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LEE (Sherman E.)
L'art oriental.
P., Sequoia, 1966. Fort in-4 rel. pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette ill. en couleurs et étui muet, 527 pp., 716 ill. photogr. en héliogravure, dont 60 en coul. à pleine page, bibliographie, index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 523125
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LEEMANS (W. F.)
Foreign Trade in the Old Babylonian Period as Revealed by Texts from Southern Mesopotamia.
Leiden, Brill, 1960 In-8 br., VI-196 pp., 2 cartes dépl. en noir, index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 592405
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Leemans, Conradus, orientalist and museum director (1809-1893).
6 autograph letters signed. Leiden, 1835-1844.
Mostly 4to, with one letter in-8vo. 17 pp. altogether: 1) Leiden, 29 December 1835. 4to. 3 pp. - 2) Leiden, 28 January 1838. 4to. 3 pp. - 3) Leiden, 19 February 1838. 4to. 3 pp. - 4) Leiden, 26 March 1838. 4to. 2 pp. - 5) Leiden 20 March 1843. 4to. 3 pp. - 6) Leiden, 20 May 1844. 8vo. 3 pp. To the antiquary and astronomer Dr John Lee (1783-1866) of Hartwell, concerning oriental manuscripts, the museum at Leiden, and other matters. Together six letters, the first in French, the remainder in English. They include discussion of a Coptic manuscript at Haarlem; Egyptian cylinders at Leiden; Leemans’ work at the Reuvens Library and his Leiden Museum responsibilities; Lee’s own museum and observatory at Hartwell; the recommendation of a language teacher seeking work in London named Abraham Claudius Verspyck and the sending of one of Lee’s manuscripts (82) to Leiden, amongst other matters. - Final page of each letter with penned address panel, postal markings and small tears from seal opening not affecting text, some negligible dusting along old folds, each with small "B.R.A" stamp (sold by British Records Association). In very good condition.
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Lees, G. Robinson
Life and Adventure Beyond Jordan
Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with decorated boards, sunned spine, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. A few spashes to rear only really visible when held to the light. 304pp. The author's account of his travels in Eastern Palestine and Syria after having become acquainted with the language and customs from his six year stay in Jerusalem. Well illustrated with photographs of his visit. Undated with presentation plate from 1921.
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LEESON (Francis)
Kama Shilpa. A study of indian sculpture depicting love in action.
Bombay, D.B. Taraporevala sons & Co, 1962. In-8 carré rel. pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette ill. en noir, 132 pp., frontispice, 96 ill. photogr. en noir dans le texte, glossaire, bibliographie, index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 528124
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LEGENTIL - Edme-François JOMARD - Michel Ange LANCRET
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Bybân el Molouk. Sujets mystérieux et détails de costumes, peints dans le cinquième tombeau des rois à l'est et dans d'autres tombeaux. (ANTIQUITES, volume II, planche 86)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 53.50 cm | une feuille
Riferimento per il libraio : 26094
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LEGENTIL - Edme-François JOMARD - Michel Ange LANCRET
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Bybân el Molouk. Sujets mystérieux et détails de costumes, peints dans le cinquième tombeau des rois à l'est et dans d'autres tombeaux. (ANTIQUITES, volume II, planche 86)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 53.50 cm | une feuille
Riferimento per il libraio : 32829
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LEGENTIL - LE ROY
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Bybân el Molouk. Tableau astronomique peint au plafond du premier tombeau des rois à l'ouest. (ANTIQUITES, volume II, planche 82)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 53.50 cm | une feuille
Riferimento per il libraio : 26090
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LEHNERT & LANDROCK:
Méditation sur les dunes / Promenade dans une oasis. - 2 belles reproductions.
‘Printed in Germany’, Vers 1930, 39.5 x 27.5 cm / 29 x 68.5 cm. Faux-plis et une petite déchirure (4 cm).
Riferimento per il libraio : 94587aaf
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LEJEAN Guillaume
Une nuit d'hiver dans l'Anti-Taurus. (1866). Article illustr? extrait du Tour du Monde.
Broch?. 23x31 cm. 6 pages. Couverture factice.
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LELAND Brevet Lt.-Col. F.W.
With the MT in Mesopotamia [Mechanised Transport]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates and large folding map; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes H&A, and detailed listing of MT units. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.222.
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LEMAIRE André
Le monde de la Bible
Les Arènes Les Arènes, 1999. In-4 relié cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette de 143 pages. Nombreuses photos. Très Bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 175522 ISBN : 291248507
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LEMERLE (Paul) [ss. la dir. de]
L'Emirat d'Aydin. Byzance et l'Occident. Recherches sur "La Geste d'Umur Pacha"
P. P.U.F., 1957. In-8 br., couv. illustrée, 276 pp, 3 cartes in-texte, 2 pl. h.-t., tableau chronologique, addenda, index général.
Riferimento per il libraio : 467595
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LENOIR (Paul)
Le Fayoum. Le Sinaï et Pétra. Expédition dans la moyenne Egypte et l'Arabie Pétrée sous la direction de J.L. Gérome.
Paris, Henri Plon, 1872. In-12, rel. post. demi-basane brune, dos à 4 nerfs, titre doré, tranches mouchetées, 332 pp., 13 gravures sur bois dont le front. et 3 à double pp.
Riferimento per il libraio : 595398
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LENOIR - Constantin SMITH (aqua forti)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Papyrus. Hiéroglyphes. Inscriptions et médailles. Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et coiffures copiées à Denderah. (ANTIQUITES, volume V, planche 49)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 53.50 x 71 cm | une feuille
Riferimento per il libraio : 26218
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LENORMANT (François)
Histoire des massacres de Syrie en 1860
Librairie de L. Hachette 1861, in-8 relié demi-toile verte gaufrée, XXIV-132 p. (très bon exemplaire) Rare étude sur les massacres de chrétiens au Liban au temps de Napoléon III, soulignant au passage la noble attitude d'Abd-el-Kader qui vola à leur secours ; elle a été reliée avec deux autres ouvrages, La France et la Saint-Barthélémy de M. G.-G. Soldan (Librairie de Ch. Meyrueis 1855, 147 p.) et "Après la paix Considérations sur le libéralisme et la guerre d'Orient" du comte Agénor de Gasparin (Dentu 1856, 211 p.).
Riferimento per il libraio : 51349
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LENORMANT (François);
Manuel d'Histoire Ancienne de l'ORIENT jusqu'aux guerres médiques.
Levy Paris 1869 1 vol. 3 vol. in-12 de XXV 557 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata), 2 ff.n.ch. 490 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata) et 2 ff.n.ch. 783 pp., demi-percaline de l'époque, dos lisse, pièces de titre.
Riferimento per il libraio : 15345
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Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).
Historiale description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde. Lyon, Jean Temporal, 1556.
Folio (305 x 200 mm). Vol. 1 (of 2) only. (40), 495, (23) pp. Wood-engraved title border, double-page woodcut map of Africa, including Arabia, and 26 illustrations, all but one coloured by a contemporary hand. 18th c. mottled calf with giltstamped red label to fully gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. Scarce first French edition of the famous description of Islamic Africa and Arabia, with the illustrations coloured by a contemporary hand; the first collection of voyages printed in France. The book was originally written in Arabic around 1526 by the Berber Andalusi geographer and traveller al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi (ca. 1494-ca. 1554), known in the West as Johannes Leo Africanus, translated into Italian by the author and first published in Venice in 1550. The Arabian Peninsula is depicted nearly complete on the double-page woodcut map and is treated extensively in the first chapter, which contains information on its people, cities, geography, religion, customs, costumes, etc. Illustrations include Arabian camels and veiled women. - Johannes Leo took his Christian name from his sponsor Pope Leo X when he converted to Christianity after his capture in 1520. While still very young he began to travel widely in the Barbary States; in 1513 he appears to have started on his famous Sudan and Sahara journeys (1513-15). In 1516-17 he travelled to Constantinople, probably visiting Egypt on the way; it is more uncertain when he visited Arabias, Armenia and Tartary. His three Egyptian journeys, immediately after the Turkish conquest, all probably fell between 1517 and 1520; on one of these he ascended the Nile from Cairo to Aswan. - Binding somewhat rubbed; spine head and hinges professionally repaired. Repairs to lower margin of first two leaves (very slight loss of title border), some toning and soiling, water- and inkstains. Very occasional marginal tears or worming. Early marginalia and ink ownerships on title page ("Pacauld" and "Ex Bibliotheca Joh. Huyseri", i. e. Johann Huyser). No other auction record of a coloured copy in RBH or ABPC. Adams L 482. Howgego A17. Gay 258. USTC 1136. Sabin 40044.
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Leonard Wolf -
The Passion of Israel -
1970. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub. 1970/Gd. condition/406 pages - Telling their own stories are the people of Israel. AT22829z hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 2829z
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Leonard, Arthur Glyn.
The Camel. Its Uses and Management. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1894.
VII, (1), 335, (1) pp. Original blindstamped maroon cloth, title and author in gilt on front board and spine; top edge gilt. 8vo. First edition. Chapters include characteristics and temperament, species, breeding, feeding, loading, marching, ailments, equipment, purchasing, etc. - Professional repairs. OCLC 254041139.
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LEPSIUS (Johannes)
Rapport secret sur les massacres d'Arménie.
Beirut, Hamazkaine Press, 1980. In-8, broché, couv. rempliée, XV, 373 pp., frontispice et carte en noir. Bibliogr.
Riferimento per il libraio : 555954
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Lepsius, [Karl] R[ichard].
Das allgemeine linguistische Alphabet. Berlin, Hertz, 1855.
Large 4to. (4), 64 pp., partly printed in red and black. Modern brown half cloth. First edition. - Rare work by the Egyptologist and linguist Carl R. Lepsius (1810-84), leader of the 1842/45 Prussian expedition to Egypt. In this treatise, he presented what must be regarded as one of the earliest attempts at a standardised phonetic alphabet for all languages - a function today fulfilled by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which is still based primarily on the Latin alphabet. Among the many alphabetical systems which Lepsius takes into account are also Egyptian hieroglyphs as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Sanscrit, Bengali, Armenian, Malay, Chinese, etc. - Somewhat browned and brownstained throughout with a noticeable waterstain. Some edge flaws. Title page shows library stamp of the Gymnasium of Venray, Netherlands. Kayser XIV, 24.
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LEROY (Jean)
La tragédie cypriote.
Oarusn Ed. Crepubli, 1956. In-8, fascicule agrafé, 30 pp.
Riferimento per il libraio : 604770
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LES CAHIERS DE L'HISTOIRE
Les Cahiers de l'histoire N° 70 : Israël et pays arabes dans le Moyen-Orient depuis 1948.
Couverture souple. Revue. 160 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 72176
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LES CAHIERS DE L'HISTOIRE
Les Cahiers de l'histoire N° 70 : Israël et pays arabes dans le Moyen-Orient depuis 1948.
Couverture souple. Revue. 160 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 106083
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LESCURE Jean Claude
Le Moyen Orient de 1876 à 1980
Ellipses Ellipses 2016. Capes/Agrégation. In-8 broché, 312 pages. Très bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 192186
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Letellier, L.-Victor.
Vocabulaire Oriental. Français-Italien, Arabe, Turc et Grec. Composé pour la conversation usuelle, et dans lequel se trouve figurée la prononciation a l'aide des lettres françaises. Paris, chez l’auteur, 1838.
Oblong 8vo. LVI, 236 pp. Full brown calf, richly giltstamped on both covers. All edges gilt. White moirée endpapers. Splendidly bound dictionary of French and Italian words with their counterparts in Arabic, Turkish, and Modern Greek, all in Roman transliteration. Contains brief introductions to the grammar of the various languages. Written for the use of the French army in Northern Africa and the Levant as well as for travellers and tradesmen throughout the eastern Mediterranean. - Pencil note "Relie au Caire" to flyleaf. Some browning throughout, title page and preface as well as final leaves show more pronounced foxing. Bookplate of Gaetano Querci on pastedown; old collection stamps on half-title and title page. Not in Zaunmüller or Vater/Jülg.
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Leusden, Johannes.
Scholae Syriacae libri tres. Una cum dissertatione de literis & linguae Samaritanorum. Utrecht, Meinard à Dreunen, 1688.
8vo. (24), 255, (1) pp. Contemporary calf with gilt spine; leading edges gilt. All edges sprinkled in red. First edition of this Syriac textbook, including one of the earliest investigations of the Samararitan language and script. "It is the least developed among the Semitic languages, closest to Syriac, but coarser, even less sophisticated. The Samaritan population has greatly dwindled; their capital is Nablus in Palestine, but there are also some in Damascus, Cairo, Acre and other places. Their common language is Arabic" (cf. Vater/J.). The Utrecht philologian J. Leusden (1624-99) studied philosophy in his hometown, then focused on theology and the oriental languages. He was ordained as a preacher in 1649. He subsequently moved to Amsterdam, where he took instruction in Hebrew and Talmudic scholarship from various Jewish teachers, including one of Arabian descent, and thus acquired such learning that he succeeded to the Utrecht chair of Hebrew and Jewish Antiquities in 1651 (cf. Jöcher 2409). - Binding somewhat rubbed. Ownership "J. Venturi" (dated 1805) on title page. Vater/Jülg 323. Jöcher II, 2410. Jöcher/Adelung III, 1728, 4.
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Levati Ambrogio
Storia degli Arabi compilata dal Prof. Ambrogio Levati sulle opere del Marigny, del Gibbon, dell'Andres e del Rampoldi e pubblicata in continuazione della storia universale del Sig. Conte di Segur.
(Storia - Medio Oriente - Asia - Islam) Tre volumi in 16°, legatura coeva in mezza pelle marrone, al dorso titoli, filetti e fregi impressi in oro, carta marmorizzata ai piatti, pp. 207,(1) ; 216 ; 238,(2), con complessive 9 tavole incise in rame fuori testo. Opera in ottimo stato.
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Levey, Martin
The Algebra of Abu Kamil Kitab fi al-jabr wa' l-muqabala in a Commentary By Mordecai Finzi
1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press 1966 V.Good 226 pp. Hebrew Text Translation and Commentary with Special Reference to the Arabic Text. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 009376
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LEWIS Bernard
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0195173368 . First printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 36307 ISBN : 0195173368 9780195173369
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LEWIS (Bernard).
Histoire du Moyen-Orient. Deux mille ans d'histoire de la naissance du christiannisme à nos jours.
Albin Michel, 1996, in-8°, 482 pp, traduit de l'anglais, 24 pl. de gravures et photos hors texte, 7 cartes, chronologie, biblio, index, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 70851
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LEWIS (Bernard).
The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years.
New York, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1997, in-8°, xii-433 pp, 16 pl. de gravures et photos hors texte, 7 cartes, chronologie, biblio, index, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais
Riferimento per il libraio : 126802
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LEWIS Bernard
Juifs en terre d'Islam.
Couverture souple. Broché. 260 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 147215
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LEWIS Bernard
Les arabes dans l'histoire.
Couverture souple. Broché. 258 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 202519
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LEWIS Bernard
Races et couleurs en pays d'Islam
Payot Paris, Payot, 1982. In-8 broché de 163 pages illustrées de planches hors-texte. Collection Aux origines de notre temps. Bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 193630
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LEWIS Bernard
Races et esclavage au proche-orient
Gallimard Paris, Gallimard, 1993. In-8 broché de 265 pages illustrées de planches couleurs hors-texte. Collection Bibliothèque des Histoires; Dans cette étude concise mais d'une grande densité documentaire, Bernard Lewis s'attaque à un sujet longtemps occulté ou idéalisé : l'esclavage et les préjugés de couleur dans les sociétés islamiques. Bernard Lewis fut l'un des plus grands spécialistes occidentaux du Moyen-Orient, professeur à la School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) de Londres puis à l'Université de Princeton. Si ses analyses géopolitiques tardives ont suscité d'intenses débats intellectuels (notamment sa controverse célèbre avec Edward Said), ses travaux d'historien de l'Empire ottoman et de l'Islam médiéval, basés sur une maîtrise absolue des archives en turc, arabe et persan, demeurent d'une grande valeur académique. Bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 193629 ISBN : 2070727408
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LEWIS BERNARD.
Il Medio Oriente. Duemila anni di storia.
In 8°, tutta tela editoriale con sovracoperta illustrata, pp. (6), 398, illustrato, collana "La storia", nel coplesso ottimo esemplare. (MAG ZC2) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
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LEWIS Bernard.
Le molte identità del Medio Oriente.
In-8°, pp. 157. Bross. edit. illustrata.
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LEWIS BERNARD.
Le molte identità del Medio Oriente.
In 8°, br. edit. ill., pp. 157,(11); coll. "Intersezioni. 215"; ottimo es.. (x054)
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Lewis, Bernard
The Middle East; 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day.
London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing in U.K. -- SIGNED inscribed to Charles Issawi who wrote many books on the Middle East "old friend good friend" and dated 22-11-95. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus cover and text block are bumped; marginal short lines throughout with very good dust jacket. ISBN 0297813455 Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 33519 ISBN : 0297813455 9780297813453
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LIBONIS L.
Le style d'Orient. Assyrien, persan, ph?nicien. 12 planches. Sans date.
Broch?. 4 pages. 22x28 cm. Mouillure ? la couverture.
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LIGETI (Louis) [Ed.]
Studia Turcica.
Budapest, Akadémiai Kiado, 1971. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile noire, titre blanc au dos, 498 pp., qq. fac-sim. h.-t.
Riferimento per il libraio : 517137
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Liguori, Alfonso Maria de' (li-Alfunsiyus Likuri).
[Kitab al-Isti'dad lil-mawt.] Apparecchio alla morte ossia considerazioni sulle massime eterne. Utili a tutti per meditare ed ai sacerdoti per predicare. Rome, Francesco Bourliè, 1829.
Large 8vo. VIII, 488 pp. With an engraved frontispiece captioned in Arabic. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. First Arabic edition of this classic ascetical work by Saint Alphonse de Liguori (1696-1787), first published in Italian in 1758 and translated by Maksimus ibn Jurjis Mazlum, archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo. Printed in Arabic throughout save for the preliminary matter. A second Arabic edition was prepared in 1851 by the Franciscans of Jerusalem. - Old red library stamp of the Roman Jesuit College on the title page; handwritten ownership on flyleaf opposite: "Dono del medesimo autore alla Bibl. degli scol. teol. del Coll. Rom.". Some occasional brownstaining and loosening of quires, still a very good copy. Only three copies known in libraries internationally (Yale; BSB Munich; Naples). OCLC 702211341. ICCU NAPE\032122.
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Liguori, Alfonso Maria de' (li-Alfunsiyus Likuri).
Libro di meditazioni sopra le massime eterne e la passione di Gesù Cristo per ciascun giorno della settimana [...]. Tradotto dall' Italiano in idioma Arabo [...]. Rome, nella stamperia della Sagra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1827.
8vo. 288 pp. Contemporary mottled full calf with giltstamped spine. All edges red. Very rare, sole Arabic edition of the Meditations on the Passion of the Christ written by Saint Alphonse de Liguori (1696-1787) and translated by Maksimus ibn Jurjis Mazlum, archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo. Printed in Arabic throughout save for the title page. - Old library stamp from Liège (Belgium) under the approbation opposite the title: "Congreg. Missiona. Oblat. M.U. Domus Stud. Leodiensis". Some occasional brownstaining and loosening of quires, still a very good copy. Only three copies known in libraries internationally (Poitiers BU Droit-lettres; Montecassino; Biblioteca Palatina Parma). OCLC 494549222. ICCU RMLE\026783.
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Lincke, Arthur.
Vom Wiener Orientalisten-Congress 27. September bis 2. October 1886. Ein Gedenkblatt. Dresden, Zahn & Jaensch, 1887.
8vo. 66 SS. Halbleinenband der Zeit (Bibliotheksbindung). Ausführlicher Bericht über den mehrtägigen Orientalisten-Kongress an der Universität Wien. Lincke gibt die wissenschaftlichen Verhandlungen der einzelnen Sektionen wieder und beschreibt auch das gesellige Beisammensein im Anschluss. - Rundstempel des Orientalischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig (Arabisch-Islamische Abteilung) am Titel; alte Bibliothekssignaturen.
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LINGAY (J.)
Le Monde photographié : La ville de Jérusalem.
1863 br. plaq. in-12, 36pp., 1 photo montée en frontispice, P. Pilippart 1863
Riferimento per il libraio : 13287
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Literary Society of Bombay.
Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819-1823.
4to. 3 vols. XXXVIII, 319 (but: 337), (1) pp. VIII, 379, (1) pp. XII, 556 pp. With 50 (instead of 51) engraved plates and maps (9 [instead of 10] of which folding), 2 in original hand colour. Contemporary giltstamped full calf with giltstamped spine-labels. First edition: a scarce series of research papers of one of the leading learned societies of the 19th century, focusing on India and Persia. Among the most prominent authors are James Mackintosh, George Staunton, Henry Salt and Vans Kennedy. The "Transactions" include an English translation of the fifth sermon of Saadi, a discussion of the Akhlaq-i Nasiri, the account of a journey from al-Qatif to Yanbu, a description of the character of Muhammad, and an account on the deciphering of cuneiform, as well as papers on antiquities and archaeology, literature, religion, linguistics, geology, history, current affairs, and anthropology. The illustrations depict mainly archaeological finds and excavation sites, including the caves in Salsette and the excavations at Elephantana, as well as architectural ornamentation, showing the Temple of Boro-Budor, cuneiform writing, and "a curious case in Arabian surgery" involving a wounded arm. - Provenance: "Ochterlony" bookplate to front pastedown of volume II, most likely that of David Ochterlony (1758-1825), commander of the British East India Company and British Resident at the Mughal Court in Delhi. Later obtained by the Schlagintweit brothers, eminent German 19th century scientists and explorers (their library blindstamps "Ex Bibliotheca Schlagintweit" to title-pages). Last in the collection of Prince Konrad of Bavaria (1883-1963), a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach (his bookplate to pastedowns of two volumes and front free endpaper of the other, his library stamp to half-titles). - Bindings professionally restored; vols. I and II lacking title-labels. Tears in gutter of one folding plate repaired with old adhesive tape (not touching image). Some minor spotting, offsetting of plates and text; light marginal dampstaining to a portion of volume two. A scarce work with fine provenance. OCLC 977182244.
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Lithgow, William.
Nineteen Years Travels through the most Eminent Places in the Habitable World. London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682.
(8), 481, (7) pp. With woodcut frontispiece and 6 woodcut plates, all folding. Later brown sheepskin with giltstamped red spine label. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. Somewhat later edition of this famous work that saw twelve editions by 1814, originally published under the title "The total discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene years travayles, from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica" in 1632; a first draft had appeared in 1614. No copy of this 1682 edition at auction in 35 years. - Lithgow, a Scot, travelled extensively throughout the Levant in three journeys between 1610 and 1622, visiting Greece, Constantinople and the Eastern Mediterranean from 1610-13; North Africa and Italy from 1614-19; and Spain from 1619-21. "He travelled mostly on foot and had a greater knowledge of the interior of the countries he visited than most travellers of this period. He provides interesting details of the society, men, and manners he observed" (Blackmer). Lithgow's work is "probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, a pigeon post between Aleppo and Bagdad, the long Turkish tobacco-pipes, artificial incubation, and the importation (since about 1550) of currants from Zante to England" (DNB). - Frontispiece laid down. Several minor defects to paper, pre-dating the printing process, to fols. G2, Aa1, Ee3, and Hh5 (hence slight loss to individual letters). Trimmed rather closely, with some headlines shaved. Generally a nice, clean copy. Wing L2541. DNB 33, 361. OCLC 12646376. ESTC (RLIN) R028791. Cf. Blackmer 1021 (1640 second ed. only). Not in Howgego.
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LITTMANN (Enno), HOFNER (Maria).
The Library of Enno Littmann, 1875-1958. Professor of oriental languages at the University of Tübingen.
Leiden Brill 1959 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, XXIV + 355 pp. (rousseurs à la couverture), quelques reproductions en noir. Catalogue en anglais, introduction en allemand. Bien complet de la liste des prix (fascicule de 22 pp agrafées).
Riferimento per il libraio : 107697
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