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Filiu, Jean-Pierre
Gaza : A History
A new, unread book in excellent condition. 422 pages.
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FINBERT Elian-J.
Israël.
,Paris, Librairie Hachette Coll. 'Les guides bleus' 1961, 454 pp., 1 vol. in 12 relié cartonnage bleu éditeur, plans et cartes dépliants.
Riferimento per il libraio : 17110
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Findlay, Alexander George.
A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean [...]. Second Edition. With Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sunda and Western Australia, including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; the Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, and the Passages from Europe to its various Ports. London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1870.
Large 8vo (170 x 255 mm). (2), VI, (2), VII-XXXVI, 639, 639a-h, 640-1110, (2) pp. With 15 (mostly folding) maps (many in colour) and numerous text ilustrations. Contemporary giltstamped cloth. Second, enlarged edition of this standard work, first published in 1866. An encyclopedic volume of over 1000 pages with a detailed index. The chapters include descriptions of the coasts and islands of the Cape Colony; coast of Kaffraria and Natal; Eastern Africa; Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel; the coast of Africa, between Cape Delgado and the Red Sea; the Red Sea, etc. - In particular, Findlay devotes much attention to the coasts of Arabia and onwards to the Arabian Gulf, providing rich detail about the port of Aden, navigating and anchoring around Ras Arah and Ghubbet Seylan, the population of Masirah Island, the climate of the Gulf and its threats to Western health, topography of the coastal settlements, information on the reefs and pearl banks, etc. The discussion of the Gulf ("Our acquaintance with the hydrography of the Persian Gulf is nearly perfect") includes intelligence on Sharjah ("Shargeh"), "the most important town on the coast", numbering 8,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, and on Dubai ("Debay"), "a large town of 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants" standing "a little back from the shore" and "recognizable as being the last town on the coast, there being not a single date-tree or house from this all the way to Abu Thabi". The coast is described as "quite barren and uninhabited, throughout very low, with tufts of mangrove bush", and "so uniform in appearance that the smallest peculiarities are noted by the Arabs, and names given to them". Abu Dhabi ("Abothubbee") is noted as "the most populous town on the coast", containing "about 20,0000 inhabitants" and sending "600 boats to the pearl fishery. The chief is very friendly to the English. Cattle might be obtained here". - Binding rubbed; hinges split. Some foxing throughout as common; repeatedly annotated quite ungraciously by a 20th century hand in coloured ballpoint and broad felt-tip pen. A later edition (from Humphrey Winterton's library) commanded £720 at Sotheby's in 2003. Mill (Cat. of the RGS Library) 160. OCLC 217065553.
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Fiorillo / Zangakis.
La Mer Rouge. Sites & Types d'Indigènes. Paris, L. Boulanger, [c. 1900].
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 18 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from the Red Sea. Depicts the wells of Aden, street scenes from Jeddah, the Arabic bazaar at Suakim, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
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Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim (attrib.) / Schlechta von Wssehrd, Ottokar (transl.).
[Yusof o Zolayka]. Jussuf und Suleicha. Romantisches Heldengedicht. Vienna, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1889.
Small 4to. (2), XIII, (3), 267, (1) pp. Printed original wrappers, bound within contemporary green half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title to spine. First edition, inscribed by the translator and several pencil corrections to the text. Rabenlechner praises this sumptuous edition of the 11th century narrative poem long attributed to the Persian epic poet Firdawsi: "the initial - gilt on blue background - shows Cufic character; each of the book's 17 gatherings is in a different colour" (cf. p. 125). Schlechta's autograph inscription is on the inside upper cover: "Zur freundlichen Erinnerung. Baden, 3.7.1889. Der Übersetzer". Rabenlechner I,125. ÖBL X,175. Rypka 782.
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Fischel, Walter Joseph
Ibn Khaldun in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research: A Study in Islamic Historiography
Berkeley CA.: University of California Press 1967. Scholarly highly regarded text examines the impact of the "Egyptian Phase" 1382-1406 on the great historian Ibn Khaldun's writings and interest towards Eastern Islam and non-Islamic peoples. First part of the text covers Khaldun's life in Mamluk Egypt and his roles as educator Chief Cadi and public servant; including details of the six topics he and Tamerlane discussed during their confroontation outside Damascus. Second part of the text investigates the Egyptian influence on the products of Ibn Khaldun's historical research which included a biography of the Sultan Barquq a historical survey of the Mongol and Tatar tribes biographies of Jenghiz Khan his descendants and Tamerlane; etc. 217 pgs. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper. Dustjacket has a few tiny creases on top edge; in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of California Press Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : MS-7 ISBN : 0520004140 9780520004146
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Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard.
Entwurf einer historischen Architektur. In Abbildung unterschiedener berühmten Gebäude, des Alterthums und fremder Völcker. Leipzig, 1725.
Royal folio (540 x 410 mm). 5 volumes in 1. With engraved title-page, engr. dedication, 5 engr. half-titles and 86 engr. plates (3 folded, 1 map). Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red morocco label to richly gilt spine. All edges red. First edition of this splendid work, which was reprinted five times until 1742 (including an English edition). The first three volumes deal with historical and legendary monuments (among them the seven wonders of the ancient world as well as monuments of the "Arabs and the Turks"). The fourth volume is dedicated to buildings of Fischer von Erlach himself; the fifth volume shows vases and sarcophagi. - Binding slightly rubbed, some dampstaining near end, otherwise a fine, wide-margined and complete copy. Nebehay/Wagner 176. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 2105. Fowler 121. Schlosser 438. Thieme/B. XII, 48. Millard III, 31. Kruft 205/687. Museum of Islamic Art, Hajj - The journey through art, p. 48f. (illustration).
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Fisher, A. K. / C. Hart Merriam (dir.).
The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their Relation to Agriculture. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893.
8vo. 210 pp. Illustrated with 26 colour plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First edition of a survey of the influence of birds of prey on the agriculture in the United States, published as bulletin no. 3 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Understanding the feeding pattern of these birds was crucial to gauge their role in the ecosystem. Therefore the birds were caught and dissected and their stomach contents studied. This explains why the plates show the birds with their typical food. The 26 full-page chromolithographed plates are signed JLR (J. L. Ridgway and R. Ridgway) and show most birds in their natural habitat with a kill at their paws. Number 26 is placed between 23 and 24. - Bottom of spine damaged and repaired. Nissen IVB 316.
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Fisher, Albert Kenrick.
The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their Relation to Agriculture. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893.
8vo. 210 pp. With 26 chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gum arabic, tissue guards. Original cloth. Some foxing, rubbed. Anker 144. Nissen 316. Wood 342. OCLC 1171516.
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Fisher, Charles Hawkins.
Reminiscences of a Falconer. London, John C. Nimmo, 1901.
8vo. XIV,188 pp. With portrait frontispiece and plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. First edition. - Some foxing, rubbed.
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Fisk Robert
La grande peur pour la civilisation
Fort volume de 960 pages en bon état tranches un peu salies éditions La Découverte Sous-titre: L' occident à la conquête du Moyen-Orient ( 1979-2005)
Riferimento per il libraio : yam1173
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FLAUBERT (Gustave)
Lettres d'Orient.
Bordeaux, L'Horizon chimérique, 1990. In-8 broché, couv. rempliée ill. en sépia, 334 pp., portrait au front.
Riferimento per il libraio : 604732
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Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht.
(Über Textverbesserungen in al-Makkari's Geschichtswerke). Berichte der Kön. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Philologisch-Historische Classe). (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel), 1867-1869.
8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. 151-220 pp. (1867); 236-309 pp. (1868); 39-118 pp. (1869). (With) II: The same. Abdruck aus den Berichten der philol.-histor. Classe der Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1870. Dritte Fortsetzung der Beiträge zur arabischen Sprachkunde. 227-295, (1) pp. Contemporary vellum-backed red marbled boards with handwritten spine-title. Treatise on textual emendations to the history of Muslim Iberia by Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. Offprints from three volumes of reports of the Scientific Society of Saxony. - Bound with this is the sequel to another essay on Arabic linguistics by Fleischer, "Beiträge zur arabischen Sprachkunde". - From the collection of the German librarian and oriental scholar Julius Euting (1839-1913) with his ownership in black ink to the flyleaf and with an inscription on the following blue wrapper, summarising the content and with a small stamp of ownership at top right ("J. Euting, Strassburg").
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Fleming, John Arnold.
Falconry and Falcons. The Sport of Flight [...]. London, Country Life Limited, (1934).
4to. XV, (1), 114, (2) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 48 photographic illustrations on 19 plates. Contemporary full green cloth with giltstamped hawk to front cover and giltstamped spine-title. First edition, one of 350 copies signed by the author (this is number 277). - A practical guide to falconry by the industrial chemist, journalist, author, politician, and keen amateur falconer and golfer Fleming (1871-1966), including a glossary of falconry terms as well as observations on the relationship between hawk and falconer. It features "some excellent photographs of the birds in natural settings" (US Air Force Academy), including a hooded merlin, the author with his kestrel, falcons, hawks, merlins, and buzzards attending to their young, as well as birds in flight, and falconers with their animals, including a group of men from Tiwana in Pakistan. - Somewhat brownstained throughout. Handwritten ownership by Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Eton 1934, to front pastedown. Clipped publisher's advertising is loosely enclosed. US Air Force Academy Library Catalogue 27, 4. Barber 22. OCLC 561016854.
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Fleurat, Georges Constantin Louis, French diplomat (1767-1837).
Document signed ("G. C. Fleurat" and "Kieffer"). [Istanbul], 28 Vendémiaire XI [20 Oct. 1802].
4to. 1 p. on bifolium. A unique account documenting the restoration of Turko-French relations after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and Syria between 1798 and 1801, describing how several unspecified objects confiscated during the campaign were returned by the Ottoman press to the French. Fleurat, who served as chancelier provisoire to the French legation, here reports that he was accompanied by the orientalist and linguist Jean-Daniel Kieffer (1767-1833), who counter-signs the document, to the Aynalikavak palace in Istanbul. Here they were handed over the items by Müderris Abdurrahman Efendi, the first manager of the Mühendishane printing house (opened in Istanbul in 1797, the house that would publish the famous Cedid Atlas in 1803). The objects, Fleurat reports, were then transported to the French embassy for safekeeping. His account also mentions that the diplomat Jacques Argyropoulo, appointed by Ibrahim (Müteferrika) Effendi, the pioneer of printing in the Muslim world, was present at the handover, and refers to a list of the received objects which has probably not survived. - From the collection of the Turkish author, journalist, and publisher Sevket Rado (1913-88), founder of "Tifdruk" printing house. - Small tears to the left and right margins along the centrefold, not touching the text; a few minor edge flaws.
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FLEYFEL Antoine
Géopolitique des chrétiens d'Orient. Défis et avenir des chrétiens arabes
L'Harmattan L'Harmattan, 2017. Grand In-8 broché de 215 pages; Très bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 193864 ISBN : 234301485
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Flinders Petrie (Ed)
Ancient Egypt Magazine. 1927 Part I II III & IV PLUS 1928 Part I
London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1927-1928. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 136; 32. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Five issues retaining the original front covers for 1927 Part 1 & 1928 Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Includes an index for all issues 1924-1927. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1139E032
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Flinders Petrie (Ed)
Ancient Egypt Magazine. 1922 Part I II III & IV
London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1922. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 128. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Four issues retaining the original front cover for Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1139E027
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Flinders Petrie (Ed)
Ancient Egypt Magazine. 1923 Part I II III & IV
London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1923. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 136. Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Four issues retaining the original front cover for Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode and stamp to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Includes an index for all issues 1920-1923. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1139E028
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FLORY (M.), B. KORANY, R. MANTRAN, M. CAMAU et P. AGATE.
Les Régimes politiques arabes.
PUF, 1990, in-8°, 558 pp, une carte, tableau, biblio, index, broché, dos passé, qqs surlignures, état correct
Riferimento per il libraio : 1786
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Fludd, Robert / Henri de Pisis / Alfakini.
Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur. "Verona" [= Frankfurt am Main], 1687.
647, (1) pp. 197, (1) pp. With title-page printed in red and black, 5 (of 6) large folding letterpress tables, 1 double-page engraved folding plate with 2 engraved illustrations, and some woodcut illustrations and numerous letterpress geomantic figures in text. With (2): Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno MDXXXV. Iam primo luci datus, annexis duabus tabellis huic studio mirè inservientibus, caeteroquin utilibus & jucundis. Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunner, 1693. With 2 letterpress folding tables following text, and nearly 200 pages of letterpress tables with geomantic figures. 2 works in 1 volume, bound in reverse order. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. First edition of a collection of three texts on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins. Geomancy comes from the Ancient Greek "geômanteía", a translation of the Arabic term "'ilm al-raml", the "science of the sand". It includes texts by the English physician and astrologer Robert Fludd (1574-1637), the French physician Henri de Pisis and the Arab Alfakini. It is preceded by its separately published supplement Tabulae geomanticae, together forming "the standard printed Latin source for the rules of geomantic practice [...] a handbook and compendium not since rivalled for clarity and completeness" (Skinner). - Fludd's treatise "De Animae intellectualis Scientia seu geomantia" was first published in his magnum opus "Utriusque Cosmi maioris salicet et minoris metaphysica" (1617-19), and appeared slightly altered in the present work. "Fludd [...] tried to present [geomancy] as a science of intellectual soul in which intellectual rays emanated from the mind to mundane affairs and then returned to the center with tidings of the future [...] He discusses how the geomancer should so dispose himself that the intentions of his mind are clearly emitted [...] Fludd's treatise is immediately followed by a longer geomancy by H. de Pisis [first published in 1638]. The work is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar" (Thorndike). The last treatise contains the geomantic questions of the Arab Alfakini, son of Abizarch, based on a manuscript from 1535 and published here for the first time. The manuscript was a Latin translation by Plato of Tivoli (fl. first half of the 12th century), known for his translations of Arabic texts. A supplement to this last text, containing almost 200 pages of tables, is bound first. It opens with a series of 25 numbered questions, the answers to these questions can be found in the tables of the matching geomantic figure. - With a crude drawing of a head on pastedown. Lacking one letterpress folding table in the main work. Browned throughout, as usual, some occasional smudges, a few tears along the folds of the folding tables, and some wormholes in the first two leaves, resulting in a small hole in the gutter of the title-page, otherwise internally still good. Binding soiled and with crudely restored spine. VD 17, 7:692678X & 39:120436C. Caillet 4035. Thorndike VIII, 481f. S. Skinner, Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy (1980).
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FONTAINE, Pierre
Alerte au pétrole franco saharien
1961 Editions Les Sept couleurs - 1961 - In-8, broché - 266 pages - Ouvrage partiellement coupé (fin d'ouvrage jamais lu)
Riferimento per il libraio : 120609
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FOORD (Edward)
The Byzantine Empire. The rearguard of european civilization.
London, Black, 1911. Fort in-8 bradel pleine toile verte, pièce de titre basane bordeaux, XII-431 pp., 32 planches, 7 cartes. Index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 555597
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Foran, John
Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1993. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of Iran beginning with the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and tracing the transformation of Iran'a social structure offers an interpretive synthesis of Iranian history. It argues that Iranian social structure is historically the product of both internal and external dynamics and that growing dependence on the West has produced a series of resistance movements that have been built on fragile social bases. 452 pgs. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : MS-29 ISBN : 0813384788 9780813384788
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FORBIN Victor
Le "pipe-line" sous les murs de Ninive.
Couverture souple. Broché. 318 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 98863
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Forbin, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste.
Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1819.
Text vol. in 8vo and atlas in folio (670 x 503 mm). (4), 460 pp. (4), 65 pp. Half-titles in both vols.; 80 lithographed, sepia aquatint or engraved plates and plans, the 8 fine aquatints by Debucourt after Forbin, the lithographed subjects for G. Engelmann after Lecomte, Deseynes, Castellan, Carle, and Horace Vernet, Fragonard, Thiénon, Legros, Isabey and others, large folding engraved plan at the end of text vol. 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. First edition. Only 325 copies of this work were produced. "Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's 'Description de l'Egypte' or Denon's 'Voyage'" (Navari, Blackmer). Forbin succeeded Denon as director of museums in 1816 and was authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre (his son-in-law, Marcellus, expedited the acquisition of the recently discovered Venus de Milo). In August 1817 he began a year-long journey to the Levant accompanied by the artist Pierre Prévost and the engineer de Bellefonds. His journey took him to Melos, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Ephesus, Acre, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, and Thebes. - This set includes the frequently lacking 8vo text volume: this has the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bound at the end with a list of plates which were sold separately. The atlas volume repeats the text (entirely reset in-folio, sometimes found in a separate folio volume) and includes the magnificent, highly desirable plates (after Carle Vernet, Fragonard, Isabey, and Forbin himself, as well as Prevost), which show fine views of Greece, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Ramla, Gaza, and Egypt. - Occasional slight foxing, still a splendid 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. The Aboussouan copy (comprising both the folio and the octavo volume) commanded £20,000 at Sotheby's in 1993, while in 2002 the Atabey copy of the folio volume alone fetched £22,000. Atabey 447f. Blackmer 614. Aboussouan 338. Weber I, 68-70. Röhricht 1660. Tobler 144f. Colas 1089. Hiler 321. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 163. Brunet II, 1337. Graesse II, 614. Cf. Lipperheide Ma 16 (2nd ed.).
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FORCADE (Eugène)
Histoire des causes de la guerre d'Orient.
Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, éd., 1854. In-12, rel. de l'ép. demi-toile enduite brune, dos lisse, pièce de titre rouge, titre doré, XI-293 pp. Ex-libris au 1er contreplat : Bibliothèque de Mademoiselle de St Priest.
Riferimento per il libraio : 600400
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Forder, Rev A
Petra Perea Phoenicia
London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1923. Hardcover. Maroon beveled cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many sepia-tone photogravures of archaeological and historic sites and local Bedouin and other residents in the areas of modern Jordan and Lebanon that house the ancient lands of Petra Perea and Phoenicia. ; 112 pages . Marshall Brothers hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 36861
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Forray, Iván / Heicke, Joseph.
Mekkai kalmár [Mecca tradesman]. Vienna, Reiffenstein & Bösch, [1850].
Hand-coloured lithograph (502 x 370 mm), some parts varnished with albumin, matted (620 x 478 mm). Colour lithograph by Joseph Heicke, showing a Hejaz merchant, based on a drawing by the Hungarian artist and traveller Iván Forray. - Some light duststaining and waterstaining.
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Forsman Dick
The Raptors of Europe and the Middle East: A Handbook of Field Identification (Birds Series)
Academic Pr 1998 589 pages 16x3 4x23 8cm. 1998. Relié. 589 pages. Ce livre est un guide d'identification de terrain exhaustif sur les rapaces diurnes d'Europe et du Moyen-Orient. Il contient plus de 700 photographies en couleur de haute qualité pour illustrer les plumages de chaque espèce selon l'âge et le sexe et est soutenu par un texte détaillé et des références bibliographiques
Riferimento per il libraio : 100146658 ISBN : 856610984
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Forsskål, Pehr / Niebuhr, Carsten (ed.).
Flora aegyptiaco-arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas Aegyptum inferiorum et Arabiam felicem. Copenhagen, Möller for Heineck and Faber, 1775.
4to (245 x 190 mm). 32, CXXVI, (2), 219, (1) pp. Complete but irregular pagination. With full-page engraved map of part of Yemen, drawn by Niebuhr and engraved by Peter Haas. 19th century half calf over green marbled boards. All edges marbled, title in gilt on spine. First edition of a "pioneer work by the great botanist Forskål which substantially increased the knowledge about the vegetation in the areas he visited. The author proposed 50 new genera, half of which are still valid" (Hünersdorf). The Swedish botanist Peter Forsskål (1732-1763), a brilliant pupil of Linnaeus, was part of the famously doomed Royal Danish expedition to Arabia 1761-1767. Despite his success in studying Arabic and collecting and recording numerous botanical and zoological specimens, all but one of Forsskål's party perished; Forsskål himself contracted malaria and died in Yemen at only thirty-one. The sole survivor was the group's cartographer, Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), who returned to Sweden and published Forsskål's meticulous notes, preserved in this volume, which describe a staggering number of Arabian plants for the first time in modern scientific terms. Forsskål was also known for using local Arabic terms for plants and animals in assigning them Latin names. Many Arabic terms are listed alongside botanical descriptions in this volume as well, appearing in both Latin and Arabic scripts. Among these are coffee and the drug plant qat (Catha edulis). Indeed, Forsskål and Niebuhr were the first Europeans to taste the qat. In a note added to his description, Forsskål describes the cultivation and uses of the drug, observing how the Arabs chewed the green leaves to stay awake all night (p. 64). The volume closes with one of Niebuhr's maps, showing the Western side of the Arabian Peninsula, today Saudi Arabia, as it was in the 1760s. - Light external wear, otherwise well-preserved. Pritzel 2969. Hünersdorf, Coffee, pp. 517-518. Stafleu & Cowan 1819. Cf. I. Friis, "Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia", in: Archives of Natural History, vol. 42, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 101-112..
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Forster, Charles.
The Historical Geography of Arabia; or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Hadramaut. London, Duncan and Malcolm, 1844.
8vo. 2 vols. LXXXIII, (1), 357 pp. VI, 509, (1) pp. With two large folding frontispiece maps of the Arabian Peninsula (56 cm x 41 cm), a large folding chart of inscriptions, 1 engraved plate of inscriptions, and one further folding translation of the same inscription. Apparently never bound with the "vignette plate of Nakab el Hajar" supposed to face p. 335. Repairs to both maps. Only edition of this detailed study of place names, tribal geneaologies, and pre-Islamic inscriptions. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani). Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Gay 3570. Ghani 136. Brunet 19594. NYPL Arabia Coll. 166. OCLC 4892705.
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Fossey Charles
La Magie Assyrienne. Etude suivie de textes magiques transcrits, traduits et commentés par C. Fossey.
(Assiriologia - Magia - Mesopotamia - Occultismo - Esoterismo - Storia delle religioni - Medio Oriente) In 8°, legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con punte, carta decorata ai piatti, pp. (10),474,(2). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses. Edizione originale. Una vecchia firma di appartenenza al recto dell'occhiello. Ottimo stato di conservazione.
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FOUCHET, Max-Pol:
Indes. - L'art amoureux des Indes. Texte et photographies de Max-Pol Fouchet. ‘Album Guilde du livre’, 288.
Lausanne, Guilde u Livre, s.d. (1957), gr. in-4°, 95 p., illustré, cartonnage original illustré.
Riferimento per il libraio : 9675aaf
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Fourier, Charles / Dain, Charles.
De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage [...]. (Extrait de La Phalange, Journal de l’École Sociétaire). Paris, au Bureau de la Phalange, 1836.
8vo. (4), 54 pp, (1 integral blank leaf). Purple wrappers. Extremely rare sole edition of these definitive statements on slavery by both Fourier and his disciple, the Guadeloupe-born créole lawyer Charles Dain. Both Fourier’s article (“Remède aux Divers Esclavages”, pp. 43-54) and Dain’s “De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage” had also appeared in the impossibly rare "Première Serie" of the journal La Phalange (1836-40). Giving up his legal career in Paris, Dain (1812-72) turned to Fourier and the proto-Communists and was elected Representative for Guadeloupe by the newly-emancipated slaves there in 1848. - “Charles Fourier denounced British apprenticeship [an intermediate solution for emancipated slaves] and the compensation for slave owners embedded in the parliamentary emancipation bill of 1833: ‘And the fruit of this gigantic donation? Nothing other than a vicious circle, as we see in England, where […] one finds […] legions of poor, both theoretical and real” (Jennings, French Anti-Slavery, p. 44). “As far as the indemnity was concerned, Fourier opposed the need for it from the very first words of his [Remède aux Divers Esclavages]. He believed it was madness to spend millions on freeing the slaves, as the English government had done and as the anglophiles among the French advocated […] On the other hand, for Fourier, slavery was the same kind of problem as poverty […] The cause was the excessive fragmentation of landholdings which prevented small landowners from supporting the costs needed to work the land productively” (Simona Pisanelli, Economic Thought and Institutional Change in France, p. 69). - Fourier (1772-1837) and Dain thus believed in a ‘gradualistic’ approach to emancipation and considered slavery as just one of many ‘servitudes’ inflicted upon humanity by corrupt and immoral social strictures. Here, Dain comments that “what we especially call slavery is only the culminating and pivotal point where all of the suffering of society comes together”. These concepts ultimately made their way to America, influencing Albert Brisbane and the American Associationists (cf. Guarnerip, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in 19th-Century America, pp. 252f.). - OCLC shows just a handful of copies worldwide, including just one in the US – at the George Washington University Law Library (an apparently physical copy noted on OCLC with 26 holdings is in fact a digital reproduction). As noted above, examples of the Première Serie of La Phalange (1836-40) are of the utmost rarity (we can find no copies in auction records of the last 50 years). - The present copy sounds very similar to (and may well be) the copy sold at Pierre Bergé in 2013 for €1,180 (“la plaquette est rare. Exemplaire en partie debroche, manques de papier au dos”). - Traces of old block-stitching in the gutter; pages clean and fresh. A good copy. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature II, 29695. Cf also Schmidt, Abolitionnistes de l'esclavage et réformateurs des colonies: 1820-1851, p. 199; Andrews, “Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation”, The Journal of Modern History 85 (2013), pp. 489-527.
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Fouzi El-Asmar
To Be An Arab in Israel
London: Frances Pinter 1975. 1st Edition . Paperback. Printed pages: 215. Good Plus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Orange card wraps with slight fading and a little bubbling to the laminate. Binding strained in a couple of places. Pages browned but otherwise clean throughout. Very scarce first printing. Overall condition is Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Frances Pinter paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1211J070 ISBN : 0903804085 9780903804080
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FRANCK (Adolphe)
Etudes orientales.
Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1861 in-8, [4]-XI-477 pp., demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque). Bon exemplaire.
Riferimento per il libraio : 232988
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Francklin, William.
Observations made on a tour from Bengal to Persia in the years 1786-7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis; and other interesting events. London, T. Cadell, 1790.
8vo. VIII, 351, (1) pp. Handsome period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and red gilt morocco label. Period ink inscription on the first page of the Preface: "G. Matcham". With an autograph letter signed from Colonel Francklin to Major Moor, dated 1835, attached to the front endpaper. 4to. 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper. Second edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author. While the writing is not particularly clear, the letter is in very good condition. Most likely from the library of English explorer and Officer of East India Company George Matcham (1753-1833). Being William Francklin's older contemporary, Matcham served in the Company in 1771-85 and extensively travelled across the Near East and the Red Sea on the way from India to England and back (cf. ODNB). William Francklin (1763-1839) was an Officer of the East India Company and a prominent orientalist; member, and in later years, librarian of the council, of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was also a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. "A distinguished officer, Francklin also enjoyed considerable reputation as an oriental scholar. In 1786 he made a tour of Persia, in the course of which he lived at Shiraz for eight months as the close friend of a Persian family, and was thus able to write a fuller account of Persian customs than had before appeared. This was published as 'Observations Made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia' (Calcutta, 1788) and was translated into French in 1797" (ODNB). Francklin's account was also published in German the same year as our English edition. The first edition was published in Calcutta in 1788. "An important book in the growing interest of 'Orientalism.' There are numerous references to Hafez. (Francklin's book was read by Byron, among others). The book is also important because of the retelling of comments the author had heard about Karim Khan Zand. The author states eye-witnesses had told him Karim Rhan always rode at the head of his troops; his soldiers liked him; there was nothing great in him but he was considered a just man even though during the last year of his reign he committed some cruel acts. We are also informed that Karim Khan was a 'debaucher.' The author saw a full cycle of Ta'zie during his stay in Shiraz" (Ghani). "Describes Cochin, Tellicherry, Anjengo, Goa, Bombay etc." (Kaul Travels 858). - A very good, handsome copy. Howgego I, E8. Ghani 138. Cox I, 257. Henze II, 165.
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FRANCO (Carlo)
Il regno di Lisimaco - Strutture amministrative e rapporti con le città.
Pisa, Giardini Editori E Stampatori, 1993. In-8 broché, 308 pp., texte en italien, bibliographie, index. Qq. notes manuscrites au crayon.
Riferimento per il libraio : 602009
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Frank, Othmar.
Chrestomathia Sanskrita, quam ex codicibus manuscriptis, adhuc ineditis, Londini exscripsit, atque in usum Tironum versione, expositione, tabulis grammaticis etc. illustratam edidit [...]. Munich, typographice ac lithographice opera et sumtibus propriis, 1820-1821.
Large 4to (222 x 253 mm.). 2 parts in one volume. XII, 194, (2) pp. (4), 147, (3) pp., all lithographed save for 1 page. With 6 lithographed plates (4 folding). Original temporary grey boards as issued. Rare; one of the first Sanskrit works published in Germany. Lithographed throughout (with the exception of a single letterpress page at the beginning of part 2) and published at the author's expense: "Alles über Umdruck lithographisch gedruckt" (Winkler). Contains the earliest (partial) edition of the Bhagavadgita (in part 2), pre-dating August Wilhelm Schlegel's edition - admittedly better printed - by several years. The former Benedictine monk Frank (1770-1840), an admirer of Persian philosophy, studied oriental languages in Paris and London. In 1821 he took the chair of Indian and Persian at Würzburg University and went to Munich in 1826 as Professor of Sanskrit. In spite of his pioneering work, he exerted little influence on the development of linguistics and Sanskrit studies, probably due to his penchant for mysticism and his laboured, nebulous prose (cf. ADB). - Boards worn; some browning and staining as common. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Graesse II, 629. Winkler 224. ADB VII, 260.
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FRANKE (Herbert) [Hrsg.]
Akten des Vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München, 28. August bis 4. September 1957.
Wiesbaden, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1959. Fort in-8 rel. pleine toile bleue éditeur, dos lisse, titre et filets dorés au dos, XII-776 pp.-[8] ff. (catalogue), 21 planches d'ill. photogr. en noir, bibliographie, index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 528106
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Frankland-Russell, Robert.
Six sketches in lithography representing the common actions of the Horse. London, C. Turner, 1842.
Folio (54.5 x 38 cm). Six tinted lithographs by Day & Haghe after "R.F.R.". Original drab wrappers. First edition in original wrappers. The large tinted lithographs show "walking", "ambling", "trotting", "cantering", "galloping", and "leaping". - Light spotting in the margins, one plate with a short tear in the margin. Spine worn, some soiling to wrappers.
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FRANZ KAFKA, (1883-1924).
[PERSIAN 'METAMORPHOSIS' TRANSLATED BY SADIQ HEDAYAT] Maskh wa Girâkûs-i sikârcî. Tarquma-i Sadiq Hedayat, (1903-1951). Ba indimâm-i: Mihmân-i murdagân, Samsâr, Dar kanîsa-yi mâ. Targuma-i Hasan Qâ'imyân.
Fine Persian Paperback. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 11,5 cm). In Persian. 200 p. Sadegh Hedayat [Sadiq - Sadigh Hidayet], (1903-1951), was an Iranian writer, translator, and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. Hedayat subsequently devoted his whole life to studying Western literature and to learning and investigating Iranian history and folklore. The works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, and Guy de Maupassant intrigued him the most. During his short literary life span, Hedayat published a substantial number of short stories and novelettes, two historical dramas, a play, a travelogue, and a collection of satirical parodies and sketches. His writings also include numerous literary criticisms, studies in Persian folklore, and many translations from Middle Persian and French. He is credited with having brought the Persian language and literature into the mainstream of international contemporary writing. There is no doubt that Hedayat was the most modern of all modern writers in Iran. Yet, for Hedayat, modernity was not just a question of scientific rationality or a pure imitation of European values. In his later years, feeling the socio-political problems of the time, Hedayat started attacking the two major causes of Iran's decimation, the monarchy, and the clergy, and through his stories, he tried to impute the deafness and blindness of the nation to the abuses of these two major powers. He felt alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, and his last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation, and the sense of doom experienced by those subjected to discrimination and repression. OCLC: 777571775 (Leiden Bibliotheek). First Edition in 1950 [1329].
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FRANZ TOUSSAINT
Le voyage du khalife
conte des mille et un jours. In 12 carré broché, faux-titre, titre, 155 pages, Editions Jules Tallandier 125 novembre 1927 collection les chefs d’œuvre de l’orient. Belle édition sur beau papier, dos légèrement insolé
Riferimento per il libraio : 10706
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François Massoulié
I conflitti del Medio Oriente
François Massoulié I conflitti del Medio Oriente. , Giunti Editore 2001, Buone condizioni: libro in buono stato, copertina in buono stato, dorso con lievi segni di usura, tagli leggermente sporchi, pagine pari a nuovo, scritta a penna sul frontespizio Buono (Good) . <br> <br> Copertina flessibile <br> 160<br> 8809202732
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Fraser, James B [Baillee]; Folding Map And 13 Engravings By Jackson
An Historical And Descriptive Account Of Persia From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time: With A Detailed View Of Its Resources Government Population Natural History And The Character Of Its Inhabitants . Including . Afghanistan And Beloochistan
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1834. Second Edition . Quarter Morocco. Fine. 6 5/8" Tall. 472 Pp. Quarter Morocco. Asecond Edition. A Fine Copy Spine Gilt Very Strong Original Purple Morocco Spine And Tips Original Purple Cloth Original Watered Endpapers And Watered Edges Of Page Block Contents Fine Leather Just Recently Professionally Refreshed. Contents Immaculate Pages Crisp Map Undamaged No Foxing. Heraldic Bookplate "Sperate Et Vivitefortes" Of The Welsh Cavalry Senior Cavalry Of The British Army On Front Pastedown Ownership Signature "John Clements Queen's Dragoon Guards" On Verso Of First Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Oliver & Boyd unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 023418
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Frenzel, F. A.
Joseph wird verkauft. Berlin, A. Sacco, ca 1860.
Toned lithograph. 375:540 mm. From a series of illustrations depicting the Old Testament story of Joseph within oriental scenery of bedouins, palms, and camels. Joseph (Yusuf) is regarded by Muslims as a prophet (Qur'an, suras vi, 84; xl, 34), and a whole chapter Yusuf (sura xii) is devoted to him, the only instance in the Qur'an in which an entire chapter is devoted to a complete story of a prophet. - A few edge flaws, some repaired, with some browning and staining.
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FRESCOBALDI LIONARDO.
Viaggio in Terrasanta.
In 8°, cart. edit. ill. (lievi tracce d'usura), pp. 156,(4) e num. tavv. d'ill. f.t.; coll. "Il Timone. N. 1"; nota a penna non pertinente all'occhietto, lievi fioriture sparse, nel complesso buon es.. (m121) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
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Freytag, Carl.
Die Pferde-Racen des Orients und der südeuropäischen Staaten. Halle (Saale), Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1880.
Folio (260 x 330 mm). 156 pp. With 40 lithographed plates by H. Schenck. Original giltstamped green cloth. Marbled endpapers. Extensive, fully illustrated study of the horse breeds of the Orient and southern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to the Barb and the Arabian horse, praising the latter as "the noblest and most beautiful, possibly also the cleverest of all animals of its species". - Some foxing throughout; hinges repaired. OCLC 245766508. Cf. Huth 280 (series "Die Haustierracen"). Not in Boyd/P.
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Freytag, Georg Wilhelm.
Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst mit sechs Anhängen. Bonn/Leipzig, in Commission bei Carl Cnobloch, 1830.
8vo. XV, (1), 557, (1) pp. German & Arabic text. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped spine label; sprinkled edges. First edition of this compendium of Arabic versification. The German classicist and theologian Freytag (1788-1861) studied at Göttingen, but in his final year accepted an appointment as sub-librarian at Königsberg. In 1815 he became a chaplain in the Prussian Army and visited Paris in that capacity. Upon the proclamation of peace Freytag resigned his chaplaincy and returned to his research in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, studying in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. In 1819 he was appointed to the professorship of Oriental Languages at the new University of Bonn, and he held this post until his death. His principal work was the "Lexicon Arabico-Latinum" (Halle, 1830-1837), an abridgment of which was published in 1837. - Occasional browning; slight chipping to spine; early Swiss ownerships ("Dahler", "R. Tschudi", "Meier") to flyleaf. Stamp of "Stadt-Bibliothek Zürich" on upper cover; deaccessioned from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (stamp on reverse of t. p.). Zenker I, 342. Fück 166. Gay 3361.
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