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MIDDLE EAST. CARNE, John.
Letters from the East:
Henry Colburn London. 1826. Second edition. Octavo. Two volumes: pp xvi 352; x 351. Frontispiece with original hand-colouring "Camp of Hasan A Bedouin Chief". Period binding of quarter calf with spine decorated in gilt and in blind leather title- and volume-labels marbled boards and endpapers.Armorial bookplate on the front pastedowns of both volumes. Cover edges just a little rubbed. Very good set attractively bound. Henry Colburn, London. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : MIDDLEEA005663
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MIDDLE EAST - US ARMY.
MCI 02.01 Intelligence Brief: Southwest Asia.
Washington DC & Arlington Virginia: Specialized Skill Training Department Marine Corps Institute 1998 & 1991. Preparing the USMC for desert warfare A scarce set of training and examination manuals with exercise questions completed by an unknown marine. They are a basic introduction designed to familiarize the corps with desert warfare terrain and the cultures and histories of the Middle East. We have traced no records of a two-volume set. The US army had little experience of desert warfare prior to the Gulf War 1990-91. "For many years US doctrine failed to address desert warfare. During World War II US forces suffered heavy losses in the opening phase of the North Africa Campaign 1942-43. Stung by these defeats American forces learned quickly and fared somewhat better later. After the war American military doctrine focused on the defense of Europe and desert warfare was again ignored" Chambers p. 212. Brief is a 10-lesson course "designed to familiarize the student with the terrain weather climate physical environment armed forces and the geopolitical and sociopolitical influences which apply to military operations in the area" p. i. It covers four units: "Introduction" "Military and Paramilitary Forces" "Terrorism" and "Culture Economics and History". Each unit is illustrated and includes a set of exercise questions which in this copy have been filled in. Readings was to be consulted alongside the Culture Economics and History unit of Brief. The 27 articles are mostly by Westerners such as John Bulloch Bruce Kuniholm Edward Mortimer William Polk and Maxime Rodinson. The Lebanese academic Fouad Ajami is an exception as is Palestine-US historian Rosemarie Said Zanian Edward Said's sister. The articles explain Saddam's actions in Iraq the history of Islam the Iranian Revolution Saudi Arabia's oil industry US policy in Palestine and many other crucial areas. Readings is the 1991 first edition of which only six copies are listed on WorldCat in American military institutions. Brief is the 1998 reissue listed with no known locations. 2 vols octavo. Illustrations maps and tables throughout. Original red paper wrappers. Brief: front wrapper lettered in black stapled without rear wrapper; Readings: spine and front wrapper lettered in black. Exercise questions in Brief sometime completed in pen answer key to Unit II exercises excised and loosely inserted answer key to Unit IV exercises missing. Wrappers creased and a little scratched light abrasions to wrapper edges of Readings old adhesive remains to p. 1 of Readings contents bright: a very good set. John Whiteclay Chambers The Oxford Companion to American Military History 2000. unknown
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MIDDLE EAST; WORLD WAR I.
Memorial album of letters and photographs recording the service of 2nd Lieutenant John Graham Wilkinson 1st/4th Battalion the Hampshire Regiment.
India Mesopotamia and Persia: December 1914 - July 1918. I have come to the conclusion that the war out here is much more pukka campaigning than in France An unpublished and otherwise untraced record of the First World War as experienced by an officer serving in India and Mesopotamia and with Dunsterforce in Persia. The album reproduces his animated letters home and over 150 photographs taken while on duty the last letter written just a few days before he was killed in action at Resht. Most of the letters are addressed to Wilkinson's mother Ada Eliza Wilkinson née Machin and the album opens with his formal photographic portrait signed by his mother on the verso of the mount. The first letter dated 22 December 1914 is written onboard an Anchor Line steamer heading to India. His first stop is Port Said "simply crowded with hawkers" - 23 December 1914 where he buys stamps for his brother Miles and the ship passes through the Suez Canal on Christmas Day only one month before Axis attacks on the canal began in earnest. On 11 January he reaches Quetta where he lives in relative comfort and dines with the likes of Lieutenant-General Malcolm Grover G.O.C. 4th Quetta Division. Like many in the war's early stageshe yearns to see some front-line action "We seem awfully out of it here as regards the European war" - undated but early 1915 and must content himself with a month-long officer training course in Karachi. In 1915 the war remained sluggish. He busies himself with training and riding lessons. "I believe quite a lot of Quetta inhabitants were interned at the beginning of the war. There are two suspects left. including Steinle the banker who is certainly a German and openly rejoices whenever the enemy gains a success but the police daren't intern him because of the ladies of Quetta who would not be able to get any cakes if he were taken away" 31 May 1915. In June they spend time at Chasma Tangi one of the main training camps along the north-west frontier and in September he serves as a brigade transport officer at a camp in Gulistan. After a year the magic has worn off. "I wish this awful war would end. I am absolutely sick of the army. Everything will be so different to what it was before the war" 22 September 1915. In October a portion of the battalion is drafted to the Gulf but Wilkinson is not chosen on account of recent sickness much to his disappointment. He has leave at Christmas and uses the opportunity to travel sending many pictures taken with his new camera. January 1916 brings both news of the sinking of SS Persia the fatalities including several family members of officers in Quetta and ongoing uncertainty over the course of the war. "I wonder if the war really will end this year. One argument that we will is that for over a year Germany has been trying to win and over a year we have been trying to lose and neither have succeeded therefore we are bound to win" 20 January 1916. Reports trickle in of friends and comrades killed in action in the Gulf heightening the prospect that more of the Hampshires might be sent west. In August 1916 his opportunity finally comes when headquarters asks for volunteer officers to travel to the Middle East to join territorial units. He leaves by train in September a local general seeing off his party with drinks on the station platform and they arrive in Basra in early October. "Basra is a very interesting place. The mess here is simply packed with officers awaiting orders" 3 October 1916. In November he is assigned to guarding the railway between Sinn and Iman enclosing with his letters pictures of his blockhouse and a sniping picket and over Christmas he endures a number of difficult marches through desert terrain to destroy forts and reposition. "I have come to the conclusion that the war out here is much more pukka campaigning than in France. Here there is a certain amount of movement and it is not a question of living in a trench all day. But if we want a fight we have a good march for it" 12 January 1917. Skirmishes with Turkish forces are common and the British have the upper hand with their artillery: "At 9.30 am on Friday 26th again our artillery started hurling stuff at the Turks and I can tell you I did not envy the poor old Turko the fire was extraordinarily intense and as we found out later extremely effective" 31 January 1917. In February 1917 he is shot by a sniper and hospitalized in Amara Beit Nama and briefly Bombay. India offers a chance for rest and recuperation but by July 1917 he is back in the Middle Eastern theatre. "The rationing here is very good indeed. There is an issue of soda water and every man is allowed two bottles every day. There are also ice factories all over this country" 23 July 1917. Their Rolls Royce armoured cars give them the upper hand in the field while also proving useful for beating game for shooting. In December 1917 he is sent with a detachment from the Hampshires to Persia as part of Dunsterforce and he reports back home as much as he can of the declining state of the Ottoman ranks. Having lost one of his oldest comrades in late June he is killed in action at Resht on 20 July and is buried with military honours in the garden of the Russian consulate. The volume ends with the text of many messages of condolence sent by Wilkinson's senior officers regimental friends and those who knew him back home. The account is illustrated by snapshots of Bombay Quetta and Delhi as well as training daily life and Wilkinson's holidays spent sightseeing in India. In the Middle East his photos record time spent in Basra Amara and Beit Nama. He sends photographs of irrigation wells near Baghdad Basra's thriving coffee scene and a Bristol Scout near Qasr-e Shirin. Several pictures show Wilkinson himself including one taken alongside Brigadier-General Bateman-Champain and another of him in idle mood near brigade headquarters. The later photographs record troop movements. Loosely inserted are three autograph letters from Wilkinson written during the war two to his mother and one to an aunt a postcard and a copy of the British Legion's Service of Remembrance and Dedication 1949. We have traced no other typescript copies of these letters or the manuscript originals. The family also produced a memorial volume for one of Wilkinson's two brothers Geoffrey Miles Wilkinson who was killed in action in late 1917 our stock code 144576. Quarto 255 x 205 mm. Occasional contemporary manuscript annotations. Together 258 typescript sheets each with text one side only 153 mounted photographs with typescript captions mostly gelatin silver snapshots photographic portrait mounted on card. Bound in contemporary black leatherette front cover monogrammed "J.G.W." Binding with some wear typescript sheets toned some photos oxidized as expected foxing and adhesive marks to opening portrait: a very good example. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 156559
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Middle East Research Institute, Middle East
Saudi Arabia RLE Saudi Arabia: MERI Report
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1138846716.G ISBN : 1138846716 9781138846715
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MIDDLE EAST.
Turkey Syria Iraq and Transcaucasia.
London: Geore Philip & Son. 1941. A cartographic representation of the Middle East in wartime centred on the Levant and showing oil pipelines seasonal streams and wadis and transportation routes. Colour lithographed map 540 x 660 mm folding away into green card covers lettered in black. Couple of nicks and creases else fine. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 179626
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MIDDLE EAST.
United Arab Shipping Co. SAG.
Kuwait: United Arab Shipping Company c.1977. First edition first printing of this pamphlet explaining the history structure capacity and services of this newly formed shipping company. It contains many full-page illustrations of ships docks the management board and officers in training. "It is the aim of the company to provide complete reliable and economic shipping freight forwarding and cargo handling services for the vast amount of cargo moving into the area for the development of the Gulf countries and to further their national shipping interests" p. 9. This pamphlet was likely produced in 1977 as it lists ten ships that were "due to be delivered" in 1978. These ships took the total fleet size to 58 ships at time of publication. Oblong folio pp. 32. Full-page illustrations throughout many in colour. Original colour printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers lightly scuffed small tidemarks contents bright: a very good copy. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 178846
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Middle East - Fer, Nicholas de / [Nicolas de Fer]. (1646 - 1720)
Vintage Map of the Middle East: "Turquieen Asie" showing the Aegean Sea The Black Sea with Georgia in the very North of the Map and the showing the whole of Turkey Cyprus Armenia "Turcomanie Armenie" continuing south to Syria and Lebanon with Palestine "Terres Judee" and showing parts of Persia to the east and all the way south to Medina - With a corresponding map along the "Tropic of Cancer" mounted verso: "Asie" Showing the whole of Asia from the Mediterranean to Japan with Borneo Phillipines etc.
1700. Paris c. 1700. Original copper engraved maps. 15.5 cm wide x 13 cm high. Mounted on paper. Very good condition. From a wonderful collection of Maps from an old english library South Shields - with a tiny library stamp to the mounting paper The stamp is NOT on the Map. Nicolas de Fer 1646–25 October 1720 was a French cartographer and geographer. De Fer was the youngest of three sons of Antoine de Fer who was also a cartographer. When he was 12 he became the apprentice of Parisian engraver Louis Spirinx and made his first map of the Canal du Midi at the age of 23. After the death of his father in June 1673 his mother Geneviève initially took over the map making company which had begun to decline. She passed it and the atelier called Quai de L'Horloge on to Nicolas in 1687 because of her old age. De Fer was so successful at improving the firm that in 1690 he became the official geographer to Louis Dauphin of France. With support from the Spanish and French Royal Families de Fer also became official geographer for Philip V and Louis XIV the kings of Spain and France respectively. Because of this his maps became Bourbon propaganda endorsing French King Louis XIV. His business flourished producing town plans atlases wall maps and more than 600 sheet maps. He made maps of places in Europe and North America including New Spain places fortified by Vauban the Low Countries and the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1698 de Fer published a map of North America which included a depiction of beavers building dams near Niagara Falls. Seventeen years later Herman Moll published a map which plagiarized elements of de Fer's work particularly the beaver scene. It became known as the "Beaver map". De Fer became the official geographer for His Catholic Majesty in 1720. Two of his sons-in-law Guillaume Danet and Jaques-François Bénard continued the company after de Fer's death on 25 October of that year until around 1760. Wikipedia unknown
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Middle East - Fer, Nicholas de / [Nicolas de Fer]. (1646 - 1720)
Vintage Map of Iran / Persia: "Perse" showing the whole of Iran from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf of Basra Golfe de Balsora / Persian Gulf.
1700. Paris c. 1700. Original copper engraved maps. 15.5 cm wide x 13 cm high. Mounted on paper. Very good condition. From a wonderful collection of Maps from an old english library South Shields - with a tiny library stamp to the mounting paper The stamp is NOT on the Map. Nicolas de Fer 1646–25 October 1720 was a French cartographer and geographer. De Fer was the youngest of three sons of Antoine de Fer who was also a cartographer. When he was 12 he became the apprentice of Parisian engraver Louis Spirinx and made his first map of the Canal du Midi at the age of 23. After the death of his father in June 1673 his mother Geneviève initially took over the map making company which had begun to decline. She passed it and the atelier called Quai de L'Horloge on to Nicolas in 1687 because of her old age. De Fer was so successful at improving the firm that in 1690 he became the official geographer to Louis Dauphin of France. With support from the Spanish and French Royal Families de Fer also became official geographer for Philip V and Louis XIV the kings of Spain and France respectively. Because of this his maps became Bourbon propaganda endorsing French King Louis XIV. His business flourished producing town plans atlases wall maps and more than 600 sheet maps. He made maps of places in Europe and North America including New Spain places fortified by Vauban the Low Countries and the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1698 de Fer published a map of North America which included a depiction of beavers building dams near Niagara Falls. Seventeen years later Herman Moll published a map which plagiarized elements of de Fer's work particularly the beaver scene. It became known as the "Beaver map". De Fer became the official geographer for His Catholic Majesty in 1720. Two of his sons-in-law Guillaume Danet and Jaques-François Bénard continued the company after de Fer's death on 25 October of that year until around 1760. Wikipedia unknown
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Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin [8 issues]. New York, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1973-1978.
8 volumes. Each volume ca. 100 pp. Issues present are vol. 7, no. 1; vol. 10, nos. 2 and 3; vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2; vol. 12, nos. 1 and 2; vol. 13, no. 1. Also included are 2 volumes of abstracts from the group's conferences, and a booklet on "American Images of Middle East Peoples: impact of the high school". - Some slight wear, otherwise in very good condition.
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Middleton, Henry / Downton, Nicholas.
Sesde reys van de Engelsche Maatschappy, na Oost-Indien [...]. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707.
8vo. (2), 217, (16) pp., final blank page. With engraved title vignette, 1 folding map of the Arabian Peninsula and 7 engraved folding plates. Later marbled boards. First edition. Scarce Dutch translation of the journals of Henry Middleton (d. 1613) and his lieutenant Nicholas Downton (1561-1615) documenting the sixth voyage undertaken by the East India Company, in 1610-12. The ships landed in Aden before continuing to Al-Mukha (Mocha) in Yemen, where Middleton's ship ran aground and had to be refloated. "After an initially friendly reception, the local ruler changed his tune and imprisoned Middleton and his crew on the pretext of their breaking an embargo against Christian shipping. After spending three weeks as prisoners at Mocha, they were taken inland to Ta'iz and then San'a, where the Pasha explained that the arrival of English ships had been resented by the local Muslim traders. Released in February 1611, Middleton and his crew returned to Mocha and sailed on 9 Aug. 1611 for Surat in India" (Howgego). The illustrations include depictions of an English ship exploding in the harbour, as well Middleton in chains in a Mocha jail. - Published as part of Van der Aa's collection "Naaukeeurige versameling der gedenkwaardigste Zee- en Land-Reysen". Somewhat browned and brownstained throughout; folding map slightly frayed; 2 tears to first plate and 2nd plate respectively; small tear to title-page repaired with old tape. Only 3 copies traceable in auction records since 1931. Howgego I, 719; cf. also p. 320. Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum I, 95. Tiele 5. Cat. NHSM I, 107. OCLC 14998184.
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MIGEON (Gaston)
El Oriente Musulman, Museo del Louvre (2 vol.)
Paris, Albert Morancé - Casa Editorial Franco-Ibero-Americana, 1922. 2 albums sous portfolios d’éditeur demi-toile grise à lacets, plats titrés. Vol I - 26 pp. (tables des pl., broché) et 50 pl. de photogravures (manquent les pl. 14 et 16). Vol II - 35 pp. (broché) et 51 pl., certaines en couleurs (Documentos de Arte).
Riferimento per il libraio : 567999
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Mikell, Gwendolyn
African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr. First edition. Trade soft cover. Published Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr. 1997. 8vo. xv361 pages. A very near fine copy. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 1997. Univ of Pennsylvania Pr paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 002331 ISBN : 081221580x 9780812215809
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Mikesell, Raymond, F., Chenery, Hollis B.
Arabian Oil: America's State in the Middle East
1949. Hardcover. Fair. Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 1949 FAIR HB 201 pp corners frayed text off white. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 007487
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Mikusch, Dagobert von.
König Ibn Sa'ud. Das Werden eines Staates. Berlin, Volksverband der Bücherfreunde (Wegweiser-Verlag), 1942.
8vo. 417, (5) pp. With a folding map. Publisher's boards with gilt title to spine. Reissue of this early work on the Saudi Kingdom, previously published by List in Leipzig the same year, in the midst of the Second World War and reflecting the National Socialist geopolitical perspective. Dagobert von Mikusch (1874-1950) wrote popular political biographies, often on Middle Eastern themes, and translated into German T. E. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert", as well as the memoirs of Churchill and Lloyd George. - Includes a bibliography, genealogical table, and a map of the Arabian Peninsula. OCLC 72277438. Not in Macro.
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MILLET (Gabriel) [ss. la dir. de]
L'Art byzantin chez les Slaves. L'ancienne Russie, les Slaves catholiques. Deuxième recueil dédié à la mémoire de Théodore Uspenskij. 1° et 2° parties.
P. Geuthner, 1932. 2 tome en 2 vol. in-4 br., XLVIII-535 (pag. continue), 176 fig. en noir in-t., LXII pl. en noir h.-t.
Riferimento per il libraio : 452292
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Mildenhall, John / Cartwright, John; [Purchas, Samuel (ed.)].
Oost-Indise voyagien van Johan Mildenhal, en Johan Cartwright, onder veel avontuuren en opmerkelijke waarnemingen, (in de jaren 1599 en 1606) te water en te lande, gedaan na de landen van Persien en den Grooten Mogol. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706.
8vo. (2), 54, (6) pp. With engraved title vignette, folding engr. map of Persia and northern Arabia, and 2 double-page-sized engraved plates. Papered spine. First Dutch translation of "The travailes of John Mildenhall" and "Observations of Master John Cartwright" (from "Purchas his Pilgrimes", London, 1625, vol. 1, bk. 3, pp. 114-116, and vol. 2, pp. 1422-1437). The merchant adventurer John Mildenhall, "probably the first Englishman to travel overland to India" (Howgego I, 719), spent six months in Constantinople before, in July 1600, departing for Aleppo, proceeding to Bir, Urfa, Diabekr, Sultanieh, Qazvin, and ultimately Lahore. He returned to England in 1605/06. The English preacher John Cartwright accompanied him from Aleppo to Kashan in Persia, then proceeded to Esfahan alone "and travelled widely in the Middle East. The account of his journeys is one of the most valuable of the period" (Howgego I, 197). Tiele 5. Muller (Books, maps, plates on America) 1890f. Alden 707/2. J. C. Brown cat. III, 88. OCLC 746499809, 69110890.
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Miles, Samuel Barrett.
The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf. London, Harrison and Sons, 1920.
4to. 2 vols. (12), 264 pp. (4), 265-643 pp., final blank. With frontispiece portrait and 8 photographic plates. Contemporary stamped cloth with cover and spine titles. Second printing of the equally scarce 1919 first edition of this notable work of travel literature by the British Army officer S. B. Miles, who served as a diplomat in various Arabic-speaking countries, notably Oman, which he came to know better than any other European of the time. His intent to revise the notes he had "jotted down on odd bits of paper as he rode through the desert on his camel" (Preface) was rendered impossible due to his failing eyesight. Five years after his death his widow decided to publish the manuscript as she found it, enriching it with Miles's travelogue of Mesopotamia as well as an index. The work includes the political and economic history of Oman and the Gulf as well as the history and geography of Dhofar, Arab tribes, and pearl fishing. The plates show the forts at Bahila, Yabreen, and Rostak, as well as the house of Seyyid Hamed Bin Azzar at Rostak, a group of locals, and date palms, while the frontispiece depicts Miles resting in a chair wearing his sunglasses. - Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, cockling to upper cover of vol. 2, rebacked. A good copy of this popular work that saw re-issues in 1966 and 1994. Cf. Ghani 250 (1966 reprint only).
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Military History & Information Section, AIF. (Middle East). A. I.
Active Service with Australia in the Middle East.
Australian War Memorial 1941. 1941. 129p. Photos. Maps. Illustrations. Color plates. Tan cloth. Oversize. Owner's name. Very Good copy. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Australian War Memorial, 1941. Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 69-771B
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Military History & Information Section AIF. Middle East. A. I.
Active Service with Australia in the Middle East.
Australian War Memorial 1941. 1941. 129p. Photos. Maps. Illustrations. Color plates. Tan cloth. Oversize. Exlib. Number inked on spine. Corners worn. Good copy. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Book. Australian War Memorial, 1941. Hardcover
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MILLARD, Alan.:
Treasures from Bible Times.
Tring: Lion Books1985. 1st ed. New light on ancient documents. The archeologists. The dramatic discoveries. 24.5cms x 20cms. Pp.189 colour illustrations and maps throughout illustrated endpapers. Black cloth illustrated d/w small tear to bottom edge. VG/VG. Tring: Lion Books,1985. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 3998
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Miller David
Conflict Iraq Weapons and Tactics of the US and Iraqi Forces
St. Paul Minn.: MBI Publishing Co. 2003. 2 1/2" straight verticle slit from bottom edge on rear cover publisher's price written in ink on top corner of half title page. 128 pages. First Of This Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MBI Publishing Co. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 011622 ISBN : 0760315922 9780760315927
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MILLER Donald E. and MILLER Lorna Touryan
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope
Berkeley: University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0520234928 . Black and white photographs by Jerry Berndt. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of California Press hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 33272 ISBN : 0520234928 9780520234925
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Miller John & Kirsten editors
Chronicle Abroad: Istanbul
<p>San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1995 1st ed. 190pp. hardback 16mo: Fine in a Fine dj. A small size anthology of tales about Istanbul featuring 16 contributors ranging from Joseph Brodsky to Gore Vidal.</p> San Francisco: Chronicle Books hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 24014 ISBN : 0811808238 9780811808231
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MILLER, Donald E. and MILLER, Lorna Touryan.
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0520234928 . Black and white photographs by Jerry Berndt. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of California Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 33272 ISBN : 0520234928 9780520234925
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MILLER, Donald E. and Miller, Lorna Touryan
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope
University of California Press 2003. hbk 177pp illutr with photographs by Jerry Berndt excellent in dj as new University of California Press, 2003 unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : Arm2 ISBN : 0520234928 9780520234925
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Miller, Donald E.; Miller, Lorna Touryan
ARMENIA: Portraits of Survival and Hope
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 2003. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people this book documents in words and pictures the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs it brings together firsthand testimony about the social economic and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during the 1980s and 1990s when the country faced an earthquake pogroms and war. At times shocking and deeply emotional Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope is a story of extreme suffering and hardship a searching look at the fight for independence and an exceptionally complex portrait of the human spirit. A companion to the Millers' highly acclaimed work Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide which documented the genocide of 1915 this book focuses on four groups of people: survivors of the earthquakes that devastated northwestern Armenia in 1988; refugees from Azerbaijan who fled Baku and Sumgait because of pogroms against them; women children and soldiers who were affected by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh; and ordinary citizens who survived several winters without heat because of the blockade against Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The Millers' narrative situates these accounts contextually and thematically but the voices of individuals remain paramount. The Millers also describe their personal experiences in repeated research trips inviting us to look beyond the headlines and think beyond the circumstances of our own lives as they bring contemporary Armenia to life. With a section of black-and-white photographs by Jerry Berndt. Fine first edition first printing in good some scrapes to back jacket else fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFBS1 <br/> <br/> University of California Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 11158 ISBN : 0520234928 9780520234925
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Miller, Jen
Inheriting The Holy Land: An American's Search For Hope In The Middle East
Ballantine Books 2005. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. <br/> <br/> Ballantine Books hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 342627 ISBN : 0345469240 9780345469243
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MILLER, Max.:
Introducing the Holy Land.
Macon Ga USA: Mercer University Press 1982. 1st ed. "Summarizes the basics of biblical geography and history explaining how it all fits into the broader context of the ancient and modern Middle East. Explains the roots of the modern Arab-Israel conflict and reviews developments through 1982." Pp.9/190 with 44 maps and illustrations owner's name to fep. P/b with illustrated cover. VG. Macon, Ga, USA: Mercer University Press, 1982. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 13567
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Miller, William.
The Least of All Lands: Seven Chapters on the Topography of Palestine in Relation to its History.
London Blackie & Son 1888. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. 248 32 publisher's catalogue. With 4 single-page maps; footnotes. HARDCOVER bound in the original publisher's turquoise cloth decorated in black spine gilt lettered bit rubbed; some pencil underlining. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. "When I visited Palestine I had no thought of writing a book about it" Opens Miller Principle of the Madras Christian College and Fellow of the University of Madras his foreword to the book. "I found somewhat to my surprise that . an ordinary visitor who tries to observe for himself can still do something to promote a better understanding of its topography and history." In his excellent study he concentrates on the Biblical places Michmash Elah Gilboa and Shiloh and the rich history that is connected with them. Previously in the collection of the Dutch Institute for the Near East with a bookplate to that effect inside cover and a stamp to verso of title-page. F-5 OUT <br/> <br/> London, Blackie & Son hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 0786
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Milsom, John
Russian Tanks 1900 - 1970: The Complete Illustrated History of Soviet Armoured Theory and Design
Galahad Books 1970. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only no tears. 192 pages heavily illustrated with b&w photos throughout maps large quantities of technical information. Contents include: Kegresse haf-traars Vezdekhod Gulikevich's armoured vehicle Tsar tank Reno Russkiy projects Early Societ designs Refinements to the KS tank GUVP Ms light tank Kazan tank school 1931 / 2 tank program Light tanks T-27 T-26 T-46 T-30 T-40T-50 T-60 BT series Heavy tanks KV-I KV-II KV-1A KV-1B KV-1C Self-propelled weapons Tracked supporting vehecles etc. Keywords: KS tank GUVP Ms light tank Kazan tank school 1931 / 2 tank program Light tanks T-27 T-26 T-46 T-30 T-40 T-50 T-60 BT series Heavy tanks KV-I KV-II KV-1A KV-1B KV-1C Self-propelled weapons Tracked supporting vehecles Galahad Books hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 150176 ISBN : 0883650525 9780883650523
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Milton Singer
Krishna: Myths Rites And Attitudes -
1966. Soft Cover. Fair. PB/pub.1966/Fair condition/271 pages - Krishna myths rites and attitudes. TI335889 paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 35889
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Milton-Edwards, Beverley;Hinchcliffe, Peter
Conflicts in the Middle East Since 1945
Routledge 2004. Trade Paperback. Fine. <br/> <br/> Routledge paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 342287 ISBN : 0415317878 9780415317870
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Minadoi, Giovanni Tommaso.
Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani. Venice, Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi, 1588.
4to. (32), 383, (29) pp. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title. Second edition, including the events of the year 1586 and a letter to M. Corrado about the fortress of Tauris. Minadoi, an eye-witness who spent seven years in the Middle East, describes the 1577-1585 war between Persia and the Ottoman Empire, in which the latter acquired the Caucasus. His first-hand account is a valuable historical source, as his his description of Persia. The map shows Asia Minor and the Near East, as well as Persia as far as Afghanistan. Arabia is shown as far south as the Peninsulas of Qatar and Musandam. - Occasional browning and very slight foxing and waterstaining; a few contemporary underlinings. 18th century owner's woodcut crest mounted on title page next to device; binding repaired at spine. Edit 16, CNCE 31426. Adams M 1455. Atabey 816. Göllner 1830 (no mention of the map). Yerasimos 324. Not in Blackmer.
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MIQUEL (André)
La géographie humaine du monde musulman jusqu'au milieu du XIe siècle.
Parie, Mouton & Cie, 1967 In-8 broché, 420 pp., bibliographie, appendices, index géographique, historique, des termes étrangers. Epuisé chez l'éditeur.
Riferimento per il libraio : 593284
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MIQUEL André (traduit par)
Les dames de Bagdad, conte des mille et une nuits. Suivi de La nébuleuse du conte.
Couverture souple. Broché. 156 pages. Couverture légèrement défraîchie.
Riferimento per il libraio : 69829
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Miquel André
Ousâma: Un prince syrien face aux croisés
Fayard 1986 201 pages 14x2x21cm. 1986. broché. 201 pages.
Riferimento per il libraio : 11037
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Mireaux Emile
Reine Bérénice
Albin Michel 1951 In-8 broché 21 cm sur 13. 252 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Riferimento per il libraio : 97667
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Mir Khvand, Muhammad ibn Khavandshah / Wilken, Friedrich (ed.).
Mohammedi filii Chondschahi vulgo Mirchondi Historia Gasnevidarum persice. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1832.
Small folio (230 x 286 mm). XVI, 280, (2) pp. Contemporary boards with printed spine label. First edition of the History of the Ghasnevids by the Persian historian Mir Khwand (ca. 1434-98), part of the author's famous "Rawzat al-Safa". Persian text followed by a Latin translation by Friedrich Wilken, professor at Heidelberg. The Turkoman dynasty of the Ghasnevids ruled in Afghanistan and northern India between 975 and 1186 CE, when they were conquered by the Persian Ghurids. - Fairly strong foxing throughout; some buckling to lower spine-end. Untrimmed, wide-margined copy from the collection of the Protestant bishop of Bavaria, Friedrich Veit (1861-1948), with his ownership stamp to the front flyleaf. Old stamps of the Strasbourg National and University Library (deaccessioned as a duplicate). Rare; no other copy in auction records. Zenker I, 877. Schwab 387. Strout 206. OCLC 6906577.
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Miralai, Ahmad
Isfahan: The Living Museum
Photos by RezaNoor Bakhtiar, plan, text in Arabic and English. eng
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MIRCEA ELIADE.
Dinin anlami ve sosyal fonksiyonu. Translated by Mehmet Aydin.
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. [x], 193 p. Dinin anlami ve sosyal fonksiyonu. Bu kitap'da Eliade, "din" gibi, toplumun en temel kurumlarindan biri üzerinde çalisanlara metodolojik yönden yeni perspektifler göstermekle birlikte; "din"i, toplumda görülen tezahürlerinden sadece biriyle açiklayanlara da gerekli dersi vermektedir. Eliade, "Kutsalin Tecrübesi" üzerinde derin tahlillere girerek, ilk insanin "Dindar Adam" oldugunu ve "Kutsalin diyalektiginin" bütün diyalektik hareketlerden önce geldigini ve onlara modellik görevi yaptigini, bu kitapta ifade etmeye çalismaktadir. HISTORY OF RELIGIONS.
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MIRCEA ELIADE.
Dinler tarihine giris.= [Traitê d'histoire des religions]. Translated by Lale Arslan.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 455 p. Dinler tarihine giris.= [Traitê d'histoire des religions]. Mircea Eliade'nin bu kitabinin merkezinde iki temel soru var: Din nedir ve hangi asamada bir din tarihinden söz edebiliriz? Eliade bu sorularin aydinlatilabilmesi için kutsalin belli sayida tezahürünün incelenmesi gerektigini düsünüyor. Bu yüzden de incelemesine gök, su, yer, taslar gibi kutsalin farkli kozmik düzlemlerde ortaya konulan yüzlerini irdelemekle basliyor; ardindan ayin halleri, günes, bitkiler ve tarim, cinsellik gibi kutsalin mekanla ilgili tezahürlerini, son olarak da mitleri ve simgeleri inceliyor. Yazarin her bölümde kendine özgü bir çerçeve olusturdugu ve kimi zaman da didaktik olmanin tekdüzeligini asmak üzere her bölümde kendine özgü bir üslup gelistirdigi görülüyor. Kitabin farkli basliklari arasinda gezinen okuyucu kutsalin yapisi üzerinde düsünme olanagi buluyor. Eliade'nin Dinler Tarihine Giris'i tek tek dinleri ele alin inceleyen bir kitap degil, "ilkel" ve "gelismis" din biçimlerini eszamanli olarak inceleyerek tüm dinlerdeki ortak ögeleri ortaya koyan ve insanin kutsal ile iliskisini çözümleyen bir çalisma. Bu kitap bize dinsel inançlar ve düsünceler tarihine nasil yaklasmamiz gerektigini ögretiyor.
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Mirza Shafi Vazeh / Bodenstedt, Friedrich von (transl.).
Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffy's. Neues Liederbuch. Berlin, A. Hofmann & Comp. (Stich und Druck von L. C. Zamarsky in Wien), (1873).
4to (175 x 221 mm). (III)-XIIV, (15)-217, (1) pp. Text printed within elaborate coloured and gilt borders in the decorative orientalist style. Publisher's full cloth, sumptuously decorated and gilt, floral endpapers. All edges red. Silk divider. First edition of this German translation of Vazeh's poems. - Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794-1852) was a classical Azerbaijani poet in both Persian and his native Caucasus language. Beginning in 1850, the German poet Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819-92), who took oriental language lessons from him, published translations of Vazeh's poems. - Sumptuously produced in the oriental style by the renowned Viennese press of Ludwig Carl Zamarski. Lacks the half-title, otherwise perfect. OCLC 72064332.
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MISSAKIAN (J.)
A Searchlight on the Armenian Question (1878-1950).
Boston, Hairenik Publishing, 1950. In-8, rel. d'éditeur toile noire, VIII-154 pp., texte anglais, carte dépliante en frontispice.
Riferimento per il libraio : 556624
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Misha Klein, Editor -
September 11 : An Anthology -
2001. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.2001/Gd. condition/612 pages - An Anthology of the Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11 2001. KN43720z paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 3720z
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Mittwoch, Eugen.
Proelia Arabum paganorum (Ajjâm al 'Arab) quomodo litteris tradita sint. Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1899.
4to. 44, (4) pp., interleaved throughout. Contemporary marbled half cloth with giltstamped spine label. Dissertation of Eugen Mittwoch (1876-1942), the groundbreaking German scholar who is considered one of the founders of modern Islamic Studies, about the chronicles of the Arabic wars. This constitutes the author's first academic foray into Arabic studies. - Old ink library shelfmark on verso of title page, otherwise fine. NDB XVII, 591. NYPL Arabia coll. 32. Cf. GAL S I, 162.
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MODI (Jivanji Jamshedji)
Anthropological papers. Part IV, Papers read before the Anthropological Society of Bombay and other kindred societies and institutions.
Bombay, The British India Press, 1929. In-8 rel. pleine toile verte éditeur, titre doré au dos et plat sup., XVI-239-XVI pp., index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 517461
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MODI (Jivanji Jamshedji)
Anthropological papers. Papers (mostly on parsee subjects) read before the Anthropological Society of Bombay by...
Bombay, The British India Press, [1911]. In-8 rel. pleine percaline verte éditeur, titre doré au dos et plat sup., XIV-365-XXI pp., index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 517644
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MODI (Jivanji Jamshedji)
Anthropological papers. Part II. Papers read before the Anthropological Society of Bombay by...
Bombay, The British India Press, 1918. In-8 rel. éditeur pleine toile verte, titre doré au dos et au plat sup., X-369 pp., index.
Riferimento per il libraio : 520122
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Modeen, Mirza Itesa (Itsam al-Din, Mirza) / Alexander, James Edward (transl.).
Shigurf namah-i-velaët, or, excellent intelligence concerning Europe: being the travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen in Great Britain and France. London, James Duncan for John Taylor, 1827.
8vo. XI, (1), 233, (1) pp. With a lithogr. frontispiece in original hand colour. Contemporary auburn calf with giltstamped rules to boards; leading edges gilt; spine rebacked. All edges gilt. First edition of this account of a Middle Eastern civil servant's visit to Britain in 1765, translated from the original Persian manuscript by James Edward Alexander. Born in India, Itesa Modeen learned Persian and entered the service of the British. When Shah Alam wanted to send letters and gifts to King George III in England it was decided that these would be taken by a British army officer, accompanied by Modeen as his translator and secretary. Modeen wrote a record of his journey recording the sights he saw and the excited reactions of Londoners to the unusual sight of a high class "Hindoostanee" (as he called himself) visitor. It was not until some 60 years later that his manuscript account was translated and published. The Mirza spent about almost three years on his trip to Europe, staying mostly in London but also visiting Scotland and Oxford, before returning to his native India. - Insignificant foxing to title and final leaf. From the library of Sir Richard Strachey (1817-1908), the Indian administrator and father of Lytton Strachey (his engr. armorial bookplate to pastedown); later in the collection of Christopher Jower (bookplate to flyleaf). OCLC 8868736.
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Modiano, Colette
Turkish Coffee and the Fertile Crescent
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to spine ends. 189pp. Travel and history from the author - wanderings through the Lebanon, Mesopotamia, Israel, Jordan and Syria.
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