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Lari, Muhi al-Din.
Futuh al-Haramayn [Description of the Holy Cities]. [India or Persia, late 19th or early 20th century].
Royal folio (380 x 506 mm). Persian manuscript on paper. 140 pp., 9 lines in 2 columns to the page, first leaf and final 3 pp. blank save for the borders. Large Nasta'liq calligraphy in black ink, chapter headings in red. Text enclosed within blue, black, gilt and red borders. Title in red to fol. 2r, large 'unwan headpiece on fol. 2v, column separator decorated with gilt floral designs on fols. 2v-3r, 2 meticulous gilt and coloured colophon decoration on fol. 69r. With a total of 18 coloured illustrations of the Holy Sites (7 full-page, the remainder half-page or larger). Splendidly ornamented embroidered cloth binding with pink morocco edges and pastedowns and fore-edge flap. Monumental manuscript copy of the first Islamic guidebook for the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, which Muhi al-Din Lari (d. 1526/27) completed in India in 1505/06. The book provides instructions on the Hajj pilgrimage rituals and descriptions of important sites that Muslim pilgrims can visit, including of the Kaaba in Mecca. Whilst no early illustrated Indian copies are known, the work began to be widely copied with often lavish illustrations from the later 16th century onwards, mostly in in Ottoman Turkey. - The 18 large-scale illuminations in the present manuscript show the holy sites, locations between Medina and Mecca, and the various stages of the Hajj. The illustration of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca shows the Kaaba, the areas assigned for worship by the various branches of Islam, as well as the doors to the sanctum, minarets, and two rows of colonnades. - In excellent state of preservation throughout.
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LASSUS (Jean)
L'illustration byzantine du livre des Rois. Vaticanus Graecus 333.
Paris, Librairie Klincksiech, 1973. In-4°, cartonnage imprimé d'édition, 84pp, 36 planches dont 2 en couleurs, réunissant 126 illustrations photographiques.
Bookseller reference : 528026
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Lassner, Jacob
The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule
Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1980. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 328 1 pages indexed. Hardcover with a slate-blue dust jacket now in mylar. The spine of the jacket is slightly faded. Book is sound and clean. <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 027515
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Latham, Simon.
Latham's faulconry, or The faulcons lure and cure: in two books. The first concerning the ordering and training up of all hawks in generall; especially the haggard faulcon-gentle. The second, teaching approved medicines for the cure of all diseases in them. London, Richard Hodgkinson for Thomas Rooks, 1658.
Small 8vo. 2 parts in one volume. (34), 176; (24), 144, (8) pp. With woodcut frontispiece of "The Haggard Faulcon" instead of the additional engraved title-page found in some copies. Second title with woodcut vignette of a gentleman riding his horse with his hawk on his arm. Second part with woodcuts in text, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. 19th century calf, prettily gilt. Marbled endpapers. Pocket-sized reissue of Latham's books on falconry, the former of which had first appeared in 1614. "Latham dedicated this, his first book of Falconry, to Sir Thomas Monson (or Munson, as he phonetically spells the name), Baronet, Master of his Maiestie's Armory, and Master of the Hawkes to his Highnesse" (Harting, p. 15). The second part is Latham's "New and Second Book of Faulconry", first published in 1618 and "usually bound up with the first" (Harting, p. 16). "Ordering and training of all hawks in general and especially the haggard falcon gentle. Approved medicines for the cure of all their difficulties. A very rare and valuable work" (USAF Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series No. 38: Falconry, p. 14). The frontispiece depicts tools of the falconer's trade. - Some spotting and staining throughout; lacking final blank. Lower corner of fol. A2 in the first part torn with slight loss of text (professionally remargined). From the personal collection of the gentleman and Knightsbridge manuscript dealer Myles Colbeck Radford (1897-1963) with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Harting 20 (note). Souhart 285 (note). Wing L568 & L569. OCLC 228729034. Cf. Schwerdt I, 302.
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LAUFER (Paul)
Au Pays du Christ.
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Zahn, (1897) Gr.in-4°, XX-476p. Reliure pleine percaline illustrée d'éditeur, tête dorée.
Bookseller reference : 36443
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Laurent Samuel
L'Etat islamique roganigramme financements filières
SEUIL 2014 192 pages 15x2 5x22 5cm. 2014. Broché. 192 pages. Ouvrage d'analyse sur l'organisation État islamique examinant ses origines son développement son idéologie et son impact géopolitique au Moyen-Orient et dans le monde
Bookseller reference : 4541 ISBN : 2021227502
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LAURENS, Henry:
Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient. L’Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours.
Armand Colin, 2005, gr. in-8vo, 492 p., brochure originale.
Bookseller reference : 118157aaf
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Lau, Robert Julius
Old Babylonian Temple Records
New York: Columbia University Press 1906. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean tanned pages. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear wear to extremities of spine. ; Contents: dates receipts expense lists pay lists income lists lists of animals lists of officials and employees account lists catalogue sign list and glossary many plates. ; Columbia University Oriental Studies; Ex-Library; Vol. 3; 9.75" tall. Columbia University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5180067
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LAUFER (Paul)
Au Pays du Christ.
Gr.In-4, XX-476p. Récit de voyage et de pélerinage fait en Egypte et à Jérusalem. Illustré de 112 compositions et vignettes dans le texte. Préface de M. Ernest Favre. Bel exemplaire.
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Launay, [Victor] Marie de / Montani Effendi.
[Usul-i mimari-î Osmanî]. L’Architecture Ottomane. Ouvrage autorisé par Iradé Impérial et publie sous le patronage de Son Excellence Edhem Pacha, Ministre des Travaux Publics, Président de la Commision Imperiale Ottomane pour L'Exposition Universelle de 1873, à Vienne. / Die Ottomanische Baukunst [...]. Constantinople, Imprimerie et Lithographie Centrales / Pascal Sebah, 1873.
Folio (390 x 518 mm). VII, (1), 81, (4), 82-86, (2) pp.; 58 pp. With 190 lithographed plates (14 in colour). Modern full black morocco gilt, spine in six compartments gilt, remains of original wrapper cover title inset within lower cover. First and only edition of "the earliest comprehensive study on the history and theory of Ottoman architecture" (Ersoy, p. 117). Only a few copies of this rare work, produced to the most exacting standards of the day, appear to have been printed. It was produced under the patronage of Edhem Pasha, president of the Imperial Ottoman Commission for the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. The text (in German and French, followed by Turkish) consists of a series of monographs. The entire work was "prepared [...] by a diverse group of artists, architects, and bureaucrats who had close professional ties with the palace. The text begins with a lengthy historical overview that embodies a pioneering attempt to define and represent the entire Ottoman architectural past according to the norms of modern historiography [...] The editor of the whole volume, and the author of a substantial portion of the original text, was the amateur historian and artist Victor Marie de Launay, a 'naturalized' Frenchman who held a secretarial position in the Ministry of Trade and Public Works [...] With a keen scholarly interest in architecture, art, and traditional crafts, Marie de Launay, throughout his lengthy bureaucratic career in the imperial capital, was deeply involved in the representation of the Ottoman state in the world expositions [...] The expertly crafted plates that supplement the text of the 'Usul' include plans, elevations, and section of various Ottoman buildings as well as a rich panoply of decorative details and ornamental patterns, all meticulously depicted in accordance with the academic standards of the Beaux-Arts model [...] Accompanying the monochrome illustrations are fourteen chromolithographic plates (printed in the Sébah studios in Istanbul), skillfully drafted with vibrant and sharply delineated colors. In the superior technical quality and graphic precision of its illustrations, the 'Usul' is duly comparable to its highly acclaimed European counterparts, such as Owen Jones's 'The Grammar of Ornament' (London, 1956), Auguste Racinet's 'L'ornement polychrome' (Paris, 1869), or Jules Bourgoin's 'Les arts arabes' (Paris, 1873). Thus, leaving aside the intellectual scope of its text, the 'Usul' must be considered an artistic specimen in and of itself, conceived as a unique showcase of Ottoman technical competence in the art of publishing" (ibid., p. 117-120). The set is not infrequently encountered incomplete: even the Blackmer copy lacked a plate, and that of William Morris (now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Library) lacked three. - Occasional slight brownstaining (not concerning plates), but entirely complete and finely bound to style. Blackmer 956. OCLC 5465203. A. Ersoy, "Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period", in: J. Bailey et al. (ed.), History and Ideology [Leiden 2007], p. 117ff. Not in Atabey.
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Laura K. Egendorf
Anti-Semitism -
1999. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1999/Gd.condition/109 pages - Focuses on a wide range of viewpoints into a controversial issue provides an in depth discussion. TE834732 paperback
Bookseller reference : 34732
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Lauterpacht, E. (edited by)
THE SUEZ CANAL SETTLEMENT
New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc 1960. HC. good light brown cloth hardcover. A Selection of Documents relating to the Settlement of the Suez Canal Dispute the Clearance of the Suez Canal and the Settlement of Disputes between the United Kingdom France and the United Arab Republic October 1956-March 1959. 82pp. Frederick A. Praeger Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS026194I
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Lauthier, [Pierre-Jean-Baptiste], French lawyer (fl. 1694-1718).
Autograph letter signed ("Lauthier"). Paris, 16. II. 1715.
4to. 3½ pp. on bifolium with integral address panel. A first-hand account of the sensational entry of Mohamed Reza Bey, the Persian ambassador who visited Paris for six months beginning 7 February 1715. Adressed to Monsieur de Gallice, councillor of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence, for delivery to the Parliament's Advocate General, Gaspard de Gueidan (1688-1767), the letter describes the ambassador's arrival, his reception (which is likened to that of a Pope), and the craze he creates among the onlookers, who sing, dance, and stare at him as at a strange animal: "Souffrez, mon charmans magistrats, que je vous presente une morale que je ne sais guere [...] Vous sçavrez, mon cher seigneur, que tout Paris est devenu mamamouchi depuis l'arrivée du seigneur Mehemet Rizabeek en ce pays cy. Cet ambassadeur de Sophi s'est réjouï comme un Pape à nos dépens. Il y avait toujours cinq ou six cent carrosses du monde qui l'allaient voir, comme un animal rare; et Son Excellence Persanne a fait chanter et danser nos dames devant luy, comme des marionnettes qui ne venoient là que pour le divertir. Maintenant il occupe la cour aprez avoir amusé la ville et s'en être amusé. Car on veut le recevoir à son audience avec une magnificence extraordinaire. Le Roy a fait dresser un trone au bout de la grande gallerie. Sa Majesté aura pour huit millions de pierreries sur ses habits [...]; et toute la cour à proportion sera habillée de ce joly coup là. Jamais les marchands d'étoffes d'or et de galons ni les brodeurs n'ont été si occupés [...] Il est vray que le tout se fait à crédit. Mais les gens de qualité sçavent trop bien leurs privileges, pour s'aviser de déroger en payant leurs dettes; cela est du dernier bourgeois. Aussy je vous assure que jamais la cour n'a été autant de qualité [...] Il faut espérer qu'aprèz ce bel oiseau de Perse, il viendra quelque autre amusette au peuple de Paris [...] Je vous avoueray bonnement que j'ay eu la curiosité de voir son entrée dans Paris, afin de l'étudier. Heureusement, il fit une pluye continuelle ce jour là! De sorte que Son Excellence se mit presque en negligé et que Sa Magnificence fut des plus minces, et je trouvay que cela ne valoit pas la façon de ma curiosité. Je ne fut pas le seul pris pour dupes tout Paris y fut trompé [...]". - The ambassador Mohamed Reza Bey (Mehmet Riza Beg) had been chosen for the mission by the Shah of Persia, Sultan Husayn, and travelled with a grand entourage, as befitted the diplomat of a mighty empire. He was solemnly received in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on 19 February 1715 with one of the most lavish ceremonies of the final months of the reign of Louis XIV. During his stay he conducted negotiations towards establishing trade treaties between Persia and France, and conferred with the French on possible joint military operations against the Ottoman Empire. The ambassador's exotic personage inspired the French imagination to create a whole artistic and literary current, the most lasting product of which are Montesquieu's "Lettres Persanes" (1725). - The lawyer Pierre Lauthier, a celebrated orator in his day, was the son of the Aix-based medical writer Honoré Maria Lauthier. Although most bibliographies credit the latter with the biographical preface to Joseph de Tournefort's posthumously published "Voyage into the Levant" (simply signed "Lauthier"), it is not unlikely that Pierre, with his penchant for the exotic, is the actual author of the Life of that famous Aix-born botanist and Middle East traveller (cf. Wellcome III, 458). - Removed from a registry, with traces of mounting along the left edge of p. 1. Traces of oribial folds; slight edge defects, some from removal of the seal, but well preserved on the whole.
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Lavie Smadar
The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule
Univ. of California Press 1990. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Univ. of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010580 ISBN : 0520068807 9780520068803
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Lavie, Smadar
The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule
Berkeley: Univ of California Pr. Trade soft cover. Published Berkeley: Univ of California Pr. 1990. 8vo. x398 pp. illus. Few minor spots to edges. Very good clean tight. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1990. Univ of California Pr. paperback
Bookseller reference : 002793 ISBN : 0520075528 9780520075528
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Lawrence Freedman
A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East
London: Phoenix 2009. Paperback. Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Small plain label inside cover. Phoenix paperback
Bookseller reference : 052112 ISBN : 0753825880 9780753825884
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lawrence t.e.
La rivolta nel deserto..
In 16°, leg. mz. pergamena, superlibros, timbri ex libris e firma al front., pp XVI, 400, pp.nn 2 con pubblicità edit.
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LAWRENCE THOMAS EDWARD
RIVOLTA NEL DESERTO (LA)
Traduzione: Cajumi Arrigo . Pagine: 400 . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Altra copia del 1934 con ritagli di giornali in brossura . Note epoca: XI
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Lawrence, T. E.
Revolt in the Desert
<p>London: Folio Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 1131223616 . Still in shrink wrap. Hardcover in slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Folio Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61250 ISBN : 1131223616 9781131223612
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Lawrence, T. E.
Revolt in the Desert
NY: George H. Doran Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and worn owner name on front free . endpaper pages toned. 1927. First American Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown decorative cloth. Illustrated endpapers. 16 black and white plates. Folding map of Arabian Desert at rear has two inch tear. Stated first printing in America March 1927 on copyright page. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 335 pages . George H. Doran Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41428
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Lawrence, T. E.
REVOLT IN THE DESERT.
pp. xvi, 335 + Plus Portrait Frontis, Folding map and full page portrait plates. Pictorial endpapers. Bookseller's label. Inked ownership. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding, lettered and decorated in black. Spine slightly soiled. Hardbound. First American Edition. Very good. ISLAM BOX 2
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Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).
Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, 15. X. 1924.
8vo. 2 pp. With autogr. envelope. Includes TDS by G. E. B. Bromley-Martin, of the Bank of Liverpool and Martin, London (dated 22 Dec. 1924). To Whitney H. Shepardson of New York, who had inquired as to how he might obtain a copy of the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" when the book was finally published: "The Prophet has sent me on your letter, with instructions to deal with it: - and I'm puzzled. Really you know you are foolish to want a copy. It's a thirty guinea book, of which so many copies are being sold as will meet the printing bills (about 120 copies perhaps) with some off-prints of the unadorned text for the twenty or thirty fellows who shared the campaign with me. I can't give them 30-guinea presents: they can't buy 30-guinea books. So I want the subscribers to pay for my generosity in giving them free copies. The prime cost lies in the pictures (about 60, many in colour, at 10/- a print!) and the pictures are only an unjustifiable whim of mine. They have been done by British artists whom I liked, + who would work for me. Such a luxury book is for the idle rich. Mrs. Lamont is getting one. Huntingdon [!] + Pierpont Morgan aren't...! ... Do you feel justified in chucking away so much on an amateur production? The writing is pretentious, dull, hysterical, egotistical, + preternaturally long. No human being has ever been to the end of it [the 335,000 word ms.]. They return it, thumbed to about half way, with pretty speeches. So long as I hold it secret, the sight of it is a boast, so long it will be praised. Seriously, it isn't any earthly good. It costs as I have said, may be a year yet in printing, + is horrible in parts. Eleanor (beg her pardon, but that's her only possible name. The proper ones only indicate her wayward choice of parents etc.) would be sick over it. The thing will not be reprinted entire in my life-time: you suggest 'for a long time.' ... but the prospect isn't pleasing. There will be an American Edition, to secure copyright. Doubleday, probably. He has made a reasonable estimate. It would be printed at my expense, two copies for the Library of Congress, or whatever the show is, + eight for sale: + the sale price will be prohibitive, so that they will never sell, + the edition will never be exhausted, + no one may pirate! I suggest 10,000 dollars, but F.N.D. hasn't yet considered what is above-high-water-mark in U.S.A. Tell me, please, if you are knowing! If despite all faults (my most honest dissuasion puts people on sometimes!) you want a copy: then you'll have to send fifteen guineas, half price - E. will know the size of the extinct coin - to: Manager / Bank of Liverpool + Martins / 68 Lombard St. / London, E.C.3, payable to TE Lawrence, + 'Seven Pillars account'. Balance when you get the book. Let me strongly urge you not to. I have 90 subscribers, so there is no urgency - on the point of helping lame dogs! [...]". - When the book finally appeared in 1926, the cost of each copy to Lawrence was triple the selling price, and it was not until the fourth reprint of the 1927 abridgement "Revolt in the Desert" that his debts were paid off. As the included receipt shows, Shepardson was undeterred and duly transferred the £15. 15/- to Liverpool & Martins' (the last copy of the 1926 "Pillars" at auction commanded £30,000 at Sotheby's in 2009). - The U.S. businessman Whitney Hart Shepardson (1890-1966), educated at Colgate, Balliol (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard, had served as aide to the State Department at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he may have met Lawrence. Between 1925 and 1927 he served as director on J. D. Rockefeller's General Education Board. A leading O.S.S. operative in WWII, he was the first London head of Secret Intelligence and remained with the organization soon to become the C.I.A. until 1946.
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Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).
Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Plymouth, 10. VI. 1931.
4to. 1 p. To a Mr. Bain, apparently a bookseller: "I am unfortunate: I need one of my own rotten books - a Revolt in the Desert, any late edition. Can you find one cheap? Send me those Irish Memories, too, about which you sent me a chit ... and are there any of S. Sassoon's skits on Wolfe (Pinchbeck Lyre's) to be got? Any edition. I wanted two. There is also a book called 'Juan in America' which I must read. Nothing else, I hope [...]". - Traces of folds.
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Lawrence, T[homas] E[dward], British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935).
Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"). Southampton, 18. VII. 1934.
8vo. 2 pp. and 2 lines on bifolium. "Dear Lady Young I wonder if you (and His Ex.) are still there? Your letter to me sat at 2 Smith Square (Sir H. B. not knowing my whereabouts) till last night, when I called and collected it. I am sorry. Most of my addresses are like that. Would you be so good as to register / T. E. Shaw / Clouds Hill / Moreton / Dorset / as my likeliest spot, in future? It represents my cottage on the heath, which will be home after March when the RAF bring themselves, not reluctantly, to dispense with my help? I'm sorry not to have seen you. I wanted, while you were yet in Nyasa-land, to beg of His Ex. The rectangular skin of a small (1 sq. yard) lion, for my hearth-rug. But Ronald Storrs whom I saw at Southampton about a month ago told me you had been promoted to his province, and that there were no lions. Ronald was physically a very sick man. Mentally he was fighting hard to keep brisk… too hard for his health, I fear. The wreck of an old companion is too near a sight for sorrow, even. I hope Africa suits, after your trial of Asia and Europe. My respects to the Governor! Tell him I saw the fraudulent Abdulla, the other day. Exactly as he was, body & mind. Now, that's the way. / Yours sincerely TE Shaw / A poor letter: but I picture you again in Africa, and my squib spluttering in the void". - Between 1916 to 1918, Abdullah I of Jordan worked with the British guerrilla leader T. E. Lawrence (with whom he had actually never jarred), and played a key role as architect and planner of the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule, leading guerrilla raids on garrisons. From 1921 until his assassination in 1951, Abdullah ruled Jordan, first as Emir under a British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, then as King of an independent nation from 1946 onwards.
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Lawson, F
The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad 'Ali Period
USA: Columbia University Press 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Slight bend to front and rear board. D/J a little faded with some light shelf wear to edges. Columbia University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040292 ISBN : 0231076320 9780231076326
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LAYARD (Austen H.)
Discoveries in the ruins of Niniveh and Babylon. With travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert.
Amsterdam, Time Life, 1985. Fort in-8 reliure éditeur simili-cuir havane, dos orné en rouge et or, tranches dorées, XXIII-686 pp., frontispice, 5 pl. dépliantes h.-t. (dont 2 grandes cartes), nombreuses fig. dans le texte et planches h.-t.
Bookseller reference : 556322
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LAYARD AUSTEN HENRY
Nineveh and its remains. A narrative…
Cm. 20; pp. XXVI, 384, 32. Editorial cloth. Illustrated. A folding map. Dedication Copy to Count Belmondo Caccia. (Middle East) 1397/P
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Layish, Aharon
Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State; A Study Based on Decisions of the Shari'a Courts in Israel
NY: John Wiley 1975. Hard bound first edition extensively referenced 369pp includes bibliography and index. Very good in slightly edge rubbed near very good dust jacket. 660 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. NY: John Wiley, 1975 unknown
Bookseller reference : 21391 ISBN : 0706514106 9780706514100
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LE PERE - BOUTELOU (sculpsit)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Erment (Hermonthis). Plan, coupe et élévations du temple. (ANTIQUITES, volume I, planche 94)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 54 cm | une feuille
Bookseller reference : 25835
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LE PERE
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Edfou (Apollinopolis magna). Plan, coupes et élévations du petit temple. (ANTIQUITES, volume I, planche 62)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 54 x 71 cm | une feuille
Bookseller reference : 25920
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LE PERE - ADAM (sculpsit)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Medynet-Abou. Détails d'un pilier caryatide et d'une colonne du péristyle du palais. (ANTIQUITES, volume II, planche 7)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 53.50 cm | une feuille
Bookseller reference : 26021
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LE DINAHET (Marie-Thérèse)(dir.).
L'Orient méditérranéen de la mort d'Alexandre au 1er siècle avant notre ère. Anatolie, Chypre, Egypte, Syrie.
Editions du Temps, 2003, gr. in-8°, 409-(5) pp, cartes et figures, biblio, broché, qqs soulignures crayon, bon état
Bookseller reference : 104796
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LE CRAPOUILLOT
Le Crapouillot. Magazine non-conformiste. N° 34 : Le défi arabe. Vers la dictature du prétrolariat?
Couverture souple. Revue. 98 pages.
Bookseller reference : 125290
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Le Coq, Albert von.
Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan-Expeditionen. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1922-1933 [facsimile: Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1973-1975].
6 text volumes and 1 atlas. 35,5 x 26 cm; atlas 54 x 36,5 cm. 29; 62; 53; 29; 32; 89; 80 pp. With a total of 185 plates in the text volumes, 22 plates in the atlas volume, mostly in black and white, some in colour, and numerous illustrations in text. Uniform decorated brown cloth. Reprint of a work on archeology in China, published in the years 1922-1933, written by the German orientalist and archaeologist Albert von Le Coq (1860-1930). From 1902 to 1914, Le Coq led three of the four German expeditions to the Turfan (or Turpan) area, in Xingjian, China. The expeditions were initiated by the German archaeologist Albert Grünwedel. "The principal spoils of these expeditions were literary. Vast numbers of Chinese manuscripts were obtained from every center, both secular and religious. … Besides securing manuscripts, these expeditions examined caves decorated with stucco figures and with frescoes…" (Couling). The text gives a brief history of the expeditions, the different sites they excavated, including grottoes and temples, which are also shown on some of the smaller illustrations, followed by descriptions of the objects shown on the plates. "The civilization thus revealed is a mixture of Persian, Indian, Chinese, Hellenic etc." (Couling). Both Grünwedel and Le Coq went back to Berlin with thousands of artefacts, of which many are shown in the plates. The second volume, titled Die Manichaeischen Miniaturen, deals with fragments of illuminated manuscripts, the other volumes deal mainly with either sculpture, mural paintings or frescoes and their techniques. The fourth expedition ended early due to the outbreak of the First World War, but compared to the earlier expeditions they collected the most artefacts during this short stay. - All volumes in very good condition. Cf. Couling, pp. 32, 578.
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Le Couteulx de Canteleu, [Emmanuel Jean Hector].
Étude sur l'histoire du cheval arabe. Son origine, les lieux où l'on peut le trouver, son emploi en Europe, son rôle dans la formation de la race de pur sang, son influence sur d'autres races. Paris, Librairie Pairault, 1885.
Small 8vo. 51, (1) pp. With a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow printed and illustrated wrappers. Only early edition of this very rare study of the history of the Arabian horse, its origins, use in Europe, its role in thoroughbred breeding, and its influence on other breeds. A facsimile reprint was issued in 2010. "Travail interessant et bien étudié" (Menessier de La Lance). Hector Le Couteulx de Canteleu (1827-1910) was an officer of the French cavalry and a specialist in par force hunting. - Light foxing, but still a very well preserved specimen. Only six copies in libraries internationally. Mennessier de La Lance II, 80f. OCLC 561269526. Not in Huth or Boyd/Paul.
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LE GAC Daniel
Au nom de la Palestine.
Broch?. 295 pages. Couverture d?fra?chie.
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Le Rouge, G. L.
L'Empire des Turcs. Paris, Crepy, 1767.
240 x 355 mm. Engraved map, coloured by hand. Showing the Arabian Peninsula in great detail. First published in 1747. Cf. Tibbetts 276. Not in the Al-Quasimi collection.
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LEARSI (Rufus)
Israel: a history of the Jewish people.
In-8, reliure éditeur rouge, (7) f., 715 p., maps. Cleveland and New York, The World publishing Company, 1949.
Bookseller reference : 28437
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League of Nations.
Societe des Nations / League of Nations. Treaty Series. Lausanne (Switzerland), League of Nations, Impriméries Réunis S. A., 1921-1936.
62 vols. bound in 42, including: 7-16, 19, 21-25 (paper), 28-33, 37-41, 50-57, 63, 69-73, 75-77, 80, 88-92, 94-99, 102, 115, 139, 154-155, 168 (paper). Indices of 1-3, 8-11, 12-15, 28-31, 131-152, 1-39. Vol. 154 with a folded map. Mostly blue cloth with giltstamped crest and spine title, original wrappers included in the binding. 6 vols. in original wrappers. Lithogr. coloured plate of a chart at the end of vol. 56/57 added. First and only edition: a substantial torso of the League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS), the League's officially published collection of treaties and other international engagements. Begun in 1920, it was discontinued in 1946 (following the dissolution of the League) after 205 volumes. The present set includes numerous important agreements reached during the interwar period between the western powers and those of the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, the Trucial States, Yemen, and Oman. - To cite but a few examples, vol. 71 includes the full Arabic and English text of the "Treaty of Friendship and good understanding between his Britannic Majesty and his Majesty the King of Hejaz and of Nejd and its dependencies. Signed at Jeddah, May 20, 1927", authorized by Faisal Abdul-Aziz al Saud, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdul-Rahman al Saud and Gilbert Clayton, pp. 133-164, also noting: "Article 6. His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and its Dependencies undertakes to maintain friendly and peaceful relations with the territories of Kuwait and Bahrain, and with the Sheikhs of Qatar and the Oman Coast, who are in special treaty relations with His Britannic Majesty's Government", p. 154. - Vol. 115 includes the German and Arabic text as well as a French and English translation of the "Treaty of Friendship" between Germany and Hejaz, Neijd and dependencies of 1929 in Cairo which was authorized by Stohrer, Sheikh Hafez Wahba, and Sheikh Fausan El Sabek, pp. 266-270. - Vol. 8 includes the English text of the "Anglo-Muskat commercial treaty": "[...] the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Oman, signed on the eighth day of Shaban 1308 H., corresponding to the 19th March, 1891, will be prolonged by this writing notwithstanding all or any correspondence between His Late Highness Syud Faisal bin Turki and the Glorious British Government [...]" authorized by Taimur bin Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman and R. Wingate, I.C.S. - Vol. 25 includes the English text of the "Anglo-Muscat Treaty prolonging for one year from February 11, 1924", authorized by R. G. Hinde and Nadir, Muhammad bin Ahmad, Rashid, and Zubair in Muscat, pp. 388-391. - Vol. 168 includes the "Agreement between Great Britain and Muscat renewing for a further period of one year from February 11th, 1927, the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of March 19th, 1891 [...]" in Arabic, French and English authorized by Said bin Tamur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Major R. P. Watts, I.A., pp. 230-233. - Vol. 96 includes the "Agreement between Great Britain and Mascat renewing for a further period of one year, from February 11, 1929, the above Treaty of March 19, 1891" in Arabic, English and French, authorized by B. S. Thomas, G. P. Murphy, and Hadji Zuber bin Ali "on behalf of his Highness Sayid Sir Taimur bin Faisal, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Sultan of Maskat and Oman", pp. 194-197. Numerous further relevant treaties are referenced in the copious indices included with the series. - Three sets of indices bound in separate volumes, the others bound with the treaties. Some of the original wrappers somewhat damaged when not included in the binding, but well preserved. Removed from the Champlain Library of the Université de Moncton, Canada (their shelfmarks to spines and stamps to edges); previously in the library of the University of Washington, Seattle, International Fisheries Commission (their stamps to some wrappers).
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LEARSI (Rufus)
Israel: a history of the Jewish people.
In-8, reliure éditeur rouge, (7) f., 715 p., maps. Index. Bon exemplaire.
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Lechevalier, [Jean Baptiste].
Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin. Paris, Dentu, 1800-1802.
8vo. 2 vols. XII, 168 pp. (4), (169)-416 pp. With 6 folding engr. maps. Contemp. marbled calf with gilt cover borders and double labels to gilt spines. Marbled endpapers. Variant issue of the first edition, probably the second issue altogether. "Le Chevalier had assisted Choiseul-Gouffier in his 'Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce', and was then sent to Jassy to observe Russian troop movements. His work is an account of a journey round the shores of the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea" (Atabey). While Chatzipanagioti-S. differentiates between the first and the second edition, the present variant is not described: the verso of the half-title of vol. 1 shows only the "avis au relieur"; p. 168: "Fin du tome premier"; p. 169 (beginning of text in vol. 2) is unpaginated. Thus, this apparently constitutes the second issue of the first editon. - Lechevalier stood in the service of Choiseul-Gouffier; from 1787 onwards he accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti on a tour of the Mediterranean which lasted several months. The maps show the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles, the Black Sea, the Bosporus, Constantinople, and Brussa. - Both title pages have contemporary ownership stamps ("S" with princely crown); a few minor tears to maps have been professionally repaired; some staining to title page of vol. 2. A prettily bound copy, formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Blackmer 995. Weber II, 649. Atabey 697. Graesse IV, 137. Cf. Chatzipanagioti-S. 538f.
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LEDRAIN (Eugène)
Histoire d'Israël.
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879-1883 2 tomes en 2 vol. in-12, rel. post. demi-basane marbrée fauve, dos à nerfs, titres et tomaisons dorés, tête mouchetée; XII-436 et IV-560pp., bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe, appendice. Première édition.
Bookseller reference : 604392
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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.
Bookseller reference : 592405
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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.
Bookseller reference : 528124
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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.
Bookseller reference : 523125
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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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Leete, Frederick de Land.
Palestine: Its Scenery Peoples and History.
London Skeffington 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Royal 8vo. Pp. 256. Plus frontispiece and other 15 halftone photographic plates printed on different paper bound in. Appendix index. HARDCOVER original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Very good condition. Upper cover bit sunned unobtrusive shelf number in manuscript to spine. Excellent copy bright and fresh. ~ FIRST EDITION. Includes a special appendix for travellers to Palestine titled "A Story of Guides". F-4 IN <br/> <br/> London, Skeffington hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0808
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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
Bookseller reference : 26090
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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
Bookseller reference : 26094
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