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M. HORTEN.
Die Religiöse Gedankenwelt der Gebildeten Muslime in heuten Islam.
Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In German. [xxiv], 184 p. The Religious ideas of the educated Muslims in Islam. Die Religiöse Gedankenwelt der Gebildeten Muslime in heuten Islam.
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M. J. Kruck von Poturzyn
Lady Hester Stanhope : Eine Frau ohne Furcht
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 235pp. Biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, ths so-called Queen of the Desert - and a woman without fear. She was a British socialite at the end of the 18th century who left her life in Britain to travel and carry out archaeological work in the Middle East. All text in German.
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M. KARSAKOFF
Quelques observations sur une nouvelle mante du sud-algérien, iris deserti Uv
Imp. A. Rey | Lyon 1935 | 16 x 24.50 cm | agrafé
Référence libraire : 26183
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M. Larkin -
The Six Days of Yad Mordechai -
1977. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1977/Gd. condition/270 pages - This text is about struggle. TN13426z paperback
Référence libraire : 3426z
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M. ROZIERE - COLLET-DESCOTIL
Description de l'Egypte. Mémoire sur l'art de faire éclore les poulets en Egypte, par le moyen des fours ; par MM. Rozière et Rouyer. Description de l'art de fabriquer le sel ammoniac, par M. H. V. Collet-Descotil
Imprimerie Impériale | à Paris 1809 | 27 x 32 cm | Relié
Référence libraire : 27646
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M. Thomas Davis
40 Km into Lebanon: Israel's 1982 Invasion
Washington: National Defense University Press 1987. Paper bound first edition illustrated with numerous maps xiii Pp144. Includes references and index. Covers moderately scuffed else a very good or better copy. Interior is unmarked. 210 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Washington: National Defense University Press, 1987 unknown
Référence libraire : 18709
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M[EHMED] SEMSEDDIN [GÜNALTAY], (1883-1961).
Islâm tarihi.
Very Good English In modern cloth bdg. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 416 p. Islâm tarihi. Günaltay's 'History of Islam'. First Edition. Roumî: 1339 = Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1923. Özege: 9377.
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M[UALLIM] CEVDET [INANÇALP], (1883-1935).
Sark Ilyadasi: Sehnâme.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 88 p. Sark Ilyadasi: Sehnâme. First Edition. Özege 18610.
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MAALOUF AMIN
PERIPLO DI BALDASSARRE (IL) ( LE PERIPLE DE BALDASSARE )
Pagine: 378 . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Brossura originale con sovracoperta . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Lo scrittore e giornalista libanese dopo "Le crociate viste dagli arabi" alle prese con un raffinato libraio genovese in terra d'Oriente nel 1600. .
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Maas, Kreisdekan D. Hermann.
Skizzen von einer Fahrt nach Israel.
No Imprint. 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. 80. With numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Set in double columns in Gothic type. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION of this travelogue. No imprint issued without title-page. Printed by Verlagsdruckerei Gebr. Tron ca. 1950. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> No Imprint. (1950). paperback
Référence libraire : 0710
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MABIN, Yves ; BRUELLE, Frédérique ; KHOURY, Mira
La Voie Royale. 9 000 ans d’Art au Royaume de Jordanie. De la Préhistoire à l’Islam en Jordanie. L’Art Contemporain en Jordanie.
Association Française d’Action Artistique / Musée du Luxembourg 1986 2 volumes, sous étui cartonné, in-4, broché, couv. illustrée, photographies pleines pages en couleurs, vignettes photographiques en n. & b., 304 pp. - 40 pp. Très bon état d’occasion.
Référence libraire : 22172
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Macalister, R. A. S.
A Century of Excavation in Palestine.
London Religious Tract Society 1930. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 8vo. Pp. 336. Plus frontispiece map and 35 halftone plates printed on different paper bound in. Bibliography index. HARDCOVER original blue cloth spine gilt. Very good condition. Signature clipped out of title rust traces of paper-clip to prelims scattered spotting mostly marginal edges spotted. Else sound copy. ~ Second edition. With a nice set of photographs printed in tinted ink from the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund. F-4 IN <br/> <br/> London, Religious Tract Society hardcover
Référence libraire : 0822
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MACARTHUR Wilson
Auto Nomad in Barbary. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Cassell 1950. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece 70 plates on 34 and a large folding map; original terracotta cloth gilt back backstrip mildly faded but all gilt wholly legible edges lightly spotted a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chipped with minor loss not affecting lettering at head of backstrip. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The 'auto' in question is a 18HP Wolseley; the route travelled is from France to South Africa via Spain Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt the Sudan and so down through East Africa to Durban. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION Cassell, hardcover
Référence libraire : 25457
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Macedo, Joaquim José da Costa de.
Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes. Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844.
Folio. (4), 232 pp. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms with owl and Hermes staff on the title-page, decorated "Tuscan" titling caps for the title and script type for the author's name. Set in roman and italic, with transcriptions of and quotations from documents in Greek and Arabic.Modern brown paper wrapper, side stitched through 3 holes. A detailed scholarly study of ancient sources for the history and geography of the Canary Islands, attempting to prove that the Portuguese discovered them before Islamic explorers, and that Islamic geographers knew them only through classical Greek and Roman sources. The main text (pp. 1-105) is followed by extensive notes from a wide variety of sources (pp. 107-168) and transcriptions of numerous primary sources, some in Greek or Arabic (pp. 199-232). In passing it also provides a wealth of information about navigation in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by classical Greek and Roman and by Islamic explorers. - Macedo (1777-1867), son of a Lisbon professor and librarian, was an historian, archivist, councillor to the Kingdom of Portugal and a member of many academic societies at home and abroad. His work on Portuguese explorers in general and the Canary Islands in particular began with a brief 1816 essay read to the Academia Real. He returned to the subject after almost thirty years, publishing the present account in both the present separate publication and as vol. VI of the proceedings of the Academia Real das Sciencias. While Macedo's claim for Malocello's discovery of the Canaries in 1336 is no longer accepted, the Islamic geographer Idrisi noted a Portuguese voyage to the Canaries already before 1154. - In fine condition and wholly untrimmed, with all deckles intact, giving very large margins. The modern wrapper is slightly tattered. A detailed study of early voyages to the Canary Islands, with the texts of primary sources in Greek, Arabic and other languages. Porbase (1 copy). Cf. Innocêncio IV, 96 and XII, 80 (issue in proceedings). For the author: Protásio, "MACEDO, JOAQUIM JOSÉ DA COSTA DE (1777-1867)" in: Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses.
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MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius.
Hive seyahatnamesi ve tarihi: musavver. Istanbul, Basiret Matbaasi, [1875 CE =] 1292 H.
4to. 459, (1) pp. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic type. With 1 folding map and 32 woodcut plates. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine and spine title (partly oxydized). First edition. - Exceedingly rare Turkish translation (by Ahmed Sükrü) of the popular account of the 1873 Russo-Khivan war and the fall of the Khivan Khanate by the American war correspondent MacGahan (1844-78), first published in New York in 1874 as "Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva". After a daring journey through the Kyzil Kum desert, MacGahan joined the Russian commander Konstantin von Kaufmann’s army on the banks of the Amu Darya. In his report he vividly describes the fall of the Khanate to three Russian columns reaching it from North and East. The book discusses the situation of Kazakh (misleadingly called "Kirghiz") and Yomuk Turkmen nomads, Uzbek and Sart settlers, as well as of Persian slaves, and includes a report on earlier failed Russian attempts to conquer Khiva. While MacGahan is impressed by the beautiful gardens and orchards of the Khanate, he is disappointed by the city of Khiva, the capital and main residence of its ruler. Even the Khan's palace, in which he is allowed by the Russian authorities to spend a few days, including a visit to the treasury room, strikes him as unspectacular. The illustrations, based on designs and paintings by artists and Russian officers, including Vereschagin and Feodoroff, show portraits, scenes of rural and nomad life, somewhat stereotypical depictions of locals, as well as buildings, army generals, and battle scenes. - While the original English edition occasionally appears at auction, the Turkish edition has never been seen on the market. - A few crayon annotations and underlinings in a contemporary hand. Binding slightly bumped at extremeties. Paper evenly browned and brownstained throughout; a few pages somewhat waterstained in the second half of the volume. OCLC 1014870496. Özege 7682. Cf. Atabey 744 (English ed.).
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MacKey Sandra
The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom
2002. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.2002/Gd. condition/446 pages - The leadership and politics of Saudi Arabia. KR16607z 0393324176 paperback
Référence libraire : 6607z ISBN : 0393324176 9780393324174
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Mackey, Sandra
Lebanon: Death of a Nation
<p>New York: Doubleday Anchor Books 1991 1st ed. thus. 307pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good text is age browned; else a clean complete & tight copy A popular study of Lebanon’s civil war era that began in 1975.</p> New York: Doubleday Anchor Books paperback
Référence libraire : 17389 ISBN : 0385413815 9780385413817
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Mackey, Sandra
Saudis : Inside the Desert Kingdom
New York: Signet : Penguin Books 1990. Book. Very Good. Wraps. Second Printing. A comprehensive survey of Saudi Arabia its history its resources - espeically oil - its religion its outlook on the world and the world's outlook on it its economic development its relationships with other Arabic nations its secretive monarchichal government and rulng family the impact of American and Israeli Zionist politics on this nation's evoluton much more. Wraps bibliography indexed 468pp. A nice copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Signet : Penguin Books Paperback
Référence libraire : 00008973 ISBN : 0451170512 9780451170514
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MacKey, Sandra
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
2003. Soft Cover. Good. Gd. conditon - Iraq's and the history of Saddam Hussein . AE18255z paperback
Référence libraire : 8255z ISBN : 0393324281 9780393324280
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MacKey, Sandra
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 2002. 415pp/illus. Considers what the future of Iraq would be without Saddam Hussein. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
Référence libraire : 004483 ISBN : 0393051412 9780393051414
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Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
TRAVELS WITH A TANGERINE: a Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Welcome Rain Publishers 2001. 351pp. Blue hardback DJ flaps glued to inside covers EX-LIB minimal markings VG Retraces the first stage of the Moroccan's eccentric journey from Tangiers to Constantinople . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Yeoman Martin. Welcome Rain Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : wb7044011 ISBN : 1566492475 9781566492478
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MacLean, Robinson
THE BAITED BLONDE Dell Mapback #508
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company Inc. 1951. 1st printing. Vintage paperback. Reading crease a few creases at lower corner light wear else a very good tight copy. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Cover painting by Robert Stanley. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Stanley Robert cover. Vintage Paperback. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Paperback
Référence libraire : 019672
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MacLeod, Arlene Elowe
Accommodating Protest: Working Women the New Veiling and Change in Cairo
NY: Columbia Univ Pr. First edition. Trade soft cover. Published NY: Columbia Univ Pr. 1993. 8vo. xxiv206 pages. A very good clean bright copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 1993. Columbia Univ Pr paperback
Référence libraire : 002391 ISBN : 0231072813 9780231072816
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MacLeod, Arlene Elowe
Accommodating Protest: Working Women the New Veiling and Change in Cairo
Columbia Univ Pr 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Corners bumped. <br/> <br/> Columbia Univ Pr paperback
Référence libraire : 316542 ISBN : 0231072813 9780231072816
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MACLER (Frédéric)
Trois conférences sur l'Arménie faites à la fondation Carol I à Bucarest (Roumanie).
P., Geuthner, 1929. In-12 broché, 290 pp., 9 planches d'ill. photogr. en noirn-fine, bibliographie. (Annales du Musée Guimet, Biblio. de Vulgarisation T. 49).
Référence libraire : 527892
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MACRET
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Botanique. Fucus antennulatus, Fucus denticulatus. (Histoire Naturelle, planche 55)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 54 cm | une feuille
Référence libraire : 26423
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MACRET
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Botanique. Scirpus fimbrisetus, Andropogon annulatum, Scirpus mucronatus. (Histoire Naturelle, planche 7)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 54 cm | une feuille
Référence libraire : 26483
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MACRET
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Botanique. Sinapis allionii, Hesperis acris, Lunaria parviflora. (Histoire Naturelle, planche 35)
Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 71 x 54 cm | une feuille
Référence libraire : 26451
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MAFFEI Marco -
Aspetti dell'imperialismo britannico. I petroli del vicino Oriente.
Milano, 1940, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 625/629 con 2 cartine. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
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Magaud d'Aubusson, Louis.
La Fauconnerie au Moyen Age et dans les temps modernes. Paris, Auguste Ghio, 1879.
8vo. (8), 272 pp. With half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, with original printed wrappers bound in at end. Signed presentation copy from the author to Florian Pharaon (1827-87). A good association copy of a "work which no student of the history of Falconry should neglect" (Harting). Florian Pharaon was the first Arab editor at Le Figaro, and the translator of an Arabic hunting work into French. - Some spotting, binding rubbed. Harting 211. Schwerdt II, pp. 2-3. Thiébaud 621.
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Magdi Allam
Saddam
Storia segreta di un dittatore. L'inquietante ritratto di un tiranno. Parte prima: L'uomo Parte seconda: Il tiranno, Parte terza: il doppiogiochista Parte quarta: il guerrafondaio
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Magdi Allam
Viva Israele – dall'ideologia della morte alla civiltà della vita – 1° ed.
Allo stato di nuovo
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Maggio, Francesco Maria.
Syntagmaton linguarum orientalium quae in Georgiae regionibus audiuntur. Liber Primus. Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1670.
Folio (225 x 332 mm). 2 parts in one vol. (12), 143, (1) pp. (6) pp., 1 blank f., 96 pp. With printer's woodcut device to both title-pages. Contemporary half vellum over papered boards with faded handwritten spine title. Second edition of this "at least linguistically rather unusual combination of a Georgian and a Turkish grammar, using the Georgian types first displayed in 1629" (Smitskamp). This is "an almost line for line reprint of the 1643 edition, only distinguishable by the 'Iterum imprimatur' [...] The work is set in mkhedruli type that has no upper case, but upper and lower case khutsuri type (the sacred script) is also displayed, absent in the 1629 'Alphabetum'. In the second part, containing a Turkish grammar (the third of its kind, after those by Megiser [1612] and du Ryer [1630]), the Hebrew and Syriac scripts [...] are also discussed as vehicles of the Arabic or Turkish language. Maggio mentions della Valle as his instructor in Turkish [...] At the end of the second part a Turkish translation is printed of the 'Corolla B.M. Virginis', a widely used devotional prayer" (ibid.). - Binding lightly rubbed. Some browning throughout; occasional worming in the margins. A few contemporary ink corrections in Georgian script. Removed from the library of the Capuchin mission to Trabzon, Turkey (Missione dei Cappuccini di Trebisonda) with their stamp to the title-page. Smitskamp, PO 227. Lang 167. Vater/Jülg 140.
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Maggio, Francesco Maria.
Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano della Congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Fede di Giesù Cristo, crudelissimamente ucciso da’ Turchi di Barberia, nella città di Tripoli, a 17 di febbraio l’anno 1645 [...]. Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzari, 1657.
4to. (40), 24, (4), 25-234 pp., final blank leaf. With 3 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum with ms. title to spine. Very scarce first and only edition of the life and death of San Alipio, who was captured by Ottoman pirates on 1 July 1643 and brought to Tripoli. He converted to Islam, but repented and was martyred on 17 February 1645 when he told to the Pasha that he wished to return to his Christian faith. The plates show the martyrdom (a supersized image after the prelims, folded in at the bottom) and the holy relics of the Saint. - Some defects to spine, otherwise fine. Old ownership of the "Convento dell' Angelo Custode" on the flyleaf. Streit XVI, p. 525, no. 4001. ICCU UM1E\007052.
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Magistrati, Massimo
Le condizioni ambientali del medio oriente nel quadro dell'alleanza atlantica
24 cm, brossura; pp. 17
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MAGLIOCCO VITO.
La strada per Gerusalemme.
In 8°, cop. edit. con sovracc. ill. (lievi fioriture sparse), pp. 89,(3), con ill. b.n. n.t.; tracce di scotch alla prima c. bianca e a pag. 90; firma dell'autore a pag. 3, buon es..
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Magliocco Vito.
La strada per Gerusalemme.
R. O4.
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MAGNESS, Jodi.:
Stone and Dung Oil and Spit. Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus.
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans 2011. 1st edition. "Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts including the New Testament the works of Josephus and rabbinic teachings. Layering all these sources together she reconstructs in detail a fascinating variety of everyday activities - dining customs Sabbath observance fasting toilet habits burial customs and more." Pp.xvi/335. Paperback. VG. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2011. paperback
Référence libraire : 52634 ISBN : 0802865585 9780802865588
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Magnum Photos, Inc
Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afganistan
New York New York U.S.A.: Power House Books 2002. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. <br/> <br/> Power House Books hardcover
Référence libraire : 320096 ISBN : 1576871517 9781576871515
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Magnus, Paul
Fungi. Ein weiterer Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Pilze des Orients.
1903. 8°. S 573-587 (1). Mit 2 lithogr. Tafeln. Orig.-Heft + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + (leicht fleckig). = Tieé à part du "Bulletin d'Herbier Boissier", seconde série, tome III, und J. Bornmüller "Iter anatolicum tertrium", 1
Référence libraire : 26852AB
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Magnus, Ralph N. (edited by)
DOCUMENTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST - UNITED STATES INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Washington DC: American Enterprise Institut 1969. PB. very good wraps softcover. 232pp. American Enterprise Institut unknown
Référence libraire : BOOKS048949I
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Mahfouz LABIB
PELERINS ET VOYAGEURS AU MONT SINAÏ (Recherches d'archéologie, de philologie et d'histoire, tome XXV)
Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 1961. Un volume in 8° relié demi-percaline noire à coins, dos lisse et titre doré, VIII, 180 pp, 24 planches hors-texte. Bon état, cachet de l'Université de Louvain ouvrage déclassé.
Référence libraire : 1532
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Mahmoud Hussein -
Arabs & Israelis : A Dialogue -
1975. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub. 1975/Gd. condition/223 pages - In the aftermath of the October 1973 War the possibility of a genuine dialogue between Arabs and Israelis finally emerged. D25356z hardcover
Référence libraire : 5356z ISBN : 0841902089 9780841902084
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Mahmoud Kati ben El-Hadj El-Motaouakkel Kati
TARIKH EL-FETTACH ou, Chronique du chercheur, pour servir à l'histoire des villes, des armées et des principaux personnages du Tekrour. Traduction française, accompagnée de notes, d'un index et d'une carte.par O. HOudas et M. Delafosse.
Paris, Ernest Leroux, éditeur 1913. Grand in-8, bradel, demi-toile noire, pièce de titre en basane rouge bordé d'un double filet doré, millésimé en queue du dos, plats granités, gardes marbrées, couverture et dos conservés, reliure moderne, XX-361pp, [2]ff., carte h.-t. (Documents arabes, relatifs à l'Histoire du Soudan). Édition originale de la traduction française. (Publications de l'école des Langues Orientales)
Référence libraire : 567775
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Mahmoud Ra'if.
Cedid Atlas Tercümesi [= New Atlas, Translated]. Üsküdar/Istanbul, Tab'hane-yi Hümayunda / Mühenduishâne Press, [April 1803-March 1804 CE] = 1218 H.
Folio (533 x 364 mm). (3), 79 pp., engraved, illustrated title-page and 25 engraved maps after William Faden, in contemporary hand colour. Contemporary black morocco, richly stamped in silver and blind. Bright yellow pastedowns. In custom-made half morocco solander box. The first European-style atlas printed in the Islamic world: an exceedingly rare, handsome, and entirely complete example in its original first binding. "[T]he first world atlas printed by Muslims [...], of which only fifty copies were printed" (Library of Congress, Near East Collections: an illustrated guide, online). Several copies were reserved for high-ranking officials and important institutions; most of the remainder were destroyed in a warehouse fire during the Janissary Revolt of 1808. "Based on several estimates and accounting for the single maps (torn-out from bound volumes of the atlas) sold or being offered worldwide, it is believed that a maximum of 20 complete examples could be present in libraries or in private collections, whereas some sources suggest that there exist only 10 complete and intact copies in the world. As such, it is one of the rarest printed atlases of historical value" (Wikipedia). - A prestigious project for the Ottoman Palace with the seal of approval of the Sultan Selim III, this work was one of the avantgardistic enterprises promoted by Mahmoud Ra'if to introduce Western technical and scientific knowledge to the Ottoman state. Composed of 25 maps based on William Faden's "General Atlas", it is the first Muslim-published world atlas to make use of European geographic knowledge. On each of the maps the place-names are transliterated in Arabic. The Atlas includes Raif's 79-page geographical treatise "Ucalet ül-Cografiye" and the frequently missing folding celestial map on blue paper. - Maps very clean, showing only a few minor stains and repaired tears to folds; a creasemark to the map of Africa; an internal tear to pre-Revolutionary map of France. Binding professionally repaired at extremeties and upper hinge with a few scuffmarks and insignificant traces of worming. An excellent copy, one of the very few surviving specimens in the beautiful original oriental leather binding (the only other known example was sold through us in 2019). A severely defective copy recently commanded an auction price of USD 118,750 (Swann Galleries NY, 26 May 2016, lot 199). OCLC 54966656. Not in Philipps/Le Gear. Not in Atabey or Blackmer collections.
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Mahmoud Ra'if.
Tableau des nouveaux reglemens de l'Empire Ottoman. Constantinople, Imprimerie du Genie, sous la direction de Abdurrahman Efendi, 1798.
Folio (210 x 308 mm). 60 pp. With 27 engraved and etched plates (some double-page). Contemporary speckled sheep. Marbled pastedowns. First and only edition, printed at the second printing press established in Istanbul. "A rare and very interesting work outlining the military reforms and the regulations for the New Troops established by Selim III in 1796/97" (Blackmer). The author, Mahmoud Ra'if, was a member of the reform movement instigated in Turkey by Sultan Selim III, who tried to change the traditional political structures of the Ottoman Empire and replace them with a political state that owed much to his youthful contact with Europe, and more particularly, the influence of the French Revolution. After his succession in 1789, Selim took steps to establish a new state under the Nizam-Jedid ("new order") regulations - from which the present work derives - underpinning his state with the formation of a new army and military infrastructure. Among the moves towards "Europeanisation" were the installation of printing presses at the military engineering school (where the present work, the first from the press in roman types, was printed), and the establishment of Ottoman embassies in the capitals of Europe, including London, where Mahmoud Ra'if served as secretary to the Ottoman Ambassador in the mid 1790s. As outsiders feared, the very reforms which are the subject of his work led to Selim's murder in 1808, while the author himself was "cut to pieces" by the enraged Janissaries whose elite position had been threatened. "The establishment of these troops - the Nizam-Jedid - and the jealousy which this aroused was one of the main factors leading to the revolt of the Janissaries in 1808 which cost Selim, and later the author of this work, their lives" (Blackmer). - Binding very slightly worn, interior clean and flawless throughout. Provenance: armorial bookplate of the Swedish diplomat Johan Henrik Tawast (1763-1841), who was seconded to Constantinople in 1812-13 to help negotiate the Russian-Turkish peace treaty of Bucharest; his autograph note "Scutari, 9 janvier 1813. 16 piastres, 20 pares" inscribed to front pastedown. Latterly in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. Atabey 752. Blackmer 1060.
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Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1785-1839, ruled 1808-1839).
Signed document (Berat) in Ottoman Turkish. Constantinople, [August 1818 CE =] first days of Shawwal 1233 H.
80 x 27 cm. Ink and gold dust on paper. With large Tughra. Concerns an order of horses. The document was given to a British sailor whose family preserved it until recently.
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Mai, Mukhtar
In the Name of Honor
2006. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/Gd. condition/171 pages - A Pakistani woman raised in poverty and illiteracy has responded to the violence and gender apartheid directed at her and other women with an insistence on justice and education. K1078HR2 hardcover
Référence libraire : K1078 ISBN : 1416532285 9781416532286
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MAILLART Ella
La via crudele. Due donne in viaggio dall'Europa a Kabul
in 8°, pp. XVI, 221, bross. edit. con sovracop. ill. Collana: Viaggi e Avventura, diretta da Bruno Gambarotta, traduz. e note di Silvia Vacca, con 1 cartina in nero. Ottimo. 121-41
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Maillet, Benoît de.
Description de l'Egypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la Geographie ancienne et moderne de ce païs, sur les monumens anciens [...]. Paris, Louis Genneau & Jacques Rollin, 1735.
4to (214 x 250 mm). 2 parts in one volume. XXI, (3), 328, 242, (10) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (2 of which folding), and 1 engraved folding map of Egypt. Contemporary full calf with traces of gilt spine (oxydized) and remnants of a spine-label. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. First edition. - Prominent compendium of all that was known about Egypt at the time, taking the form of a series of letters written by the French consul and inspector of the French institutions in the Levante, Benoît de Maillet (1656-1738), stationed in Cairo from 1692 to 1708, edited and compiled for publication by the cleric Jean-Baptiste le Mascrier (1697-1760). During his time in Egypt, Maillet developed a great interest in Arabic and Egyptian life, as well as in Egyptian antiquities and Arabic architecture. With his work he greatly expanded European knowledge about the country, its antiquities and the manners and costums of its inhabitants. The frontispiece shows a portrait of the author, while the plates depict tombs, sarcophagi, obelisks, and animals. The two folding plates exhibit the Mikias, or Nilometer, in Cairo, and a cross section of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The final chapter discusses the annual Hajj to Mecca and describes the cities of Mecca and Medina, as well as Mahomet's tomb. - Title-page a little duststained, with traces of a removed stamp of ownership. Somewhat foxed and brownstained throughout, more pronounced among first and last leaves. Upper margins slightly waterstained near the end. The map of Egypt shows small marginal flaws. Upper joints and extremities professionally restored. A near-contemporary note on the estimated price of the volume by a former owner on front flyleaf. A good copy. Atabey 748. Blackmer 1061. Gay 2105. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 170. Paulitschke 717. Not in Weber.
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