubriand. Volume I: Itinerario da Parigi a Gerusalemme e da Gerusalemme a Parigi, andando per la Grecia e tornando per l'Egitto, la Barberia e la Spagna. Dissertazione di D'Anville sull'estensione dell'antica Gerusalemme e sulle mi
25 cm, 3 Vol. legati assieme, ril. coeva in mezza pelle, piatti marmorizzati, titolo e fregi al dorso, p. X, 333 (1); 173, (3); XVI, 253. Ritratto dell'autore inciso da Innocenzo Migliavacca, all'antiporta del primo e del secondo volume. Testo su due colonne. Piatti con ordinari segni del tempo, leggeri aloni marginali lontani dal testo alle prime 25 carte, per il resto esemplare bello dagli ampi margini
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Chatelain, (R. J.).
Mémoire sur les chevaux Arabes. Projet tendant à augmenter et à améliorer les chevaux en France. - Notes sur les différentes races qui doivent être préférees à ce sujet. - Réflexions sur l'adminstration des Haras, leur utilité. - Instruction pour les propriétaires qui sont des élèves. - Connoissance nécessaire pour faire un bon choix d'étalons et de chevaux de guerre. - Beautés et défectuosités. - Tableaux, recettes, dépenses et réformes. Paris, Madame Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1816.
8vo. 158 pp. With frontispiece of a 'Cheval Arabe' after C. Vernet. Contemp. red half morocco with giltstamped spine and covers. Interesting work on the Arabian breed of horses, especially the military horses in France. - A fine copy. Boyd 26. Mennessier de la Lance I, 263. OCLC 4337831.
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Chatelain, Henri Abraham.
Carte de l'Empire des Turcs en Asie & en Afrique. Paris, 1720.
425:525 mm. Engraved map. Shows the Arabian Peninsula in great detail and includes "a detailed diagram of the caravan routes to Mecca and Medina from across the Ottoman Empire" (Al Ankary). - With traces of fold. Al Ankary 132. Tibbetts 220. Not in the Al-Quasimi collection.
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Chatelain, Henri.
Carte de la Turquie, de L'Arabie et de la Perse avec leurs dependances dressée sur les observations les plus nouvelles & les Memoires les plus recens. Amsterdam, ca. 1720.
Copper-plate engraving (515 x 415 mm). Superbly engraved map of region from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, based upon Guillaume de l'Isles map of the same title. The scientific information for this map was taken from the maps of Guillaume de l'Isle. It shows a detailed diagram of the caravan routes to Mecca and Medina from across the Ottoman Empire. A note on the lower left corner gives a description of Turkey, Arabia and Persia. Tibbetts 221. Al-Qasimi 124. Al Ankary 287.
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CHATZIDAKIS (Manolis)
Byzantinische Denkmäler in Attika und Böotien. Architektur, Mosaiken, Wandmalereien.
Athen, Athen Verlag, 1956. In-folio en feuilles sous couv. illustrée éditeur, 28 pp. à 2 col., 5 ill. en noir et 5 plan dans le texte, 21 planches (10 pl. de vues d'architecture en deux tons, les autres sont des vues en couleurs contrecollées de fresques et mosaïques), [2] ff.
Référence libraire : 509212
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Chauvin, Victor.
Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux arabes publiés dans l'Europe chrétienne de 1810 à 1885. Liège, H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1892-1922.
Large 8vo. 12 vols. Original printed wrappers. Monumental, exceedingly useful bibliography of Arabic literature and works relating to Arabia published in the West in the 19th century. Arranged by subject covering the Quran and its tradition (an entire volume), the Proverbs, Kalîlah, Loqmân, Barlaam, ´Antar, Syntipas, Oriental Tales, Mahomet, etc. Four volumes are dedicated to the 1001 Nights alone. - Edges slightly brittle as always, but very well preserved. Untrimmed, uncut copy in the publisher's original wrappers. Besterman 455.
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Cheesman, Major R. E.
Arabia. Routes between ‘Oqair and Jabrin Oasis in Eastern Nejd. London, 1925.
Colour-printed map (51 x 48 cm). Al-Qasimi 285.
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Chehabi, H. E.
Li Kulli Fir'awn Musa: The Myth of Moses and Pharaoh in the Iranian Revolution in Comparative Perspective
Waltham MA: Brandeis University. Very Good. 2010. Softcover. Crown Center for Middle East Studies Crown Paper 4 November 2010. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 42 pages . Brandeis University paperback
Référence libraire : 32196
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Chenu, Jean Charles / Des Murs, Marc Athanase Parfait OEillet.
La fauconnerie ancienne et moderne. Paris, Hachette, 1862.
8vo. 176 pp. Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound within. First edition. - Occasional spotting, a little soiled and creased. Harting 200. Schwerdt I, 109. Thiébaud 192.
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Chenu, Jean Charles / Des Murs, Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet.
La fauconnerie ancienne et moderne. Paris, L. Hachette, 1862.
8vo. (4), 176 pp. With woodcut title-vignette, 45 numbered and several unnumbered woodcut illustrations in the text. With the original printed wrappers bound in at the end. Later half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine-title. First edition. - A classic of falconry, this pocket-sized manual is a supplement to the second volume of the ornithological textbook "Leçons élémentaires sur l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux" (1862-63) by the French zoologist Chenu (1808-79) and the ornithologist Des Murs (1804-94). The illustrations show various kinds of falcons, as well as their training and typical flight paths, sometimes displaying specific parts of the birds' bodies like wings and claws in detail. Figure no. 5 ("Faucon sur une Gazelle") is copied from the plate of "Goshawk and Gazelle" by Joseph Wolf, which forms the frontispiece to Richard F. Burton's 1852 work "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus". - Ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood, 13 October 1943, to front pastedown. Occasional light spotting; traces of the title-page being glued to the first page near the gutter. Harting 200. Schwerdt I, 109. Thiébaud 192. Souhart 100. OCLC 944664144.
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Chenu, Jean Charles / Des Murs, Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet.
La fauconnerie ancienne et moderne. Paris, L. Hachette, 1862.
8vo. (4), 176 pp. With woodcut title-vignette, 45 numbered and several unnumbered woodcut illustrations in the text. Later half calf with giltstamped spine and spine-title. First edition. - A classic of falconry, this pocket-sized manual is a supplement to the second volume of the ornithological textbook "Leçons élémentaires sur l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux" (1862-63) by the French zoologist Chenu (1808-79) and the ornithologist Des Murs (1804-94). The illustrations show various kinds of falcons, as well as their training and typical flight paths, sometimes displaying specific parts of the birds' bodies like wings and claws in detail. Figure no. 5 ("Faucon sur une Gazelle") is copied from the plate of "Goshawk and Gazelle" by Joseph Wolf, which forms the frontispiece to Richard F. Burton's 1852 work "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus". - Ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood, 24 February 1942, to front pastedown. Paper evenly browned throughout; tiny marginal tear to p. 29f. Partly uncut copy. Harting 200. Schwerdt I, 109. Thiébaud 192. Souhart 100. OCLC 944664144.
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Chertok, Haim
We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers
New York: Fordham University 1989. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Fordham University hardcover
Référence libraire : 004170 ISBN : 0823212238 9780823212231
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Chesney, [Francis Rawdon] / Plate, W[illiam] H[enry].
A Map of Arabia and Syria Laid Down Chiefly From Original Surveys [...]. London, engraved by J. & C. Walker for Longman, Brown & Co., 1849.
Hand-coloured engraved map (scale: 70 miles to 1 inch). 692 x 668 mm, including fold-out section at right edge showing Ras al-Hadd. Matted. Exceedingly rare, large map of the Arabian Peninsula, based on surveys conducted under General F. R. Chesney (1789-1872), the explorer of the Euphrates and founder of the overland route to India. Drawn by W. H. F. Plate. This is a second, improved edition of a map that had previously appeared in 1847 under the simple title "Arabia" (kept at the British Library, referenced as IOR/X/3205 within the Qatar Digital Library). "Mesopotamia and its rivers are laid down from Surveys made during the Euphrates Expedition. The Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Southern Coast of Arabia are from those made by the Officers or the Indian Navy. The interior of the peninsula is from various sources, particularly materials furnished for the accompanying work by Aloys Sprenger M.D. and from documents obtained by Dr. Plate" (note). Finely preserved. No copy known outside the British Library. OCLC 556388606. Not in the Al-Qasimi Collection.
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Chesney, [Francis Rawdon].
The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, Carried on by Order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836 and 1837. London, Longman, 1850.
Large 8vo (175 x 260 mm). 2 vols. XXIII (instead of XXVII, lacking pp. XVII-XX), (3), 795 (instead of 799, lacking pp. 705-708), (1) pp. XVI, 778 pp. With all 49 tinted lithographic plates as well as numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary full blue cloth with blindstamped covers and gilt spine titles. Wants the boxed 14 maps. First edition. Chesney (1789-1872), the explorer of the Euphrates and founder of the overland route to India, intended the work to be complete in four volumes, but half the manuscript was lost and only these two volumes were published. The book describes the exploration trip through the Euphrates and Tiber valleys, to the Arabian Gulf, in search of a shorter route to India. "He explored the Euphrates twice, at first alone, on a raft, in secret and at great risk (he frequently came under fire from hostile Arabs) and later by steamer, although the second attempt was no less fraught with difficulty than the first (the 'Tigris' was wrecked and there were numerous physical obstacles to overcome). Chesney was clearly an explorer of the first order and his courage and perseverance were matched only by his attention to detail and thoroughness in the surveys he produced" (Atabey). - Lacking four leaves in the first volume and (as often) the 14 slip-cased maps. Provenance: removed from the library of Hawkesyard Priory, Staffordshire (dispersed in 2008) with their stamps. Latterly in the collection of Roberto Gulbenkian (1923-2009). Atabey I, 234 Blackmer 337. Howgego II, p. 124, C26.
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Chessé.
L'Algérie. Sites & Monuments. Paris, L. Boulanger, [c. 1900].
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 32 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from French Algeria (mosques, the ports of Oran and Algiers, Arabic villages, etc.). - Slight edge defects to wrapper covers, otherwise well preserved.
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CHEVALLIER Dominique
Orient d'encre. Entre guerres et pouvoirs.
Broch?. 208 pages. Tr?s bon ?tat.
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Chiara Silvi Antonini, Giorgio Stacul
The Proto-Historic Graveyards of Swat (Pakistan). Part 1: Description of Graves and Finds. Text + Plates (2 volumi)
Collana “Reports and Memories”, VII, 1. 2 volumi, XVI-536 pagine complessive, brossura editoriale. Dimensioni: 24x34 cm. Minime tracce del tempo alla brossura, per il resto ottime condizioni. Volume 1 (Text): numerose figure in b/n nel testo, alcune tavole su foglio ripiegato in b/n fuori testo. Volume 2 (Plates): 1 tavola a colori, CCLXII tavole in b/n e una cartina geografica su foglio più volte ripiegato fuori testo. In lingua inglese. Nonostante la dicitura “Part 1” faccia presupporre altri volumi, questa risulta essere l’unica pubblicata. (N.B. Per peso e dimensioni saranno necessarie spese di spedizione aggiuntive. Additional shipping costs are requested for international shipping of this book. You will be notified by email, or you may email us before you order for a shipping quote).
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Chibwe, E. C.
Afro-Arab Relations in the New World Order
1978. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: St. Martin's Press 1978 Good HB ISBN: 0-312-01063-X hardcover
Référence libraire : 008543 ISBN : 031201063X 9780312010638
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CHIERICI Maurizio -
Dayan.
Novara, De Agostini, 1976, 8vo legatura editoriale cartonato telato con titoli dorati al piatto anteriore e al dorso e sovraccopertina illustrata a colori (piccoli strappi) pp. 190 completamente illustrato da fotografie e tavole fotografiche in nero e a colori (I condottieri) .
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CHIESA BRUNO - COLOMBO VALENTINA - CRESPI GABRIELE - GARBINI GIOVANNI - NOJA SERGIO - PIOTROVSKI MICHAIL B.
PRIMI (I) ARABI
A Cura: Noja Sergio . Prefazione: Gabrieli Francesco . Pagine: 272 . Illustrazioni: Disegni in bianco e nero nel testo e tavole a colori fuori testo . Formato: 4° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato con sovracoperta originale . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: In buonissimo stato. . Collana: Corpus arabicum .
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CHIHA (Michel)
Essais I. Essais II.
Beyrouth, Editions du Trident, 1950-1952. 2 vol. in-8 broché, 234 et 243 pp. Première édition sur vélin bouffant du Marais. Ces deux volumes ont été tirés à 1500 ex. chacun.
Référence libraire : 604739
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CHIHA (Michel)
Palestine.
Beyrouth, Editions du Trident, 1967. In-8 broché, 288 pp., portrait au front. Deuxième édition.
Référence libraire : 604741
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CHIHA (Michel)
Propos d'économie libanaise.
Beyrouth, Editions du Trident, 1965. In-8 broché, 344 pp.
Référence libraire : 604743
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CHIHA (Michel)
Variations sur la Méditerranée.
Beyrouth, Editions du Trident, 1973. In-8 broché, 247 pp.
Référence libraire : 604742
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Chihuly
CHIHULY JERUSALEM 2000
2000. 2000 Chihuly CHIHULY JERUSALEM 2000 Seattle WA: Portland Press c2000 First edition 234pp illustrated in color 4to As new hardcover copy with as new dust jacket. unknown
Référence libraire : 69928 ISBN : 157684014X 9781576840146
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Child, Charles B.
THE SLEUTH OF BAGHDAD: The Inspector Chafik Cases
Norfolk VA U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Inspector Chafik J. Chafik of the Baghdad Police Force was the creation of Charles B. Child 1903-1993 was the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost. Beginning in 1947 the Chafik stories were some of the most popular features in Colliers Magazine and many were reprinted in the annual Best Detective Stories of the Year. The stories about Chafik his wife Leila and his adopted son Faisal whom he found on the streets of Baghdad are superlatively constructed exercises in detection but they have a more subtle level. They are also explorations of a culture and a time and place. The stories begin when the British still influenced Iraqi politics and continue through the period of the monarchy and the countrys attempts to identify its place in the world. This hardcover is done in a very small print run. appx 200 copies. 15 short stories. This is the third volume in the publisher's Lost Classics Series. At least 2 of the stories are Impossible Crime stories. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Heyer Carol. Book. Crippen & Landru, Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 020731 ISBN : 1885941749 9781885941749
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Chogyam Trungpa
Shambhala -
1988. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1988/Gd.condition/202 pages - Dragon editions the sacred path ofthe warrior. A guide to enlightened living. TN436875 paperback
Référence libraire : 36875
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CHOMSKY Noam, ACHCAR Gilbert
La poudrière du Moyen-Orient
Fayard, 2007, 391 pp., broché, pli de lecture sur le dos, légères traces de mouillure sur la tranche latérale, état correct.
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Chomsky, Noam
Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc 2003. Hardback. Very Good/Lightly Worn. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc hardcover
Référence libraire : 350389 ISBN : 0742526992 9780742526990
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Chomsky, Noam
Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
1996. Soft Cover. Good. PB/Gd. condition/244 pages - Discusses politics and power. K1162HR3 paperback
Référence libraire : K1162 ISBN : 089608535x 9780896085350
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Chorafas, Vangelis & Rizas, Lefteris [eds]
Irak : Ena Deftero Vietnam = Iraq: A Secnd Vietnam
Athens: Monthly Review Imprint /Ellenika Grammata 2005 Book. Very Good. French Wraps. 1st Greek Edition. Translation Michael Panagiotakis Nikos Papapolyzos. "The "Vietnam Syndrome" has had a major impact on US foreign policy for more than 25 years. The first Gulf War the interventions in Yugoslavia and the rapid victories in Afghanistan and Iraq gave the impression that this syndrome had been finally overcome. However the situation has changed and the question marks have begun to increase. Will Iraq become a second Vietnam Can the US wage continuous wars in the future How will the weak resist the powerful The authors of this book provide some first answers to these questions. Questions that will concern us all in the future"126p. NO copies in WorldCat. Monthly Review Imprint /Ellenika Grammata paperback
Référence libraire : 038576 ISBN : 9608845807 9789608845800
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Choudhury, Masudul Alam
Reforming the Muslim World
London United Kingdom: Kegan Paul International 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Printed in Great Britain by Kegan Paul International. Hardcover in very good condition. Green boards with gold colored spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with no writing no markings etc. noted. Papers bright white. Dust jacket in very good condtion bright & crisp with a ghost of shelf & edge wear. Concludes with a section on Notes & References and a comprehensive Index. 269 numbered pages. From the book ""This highly important book will engage the attention of both Muslims and the non-Muslims and is essential reading for all seeking to understand the critical questions underlying the relationships between the Muslim world and global order in the light of the Islamic world view."" Kegan Paul International hardcover
Référence libraire : M000918 ISBN : 0710305753 9780710305756
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Chris Horrie -
What Is Islam -
2007. Soft Cover. Good. PB/Gd. condition/324 pages - A comprehensive introduction revised & updated. K1061HR2 paperback
Référence libraire : K1061
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Christoph Gack
Israel & the Occupied Territories -
1981. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1981/Gd. condition/206 pages - Israel is where the Bible meets the troubles of the Middle East. TH34304z paperback
Référence libraire : 4304z
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Christopher Catherwood -
The Merchants of Fear -
2008. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - Egyptian politics and society examined . TR2v7912z hardcover
Référence libraire : v7912z ISBN : 1599212811 9781599212814
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Chronographus, Philo.
Arca Temporum Mundi Reserata, Oder: Der Welt eröffnete Zeit- und Geschicht-Beschreibung. Begreiffend: Perspeculatum [...]. Augsburg, Jakob Koppmayer for Jakob Enderlin, 1693.
Folio (305 x 190 mm). 2 parts in 1 volume. (4), 31, (1), 64 pp. With 12 (instead of 16) plates containing 24 copper engravings. Modern boards. Fascinating, little-received chronographical study focusing on the history of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, then under Ottoman rule. The anonymous late 17th-century German author hides behind the name of "Philo Chronographus" and is evidently identical with the "Philo Cosmographus" who produced the similarly themed geographical work, "Trinum Marinum", which is announced on the title page and was often issued together with this, though produced by a different publisher and catalogued separately. The first part of the work contains a general introduction which relates the 24 hours of the day to the time from Creation to the year 1800 (which is conceived of as the end of the world, leaving another mere 107 years of history to come!). The second part features a chronicle of the "Rule of the Ottoman Porte", from Sultan Osman to Suleyman II. - Numerous pages of plates (each page containing two copper engravings) depict costumes, animals and plants, maps and views of towns (Sultan Osman, the Ottoman Residence and a view of Constantinople, dolphins and cranes, Turkish ladies in their various garments, a cypress and a mastix tree, etc.). - The number of plates, and indeed even the arrangement of engravings on a single page, varies from copy to copy, but this wants 4 plates as compared to the table of plates. Well-preserved. VD 17, 12:645730N. Weller, Pseud. 439.
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Chrysanthos, Metropolitan of Durazzo, Brusa, and Smyrna.
[Proskynetarion tes hagias poleos Hierousalem kai pases Palaistines]. Vienna, Johanna Schrämbl, 1807.
Folio (215 x 328 mm). (4), 104 pp. With engraved frontispiece and 51 leaves of plates (8 double-page-sized or folded). Near-contemporary red half morocco with gilt rules and marbled covers, spine richly gilt (loss of label). Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Rare description of the Holy City of Jerusalem and of the whole of Palestine; a reissue (with changed title) of the edition published by Josef Baumeister in Vienna in 1787. Previous editions had appeared in Venice in 1728, then in 1749 and 1781, while the 1787 edition boasted "a new text and different iconography" (Staikos). This latter edition is here reproduced largely unchanged save for bringing the name of the Patriarch of Jerusalem up to date (from Abraham to Anthimus), as well as that of the editor, Apostolas Boras, on the title page. "The engraving of the Patriarch on his throne is unchanged except for the name; it is signed (in Greek): 'engraved by Schindelmayer in Vienna' [...] A large-sized, impressive book" (Staikos). "A portrait of the Patriarch [Anthimus] forms the frontispiece; also, there is an illustration of the Palace of David, and a plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, though the view of its cross-section is quite haphazard [...] The author expands on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, and the sacred sites of Galilee. The text is apparently more or less that of the Venice 1728 edition; apart from that, it is generously interspersed with highly appealing illustrations in the true taste of modern Greece" (cf. Tobler 135). The Viennese publisher and printer Franz Anton Schrämbl, whose company was continued by his widow Johanna after his death in 1804, specialised in reprints (often of large sets), maps, and books in Greek. Their production was one of the strongest in Vienna (cf. Frank/Frimmel, Buchwesen in Wien, p. 175f.). - Extremeties bumped; spine-ends chipped. Still a beautiful volume from the library of King George III of the United Kingdom (1738-1820) with his royal cypher on the spine. Staikos no. 28 (note p. 94). OCLC 41651327. Cf. Röhricht 1362, 1515. Tobler 124f., 135. Legrand (XVIII) 1208.
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Churchill, Awnsham & John.
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts. London, Henry Lintot & John Osborne, by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, 1744-1746.
Folio (245 x 362 mm). 6 vols. (12), LXXII, (4), 668, (1) pp. (4), 743, (1) pp. 793, (1) pp. (2), IV, 5-780 pp. (4), 708 pp. 824, (104) pp. Title printed in red and black. With 187 engraved plates (many folding) and 9 engravings in the text (showing maps, plans, views, costumes, flora, fauna, scenes, portraits etc., including 2 bound as frontispieces), as well as numerous woodcuts in the text (showing arms, seals, devices, coastal views, details, machinery etc.). Uniform full calf with red labels to spine (gilding oxydized). Third and best edition of this important and profusely illustrated collection of travel reports, compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, based on Hakluyt and Purchas. It includes the accounts of Martin Baumgarten (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria), Thomas Roe, Philipp Balde and Johan Nieuhoff (East Indies, including a detailed account of the north-eastern coast of Arabia, with a description of pearl fishing in Bahrain and mentioning Julfar, Qatar, Sir Bani Yas, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah, Amalgavine, and other places of interest along the coastline), J. Gemelli Careri (Turkey, Persia, India), Nicholas Rolamb (Constantinople), John Barbot (West Africa, with a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran"), as well as of Yemen and various journeys to China, Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, North and South America (including Columbus). - "This is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts [...] The third edition is considered to be best because of its greater inclusiveness and its copious index" (Hill). Two further volumes were issued separately in 1745, republished in 1752. - The count of the illustrations is notoriously complicated: the "List of the Copper Plates" counts 305 illustrations and maps, of which as many as four are placed on a single plate, and some are placed within the text. Compared to this list, the present set lacks 52 illustrations, or ca. 20 plates, whereas the first volume contains 5 additional plates not called for in the List. Three of the maps (Africa, Asia, America) which the List announces for the first volume are in fact bound in volumes IV-VI. The introduction, a "History of Navigation from its Original to this time", is likely one of the final works of the philosopher John Locke, whose publisher and financial manager Awnsham Churchill had been (while the attribution has been called into question, the text was included in Locke's Complete Works). - Provenance: Byrdie McNeill, Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska (her stamps). Bindings professionally repaired. Some browning; some edge defects, tears and paper flaws, but generally well-preserved. Cox, I, 10. Hill 295. Sabin 13017. Shirley G.CHUR-1d. Alden/L. 744/62. Borba de Moraes I, 158. Landwehr, VOC 260 (note). Cf. National Maritime Museum Cat. I, 33.
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Churi, Joseph H.
Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia. Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851-1852. [...] With Thirteen Arabic Songs, as Sung by the Egyptian Sailors on the Nile. London, published by the author, 1853.
Large 8vo. XII, 331, (1) pp. With wood-engraved frontispiece of the Homra tree. Original publisher's brown boards with title in gilt to spine. First edition. - The Lebanese Maronite Churi trained at the Congregation of Propaganda in Rome from 1842 to 1849. He later left Rome and made his way to London, where he gave lessons in Arabic, Latin, Italian, and Hebrew. Captain W. Peel was amongst his pupils and persuaded him to accompany him on a tour of the Middle East between October 1850 and February 1851. The present work is an account of a second journey the pair undertook to Egypt and the Sudan between August 1851 and February 1852. - Some wear to spine and boards. Mild occasional foxing, otherwise in very good condition. Nice original, unblemished yellow endpapers. Rare. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 135 (erroneously s. v. "Chusi"). OCLC 4709982. Not in Gay.
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Chwolson, Daniel.
Über die Überreste der altbabylonischen Literatur in arabischen Uebersetzungen. St. Petersburg, impr. de l'Académie des sciences, 1859.
Small folio. 196 pp. Contemporary half calf. Marbled endpapers. First edition of this study of ancient Babylonian sources in Arabic translations. The Russian orientalist Daniel Abramovich Chwolson (1819-1911) was appointed extraordinary professor of Oriental languages in St Petersburg in 1855. In 1856 the Imperial Academy issued, at its own expense, Chwolson's first work, which established its author an an authority in the field of oriental research, the two-volume "Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus"; three years later Chwolson published the present "Über die Überreste der Altbabylonischen Literatur in arabischen Uebersetzungen" (also in Russian, in "The Russian Messenger", as "Novootkrytie Pamyatniki"). This work made a great sensation among scholars by the importance of its discoveries and by Chwolson's theories concerning the old Babylonian monuments. (= Sur les débris de l'ancienne littérature babylonienne, conservés dans des traductions arabes. Mémoires présentés à l'Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg par divers savants, 6e série, VIII). 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. OCLC 457694735.
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Chérif, Ahmed.
Le Pélerinage de la Mecque. Essai d'histoire, de psychologie et d'hygiène sur le voyage sacré de l'Islam. Beirut, Angelil, 1930.
8vo. (4), VI, 71 pp., final blank page. With folding map in colour and 10 black-and-white photo illustrations and maps on plates. Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. Only edition, rare. - Report on the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, with spectacular views of the holy city and the Kaaba, as well as the Beirut quarantine hospital. The French-trained Lebanese physican and medical historian Ahmed Chérif discusses not only the history and rituals of the Hajj, but also focuses on aspects of health and hygiene during the week-long mass gathering. - Occasional foxing to margins. Two temporary block-stitches to gutter; a few pages and plates loose. Untrimmed copy much in the original condition as issued, awaiting its first proper binding. Macro 16. OCLC 936820237.
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