‎Moyen orient‎

‎Fisher, W. B.‎

‎THE MIDDLE EAST A Physical Social and Regional Geography‎

‎Methuen and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Second Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers and top outside edges foxed. Owner's name on endpaper in Beirut 1953. Small edge tear to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 513 pages . Methuen and Company hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 69833

‎Fitzgerald, Judith; Fitzgerald, Michael Oren‎

‎Universal Spirit of Islam The: From The Koran and Hadith‎

‎2006. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub. 2006/Gd. condition/148 pages - A text of Islam teachings . AR6v6634z paperback‎

Référence libraire : v6634z ISBN : 1933316160 9781933316161

‎Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht.‎

‎(Über Textverbesserungen in al-Makkari's Geschichtswerke). Berichte der Kön. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Philologisch-Historische Classe). (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel), 1867-1869.‎

‎8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. 151-220 pp. (1867); 236-309 pp. (1868); 39-118 pp. (1869). (With) II: The same. Abdruck aus den Berichten der philol.-histor. Classe der Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1870. Dritte Fortsetzung der Beiträge zur arabischen Sprachkunde. 227-295, (1) pp. Contemporary vellum-backed red marbled boards with handwritten spine-title. Treatise on textual emendations to the history of Muslim Iberia by Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. Offprints from three volumes of reports of the Scientific Society of Saxony. - Bound with this is the sequel to another essay on Arabic linguistics by Fleischer, "Beiträge zur arabischen Sprachkunde". - From the collection of the German librarian and oriental scholar Julius Euting (1839-1913) with his ownership in black ink to the flyleaf and with an inscription on the following blue wrapper, summarising the content and with a small stamp of ownership at top right ("J. Euting, Strassburg").‎

‎Fleurat, Georges Constantin Louis, French diplomat (1767-1837).‎

‎Document signed ("G. C. Fleurat" and "Kieffer"). [Istanbul], 28 Vendémiaire XI [20 Oct. 1802].‎

‎4to. 1 p. on bifolium. A unique account documenting the restoration of Turko-French relations after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and Syria between 1798 and 1801, describing how several unspecified objects confiscated during the campaign were returned by the Ottoman press to the French. Fleurat, who served as chancelier provisoire to the French legation, here reports that he was accompanied by the orientalist and linguist Jean-Daniel Kieffer (1767-1833), who counter-signs the document, to the Aynalikavak palace in Istanbul. Here they were handed over the items by Müderris Abdurrahman Efendi, the first manager of the Mühendishane printing house (opened in Istanbul in 1797, the house that would publish the famous Cedid Atlas in 1803). The objects, Fleurat reports, were then transported to the French embassy for safekeeping. His account also mentions that the diplomat Jacques Argyropoulo, appointed by Ibrahim (Müteferrika) Effendi, the pioneer of printing in the Muslim world, was present at the handover, and refers to a list of the received objects which has probably not survived. - From the collection of the Turkish author, journalist, and publisher Sevket Rado (1913-88), founder of "Tifdruk" printing house. - Small tears to the left and right margins along the centrefold, not touching the text; a few minor edge flaws.‎

‎Flinders Petrie (Ed.)‎

‎Ancient Egypt Magazine. 1927 Part I II III & IV PLUS 1928 Part I‎

‎London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1927-1928. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Five issues retaining the original front covers for 1927 Part 1 & 1928 Part 1 only. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Clean text throughout. Includes an index for all issues 1924-1927. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £20.50; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £25.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: 136; 32 British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 1139E032

‎Flinders Petrie (Ed.)‎

‎Ancient Egypt Magazine. 1914 Part II III & IV‎

‎London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. 1914. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Ex library in a good quality library binding. Three issues each retaining the original front cover. Red buckram with gilt title to spine. Red speckled page edges. Barcode to front endpaper pocket and label to rear endpaper occasional stamps to margins. Foxing to covers of parts II & IV occasional spotting to text. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £20.50; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £25.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 10.75 inches 18.5 x 27.5 cm. Hardback. Printed pages: pp49-192 British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Macmillan and Co. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 1139E022

‎Fludd, Robert / Henri de Pisis / Alfakini.‎

‎Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur. "Verona" [= Frankfurt am Main], 1687.‎

‎647, (1) pp. 197, (1) pp. With title-page printed in red and black, 5 (of 6) large folding letterpress tables, 1 double-page engraved folding plate with 2 engraved illustrations, and some woodcut illustrations and numerous letterpress geomantic figures in text. With (2): Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno MDXXXV. Iam primo luci datus, annexis duabus tabellis huic studio mirè inservientibus, caeteroquin utilibus & jucundis. Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunner, 1693. With 2 letterpress folding tables following text, and nearly 200 pages of letterpress tables with geomantic figures. 2 works in 1 volume, bound in reverse order. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. First edition of a collection of three texts on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins. Geomancy comes from the Ancient Greek "geômanteía", a translation of the Arabic term "'ilm al-raml", the "science of the sand". It includes texts by the English physician and astrologer Robert Fludd (1574-1637), the French physician Henri de Pisis and the Arab Alfakini. It is preceded by its separately published supplement Tabulae geomanticae, together forming "the standard printed Latin source for the rules of geomantic practice [...] a handbook and compendium not since rivalled for clarity and completeness" (Skinner). - Fludd's treatise "De Animae intellectualis Scientia seu geomantia" was first published in his magnum opus "Utriusque Cosmi maioris salicet et minoris metaphysica" (1617-19), and appeared slightly altered in the present work. "Fludd [...] tried to present [geomancy] as a science of intellectual soul in which intellectual rays emanated from the mind to mundane affairs and then returned to the center with tidings of the future [...] He discusses how the geomancer should so dispose himself that the intentions of his mind are clearly emitted [...] Fludd's treatise is immediately followed by a longer geomancy by H. de Pisis [first published in 1638]. The work is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar" (Thorndike). The last treatise contains the geomantic questions of the Arab Alfakini, son of Abizarch, based on a manuscript from 1535 and published here for the first time. The manuscript was a Latin translation by Plato of Tivoli (fl. first half of the 12th century), known for his translations of Arabic texts. A supplement to this last text, containing almost 200 pages of tables, is bound first. It opens with a series of 25 numbered questions, the answers to these questions can be found in the tables of the matching geomantic figure. - With a crude drawing of a head on pastedown. Lacking one letterpress folding table in the main work. Browned throughout, as usual, some occasional smudges, a few tears along the folds of the folding tables, and some wormholes in the first two leaves, resulting in a small hole in the gutter of the title-page, otherwise internally still good. Binding soiled and with crudely restored spine. VD 17, 7:692678X & 39:120436C. Caillet 4035. Thorndike VIII, 481f. S. Skinner, Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy (1980).‎

‎Foerster Nehama & Gordon Ila‎

‎Exploring the Past IN HEBREW‎

‎Jerusalem: Israel MuseumYouth Wing 1972 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. Introduction to the archaeology of the Middle East in Hebrew. 94p. illus. some foldouts. Neat tight copy cover slightly scuffed Only ONE copy found in Worldcat . Israel Museum,Youth Wing paperback‎

Référence libraire : 042296

‎FOORD (Edward)‎

‎The Byzantine Empire. The rearguard of european civilization.‎

‎London, Black, 1911. Fort in-8 bradel pleine toile verte, pièce de titre basane bordeaux, XII-431 pp., 32 planches, 7 cartes. Index.‎

‎Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 7,15 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 14 €) (z C : 24 €)‎

Référence libraire : 555597

‎FORBIN Victor‎

‎Le "pipe-line" sous les murs de Ninive.‎

‎Couverture souple. Broché. 318 pages.‎

‎Livre. Editions Baudinière, 1934.‎

Référence libraire : 98863

‎Forbin, Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste.‎

‎Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1819.‎

‎Text vol. in 8vo and atlas in folio (670 x 503 mm). (4), 460 pp. (4), 65 pp. Half-titles in both vols.; 80 lithographed, sepia aquatint or engraved plates and plans, the 8 fine aquatints by Debucourt after Forbin, the lithographed subjects for G. Engelmann after Lecomte, Deseynes, Castellan, Carle, and Horace Vernet, Fragonard, Thiénon, Legros, Isabey and others, large folding engraved plan at the end of text vol. 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. First edition. Only 325 copies of this work were produced. "Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's 'Description de l'Egypte' or Denon's 'Voyage'" (Navari, Blackmer). Forbin succeeded Denon as director of museums in 1816 and was authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre (his son-in-law, Marcellus, expedited the acquisition of the recently discovered Venus de Milo). In August 1817 he began a year-long journey to the Levant accompanied by the artist Pierre Prévost and the engineer de Bellefonds. His journey took him to Melos, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Ephesus, Acre, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, and Thebes. - This set includes the frequently lacking 8vo text volume: this has the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bound at the end with a list of plates which were sold separately. The atlas volume repeats the text (entirely reset in-folio, sometimes found in a separate folio volume) and includes the magnificent, highly desirable plates (after Carle Vernet, Fragonard, Isabey, and Forbin himself, as well as Prevost), which show fine views of Greece, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Ramla, Gaza, and Egypt. - Occasional slight foxing, still a splendid copy from the library of the ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown. The Aboussouan copy (comprising both the folio and the octavo volume) commanded £20,000 at Sotheby's in 1993, while in 2002 the Atabey copy of the folio volume alone fetched £22,000. Atabey 447f. Blackmer 614. Aboussouan 338. Weber I, 68-70. Röhricht 1660. Tobler 144f. Colas 1089. Hiler 321. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 163. Brunet II, 1337. Graesse II, 614. Cf. Lipperheide Ma 16 (2nd ed.).‎

‎Forder, Rev. A.‎

‎Petra Perea Phoenicia‎

‎London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed. 1923. Hardcover. Maroon beveled cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Many sepia-tone photogravures of archaeological and historic sites and local Bedouin and other residents in the areas of modern Jordan and Lebanon that house the ancient lands of Petra Perea and Phoenicia. ; 112 pages . Marshall Brothers hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 36861

‎Forray, Iván / Heicke, Joseph.‎

‎Mekkai kalmár [Mecca tradesman]. Vienna, Reiffenstein & Bösch, [1850].‎

‎Hand-coloured lithograph (502 x 370 mm), some parts varnished with albumin, matted (620 x 478 mm). Colour lithograph by Joseph Heicke, showing a Hejaz merchant, based on a drawing by the Hungarian artist and traveller Iván Forray. - Some light duststaining and waterstaining.‎

‎Forster, Charles.‎

‎The Historical Geography of Arabia; or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Hadramaut. London, Duncan and Malcolm, 1844.‎

‎8vo. 2 vols. LXXXIII, (1), 357 pp. VI, 509, (1) pp. With two large folding frontispiece maps of the Arabian Peninsula (56 cm x 41 cm), a large folding chart of inscriptions, 1 engraved plate of inscriptions, and one further folding translation of the same inscription. Apparently never bound with the "vignette plate of Nakab el Hajar" supposed to face p. 335. Repairs to both maps. Only edition of this detailed study of place names, tribal geneaologies, and pre-Islamic inscriptions. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani). Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Gay 3570. Ghani 136. Brunet 19594. NYPL Arabia Coll. 166. OCLC 4892705.‎

‎FOSDICK, Harry Emerson.:‎

‎A Pilgrimage to Palestine.‎

‎New York:Macmillan1927. 2nd imp. Pp.16/332folding coloured map frontis. photo of Fosdick pasted to verso front covergift inscription to fep pencilled signatures to rear endpaper. Blue cloth gilt title to front spine slightly sunned. G. New York:Macmillan,1927. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 16598

‎Foster, Benjamin R and Karen P‎

‎Civilizations of Ancient Iraq‎

‎<p>Unread mint condition</p> Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : biblio262 ISBN : 0691137226 9780691137223

‎Fourier, Charles / Dain, Charles.‎

‎De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage [...]. (Extrait de La Phalange, Journal de l’École Sociétaire). Paris, au Bureau de la Phalange, 1836.‎

‎8vo. (4), 54 pp, (1 integral blank leaf). Purple wrappers. Extremely rare sole edition of these definitive statements on slavery by both Fourier and his disciple, the Guadeloupe-born créole lawyer Charles Dain. Both Fourier’s article (“Remède aux Divers Esclavages”, pp. 43-54) and Dain’s “De l’Abolition de l’Esclavage” had also appeared in the impossibly rare "Première Serie" of the journal La Phalange (1836-40). Giving up his legal career in Paris, Dain (1812-72) turned to Fourier and the proto-Communists and was elected Representative for Guadeloupe by the newly-emancipated slaves there in 1848. - “Charles Fourier denounced British apprenticeship [an intermediate solution for emancipated slaves] and the compensation for slave owners embedded in the parliamentary emancipation bill of 1833: ‘And the fruit of this gigantic donation? Nothing other than a vicious circle, as we see in England, where […] one finds […] legions of poor, both theoretical and real” (Jennings, French Anti-Slavery, p. 44). “As far as the indemnity was concerned, Fourier opposed the need for it from the very first words of his [Remède aux Divers Esclavages]. He believed it was madness to spend millions on freeing the slaves, as the English government had done and as the anglophiles among the French advocated […] On the other hand, for Fourier, slavery was the same kind of problem as poverty […] The cause was the excessive fragmentation of landholdings which prevented small landowners from supporting the costs needed to work the land productively” (Simona Pisanelli, Economic Thought and Institutional Change in France, p. 69). - Fourier (1772-1837) and Dain thus believed in a ‘gradualistic’ approach to emancipation and considered slavery as just one of many ‘servitudes’ inflicted upon humanity by corrupt and immoral social strictures. Here, Dain comments that “what we especially call slavery is only the culminating and pivotal point where all of the suffering of society comes together”. These concepts ultimately made their way to America, influencing Albert Brisbane and the American Associationists (cf. Guarnerip, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in 19th-Century America, pp. 252f.). - OCLC shows just a handful of copies worldwide, including just one in the US – at the George Washington University Law Library (an apparently physical copy noted on OCLC with 26 holdings is in fact a digital reproduction). As noted above, examples of the Première Serie of La Phalange (1836-40) are of the utmost rarity (we can find no copies in auction records of the last 50 years). - The present copy sounds very similar to (and may well be) the copy sold at Pierre Bergé in 2013 for €1,180 (“la plaquette est rare. Exemplaire en partie debroche, manques de papier au dos”). - Traces of old block-stitching in the gutter; pages clean and fresh. A good copy. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature II, 29695. Cf also Schmidt, Abolitionnistes de l'esclavage et réformateurs des colonies: 1820-1851, p. 199; Andrews, “Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation”, The Journal of Modern History 85 (2013), pp. 489-527.‎

‎Fox, Edward‎

‎Palestine Twilight‎

‎London: HarperCollins 2001. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Part historypart true-crime storyPalestine Twilight weaves the facts of Glock's murder with the history of biblical archaeologyand the brutal febrile politics of the intifada.277pp. HarperCollins hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 046168 ISBN : 0002556073 9780002556071

‎FRANKE (Herbert) [Hrsg.]‎

‎Akten des Vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München, 28. August bis 4. September 1957.‎

‎Wiesbaden, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1959. Fort in-8 rel. pleine toile bleue éditeur, dos lisse, titre et filets dorés au dos, XII-776 pp.-[8] ff. (catalogue), 21 planches d'ill. photogr. en noir, bibliographie, index.‎

‎Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 8,4 € -U.E. 10 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 33 €)‎

Référence libraire : 528106

‎FRANCO (Carlo)‎

‎Il regno di Lisimaco - Strutture amministrative e rapporti con le città.‎

‎Pisa, Giardini Editori E Stampatori, 1993. In-8 broché, 308 pp., texte en italien, bibliographie, index. Qq. notes manuscrites au crayon.‎

‎Collection : Biblioteca di studi antichi, diretta da Graziano Arrighetti, Emilio Gabba, Franco Montanari. 71. Dos et bordures un peu insolés, très bon ex. - Frais de port : -France 6,8 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 14 €) (z C : 24 €)‎

Référence libraire : 602009

‎Francis Robinson -‎

‎The Mughal Emperors : And the Islamic Dynasties of India Iran and Central Asia -‎

‎2007. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - Rulers from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries who all shared the Muslim persianate high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to India. . TR88090z hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 8090z ISBN : 0500251347 9780500251348

‎Francklin, William.‎

‎Observations made on a tour from Bengal to Persia in the years 1786-7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis; and other interesting events. London, T. Cadell, 1790.‎

‎8vo. VIII, 351, (1) pp. Handsome period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and red gilt morocco label. Period ink inscription on the first page of the Preface: "G. Matcham". With an autograph letter signed from Colonel Francklin to Major Moor, dated 1835, attached to the front endpaper. 4to. 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper. Second edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author. While the writing is not particularly clear, the letter is in very good condition. Most likely from the library of English explorer and Officer of East India Company George Matcham (1753-1833). Being William Francklin's older contemporary, Matcham served in the Company in 1771-85 and extensively travelled across the Near East and the Red Sea on the way from India to England and back (cf. ODNB). William Francklin (1763-1839) was an Officer of the East India Company and a prominent orientalist; member, and in later years, librarian of the council, of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was also a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. "A distinguished officer, Francklin also enjoyed considerable reputation as an oriental scholar. In 1786 he made a tour of Persia, in the course of which he lived at Shiraz for eight months as the close friend of a Persian family, and was thus able to write a fuller account of Persian customs than had before appeared. This was published as 'Observations Made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia' (Calcutta, 1788) and was translated into French in 1797" (ODNB). Francklin's account was also published in German the same year as our English edition. The first edition was published in Calcutta in 1788. "An important book in the growing interest of 'Orientalism.' There are numerous references to Hafez. (Francklin's book was read by Byron, among others). The book is also important because of the retelling of comments the author had heard about Karim Khan Zand. The author states eye-witnesses had told him Karim Rhan always rode at the head of his troops; his soldiers liked him; there was nothing great in him but he was considered a just man even though during the last year of his reign he committed some cruel acts. We are also informed that Karim Khan was a 'debaucher.' The author saw a full cycle of Ta'zie during his stay in Shiraz" (Ghani). "Describes Cochin, Tellicherry, Anjengo, Goa, Bombay etc." (Kaul Travels 858). - A very good, handsome copy. Howgego I, E8. Ghani 138. Cox I, 257. Henze II, 165.‎

‎Frank Gervasi‎

‎The Violent Decade -‎

‎1989. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1989/Gd. condition/639 pages - Discusses a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East 1935-1945. AI529240 hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29240

‎Frank, Katherine‎

‎A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1994. 8vo. ximaps399 pages illustrated. Inscription on fly leaf else very good in a very good price clipped dust jacket. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1994. Houghton Mifflin unknown‎

Référence libraire : 002419 ISBN : 0395546885 9780395546888

‎Frankel, Glenn‎

‎Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel‎

‎New York: Simon & Schuster Ltd 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Some light shelf wear to edges and corners of D/J. Simon & Schuster Ltd hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 040285 ISBN : 0671796496 9780671796495