|
|
|
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The Sufi Message Of Hazrat Inayat Khan -
1981. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/Gd. condition/262 pages - Sufism religion Islam. K1262HR4 hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : K1262 ISBN : 9060775694 9789060775691
|
|
|
Heber-Percy, Algernon.
Argob and Bashan. Moab and Gilead. Photographs from Syria and Jordan. Syria & Jordan, 1894-1895.
Folio (ca. 490 x 610 mm). (86 + 88 =) 174 large black-and-white photographs (14 ca. 95 x 120 mm, the rest ca. 250 x 300 mm). Mounted on cardboard leaves on cloth tabs. Handwritten English captions throughout. Bound for the photographer in two monumental full red morocco albums with giltstamped titles to upper covers. All edges gilt. Two monumental albums with photographs from travels undertaken to Bashan, Argob, Moab and Gilead, presently Jordanian and Syrian territories, in the years 1894-95. Mounted on the album leaves are 174 photographs taken by the British officer Algernon Heber-Percy (1845-1911), recording two of his expeditions to the Levant. Most of the photographs show archaeological sites, ancient ruins, structures, Druze and Bedouin villages and the residents of the villages that Heber-Percy visited in the course of his travels. - The first album, entitled "Argob and Bashan", contains 86 photographs of sites that are today in Syrian territory, specifically Trachonitis, Bashan and Jabal al-Druze, which the photographer visited together with his spouse and two sons in 1894. The sites include villages in the Trachonitis region (the Lajat) as well as in the cities of Qanawat, As-Suwayda, Bosra and other cities, and the road from Damascus to Beirut. The album also includes photographs of the region's Druze inhabitants. - The second album, entitled "Moab and Gilead", contains 88 photographs from sites that are today in Jordanian territory, visited by the photographer in 1895, including Beth Ba'al Ma'on, Dhiban, Umm ar-Rasas, Amman, Salt (Al-Salt) and Jerash. The album also includes photographs of the region's Bedouin inhabitants and three photographs showing a travelling circus of trained animals (a monkey, a goat and a bear) encountered by the photographer in the Madaba area. Heber-Percy also published on the expeditions recorded in these photographs: his account of his travels appeared in two books, "A Visit to Bashan and Argob" (London, 1895) and "Moab Ammon and Gilead" (1896), and some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced in these books. - Bound for the owner by Bennion & Horne, Market Drayton (their label to pastedown). Some foxing, mainly confined to flyleaves; occasional slight edge flaws. Bindings slightly scuffed at the extremeties, but in all a finely preserved, impressive set.
|
|
|
HEDIN (Sven)
Die Flucht des grossen Pferdes.
Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1935. In-8 rel. pleine toile beige éditeur, titre brun au dos, décor brun au plat sup., 262 pp., frontispice, 55 planches d'ill. photogr. en noir dont 1 carte dépliante en noir et coul. in fine, index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 517769
|
|
|
Hedenborg, Johan.
Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839[-1842].
Large 4to. 216, (2) pp. With lithogr. portrait frontispiece, map and 47 plates (46 of which are costume lithographs in original colour). Original illustrated wrappers bound within contemporary brown cloth with giltstamped front cover illustration (spine rebacked with giltstamped label). First edition. - When Count Loevenhjelm was appointed Swedish ambassador to the Porte, the naturalist Hedenborg (1787-1865) accompanied him as his medical attendant. He published another work on Egypt and died in Rhodes. The attractive plates in this present work depict the costumes of a wide range of the inhabitants of Constantinople. - Binding rubbed; interior browned, showing the occasional fingerstain. Rare. Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Howgego II, E5 (p. 195). Göllner 40. OCLC 34458777. Not in Lipperheide, Colas or Hiler.
|
|
|
Hedenborg, Johan.
Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839.
Large 4to. 216, (2) pp. With title page, portrait, map, 47 plates (46 coloured), and illustrated endpapers, all lithographed. Publisher's original cloth gilt. First and only edition. Hedenborg spent many years in Asia Minor, Egypt, and Arabia as physician to the Swedish embassy. "His costume plates are charming depictions of the residents of Constantinople, court functionaries, and street traders" (Atabey). - Endpapers and title page stamped "Trolleholms Bibliotek"; lithographed bookplate of Count Carl Trolle-Bonde (1843-1912). Last in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer (his autograph pencil ownership, dated London 1992, to pastedown). Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Not in Lipperheide or Colas.
|
|
|
Heidegger Martin Blust F. K. Volpi F. Gurisatti G
I concetti fondamentali della filosofia antica (Biblioteca filosofica)
Adelphi 2000 448 pages 21 6x4x15cm. 2000. Cartonné jaquette. 448 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 100134612
|
|
|
Heine, Maurice.
L'Islam sous la cendre. Paris, (colophon: Frazier-Soye), (19 February) 1918.
Square 4to (250 × 260 mm). With the frontispiece in three states: a lithographed plate, a hand-coloured miniature painting on vellum, highlighted with gold, and an engraved plate; and with the half-title printed in blue and several words in the text printed in green and blue. Original green cloth. One of six copies (numbered 4) of a sumptuous publication of poems on Islam by the French poet, writer and publisher Maurice Heine (1884-1940). The entire edition consists of 77 copies, of which only the first six (numbered 1-6) were printed on dyed Japanese paper and included the frontispiece in three states, of which one painted and highlighted with gold on parchment. The frontispiece, an Arabic text surrounded by flowers, was designed and drawn by the Algerian miniature painter Mohammed Racim (1896-1975), founder of the Algerian school of miniature painting that still exists. The included poems are: La demeure harmonieuse; Dans la maison moresque; Palais d'Islam; Le voyage en faience; Le cyprès; Alger-aux-barbares; and La mort d'Alger. The work opens with a half-title printed in blue, followed by a blank leaf, a leaf with the privilege, another half-title, three frontispieces, the title-page, and a dedication, followed by the prologue and the seven poems. It closes with a colophon, mentioning the different copies of the book. Below the colophon is the print number: "Exemplaire no. 4. Imprimé pour le docteur Pierre Astruc". - With a presentation inscription to Pierre Astruc: "à Pierre Astruc, avec toute l'affection de ton ami dévoué, Maurice Heine". In very good condition. C. Tailliart, L'Algérie dans la littérature française 123. WorldCat (3 copies).
|
|
|
HELLFRITZ Hans
Au Royaume de Saba : Yemen et Hadramaout, le pays sans ombre.
Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1936. 14 x 19, 318 pp., broché, bon état (sauf couverture défraîchie).
Riferimento per il libraio : 100.108
|
|
|
HELLENLKEMPER (Hansgerd)
Burgen der Kreuzritterzeit in der Grafschaft Edessa und im Königreich Kleinarmenien. Studien zur historischen Siedlungsgeographie Südost-Kleinasiens. Geographica historica Band. 1.
Bonn, Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1976. In-8, paperback, XIX-303pp, 88 B/W illustrations plates and a folio with the plates 79 and 85 corrections; at rear, 4 fold-out maps.
Riferimento per il libraio : 557418
|
|
|
Helmut de TERRA
Mes voyages avec Teilhard de Chardin
Seuil | Paris 1965 | 14 x 20.50 cm | broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 32270
|
|
|
Helfgott, Leonard M
Ties That Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr. 1994. 8vo. 358 pages illustrated b/w photos. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1994. Smithsonian Inst Pr unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 004776 ISBN : 1560982691 9781560982692
|
|
|
HELLFRITZ Hans
Au royaume de Saba. Le pays sans ombre. Yemen et Hadramaout. Photos hors texte.
Broch?. 318 pages. Couverture l?g?rement d?fra?chie.
|
|
|
Henri DROUET
Alger et le Sahel
Hachette & Cie | Paris 1887 | 11.50 x 18.50 cm | relié
Riferimento per il libraio : 34461
|
|
|
Henri-Joseph REDOUTE - LANDELLE (sculpsit)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Louqsor. Divers vases sculptés sur les murs du Palais. (ANTIQUITES, volume III, planche 15)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809 | 71 x 54 cm | une feuille
Riferimento per il libraio : 23288
|
|
|
Henry de MONTHERLANT
Histoire d'amour de la Rose de Sable
Plon | Paris 1954 | 13.50 x 20 cm | broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 87236
|
|
|
Henry CHOISNET
Impressions de France et d'Algérie
Imprimerie Rouillé-Ladevèze | Tours 1878 | 13.50 x 22.50 cm | relié
Riferimento per il libraio : 42867
|
|
|
Henri PENSA
L'Algérie. Organisation politique et administrative. - Justice. - Sécurité. - Instruction publique. - Travaux publics. - Colonisation française et européenne. - Agriculture et forêts. - Propriété et état-civil chez les indigènes. Voyage de la délégation de la Commission sénatoriale d'études des questions algériennes présidée par Jules Ferry. Préface par E. Combes. Avec carte indiquant l'itinéraire de la délégation et le programme de la colonisation de 1891 à 1895
J. Rothschild | Paris 1894 | 14.5 x 23 cm | Relié
Riferimento per il libraio : 89789
|
|
|
HENNINGER (Joseph)
Les fêtes de printemps chez les Sémites et la Pâque israélite.
Paris, J. Gabalda et Cie, 1975. In-8 broché, XII-241 pp., importante bibliographie, index. Cachet ex-libris répété.
Riferimento per il libraio : 607333
|
|
|
Henri ALLEG
Prisonniers de Guerre
Les Editions de Minuit | Paris 1961 | 14 x 22.50 cm | broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 78653
|
|
|
Henri ALLEG
Prisonniers de Guerre
Les Editions de Minuit | Paris 1961 | 14 x 22.50 cm | broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 79463
|
|
|
Henri-Joseph SAUVAIRE
Sur une Mère d'astrolabe arabe du XIIIe siècle (609 de l'Hégire), portant un calendrier perpétuel avec correspondance musulmane et chrétienne
Imprimerie Nationale | Paris 1893 | 14 x 22.7 cm | Relié
Riferimento per il libraio : 90856
|
|
|
HENRI BRESC.
Arabes de langue, juifs de religion: L'evolution du judaisme sicilien dans l'environnement latin, XIIe-XVe siecles.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 349, [2] p., 1 folding map. Arabes de langue, juifs de religion: L'evolution du judaisme sicilien dans l'environnement latin, XIIe-XVe siecles.
|
|
|
Henri de Monfreid; Ida Treat (Editor and Translator)
Pearls Arms and Hashish: Pages from the Life of a Red Sea Navigator Henri de Monfried. Collected and written down with a forward and a conclusion by Ida Treat
London: Victor Gollancz 1930. 1st edition. Pp. 349. Rebound in tan cloth original spine transferred. Condition: Very good-. Victor Gollancz hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : ID90301
|
|
|
Henry, Marguerite
Il re del vento
Un classico della letteratura per ragazzi.
|
|
|
Heper, Metin & Evin, Ahmet
Politics in the Third Turkish Republic
Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1994. Scholarly text examines the trials and tribulations involved in consolidating democracy in Turkey since the 1980's including the major transformation in Turkey's economy; new environment and feminist political issues; demilitarization and civilianization of the regime; privatization of the state economic enterprises; transition to democracy; decentralization in government; autonomization of politcs and civil society; international dynamics; etc. 270 pgs. Gilt spine and front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : MS-23 ISBN : 0813386748 9780813386744
|
|
|
Herbelot, [Barthélemi].
Bibliotheque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel, contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Paris, Compagnie des libraires, 1697.
Folio (262 x 400 mm). (32), 1059 [but: 1057], (1) pp. T. p. printed in red and black. Contemp. calf on six raised bands with giltstamped label to richly gilt spine (rubbed). First edition of this copious, variously reprinted dictionary of the culture and history of the Near East. "One of the landmarks in Arabic studies" (Hamilton 36). Continued by A. Galland after the death of Herbelot. - Somewhat brownstained; slight worming in lower margin near beginning. From the library of Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire), owned by Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709), with engr. bookplate on front pastedown. Atabey 572. Fück 98. Graesse II, 376. Hoefer XXIV, 283. Zischka 15. OCLC 53777588.
|
|
|
Herbelot, Barthélemi
Bibliotheque orientale, 5 Volume (von / de 6) ou dictionaire universel contenant tout ce qui fait connoitre les peuples de l'Orient; Leurs Histories et Traditions tant fabuleuses que véritables; leurs Réligions et leur Sectes; leurs Gouvernements, Loix, Politiqeu, Moeurs, Coutumes, et les Révolutions de leurs Empires. Nouvelle édition, réduite et augmentée par M.D. +++ der Volume / Band 5 fehlt ++++ HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, Barthélemy d'
a Paris: chez Moutard, 1781. 8 (200x13,50 mm), xvi-576 pages / (4)-591 pages / (4)-566 pages / (4)-555 pages / ++++ Volume 5 fehlt (4)-560 pages +++ / (4)-605-(3) pages. Gebundene Ausgabe, marmorierter Hardcover/Pappeinband Rücken aufgehellt, Besitzerstempel auf Titelblatt ( Bibliotheca Monasterii Einsidlensis), Seiten alters- und papierbedingt gebräunt, sonst guter Zustand
Riferimento per il libraio : 57461
|
|
|
Herbin, Auguste F[rançois] J[ulien].
Développemens des principes de la langue Arabe moderne, suivis d'un recueil de phrases, de traductions interlinéaires, de proverbes arabes, et d'un essai de calligraphie orientale. Paris, Françoise-Jean Baudoin, 1803.
Folio (228 x 322 mm). (2), VII, (1), 254, (2) pp. With engr. additional title in Arabic, 10 engr. plates (some folding), and 16 folding tables. Original brown boards. First and only edition of A. F. J. Herbin's (1783-1806) treatise on modern Arabic, with the celebrated "Essay on Oriental Calligraphy", an early account of Islamic calligraphy with details on scripts and writing materials: "Cet ouvrage ne conservé une place dans la bibliothèque des orientalistes qu'à cause d'un 'Essai sue la calligraphie orientale', et des planches fort bien gravées qu'il renferme. Ces planches manquent dans plusieurs exemplaires" (Brunet). - Occasional brownstaining, front hinge split, otherwise a good copy with all the plates. Schnurrer 147. Vater/Jülg 28. NYPL Arabia coll. 192. Arabic Books Printed in Europe (King Abdulaziz Public Library) 15. Brunet III, 110. Graesse III, 247. OCLC 7033701.
|
|
|
Herder, Johann Gottfried (ed.).
Blumenlese aus morgenländischen Dichtern. Vienna, Chr. Kaulfuß & C. Armbruster , 1816.
8vo. LX (including engraved title), IV, (5-)148 pp. With engraved title vignette. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped label to spine. Re-issue of a separate publication of Herder's translations of oriental poetry from the journal "Zerstreute Blätter". "This charming reprint appears to have been published as a separate edition and as volume 21 of the series 'Meisterwerke deutscher Dichter und Prosaisten' by Kaulfuß and Armbruster" (cf. Günther/V./S.). The title vignette, after Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, shows a Muslim in a garden during prayer. - Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Paper somewhat browned throughout. Günther/Volgina/Seifert 780 a. Cf. WG² 534, 82. Hirschberg I, 212. Goedeke IV, 1, 737.
|
|
|
Hergé [i.e., Georges Prosper Remi].
Les Aventures de Tintin au Pays de l'Or Noir. Paris, Casterman, 1950.
Small folio (ca. 227 x 304 mm). (2), 62 pp. Original printed boards. Blue pastedowns with white cartoon figures. First edition. - An early adventure of Tintin, set in the Middle East, where the young Belgian reporter attempts to uncover a militant group responsible for sabotaging oil supplies. The story was originally set in Palestine under the British Mandate, but Hergé's publisher requested several alterations, and the setting was transferred to the fictional state of Khemed. - Extremities rubbed and bumped; small flaw to head of spine. Interior somewhat brownstained near the gutter and margins; some marginal tears and creases rarely touching text or image. Rare. OCLC 714202939.
|
|
|
Hergé [i.e., Georges Prosper Remi].
Tintin au Pays de l'Or Noir. Paris, Casterman, 1963.
Small folio (ca. 230 x 304 mm). (2), 62 pp. Original printed boards. Blue and white illustrated flyleaves. Signed, illustrated (with a portrait of Tintin and Milou/Snowy) and inscribed by the artist on the verso of the front flyleaf to Denis Jamin for his birthday, dated 3 September 1971. The recipient was the grandson of the Belgian caricaturist Paul Jamin (1911-95), an old friend of Hergé's. - An early Tintin adventure, set in the Middle East, where the young reporter attempts to uncover a militant group responsible for sabotaging oil supplies. First published in album form in 1950. The story was originally set in Palestine under the British Mandate, but Hergé's publisher requested several alterations, and the setting was transferred to the fictional state of Khemed. - Extremeties a little bumped and chipped, internally an excellent copy.
|
|
|
Hermalin, D[avid] M[oyshe].
Muhamad. A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen gezets-geber un die rezultaten fun zayn religyon. New York, Hebrew Publishing Co., [early 1900s].
8vo. 64 pp. Contemporary half cloth. Very rare second edition of this Yiddish-language study of the Prophet Muhammad, essentially a reissue of the Meir Chinsky edition of 1898. It includes not only a biography of the Prophet and a discussion of the Qur'an and of Islam, but also chapters with a specifically Jewish perspective, such as on the Jewish population of Arabia (especially in Mecca and Medina), on Muhammad's "dreadful revenge on the Jews", etc. The author published similar accounts on Jesus of Nazareth ("Yeyshu Hanoytsri: zayn ersheynen, leben und toydt: algemeyner iberblik vegen der entshtehung fun kristenthum") and Sabbatai Zevi ("Der Terkisher Meshieh: a historish romantishe shilderung iber dem leben und virken fun Shabtay Tsvi"). The highly versatile journalist, novelist, and playwright D. M. Hermalin (1865-1921) was born and educated in Bucharest, where he worked for various newspapers before being compelled to leave Romania and emigrating to the United States at the age of twenty. Here, he taught French and Hebrew and achieved distinction as a much-admired family page editor for Yiddish newspapers such as the "Folks Advokat", the "Yiddisher Herold", and the "Wahrheit". He wrote thrillers, but also translated Tolstoy, Maupassant, Zola, Bocaccio, and Shakespeare into Yiddish; his 1901 translation of Goethe's "Faust" was the first complete Yiddish version. - Stamps of ownership of the Jewish Socialist Branch of Chelsea as well as the Chelsea Labor Lyceum Association Library to lower pastedown and several pages, including the title-page. Shelfmarks to front pastedown and title-page. Extremities slightly rubbed, paper browned and brittle. - No copy in trade records; online library catalogues list copies at the British Library, Brandeis University Library (Waltham, MA), Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (New York), and the Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati). OCLC 122983891.
|
|
|
Hermalin, D[avid] M[oyshe].
Muhamad. A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen gezets-geber un die rezultaten fun zayn religyon. New York, M[eir] Chinsky, 19 Ludlow Street, (1898).
8vo. 64 pp. Contemporary marbled boards with title clipped from the original upper wrapper and pasted on the upper cover; lower wrapper cover bound within. Cloth spine. First edition of this Yiddish-language study of the Prophet Muhammad. Includes not only a biography of the Prophet and a discussion of the Qur'an and of Islam, but also chapters with a specifically Jewish perspective, such as on the Jewish population of Arabia (especially in Mecca and Medina), on Muhammad's "dreadful revenge on the Jews", etc. The author published similar accounts on Jesus of Nazareth ("Yeyshu Hanoytsri: zayn ersheynen, leben und toydt: algemeyner iberblik vegen der entshtehung fun kristenthum") and Sabbatai Zevi ("Der Terkisher Meshieh: a historish romantishe shilderung iber dem leben und virken fun Shabtay Tsvi"). The highly versatile journalist, novelist, and playwright D. M. Hermalin (1865-1921) was born and educated in Bucharest, where he worked for various newspapers before being compelled to leave Romania and emigrating to the United States at the age of twenty. Here, he taught French and Hebrew and achieved distinction as a much-admired family page editor for Yiddish newspapers such as the "Folks Advokat", the "Yiddisher Herold", and the "Wahrheit". He wrote thrillers, but also translated Tolstoy, Maupassant, Zola, Bocaccio, and Shakespeare into Yiddish; his 1901 translation of Goethe's "Faust" was the first complete Yiddish version. - Binding severely rubbed; extremeties bumped. Paper browned and brittle with noticeable fingerstaining. The lower wrapper cover, preserved inside the boards, has an English title: "Mohammed. A Study Of the Advent, Life and Activity of the Mussulman Law-Giver and the Results of his Religion", with the publisher's advert of books on sale ("oysferkoyf katalog fun mayn aygenem ferlag") on the reverse. Extremely rare: no copy in trade records; online library catalogues list copies at YIVO, Yale, Harvard, University of California, and Florida Atlantic University, as well as the British Library; several research libraries in the US hold microform copies. OCLC 122740986.
|
|
|
Hermann, Paul.
Paradisus Batavus continens plus centum plantas affabrè aere incisas & descriptionibus illustratas. Amsterdam, Abraham Elzevier, 1698.
4to. (16), 247, (1), 15, (1) pp. With 111 etched plates depicting plants, an elaborate woodcut tailpiece with an eagle feeding her young, caterpillars, dogs, and flowers, as well as a woodcut printer's vignette on the title-page. Early 18th century (?) richly gold-tooled mottled calf, in a panel design with a large centre-piece of curlicues, gold-tooled board edges, marbled end papers and gilt edges. First edition of an overview of exotic plants were recently discovered by the Dutch. The foreign plants were brought back to the Netherlands by ship from around the world and planted in various botanical gardens to be studied. With the help of new botanical technology such as greenhouses it became possible for the first time to cultivate exotic plants such as orchids in the colder European climates. Paul Hermann (1646-95) had excellent contacts and based his work on various Dutch botanical collections that held plants from the Americas, from Africa (Egypt), the South Indian Ocean regions, and Asia. Mentioned plants include passion fruit, cacti, and papaver. Hermann himself served as director of the Hortus Botanicus at the University of Leiden and contributed to this work specimens from India, Africa, and Sri Lanka. He died in 1695 while at work on a number of important publications, this one of them. His widow was able to complete the "Paradisus Batavus" and got influential English botanist William Sherard (1659-1728) to edit her husband's work. The publication raised the bar for floral publications and set the standard so high that it inspired Linnaeus to write his "Flora Zeylanica" (about the plants of Sri Lanka). - Some copies include a four-page laudatory poem to the author, not present here. Most copies of this first edition have 110 plates, while the present volume contains 111. Some of the depicted plants are the first ever to be documented in European cultivation. Although the plates are referred to as engravings it appears more likely that they are etchings. The anonymous illustrations seem to be aimed at showing the whole plant, including the roots, leaves and twigs, rather than just the blossom or fruit that the plant produces. The woodcut tailpiece is signed "C" (possibly Nagler Monogrammisten 2151). - Boards slightly warped, but still a very good copy. From the library of William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland, with his engraved armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown. Kuijlen 115. Nissen BBI 860. The Anglo-Dutch Garden 143.
|
|
|
Herring, John Frederick, Sr.
Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes. From the year 1815 to the present year inclusive. London, L. Harrison for S. and J. Fuller, 1829.
Large folio (60 x 42 cm). Letterpress title with engraved vignette, list of subscribers, winners of the St. Leger 1776-1814, 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and R. G. Reeve after Herring, each with letterpress description of riders and winners of other races and the St Leger stakes for each year. Bound in recent half burgundy morocco with contemporary drab boards with large printed label on upper cover. "Extremely rare" (Tooley). Second edition of Herring's finest work, the outcome of his fascination with horse racing and the St. Leger in particular. "In the writer's estimation, the first series of the St. Leger winners contains the very best of Herring prints [...] they were engraved by Sutherland, a more competent aquatinter and colourist than his successors who handled these race-horses" (Siltzer). Herring spent the first 18 years of his life in London, where his father, an American, was a fringe-maker in Newgate Street. Having married against his father's wishes, he went to Doncaster, where he arrived during the races in September 1814, and saw the Duke of Hamilton's horse, William, win the St. Leger. The sight inspired him to attempt the art of animal-painting, in which he subsequently excelled. He painted Filho da Puta, the winner of the St. Leger in 1815, and for the following thirty-two years painted each winner in succession. "Herring's series of Portraits [...] were painted annually and quickly reproduced in large showy aquatints, the horses made literally glossy by the application of varnish to the paper" (Diana Donald, Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850, New Haven, CT [2007], p. 215). This is the second edition of this series of wonderful racehorse portraits. It was first published as a suite of 10 plates in 1824 by Sheardown and Son of Doncaster; S. and J. Fuller of London purchased these in 1827 and continued to publish, periodically, the St. Leger winner series up to 1845. The earlier plates were all re-captioned with Fuller's imprint. Plates watermarked 1825-28; the first plate in the present work, "Filho da Puta", is on paper watermarked 1827. - Very slight offsetting to text. Extremities rubbed; otherwise a superb example of this rare work. Siltzer 139-146. Mellon Horsemanship, 128.
|
|
|
Hervás, Lorenzo, SJ.
Aritmetica delle nazioni e divisione del tempo fra l'orientali. Cesena, Gregorio Biasini, 1786.
Large 4to. 201, (1) pp. (including errata). With a folding engraved plate and a folding letterpress table. Contemporary carta rustica binding. First edition thus. A highly interesting work comparing the different numerical systems used by various languages and cultures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, North and South American Indian cultures, Chinese, Japanese, Tamil, Coptic, Maori, etc. Separate chapters investigate the European adoption of the Arabic system of numerals. The engraved plate shows the shape of numerals throughout the world, while the folding table compares the pronunciation of the word for the number "6" in a wealth of languages. - The Spanish-born Jesuit Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735-1809) counts as one of the most important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century, an enlightened, global, comparative approach to historic and scientific theory. This work also appeared as volume 19 of the author's monumental 21-volume cosmographical treatise "Idea dell' Universo" (1778-87), being one of five volumes of the series to be issued separately. - Front inner hinge loosened. Untrimmed in the original carta rustica. An early and little-received work of comparative linguistics, pre-dating by many decades the works of Bopp and Schleicher. De Backer/S. IV, 319f., 2.XIX. Not in Riccardi.
|
|
|
Herz, Max / Lajnat Hifz al-Athar al-`Arabiyah.
La mosquée du Sultan Hassan au Caire. Cairo, Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1899.
Folio (422 x 522 mm). (8), 34 pp., 20 tables (3 double-sided, 1 coloured) and 9 illustrations within the text. Leaves and plates stored loosely in original decorated dark green cloth portfolio. First edition of this fundamental work on the Sultan Hassan mosque in Cairo, built in 1356/59 during the Mamluk era. One of the largest mosques in the world, it is famous not only for its sheer size, but also for its monumental portal, itself a work of art. - Herz (1856-1919), born a Hungarian in Arad County and trained as an architect in Budapest and Vienna, joined the Technical Office of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture in 1882. In 188 he was made head architect of the Cairo "Comité de conservation des monuments de l'art arabe" and head conservator of Arabic monuments at the Egyptian ministry for religious foundations (waqf). His hopes that the publication of the monograph would lead to a commission for restoring the mosque were not to be fulfilled. - Occasional minor edge flaws, but well preserved. Rare: a single copy on the market since 1975. OCLC 7065880.
|
|
|
Heude William.
Viaggio dalla costa del Malabar a Costantinopoli per il Golfo Persico, l'Arabia, la Mesopotamia, il Kourdistan e la Turchia eseguito nell'anno 1817 da Guglielmo Heude tenente al servizio d'Inghilterra.
Opera completa in 3 piccoli volumi, brossure a stampa e con barbe, buonissime condizioni. Prima edizione torinese (l'edizione originale italiana è di Milano, 1820). I paesi visitati sono l'Arabia, Persia, Mesopotamia, the Garden of Eden, Babylon, Bagdad, Koordistan, Armenia, Asia Minor, &c., resoconto dei viaggi asiatici del tenente britannico Heude, al seguito del Madras Military Establishment. Sc. B.
|
|
|
Heude, William.
Voyage de la côte de Malabar à Constantinople, par le Golfe Persique, l'Arabie, la Mésopotamie, le Kordistan et la Turquie d'Asie fait en 1817. Paris, Gide fils, 1820.
8vo. 358 pp. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates and a folding engraved map. Contemporary marbled full calf with giltstamped label to gilt spine. Leading edges gilt; marbled edges. First French edition of this uncommon travelogue, containing a valuable account of the Arabian Gulf including the present-day Emirates, Oman etc. The book discusses at some length the "pirates Joasmis de Rass-al-Kymer" (the Al-Qasimi family of Ras al-Khaimah) and the British raid of 1809, but also the Wahhabis, pearl fishing in Bahrein, and "Fata Morgana"-type mirages in the desert. "An interesting work, rich in topographical observations. Heude's journey took him to Muscat, Ormuz, Baghdad, Bahrein and Nineveh" (Atabey). "The author of this rare and interesting work was attached to the Madras Military Establishment and was apparently related to Earl Fitzwilliam, to whom the work is dedicated. Heude left Bombay in 1816 and arrived in Constantinople the following year. There are descriptions of Arabia, Baghdad and Armenia and of a hazardous journey through the mountains of Kurdistan" (Blackmer). As is typical for British Romantic travel writing, Heude appreciatively describes Bedu life and the various religious sects he encounters. - The plates show local costumes, including those of the Bedouin Arabs and of a Dervish of Basra. The large map shows the Middle East from the Dardanelles and Asia Minor to Kuwait and Bushehr. Light brownstaining near beginning and end with more noticeable gluestaining to endpapers. A prettily preserved volume. Atabey 576. Blackmer 812. Chadenat 1622. Weber I, 85. Gay 3576 ("2 vol." in error). Not in Cox, Henze, or Howgego.
|
|
|
HEWITT (George) [Ed.]
The Abkhazians. A Handbook.
Richmond, Curzon, 1999. In-8 cart. éditeur sous jaquette, 288 pp., ill. en noir et tableaux dans le texte, bibliogr., index. (Caucasus world).
Riferimento per il libraio : 556308 ISBN : 700706437
|
|
|
Heynes, Edward.
Scheeps-togt van Mr. Edward Heynes, van Surate na Mocha, gedaan in het jaar 1618. Verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de Koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijke verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt. Als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats. Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaald. Met noodig Register verrijkt. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1707].
Folio (254 x 400 mm). (1) f., 14 cols., (1) p. (= 5 ff. in all). Modern blue-grey paper covers. First Dutch edition. Edward Heynes' account of the first successful attempt of the British (the third altogether) at establishing trading privileges with Mocha and a commercial presence there, previously published in English within the first volume of Samuel Purchas' collection "Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes" (1625). - The ship "Anne Royall", captained by Andrew Shilling, sailed in April 1618 up the Red Sea and visited Mocha from April 11 till August 20. Heynes, secretary to Sir Thomas Roe, gives an extensive account of the reception by the governor of Mocha, customs of the population, and prospects of commerce. "[The] British delegation lands, and presents the governor with six yards of broadcloth stammell, six yards of green material, a shotgun and mirror. It is striking that the British respond to their hosts' food gifts with gifts of technology. This form of reciprocity sends a message of power, for not only does it reflect the greater sophistication of their economy, it also implies that the Yemenites are no match militarily" (Malkiel, p. 10). Includes a short account of a trip made by Heynes' fellow-merchant Joseph Salbank to Sinan. - Published as part 18 of the series "Wijd-beroemde Voyagien na Oost- en West-Indiën, gedaan door de Engelschen", with a detailed index. Slight foxing throughout, but on the whole well preserved. Tiele 8. Cf. David Malkiel, Strangers in Yemen (Berlin/Boston 2021), p. 9-11. Not in Henze, Howgego, Cox etc.
|
|
|
Hichens, Robert.
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.
482p. 12mo. Original full red cloth binding. Spine and front board lettered in gold and decorated with two camels, women riders and men walking. Extremities very slightly worn. Hardbound. Second edition. Very good. ISLAM BOX 1
|
|
|
Hietzinger, Carl Bernhard Edler von.
Statistik der Militärgränze des österreichischen Kaiserthums. Ein Versuch [...]. Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1817-1823.
Large 8vo. 2 parts in 3 vols. XX, 299, (135) pp. XII, 467, (1) pp. XII, 668, (8) pp. With 4 folding tables and 1 folding lithographed map of the Military Frontier. Contemporary giltstamped full calf with charmingly giltstamped spine; leading edges gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns. First edition. - Elaborate study of the "Militärgrenze" (Military Frontier), a borderland of Imperial Austria set up for national defence against the Ottoman Empire, by Hietzinger (1786-1864), a civil servant in the Court Council of War. "Of lasting historical value" (cf. Wurzbach). The map shows the area of the Military Frontier as well as the positions of the infantry and cavalry regiments stationed there. The folding tables provide details on the size and population density of the area, various 18th century organisational reforms, as well as temperature and minerals of the Baths of Mehadia (Baths of Hercules) in modern Romania. The first part was published with a dedication to Archduke Ludwig Joseph of Austria, a younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The index of subscribers in volume I, sometimes bound after the XX pp. of preliminaries, is bound at the end of the present copy. Author's initials and shelfmarks to the flyleaves of all three volumes. - A few paper flaws to the index of volume I, not touching text. A very well preserved, appealingly bound copy. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his stamped and signed ownership to flyleaves, dated 1977. Kayser III, 142. Wurzbach IX, 8f. (misquoting the title).
|
|
|
HILD (Friedrich)
Das byzantinische Strassensystem in Kappadokien.
Wien, Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1977. In-4, broché, jaquette ill. en noir, 158 pp., texte allemand, fig. et cartes in-t., et 114 ill. photogr. en noir en planches in fine. Bibliogr., index (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Tabula Imperii Byzantini, 2).
Riferimento per il libraio : 556108
|
|
|
Hilberg, Raul
La Politique De La Mémoire
Mm 125x190 Collection: Arcades. Brossura editoriale, 212 pagine, esemplare pari al nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
|
|
|
HILMI ZIYA ÜLKEN.
La pensee de l'Islam. Translation into French by Gauthier Dubois, Max Bilen.
Very Good English In contemporary hardcover made as saved original covers inside the book. Very good. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 656, [3] p. Uncommon.
|
|
|
Hilmi, Ibrahim.
Memâlik-i Osmânîye cep atlasi. Devlet-i `Aliye-i Osmânîyenin ahvâl-i cografya ve istatistikiyesi. Istanbul, Ibrahim Hilmi, [1907 CE =] 1323 Rumi.
Small 8vo. 8, 328 pp. With 64 colour lithographed plates of maps and diagrams. Original light brown cloth bearing elaborate Ottoman Art Nouveau designs. This edition of Hilmi's "Pocket Atlas" captures the Ottoman Empire during the twilight of the Hamidian Era, when it still controlled territories on three continents, extending from Albania to Yemen. With 64 highly attractive colour lithographic plates, the atlas features an especially extensive collation of thematic maps and diagrams, more that we have encountered in other issues, including detailed maps of the empire's various vilayets. Notably, the book's coverage of the Arabian Peninsula is excellent, with a double-page map of the entire peninsula; a custom map of the route of the Hejaz Railway (due to be extended as far south as Medina in 1908); a map of the Basra Vilayet (with southern Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, as well as parts of today's Saudi Arabia); as well as separate maps of Yemen and Asir. - Ibrahim Hilmi Cigiracan (1876-1963) was one of the most important publishers and cartographers of the late Ottoman Empire. Born in Tulcea (now in Romania), he founded his first printing shop in Istanbul in 1896, under the name "Kitaphane-i Islami" (Islamic Library), largely producing religious books. Subsequently, Hilmi became interested in military affairs, geography and history, and changed the name of his press to "Kitaphane-i Islam ve Askeri" (Islamic and Military Library). He published about 200 military books, and his atlases (especially his "Pocket Atlas") were among the most popular cartographic items throughout the empire. During WWI, Hilmi gained the affection of the public for his charitable programme of sending free books to poor children in Anatolia. - Hilmi's enterprise thrived until Atatürk's Republican regime nationalized the publishing of law and school books in the 1920s, undercutting the most lucrative part of his business. However, Hilmi left an enduring legacy, having published over a thousand books on a wide variety of topics over three decades. - Binding worn with a few chips of minor loss, especially along hinges, but holding firm; old repairs to lower margin of upper cover. Internally light, even toning to text pages and some marginal chips to few leaves and plates, not affecting printed area. Maps generally clean and bright, just some offsetting to 4 maps. A fine edition. OCLC 1014526531.
|
|
|
Hilmi, Ibrahim.
Postcard. Asir (Saudi Arabia). [Istanbul, Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi Kitaphane-yi Askeri / Military Press Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi, circa 1910].
Colour lithographed postcard, 130 x 90 mm. A very rare Ottoman postcard featuring one of the earliest printed maps to focus on the Asir region, then nominally part of Ottoman Yemen, but today a part of Saudi Arabia. The card was part of a series made by Ibrahim Hilmi, one of the premier Istanbul cartographers of the era. - Ibrahim Hilmi Cigiracan (1876-1963) was one of the most important publishers and cartographers of the late Ottoman Empire. Born in Tulcea (now in Romania), he founded his first printing shop in Istanbul in 1896, under the name "Kitaphane-i Islami" (Islamic Library), largely producing religious books. Subsequently, Hilmi became interested in military affairs, geography and history, and changed the name of his press to "Kitaphane-i Islam ve Askeri" (Islamic and Military Library). He published about 200 military books, and his atlases (especially his "Pocket Atlas") were among the most popular cartographic items throughout the empire. During WWI, Hilmi gained the affection of the public for his charitable programme of sending free books to poor children in Anatolia. - Hilmi's enterprise thrived until Atatürk's Republican regime nationalized the publishing of law and school books in the 1920s, undercutting the most lucrative part of his business. However, Hilmi left an enduring legacy, having published over a thousand books on a wide variety of topics over three decades. - Very good, overall clean and crisp, just some very light even toning and slight stains to verso.
|
|
|
Hilmi, Ibrahim.
Postcard. Northern Arabian Gulf. [Istanbul, Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi Kitaphane-yi Askeri / Military Press Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi, ca. 1910].
Colour lithographed postcard, 130 x 90 mm. This very rare Ottoman postcard features a map of the Northern Arabian Gulf, including what is today Qatar, Bahrain, the Saudi Arabian Gulf Coast (including Dhahran), Kuwait, Southern Iraq (including Basra), as well as south-western Iran. Interestingly, it shows the Arab Gulf States as being part of the Ottoman Empire, when in reality they were already British Protectorates. The card was part of a series made by Ibrahim Hilmi, one of the premier Istanbul cartographers of the era. - Ibrahim Hilmi Cigiracan (1876-1963) was one of the most important publishers and cartographers of the late Ottoman Empire. Born in Tulcea (now in Romania), he founded his first printing shop in Istanbul in 1896, under the name "Kitaphane-i Islami" (Islamic Library), largely producing religious books. Subsequently, Hilmi became interested in military affairs, geography and history, and changed the name of his press to "Kitaphane-i Islam ve Askeri" (Islamic and Military Library). He published about 200 military books, and his atlases (especially his "Pocket Atlas") were among the most popular cartographic items throughout the empire. During WWI, Hilmi gained the affection of the public for his charitable programme of sending free books to poor children in Anatolia. - Hilmi's enterprise thrived until Atatürk's Republican regime nationalized the publishing of law and school books in the 1920s, undercutting the most lucrative part of his business. However, Hilmi left an enduring legacy, having published over a thousand books on a wide variety of topics over three decades. - Very good, overall clean and crisp, just some very light even toning to verso.
|
|
|
Hilmi, Ibrahim.
Postcard. Yemen. [Istanbul, Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi Kitaphane-yi Askeri / Military Press Tüccarzade Ibrahim Hilmi, circa 1910].
Colour lithographed postcard, 130 x 90 mm. A very rare Ottoman postcard depicting a map of Yemen, including the Ottoman-dominated northern and western parts of the country (Sana'a, Taiz, and Al Hodeidah), as well as the British-dominated southern regions (Aden). The card was part of a series made by Ibrahim Hilmi, one of the premier Istanbul cartographers of the era. - Ibrahim Hilmi Cigiracan (1876-1963) was one of the most important publishers and cartographers of the late Ottoman Empire. Born in Tulcea (now in Romania), he founded his first printing shop in Istanbul in 1896, under the name "Kitaphane-i Islami" (Islamic Library), largely producing religious books. Subsequently, Hilmi became interested in military affairs, geography and history, and changed the name of his press to "Kitaphane-i Islam ve Askeri" (Islamic and Military Library). He published about 200 military books, and his atlases (especially his "Pocket Atlas") were among the most popular cartographic items throughout the empire. During WWI, Hilmi gained the affection of the public for his charitable programme of sending free books to poor children in Anatolia. - Hilmi's enterprise thrived until Atatürk's Republican regime nationalized the publishing of law and school books in the 1920s, undercutting the most lucrative part of his business. However, Hilmi left an enduring legacy, having published over a thousand books on a wide variety of topics over three decades. - Very good, overall clean and crisp, just some very light even toning and slight stains to verso.
|
|
|
Ricevere i risultati per e-mail
Scaricare i risultati in PDF
RSS feed
Link
