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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 178389
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WORLD WAR II - MIDDLE EAST
Photograph album kept by Douglas Warner C Flight 972 Squadron.
Palestine Egypt and Sudan: 1941-43. With camels and camera in the desert theatre A visual record of the Second World War in the Middle East with superb snapshots of Indian Army personnel members of the camel corps in Egypt and Sudan and the Sudanese household cavalry. Also included is a range of scenic views and images of everyday life. Warner's squadron served in the Middle East 1941-2 and was posted to North Africa in 1943. His most important photographs concern his service and those with whom he served. Alongside photographing military personnel he records their training and excursions and in one image a group of RAF men Warner perhaps among them pose on top of a car belonging to the Palestine Police Force. Eight photographs show the funeral of a British sergeant while one commercial image pictures Winston Churchill visiting soldiers at Tel El Kebir on 9 August 1942. Scenic and tourist views of Palestine show Warner's seaside billet in Haifa a coffee house and street in Acre and Mt Carmel as well as the Sea of Galilee Lake Tiberias and the atmospheric River Nile. The squadron's transfer to Africa is made via troop train. Aerial photographs of Khartoum are positioned alongside snaps of a sandstorm and by the White Nile Bridge he snaps an RAF hydroplane. In North Africa he mingles with soldiers of the Sudan Defence Force and members of the Khartoum police band. The album closes with a trip along the road to the Congo and time spent on duty at Juba. Landscape quarto commercial album. Original blue roan boards black cloth backstrip 17 black card leaves fixed with metal posts 160 mounted gelatin silver photographs snapshot- to postcard-sized and nearly all amateur manuscript captions on laid-down slips; 4 gelatin silver photographs loosely inserted including 3 snapshots and 163 x 215 mm formal portrait of compiler's class at RAF NCO Training School Hereford. Light toning and silver mirroring some images still with strong tones: very good. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 174371
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Worm, Olaus.
Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae in Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur. Leiden, Jan Elsevier, 1655.
Folio (243 x 372 mm). (12), 389, (3) pp. With double-page-sized engraved frontispiece (G. Wingendorp sc., bound after p. 8), 12 engravings in the text, and 139 woodcuts in the text (wants the engraved portrait). 18th century full calf with giltstamped red label to gilt spine in seven compartments. All edges red. First edition of this description of the important natural-historical and ethnological collection assembled by the famous Danish physician and naturalist Worm (1588-1654), forming the nucleus of the museum he founded, one of the first natural history museums ever established. The double-page frontispiece (sometimes counted as an additional engraved title page) shows his natural history collection inboxes, on shelves and hanging from walls and ceiling. This plentiful text illustrations show exotic as well as Scandinavian animals, plants, fossils, ethnological trophies, archeological discoveries, etc. For many items in the mineralogical and chemical section, the Arabic names are given (such as Borax or "Baurach", Alkali, Tinkur, etc.). Among the exotic flora are many plants endemic to the Middle East and Arabia, including the "Nabuch Arabum", the "Nux indica" (with reference to Avicenna), the date palm, pistachio ("ex Persia, Arabia & Syria"), gum arabic etc. - Binding slightly scuffed in places, but well preserved. Slight browning and brownstaining to interior, mainly confined to blank margins. A few early marginalia and underlinings in ink (trimmed by binder's knife when rebound in the later 18th century). As virtually all copies available for comparison, ours lacks the portrait (to be bound after the preliminaries). Nissen, ZBI 4473. Willems 772 ("Description raisonnée du cabinet d'histoire naturelle formé par le savant danois Olaus Worm").
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WORSFOLD WB W B
The Redemption of Egypt.
George Allen 1899. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece original tissue guard present 3 coloured plates original tissue guards present and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth upper board lettered in gilt enclosing illustration mounted in gilt frame backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top uncut a very good bright clean copy. Very scarce in anything like this condition. George Allen, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 14968
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Wright, G R H (J E van Lohuizen-de Leeuw).
Ancient Building in South Syria and Palestine. I. Text; II. Illustrations. Handbuch der Orientalistik 7: Kunst und Archälogie. I. Der Alte Vordere Orinet 2: Die Denkmäler. Vorderasien. TWO VOLUMES.
Leiden Köln Brill 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxiii 539; xv and 367 illustrations accompanied by explanatory text unpaginated. Includes the Errata slip for both volumes. HARDCOVER uniformly bound in the original publisher's lime-green cloth gilt covers and spines. In mint condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Siebente Abteilung: Kunst und Archäologie. Erster Band. Der Alte Vordere Orient. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Denkmäler. B - Vorderasien. Lieferung 3 I-II. Edited by J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw. ISBN 9004070915 9004071709. G-4 IN <br/> <br/> Leiden, Köln, Brill hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3805 ISBN : 9004070915 9789004070912
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Wright, John Kirtland.
Northern Arabia: The Explorations of Alois Musil. (In: Geographical Review Vol. XVII, No. 2). New York, American Geographical Society, 1927.
(2), 177-352 pp. With numerous photographs. Original publisher's card covers. Containing (on pp. 177-206) a lengthy article on Musil's work by John Kirtland Wright. The article appeared before many of Musil's own lengthier pieces were published in 1928.
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Wright, Thomas.
Early Christianity in Arabia. A historical essay. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1855.
8vo. VI, 198, (4) pp. Publisher's original blue boards with gilt title to spine. Only edition. - Binding bumped at extremeties and somewhat loosened; pencil marginalia. Provenance: Removed from the Harvard College Library (formerly in the collection of Konrad von Maurer of Munich, gift of the historian Archibald Cary Coolidge). Macro 2335. Gay 3378 bis. OCLC 462682950.
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Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand / Ibn Qadi Shuhba.
Die Academien der Araber und ihre Lehrer. Nach Auszügen aus Ibn Schohba's Klassen der Schafeïten [...]. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (colophon: printed by Friedrich Ernst Huth), 1837.
8vo. VIII, 136; 22 pp. (appendix in a nashk Arabic type). Publisher's original printed wrappers (spine repaired). First and only early edition, in German, of an extraordinarily thorough documentation of scholarly academies in the early Islamic world, containing a biographical dictionary of early Arabic scholars and lists of their writings. This is one of the earliest and most important publications of the Göttingen orientalist Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, who based much of it on the ancient biographical dictionaries compiled by Abu-Bakr Ibn Qadi Shuhba and Ibn Khallikan. It covers the 5th to the 9th centuries AH (11th to 15th centuries CE), with accounts of 37 academies in Bagdad, Nishabur, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Cairo, and brief biographies of 254 scholars, 187 listed under the academies where they taught and 67 in a separate section at the end. For most he includes a list of their writings. The German text ends with a 2-page extract, in German translation, from the works of Ibn Khallikan. A 22-page appendix gives the original Arabic text of an extract from Ibn Shuhba, "Tabaqat al-shafi 'iyya", published here for the first time, with an Arabic title-page. - Ibn Qadi Shuhba (1377-1448 CE) was a leading jurist and chief Qadi in his native Damascus, best known for his biographical dictionary, completed ca. 1407. Ibn Khallikan (1211-82 CE), born in what is now Iraq, studied in Aleppo, Damascus, and Mosul before settling in Cairo, where he became a leading jurist in the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islamic law. He is best known for his biographical dictionary, completed ca. 1274. - The German orientalist and historian of Arabic literature H. F. Wüstenfeld (1808-99) studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He settled in Göttingen, taking a post at the University Library the year after the present publication, and taught at the University there from 1842, becoming professor of oriental languages in 1856. From 1835 to his death almost 65 years later, he published many important contributions to the study of early Arabic texts, covering the fields of medicine, language, topography and geography, often including the original Arabic texts of important works not previously published. - The Arabic type used for the excerpt from Ibn Qadi Shuhba is smaller than that of the Nies foundry, often used in Germany around this time, and quite different stylistically. It may have been produced for Wüstenfeld's works. - Minor browning, but altogether in very good condition, only slightly tattered at the edges. Original publisher's wrappers a little damaged along spine (professionally repaired; modern spine). Untrimmed copy, removed from the "Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients an der Universität München" with their stamp on the title-page. Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Paedagogik VIII (1838), pp. 355f. Not in Blackmer or Gay.
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Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand.
Geschichte der Arabischen Ärzte und Naturforscher. Göttingen, (Friedrich Ernst Huth for) Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1840.
8vo. XVI, 167, (17) pp. Contemporary half calf with handwritten spine label. First edition. Selections from Arabic works on medicine and natural science in the original language appended with separate title page (in Arabic): extracts from the "Kitab tahdib al-asma", by Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Nawawi, "Kitab 'uyun alanba' fi tabaqat al-atibba'", by Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, and "Tabaqat as-safiiyya", by Ibn Suhba. - The German orientalist H. F. Wüstenfeld (1808-99), considered one of the greatest literary historians of Arabic, studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842-90), and published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history. - Binding somewhat rubbed; some foxing. Old handwritten pencil notes to flyleaf; handwritten ownership to title. A good copy. Macro 2345. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 342.
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Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand.
Register zu den genealogischen Tabellen der Arabischen Stämme und Familien. Mit historischen und geographischen Bemerkungen. Göttingen, Dieterich, 1853.
8vo. XIII, (3), 476 pp. 20th-century half cloth library binding. First edition, without the separately published Atlas. "An indispensable tool of the trade for any scholar of Arabic studies" (cf. Fück). The "Register" is an index to accompany Wüstenfeld's "Genealogical Tables of the Arabic Tribes and Families", published the previous year. - The German orientalist H. F. Wüstenfeld (1808-99), known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842-90). He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history. - Traces of old shelfmark label on spine; stamp of the Central Public Library "Shear Zion", Tel-Aviv, on front flyleaf. Fück, 194. Cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2344.
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Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand.
Über das Leben und die Schriften des Scheich Abu Zakarija Jahja el-Nawawi. Nach handschriftlichen Quellen. Göttingen, Dieterich Buchhandlung, 1849.
8vo. (4), 78 pp. Modern calf. First edition. - The Syrian-born Abu Zakaria Mohiuddin Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (1233-77), popularly known as an-Nawawi, was a Sunni Muslim author on Fiqh and hadith; his position on legal matters is considered the authoritative one in the Shafi'i Madhhab. H. F. Wüstenfeld (1808-99), known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842-90). He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history. - From the library of the French scholar Henri Pérès (1890-1983); additional ownerships to title and flyleaf. Some foxing. GAL I, p. 496. Zenker II, 741.
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Xavier DURRIEU
Le Maroc en 1844. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] 1844 | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15588
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YA'KUBI.
Les Pays.
Le Caire, Imprimerie de l'I.F.A.O., 1937. In-8, rel. de l'ép. demi-chagrin noir à coins, dos à nerfs, titre et date dorés, XXXI-291 pp., biographie, index bibliographique, index général. Ex-libris manuscrit en pp. de garde.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 595334
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Yahya bin Abd al-Mu'ti az-Zawawi / Sjögreen, Erik.
Jahja bin 'Abd el-Mu'ti ez-Zawawi's Kitab el-Fusul. Kap. I-II. Akademisk afhandling [...]. Leipzig, Drugulin, 1899.
8vo. X, 36, (1 blank), 31, (1) pp. (And:) The same / Zetterstéen, Karl Vilhelm. Ur Jahja bin'Abd el-Mu'ti ez-Zawawi's dikt ed-Durra el-Alfije fi'ilm el-Arabije. Akademisk afhandling [...]. Ibid., 1895. XV, (1), 65, (1), 14 pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine title; marbled boards. The two principal grammars of Ibn Muti, his "Fusul hamsin" and, in verse, his "ad-Durra al-alfiya", edited by Swedish orientalists. Yahya bin Abd al-Mu'ti az-Zawawi "had already made a name for himself in his native Damascus als a writer and teacher when the Ayyubid Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil called him to Cairo. There he served as a teacher at the old mosque and died in 628/1231" (cf. GAL I, 303). - Binding insignificantly rubbed at extremeties; handwritten index and library stamp on front paste-down. Handwritten note on first title detailing place and time for the disputation. GAL S I, p. 531 & 530.
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Yahya Naci Efendi.
[Introducing electricity through experiments]. Constantinople, [1812 CE] = 1227 H.
8vo (222 x 150 mm). 16 ff., mostly with 24 text lines to each page (text area 155 x 70 mm). Written in excellent Naskh script with black ink on waxed paper. Headings and highlighted words in red. Two (folded) plates on velin paper (watermark: A. Stace 1802). With carefully executed pen-and-ink drawings with notes in red (167 x 194 mm each). Contemporary red half leather. Covered with Ebru paper, with leather edges and marbled endpapers. The original Ottoman Turkish manuscript of one of the most important texts in the history of electrical engineering and science: the complete treatise on electrical fluid, as drafted by the Turkish engineer Yahya Naci the same year. "In the early 19th century, the teaching of science at the Imperial Engineering School in Istanbul was mostly based on the material translated from textbooks compiled for the French 'grandes écoles'. Translations and compilations were generally made by the professors of the school. Yahya Naci Efendi (d. 1824), a lecturer in French language and sciences, compiled in 1812 a treatise introducing the properties of electricity through experiments. His aim was also to show that the lightning flash and the thunderbolt were electrical phenomenons. Yahya Naci's main source was the chapter on electricity of Mathurin-Jacques Brisson's (d. 1795) 'Traité Elémentaire de Physique', a popular book of physics in French colleges. This translation is important because Yahya Naci endeavoured to create Ottoman terms from Arabic regarding electricity and because it points to the initiatives in introducing experimentation in the teaching in the Imperial Engineering School" (Günergün, cf. below). The colophon states the name of the scribe as "Yahya Naqi" and the date "Zilqa'da 1227 H.", proving that the present volume contains the author's long-lost original manuscript. - In very fine condition; only a few insignificant spots. Feza Günergün, Deneylerle elektrigi tanitan bir Türkçe eser: Yahya Naci Efendi'nin Risale-i Seyyale-i Berkiyye'si. In: Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari IX/1-2 (2007-2008), pp. 19-50.
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Yanni Petsopoulos
Les Kilims, tapis tissés et brodés du Moyen-Orient
Yanni Petsopoulos, Les Kilims, tapis tissés et brodés du Moyen-Orient, Office du livre, Fribourg / Editions Vilo, Paris, 1984, 25 cm X 26 cm, 47 pp, reliure pleine toile bleu + jaquette illustrée + Etui en carton. Grand nombre de photographies couleurs et N&B. Bibliographie et index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Tap11
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Yaqut al-Rumi al-Hamawi / Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand (ed.).
Jacut's geographisches Wörterbuch aus den Handschriften zu Berlin, St. Petersburg und Paris [...]. Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1866-1873.
4to. 6 vols. 12, 942, (2) pp. (4), 968, (2) pp. (2), 936 pp. (2), 1048 pp. (2), 66, 512 pp. VII, one blank, 262, one blank leaf, VIII, 265-781, one blank page, (2) pp. With 6 letterpress plates in vol. I. Near-contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with giltstamped volume numbers to spine. 2 volumes bound with the original printed wrappers. First edition, rare. The 19th century classic edition of Yaqut's famous geography, prepared by the German orientalist Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808-99). The four volumes of Arabic text are completed by annotations and indexes in volumes V and VI, including "some 12,000 persons, many with additional bibliographical references" (cf. Fück). Composed between 1224 and 1228 and considered a literary geography, Yaqut's work is essentially an alphabetical index of place names from the literary corpus of the Arabs. The geographical descriptions are enriched with historical, ethnographic, and associated narrative material, historical sketches and accounts of Muslim conquests, names of governors, monuments, and local celebrities. - The four volumes of text are removed from the library of the Munich Franciscan monastery, with their stamp of ownership to versos of title-page or flyleaf. Later in the collection of the German historian Else Reitemeyer (b. 1873) with her handwritten ownership to flyleaves (vols. I-IV). German title-page and foreword of first volume (12 pp.) bound between pp. 480 and 481. Extremities occasionally very slightly rubbed. Last 20 pages of volume V pierced near right margin (not touching text). In all a very well preserved copy of this monumental series. Fück 193f. OCLC 3423433. Not in Zenker.
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YARSHATER (Ehsan) [Ed.]
Encyclopaedia iranica. Volume 4 : Bâyjû - Carpets.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990. Très fort vol. in-4 reliure éditeur pleine toile bleue, titre doré au dos et au plat sup., [16] ff., 896 pp. à 2 col., ill. en noir. Texte en anglais.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 593183 ISBN : 71009132
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YASSINE Sima Osman - KAMAL Sadouf
Cuisine du Moyen Orient
Beyrouth, Dar El-Ilm Lil-Malayin, 1995, in-4 rel. cart., 131 p., 2ème édition française, introduction et traduction de Leila el Hassan, plus de 100 illustrations en coul., très bon état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : QWA-20979
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YATES, William
Il Vicino Oriente. Storia del mondo moderno
562 p.; 22,5 cm. Legatura editoriale con sovracoperta. Buono
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YAVUZ GÖKALP YILDIZ.
Global stratejide Ortadogu, krizler sorunlar ve politikalar.
Fine English Paperback., Very good., 21 x 15 cm, [xvi], 232 p. "Global stratejide Ortadogu, krizler sorunlar ve politikalar, YAVUZ GÖKALP YILDIZ, Der Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2000"
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Yazicioglu Mehmed.
Kitab al-Muhammadiyah (Kitâbü Muhammediyye fî na'ti seyyidi'l-âlemîn habîbillâhi'l-a'zam Ebi'l-Kâsim Muhammedini'l-Mustafâ). [Ottoman Empire, 1600 / late 16th or early 17th century CE].
8vo (150 x 206 mm). (564) pp. Ottoman Turkish and Arabic manuscript written in Naskh script on polished oriental paper. 2 columns, 17 lines. Black ink; chapter headings in red. Text ruled in gilt, red and black; first two pages have attractive 'unwan decorations in gilt, red, lapislazuli, pink, and orange; final page has gilt floral scrollwork decoration. Gilded line decorations on some pages, a red and gillt inscribed figure known as the "Flag of the Prophet on the Day of Judgment" (Liwa al-Hamd) on one page. 19th century oriental brown leather binding with fore-edge flap, decorated with gilt borders and lozenge-shaped ornamentation to both covers. Marbled endpapers. Early Turkish manuscript of the "Magharib al-Zaman" ("Sunsets of Time"), a widely popular devotional work on the Prophet Muhammad, first written in Arabic in 1449 by the Ottoman Sufi poet Yazicioglu Mehmet (d. 1491) and translated into Ottoman Turkish by his younger brother Ahmed Bican. Mehmet, a native of the Gallipoli peninsula, was a follower of Haci Bayram-i Veli (1352-1430) and was influenced by the writings of Andalusian mystic Ibn 'Arabi. The earliest printed edition appeared in 1842 at Istanbul's Military Press. - Comprising some 9,000 couplets, the "Muhammadiyah" is one of the longest works in Turkish literature, but its style is easily accessible, and it contributed much to the formation of Ottoman Sufi culture. Written to disseminate the basic tenets of Islam among the common people, it covers Muhammad's biography, various aspects of Muslim devotion, and eschatological matters, including Gog and Magog, the Sun rising in the west, and the Day of Resurrection. Mehmet is notably preoccupied with the eschatological role of Jesus and of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, which he anticipated by several years. - Anonymously copied (as common for religious texts), this manuscript includes occasional explanations and Qur'an verses that are extraneous to Yazicioglu's text and were introduced by the scribe (or by the copyist of the MS he followed). Among the appealing decorations the first two leaves stand out, as does the gilt depiction of the Prophet's standard, "Liwa al-Hamd" (Banner of Praise), which is to be unfurled on the Day of Judgment. Three phrases written in red ink appear on this banner: "Al-Hamdu Lillahi Rabbil-'Alamin" (Praise be to God, Lord of the Universes), "Bi-smi llahi r-rahmani r-rahim" (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful), and "La ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah" (There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is messenger of Allah). - Occasional light brownstaining, mainly confined to margins; generally very finely preserved. The first leaf of the book bears a faint Ottoman note of acquisition from the 19th century: "Isbu bin iki yüz doksan bes senesi Zilkade'nin yigirmi üçüncü sali günü yüz elli gurus fiyat" ("This book was bought for 150 Kurush on 23 Dhu al-Qadah, 1295 H" [18 November 1878 CE]. A complete list of the individual chapter titles is available on request. Cf. J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi orders in Islam (Oxford, 1971); Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi, Sufism and Early Islamic Piety: Personal and Communal Dynamics (Cambridge, 2018).
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Yehca, A., Egyptian Foreign Minister.
Autograph Quotation signed ("A. Yehca"). In French. [Paris]., 24 Jan. 1932.
Folio. 1 page. Ministry headed blue notepaper mounted on uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of the Egyptian Foreign Minister to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "Peace, the ultimate goal of all nations, can only dare to be conceived if all states are equally imbued with their reciprocal rights. [Signed] A. Yehca." Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Yemenite Jewry in Israel.
Collection of Yemenite documents and publications in Hebrew. Israel, first half of the 20th century to the 1970s.
A total of some 50 items, in all over 300 handwritten, typescript and printed pages. Various sizes, but mostly 4to. Extraordinary corpus of Hebrew records reflecting the struggle of the Yemenite Jews to emigrate and settle in Israel following Operation Magic Carpet in 1949/50. Includes several letters from the early 1960s written to Eretz Israel by members of the Yemeni community in Aden, regarding the arrangement of their emigration, as well as an important document related to protests by Yemenite Jews living in the Nordia neighborhood of Tel Aviv against the construction of the Dizengoff Center and the demolition of their homes. Additional documents relate to the slum organization in Israel, as well as to author Zvi Medina, giving the names and addresses of Medina family members and recording the 1960 construction of the synagogue in the Hatikva neighborhood for the Jews of Aden. - Printed publications include a Passover Haggadah according to the text of the Yemenite Jews, with ink stamp of "Ein Shemer Camps", as well as the version approved by Saadia Gaon and Maimonides (Jerusalem 1951), its title-page designed by Haim Ben Shalom Mahbbub. Also, a donation printed for Hanukkah 1944 by the Yemenite Jewish Unity Committee, titled "Raising your candles remember your brother's darkness", compiled by Rabbi Shalom, son of Rabbi Yichya Yitzchak Levi, as well as New Year's songs and two Kol Koreh texts regarding the election of the new Yemeni commission committee, as well as the strengthening of the independent educational institutions for the Yemenite Community. - A well-preserved survival.
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Young Georges
Costantinople -depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours -
Ottima copia
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YOVITCHITCH (Cyril)
Forteresse du proche orient. L'architecture militaire des ayyoubides.
PUPS 2011 In-4, cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur, 368 pp, nombr. illustrations en couleurs et noirs et blancs dans le texte et à pleine-page, bibliographie, index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 607158
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Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue).
De re medica libri tres, Jacobo Sylvio interprete. Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1550.
8vo. (16), 421, (1) pp., final blank leaf. With woodcut printer's device to title-page and numerous woodcut initials. 19th century marbled boards. Fine, widely received Lyonnaise edition of Mesue's pharmaceutical handbook, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois, the teacher of Vesalius. The author's frequently reprinted treatises bore an immense influence on the development of pharmacy in early modern Europe. Although the identity of Masawaih (Mesue) remains unclear, he was likely a Persian Christian physician who headed the Baghdad hospital and served as personal physician to several caliphs (though he may also be a collective pseudonym of several Arabic medical writers of the 10th and 11th centuries). Products of the mediaeval Islamic world, the works attached to his name contained many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacy for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of mediaeval Europe. - Occasional browning; an irregular paper flaw to the upper edge of the title with slight loss to author's name (apparently removing a contemporary ownership). Binding rubbed; spine professionally repaired. Provenance: 1) an illegible ink ownership, dated 1636, stricken out on front pastedown; 2) another illegible ink ownership, dated 21 August 1818, on lower pastedown; 3) 19th century ink ownership of Arthur Rénaux to front pastedown. Durling 3144. Wellcome 4280. Brunet III, 1675. Not in BM-STC French. Cf. GAL I, 232; S I, 416. Hirsch I, 171f.
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Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue).
De re medica libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete. Cum annotationibus & scholiis eiusdem. Index locupletissimus cum capitum, tum omnium quae scitu digna sunt operi praefixus est. Paris, no printer, 1553.
8vo. 248, (4) ff. With emblematic woodcut device to title (apparently showing Abderus being devoured by the mares of Diomedes) and several woodcut initials. Contemporary full vellum with traces of ties. Uncommon and finely produced edition, by an unidentified Parisian printer, of Mesue's pharmaceutical handbook, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois, the teacher of Vesalius. The author's frequently reprinted treatises bore an immense influence on the development of pharmacy in early modern Europe. Although the identity of Masawaih (Mesue) remains unclear, he was likely a Persian Christian physician who headed the Baghdad hospital and served as personal physician to several caliphs (though he may also be a collective pseudonym of several Arabic medical writers of the 10th and 11th centuries). Products of the mediaeval Islamic world, the works attached to his name contained many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacy for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of mediaeval Europe. - Slight brownstaining with some marginal worming near the end of the text. Loss of corner to fol. Aa3 (not affecting the text). Durling 3145. OCLC 14308627. Not in Wellcome, Adams or BM-STC French. Cf. GAL I, 232; S I, 416. Hirsch I, 171f.
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Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue).
Opera. De medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & usu, libri duo [...]. Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1581.
Folio (230 x 338 mm). 2 parts in 1 volume. (8), 272 ff. (6), 277, (1 blank), (12) ff. With 39 woodcut illustrations in text. Near-contemporary full vellum on four raised bands with giltstamped red spine label. Second illustrated edition, the first with the commentary of Costaeus, of the collected works of the Arabic physician Mesue the Younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini) in Latin, with commentaries by Mondino de Liuzzi, Christoph de Honestis, Jacobus Sylvius, Giovanni mardi and Johannes Costaeus. - The work includes the "Canones universalis", dealing with treatment regimens; the second part, "De simplicibus", about the properties of various pharmaceutical drugs; and the Grabadin, "the most popular compendium of drugs in medieval Europe, and [...] used everywhere in their preparation" (Garrison). "The esteem in which these works were held is shown by the fact that a Latin translation of both was one of the first medical works to be printed (Venice, 1471)" (ibid.). - Binding stained; rubbed and chipped at extremeties. Interior shows occasional brownstaining. Modern flyleaves browned and brittle. Provenance: bookplates of the American botanist Edward Sandford Burgess (1855-1928) and of the Horticultural Society of New York, identifiying this volume as part of the bequest of the American attorney and plant collector Kenneth Kent MacKenzie (1877-1934). Durling 3131. Adams Y 10. BM-STC Italian 739. Edit 16, CNCE 27626.
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Yuhanna ibn Sarabiyun (Serapio maior).
Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis Libri VII. partim Albano Torino Vitodurano paraphraste, partim Gerardo iatro Cremonensi metaphraste. Basel, Heinrich Petri, (March 1543).
Folio (205 x 290 mm). (24), 491, (1) pp. 17th century black-tinted vellum binding using an earlier liturgic musical manuscript. Important Latin edition of this Arabic medical compendium (first printed, also in Latin, in 1479), with additions by Gerard de Cremona. It provides a collection of opinions voiced by Greek and Arabic physicians on pathology and therapeutics. "No Arabic printed edition exists so far" (cf. Choulant). The third-century doctor Yahya bin Sarabiyun, son of a Bagarma physician, wrote his great medical work "Al-Kunnas" in Syriac, but it was soon translated into Arabic by scholars such as Musa Ibrahim al-Haditi and ibn Bahlul. There exist manuscripts in twelve and in seven books. "The seven-book edition was frequently printed in Latin translations as 'Breviarium' and 'Practica therapeuticae methodus'. Albanus Torinus, the editor of the Basel 1543 edition, called him Janus Damascenus, for which reason he has been confused with the well-known theologian of that name. He is also often mistaken for his younger namesake, Serapio junior" (cf. GAL I, 233). Some catalogues even ascribe this work to the Baghdad physician Abu-Zakariya Yuanna Ibn-Masawaih. - Slight waterstaining; some unobtrusive worming to upper cover and flyleaves. Binding rubbed; extremeties bumped with chipping to spine-ends. A wide-margined copy. Provenance: 1677 ownership of the pharmacist and medical student Joseph Franz König on front pastedown; later in the library of Bonifacius Brix von Wahlberg, court physician to the Princes of Fürstenberg, in the later 18th century (his ownership on the title page). VD 16, Y 11. Adams I 14. BM-STC German 932. GAL I, 233 & S 417. Durling 4778. Choulant, Handb. p. 347. Not in Waller.
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YULE, CB, R.E. (Col. H.)
Memoir of CAPTAIN W. GILL R.E. and introductory essay as prefixed to the new edition of "The river of golden sand"
London, John Murray, 1884. In-8, reliure moderne en moire noire, dos lisse, étiquette de titre en long, 141pp, portrait frontispice gravé à l'eau-forte de W. Gill. Première édition, planche dépl. en couleurs (toute petite déchirure à un pli).In-8 modern binding black moire, smooth spine label volume , 141pp , portrait frontispiece engraved etchings of W. Gill. First edition , dépl plate color ( small tear in a fold ) .
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 544231
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YUSUF KILIÇ.
Asr-i saadetten tâbiûn devrinin sonuna kadar Islâm hukukunun prensip ve kaynaklari.
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 24 x 16 cm., 80 p., "Asr-i saadetten tâbiûn devrinin sonuna kadar Islâm hukukunun prensip ve kaynaklari.", Yusuf Kiliç, Yaris Matbaasi, Ist., 1986.
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Zabih, Sepehr
Iran's Revolutionary Upheaval : An Interpretive Essay
1979. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Alchemy Books 1979 Good HB ISBN: 0-931290-18-X EX-LIB with usual markings. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012072 ISBN : 093129018X 9780931290183
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Zaher, Ameen.
Arabian Horse Breeding and the Arabians of America. Cairo, Cairo University Press, 1961.
VII, 169, (1) pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with 104 photo plates. Contemporary green cloth with giltstamped cover title. Second edition. Amin Sahid Zaher (b. 1908) served as Arabian horse breeder in the stud of the Royal Agricultural Society of Egypt and head of lifestock breeding programmes in Egypt. - A good copy. Cf. Boyd/P. 144.
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Zahidi, Ardashir ; Ahrar, Ahmad
Khatirat-i Ardashir Zahidi : shamil-i asnad va `aksíha
Two large octavo volumes in white illus DJs; ill. ; 24 cm. Several pages of b/w photo plates to both volumes; bibliographical references and indexes Mainly in Persian with some English. Zahedi was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. under the Shah. Contents: jildi 1. Az kudaki ta isti`fa-yi pidar az nukhust vaziri -- jild-i 2. Az safar-i Hind va Pakistan ta vaqi`ah-i 21 Farvardin || Diplomats -- Iran -- Biography. Iran -- Politics and government -- 1925-1979. Zahidi, Ardashir, 1928- .
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Zamakhshari, Abu al-Quasim Mahmud ibn Umar / Hammer[-Purgstall], Joseph von (transl.).
[Atwaq al-dhahab]. Samachschari's Goldene Halsbänder. Als Neujahrsgeschenk arabisch und deutsch [...]. Vienna, A. Strauß' Wwe., 1835.
8vo. X, (11-)54 pp. 27 ff. Original lithographed wrappers bound in splendid blue morocco with giltstamped cover borders, green inlays, title to gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Stored in marbled slipcase. First editon, with the first German translation of this collection of moralizing addresses by the Arabic-Persian scholar Zamakhshari (1075-1144). Another translation, by H. L. Fleischer, appeared that same year in Leipzig. The present copy, untrimmed and partly uncut in the original lithographic wrappers, boasts a fine full morocco binding of the early 20th century with green morocco inlays and elaborate gilt ornamentation. - Some foxing throughout; spine sunned. A beautiful copy from an Austrian private collection. GAL I, 292, no. XVI (p. 349). Zenker I, 164, 1347. Fück 165, 175. WG² 47. Goedeke VII, 766, 90. Wurzbach VII, 277, 49. Brieger 965. Hirschberg 195. Kosch VII, 242. OCLC 978579284.
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Zamakhshari, Abu al-Quasim Mahmud ibn Umar / Schultens, Hendrik Albert (ed.).
[Al-Kalim al-nawabigh]. Anthologia sententiarum Arabicarum. Cum scholiis Zamachsjarii. Leiden, (Daniel van Damme for) Jean Le Mair (ex typographia Dammeana), 1772.
4to. (20), 171, (1) pp. With large engraved arms of William V of Orange to dedication leaf. Full vellum with handwritten spine title. First edition of this famous collection of Arabic proverbs by the Persian-born scholar Zamakhshari (1075-1144), edited and translated by Hendrik Albert Schultens (1749-93), professor of oriental languages at the University of Leyden. - Little is known of Zamakhshari's youth. He was apparently well-travelled and resided at least twice (once for an extended period of time) in the holy city of Mecca, where he earned his nickname, Jar Allah. As a philologist, he considered Arabic the queen of languages, in spite of the fact that his own native tongue was Persian (and though he wrote several minor works in that language). - Occasional light browning due to paper. Blindstamps of the library of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, to title and dedication. A good copy. Schnurrer 215. GAL I, 292, no. XIV (p. 348). Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam VIII, 1207. OCLC 4522262.
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Zambaur, Eduard von.
Die Münzprägung des Islams. Zeitlich und örtlich geordnet. 1. Band: Der Westen und Osten bis zum Indus mit synoptischen Tabellen. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1968.
Folio. (1), 286 pp. With 26 folding plates. Original cloth. First edition, based on the unpublished 1942 proofs. The noted numismatist Eduard von Zambaur (1866-1947) was a specialist for the coinage of the Muslim peoples; in 1927 he published his "Manuel de Généalogie et de Chronolgie pour l'Histoire de l'Islam" (1927). - A perfect copy. OCLC 6321389.
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Zanolini, Antonio.
[Ausra de-lesana surjaja]. Lexicon Syriacum. Padua, Typis Seminarii, 1742.
4to. (10), XVIII, 294 pp. Contemporary unsophisticated wrappers. Uncommon dictionary of Syriac compiled by Antonio Zanolini, professor of oriental languages at the seminary of Padua seminary. - Spine browned; slight waterstain to upper cover, not affecting interior. A wide-margined, untrimmed copy with several Greek, Hebrew and Syriac notes in a contemporary scholar's hand laid in. Vater/Jülg 387. Zaunmüller 372. OCLC 3667168.
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ZAREVAND
Touranie unifiée et indépendante.
Athènes, Editions arméniennes, 1989. Grand in-8 broché, 147 pp., bibliogr., index (Publication de la F.R.A. Dachnaktsoutioun).
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556401
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ZAREVAND
United and independent Turania. Aims and designs of the Turks.
Leiden, Brill, 1971. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile rouge, XIII-174 pp., index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 555574
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Zatta, Antonio.
Imperium Alexandri Magni. Venice, 1785.
Engraved map (38 x 47 cm), partly coloured in outline. Map of the Empire of Alexander the Great stretching from Greece, through Turkey and Persia and into North-West India. Alai, Special maps E.68. Al Ankary 228.
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ZAYAS (Alfred de)
The genocide against the Armenians 1915-1923 and the relevance of the 1948 genocide convention.
Beirut, Haigazian University, 2010. In-8 broché, 105 pp., bibliogr.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556800
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ZE'V A
Israel Reborn.
Lewin-Epstein Tel-Aviv 1965. 4to. First Edition with very numerous photographs many full-page in the text and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth backstrip lettered in brown a very good bright clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front free endpaper verso and presentation bookplate on half-title. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR JACK MORPURGO. Collects over 140 photographs many not previously published recording the events between 1947 and 1949. Captions include extended text and poetry. Very scarce. Lewin-Epstein, Tel-Aviv, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21099
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Zehil, Abdallah.
Petit Guide Historique de la Syrie, la Palestine et l'Egypte. Marseille, E. Maurin & M. Pages, 1929.
Small 4to. 60, (6) pp. With 13 black and white photographic plates, 2 of which full-page, as well as a folding coloured map of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. First edition. - A compact guide to Syria, Palestine and Egypt before the inter-war period, written by the agent general of the French steamship company in the Middle East. Outlining the countries' history and recommending places to visit, it is illustrated with views of Beirut, Tripolis, Aleppo, Nazareth, and Cairo, as well as important landmarks, including the Great Mosque of Damascus, temples at Baalbek, Palmyra, the Sphinx and the pyramids, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. - Label of the Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner in Paris to front cover. Upper wrapper somewhat foxed, spine and margins slightly worn. OCLC 7201775.
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ZEINE (Zeine N.)
The Struggle for Arab Independence. Western Diplomacy & the Rise and Fall of Faisal's Kingdom in Syria.
Beirut, Khayat’s, 1960. In-8, toile bleue d’éditeur sous jaquette, XIII-297 pp., texte anglais, pl. en noir fine et carte dépliante.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556621
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ZEKERIYA KITAPCI.
Ilk Müslüman Türk hükümdar ve hakanlari.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 272 p. Ilk Müslüman Türk hükümdar ve hakanlari. First Turkish - Muslim khans and sultans.
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ZEKERIYA KITAPCI.
Saâdet asrinda Türkler. Ilk Türk sahâbe tabiî ve Tebea tâbiîleri.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. [xxviii], 304 p. Saâdet asrinda Türkler. Ilk Türk sahâbe tabiî ve Tebea tâbiîleri.
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ZENKER (J. Théodor)
Bibliotheca Orientalis. Manuel de bibliographie orientale.
Amsterdam, Oriental Press, 1966. 2 tomes en un fort vol. in-8, rel. pleine toile verte de l'éd., titre doré, XLVII-264-615 pp., pp. 270-322 (appendice), table.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 601208
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ZERVOS (Christian).-
L'art de la Mésopotamie. De la fin du quatrième millénaire au XVe siècle avant notre ère. Elam - Sumer - Akkad.
P., Cahiers d'Art, 1935, grand in 4°, cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette rempliée, 264 pages ; très nombreuses illustrations ; rousseurs aux premières et dernières pages ; petit accident en queue du dos. RARE.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 39647
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