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Hamdi Bey, Osman / Launay, [Victor] Marie de.
Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873. Constantinople, imprimerie du "Levant Times & Shipping Gazette", 1873.
Folio (280 x 355 mm). 3 consecutively paginated parts in one vol. 319, (1), VII, (1) pp. With 74 plates after photographs by Sébah. Early 20th century half morocco with giltstamped spine title. First edition. The three sections are devoted to "Turquie d'Europe" (including Greece), "Ilas ottomanes" (including Cyprus), and "Turquie d'Asie" (including Mecca and the Lebanon). The plates are based on studio portrait photographs by Pascal Sébah (1823-86), then at his peak. - Sébah's Istanbul studio catered to the western European interest in the exotic "orient" and the growing numbers of tourists visiting the Muslim world who wished to take home images of the cities, ancient ruins in the surrounding area, portraits, and local people in traditional costumes. "Sebah rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions, careful lighting, effective posing, attractive models, great attention to detail, and for the excellent print quality" (Gary Saretzky). - Occasional brownstaining, otherwise a good copy. Atabey 551. Blackmer 957. Lipperheide Lb 65. Colas 1374. Hiler 411.
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HAMID DABASÎ.
Islam'da otorite. Peygamber'in gelisinden Emevî idaresine kadar.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 252 p. Islam'da otorite. Peygamber'in gelisinden Emevî idaresine kadar. Authority and state idea in Islam from Mohammad to the Umayyad.
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Hamilton, Alexander.
A New Account of the East Indies. Giving an exact and copious description of the situation, product, manufactures, laws, customs, religion, trade, etc. of all the countries and islands, which lie between the Cape of Good Hope, and the Island of Japon. London, C. Hitch & A. Millar, 1744.
8vo. 2 vols. XXXII, 400 pp. VII, (1), 320 pp. With a total of 8 folding maps and 11 plates as called for. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red labels to gilt spine. Second London edition of this important work, first published in Edinburgh in 1727, "which remains to this day one of the most valuable first-hand histories of English merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean and East Indies" (Howgego). It covers "the whole of the Orient" (Hill) from Ethiopia to Japan and is very strong on India (some 20 chapters, not counting Bengal, which is described separately), but also includes an extensive section on the Arabian Peninsula: chapter IV "gives a little description of the coast of Arabia the Happy, from Mount Sinai to Mocha, with some observations on the religion, customs and laws"; chapter V "gives a description of the Immaum of Mocha's country, particularly its situation, laws, customs and commerce"; chapter VI "contains a description of Aden [...], also an account of the sea-coast of Arabia petraea, as far as Muskat and Bassora", chapter VII "treats of the kingdom and city of Muskat, and of their religious and civil customs [...] and a little account of the sea-coast of Arabia deserta, as far as Bassora", while chapter VIII "gives an account of Bassora City, and that part of Arabia deserta". Includes a rough, but apparently original map of the Gulf, showing "Barreen Island", "Cape Mussendon", and little detail along the Peninsula's northeastern coast in between save for a place labelled "Zoar", here not indicating Sohar in Oman but clearly referencing the area of the present-day Emirate of Sharjah (even Niebuhr's 1765 map still shows a town named "Seer" - Sir, Julfar - opposite the island of "Scharedsje"). The text mentions the region's trade in horses and pearls, stating, "There are no towns of note between Muskat and Bassora, but Zoar, and but very few inconsiderable villages; but there are two or three pretty convenient harbours for shipping. The southernmost is about 6 leagues to the southward of Cape Mosenden, called Courfacaun. It is almost like Muskat Harbour, but somewhat bigger, and has excellent fresh water from deep wells, about a quarter of a mile from the landing place. The village contains about twenty little houses; yet there are pretty good refreshments to be had there [...]". - In India, Gujarat and Bombay are covered particularly extensively, and the illustrations include not only a detailed coastline map of the subcontinent, but also several plates showing Ganesha, the elephant-headed god; a religious procession involving an elaborate wheeled scaffold from which men are hung; the temple of Jagannath; and the notorious "Juggernaut" car. - The Scottish captain Hamilton went to sea, in his own words "very young", in 1688, and travelled as far as the Barbary coast before basing himself in Surat and trading and travelling all over the Indian Ocean, "visiting, it is said, every port between the Cape and Canton" (Howgego). He made a reputation for himself as a foul-mouthed, resourceful and bold operator fending off Baluchi robbers, treacherous governors and Indian pirates. - Bindings professionally repaired. Light browning and occasional waterstaining; a few pencil annotations. Provenance: from the collection of the American diplomat Alexander Weddell (1876-1948) and his wife Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell (1874-1948); deaccessioned from the Virginia House Museum, Richmond (handwritten ownership "A. & V. Weddell, 1924, Calcutta" to flyleaves; bookplate to pastedowns). Alt-Japan 630. Howgego I, p. 477, H13. Cf. Macro 1115. Goldsmiths' 6522. Hanson 3724. Cordier, Indosinica 890. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages (2004) 765.
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Hammer-Purgstall, [Joseph von, ed.].
Mahmud Schebisteri's Rosenflor des Geheimnisses. Persisch und Deutsch. Pest & Leipzig, Hartleben, 1838.
4to. VI, 32 pp. With 2 lithogr. plates and 28 ff. of Arabic letterpress with lithogr. borders, toned in various colours. Modern boards with the original wrappers bound within. First edition. - Without any doubt Hammer’s finest work in imitation of an oriental manuscript: the Persian text of the famous Sufi manual ‘Golshan-e Râz’ is printed in seven four-leaf quires of varying colours, each framed by a lithographed sequence of interlaced flowers and animals (pheasants, deer, antilopes, panthers, jackals). The German translation, the unsophisticated typography of which provides a striking contrast to the luxurious Persian text, is illustrated by two plates of topographical interest. The binding preserves the original blue paper wrappers with a large emblematic lithograph of a shell hidden among a bouquet of roses, drawn by Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling. - Occasional slight foxing. Untrimmed. Goedeke VII, 767, 100. Rabenlechner I, 122. Cf. Brunet III, 34 (Vienna, 1838 ed.).
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Hammer-Purgstall, [Joseph von].
Abhandlung über die Siegel der Araber, Perser und Türken. [Vienna, Staatsdruckerei, 1850].
Large 4to (186 x 280 mm). 58 pp. With 1 folding engraved plate containing 72 illustrations. Later black half calf with the original printed upper wrapper bound within. First separate publication of this study of Middle Eastern sphragistics (sigillography), a treatise submitted before the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1848. Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), a leading Austrian orientalist with an extensive knowledge of languages, took up a diplomatic position at the Austrian embassy in Constantinople in 1799 and remained in Turkey and the Middle East until 1807. One of the most prominent orientalists of the early 19th century, he is considered the first man to have initiated a genuine study of the Ottoman world based on the principles of critical scholarship. - Occasional light browning or very faint foxing. Original wrapper cover browned, with pasted bookseller's label: "In Commission bei C. Gerold & Sohn in Wien". Wurzbach VII, 274, I B b 9. Cf. Goedeke VII, 768, 120.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Frhr. von, oriental scholar and diplomat (1774-1856).
Letter signed. Vienna, 21 Nov. 1846.
Large 8vo. 1½ pp. on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient, answering a request for a copy of his Ottoman History or the Divan of Hafiz: "[...] Ihren Wunsch eines Exemplars der osmanischen Geschichte oder des Diwans von Hafis zu erfüllen, bin ich leider nicht im Stande, da ich von dem ersten [...] Werke selbst nur ein Exemplar mehr besitze und Hafis, wenn ich auch ein Exemplar desselben kaufen wollte, nicht mehr zu haben, sondern längstens vergriffen ist; ich sende Ihnen aber dafür fünf Bändchen des Gemäldesaals, die untereinander in keinem Zusammenhang stehen und deren Inhalt für Sie selbst mehr Interesse haben dürfte, als die zehn Bände der osmanischen Geschichte, samt dem Umblick der Reise nach Brussa, den zwei Abhandlungen Samachschari's, und Ghasali's und der Zeitworte des Gebetes, die nicht nur nach dem Tode meiner innigst geliebten Gattinn, sondern auch nach dem großen Unglücke, das mich Anfangs Septembers durch den Tod meines hofnungsvollen 21 jährigen jüngeren Sohne betroffen hat, als die beßte Tröstung erprobt worden von Ihrem hochachtungsvoll ergebenen / Hammer-Purgstall [...]". - Some brownstaining and wrinkling.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Des osmanischen Reichs Staatsverfassung und Staatsverwaltung. Vienna, Camesina, 1815.
8vo. 2 vols. XLII, (2), 499, (1) pp. X, 531 (but: 532) pp. Contemp. wrappers. First edition. Encompassing account of the legal constitution, administration, and public, civil, and fiscal law of the Ottoman Empire, compiled by the great Austrian oriental scholar Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. - Somewhat browned throughout. Untrimmed copy, somewhat rough at the edges. Bookplate of Oskar Göschen to pastedowns; last in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Goedeke VII, 760, 39. Wurzbach VII, 270 & 274.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Die Geschichte der Assassinen aus morgenländischen Quellen. Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1818.
8vo. VIII, 341, (3) pp. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine and labels in red and black; covers and edges marbled. First edition. - The first extensive history of the medieval Muslim sect of the Assassins, a radical group from whose name the English term for a political or religious killer is derived. A fanatical branch of the Ismaili Muslims who viewed themselves as martyrs, the Assassins specialised in political murder (usually carried out with a dagger), often conducted in broad daylight and in full view of the public, so as to instill terror in their foes. Contemporaries found it incomprehensible that they entirely accepted the fact of their own death as a consequence, as they made no attempt to escape and exposed themselves to the revenge of the victim's followers. Acting from a strong ideological conviction, the Assassins aimed to re-establish a theocracy, the basic Islamic order bequeathed by the Prophet, as they felt their contemporary world order to be usurped by tyrants. Most of their victims were Sunni Muslims, especially the Seljuk rulers of the 12th and 13 centuries. - For this history, Hammer-Purgstall draws from a wide variety of mainly oriental sources (Ibn Khaldun, Jihannuma, Abulfeda, Persian and Turkish chronicles, with a small number of western studies included), all of which he lists at the beginning, and ultimately compares the mediaeval sect to the modern fanatics of his own day, particularly the Jacobin party of the French Revolution. Among the goals which he wishes to have achieved with his book, he writes, is to have "given a vivid account of the pernicious influence of secret societies under weak governments, and of the hideous abuse of religion for purposes of committing atrocities of unscrupulous ambition and unfettered despotism". - Slight browning, but a good, finely bound copy. Provenance: from the Thun-Hohenstein library in Decín (Tetschen) with their armorial stamp "Tetschner Bibliothek" on the reverse of the title page. When the castle was requisitioned by the Czechoslovakian army in 1933, the library was transferred to Prague and dispersed to the trade. Goedeke VII, 762, 47. Wurzbach VII, 274, I B 1. FRA 70 (1940), p. 572. Cf. Atabey 556; Blackmer 787 (English ed.).
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. Pest, Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840.
Frontispiece plus (8), XXXII, (2), 115, (3) pp.; 48 ff. 8vo. With a lithographic frontispiece line drawing of a stone-cut falcon; the Turkish title-page with the title in a double-ogive decoration with arabesques, a braided border, flowers and 3 falcons; the opening page of the Turkish text in a border and its title in a kufic inscription in an elaborately decorated panel; and a woodcut white-on-black Turkish inscription on the back of the main (German) title-page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. The main Turkish text is bound at the end of the book, with the pages progressing from right to left like a normal Arabic book, so that the book can be opened from either side.With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names of animals and plants mentioned in the Turkish treatise, citing both the page and the chapter numbers, reproduced from manuscript. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords (but with 5 false bands on the spine), title in gold in the 2nd of 6 spine compartments, marbled sides, endpapers printed in a Spanish-marbled style. With the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in (printed in black with a blue tint-block), with a falcon on the front and back, the white silhouette of a falcon inside back and a white panel for an owner's name inside front. The modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, marbled sides, designed to match the main volume. First printing in any language of three important manuscripts on falcons and falconry: a 12th-century Turkish treatise on falconry by Mahmud Ibn Mehmed al-Bargini, "Baz nama" ("Falcon book"), in the original Turkish and in German translation; the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I's ca. 1515 (?) "Über die Falknerey" in the original German; and a shorter Greek treatise on hawking, "Hierakosophion" ("Hawking apprenticeship") in the original Greek and in German translation, a variant form of part of a 13th-century work by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII (1223-82). Little is known about the author of the Turkish treatise, but he came from Anatolia on the southeastern coast of what is now Turkey, where he apparently worked in service of the Bey of Mentese. He cites another work from 597 AH (1200/01 CE). - Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), a leading Austrian orientalist with an extensive knowledge of languages, took up a diplomatic position at the Austrian embassy in Constantinople in 1799 and remained in Turkey and the Middle East until 1807. He found the Turkish manuscript on falconry at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan in 1825 and the other two manuscripts at the Hofbibliothek in Vienna. He not only translated and edited the present texts but also contributed a 32-page introduction and a list of 63 works on the subject of falconry, from the 15th century to his own day. The book, printed in only 300 copies, has been largely overlooked in the literature on ornithology and Islamitica, but Schwerdt notes that it is "particularly important to lovers of falconry, its origin and history". It also provides insights into the Turkish language and Islamic culture. Although published in what is now Budapest, it was printed in Vienna. The printing office had its own typefoundry, stocked with matrices for various non-Latin types, giving the book a special typographic interest as well. The decoration on the Turkish title-page departs from Islamic tradition by incorporating pictorial images of three falcons. The book collates: frontispiece + [pi]4 a-b8 [c]1 [= 84] 1-78 84 (-84); 2[1]8 2-68 = 128 ff., with the second series of numbered quires (containing the Turkish text) progressing from right to left. - With some modern pencil notes on the flyleaf and in the margins. Somewhat foxed throughout, as usual, but otherwise in very good condition and nearly untrimmed, preserving many deckles and point holes and with most bolts in the main Turkish text unopened. The original publisher's illustrated wrappers, rarely preserved, show a few small chips, tears and scrapes but are still in good condition. The binding is chipped at the foot of the spine and slightly worn, but still generally good. First edition (in Turkish and German) of an important 13th-century Turkish treatise on falconry, with the publisher's illustrated wrappers bound in. Harting 112. Jahrbücher der Literatur XCIX (1842), pp. 59-62. Wolfgang Menzel, in: Literaturblatt XCI (9 September 1840), pp. 361-362. Schwerdt I, 228. Not in Anker; Atabey; Ayer; Blackmer; Nissen; Strong.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey [...] aus dem Türkischen und Griechischen verdeutscht. Pest, C. A. Hartleben, 1840.
8vo. With lithogr. frontispiece, (8), XXXII, (2), 115 pp.; 49 ff. (Turkish text). Original pictorial wrappers bound in, 20th century speckled calf, gilt. First and only edition, one of 300 copies. - "A book particularly important to lovers of falconry, its origin and history" (Schwerdt). Includes a list of books and manuscripts in many languages on falconry. - Foxed (as often), cloth rubbed. Harting 112. Schwerdt I, p. 228.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Histoire de l'ordre des Assassins. Paris, (Auffray for) Paulin, March 1833.
8vo. (4), 367, (1) pp. Contemporary marbled half calf. Edges sprinkled blue. First French edition of the first extensive history of the medieval Muslim sect of the Assassins, a radical group from whose name the English term for a political or religious killer is derived. A fanatical branch of the Ismaili Muslims who viewed themselves as martyrs, the Assassins specialised in political murder (usually carried out with a dagger), often conducted in broad daylight and in full view of the public, so as to instill terror in their foes. Contemporaries found it incomprehensible that they entirely accepted the fact of their own death as a consequence, as they made no attempt to escape and exposed themselves to the revenge of the victim's followers. Acting from a strong ideological conviction, the Assassins aimed to re-establish a theocracy, the basic Islamic order bequeathed by the Prophet, as they felt their contemporary world order to be usurped by tyrants. Most of their victims were Sunni Muslims, especially the Seljuk rulers of the 12th and 13 centuries. - For this history, which first appeared in German in 1818, Hammer-Purgstall draws from a wide variety of mainly oriental sources (Ibn Khaldun, Jihannuma, Abulfeda, Persian and Turkish chronicles, with a small number of western studies included), all of which he lists at the beginning, and ultimately compares the mediaeval sect to the modern fanatics of his own day, particularly the Jacobin party of the French Revolution. Among the goals which he wishes to have achieved with his book, he writes, is to have "given an account of the pernicious influence of secret societies under weak governments". - Binding slightly rubbed; corners bumped. Removed from the Imperial Russian Military Academy with their bookplate to front pastedown. Brunet III, 33. Graesse III, 205. Goedeke VII, 762, 47. Cf. Atabey 556; Blackmer 787 (1835 English edition only). Cf. Wurzbach VII, 274, I B 1 (German first edition). Not in Wilson.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Memnon's Dreiklang, nachgeklungen in Dewajani, einem indischen Schäferspiele; Anahid, einem persischen Singspiele; und Sophie, einem türkischen Lustspiele. Vienna, Wallishausser, 1823.
8vo. XXI, (3), 319, (1) pp. Contemporary calf with giltstamped cover borders, gilt spine, giltstamped red spine label; leading edges gilt; all edges gilt. First edition. - Hammer's German translations of the Indian pastoral play "Dewajani", the Persian musical play "Anahid", and the Turkish comedy "Sophia". - From the library of the Swedish diplomat Ulf Torsten Undén (1877-1962) with his ownership "U. T. Undén" signed twice to endpapers. Goedeke VII, 764, 64. Wurzbach VII, 276, 43. WG² 29. OCLC 19226414.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von.
Wamik und Asra, das ist der Glühende und die Blühende. Das älteste persische romantische Gedicht, im Fünftelsaft abgezogen. Vienna, J. B. Wallishausser, 1833.
8vo. 40 pp. With woodcut vignette at the end. Boards. First edition of Hammer's German translation of this Persian verse epic. A good copy showing very little browning. Graesse III, 206. Goedeke VII, 766, 84. OCLC 29890924.
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Hammer[-Purgstall], Joseph von.
Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, grossentheils aus bisher unbenützten Handschriften und Archiven. Pest, C. A. Hartleben, 1827-1835.
Large 8vo. 10 vols. Contemp. marbled half calf with giltstamped spine label. With 10 woodcut vignettes on half-title, 8 engr. maps, and a large plan of Constantinople (rather browned). First edition of the author's principal publication, a standard work unsurpassed to this day. Also discusses the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were part of the Ottoman Empire since 1517. Hammer, father of Ottoman Studies and founder of modern orientalist scholarship in Austria, was one of the 19th century's greatest specialists on the Near East. - The map belonging to vol. 7 is bound at the end of vol. 8 in error. Bindings somewhat rubbed; spines, spine-ends and corners bumped. From the library of the Royal Prussian Hussar Guard Regiment (with their stamps, giltstamped spine labels, and giltstamped shelfmark). ADB X, 483. Brunet III, 32. Graesse III, 205. Goedeke VII, 765, 75. OCLC 6139878.
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Hamza al-Isfahani, Ibn-al-Hasan / Rasmussen, Jens Lassen (ed.).
Historia praecipuorum Arabum Regnorum rerumque ab iis gestarum ante Islamismum [...]. E codicibus manuscriptis Arabicis Bibliothecae Regiae Hauniensis [...]. Kopenhagen, Johannes Friedrich Schultz, 1817.
Large 4to. VI, 146, (2) pp. With a folding table. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine title. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - Arabic text, with Latin translation, of chapters 6-7, 9-10, part 1-2, of Hamzah al-Isafahani's "Tarikh al-umam"; and extracts from al-Nuwairi's "Nihayat al-arab" (in Latin only). The folded table presents the "Series regum Hirensium, una cum synchronismo regum Persarum, prouti Hamza Isfahanensis eos exhibuit". - Binding rubbed; some browning to interior, old shelfmark label to pastedown. Provenance: handwritten ownership of the Göttingen-based oriental scholar Mark (Mordechai) Lidzbarski (1868-1928) to flyleaf, with additional Canadian library stamps of the Ottawa Commissariatus, Terrae Sanctae. Rare. OCLC 13131770. For the Danish oriental scholar Jan Larson Rasmussen cf. Fück 156.
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HANNON - Revue libanaise de géographie
HANNON - Revue libanaise de géographie Les régions irriguées du Liban (M. Z. Ayoubi) - Analyses polliniques de quelques formations superficielles du Liban (M. Haddad) - Préhistoire et géomorphologie : les formes du relief et les dépôts quaternaires dans la région de Joubb Jannine (Béqaa méridionale. Liban) (2me partie) (J. Besançon et F. Hours) Fichier de karst libanais : le faouar Aïn ed Dara (S. Karkabi) - Coloration du cours moyen du Nahr el Kelb (J. Loiselet et Ph. Puig) - Notes
1971 Volume VI - 1971 - Université libanaise. Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaies - revue illustrée - in-8 broché - 164 pages
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HANNE (Olivier)
Les seuils du Moyen-Orient Histoire des frontières et des territoires
Editions du Rocher 2017, in-8 broché, 539 p. (bel état) Avec 140 cartes et schémas, importante bibliographie et index. Formidable voyage à travers l'histoire et la géographie du Moyen-Orient, donnant de nombreuses clés pour en aborder les enjeux ; la citation de Régis Debray en exergue semble particulièrement appropriée : "Toute frontière, comme le médicament, est remède et poison. Et donc affaire de dosage."
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 46795
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Han, Paul Conrad Balthasar.
Venediger Löwen-Muth und Türckischer Ubermuth. Nuremberg, Miltenberger f. Hoffmann, [1669].
12mo. (8), 367 (instead of 369), (1) pp. (wanting p. 47/48). With double-page-sized frontispiece and 9 (2 folding) engraved plates. - (Bound with) II: [Stiege, Ch.]. Berahtschlagung der Götter über Deutschland. Ibid., 1669. (12), 295, (1) pp. With double-page-sized engraved title-page. Contemporary vellum. One of three editions published in the same year: a rare historico-geographical account of Crete, with a focus on the capture of the island by the Ottoman fleet in 1645 and the ensuing siege. Includes a view of the naval battle of the Dardanelles as well as views of Crete, Rhodes, Malta, Cyprus and Soudha. The number of plates varies from copy to copy. - Wants fol. B12. Some engravings show unsophisticated colouring. Slight paper defect to frontispiece (professionally repaired); some browning and brownstaining throughout. Bound with this is a rare German pamphlet of Baroque political satire. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. I: BM-STC H 261. Atabey 560 (note). Blackmer 538 (note). - II: Holzmann/B. VI, 2263. Not in BM-STC, Faber du Faur or Goedeke.
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HANGELDIAN, Armen E.
TAPPETI D'ORIENTE.
1 27x21,5 cm., legatura in piena tela protetta da acetato, titoli in oro su tassello al piatto e al dorso, elegante cofanetto, pagg. 337 (5), numerose illustrazioni in nero e a colori, mappa dei luoghi di produzione pi? volte ripiegata, prima edizione, in italiano, buone condizioni. Classificazione: Tappeti di Persia, del Caucaso, dell'Asia Minore, dell'Asia Centrale e Orientale - Bibliografia.
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Hansen, Svend u.a. (Hrsg.)
Alexander der Große und die Öffnung der Welt. Asiens Kulturen im Wandel; Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung "Alexander der Große und die Öffnung der Welt - Asiens Kulturen im Wandel" in den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim; [vom 3. Oktober 2009 - 21. Februar 2010].
Regensburg, Schnell + Steiner, 2009. 1. Aufl. 31 cm. 447 S. zahlr. Ill. OPbd. Nur gering berieben und bestoßen, schön erhalten. Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Bd. 36. 1
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 35397BB
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Hanssen, Jens
Fin de Siecle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital
<p>Oxford Univ. Press Clarendon 2005 1st ed. 307pp. illus. black cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.</p> Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon) hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 14154 ISBN : 0199281637 9780199281633
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Happel, Eberhard Werner.
Thesaurus exoticorum. Alßdann eine kurtzbündige Beschreibung von Ungarn. Hamburg & Frankfurt, Wiering & Hertel, 1688.
Folio (221 x 352 mm). 5 parts in 1 vol. (10), 120, 192, 160 (but: 156), 288 (but: 388), (4), 115, (1) pp. (without 4 ff. of index). With engraved t. p., 26 double-page-sized engravings (mostly folding), 3 folding engr. maps, 3 folding woodcut plates, and numerous text engravings. Marbled pastedowns. Contemp. calf. A complete copy of the first edition, noted for its illustrations, half of which are devoted to the Islamic World. This exceptionally wide-ranging collection of politics and travel reports, anecdotes, scientific discoveries, and experiments is a testament to Happel's shrewd journalistic understanding of popular taste. The woodcuts constitute the principal work of Thomas Wiering (cf. Thieme/Becker XXXV, 537). "Has special interest for the American collector, as it consists of a series of 15 curious representations of the aborigines of America, all with detailed descriptions of their manners, customs, religion" (Sabin). Mainly concerned with the Turkish Wars in Europe (and also mentions the campaigns in southern Greece from 1684 to 1688). "The last part of the work is of particular interest in that it contains the first complete transcription of the Qu'ran into German language" (Koc, 164). - Engraved title page shows ink censorship to pudenda of allegorical figure; four-line ms. inscription (dated 1690). Several plates trimmed closely or remargined (occasional slight loss to image). Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. VD 17, 39:131766W (citing 25 plates and 2 engr. maps). Ömer Koc Collction, I, 92 (pp. 163-173). STC H 315. Dünnhaupt 15.1. Borba de Moraes 393. Hayn/Gotendorf III, 84. Jantz 1291. Alden 688/117. Sturminger 1464. Sabin 30279. Graesse III, 208.
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HARRY (Myriam);
IRAK.
Flammarion Paris 1941 1 vol. In 12 de 174 pp. 1 f.n.ch., demi-chagrin à coins, premier plat de couverture illustré conservé.
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 11700
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Harris N.
Les Tapis d'Orient
Editions Princesse Cartonné avec jaquette 1977 In-4 (24 x 32.5 cm), toile d'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs, gardes illustrées en couleurs, 95 pages, importante iconographie en couleurs in et hors-texte; coiffe usagée (coiffes et bords frottés, petite déchirure sans manque au 1er plat, pliure en tête du 4ème plat), ex-libris tamponnés aux premières pages, par ailleurs bel état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
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Hardt, Hermann von der.
Brevia atque solida Syriacae linguae fundamenta. Editio secunda. Helmstedt, Georg Wolfgang Hamm, 1701.
8vo. 64 pp., 1 folding table. With printer's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary marbled wrappers. First 18th century edition of this widely used introduction to Syriac, first issued by the Helmstedt professor of oriental languages, Hermann von der Hardt (1660-1746), in 1690 and again in 1694 (all printed by Hamm). - Some browning and brownstaining throughout; occasional slight edge defects without loss of text. The folding plate shows the conjugation of Syriac verbs. - Provenance: ownership of the Heidelberg Jesuits' Seminarium Carolinum (opened in 1730 for Catholic students in the strongly Protestant Palatinate), dated 1744, on title-page. Cf. VD 17, 3:013822V.
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Hariri, al-Qasim Ibn 'Ali al-.
Kitab Maqamat al-Hariri. Beirut, Matba`at al-Ma`arif, 1873.
8vo. 564 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with giltstamped spine. Rare Lebanese printing of the famous "Maqamat" ("Assemblies" or "Sessions") of al-Hariri of Basra (1054-1122): a virtuoso display of Arabic poetry, consisting of fifty anecdotes written in stylized prose which used to be memorized by scholars. "Al-Hariri's Maqamat tie in with the tradition of al-Hamadani. Like he, al-Hariri tells us of the experiences of an educated vagrant, Abu Zaid from Sarug. But his aim is not so much to render vividly this creature of his imagination or even his environment, but rather to invest his accounts with every syntactical and lexical finesse imaginable, and it is these, rather than the content of the narrative, that are to captivate and preoccupy the reader. This is the final flaring of the national Arab spirit: dazzling and, for the moment, pretty as fireworks, but similarly barren, ultimately fizzling out without effect" (Brockelmann). Hariri's masterpiece continued to captivate European Arabists since the 17th century (cf. Fück, 148). - Spine title reads "Fihris / pers.", misidentifying both the language and the title (copied from the pencil transliteration under the heading of the table of contents). A good copy from the library of Horst Wilfrid Brands (1992-98), professor of Turkish Studies and Islamic scholarship in Frankfurt am Main, with his ownership stamp to pastedowns. OCLC 63545591. Cf. GAL I, 276. (S I, 487, cites an 1873 Lucknow edition).
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Harmont, (Pierre).
Le miroir de fauconnerie, ou se verra l’instruction pour choisit, nourrir, & traicter, dresser & faire voler toute sorte d’oyseaux [...]. Rouen, Clément Malassis, 1650.
4to (230 x 165 mm). With a woodcut illustration of a hunt using falcons on the titlepage (90 x 95 mm), 7 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of birds of prey on integral leaves. 38, [2 blank] pp. Half red goatskin morocco (1930s?). Rare fifth edition, the first published outside of Paris, of a concise practical handbook on the choosing, training, care and feeding of birds of prey for hunting, by the falconer to Louis XIII, first published in 1620. "Copies of this work [in any edition] are very difficult to procure" (Harting). The hunting scene on the title-page, which has no related illustration in the first edition or in d'Arcussia, shows two men in the foreground, one blowing a horn and with a dog on a leash, the other holding a falcon and with hawking paraphernalia. It shows falcons attacking birds in the sky, and a hunting scene with dogs and men on horseback chasing a stag in the background. - With the modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d'Orcet family, whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. With a few minor stains and faint offsetting, but still in good condition, the binding with very slight wear to the fore-edge corners, but otherwise fine. A rare and important practical hondbook on falconry, illustrated with the woodcuts of the second (1634) edition, including a hunting scene not in the first edition. Bibl. Mun. Rouen, Histoires de chasses (exhib. cat. 1992–93), 79; Harting, Bibl. accipitraria 156 note; Souhart, col. 238; Thiébaud, col. 493; USTC 6814292 (1 copy); cf. Schwerdt, pp. 230–231 (1620 ed.); for the binder: Fléty, p. 159.
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HARPER Stephen
Last Sunset. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Largely first-hand account of the british Army in Aden.
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Harrison, Paul W.
The Arab at Home. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1924].
8vo. XII, 345, (1) pp. With frontispiece, folding map and 37 plates. Original giltstamped blue cloth. First British edition, printed in the U.S.A. This work, dedicated to Abdul Aziz bin Saud, one of the author's "best friends", catered to a Western public eager to learn about the Arab people and about Ibn Saud, whose military success against the Al-Rashidi and consolidation of control over the Nejd had brought him to international awareness. The following year, he would conquer the Hejaz. - Foxing and brownstaining to interior. Rear hinge split. Removed from the Times Book Club, London, with their inconspicuous bookplate on rear pastedown and contemporary accession stamp (2 July 1926). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1134 (cites a 1923 London edition in error).
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Hart, Liddell.
COLONEL LAWRENCE. The Man Behind the Legend. With Illustrations and Maps.
pp. ix, 382 + Plus Portrait Frontis, full page maps and photographs. Sm. 4to. Original full dark green cloth binding. Spine decorated and lettered in gold, very slightly worn. Hardbound. Fourth Printing. Very good. ISLAM BOX 2
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Harting, James Edmund.
Essays on Sport and Natural History. London, Horace Cox, 1883.
8vo. X, 485 pp. Harting 79.
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Harting, James Edmund.
Hints on the Management of Hawks. London, Horace Cox, 1898.
8vo. With 11 full-page black and white plates and 42 numbered black and white illustrations in text. VII, 268 pp. Including errata-slip tipped-in at end. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. The second, best edition of Harting's manual on the management of hawks and a historical and descriptive explanation on practical falconry. For this edition, the author has not merely revised the original text, but has made considerable additions to it, as well as to the illustrations. With plates and illustrations showing a hooded falcon on block, heron hawking, kite hawking with jerfalcons, the falconer's knot, a falcon in flight, etc. The first edition of this work appeared in 1884 with the same publisher. "Not recommended for the beginner [...] Much interesting material collected from various sources, particularly the instructions for hawk catching" (Barber). - Binding rubbed. Barber 7. OCLC 23929448. Cf. Harting 80 (first edition). Schwerdt I, 233 (first edition).
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Harting, James Edmund.
Hints on the Management of Hawks. Second edition, to which is added Practical Falconry, chapters historical and descriptive. London, Horace Cox, 1898.
8vo. VII, 268 pp. With 11 full-page black and white plates and 42 numbered black and white illustrations in text. Including errata-slip tipped-in at end. Original gilt green cloth. The second and best edition of Harting's manual on the management of hawks and a historical and descriptive explanation on practical falconry. For this edition, the author not merely revised the original text, but made considerable additions to it, as well as to the illustrations. Plates and illustrations include a hooded falcon on block, heron hawking, kite hawking with jerfalcons, the falconer's knot, a falcon in flight, etc. The first edition of this work appeared in 1884 with the same publisher. "Not recommended for the beginner [...] Much interesting material collected from various sources, particularly the instructions for hawk catching" (Barber). - Binding rubbed, spine-ends chipped; first and last leaves slightly foxed and the usual browning, pasted bookplate and manuscript entry on blank recto of the frontispiece. Good copy of this manual on practical falconry and the management of hawks. Barber 7. OCLC 23929448. Cf. Harting 80 (first edition). Schwerdt I, 233 (first edition).
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Hartmann, Johann Georg.
Traité des Haras, [...]. avec un traité des mulets. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1788.
8vo. LVI, 312, (4) pp. With 2 folding engr. plates and 5 (3 folding) tables. Contemp. calf binding (repaired); marbled endpapers. First French edition. - "Été longtemps considéré comme un ouvrage classique" (Mennessier de la L.). - First and final gatherings a and V misbound, but complete. Old stamp to title page; occasional browning and waterstaining. Mennessier de la Lance I, 607. Huth, p. 51. Schrader 181.
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Hartmann, Martin
Der Islamische Orient : Berichte und Forschungen Band II ; Die arabische frage, mit einem versuche der archaolgie Jemens [Yemen]
Quarto in half-leather (dark calf) and red marbled paper-backed boards; x, [2], 685, [1] p24 cm. Printed in modern German type, with many words and phrases in Arabic and Hebrew. Volume two only: Die Arabische Frage, Versuche der Arch‰ologie Jemens. || Yemen, Arabian Peninsula ; Middle East ; Orient. Islamic countries. Arabian Peninsula.
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Hasan, Hadi.
A History of Persian Navigation. London, Methuen (printed in Cambridge by W. Lewis, at the University Press), (1928).
4to (210 x 268 mm). XIV, 176 pp. With 2 colour-printed plates (one bound as a frontispiece) and 9 plates in monotone. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt title to spine, upper cover stamped in gilt and blind. Top edge gilt. A history of Persian navigation and trade from the earliest times to the sixteenth century. First edition, on hand made paper, one of 250 signed copies (but number and signature erased). With a preface by Muhammad Iqbal. - The Indian scholar Hadi Hasan (1894-1963), a native of Hyderabad, was educated at Cambridge in geology, botany, and chemistry. "On his return to India he played an active role in the freedom movement against British rule and was praised for his work for independence by Mahatma Gandhi" (Encyclopedia Iranica). He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in Persian at the University of London before being "appointed professor and head of the Department of Persian at Aligarh Muslim University, a position he held until 1958" (ibid.). - Occasional insignificant fingerstains; slight paper flaw to title-page from erasure of the number. Binding rubbed and faded, extremeties a little bumped, but well-preserved on the whole. Wilson 88. Encyclopedia Iranica XI, 436f. OCLC 4517880.
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HASAN-UZ ZAMAN.
Ilk Islam devletlerinde ekonomik strüktür. Translated by Sinan Ersoy.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 419 p. Ilk Islam devletlerinde ekonomik strüktür. Translated by Sinan Ersoy.
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Hasani, [Abd al-Razzaq].
Al-Yazidiyun fi hadirihim wa-madihim (The Yezidis in Their Present and Past). Sayda (Sidon), Al-Matba'ah al-'Asriyah lil-Tiba'ah, (cover title dated 1968, but) 1967.
8vo. 196 pp. Arabic text. With a photographic plate (portrait of Hasani) and 14 illustrations in the text (12 of which are black and white half-tone photographs). Original printed wrappers. Fifth edition. An important study of the Yezidis, which went through over ten editions. Hasani makes use of Western studies, including those of Giuseppe Furlani and Isya Joseph, and Arab sources. - Spine darkened, extremities slightly worn, otherwise good. Rare. JISC locates just one copy, at SOAS.
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Hassan, Hamdi A.
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait : Religion, Identity and Otherness in the Analysis of War and Conflict
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to front cover or to spine, small crease to lower rear corner. Very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight marking to page edges and no bumping to corners. 278pp. A decade after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, this study addresses the question of - to what extent has religion, identity and 'otherness' facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
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Hassan, Yediot
Enemy in the Promised Land
1987. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Pantheon 1987 Good HB ISBN: 965-248-072-X text hebrew hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 005979 ISBN : 965248072X 9789652480729
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Hassan, Zaky A.
Hunting as Practised in Arab Countries of the Middle Ages. Bulaq, Government Press, 1937.
8vo. (2), 15, (5) pp. With 12 plates. Original printed wrappers. Study of Mediaeval Arabic hunting methods, by the curator of the Museum of Arab art, Cairo, and published by the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Well-preserved copy. OCLC 67900862.
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HATTINGOIS-FORNER Anne-Marie - HUBAC Jean - VIVIER Nadine
Le Moyen-Orient De 1876 à 1980
Breal Breal, 2016. In-8 broché de 221 pages. Tampon d'aapartenance au premier feuillet blanc. Bon état
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Hatifi, 'Abdallah.
Timur-nama [The History of Timur]. Herat, Khorasan (Eastern Persia, now Afghanistan), [1569 CE =] 977 H.
4to (170 x 240 mm). Persian manuscript on polished paper. 137 (instead of 143) ff. (lacking ff. 97-102) in elegant black nasta'liq script, 14 lines, 2 columns. With an illuminated shamsa on fol. 1r (specifying the name of the sponsor Khawaja Nasir as well as the place and date of production) and an illuminated 'unwan headpiece on fol. 1v. Light brown full morocco with blindstamped borders, corners and central ornaments. An elegantly executed Eastern Persian manuscript that chronicles the epic life and victories of one of history's most famous emperors and military leaders, Timur Leng (Tamerlane), from his birth near Samarqand in modern-day Uzbekistan in 1336. "Certainly the most famous of Hatefi’s poems [... The work] extols Timur’s deeds in accordance with the main works of Timurid historiography such as Sharaf-al-Din Yazdi's Zafar-nama [...] Hatefi’s Timur-nama became a model for subsequent poems. It certainly introduced a new genre which was developed further by Hatefi himself [...] Written in 1498, the Timur-nama has been published twice in India (1869, 1958)" (Encyclopaedia Iranica XII, 55-57). - Abdallah Hatefi (Hatifi) was the nephew of 'Abd-al-Rahman Jami, one of the greatest Persian poets and composers of Sufi mystical works. The Timur-nama, modeled after Nizami's "Iskandar-nama", appears to be his only completed work. The oldest extant copy was completed the year after Hatifi's death, 927 H (1521 CE), and was stored in the India Office Library. - Descended from the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, Timur participated in various military campaigns from a young age, and his victories quickly made him known as a highly skilled military leader. After a decade of internal political wrangling, he became ruler of the Timurid Empire in 1369. For the next 35 years, until his death in 1405, Timur continued to lead a number of great expeditions and wars; his conquests stretched as far west as Baghdad and the Black Sea, the shores of the Arabian Gulf, and far into modern Afghanistan and northwestern India; he took Herat, where this manuscript is written, in 1381. Timur began military campaigns against the Ottoman ruler Bayezid I and the Mamluks in Syria, as well as expeditions to Armenia and Georgia. His final campaign was in the winter of 1404, but he was stricken with fever and plague and died in February of the following year. His line continued through the glory of the Timurid period under his direct descendants, including Babur (1483-1531), the famous founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, who continued to rule until 1857. - An beautiful manuscript containing an illuminated headpiece of the greatest refinement; the illuminated border of the shamsah on fol. 1r. is a hallmark of Herati work. Surrounding the shamsa are several stamped waqf seals and various inscriptions by previous owners; fol. 140v has an inscription by Muhammad Taqi Qarakuzlu, dated 1237 H (1821 CE). - Provenance: Arts of the Islamic World, Sotheby's, 5 April 2006, lot 30. Sam Fogg, 2009.
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HAUFF (de)
La caravane
Contes orientaux traduits de l’allemand par A.TALON.In 12 demi-chagrin rouge à nerfs,titre,fers dorés;Faux-titre, titre,296 pages.46 vignettes par BERTALL L.Hachette & Cie 1861,rousseurs plus ou moins fortes
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Hay, Rupert.
The Persian Gulf States and Their Boundary Problems. Reprinted from the Geographical Journal, Vol. CXX, Part 4, December 1954. London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1954.
8vo. (433)-445, (1) pp. With a map in the text. Original printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Includes an autograph letter signed by the author (Weymouth, 20 Feb. 1955, 2 pp. 8vo). Rare presentation offprint of this geographical description of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the seven Trucial Sheikhdoms which today form the United Arab Emirates, and their boundary issues in the early 1950s. Signed and inscribed "To Edward + Irene Skinner with compliments" (20 Feb. 1955). Includes an autograph letter signed by Sir Rupert to "Dear Edward" accompanying the presentation offprint: "I enclose a copy of a recent paper of mine which you may be interested to see. I have finished the first draft of my book on the Persian Gulf but still have a good deal of revising to do [...]."
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Hay, Sidney.
Air Over Eden. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1937.
4to. 292, (18) pp. With one folding map. Original giltstamped cloth. First edition, second impression. - Beautifully illustrated travelogue of Iraq's landscapes, peoples and antiquities, including numerous striking views from the air, including the Persian Gulf route via Muscat and Bahrain. The book emphasises Iraq's strategic importance following the recent completion of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipeline from Kirkuk to the Mediterranean, and the RAF's role in defending it. - With ms. ownership "Thomas Greenwood. June 1937" to front flyleaf.
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HAYATI AYDIN.
The self of Muslim and its inner peace.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 96 p. First section of the book focuses on the self and related concepts as a Sufi phrases. This study is a comparative analysis between Islam tradition and Western psychology on this issue. We selected this subject for this reason, to make a good comparison between the Qur'anic verses and scientific knowledge. Because, in the Qur'an explaining that the truth of Self does not run counter to the evidence of science at all, this shows us that Qur'an can be a guide to science and enlighten pioneer scientists about the recognition of Nafs and its mysteries. The second part of the book focuses on the effect of faith and Islamic virtues on the inner peace of the believers and by this way to show the majesty of Islamic faith and rituals in the spiritual happiness of man. Believing, worshipping and spending in charity are the core of Islam as well as the basis of spiritual presence. In the Holy Qur'an, it is explained that man who realises those three elements are those who believe and behave conscientiously. For this reason, in the Qur'an world when Islamic virtues and rituals are carried out, the spiritual context of soul calms down and gets peace. Faith gives internal presence to man, and worshipping gets man closer to the divine existence and giving in charity leads to harmony between man and environment and makes him follow the co-operative law of the cosmos.
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Haywood, John A.
Modern Arabic Literature 1800-1970. An Introduction, With Extracts in Translation. London, Lund Humphries, 1971.
4to. XIII, (1), 306 pp. Publisher's green cloth with original dustjacket. First edition. - A useful reference work aiming to familiarize students of Modern Arabic literature with the leading authors and essential dates in this field, including 12 extracts in translation, as well as numerous quotations within the text. - In very good condition. OCLC 379738.
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Haywood, John Frank.
Head study of a falcon. [London, ca. 1960].
Watercolour, signed "Haywood" at bottom right. 220 x 203 mm.
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Haz: R. B. SERJEANT.
Islâm sehri. Translated by Elif Topçugil.
Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 271 p. Islâm sehri. ISLAM Islamic world Society Sociology.
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