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Weir, James.
[Turkey: Constantinople]. 3 watercolors. Constantinople, March 1806.
1) 260:340 mm. 2) 260:350 mm. 3) 260:360 mm. James Weir (d. 1820) was Captain of Marines on HMS Audacious from 1795 to 1800, and was also an accomplished watercolourist. His drawings show 1) "The Seraglio from the Marmora March 1806", 2) "The Seraglio at Constantinople from the harbour", and "7 towers Constantinople 19 March 1806".
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Weir, James.
Collection of 28 topographical and naval views. N. p., [1790s-1810s].
Watercolour on paper, some on 2 sheets, mounted (sizes approximately from 155 x 230 to 300 x 480 mm), some with inscription or sketches on verso, most with captions either mounted, laid down or written directly on image. James Weir (d. 1820) was Captain of Marines on HMS Audacious from 1795 to 1800, and was also an accomplished watercolourist. Some of the earliest watercolours in this group were produced when the Audacious was on patrol off the Portuguese coast in 1796. Others were painted in the months leading up to the Battle of the Nile, when the Audacious was part of Nelson's squadron searching for the French fleet off the Italian coast after it had escaped from Toulon. Others were painted in the months leading up to the Battle of the Nile, when the Audacious was part of Nelson's squadron searching for the French fleet off the Italian coast after it had escaped from Toulon. He also depicted Nelson's flagship, HMS Vanguard, anchored at Naples Bay for repairs in October 1798, when he first met Emma Hamilton. Also shown are views of Syracuse and surrounding area, the Valley of Temples at Agrigento, Catania and Mount Etna, the Temple of Venus at Baia, the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, the interior of the Temple of Concord, Mount Nuovo and Pozzuoli near Naples, the Temple of Ceres at Segesta, Convent of St. Nicolo Argentum, the Iron Mine of Elba. The fleet at Palermo is also depicted, where Nelson had accompanied the royal court of the Two Sicilies after they fled Naples. - Very minor scattered tears or repairs, a few restored or trimmed, light staining or spotting.
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WEISSMAN, STEVE - KROSNEY, HERBERT
LA BOMBA ISLAMICA (TIT. ORIG.: THE ISLAMIC BOMB). TRAD. DI ALDA CARRER. PRIMA EDIZIONE ITALIANA.
IN-8°, PP. 515 (7), ILL. IN NERO N.T., CART. EDIT., SOVR. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), LEGGERISSIME BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO, LEGGERE BRUNITURE AL RISG. ANT. E AL FOGLIO DI GUARDIA VOLANTE ANT., STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE: MOLTO BUONO (VG/F), (I JUMBO). M 690
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Weizmann, Ch[aim].
Zionist Policy. An Address [...] Sunday, September 21st, 1919. London, English Zionist Federation, [1919].
8vo. 27, (1) pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. A speech by Weizmann, director of the British ammunition laboratory until 1919, who became president of the World Zionist Organization in 1921, given at a Zionist conference in London. Weizmann was elected the first president of the newly founded state of Israel in 1949. - Wrappers a little brownstained, paper slightly foxed in places. OCLC 12959743.
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Weiß, Victor Edler von Starkenfels / Schwarzhuber, Theodor Ritter von.
Kej-Kawus in Masenderan. Aus dem Schahname des Ebu'l Kasim Manßur el Firdewsi. Metrisch übersetzt [...]. Vienna, (Strauß' widow for) Braumüller & Seidel, 1841.
8vo. XXX, 177, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers with oriental-style vine pattern. German verse translation of the famous work of Persian poetry by the oriental scholar Weiß (1818-86), a graduate of the Austrian Oriental Academy, in collaboration with Schwarzhuber, another graduate of the Academy and an interpreter for the Austrian embassy to Constantinople since 1841. Dedicated to Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher. - Binding loosened; block broken after p. 48. Somewhat foxed. Publisher's record copy with the bookplate of Vienna's L. W. Seidel & Sohn publishing house to inside of upper cover. Zenker I, 65, 540. Wurzbach LIV, 144.
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Weiß, Victor Edler von Starkenfels.
Die kaiserlich-königliche orientalische Akademie zu Wien, ihre Gründung, Fortbildung und gegenwärtige Einrichtung. Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1839.
8vo. VIII, 120 pp. Contemporary green full cloth with giltstamped spine title. The first essay about the Oriental Academy founded by Maria Theresa in 1753/54, "producing detailed information about this important institution" (cf. Wurzbach), with specimens in Turkish, Arabic and Persian types. Weiß (1818-86), who studied at the Academy himself, "deserves our gratitude, as he tells of several famous Austrian orientalists and statesmen who emerged from this institution" (ibid.). The appendix includes the essays "Denkschrift des türkischen Gesandten Ebubekr Ratib Efendi, vom Jahre 1792", "Gedichte bei der Feier des fünfzigsten Jahrestages von der Errichtung der k. k. Akademie der morgenländischen Sprachen [...]", "Reden bei Gelegenheit der Allerhöchsten Vermählung weil. Sr. k. k. apostolischen Majestät Franz des Ersten mit Ihrer königlichen Hoheit Maria Ludovica Beatrix Erzherzoginn von Oesterreich", "Denkschrift des persischen Gesandten Mirsa Abdul Hussein Chan vom Jahre 1819", and "Bedingungen der Aufnahme in die k. k. orientalische Akademie". - Bookplate of the Albertina collection and later bookplate of the Viennese journalist and writer Vinzenz Chiavacci (1847-1916) to front pastedown. Gugitz 4363. Slg. Mayer IV, 3506. Wurzbach LIV, 144. Not in Slg. Eckl.
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Wells, Edward
Historical Geography of the Old Testament in Three Volumes
London: James Knapton 1711. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo panelled calf covers detached; x-libris Society of Biblical Archaeology London. <br/><br/>Folding maps. James Knapton hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 4847
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Wellsted, J[ames] R[aymond].
Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a Voyage to the Coast of Arabia, and a Tour on the Island of Socotra. London, Henry Colburn, 1840.
Large 8vo. 2 vols. XIII, (3), 405, (1) pp. VIII, 347, (1) pp. With 2 lithogr. frontispieces and a folding map of the Arabian Peninsula. Contemp. blindstamped cloth with gilt title to spine. Only edition. One of the best English 19th-c. accounts of Arabia and the Gulf. Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to the surveying of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman, undertaken on a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. On board the surveying ship Palinurus he was the first European to set foot in the interior of Oman. Starting late in 1835 from the easternmost point of Oman, Wellsted made his way westward through the Ja`alan region to the Wahibah Sands and then struck north up the Wadi Batha to Samad. There he was joined by Lieutenant F. Whitelock, also of the Indian Navy, who had set out from Muscat later. Together they reached Nazwa, the ancient capital of Oman, and climbed the lower slopes of the Jabal al-Akhdhar, in central Oman. In January 1836 they arrived on the Al-Batinah coast and then turned west, recrossing the Hajar mountains and emerging on the edge of the Dhaharah, the rocky steppe that stretches west toward the Rub` al-Khali. - Bindings rubbed; spines rebacked. Interior somewhat foxed as common. Removed from the Worcester Public Library. Rare; the Peter Hopkirk copy fetched £3,500 at Sotheby's (Oct 14, 1998, lot 1192). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2283. Howgego III, 635. Weber I, 67. Wilson 242. Henze IV, 476. Not in Gay, Blackmer, or Ghani.
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Welsch (Velschius), Georg Hieronymus (ed.).
Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus sive Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni. Nunc primum editae è Bibliotheca, cujus accedit Dissertatio, de earundem usu. Augsburg, Johann Schönigk f. Theophil Göbel, 1676.
Small 4to. (14), 137, (19) pp. With engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved plates by Melchior Haffner. Contemporary calf. First facsimile edition of any oriental manuscript. 16 of the 22 finely engraved plates show a Persian perpetual calendar with Ottoman Turkish "commentarius" and floral borders. Welsch had acquired the ms. from Christoph Weikmann's Kunstkammer in Ulm. The remaining six plates are concerned with Arabian astronomy: astrolabe, orrery, zodiac, circular table of Sundays and names of the months in various languages. - The calculation of this calendar is today attributed to the 9th-c. Persian mathematician Wafâ al Buzjâni (cf. BSB München; Humboldt-Universität Berlin). The predominant attribution to one Turkish Sheikh Wafâ had been disputed by Babinger as early as 1927. Abu'l-Wafâ al Buzjâni is regarded as "the last great representative of the mathematics-astronomy school that arose around the beginning of the ninth century, shortly after the founding of Baghdad" (DSB I, 39). His astronomic oeuvre is preserved merely in fragments. The calligraphic commentary, however, is Turkish and (according to Babinger) was prepared by a 17th-c. magistrate, 'Ajn-i 'Alî Mueddinzâde. - Welsch (1624-77) was a physician and "a researcher of the very first magnitude [...] while the works of this polymath were mainly dedicated to the Arabian and Persian sciences, he also has provided proof of his close study of Ottoman Turkish. In this connexion, his important 'Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus' must be cited" (cf. Babinger 1919). Welsch's "Dissertatio" (with Arabic typeface) is aimed at the usefulness of the calendar for relative oriental chronology: he also compares the works of Schall von Bell and Andreas Müller on Chinese astronomy and chronology. - Bookplate of South Library on front pastedown. Occasionally browned. Zenker, Bibliotheca Orientalis I, 1077. Schnurrer 465. Babinger, Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen (1927), 116 & 141. Babinger, Die türkischen Studien in Europa, in: Die Welt des Islams VII, 1919, 117. Not in Balagna, L'Imprimerie Arabe en Europe.
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WERKMEISTER (Walter)
Quellenuntersuchungen zum Kitab al'Iqd al-farid des Andalusiers Ibn 'Abdrabbih (246/860-328/940). Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte.
Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 1983. Fort in-8 br., 551 pp., bibliographie, index. Texte en allemand.
Riferimento per il libraio : 595528
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Werdecker, Josef.
A contribution to the geography and cartography of north-west Yemen (based on the results of the exploration by Eduard Glaser, undertaken in the years 1882-1884). Cairo, l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1939.
8vo. (2), 160 pp. With a portrait of Eduard Glaser, 8 numbered plates and 2 large folding maps. Later half cloth, with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. First separate publication (offprint) of "an extremely important article" (Smith) on the geography of north-west Yemen, based on the results of the unpublished journals of Eduard Glaser, who explored a region that still had to be visited by any other European. It includes a history of exploration of the region, a biography of Glaser, a description of the expedition of his expeditions and two large maps of region (the second a version of the same map in Arabic). The article was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte XX. - A very good copy. Smith, The Yemens 40. Cf. Macro 2288.
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WEST MORRIS L..
La nuova Babele.
In 8°, t.t. edit. con sovrac. ill., pp. 373,(3); prima ed., copia molto buona. (z010/a/d)
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Weston, Stephen.
Remains of Arabic in the Spanish and Portuguese Languages. With a Sketch by Way of Introduction of the History of Spain, From the Invasion to the Expulsion of the Moors [...]. London, S. Rousseau, 1810.
8vo. 186, (2) pp. Modern library cloth. Only edition: an early study of the substantial traces which Arabic and other oriental languages left on the Spanish and Portuguese lexicon: Includes two copious word lists. The English antiquarian, clergyman and linguist Stephen Weston (1747-1830) also produced, in 1802, the earliest English translation of the Greek text of the Rosetta Stone. - Inscribed "From the Author" on the half-title. Spine faded. Removed from the Jews' College, London (a rabbinical seminary now known as the London School of Jewish Studies), with remains of a spine label and their several cancelled stamps. OCLC 224972497. Not in Vater/Jülg.
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WETTERLE (Abbé E.);
En SYRIE avec le Général Gouraud.
Flammarion Paris 1924 1 vol. In-12 de 248 pp., demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné.
Riferimento per il libraio : 15511
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WHITTING (P. D.)
Monnaies byzantines.
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1973. Fort in-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile bleu nuit sous jaq. ill., 311 pp., 457 ill. phot. de médailles en noir et en coul., appendices, index. (L'Univers des Monnaies").
Riferimento per il libraio : 521941
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Whigham, H[enry] J[ames].
The Persian Problem. An examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad Railway. London, Isbister and Co., 1903.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power." Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. - Ink ownership stamp of Charles C. Sterrett, an American Presbyterian missionary to the Christian population in the region, to the front pastedown. Binding a little rubbed and spotted, endpapers foxed. Small inked library stamp and cancellation to the title page, otherwise very good. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
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Whigham, H[enry] J[ames].
The Persian Problem. An examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad Railway. London, Isbister and Co., 1903.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power". Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to Play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
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White, George Ransom.
Polish vs. Egyptian Arabian Horses / Polski Arabski kon a Egipski. My Visit to Polish State Stud / Moja Wizyta w Polskim Stadzie Panstwowym. Nashville, George Random White, [1938].
4to. 24 pp., including two black-and-white plates. Text in English and Polish. Bound in printed card covers as issued. Sole edition of this extremely rare publication, printed for private circulation, describing with great excitement the Polish programme of Arabian horse-breeding in the 1930s. On the eve of WWII, Dr George White visited the Polish State Stud and provides an invaluable record of the horses kept there, listing the stallions and mares he saw by name, as well as the names of those recently deceased. In 1939-40, many of Poland's prized Arabians were confiscated by the Russian and German armies, virtually demolishing the breeding programme in that country. - White had travelled the world comparing Arabian horses, having visited Egypt already in 1929 for that purpose, but was awestruck by what he discovered in Poland: "I had seen Arabian horses on four of the five continents of the world, but never before had such an Arabian horse display been exhibited before me ... The Polish Arab is superior in all material respects to the Egyptian". The plate at the end depicts "the author's conception of the world's two greatest living Arabian stallions - Kaszimir and Ofir", belonging to Prince Witold Czartoryski and to the Polish State Stud respectively, and White offers the prediction that "the day is not far distant when the countries of the world will be looking toward Poland for suitable foundation stock in the form of mares and stallions to either start or improve their Arabian horse breeding projects". - George Ransom White (b. 1874) was a friend and advisor to General Jacob M. Dickinson (1890-1963), the owner of Travellers Rest Stud in Nashville, TN. Dickinson began to import Polish Arabians in 1938 following Dr White's advice. - Rare: OCLC shows two copies worldwide, at the National Library of Poland and the British Library.
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Wiedemann, Eilhard / Hauser, Fritz.
Über die Uhren im Bereich der islamischen Kultur. Halle, Ehrhardt Karras für die Akademie in Kommission bei Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, 1915.
Folio. 272 pp. With 136 text illustrations. Modern half cloth with gilststamped spine title. Study of mediaeval Arabic clock-making techniques, based on published works and unpublished Arabic manuscripts. - Perfectly preserved in a modern private library binding. OCLC 4703118. Nova Acta: Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. C Nr. 5.
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Wietz, J. K.
Sitten, Gebräuche und Trachten der Bewohner des osmanischen und türkischen Reiches. Prague, Bohmann, 1828.
8vo. 181, (3) pp., final blank f. With 20 engraved plates in original hand colour. Contemporary boards. First edition, issued in ten separate instalments. An entire chapter is dedicated to the Wahhabi Bedouin Arabs, their customs and costumes. The charming engravings in vibrant original hand colour are based on Castellan's 1812 "Moeurs", each plate containing several meticulous costume illustrations. - Spine sunned. Contemporary ownership "S. M. Mayer zu Klagenfurt" on title page; additional (partly deleted) ownership on flyleaf. Very clean altogether. Rare. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 1333. OCLC 255511974. Not in Lipperheide, Colas, or Hiler.
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WILLEMART H. et P.
DOSSIER DU MOYEN-ORIENT ARABE géographie, économie, politique
1969 broché (paperback) in-octavo, dos et première de couverture ornés d'une illustration photographique en couleurs (spine and front cover illustrated in colour), illustrations hors-texte - les cartes (maps) sont de Willy Rousseau et Fils, 352 pages, 1969 à Paris Marabout Université,
Riferimento per il libraio : 2655
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Willemart Pierre
Pour Jérusalem, Croisade Et Djihâd, 1099-1187
Felin 1988 In-8 broché 20,5 cm sur 14,2. 397 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Riferimento per il libraio : 115774
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WILSON (N.G.)
Scholars of Bizantium.
London, Duckworth, 1983. In-8 broché, 283 pp., index. Ouvrage en anglais.
Riferimento per il libraio : 585735 ISBN : 715617419
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WILKINSON T. J
Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia: Vol. I: Settlement and Land Use at Kurban Hoyuk and Other Sites in the Lower Karababa Basin
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0918986648 . Oriental Institute Publications Volume 109. Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 23791 ISBN : 0918986648 9780918986641
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WILLEMART, H. e P.
Dossier du Moyen-Orient arabe. Geographie, économie, politique
350, [2] pp., ill. in nero e a colori f.t.; 19 cm. Mezza tela artigianale, tit. in oro al dorso. Poche sottolineature a matita nel testo
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Willmet, Johannes.
Oratio de retinenda antiqua Batavorum in literis orientalibus gloria. Publice habita die 26 Novembris a. 1804. Amsterdam, ex typographia Civitatis Amstelaedamensis, 1805.
Large 4to (210 x 250 mm). (4), VII, (1), 64 pp. Original half calf over marbled boards and giltstamped spine and title lable. Only printing of this oration on the great contributions made by Dutch scholars to the study of oriental languages, delivered by the Amsterdam professor Willmet (1750-1835) on 26 November 1804. A student of Everard Scheidius, Willmet also produced a valuable Arabic dictionary in 1784 (cf. Smitskamp, PO 317). - Old library shelfmarks to upper cover and front pastedown. A little browned and brownstained near the end, otherwise well preserved; a good, wide-margined copy. OCLC 64504237.
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Willyams, Cooper.
[A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure. With a description of the Battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798]. [London, J. White, 1802].
Folio (ca. 350 x 493 mm). 17 aquatint plates in original hand colour and one double-page-sized aquatint map of the Mediterranean in original hand colour, all with captions in English. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title and 2 floral ornaments to spine. Marbled endpapers. Collection of 18 of the 43 illustrations from the account of the voyage of HMS Swiftsure and the Battle of the Nile by the British clergyman and artist Willyams (1762-1816), who served as chaplain aboard the ship, a vessel of Admiral Nelson's squadron captained by Benjamin Hallowell Carew. The 17 plates in the present volume show views of the caves of Gibraltar and the Spanish Church in the city, the Bay of Fournelles, Ischia, a street in Caiffe at the foot of Mount Carmel featuring two dromedars, Aboukir castle, caverns near Syracuse and the Temple of Minerva, the Palermo Capuchin catacombs, and a view of Scylla on the coast of Calabria, as well as an attack on the French camp near Aboukir, an attack of Turkish gun boats on the castle of Aboukir, and a group of three Arabs aboard the Swiftsure. The aquatint map shows the Mediterranean Sea with the courses of the British and French fleets up to their encounter in the Bay of Aboukir in August 1798. Designed by Willyams, the illustrations were engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler. - Binding somewhat rubbed near extremities. Right margins of several plates brownstained or a little worn (not touching image); map brownstained on left and right margins and near the gutter (hardly touching image); the plate with the entrance into the Ear of Dionysius with traces of 2 folds near lower right corner (not touching image). An appealing compilation of decorative images documenting the route of the British fleet leading up to the Battle of the Nile. For the original publication cf. Abbey 196. Blackmer 1813. Atabey (2nd ed.) 1339. Graesse VII, 456.
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WINSCH GERT
IL REGIME INGLESE IN PALESTINA
Edizione: Prima traduzione italiana . Pagine: 88 . Illustrazioni: Molte riproduzioni fotografiche e documentali . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Brossura con sovraccoperta brunita con alette . Stato: Buono . Collana: L'inghilterra senza maschera n°2 .
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Winter, Anthony.
L'Arabie Petree, Deserte, et Heureuse. Utrecht, 1683.
Engraved map (19 x 25 cm), contemporary hand-coloured. Seventeenth century map of Arabia, engraved by de Winter after Sanson.
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WITTE (Baron jehan de);
En PALESTINE.
H. Chapelliez et Cie Paris 1889 1 vol. In-12 de 2 ff.n.ch. 414 pp., demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs fileté.
Riferimento per il libraio : 13097
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WITT (C.)
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1891. In-12, rel. d’éditeur percaline bleue, premier plat illustré, XIV- 191 pp., texte anglais + 23 p. (cat. de l’éditeur), carte en couleur en frontispice, 12 planches h.-t. et fig. en noir in-t.
Riferimento per il libraio : 556659
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WOESTYN (Eugène).
Guerre d'Orient. Les victoires et les conquêtes des Armées alliées.
Paris, 16, rue Mazagran, 1856. 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume in-4, demi-basane noire, dos droit orné de filets dorés et d'un aigle impérial doré, 383 pp.
Riferimento per il libraio : 22487
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WOESTYN (Eugène).
Guerre d'Orient. Les victoires et les conquêtes des Armées alliées.
Paris, 16, rue Mazagran, 1856. 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume in-4, demi-basane noire, dos droit orné de filets dorés et d'un aigle impérial doré, 383 pp. Une grande carte rempliée en couleurs gravée sur acier et 30 planches gravées hors-texte, Bon de souscription joint (premiers souscripteurs : Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III - Son Altesse Impériale le Prince Napoléon - Son Altesse Impériale la Princesse Mathilde - L'ex-commandant en chef de l'armée de Crimée, CANROBERT, Maréchal de France. Bel exemplaire. (guerre de Crimée).
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WOLLEY Sir Leonard
"Mésopotamie, Asie Antérieure; L'art ancien du Moyen-Orient. Collection : L'Art dans le monde."
Paris, Editions Albin Michel, 1961. 18 x 24, 262 pp., ca 60 planches en couleurs (images contrecollées), 73 figures, reliure d'édition pleine toile rouge + étui carton illustré, très bon état.
Riferimento per il libraio : 96744
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Wolf, Hieronymus (ed.).
Historia rerum in oriente gestarum ab exordio mundi et orbe condito ad nostra haec usque tempora. Frankfurt/Main, Sigmund Feyerabend, 1587.
Folio (240 x 362 mm). (4), 297, (44) ff. Title page printed in red and black. With woodcut vignette to t. p., printer's device to final page, and woodcut arms of Nidhard Thungen on dedication leaf. Original calf (restored). The first edition of this work to include Turkish material: an early, important collection of sources on Byzantium, Turkey, and the Islamic world, containing writings by Laonikos Chalkokondyles ("Historiarum de origine ac rebus gestis Turcorum libri X"), Nikephoros Gregoras ("Historiae Byzantinae libri XI"), Johannes Zonaras, and Niketas Choniates, as well as additional material by several other writers on Turkey. - Binding professionally repaired. Some brownstaining and waterstaining throughout; a few repaired paper flaws near beginning and end. VD 16, H 3899. Adams H 634. BM-STC German 259. Atabey 582. Blackmer 819. Hoffmann II, 628f.
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Wolf, Joseph.
Accipiter nisis. (London, ca. 1873).
Hand-coloured lithograph. 380 x 555 mm. Fine image of a Sparrowhawk, from John Gould's monumental "Birds of Great Britain" (London, 1862-1873, 5 vols.). Joseph Wolf (1820-99) "was the first bird artist to understand and use the new freedom of style that lithography allowed [...] He introduced natural settings and a feeling of motion into his paintings. Early training in lithography and art [...] opened the door to Wolf's development into one of the first and finest true bird artists. He breathed life into the stiff 'bird on a perch' portrayals so characteristic of bird art of the day. Wolf liked especially to paint birds of prey and game birds, with their subtle browns and grays" (Cornell University Library). Fine Bird Books 102. Nissen IVB 372. Sauer 23. Wood 365. Zimmer 261.
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Wolf, Joseph.
Archibuteo lagopus. (London, ca. 1873).
Hand-coloured lithograph. 380 x 555 mm. Fine image of a Rough-Legged Buzzard, from John Gould's monumental "Birds of Great Britain" (London, 1862-1873, 5 vols.). Joseph Wolf (1820-99) "was the first bird artist to understand and use the new freedom of style that lithography allowed [...] He introduced natural settings and a feeling of motion into his paintings. Early training in lithography and art [...] opened the door to Wolf's development into one of the first and finest true bird artists. He breathed life into the stiff 'bird on a perch' portrayals so characteristic of bird art of the day. Wolf liked especially to paint birds of prey and game birds, with their subtle browns and grays" (Cornell University Library). Fine Bird Books 102. Nissen IVB 372. Sauer 23. Wood 365. Zimmer 261.
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Wolfram von Soden
Introduzione all'orientalistica antica
Autori: Wolfram von Soden. Curatori: C. Mora. Traduttori: L. Marchini.
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Wollaston, Arthur N.
The Sword of Islam. London, John Murray, 1905.
8vo. VIII, (4), 523, (1) pp. With folding map and 16 printed plates. Contemp. red smoothed goatskin morocco binding, elaborately giltstamped for the Royal Asiatic Society with their monogram and motto on covers and (slightly faded) spine. All edges gilt. First and only edition. The fine illustrations show the approach to Mecca, Damascus, Gibraltar from the East, a nook in Algiers, the Tomb of the Khalifs in Cairo, the Gate of Blood in Toledo, a mosque in Cordova, the Alhambra in Granada, a reproduced double-page from the Qur'an, the mosque at Mecca, Medina, pilgrims' dress, Meccan chiefs with camel and attendant, etc. - This copy awarded in 1912 to the later journalist, political theoretician and British Communist Rajani Palme Dutt (1896-1974) as school prize for Essays by William Henry Denham Rouse, headmaster at Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. - Dutt's father, Upendra Dutt, was an Indian surgeon; his mother Anna Palme Dutt was Swedish and related to the future Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme. Dutt was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class degree in classics after having been suspended for a time due to his status as a conscientious objector in World War I. Dutt married an Estonian, Salme Murrik, in 1922. His wife had come to Great Britain in 1920 as a representative of the Communist International. That same year, he joined the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and remained one of its most conservative members all his life. In 1921 Dutt founded a monthly magazine called 'Labour Monthly', a publication which he edited until his death. - Spine slightly rubbed; front hinge repaired; a nicely preserved presentation copy in a fine RAS binding.
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WOOLEY Leonard Sir
Mésopotamie Asie Intérieure. L'art ancien du Moyen-Orient
Albin Michel Paris, Albin Michel, 1961. Grand In-8 relié pleine toile éditeur sous étui illustré de 262 pages illustrées en noir dans le texte et de vignettes contrecollées en couleurs. Collection l'art dans le monde. Très bon état
Riferimento per il libraio : 187562
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WOOLLEY (Sir Leonard).-
Ur. Histoire d'une découverte. 136 photographies, 2 hors-texte en couleurs, 3 plans, 1 carte, 23 culs-de-lampe. Traduit de l'anglais par Josette Gasser-Demanjon.
P., Albert Guillot (Collection Les Hauts Lieux de l'Histoire), 1957, grand in 4° cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 164 pages ; petites déchirures à la jaquette, anciennement réparées au scotch.
Riferimento per il libraio : 39649
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Wood, Casey Albert / Fyfe, Florence Marjorie.
The art of falconry being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen [...]. Boston, C. T. Branford, 1955.
4to. (2), CX, 637, (1) pp. With 2 coloured plates (including a portrait frontispiece) and 184 black and white plates (1 of which not included in pagination). Original full cloth with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Second edition of this important English translation of the famous Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. It was prepared by the Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist C. A. Wood (1856-1942), who studied animal vision, especially that of birds, and was first published in 1943 by Stanford University Press. The plentiful illustrations include a portrait frontispiece of Frederick II, photographs of various decorative manuscript pages from "De arte venandi cum avibus", falconer's equipment, and landmarks associated with the Emperor, including Castel del Monte and his tomb in Palermo, as well as drawings and photographs of various species of falcons and hawks, and a map of southern Italy and Sicily showing the Emperor's castles and hunting lodges. - Giltstamping somewhat faded; edges very slightly foxed. A very good copy of this second edition, never seen at auction. Oelgart 24B. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, 192. OCLC 459570612.
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Woodford, Michael.
A Manual of Falconry [...]. London, Adam & Charles Black, (1960).
Small 4to. XVI, 192 pp. With photographic frontispiece, 11 photographic plates, and 9 illustrations in the text. Original full cloth with giltstamped falcon to cover and giltstamped spine-title. First edition. An authoritative textbook, one of two classics on falconry to appear in 1960 (the other being Jack Mavrogordato's "A Hawk for the Bush"). It discusses the choice of hawk for training with the necessary furniture and appliances, individual species used in falconry, their particular challenges in training and management, their handling when flown at quarry in the field, falcons' home life, their health and disease, as well as how to deal with lost hawks, and the moult. - With contributions by S. E. Allen and Jack Mavrogordato on game hawking and rook hawking. The impressive illustrations display various birds of prey, including lanners, sakers and peregrines, as well as merlins, kestrels, and goshawks, sometimes hooded or on perches. One photograph shows a young boy working with a kestrel. The other illustrations show the equipment typically used in the sport, including the falconers' knot, hoods, jesses, and bells. - Edges and endpapers slightly foxed. A single copy in auction records. Oelgart 31A. Cf. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, 590 (U.S. edition). OCLC 1079355522.
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Wool work picture.
Arab mounted on an Arabian horse. Prob. Britain, mid-19th century.
388 x 470 mm. Framed and glazed. Needlepoint picture after Théodore Géricault.
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Woolf, Alex
The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Atlas of conflicts)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. This book begins with the contradictory promises that Great Britain made to Arabs and Jews about Palestine during World War II. It contines with the wars, protests and multiple acts of terror which have taken place about the land in dispute.
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WOOLLEY Leonard
UN REGNO DIMENTICATO : STORIA DI UNA SCOPERTA ARCHEOLOGICA.
In-8 (cm. 22), cartonato editoriale, pp. 200, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero di cui 43 fuori testo. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
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Woolley Leonard
Ur dei Caldei
<p>21,5 cm, rilegatura editoriale con sovracop. illustrata con qualche traccia d'uso: p. 288, numerose figure nel testo e 58 tavole in b/n fuori testo</p>
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WOOLLEY Leonard -
Medio Oriente.
Milano, CdE, 1961, 8vo legatura tutta tela editoriale con titoli dorati e sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 269 con 60 tavole illustrate a colori e 74 illustrazioni n.t.
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WOOLLEY LEONARD C. - LAWRENCE THOMAS EDWARD
DESERT DE SIN (LE)
Traduzione: Mauron Charles dall'inglese . Prefazione: Kenyon Frederic Sir . Pagine: 206 . Illustrazioni: 59 figure 2 carte 33iscrizioni greche nel testo e 8 tavole fuori testo . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Brossura . Stato: Discreto . Caratteristiche: In francese. Pagine da tagliare. Copertina rovinata nella parte inferiore . Collana: Bibliothèque historique .
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WORLD WAR II; MIDDLE EAST
Middle East Theatre.
Perhaps London: printed by The Printing and Stationery Services MEF 1945. First edition first impression of this scarce pamphlet distributed to soldiers posted to the Middle East. It is a quick introduction to the practicalities of living in the region humorously illustrated throughout. We have traced no other copies. This pamphlet was produced to aid in the smooth integration of soldiers stationed in Egypt Palestine Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. It covers the histories cultures and lifestyles of people living across the region while also containing practical information on road infrastructure postage entertainment illness and general safety. As General Sir Bernard Paget wrote in his introduction: "The Middle East is one of the most interesting and important places in the world today. Its interest you will find increases as your knowledge of it increases. Its importance is the reason for your being here" p. i. Small quarto. Maps and illustrations in text. Original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers a little nicked and creased with one chip losses to foot of rear wrapper and a few pages text unaffected some old tape repairs rust marks contents bright: a very good copy of a delicate work. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 178389
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